Speaker 1: Well, hello, and welcome back to How Rude Tan Rito's.
Speaker 1: I'm Andrea Barber and I'm Jodie Sweeten.
Speaker 2: I am so stoked for today's minisode. I've been looking
Speaker 2: forward to this. I am this is, this is, this is.
Speaker 1: This is, this is.
Speaker 3: It is your time to shine and to retell in
Speaker 3: in sort of the great oral traditions of yesteryear.
Speaker 1: How your n K O t B cruise was?
Speaker 2: Because it's obviously of that standard, yes, and it is
Speaker 2: not the only one wondering.
Speaker 1: A It is a sacred trip that you make every year.
Speaker 3: And I haven't even gotten to ask you about it
Speaker 3: because I knew we were doing a minisota about it,
Speaker 3: so I was like, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to ruin any of the surprises.
Speaker 3: I just want to be here, strapped in, going along
Speaker 3: for the ride, just like the audience. And I will
Speaker 3: have questions because I don't you know this. I don't
Speaker 3: know anything about n K TB other than Joey McIntyre
Speaker 3: and the Wahlberg one, the Wallburg one, Donnie right right,
Speaker 3: Marky Mark's the other well Mark Wahlberg whatever, okay, And
Speaker 3: I feel awful.
Speaker 1: I don't remember any other names.
Speaker 3: I know they had hanging tough and that's about where
Speaker 3: I drop off at their discography. Soay, so I am
Speaker 3: like a newbie to this. Please explain all the lingo,
Speaker 3: all of the like weird traditions that you guys have,
Speaker 3: because I'm sure that there are many. And yeah, I
Speaker 3: here we go. Oh, let's carry a barber. Take it away.
Speaker 3: New Kids on the Block Cruise twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: And technically this is a question from Megan in Woodlands, Texas,
Speaker 2: so I want to give the credit for this question.
Speaker 2: Megan asks, Andrea, you told us you were going on
Speaker 2: the NKOTB cruise and now I want to hear all
Speaker 2: the details as a fellow fan.
Speaker 1: How was it? It was amazing?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, first, just a tiny tiny bit of history.
Speaker 2: So New Kids on the Block have been chartering cruises
Speaker 2: since two thousand and nine, so it's been over ten
Speaker 2: years that they've been chartering cruises. This particular one was
Speaker 2: their twelfth cruise, and I've only been on six of them, guys,
Speaker 2: so I'm not even like the most experienced blockhead, which
Speaker 2: is what we call the New Kids Block fans.
Speaker 1: We're all blockheads. It's a big sister got it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I started going on these cruises. My first
Speaker 2: one was in twenty thirteen. And I have this group
Speaker 2: of girlfriends, these wonderful women that we travel from all
Speaker 2: different parts of America where you know, we're from Connecticut
Speaker 2: and Arizona and Atlanta, and we all meet once a
Speaker 2: year in Miami and uh set sail with NKOTB for
Speaker 2: four nights and four days and it's just a dream
Speaker 2: come true.
Speaker 1: So is it okay? My question?
Speaker 3: Is it only new kids fans on the cruise or
Speaker 3: is it like they're mixed in with other people who
Speaker 3: are like, oh my god, what's happening on the Lido
Speaker 3: deck at seven pm?
Speaker 1: Or is it everyone's in Oh no, no, no, this
Speaker 1: is just it's a new kids on the higher cruise
Speaker 1: ship cruise of new kids fans.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, it's three thousand blockheads. And I got five five,
Speaker 2: the five members of NKOTB.
Speaker 1: And then their management. How do they survive? Like how
Speaker 1: are they not ripped to pieces? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like I can't imagine they can just walk out anywhere.
Speaker 2: They have a very very qualified security team that takes
Speaker 2: care of.
Speaker 3: Them, right, and they're probably like seven decks above anywhere
Speaker 3: that's accessible, so.
Speaker 1: The fans know.
Speaker 2: The fans know they're on deck seven, like they know
Speaker 2: the exact hallway.
Speaker 1: Just blocked off with security too.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, the we're women in our forties, but
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean we behave well all the time.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not speaking for myself.
Speaker 3: Well I'm okay, maybe a little because I'm known to
Speaker 3: behave myself.
Speaker 1: So that's yeah, nothing I can relate to. Okay.
Speaker 3: So it's all three thousand blockheads, three thousand guys all
Speaker 3: get on the ship.
Speaker 2: If we all get on the ship and everybody, it's
Speaker 2: like being in middle school again because everybody's wearing their swag.
Speaker 2: They've got like their Joey McIntyre button, they've got door decorations.
Speaker 1: They bring like all of their.
