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Below Deck Down Under - Season 3 Part 4 (w/ Fatima Sabdia)
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Finally - this dismal season of Below Deck Down Under is over! To trauma bond with Sam in the stu this week is Fatima Sabdia who is sad these crewmates didn't understand the assignment. Where was the sex? Where eas the drama? Well, at least we had Captain Jason’s kimonos. Harry and Bri kiiinda ended things well and Tzarina and Lara take gold in the pettiness olympics. That and some Vanderpump Villa, Bring Her Back, and The Valley.
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Intro
SPEAKER_03This podcast was produced on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.
SPEAKER_04Welcome to Australia. This is kind of tragic.
SPEAKER_03Someone who is such a connoisseur of reality television. The content is hideous.
SPEAKER_02So sorry about this. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03Are you comfortable?
unknownYes.
SPEAKER_03Fatima?
SPEAKER_01Thanks for asking, Sam.
SPEAKER_03You look comfortable.
SPEAKER_01I am. I love a guy that cares about my comfort.
SPEAKER_03That's me. That's this pod. The comfort of the guest is paramount.
SPEAKER_01Good. Yeah. And the comfort of the people that we're talking about.
SPEAKER_03Ooh. Probably not even involved in the conversation.
SPEAKER_01We're here to hurt some feelings.
SPEAKER_03We are. But I mean, I don't know. With this one, like I guess there's so many people podding about below deck. I feel like we're This is the only one I pay attention to. I feel like we're somewhere.
No One Watches Love Triangle
SPEAKER_03Like all the other shows I do, like, no one's fucking, like, no one's fucking talking about Love Triangle. Do you know what I mean? I didn't even know that was a show. Hey, it was good.
SPEAKER_01I like it. Is it kind of like an X on the Beach kind of vibe?
SPEAKER_03Sure. But in like Airbnbs in Sydney. I will die on the hill that Love Triangle was slept on.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I mean, that sounds fantastic. I haven't even heard of it.
SPEAKER_03And is it eight episodes? Chriselle hosts the reunion.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god, we love Chriselle.
SPEAKER_03We love Chriselle. I just love that she's getting money. You know?
SPEAKER_01I thought you were gonna say like pussy or something.
SPEAKER_03I don't know. Do you reckon her and G, you know, dabble outside of the relationship? Or are they hardcore monog lesbians?
SPEAKER_01I don't know. They give me the hardcore monog vibes.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Like Chriselle she seems like insecure.
SPEAKER_03But then they're always the ones. I don't know. Yeah. TBC.
SPEAKER_01Well, maybe like Chriselle plays outside the relationship, but it's not okay for G2. Maybe it's easy.
SPEAKER_03It's in the T's and C's.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god. Before
Vanderpump Villa
SPEAKER_03we talk about this binfire season of Belowdeck, are you watching Vanderpump Villa?
SPEAKER_01Yes. Thanks. Oh my god. Suck. Yeah, we yeah, we finished this episode.
SPEAKER_03You finished it. Okay. See, it crept up at like in the middle of the night.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Like it just came and went. Is Hulu doing this across the board? Now they just drop all of it at once.
SPEAKER_01I don't know. Hey, I thought, I guess I don't know, maybe they do. Maybe they finally realize that people like to binge watch it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. See, I like a week by week for obvious reasons. So I have so I have shit to talk about. No, Vanderman Villa, I'm only like three or four eps in. I've just got up to the crossover with the Mormon wives. With the mom, the mom talks. With Lisa Vandermann being me. There's these ladies from Mom Talks. I'd I've never heard of the Mom Talks, but they're sexy ladies coming to the villa.
SPEAKER_01It's a 10 out of 10, Lisa, first of all.
SPEAKER_03Thank you. Well done.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no, that episode is fucking crazy. Those wives are insane.
SPEAKER_03That episode was everything. Because first season of Vanderbump Villa, eh. Yeah. Wasn't great. This one, wow.
SPEAKER_01Oh, it's so good. And it only gets better.
SPEAKER_03Or does it? Great. So we need to talk about without don't spoil anything for me, but Adrian is the messy bisexual guy.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god, is he the one that doesn't fucking do anything? The one that's always napping.
SPEAKER_03All he does is naps. Jim looks at his like ridiculous body in the mirror. He's like a little short king nugget. And then he flirts because he's bi. He literally just flirts with every guest, regardless of their gender. But it's all about him. He I'm obsessed. He's a chaotic queen.
SPEAKER_01He is so chaotic. He was fully just there for the exposure. Doesn't actually know what his job is. No, I respect that.
SPEAKER_03Oh, me too. And in this cast, there is about a hundred people in this cast. Lisa has Lisa has hired the help, and they are there's a lot of cast members. So for him to shine, and when I say shine, I mean be the most toxic of the bunch. That's special.
SPEAKER_01It is. It is. He's really just really really reinforcing this whole thing of you know, less is more.
SPEAKER_03And so Stacy's there as well for absolutely no reason. She's like, Oh, my fiance is Italian. I'm like, okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and she's trying to get her Italian citizenship, citizenship for some reason. I don't know why she's a couple of things.
SPEAKER_03Good luck with that. But I love it. Oh, it's great. When Stasi is comforting Adrian and being like, tell me what's up, because he just starts crying on cue. He's like shirtless, look like looking snatched by the pool, and he just starts crying. And Stacy comes over and she's like, Uh what's wrong? And he's like, he's like, I'm a Virgo, you know, I don't need Wi-Fi for a connection.
SPEAKER_01He's got all these lines. Oh my god, all the lines. The edit of like her trying to figure out what the fuck he's saying.
SPEAKER_03And then Stacy goes to Lisa Vanap and Lisa's like, what's wrong with Adrian, darling? And she's like, he speaks in code. I'm like, no, he's just like Gen Z.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I love the bit where she was like, I can I can understand why everyone hates you.
SPEAKER_03This like therapy talk shit like needs to stop. It actually needs to stop. Like he's seen a therapist once or twice, learnt the lingo.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And then now it's just like weaponizes it. Yes.
SPEAKER_01And like just so it's like this is why people don't care about men's mental health. It's because you give him an inch, you take a fucking mile.
SPEAKER_03Chaotic bisexual Virgo.
SPEAKER_01Honestly.
SPEAKER_03No, I stand, I stand, Adrian. What a messy bitch. And then he's flirting with the guy from the challenge who's The one whose girlfriend was there.
SPEAKER_01He was flirting back.
SPEAKER_03And then how? I I thought it was kind of hot. The bit where he's like, Yeah, look, when we're back stateside, bro, we're gonna like catch up. I'm like, they're gonna fuck.
SPEAKER_01They're so gonna fuck.
