Another Below Deck Podcast - Patreon Exclusive - Sandy's First Voyage | Below Deck Med S2 E1

Episode Date: November 16, 2023

Pat and Dylan are back to break down Sandy's first voyage, getting to bed on time, the treatment of old sea rats, the principle from Animal House and more from Bravo's Below Deck.Full episode at Patreon.com/AnotherPodcastNetwork

Now, do you mind if we get to our first Sea Rat history? And it comes from Wes. Yeah, absolutely. And we're going to rate this on the Sea Rat sad scale, you know? Okay. Okay, so Wes tells us he always listened to his dad about following rules. Yeah. Until one day, Wes got drunk with his rugby buddies, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And his dad got mad, you know? Yeah. Zero point zero. He gets a zero for that. Yeah. That's not good at all. That doesn't even chart as a Sea Rat sad story.

No, that's nothing. That's nothing. And that's why it's a zero point zero. Who said that? I think a principal at the college for Animal House. Okay. Welcome aboard another Brand Spankin' New episode of the Patreon exclusive recap of... Throat fart to start things off?

I mean, my goodness. Season two of Below Deck Mediterranean. Now, Patrick is there. Can you say hi or something? Hi, how are you? Because I'm really struggling right now with the beginning of the episode. And I'm Dylan. Hello, and I'm Dylan. We're doing season two.

Why, Patrick? Because Sandy wasn't on season one. No. He's a different captain who I think is no longer with us. I think he killed a bunch of people. He's no longer with us. So we will... I understand for the audience it would be confusing. Shouldn't you start from the beginning?

Maybe. Maybe, but we're not. Yeah. And I got to tell you, we're grateful for the growth of the audience over the past couple of months, but I am so excited to recap Below Deck behind a paywall. Because we can do what we do. That's where it's going to get fun.

And I know this is probably on the free feed, you're listening to a little tease of this, but for the whole whole season we're going to be patreon.com slash another podcast network recapping what is essentially i think this season is one of the most important seasons in the the entire canon of below deck oh wow this is a season that really, really kicked off this franchise. It was their first kind of bunion out from Lee and his bunions. And the first season didn't go well, but now we have Sandy. Now we have Hannah. We have Malia.

We have Bugs. We have Adam. I mean, these are important characters in the lore of this show. It's a trampoline for an entire franchise. You know what? That's a great way to frame all of this. Yes, little did we know

when Captain Sandy came aboard, her management style, by the way, at this time was, she was going to just observe. That's her management style. Do you guys want to get on the banana boat? What? Okay.

So here's what's fun about this. So we started around 2018 covering Below Deck. That was about three or four years after men had started with Captain Sandy. I had no idea that Hannah and Sandy and their tumultuous relationship goes back to they've hated each other from the get-go wow because they pretended to like each other for a while and i also had no idea that adam angry adam that's psychopath serial

killer lizard face adam i had no idea he'd had as many journeys on these vessels as he had. Cause he's scary. Yeah. He's just the way he talks to Bugsy in this episode. Oh boy. What's interesting. And he's killing it right now on social media. Oh really?

Yeah. He's cooking like stuff in the woods. Oh, is he? Yeah. Well, the interesting thing about Adam is that the veneer of this surfer, just chill guy. Much more Ted Bundy than Spicola.

Well put. Way more Ted Bundy. I really hate him. So this is going to be fun this season. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because he's an absolute dick. Yeah, yeah. This was the first season that I ever earnestly watched.

This, me and my, I don't even think we were married at the time, watched this show together. And it really was like my first entry into Below Deck. And it was, I mean, we had a love triangle that ended in fisticuffs. The show, you and Cece? No. Oh? No. Oh. No.

Yeah, I was in a tryst with another woman. Cece beat the fuck out of her, and I literally haven't seen her since. I don't remember this season. Wes, Adam, Malia. Really? Yes. Oh, well, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Don't spoil it for me. All right, all right, all right. But yeah, this was a very important season. I'm excited to get into it and to say really everything that we want to say about it. Yeah. Okay. Did we already do our thoughts and nots?

No, we haven't done our thoughts and nots. All right. Immediate thought upon watching this episode, and I've only watched the first episode. Different time, same Sandy. It's fascinating to see how much she has not evolved. I would say different time, different Sandy. I would say different time, worse Sandy.

But these are your thoughts. Sure. And how dare I jump in on your pots and shit on your point? Oh, no, no, no. That's fine. Very good casting. I love Bugsy. Again, I had no idea that she'd been on this franchise as long as she has yeah really nice person um very good at what

she does uh boring television yeah yeah uh the yeah i agree i agree very nice and i i assume oh one of the fun things uh for our listeners to know is that we did this with season one of Below Deck OG. Because Bravo doesn't really, they discard these sea rats and they pretend to care about them while they're in the moment of their seasons. These sea rats are picked up with an inside out garbage bag. They are turned back around the right way, tied up and thrown the fuck out. Yes. And the way you would deal with one that was in your yard that your dog had gotten after. Right. Yeah. Well, that good news for us is that discarded garbage on one person's

side of the yard is a treasure to us. We will eat the flesh of the rats. Yes. And we will have lots of sea rats of the past on this season of our recap of Below Deck, season two of Med. So I enjoyed this episode. I'm really excited. Again, Dylan and I always say what makes great reality TV? It's someone you hate.

I despise angry Adam. He's one of the worst human beings. Do you follow him on Instagram? Do we have a clip of this douchebag that you'd like to potentially play while I'm doing my thoughts and thoughts? Maybe later, maybe later. Okay.

Captain Sandy in true form here. Hannah, right out of the gate, those two bumping heads because Hannah and I are on the same page. I don't truly think that Sandy's management style is quote unquote observing. No, no, no. It's a little, looks a little bit more like micromanaging. Sure. Sure. But a wonderful episode, fun guests. I

don't think guests knew even at this point how bad they could be made to look. This was before Bravo started basically allowing people to pay $5,000 to come on the boat. Right. And yeah. So really fun episode. I'm going to give it 90 knots. Okay. I am going to give it less. I'm going to give it seven. But we need to talk about the character study of one Hannah.

Mm-hmm. Hannah is awful. Mm-hmm. Hannah is awful. She is steel wool or razor wire in human form. She's not very agreeable. She has a penchant for vengeance and hatred, and she's just, and this is what kind of like high C prisons will do to you. They corrode and erode your fucking sanity and your character after a while.

Hannah had been in this business for a bit. And when we see her on this show, she's perfect because she abuses power. She hates with all of her and she'll be, you know, summarily executed via Captain Sandy for, I mean, it's very much like a Game of Thrones arc. You know,

you see Hannah in the first season. You see her wield her power, you see her cry, you see her love, you see her smoke a lot. And then you see her head get trapped off, you know?

Yeah! Thank you.