Speaker 2: Supplies from Joanne's and are just like decorating their doors
Speaker 2: with posters or interactive displays, like they go all out.
Speaker 1: There's a there's active display.
Speaker 3: What, yes, I need to know what does an interactive
Speaker 3: display on a new kid's But like does Joey like
Speaker 3: pop out in three D and like kiss your hand
Speaker 3: or something and sing to you?
Speaker 1: Like is that does it light up? That would be
Speaker 1: a very popular a popular one.
Speaker 2: No, A lot of them are like photo booth type things,
Speaker 2: so they'll have like somebody built the ball the doll
Speaker 2: box that the New Kids on the Block dolls used
Speaker 2: to come in and it was like a life size
Speaker 2: doll box and you kind of walk into it and
Speaker 2: take your picture and walk.
Speaker 1: Okay, got it? Like the n Sync one that they
Speaker 1: did for the Yes, Okay got it. Yeah, it's like that.
Speaker 2: But the one the display that I'm always like, I'm
Speaker 2: always a few doors down from this particular set of cruisers.
Speaker 3: They do the same display everything they have the last
Speaker 3: two years, so I don't know if they've done it
Speaker 3: more than that. This tells me that there was a
Speaker 3: serious investment in oh in this because if they've done
Speaker 3: it two years in a row, it's because that ship
Speaker 3: wasn't cheap.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is it?
Speaker 2: So they they it's a tribute to Jonathan Knight and
Speaker 2: his HGTV show called Farmhouse Fixer.
Speaker 1: Okay. John is a big old farmer.
Speaker 2: He's a real estate guy and he flips houses and
Speaker 2: loves to renovate them.
Speaker 1: Is like his his that's his life.
Speaker 2: That's it just does New Kids on the Block on
Speaker 2: the side, but he's really like farm builder dude.
Speaker 1: So they do their.
Speaker 2: Door as a dedication to John and farmhouse Fixers, so
Speaker 2: it's all decorated like a farm. And then they have
Speaker 2: like a tractor, like a three D tractor that's outside
Speaker 2: the door, and a life size like plush doll of
Speaker 2: John with an automated voice recording that says, Hi, I'm
Speaker 2: John Knight.
Speaker 3: That's horrifying, Andrew, that's terrifying.
Speaker 2: And sorry, I hear this sounds yeah, that's scary. Wait,
Speaker 2: what do you mean walks by? It says, Hi, I'm
Speaker 2: John Knight.
Speaker 1: I know that's scary.
Speaker 3: How what do you mean a life size doll?
Speaker 2: It's like a like a no, it's like a well,
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it looked to me like it's
Speaker 2: something they had assembled. It's not a blow up doll,
Speaker 2: but it's like a stuffed yeah, maybe more like a
Speaker 2: It was more like a just like a life size something.
Speaker 1: And then they like paste his face like a cutout.
Speaker 3: Like a cutout, right, right, Okay, So I mean it's
Speaker 3: not like for like professional I was like thinking that
Speaker 3: was like in the shape of like a human, Like
Speaker 3: it was a really scary wax figurine.
Speaker 1: That's what I was. No, he looks like the scarecrow.
Speaker 2: He looks like a stuffed scarecrow, but with John Knight's
Speaker 2: face on.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's better.
Speaker 2: But the motion activated voice that So every time somebody
Speaker 2: walks by this door, all night high I'm John Knight, I.
Speaker 3: Would, I'd be like, I'm sorry, we need to have
Speaker 3: some hours on mister Knight where we need to Mister
Speaker 3: Knight want to night because it's because it's all night
Speaker 3: with mister Night and I'm done.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, there's just all these traditions.
Speaker 2: People bring banners from Like there's people fly in from Australia,
Speaker 2: from Japan, I mean from the UK, Like they fly
Speaker 2: in from all over and so they have their banners
Speaker 2: with their their flag, their country flags and they hang
Speaker 2: it on the lido decks.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, okay, there's the Denmark.
Speaker 3: Right like it's like the U n of nkot U
Speaker 3: n U n kotb. Oh my god, yes, hey, now
Speaker 3: you watched and that you can give me credit for that.
Speaker 1: I'm going to pass that on and give you credit,
Speaker 1: you n kot b.
Speaker 3: And it's it's just all of they send their delegates
Speaker 3: and pass resolutions and things.
Speaker 2: And there's actually okay, so they do theme nights every
Speaker 2: night on the.
Speaker 3: Leado deck theme beyond new Kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, it's very specific. I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: I am I educate, Yes, I'm here to educate.