SPEAKER_03I want to see it.
SPEAKER_01I mean, fair enough.
SPEAKER_03That poor girlfriend. She was like, ah, hello.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, is she involved at all? Is she like a cuck? Do you reckon she'd be part of it as a cuck or like?
SPEAKER_03I don't know, but I did think about it for more than an a normal person would.
SPEAKER_01Oh, interesting.
SPEAKER_03No, but I felt bad for it because yeah, he was just flirting outrageously with the other they gimbrowed out hard.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It was like she was too uncomfortable for them to have had some type of arrangement. I thought it was crazy that he like responded to the note. That note was like psychotic.
SPEAKER_03That note was I don't need Wi-Fi for a connection. I love that Hulu are doing they're coming for Bravo. They are coming to snatch Bravo's wig, I tell you. Like this crossover stuff, like with the mom talk girlies coming into the villa. Like, ooh, you better watch out, Andy. Because this I was all ready to not be on board, but I have zero brand warranty. I will watch whatever's good, I will watch.
SPEAKER_01Andy's just really on my nerves lately. No, I watch too much Housewives, too much housewives, and he has his favorites, and he's just like he's cunty and boring in not a fun way. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_03And it's how do you let Starcy go?
SPEAKER_01Like, like no, like that. No, she okay, no, let's not forget.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. She she just a problematic fucking queen. Well,
The Valley
SPEAKER_03Kristen Dirty's back on The Valley. You watching The Valley?
SPEAKER_01Not yet. Haven't started. Oh my god, dying to though.
SPEAKER_03So that show is the most depressing thing I think I've ever seen. Like it's honestly, yeah. So it's like it's too real for someone of my age group where it's like, yes, my friends are getting divorced now and like going to rehab, and it's like all of that, but on TV.
SPEAKER_02Woof.
SPEAKER_03It's yeah, messy divorces, drug addiction, but there's like children in the frame. It's yeah, see, that's gonna be used in evidence. Yeah, in like child protection.
SPEAKER_01Honestly, it's better. I saw like a little clip on TikTok about it, and I mean it immediately scrolled away, but they were insinuating that like Jax must have been so horrible because that child is not at all comfortable. That poor child.
SPEAKER_03That child is gonna be fucked up.
SPEAKER_01That's so sad.
SPEAKER_03Britney is your mum and Jax is your dad.
SPEAKER_01Like, that kid has no idea.
SPEAKER_03R IP, that child. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. The kid's gonna be the first one on like childish only fans.
SPEAKER_03Get it in foster care.
SPEAKER_01Like oh
Bring Her Back
SPEAKER_01my god.
SPEAKER_03Speaking of foster care, so I was lucky enough to go to a preview screening of Bring Her Back last night. Oh this is the new horror film by those like South Australian brothers. Great. The twins that did Talk to Me. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01No, I haven't watched it, but I have it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03You would laugh. I know. So Talk to Me was incredible. This movie was next level. Like it's disturbing, but weirdly beautiful and tragic. I'm not gonna say anything on this part about it because I'm conscious like it comes out later in the week and I want people to go, but just go, go see it. Even if you hate horror movies, it's pretty gory in part and shocking. Like there's a lot of shocking bits, but the story is just really incredible. Damn.
SPEAKER_01Love. All right, it's on the list.
SPEAKER_03Bring hair back. And I just love that, yeah. These guys are like single-handedly like catapulting Aussie horror. Like it was already good, but now they're just like bringing it to the masses.
SPEAKER_01Love that. We need that.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01We need that. I'm keen to I'm keen to watch it.
SPEAKER_03But key messages, the kids, the the children are not okay. We need a no we need a royal commission into I don't know.
SPEAKER_01Everything. Take your pick. There's been hundreds already. I know.
SPEAKER_03We need a royal commission into Vanderpump Villa, that's for sure.
SPEAKER_01Oh good God. I don't want to read that report.
SPEAKER_03It'll be a two-page report to say Adrian is fucked.
SPEAKER_01Or just print out the UN Declaration of Human Rights and highlight all of it is nah.
SPEAKER_03Alright,
Below Deck Down Under Season 3 Episodes 13-17 Recap
SPEAKER_03let's get into below down on that. Can I just say, thank fuck this season is over? It was tough towards the end.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, they did the thing where they like there's like a little bit of drama at the start of it, and then they keep fucking hammering it, like hoping that it's gonna get you involved in it. But it's so like they do this now.
SPEAKER_03Like, so we're gonna talk about the last five episodes today, but there really could have been three, let's be honest. Like, I think two of these were filler.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Can't tell you which two, because it's all merged into one. But uh yeah, two of these episodes did not need to happen. They could have just cutting room floor, yeah, I reckon.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I really do think that the whole season could have been cut. Yeah, it seems like okay. Well, I mean, look.
SPEAKER_03Well, it's below deck. It's like, what is it? Sex and pizza. Like it's it's even when it's bad, it's good. That's how I feel about below deck.
SPEAKER_01But see, I feel like well, Jason's not only the captain of the ship, but he's the captain of the audience experience.
SPEAKER_03And the captain of the kimono experience.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, more of that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Less of cat of Jason looking like he wants to kill himself. Because if he feels like that, so do I.
SPEAKER_03Can we get some eyes on Captain Jason? Yeah, is he okay? Does he need a mental health care plan? He was not doing okay.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03I do love that his response to all conflict that comes to him is oh, you guys should just uh sort that out amongst yourselves.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Fuck it hell.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's it's very Australian leadership, isn't it? Oh yeah, you guys can uh figure that out. Yeah, I've got kimonos to sell.
SPEAKER_01I'm not your dad.
SPEAKER_03No. Um let's talk about the cast. We'll start with Captain Jason. So you thought he was not not present. Dad was Judy.
SPEAKER_01Dad seems like he's really suffering the loss of Asia. And aren't we all?
SPEAKER_03Agreed.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, it looks like next season of this franchise we get Daisy.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_03Because I think Sailing Yacht is, for obvious reasons, done.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I didn't really get into Sailing Yacht. Sailing Yacht.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it was just too much of Daisy being like, Gary. Why don't you love me, Gary? So I think that's what killed it. Just Gary being a dick. But we I think we're getting her on down under. Don't go.
SPEAKER_01Okay, well, that would be fantastic. Because Lara swinging a fucking miss.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god. Let's let's talk about Lara next. What the fuck? I mean, this whole last trench of episodes in the season, it's all the it's the Lara and Serena show. And I'm firmly on Serena's side. I'm just gonna say that now. Cause like, and Serena is insane. Like, if you if you can have me defending Serena, there is something seriously wrong with you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. No, I fully agree. I fully agree. I I really wanted to not be on Serena's side just because she never really has any justification for her feelings.
