Ozzie thoughts on the cruise

Update (Oct 7, 2007): Richard told me there was a problem with the original video, so he redid it. The links below have been updated.

My good friend and great skeptic Richard Saunders from Australia has posted a podcast with his thoughts on the Amazing Adventure II cruise to Alaska (direct link to MP3 here). He also has interviews with several people from the cruise (including Randi and Rebecca Watson).

He also created a video of it, using his voiceover and still images from the cruise:

Lots of pictures from the cruise have been posted to Flickr. You can search on the tags "amazing adventure 2", or click here, here, here, here, and here. I don’t have mine up yet, but I took about 400 and so it’ll be a while!

BTW, I hear that the next episode of Skepticality will have an interview with a cruiser as well. Stay tuned.

October 1st, 2007 10:20 AM by Phil Plait in Cool stuff, Skepticism | 8 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

8 Responses to “Ozzie thoughts on the cruise”

1. Doc Says:
October 1st, 2007 at 11:09 am

Um… you might want to reconsider the phrasing of that last sentence. The word “cruiser” has some connotations you might not have meant.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cruiser
2. The Centipede Says:
October 1st, 2007 at 12:21 pm

He’s going to interview USS TICONDEROGA? F’n sweet.
3. BGC Says:
October 1st, 2007 at 2:13 pm

Should that not be “Aussie” or did you have Ozzie Osbourne on the ship as well?
4. Jewel Says:
October 1st, 2007 at 3:31 pm

Well, land of Oz…so Ozzie works too, IMO.
5. Lurchgs Says:
October 1st, 2007 at 4:16 pm

I have to admit, my heart leaped that the thought that Mr Ozbourne might have made that trip – I was all set to shoot myself for missing that opportunity (instead of just holding my head under water for an hour).

I see, though, that Dr. Plait is not up on his Internese. Shame on him. The land is Oz. Who lives in OZ (besides witches, warlocks, flying monkees (sic) and other mythical beasts)?

D-UH!

MUNCHKINS!
6. Richard Saunders Says:
October 1st, 2007 at 4:34 pm

This format.. video sort of thing, was inspired by Q&BA
7. Hugo Says:
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:29 am

Say, at age 25, and non-American (South African), ex-fundamentalist (of sorts), potentially dedicating a portion of my life to help fundies, will I enjoy the Galapagos cruise if I go alone, with none of my friends joining me? (I’m sure I will, but I want to be certain. Of course, we can never be completely certain, not without some double-blind controlled scientific studies… <grin>)
8. Christiaan Says:
October 15th, 2007 at 3:34 am

Dude, not to nit pick,but Ozzie is spelled Aussie!

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