Speaker 2: Okay, So they every cruise, the last night is always
Speaker 2: the same theme, and it's called GPS Night. And so
Speaker 2: it's like dress where you're from, you know, dress dressed
Speaker 2: like something that symbolizes where you're from, which for the
Speaker 2: Americans it usually just means like a sports jersey from
Speaker 2: wherever you live, like the Lakers.
Speaker 3: Joy or whatever, or someone dressed up as the Statue
Speaker 3: of Liberty.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, people get very creative.
Speaker 3: That giant ball of twine that's somewhere in Middle America.
Speaker 1: No, just probably not it.
Speaker 2: Oh well, what I what I usually wear is I
Speaker 2: dress up like a worker from in and Out, which
Speaker 2: I realize now in and out the Burger franchise. That's
Speaker 2: not just now they've expanded to Arizona and Texas and stuff.
Speaker 1: But I would dress like a worker, like with the red.
Speaker 2: Apron, right, big safety pin in the back and the
Speaker 2: little paper and.
Speaker 3: That's still a pretty California it's still a pretty California thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: But my point being that GPS Night is great because
Speaker 2: everyone dressed, like if you're from a country, that's not
Speaker 2: the way I say they dress in you know, something
Speaker 2: that symbolizes their country. And so you're right, they're like
Speaker 2: delegates walking around, except they're drunk instead of you know,
Speaker 2: serious professionals.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think you're giving a lot of people
Speaker 3: a lot of credit. But I I mean, I've been
Speaker 3: in New York during un week and it feels very
Speaker 3: much the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. It's great.
Speaker 2: Like the Canadians will dress as Mounties. You know, some
Speaker 2: people just wear their country flags like a like a cape,
Speaker 2: and it's it's fantastic.
Speaker 1: It's so fast as night. That's GPS Night. Are the
Speaker 1: other nights?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, let me go in. I'll go in chronological order. Actually,
Speaker 2: let me just kind of late, let me go kind
Speaker 2: of lay this.
Speaker 1: Out, just lay it out, give me a schedule I
Speaker 1: need to. I'm gonna give you the itinerary right right.
Speaker 2: So it starts the crew starts on Thursday afternoon, and
Speaker 2: it starts with the sail away party and that's when
Speaker 2: literally like they they blow the horn and we sail
Speaker 2: away from Miami.
Speaker 1: I mean that was pretty self explanatory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but everyone but all three thousand people are
Speaker 2: gathered on the Lido deck, okay, right, like it is.
Speaker 2: It is probably a fire hazard or something, but it's
Speaker 2: like all of us are crammed in there like sardines, right,
Speaker 2: and just waiting waiting for the guys to appear, like
Speaker 2: this is the first time we're going to see the
Speaker 2: new kids on the block come out and wave to everyone.
Speaker 1: But first we have to do the oath.
Speaker 2: Donnie Wahlberg leads us in the oath, the sail Away
Speaker 2: Oath every year, which I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't have it memorized. Sorry, you know, everybody.
Speaker 3: I need I don't care. I need at least a
Speaker 3: rough But.
Speaker 2: It's based like, hey, hey, he knows that we're a
Speaker 2: lot of like women who are moms and have jobs,
Speaker 2: and we sacrifice a lot of our lives for other people,
Speaker 2: and this cruise is our time.
Speaker 1: And it's like it's like raw raw, he gets the
Speaker 1: all we're all yelling, we're all.
Speaker 2: Excited, and then the five guys walk out and wave
Speaker 2: and the music is pumping and we're sailing away.
Speaker 3: So Basically, the oath is like what happens on the
Speaker 3: cruise stays on the cruise, and you have and you
Speaker 3: have earned the right to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've earned the right to just you know, let
Speaker 2: your hair down and just let loose for four nights
Speaker 2: and not worry about anything else in the world.
Speaker 1: It's great. There's nothing like it.
Speaker 2: So that's the sail away. So that's the sail Away party.
Speaker 2: And then later that night they do a game show. Okay,
Speaker 2: the new Kids will do a game show and they
Speaker 2: bring some fans up on stage and this They do
Speaker 2: a different game show every year, and this year they
Speaker 2: did Family Feud. It's usually a hot mess, like it's
Speaker 2: it's like there's disorganization, and it's funny.
Speaker 1: It's all about going off script.
Speaker 2: The guys are so good about going off script and
Speaker 2: just ad libbing and making making fun of things. And
Speaker 2: so game show is always super super funk fun night.
Speaker 2: And then later that night, the first night, the Thursday night,
Speaker 2: the first theme night.
Speaker 1: This year it was like the gala night, the dress
Speaker 1: up night. Oh okay, and you had.
Speaker 2: To dress up in the colors of their album, their
Speaker 2: first album since they reunited in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: That album was called The Block.
