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HHBSO 37: David on the Atlantis Caribbean January Cruise · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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  Hey listeners, David is back for another podcast and we split it
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  again into two parts. This week is the first part and
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  next we will be the second part. Enjoy.
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  OK, we're recording that. We're.
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  I'm a lot. I'm a lot not repeating
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  anything. You don't have to repeat.
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  Anything. Yeah, I'm not repeating.
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  Anything I'm not repeating? Anything.
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  I'm going to do that music again?
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  Sorry, this has never happened. This has never happened before.
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  Didn't happen last time. It didn't happen last time.
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  Hold on. Hello.
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  Welcome to He's Hot. Something's off with me.
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  Just Joey. Something was off.
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  Something was off. The recording was off.
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  So I've got this podcasting set up here, and I'm usually pretty
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  decent with it. But just now, David Lamb,
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  David's here. Say hi, David, hi.
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  He was giving us the Oscar performance of a lifetime.
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  And then I looked down at my sound board and I noticed we
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  were not recording. Yeah.
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  So when you asked me about the cruise, I'm just going to say I
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  just put my last e-mail, which was deleted because there's no
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  proof of it. So I'm just going to say that.
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  That's fine. We don't expect you to have to
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  give a super detailed review of the cruise.
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  But what you've been you've been talking for six useless minutes
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  through no four of your own. So I'll, I'll start us off on
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  this one. But yeah, I mentioned in last
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  week's podcast that I was not on the cruise, but David was on the
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  cruise. So now that the cruise is over,
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  I did hear from a lot of people because we have a lot of friends
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  that were on the cruise. Obviously, we heard from a lot
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  of people that there was some sort of sickness going around.
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  I think that on cruise ships there are some.
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  Sometimes you get safe for like a day or two and then it's over.
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  Looks like we had some of that, which is never fun, but
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  sometimes on a cruise show when you have everyone in such close
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  proximity, that was a thing. But as far as I can tell from my
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  Instagram here in Los Angeles at home it looked like a pretty fun
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  cruise. We had quite a few friends that
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  were on board, but the Atlantis cruises are always fun so.
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  Yeah, as I was really dramatically giving a really
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  accurate, detailed 6 minute presentation about how the
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  cruise was. It was good.
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  That's always fun. Always fun.
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  Gay. Gay.
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  Disneyland for a week out of reality.
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  It it is like that. It's it's like an alternate
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  universe. When you go, honestly, it's
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  you're you step off a plane maybe you're at a hotel the
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  night before. Even when you're like at the
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  port terminal. That's kind of sort of where it
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  starts, I think, because when you get to the port, that's
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  where you see like all like hundreds, thousands of other gay
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  men of various shapes and sizes and ages and backgrounds and
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  everything. And we're all like descending
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  onto this port terminal and we're all like boarding in
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  droves. I think that's where it kind of
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  sort of hits you that, oh, this is not like regular everyday
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  life. Yeah, OK, Fantasy.
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  I think all the newbies had a good time and like a lot of
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  rumors sort of surround this ship, but it's like almost all
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  of those people aren't on it. So it's like maybe like listen
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  to the people who are on it. Maybe.
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  Let's talk a little bit about that because I think, I think we
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  can, I mean I think we can give you can give a quote UN quote
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  review of the cruise, but honestly, you know, go on to my
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  YouTube channel and just check out a bunch of the after movies
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  I did on that. But yeah, so switching up a
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  little bit, you just told me recently that was like some
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  article or like someone did a post somewhere out there
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  basically about how these cruises are always just like
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  filled with like people that are high, people that are doing
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  drugs. People are just like having sex
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  everywhere, blah, blah, blah. Basically painting the some of
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  these gay cruises in an A flattering light.
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  And it's like, I I don't know. So I think I read media articles
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  like a few years ago, like I don't know, some whatever, I
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  don't know what kind of newspaper or website or whatever
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  it was. But once in a great while we do
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  see like a post on social media or some sort of news article
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  that kind of sort of pinks that kind of picture of those
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  cruises. And you just mentioned what to
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  me kind of sort of recently. And it's never like super
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  flattering, basically. It's like the tone of those
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  articles. I mean, I think that extends to
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  like comments as well like and it goes back to my very first
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  cruise. I I was so anxious in 2015
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  before my first cruise. I heard all this sort of rumors
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  and conjecture and then I went on for myself and then had an
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  amazing time, changed my life. Then afterwards I was sort of
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  reviewing what these people said and then going back, all these
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  people had never been on one before.