SPEAKER_03Same, same girl. But there's a lot of them and they need to be heard. They do.
SPEAKER_01I can identify. Well, what should we talk about that?
SPEAKER_03No, please. I don't want to subject anyone to that. Yeah, no, Lara was a miss. I I doubt she'll be back on the franchise.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. What do you think her deal is? Do you think that she is in any kind of relationship? Why was she such a prude? Where did that stick, you know?
SPEAKER_03Well, apparently she was keen on Captain Jason, but that was really just tacked on at the end, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03The little montages of her like thirsting over Jason.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Sorry, I'm not bothered. It seemed more like, um, more like she just simply had daddy issues and he was a male of authority, and she didn't feel that he liked her.
SPEAKER_03She's also got eyes, so there's that. Like he's a sexy male.
SPEAKER_01But do you remember that like the episode earlier in the season where she just randomly starts talking about her like parents' divorce?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. And that was the closest we got to seeing behind the curtain of Lara.
SPEAKER_01I gotta say though, I'm so tired of this thing in like reality television. I get everybody has trauma and reasons why you know you do certain things or why you're a bit unhinged. But can it stop being like divorce and high school troubles? Like fucking hell. What are they? What shows are you talking about?
SPEAKER_03Like a parent's divorce? Yeah. Get over it. That's like the majority of people have divorced parents. Shut up.
SPEAKER_01And she said she was like three years old. Oh. If you haven't dealt with it by then, get some better trauma.
SPEAKER_03Of course.
SPEAKER_01Walk the plank.
SPEAKER_03I don't know what Laura's trauma is. She's a perfectionist. Maybe she's just English, you know. They do like to fuss about.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but she's missing the like the endearing and charming side.
SPEAKER_03Yes, she's like, yeah, she could be like an eccentric waitress. Like, did you watch Belodic Adventure with Faye? Oh, that one was so shit. But the best part of that was Faye was the chief stew. And she was kind of like a Lara but camp.
SPEAKER_02Oh, see, perfect.
SPEAKER_03Her whole thing was like, come on, ladies, like to the to the stews. She's like, come on, ladies, let's wear our hair up and put on lipstick. Like she was she was like really setting the movement back, but I kind of loved it.
SPEAKER_01I love that too. You can get away with anything if it's camp.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Lara needs to lol. And Lara needs, yeah, to get it.
SPEAKER_01Lara needs a good root. Yeah. 100%. 100%. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Uh Teren is next. So like also needs a good root. Yeah, but I reckon she's getting it. Like, she's able to get it. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01I have not seen that of her.
SPEAKER_03Really? You didn't see her like kiss rape, like Vian, who was very willing, and Alicia at the end of the show. Yeah, well I feel Zarina fucks.
SPEAKER_01Zarina can get a kiss, and that's the most I've seen. It seems like that's kind of her ceiling.
SPEAKER_03There's nowhere near enough sex this season.
SPEAKER_01Not at all. Did anybody even did anyone even have sex?
SPEAKER_03Well, there was, you know, punchy in the wall gate, which kind of killed. I feel like a lot of people were gonna fuck that night, but it all went south when old mate punched the wall.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I mean, probably an unpopular opinion, but I think that was a valid crash out.
SPEAKER_03Honestly, go online. Everyone agrees with you. Okay, good. A lot of people were like, and like I get it. We can't have we can't have like Bravo being associated with like not punishing a violent act. I totally get that. But that guy was kind of awesome.
SPEAKER_02That guy was so I loved Johnny.
SPEAKER_03Everyone feels that way online. Like, yeah, most people are like, oh, especially watching the end of the season. I was like, I would have loved Johnny and his big old Greek dick to be on the show.
SPEAKER_01Honestly. Honestly, that would have been great.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Uh let's talk about Brie.
SPEAKER_01Boring. Such a snooze.
SPEAKER_03And I stand by this. I think it was last ep, or I don't know, at some point on the pod, I was kind of saying that, like, I think this is a rare example on reality TV of a woman leading a man on, and I still and look what happened at the end. She she's not interested in Harry at all.
SPEAKER_01No, yeah, and she was only interested in him when it was threatened.
SPEAKER_03She needs to say, nah, mate, like he's there being like, oh, like bless. He's like, he's like kind of annoying, but also like he's just a dumb, silly baby. He's so non-threatening. She needed to be like Soz, babe, like, not the vibes. I don't want to stay in a hostel with you in New York.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that was just given princess. It's like, bro, like, hostels can be fun.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01You've literally just been sharing a room with two other people on this boat. What difference is a hostel?
SPEAKER_03Harry is in a place of hostel. Like he's giving 20-year-old, like, yeah, he's need he's gonna go backpacking and yeah. Go out to the touristy bars with a bunch of people he met at a hostel. He needs to go and do that. You know, we all need to do that.
SPEAKER_01We all need to do that. Yeah. Maybe then Harry will feel a bit more experienced with women and he won't have to take direction from Lara over every goddamn step in their relationship.
SPEAKER_03Whoop. Uh, Marina, what a queen. I actually, by at the start of the season, I thought she was boring. By the end, I was like, she's cool.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she was so unassuming. Absolute underdog.
SPEAKER_03And like honestly, probably the only like normal person on the boat.
SPEAKER_01A hundred percent.
SPEAKER_03And I liked her little fling with Nick. I thought that was a little bit more. Yeah, nerdy boy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that was adorable. And like both really hot. Alright, you lost me there.
SPEAKER_03Oh, you don't think who do who you don't think Nick's hot?
SPEAKER_01No. I think, well, I don't know. His personality is just kind of like, ah.
SPEAKER_03In like he looks yeah.
SPEAKER_01I mean, if he if I never heard him speak, I'd probably be like, yeah, he's alright. But good going.
SPEAKER_03You like the Star Trek reference at the end?
SPEAKER_01I just think as a society we should let Star Trek die. Let's have, you know, let's leave some more room for new, new and better television. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Um, Adair completely disappeared in this last quarter. Like, was not even involved.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Her only like story, storyline was that Wihan was interested in her.
SPEAKER_03And then when he left, she like her whole presence on the show left with Wii Han. And then also like she kind of sh she like shuttled some drama around, kinda. She was like there as like a sounding board, I guess, for the girlies when the girlies were going through it, but like whatever.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she was just a fucking fly on the wall. Didn't really do anything, didn't get involved in anything. She was hot though.
SPEAKER_03She was hot.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, at least she still has that.
SPEAKER_03There's one you can just tell who's gonna be back and who's not.
SPEAKER_01Who do you think's gonna be back?
SPEAKER_03Not her.
SPEAKER_01Not her.
