Another Below Deck Podcast - Patreon Exclusive - The Devil Herself w/ Adrienne Gang

Episode Date: September 10, 2023

Dylan and Pat are back to break down being mean, pitching Below Deck, pills, Captain Lee's best friends, charities, hurricanes and more with Chief Stew Adrienne. Hear the whole interview at Patreon.com/AnotherPodcastNetworkCheck out World Central Kitchen to help feed people meatballs in need: wck.org

Welcome aboard another brand spanking new episode of the Patreon exclusive recap of the first season of Below Deck OG, The Maiden Voyage. I'm Dylan, settled up next to one Patrick Hickey. Great to be here. And joining us today, quite a character in the tapestry of Below Deck, an integral character to Season 1. It is the devil herself, Chief Stew Adrian. How are you? I'm excellent, guys. How are you doing? doing good now you mentioned that because the episode title was that i believe uh i'm bunking

with the devil or something like that i don't know adrian i would never call her the devil okay i know culver i i don't quite call him the devil either. No, he's a douchebag. What we're trying to say is, or what I'm trying to say is, I appreciate you coming on the show because you had a tough edit. You had a tough, I don't know. It was the first season of this reality television show. It was 10 years ago. reality television show. It was 10 years ago. You've likely changed quite a bit, but we're going to go through maybe a stressful and toxic time in your life. So I appreciate you coming on and talking about it. No worries. I think for what it's worth, everybody lives and learns. Being able to watch yourself on TV is a bit of a learning curve. And I think especially for what we dealt with season one, we were guinea pigs.

You know, we didn't have a format set ahead of us for what this was going to be or what it was going to look like. And quite honestly, I thought the entire time that we were filming that the very last day they were going to shut off the cameras. And they surprised.

It was all a joke because I couldn't fucking believe that this is what was happening in my life. It just didn't make any sense from start to finish. So, look, I'm good with it. Here's where the good cop comes in, which I'm always a good cop. I want to let the audience know, all you judgy bastards out there, and Dylan and I are judgy bastards to a certain degree. We get paid. That's a great point.

But 70% of your asses, if we filmed you on a reality TV show... 100% of all of us. You'd be very not happy with how you're perceived, especially when someone didn't like the way that you gave someone a look or how you presented an argument to somebody. Yeah, and sure, you might not have been as bad as Adrian, who was pretty monstrous the

first season, but that goes to say, I mean, a lot of people, you know, we just had a fan meetup. I understand you guys want us to beat the shit out of the people that you aren't your favorite characters on these reality television shows. I want to, too. It's very fun for me to get into confrontations but the thing is one we don't care enough to do so to the degree that you want us to and also this is just a different environment and this in particular was 10 years ago so all right can we do some housekeeping i all right so sam was on the show she was nice enough to come. You and I have spoken a little bit off air and you had said, you heard her say some things on the show that you, your recollection of the experience was slightly different in some things that she had said on the podcast. incident and shutting down that charter. Just for clarity, just for a second person coming in, you guys did not strike and tell the producers that you felt that they

basically planted that cocaine. Did that ever happen? Any clarity on that? Yes, we did. What I will say is the people that had something to lose absolutely did. Myself, Lee, Ben, and Alice were the only people that had a career in yachting or anything to lose if that went down. So the four of us and Eddie and Dave, who both understood very well, like Dave has been a Marine, so he understands. And Eddie, who's worked in the maritime industry, not necessarily yachting, understood that if something like that happened, especially in a foreign country, that we would be screwed. So right after the charter, not after the first one, after the the second one because that was a very quick turnover really they had jen levy who was the executive um director or whatever the hell her title was for bravo fly down and sit us all down in the salon and tell us that they in fact did not

plant drugs that there was no way that that happened we had a meeting with the production company that was on site with us first because all of us were like look if this is the way that the rest of this six weeks is going to be we're out of here like nobody wants to fucking be here and deal with this the captain has a license alex has a license you know we all have a career in this and we want to be able to do it afterwards the people who didn't care and who didn't have a career in yachting didn't give a shit and that's why when i listened to her interview the other day after you guys contacted me i was really surprised that she didn't remember that entire sit down because it definitely happened and we i i was like i'm done with this i'm out of here i'm. They tried to get us not to tell Lee that it happened at first.

Then they said, okay, well, if we're going to tell Lee, let's just tell him that it happened and we'll flush it and we'll, you know, it won't be a thing. And that's not how that goes. Well, so they wanted to keep, sorry to interrupt you. So the producers at the time, they wanted to just keep production rolling and they felt that the integrity of Captain Lee and Alec and you guys would have stopped production and possibly ruined a whole thing of filming. out of the gate on a brand new venture that none of us were really mentally prepared for. And that was the first thing that happened.

Like, what the actual fuck? Ironically, on a boat called Honor, you know, it just breaks my heart. You know, Adrian, I want to, before we get into the episode, I want to talk to you. Of course, I want to ask you if Kat and Sam are the worst, if Sam was the worst person you've ever had under you, but we'll get into that in the episode. But what was your experience in the yachting industry before you got aboard the vessel Honor? And if you could kind of just try to fit an answer to this question in there, where are the yachts you can do blow on? Because it just seems like these yachts are just such a bummer. I mean, you're supposed to be able to fight primates and do blow.

