The Real Cost of Cruises | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Netflix
Cruises are the fastest growing travel sector in the United States, with 20 million people setting sail annually. On the latest Patriot Act, Hasan probes into what cruise lines like Royal Caribbean and Carnival don't advertise: the way they exploit workers, skimp on safety, and sweep crime under the rug.
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3:52 Hasan: By 2020, almost 30 million people a year will be taking cruises. 2020: No, I don't think they will.
Chris yEEt 2020 & Coronavirus: Hold the fun of a cruise 😂😂
This video aged so well lol
The cruise industry is now whining about going bankrupt. F-them. F-them in their stupid asses.
I wonder of they're also ensured for pandemics
He said by 2020, not in or by the end of.
“When you do research, everything secretly sucks.” So trueee
Stacey Go except fast neutrons
Money rules the world
I did research on Stacey Go. Hmmmmm,...
The Good Place
What’s the point of cruises tho. It’s just a big boat
And this is why the cruise industry does not deserve ONE CENT of taxpayer bailout money.
Frrr, especially when they don’t even pay US taxes, or hire mostly US citizens
same. Though I feel really bad for the workers who won't get anything.
Agreed.
@@lynncai587 there are no jobs on a cruise ship that require skills you can't use anywhere else. That includes the guy in the machine room who could just as well be maintaing motors on fishing boats
If they're not American companies then of course they will get no American bailouts but i'm sure Trump will find a way to protect these failing cruiselines if they contribute enough money to the right government officials.
This has aged well. FML.
Unlike the cruise industry. Good luck having Panama bail you out cruise companies ;)
Your comment sucks
@@skelleboy4650 who hurt you?
Fastest growing part of US tourism, more like fastest tanking now
@@zuenseow Karma
“When you actually do the research, everything secretly sucks.” -John Oliver and Company
Dr. House That sucks. Primus sucks too.
@M A lol hahaha
Not everything
yes the wonders of biology suck ass
He called it "The Sausage principle". "If you love something, never find out how it was made". (In his FIFA video).
6:44 shout-out to the lighting department and the graphics team 👏
The little flourish when the cruise ship sank at 12:39. That is the attention to detail that you just don't get other places.
@@matthewmcneany so true!
Not to mention the waves on the floor at 0:10
Yeah, that was jaw-dropping by watching it on a screen, I can't image there.
Also sound technicians.
As Filipino, I greatly appreciate showing this to the world. Not much people notice but Filipinos make up a significant portion of the maritime industry workforce despite being underpaid and forced to work in shitty conditions, all because it's still better than the salaries back home. Mabuhay ang mga Marino! Ang sakripisyo niyo'y di matutumbasan
People living in poverty sometimes get jobs at cruise ships so that they have a place to sleep at night. How they treat their workers is literally indentured servitude.
No it isn't
Can you provide some evidence please?
to be at the ship it requires you to be educated more then a poor can afford, just check the price of the given course.
@@louiearmstrong 🖕
That’s how poor people get treated anyway
That "you are a lifesaver" joke went unnoticed RIP
Funny enough, that was the only joke I laughed at.
I cackled at it
Yea I picked that one up and took it to the bank 😅
You noticed.
I caught it !!! ☺️😂
can we always dress him up in different cute lil outfits every episode from now on
I agree!😎
Sure, next time he needs to wear an ascot and sing _"My heart will go on."_
You can watch Tosh. O if you want that kind of stupidity.
@@tiwari_9010 Hey, hey, hey Tosh only changes clothes once a season.
👌👌👌👌👌
Fun fact: Every cruise ship has a morgue because people always die on cruises. Mostly old people.
a ?
Are you sure only one person dies?
@ S D , Do you even know proper English ? 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@@ipepesan he said people always die. Not that only one person dies.
The Khans yes very well, there’s no need of putting “a” in between
my father who is a Filipino used to be a chef/cook at a cruise ship. he's now working for cargo ships. he said that his salary now working on cargo is 5 times higher than that of cruise ship. what's crazy is his salary on the cruise ship was 400$ per month. and they're literally working 24/7.
$400 per month literally working 24/7 on the cruise ship? That is definitely not worth the hardwork.
Farhan Ahmad Tajuddin you don’t have to pay for food, car+gas, rent
@@kapjoteh 24/7 tho.
How many years ago was that may I ask
My dad is a cruise employee. He's been a cruise employee for 20 yrs and now he's tired of it. This is really eye opening for me and makes me more knowledgeable about the industry he works on.
Ryan Cenidoza ask him what he thinks of this video
@@suomi5454 I knew they were scummy, but not this bad.
Yes, used to love the booze cruises from Stockholm to Estonia, then found out the truth.
My husband is really upset that I discovered this video. He loves cruises. I am so thankful that you made it.
You don't have to stop, but now you know the kind of risk you can get
Save your money and buy yourself a boat.
@@christopherram8948 Better yet... just go sit on the beach.