SPEAKER_03I think we'll get more Harry. I think Harry had like some growth in both seasons that we've seen on him, and I think they'll keep that going. And like him and Captain Jason have a bit of a like father-son thing going on.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's cute. Yeah, that's cute. And he finally got that promotion he wanted, I guess.
SPEAKER_03I reckon they would have Nick and Marina back. Do you think? Well, like, I don't know, it depends. There could be some like if they stay together, but that could be cute. I doubt they're still together, let's be honest. But if they break up, that could be good too. I don't know, maybe it'll say something. Actually, fucking probably not.
SPEAKER_01Well, Nick didn't seem very good at his job. He seemed like so confused all the time.
SPEAKER_03I think that's why I liked him.
SPEAKER_01You like him a bit dumb? Yeah. A bit of a himbo.
SPEAKER_03Well, that's I know it's like Alicia or whatever, but I just can't not call her Alicia. Yeah. She was the sous chef. I liked her in the end. At the start, I was like, oh no. Yeah. What a fucking like annoying press. Presence.
SPEAKER_01Yep. She grew on me. She grew on me too. I yeah, I liked her. I kinda I just wanted her to fuck that dude though.
SPEAKER_03Say that dude was hot. He was really hot. Nate Salmon with the big chin. Hot guy. Just fuck. I agree. What this show needed was for them to just fuck, and then for her after that to go, yeah, not cane. But instead, she just kind of like flooded with him and then what a fizzle out.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I mean, that said though, he came on real strong.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Like real strong.
SPEAKER_03He did. And like he wanted a puppy who was dreaming of white picket fences and 20 dogs or something. I was like, calm down, mate.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's a little bit too far. I mean, just think a night ahead. I mean, you know, fuck first and then have these fantasies. Absolutely.
unknownAbsolutely.
SPEAKER_01You want to lock yourself into a shitty life.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Well, what's more suburban than that?
SPEAKER_03He's very suburban.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03I feel like we could see him back. Because someone else will fuck him for sure. Look at him.
SPEAKER_01Surely.
SPEAKER_03They need some sluttier girlies on the next season.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I just I don't know. I kind of just think that with reality TV, like people just fucking.
SPEAKER_03That whole concept is really kind of just disappearing. If you are not down to fuck on camera, what the fuck are you doing on a Bravo show? Get off my screen. How dare you?
SPEAKER_01Honestly.
SPEAKER_03I want penetration on a super yacht. Yeah. Why do you think we're all watching this show?
SPEAKER_01Honestly, yeah. It's kind of like, you know how in Couple to Thruple, they had like just so many shots of just things moving under the blankets.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we need nothing. That's what we need. I mean, on other seasons we get all that. I love like the hot tub parties when they get they get fucking wasted in the hot tub and they'll make out.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and you hear moaning from the bathroom. It's like, ooh.
SPEAKER_03The trailer for the new season of Below Deck Regular Flavor, which starts next week. Um, looks like they all fuck.
SPEAKER_01Perfect. Thank God. Thank God. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I love like the morning wood cam. You know, every now and then one of the like deckies like wakes up with like a raging cutter and they just like show it. And I'm like, thank you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, now that's what we want, at the very least. But I guess also on that, they showed the girls' asses like so much. There was that one scene of like Harry and Brie cuddling, and it the camera was just on her ass for like at least 30 seconds.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Love. They know what they're doing. They know what they're doing.
SPEAKER_03Well, I think that's most of the cast. Um yeah. Should we talk about these? Yeah. Episode 13 was called Lipstick Service.
SPEAKER_01Okay, what happened in that one?
SPEAKER_03Uh it picks up where we left off in the clerub, and Lara and Serena are having a very unproductive conversation, as always.
SPEAKER_01What about the fucking plates?
SPEAKER_03I think this was the mob wives plates. Yeah, this was plate gate. So I love this. The very important decision around what plates would be used turned into like the start of something beautiful, which was Lara and Serena just like fucking hating each other.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I mean, I I I'm glad that that happened. I'm glad that they started to hate each other and fight. I wish there was less of a focus on the plates and more, you know, personal digs.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, get yeah, make it personal.
SPEAKER_01Make it personal.
SPEAKER_03They invented a whole new brand of passive aggression that I've not encountered before. It was next level.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, that was rough.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Lara was so manipulative about that whole thing.
SPEAKER_03Well, and then Lara took it to a place of like, you referred to me as a stew and not the chief stew. And I'm like, oh my god, honey. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Like grasping at straws.
SPEAKER_03R truly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It's like, you said that I was late to work. You lied about me. Hey, you don't know my I don't know.
SPEAKER_03She's one of those gillies that needs a lot of constant praise and appreciation.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03But also, it's like sometimes you just gotta. It's maybe this industry's not for you then. Because I feel like it's so go, go, go, and you just kind of have to like suck it up. This is why I could never do this job. Because I would get frustrated at everyone immediately and leave.
SPEAKER_01Um, but then maybe you'd be so nah, but maybe you'd be better at it then, because you'd start shit.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I'd be great for the drama.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Not the fucking the yo, yeah. Don't fuck everyone on the drama.
SPEAKER_01It doesn't seem like you gotta be that good at your job. I mean, Weehan didn't do his and he stayed for ages.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, Nick. Half of the people in this cast, yeah, were just there to be pretty.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Nowhere near as much as on Vanderpump Villa, though. Those people don't those people have never even like worked. Half of them are like, I've never worked in hospitality before. I'm like, then what how did you get here?
SPEAKER_01Oh, it's just yeah, you're LA actors who do like hospitality. Yes, yeah, and all they really care about is getting drunk with the guests.
SPEAKER_03It's the guest experience. The Rose Day and Revelation's nightcap function, darling.
SPEAKER_01God, yeah, so good. God, yeah. The tackiness, just quickly on Vanderpump below, the tackiness of Lisa Vanderpump is getting a bit too unbearable these days.
SPEAKER_03She's so tacky.
SPEAKER_01So tacky.
SPEAKER_03It's like patchouli and it's all roses and uh diamonds and roses.
SPEAKER_01Diamonds and roses and oh fake gold and sparkles. Ugh.
SPEAKER_03Uh back to plate gate. So that continues to be the topic of conversation for everyone.
SPEAKER_01It's the only fucking manufacturer.
SPEAKER_03Well, you wouldn't and you would need something like this to happen, wouldn't you? Because otherwise it's like, what are we fucking talking about? No one's fucking so plates it is. Uh Alicia and Big Chin Nate are getting flirty. She's this is when she's into it. She's like, he's kind of like a playful puppy. I'm like, yes.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_03Get it, girl. I've I honestly at this moment thought they were gonna fuck.
SPEAKER_01Me too. I was hoping for it. Yeah. Yeah. No.
