The Edge Breakfast - ONLY FANS Captain Jason Below Deck Full Interview

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

This is a podcast from Rover. This is Clint, Meg and Dan's OnlyFans podcast. A place where nothing is off the table and these three show who they really are. Not recommended for kids. You've been warned. Hey everyone, welcome along to the OnlyFans podcast. With myself and Meg, Dan's off getting cereal. It's like he just doesn't see this as an important part of his job.

Oh God, yeah, he was like, look, I don't give a fuck what you two are doing. I'm getting my cereal because I haven't eaten this morning. And it's a special OnlyFans podcast because we caught up with Jase from Below Deck Down Under. Season three is out, and he's the sexy captain, but also very much a reality star in his own right. Do you just call him the sexy captain? Well, I think that's what everyone else calls him,

and then when we spoke to him, I was like, oh, he is a bit of a sexy captain. Producer Carl's right into the series at the moment. Oh, I love this series. No, I don't think anyone else calls him the sexy captain. But there is this part right in the beginning of the interview where, Clint, you were definitely flirting with him. It was kind of cringe. Yeah. I just thought we were all bringing that sort of heat to the interview and then realised.

I think he thought I was gay. I think a lot of people do, darling. You said you're flirting, he's flirting with you, and then we never mentioned my wife or kids. So I think he probably just thought I was legitimately into him. Do you think you were flirting a bit, though? Probably, yeah, yeah. So I was like, oh, well, if he thinks I'm gay, fine, whatever.

Why do I care? It's fine. He's a good-looking man. Should we get into it? Yeah, let's do that. Here it is. Where is Captain Jason's face gone? There he is. He's fine. He's a good-looking man. Should we get into it? Yeah, let's do that. Here it is. Where is Captain Jason's face gone? There he is.

He's there. He's there. I've got to pin him. I want him to take up most of my screen. He's just a tiny little thumbnail at the moment. Yeah. Let me... By the way, that is him flirting with you, Captain Jason.

He's a very flirty guy, Jason. Sorry about that. There he goes. Like you're not here because he's handsy as well oh wow we have so many questions and i don't know if they all necessarily apply to uh reality tv or if they apply to just being a captain i guess i mean in your line of work you get to do both were you employed for your captain abilities or because you were good looking and great on tv and they were like all right yeah i'm sure he can actually pilot a boat as well still flirting by the way well look it was during covid so i think i was the only choice

yeah did they audition you do you have to go through a process because i imagine like you want a great captain on a tv show like Below Deck, but it would also be very helpful if they could actually use you in episodes in that as well. So did you have to do some sort of a screen test for the show? Yeah, it was quite funny. I actually got an email from a friend of mine who's another Kiwi, and the email was like 2 o'clock in the morning. I read it, and it was, you should use this guy for the Below Deck Down franchise. So someone obviously reached out to him looking for candidates, like 2 o'clock in the morning I read it and it was, you should use this guy for the blow deck down franchise.

So someone obviously reached out to him looking for candidates and I won't tell you what I wrote back to him because I just, it was 2 o'clock in the morning and he, and then when I read it in the morning I was like, oh, shit, I replied all. Oh, no. And I read down and I saw NBC and I was like, what the hell? And this is something real. And then when I started doing the process, the interviewing process, all the people behind the scenes, they're just cool.

They're really good people. And I felt part of the family straight away. And it's like, yeah, I'm going to give this a go. I really wanted it. When you get into this world, are you assigned like a boat to go on? Because obviously you've been slinging throttles for years, I'm sure. Is that what you call it in the industry? Don't show it off.

He's showing it off. Do they say that? I don't know. Do they say that in the industry? That's how we can do from now on. That's the best thing about this show. I turn up and I don't know the boat and I don't know the crew, and that's part of the drama for me.

That's my side of the drama. The crew have to work themselves out. They have to work, you know, their ranking and their positioning and the crew, where they are, where they sit, you know, who they are amongst it, who they're going to hook up with and how they're going to be seen and how they're going to perform on the spot. Well, my bit is too, I don't know the boat, I've got to learn it

and I don't know the crew and I've got to put them together. But at the end of the day, it is a real show and I've got to get it to the end. And I've got my safety aspects, I've got the crew, and I've also got the production safety aspects behind it as well and all the logistics. So it is real and you get into captain mode very quick. Do you find that sometimes, I mean, because you are a captain

and you are a captain in real life, is it hard to sometimes differentiate when you are in a stressful situation of driving a ship? Captaining. But there's cameras all around you and you know there's drama. Have you found it quite hard to

transition to reality TV being a captain? Look, the cameras go away very quickly. If you're asking the question about what's it like to be a captain with the cameras around, they're not really there. They really are good at their job and they stay away from it. And we're just so focused on doing the job that I'm sure the crew, I know season one I was really getting a bit antsy because the crew,

the cameras were in the way and I'm trying to deliver the best result to the guests. But then after a while you realise, well, this is a show, so you slow down a little bit and you really know, okay, well, things are going to happen at the pace that they can only happen at. So we have to wait for cameras, we have to wait for sound people, we have to offload, we have to do logistics around the guests. So be it.

