Rod, Justin, and Karen discuss men wearing pink, Justin’s nephew’s baby shower, cash as a gift, Starting Five, Jason Tatum, Rick and Morty, going out to eat in this heat, going to the baseball game, Rod hurt his hip, cruises, listener feedback, and some news.
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My dad’s side of the family (he’s one of 16, so a bunch niggas) had our July 2013 summer trip planned over a year in advance… to cruise on the Triumph. We’d already started sending payments by January (either just to the family treasurer or all the way to the travel agent). Then came the Poop Cruise . I asked my dad if the family would cancel and pivot. He said “Nope! By the time our cruise comes, it’ll be the safest ship in the whole fleet and basically brand new. If any cruise ship is gonna break down this summer, it won’t be THAT one.”
What can I say? The nigga was right. And baaaaaby they were throwing discounts and free upgrades all around to keep folks on our cruise. Whole family was upgraded to balcony rooms at minimum.
Our family is split into 3 groups for planning purposes so the group in charge of 2013 events theoretically could’ve known back in ’99 that they wanted to cruise that year. Unless Carnival canceled or the ship was renamed to something demonic, we weren’t changing anything. And since it was one of our bigger summer trips our group wasn’t about to find anything nearly as equal for all of us to do at a reasonable price. It was a mostly fun trip. If y’all ever go (fly, I guess ) to Cozumel, check out Mr. Sancho’s beach club. It’s all-inclusive at a reasonable price. It was all you can eat food and ALL drinks. Food was good and fresh. $5 to reserve and you pay the rest when you get there. Well worth it to me, however you get there.
PS. My dad was only right about the ship FUNCTIONING well. I don’t recommend that anyone set foot on it cuz it is ABSOLUTELY 100% cursed. If I’m not mistaken, they had deaths on at least the first 3 cruises in a row, which includes ours.
The first one out had a woman who “jumped”. The one before ours had a man, who was about to get married and on either his bachelor trip or with friends including the fiancé, “jump” in front of some of them allegedly while drunk and wanting to see if he could.
On our cruise, one of my cousins was stalked by a man who was there with his family and security did nothing even though he was following her from day 1 and taking pics on his phone. On the last night I felt what I thought was just choppy water, then again a few hours later when I was in bed. Turns out the head of security had a heart attack, they hit the skrrt and turned the ship around to try to get him to a hospital back in Cozumel, then he died. They said “WELP!” to his kids who were on the boat, hit the skrrrt again and turned back around so the ship could make it to Galveston for the next group to board because him dying made us 4 hours behind schedule.
I guess it did turn out to be a demonic boat after all.
Hows it going everybody,
As someone who grew up in the Asian culture, cash is the best gift. Getting the red envelopes on new years, birthdays & other special occasions was the best as a kid cause you knew you could buy something like the batwing from the 89 Batman movie.
Also, Rod is right about cruises. I’ll never get on one of those floating tin cans. Never had an interest in them since I like being able to leave if I don’t want to be somewhere.
Have a good one
Wonga
Regarding cruises, never ever would I EVER go on a cruise! All it takes is something to go wrong, and there you are, out there, trapped on the water with no escape. I’ve seen and absorbed too many articles about norovirus, dead engines and people going overboard over the years to take the plunge. Y’all got it!
This episode should have had a disclaimer. The Paravai-Kaaran almost died trying to exercise to this episode. It was impossible to concentrate, good thing I’m in temporary housing so no access to my weights or I would have had to send ya’ll a bill for my funeral.
First thing First, the Paravai-Kaaran had delivered a genuine apology from the bottom of his innocent heart only to fall asleep and hit send as soon as he woke up without realizing that he didn’t completely erase part of the first draft (1st paragraph). Thank you Justin for telepathically seeing the genuine attempt. Unlike my cousins Rod and Karen, but it’s okay a Ronin was at fault and I accept all bullets that come at this time. 2 year VIP Orca Security Services for Justin especially on his next cruise. He’s gonna need more tbh.
Btw we lost some folks over pink when I organized a surprise babyshower for my Mrs. I used her favorite colors for decoration and got a bunch of “why didn’t I use pink and blue?” We didn’t know the gender and didn’t care for a gender reveal cause it’s our baby (write a check if you are that invested). It got crazy, and to my surprise back then more men attacked. I found out about a side of people I didn’t know existed, all because I didn’t subscribe to color norms. Now intergalactic kid picks pink when she wants and blue whenever. They could have been patient.
Great show as always!