Podcast: A comic and COVID walk into a cruise ship ...

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View of the Silver Shadow cruise ship, which is stranded in the port of Recife after a passenger was diagnosed with Coronavirus, in Recife, Brazil, on March 15, 2020. - The Silver Shadow and its 609 passengers from 18 nationalities, was quarantined at the port on March 12, 2020, after a 78-year-old Canadian tested positive for Coronavirus. (Photo by LEO CALDAS / AFP) (Photo by LEO CALDAS/AFP via Getty Images)
A view of the Silver Shadow cruise ship, which was stranded in the port of Recife after a passenger was diagnosed with the coronavirus in Recife, Brazil, on March 15, 2020. (Leo Caldas / AFP via Getty Images)

On New Year's Day, comedian Jen Murphy boarded a cruise ship out of Miami and got ready to perform for 1,800 people. She never did end up getting on that comedy stage, though. Instead, she ended up getting trapped in a COVID cruise quarantine.

Today, Murphy gives us a hilarious and intense look into why she got on a cruise ship in the middle of the pandemic in the first place and what she learned from it.

Host: Gustavo Arellano

Guests: Comedian Jen Murphy

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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.