News · moment 7 of 23
The Oil Tanker Crew Abandoned at Sea for Years
from #274 - Tourettes Gang | The Tim Dillon Show · #274
7 min
News
Tim discusses a news story about an oil tanker crew stranded off Dubai for years without pay after their shipping company went bankrupt, riffing on how they survived, why they haven't left, and pitching it as a movie about the crew possibly turning gay from isolation.
- A crew of people abandoned at sea for three years without pay on an oil tanker
- Tim explains why Emirates has the best airline: fear of consequences, unlike Delta or American
- A shipping company from the UAE hit financial trouble in 2017 and abandoned an oil tanker off Dubai
- Dubai is built on slave labor and has everything indoors because of extreme heat
- The company abandoned the ship with a small crew aboard, left stranded without pay or a way home
- Tim notes the crew stayed stranded through the entire pandemic, socially distanced from the world
- Question of how the crew ate without money, possibly by fishing or relying on charity organizations
- The men lived in the same clothes for months, washing in cold water or sea water
- Tim pitches the story as movie material about men existing on a boat for three years
- Tim jokes that a three-year all-male crew would turn into a gay Muslim oil tanker film like Brokeback Mountain
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