All of Our Thoughts on Poop Cruise with Nick Aster

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza, Influence Inc.

Society & Culture, Parenting, Kids & Family, Personal Journals, Technology

4.3 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Joe here, and you were listening to a very special episode of Under the Influence with none other than my lovely husband, Nick Astor.
0:15.7	I like special episodes and I like being lovely.
0:18.7	Our kids are with my mom right now and they slept over at her place last night.
0:24.5	And we watched something called Poop Cruise.
0:29.6	I started laughing. Is that okay?
0:31.5	Yeah. I mean, it's hard not to laugh. And that's what we're going to talk about today because we watched this and I had all
0:39.3	of the feelings and I was like, I got to talk about this with someone. So here we are.
0:47.3	Prepared to be so grossed out, prepared to never want to get on a boat ever again. Before we dive into it, I have to do the quickest
0:57.2	of promotions to let you know that everyone is lying to you is coming out in two short weeks.
1:05.7	Two weeks. By not one, but three copies. Give them way to your friends and neighbors.
1:11.9	Give them away to your friends and neighbors.
1:13.2	You know, I love writing books and I love hanging out with readers,
1:18.2	but marketing them pretty much kicks my ass every time.
1:23.3	And I got to do it if I want people to discover these awesome books. So get your orders in for
1:29.7	everyone is lying to you today. Check out my website, joepiazza.com, for all of the events that I'm doing.
1:35.2	They are selling out right now and I would love, love, love to see you in person. We're going to do
1:39.6	live podcasts at most of them and they're going to be a ton of fun. We're also going to have
1:44.2	tradwife costume contests and bring your own pie buffets. So yes, I'm kind of begging you now.
1:51.4	Buy your copy of everyone is lying to you today wherever books are sold. Now let's talk about
1:56.6	poop. Poop. So, well, let's talk about, you know, what the show was. And then I have all kinds of
2:03.0	thoughts. Okay. Just the basics. Okay. So first off, we had a free night last night, but we're in
2:09.8	between TV shows because we've tried out a lot of shows and we didn't get into them. And I think
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