SPEAKER_03No. Nick and Marina also vibe in their own cute, nerdy way. Yeah, their relationship blossomed and was actually quite beautiful.
SPEAKER_01That was really it was actually really sweet.
SPEAKER_03And he pulls it on it. Like he kind of makes the first moves and like because he plays up to us in confessional that he's like, I'm just a nerdy, but I don't know how to talk to girls. And I'm like, shut up. Yes, you do. I think that was a bit of an act. Because he just like grabbed her on the dance floor past her, and I was like, you have game. More game than Nate Salmon.
SPEAKER_01Did you ever watch um I think it was F Boy Island, the one that Abby Chatfield hosted? And there was that dude that tried to save himself from you know getting evicted by saying he was a virgin. Yes. But he was just the biggest fucking player. Maybe it is the same thing.
SPEAKER_03He thinks that girls like the soft boy.
SPEAKER_01Could be. Something to think about.
SPEAKER_03Nate tells the captain and the rest of the team that Harry is now the lead deckhand. And everyone seems pleased. Um at this point, including Jason. But again, like did this stuff feel weird to you? Because like, I know Nate just appeared out of nowhere, and Harry kind of like showed him everything on the boat. I know I don't know anything about this biz, but sometimes it feels weird.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I guess I guess it makes sense in the way that like I guess every boat is different. Showing you where shit was or how they do things.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I don't know. Harry is pretty green.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03He just has that nervous energy of someone that doesn't know what they're doing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, there's nothing like trustworthy or dependable about him, I guess.
SPEAKER_03I truly believe that the promoting and demoting of people is like a plot device.
SPEAKER_01Oh, it's a power play. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I don't think it's designed to upset people. Because like I'm gonna tell you now that you're more important than other people, and then chaos always ensues.
SPEAKER_01Always. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Uh the next guests arrive. The primaries are a couple, Rebecca and Eric, who own an alternative clothing company in Los Angeles. They found some truly terrible guests this season. Yeah. But none that were like so terrible that it was fabulous.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they were just terrible in a way, like, oh god, these people suck. I don't want, I don't want to hear them talk. I don't want to know what about their fucking business.
SPEAKER_03There's like one night charter guest later that is he's like the CEO of like a headphones company. I'm like, no. Where are the porn stars and the housewives?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Where are the interesting party people?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Uh they seem easy enough to please, though. They love Serena's food. That's my gauge for that. If they love the food straight away, I'm like, there isn't a food. No, it's Serena. Like, when she wants to, she turns it out. That food looks good.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, sometimes.
SPEAKER_03But when she when she is in a bad place, ooh, yeah. It's like soups.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's soups, the fucking curry with the banana leaf on the plate every goddamn time.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, a lot of a lot of people requested like Seychellian food this time, and I was a bit like, don't do that. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Like maybe they assumed the chef was local. Because if they were, I'd be like, great, do that. But if it's like some white chick, I don't want do you know what I mean? Like, stick to what you're doing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't want it.
SPEAKER_03Exactly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, stick to what you know. Just make it good.
SPEAKER_03Uh then we get some anchor drama. This is so, yeah. Fuck, I hate it when they're just like, oh no. No little boat malfunction. Yeah, and then they end the episode on the boat malfunction. There's also like crazy swell and storm. And like the whole boat, I'm pretty sure from this point on, almost to the end of the season, the boat is like rocking. Struggling.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Doesn't look fun.
SPEAKER_01No. No, because in yeah, one of the like last couple episodes, jumping ahead now. But yeah, all those guests just got seized.
SPEAKER_03I tinfoil hat believe that the Bravo producers are like, turn off the stabilizers. They've got a remote control. Like, there's no drama. The guests, the crew aren't fucking, the guests aren't complaining. They just turn off.
SPEAKER_02Let's just ruin their experience.
SPEAKER_03Or they like throw, they like puncture a hole in the in the tender.
SPEAKER_01You know what? Yeah, I'm into that. I reckon they do. I think I believe it. Yeah. There is nothing those producers won't do.
SPEAKER_03That's true. Episode 14 is called Thin Ice. Nate is a sucker for a cutie patootie. See, he's this is where he this is where he fucked up with Alisha. He's like, shmoochie, goochie, boochie, gucci. And she's like, oh no.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's like at least like three months in. Like that's a relationship step after you've met the parents. You know? Yeah. You can't be going in hot like that.
SPEAKER_03True. You can't start with baby talk.
SPEAKER_01It's foul. And on camera, like and to double down on it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01No smoochie whoochie. Nah, mate. Ridiculous.
SPEAKER_03We don't want it.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Anyway, Alisha is occupied by uh the Lara Serena drama, which is building. Um Marina is on fire though. She's like, she's just kind of quietly killing it.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03At this point, she's like doing service really well. Because she was the girly at the start of the season that was like, don't worry about me, I'll just do laundry.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And then they're like, no, no, like there was, you know, a bit of contention over whether she should face the guests or not.
SPEAKER_01Lara just trying to hold on to every bit of control that she had.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and Lara, like shitleader to be like, no, no, just leave her there. It's like, well, when does she get like a growth opportunity? Yeah. Um, but she's killing it. And then things with Nick seem to be cute. I don't know. I like he thought she was gonna be chaos at the start of the season, and then she proved me so wrong. She's like so normal.
SPEAKER_01Like almost, yeah, too normal. I mean, I'm happy for her. It seems like she really got a lot out of the show. But we didn't.
SPEAKER_03We sure didn't. Lara and Serena continue to implode. Um, this time it's over like the temperature of some balls.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, fucking spare me.
SPEAKER_03I know.
SPEAKER_01It's funny how, yeah, like at the start, Lara seemed so capable, but the more it went on, the more she just became such a fucking baby about doing her job.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Oh no, the plates aren't.
SPEAKER_03I know. Terence did an interview on the Watch What Krapens podcast that I highly recommend people listen to. Because she basically she starts off like, I'm not gonna say anything bad about Lara, and then the whole podcast is her just like destroying Lara's character, and then at the end she's like, Oh, I hope I wasn't too bitchy, and it's like too late, and the the boys are just like, We recorded that. Uh, it's a great interview. But if you want to hear her just like assassinate Lara's character, go listen to her. It's so good. Because yeah, apparently Lara was whinging about Serena like having lunch with her ex or something, but then turns out Lara actually put her up to that. What? As like a test. She's she's messy, Lara. Lara is messy, and like it's so Serena is like an unhinged human.
SPEAKER_01So to Yeah, but that's what's kind of weird about it is that like Lara, like she could just simply say she doesn't like Serena, and everyone would be like, you know what, neither do we. But she's like making shit up to sort of justify it, and it's like it's so unnecessary. We get it.