Just as you shouldn't take a cruise's facade at face value, you shouldn't take a comedy show's take on cruises at face value. The truth is much more complicated than what Hasan is pushing. Some examples: Take his "low wages" argument. Average income in the Philippines is $3k. Cruise lines start them at twice that while dropping their living expenses to basically nothing. No-one is forcing Filipinos to take these jobs; they *want* them. If these cruise jobs went away, that would be a very bad thing for them. Take the "murder is easy" argument. This is a classic red herring. It sounds like something awfully important, but it doesn't really happen. On the legal side of things, crime reporting gets complicated, but people don't generally go on cruises and commit crimes. As for the sexual assault/groping incidents mentioned, those are awful, of course. That said, he provides no meaningful statistics about how likely you are to have your kids groped on a cruise ship vs all the other places where kids get abused on places that aren't cruise ships. Take the "OMG kids are drowning" argument where he talks about a 5-year-old kid who drowned in an unsupervised pool. There's a good argument to be made for having lifeguards. That said, most ships have some not-small signs saying that you swim at your own risk, and that children should never swim un-supervised. I would never let a 5-year-old child of mine swim un-supervised even with lifeguards on duty, nor would I take a 5-year-old on a cruise in the first place. Take his point about sulphur dioxide. This is a legitimate point, but the comparison is somewhat suspect. Cruise ships tend to cruise out at sea and emit most of their sulpher dioxide out there, where there aren't a lot of people. Sulphur dioxide is chemically reactive, meaning that unless you have a lot of people living very close and downwind of the exhaust tubes producing it, they're not breathing it in. This is why there's been a big push to reduce the sulphur content in car fuels. At sea, this chemical has much more space to dissipate and dilute to safe levels. This is still a problem, but it's not as bad as Hasan makes it out to be. Hasan's take on cruises is entertaining, and there are actually some good points in there, but the view he presents suggests that his research was an exercise in confirmation bias in support of a hatchet job rather than a credible attempt to understand what he's criticizing. His NYC-centric worldview gives him a distorted view of this topic and the people involved, and he seems more interested in presenting outrage than truth.
All that said, here are some personal criticisms I have of cruise lines: 1. They pack too many people on the big ships. This makes it hard to get seats to the shows and turns boarding and disembarking into a giant cattle drive through one or two narrow hatches. You'll be standing in line for a lot of crap. If you can, choose to cruise on smaller ships. 2. There are a lot more "extra fee" services and activities on ships than there used to be. You don't have to use them (and I suggest you don't in general), but they take up a larger portion of the ship than they used to. 3. Every port of call includes a giant tourist trap with overpriced crappy tourist stuff, and you have to walk a good half mile or so to get through it after you leave the ship. Roatan is so bad that you have to pay $40 bucks per person just to get away from the tourist trap and go to a town where people actually live. All that said, I still love cruises for a lot of reasons, including: 1. Unless you dine in one of their extra fee restaurants, the food is all included and very good quality. 2. You don't have to do your dishes, make your bed, or do any chores. 3. You can get away from it all and unplug from your phone and email. 4. The scenery changes, and many of the sights / ports are worth seeing (especially on Alaska and European cruises). 5. The weather is generally awesome, especially if you're escaping winter to go on a tropical cruise. 6. There are plenty of things to do if you want to stay busy. 7. You don't have to do much of anything except show up for the lifeboat drill and get off at the end.
Hasan: "I want to talk about the fastest growing part of US tourism." Coronavirus: "Okay, but I warn you, it won't age well."
Or just the opposite. It's ultra pertinent now.
Wdym this aged rather well
@@AkshatSukhtankar It won't age well for the cruise ship industry being the fastest growing part of US tourism
@@misterderp4566 well, no part of US tourism is growing, so the statement isn't exactly false: we just live in exceptional times at the moment. when the pandemic's over it'll probably go back to the way it was, unfortunately.
In 2007, a group of people came to our cosmetology school from the cruise line and talked about how wonderful it would be to travel abroad and get paid. When asking them questions, they would never get to the point and give vague answers. I thought it was suspicious that they brought agreements with them, and tried getting people to sign. These people were acting shady. I turned down the offer, not hearing anything about the business from other people. Other girls got hooked. Learning about this dark side of business makes me thank the Lord for my brain. Boy did I dodge the bullet. My intuition did not fail. Free cheese is only in a mouse trap.
Which country
What happened to the other girls
@@markregev1651 US
@@CC-ru4rr I never saw them again. Many of those girls got knocked up and dropped out.
The writing is so hard hitting, and Hasan's delivery is the definition of 'on point'. Way to host a great show, Patriot Act team!
Yea, Jon Oliver has to step things up.
Cause god told Muslims to always do your best work for your job... facts
@@straightflexing5932 ok relax
There's still a very broad, "very-satisfied-with-every-joke" quality to the delivery that I could do without (maybe the editing?), but Hasan is a great host and the writing/production team are insanely talented.
Jeff Soulliere Hmm, I think the confidence is necessary to keep the audience’s attention afloat and keep folks engaged / thinking - even during the unfunny lines. When the funniest lines do come out - he’s already on a high-key and it lands correctly :)
Hasan ruins everything :/ But this is so important! I'm so glad that Hasan is covering these topics that I wouldn't have heard about otherwise.
What's your point?
He is a commie that's their job
I've always had a feeling that cruises were just awful, he's really spelled it out for me here. It's a waste of money.
Really?? Cruises always seemed shady for me ever since I was a kid. This just cements my opinion.
