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HHBSO 19: Atlantis Mediterranean Gay Cruise · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello, welcome to Heat Hop. But something's off of me.
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Just Joey T Hey everybody, I just got back from the Oasis.
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Not the Oasis. The Atlantis Mediterranean
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cruise in Europe actually got back last week.
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Been back for about a week now. First of all, completely
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unrelated. I've got a huge Cankasore on the
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roof of my mouth right now, and it hurts like AMF to eat
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anything. I was drinking some water before
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and sometimes even drinking water hurts.
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So yeah, I just needed to get that out of the way.
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But it's been making my life very miserable.
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I first thought, do I have a throat infection?
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You know how you sometimes travel and you pick up something
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or you feel like you picked up something after you've come back
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home after you've been traveling for a bit?
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I thought it was some sort of throat infection.
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No. I looked in my mouth earlier
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today and I was looking at the back of my throat because I
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thought that's where it was hurting to swallow and eat and
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whatever. And then I just happened to have
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looked up at the roof of my mouth and just a huge giant
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canker sore there. I am prone to canker sores and
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actually switched toothpaste. I used to get canker sores on
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the inside of my lips quite often.
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It was very, very annoying. And you get a cankasore kind of
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where your teeth is on the on the inside of your lips and the
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cankasore pops up and then it makes you more likely to bite on
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where the cankasore is, which makes it even worse.
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So that's super annoying and eating a lot of foods just burns
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when you have a Cankasore. So I switched toothpaste and
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that actually made my canker sores a lot better.
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So apparently there's an ingredient called SOS that's in
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a lot of regular toothpaste, and for some people that could make
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your canker sores worse or caused to develop them.
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So that was the case for me. So I have to use SOS free
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toothpaste nowadays, which is not that hard to find, but it's
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something I to go out of my way to have to look for whenever I
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need to buy more toothpaste. But anyways, I've never gotten a
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huge canker sore like this that's on the roof of my mouth.
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I'm not even saying roof right. Anyways, yes, it's kind of back
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there in my mouth. And yeah, it it just hurts that
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that's neither here nor there is not related to the cruise.
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When I first had that, I thought I was not that study on the
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cruise, I didn't pick up anything.
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I did not have sex on the cruise.
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I can categorically say that right now all my friends think
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I'm slighter than I really am. I think that's a completely
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separate topic. We'll have to pop open that kind
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of worms at some other time. But yeah, let's talk a little
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bit about Cruz. The other thing is, I've got my
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phone here, so if at some point the phone rings, well, I'll edit
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it out of the podcast. And again, the video version of
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this podcast. You want to check out what I'm
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wearing today. I'm wearing this very lovely,
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So cool yeah, go Google them and check them out.
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But anyways, I've got my phone here, which I don't usually do
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because at any moment I'm expecting a phone call.
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I'm selling my car right now. I don't really have any.
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I'm just going on tangents right now.
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Sometimes on this podcast. Whatever pops into my head is
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what I'm going to talk about. I was going to talk about the
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cruise, but we're what, 5 minutes in and I've talked about
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anything that's anything but the cruise.
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But this is the experience. If you're news of the podcast
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that you can expect from this podcast, I think it triggers
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some people's ADHD. If that's the case, play
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something else. But this is like my random
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stream of consciousness. Anyways, I've got my phone here.
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Hopefully it doesn't go off and I'm recording this podcast.
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Okay. Finally, let's get to the MAD
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cruise that I was on last week. It was in Europe is for 9
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nights. It was on a pretty nice ship.
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It was on the Oasis, not the Oasis.
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Keep on seeing the Oasis. It was on the Odyssey of the
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Seas. So it's a Royal Caribbean ship.
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It's pretty nice ship. When I first got on it, walking
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through one of the main levels, I was thinking, I've been on
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this ship or like this class of ship before and I was talking to
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someone and I was on the Anthem of the Seas back in 2016 and it
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was a sister ship of the Odyssey.
