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Every Fandom Gets a Cruise (Iron Maiden, Sex Cruise, Groove Cruise)
from Floating Buffet (with Ralph Sutton) · #70
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
7 minTim jokes about niche theme cruises for every fandom -- Walking Dead, Stranger Things, a swingers cruise needing special cleaning crews -- and reflects on America's excess and decline as embodied by cruise culture.
- 22:23Paramore has a cruise called Parahoy; Tim pitched an Iron Maiden cruise concept called the Iron Maiden Voyage.
- 22:46Tim was asked to host a swingers cruise but it fell through; the boat needed a separate cleaning crew to get approved after the event.
- 23:29Costa Maya has no actual fish and is a fake town Royal Caribbean built using Mexican labor to sell overpriced items to tourists from Ohio.
- 23:51Cruise ships have a diamond channel that prepares passengers for shore excursions, and there's apparently a whole diamond and cruise industry.
- 24:24Tim brought his friend Michelle on the Impractical Jokers cruise; he describes her as genuinely a bad person who behaves like an animal in day-to-day life.
- 25:22Michelle's aggressive behavior toward service workers actually gets results—she gets what she wants faster than polite people because staff want her gone.
- 26:18On a standby JetBlue flight, Michelle bullied a flight attendant about temperature control until the heat came back on.
- 27:12Tim's uncle, a major New York restaurateur, says customers who complain and get service right will return, unlike silent unhappy customers who disappear.
- 27:52The staff at a high-end Manhattan restaurant hated Tim's complaining friend even though the friend raved about being treated well there.
- 28:34The value of traveling with someone like Michelle is that her lack of empathy gets early hotel check-ins and other perks polite people never obtain.
MichelleRoyal CaribbeanIron MaidenImpractical JokersCosta MayaNorwegian PearlParamoreStranger ThingsWalking Dead