@@supertramp5545 so u watch him cause love commies and Muslims good boy
Thank you for this video. I took my family on a Princess Alaska Cruise and it was the worst vacation and biggest waste of money. The only upside is that none of us died.
Was it so bad? Why?
@@KondratovSerhii , the list is long but a few highlights: the food was terrible and at some points inedible; hygenie was only given lip service with the presence of hand sanitizers; the ship was in general disrepair with the kidszone completely shut down (giving my two young boys nothing to do for a week); and the handling of optional excursions is set up to maximize Princess profits without giving their customers any consideration. Add in the gross environmental cost due to pollution and I really can't see why anyone would want to waste thousands of dollars on a "vacation."
@@gamerjerry3081 Hmm well it does depend on the ship, but you know all those people will lose their jobs if the industry fails.
There should be a remake of the very episode after the Diamond Princess COVID-19 incident
Everything is spot-on people need to open their minds and think
I still cant believe they compared a cruise ship to the titanic...that should be the first red flag.
..just the tip of the iceberg.
"Guys, are we missing something?" "Rollercoasters" "Bob, you are, a lifesaver" That joke went unnoticed, just like this comment will, Probably
Brother you're famous now
Jeez, victimhood. Enjoy your dopamine dump from Likes from strangers online.
Just noticed thanks to you!!
Nah, I heard the one person who laughed at that pun.
That was a great joke.
And my sister wants the whole family to go on a cruise this summer, oh hell to the NO!!!!!
Um... did your sister knew what happened to the Diamond Princess cruise ship?
... and the Ruby Princess cruise ship?
I was forced to take a cruise with my crazy ass drug addicted aunt. The crew took me. I slept in their cabin in a spare bunk and ate food with em. One of them helped me avoid my aunt the entire time after he learned how crazy she was (she accused him of stealing 20,000$ from her room... That was still in her room). I miss ya Rudy, hope you're doing alright!
Former Disney Crew Member here. I loved that this was made into an entire episode because none of this information is being talked about enough/at all and is definitely being suppressed. When I would talk honestly to guests about our living/pay situations they would be shocked. As a lifeguard for over a year between the Fantasy & the Wonder I made about $6 an hour for ~70hrs a week, ~10hrs a day, 7 days a week. Would have liked to see more info on Disney's Cruise Line operation in addition to Carnaval & Norwegian.
Did you have to pay room/board and what about food. Also what were your perks and what did you have to pay for?
If you could have done better then why did you stay over a year? It’s a voluntary contract you entered into...
I worked for Norwegian and they were pretty good to us really but the crew parties were much better on Princess.
Yo I worked for Disney too. Many things come to mind about how messed up Disney is as well as the cruise industry in general. But the thing I hated most was how much food was thrown out and not given to the crew.
@@elsos8711 But it doesn't mean you can't get a job at the office but it's not just the will of God A few days later the house was in place. L
I did three contracts with Royal Caribbean Cruise line. Most my female work were being sexually harassed by their mangers and highly positioned staff! No one had the right to complain. They would be fired on spot and let out the ship the next port. This is the sad reality of Shameless Cruise ship industry!
If its that bad, why did you do another 2 contracts?
@@TheScavin Because I was IGNORANT and did not know what was right at the time; (20 years ago)!!! That's why,,,!! Saludos,,
@@diegomontana7075 20 Years ago things were different even on land though. Sexual abuse was a norm with US enterprises as has been evident with that #Metoo movement. Now a days they file complaints.
@@undomiel152003 sexism is bad
@@wills1185 all of the people I know who were adults at that time say that it was not good for sexual assault victims (mainly women) during that time. It's sad
The 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brought me here as cruise lines cry for bailouts.
I once saved a child from drowning on a cruise ship. I got a gold coin from the captain
Where were the parents😲thank God you were there🙏
@@cyndilopez5302 haha I didn't see this comment for a while. The mother was beside the pool frozen with fear, noticed what happened right when she started screaming. Dove into the pool, grabbed him from the bottom of it, and got him out of the water. I do not even know how to swim but I did it like an expert.
That CEO is the kind of guy who thinks waitresses flirt because they like him.
Yeah, he already did that gag.
He is also the kind of guy who thinks he doesn't have to pay the waitresses as long as he can convince them they should guilt trip the customer into giving her tips to cover for his deliberate penny pinching.
Japan is the most responsible cruise lining country. Been on one, even an unwelcome physical advance at a woman will get you airlifted off straight to jail or your country 😂 True story.
Cruises are irresponsible, period.
@@jaelynn7575 Phina just gave an example of why all cruises are NOT the same. You need to work on your critical thinking skills.
@@locutusdborg126 Still polluting
That's reassuring...
O.p. talking from experience...? 😃
That CEO is the type of guy who thinks young runway models like him for his personality
The doctor on a Carnival Cruise line. misdiagnosed my child gave him medicine that made him worse. My son had to to be hospitalized when we got home. I paid $1600 for each ticket all I asked for was the $80 I spent on the doctor back. They sent me a half hearted apology and told they didn’t feel that $80 should be returned. I tried to get a lawyer to sue. I was told that because my son didn’t die it would be too expensive (more than I would get from the lawsuit) to sue them on foreign shores.
