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Costa Maya, the Fake Port Town, and Onboard TV Channels
from Floating Buffet (with Ralph Sutton) · #70
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
6 minThey describe the sad, staged port town of Costa Maya, the terrible frozen buffet food, the limited onboard TV channels (looping Impractical Jokers movie, Airplane, Fox News/CNN, bow cam), and Tim's walk through an impoverished village while filming.
- 6:43Costa Maya is a fake town in Mexico that cruise lines built on a sandbar, just Disney-style shops selling trinkets and diamonds.
- 7:18The cruise ship had limited TV channels—one playing an Impractical Jokers movie on loop, another playing Airplane on loop, Fox News, CNN, and a bow camera.
- 7:52The boat has no Wi-Fi so you can't text anyone, but you can watch Fox and CNN the entire time.
- 8:23Shiprock is a heavy music cruise with 15 bands on a five-day boat, now sells out 4,000 people every year.
- 8:47Regular cruise passengers complained so much about the tattooed rocker people that cruise lines were comping cabins to get them off the boat.
- 9:21The amps on the deck stage were so loud during Seven Dust that they fell over from the boat rocking.
- 9:41You're in the buffet line with members of Corn and Deftones and POD while trying to eat.
- 10:27Tim argues cruise lines dock in the poorest Mexican port cities and send overweight American tourists to buy magnets and insult local food.
- 11:00The cruise ship desserts were so bad that he and other comedians tasted them together just to laugh at how inedible they were.
- 11:43Tim walked through actual poverty in Costa Maya—huts, people without shoes, roosters—while resorts normally hide that reality from tourists.
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