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Cruise Ship Performers Panel (w/Kat Palardy) · Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Artists on Artists on Artists on artists. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: do we have a panel for you today.
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  Speaker 2: The Stream's Screenwriting Expert panel of new voices in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 3: Costumes are character.
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  Speaker 2: Buck Mary Kill Wide shot, two shot close up.
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  Speaker 4: On Artists on Artists on artists.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know why they call it show business? I
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  Speaker 1: always wondered that.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever tried hitting a high sea? On the
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  Speaker 2: high seas? For some of today's guests, that's their job.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. This week on Artists on artists and Artists
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  Speaker 2: and artists, we're talking to cruise ship performers.
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  Speaker 1: Through the ups and the downs, the rocking of the boat,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, sea sickness. We're hearing what makes cruise ship
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  Speaker 1: performing so difficult.
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  Speaker 4: We'll just be able to dive into a couple of
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  Speaker 4: specific ways that these performers make a living in the
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  Speaker 4: middle of the ocean.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Evelyn McPhee. I've been on the Royal
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  Speaker 1: Mediterranean since nineteen eighty five. I play Old Deuteronomy in cats.
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  Speaker 2: It's great to see everybody. My name is Rick Rocket.
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  Speaker 2: I am the lead singer of the Trap rock cover
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  Speaker 2: band Rick Rocket and the spring Time chickens. I perform
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  Speaker 2: over in the rock and Roll Lounge on the Lido deck.
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  Speaker 2: I've been doing that for about fifteen years. We really
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  Speaker 2: get things rockin' every night from about five thirty to
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  Speaker 2: seven thirty, right before the big show. And it's really
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  Speaker 2: great to see everybody here. It's good to be back together.
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  Speaker 1: Hi.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Soucy. I'm I'm a dancer on the boat. Been
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  Speaker 5: there for many, many many years, belly dance and swing
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  Speaker 5: dance and teach the okiddos how to waltz.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Hi, I'm big Mama, Julia.
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  Speaker 2: Good to see mama.
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  Speaker 6: Oh. Yes, I've also been on the ship for a while.
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  Speaker 7: And oh gosh, I'm just.
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  Speaker 6: You're all my children. You're all my babies, of course, and.
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  Speaker 5: I do have Mamula, love you, love you all in
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  Speaker 5: my bosom.
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  Speaker 8: And I have six dogs, don't tell.
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  Speaker 6: And uh, hopefully my next pet will be a baby
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  Speaker 6: working on that.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, and I'm a singer.
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  Speaker 4: Hi. Uh, my name is Derek Bincon. Hi, I'm Georgie
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  Speaker 4: and I am the ventriloquist on the cruise ship. This
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  Speaker 4: is Georgie. Say hello Georgie again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what the fuck do you want from me?
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  Speaker 4: Okay? Georgie. He gets a little feisty. Okay, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 4: what I do. I have a ventriloquist.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I have missed Georgie. I will say, I've been
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  Speaker 1: on the Loajs deck for quite some time and I
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  Speaker 1: miss his spicy character.
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  Speaker 4: Oh Georgie. You know, Georgie is pretty spicy all the time.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the fun thing about Georgie. You know, when
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  Speaker 4: you get in front of a crowd on the seas,
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  Speaker 4: you know they're looking for you know, we're in the middle.
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  Speaker 4: There's no rules, there's no laws in the middle of
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  Speaker 4: the ocean. So Georgie could get a little spicy, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and I.
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  Speaker 2: Would I would like to say I think Georgie has
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  Speaker 2: actually gotten spicier since I've gotten to know him.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Yeah, definitely, Georgie has come out of
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  Speaker 4: the shell. Hey, I'm not a bird anymore. I don't
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  Speaker 4: have a shell.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not in an egg.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Georgie, calm down, com down. Georgie is a large
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  Speaker 4: parrot bird and yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We have all comes in sometimes and he sings the
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  Speaker 2: piny Colada song with me.
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  Speaker 4: Cold.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, george getting caught in the rain. Yeah, he likes
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  Speaker 2: to you gotta come Tuesday nights. He usually sneaks on them.
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  Speaker 2: That's the rock and roll lounge on the Lido deck.
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  Speaker 2: We could always use people to come by if you
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  Speaker 2: are around. It is fun down there. I also wanted
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  Speaker 2: to bring up we're all on the same cruise ship.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if we mentioned that. Uh, it's I
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's fun to see you guys again on
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  Speaker 2: dry land.
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  Speaker 5: It's so fun because we know Eachada, and we've been
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  Speaker 5: not Ey Jada and swam with each other.
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  Speaker 3: I swam with you guys in Barcelona's.
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  Speaker 2: On swimming in Barcelona, in that pool.
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  Speaker 4: I'll never forget that one pool that was such a
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  Speaker 4: nice pool.
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  Speaker 1: It's great when they let us visit the pools because
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're in this big ocean. But when we
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  Speaker 1: finally get the opportunity to flap around in the chlorinated water,
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  Speaker 1: that's when we really shine.
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  Speaker 2: It really feels like resistance training swimming in the ocean,
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  Speaker 2: and then when you get into a pool, it's so
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  Speaker 2: much easier. I could talk about this for hours and
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  Speaker 2: a half with every one of you vidual points.