But coming from the real world, we'd be just jumping up and down on the spot to try and get the guests the best service ever. Yeah. But in this reel, we just slow things down a little bit and wait for the camera crew more than the guests. What's the most scandalous situation you've been involved with? Because this show, I mean, it's filled with scandal, drama. What is the situation you've been put in where you've just been like,

oh, my God, I can't believe this is happening? Probably not a lot that shocks you now, Jase, I'd imagine. No, not really. Just in general, in the real life, we've seen a lot. But, look, I think season two was a very big, poignant moment for reality TV and definitely for the franchise when we called what they call the fourth wall got broken and they stopped when one of the crew members crossed some boundaries and that was when Aisha came to me, Aisha Kiwi, she came to me and brought that up and that was a

moment where we really realised that we have to keep an eye on these guys um and we have to we have to monitor what they're what they're drinking when they're out as well they still have to have their responsibility and as a captain you know usually i would actually put a put a ban on them but anyway i kicked them off the boat they've come they've come good after all that and um they've learned a lesson but that was a huge moment for us i know you're a proud dad i can see it on your on your social media how has it been with the reaction of dad being famous now? Look, I am in Bali. My little girl, Saskia, is in Bali.

We raised money to build a school last year for 171 children. I work with a foundation called Classroom of Hope where we take recycled plastic waste. We've got 400 schools to build through that. Well, that foundation does, And they provide education as well. So my daughter is part of that. She came and opened a school with me. We work with another foundation.

We give rice to families and another foundation we work with where they teach English after school. So she's with me a lot like that, with me during a lot of that. So she grew up in the Philippines too. So she's Australian, but she's very empathetic. And, look, I remember I got a photo in Bali. Someone wanted a selfie with me and my daughter was with me

and she said, Papa, what was that for? And I said, that's for that TV show I'm doing. And she said, you're not my idol. I said, who's your idol? She said, BTS. Fair enough. Great idol. The Korean pop band. The boy band idol? She said, BTS. Fair enough. Great idol. The Korean pop band.

The boy band. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, look, it only takes a child or a Kiwi or an Australian to bring you back right down very quickly, Hannah. Yeah, that's so true. It'd be a real missed opportunity to not ask you. We have a segment that we do called Profession Confessions

where people will come in and will confess things about their professions that maybe we wouldn't know too much about. What goes on in the world of Skipper in a Boat or reality TV, I guess you can speak on both, that most people would be fascinated to hear about? Fascinated. I think you see it all. It's a very hard question. I think i think you see it all it's very hard question i think you actually really see it all what happens is true on the on on below deck um it's true to form

what really happens let's kind of exactly what happens when when we finish a charter we uh we get those tips and we cash up and we go ashore and we actually think we're charter guests we spend it all we have fun we get the moe out and um we actually pretend we're we're high relief we're high rollers so that's where all my money's gone that's where most crew money goes you're like as soon as i get off this boat i'm doing what they were doing on the boat on the island because you are all you're dealing with a i imagine a lot of very wealthy people that are on these boats so i remember we interviewed some i can't remember the name of the person but they were like a below deck person that was working with millionaires on super yachts.

And they told a story of a millionaire they were working with and he requested a certain type of yogurt for his daughter that was also on the boat. And it wasn't available anywhere near where they were. And they sent someone from the boat to another country to get the yogurt and fly it back and chopper it back to the super yacht, and they paid for it all.

Have you had anything like that, like been witness to a rich person doing something crazy like that? Well, the first boat I ever worked on were the crew out of the Wolf of Wall Street and their captain, and we were in St. Barts, and St. Barts is very rolly in the marina, so a lot of swell comes in. And we had a sailboat next to us and that captain, who's very famous obviously now, he was before, but he started the helicopter up at the marina and took off

from the marina on the back of the yacht to take off to another island to pick up some Wagyu beef. Wow. Jason, is it really hard for you? You're a person that has just told us that you give rice to families, you're building schools for underprivileged children, you lived in the Philippines, you live in Bali now. I see you're also super spiritual from your social media.

Is it really hard to see things like that happen and also the juxtaposition when you go home back to land seeing kids starve? I know that's a really serious question, but I feel like I find that really hard. You're witnessing two completely different lifestyles, right? Well, I think I made that transition a decade ago in my persona. I had a really big job. I could have retired. I was working for a very, very prominent Australian man.