Watched it on Netflix and came here for the comments
Safiya Jamali How's that going?
There's no other way to do it haha :)
I see you are a woman of culture.
Same here. LOL
yesss.. I do that too!!!! love netflix, but the comment section is everything on you tube!! At first I wondered why he did both... but the show would be different without the real time interaction!!!!
justice served cold in 2020 for cruises
Who is here after the Coronavirus 2020?
Da Corona virus
Just stop your idiotic two-cent format
Not the cruise lines
me
Woah. I'm from Ukraine. Lots of Ukrainians work on cruise ships. I myself considered taking the job. You must work 10+ hours every day without days off. Contracts are 6-8 months long. And if you're a first timer, you often have to buy your plane ticket to the port of boarding with your own money. That's just insane. Oh yes, the salary. I was looking for a position of a waitress. So it's around 900 bucks fixed per month plus tips (approx. 500$). So you earn around 1500 bucks but you'll be imprisoned. And the saddest thing of all is that we agree to do this because in Ukraine average salary is 300 bucks a month. Pathetic
Hear you, I'm from Hungary, lots of Eastern Europeans work on these cruises. I've been thinking about them too at one point, but there are a thousand and one issues with them, so I've decided thanks but no thanks. Unfortunately, until there are people desperate enough to work in these inhumane conditions, nothing will change.
Wait, doesn't that mean you make crazy good money for the cost of living in your area?
@@firegodlive Not exactly. I live in Kyiv, the capital city. Average wages here are twice as high as in comparison with the rest of the country. I decided I'd better stay home, and earn my 600-700 bucks, than be enslaved. Besides, if I want more money, I can always start working 12 hrs a day, 7 days a week here.
Wait, so you work like a dog for 6 months and return home with roughly 2.5 years worth of salary? 6 months is $9,000. Let's pretend that you have obligations back home like a family to support, and have to send $300 per month home also. You have virtually no living expenses on the ship, so anything else you spend is mostly optional. And if it's your first time your gonna drop $600 on a plane ticket from Kyiv to Tampa. So after 6 months you return home having paid all of your bills at home and you have $6600 dollars in your pocket. That's almost 2 years of average salary. Even if you live in Kyiv where the average salary is $700 you still end up coming home with $4200 which is enough to live off of for 6 months. You could either spend 6 months at home chilling with your family, or kick start a business. This still sounds like an amazing economic opportunity. To put this into perspective for Americans. The median monthly wage in the US is $3,900. If a cruise line was offering almost $20,000 a month to work on a cruise ship would you take it? That's almost $250,000 a year. That puts you well into the top 10% of earnings in the US. Doctors and lawyers would be quitting their professions to go work on cruise ships. I'd let them lock me up in a dog kennel and eat kibble for 6 months for that kind of money! 😅
@@nickfotopoulos5323 basically, yes. But there are some other financial issues that have to be dealt with before departing, of course, like medical checkup, US visa, etc. On average, you need 1000-1500 dollars to get you set for work on a cruise ship. One-bedroom apartment in Kyiv can cost from 50 to 70K US dollars, so roughly you have to complete up to ten contracts to buy it. But again, you are absolutely right - lots of people opt for the grind.
LOL he finally wore pants with large pockets!
@Tay Stan the deep cuts a couple weeks ago (?) had this lady telling hasan that he should where pant with bigger pockets so he can slide his hands into the pockets easier
*wear
It's gonna rai-- wait.
But what brand are the pants tho? :o
Finally some one addressing ongoing issues with a humorous touch. Hasan is doing a great job.
Between this and the Corona Virus debacle I cannot understand why anyone would ever want to get back on one again.
Good money? Chance to travel? Meet different people? Lack of opportunities back home?
@@nadominhoca cruise ship?
@@nadominhoca CRUISE ship?
This is one of his best produced episodes in terms of sound/ video production. He's really coming into his own
Brand. Math this was insane
hello he's not producing jack shit, the production company is
The canned laughter is very distracting.
his jokes/pop culture references are cringe tho.
are you telling us or are you speaking for yourself
Never canceled a family cruise vacation so fast
Dude it's not as bad as this dude is saying. I had a fucking blast.
triggered softies
@I am a bot uwu flying is also terrible for the planet but yet we do it every day
ou8121988 yeah ok... you had a blast... but there are still consequences from it though... he literally stated that cruise ships are big polluters and dump their garbage into their oceans, and you probably didn’t notice that because you’re too busy partying
umi shiori do you eat avocados?
This was so educational, yeah I'm not going on a cruise.
And in Corona times- these mongrels with no home base suddenly expect to be bailed out!
If the Governments impose restrictions for their operations, I would do the same.
"... that's 50 Wyomings or 1 bus in Mumbai" LOL can confirm
or metro
@@swetabharti2787 Metro in mumbai? Lolwa
@@kirathekillernote2173 yeah we are not kidding
Or one microbus in Egypt for that matter
Holy shit you live in Wyoming
I was planning on taking a vacation in a cruise ship but after learning about this it's a no,I won't go. Plus my account balance is zero. dollars.
Victor Malolela That's planning ahead.
I did a cruise two years back, couldn't leave port due to weather, got promised a full refund, got it in writing signed by management there, and they still managed to back out on it by pulling different jurisdiction card even though were were in port the entire time. It's insane. Not U.S. though, South Africa.
