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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So grad City is a company. It's a travel company,
but it is specifically for graduating high school seniors and
it's billed as, hey, we take big groups of teenagers
to different locales and kind of it lets them get
ready for networking and getting ready for college. So they
(00:25):
put together, they put together these programs and when they
take a group, it's not like a group of twenty,
it's thousands of kids.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, it's from all over the US.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And they take over.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Like I was reading about how they for spring break,
and high school spring break is really just kind of
on the way right now, we're like, not college spring
break is kind of coming up.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Well, a lot of it is built around East.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Easter exactly thousands, thousands of teenagers. If anybody is going
to what is the name of the play Paradise Island
in the Bahamas, the Atlantis, they go to.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Atlantis with the yess yes, oh yes, tell the families
that we're trying to go there with just the younger children.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You don't have to tell the families. They know you're there. Now.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
A lot of people know not to book around Eastern
to go to the Vamas.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, Nope, I misspoke. They'll know you're there, Oh, they said, families.
Families roll in and they book and they're like, oh,
this is beautiful, and look there's like slides and stuff
for the kids. And then you know there's like maybe
they bring you know, like the wife will stay or
the husbital stay. We can go out and one of
us will go to the casino. Let's remember this when
(01:38):
you graduate from high school. A lot of kids are
eighteen years old, right, what is the legal drinking age at.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Atlantis is at eight eighteen?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
What is the legal gambling gaugeait eighteen?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
What is the casino full of eighteen year old eighteen
year old trunk gamblers. I'm just trying to sit down
and play. It's a nice fan. Three families, we all
came together. Our kids are in middle school. We thought
this would be really nice. It is nut to, but
they do say that some things get broken and tipped
over and some of the kids don't handle their liquor
(02:12):
as much.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Hey, anybody want to get in the pool? No room?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Wow ah yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
They said you can experience the most visited senior frogs
in the world in Nessa.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
You go to Mexico, you can go to the Dominican.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And they have it all set up where Also it's
almost a little bit like a pyramid scheme. Also, but
because if I'm a senior in high school, Hi, Elliott Siegel,
I'm a senior in high school and I want to go.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
But if I can get three of my friends to go.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I get discounted a little bit because they signed up
through me. Let's go Partay, thousands and thousands of them.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And it's not just Atlantis. They also take over resorts
in Cabo San Lucas, Plaia del Carmen, rivier E Maaya.
I've never been, but I know you guys talk about
the Dominican what is the drinking age in Puntacana eighteen?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Hell?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Hell yeah, that's why we go there.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
In the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The Yeah, so they go there at Nasau. That's that's
Atlantis and they're nice resorts.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
When you mentioned the Atlantis, I feel like, not only
is it nice, it's also expensive. Yeah, but this is
quite the discount I got for bringing a long friend.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Now it is all inclusive, minus liquor and gambling. Now,
it doesn't say that specifically, but it does say that,
like you like you get your meals paid for obviously,
it doesn't cost anything to lay on a Shay's lounge.
It also doesn't cost anything to vomit in the hallway.
They said, there are a lot of puke the But
(03:55):
some of those locations, you listen, people hate them. Cheaper options.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah, sure, but there are people that save up a
lot of money and around Easter time because that's when
spring break is for all ages usually to go for
a nice, really nice, luxurious family trip.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
And you can still do that.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Doesn't sound like it, Yeah you can with this mess
running around, but they show your family could still go.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
The grad City website shows a video where the entire
plane is eighteen year old.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Go oh, they did say there's a lot. There is
a ton.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
There is a ton of high fiving and channing in
the pools.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yes, and there is a co ed rooming option as
long as everybody, as long as everyone signs the form.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You're finding it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I'm drinking, I'm gambling, and I'm screwing.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Listn't I understand when you go to college, just because
you're a sign a roommate who is also a boy
or also a girl doesn't mean you're not spending the
night in someone else's room, right, but I can't. That's
an option. Yeah, but from the get go, you're not
even gonna pretend you're rooming with Joe. You're you're rooming
(05:06):
with Jill.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
What if my best friend is Sally and we're just
gonna room together. Yeah, and get some of that Sally
rotten grotch.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
So if I'm under eighteen, if my parents say it's cool,
it's cool, I can't forge that.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
By the way, who the hell are you to tell
me who I can room with?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I'm drinking, that's right, unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
They said.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Parents that show up or families, I should say that
show up at Atlantis for during spring break time, And
you're right, it's right around Easter and in Atlantis they said, well,
we'll like like bring the family. We have like big
Easter brunches and stuff like that, like they encourage you
to bring people. Now, these kids, these grand city kids,
(05:47):
look at the look at the beach, Look at the beach,
Look at the beach.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, they're young.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh my god, it's like MTV Spring Break all over again.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Not one of them over the age of eighteen, Nope, nope.