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  Speaker 1: We do have a lot of time to talk to
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  Speaker 1: each other on the ship. Can everyone go around. How
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  Speaker 1: long has everybody been on the ship.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll start ten years for me, ten years in October.
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  Speaker 6: Twenty years for Big Mama.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be down here for six sexy years.
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  Speaker 4: I've been on the ship for about two three months now,
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  Speaker 4: I think two or three months.
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  Speaker 1: I've been on the ship for forty five years. And
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  Speaker 1: I will say, Big Mama, I'm considerably older than you,
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  Speaker 1: but you've always felt like a mother to me, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to say I appreciate you for that.
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  Speaker 8: You're all my babies.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, it's what a sensual experience motherhood. You know. Just
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  Speaker 7: human touch is so important on the ship. And I
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  Speaker 7: don't even mean, you know, in a sexual way. You know,
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  Speaker 7: human touch is how we all stay happy, and we
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  Speaker 7: stay sane and we stay not depressed, right because obviously
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  Speaker 7: we lost George.
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  Speaker 2: Rest in peace to that motherfucker, am I right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, cheeky horny.
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  Speaker 2: I ever met, and I miss him every single day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, believe me, I miss him at night. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Mama, Julie, you had a yeah, you had a
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  Speaker 4: special relationship with George, didn't you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, yeah, yeah, Wait what's that now?
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  Speaker 7: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Evelyn, were you sleeping with George.
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  Speaker 1: Big Mama, Julia, were you sleeping with George?
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  Speaker 7: Well, our naked bodies were together, and what happened happened?
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  Speaker 1: You know, God damn it, this keeps happening.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if I guess that's sleeping with them, than I
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  Speaker 4: did too. Okay, Georgie, go down. He did not sleep
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  Speaker 4: with George.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I am.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry. He's got a mind of his own. But yes,
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  Speaker 4: I also was sleeping with George.
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  Speaker 1: It's a shame when you lose him. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a shame when you lose him.
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  Speaker 5: I let's change the subject and get a little cheeky
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  Speaker 5: and move on. I'm getting sad. I'm gonna pick up
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  Speaker 5: a question from the fish Bow. Name all your responsibilities
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  Speaker 5: on the ship. That's fun because we all do different
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  Speaker 5: things sometimes. I know Rick sings a little, but he
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  Speaker 5: sings different nights. You have different songs, right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know we have all kinds of crazy
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  Speaker 2: songs that we do on the show. It is so
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  Speaker 2: much fun. Rock and Roll Lounge five thirty to seven
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  Speaker 2: thirty every single night on the Lido deck. We'd love
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  Speaker 2: for you guys to come out. I'm gonna be honest
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  Speaker 2: with you. I haven't had a guest in about four months,
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  Speaker 2: but we keep the show going in case. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I like to think somebody can hear us because we're
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  Speaker 2: such a loud thing. We have a lot of fun
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  Speaker 2: songs we got going on. I'm singing Pina Colada by
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  Speaker 2: Rupert Holmes. I'm singing Key Largo by Bertie Higgins. We got,
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  Speaker 2: of course, Rambling In by the All Men Brothers, White
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  Speaker 2: Sun by the Doobie Brothers. That's kind of a sad one,
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  Speaker 2: but the lyrics art. If you catch my drift, I
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  Speaker 2: could go on and on. Well I can.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I hear you from my room. And it's Copa
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  Speaker 1: Cabana every night it's seven exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It is it is. We say it's five o'clock somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: but it's seven o'clock here, and at seven o'clock we
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  Speaker 2: play Copa Cabana. Her name was Lola. She was a
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  Speaker 2: shew girl. That's kind of the stuff that I do. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it is a blast, and I would say themes more
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  Speaker 2: come and go with the outfits that I wear. I
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  Speaker 2: usually play the same songs, but sometimes I do the
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  Speaker 2: ass a captain. Sometimes I do them as a man
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  Speaker 2: in a Hawaiian shirt. Sometimes I do the mass someone
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  Speaker 2: wearing a bathing suit.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 5: On Tuesdays, you see happy birthday, right, the al legame dude.
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday, we lump all the birthdays for the week together
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  Speaker 2: into one day.
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  Speaker 1: And I like to hear all those guests that aren't
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  Speaker 1: at the show. I like to think that they can
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  Speaker 1: hear it.
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  Speaker 2: I did that to get an audience, right, and and
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you hear it. Did that to try to
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  Speaker 2: get everybody together, because we said, there's got to be
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  Speaker 2: some people. There's six thousand people in this boat. There's
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  Speaker 2: got to be a few people with their birthday. They
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  Speaker 2: haven't come yet, but we have, of course, the campaign.
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  Speaker 2: The events director, Mark Williams, he always announces it in
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  Speaker 2: the morning and I hear him. I hear him, and
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  Speaker 2: I call him out.
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  Speaker 3: If he doesn't mister boss man.
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  Speaker 2: Mister boss man, Mark Williams.
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  Speaker 7: Mark is definitely, Mark is definitely the daddy of this ship.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Well, tell me about your shows, Mama Dula. What
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff What is your show specifically that you do?
