Bros & Shows - Bronus Episode #1- Below Deck S01EP01

Episode Date: August 22, 2022

You asked, we listened! On our first Bronus episode we start from Episode 1 of Below Deck. As complete rookies to the yachting world we give our first ever takes on Captain Lee and the crew. In this episode we give you our first opinions of the cast members, our initial reaction to finally watching Below Deck and of course Johnny Eyelash. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Good afternoon. bros and welcome to our bonus episode i tried to come in with that intro but um it didn't pan out i'll try to do better next week and really caught me off guard there i know i was so excited to say oh hoi matees and welcome to the brah bros but this is our first bonus episode we are diving back into the vaults with you you wanted some below deck you wanted the ogy franchise of below deck so we started from square one we are doing episodes episodes one and two this week, and we will continue to do this until you guys get bored with it and you want a different show or until we get all the way to season nine.

Yeah, and then there's, what, six other shows that we can spin off to? Yeah, so we got plenty of below deck content. But before we get into it, let's talk about our previous relationship with below deck. All right. So how did you feel about below deck prior to getting into it? Sum it up in one word confused. Yeah, that's fair. Honestly, I mean, I knew that it was always the show that was on Bravo because, and you're

in the same type of thing, you turn on the TV, either ESPN's on because I was watching or Bravo's on because my girlfriend was watching. And below deck always seems to be on when Bravo is on. So I never knew what the hell is going on. I definitely sat down and watched a couple episodes because when we were going through it, the first two episodes, I was like, I remember this guy. I remember that guy. and I've seen a little bit of it

I just never really knew where I was what was going on, what the draw was but I feel like that's kind of how I got in every Bravo show that was my exact same outlook going into it like before I started watching it I said the same thing like I don't know what boat I'm on I can't really get into it like it's on in the background

and it's fine like I recognize certain people but I did have like a moment where I thought and I was like you know what I got into every other Bravo show this way. So something tells me that I will probably get pulled into this too in the same exact way. But I was the same. I was not a big fan. I didn't like quickly change the channel if it was on,

but I just kind of didn't give a shit. Yeah. How do you feel now? Oh, I feel great. I think this could be, this might end up being my favorite show. I don't know if it's going to be my favorite, but it's really fucking good TV. Yeah. It's going to be one of those that's easy to get through, easy to talk about.

And I was texting you because I started with episode one and two and just rolled through. Yeah, you're in like season three. I'm on season three. I started watching it fucking three days ago. Like put that into perspective, okay? That's how much below deck I watched. Yeah, mixing it in with watching the NFL network and then the Housewave shows and then Southern Charm and rewatching some things, make sure we miss anything.

That's a lot of content to take it on. content. I was, I was a bravo hollick over the past week and I'm not embarrassed to say it. But I had the same, the same kind of thing happened to me where I'm watching it. I'm seeing people on the screen. I'm like, okay, I know Eddie. Yeah. Like, Eddie is recurring and. Yeah, I knew Ben, when Ben came on. Yes. Like, Ben, I recognized and, um, obviously Captain Lee. I guess we'll just jump right into it. Like, we get to, we get introduced to everybody in the cast and we got like CJ, you know, we've already covered Ben, and there's Kat, who I think is fantastic. She is hysterical.

But you get Sam and then you get Adrian and Dave, right? Is that everybody? I think that's everybody. Okay. So first impressions, who did you like the most? When they first came on, I think I liked Alex the most. Oh, yeah, I forgot Alex. Yeah, okay, yeah.

I think I like Alex the most because he came in and he's like, You know, I was already a captain once. I mean, I don't know what he was captain. But something smaller than a Mega Yacht. Super Yacht, where did we land? Should we contact Diana? Because Super Yacht was the term that we were made aware of via Diana. Yeah, let's call Diana on this one and figure it out.

You want to call Diana? Yeah, good-bye. Yeah. But, yeah, I just liked his perspective of like, well, hardworking guy. I'm just trying to get up and I know that I do have to kind of like work my way through it. So I'm fine with this. Now, I might end up not liking him. This is how first impressions work.

But I think he stood out the most out of, honestly, the other guys, like Dave, Eddie, a couple of the other guys, like, just kind of looked at a little interchangeable. I kind of forgot who I was watching at a moment. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Now, the girls are like easily set apart because they have different colored hair and they're noticeably different. And they're also on the camera a lot more. But, yeah, I think Alex stood out the most to me. that I was like, I could get behind this guy.

I'm going to ask this question again at the end of the season. So we'll do our favorite in the beginning and our favorite in the end. Drastically different. Yeah. We'll see where it goes. My favorite in the beginning thus far was Cat. I thought she was, you know, fun, bubbly and like. Oh, are you asking?

I thought you were asking like that instance when they were introduced. Yeah, that instance. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I'm, yeah. I got it, pal.

Yeah. Thanks, though. I'll hold your hand. you're fucking micromanaging me like Adrian god damn it Adrian was not my least favorite actually very quickly during the episode became my least favorite but my least favorite off the bat was Ben same I thought he was arrogant as fuck I thought he was

very annoying and like when he said you know I I never remember the meal that I make but if I made it for you I bet you enjoyed it I was like, ah, fuck, not funny. No. I will say before people get, like, angry about that comment very quickly throughout this episode, that stance shifted. Oh, my God. Yeah, he jumped up to the top.

Oh, like, very quickly, he was, he was a delight. But let's get into it. Let's get below deck, buddy. After we get introduced, we get, like, to dive into some of the backgrounds of the characters. And I got to say, Eddie's, like, lineage of getting. into the yachting industry is not that cool of a story. He said his family came over from the Mayflower, and then, like, his family started the whaling industry in the Northeast, which, or in the United States period.