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So the layout is pretty much nearly identical.
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So it fall a little bit familiar when I got on there.
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It's really good cruise. It wasn't a crazy party cruise
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like the the big cruise that I usually go on in January of
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every year and I've already booked for the January 1 this
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coming year, but this one was nice.
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I didn't get off at many of the ports, only got off at Ibiza,
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and because I've never been to Ibiza before, it's kind of like
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a thing. We'll talk about Ibiza, I've got
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some thoughts on that later on in this podcast, but I also
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didn't go with a big group of friends.
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It's really fun. I've been on a lot of the
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cruises with friends from Australia throughout the US,
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whatever. Just friends.
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We just go together and it's that's a lot of fun.
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You get to do all sorts of different things on the cruise
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together as friends. That's great.
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On this cruise, I knew some people that were going on the
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cruise, but I didn't go with them, so I actually flew over to
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Europe all by myself. Luckily my flights were not
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delayed. I took three fights with two red
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eyes to get to Europe in an attempt to save money and save
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points because finding Europe is not cheap right now.
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Flying to Europe during the summer when it's peak Europe
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vacation season, that's never been that cheap.
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But post pandemic, I think right now it's a little extra
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expensive. I booked everything on miles.
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I found pretty cheap redemption set of flights that would take
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me to Europe in time, but it was a red eye to from LA to Chicago
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and not to hang around Chicago for five or seven hours.
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And then it was another hop during the day to go to
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Washington. Dulles hung around there for I
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don't know how many hours. And then I needed to take
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another red Eye from the East Coast over to Rome, where the
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cruise was supposed to set sail. Luckily, all my flights were on
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time to run to. Rome was like a little.
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It's a bit delayed, but like I I was supposed to arrive at 8:00
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AM and there was a lot of time for me to get to the ship.
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So it was fine coming after I landed in Rome and I was still
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on the way, walking to passport control.
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It's a little bit of a walk from the gate.
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I ran into my friend DJDJ Dance later.
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It was my it was a bit of a haze, but I tried to knock
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myself out on the flight so I was like still not 100% fully
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awake, neither was he. So it was kind of fun and cool
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to run into some of that. I know at the airport getting
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off flights and took a shuttle bus from the airport to the
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cruise port terminal place, which was really, really nice.
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Had a really nice start to the vacation.
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You know, sometimes you need to travel somewhere to get to your
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vacation destination and travel, especially when it involves air
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travel. Sometimes it could be very
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aggravating, sometimes it could just be what else.
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Luckily this was a pretty nice, easy, uneventful flight set of
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flights to start on my vacation, so I was kind of thankful for
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that. Got to Rome in the morning, no
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problem. Everything was like very well
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organized. The Atlantis people had their
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signs at the tour bus and everything to take you to the
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port was already so it's like really nice start to the
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vacation. So it's very thankful for that.
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That was really awesome. Got to the terminal and I
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actually knew some of the people who are volunteering for
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Atlantis to work this cruise because I've worked with them
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before on previous volunteer assignments on different
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cruises. So that was great.
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Got on the ship. That was fine.
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It was a little bit windy when we first got there, so that they
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actually changed the itinerary. So we were we didn't leave Rome
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until technically the next morning.
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We're supposed to have left at like 7:00 PM.
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We're supposed to have pushed back from the port at 7:00 PM on
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that day. On that first day.
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We didn't leave until sometime on day 2, so they had to change
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all the ports. We're supposed to have them on a
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laptop here, so we're supposed to have gone to, I think, Naples
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on the first day. But the first day, what's right
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on the second day? Like the first full day?
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I think we're supposed to have went to Naples, but it became a
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sea day because of the weather and like the rough seas and
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stuff. I don't think we could.
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We had to leave late and we probably couldn't have gone very
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quickly without making everyone sick.