Well, zero dollars is at least better than zero euros.
@@Masterrunescapeer eish that must have been horrible.
@@realmarsastro 😂😂
I've honestly never seen the appeal of cruises or resorts as a vacation, especially when visiting an entirely different country/culture. Like, no... I'm not going to the Dominican Republic and stay in the Americanized resort. I want to go out and experience the real country, the real food, the real music, etc. Otherwise... what's the point? I can lay around, eat, and do nothing at home for WAAAY cheaper?
I love this! My wife loves to go to sea. I won’t go, never have. Almost had me talked into a Mexico trip but COVID-19 came along and the happy passengers got stuck aboard for weeks. No way in hell, never.
I met someone last year who used to work on a cruise line. She said the long-term workers were all "a little crazy".She also said on one cruise, a crew member "just disappeared", and they didn't even do an investigation about it.
@capitalism kills way more lets believe they just took the chance to secretely leave the boat ;)
@@6666Imperator Unfortunately, suicide rates are quite high among cruise workers and account for most crew member disappearances.
Here on youtube there are plenty of disappearances on cruise ship stories.
"When you actually do the research everything secretly sucks." The reason why everyone went to the Bad Place the last 500 years.
Hahahhahahahhaa
😂😂
?? Miss that one.
onyourleftbooob there’s consumption regardless of economy. As long as humans are alive, they will consume to survive.
I was waiting for this reference!!
Wow Hasan Minhaj was about a year in the future. Now given what we know about Covid-19, I don't think anyone will ever go on a cruise again.
this is really depressing. getting to know these problems and do nothing about it feels really disgusting.
"We cannot be held liable for revolution, rebellion, insurrection, revolt of the crew, or perils of the sea." So wait, if a passenger does a coup, am I covered?
Nah, that would come under perils of the sea, so no.
24 hour shifts, $21,000 dicks, $1.80/hour, etc., sounds like a guaranteed success formula for fomenting a "revolt of the crew" (aka mutiny).
No, that would be rebellion or insurrection for sure
@@nonelost1 That low hourly wage can be 15 times the salary the workers earn at home though, if you peg it to the worst situations. So, considering that most workers are not African, maybe still 3 or 4 times their home rates?
Marshall Curtis Will never look at cruises 🚢 the same way again. Chance for a revolt /mutany for sure 😊
I worked waiting tables for Norwegian Cruise Lines. The ship was a US ship, we got $13 an hour plus overtime pay. I worked with many foreigners, they were amazing people and great coworkers. I'm so glad to see this feature. If you go on a cruise, please be kind to the staff and tip.
How much of the tacked on "Gratuity Bill" actually goes to the workers? My first cruise in coming up, and they want like 400 dollars, including for a child. My Mom wants to pay tips in cash herself (she's just old-school, and prefers cash so it's not as traceable, I guess she always thinks she's giving tax benefits to people.) So I was thinking about paying for me and my wife's ($200), and then paying cash tips here and there as well. I heard they usually add it on some foods and all drinks anyway. What's your opinion on this as a worker?
@@notosure2148 your gratuities are going in offshore accounts of the cruise company. Only tips in cash which you give stealthily into the hand of the staff, while nobody watching, especially his manager, can be accepted
POA!
Actually no do not behave feeding into the tippy and because the tipping is being used in order for the cruise line not to actually pay their wages out-of-the-money you've already paid
COVID-19 gave this video a whole new level of how bad cruises are. #DiamondPrincess
Not to mention that cruise ships are huge floating petri dishes for norovirus, and now yes, COVID-19. You couldn't drag me on one. Goes for flying too.
Norovirus, Ewww! I had that crap back in the 90's, never took a cruise, it was going around. Worst stomach flu ever. Felt like someone was stabbing me in the gut with a knife.
I would not go on one if the ticket was free. The moment you leave the United States all bets are off. You may think we have problems here but you will disappear without anything anyone can do. Legal limbo.
R Jonboy There’s a reason every cop/detective/crime show has a couple of episodes setting on a cruise. Murderers know they could mostly definitely get away with killing people on a cruise, the difference is there’s not likely to be a Olivia Benson or a Sherlock Holmes on a cruise ship.
Flying is actually safer than these petri dishes of disease because you do not go on a place cruise. You get in and get out when you arrive at your destination. These cruise ship vacations are a waste of time and cause more problems than jobs in the island countries that they dock in
don't know but Hasan in short sleeves looks different......like a good different 🤔🤔🤔❤
ya
Gay
@@aneeshprasobhan I can confirm that he is cute enough to feel pretty gay about him In a Homosexual way
Vincent Gonzalez: 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽, that was too funny, loved it 🤣. 🌈
100%
Filipino here and I have a sister who would be seeing cruise ships as her employment option. I might have to bar her from it then. This is so concerning :/
Woah, sis still needs to eat
Let her consider land based job then.it's scary with that maritime laws implication.
I wouldnt cancel your sisters career over a KZhead video. I've got 27 contracts completed on 6 different cruise lines, and have lived in the Philippines for 9 years as well, and have absolutely no idea why this video has caused you to post that. Are you going to tell the hundreds of thousands of Filipino OFWs to come home and take away a good % of your economy? LOL Think about it.