And I gave that up to go and live in the Philippines and actually gave that up to probably drop 70% in salary and probably 70% of my working opportunity be in Asia. And I was very fortunate to work for an American family up in Papua New Guinea. And during our cruising there, there's an agency that we use there, but we found a hospital that needed rebuilding rebuilding we actually put led lights through there we put water pumps running through it there was the whole boat was full of Kiwis and we we got into it and actually um

we the owners turned up American owners I can't tell you their name but they turned up and they said how much did you spend I said I just spent nothing it's all your money and they said uh keep doing it and um wherever you find it triple the money and keep doing it so growing up in the philippines and seeing a different sort of yachting remote yachting where you you've got owners that want to give back uh definitely makes me change my view of where i want to be in yachting um and i've you know i i prefer to be doing that and i'm sure a lot of crew members would be, than being in Saint-Tropez and, you know, worrying about caviar and, you know, moe. Great answer.

Yeah, it must be very difficult, eh, seeing how frivolous and how wasteful some people can be and how much is needed in other parts. If you want to tell me the – if I want to tell you probably the most memorable thing that's ever happened to tell me probably the most memorable thing that's ever happened to me is when the crew up in Papua New Guinea, we had probably 60 young kids in dugout canoes on the back of the boat and the boys set up a big sheet and played Moana on Bluetooth speakers

to these kids in dugout canoes. They've never seen a TV in their life and they're watching Moana for the first time. They've got a current against them. They're paddling. They're keeping the dug out canoes up into the little current in the back of the boat. And we were washing the girls' hair that day in shampoo. They'd never had their hair washed before.

And we're washing on the back of the boat. If you can't tell me, that's probably the one of the most things. That picture of those kids and their face watching that big screen and listening to the noise out of the speakers, they were just like in awe. What's one thing you can leave us on um as i said a spiritual guy is there something that you live your life by that we can leave with our listeners to to feel inspired going into 2025 oh look i've learned i look i just i just got through a melanoma um my dad's just come

with alzheimer's um so i'm learning a hell of a lot lot. I just had a really bad end of 2025 with a lot of things going on. My best mate passing away as well. And I'm just getting a hell of a lot of positivities out of things that's going. So I just think we just need to probably, we have to have mental health first. We need physical health and then we need mental health. So look after yourself. I live a good balance. I, you know, I chugged a few red wines last night and had a good steak and, you know, but look after yourself and look after the people around you but try and find something that you can give back to as well. But give back to yourself first.

I love that because you definitely look like you're living the life on a reality TV show that is hugely popular below dick but there's so much more substance to you and I feel like you're really trying to leave a legacy behind and it sounds like you're doing exactly that, Jason. I'm going to give you a bit of a tease, which I won't tell anyone else. You can't tell anyone either, but I was with my mum and dad this week and then we went through the photo albums and we were looking

at my grandfather who was actually, who came from New Zealand, which I don't tell anyone that, especially Australians. So you are a Kiwi. We can claim you officially. I haven't got that. Maybe just one. We'll do kind of a Russell Crowe thing. You can have me when you need me, you know.

You guys can have Russell Crowe. We'll have you. If this ever gets out, you can always just claim deep fake AI. Yeah. Exactly. No, it was actually good to go through some photo albums with my mum and dad and see. He was a sheep farmer back over there and a bit of a horse wrangler

in Gisborne. So it was nice. Wow. Hey, well, very, very excited to have you on the show. And I can't wait to get amongst the next season of Below Dick Down Under. Thank you, Jase. Appreciate your time, man. Thanks.

I really appreciate it. Thanks, Clint. Thanks, Meg. Thanks, Dan. Thanks, Jase. Appreciate your time, man. Thanks. I really appreciate it. Thanks, Clint. Thanks, Meg. Thanks, Dan. Thanks, Jase. See you later. Hey, teams. And that was our chat with Jase from Below Deck Down Under. We're about to get out of here and jump on a plane and get to Christchurch. I'm just doing my

downloads. Oh, yes. I need to do that. Well, we've got Wi-Fi. Yeah. What are you downloading? I'm watching that awful movie with Amy Schumer. Oh, really? Almost Pregnant? Almost Pregnant or something. I don't know. I think I've just heard it so bad that I'm intrigued. Supposedly, though. Fun fact.

I was reading a story about- Ursula Carlson, apparently the best in it. Yeah, Ursula Carlson. She said she just randomly was sleeping, and she woke up. It was like 2 a.m. in the morning, and she was just like, check your phone. Her brain was like, check your phone. She goes, I never check my phone.

She was like, okay. So I rolled over, and Dan's back. Dan brain was like, check your phone. She goes, I never check my phone. She was like, okay. So I rolled over and Dan's back. Dan, we're on the fucking podcast. Oh, sorry. Oh, I'm sorry about that. That's how he enters the room, by the way. Only me. And then he goes, hey, man, roll in.

