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And it turns out that Trump has the exact same

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Speaker 2 Interesting. Yeah, well, now I had a friend tell me that the fans are the new glow sticks.
Oh, really? For that, for the dancers. Okay, that is interesting.
I had no idea that that was a thing.

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I don't know why they're being banned, but okay.

Speaker 2 There's a lot of people on the social media that are upset about the fans one way or the other. Like, thank God they, I don't know, were the fans that big of a problem?

Speaker 2 Maybe they were like hitting people in the face? Probably. Yeah, they're probably whipping them open in people's eyeballs.

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Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, cats and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break.
I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen of Joy Holy.
Best to you, Chris. Best to you, Brian.

Speaker 2 Best of you out there in the podcast universe. I am reading a lot about the trends of

Speaker 2 the men in Hollywood getting the face surgery. Which one?

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 2 we can name a lot now. You want me to go through a little list here? Sure.
Okay, hold on one second. And then...
Well, we all know Simon Cowell.

Speaker 2 Simon Cowell. Terrible.
Have you seen Simon? I have not.

Speaker 2 Oh.

Speaker 2 Terrible. I mean, that is just like, he doesn't even look human to me, if I'm being real honest.

Speaker 2 Let's see. Who else? Tom Cruise

Speaker 2 has the best plastic surgeon ever. He's got to have one, right? He looks fantastic.
How does he look fantastic? I just don't know.

Speaker 2 We've, of course, been talking about Bradley Cooper. Right.
Bradley Cooper has done a number on his face. Now Ryan Gosling is in the mix.
Not gosling. Yes, Gosling.
Let's look here.

Speaker 2 Mickey Rourke, well, he's been a mess for you.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's true. Yeah, he's been a mess for you.
He was really

Speaker 2 one of the first men that I remember seeing when something bad, some kind of bad plastic. Well, I mean, he was in that wrestler.
It was shocking. Right, yeah.
It was shocking the way that he looked.

Speaker 2 But it kind of fit the narrative. It fit the story.
So you felt like, okay, run hard and wet and run ragged. You know, he's just kind of that guy.
Yeah. But, okay, we can...

Speaker 2 Mickey Rourke is Mickey Rourke. Yeah.
But Ryan Geisling is Ryan Gosling. Now, I know Mickey was a...
What do you fuck with the notebook?

Speaker 2 It's just terrible.

Speaker 2 Yeah, hold on one second. Let me see if I can.
Ryan Gosling. He was in La La Land.
Yeah. And he is just a lovely human being.
He is. He is

Speaker 2 a very handsome gentleman. Easy on the eyes.
Lots of people are now pointing out that he has,

Speaker 2 you know, he's got that. He's altered.
Yeah, he's got that altered look. He is messing with his face, and people are not happy about it.
Here's the thing, and I agree with this sentiment.

Speaker 2 I forgot who said it.

Speaker 2 Let me see him.

Speaker 2 I don't see this as much as other people do, but okay, maybe.

Speaker 2 Hold on one second.

Speaker 2 And I'll see if we can post some pictures of this on the video if you want to go watch it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I guess he's had face ones done.

Speaker 2 Yeah, something's going on there.

Speaker 2 He's going in that direction. Let's put it that way.
Something's different. Oh, here

Speaker 2 it's more noticeable. Face is puffy.
Cheeks are pumped. It has a big eyebrows furrowed even more.

Speaker 2 That's a goddamn shame. Here's the thing.
If you're good-looking and sexy in your 20s and 30s, you're going to be good-looking and sexy in your 40s and 50s.

Speaker 2 Mike Clooney, I just saw an interview with him. I think it was CBS Sunday morning.
I love that show. Anyways, he was on there and he has some deep lines on his forehead and some wrinkles and stuff.

Speaker 2 Still so handsome. So rugged, so handsome.

Speaker 2 It's perfect. A great, great looking guy.
Harrison Ford is another example of this. To get older.
It is okay to get older. I have thought about this myself.

Speaker 2 You know, getting a little plump,

Speaker 2 but like a little Botox here, a little Botox there.

Speaker 2 And I got to be honest, like it scares the shit out of me because I see these people who have had Botox for a very long time now on the internet talking about Botox and fillers and how it's just causing damage to their faces, their skin.

Speaker 2 Well, you can't go too far with it. Well, now they're saying that Botox leaks into your brain and kills brain cells.
Well, I don't need any help with that.

Speaker 2 I did that in my teens and 20s at a rapid clip.

Speaker 2 Luckily, I had some despair back then. Now I don't.
I don't have any more despair.

Speaker 2 But listen, you know,

Speaker 2 have just have advice for the,

Speaker 2 and who are the people who are advising them to do this? Is it a manager? Is it a girlfriend? Is it a wife? Is it a girlfriend?

Speaker 2 You know, you probably are so insulated in a bubble of just really

Speaker 2 self-absorbed people and that are constantly changing and getting things done and improving and

Speaker 2 improving. And

Speaker 2 you're running in that circle maybe of they're doing it, so I should do it. And who did you use? Who's your doctor? Then maybe the doctor talks them into it.
Who knows?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I am with you a thousand percent. I totally

Speaker 2 understand that

Speaker 2 in that business, you really have to take care of yourself.