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So we went to I've got it on my laptop here, Palermo in Sicily,
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and then we went to Naples, and then we went to Les Pasa.
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Sorry, I'm butchering these Italian names of these very
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pretty, beautiful, famous locations in Italy.
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My apologies. Then we met to Monaco and then
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we went to, we didn't overnight in Ibiza originally.
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The itinerary was that I think they were supposed to stop in
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Ibiza overnight, either Friday night or Saturday night, months
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and months ago, way before the cruise happened, and people
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bought tickets for events and clubs and shows or whatever for
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like the Friday or Saturday night, whatever the original
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night was. But then it was like one or two
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months before the cruise and they had to change the
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itinerary. World Caribbean apparently had
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to change the itinerary for whatever reason.
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And then we stop. We ended up stopping in Ibiza on
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Sunday night instead. So some people were like, oh, I
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have tickets to this now, I can't go blah blah.
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Anyways, yeah, and that was the last port and then we came back,
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so it was nine nights in total. So it was a really good cruise
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because I didn't go with like a big group of friends.
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I was able to meet more new people in a way, because when
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you go with a group of friends, not just to a cruise to a club
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or anything, you tend to come together with your friends
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because your friends, you know them.
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So we're all going to party together, right on.
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A lot of events and trips and stuff might go to like a club or
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party cruise or whatever. I like to kind of wander around
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at certain points by myself and kind of leave my group.
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I'll always come back to the group eventually, but I like to,
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you know, do a loop, do a circle, whatever, and just see
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what's out there. And on this cruise, when we had
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the parties on the ship, it was nice to, in a way.
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I love my friends, and this is not shade, but it was nice to be
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able to be out there by myself and just kind of dance by myself
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a little bit and have myself actually be approachable by
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other people. Because when you're dancing with
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a group of friends, you're all, like, huddled in a circle.
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Sometimes that makes you maybe not like the most approachable
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looking by others, but because I was like dancing by myself.
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Actually, quite a lot of people come up to me to like, say
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either, oh, we watch our YouTube videos or we took your advice
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for the cruise, Or, you know, even if they didn't know I did
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all that stuff just like say hi and make small talk or whatever.
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So it's kind of nice in that way.
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It was kind of nice with this particular group of people
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because compared to some of the other cruises, especially that
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big party cruise I keep talking about in January, that's our
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party people and their objective is not necessarily to make small
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talk and meet people. Their objective is to like party
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and hook up for a good number of them.
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Whereas on this European cruise, on this Met cruise, you don't
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get as many of the party people at the hardcore party people.
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So it's actually easier to just have regular conversations with
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people. In a way.
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It's a little hard to explain, but the vibe is a little bit
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more chill. It's not so much about hardcore
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partying, even though they do have parties on the ship pretty
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much every single day. I only ate at the buffet and I'm
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not. I'm not ashamed or embarrassed.
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Buy it. I think there are.
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I always hear people that say, oh, don't eat at the don't just
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eat at the buffet, go eat some of the other stuff.
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I'm very much of the opinion that you have vacation, do
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whatever you want. I don't like being judged by
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other people to tell you what to do or not to do based purely on
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their subjective opinion. Like they say, oh you shouldn't
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just eat at the buffet or it's something like that.
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That's a prime example. I'll eat whatever the fuck.
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I want my vacation. Ask for your opinion.
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Get out of my face. So I feel like eating at the
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buffet, It's on this particular ship, It's really nice.
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You have regular tables that you can sit at and that's really
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nice. If you're doubting about the
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people, they also have these counter height kind of island
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style tables and you can sit probably eight people on each
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one of them and it's very nice to sit there.
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And it was actually more inviting for other people to be
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able to come up to you and maybe just spontaneously share a quick
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bite with you or spontaneity for them to just come up and talk to
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you. So I actually had that happen
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quite a few times. Imagine just long recanter,
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almost kitchen island style type of a table that's like a bar
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height and you can sit four people in each side.