Which, if you ask, I forget who it said, that's not eastern seaboard. Oh, Rhode Island's not East Coast. Yeah. Yeah. Fucking Johnny eyelashes. Oh, yeah. We'll get to him. But moving on from Eddie, then we get to, like, Dave is a vet.

He was a Marine, and he was. serving you know he says have you ever seen blood diamond and he's like i was there i was like whoa like that's intense what was the other movie he said he said blood diamond and something uh fuck um oh uh lord of war oh yeah lord of war or blood diamond which great nicholas cage man it paints a very vivid picture of like where he was yeah that's like holy shit um and then we get to adrian and it's her first time being the chief stew you know she's nervous as hell but you're not going I see it. And instantly, when I saw her and I heard her talk, I'm like, all right, well, she's clearly going to be, like, tough and strict. Like, she, she comes off as that almost

immediately. And my opinion of her only gets worse from there. Like, yeah, she was tough to watch, honestly. But we get our guests, our first guest, our first charter, me and Shooter's first charter, and we get Johnny eyelashes, right? Is that it? Johnny eyelash. Johnny eyelash. Not plural. And he's a photographer with his buddies. They're going to St. Bart's to pick up a model. Yeah. And do a photo shoot. And like, okay, they get on the boat.

They're an eccentric group. I can already tell, like, some shenanigans are going to happen on the boat. And he walked in with a bathrobe, which I think it was Eddie who said he walked in with a soiled, soiled bathrobe. Soiled. I hate that word. It is such a funny word, though, to use. And, like, where does this guy come from? Like, he's walking from.

he walked right out of the hotel on a bathrobe probably you're in st martin's yeah it's hot you're getting on a fucking boat but he wore the bat he wore a different bathroom he got one from the boat wore that the whole time he's just a bathrobe guy i guess i feel like there are certain people in this world that are bathrobe people you're a bathrobe person like do you put a robe on at home no i don't i don't have one at home um i do sometimes wear one like if i go to a hotel you put those on yeah i never do it's kind of funny you just I look at it, and I'm like, when else am I going to wear something like this? And I just like strut around naked too, yeah.

Thanks for that. Is there any other way? No, I appreciate that. But our first interaction really with the guests is they're eating dinner, like they're upstairs, and it's kind of our first chance to get to know them. And they start, I guess they're going to use some of the crew members as models. So actually what I took from that was, So Sam was doing the Sammy special, whatever the fuck you want to call her drink,

and running it back and forth. And they were like commenting on it like, oh, yeah, you're so pretty, you're tall. And then later at night, they were saying the same thing. And they were like, oh, would you be able to, because what they want to do for their bottle that they're picking up is have her wear the yacht shirt on top? No, no, no, you didn't get that right. No, I thought that they were, I thought that they were just showing what they were, they want to use them. They were going to use, yeah. Adrian?

Well, that's the thing. That's what ends up happening is that. they want to see Sam, like, let her hair down and see what she would look like from, like, a modeling standpoint. That was to see, because they said they're going to use some of the crew. Adrian inserts herself into the scenario

and says, well, we have these Armani-inspired black tunics. Like, they're black tunics. Yeah. They're black tunics that you wear while you're working. They're not Armani-inspired. They might be. It is a lot.

But who gives a fuck? Yeah. Like, that's not going to sell your point anymore. Just say, like, oh, we got these black tunics. You want to see what those look like. But she makes it. very apparent like oh they're fashionable like let me go put that on for you they didn't really ask no she runs down and puts it on comes back up and like oh yeah blah blah blah but while she's gone

even one of the guests points out like hey do you think she did that because she wants to be in it like she doesn't want that girl to be in it like she's being thirsty pretty much and they even still said they were like we're still going to use sam because she's tall yeah they literally go we're going to use sam right like yeah yeah okay but she comes back and like oh that actually looks okay like do you have black bikini bottoms this is your first night of work And here's the thing, she's the chief stew. Yeah. So it's not like, like if she was, you know, third, second, third, whatever, then you're just

doing anything to make the guest. I mean, I guess they're all just doing the same thing to make the guest happy. But for her to be in like a managerial position and come down and be like, I'm going to be the one that does this. Like, it's a bad look. I thought it was a terrible look. And especially because she completely draws all of the attention away from Sam. And, you know, Sam feels a certain way about it too.

But it was just such a desperate. movie. It was so weird. I was like, why are you, you're in your fucking bikini bottoms serving them dinner right now. And you're supposed to be the boss. That's not an okay scenario. And I know that they do whatever these charter guests ask, like, that's their job. But at the same time, like, that didn't seem professional in the slightest. It just looked thirsty as shit. And that's when we get the most obvious, like, we're going to go do drugs with conversation. We're going to take a quick trip to Columbia and come back up like all of us are gonna should we go downstairs and do the thing like oh yeah let's go downstairs do that immediately like I've been waiting

closed door coming out like looking looking at the camera wiping their nose across like the most obvious yeah they're like like sniffling and like wiping shit off their nose like you guys are on camera with microphones you clearly just did cocaine yeah like what's the thought process of like trying if you're going to be sneaky about it like one at a time maybe or like make it a little less obvious don't come out of the room anything but what they did they did the worst thing they could do but i think that leads and i'm just going to get to this point now i was going to save it for later but like you have to imagine on a large portion of these yachting trips with this like uproachia lot of people like they're probably doing a lot of blow no probably but they're not on