Speaker 2 I mean, that's your face, your body. That is the thing that sells the show.
That is what keeps people coming to the box office.

Speaker 2 But I think we're all adults and we can be aware that Ryan Gosling is not going to look like that exactly like that. Right.

Speaker 2 You don't have to look at, you don't be frozen in time. No.

Speaker 2 and that's what some of these celebrities look like they look like they're frozen literally their faces are frozen i mean simon coll is the worst example of this he has gone so far overboard that um it he's not recognizable as a human i don't think uh did he also have was he in some kind of accident

Speaker 2 didn't he have

Speaker 2 was he i feel like i remember something about that i think it was a scooter accident i think it broke he broke his leg uh okay if i'm not mistaken Had two significant accidents while riding electric bikes.

Speaker 2 Both came with hospitalization, and he almost became paralyzed. Yes, I remember that one.
He broke his arm in one and he broke his back in the other. Okay.
So not

Speaker 2 the face. Yeah.
Right.

Speaker 2 And, but he just got so

Speaker 2 puffy and weird. Uh, have you seen him doing the dance down the Kelly Clarkson show?

Speaker 2 Let me, let me show this to you. You're gonna, this is shocking.
Uh, Kelly Clarkson show. Okay.
Let me show this. I'm going to ask

Speaker 2 dance.

Speaker 2 Is it the Kelly Clarkson show? Or was it the.

Speaker 2 Oh, well, the other one.

Speaker 2 Gosh. What's her name? Jennifer Hudson.
Jennifer Hudson.

Speaker 2 She has like the dance. Okay.
Okay. That was it then.
Okay. Let me show you.
You watch too much TV. No, I just,

Speaker 2 I just saw Jennifer Hudson on another show the other day, and she was talking about it. Here it is.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 Is that not stunningly weird? Yeah. Is that not

Speaker 2 stunningly weird? He looks like an alien.

Speaker 2 He looks like an alien. Now I can understand he might be walking a little weird because of the broken back and the bro and the hands, but he's like, looks like a dinosaur clapping his hands.

Speaker 2 And he's got a huge round face on this tiny body and it's just like plumped with fillers. It is a trend that I am not interested in, not interested in at all.

Speaker 2 I don't want to poke at someone else's looks. If you feel like that's what you got to do, that's what you got to do.

Speaker 2 I am sharing that my own personal perspective is it's been taken too far in some cases. And some of these men in Hollywood, Simon Kyle was a good-looking dude.
Yeah. He was a handsome dude.

Speaker 2 Maybe he wasn't everybody's cup of tea, but you know, he was the,

Speaker 2 you know, the smart ass, whip smart guy on, on

Speaker 2 AGT and on American Idol. And I think everyone could have agree he wasn't terrible to look at.
No. He could have just kept going that direction, a little grayer, a little older.
A little more rugged.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
Few more wrinkles. This is the problem.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 This is the problem with Hollywood and our influencer-obsessed culture is that now we're all feeling pressure to turn back the clock, including some, you know, 18, 19-year-olds who are getting Botox.

Speaker 2 That's insane. Yeah, that's insane.
That's insane. You're too young.
35 at the youngest. At the youngest.
Just go through it. Go through age.
You're going to get better looking.

Speaker 2 If you're 18 years old, you're going to be your best-looking between 25 and 30. Guarantee it.
Guarantee it. That's when God makes you the most

Speaker 2 voluminous so that you can attract a partner like the caveman days. Just pick up for it.
Don't worry about it. Peacock.
Yeah, peacocking all around.

Speaker 2 Speaking of peacocking, I've been keeping an eye on Mystery, who has popped back up.

Speaker 2 And he is doing all of these events where you pay money and you show up and then you get advice.

Speaker 2 The pickup orders. Yeah, it's wild.
It is wild. We'll have to do a show on it.

Speaker 2 I would love to if people would take video of it, but I think it's kind of like a closed environment. But

Speaker 2 here's the gig. Here's what they do.

Speaker 2 Him and some other dipshit pickup artists, they go online and they drum up a bunch of, and we're going to be down in Miami or Tulum or Hawaii or whatever, some far-flung location.

Speaker 2 We're going to rent a house. It's going to be

Speaker 2 two of the master pickup artists spending quality time for seven to ten days with you just us in a house hanging out 24 hours a day seven days a week we'll eat together we'll play together we'll go do sets together out in the town and i'm like thinking to the only thing i can think to myself is you'll buy call girls together i mean right that's what's gonna happen don't bullshit it number one number two mystery and this other guy are taking people on vacation at their expense that's what they're doing now i'm not knocking the game if i could get people to take me on vacation i would do it too But it just seems appalling.

Speaker 2 It's kind of like the bands that go to, you know, Mexico or whatever. Of course.