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So I would grab a corner of that if there was available.
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And I've had a few times, several times where people just
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like kind of ate nearby and like I was able to just mix them off
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with them. Some people came up to me and
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like we were able to like eat together and have a
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conversation. So that was really, really nice.
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But I only ate at the buffet. It's fine.
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I want to it. I was.
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The other main dining option is the main dining hall, which is
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not a buffet. It's a regular sit down type
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experience where you get an appetizer at their waiters, They
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bring you food, 3 course meal, very typical sit down
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restaurant. Where's the buffet?
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There's no one serving you. You just grab a plate, grab your
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own food, sit wherever you want, go for seconds or thirds and
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whatever. I did eat a lot of pizza.
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There's a pizza place that's pseudo 24 hours and eat a lot of
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pizza. I was good for the first couple
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of nights. There were there's this one
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night where I ate 10 slices of pizza I went to.
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It was after a party and I had it in my head.
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I memorized when these places closed, when the when, when do
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the restaurants and food services close?
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At night after the party. That's the one thing I
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definitely remember from this from the get go.
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On the cruise, the buffet closes at 4.
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The pizza plate closes at 5:00. So one night it's like a second
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or third night. I left the party at Threeish,
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went to the buffet. I had two plates of food, Not
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huge plates, but I had two plates of food.
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And then I went to the pizza place when the buffet was
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closed. When the pizza place and I ate
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910 slices of pizza, I thought it was 9.
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I counted again. It was 10 because I went up and
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I got two slices. I went up and again and I got
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two and I got up again and I got three and then I somehow or like
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they gave me 4 it, it end up being 10 slices.
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I had two plates of food at the buffet and then I ate 10 slices
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of pizza. They it was thin slice pizza.
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It wasn't like super big slice of pizza, but the pizza slices
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are quite good actually quite like the pizza on the world
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Caribbean cruises. It's very, very consistent.
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Every time I've been a world Caribbean cruise ship, they all,
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almost all of them have the pizza place and the pizza is
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very consistent. The food is usually very
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consistent. The one thing that's
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consistently bad is any sort of grilled chicken.
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So they always have like chicken breasts or grilled chicken or
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something like that. I never eat that.
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But this is always super, super dry.
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And chicken is something I usually don't order in any
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restaurant anyways because it's super dry.
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And when I cook chicken at home, it's out of the packaging.
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I didn't even marinate my chicken.
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I didn't even spice my chicken. I literally take plain raw
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chicken from the refrigerator, put it onto a tray, shove it in
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the toast oven. 30 minutes later, I just eat it.
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I didn't even put anything on it, honestly.
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But it's super, super juicy because it's freshly cooked.
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But I think when you cook in batches or in a lot of
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restaurants, especially on the cruise ship that we cook in
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batches in advance and they have to reheat it, When you reheat
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chicken, it dries out instantly. So it doesn't matter how much
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they've marinated it or do whatever other stuff in it.
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If it's some sort of grilled to boil chicken, it's just going to
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be dry. They did have chicken tenders,
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like fried chicken tenders. Every night when it's fried it's
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OK. It locks in the moisture, so the
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chicken tenders is pretty good. So that part was OK.
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So that part was fine. I am supposed to be off dairy
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not because I'm allergic, but I found out it triggers my
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breakouts and my acne on my face.
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And for the two months or so up to the cruise at home, I've been
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doing really well. Not eating dairy, getting vegan
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cheese and switching to vegan protein powder, that kind of
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stuff. And I was kind of curious, is it
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what kind of dairy sets off my acne?
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Is it just way because a way, which is one of the two types of
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protein in dairy, milk, cow milk.
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It's known to be a trigger for acne, but for me, I was
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thinking, well, what if it had types of dairy that didn't have
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to weigh in it? What if I had certain type of
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cheese for example, Would that trigger it?