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  So I was like, oh wait, why am I listening to opinions of people
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  who haven't done it. So I think it's a part of a
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  broader problem where it's easy to hate on slash, be jealous of
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  or just be a negative person because of, I don't know,
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  insecurity or just they want to be there and it's just like it
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  make make them feel better to be like, hey, that looks ships or
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  hey that looks whatever. I mean you entirely turn your
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  opinion. But and also I do understand
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  some of the videos of this one in particular the big Oasis
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  class ships where you do see like the thousands of people.
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  That is very intimidating for maybe someone who is also
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  introverted or is worried about social distancing.
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  That I definitely understand where it's like you know that it
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  looks like like my worst nightmare fine.
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  You know that's I'm I'm you're not on it so cool cool story.
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  Like I understand you're having me and also at least you know if
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  that's where they like that looks like my worst nightmare.
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  I'm like, OK, well, you do, man. That's at least that way.
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  They're not, they're not trashing it.
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  I guess there's all these levels you can, you know, you can opt
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  in and opt out to it, but like, if you really, if you truly
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  don't like. That.
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  View of that space other Why do you need to comment on it?
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  You can just just skip it. Or your algorithm's telling you
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  something. Maybe you do are interested in
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  those things. So yeah, I just think if people
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  who are like looking at doing it listen to people who have
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  actually done it. It might be like yes.
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  Yeah, true. Or or friends.
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  Or listen to first hand advice. Not people who I just like.
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  I heard, I heard that. This person, I heard that
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  someone jumped off. I heard that.
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  And wait a second. What?
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  What are you talking about? Like, Yeah, so that's all.
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  Yeah, I think when it's on social media, in like a Facebook
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  group or Instagram, whatever. I think when it's a comment on a
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  post, on social media, I think we've had social media for long
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  enough now. Facebook is like like 20 years
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  old or something like that. You know, we we know that
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  people. Facebook is no longer a twink.
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  No. Facebook is always is no.
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  Longer. I don't know exactly how old
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  Facebook is Facebook. Facebook has been out for like
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  2020. Ish.
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  It's been a long time. Facebook is almost legal.
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  Facebook is in the 20s. Facebook needs to start filing
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  their fucking taxes. But we've had social media long
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  enough now that we know random people on the Internet will just
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  leave a comment on anything and everything.
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  So me personally, I don't pay a lot of attention to the comments
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  because people literally will just say anything about
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  everything and none of it is solicited.
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  That's just kind of sort of like the comment section on almost
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  anything. So I don't really pay that much
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  attention to it, but I think it's a little bit different when
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  you know it's a article in the media.
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  It's like there's like some sort of news or some sort of public
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  website that's not just like your personal blog.
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  You know, if it's like an actual media article or news article or
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  something like that, or you've gone to the trouble of like
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  creating like a whole video that you post that's not, you know,
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  that's like, you know, someone could make a whole YouTube video
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  that talking about how gay cruises are bad and all that
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  stuff, whatever it is, right. So that's I kind of sort of the
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  comments, a comment on a post. I see that differently than if
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  you actually go create a piece of content.
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  You write a story, you make a video, whatever.
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  When it's like that, I feel like that's really kind of sort of
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  people need to, like you said, anything you see or read on the
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  Internet, you got to really think about, OK, is this like
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  fact or is this someone's opinion?
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  Are they bias? You know, that's where I think
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  like people need to kind of think for themselves whether the
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  media, the content they're consuming, you know, like who is
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  saying that? What's the source?
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  Is that like bias, is it reliable?
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  So on and so forth. But I think you can actually
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  expand that to like anything you consume on the Internet, not
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  just this particular topic of like someone writing an article
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  or saying something about an Atlantis cruise.