Speaker 2 Except this is a mystery. Yes.
I was talking to Paul Chowdery, and

Speaker 2 Chrissy was out, but I was talking to Paul, who is an extraordinarily famous

Speaker 2 comic from the UK. Yes.

Speaker 2 Indian descent. He's very famous.
Like, he goes to Wembley and sells out one of their statements. Like, Wimbley is a complex of stadiums.

Speaker 2 It's not just the big football stadium, but he sells out Wimbley.

Speaker 2 And he explained to me that most of the time when you do these big shows, what you're really doing is you are lucky if you pay for all of the costs associated with the big show.

Speaker 2 It's a fuck you kind of statement. You go there, you sell it out, you announce to the world you're big, you're bad.

Speaker 2 He's like, it's really just a, yeah, it's really just a punctuation mark is what it is.

Speaker 2 Now, I know these bands that tour like, you know, 200 nights a year and go do these stadiums, they have to be making a little, you know, some money. They don't seem to be bad off.

Speaker 2 But I always felt like the other bands, the ones that go down and do the Mexico show, like, you know, once a year and they're down there for a week

Speaker 2 or Dominican Republic at the Hard Rock or whatever, and they don't tour around a lot, that's essentially what they're doing. They're getting you to pay for their vacation.
Okay. That's fine.

Speaker 2 If I like listening to the music, I don't like that. I was going to say, yeah, if it's my vacation and I like the band, then they're playing my vacation.
So that's fun. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Listen, how else are you going to get the band to play your vacation? Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, listen, I'm not.

Speaker 2 However, you got to do it, you got to do it. I'm not saying it's bad.
That's also the same with the cruises. Remember, Tammy would go on the.
Tammy, I love Tammy. I'm watching all her shit.

Speaker 2 Tammy on those cruises.

Speaker 2 Those cruises are wild. Wild.
Heather McMahon did one.

Speaker 2 Everyone's doing one. There's another podcast.
I can't think of the name right now, but they're kind of like a sports friendship podcast with a couple of celebrities.

Speaker 2 They're also doing their first cruise.

Speaker 2 And I just think to myself, I know you don't like cruising, but it would be fun, I think, to just rent a cruise ship or have a cruise ship, fill it with all the listeners, and then just go wild, just do a bunch of stuff.

Speaker 2 That would be amazing. Or you could just do a resort.

Speaker 2 I know. You could, but then you're not like on a boat and a boat is cool.
I like a boat. You can do a boat excursion.
Yeah. But then I like a boat, but then

Speaker 2 we could do, wait, hold on. If we did this, we could, you know, choose a place.
Yes. Choose a resort somewhere tropical that we liked.
And then we could do one of those sunset cruises. Okay.
We could.

Speaker 2 That would get your boat and your boat in. Yeah.
It's not the same. I'm telling you right now, I think you would really love it if you were in a balcony room.
Yes.

Speaker 2 And you opened up the door and you slept. I said, I'll do a Ritz.
You slept at night. Yeah.
A Ritz Cruise. That's the first thing we're going to do.

Speaker 2 You're going to do one of those.

Speaker 2 Yeah, listen. Dream big, Brian.
I agree with you. You got to dream big.
You're going to drink for the stars. Dream big.

Speaker 2 Paychecks are small. That's the way they did this.

Speaker 2 Listen,

Speaker 2 I'm all about manifesting. I'm all about that.
All about it.

Speaker 2 But I think we're going to have to shoot a little lower than a Ritz Cruz because one cabin in a Ritz Cruz costs what it probably costs to rent out a Carnival Cruise line. It's like $31,000.

Speaker 2 It's insane. Yeah.
And they're filling them up. How do I know? I know.
Because I see them. Like, they send me this information all the time.
I know. I've gotten it too.

Speaker 2 And I really, I started looking into it because I was like, ooh, maybe like for a special occasion, Jeff and I's 10-year anniversary or something. Ooh, this is going to be fun.
But I mean, they are.

Speaker 2 crazy expensive. They are crazy expensive.
They are. For like just the base level.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It's like $12,000 for a four-night cruise

Speaker 2 per person. It's just way too much.
Now, what you get is amazing. You essentially get a floating spa, a floating ritz spa.
Oh, but

Speaker 2 I'm sure not all of that is included. No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 No. No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You get the room.
You get that room. And some food.

Speaker 2 If you need food, they'll give it to you, but it's not going to be the good food.

Speaker 2 That's not how it works. That's any cruise line.
That's Disney cruise line.

Speaker 2 I mean, Disney gives you pretty good food, but if you want to go get like the really nice food, you got to pay extra for that. If you want booze, you got to go pay extra for that.
That's how it works.

Speaker 2 That's how they get you.

Speaker 2 And then they give you those damn wristbands where you're not even paying attention to how much you're spending. Yeah, there's no way.
You don't have to physically do anything. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 And listen, I love a Ritz-Carlton. I've been lucky enough in my life to stay at a few.
I love them. They are the best hotel chain in the world, my opinion.