camera no and that's like the one thing that's like very apparent they shouldn't have done but like now this is what i was thinking was do you think they a get a cut from the show like did bravo pay the guest to be on there be a discount yeah so what they they get like a 30 percent or 40 percent discount so that checks out because what i'm thinking is they could only afford one model that they had to go pick up on a yacht in st barth's come back and then in the middle of that voyage back they were going to do the photo shoot which they then had to use the crew as extras and look like i'm not going to put down anybody's attractiveness or unattractiveness but like these girls aren't models and you can tell like adrian comes up she doesn't know what the fuck she's going she says like she doesn't feel comfortable like yeah so like i don't wear jewelry like i don't do this whole thing so they're doing a discount trip they're going and getting one model they're using extras from the crew to fill out the rest of the model like they're just cheeping out wherever like these are the worst people in the world and they're a bunch idiots they're a bunch of morons and they come back upstairs and they're eating the ice cream and they're

like it just feels dry in my mouth and they're like oh it's so funny that we're all feeling the same thing like so obvious and stupid but at the same time and while this was obviously a failed voyage it was a great introduction to the show oh it was an awesome introduction to the show this is like they couldn't have introed with a more captivating scene. I was like, holy shit, like, this is what happens on these boats. Like, now that I'm really paying attention, like, okay, and that's when cats downstairs, I think she's doing turndown service. And she finds, like, cocaine on the counter or in the bathroom.

Yeah, she finds cocaine in the bathroom. And later on we find out she not only found that, but she found out a rolled-up dollar bill and a baggie. Like the stupidest. Like, it's one thing if you just found some residue, you're like, I honestly do feel like, because she felt so bad. She was towards. She didn't know if she should say anything, not say anything. And she has done this before.

Like she's chartered yachts before. So it's not like her first go around. She has a vast resume. Yeah. So it's not like she was in like, say, Sam's position who's never been on here. And she didn't really know what to do with the protocol was. She did know what the protocol was. When she first went out and told Adrian right away, she was like, I found some residue.

they did cut out the extra aspects. And I was like, oh, well, that could be, who the fuck knows? Like, is that really worth it to go, how much did you find? Like, honestly, I was, like, starting to figure it out. And then when you find out that she found everything else, it's like, oh, yeah, this has to, you have to point this out. Like, I don't understand why she felt so bad pointing it out. She was like, it ruins the trip and we're not going to get our tips.

That's the, that's why. Yeah, but the, to the point of, I think Alex is the one who says it later and they calms her down. He goes, do we really want to risk these idiots out? here doing coke drinking excessively being idiots and then falling overboard because we're liable for that we're all liable for that and i guess so if they find even a trace of drugs on the boat then they all lose their licenses and they can no longer work in the outing industry period so yeah so all of that makes like when you couple it all together and how obvious it was and how dumb it was yeah it all makes sense and i don't understand i mean i get like it was a nice moment where cats like i feel so bad

because she's worried about her crew she's worried about her crew she's worried about her and she also just like didn't want to she felt bad she didn't want to ruin the guest's time she didn't want to rock the boat Jesus Christ this is this is how this there's going to be so many boat puns oh man but yeah she she just I think she's so it's like so drilled into them

like there is no word no to these guests right so we have to treat them the best at all times all of the higher ups everybody in a managerial role and even the captain are like, no, you did an outstanding job. Yeah, she got a round of applause, too. I was like, that's really funny, but okay. But like we get glimpses into maybe some of the relationships. We're going to see this season and like who's interacting with who.

And like we got Sam and CJ in the same bunk. And clearly there's some kind of chemistry happening. Like there's something happening between the two. And like you get the douchy intro. from C.J. The dude who just can't keep a shirt on. Yeah, dude, keep your fucking shirt. If I'm working on a boat or if I'm working anywhere for that matter and the boss,

not just my first boss, but the boss of everybody, the captain, tells me to keep my fucking shirt on, my fucking shirt will stay on. The duration of the trip. I'm going to sleep in my shirt. Yeah, I will not take that fucker off. Then you find out he's down below and he pops the shirt off. He's in the engine room and Nash. is like, I know the captain asked you.

I've also asked you already. So this is now the third time in the first fucking episode. Dude, put on your fucking shirt. No one gives a fuck. No one's looking at you going, holy shit. Look at CJ right now. Like, you're in the fucking engine room. You're not like modeling.

Put your goddamn shirt on. And his excuse is like, I just came from San Diego to the Caribbean. Like I'm hot. Everybody's hot, motherfucker. Like, you're not the only one. Like, it was raining. In the second episode, it's raining, and they comment about how it's still 95 degrees out. Yeah, so you're not special.

That surfer mentality. Oh, dude, he's the worst. I don't like him at all. I actually, I don't mind him. Other than the shirt thing, the rest of it's fine. I just think he's so full of himself. And, like, I think he has nice moments, but I think it's all calculated. I think he's selfish as shit.