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  Speaker 7: Oh well, I start the morning with my preschool show
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  Speaker 7: or pre you know, uh pre you know, for the kids,
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  Speaker 7: and we do all the you know.
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  Speaker 8: All the different fairy tale songs, and I just love that.
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  Speaker 8: And uh, and then I fill in wherever needed. You know,
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  Speaker 8: I've filled in for every show. I've played every role
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  Speaker 8: on the ship. I like to just show up and say,
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  Speaker 8: put me to work.
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  Speaker 6: But I'd say my favorite.
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  Speaker 7: Show is is the Janis Joplin. Uh is that because
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  Speaker 7: I do have a you know, I have a soft
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  Speaker 7: spot for Dre because she was such a mama.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she was a mama she was.
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  Speaker 3: I love that song. I love when you do Jennie Choplin.
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  Speaker 3: I love it, love it.
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  Speaker 4: I never forget the first time I saw you do
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  Speaker 4: Janis it was it was it was actually amazing for
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  Speaker 4: me because it felt like, you know, I wasn't alive
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  Speaker 4: for Janis Joplin, but it felt like what it would
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  Speaker 4: be like to see her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I I remember the first time I saw
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  Speaker 1: you do that, I thought you were Janis Joplin. I
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  Speaker 1: turned to my friend Evelyn at the time, my other
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  Speaker 1: friend named Evelyn. My name is also Evelin. I said, Evelyn,
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  Speaker 1: can you believe they got Janis Joplin? And she said,
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  Speaker 1: you idiot, that's not Janis Joplin, that's mama Julia, May
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  Speaker 1: she rest in peace.
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  Speaker 7: Let me tell you, twenty seven was a hard dude
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  Speaker 7: for me, because that's obviously. Janis died of an overdose
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  Speaker 7: when she was twenty seven. And as we all know,
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  Speaker 7: I was in a dark place on the ship.
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  Speaker 6: When I was twenty seven.
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  Speaker 4: How long ago was.
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  Speaker 7: That, Well, I'm forty four now, so you do the math.
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  Speaker 7: But I was standing on the bow of the ship
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  Speaker 7: and I was debating whether to jump.
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  Speaker 6: And I remember, Evelyn, you came up behind me. I
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  Speaker 6: thought you were gonna push me.
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  Speaker 1: I like to pull that little joke because you know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's so depressed. Sometimes they walk up to the end
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  Speaker 1: of the ship and they're like, oh, I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it, and I give them a little push just
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  Speaker 1: to see if they would. I like to think it's
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  Speaker 1: a fun, little practical joke. It usually it usually detenses
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  Speaker 1: the boot, you know, and then nobody wants to kill
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  Speaker 1: themselves because they laughing too much.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with there, I'm right there with you. I make
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  Speaker 2: jokes right at the bow, or everyone kills themselves as well.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they like to give out punch cards. It's just
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  Speaker 2: gallows humor. Gallows humor.
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  Speaker 7: You gotta have humor because it can be a dark,
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  Speaker 7: dark depress.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I will say, I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like at this point, I feel like everybody that's worked
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  Speaker 4: on a cruise ship has thought about just jumping off
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  Speaker 4: the front or the back.
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  Speaker 2: Am I calling out, let's say it like we see it.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, but you'll be lying if you didn't
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  Speaker 3: say so.
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  Speaker 4: Look, the truth is I've never what I have, Kay, George,
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  Speaker 4: George is always three months for.
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  Speaker 1: You and George three months you already feel that way.
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  Speaker 1: Normally that doesn't set in until about eighteen months, so
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  Speaker 1: three years or so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well I'm actually I actually joined this cruise ship
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  Speaker 4: to escape my ex, just try to get away from
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  Speaker 4: that situation.
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  Speaker 1: And so you were all ready to ro.
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  Speaker 4: I was very so to speak. I said, it's either
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  Speaker 4: it's either I jump off a cliff or join a
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  Speaker 4: cruise ship. And luckily I talked to him in to
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  Speaker 4: joining a cruise ship. Okay, Georgie, you dog id.
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  Speaker 2: Can I ask, mister puppet man, did you do ventriloquism
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  Speaker 2: before you joined the show?
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  Speaker 4: Not once, not ever. I blindly submitted a resume. I
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  Speaker 4: was I was like a gym instructor before this didn't
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  Speaker 4: have one credit of virtualism, said I'd be up to it.
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  Speaker 4: Show up. They said, build your puppet. I built it,
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  Speaker 4: and I came to life.
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  Speaker 1: And I will say, the puppet that you have on
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  Speaker 1: it is reflective of the fact that you've never done
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  Speaker 1: this before. It's kind of a sock sort of thing
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  Speaker 1: for the viewers at home.
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  Speaker 4: Well, well, Georgie, you know he always comments about his
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  Speaker 4: own look. You know, at least I'm not in Hollywood
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  Speaker 4: on the series, I can look like this and that
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  Speaker 4: gets usually a big laugh.
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  Speaker 2: That's usually a big laugh. And I wanted to bring it.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to bring up your other puppet. You use
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  Speaker 2: Cowboy RUI, which, if I don't want to surprise anyone,
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  Speaker 2: but is clearly a woody stuffed animal that you have
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  Speaker 2: gutted that you just kind of leaving.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking. I didn't. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know who cowboy pounding.