Speaker 2 I've stayed a lot, not all of them, but I haven't stayed at a lot of luxury hotel chains, but I've stayed in a number of them. And the Ritz, just there's something about

Speaker 2 the dark woods

Speaker 2 and the lion and the service. It's really

Speaker 2 a fun experience if you ever get an opportunity.

Speaker 2 Once in your life, just once in your life, save up enough money to spend a night at a RIT, a night or two at a Ritz, like in a tropical location, you know, Fernandina,

Speaker 2 Miami, wherever, Tampa.

Speaker 2 Naples one is great. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Naples one is just as expensive as the cruise.

Speaker 2 You cannot find a room there for less than $2,000 a night.

Speaker 2 I know I thought about like, we were down there on vacation, and I thought, let me, and it was not, it was kind of near-ish to my anniversary.

Speaker 2 And I said, let me take Astro for a night or two over at the Ritz. And then I looked at the prices and I said, let me stay right here

Speaker 2 in this cheap Airbnb for a drink. That's right.
It's exactly what we're doing. That's what we do.

Speaker 2 The good news is I could walk outside of my Airbnb and see the rich

Speaker 2 18 stories in the air. I mean, we drove by it a lot.
I said, look, remember? We did our honeymoon there because that's where we did our honeymoon.

Speaker 2 So, all right, let's take a break. And when I get back, I want to talk a little bit more about Carnival Cruises.
They've made some interesting changes to their behavior policy. Really? Yes.

Speaker 2 They might have needed to. I think they might have needed to.
Listen.

Speaker 2 And we'll get into it. We'll be back.

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Speaker 2 I have been watching some videos from Carnival Cruises lately where people are getting kicked off of the Carnival Cruise for breaking a number of the new rules that Carnival has installed.

Speaker 2 I think to keep everyone safe and happy. Yeah.
Listen, Carnival has kind of become the party cruise, like one long booze cruise.

Speaker 2 And you can understand that when you're trying to run a cruise line, that's fine. You can make a good chunk of change doing that.

Speaker 2 But because they are relatively accessible, it's one of the, it's not the lowest price cruise line, but it's one of the lower. It's value, right?

Speaker 2 You can, you can get a room and probably get a good room for cheap. And quite frankly, most of us need that right now.

Speaker 2 But what happens is large groups of people are congregating inside of clubs, inside of the on the deck, wherever. And they sometimes get a little bit out of control

Speaker 2 of the booze. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And so Carnival has taken a number of steps to tamp down on this.

Speaker 2 Now, you can argue that this is what needs to be done if they want to survive as a cruise line and continue to have families show up, continue to have anybody.

Speaker 2 I mean, listen, if you go to a a cruise and it's just so loud and rambunctious that it's uncomfortable, you're probably not going to return to the cruise line. That's true.
But for the people who are

Speaker 2 looking for it. Yeah.
For the people who are loud and rambunctious, if that's what you're looking for, then this is your cruise line, right? And apparently a lot of people are looking for that, right?

Speaker 2 I've seen videos where there must be a thousand people on the deck, on like the Lido deck where the pool is and all that. Just raging.

Speaker 2 Just raging, just dancing and raging and, you know, not an inch, square inch in the pool. Everybody's just sitting there, loud music.
It looks like fun

Speaker 2 if I was 10 years younger, right? If I was 10 years younger, it would look like fun. But now I have children.
I would never

Speaker 2 vote that cruise line because.

Speaker 2 I needed to be a little bit calmer.

Speaker 2 Just a little bit, right? People have been falling off of cruise ships. Fights have been happening.
Bags are stolen. Imagine the fights.
Oh, yeah. There's a lot of carnival cruise fights.

Speaker 2 It's a a whole, there's a whole. You throw alcohol, sun, alcohol, people in bikinis and

Speaker 2 good-looking bodies and jealousy.

Speaker 2 I can only imagine. Yes.
And you have a whole subgenre of Instagram videos

Speaker 2 that are Carnival Cruise fights. I mean, it's just what it is.
Wow. And to be fair, listen, there are also Disney Cruise fights.
There are Disney World fights.

Speaker 2 I mean, there are lots, you know, people are on edge. Everybody's on edge.
But that Carnival Cruise seems to be a magnet for this, for like it just taking it too far.

Speaker 2 And so, there are other people now who are posting videos where they are actually getting kicked off the ship. How do they kick you off the ship? They have like a put you in a jail

Speaker 2 or they lock you in your room. Oh,

Speaker 2 I've heard about the cruise ship jail.

Speaker 2 Or is a cruise ship jail?

Speaker 2 It is a room with no windows, essentially. A room with no windows or television.
And they'll put you in there until you make it to your next destination. Then you're on your own getting home.

Speaker 2 And that, yes. And that is probably not the best situation, especially if you just drop you off in an island somewhere and say, figure it out yourself.
Yep. That's it.
They have the right to do it.

Speaker 2 They have to maintain order on the cruise ships. Listen, when you're out in international waters, it is a lawless land.
That's true. There is no,

Speaker 2 there are maritime laws, there are treaties, but there's no real law. And that's why

Speaker 2 there are also a whole subgenre of investigative journalism around people who go missing or or get killed or get assaulted on ships because the cruise ships fiercely defend their territory.