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  Oh 100% I think for every. I think people will love cruises
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  and gay cruises are a separate entity, but also people, some
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  people against circuit parties. And then even within the there's
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  people you know, Everyone's got different likes and things, but
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  for me, like the proof is in my pudding, like my actions speak
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  louder than words. I continually come back.
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  I have not paid to promote them at all.
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  But all I have is because my personal first time was so
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  meaningful to me and I had such a good time that if I could
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  either if I could share that experience or someone had even
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  50% of the positivity that I had from my first experience, then
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  you would have a good time. And on on the cruise everyone's
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  just sort of smiling. We had sort of cloudy weather
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  for the 1st 2:00. So to be fair, it was the the
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  weather was not the greatest of all of our January cruises.
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  You can't control the weather though.
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  But The thing is everyone broke good vibes on OK.
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  Most people could have good vibes on I I think with the
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  growth of the incident people do like to complain.
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  That's I I hate that. But people do.
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  And I guess they sort of have a right to.
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  I guess they're like well you know I paid for this vacation.
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  I can complain. Some of the complaints were
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  weather related though where they couldn't use like the Wave
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  rider because that's a shutdown deck 1617 for the first two
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  days. Yeah, it was.
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  It was way too windy. Like, yeah, it was.
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  Way too windy and so but most people were there were like, you
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  know, well, you can't control the weather So this is the
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  things you can change. Things you can't change.
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  But I had, I got, I had a really amazing night.
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  I think night three was probably my favorite night which was the
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  spaceship. Not maybe night. 4 spaceship
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  party spaceship. Yeah.
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  So I think I stayed till like 10:00 AM that day or 11:00 AM
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  that day. So that and then I had, I was
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  sick coming into the either party.
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  No, I I just recovered from like an influenza from White Party
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  like maybe just four days before it came out for the cruise.
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  So I guess my antibodies were ready, so.
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  I was. Kind of.
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  My immune system was my immune system was battered, but at
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  least it had was protected, so I didn't catch anything seemingly
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  knock on wood. I didn't catch any of the
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  various 24 hour bugs that were floating around the ship.
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  But so yeah, I coming into the cruise, I was I guess the most
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  unfit physically because I was just recovering and I was just
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  saying to you earlier, like I think my recovery has been
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  affected by it. But dude, overall amazing
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  cruise. I would do it again.
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  A big ship. It was a big party.
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  Crowds, if you want to party, this is the one to do.
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  If you want to dance till 10:00 AM, this is the one to do if you
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  want to. Meet David Lamb.
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  If you want to meet fellow people who no, not me.
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  If you want to meet people who party all night long or morning
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  long. You're literally just talking
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  about yourself. I'm actually not, but they're
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  not coming. From the person that just said
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  he partied to 11. AM one or two nights, 222
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  nights, White Party. And that night, I didn't really.
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  It still proves my point. Yeah, but I'm.
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  I'm getting older, and I thought I was getting too old for this.
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  But then I remember that I'm just recovering from New Year's.
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  So yeah. Anyways, it's a great thing.
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  But make your own decisions. Make your own.
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  Get sick. Yeah.
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  There's obviously thousands of people do it every year.
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  And they keep coming back. Like, I go there and it's like 1
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  Giant family reunion. I'm like, Oh my God, you're
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  here. You're here.
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  You're here. You're here.
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  And it's it's. Yeah.
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  Truly addicting it. Yeah.
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  You, I I always say this. You don't really see people do
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  just one. Like, yeah, if they do one,
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  they'll want to come back, the vast majority of.
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  People that have done an Atlantis cruise, the vast
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  majority of them go again. It doesn't, you know, it's not
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  like their first and their last is very rare.
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  Yeah, people, yeah, are into like tens, 20, dozens, dozens of
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  them. Yeah, one of the things, one of
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  the things about the cruises that I keep repeating over and
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  over for years now, is that the cruise experience is what you
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  make of it. And there's so many different
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  things you can do on the cruise that you get to choose your own
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  adventure. You know, if you're a party
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  person, you want to just party all the time, you can't do that.
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  But there are people that don't want to party all the time and
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  they there's there's lots of other things besides parties
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  that anyone on the ship can do. They've got like on these on
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  these ships, right? Like we talked about the party
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  because we're into them, but that's just us.
