2 ALs 1 Pod: A comedy podcast with a touch of crass. · Stand-up comedians Al Ducharme and Al Romas

2 Als 1 Pod Vol 371: The podcast that recommends wearing a helmet when listening to it.

March 9, 2026·54 min·35 clips

Al Ducharme checks in from Bridgetown, Barbados. He is on the Grand Princess while Al Romas is docked in Castamaya on the Star of the Seas, and the two of them quickly settle into their usual loose cruise-ship banter, swapping location updates, fake outrage, and jokes about who is where. The opening joke is a familiar one. They riff on "Two owls, one pod," bring up their old black-and-white web series The Two Dicks, and keep leaning into the fun of a setup that wobbles around before it lands. Mama Guthrie becomes the first running topic. They talk through the rumor that she has been spotted in Castamaya, wonder whether anyone outside the family should still care, and turn the whole thing into a joke about how a tiny mystery can somehow feel like headline material. The conversation then snaps to bad public audio. Al tells the story of a woman on a couch blasting an audiobook about narcissism with no headphones, and the episode milks the irony hard because the behavior is its own textbook example of the thing being described. Plane etiquette comes up next. They note the newer announcements warning passengers not to play audio out loud and laugh at the gap between common-sense rules and the people who still need them explained. Cozumel is next on the itinerary. The two of them compare the standard ship-side choice of heading right or left when you get off, turn that into a quick joke about going both ways, and then keep the banter rolling. The road-comic memory lane opens after that. A brothel gig enters the story, along with the old joke that the payment options were cash, coke, or kitty cat, and the bit stays shamelessly crude without pretending to be anything else. They keep testing each other's setups. The pacing stays brisk, with interruptions, affirmations, and little tags doing most of the work instead of any formal structure. The closer is pure hangout energy. They circle back to the usual end-of-show sign-off mode, talk subscriptions and Patreon, toss out a few last absurd lines, and never really separate the bit from the goodbye. The ending is messy on purpose. That makes it a good fit for listeners who like road-comic chatter, cruise-life nonsense, and blunt, dirty jokes that keep arriving before the last one has even cooled off.

As heard by us

Cruise-stop banter, loud-room etiquette, and filthy callbacks keep this one moving.

This one leans hard into shipboard comic nonsense. Al Ducharme in Barbados and Al Romas docked in Castamaya turn cruise stops, a Mama Guthrie sighting, and a woman blasting an audiobook about narcissism into running jokes about public manners.

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You want cruise-ship banter, loud-phone jokes, and a few filthy left turns.

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