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So it was kind of sort of an excuse for myself to have some
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dairy on the cruise ship. On a lot of the roll curb and
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cruise ships on the pool deck, they have soft serve ice cream
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which me and David Lamb. When we're on a party cruise
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together we'll get 10A day. But I'm not even kidding.
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We just keep it going back again.
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There are there are days where the first thing we ate when we
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woke up was we we would walk to the buffet, whatever.
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But on the way we cross the pool, we cross the soft serve
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machine. We would that would be the first
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thing we ate for before actual food was soft serve it.
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You're on vacation do for everyone.
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But on this cruise, I was thinking, OK, soft serve is made
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of cow milk. So I'm just not going to have
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that. But I did allow myself to have
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some of the desserts in the buffet.
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They have bread pudding a lot of the times, and I love bread
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pudding so much. I'm I'm sure there's some amount
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of cream or dairy or something in the bread pudding, but I was
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like the bread pudding, so delicious.
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I don't care. And it's got to have less dairy
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in it than just the cow's milk or whatever they put for the
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soft serve. So I did have a decent amount of
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the bread pudding. They had it available half the
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nights, at least half the days in the buffet They had bread
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pudding. And the thing the buffet is they
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cook so much food that it's a never ending.
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They never run out of food. They literally never run out of
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food at the buffet. So yeah, the diet took a little
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bit of a, it's a bit of a balance.
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So I did have some dessert. I did have a lot of pizza, I did
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have a lot of bread pudding, but I made sure to eat a lot of lean
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proteins and vegetables and things like that.
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Oh, they always have chocolate chip cookies and they always
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have oatmeal Raisin cookies, which were both very good.
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So I would take a little bowl when I've done my meal at the
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buffet. I would usually take a little
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bowl and I would either take some dessert with me to go, like
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the bread pudding, or the thing I end up doing a lot almost
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every day is taking some cookies.
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Not to eat right away, but just to have in the room.
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I take a bunch of like oatmeal Raisin cookies, half a dozen or
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something put in the a little soup bowl take with me when I
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leave the buffet just so if I was in the room later and I felt
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peckish I could just have like some cookies.
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So that worked out really well. I brought a entire bag, I think
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it was a £2.00 bag of vegan protein powder that I loved all
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the way from Elway over three flights in my carry on luggage
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all the way onto the ship. I only had checked so I didn't
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have any checked luggage. I had this and my regular carry
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on roller board suitcase. I was very very full that if
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someone managed to put in a 2 pound bag of vegan protein
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powder because I know I'm not gonna get enough protein just by
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eating. And sometimes when you're on the
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cruise on vacation especially you're partying itself some of
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the days your appetite just doesn't isn't quite there, at
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least for me. I know personally that when I'm
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doing things on a cruise, sometimes I don't have as much
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time to eat or I don't feel hungry as often as when I'm just
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at home do my regular routine. So I know having the protein
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powder for me is really valuable to keep my protein intake and
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especially be go to the gym on the ship as well.
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And I did go to the gym in quite a few days on the ship.
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So I was thinking, OK once I get to Rome I need to go directly to
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the cruise terminal. I don't have time to do any
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shopping. I signed up for the Atlanta
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shuttle that takes you from the airport to the cruise port.
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So and even if I did have time I it probably would have been
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difficult for me to with all my luggage that to carry to go find
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a place that had vegan protein powder.
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So I was thinking I would just pack my own.
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So I made space in my carry on luggage or the protein powder I
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thought TSA would have. I don't know it would just be
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difficult for TSA but all they did was take it out and they did
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the swipy thing to with the little pads to look for trace of
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explosives or whatever and it it was fine.
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So it was actually pretty easy to get up through TSA.