I do think that, like, kind of a nice takeaway is I don't like Sam, but the rest of them I borderline like, if not thoroughly enjoy. Yeah, I like the majority. So that's good. It is nice and that's going to keep me going. Obviously, that's going to change because all things change in these shows. But I do want to see where it goes. And yeah, we do kind of get to the point where, as I said before, like it was a great intro

because it was just like, all right, Trips dead. I thought it was fucking hilarious that Johnny Ishash is just going around asking. He wakes up at 915, going around asking. what's what's going on well first of all he asks is it 615 or 915 yeah like get it together figure out what the time is you sound like you just did a ton of cocaine last time yeah like well that was the worst part was he wasn't the last one to come out there was another guy who came out wearing the exact same thing that he wore the night before but what's going on i don't know we skipped over the creepy scene where he's like at the bar with eddie oh yeah and eddie

pours him a fucking full water glass of vodka and is sitting there and the dude's like I think he's hitting on him in like a creepy way where like Eddie's trying to work and he's like

oh this is like when my shift starts and he won't leave him alone he's asking like oh you tap in that with Sam it's like you don't know this guy and that's his coworker and you're going to sit here and talk like that to him yeah he's trying he's like pressuring him to drink

with him and it's like no dude I'm not going to I don't even know who you are like who the fuck are you johnny eyelash yeah like and he had a robe on again he had the soiled robe yeah which he i guess then found a clean robe thank god but yeah i mean he's pressuring the drink he's like we just went through this whole rules thing like you don't drink at all while you're chartering period otherwise do whatever the fuck you want but yeah he goes away they wake up the next morning i loved johnny eilish said it like six times i guess this is like the boat of no information yeah he's strolling around and everybody like i loved how awkward

where every crew member was. I don't know what to say. All the stewards were, like, away. They were in the kitchen. They were just like all the way down. He couldn't find anybody. He's like, this is a ghost ship. This is a ghost ship.

But every time he came across somebody, he's like, oh, I don't know. I have no idea. Something's going on. CJ's like, I think there's an engine problem. And then he kind of like passes by him. He goes, well, I got to go check down here. Like make sure you're not on here.

We got to run back and forth. He's like, did I just get ignored? Well, now the one thing that Eddie did that I didn't like, he let the fucking idiot into the engine room. into the captain's room. I know. What do you call that? I'm not sure.

The bridge. Yeah, we'll call it the bridge. The bridge. I like that's the bridge. He lets him in there with the controls. He's like, you can't touch any of this shit. Please don't touch that. He's like, don't, don't touch that one.

Why is he? Why did you bring him in there? I don't know. I get again, you never say no to the guest, but just be like, no, you know, Captain Lee sleeps up there. Yeah. Whatever. Make a fucking lie up.

Who cares? Go to bed. Don't go like to a room that can potentially sink all of us. Jesus. They keep them in the, the dark like the entire time and like while they're pulling into like st martins like they do captain does say like we're going back like there's a problem and they're pulling in and they finally get back to the dock now i had anxiety the whole time like just that they weren't talking to them and like

you know they're like what the fuck is going on like why i want they just say anything i'm just like oh just tell them like just fucking tell them like but they finally get back to shore and they like get the fuck off the boat you did blow in the bathroom and you're out of here pal yeah i thought that was great i thought it was awesome and i love how stoic captain lee was he's just like this is it period end of story get off no conversation and they really didn't try to even fight back they just all like sat there slack jawed looking around like what well the one guy made like a like a cringe face when they said like he's like i'm trying to roll up dollar bill the guy goes oh probably me like he's like in just for a brief second you

see his face go like, ugh. It was probably me. I knew I forgot something. Fuck, I forgot to put it back in my bag, guys. This is on me. We just wasted 50 grand. My fault. Yeah.

And that's when we get arguably my favorite parts of the show is we get to see the crew, like, do their thing. And like they are eating on the boat. They're having the lamb dinner that Ben's preparing, which looks fantastic, by the way. He cooked those things to perfection. And that was supposed to be for the guests, which is even funnier. Yeah. So they get this like probably $1,000 rack of lamb.

Yeah, sorry you guys aren't getting a tip from that failed trip. Here's the food that they were supposed to eat. Maybe this will be a consolation for you. And, you know, they're all eating and the vibes are pretty good. And this is where we can start to dive into Adrian a little bit. We've seen instances throughout this entire episode where she's micromanaging. She's coming on way too strong. Sam is new to this.

She's going to need some like, you know, not babying, but some support. through it, but she's so hypercritical of everything she does. Like, she won't relent whatsoever, like, to the point where Sam is cutting the oranges in arches the way that she's supposed to, or arcs, whatever, and she literally goes, are you cutting up the right way? You got to do it in arcs. She's like, like, I'm doing it. And then she's, like, getting the champagne ready.

She's like, but you know how to pour it, right? She's like, yes. She's like, you know, you got to twist it. Then she's like, yes. Like, what are you doing? Get away from them. Like, you have to trust your employees in the. enough to do something to the point where if they fuck it up, then you can correct it.

But you can't just go into it immediately reprimanding them for something they haven't done yet or questioning what they're capable of. But they're at the dinner and everyone's just kind of chilling and having fun. And Sam, the nap comes up because Sam took like a five to ten minute snooze, which was not okay. And like, no, you shouldn't have done that. And I think Sam's perception of this trip is like a decent amount of work, but also some downtime, like on a yacht. I don't think she really comprehends the level of work that goes into this. No, and I think

she's like hyper-focusing on how Adrian's micromanaging the whole situation. So she's looking at it like it's really not that bad. Adrian's just uptight. Right. So like I am cool to go take a nap, but in reality you're not. So she's

having a hard time deciphering, which is fine. It is just like a terrible clash of Adrian's first time being like head steward and sam's first time being on a chartered yacht like the two are going to clash and they're going to butt heads the entire time because neither really knows what the other one's doing so it is kind of tough i did like in that scene with uh sam taking that that while i agree beg call i did like that at least cj covered for yeah that's my bunkmate you know I mean, like, I'm going to go in...

That's not why he covered. Well, I, whatever. If it is your buck made, yeah. But his excuse was funny. You know what I'm saying? He's like, oh, she's got her period. Yeah. Like, you're saying that to, if he said that to like a male...