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  Speaker 2: There a partner here, he is, my mother prowdy guy
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  Speaker 2: there he is.
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  Speaker 4: Where did you come from? Well, I was just on
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  Speaker 4: the bow of the ship wondering if I could run
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  Speaker 4: it over.
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  Speaker 3: That's God, what a sexy motherfucker.
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  Speaker 2: I love that fucking guy.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, you guys are not the only ones. It's just
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  Speaker 4: been a wild ride for me because yes, I have
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  Speaker 4: wanted to kill myself multiple times, but I'm also selling
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  Speaker 4: out almost every performance, you know, and I've got the
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  Speaker 4: two hundred three hundred seat theater. I was in the
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  Speaker 4: ten seat theater and they just moved me up and
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  Speaker 4: up and up and up. So every day I.
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  Speaker 1: Was wondering where all the customers have been going, because
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  Speaker 1: they're they're certainly not at your show, Rick Rocket, and
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  Speaker 1: they are certainly not at Cats. And a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the people who come to watch cats they end up
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  Speaker 1: dying mid performance because they're very old and so it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm glad to see that they're going somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted to ask about cats right now. How's
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  Speaker 2: that going, Evelyn? I know how long have you been
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  Speaker 2: doing cats, specifically on this the boat.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've been doing cats since nineteen ninety. In from
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five to nineteen ninety I did Hello Dolly,
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  Speaker 1: and I was just a townsperson then. But then I
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  Speaker 1: looked so old, even from a very young age, that
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  Speaker 1: they said you would be great at old deuteronomy and cats.
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  Speaker 1: You got to get into that costume, and so I did.
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  Speaker 4: And I can tell the last thirty years. So they
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  Speaker 4: switched it up five every five years, but then they
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  Speaker 4: just committed to Cats for thirty years at least.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it's sort of this other play because they do
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  Speaker 1: other Broadway shows on this show, but they yes, they did.
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  Speaker 1: They made a deal with Andrew Lloyd Webber. They would
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  Speaker 1: never stop doing Cats in the Star Showroom. They would
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  Speaker 1: never stop doing it because he has some dirt on
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  Speaker 1: this company which I won't go into. But it's been great,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, you would think that the release of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen film Cats would maybe spark some popularity
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  Speaker 1: in the cruise ship show Cats. It is not. It
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  Speaker 1: is not in the least. In fact, I would say
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  Speaker 1: it's the opposite. I would say that people occasionally will
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  Speaker 1: come in and throw tomatoes, but that's part of the gig,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 6: If that's that's if they survived the show.
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  Speaker 1: And let's talk about that.
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  Speaker 6: You mentioned a lot of people have died watching Cats up.
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  Speaker 6: As you all know, we.
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  Speaker 7: Ran out of room in the Morgan had to put
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  Speaker 7: the people, you know, people that had passed in the
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  Speaker 7: freezer next to the shrimp.
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  Speaker 2: We did put them in the freezer, and the ones
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  Speaker 2: that seemed like that.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Was a mess for the cooks. Yeah, an absolute mess
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: for the cooks. They didn't know for bodies it was.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: And when the freezer filled up, they did use the
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: rock and roll lounge for a little bit, which was
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: frustrating for me.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: Well, it's like you have an audience. You have an audience.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: I guess they're not laughing or singing along, but you
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: have something.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess. So they really loved my rendition of
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Deja Vu by Olivia Rodrigo. I'll tell you that much.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: I love when you sing that song. I love it.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: I love it sexy.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Do you get deja vu? And cheese with a yo? Yeah?
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: I gotta keep it fresh. They actually keep it young.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: They actually had so many bodies. They let me start,
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: you know, doing some fun skits with the bodies, and I.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Didn't like I'm gonna be honest with you, I didn't
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: It was a hit or misshow for sure. And I
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: couldn't tell who was laughing because you know, also half
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: of the audience was bodies, so I couldn't tell if
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: people were liking it or dead. But it was a
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: hit for a.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: While it was a weird June.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: Let's call it. It was a weird.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: June, a weird Jude.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I found it weird much thought the last year was
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: weird for sure, Yeah, for.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Sure, it was just a weird and then the second
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: month and we knew we had moved on, it felt
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: like so it felt like just like a blimp in
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: the year.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I did want to bring up little Miss Broadway over there.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: That's my little bit Broby, What tell us about your show,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: because I don't think I've ever gotten around to see it.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: I'll say that I am different than some of you guys.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: I'm not a concentrated performer. I am all over the
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: ship at all times. My week looks different.
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: The only constant thing I'll say is Mama Mia.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: On Wednesday nights, I dance in Cats with Evelyn, and
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: I do limbo at lunch by the pool. I have
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: to do that and shirts not fully dancing. And it's
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: a weird part of my contract that I didn't agree to,
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: and that brings me lots of anger and lots of
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: lots of sadness and boredom and depression. But it's a
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: part of the gig, right, It's a part of the
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: gig because I love to meet the people on the boat.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: I love to meet the people on the boat. So
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: I'm just all over. I'm all over, especially limbo at
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: two thirty.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Are you just doing the are you just participating in
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: the limbo?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: I'm holding the stick and shaking my bum?
