I guess I'll guess again. Why not? Okay. Okay. There's only like 10 countries down there. Okay. Argentina.

Incorrect. Colin.

Brazil.

Brazil. Probably a better. Yeah, just more people. All right. Last question. Okay. on this card. What did Buddha define as the reward obtained by the suppression of desire? Oh, Chris Nirvana.

Smells like teen spirit.

Yes. All right. Good job brains. Well, Colin, you're not the topic picker for this episode. Someone beat you to it.

It was me. The other person on the podcast. We actually didn't record episodes for the last couple of weeks, because I was on vacation. And for our family vacation, we went on a cruise, but not just any cruise. We went on a cruise. Disney cruise.

And not

just any Disney cruise, we went on the Disney Wish, their newest and biggest boat. This is the new ship, so it's got the Star Wars hyperspace lounge, so you like, you step through a Star Wars door and you're in it's like you're on your, you're on an actual cruise ship in the middle of the ocean pretending to be on a Star Wars ship and there's a massive monitor. So you're looking out the window and it's space every every five minutes you like go through hyper space out the window. And then you're in front of a new star Wars planet, which of course it's all canonical, which ships are near the planets and all the bartenders know, and they'll tell you, you can send him out some money on star Wars drinks and stuff like that. But that's like one thing you could do. And there's, there's, on board and food and you just take care of you all day. So I kind of came back and I was like, oh, what are we gonna do for the topic? I'm like, let's do at sea. Cause that's where I was. So like, let's talk about like stuff involving the ocean, the water out on the ocean.

So this week we're sailing the seven seas. Well

Karen let me ask you what is a pirate's favorite letter? R? Nay. You think it'd be the R, but it is the C.

It's a great dad joke. It's so

great. Yeah, it is because you think you're clever, because you're like, oh, I

see the part. Yeah, no, you see, yes. You missed it. What a twist. Anyway,

yeah, so on this Disney

cruise ship that I was on, actually, Karen, you'd be interested in this. You're not gonna call this. There's lots, me, Karen in particular, there's Bo, maybe Collin too. There's a lot, I mean, as I've been saying, there's just so much to do, there's so much on the ship. There's something, there is something on the ship that I just wanted to mention also that there's, it's called Aqua Mouse. And it's Disney bills it as the only Disney attraction at sea. Oh, cruise ships have water slides and water rides and stuff like that on the top deck kind of going around the ship. So what Aqua Mouse is, it's effectively it's a water ride on a tube, but it starts out with a Disney dark ride type presentation, where you slowly get, as you're slowly going up the track to get taken up high so you can slide down, they're showing segments of a Mickey Mouse adventure on a series of monitors that are giving you the storyline of what's going on. And

you're on a tube?

And you're on a tube! You're in your swimsuit on a tube. It's not nearly as like complicated as other Disney dark rides, but they're essentially trying to do

that dark

ride. And then once you get to the end of that point, then it kind of becomes a more standard kind of water slide until the end. Yeah, so it's cool. So I mean, they're just they put all kinds of things on these on these cruise ships, especially the Disney ones, all these crazy things that you can go and do. We asked around because we're nerds and we're very curious. And it's, it's a big, big ship. But there's 4000 passengers and 1500 crew members.

Oh, so

that's a pretty low ratio of like crew members to passengers. Yeah. It's almost like one to two. Two and a half. Yeah, essentially. The Disney Wish is a bigger ship, but it has the same number of passengers as other Disney ships. So it just, it feels like more spacious. You know what I mean? Like you never really feel like there's things are too crowded. The other side of that is that like, there's like an entire world on that cruise ship that you're never gonna see. Like one of the big things being the fact that there's 1500 crew members who are living on the ship.

Living on the walls, yeah. Yeah, yeah,

yeah, basically. That's gonna be, yeah. They live on the ship, they live, yeah. is like Downton Abbey, because it's like there's the servants quarters and stuff like that, but it's like the crew living areas on this ship are, and you would never go see that as a passenger, but it's like they will live on this ship for, you know, you know how it kind of works, right? With a cruise ship, people who work on cruise ships, it's like they sign up like a six month or a four month or whatever it is contract. Yeah. Yeah. And they're just on the ship for that whole time. And they work every day. Yeah. Brakes and they get, you know, they don't get days off, but they get chunks of the day off. But it's like, there's pools, there's crew recreation areas. They're not just hanging out at

the snack bar and on the rides with all the paying customers.

No. Really, so the whole point of what I wanted to talk about here is I started looking like, well, what are other things that are on cruise ships that you might be surprised to know exist on a cruise ship that maybe you don't see. So I did some research into this and I'm here to tell you about maybe two major things basically. So one of them is a place that maybe you think you want to go but you really don't which of course is Disney jail. Oh. Is there Disney jail? Yes there is. So if you mess up badly enough while you're on your Disney cruise you may find yourself tossed in the brig, which is a like a jail cell, like it's in the bowels of the ship. So people ask like, is there a brig? Like is there Disney jail on the Disney ship? And yes, it does exist. But what it seems like is that the brig the cruise ship is like the absolute last resort solution. Like if you like killed somebody on there. They have a serious problem. They cannot be dealt with in any other manner.

Now

they do sometimes, if they do have a problem who maybe is too inebriated or either way was being too violent or whatever it was, the first thing that they'll try to do is they'll confine them to their cabin.