A dude would be like, oh, cool. It would be like, all right, you know, take time. Do what you got to do? But another woman's like, okay. Yeah. She'll be back out. She's like, huh, okay. Yeah.

And that takes us back to the dinner because it gets brought back up. And Adrian, like, puts on her. fucking business suit all the sudden and starts reprimanding her at the dinner table not the time to do it not at all and she even goes to a confessional been like i would have been really great if alex like stepped up and like backed me up and it comes to Alex he's like that like that's just the wrong time to do that like don't ruin the night don't make it about that like keep it light keep it fun everyone points out constantly we see it more in episode too and like we're about to get there but they talk about like this tactic that you're using is

not going to work. You're coming in too strong. You're being a sergeant with these ladies and like they're going to hate you. Everyone's going to hate you. But after dinner they go out and like cats fucking hammered like can't stand up straight. And she had an interaction with CJ earlier and CJ quickly went to Sam and just shit on Catherine. Yeah. What? He said, yeah, Jesus, phrasing. But I think that he, yeah, obviously he wants to talk up with Sam, but he, the way that he went about shitting on Catherine. It's cat.

That's why I said, that's why I said, that's why I said, Dan. Oh, I think he said because of the phrasing model. The way that he did that to Cat, he, what did he say? He said, she just looks like someone who just gets sloppy and wants some cock. Yeah, she's always on the hunt for cock. And then he's like, but he intros the first issue he has with her, number one is I don't like big fake boobs yeah that's what you that's why like come on buddy like it's this is this is where I am and I'm not sure yet but I do think I'm really I'm gonna enjoy

you know them working and with the guests I think more than them cutting loose and going out oh see I like the drama yeah you're gonna be on the other side of this although I love watching the scenes you know as a chef I love watching Ben do his thing in the kitchen because I've since learned and like watching him for like a whole season and like I'm not going to get into it but he's very talented yeah he's really good at what he does and it's fun to watch but other than that I do like these scenes out it's just watching CJ do that like you know what he's doing like he doesn't actually feel that way about cat he just wants to hook up with Sam and he thinks that like by putting cat down that puts him in a better position because he knows Sam saw him earlier and might be jealous

of the scenario yeah no way like it's slimy that was a slimy but it was he wasn't wrong though because sam was sitting over there watching them and getting jealous i know that but still you don't have to use that approach no it was definitely the wrong approach to put cat down especially you don't even know her yet yeah and again i mean we're watching from the third party sam sucks sam sucks as like the next day when she was hung over like i thought that they did her a little dirty she was doing stuff and she was you know whatever like she'll learn not to get hungover and do a whole prep for a new charter the next day but yeah i don't know it's slimy move by cj overall again not sure if i'm going to like the going out scenes as much as the rest but you know

i'll learn as i go well i think the slimyest move that really pissed me off and it once again here comes adrian like cat wakes up and like i realize we're now like into episode two with um the going out scene was episode two so this is blended together for us guys so like bear with us but we're in episode two when they're out and about but back to the adrian thing like the next morning cat wakes up and like she's hung over a shit but she's up on time she's ready to work adrian takes it upon herself to like prove a point like she's going to run her into the ground today because she got fucked up the night before did she get too drunk yeah do they know yet that she does like this is her mo no so like to try to make her look bad

or, like, prove a point. Like, I'm going to work you to the bones, so you don't do this again. I thought that was a shitty move. It is, like, the, like, the dad finding out that his child smoked a cigarette, making them smoke an entire pack. Like, that is the approach that Adrian's taking, and it's the wrong approach. She's an adult woman.

You don't need to, like, prove a point here. Like, she's already hung over. She knows she got too fucked up. But, like, as long as she's doing what she's supposed to be doing, you don't need to make her do extra. No. And that's, like, where she, like, bites herself in the ass because... she does that with cat she does the same thing with sam like first of all i'm not defending sam's

behavior when she's defiant like she just seemingly says no because she doesn't like adrian exactly and she has that stupid fucking smirk on her face all the fucking time nothing makes me crazier like nobody pisses me off more in this world than people that have that smirk when they are being rude when they are incorrect but they just don't want to budge and they're just smirking it off. Like, I can't stand it. It's so belittling and it's so condescending. So, like, in that respect, I felt for Adrian because she is trying.

And I think that maybe she got pushed to this point where she turned into an asshole quickly because of Sam. Like, she was just saying no for the sake of saying no. And she's like at one point, like, all I have to do is smile and Adrian gets pissed off and walks away. Yeah. And like just the way that Sam talks about Adrian is, first off, she's your boss. That's the biggest thing. So deal with it. I also feel like in the yachting industry or anything when you're like talking about a boat,

which has like a hierarchy or anything like that where you know what you're talking about like, yes, like I live here and I work here. Yeah. So this is tough to do that. Like we need to figure this out. Just come to your point. You live here. You work here.

This isn't going to go away. No, figure it out. So stop smirking, stop smiling, stop trying to be insolent and just fucking work it out. Like, yeah, Adrian might not be able to meet you halfway, but at least it'll make it a little bit more livable for you and on adrian's side like from a van gerial like just speaking practically why would you make the drunk slash hungover girl do more where she's going to be more liable to fuck something up you want everything perfect how about we just let her do her job as long as she's doing her job that's enough you need a couple extra things you're the chief stew you go

fucking do it that or you know what you look at cat and or you look at sam and say hey sam are you done doing that like oh my god with her drying off the fucking spinach when you when you're done doing that if you have a minute just run up and go do this if you can't walkie talking me i'll go over and do it like it's very simple to be a good manager in this position she's just not a good manager she's not at all not even remotely and like you get that very quickly when she takes the time to point out like a glass ring on a glass table you didn't need to go get cat to wipe that off You can just wipe that fucking thing off yourself. Like your job is not to just walk around and bark orders.