Speaker 2 They fiercely defend their own right to investigate their own situations. And when it happens in the middle of sea,

Speaker 2 they're the first and last authority.

Speaker 2 Now, usually, someone, like if you're, if you're out in the Mediterranean, or let's say you're crossing the Atlantic and something bad happens, someone goes missing, someone gets murdered, whatever, wherever the boat is

Speaker 2 flagged is usually going to be involved in the investigation, and then usually wherever the person was from, right? Like the U.S.

Speaker 2 But they have limited investigative possibilities and

Speaker 2 opportunities because the cruise ship can largely dictate when, where, and how those investigations happen. Wow.
You don't have any authority on a boat in the middle of the ocean. You just don't.

Speaker 2 Who's the air traffic controllers of the seas? No one. Okay.
You are. You are.
Maritime law keeps you in check. And how do I know this? Because I have an app on my phone.
I follow maritime traffic.

Speaker 2 There are well-known shipping routes

Speaker 2 and cruising routes and recreational. And they just kind of stay in touch with each other or I guess you just see another ship.
Yeah, you have radar, and most of them have global tracking.

Speaker 2 Almost every boat that does any kind of activity out in the open ocean has tracking for two reasons.

Speaker 2 Number one, in case you get lost, but number two, to keep an eye so that you are visible to other boats. Okay, that makes sense.
And so that other boats are not available. There's no one main hub.

Speaker 2 No, there's not air traffic control. Like,

Speaker 2 and I'll get back to Carnival, but when you cross the Atlantic on an airplane, you fly up to the furthest point, like Newfoundland, Canada. You fly up to the...

Speaker 2 the farthest point, and then you travel across the shortest distance to get over to land in Europe, right? And you sometimes might fly over Greenland or whatever.

Speaker 2 I mean, however, it depends on where you're flying. Okay.
But there are air traffic controllers who maintain those routes.

Speaker 2 And every day, based on weather patterns and traffic patterns, they will decide there's A, B, C, D, E, and F. There's all kinds of lines in the sky, highways in the sky.
Right.

Speaker 2 And the traffic pattern often goes one way at a certain time and another way at a certain time, and they separate you, or they have everybody flying on the same line because of weather.

Speaker 2 So let's say today they're using A, right? So the air traffic controller puts you on pattern A and there you will go.

Speaker 2 A lot of times you are so far out in the ocean that there is no air traffic control that you can communicate with except via a global position, like there's a global text message system, essentially.

Speaker 2 So you have to relay on other airplanes that are behind you, that can hear you, that can pick up your air traffic. It's a little scary when you think about it.
You would know this. Yeah.

Speaker 2 When you get on a ship, there is nothing like that. They stay in touch with each other.
There's maritime friendliness.

Speaker 2 It seems like there's just so many cruise lines out there, but I guess the ocean is so very big. It's vast.
It's vast.

Speaker 2 When we went on our cruise in the Mediterranean, we could see other boats. at night either following us or on the side of us, going up pacing us almost, like the exact same.

Speaker 2 Now they're probably a half a mile or a mile away, but that is done, I think, because we're all going in the same direction.

Speaker 2 And a a lot of times we would see those ships in port at the next port because there's only so many combinations. But then also, I think it's for safety, right? It's to make sure that nothing happens.

Speaker 2 And if something does happen, there's power in numbers. You've got some friends.
You've got something that can go on. Carnival Cruise,

Speaker 2 known as this kind of value cruise ship operator, they have

Speaker 2 largely catered to people who normally don't can't afford like luxury cruising, so they fit this bill. Yeah.

Speaker 2 And they give you, they can give you really cheap rooms, like $259 for a four-day cruise for a person.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And they feed you, and sometimes they booze you, depending on what package you get.
And then they let rip. And then everyone just gets on the cruise ship and shit goes crazy.

Speaker 2 So they've been playing, they've been putting some new rules in place, and they are not kidding.

Speaker 2 Because I have seen these videos of like, you know, 24-year-old college girl brings booze on the cruise in some kind of container, gets caught, and then gets put in the maritime jail inside of the thing, and then she gets dropped off at the next location.

Speaker 2 No shit.

Speaker 2 So there's now a curfew. Minors under the 18 must be in their stateroom or accompanied by an adult that is over the age of 25

Speaker 2 after 1 a.m. Sounds like it makes sense.
Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 2 Disruptive behavior. Guests can be fined up to $5,000, removed from the cruise without refund, or blacklisted for violating behavioral codes and rules.
Noise.

Speaker 2 You're no longer allowed to run or shout in the hallway. It is prohibited and you can be fined or kicked off the cruise.

Speaker 2 Which means there were a ton of people doing this before. A ton of people.

Speaker 2 There are people who do this for content creation.

Speaker 2 They like make videos of themselves running down the halls at three in the morning, banging on doors and screaming and yelling like someone's getting murdered. It's not.
Who wants to swing?