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: I mean, and is the hard? I mean the costume
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: they have you where it is hard?
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: It's hard.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: It's humiliating.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, a big pineapple. Somebody's got to be
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: the big pineapple.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: It's a big pineapple with like where it shot and
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: then a little cut show my ass in the back.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: And I don't like it, assless pineapple.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: I don't like it with the glitter on my ass
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: I don't like it doesn't feel good, never agreed to.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: It doesn't fit right. But I mean I heard the
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: stick and I shake bum.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Well, sure, we've all had to do humiliating things on
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the ship. That's sort of part of the gig. I mean,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I know they used to trot me out and and
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: and and and and you know, serve keisches to the
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: captains and they'd make me wear a little maid's outfit. Now,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: this was back in nineteen eighty five when women weren't
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: people yet, and so you understand where they're coming from.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: But you know, it's it's a shame sometimes we're asked
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: to do things that are beyond our job district description.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: I would love to hear what, you know, kind of
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: like the most memorable humiliating experiences everybody's had, because you know,
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: in two or three months, I've already had a couple,
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: but I'm sure it doesn't track to anybody's.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, how much time you got?
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Hellololol lool lool.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Big Mama, Julia, were some of your crazy, you know,
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: humiliating or devastating at times? I mean, you've been here
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: the longest besides Evelyn, of course, but she doesn't really
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: count for me. You're much more of a motherly figure.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: So what are some of yours?
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: Oh well, I mean, you know, I've had such a
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: good time on the ship, but when I'm on that bow,
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: as you know, I've been on the bow more than
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: once having that question in my mind.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: And one time I did take the leap, I did
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: survive it.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: Yes, I glad, I am glad I did it.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: Yes, I took the leap.
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: Oh gosh, must have been ninety seven, right around when
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: the Celindion Titanic song came out. Because I remember I
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: was up there and I was thinking about that moment.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: I'm flying Jack and I really flew. I flew down,
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: but I did.
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: I did land in a rescue boat, one of those
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: little little boats, and I didn't plan on it.
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: I kind of the wind caught me, took me through
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: the side of the ship, landed on a little boat,
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: and uh pretty much just had a headache and a
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: broken ankle, and it was it was a bit humiliating. Uh.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Turns out you need to jump off the back of
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: the ship if you really want to kill yourself. The
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: propellers will get you.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: But uh, but yeah, you.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Know everyone's everyone's had a had a swing and a
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: miss at that. It's okay, It's okay, it's nothing.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: You can show what I say, Can I say?
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: They?
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I really don't like the way that the safety patrol
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: shames you when they when they get you.
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: Well, that was the thing they had me, the crawl
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: on my hands and knees and do I had to
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: wear the pineapple costume.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: That pineapple costume.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Can me crawl back to my room?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: It's a Royal Mediterranean. Yeah, it's like a it's like
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: a dog cone. It's like a net cone for dogs,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: but basically a suicide prevention for sea performers.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well we can't.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: We can't jump off a boat because the costume is
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: so blacky big and will float no matter what.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I had the customers. They have
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: no idea. The guests have no idea.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: They're just they just say pineapple suits.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Well, look at all these pineapple suits walking around. They
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: have no idea. They're in a makeshift, just straight jacket.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I remember the darkest week I'm about. They just announced
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: that the boat was doing Pineapple Week and everyone was
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: in a pineapple suit. Do you guys remember that.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I remember that. I remember that because there was this
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: great storm. There was a big storm that was right
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: in two thousand and one after you know what happened,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: and we were all so sad.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: About it, the release of Lander.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, Oh, we were so sad.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: They were right to do.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: It, yeah, absolutely well.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: And there was a lot of codes.
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: You know, obviously they said the pineapple code over the intercom,
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: but there's a lot of codes.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: The customers don't know what's really happening, right, Code blue,
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: Code red.
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: You know, we know that someone's down, you know, old
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: person's fallen in their room, Code red or fire fire,
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: you know.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. I'm actually proud of, you know, because
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: they have a code Rick, and I'm a little proud of.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I think we all actually have a code named after ourselves,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: which is pretty awesome. Code Rick is when somebody is
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: holding a guest hostage in order to get more stage
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: time on a larger stage.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: And you wouldn't believe how often that happens. I've heard
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: it at least once a week.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Code Evelyn is when you just sort of break on stage,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: You just sort of forget where you are and who
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you are, and then they have to go back and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: switch you out with somebody else who looks exactly like you.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: That used to be my friend, Evelyn. May she rest
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: in peace.
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: Code Mama Jula is when you find a child on
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: board and you attempt to convince them they are your
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: own child and that they do belong to you.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Used to try and do that all the time.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I heard some stories. I remember hearing stories
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: a couple five five, six years ago. It was just
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: all the rage. Every other day, it was a cold
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: big mama.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Jula, Yeah, Matula, do you remember that day? I think
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: it must have been ninety ninety eight or so, But
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: there was this woman who was running around hysterically and
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: she's going, where's my baby, where's my baby? Where's my baby?
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: And all the performers we were all laughing so hard
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: because we knew you had it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: And I was attempting.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: I don't mean to get gross, but I wasn't tempting
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: to breastfeed, but I didn't have any milk.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: And that child was six and that child was six.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Oh, I love that well, Codeze when I'll stick my
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: head and upon it because I want to die.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, showed me.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: What's it?