No, she's standing there pointing at the mirror on the wall. Like, wipe that spot. Wipe that spot. Like, if you see it yourself, why don't you help her out grab a rag and you guys can do it together? Because one, that creates camaraderie. And two, it shows you're not afraid to get your hands dirty as a good manager should. And three, you might be able to get done a little early and have some breathing room before the next guest shows up. Right.

And, you know, that kind of takes us into our next guest. But we get a hypnotist. charging $45,000 a session. Now, before we talk about, before wees talk about the hypnotist, Wolf, before we talk about the hypnotist, do you believe in hypnotism? Absolutely not.

Not even like a teeny tiny bit. Not even when someone tells you that a man can make 45K doing this. You don't believe it. I put it in the same category as what seems to be a recurring thing because I saw another sound bath. So I'm going to put it in that category.

I've done sound baths. They're delightful. Things that don't work. Well, the sound bath is, it's for meditative purposes. So, so is this, kind of. That's what I thought. So in my mind, I don't think that they're hypnotized, especially because when he does that short hypnotism, they're all chewing on food.

Yeah, I mean, half of them were asleep. No, no, no. The first time we're going to equip hypnotism in, and she's a give all the time in the world's before dinner. But they're all chewing on food. Like, if you're hypnotized, why are you eating? You're still here. Their eyes are shut, their heads are back, and they're just, like, chomping away.

But did you hear him talking? Like, he was just telling them to visualize the future that you liked. Oh, I thought that he didn't sound credible in any way, shape, or form. No, and $45,000 a session to fall asleep and have a guy to talk to me, I'm out. I agree. Shark tank. I'm out of here. And for that reason, I'm out.

But we get glimpses of, like, and we'll see it through. throughout this show, but we forget that 2012 was a different time. And, like, there are certain things that, like, pop up and they say, like, in the first episode, we missed it, where, um, CJ's, like, Heil Hitler and, like, does the actual, like, salute. And I was like, whoa, dude, like you, that would never happen today. No. And we'll see more and more of them, trust me.

But like, and I think what we're going to take away from doing this in general is maybe going back and restarting other shows that were around that time. Because one, like, we did get that full introduction like, hey, I'm this person. This is what I'm all about, blah, blah, blah. So, like, instead of just jumping right in and supposedly knowing these people and kind of piecing it together, we get them from the start. So I did like that a lot. I did too. You get to kind of see how they grow.

But I do, again, like, I'm going to double down on this. I think that my favorite part is just going to be the various guests that come on and how ridiculous they are. They drank 65 green juices. How many people were there? Six, seven? I think so they had almost 10 each they got enough greens for three days worth of like big meals and it was gone I'm going to take it a step further who's cleaning those bathrooms afterwards like you got it you have to be uncontrollably shitting your brains out well the 65 that's I yeah yeah for sure too much fiber way too much fiber but um I did think it was gross like this was the one slight I have against spend when he's making the first green juice he's just throwing green shit again he's like how much green

shit do i have he throws asparagus in i saw if i had an asparagus smoothie i would or green juice whatever he had snap peas he'd probably throw them yeah like no thank you and like that's when they bring the juices and she's like oh i want no no like it's this this this this this and this and then the main guest is like oh i want that but without this this this and add some parsley it gives them kick i'm like you got to remember all of this shit you got one juicer and you got to make them both differently like that's not going to happen. No, that's definitely not going to happen. Communal green juice and you're going to drink that green juice.

And they get it right the second time. I did that, like when the one girl who was, I don't know who any of these people are to each other, but when she gave her recipe to it, I was like, that actually sounds good. That sounds fine. Do I want 10 of those in one day? No. I'll take one. Maybe two, if I'm feeling after it.

But they didn't, I guess. they weren't drinking. Like, the one girl said I had too much wine the night before, but they weren't like, I mean, just opposed to the first guy with Johnny Eilash. I don't know, but she said she was so relaxed because she drank so much wine the night before. She's like, I feel really relaxed. Yeah, oh, she wasn't.

Okay. So, but still, I didn't see them, like, actually drinking on camera. So I was like, oh, you know what? Maybe they're just like, they live a clean, like lifestyle and this is what they do. They don't eat, really. They just drink green juices all day and then go about their day. I have no idea. but I mean to the point

food because then they have they know they go to that beach barbecue oh yeah that segues us perfectly into the beach barbecue and the whole thing is fucked from the beginning because Adrian doesn't know how to organize

the fact that Eddie had to take six trips back and forth at one point just to get blue fucking tape what are you doing that needs to be knocked out immediately if I've learned anything from these shows at this point from below deck it's like every minute matters yeah every single minute and it almost didn't matter with that rain coming in no you see that kind of they call it a squall

yeah that would have been hilarious squalls out in the ocean i don't know why they're southern out in the ocean but squalls squalls squalls um but they have this whole elaborate beach barbecue set up and like yeah you see this rain rolling in and they're still doing like the tubing behind the boat and we get to dive in more to Adrian. Now Adrian's talking to Ben and she's talking about her issues with Sam and she uses the word insolent 18 times in this episode. She says it again.