@@DrummerJacob I'm with you, man. I'm not Filipino, but I've got about 1200 days at sea as a crew member, now I'm a vendor. The news makes it out to be some miserable lifestyle, but it's some of the best fun I've ever had in my life.
Matthew Rosenblatt isn’t that kind of the point? you’re not Filipino; you’re not being exploited for your labor the way they are curious how much you have interacted with Filipino crew? have they been your peers?
Cruises; nature's way of saying "Your children paid for this trip because they want their inheritance NOW".
This was such a great video, I'm so glad my teacher told me watch this for homework.
I'm getting wiser so rapidly watching Patriot Act. God bless Netflix Btw you look fabulous today
Which God?
@@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse are u on weed or somethin?
@@mr_world_wide now that's a fart, idiots got nothing to do with Patriot Act
@@zapkvr there's only one God, in case you don't know
@@muhammadumer7833 ah yes but which one is it?
2% of taxes from their billions in revenue!?!? Okay guys we have a problem.
Everytime someone says that Marx's ghost becomes stronger
*profit
Amazon pays 0% in taxes. That's even a bigger problem.
What's even more scary is that a lot of huge companies pay literally 0 percent. Amazon, I believe GE, and quite a few more.
Their logic is "My 2% is $200mil and my workers 20% is $500 WHY AM I PAYING MORE?"
6:39 I don't know if you ever got an answer to this, but "Perils of the Sea" means stuff like weather and aquatic life. Basically they're saying, "If we end up getting sucked into a whirlpool or you're eaten by sharks, it's not our fault!"
I love that Hasan’s comedy is the perfect mix of informative, real, depressing and funny. It’s like life as a comedy act where you actually learn something at the end of it all.
the reason those short cruises off the coast of the united states like to dock in the bahamas or mexico for a day or even hours is because ships that sail from a us port to a us port only have to be registered under a US flag so companies just fit in a quick stop abroad (Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886 )
They're so wholesome, these cruise companies.
Thanks for the info, thats the info we need
“This is the problem with looking into things.” 😂😂😂😂 Damn it, so true!
It's one of the main points "The Good Place" makes. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it!
I worked on board cruise ships as a stewardess for ten years, quit last year before the covid thing. I worked for mainstream cruiselines and also the luxury categories. What I have to say is that the salary and tips are highly attractive compared to our average wage here in Brazil. As a stewardess you can earn good money and save it too. The catch is that It`s really tough to work around 10 hours a day without a single day off for your entire contract, ranging from 4 months to 9 month contracts. After my first contract (8 months) I have to say I got really stressed due to the working routine that affects you mentally more than anything. In my first company we had 23 suites to clean twice a day, and embarkation day we were encouraged to `hire` a helper, paying from our own salaries. It was not the company policy, but most of us stewards/ess felt like we were not able to finish on time just doing everything by ourselves. It was insane, I certainly started to get mentally ill at that time, kind of burn out. We never had time for anything, I was always tired and didn’t want to go ashore, preferring to sleep. Then I quit this first company and tried to live `normal` life in here, but ship life besides all the negative side effects on my health still felt like a good option for me, a high salary, not having to cook or do the dishes, pay rent or transportation, getting to visit places you would never be there in that fucking country if it wasn't for this job, these kind of advantages.. then after three years in Brazil trying to live normal life I decided to go back, the shit is this addictive I guess. It`s like abusive relationship, you keep coming back because you haven`t realized how much this work has damaged you. You have to be psychologically strong enough to cope with ship life. I fortunately found better companies after my first experience. Crew life can be good onboard, it all depends on the cruise line and your goals in there. Do you want build a career or may be just save some money? My last two companies to work being luxury had a different approach with the guests, we weren't mere cleaners, we had to pamper the guests( mostly from US), anticipate their needs, call them by their names and lots of other duties.These companies paid your tickets, reimbursed exams and visa. They also treated crew much better than my first company and still the amount of work and pressure was enormous. After all i look back and still see the good things about working onboard, but I realize now it's about time to move on. Ship life forces you to live a double life, cuz you're always traveling, so you can never settle or think long term, that's become unbearable for me to keep going back to the ship. The money is good and I see many people who do not have better opportunities in their country working on board to survive and raise their kids. I will always miss my good friends from the ship and the places I've visited, but I can't stand working that much and losing my health again. And they definitely pollute a lot, oh god we know it, one of the companies I’ve worked for was in probation due to dumping untreated water in the sea and also got a brutal fine. And after a while they started to greenwash their product, banning plastic straws and stupid policy of asking guests to reuse towels, that’s bullshit, guests paying 10,000 per person a cruise having to cut on luxuries? They shouldn’t quit plastic bottles they should quit the whole industry if they really want to do something bout the environment. Many of my guests didn’t give a shit about environment, asking to change all sheets and towels every day or buying tons of cacaria and leaving enormous quantity of garbage behind them. This industry exists because there are rich and bored people willing to spend their money on that.
Thank you for speaking up and i hope you do more so.
The best part of vacations is meeting the locals, visiting historical landmarks and the unique culture you experience. I guess thats why Cruise Ships never appealed to me. Might as well just stay in the US. Not to mention the absolute nightmare of what happened when Covid hit. Those poor people.