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 No more pineapples on the door. No, that one didn't.

Speaker 2 They didn't go that far.

Speaker 2 They know their niche market. That's right.

Speaker 2 Dance floor rules. Consuming drinks on the dance floor is no longer allowed.
Okay. Okay.
I don't know how that stops anyone from drinking.

Speaker 2 You just pop off the dance floor, sip it up, and they get back to the bottom. Well, there was probably a lot of spilling going on.
People calling. Yes.

Speaker 2 One of the rules that has got a lot of people bent out of shape, but I think this is perfectly reasonable, is that pool chairs left unattended for more than 40 minutes will have the belongings removed.

Speaker 2 So if you, what a lot of people were doing on these cruises. Saving seats.
Saving seats. It's not cool.
Don't do it. If you're going to be at the pool chairs, be at the pool chairs.

Speaker 2 If you're not going to be at the pool chairs, let somebody else go. If you have a pool chair and you go to take a dip for 20 minutes, I can understand.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Otherwise, if you're spending the entire day in the pool, then you don't need the chair anyway.
You don't need the chair. You sit on the side of the pool.
Put it on the side of the pool.

Speaker 2 Or better yet, if you go down to take a nap in your stateroom

Speaker 2 and you're leaving two pieces of clothing on the chair so that two hours later you can have the same fantastic seat you had before. Yeah.
It's not fucking fair. Don't do that.

Speaker 2 You're just being rude and entitled. That's what you're doing.
You need to see it from someone else's perspective.

Speaker 2 Speakers and radios, all personal speakers, including Bluetooth, are now banned in

Speaker 2 public spaces to ensure guest safety. Fans, now, I don't understand this one as much as I

Speaker 2 maybe could, but the handheld fans. Oh, there's a big thing with the ravers.
Yeah, the clack fans is what they call them. Are now flip open.
Oh, they do? Okay.

Speaker 2 They're now prohibited in nightclubs and indoor dance floors for safety reasons, but battery-powered fans are still permitted. Interesting.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, now I had a friend tell me that the fans are the new glow sticks

Speaker 2 for that, for the dancers. Okay, that is interesting.
I had no idea that that was a thing. All right.
Well, keep your fans at home, kids.

Speaker 2 Click, clack. You click, clack.

Speaker 2 Get back.

Speaker 2 Jack.

Speaker 2 Attack. Click, clack.
I don't know. I don't know what was going on with the fans.
I don't know why they're being fanned, but okay.

Speaker 2 There's a lot of people the social media that are upset about the fans one way or the other. Like, thank God they I don't know.
Were the fans that big of a problem?

Speaker 2 Maybe they were like hitting people in the face or something. Probably.
Yeah, they're probably whipping them open in people's eyeballs. I don't know.

Speaker 2 I don't know. If somebody knows, let me know.
I really am interested. Marijuana, all cannabis

Speaker 2 products are now banned on board because they are illegal under federal law, and violators will face arrest and be removed from the ship. So, you know,

Speaker 2 and then there's behavior and consequences fan ban. Listen.
Fan ban. Fan ban.

Speaker 2 I just think some of this sounds like common sense. But apparently there were people that were abusing it.
So, and we know.

Speaker 2 There's not

Speaker 2 a lot of people. There's a lot of people.

Speaker 2 A lot of them aren't well. A lot of them aren't well, and they'll take advantage.
You give them an inch. They take a mile.
That's just the way it is.

Speaker 2 Can't say I've never, I can't say it's never happened to me or I've never been that guy either.

Speaker 2 But I was young and dumb. And so, you know, by tailoring the experience a little bit more toward people who have a little more maturity, I think you'll cut a lot of the crap out.

Speaker 2 Like, if you got to be 25 to be out after 1 a.m., then, okay. But here's the thing.
The people. who are probably upset about this type of behavior aren't out at 1 a.m anyway.

Speaker 2 Do you know what I'm saying? So I don't understand how that works, but okay. You do you, Carnival Cruise.
But people are crazed. Some people are really upset about this.

Speaker 2 They feel like this is, you know, ah, you've cut out all the party.

Speaker 2 I'm never going on there again. Hey, listen.
Go get on Jimmy Buffett. That's it.
I was just going to say, Jimmy Buffett's cruise line will happily take you. Cockroaches and all.

Speaker 2 Dirty sinks and bloody sheets and everything you want.

Speaker 2 Margaritaville's got it for you.

Speaker 2 Discount captain, discount boat with a discount captain. I don't know that, but I've seen videos from there too.

Speaker 2 No hat, no problem. Yeah, no hat, no fan, no problem.

Speaker 2 Don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 Bring your fans on the Margaritaville cruise. They're all about it.
They'd just be happy to have anybody. Yeah.
I watched some really pathetic videos from that cruise line. I mean, people are.

Speaker 2 Which is a shame. Jimmy, you know, he's not around to defend it anymore, I guess.
And how long did they have this cruise line for he died?