And it's it's only for seniors.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It's a park An MTV spring Break was college kids exactly,
yeah and awesome.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
When did this company start operating?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I have no idea, but I know it started the
same year that people started hating them.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Now I don't know what, like, I don't know what
ask Emily is about, Like what you're supposed to do
if it's loud in the hallways at a hotel. But
the complaints are a planning because at three am, the.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
What's going on? Let's go back to the pool.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Like they said, it is so freaking loud. And you
know what, I travel with two foot high bluetooth speaker.
My room's got to get bumping.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
So they ask on the grat City Ultimate Experience Facebook page,
which traveler you are, Elliott? Are you the beach enthusiast, Yes,
you love to chill. Your owner of the Key Judis
bathing suit collection? Yes, and you know it's the best
spot to watch the sunset? Or are you the content creator?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yo?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Picks or it didn't happen? Follow me on it? Or
are you the life of the party?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Hell yeah, knows every single song party fits on point
and best vibes?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yes, yes, yes? Now Also, now I do want to
I do want to say this.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
If somebody has booked h the Atlantis for your nice
Easter weekend, I.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Didn't even think of that. You're ruining people's morning. Yes,
oh you don't think there's people listening who are like, oh,
I'm bringing my my nine and six year old to Atlantis.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
How about my baby hasn't slept in a week?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
That's all right, baby, you ain't sleeping.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
There is one night, well one evening of quiet. Because
grad City does promise a sunset crew bars open, but
there is a sunset cruise. What does it look like
when that boat pulls up and they all come stumbling back.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
In the best week of your life.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
At It's a good chance as everybody's getting ready to
go off to college, to network. That's what they'll tell
you that a lot of the teens spend time going
where are you going to school?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Let's connect? Do you have a LinkedIn already? No? Because
that one loser had to work spring break.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I don't their instances.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
A year is added to your life every time you
party in the Bahamas.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
So the greatest company ever I know.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
They're touting the discount for people that you bring on
board with you, right, but does it not end up
just being massive groups from one school?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Oh? Yes, well no, I mean it's not just one school.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I understand anyone can sign up for this, but I
was thinking that whole time until you brought up that
they're trying to get you to bring friends, and then
you keep promoting the networking that goes on down there.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Well, I do that to shut Karen up. Who's yelling you.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Don't need to network with fellow classmates? Is the majority
solo travelers with a small group? No? Or are we
am I seeing like hundreds from one school at Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I don't I don't know the I don't know the
answer to that.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I don't know like how big each group is from
each school, but I do know it does well enough
that it's thousands and thousands of kids.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
But does does the resort cap? How many of these
packages they're giving to eighteen year olds?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Is that room available? No cap here?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh my god, last week of your life?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
No cap?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Nut to button the pol the move.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Also that button is my roommate. What's up, Sally?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I was nut to button bed. I think you could
also do four in a room.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Okay, Yeah, So like if you and Jimmy wanted to stay,
and then Sally and Megan wanted to stay. Oh my god,
oh oh thank you. I'm glad you pulled that up. Yes, No,
they do have They do have the uh the White
Night party where everybody's asked.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
To wear like white and linen and stuff like that.