Speaker 2: You know, get all fancy get Okay, it's just so
Speaker 2: great because people really like they'll get bring out gowns.
Speaker 2: I think most of us are not wearing heels at
Speaker 2: this point because walking on.
Speaker 3: A moving ship in he's.
Speaker 2: Not That's not my cup of tea. But yeah, it's
Speaker 2: the dress up night is great. The guys always look
Speaker 2: fantastic and hot in some sort of tuxedo cumber bun situation.
Speaker 2: This year they wore sparkly rainbow jackets and I love it.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it was great. It was great. Okay, love
Speaker 1: a good gala. That's day one's and the lead.
Speaker 3: I mean, it takes off in the afternoon and you're
Speaker 3: doing sail away party, game show, show and.
Speaker 2: Gala and the gala and it goes well. These parties
Speaker 2: don't start till like eleven PM.
Speaker 1: Like the time too for that, I know, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: all you know me, I like to go to bed
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock. I know, how do you survive this? Well?
Speaker 2: I have the advantage because I fly in from the
Speaker 2: West Coast, so that's West coast. I'm actually I can
Speaker 2: actually make it usually until about two am. That's usually
Speaker 2: when the Leedo parties, and although Donnie Donnie Wahlberg has
Speaker 2: his after parties that go till six am.
Speaker 1: Like, really, man, he doesn't sleep. Donnie Walberg does not
Speaker 1: sleep for four nights. I don't know how.
Speaker 2: I don't know how he survives this, like because he's
Speaker 2: he's got over fifty years old now, and I was like,
Speaker 2: how are you keep interesting by the end of.
Speaker 1: Those four days?
Speaker 2: Oh, he's he's loopy but fantastic and I'm just always
Speaker 2: giving one hundred and forty percent.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, do you have breakfast with the blockheads? No,
Speaker 1: there's no, but no, everybody sleeping in.
Speaker 3: True if you guys are up till two am and drinking, Yeah,
Speaker 3: who's no, one's getting up for breakfast.
Speaker 2: We're sleeping in. But then the next day is the
Speaker 2: island day. That's when we go to half Moon Cay
Speaker 2: or half Moon Key. I don't know how you pronounce it.
Speaker 2: I'll just say half moon k because that's how we
Speaker 2: were pronouncing it then.
Speaker 1: But it's it's a private island for Carnival.
Speaker 2: The ship, the ship that we were on, and so
Speaker 2: we have the island all to ourselves.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 2: You go, nice go we're sitting on our lounge chairs.
Speaker 2: It's hotter than hell because it's so humid and crazy.
Speaker 2: So it's like we just spend a lot of time
Speaker 2: in the water, usually because the water is a great temperature,
Speaker 2: beautiful color. At some point, they bring out the new
Speaker 2: kids on the block on like a little a little tender,
Speaker 2: one of those little boats, and they they're waving to
Speaker 2: their crowd, and they come in and the and everyone
Speaker 2: parts in the sea like the Red Sea, and the
Speaker 2: guys come on the beach, and then they have beach games.
Speaker 2: They're separated into five different teams, one for each new kid,
Speaker 2: and they do beach games.
Speaker 1: I have never participated in these games. I have no
Speaker 1: desire to.
Speaker 2: I don't even really watch these beach games because it's
Speaker 2: so hot.
Speaker 1: I'm usually in the shade somewhere on a lounge.
Speaker 3: What sort of like like volleyball or like what or.
Speaker 2: Like quiz games and stuff. No, no, no, it's like
Speaker 2: physical games. It could be like a tug of war
Speaker 2: or Okay, it's all again, it's always very disorganized and confusing,
Speaker 2: but that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It's all just about having out. I mean, that is
Speaker 1: the theory of my life. Exactly exactly. So that's the
Speaker 1: beach day. It's very relaxing.
Speaker 2: Everybody gets back on the boat around five pm and
Speaker 2: it's time to get ready for the concert.
Speaker 1: The guys throw like a full concert on the ship.
Speaker 3: After being outside in the sun all day.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh no, they they they they have Stamma.
Speaker 2: These guys are like, this is it four days, We're
Speaker 2: gonna make it happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, I mean when you're working, you just
Speaker 1: you do it, you know, you just do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, and they also they have like ivs, like their
Speaker 2: their team brings ivy hydration rights and yeah, exactly, they're
Speaker 2: just them, they're they're taking care of So, yeah, there's
Speaker 2: it's a con and it's great because there's only they
Speaker 2: do two different concerts because they can't fit the entire
Speaker 2: three thousand of us in one in the theater room,
Speaker 2: so it'll be you know, fifteen hundred on one night
Speaker 2: and fifteen hundred on another night. But it's great because
Speaker 2: it's a small Yeah, it's a small venue, and so
Speaker 2: you're like right up close to the guys and they
Speaker 2: come out in the audience and they sing to us
Speaker 2: or they put the microphone in front of your mouth
Speaker 2: and you know, right, so you get to sing along.