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: Good?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Derek? I don't think i've heard that one yet.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Oh that's when they capture one of the guests trying
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: to fuck a puppet. That's one of the fun ones.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: And just for the record, I've never tried. I've never dread. Yes,
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: he has Okay, Georgie, he definitely has. Way you had
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: consensual sex. These guys are ridiculous, But let me tell you,
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: the audience loves it, especially when I do this. Hey,
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: how are you, well, how are you? I make my
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: puppets kiss. Yeah, the audience really, I don't know. They
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: love it for so.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Here's a question about a ship man's's do you guys?
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I guess My question is what's the skinny? You know
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: what I mean?
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, we're getting dirt, the dirt details.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: As everyone knows, it is off limits to have any
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: sort of relations with the guests, but there is a
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: lot going on behind the scenes, and it is encouraged.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: You know, it's encouraged that we are supposed to intermingle
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: with each other to help with the whole code Pineapple situation.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: That was the craziest thing when I first joined. They
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: had a whole seven hour seminar of how we should
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: be hooking up with each other. It was.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: They served the oysters at lunch.
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, they put a bunch of mattresses. Well, this
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: was on I worked a swinger ship. This was actually
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: a swinger themed cruise ship before the way. Yes, it
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: was all mattresses, but they did like sort of a
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: mini version and they put a bunch of mattresses on
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: the floor and put a disco ball up.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: Do you guys remember that? It was like it was
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: New Year's Eve, the mattress rooms.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: No, I don't remember that.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: What happened there? Can you talk? Can you talk about
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: what happened there?
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: Well, it was so dark, I'm not sure. I know
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: that I had multiple orgasms.
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: I know that.
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: Things were touched, things were pope, things were I did things.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: I tasted things I'd never tasted.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: It was I have no regrets.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I realized why I missed that I was on
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: duty counting down to midnight in the rock and roll lounge.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: Oh that is so sad. Yeah, miss you must remember,
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: you must have remember this.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I do you know what it's It's so fuzzy to me, because,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: as you said, it was, it was just so pitch black.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: You're being poked and licked and grabbed and groped and
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: sucked and bucked and tucked in at the end of
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the night, and it's just so disorienting. But you need it,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: you absolutely need it. I remember, you know, remember that
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: code Pineapple Week when they all had us in the Pineapples.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: They pumped us full of oysters every single day, morning, noon,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and night.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Which is such a misconception. It's not like you're gonna
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: it's just an afrodisiac. But pumping somebody like breakfast dinner
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: lunch poisters is not a healthy thing. You're gonna feel terrible.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: They were desperate. They didn't know what we were gonna do.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I bet, I bet an aerial view of that cruise
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: ship would be like watching a minion porno. Surely, big
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: yellow bobs just bumping up against each other left and right.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, although say Rick, I wanted to say, I find
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: it insane and in humane. They make you count down
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: for so many hours.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they had me starting it's a five pm. They
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: had me starting at five in the rock and roll lounge.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: And I couldn't play the same song twice.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: So you were counting down from what seven hundred?
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we were playing songs.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: There was just a really long countdown.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: We did minutes for the first four hours, and then
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: we moved into seconds in the last three.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's so much more than seven hundred. I'm
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: doing the.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Mouth of it's about thirty five thousand, uh. And they
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: would play songs under it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: And I remember you counting to lime into Coconut. It
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: was no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Twelve eight thousand, four hundred and forty four, eight thousand
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: and four, one hundred and forty three, you know, eight
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: thousand fu, yeah, bring me back, you know what I mean?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Those are the days I actually kind of blissed out.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: And after that I had some realizations about my life.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: And I lost seventy five pounds in the next three months.
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I remember that because.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: I kind of had It was almost like a meditation technique.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: I was so focused on the numbers. I saw nothing
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: but my soul.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: Right tried to lose seventy five pounds.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: So here's my soul is overweight.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: So here's a question from the fishball I just pulled out.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: It says, who is George? What position did he have?
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: And why was he so important to everybody? This is
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: a really interesting question to SRG. I don't I don't
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: want to be the one to answer this, because you know,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: we did have, you know, a wonderful relationship. But I
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: feel like Big Mama, Jula or Evelyn, you guys should
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: be the ones to answer this.
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: You know, well we were both well he might have
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: had two lives. Yes, I to me, he was the
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: ship captain. To me, he was the ship captain. Was
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: he the captain for you? As well, I do believe he.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Was the captain. He was the captain in the ship,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and he was the captain in our relationship. He wore
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the pants and I liked it that way. I don't
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: know if that was your dynamic as well. Clearly it
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: was happening at the exact same time, which it makes
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: sense looking back, because he would all he was very
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: strict on the nights that he would see me. It
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: was Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, alternating Mondays mm hmm.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: And mine was Thursday, Saturday, every other Monday and Tuesday.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: That makes so much sense now, Oh, but how do
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: you describe George? Well, what a.
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: Force, the horniest guy on the ship.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: I guess. To me, yeah, every other Tuesday, I'd see him,
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: and to me, he was just another puppet. You know.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: He loved puppet play. He loved me pretending to control
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: his voice. He would laugh, he would cry, he would
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: get down. And that was like a wonderful way for
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: me to recover from this relationship that I had back
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: on Land, as we call it wrong.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: What went wrong in that relationship?