SPEAKER_03I think she enjoys being a bit victim-y as well. And then so she's coming up with the staff, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she's coming up with the staff, and yeah, none of it actually makes any sense. Just be like, don't get along with her, she's annoying and weird, and we'd be like, Yep, great. Exactly.
SPEAKER_03And then apparently, like Sorina had suggested Lara come on the show to the producers as well. So it's like, ooh, so she even she like goes there. Oh yeah, it's spicy, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I gotta listen to that. I'll central link. It was good. Please.
SPEAKER_03Um at the tip meeting, Harry gets the helmet, which you know, on that tall lanky man, he's gonna topple over. How do you feel about the helmet?
SPEAKER_01I think it's a cute little bit. Oh, although it always bothers me that it's never as scathing as it could be. Like, I don't want I don't like this like cutesy, like, uh, like you didn't do a good job, everything's fine, but like here's a bit of humiliation. It should be like, no, like you really fucked up, you're on thin ice. Shame.
SPEAKER_03Oh, you want it to be serious. I want it to be serious. See, because I remember that when it first when this show first started and the helmet came out, I remember a lot of the like American viewers were really taken aback by like that's like bullying. And I'm like, Yeah, welcome to Australia, mate.
SPEAKER_01Like, I want it to I want I want it to be bullying.
SPEAKER_03I like that it's lighthearted, it's like you get to own your because I I love the idea that like everyone should just like wear their mistakes, you know. I think it's I think it's like genuinely quite a nice way to like grow. I agree in in real life, but on television, it's great because people like Alara who gets the hummer later, which we will discuss, and it just like destroys her, and it's so funny. But if you take can take it in your stride, it's like a test. If you can take it in your stride, that'll really impress the captain.
SPEAKER_01That's okay. You know what? That's a good point.
SPEAKER_03But some people freak out.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, no, some people do freak out, but then there's also some times where like someone like that really fucked up doesn't get their helmet. True, and you're like, well, what good is it then?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Well, yeah, I don't know. I think it's like if you can't realize that everyone is always striving to do better and like we all fuck up, like you're literally just you think you're like perfect. I do think I'm perfect, but yeah, but like I feel like that's what I like about things like this, they like shatter that that's fair.
SPEAKER_01That's fair.
SPEAKER_03This is what I think Jason wants it to do, and then it should make everyone kind of a bit more chill about improvement and like asking for help and all that stuff. It's supposed to like in you know, create a safe space. Yeah, really overthinking that, aren't I?
SPEAKER_01No, I mean I get I agree. I think I was just yearning for some actual drama and some tension this season. So I'm like, no, I think that they should bully the they should be bullied.
SPEAKER_03We started strong, like yeah, you're right. When those two boys got kicked off the boat, which were they the they were the only two fieres this season. Normally there's like a lot of movement in the cast. Oh, and the sous chef and yeah, oh yeah, he kind of walked. Yeah, yeah, still. Yeah, normally there's a lot more than three, isn't there?
SPEAKER_01I don't know. I always I'm always left with the impression that like Jason always just kind of teases it, you know. Like he'll like he'll really wait till it's fucked up to get rid of them when you're like, no, yeah, kick it off. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03The crew head out um with Lara and Serena strategically in separate vans. So it's like they can do the whole chat thing. And then at the restaurant, though, when everyone's at the same table, it's Groundhog Day of Plate Gate with more kind of bickering. But it's all very like in like behind backs and stuff, isn't it? At this stage.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, it is, it's all behind backs. Everyone's just being a little bit whingy. There's no real drama, and it's just kind of like, come on, like the the prerequisites for this show really do need to be can you confront people and are you down to fuck? That's all that matters.
SPEAKER_03You should be the casting director.
SPEAKER_01Don't tease.
SPEAKER_03And then they like, I think this is also where the the birth of the boys chat in the bathroom happens. And look, bless the edit edit team. They did a great job of like taking this pile of shit and going, do you know what? Yeah, let's put a little bow on top of that pile of shit. Yeah, we're like, let's make a little segment called like boys' chat in the bar. I thought it was cute.
SPEAKER_01I liked it because we always get the girls' chat in the bathroom period.
SPEAKER_03I like the I like anything that challenges gender norms, I'm here for. Even though it was like a little bit lame. But then it made me realize that these boys are like a little bit soft.
SPEAKER_01They are, and I guess it was refreshing to not just have them be like, oh yeah, she's so hot. Yeah. You're gonna fuck up. Yeah, I'll fuck her. It was like feelings, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Normalize boys and their feelings in the bathroom. And in the bathroom, that's normalized.
SPEAKER_01I think that's pretty normalized, babe.
SPEAKER_03In some circles. Uh so shit's going down. Uh episode 15 is called Smoochies, which wow. Smoochies is the word of the season.
SPEAKER_01Smoochies is rough.
SPEAKER_03Um, the romantic vibes of the night are settling in despite the tension between Lara and Zarina. So, yeah, there's that going on in the four, but then also we've got Alicia and Big Chin Nate having a flirt. Uh, although she's like still hesitant to jump in after Johnny. Do you think she's like still chatting with Johnny at this point? I think every now and then they show them texting, don't they?
SPEAKER_01Well, they did when he first left, and then they stopped after Nate came around. But then it's also just like, you didn't fuck him either.
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_01Like, what's the what's the whole thing? I mean, I guess she just felt guilty about getting him kids kicked off. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well not her fault, but at this point, this is when she goes, um, I I hit the fuck it button, she says, and she makes that with Nate. So yeah, but that's it.
SPEAKER_01Not good enough. Not good enough. Anyone can make out. Exactly.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, she makes that with Sarina at the end of the show, so you know Which was incredibly hard to watch. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I can't believe they ruined girls' kissing.
SPEAKER_03Uh the next day, in an effort to appease Jason, Lara pulls Zarina aside um to try and mend the situation, but it doesn't really go anywhere. What did you think of Jason's efforts to like mediate this?
SPEAKER_01Was this after Lara had a bit of a whinge about the helmet? I think so.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I know I don't think she's been given the helmet yet. Oh yeah, no, Harry had the helmet the night before. I think this is just the first time she kind of whinges about it all.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, and he's just like, nah, you guys gotta figure this out. Yeah, your heads of department.
SPEAKER_03Heads of department.
SPEAKER_01Heads of department.
SPEAKER_03You guys gotta just sort it out.
SPEAKER_01Figure it out amongst yourselves. Daddy's busy.