Speaker 1: It's great.
Speaker 2: It's always one of my favorite concerts just because it's
Speaker 2: such a wonderful up close experience.
Speaker 1: Okay, and it's cool.
Speaker 2: You're like you can feel the ship rocking and you're
Speaker 2: like whoo. You're like, is that the alcohol or is
Speaker 2: that the ship?
Speaker 1: Oh? Maybe both? I don't know, but it's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they put on a full, full concert, which is
Speaker 2: usually like some version of the tour that they did
Speaker 2: last year.
Speaker 1: It's always a great time. Love it, always, love it.
Speaker 2: A good night, and then later in the night the
Speaker 2: next theme night is rodeo night.
Speaker 1: So everybody's dressed as cow boys. Okay, yeah, we got
Speaker 1: which is not you know, a cowboy hat? Is It's
Speaker 1: not easy to travel with a cowboy hat.
Speaker 3: Well, you have to get a particular box to put
Speaker 3: them in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who's going to travel? Who's got room for all this?
Speaker 2: And in a in a cruise ship cabin too, it's
Speaker 2: not a lot of space.
Speaker 3: You've been on six of these things, you've obviously figured
Speaker 3: it out.
Speaker 1: I've got a science, I get Yeah.
Speaker 3: But now my question is is there a reason it's
Speaker 3: a cowboy night? Is there is one of them a
Speaker 3: cowboy or is this just a good theme to pick?
Speaker 2: Well, sometimes the themes are random, okay, But I believe
Speaker 2: they chose rodeo night because the New Kids had performed
Speaker 2: just a couple months ago at a rodeo Okay, got it,
Speaker 2: got it, And so I think that was the tie in.
Speaker 1: If not, it's just okay, it's just a rodeo night.
Speaker 3: I mean that's fine. I you know, theme nights are
Speaker 3: always good. I just wondered if it was like tied
Speaker 3: into a particular thing.
Speaker 1: No, Well, sometimes yes, sometimes no, this time I would say, yes,
Speaker 1: got it. But that's always a good time.
Speaker 2: And this is always the moment where Joey McIntyre decides
Speaker 2: to do a costume change.
Speaker 1: And so he did.
Speaker 2: He went backstage and he came out, and he came
Speaker 2: out and he's not he's wearing his underpants, like he's
Speaker 2: wearing okay underpants and Anna, he's carrying a guitar and
Speaker 2: he has a cowboy hat on, like the naked cowboy.
Speaker 2: So when he's carrying the guitar, you can't tell that
Speaker 2: he's got underpants on. But yeah, like I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's Joey McIntyre in his underwear. Of course, this is
Speaker 2: the moment he chooses to come over and say hi
Speaker 2: to me, and I'm like, I can't talk to you,
Speaker 2: I can't look at you. You're in You're in your
Speaker 2: underpantsvert my eyes.
Speaker 3: So many things I love about this One is underpants.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 3: The visual that I'm getting on this is just hit incredible.
Speaker 1: It's a sight to behold.
Speaker 3: And I I just it's I yeah, this is amazing.
Speaker 3: So that's and that's the same night as the concert,
Speaker 3: or that is the concert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's not at the concert.
Speaker 2: That's Alito party, at the party after the concert.
Speaker 3: God, And you know.
Speaker 1: This is this is too much. This is too much, Jamina.
Speaker 2: You need so much stamina to be a participant on
Speaker 2: the cruise.
Speaker 1: Now, I get.
Speaker 3: While you're like, oh my god, I've got them coming
Speaker 3: back from the cruise, I'm like, it's a cruise you're
Speaker 3: laying at. No, No, you are going my first rode
Speaker 3: and beaching and concerting and underpantsing.
Speaker 1: Okay, my my first cruise.
Speaker 2: I only slept nine hours total over four good for you. No,
Speaker 2: And I'm I'm ten years older now, so I can't
Speaker 2: do that any mess.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, I'm not going to talk about not
Speaker 3: sleeping for days.
Speaker 1: So yeah. So so that's night two.
Speaker 3: So that's night two, seventeen activities.
Speaker 1: Already, it's packed. I'm telling you it's packed.