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Well, I had a little insight into George that you
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: guys might not. As you guys might or might not know.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Every Saturday, Sunday and Monday night, George would watch me
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: sleep from ten pm to six.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: It makes sense would always be such a good captain.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: He was such a good captain.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: We were bros, you know, we were bros and we
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: were close, but there was something tense between us as well.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: And he said to me one night after we were drinking,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: after we had a couple too many pain killers over
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: in the crew bar, fifty cents to drink, he said
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: to me, you know you're always on. I want to
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: see you when you're off, and that'll get me off.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: And so he used to watch me sleep, and he
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: showed me a lot about kind of the alluringness of
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: how attractive you are when you're not trying. And it's
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: something I'm I'm you know, I'm trying to work into
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: my life. You know, sometimes I act during my show
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: like I don't want to be there. It doesn't bring
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: more people, it doesn't. But yeah, that's George to me.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: You know, he was a confidant, he was a captain
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: and he was my watcher.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I would like to divert really quickly because I know
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: we're running out of time. Just one final question for
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the fish bowl that I just drew. You know, what
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: is the best part about working in a cruise ship.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked a lot about how it's difficult, but the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we're being recognized by the industry, by Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: to do this panel right now, it's a chance for
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  Speaker 1: us to maybe says something good that happened to us.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll start and I'll say I really found myself,
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  Speaker 4: you know, when I had him before I got my
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  Speaker 4: sea legs and my sea las. Okay, calm down, Georgie.
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  Speaker 4: This bird is nuts big government. He is a Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's a libertarian. The audience loves my libertarian bird. You know.
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  Speaker 4: I found I found myself in vitriloquism, and I found
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  Speaker 4: myself being able to be funny for a huge audience
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  Speaker 4: every night, two hundreds or three hundred people, and they're
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  Speaker 4: different every night. Some people love it and they come back,
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  Speaker 4: you know. I would say half of the crowd loves
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  Speaker 4: it so much they come back. And it's just been
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  Speaker 4: so nice to find myself on the ocean, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm so excited to see where this trip takes me,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And yeah, Natasha, if you're listening, fuck you.
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  Speaker 4: I fucking found myself. I'm fucking killing it out here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you are, Derek, Yeah, Yeah, didn's thanks.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I would say the best part for me, similar to
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  Speaker 2: Derek on working on a cruise ship, is the ability
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  Speaker 2: to tune out from the real world. I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: all know the kind of bullshit that's happening. I have
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  Speaker 2: an ex wife who won't leave me alone. She is
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  Speaker 2: after me in a big way. And being able to
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  Speaker 2: be on a cruise ship is so fantastic because I
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  Speaker 2: simply don't have cell service and my email address. I
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  Speaker 2: can only get to it on a computer. And there's
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  Speaker 2: one computer on the ship. We all know Mark Williams
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  Speaker 2: owns that computer.
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  Speaker 6: And she almost got you one at the Jamaican port.
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  Speaker 2: She did. She was waiting on Montego Bay. She was
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  Speaker 2: there and that disaster. That was crazy. That was crazy, Chris,
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  Speaker 2: did you see her grabbing at me? I have scratches
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  Speaker 2: on my arm still from that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. She trained and hanging onto the bow for
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  Speaker 1: about thirty minutes before she fell off.
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  Speaker 2: And can I say, and you're burying the lead, Mama, Dula.
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  Speaker 2: You saved the day with what a hug. You hugged
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  Speaker 2: her and it was said.
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  Speaker 3: The mother hug A mother's hug, mother's embrace.
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  Speaker 7: M h yeah, and that is my favorite part of
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  Speaker 7: being on a cruise ship is the is the hugs
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  Speaker 7: and the it's kind of like Burning Man, you know,
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  Speaker 7: where you get there and it's it's just a different
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  Speaker 7: thing where we're all in it together.
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  Speaker 6: There's definitely this energy.
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  Speaker 7: Everyone you look at who works on the cruise ship,
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  Speaker 7: there's an understanding.
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  Speaker 4: Have you been able to go to Burning Man?
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  Speaker 7: I it's it's one of my dreams for when I
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  Speaker 7: do eventually retire.
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  Speaker 6: I have not been.
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  Speaker 1: I have.
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  Speaker 6: I have heard so many people telling me about Burning Man.
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  Speaker 1: You give the most wonderful I want that for you.
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  Speaker 5: And I love that you have so many pictures of
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  Speaker 5: burning men in your little room in the cruise ship
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  Speaker 5: that you look at looks so.
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  Speaker 4: Little, just that burning Man. It's all those photos of
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  Speaker 4: that giant wooden statue set alight.
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  Speaker 3: One day. I hope you see it. You and you
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  Speaker 3: hope you have a kid, a child.
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  Speaker 1: We all have our Moscow, you know, working towards that's yours,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's beautiful. You know, your hugs are
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  Speaker 1: so powerful. I do remember there was that one year
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  Speaker 1: that we all got the flu because you have so
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  Speaker 1: many friends. You hugged every single one of us, and
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  Speaker 1: I tell you I'd get it again.