That's awesome. Oh no, I got my period.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
This photo was submitted for the squad Goals contest. Yeah,
they are running a photo Friese thing. You can do
the ultimate Foodie Shots squad Goals theme night fits favorite
spot at the hotel, my butt, Oh my god, the bar,
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the swim up bar, or iconic foam party pick. Wait,
so is that something they arranged?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Like?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Does Atlantis do phone parties or does grad City work
with him during these weeks to do phone parties.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I don't know the answer, but I believe grad City
works with them. You go to a wedding there the Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We went to Peter's wedding and I almost got divorced
that weekend because boy was Jackie Pistols I.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Tell us that story. But did Peter have you guys
attend a foam party?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And it also wasn't during Easter weekend because I'd have
been all about this.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I'd be right in the middle of them. Could you imagine?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
It says that the Atlantis Foam Party, known as the
Mega Outdoor Foam Party, is known for its large crowds,
live DJ, and massive foam waterfall.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh so that so that's a regular thing.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I don't know if that's just and pink eye, if
that is just four Grass City weeks. You know, Mary,
it's been a good year at the firm.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Let's bring all three kids, eleven, nine and six, and
let's go to Atlantis and enjoy a long Easter weekend.
I have worked hard, and what the hell is going on?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
How early?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You can't even get up early to get a Shay's
lounge Because I know seven teen eighteen year olds that
passed out on their child.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
They never made it back to the room. I'm just
gonna stay here. So obviously you're screwed if you're already
there or already planning on going. But not every high
school does spring break around Easter. Right, what kind of
window are we looking at to be certain you can
you can avoid this.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I'm gonna say it's about a three week window. It's
gotta be more a month don't some schools. High schools
line up more with the college spring break schedule.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Oh I thought they try to separate it out where
you get like two weeks two main weeks of college
spring break and then it's then then you roll into
like like high school, middle school, elementary school.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Do you think of there's also private schools. It's not
just public schools.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Well, you know what that private school money. I've sent
my kid off to grad City.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
He's going to network with other kids that are going
to college and sleeping with Sally.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
The networking angle is so laughable, like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
What am I doing? I'm drinking and gambling? Wait, what
are you showing me?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Just more picks for the gallery that they have going
for the contest. This one's caption just making Lifetime Memories MBD.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Line.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
So do you do you bring your own air brushed
foam trucker hat or do you get it there? Now?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You want to bring some of your best fits for
the weekend.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
The week are so because you love to look at
spring break photos, but they're usually college kids, right These children.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Please don't say that they're eighteen looks so young? Oh
my god, look at this bro bro that dyed hair.
But whatever, dude.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
He's getting laid.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I'm sorry, who is this?
Speaker 7 (13:57):
Hey? I am so glad to hear they're still doing this.
I graduated high school in two thousand and we went
to British Columbia on a ski trips of thousands of
kids all from across the country, hopping on buses from
all every other place. And you get there and it
is nothing but mayhem. Oh such a great time.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And that was high school spring break, and it ruined
everybody else's trip, right.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
I think I did it in ninety nine and two thousand.
I think that was my two senior years, So that
was before networking.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
You were this just there.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
I remember, like you said, there was a kiosk at
the mall and someone gave you a pamphlet. Hey, sign
up ten buddies. You tell someone. Next thing you know,
you got one hundred people going, and it's man, wow.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
All right, very good, very good, thank you, sir, thank you.
Oh my god. Look she's steering the boat.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
So are you not allowed to wear one piece?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Now?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Okay, Tyler, back to your room, missy.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
No, but okay, this makes me sound horrible, but come on,
they're not wearing one pieces.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Thank god, hashtag baja baby.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Oh that's what I came home with.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
God, Oh, here, here we get Oh no, they're okay,
they're dressed for that boat cruise. But they have bikini
tops on.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
That's sheer.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And yeah, pant kind of cover up pants.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah no, those are like fish net cover. Oh dear god,
Oh my god, Oh my god, thank god Elliot wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I would just be I would be a walking, dripping
mess if I went to this thing.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
If you were a fellow high school yes, if I.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Were eighteen, honestly, I would just walk around. I'd walk
around with a perpetual heart on the entire time.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
This says spotted real mermaids caught on camera.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Look at the party boat.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
The I'm just.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Trying to play football on the beach with my eleven
year old.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Son, CARTI k.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
That says we're sailing away from our problems.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Greatest company ever. Hi, Elia in the morning. Hello, Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
This is Rachel.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I hope for I did bring my six and four
year old. I hope the staff at the Atlantis has
hid eggs all around the property. The uh oh, maybe
they're under those four kids that are passed down. I'm sorry, Yes,
who is this?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Rachel?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Rachel? What can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
So a few years ago, back in twenty twenty one,
my husband and I went to the Bahamas for our
honeymoon and it was right after COVID, so we had
the whole place to ourselves until the very last few days.