Speaker 2: So the next the next day is it's just a
Speaker 2: day at sea and it's it's pretty it's pretty quiet
Speaker 2: for for the most part, because this is when the
Speaker 2: guys do their photo op. They take photos with every
Speaker 2: single person on the cruise, which is saying yes, and
Speaker 2: it's all it's in groups of ten, so kind of
Speaker 2: you know, have it very modernized so you know you're
Speaker 2: you're not wasting a whole bunch of time.
Speaker 1: So that's like three hundred pictures a lot.
Speaker 3: They spend what we do with a nineties cone.
Speaker 2: Well true, true, but this isn't on the heels of
Speaker 2: doing a concert and a.
Speaker 1: Beach well that yeah, I mean, can you imagine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, entertaining people on the lido deck until two am. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of waiting around, a lot of nerves
Speaker 2: making sure your makeup looks good. So res photo is perfect,
Speaker 2: So that's most.
Speaker 3: So otherwise you'll have to wait till next year to get.
Speaker 1: A perfect photo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly, so and for some people, for a
Speaker 2: lot of people, actually this is the only chance where
Speaker 2: they get face to face contact with every single new kid.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: For a lot of it's it depends on are you
Speaker 2: walking through the same hallway as this is right at
Speaker 2: a particular time.
Speaker 1: A lot of it's just chance.
Speaker 2: But this is the photo op is the chance for
Speaker 2: everyone to say hello and hug and hug each new kid.
Speaker 1: So got it, I get it. It's important.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: It was like when we did the nineties come with
Speaker 1: the whole group photo. People were losing their mind at.
Speaker 2: All this, yes, exactly, and it's quick and it goes
Speaker 2: super fast and you don't remember anything once.
Speaker 1: Okay, So day three in this photo day.
Speaker 2: Photo day, and then that night, the the theme of
Speaker 2: that Leado party was album cover night, so you had
Speaker 2: to dress like an album cover of your choice.
Speaker 1: It didn't have to be new kids on the block.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like any album could you like?
Speaker 2: Someone came as the Nirvana baby, like the Nirvana cover.
Speaker 1: The baby Baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Someone was holding the background, like the watery background behind
Speaker 2: and that's They walked around like that all night and
Speaker 2: the people go, people go all out on these costumes,
Speaker 2: what was yours? Oh my, okay, mine was a little niche.
Speaker 1: I don't know if everyone's going to to know this
Speaker 1: because it's.
Speaker 3: A new Kids on the Block tour cruise. It's all
Speaker 3: it's very niche. We're in the niche of the niche.
Speaker 2: So so we decided to recreate this spoof, this commercial.
Speaker 2: This it's a it's a commercial for Triple A that
Speaker 2: was performed by Joey mac tire, Joey Fatone, Nicholas Che
Speaker 2: and Wanya from Boys to Men right, And it was
Speaker 2: a commercial for the insurance company. But they all dressed
Speaker 2: in white like they were. They were a band called
Speaker 2: Boys No More.
Speaker 1: And it was a spoof on boy bands. I think
Speaker 1: every girls screaming for them.
Speaker 2: And there's there's a tour bus that says, you know,
Speaker 2: Boys No More, and somebody asks Joey Fatone for his
Speaker 2: autograph and instead he writes like Triple A Insurance rates
Speaker 2: on it instead.
Speaker 1: It's hysterical.
Speaker 2: So we're like, we're gonna be Boys No More. We're
Speaker 2: gonna dress like them. So we got our all white
Speaker 2: denim outfits. We had little name tags that like Triple
Speaker 2: A name tags with each of our names and we
Speaker 2: even printed out like laminates like those all Access laminates
Speaker 2: with the Boys No More their album cover on it.
Speaker 1: It was so well bad.
Speaker 3: It was very niche but incredibly creative and I like it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, I really I appreciate the uh
Speaker 1: the effort gone to with that one. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I don't know if everyone knew who we were.
Speaker 1: We kind of had to explain it, and a lot of.
Speaker 2: People thought we were Backstreet Boys and like the they
Speaker 2: did a bunch of videos with the all white denim,
Speaker 2: but we're like, no, no, we're Boys No More.
Speaker 1: So that was ours.
Speaker 2: But the New Kids came out that night. They replicated
Speaker 2: their Christmas album cover, so they legit put on Christmas sweaters.
Speaker 2: They got on a damn Christmas sleigh and someone pushed
Speaker 2: them out in through the Lido deck and they were
Speaker 2: throwing like fake snowballs on everyone and recreated the same pos.
Speaker 1: Joe had his same like big smiley face. This album
Speaker 1: is from the nineties and they're recreated it in It's hilarious.
Speaker 3: It's like the awkward family photos when people recreate them.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so that's great, so fun. Okay, So that
Speaker 1: was leedle party.