Never wanted to go on a cruise. I'd rather explore a real city not a fake boat city
Nothing wrong with an awesome ship + exploring tropical islands
No nothing wrong with that. I’ve just always found when you have a set schedule you end up spending more time than you like in places kinda meh and rushed through places that are a lot of fun/interesting
@@AkhirahOverDunya85 did you... watch the episode?
@@AkhirahOverDunya85 "Nothing wrong," huh?
@@AkhirahOverDunya85 , .. impressive .. it's an episode about the misconduct of the cruise ship business and you start your comment with "Nothing wrong .. " ... maybe check your nearest Walmart for "Moral compass".
Here's another stat: each one of these boats produces as much carbon dioxide as one million cars. Some coastal towns have to declare air pollution emergency whenever more than two of those boats accost at the same time.
I come from a very small town in Maine - we had to ban them from some ports as the destruction they caused was irreversible.
@@caitlinlavin4580 Glad to hear your town was able to ban them. Hopefully more places will follow.
This has probably happened elsewhere in the world but very recently there was an online add that seemed to be concerned about mental health issues stemming from C19 restrictions and limitations on nearly every aspect of normal lifestyles we were long accustomed to. A list of problems were paraded to help folks identify with negative aspects of their C19 lives.... and the bright and cheery solution was to go on a nice inexpensive (relatively) relaxing cruise with other stressed out C19 survivors. The world really has gone nuts.
Fabulous! What a well researched piece!
Don't forget that the tips for those Waiters are being taken by the company then 5% of all the collected tips are only distributed to the Waiters.
Wait, wha?! These greedy mofo cruise line execs steal tips?! Oh. Hail. Naw.
michael king I didn’t see that part. Do you have anything to prove that? I may be a freelance journalist now, but I once helped support five kids being a waiter/server. And yes, the restaurant took a bite-to tip out less visible waitstaff. (Don’t get me started on back of the house! What about the cooks?! Nothing for them?!!!!) So, do you have a link for that?
I don't have a link or a internet page to prove that but, I have my dad who work in this industry for almost 27 y/o now. It was first implemented during the recession but they thought it was just temporary but till today it's implemented.
@@asdlogician6536 It seems you have a story you could report on.
That's not even close to true. On top of the $13/day/passenger tips, most passengers tip cash as well
I watch this on KZhead, even though I have a Netflix account 😅
For the comments 🤩
@@pakapapita3104 exactly! ahhaah
Watch it on Netflix too so they don't cancel the show
@@Shayzek you get that it is the official channel, right?
@@AngeloGuardia I get that, but Netflix probably look into how many of their subscribers are watching a show and for how long to see if it s successful enough to get renewed. My point is they care more about metrics generated by their subscribers on the netflix app than youtube views.
Hasan: "By 2020, almost 30 million people a year will be taking cruises." Coronavirus: "Hold my beer..."
scarpfish 😂
My boyfriend who’s in the navy “this just sounds like a deployment” 😂
The owner of the Miami Heat, Micky Arison, is the chairman for Carnival Cruises. Just gonna leave this out there.
Pretty soon they're going to start making entire towns on top of these cruisers, with high school/university campuses, which also serve as a training ground for people to practice competitive tank battling.
Lol they already do. It's called Semester at Sea.
@@Duke7x OP was making a joke about an anime and the fact you were able to pull up the thing in real life is somewhat terrifying to me.
It’s called The Suite Life 😂
Suite life on deck??😂😂
lmaoooo
My dad used to work at a cruise ship. So happy he retired years ago and luckily he was able to start a small business at home. Aside from the absurd amount of work he had to do, homesickness was the worst.
As a Norwegian from Miami this one hit hard
Hold up
The Era were comedians does real research than any news channel 😑😑 Edit* 755 will refrain from a cruise..!!
ironic doesn't it?
@@quantumshadow4218 He should run for President.. 🏃😅
Check out Free Speech TV you can get live feed on line.
Reality is funny.
@@HeavyMetalPootis And truth is bitter 😅😅
I worked as HR Director Onboard for one of the companies he names, and what he says is so true.
I love how informative your show is. You bring awareness to actual issues through humor
This subject deserves an updated episode!
For the first time in this show, your Outfit screams you are an Indian for some reason
😂
he is not indian...
@@avikdas9649 yes he is. He's Indian American. Look it up.
It's the half sleeve shirt
Kurupt Force Muslim Indians are Indians too
whenever you see a humongous example of consumerism and capitalism , if you look deep into it, you will find a lot of workers being exploited.. human greed knows no bounds
The employees are not forced to work. They would probably rather be on a ship, then squander in 3rd world living conditions.
"Human greed knows no bounds." How are you different? Do you pay more than the asking price? Do you sell things for less than you can get?
While compared to US standards, yes these workers are exploited. When compared to the standards of other countries, working on a cruise ship provides the opportunity for them to raise their economic status, and workers are grateful. If cruises raised prices in order to raise worker wages & conditions to normal US standards, two things would happen: 1) Less people would cruise, reducing the number of cruise jobs available, and 2) Cruise ships having to pay higher wages would only hire American, Canadian, UK, and Australian workers, to provide the most fluent experience for guests. Those Filipino workers would be out of a job and back to even lower paid jobs with even longer hours in their home country.