Rad City showed up and it was taken over with
like three hundred kids. But the best part was one
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night we were sitting up on a tiki watching all
the kids get really drunk, and this one kid was
plastered and dove into the kiddie pool and smacked his
face on the pool and Pelly flopped like two feet
of water.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
And what did two hundred and ninety nine other kids do?
They laughing.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Me and my.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Husband were laughing so hard. It was so funny, like
you felt bad for the kid, but it was like,
oh my god.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Dude, eight So what is it?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Is? It?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Just?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Is it? The was? It just loud and out. It's
all a bunch of drunk eighteen year olds just going crazy.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Well it was funny.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Because the parents were buying the kids shots too. And
what's really funny is one night we were drinking with them,
and I was tired and I went home and my
husband stayed out in part with them, and then came
in the next morning and he like, stole their cup
because they had these grad City cups, and he was like,
I stole their cup. And then the next morning we
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were running down the hallway and this kid was like, yeah,
and I lost my cup last night.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Someone stole it and.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Then me and my ass and I was like, you
stole the kids up.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
I was like, you got to give it back.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Hell no. By the way, that would be me. I
would stay up trying to party with all the eighteen
year olds. Hey are we dancing? Let's go.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
That's exactly what he was doing. It was fun, but
it was so nice and quiet. We had like the
place to ourselves, and then all of a sudden, it
was like boom.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
And it is like what you said.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
You would walk past the rooms and it was definitely
guys and girls in the room just having doing whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Absolutely absolutely That's why I brought this big ass speaker.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I'm running ox down by the pool box. All right,
very good, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
How do we open like I don't like, how do
we open grad like? A competing grad city. This is
the most genius thing I've ever heard of in my
life Grad town.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
This post was from December and it said Who's as
Santa for a senior trip for Christmas.
So grad City is a company. It's a travel company,
but it is specifically for graduating high school seniors and
it's billed as, hey, we take big groups of teenagers
to different locales and kind of it lets them get
ready for networking and getting ready for college. So they
(00:25):
put together, they put together these programs and when they
take a group, it's not like a group of twenty,
it's thousands of kids.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, it's from all over the US.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And they take over.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Like I was reading about how they for spring break,
and high school spring break is really just kind of
on the way right now, we're like, not college spring
break is kind of coming up.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Well, a lot of it is built around East.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Easter exactly thousands, thousands of teenagers. If anybody is going
to what is the name of the play Paradise Island
in the Bahamas, the Atlantis, they go to.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Atlantis with the yess yes, oh yes, tell the families
that we're trying to go there with just the younger children.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
You don't have to tell the families. They know you're there. Now.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
A lot of people know not to book around Eastern
to go to the Vamas.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, Nope, I misspoke. They'll know you're there, Oh, they said, families.
Families roll in and they book and they're like, oh,
this is beautiful, and look there's like slides and stuff
for the kids. And then you know there's like maybe
they bring you know, like the wife will stay or
the husbital stay. We can go out and one of
us will go to the casino. Let's remember this when
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you graduate from high school. A lot of kids are
eighteen years old, right, what is the legal drinking age at.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Atlantis is at eight eighteen?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
What is the legal gambling gaugeait eighteen?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
What is the casino full of eighteen year old eighteen
year old trunk gamblers. I'm just trying to sit down
and play. It's a nice fan. Three families, we all
came together. Our kids are in middle school. We thought
this would be really nice. It is nut to, but
they do say that some things get broken and tipped
over and some of the kids don't handle their liquor
(02:12):
as much.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Hey, anybody want to get in the pool? No room?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Wow ah yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
They said you can experience the most visited senior frogs
in the world in Nessa.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
You go to Mexico, you can go to the Dominican.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
And they have it all set up where Also it's
almost a little bit like a pyramid scheme. Also, but
because if I'm a senior in high school, Hi, Elliott Siegel,
I'm a senior in high school and I want to go.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
But if I can get three of my friends to go.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I get discounted a little bit because they signed up
through me. Let's go Partay, thousands and thousands of them.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And it's not just Atlantis. They also take over resorts
in Cabo San Lucas, Plaia del Carmen, rivier E Maaya.