Speaker 3: That was night number three, and then day four, and
Speaker 3: you guys are heading day four.
Speaker 2: Yes, Day fours is the wrap up. This is the
Speaker 2: day that I did my own meet and greet. This
Speaker 2: was not a formal or official thing, but in order
Speaker 2: to manage the number.
Speaker 1: Of people like it. There's a big crossover between full
Speaker 1: house fans new kids. I'm sure I was going to say,
Speaker 1: I'm also.
Speaker 2: On a boat with three thousand full house fans, you know,
Speaker 2: more or less. So in order to manage these crowds,
Speaker 2: and I don't want, like if I don't want to
Speaker 2: stop a million times for selfie and it creates like
Speaker 2: a blockage and people can't get by and it's distracting
Speaker 2: from the other events. So I said, okay, look I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have a dedicated time to do selfies and it's
Speaker 2: gonna be on Sunday in the atrium from one to three.
Speaker 2: Come by and and chat, hang out. Take for sure
Speaker 2: that that we were there for two and a half hours.
Speaker 2: The line was so I went up the staircase around
Speaker 2: and around, like the blockheads love to line up, they
Speaker 2: love to form line.
Speaker 1: They were like they were in line.
Speaker 3: I had no idea if there was going to be
Speaker 3: a new kid or a Backstreet or a pullhouse.
Speaker 1: I don't know'sler a Gibler right.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they were so so kind and they were like,
Speaker 2: thank you for doing this, and I'm like, no, thank
Speaker 2: you for waiting in this line to just say hi
Speaker 2: to me and take a selfie. And they were very
Speaker 2: kind and very appreciative and that made me, you feel
Speaker 2: really good, And I think it was a good way
Speaker 2: to kind of set boundaries so that everyone could enjoy
Speaker 2: the crew.
Speaker 3: Like I'm doing it, but just not right now, so
Speaker 3: you can enjoy yourself but know that you know people
Speaker 3: will still get to have their moment too, which is
Speaker 3: exactly I.
Speaker 1: Like that of respect. It worked out. It was a
Speaker 1: good balance this year, so I'm very happy about that.
Speaker 3: So now, is there a sailing in party? Since you
Speaker 3: have a sailing away party? There is?
Speaker 1: There is I've had. How did I know, of course
Speaker 1: there is?
Speaker 2: Well, for first, I would be remiss if I didn't
Speaker 2: mention that Joe Joey McIntyre does do his own his
Speaker 2: Joe Show on the last night of the cruise, so
Speaker 2: he'll come out.
Speaker 1: Joe Show is just.
Speaker 2: Him doing you know, some cover songs or his own songs.
Speaker 2: He had a guitar player with him, Sean, who he's
Speaker 2: been touring with this summer. He wants to do fifty
Speaker 2: Joe shows this year. Oh good because he turned fifty
Speaker 2: years old. Yeah, okay in December.
Speaker 1: Of last year.
Speaker 2: So this was one of his Joe shows. He performed
Speaker 2: on the cruise, which was fantastic. Always love Joe. He's
Speaker 2: my favorite. In case you couldn't tell.
Speaker 3: I have been aware of this for many years.
Speaker 1: So yeah.
Speaker 2: So the last night is the GPS Night, which oh
Speaker 2: that's right, yes night, right when the un delegates come right,
Speaker 2: come out and they stay up all night. This is
Speaker 2: a party that doesn't end. It doesn't end at two
Speaker 2: o'clock like the DJ. You just literally until you are
Speaker 2: floating into Miami and the sun is coming up. You
Speaker 2: can see all of the buildings in Miami still have
Speaker 2: the lights on because.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's dog Yeah. I know that time of day,
Speaker 1: well you do, and I've actually never made it that far.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: The latest I've made it is like four am. This year.
Speaker 2: I went to bed early at two am. But from
Speaker 2: what people tell me, it's just magical. Just it's everyone
Speaker 2: is emotional, they're hugging each other. You know, for a
Speaker 2: lot of us, this is the only time we get
Speaker 2: to see these particular friends, and so it's a special, special, bitter.
Speaker 1: Sweet night, like adult summer camp sort of thing. I love. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's It's fantastic.
Speaker 3: I have a much greater appreciation and understanding of the
Speaker 3: new kids on the block cruise now. And also, my dudes,
Speaker 3: hats off to y'all for keeping up with that kind
Speaker 3: of a schedule. I mean, I get it when we're
Speaker 3: in work mode. When I'm in work mode, it's like
Speaker 3: you're not You're just like a robot and you're just
Speaker 3: going and going and going, and then you get to
Speaker 3: the end of the week and you're like, I think
Speaker 3: I'm collapsing. So I'm sure that they do the same thing.