I agree, communism treats it's workers far better amirite?
@@dann952 Ye, its always important to remember that. People getting exploited suck, but fundamentally its not the companies that are at fault for this: the're just grabbing cheap labor that is available. The global socio-economic situation is to blame. Those employees are exploited but they aren't slaves, they'd be working somewhere else if there were better jobs somewhere else.
It's baffling that a company making 10 billion a year can't won't pay their workers better....
That's capitalism
Subbed. This dude is too funny and informative
Carnival actually does have lifeguards. I worked for Carnival for four years and was the Project Manager for the lifeguard program. We put them on ships in 2017. They're called "Aquatic Attendants", but they are fully trained as shallow-water lifeguards. I worked on this project for two and a half years before we finally got them on the first ship. Money was definitely a reason that it took so long but thankfully we kept fighting and were able to get them. Lives have been saved since.
I recently went on Carnival and did not see a lifeguard. Don't know if they were hiding with the salami :)
@@dillibaje they don't wear traditional lifeguard outfits and they aren't in a lifeguard stand. They walk around the edge of the pool. They should be in dark blue long sleeve drifit type shirts unless they changed it since I left. They're also the ones at the top of the slides controlling traffic. They rotate between the slides and the pool.
So does Royal Caribbean.
@@SupaYoda correct. They're actually called lifeguards on Royal. We used the same company to train them
They have lifeguards everywhere, to me it's still a nice time and at the end of the day when you leave the different ports, you're glad to be back on board enjoying yourself. I've never had a bad cruise, it's all in what you make of it.
b r u h My name is Chardonnay, and I’m not a stripper. My mom did do me dirty tho lol
Char Needler Damn... I think I might really be feeling a real human connection here. ahaha just kidding... unless???
My Condolences
Char Needler Oh, you poor woman!
💕Char🤣💕
As a ex cruise ship security staff crew I was hurt to watch this. I worked on medium and small size ships. I'm not here to speak for those mega supersized ships. Throughout my 6 contracts every crime including theft, missing item, verbal assualt etc. were reported in our global crime recording system. Severe crimes were reported to the local authorities of our next port of call with an acknowledgment of acceptance. Edit: I checked with my superiors and they confirmed. If it's a US citizen even a natural death is reported to FBI.
Doesn't matter cause cruises are still shit and should be banned
Love it when an issue resolves itself.
"Full episodes only on Netflix" Bruh this is pretty much the full episode XD
Yeah IKR! 🙄
I used to watch it on Netflix, then realised this. Now I watch on KZhead as I can read comments too as a bonus.
@v.dog I know homeless people that got Netflix... I ain't ruining shiiiiiitttt
@@uk7153 Watch it on Netflix too.
I m sure Hasan knows what he is doing. He just probably found a loophole to make it available for everyone.
6:42 top job by the media team. Sound, graphics and lighting all on point
Here to watch my favourite episode again... it's so awesome ❤️
3:53 : by 2020, 30 mil people will take a cruise 2020: Hold my Corona
There was actually a Caribbean medical school that had its students study from a cruise ship for a whole semester after the campus was destroyed by Hurricane Maria... and I was one of those students. I feel there could be a whole segment done just about just that situation as it would address the truth about for-profit schools, the detrimental conditions students had to be in, safety issues, etc. It was one of the most unprecedentedly bizarre locations for a medical school.. without proper WiFi, food, or accommodation. It’s an experience that opened my eyes to many hardships, and it’ll be interesting to see the show address it in the context of corporate greed in educational institutions..
Cruise ships are destroying the oceans. Sad that people don't see it. Thanks HM for putting this video out.
Humans are destroying the planet, this video isn't going to change that. From what I could hear in the video, most of the stuff they dump in the water is biodegradable anyway, at least with the food and such.
A cup of Tea, greedy humans are destroying our planet. There is no need for cruise ships
Destroying the oceans? How? Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with what destroy means. If you don't need a cruise ship, don't sail on one. Where comes your authority to say "there is no need for cruise ships"? Thank goodness you're not in charge of anything.
Cruise ships are not the reason the oceans are dying. Our plastic, our mass over fishing, and our pollution is what is doing it. Im not denying Cruise ships environmental damage, however it is negligible compared to over fishing.
@@morphkogan8627 someone that studies environment knows that over fishing is a problem, that doesnt take away from the damage cruises have on the environment. Why pour more gasoline on a fire?!
You are something else man! Huge respect! You are doing it well.
when you actually do the research, everything secretly sucks: that's basically the tagline for adam ruins everything
Adam ruins everything also hides facts which doesn't suits its agenda. Adam crumbled when D.r Mike pointed out some of the inconsistencies and just started barking out irrelevant stuff.
As someone who watches a lot of true crime, I would never go on a cruise. They're notorious.
When making only 1.80 an hour, the kidnapping/human trafficking side hustle becomes necessary to pay the bills.
chokinonashes61 Where can I find this show or whatever it is you’re talking about? Specifically about cruise ships
@@RS-ti7bz true crime is a media genre. Like the Ted Bundy documentary, or The people vs OJ Simpson.