She's insolent. She's insubordinate. She's not listening, blah, blah, blah. Ben is understanding of it, but at the same time, it goes to confessionally. She's taking this sergeant approach and it's a bad tact because everyone's going to end up hating her. and he says like kind of a backhanded little jab at her where he's like she's like I need cat

to talk to her and tell her like there's way worse out there there's way worse chief stew is than me and Ben's like yeah like there's got to be a couple out there that are worse than you like yeah he was making a joke but like I think he kind of in the back with him I was like yeah I don't know yeah it fell short I think like a little bit later he made like a sarcastic comment about Adrian talking about how she's going to deal with Sam and talking about how she's just going to keep throwing things at her and keep just hoping that she sticks. And Ben goes, oh, yeah, that'll work.

And Adrian just looks at him like, huh? Yeah, she's clueless. I'm being sarcastic. Like, that's not going to work at all. No, she has no idea how to do any of this. And instead of leaning on the rest of the crew or like people around her for help and like support and getting through it together she takes the opposite approach like oh i'm going to put the team on my back in a bad way and i'm

going to control all of this because that's my job yeah and that's completely incorrect and we just continue to see her like fall short with it um but the guests get there and ben knocks it out of the park they love the lunch he kind of saves the day because up until that point like you've already had the green juice debacle the night before and now you've got pouring rain Like, it's a fucking shit show. But the food, as Adrian points out, even if it's a little wet, it'll still taste the same. Oh, God. There are comments about that.

Yeah. And to his credit, the chicken was labeled the best chicken that the hypnotist has ever had. There you go. So, Ben, hats off to you, buddy. Chef hat off to you. It was honestly, it was like symbolic, too, because they were eating the chicken commenting on it and how great it was. Then the music was uplifting. And then magically, the storm went away and it started getting sunny out again.

Oh, my God. Did you notice? Oh, man. When it rolls in and the clouds are rolling in, the fake lightning. Oh, the fake lightning was hilarious. They did it twice. That wasn't real. You don't have to do that.

I mean, I assume the Thunder was probably fake, too. It was just the whole thing was great. I mean, it was obviously downpouring. Oh, yeah. It was pouring, but like it just cracked me up because it's just very apparently fake lightning bolting. Because if you didn't know, it was storming. No, if lightning came, we're going back to the boat. Yeah.

Do you think they'll get that it's raining? I don't know. Should we throw a lightning in? I think we should throw a lightning in. What's the best one we got? Throw two lightnings in. Let me get to a scene with Adrian and she's with the hypnotist. And again, when I see this scene and like she actually, he performs a hypnotism on her or a small one,

which should at least cost like what, 15K? At least. And again, I'm thinking we've already had. had the first episode she's in you know her swim bottoms and a tunic up at dinner and now we have her interacting with the guests again you're not supposed to fraternize with the guests and she's sitting there getting hypnotized by the guy I don't know like I'm still trying to figure out if like that kind of stuff is what they're supposed to do like if the guests want you to interact this way you're supposed to do it or if there's a line between where you need to be like no no no I really

can't sorry I think part of its production too honestly and we'll kind of get way more of a feel for that as we go I mean you're almost done in the series already but we'll as we get through it we'll have a better feel for all right that was definitely a play by production because they really

are like they're getting the discount on the show or on the trip because of the show there's probably more behind the scenes like all right we're going to throw this girl at you if you don't mind giving her like a quick hypnotism and see how it works and I mean it was it did play for the show was kind of funny and you get Sam in the background talking about how she hopes it works and then

five seconds later saying there's no chance it's going to work no and Adrian's so stuck up too she is she can't even in that moment she wakes up from this guy's hypnotism then she's like I want to do it or I want to and he's like oh well like you know are you going to do it she's like yeah I want to like you can't in that moment just like even as an employee of the boat yeah just to appease the guy right like you're like yes absolutely that was the best hypnosis of my yeah holy shit you just changed my life thanks for that and give me a bigger tip instead of being like yeah man you know it didn't work and did you see his friends right next to her just passed out cold like does this how imagine being friends of this guy well that's what

i'm hypnotism or not if i'm it's a snooze fast a literal snooze fast that's my point in a positive way like i'm not the best sleeper in the world if this guy could knock me out by talking to me. Yeah, but he's going to knock you out of weird times. You're going to be sitting on a boat. You're like, hey, you know, want to you to take a quick nap? Like, he's not going to come over to your house at 1 a.m. What if he does that? What if he, like, as a practical joke, he just puts people to sleep at, like, in opportunity times. If he had that kind of power, which I don't believe in, sure, maybe that would be funny. Well, if you listen to, like, his mantra when he was doing the whole thing, if that's what you

call it. Like, it's very obvious stuff. Like, now you're going to take a deep breath and, like, imagine, like, whatever car you want. imagine whatever house you want you can have all of it it's all yours you can do it you can take i could fucking do that is it tone of voice because we have hypnotic voices apparently so like are we able to do this can i just speak what you want into existence but i convince you you know what i mean there's a lot of gullible people out there yeah it just it was it's crazy and like i highly doubt i highly doubt this man gets 45k a session yeah i think that was played up throwaway line yeah but if he does. Like, that's theft. That's theft. Fuck that. If you believe in hypnotism and there's

somebody like as a therapeutic outlet, I could see, again, like you, you know, jabbed at sound baths earlier. I've actually enjoyed taking sound baths because they are peaceful and they are good for meditation. Now, if this is a similar approach to that where I can get quote unquote hypnotized, but more just like get into a meditative state, okay. Am I paying $45,000 for that experience? No. Absolutely not. No, I'm out on that.

But, I mean, he must have some sort of money because at the end, and we get a couple of things at the end, which are nice because it ties it all together, we do get him tipping the crew 15K, which I had a problem with. But I really don't. I didn't have a problem with the tip. Sorry, let me reiterate. Right. I had a problem with myself trying to figure out how they get paid. Like I assume Captain Lee, he gets paid, what he gets paid.