Speaker 3: But but yeah, what a what a great fun time.
Speaker 3: And I love this for you. I love that you
Speaker 3: go and do this as often as you do, and
Speaker 3: like that you have this group of friends and this fun, little,
Speaker 3: very and not even niche, but like what a fun,
Speaker 3: you know, yearly thing.
Speaker 1: That you get to do. So I love that for you.
Speaker 1: It's very special.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure a lot of people make fun of
Speaker 2: make fun of us for being in our forties still
Speaker 2: chasing this boy band around.
Speaker 3: But you know what build legos in my forties? Okay,
Speaker 3: I like please.
Speaker 2: It is it is just it's hard to describe exactly
Speaker 2: find your joy how it is.
Speaker 1: It is pure, unadulterated joy.
Speaker 2: It's interesting that you don't experience very often after the
Speaker 2: age of you know, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, And this brings
Speaker 2: us right back to our youth. You know, I feel
Speaker 2: felt exactly the same giddiness that I felt at thirteen
Speaker 2: listening to their songs.
Speaker 1: And here I am at sea, stuck at sea with
Speaker 1: the new.
Speaker 2: Kids, feeling all of those same emotions and experience that
Speaker 2: with three thousand other women who are feeling the exact
Speaker 2: same way.
Speaker 1: And it's it's very.
Speaker 3: You know what, We all need to find the things
Speaker 3: that make us happy and bring us little sparks of
Speaker 3: joy wherever and whenever we can, because sometimes the world
Speaker 3: feels like it's a lot. So I am so glad
Speaker 3: that you have this for yourself. I do have a question, though,
Speaker 3: Oh sure, for the un KOTB. Is there like a
Speaker 3: ken delegate that you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Is there like a small male, delicate delegate. Is there
Speaker 1: a delicate delegate that.
Speaker 3: Could that arrives on behalf of NKOTB. I mean, I
Speaker 3: can't imagine that it's all. I would imagine it's like
Speaker 3: ninety nine percent women, but then there's probably a small
Speaker 3: section of maybe gay men and then.
Speaker 1: Like three straight guys.
Speaker 2: You would think, but you'd be surprised how many men
Speaker 2: are on this cruise. And yes, it is predominantly meant,
Speaker 2: it's predominantly women.
Speaker 3: I mean there maybe they're just like, this is a
Speaker 3: great place to meet women to meet.
Speaker 1: Well, a lot of them are husbands, a lot and
Speaker 1: these husbands have now become fans of the show.
Speaker 2: But then there's there's other guys who are just fans,
Speaker 2: Like they're just random guys that are there with their
Speaker 2: friends and no.
Speaker 3: No embarrassment and find your joy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fire joy.
Speaker 3: You are a male n K A TV fan, If
Speaker 3: you're a bronie, I don't know, do your thing, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, whatever you want to do, have
Speaker 3: fun and like just enjoy it, because life, short man,
Speaker 3: is to enjoy it. Go on the cruise, sing, hanging.
Speaker 2: Tough, yep, laugh until your cheeks hurt, and sing and see.
Speaker 1: Joey McIntyre and his underwear with a guitar. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Do whatever you're gonna do. Wow, that's I mean, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's that's all. Is the best. It's the best.
Speaker 2: And a lot of people were like, Hey, when is
Speaker 2: Jody Sweeten when you're gonna do?
Speaker 1: How rude? Live from the ship? How rude cruise?
Speaker 2: Cow if I could get Jody on the New Kids cruise?
Speaker 2: But yeah, a cruise a ritos, how rude?
Speaker 3: I would be willing to potentially go on the New
Speaker 3: Kids Cruise as as like a social experiment, as like
Speaker 3: a thing that I am like, this is so not
Speaker 3: my scene and be like but I'm going in, like
Speaker 3: go like deep undercover, Like I'll give that lady down
Speaker 3: the hall with the Jonathan Knight talking about stuff thing.
Speaker 1: I'll give her a run for money. You will, Oh
Speaker 1: my god? Could you could be like an unhinged fan.
Speaker 3: You could be a I could just be unhinged that
Speaker 3: I can do that, you know what I mean, I'll
Speaker 3: just start there and then whatever happens.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what but or we do we do?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: A Howard Tannurito's cruise A full house cruise.
Speaker 1: We've got We got a big plan, ma'am. We got Oh.
Speaker 3: I know, I better start sleeping now because if we're
Speaker 3: keeping the kind of schedule that they are, I'm not ready.
Speaker 1: So start sleeping now. You got a year. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do that. I'm in fact, I'm gonna go do that
Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 2: No, no,