SPEAKER_03Oh no, oh god, this is so petty. Lyra complains that Serena hasn't apologized for falsely accusing her of being late. Like, that is a sentence. Like, what the fuck?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Shut up.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I remember, I remember the scene now. And then, yeah, she kind of like walks away or something. She doesn't want to talk about it anymore. She likes
SPEAKER_03She has like some full like pan attacks, but they're very like Jamae panic attacks, you know? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Like, uh. Yeah. Yeah, no, they're super fake, ill-contrived. Just classic victim shit. It's like, come on, Lara.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Nothing happened.
SPEAKER_03And then Serena points out that, well, Lara hasn't apologized for like anything during all of their fighting. So it's kind of, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then she's like, tell me what you want me to be sorry for, and I'll say it. Like, bro.
SPEAKER_03This shit drives me nuts. It's like, just make something up. Like, I don't know. It's so easy. I just find apologizing so easy. Some people just can't do it. Yeah, like shit up.
SPEAKER_01They're literally just too proud.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Can't you just be like, oh yeah? Because if you're fighting, clearly there's yeah.
SPEAKER_01I mean, you've done something. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, even just a simple, I'm sorry for everything. I'm sorry for what I did. You can be vague. That's enough.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03Sorry for my eyebrows.
SPEAKER_01Sorry for my horse-like face that makes you pity me like Bojack. Oh God.
SPEAKER_03Nick and Marina continue to go well until he calls their kissing smoothies. Which gives Alicia the ick. She says, in her words, my vagina folded back into itself. I like it becomes it's like a public discussion. It's like everyone's business, this.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03The smoochie's chat.
SPEAKER_01I mean, yeah, I mean, you gotta consult the forum on that.
SPEAKER_03Because Nate kind of like commandeers it, doesn't he? And he's like, that's when he starts getting in on the smoochie whoochie chat.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Well, I don't know. What what's your take on the smoochie moochie?
SPEAKER_03Would that be a I think it with Nick, it checks out because he's like a nighty guy. I think we what we want from Nate is someone that's fuckable.
SPEAKER_01That's true. That's true. I mean, I will say, as much of an ick as this moochie thing is. Big chin Big Chin Nate.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01He's kind of hot enough that it that you can you can let it slide. You could.
SPEAKER_03Also, have you seen them? These girls like have they seen the men that are normally on this show?
SPEAKER_01Like what? Just take a fucking look at Harry.
SPEAKER_03Exactly.
SPEAKER_01I mean, bless him, but there's nothing to write hard about.
SPEAKER_03They they gave you such a hot dick.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Get involved anyway.
SPEAKER_01Honestly. You know what the worst part about that too is that like Weehan was there and there was so much interest, but nothing happened.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Nothing happened.
SPEAKER_03I know.
SPEAKER_01Truly disappointing. Very sad.
SPEAKER_03Um oh then we get the one night charter guests. Which I'm like, how annoying. One night?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03They're gonna like make all the beds. I just don't think they should allow that.
SPEAKER_01I agree.
SPEAKER_03They would drive me insane as a staff member.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But then I guess they kind of have to just like redo everything anyway every night.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I don't know.
SPEAKER_03This is where Brie tells Lara that she's not ready for a full-on relationship so soon after breaking up with her ex-fiance. But uh episode 16, which is called Come Swell or High Water, starts with Harry wanting to be exclusive.
SPEAKER_04Fuck me. Do I want to be exclusive?
SPEAKER_01That conversation with Harry asking her about their, I guess, trying to define their relationship. Worse than smoochie.
SPEAKER_03I agree.
SPEAKER_01Horrible.
SPEAKER_03It's it's does he not realize how despot he's been? Like, you should not have to convince someone to be in a relationship with you by like using different language.
SPEAKER_01But also like it's like what?
SPEAKER_04She's not into it.
SPEAKER_01Well, but also like figure out what exactly you want to ask her and then just ask her. Don't just like go through this monologue of word vomit to eventually end up as like exclusive partners. Well, no, because he's doing it because she doesn't want to be just gulfs, but he just kept talking and she didn't really have a chance to actually say anything.
SPEAKER_03But again, I think she needed this she needed to put the foot down and go, honey. Semantics aside, uh, we're not we're not together.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Whatever you want to call it. I do feel for Harry though, because the whole time he was trying so hard to play it cool, and he was playing it so cool until the moment that it mattered. I know.
SPEAKER_03And that's oh yeah, and he does and he's a sensitive little baby, and he gets sooky.
SPEAKER_01He does get sucky.
SPEAKER_03Well, she was like kind of turned on when he cried. Don't you think? I think she liked him when he got real silky.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think that made her feel a bit better about herself. Yeah, I don't know. She had something to offer.
SPEAKER_03I think yeah, Harry needs to be protected at all. Harry does need to be protected. Sweet angel.
SPEAKER_01I mean, he would have actually had so much more of a chance if Lara just didn't get so involved. Like, whenever Brie was feeling a certain type of way, she'd be like picketing for Brie's benefit or whatever. Telling Harry like to do stuff. And it's like, why didn't you figure it out?
SPEAKER_03I just found it hard to watch her going along with it. The exclusive thing. And then did they like FaceTime her mum?
SPEAKER_01Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03What the fuck?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and he's talking, and he was the one to tell the mum, and she barely responded.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, because they've like been texting the night before, and she's like, I'm I'm gonna tell this guy it's not going anywhere.
SPEAKER_01I just don't think that you should be calling the person you're seeing's parent mummy unless you're in a relationship. And even still questionable.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_01That's so bizarre.
SPEAKER_03Uh after that hot second away from Lara and Serena drama, we head straight back into it. This time Lara's crying over the helmet. Um we got uh she complains that Jason never congratulated her on a good job and then fucking hats off to the editors because then they cut straight to a montage of Captain Jason being like, Great job, Lara, you're amazing! Like, fuck, that was so good.
SPEAKER_01That was so good. I love yeah, I love before this that when she gets into it, where she's like, I don't know what I did wrong. It's just like he he told you when he gave you the helmet.
SPEAKER_03Even the editors were like, fuck this bitch.
SPEAKER_01Honestly.
SPEAKER_03Because she's she fully is there in full conviction, being like, he's never said well done to me ever. And then they're like, roll the tape. Also, he don't you realize like the helmet, it's a gift, it's your opportunity to be like, look how cool, calm, and collected I am. I can be given this and make it look stunning. Yeah. She really could have taken that helmet, and it was her gateway to the high road. And that petty bitch said, Nope. Nope. And meanwhile, the boat is like turbulently rocking at this point. This is like Spew City.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I mean, I love that they kept the mic on for that poor guy lost his dinner.
SPEAKER_03And then they use the sound so much. Like they cut to like an ad rec and it's like they kept playing it.
SPEAKER_01That was foul. I mean, yeah, okay. We wanted to hear stuff from the bathroom, but not that.