Like, he's not getting a cut in that. It gets distributed amongst the crew. Now, it's an even cut. Yep. So do they also get paid per hour, per trip? They get paid for hour. So it's per hour. And then they have X amount of dollars for each person.

So they, and then they split it. I don't know. I mean, like, if I'm Alex or somebody higher up, I might have. a problem with one of the crew members getting the same as me i could understand that but i would imagine it's not the same on every boat i would imagine the tips of airy so yeah maybe or no tip at all for johnny eyelash like maybe in that scenario like they all appreciate that because they know they've all worked their way up at some point or another so like i'm like okay i take care of everybody like there's no arguments everyone gets the same thing it is what it is like whether you're happy

with it or mad about it, whatever. There's no real arguing because it's like it is what it is. Everyone gets the same. What I would have liked, and maybe we get it later and maybe I'm just speaking it, but I would have liked, you ever watch like flip or flop where they do the housing breakdown? Like this is how much they put into it, blah, blah, blah. I would have loved to have gotten that at the end.

Like this is how many days of the voyage it was. This is how much money it costs. This is how much whatever 65, I guess, 130 drinks are. Like, I want all of that. Yeah, give us all the info. Full bill breakdown and then each crew member got this much. Like, that would be awesome. That would be a cool thing to do.

Yeah. Yeah, I like that a lot. We need to pitch that to the network. It might, again, it might already be in existence. They might have that at the end of the newer shows, but. Oh, yeah, maybe. I don't know. They didn't have it in these shows.

I would love to see the breakdown. Yeah, that'd be awesome. You don't have to put the 30% discount on. Give me the full price breakdown. Yeah, just show me what it is. Like, show me how much I could never afford this. Yeah, that's what I want. Yeah, seriously.

you know what my dream now is I know we do this a lot so here's my top three number one I want to do a live show number two I want to have a golf outing with Austin Craig and Madison number three I want to go on a charter at least a one day charter with one of these crews all right I think they're feasible they're not impossible yeah right they get them they're yeah they're not they're not not beyond the realm of possibility yeah i think that's fine and and for this show specifically i do like that it seems like every trip and i guess they're going to keep it one trip in each episode maybe there's bigger ones later but at the end you get closure on pretty much everything yeah i like that like captain lee will take his commanders aside if you will with alex and adrian and say

i like what you did here but this is what you did wrong this is what you did wrong and he just chastises Adrian, which I was on Adrian side because he was like, we should never run out of this stuff. They drank 65 green juices. She told him that the next day, or the day after the first 65, she was like, they drank 65 green juices. Like, we don't have that much, like, we could have never imagined that many vegetables. No. And he didn't care.

He was just like, we can't do, like, it must be, I guess it's hard to be the captain, but in this instance, it's got to be easy to be him because he can just nitpick and say, say this should never happen because they demand. Well, his standards are high. Yeah, I mean, they demand perfection. Perfection. And if they don't meet perfection, he has something to say that was wrong. I think he has something to say, even if they do meet perfection.

I don't think that's going to, like, get better. I think I've even noticed that in passing when I've watched this like reruns over the past couple of years. There's always something. Yeah, and I think he's also the type of dude that like, even if he's wrong, he's not going to say it because when he makes a decision or a choice, like that's it. End of story.

Yeah. Above all else, I'm pumped. It's fun fucking TV. It's so easy. Like, that's why I flew through it. I was like, I like that they wrap it up. Like you said, I like that I get involved enough where I enjoy the characters,

but it's not like a housewife show where like there's so many different things happening and like different like they're all stuck on this little boat so like you get all of it real quick and they tie it up at least to a certain extent and then yeah yeah to the next episode and it's fun because in other shows we struggle when there's not anything new happening we get a new guest every episode yeah they infuse new people every time and I quickly saw like what the appeal was to the show and I guess the different franchises because for what you said we get something different every time where yes you're going to have the inner workings of the internal crew and their relationship whatever the hell's going on there but there's always something new

infused in the middle which is awesome and i i hope i don't get to the point where i'm like all right this is the same like they're just prepping dinner they're prepping whatever hopefully there's something new every time but right now i'm i'm pumped i'm thoroughly enjoying it but uh that does it for for the bonus episode, our first ever. Recurring bonus episode. Recurring bonus episode. Yeah, that's not going to confuse. There will be two episodes every week.

This one drops on Monday of the week, and then the main episode will drop on Thursday, where we do the usual. Yeah, so feel free to go back, start watching Below Deck with us. Oh, yeah. If you're not a Below Decker, we've got to come up with a better. Yeah, I don't know about that.

Below Decker sounds like Upper Decker. The Upper Decker. Yeah, if you're not a below, If you're not a seaman, seaple, we're definitely going to work on this, but yeah. Seeple. Seeple. If you're not, if you're not, no, we can do better. Yeah, well, there's more.

We'll figure it out, but feel free. You guys feel free to send us your ideas. What's a good thing for, what's a below deck fan called? Maybe there's already a word for it. I'm sure there is, yeah. Yeah, let us know what that is. So we can use the proper vernacular. But yeah, definitely, definitely go on this, on this voyage with us.

Nice. Yeah, you can't stay away from the boat. I got more. Yeah, we're in a whole plethora. I can't wait to walk the plank with you. I don't think that applied, but I just wanted to throw it out. But that does it. Thank you guys for listening.

We will be back on Thursday with episode 16. So stay tuned. Keep listening. And that's all we got. Rob Bros. We're out of here. See you Thursday. Bye.

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