I've never been, but I know you guys talk about
the Dominican what is the drinking age in Puntacana eighteen?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Hell?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Hell yeah, that's why we go there.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
In the Caribbean.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The Yeah, so they go there at Nasau. That's that's
Atlantis and they're nice resorts.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
When you mentioned the Atlantis, I feel like, not only
is it nice, it's also expensive. Yeah, but this is
quite the discount I got for bringing a long friend.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Now it is all inclusive, minus liquor and gambling. Now,
it doesn't say that specifically, but it does say that,
like you like you get your meals paid for obviously,
it doesn't cost anything to lay on a Shay's lounge.
It also doesn't cost anything to vomit in the hallway.
They said, there are a lot of puke the But
(03:55):
some of those locations, you listen, people hate them. Cheaper options.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah, sure, but there are people that save up a
lot of money and around Easter time because that's when
spring break is for all ages usually to go for
a nice, really nice, luxurious family trip.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
And you can still do that.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Doesn't sound like it, Yeah you can with this mess
running around, but they show your family could still go.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
The grad City website shows a video where the entire
plane is eighteen year old.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Go oh, they did say there's a lot. There is
a ton.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
There is a ton of high fiving and channing in
the pools.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yes, and there is a co ed rooming option as
long as everybody, as long as everyone signs the form.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You're finding it.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I'm drinking, I'm gambling, and I'm screwing.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Listn't I understand when you go to college, just because
you're a sign a roommate who is also a boy
or also a girl doesn't mean you're not spending the
night in someone else's room, right, but I can't. That's
an option. Yeah, but from the get go, you're not
even gonna pretend you're rooming with Joe. You're you're rooming
(05:06):
with Jill.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
What if my best friend is Sally and we're just
gonna room together. Yeah, and get some of that Sally
rotten grotch.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
So if I'm under eighteen, if my parents say it's cool,
it's cool, I can't forge that.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
By the way, who the hell are you to tell
me who I can room with?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
I'm drinking, that's right, unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
They said.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Parents that show up or families, I should say that
show up at Atlantis for during spring break time, And
you're right, it's right around Easter and in Atlantis they said, well,
we'll like like bring the family. We have like big
Easter brunches and stuff like that, like they encourage you
to bring people. Now, these kids, these grand city kids,
(05:47):
look at the look at the beach, Look at the beach,
Look at the beach.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, they're young.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Oh my god, it's like MTV Spring Break all over again.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Not one of them over the age of eighteen, Nope, nope.
And it's it's only for seniors.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It's a park An MTV spring Break was college kids exactly,
yeah and awesome.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
When did this company start operating?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I have no idea, but I know it started the
same year that people started hating them.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Now I don't know what, like, I don't know what
ask Emily is about, Like what you're supposed to do
if it's loud in the hallways at a hotel. But
the complaints are a planning because at three am, the.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
What's going on? Let's go back to the pool.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Like they said, it is so freaking loud. And you
know what, I travel with two foot high bluetooth speaker.