I'm fucked. Anyway. So this is the car we're talking about. We've been still stuck in my throat. Talking about how she's on that To Catch You Up. I'm fucked. Anyway. So Ursula Carlson talking about talking about she's on that to catch you up not everyone else needs to

on that TV show Almost Pregnant or Not Quite Pregnant whatever it is on Netflix. Amy Schumer. Anyway, Ursula Carlson she goes, right checks her phone

it's two in the morning and sees a text and it's from Amy Schumer which I don't know if she already had saved in her phone or if it was like hey Ursula

it's Amy I'm working on the script for this new Netflix show, and there's a character that I think you would be great in, do, no actually, no the first message is,

hey Ursula, it's Amy Schumer here, do you act? Oh my God. And then she was like, what the fuck? So she replies back, ah hey,

it's Ursula, yeah I guess, and then she goes on to say she's got this role and she thinks she'd be perfect for it, so Ursula does like a self tape, sends it over, and then, they were like, yeah, it's great.

You've got the part. Oh, my God. And then it was like she's in this next flick show with Amy Schumer. That's so cool. And I have read many reviews on it, and they say that the movie is trash from what I've read. But I don't mean to be mean to Ursula, but I mean the movie is trash. The movie sucks.

But every review I've read is that the saving grace is Ursula Kahn. Is that Ursula is the star out of that show. And so I was really intrigued to watch it because of that. And so far, she's great. And I guess it's like one of those things, whether you're doing a show that people have reviewed in a negative light, if you have done an incredible performance in it, I would imagine it springboards you into other things.

Totally. And you're still rubbing shoulders with people in the industry and you just want your name in certain conversations. And I think hers definitely is now because she's such a talent so I'm going to download Love is Blind it's been, I honestly probably didn't mention on here, it's been a bit of a grind

at the first few episodes but I really think the show takes off when they go on their honeymoons and then you get to see whether they actually get along now that they're physically hanging out and they can see each other Yeah and they can see the people that are turned down and stuff. Yeah. That's normally it.

They bring back the hottie that they said no to. Goodness me. It's so good. It's so scandalous. And Dan, what are you downloading? Well, I was actually going to recommend something. It's not a TV show, but it's a podcast. I've just started listening.

I know we're going to be listening to it on the plane today when we head to Christchurch. It's called Guilt. Who Killed Dave Davin? And I think it's actually an Australian. It's called Guilt. Who killed Dave Davin? And I think it's actually in Australia. It might be Australian or New Zealand podcast. It's one of the two. And, oh, my God, if you like murder investigations, I'll fuck you then.

I'll fuck you then. Only joking. Only me He's done Okay well If it's sound If Dan Persuaded you To listen to Dave Dobbin's podcast

About murder Dave Dobbin Was that it? Yeah Dan was it Dave Dobbin? Is it called loyal? Dave What was it?

Something Loyal but they weren't Dave Dan Who was it Dave? Loyal question mark Dave Dobbin got murdered Who got murdered? Okay, come on Dan

Dan, was it Dave? Dave who? We're sorry, guilty Dave Lutelli We were taking the piss Dave? Come on Dan You're going to finish your Weet-Bix in two bites

Then what are you going to do? Weet-Bix in two bites. Then what are you going to do? Hey, don't finish it yet. Do you want to call Wilkinson and show him? That's a deep cut. But we had a Zoom interview with Wilkinson, and Dan thought it'd be funny to show. I don't know if you thought it funny, but Dan,

let's see if this gets him talking. Dan was like, I'm having Weet-Bix. Have you got Weet-Bix? And then he showed him to prove it, like Dan was making up this crazy story. And Wilkinson's like, yeah, yeah. And then we wasted fucking about 30% of our chat time talking about Dan's soggy-ass Weet-Bix. Hang on, I'll purchase a cow here. I'll just insert it here for reference.

Oh, great. Thank you, Carl. You're welcome. You are good. Yeah, so it'll be nice. How early is it there? It's 5.40 a.m. in the morning. Oh, wow.

Yeah, I'm still eating my Weet-Bix. You can see there, Wilkinson. Do you have Weet-Bix, Wilkinson? Yeah, yeah. They dry ones. No, they're actually very moist. I crush them up. Anyway, this is boring chat.

I'm sorry. Hey, Wilkinson. Hey, man. I'm right. I never thought I'd be talking to Wilkinson about my mushy wet bics Just so you know, it's not something we discussed to talk to you about before you joined the call Dad, you must be finished by now

You're hooning it You're bloody shuffling it in Alright, well we'll leave it at that I hope you enjoy your Dave Dobbin podcast Yeah Okay see you guys Bye