Speaker 2 Because, you know, I've seen specials about these Margaritaville retirement resorts. And those things are big money and look like a ton of fun.
Listen, they don't look bad.

Speaker 2 We went to one of the cruise line. Yeah, they have the retirement villages.
They have the resorts.

Speaker 2 We went to a resort in Panama City, and I can't say it was terrible. I can't.
The place was clean. We had a house, like a bungalow with a margarita machine.

Speaker 2 Margarita machine, ice machine, pool with water slides, perfectly lovely people, a nice bar and grill that you could hang out at. It wasn't the Ritz, that's for sure.
Right. But it didn't need to be.

Speaker 2 We had a ton of fun with the kids. So, but Margaritaville Cruise Line, I don't know what went on.
Well, he had something happen.

Speaker 2 He loaned his, they loaned his name to it, and it's just a shitty cruise ship with shitty pipes. Like an old shrimp boat.

Speaker 2 It is like, yeah, it's like one of those, you know, deadliest catch boats that they tried to doll up.

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Speaker 2 Well, we haven't been here since Halloween. So how was it? Oh, I had a blast over Halloween.
Yeah. It was a beautiful day.

Speaker 2 It had been raining all that week, and then the clouds parted, and it was beautiful. Oh, we had tons of trick-or-treaters.
I love Halloween. I love dressing up.

Speaker 2 I love decorating, scaring the kids, giving out candy, the whole thing.

Speaker 2 We did it for three hours or so. Rachel came over.
We had a blast.

Speaker 2 A little wine, a little candy, a little scare, trick-or-treat, boo.

Speaker 2 And we had to shut it down because we get so many.

Speaker 2 That's crazy. We ran out of candy.
And how much candy do you think you had? A lot. I mean, I had an eight-pound thing of assorted chocolates.
Okay. All the good ones.
Kit Katz.

Speaker 2 Of course she's all that.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. The good ones.
Yeah. And a four-pounder of the Skittles.
Wow. So when I mixed it all together, I mean, we had a lot.
A bucket. Of candy.

Speaker 2 Three buckets. Wow.
And you gave it all away. Gave it all away.
And so it's just like a stream of people just coming down the street at all.

Speaker 2 I mean, you know, it starts off. We had, you know, we first had people come in to like.
Yeah, the trickle turns into a faucet. Yes.
Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying.
As soon as the sun goes down.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And was it mainly younger kids or did you have a good mix of teenagers? It was mainly younger kids.

Speaker 2 i would say below the age of like 11 let's say okay it was younger kids yeah yeah yeah i mean there were a few sprinkled in and i have to say there were some parents too we were like okay here

Speaker 2 parents that like knocked on the door and said trick or treat

Speaker 2 well they like went up to the to the thing with the group of of the kids and they wanted candy also well usually it was that they were getting it for their little baby okay that was out in the street the babies don't eat candy come on i mean listen i gotta say we

Speaker 2 Astrid, we were, we were. I think our neighborhood is one of those that people drive to from, also from

Speaker 2 other areas. We were doing the whole trick-or-treat thing.
We were running up and down the street at a different neighborhood that a friend,

Speaker 2 like a friend of one of the kids, because our neighborhood is not super conducive as a busy road. So we don't want the kids walking up and down it.

Speaker 2 And so we were walking around and we really hadn't eaten dinner. The adults hadn't eaten dinner.

Speaker 2 So Astrid at one point was like, oh, make sure you get one for our youngest. And then she was like, and

Speaker 2 also, yeah. And also, I'm not going to be mad if you get me a Kit Kat.
Right. And listen, fair enough.
When you're hungry, you're hungry. You know, and if people are just giving out candy, okay.

Speaker 2 But I wasn't like purposefully going up and taking candy for myself. I mean,

Speaker 2 maybe

Speaker 2 once.

Speaker 2 I said, oh, those Skittles are good. I'll take one of those.
I mean, but there are people who just go crazy.

Speaker 2 There are some people people who put like large candies in the basket, whole packs of Starburst, big things of Kit Kat. You know, there was this one guy.
He was sitting by himself.

Speaker 2 He had his trunk of his car open. He had like decorated it lightly.
Right. Even starting off good.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 you know,

Speaker 2 he had a tall boy of like schlitz. I'm not even kidding.
I'm not even kidding. Older man, probably in his 60s.
He had diabetic socks on with shorts. Yes.
Yes, and he was like

Speaker 2 compression socks. He's sitting in a lawn chair, and there's some old, like, you know, RB playing on the, on the radio.
I thought, I love this guy. I was all into the vibe.

Speaker 2 I said, I go, you're having the best time here.

Speaker 2 But he had just the monstrous candy, like the candy bars you paid for individually, Nestle Crunch, and Hershey's bars, and Big Pax's Skittle, all kinds of like great candy

Speaker 2 in these two buckets, just sitting on the hatch of his car, you know?

Speaker 2 Just stick your head in there for a minute. Yeah.
Grab it. Just go ahead, young man.
Jump up in the car. There's more where that came from.

Speaker 2 Do you like Earth, Wind, and Fire?