My room's got to get bumping.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
So they ask on the grat City Ultimate Experience Facebook page,
which traveler you are, Elliott? Are you the beach enthusiast, Yes,
you love to chill. Your owner of the Key Judis
bathing suit collection? Yes, and you know it's the best
spot to watch the sunset? Or are you the content creator?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yo?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Picks or it didn't happen? Follow me on it? Or
are you the life of the party?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Hell yeah, knows every single song party fits on point
and best vibes?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yes, yes, yes? Now Also, now I do want to
I do want to say this.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
If somebody has booked h the Atlantis for your nice
Easter weekend, I.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Didn't even think of that. You're ruining people's morning. Yes,
oh you don't think there's people listening who are like, oh,
I'm bringing my my nine and six year old to Atlantis.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
How about my baby hasn't slept in a week?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
That's all right, baby, you ain't sleeping.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
There is one night, well one evening of quiet. Because
grad City does promise a sunset crew bars open, but
there is a sunset cruise. What does it look like
when that boat pulls up and they all come stumbling back.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
In the best week of your life.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
At It's a good chance as everybody's getting ready to
go off to college, to network. That's what they'll tell
you that a lot of the teens spend time going
where are you going to school?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Let's connect? Do you have a LinkedIn already? No? Because
that one loser had to work spring break.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I don't their instances.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
A year is added to your life every time you
party in the Bahamas.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
So the greatest company ever I know.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
They're touting the discount for people that you bring on
board with you, right, but does it not end up
just being massive groups from one school?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Oh? Yes, well no, I mean it's not just one school.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I understand anyone can sign up for this, but I
was thinking that whole time until you brought up that
they're trying to get you to bring friends, and then
you keep promoting the networking that goes on down there.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Well, I do that to shut Karen up. Who's yelling you.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Don't need to network with fellow classmates? Is the majority
solo travelers with a small group? No? Or are we
am I seeing like hundreds from one school at Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I don't I don't know the I don't know the
answer to that.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I don't know like how big each group is from
each school, but I do know it does well enough
that it's thousands and thousands of kids.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
But does does the resort cap? How many of these
packages they're giving to eighteen year olds?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Is that room available? No cap here?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh my god, last week of your life?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
No cap?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Nut to button the pol the move.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Also that button is my roommate. What's up, Sally?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I was nut to button bed. I think you could
also do four in a room.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Okay, Yeah, So like if you and Jimmy wanted to stay,
and then Sally and Megan wanted to stay. Oh my god,
oh oh thank you. I'm glad you pulled that up. Yes, No,
they do have They do have the uh the White
Night party where everybody's asked.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
To wear like white and linen and stuff like that.
That's awesome. Oh no, I got my period.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
This photo was submitted for the squad Goals contest. Yeah,
they are running a photo Friese thing. You can do
the ultimate Foodie Shots squad Goals theme night fits favorite
spot at the hotel, my butt, Oh my god, the bar,
(10:42):
the swim up bar, or iconic foam party pick. Wait,
so is that something they arranged?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Like?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Does Atlantis do phone parties or does grad City work
with him during these weeks to do phone parties.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
I don't know the answer, but I believe grad City
works with them. You go to a wedding there the Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We went to Peter's wedding and I almost got divorced
that weekend because boy was Jackie Pistols I.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Tell us that story. But did Peter have you guys
attend a foam party?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And it also wasn't during Easter weekend because I'd have
been all about this.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I'd be right in the middle of them. Could you imagine?
Speaker 4 (11:20):
It says that the Atlantis Foam Party, known as the
Mega Outdoor Foam Party, is known for its large crowds,
live DJ, and massive foam waterfall.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Oh so that so that's a regular thing.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I don't know if that's just and pink eye, if
that is just four Grass City weeks. You know, Mary,
it's been a good year at the firm.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Let's bring all three kids, eleven, nine and six, and
let's go to Atlantis and enjoy a long Easter weekend.
I have worked hard, and what the hell is going on?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
How early?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You can't even get up early to get a Shay's
lounge Because I know seven teen eighteen year olds that
passed out on their child.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
They never made it back to the room. I'm just
gonna stay here. So obviously you're screwed if you're already
there or already planning on going. But not every high
school does spring break around Easter. Right, what kind of
window are we looking at to be certain you can
you can avoid this.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I'm gonna say it's about a three week window. It's
gotta be more a month don't some schools. High schools
line up more with the college spring break schedule.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Oh I thought they try to separate it out where
you get like two weeks two main weeks of college
spring break and then it's then then you roll into
like like high school, middle school, elementary school.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Do you think of there's also private schools. It's not
just public schools.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Well, you know what that private school money. I've sent
my kid off to grad City.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
He's going to network with other kids that are going
to college and sleeping with Sally.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
The networking angle is so laughable, like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
What am I doing? I'm drinking and gambling? Wait, what
are you showing me?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Just more picks for the gallery that they have going
for the contest. This one's caption just making Lifetime Memories MBD.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Line.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
So do you do you bring your own air brushed
foam trucker hat or do you get it there? Now?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
You want to bring some of your best fits for
the weekend.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
The week are so because you love to look at
spring break photos, but they're usually college kids, right These children.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Please don't say that they're eighteen looks so young? Oh
my god, look at this bro bro that dyed hair.
