Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Listener Karen On Her Unexpected Swingers Cruise Experience...

Episode Date: October 16, 2022

Today on the show, we had a hilarious call with Karen and her unexpectedly wild experience on a swingers cruise! Will she be going back... tune in to find out.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben. Oh, there it is, the all-familiar and all-obnoxious sound of the cliffhanger calls. Ben, one of our favourite parts of the show. Yeah, that's right, we get someone's, what they claim is their best story, we stop it at a point and then we decide if we want to stick around. Well, we stick around anyway, don't we? But we can't wait to hear the rest of the story. They leave us dangling off a cliff. Yes.

It's a classic ploy to keep the audience there, isn't it? It keeps us there as well because we've never heard these stories before. Let's get Karen on. Welcome. How are you? Good, thanks. How are you? Oh, lovely to have you on, Kazza. We're doing well. We're doing well. Now, Karen, you've come under a pseudonym, a false name.

I have. You're not a complaining Karen I'm not But this is, I'm gathering because the story is a little bit spicy Just a touch Alright Karen, so what happened? Set the scene Well, so husband and I decided that we would take a holiday And we thought we'd do a cruise And it was this really awesome cruise of the Caribbean

So we book our cruise and off we go take a holiday and we thought we'd do a cruise. And it was this really awesome cruise of the Caribbean. So we book our cruise and off we go and we get in the taxi and go to the cruise line to check in and all is not as it seems. Okay. Well, I've been lucky enough to go on one cruise ship in my life and that was a Disney cruise and that was through the Caribbean. Was it a Disney cruise, Karen? Was it a Disney cruise? No, not quite.

No, okay, not a Disney cruise. A Disney cruise is coming to New Zealand, isn't it? Yeah, everyone's pretty excited about that. Yeah, okay, so it's not a Disney cruise. Did you get aboard a ship? We did. We definitely got on board a ship. Okay.

And it wasn't quite. And we were on board for seven days. Seven days? Okay, so it wasn't a Titanic situation that didn't end... No. With you clinging... We did not sink, I'm pleased to say. Okay, all right.

Geez, was it a good thing or a bad thing, this cruise? It was a bad thing maybe at the start, but it was a good thing at the end. Okay. Oh, wow. I want to know. It was a surprise at the start. A surprise.

You got blindsided at the start. Yes, blindsided at the start. Okay. Okay. What on earth happened aboard this ship? A ship came into the harbour with a shipload of, oh, my God, I need to hear the end of this story. And next, Karen will finish the cruise liner story as we set sail.

And I can't think of any more references. It is our cliffhanger call. We're in the middle of it for another week where we get someone's best story, we stop it at a point, and then we hear the rest of it. We had Karen on. She's still with us. Now, Karen, just recap for us.

You didn't tell us much of a story, to be honest, so far, but I can't wait to find out where it goes. So you want to recap? My husband and I booked to do a cruise in the Caribbean. We flew over, got in a taxi, went to check into the ship, but got blindsided as all was not as it seemed. Now, we do know that you ended up on board a ship. We did.

And it went for seven days. So what happened? What wasn't as it seems? It turns out it was a swinger cruise. Not as it seems. Which was quite obvious from the minute we were starting to check in because they get you to sign all these waivers and things. So, yeah, we thought it was clothing optional

because we go to Europe a lot, but not quite. Well, it was. But to be honest, after the initial shock, it was incredibly respectful and there were a lot of people on board that were not swingers. They were there for the clothing optional and just the one hell of a party that goes on. So how does it work without going into too much detail? Like if you were wanting to swing on the boat? It's actually so intelligent when you think about it.

They have bands, like coloured bands. And coloured bands, say if you're into other couples or if you're male-female swap or you're what's called, we found all this out, soft-hard swap. And if you don't have a band, if you're just a voyeur, you like to watch, or if you're into the Whitsun Chains, then there's another colour.

So some people had like 20 different coloured bands. Running up their forearm. I'll take it all. I'll take it all. You name something, I'm keen. What are you even getting, I'm in. But they were very polite because if you didn't have a band, the first question was, because they call it the lifestyle,

how long have you been in the lifestyle, which is our point to say, well, we're not in the lifestyle. We just got on the wrong cruise. They laughed and would say, you do realise what ship you're on? And we were like, we do now. But when you're in port, everybody's fully clothed and perfectly normal. So when you're in port, you would not know that it was the type of cruise that it was. It was the night-time activities.

But you still had to be presentable in the bars and in the restaurants. But they have private rooms and movie nights. And after the first day when I was sort of walking around with my back to the wall, I actually didn't feel threatened at all when I found out how respectful the whole thing actually really is. Oh, so you didn't swing? No. God, no.

So, yeah. Lesson learned. Lesson learned. Lesson learned. Oh, there you go. Cruising on the swingership. But having said that, I would do another one, not the swing, but just because of the entertainment and the fact that it's adults only and they do have these, yeah, I didn't, by the end of it,

I did not feel threatened at all by the way the girl was going because it was all very, it wasn't in your face. Yeah. It wasn't in your face, which was really cool. You never want it in your face. You never... Well, if you did, you'd swear another armband if you want that one, I think. Yeah.

Well, listen, I imagine there was a couple of shaky days at the top of the trip, but then by the end you'd come around. Well, that's awesome, Karen. Really appreciate you sharing your story. No problem.