Booze, Brawls, and Bad Behavior at Sea | The REAL Story with Dr. Phil
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.3 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Cruises used to be luxury getaways. Now? They're making headlines for alcohol-fueled fights, viral brawls, and lifetime bans. Dr. Phil dives into disturbing new trends: violence at sea, alcohol overload, and the breakdown of public behavior—from the high seas to 30,000 feet in the air.
Is this about cruise ships—or something deeper happening in our culture? This is The Real Story.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever taken a cruise? Or have you sat around and thought about, hey, wouldn't it |
| 0:05.3 | be great to take a cruise? It used to be the epitome of the luxury vacation. Everybody |
| 0:10.9 | think about, wow, we could take a cruise and go to the islands or cruise around Europe or |
| 0:15.9 | whatever. But somehow or another, we find a way to corrupt everything because cruising has become an |
| 0:25.6 | excuse for really bad behavior. This is the real story, and I want to take a look at some |
| 0:32.7 | headlines with you. Violent drunk passenger on Royal Caribbean Cruise raises a question, should booze on board |
| 0:41.6 | be limited? Carnival Cruise Line proves once again that it has by far the most violent passengers |
| 0:49.6 | on the high seas. Now, there were two violent episodes just weeks apart. |
| 0:55.2 | There was an incident on April 1st on Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas. |
| 1:00.0 | A reportedly drunk man caused a disturbance on other people's balconies. |
| 1:05.6 | At 1 a.m., a drunken man broke into the spa on deck 11, jumped over an exterior railing, |
| 1:15.7 | climbed onto another passenger's balcony, flipped over furniture, banged on the doors, |
| 1:21.8 | and even through furniture overboard. |
| 1:24.7 | Now, security eventually detained the unruly passenger. |
| 1:30.2 | But is this what you pay to do on a cruise? Passengers disembarking the Carnival Jubilee, |
| 1:37.8 | thinking about grabbing bags and getting home, all hell breaks loose. A full-on brawl breaks out in the cruise terminal in Galveston, Texas. |
| 1:47.8 | Nearly 30 guests banned for life. You wouldn't have to ban me. I just like no problem. |
| 1:54.4 | See you later. They were put on a do not sale list. It seems to happen a lot on Carnival. |
| 2:02.1 | Don't know why. |
| 2:03.0 | Carnival has gotten a reputation for bringing out the worst in people. |
| 2:06.4 | Maybe it's an all-inclusive thing or you get all that you want to drink. |
| 2:10.5 | I don't know. |
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