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  You know, you could wake up early and watch the sunrise and
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  do like a early morning yoga class and then you can go get
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  like breakfast. And then there's like all sorts
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  of activities on the ship day and night that you can do that
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  are not the parties. The party is maybe like, I don't
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  know, I don't know one of like 30 or 40 different things you
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  can do on any given day. So every day when we get the
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  cruise compass or the newsletter that they it's electronic now,
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  but every day there's a a newsletter that you can get and
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  it shows you every single thing that's going on, on the ship.
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  And literally there's like 4050 things listed in there.
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  If you read the whole thing, there's like 40-50 different
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  things you can do, and it's like during the day or during the
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  night. And it's not like the parties
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  are just like one or two items on like that list of 40, so many
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  things. Yeah, no, I've had a new people
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  who I had a friend who like won like $2000 at the casino, 'cause
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  he likes about the casino. Yeah, I had a friend who went on
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  one of the ports, his new profile photos, him with a seal,
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  like literally touching a seal or so.
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  That's cool. Damn, that's.
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  Cool. I had a group of friends who
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  almost drowned. They did a waterfall adventure
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  like a a freaking they like hiked through a waterfall.
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  OK, it must have been the Dominican Republic.
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  Yeah, you can also get off the ship is every itinerary has like
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  at least like 3 ports that you can get off of.
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  And every port is a little bit different.
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  Every port there are excursions that you can go on.
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  Yeah, people, you're not stuck on that ship for seven or ten
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  days or. Whatever people did jet ski.
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  Yeah, you can do lots of things. We talked about the you really
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  mentioned the the wave rider thing.
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  That's on the ship. You can't.
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  Yeah, there's like sports and stuff you can do on the ship
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  skate. Room.
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  There's skate room depending on the exact on the on one cruise
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  last year I did go karts. That particular ship had a go
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  Kart track on it and I and I did go Kart.
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  Like, depending on the ship, there's different types of
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  things you can do. And Atlantis themselves, they
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  don't just throw parties, they bring on musicians, singers,
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  drag Queens. So you see like drag shows, you
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  see people that are singing, they have a pianist, they always
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  have a pianist like that. They bring on, they organize
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  these groups, these social groups, for example, one example
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  is they have groups that are for people who are parents, right?
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  So that they can get to like that is like real daddies like
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  people that are. All that is a real all that is a
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  real daddy. Yeah, two different one that's
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  like daddies, like, not in the parental sense.
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  And they have a real daddies like social gathering things
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  where it's for people who have actual kids, right?
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  And that way, you know, it's like a great.
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  It also have like singles nights and couples nights and things
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  like that. They do like singles and couples
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  dinners. That's like a really popular
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  thing where like maybe at 6:00 or 7:00 PM you do like pre drink
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  meat at like a bar. They'll announce all the
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  locations and afterwards you know everyone, all the singles
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  or the couples whatever they'll go to like dinner at the main
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  dining hall. So there are a lot of different
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  things you can do. Again, the parties are like we
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  we talk about the party because we're party people, but the
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  party is literally just like one or two of the events every day
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  on this list of like 40 something events and things that
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  you could be doing on the ship. And it's actually impossible to
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  do everything that the fact that they have so many events and
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  activities on board is that you can pick and choose what you
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  like. Because if you don't like to do
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  a party, you can go play racquetball or you can go rock
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  climbing or you can, you know, join a pottery class.
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  These are. I'm just pulling stuff out of my
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  ass, But you know, you can make the cruise however you want it
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  to be. There's so many different types
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  of things that you can do. But who?
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  Who are you? Who are you talking to?
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  Do you think most of your these listeners have gone on one
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  before or. I'm curious.
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  So don't they? I think on my YouTube channel,
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  for example, I get a It's a mix of people that actually there
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  are quite a lot of people on my YouTube channel just judging
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  from the comments that wanna go on a cruise but they can't for
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  some reason. Maybe they don't live in a
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  region where they can easily hop on a cruise, or someone who has
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  never been on a cruise before because they were on a go.
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  Just judging from the comments, I think we really mentioned this
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  on a podcast before where the people that have been on cruises
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  before, that's not, I don't think there's a ton of those.
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  Yeah bro 'cause I'm like but. You're being so bored.