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Luckily yeah I met some cool people on the cruise I've came
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in touch with. I met a group of boys that lives
23:52
in LA that was that was really cool to party with them and chat
23:55
with them and there was a Dick deck and for those of you that
24:03
are not familiar, the Dick deck, it's exactly what you think it
24:07
is. There's a usually at the late
24:09
late night, early morning hours. There is a not sanctioned
24:14
unofficial, it's not put on by Atlantis, but usually there's
24:17
some section of the ship on one of the upper deck site on the
24:22
pool deck of Solarium or Patio, Summer, whatever that you can go
24:28
into. And it's a little bit dark and
24:31
things are happening there. And I think most of you
24:33
listening can probably imagine what that is.
24:36
And I always sometimes think how hard does the crew on the ship
24:44
have to the lengths they have to go through to like avoid that
24:49
area. But then they also have to
24:50
eventually clean it up the morning after.
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I'm just going to like leave it at that.
24:55
I always give the advice to cruisers that, but sometimes
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they ask what can I wear or they're more accurately asking
25:03
how little clothes can I get away with wearing on the cruise
25:07
ship. And when people go to the party,
25:09
the night time parties and stuff, they are wearing a jock
25:13
strap or sometimes just a napkin with a piece of string,
25:17
something like that. And I tell them, as long as
25:21
you're cock and balls are covered, you can you can show
25:25
your ass crack. If you're just going from your
25:27
room to the party and there's a party going on, that's OK Just
25:32
like during the daytime, you're going to go to the pool.
25:34
You just wear your Speedo to and from your room and the pool.
25:38
That's fine. But don't be fully naked, you
25:42
know, just walking around in the hallways when you're at the
25:44
party, you know, that's fine. But the crew needs to work on
25:49
the other parts of the ship, and they don't really appreciate
25:53
walking by someone in the corridors who's got their Dick
25:58
fully out. It's just a little bit of like a
26:00
a courtesy thing. Do you really need to be fully
26:02
naked walking down the hallway where all the cabins are?
26:08
No, you don't. So yeah, that that's a piece of
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advice that I usually give. Let's Fast forward to Ibiza and
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got to Ibiza in like the early evening.
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It was supposed it was a little stormy.
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There's some storms are passing through, so we actually had to
26:24
be off of the coast of Ibiza for a few hours was be there.
26:29
We're supposed to have docked at 8:00 PM.
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Wouldn't he dock until 11/11/30 at night, which is fine.
26:35
Something that be something. Spain doesn't really get going
26:37
until later, late, really late in the night anyways, and they
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were selling shore excursion packages to go to this one
26:45
particular club called Hi Ibiza. And on Sunday nights they host a
26:50
night called Glitter Box, which is a it's not a gay night, but
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it's queer friendly. It's still a straight club, I
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don't think any gay clubs in Ibiza as far as I know, but I'm
27:01
not the authority on Ibiza for sure.
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But Glitter Box is a gay friendly night.
27:08
It's still a straight club on Sundays and because for Duck
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Sunday nights they had this shore excursion package that was
27:16
transportation to and from glitter box and a ticket to get
27:20
in and also one drink ticket, which is like really nice.
27:23
So I went ahead and dip. That's really nice and easy.
27:25
Once we got off the ship there were shuttles all ready to go.
27:28
That was really nice. It was fine till I just take the
27:31
shuttle, get there and get back. It's really well organized
27:34
actually. And I never been to Ibiza
27:37
before. It's not a place that's
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necessarily on my list of things to do or hi on my list of things
27:43
to do. It was one of those things where
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if I have the opportunity and I it was easy to go, I would just
27:50
do it and check it off my list. And I was talking to someone on
27:53
the cruise ship that has been there and done that and kind of
27:56
did all this stuff. And he pretty much said, yeah,
27:59
for a lot of gays, it's you go there, you do it.
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Once you check the box, you're probably not gonna come back.
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And that is the exact experience that I have with Ibiza.
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I can now say I've been to Ibiza, I went to this club, I
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went to glitter box. It was cute.