But whatever, dude.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
He's getting laid.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I'm sorry, who is this?
Speaker 7 (13:57):
Hey? I am so glad to hear they're still doing this.
I graduated high school in two thousand and we went
to British Columbia on a ski trips of thousands of
kids all from across the country, hopping on buses from
all every other place. And you get there and it
is nothing but mayhem. Oh such a great time.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And that was high school spring break, and it ruined
everybody else's trip, right.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
I think I did it in ninety nine and two thousand.
I think that was my two senior years, So that
was before networking.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
You were this just there.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
I remember, like you said, there was a kiosk at
the mall and someone gave you a pamphlet. Hey, sign
up ten buddies. You tell someone. Next thing you know,
you got one hundred people going, and it's man, wow.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
All right, very good, very good, thank you, sir, thank you.
Oh my god. Look she's steering the boat.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
So are you not allowed to wear one piece?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Now?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Okay, Tyler, back to your room, missy.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
No, but okay, this makes me sound horrible, but come on,
they're not wearing one pieces.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Thank god, hashtag baja baby.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Oh that's what I came home with.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
God, Oh, here, here we get Oh no, they're okay,
they're dressed for that boat cruise. But they have bikini
tops on.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
That's sheer.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And yeah, pant kind of cover up pants.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah no, those are like fish net cover. Oh dear god,
Oh my god, Oh my god, thank god Elliot wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I would just be I would be a walking, dripping
mess if I went to this thing.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
If you were a fellow high school yes, if I.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Were eighteen, honestly, I would just walk around. I'd walk
around with a perpetual heart on the entire time.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
This says spotted real mermaids caught on camera.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Look at the party boat.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
The I'm just.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Trying to play football on the beach with my eleven
year old.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Son, CARTI k.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
That says we're sailing away from our problems.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Greatest company ever. Hi, Elia in the morning. Hello, Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 6 (16:25):
This is Rachel.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I hope for I did bring my six and four
year old. I hope the staff at the Atlantis has
hid eggs all around the property. The uh oh, maybe
they're under those four kids that are passed down. I'm sorry, Yes,
who is this?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Rachel?
Speaker 5 (16:43):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Rachel? What can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
So a few years ago, back in twenty twenty one,
my husband and I went to the Bahamas for our
honeymoon and it was right after COVID, so we had
the whole place to ourselves until the very last few days.
Rad City showed up and it was taken over with
like three hundred kids. But the best part was one
(17:07):
night we were sitting up on a tiki watching all
the kids get really drunk, and this one kid was
plastered and dove into the kiddie pool and smacked his
face on the pool and Pelly flopped like two feet
of water.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
And what did two hundred and ninety nine other kids do?
They laughing.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Me and my.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Husband were laughing so hard. It was so funny, like
you felt bad for the kid, but it was like,
oh my god.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Dude, eight So what is it?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Is? It?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Just?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Is it? The was? It just loud and out. It's
all a bunch of drunk eighteen year olds just going crazy.
Speaker 7 (17:48):
Well it was funny.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Because the parents were buying the kids shots too. And
what's really funny is one night we were drinking with them,
and I was tired and I went home and my
husband stayed out in part with them, and then came
in the next morning and he like, stole their cup
because they had these grad City cups, and he was like,
I stole their cup. And then the next morning we
(18:10):
were running down the hallway and this kid was like, yeah,
and I lost my cup last night.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Someone stole it and.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Then me and my ass and I was like, you
stole the kids up.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
I was like, you got to give it back.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Hell no. By the way, that would be me. I
would stay up trying to party with all the eighteen
year olds. Hey are we dancing? Let's go.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
That's exactly what he was doing. It was fun, but
it was so nice and quiet. We had like the
place to ourselves, and then all of a sudden, it
was like boom.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
And it is like what you said.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
You would walk past the rooms and it was definitely
guys and girls in the room just having doing whatever.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Absolutely absolutely That's why I brought this big ass speaker.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I'm running ox down by the pool box. All right,
very good, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
How do we open like I don't like, how do
we open grad like? A competing grad city. This is
the most genius thing I've ever heard of in my
life Grad town.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
This post was from December and it said Who's as
Santa for a senior trip for Christmas.
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