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  You're like, why are you telling me this shit?
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  I don't freaking know this shit. This is nice.
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  Yeah. So I think the people that, at
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  at least the ones that engage on my YouTube channel with likes
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  and comments and stuff, most of those are people that have not
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  been on a cruise before. Yeah, just do it.
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  Let's do it. You'll love it.
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  You'll love it. Yeah.
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  I mean, yeah, try it once. If you don't like it, you don't
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  have to go back. But statistically most of you
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  that go once, they want to go again.
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  Just, yeah, you just meet just cool people.
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  Actually, I did meet. I didn't end up going.
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  I was at the buffet and he talked to random people all the
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  time as you do at the and he was mentioning there was a drag
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  queen show at 9:00 PM who was gonna do singing Ariana Grande
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  songs. But I I think it was why party
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  nights I was, I just, I just remembered it now it was really
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  friendly too. It's like, so this stuff, I
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  don't know. I'm not looking at the cruise
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  campus for every every little thing.
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  And I'm like, I had no idea. I actually legitimately was
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  like, no, I actually want to see this and I should just only
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  remember now. So sorry.
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  There was if you're somehow listening or watching.
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  They're nice. Only three people listening to
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  this and. They're.
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  Anyways, he was really nice and I was like, I would actually
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  love to thingy, but I think by then I was.
• 20:51
  I don't know what day it was. I think it was the end.
• 20:55
  White Party night. It would be the IT would be like
• 20:57
  day six. I think it.
• 20:57
  Might have been what, party night?
• 20:59
  Yeah, there you go. Yeah, but I never read that
• 21:04
  whole newsletter because it's just too much to read.
• 21:08
  I like glance on the on the first page and then I the next
• 21:12
  thing I look at is what port we're at.
• 21:16
  It's also on the front page. And then another thing I look at
• 21:20
  is restaurant hours. Well, The thing is, I think that
• 21:23
  that should be used not, like as a book, but that is a
• 21:26
  reformation source. Yeah.
• 21:27
  So you're using exactly what it was.
• 21:29
  And I was like, oh, when I looked at them.
• 21:30
  Oh, this this bitch is seeing at 9:00.
• 21:33
  So, yeah, you're right. This bitch.
• 21:34
  So I look good for the weather. I didn't care for the port, the
• 21:37
  weather. Yeah, there.
• 21:39
  Yeah. I'd like to know if it's AC day
• 21:41
  or not AC day. I guess maybe that's more Akram.
• 21:43
  I don't care too much exactly where we are, like what port
• 21:46
  we're docking at. I just want to know if it's a AC
• 21:48
  day or not AC. Day.
• 21:49
  Yeah. Generally, I think that's the
• 21:51
  one order that I do know before. That's probably the only thing I
• 21:55
  know. It's like OK, it's like roughly
• 21:57
  CC port port port, White Party or something I.
• 22:01
  Have to put. Otherwise, I don't know what day
• 22:03
  I don't fucking know. No, I I you, don't you?
• 22:05
  You don't know that. Yeah.
• 22:07
  So it says what day it is, like day 123 or whatever, right on
• 22:11
  the front. And I end up from the
• 22:17
  crucification guy, which is the PDF you get like a few days
• 22:20
  before you actually board the cruise.
• 22:22
  And it has a preview of the entertainment.
• 22:25
  It's not like the set in stone schedule you get the schedule on
• 22:29
  the newsletter you get every day when you're on the ship.
• 22:32
  But the preview gives you an idea what entertainment, or at
• 22:37
  least like the headliners are. And I like to go through the CVG
• 22:42
  before the cruise and put onto my own calendar on my phone what
• 22:46
  shows I want to see. I'm sure that's wise.
• 22:49
  I mean, I think you should prioritize.
• 22:50
  Yeah. If you look at whatever if like
• 22:53
  the idiom headliner like Paul Van Dyke this year, if he's your
• 22:56
  main thing, then you would like, OK, cool, I'm doing this and
• 22:59
  then I'm like, I'm taking a break here.
• 23:01
  I'm going to watch this show. I'll eat early this to watch
• 23:04
  this show later. So no, that's why that's what
• 23:06
  it's there for, I guess. Right.