28:16
I don't need to go back. Not that I wouldn't recommend
28:19
someone else go, but for me, that's just not the type of
28:24
scene that I'm into. I'm, you know, to, at least not
28:28
to the level where I'm going to make a deliberate effort to go
28:30
back. But it was fun.
28:31
It was cute. I'll be there for like 3-4
28:35
hours. It was, it was fine.
28:37
I think the thing that reminded me is I never go to straight
28:44
clubs anymore. I go to gay events.
28:48
It could be a straight quote, UN quote venue, but I won't go
28:51
there if there's a gay night at this venue where there's a gay
28:54
event, like a circuit party or something, yeah, I'll go, but
28:57
it's a gay event. But this is again, not a gay
29:01
night. It's a queer friendly night, but
29:05
it's still mostly for straight. So me personally, I just find
29:11
straight clubs so annoying. And yeah, on on a few different
29:19
levels. This is not going to be a
29:20
popular opinion honestly and but it's just not for me.
29:26
I mean if you throw a bunch of straight people into a gay club,
29:31
there's a bunch of them that won't like it either because
29:33
they're quite different and the crowd is different.
29:36
One time my brother, this is a few years ago pre Pandemic and
29:43
he messaged me and said, Oh my, my friends.
29:49
I've got a group of friends who are girls and they want to go to
29:52
celebrities in Vancouver. Celebrities is a gay nightclub
29:55
in Vancouver, but it's kind of sort of turn straight.
29:56
A lot of straight people go to celebrities now.
29:59
But he said, oh I've got a bunch of friends who are girls that
30:02
want to go to a gay club. Should I go with them?
30:06
And instantly I said no, do not go with them unless you want gay
30:11
guys to hit on you. And my brother isn't homophobic.
30:15
But I have roamed this earth long enough to know that most
30:23
typical heterosexual straight guys do not want gay guys to hit
30:29
on them or they don't know, not because they hate gay people.
30:33
They just don't know how to deal with that situation.
30:39
And it's yeah, So I just, he told them don't go.
30:43
You're not gonna have fun girls. A lot of girls have fun in gay
30:47
clubs and gay bars. That's great.
30:50
But I wouldn't have straight girls direct their straight guy
30:54
friends to a gay club if they have no idea what to expect.
30:59
And that's just my recommendation.
31:00
So I told him instantly, don't go with your friends.
31:03
Let them go. They can have fun.
31:05
There's nothing for you there. You're not going to enjoy it.
31:09
And if you're not going to know how to handle other guys hitting
31:13
on you, but if you go to a gay club and you're a guy, the
31:17
chances are or or you're a girl, it doesn't matter.
31:20
People are going to assume that there's a decent chance you are
31:23
queer. So if you don't know how to
31:25
handle that, and I don't think my brother does, and I did not
31:28
have the time or the energy to train and teach, all I really
31:33
could recommend is don't go to a gay club.
31:36
You know, that's fine. He probably wouldn't have like
31:38
the experience otherwise. You know, gay culture is a
31:41
little different from straight culture in a lot of ways.
31:44
And this is one of those things where, you know, I don't expect
31:47
straight people any. I don't expect all straight
31:50
people to be able to have a good time in a gay club.
31:53
The reverse is true, too. You're not able to expect all
31:56
career people to be able to enjoy or fully appreciate the
32:02
atmosphere or the culture of a typical straight club.
32:06
And for me, a straight club is just not it.
32:10
I wouldn't say that I had a bad time in Ibiza.
32:13
I there are other aspects of straight clubs that I don't
32:19
like, but I was there with some friends that I've met on the
32:23
cruise, so that was pretty cool. I just kind of dance and party
32:25
with them the whole time. So it was overall a good time.
32:29
But would I go back to Ibiza? No, that that's that's pretty
32:35
much it. Yeah.
32:38
So overall it was fun. I I think the thing I enjoyed
32:42
the most was the spontaneous, the people that I've met on the
32:48
cruise kind of sort of spontaneously.
