Hi. Hi, I'm Hannah. How are you? Good. I'm Hannah. Hi, it's Hannah. Hi, Hannah. How are you? Good. I'm Hannah Rosen. This is Radio Atlantic. It's cloudy here.

It is in a good way, like in a way that makes your hair look full and rich.

It does add fullness to my hair, which is always a good thing at this point. I think spring

has finally sprung and I teach in the spring semester and I'm like I just want

this to be over I just want to go out and play you teach fiction yeah I can't teach

a rocket science cruising technology this is writer

this is writer Gary Steingart.

This is just a Russian stereotype.

I'm like, yeah, you could teach astronomy or physics, I don't know.

Chess, yeah.

Exactly.

Gary grew up in the Soviet Union and immigrated to the US when he was seven.

He's written several award-winning novels and he was a literary consultant on succession,

the HBO show.

Mostly, he's known for his satire,

which can range from gentle to deadly.

So who better to write an article

about the inaugural voyage of the largest cruise ship ever built.

This whole thing came about because I was on Twitter and I saw a tweet that just showed the may I use salty language here yes the ass of the ship was how I describe it I don't know any of these you know terms but you know with all the water parks and crap on it and so I reposted the tweet and I said

somebody wants to send me on this cruise please specify the level of sarcasm desired yeah and then like within God bless the Atlantic, you know, within seconds, I had an assignment.

That ass belongs to the icon of the seas, a ship that can hold more than 7,000 passengers and 2,000 crew.

It has 20 decks, 7 swimming pools, and 6 water slides.

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