Hear Me Out: You’re Not Too Cool To Go On A Cruise

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🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… choosin’ cruisin’. There seem to be two types of people in this world: those who love going on cruise ships, and those who wouldn’t be caught dead on one. Whichever you are, you probably feel pretty strongly about this. The cruise industry has come roaring back from the brink since the lifting of pandemic restrictions, and there’s never been more to do while you’re at sea. So for the slight majority of you who, statistically, aren’t cruise fans, today’s guest poses a question: why not? Ezra Dyer, senior editor at Car and Driver, joins us to argue that cruises are the kind of tacky fun that you might just like… in spite of yourself. If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: [email protected] Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hear Me Out, I'm your host Celeste Headley.
0:04.9	As summertime travel winds down, we want to talk about cruises.
0:08.7	Now hear us out.
0:10.5	Going on a cruise is one of the few really, really polarizing ways people have fun.
0:16.6	You love cruises, you hate them, there is very little middle ground here.
0:21.5	And if you think cruises are trashy, tacky, dangerous, or whatever else, maybe, just
0:27.8	maybe you should think again.
0:30.2	You might not be above having fun on a cruise.
0:35.4	Sometimes it's okay to just sit in a beach chair and not worry about whether you are doing
0:42.0	the absolute most you can to extract every second out of your vacation, like the most adventure
0:47.0	and the coolest stuff, no, you don't always have to do that.
0:50.6	As a redire, senior editor at Car and Driver Magazine joins us to defend the cruise.
0:56.6	Stay with us.
1:01.0	Welcome back to Hear Me Out, I'm Celeste Headley, and look, let's just get this out there.
1:06.7	I am not a cruise person, I have never been on a cruise, nor wanted to go on one.
1:11.5	And in fact, no one on our team is into cruise ships, in theory or in practice.
1:17.4	In fact, one member of our team went on a cruise begrudgingly recently, and almost immediately
1:24.3	became ill, and we are very sorry that happened, obviously, but it does feel as though that
1:29.5	was in some way a predictable outcome.
1:32.8	Cruises are polarizing, and it even comes back to politics, as do so many things.
1:38.8	In a UGF survey last year, a little over 50% of respondents said they'd feel uncomfortable
1:44.3	on a cruise.
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