32:49
I usually don't meet that many new people on a cruise.
32:55
It also depends, depends on a few things.
32:57
It depends on if I'm with a group of friends that I go on a
33:01
cruise with a group of friends. Yes or no?
33:04
What kind of crowd is on this particular cruise?
33:08
Again, the big January cruise, it's a kind of party cruise.
33:12
There are people that are not hardcore partiers, but the vast
33:15
majority of that particular cruise crowd is hardcore
33:18
partiers and they're just partying.
33:21
Whereas this cruise, a little more chill and little little
33:23
more relaxed also got more of an international crowd.
33:27
You know the the big cruise in January, it's based in the US
33:31
it's probably like 9090 something percent people from
33:34
the US whereas on this cruise they gave us the stats 70
33:39
people, 70% of the people were from the US But because it's
33:43
obviously a cruise that's out of Europe and within Europe in the
33:46
Mediterranean, you know there were other people.
33:49
I ran into a group of boys that were one of them was from they
33:54
were from Ukraine. I think they lived in the
33:56
Ukraine or they were Ukrainian. I don't know exactly where they
33:59
live. Had a little bit of small talk
34:01
with them. I was in my room and I was I was
34:04
at the party. It was nighttime and I was just
34:07
came back to my room to like freshen up or whatever and they
34:10
just happened to knock on my door and like I I met them that
34:12
way. Nothing happened.
34:14
We just talked and yeah, met a group of boys that are from LA,
34:20
which I should probably message them and say hi.
34:23
And I met a couple boys that lived in London, so it was
34:26
really nice. It was more of an international
34:29
set of boys compared to the US cruises.
34:32
So it was fun to like, meet people that lived in different
34:34
places. So I think that was probably the
34:36
part that I didn't quite expect. I do sometimes.
34:39
I've gotten the feedback before where I could look standoffish,
34:44
and it's true. Sometimes I do look standoffish
34:48
because I've got a bit of RBF. Even though at parties and stuff
34:51
I usually try to kind of slap on a bit of a spy.
34:53
I'm usually having fun anyway, so I'm like a little bit smiley
34:55
at parties now. But I think when I first started
34:58
partying and stuff, I just have RBF.
35:01
I think because I was like new to it out, I didn't know what's
35:04
going on. So I just had like regular
35:08
resting idle face of expression, which could be RBF for me.
35:12
And I just started very closely with my group because I just
35:15
kind of clinged on to them a little bit more because I didn't
35:17
know what was going on. So that probably made me look
35:20
pretty set offish. And I wasn't always as good at
35:25
just having conversation with complete strangers in any sort
35:30
of social setting out and about because I was just so
35:36
introverted and I didn't really know how to like talk to people
35:41
all the time in that type of like super social party type
35:44
situation. I've gotten a lot better now.
35:47
So it's not as much of a thing. But yeah, I have gone that note
35:52
before, but I think on this one I did pretty well.
35:54
It's something I'm still working on, to be able to not look so
35:59
standoffish. You know, smile a little bit
36:01
when you're at a party, don't always be in your group and make
36:06
it look clicky. Be able to actually try to
36:10
converse with people. When someone says hi or
36:12
whatever, get asked them a question, like what's your name?
36:15
Where are you from, What parties have you been going to?
36:18
Do you get off the ship? Things like that.
36:20
So I'm getting a little bit better at that.
36:24
All right. Oh, I've been talking for a full
36:26
half an hour now, which is great.
36:29
Again, the video version of this podcast is on YouTube and also
36:34
on Spotify, but I think you might have had enough of me
36:38
talking about cruises for right now.
36:40
And next week normal service hopefully will be resumed.
36:44
This canker sore hopefully will clear itself up.
36:47
I hope it's not anything bacterial related.
36:49
I need to go and get some antibiotics, but yeah, we will
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see you again next week. Bye.