The number one show on Netflix right now is Poop Cruise. What happens when a Carnival cruise ship loses power in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and thousands of passengers are left with no food, no working toilets, and no way out? You get a poop cruise.

In this special episode we break down the gloriously grotesque Netflix documentary Trainwreck: Poop Cruise, a surprisingly funny, bizarrely moving, and fully revolting story of what happens when modern luxury hits the fan. We talk poop bags, cruise ship class dynamics, soft American resilience, and why we’ll never look at a lasagna the same way again.

Come for the sewage, stay for the Soviet bartender, and leave with a renewed appreciation for land. And also, buy Jo’s new book Everyone Is Lying to You, which, unlike a Carnival cruise, will not make you pee in a shower.

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