• 23:07
  To plan your day out because at the end of the day it's your
• 23:09
  cruise and it's you can do whatever you want and.
• 23:12
  Yeah, that that's exactly true. So someone messaged me today.
• 23:18
  I wasn't on the cruise, but apparently, according to this
• 23:21
  person, doing one of like, the many speeches that Rich Campbell
• 23:25
  gives on the ship. Rich Campbell is the founder and
• 23:31
  owner of Atlantis. President Yep.
• 23:33
  President. Yeah, I don't know the, I don't
• 23:35
  know all the titles, but apparently he told people in
• 23:39
  like AQ and A or like in front of a crowd that there's gonna be
• 23:43
  a Asia cruise next year in January.
• 23:50
  No. No comment I.
• 23:52
  No, I'm. I'm telling you this.
• 23:54
  Oh, OK. I'm not.
• 23:55
  I'm not asking you to confirm. Oh, OK, I once again with
• 23:58
  Atlantis. Until I see it in paper and and
• 24:01
  dinghy. There's literally no.
• 24:03
  I've heard rumours of meeting so.
• 24:06
  This, this is what someone I knew on the cruise told me.
• 24:08
  But like, apparently, yeah, like it.
• 24:11
  It's until it's confirmed and I see it on the website, I don't.
• 24:14
  Exactly. Don't.
• 24:16
  Yeah. But I'm kind of excited about it
• 24:17
  because I, I love to party in Asia.
• 24:22
  So I'm interested to see what kind of if this happens, what
• 24:25
  kind of itinerary they have because every year like
• 24:28
  obviously Atlanta space in the US so we get the US cruises out
• 24:32
  of Florida or California and that they always have cruises in
• 24:37
  the Mediterranean, in Europe. But it's not every year that
• 24:40
  there is a Asia cruise. I know, I think next week or the
• 24:45
  week after coming up pretty soon they have a cruise in Australia,
• 24:51
  like a five day cruise. I think it's coming very soon.
• 24:53
  I think it's this weekend. Oh wait, this coming up.
• 24:56
  It's coming up very soon in the. Next week or so.
• 24:58
  Something like that. So that's cool to see.
• 25:02
  I know in 2023 they did have an Asia cruise in it's in November.
• 25:07
  They did a cruise in Asia in November.
• 25:09
  Yeah. But I'm hoping that there is
• 25:12
  enough demand in the future to see an Asia cruise on the
• 25:19
  calendar more regularly. Well, it makes sense if you're
• 25:22
  there already, like you've if you're definitely going to be in
• 25:25
  in the area, the region, it makes sense to like make the
• 25:29
  most of that long flight across because it's hard for you to get
• 25:32
  to Asia, right sort of ish, Whereas for Australians it's
• 25:35
  finally something close. Close Ish.
• 25:38
  Yeah, yeah, cuz we have to fly like 20 hours to get to fucking
• 25:41
  Miami. So yes, it makes sense for those
• 25:44
  who would have made the trek to Asia for for a new year
• 25:49
  celebration somewhere. If they do in Bangkok for
• 25:53
  example, yeah, it could coincide.
• 25:56
  Makes sense. And then they've got the
• 25:57
  recovery if like, hey, I've partied enough and then I can
• 26:01
  recover potentially depending on the itinerary.
• 26:05
  Yeah. So nothing's been announced yet,
• 26:07
  but if it if it goes ahead, I'm I'm just really excited to see
• 26:11
  like what the details are for that particular one because I'm
• 26:14
  excited for the three more. I mean they just literally
• 26:16
  announced that Europe one like. Oh yeah, they added a.
• 26:20
  Two weeks. What did they like really
• 26:22
  recently? Like 2 weeks ago on the cruise
• 26:23
  maybe? Earlier this month, but I got an
• 26:25
  e-mail. About it And it's like, oh, I'm
• 26:26
  like, OK, all of a sudden I'm like, the two Med cruises are
• 26:28
  sold out, next minute there's one in July.