I don't get this. They're different yachts. They're different yachts, but I'll let Adrienne answer that. So to answer the latter question, Miami Beach Marina. No, I'm kidding in reality no yacht really should be allowing that but that doesn't mean

they don't exist and that doesn't mean that people don't look the other way we just can't look the other way when there's three video cameras recording it like duh John Legend snorting some fucking columbian powwow off chrissy tegan's asshole you guys don't interject what are you doing here well no they

yacht every summer i know but i don't think he snorts it off i feel like they would have the discretion to do it in a place where the crew wouldn't see it or have to find any right you know i believe that he probably would snort all of it and not leave any proof behind. Right, right, right. Especially if it was on her ass. Right. What was your first question, Dylan?

What was your experience in the yachting industry before you got on Below Deck? I had been a chef in the yachting industry before that. So the way that it worked out initially, so I was part of the team that put the show together from the beginning. So we worked on that for three years before we ever even turned on a camera to record. What do you mean you worked on it for three years? Creating a sizzle reel, pitching it.

Okay. Am I right? Got it. Correct. Got it. Correct. And we were initially supposed to have a 130-foot yacht, which means that Alex would have been qualified and licensed to drive it.

And you're speaking of porcupine head. That's correct. And Sonic the Hedgehog. And so he would have been the captain. I would have been the chef. I don captain. I would have been the chef. I don't know who would have been the chief stew, not Kat. But there was somebody else that they had casted for that role. And he didn't end up making the first season. Right.

I think because they slid me into the chief stew role. But once we toured the boat um and did a walk around they realized that there was never going to be enough room for us as crew eight guests and 10 to 12 production crew at the same time 130 foot boat sounds like a big boat but when you have that many people on it it's not yeah and so they ended up deciding kind of at the last minute to upgrade to a larger boat, which is how we got honor or quarterly on, which is also how we got Lee because Lee was actually the captain of

record for that boat. Huh? And that's how Alex got split into the first mate role, which if you notice since then, they haven't really had a first mate. They've had a boat since ever since, but he got split into that spot when he got casted he thought he was the captain that's what he agreed to and then they changed that and kind of told him at the last minute and he was pissed so he had a

chip on his shoulder the entire season right but for a lot of different reasons i appreciated him because he was and ben were really the only two other people on that boat who had any yachting experience where had been in the industry for like a year maybe yeah and then nobody else had yachting experience so between the three of us we were the only ones that had any real yachting experience. Sure. Sure. I got along with Ben as well as I did is because I have done his job and I knew how to communicate with him effectively. I knew what he needed for me. Adrian,

who was the, the initial team that helped sell the show? You mentioned yourself and was Ben part of that initial sizzle reel? No, no. It was you and Porcupine. I know I was the only one that made it to the first season. Everybody else, actually what happened is that I recruited a bunch of friends of mine

because they didn't have a good marketing team at the time to try to figure out how to sell the show. So I just called a bunch of my friends and said, hey, this is what we're doing. They'll pay you, you know, whatever it was, 250 bucks for the day to come and film this little sizzle reel. We shot down to Miami. If you remember the boat that they did, that Lonely Island did, I'm on a boat. Sure. Yeah, I remember that it was a boat. Yeah.

Well, that boat that they filmed that music video video on that's the one that we shot the sizzle reel on huh okay cool so it's your fault that you that this show exists so it's your fault that the show exists and it's your fault that captain lee was introduced to a little hamster droplet of fame and has led pat to go into almost aneurysms on this show. So it's your fault. You're not alone, Pat. You're not alone. We're going to get into so much juicy

fucking shit. So Adrian, I'm speaking of Adrian to the audience. If you don't want to think she's a good sport, this episode is basically an episode calling her Satan. She's titularly called the devil. Yes, and she's willing good sport. This episode is basically an episode calling her Satan. She's titularly called the devil. Yes, and she's willing to come on here and have some fun and mix it up

with us. So give her some points for that, you assholes. Also, it was mentioned and we'll move on because we've talked about this. She was initially cast as a chef and then they slid her in for the purposes of filming a reality TV show as the chief stew and I guess we'll discuss

that and how that kind of altered your role or how you were being perceived through the filming of the season. Shall we get started? Yeah, let's push this boulder down a hill. We get a little bit of a recap before we get into the episode of Lee asking if any of the sea rats drink. I don't know what kind of fucking question that is not only is it a little inappropriate but it's is the sky blue you know kind of thing I mean it's absolutely insane and also Lee do you have a mirror buddy

so we last left off with your piece of shit friend Simon making Kat quite uncomfortable at dinner which led her to her bunk wherein a camera was angled away from her and a door was closed. This, the Rhode Island accent comes out

and you, I guess, can assume that she is drinking at that point. Now, her story is that she was on Ativan or something like that. I think Xanax. That's what I was feeling. What happened? Because you know what happened. I do. Thank you. Love, boy.

Love, boy. Music Music you