So if

you ever see a

security

guard hanging out outside of somebody's

bedroom,

they might be confining someone in the cabin. Ooh. Right, of course there's security teams on these cruises, but they try their very best to not really be slain by anybody, right? Yeah. But if you did see somebody waiting outside it, they could be confined to the cabin. So you really have to try very, very hard to go to Disney jail, like even more so, because before you even got there, they'd probably like confine you to your cabin first. So I don't think it's a fun jail. Like you shouldn't go, you shouldn't try to go. It's not like the Aqua Mouse of jails, right?

As soon as you dock, the local authorities is going to come in and take you out. They're going to take you right out of the place. Yes,

and yeah, it's not going to be goofy. And yeah. OK, yeah. There

is, if you do go down there, the key to the cell is hanging off the collar of a dog. That's just outside the just outside the bar. But they've got like the cruise we went on was for night. So it's like you get on the ship and then like the next morning you're in the Bahamas, and then you get back on the ship, and the next morning you're at Disney's Island, and then you get back on, and then you're at sea for a day, and then you get off. But it's like they have transatlantic Disney cruises, and they have that last for a long time. If you were on a Disney cruise and you were out in the middle of the Atlantic or something like that, and things your day got like considerably worse, you could be making a trip to the most exclusive Disney club out there, which is the Disney morgue. Oh, because yes, these ships do in fact have a morgue. They have to. They have to. They have to.

I guess you do. They're

shuttling around millions of people every year. People are going to die on the cruise. Like it is most exclusive Yeah. We have to go to the Disney morgue. You don't want to go there, but they're legally required to have it in body bags. Um, because, I mean, because again, like if somebody were to die, like you would need to do. So the thing is while people could potentially die from like a freak accident or something like that, like unexpectedly, The majority of deaths on cruise ships are from old age or associated maladies. Which makes sense considering the demographics of people who take a lot of cruises and to be older or retired. Some people retire, if you look at this there's articles about people who retire to cruise ships. Like they don't go into an assisted living facility or They cruise to the end. And it's quite common for elderly people to die on cruise ships. Sometimes people who like have a terminal illness will get on a cruise ship hoping that they die at sea, right? So they all have to be they all have to be ready for this. So that's, you know,

it feels so rough for the people working on the ship.

The people working on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they're secret. So of course, when something very bad happens, they they really want to avoid upsetting anybody else on the cruise. You know, so it's sort of taking care of very swiftly, you know, and as discreetly as possible. But there are secret codes that you might hear get announced on some of these ships. And these are ones that apparently Disney does use. So if you are ever on a Disney cruise and you hear being announced like Operation Bright Star, Operation Bright Star is like a serious medical emergency. Like we need people to come do Operation Bright Star. This I find hilarious. Operation Rising Star. Can you guess what that is?

Someone throwing up. No,

no, no, no. That's a dead body. Oh, Lord. That's like stars. Rising Star. A Operation Rising Star. A risen, oh Lord. If you hear Operation Rising Star, that is somebody on your cruise May also be like a Catastrophic, you know medical like serious thing but but generally that that means death and then also I find this one very very funny if you hear Them paging mr. Mob and you maybe can you guess what that is? Yeah, Mr. Mob, M -O -B. Oh, man overboard. Oh, Mr. Mob. Maging Mr. Mob, man overboard. That's right. That is their cutesy way of saying, man overboard, somebody fell off a cruise ship. Do you know what you do if you fall off a cruise ship? No,

how often does that happen? Ooh.

It happens. If you fall off a cruise ship, what you do is you die. Oh, because it's so tall. The ship, the ship. Well, first of all, yeah, assuming you survive your like multi story fall into the water, the ship's moving real fast. Yeah.

And it can't

just stop

and

turn. they can pinpoint where you fell in. Because if somebody reports that they fell in, they know where the ship was at that point. They got to like turn around and come back. But at that point, it's like, it's the ocean. It's not like you're in a pond. It's like the ocean's probably carried you away or down at that point. There are stories of person goes overboard on a cruise ship and is rescued, but that's like miracle type

situation. Wow.

Another reason on top of that, like why do they pretty much die is because they were probably drunk and they were probably climbing up somewhere they weren't supposed to be or doing something stupid. And if you're that trashed and you fall off a cruise ship, you're probably not going to think of like, what are some good survival strategies I can employ to stay alive in the water? You're probably just going to drive. So don't fall off a cruise ship, but you're probably not gonna fall off a cruise ship. Do

not do it and don't get drunk and climb on the outside of the ship, please.

Well, it's the same reason that like the deadliest ride at Disney is the people mover, the Disney World. Because it's just that slow moving, it's not that slow moving, but it's a monorail where you're just sitting there going around, but then that's the ride where like you're not buckled in and people think it'd be funny to like get drunk, get on the people mover, stand up, wave and you know, and then they fall off. Climb into someone else's car. Right, right, right, exactly. Yes, that's my fun story about how to go to jail and die. How

to go in jail and die. I'm

your cruise, don't move it. It's hotter than 33, baby. Can't get in, people are, oh, people are dying to get in. There's room for one more. There's room for one more. There's Yeah. I did, I could not verify this. I saw this in one source and you know, as a journalist, I don't wanna, you know, you gotta try to verify with multiple sources, but I did see that on a Disney cruise, if you hear Operation Winnie, that means that someone

pooed in the pool. Yes. No.