• 26:32
  It's in July. So David and I, we did a episode
• 26:35
  of this podcast, I think it was in December, where we went
• 26:40
  through very quickly and briefly all the cruises that were coming
• 26:45
  up in 2024. But since that time they just
• 26:48
  announced a additional Mediterranean cruise in Europe
• 26:53
  in July. It will be on a Virgin cruise
• 26:55
  ship and I got an e-mail about it.
• 26:59
  I don't know, I don't know if it's on the website yet but I I
• 27:06
  don't remember 100% but feel free to Google Atlantis website.
• 27:11
  But sometimes I know they open up cruises for alumni first to
• 27:15
  book before they open to the general public.
• 27:17
  But, so we're obviously alumni, but yeah, there is gonna be 4
• 27:23
  medcruises next year. They have the Oceania cruise
• 27:25
  which the luxury cruise in July. They have this brand new Virgin
• 27:30
  cruise in the Mediterranean also in July.
• 27:32
  And then we have the two Mediterranean cruises that are
• 27:37
  10 days each that are back-to-back also on Virgin
• 27:40
  cruises in August. So that's a lot of cruises in
• 27:45
  Europe. This year usually there's two,
• 27:46
  maybe three and this year there's four.
• 27:49
  So far. Wait till they add another one.
• 27:51
  I don't know. I don't know where.
• 27:53
  It's really ramping up after COVID, I guess.
• 27:56
  I was just telling David there's a chance I might not go on any
• 27:59
  cruises this year. No, no response.
• 28:08
  Yeah, because you're not going any cruises.
• 28:10
  I'm not. Going to be like.
• 28:13
  Wait, I had. I wasn't.
• 28:15
  That was exactly the response I was looking for against David.
• 28:19
  I I didn't go on this January 1 because I just.
• 28:21
  I just needed to save some money and the the I'm not going to,
• 28:27
  I'm not flying to Australia just to go on a 5 day cruise and the
• 28:31
  other Caribbean cruise that's coming up in March.
• 28:33
  I don't usually go on that one, but the crowd is quite different
• 28:37
  and I'm not going to fly to Europe to go on a cruise again.
• 28:39
  I did that in 2023. Flying Europe is very expensive
• 28:42
  in the summer, in July and August and I don't think that's
• 28:46
  like something I want to do again.
• 28:50
  So that leaves the October cruise and I had plan to go to
• 28:58
  Taipei for Taiwan Pride again this year.
• 29:01
  But yeah, we'll see how the year progresses.
• 29:04
  I think the October one is the only kind of realistic option
• 29:07
  for me at this point. If I do want to go on a cruise
• 29:09
  this year, maybe you're. Just moving away from cruises.
• 29:11
  No, I love doing the cruises. I would have been on the January
• 29:14
  1 I I was booked on the January 1 at for like a long time.
• 29:19
  I just decided to save that money because I didn't have a
• 29:24
  roommate. I was going to have my own room
• 29:26
  and that is not cheap. That was like $3000 for that
• 29:32
  room. On top of I have to fly myself
• 29:34
  over to Miami and I have to have at least like one night of
• 29:36
  hotel. So yeah, I'm not I I love the
• 29:40
  cruises. I'm not off the cruises.
• 29:42
  I just, you know, I just need to watch my money.
• 29:46
  Monies. Yeah.
• 29:49
  That's good. Smart making, Smart Making good.
• 29:51
  Choices. Adulting adults.
• 29:53
  Pretty hard adulting, yes. Cool cruises aside, so you had
• 30:00
  mentioned that, like I talked on the last episode of the podcast,
• 30:03
  How I Got Sick. You got way more sick.
• 30:06
  But it's good to know that you're like you're 100% now.
• 30:10
  I just have this lingering well, lingering.
• 30:13
  No, it's not. But luckily I did.
• 30:16
  It's not My doctor knew what was gonna happen.
• 30:17
  But here's guys, if it is influenza IT which I don't think
• 30:21
  I've had before, well it's been a long time since I've had the
• 30:25
  actual, the actual flu. He was like no, it is very
• 30:28
  normal to sort of feel or have lingering after effects for a
• 30:33
  few weeks. And I guess it's not normally
• 30:36
  you go on like a seven day party cruise in the middle of that
• 30:39
  recovery. But I was.
• 30:41
  I was already. I was sort of.