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  Speaker 6: I did.
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  Speaker 7: I did give us the flu, and I hope I
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  Speaker 7: strengthened our immunity by us all fighting through it.
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  Speaker 3: And that's important to strengthen our community, especially.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Jasie. What's the most exciting thing, the happiest thing
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  Speaker 2: for you on a cruise ship.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, i'd have to say, wow. I'd have to say
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  Speaker 3: I'm a little fucker for the chocolate fountain.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, okay.
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  Speaker 7: And.
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  Speaker 3: After six years, that's what's doing it for me.
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  Speaker 2: The best thing on the cruiser for you is the
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  Speaker 2: chocolate Bounty.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I love to get the mocks. Really states. Put
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  Speaker 5: me in chok fountain.
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  Speaker 1: I like to.
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  Speaker 5: I have to put my little puss in it. I
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  Speaker 5: have to do everything with arklip Fountain. I love it
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  Speaker 5: so much. And after so long, that's what lies ahead
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  Speaker 5: from me.
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  Speaker 1: Good lord, I couldn't realize I was eating this whole time.
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  Speaker 1: My gosh, Oh, let me in there, okay, Georgie.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I don't do it. I don't do it unless
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  Speaker 5: it's a really shit week. I stick my puss in it.
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  Speaker 5: But only only when it's a ship week.
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  Speaker 7: That's why we love you, you know, because you're such
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  Speaker 7: a fun, wild.
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  Speaker 6: Australian.
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  Speaker 3: No, thank you, mama.
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  Speaker 2: I have one one final question to lead us out,
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  Speaker 2: folks right here from the fishbowl. If you could, in
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  Speaker 2: one word describe what it takes to succeed on a
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  Speaker 2: cruise ship, what would it be.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say denial, the ability to block things out and
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  Speaker 3: focusing on the ship.
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  Speaker 6: I'd say eye contact. Eye contact.
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  Speaker 1: I would say remembering, specifically, remembering that what you did
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty four is why you have to stay
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  Speaker 1: in international waters.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna go ahead, and I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and say kissing. That's that's what you need, because
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  Speaker 2: if you're not kissing someone, you're kissing yourself and you're
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  Speaker 2: also kissing the mic. At the Rock and Roll Lounge Fridays, Tuesdays, Thursdays,
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  Speaker 2: Wednesdays and Mondays. I did am out of order just
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  Speaker 2: to make it more fun. Every day of the week
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  Speaker 2: five seven thirty. Come check us out, Rick Rocket and
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  Speaker 2: the Springtime Chickens, and.
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  Speaker 1: You can catch cats every night at the Stars Lounge.
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  Speaker 1: And that is every night at six pm. If you
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  Speaker 1: say that through six forty five. You will be there
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  Speaker 1: for longer than most of the audience is alive, so
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  Speaker 1: try and get in before then.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I'll also be doing that show you see every
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  Speaker 5: night six o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: I also do Mom and Mia Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: For those who don't want to get off the boat
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  Speaker 5: for the excursions, and then of course swing Daning lessons
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  Speaker 5: every Friday and the Limbo.
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  Speaker 4: I will also drop my shows Tuesday through Sunday. We've
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  Speaker 4: got to show at six, show at seven, and don't
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  Speaker 4: forget about the late night show at nine thirty. It's
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  Speaker 4: a blast.
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  Speaker 6: You get your word, Derek, to forget your word?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my word about being on a ship. I just
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  Speaker 4: can't think of one. Maybe I have a friend that
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  Speaker 4: can think of one for me. Mack penis, that kills,
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  Speaker 4: that kills, So I guess how embarrassing. Gosh, give me
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  Speaker 4: a try. How about the word penis. These guys are
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  Speaker 4: too much. We have fun, So check me out any
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  Speaker 4: of those nights. I'm it's tough to get tickets, but
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  Speaker 4: let me know.
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  Speaker 1: And Mama Julia, where can people find you? And by
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  Speaker 1: people I mean, of course the passengers who are currently
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  Speaker 1: on the Royal Mediterranean and listening to this Hollywood podcast.
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  Speaker 7: Follow the wind or follow the sound of my dog sparking.
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  Speaker 4: Right, of course, you don't have a formal show you
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  Speaker 4: you're actually considered more of a passenger on the vessel. Right.
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  Speaker 7: I'll also be growing basil somewhere on the ship, so
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  Speaker 7: definite check that, Nis, sure, wherever you like it. It's
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  Speaker 7: a very healing medicinal herb. I'm sure it would do
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  Speaker 7: a lot for your anus.
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  Speaker 2: I make cheese in my jars and a fridge if
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  Speaker 2: you want some.
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  Speaker 6: For some reason that doesn't sound appetizing.
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  Speaker 2: All right, it's a good cheese, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Rick, Will you count us down to the last
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  Speaker 3: bit of the episode.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will. All right, guys, this episode is ending
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  Speaker 2: in five thousand, four thousand, nine hundred ninety nine four thousand,
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  Speaker 2: nine hundred and ninety eight.
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  Speaker 1: This has been Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists
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  Speaker 1: Cruise ship panel answering the question. Now, that's why they
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  Speaker 1: call it show business. We'll see you next time.
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