Speaker 2 Come in here, and I'll teach you about Earth, Wind, and Fire.

Speaker 2 I got a

Speaker 2 handy Nestlick crunch bar for you.

Speaker 2 Oh my God, you know what was mixed in with some of our, that big, the big thing of chocolate I got was the almond joys. And I was like, Jesus.
But people loved them.

Speaker 2 People still doing almond joy. What's wrong with you? Coconut doesn't, I mean, I get it.
People like coconut. I like almonds.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but not the coconut and the nugget and the almonds and the chocolate. It's just a terrible, wasteful concoction.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And while we're at it, let's not give out candy corn anymore.

Speaker 2 No one likes it.

Speaker 2 I think it's cute to put the little pumpkin candy corns in a bag. And while we're at it, Twizzlers.
What are we doing with Twizzlers? You buy those at movie theaters.

Speaker 2 I don't know. When you're a teenager, you're your first movie and you don't know what else to get.
Let's get Twizzlers. Twizzlers are a terrible thing to give out.
No, you need the Hershey's,

Speaker 2 you need the Butterfingers. Sour Patch Kids.
Yeah, Kit Kats. Skittles.
Butterfingers. Skittles.
That's the good stuff.

Speaker 2 You know,

Speaker 2 dip and dots. I don't know.
Not dip and dots, but the

Speaker 2 what do you call them? The pixie sticks. Yeah, the pixie sticks are great, too.
The fun dip. Fun dip.
One of my friends was giving away fun dip. I thought whole big fun dips.

Speaker 2 I was like, wow, that's impressive.

Speaker 2 You're spending some cash on this stuff. $100 we spent fun kids.
Yeah, we spent $100 too. And it's just, you know, it's...

Speaker 2 It's a lot, but it is fun to watch all of the kids dressed up, having so much fun, especially the young, young ones, like, you know,

Speaker 2 four, five, six, seven years old.

Speaker 2 That's the sweet spot. So cute.
Come on in and look at my Earth, Wind, and Fire collection.

Speaker 2 That's the sweet spot.

Speaker 2 Those are the kids that I really enjoy watching. And in this neighborhood, there was like a gang of people, like adults and parents that we had been with last year that we were with again.

Speaker 2 And, you know, I don't know, there's like 40 of us just walking down the street together. And all the kids, most of the kids are under the age of 13, a lot of them under the age of seven years old.

Speaker 2 And they're just so fucking cute. I mean, they really are.
They're just adorable. They're excited.
They're excited. They're excited.
It's exciting. I love it.
And then an hour in, I'm fucking done.

Speaker 2 I'm done. I'm done.
As soon as it starts getting cold, I'm like, okay, guys, let's get out of here. Yeah, we were lights out at eight.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we were back home by 8.30. And

Speaker 2 the only reason it took us a half an hour to get home, but we were really, I was,

Speaker 2 it got cold. That's the problem.
It seems like Halloween is like the line of demarcation with cold weather here in Atlanta. You know, it's, you, it gets cold right at Halloween.

Speaker 2 And that drives me crazy. I wish it would, I wish it would stay warm just a little bit longer.
And then on top of that, that goddamn move in your clocks. Let's stop that shit immediately.

Speaker 2 Yeah, the old spring forward fallback. I love an hour and extra sleep like everybody else does, but this is the whole clock bouncing back and forth is really bothersome to me.
Yeah, pick one.

Speaker 2 Pick one. And in 19 states, they have voted to keep daylight savings all year round, right? So in other words,

Speaker 2 the fallback. Yes.
But only if it becomes a federal

Speaker 2 mandate. Only if it becomes federal.
And, you know, Trump didn't sign it. Biden didn't sign it.
Trump's not signed. I don't know what Trump's doing over there.

Speaker 2 It's a goofball.

Speaker 2 He doesn't seem to know either. He didn't know who he pardoned.
Yeah, he has no idea who he pardoned.

Speaker 2 Trillionaire from Binance. He has no idea who that guy is.

Speaker 2 But the next day, Trump coincoin.

Speaker 2 Trump coin on Binance. Go figure.

Speaker 2 But I have no idea who he is. No clue.

Speaker 2 They just tell me who to pardon. Right.
Well, they said it. They said it.
Well, listen, you know, Diddy's next. Guaranteed.
Watch. Mark my words.
Diddy is next.

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 2 We got a week full of fun coming your your way kids

Speaker 2 I did have fun at Halloween. I do I love it.
I just love it.

Speaker 2 I do like to watch the kids. They're a lot of fun

Speaker 2 I even watched the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown this year. You watched Good Gravy Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown? Did I have it all in the background as I was cooking one night and I was like, oh yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's a cute movie. It is.
It's cute. I don't know if Charlie Brown held up as well as some of the other Christmas classics, like holiday classics, but I do still like watching the Snoopy.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Snoopy on Thanksgiving. And it's fun.
Snoopy's still riding down that Thanksgiving Day parade

Speaker 2 every single time. Unbelievable.
Yeah. I love it.
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