• 30:43
  The acute symptoms had sort of subsided 4 days before I came up
• 30:46
  here. And then I was just this
• 30:47
  lingering little mini cough. I can go hours without coughing
• 30:51
  and then randomly have a coughing fit.
• 30:53
  And I just just, it's just 'cause I'm, I'm always really
• 30:57
  cognizant of the cough. So I'm like, I I I feels it
• 31:01
  feels like I'm doing it a lot. So no, kind of OK, actually,
• 31:05
  yeah. Like I said, I didn't develop
• 31:06
  any new symptoms after the cruise, so I think that whatever
• 31:11
  I had before was like a shield that kept me through.
• 31:15
  Yeah, I did lose a lot of of weight though, so I just got to
• 31:18
  get that back. Oh my God, yeah.
• 31:20
  So we're both, we're both hard at work at the gym.
• 31:23
  We're trying to get back into our regular gym schedule, both
• 31:27
  of us, as much as we can, yeah. I've lost 6 kilos at least.
• 31:30
  That's a lot of weight. Yeah, that's like it's but it's
• 31:34
  little, little less than half, right, compared to pounds.
• 31:39
  No, it's 6 * 2. It's like maybe 15 lbs.
• 31:43
  Yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot of weight to lose.
• 31:47
  Yeah, it was rough. And then I thank God for protein
• 31:51
  shakes on the cruise. Thank God those were so good.
• 31:56
  Oh my God. That nutrition bar thing at the
• 31:58
  gym is like a godsend. Yeah.
• 32:00
  So on the Oasis class ships of Royal Caribbean, they have the
• 32:04
  Vitality Spa. That's the name for the for the
• 32:07
  spa and gym. They're called the Vitality Spa
• 32:09
  and Gym on the Oasis class ships.
• 32:11
  Though there is a little, it's not a bar but they have a little
• 32:16
  like protein shake and snacks thing at the entrance.
• 32:21
  It's a juice bar. Basically it's a juice bar and
• 32:23
  juice. Yeah.
• 32:24
  It's like when you're about to walk in before you get to the
• 32:27
  gym and the spa. Yeah.
• 32:29
  So there's like a little juice bar.
• 32:30
  They do snacks and they also do protein shakes.
• 32:32
  So if you happen to have, you can just buy a la carte.
• 32:35
  It's like, I don't know how much it is, six or seven, six or 8
• 32:37
  bucks or something, I think. 795 or 8 bucks, yeah, yeah.
• 32:40
  Something like that. And you can kind of customize it
• 32:42
  because they have fresh fruit there and they say, do you want
• 32:45
  like bananas or strawberries or chocolate or whatever flavor you
• 32:48
  want? And then they've got different
• 32:50
  types of protein powder you can do away or you can do vegan.
• 32:53
  So you can kind of sort of customize it and they are
• 32:58
  usually very, very delicious, yeah.
• 32:59
  It's like 6:30 to 10:00 PM anyways there, right?
• 33:02
  It got hours, so like that's one of the places we go on that
• 33:07
  particular ship as those shakes are really good and we like to
• 33:09
  keep our protein up. But what I've started to do is
• 33:12
  actually out bring a whole bag or bottle of protein powder onto
• 33:18
  the ship and it'll I keep it just in my room and usually it
• 33:22
  will last me. Yeah, it'll last me like a whole
• 33:25
  week if I have like a couple of those every day.
• 33:27
  Yeah, I guess I should have been more like trying to keep my
• 33:32
  weight up after losing so much weight over New Year's.
• 33:36
  But I just you just, I don't know, I was there to party and
• 33:40
  dance with the friends. So I think you.
• 33:42
  Shred it Now I didn't worry about it.
• 33:44
  You're. Shredding.
• 33:44
  Accidental shredding. Yeah, yeah.
• 33:46
  Yeah, well, you you've done a shred cycle, basically.
• 33:49
  Now you can do bulk, gross. Now you can do bulking.
• 33:51
  Yeah, I need to. Get back into it.
• 33:54
  Yeah, so okay. So that will be another episode
• 33:58
  of the podcast. All right, We will sign out from
• 34:02
  there. Say bye, David.
• 34:03
  Bye, David. Bye.