SPEAKER_03No, yeah. Holy god. Uh Terena and Lara have another brief tiff over breakfast service communication. It's just like unstable. Do you think they were secretly hating on each other like the whole first half of the season as well, and then just like it erupted now? Like, what like how did the floodgates open?
SPEAKER_01See, I think that Lara always hated Zarina. Didn't really try to hide it, but Zarina in her like, you know, idiocy thought that everything was fine and they were friends. And I think it kicked off because Zarina was caught off guard when she was like, oh, that bitch hates me.
SPEAKER_03It's good casting to bring on an existing friendship and then watch it just crumble.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. But I mean, anything with Zarina is gonna be a mess.
SPEAKER_03She's one messy diva.
SPEAKER_01We love her. Yeah, we do.
SPEAKER_03But I just like her because yeah, she's so messy, but so self-aware. Like she's the first to say that she's a mess. That's why I like her.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, I think it's I think I do think it's funny when you get people that are so self-aware, but they they can't change any of their shitty behavior.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01They just keep doing it. You know what? You know what? Yeah, that's fine.
SPEAKER_03You know what? I've tried everything and like this. Maybe I'm just a bit shit. She's kind of like that, and I love that. Whereas like Lara is the opposite. Whereas like she's fake as five. Fucking think she's like Queen of Sheba. She's up there, yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's just Queen of Sunday.
SPEAKER_03She's a pearl cluttress.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah. Um yeah.
SPEAKER_03The eyebrows said it all. I said I called it day one. But don't do not trust those eyebrows.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, no, those eyebrows are stuck in 2016, aren't they? It's too much. It's too much.
SPEAKER_03Uh Nick and Marina seem stable. However, um, Marina knows that she should like manage her expectations because they live in different continents. Um, and Nick is like unsure as well about what's gonna happen post-show. And again, like this is like a normal person response to this situation.
SPEAKER_01Wow, totally.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Uh Marina, though, she's not ready to call quits, but she's just like she's just kind of protecting herself a bit, which I think is cute.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I thought that was so cute. You could tell, like, she really liked him and she was kind of just trying not to get hurt. Yeah. But you could tell all she wanted to do was just like bring him with her.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01Cute. She's a good one. Love it.
SPEAKER_03And then this was when Nate is dreaming of white picket fences and dogs and babies and everything in some pro Yeah. I can see him, yeah. He's like in a master planned estate out in that trad wife. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03We get another guy's bathroom chat. Um, and then we end on some boat drama, which what can I say? My least fave.
SPEAKER_01Bull ring. So boring.
SPEAKER_03That, yeah, episode 16, I think, was probably the floppiest. Yeah. Because the end, nothing ever is gonna happen. The final episode is always just like wrap up, they like wash up all the storylines. There's never any like new drama introduced. So it's like the one before it needs to be good, but this season it wasn't.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, there was nothing really to tie off because it had all just fizzled by itself.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Episode 17, the finale, thank fuck, is called Never Can Say Goodbye. Um, they give us a recap of like the whole season at the start, and I was like, oh, I was like, actually, this was good. They just needed to, yeah, condense it. Condense it because there was some good shit going on. We had Harry crying, Johnny hitting the wall, Leon being toxic, Serena being nuts. Honestly, it was pretty good. It was pretty good, but yeah, fizzled hard.
SPEAKER_01Fizzled way too hard.
SPEAKER_03We pick up with this tender drama. So it's like what Nate did something with it. I just my uh I lose interest so hard when it's about the boat.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. No, I mean, fair enough. It's it is just fucking boring because nothing breaks, there's no like damage, it's all fixable stuff.
SPEAKER_03There's like engineers there who occasionally come in and they're always like kind of hot.
SPEAKER_01Oh, we'd love the engineers.
SPEAKER_03Did you see what one of them was really hot who came in to like push the tender away or whatever? Like, where is this guy? I know.
SPEAKER_01Why are they hiding?
SPEAKER_03Why is no one fucking him?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I feel like maybe that's what they should do the next time that the main car storyline kind of sucks.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Literally go to the engineers. What are they doing? What's about them? Make them play little games.
SPEAKER_03They introduce them at the start of the season, and then that's it, and you never say that again. And the boat drama, like it's always inconsequential, really. I mean, like, when have they ever like had to actually like stop the whole show because the boat's sinking? Like, never. I would love that.
SPEAKER_01Never. And how many times does it almost hit the dock, causing millions worth millions of dollars worth of damage, and then it doesn't? And they're like, ugh. If you're gonna edge me like this, at least make it worth it in the end.
SPEAKER_03It is edging. But then thankfully, we get more Lara and Serena drama. This time over, I died over this. The seven course menu. What the fuck is Lara's deal? Like the guest specifically wanted it, it was on the sheet, they knew it was happening. Seven courses. She's like, Oh, that's a lot of work, like carrying seven courses up.
SPEAKER_01We don't we only have two sets of cutlery. It's like just say you don't want to wash the fucking dishes. It's not about the courses.
SPEAKER_03Also, it's your job.
SPEAKER_01It's your job.
SPEAKER_03Literally your job, don't you?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and if it's taking you more than like what, one course to wash cutlery for like 10 people, yeah. That's on you, babe. You can do that pretty quick. Totally. Yeah, yeah, that was pathetic. And then she made Zerena go and check with the guests.
SPEAKER_03But also, like, after everything that's happened, doesn't she realize like eyes are on her? Just I would it's the la last dinner service of the whole fucking season. Just suck it up. She couldn't do it, she couldn't help herself.
SPEAKER_01Oh no.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01No, she was yeah, she was burnt out. She couldn't do it anymore. Yeah. It was those damn stairs.
SPEAKER_03Nate redeems himself from the tender drama by dressing up as a pirate. That was he looked kind of hot.
SPEAKER_01He looked kind of hot. I hate to say it.
SPEAKER_03It was cringy. It's so cringy when they do all these like activities.
SPEAKER_01So cringy. Yeah, and you're like, who actually wants this?
unknownI don't know.
SPEAKER_01It's like, do the guests request this or is it just is it just some random fucking Who in their right mind is like, I want a childlike treasure hunt when I'm paying for like a super yacht?
SPEAKER_03Like, no.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I feel like if the cameras weren't there though, it would just be like drugs, talkers.
SPEAKER_01Oh god, yeah. Yeah. But they even like all these guests like didn't even seem to drink that much. Because there's so many, there's so many other ones where like the interior staff are just talking about how stressed and busy they are because you they just keep asking for drinks. And like, no one did that.
SPEAKER_03I'd cry when I'm watching this show and they like the people don't even drink, or let's have dinner and go to bed. I'm like, this is your like one nine on a super yard. Like, what? Yeah. Drink all the they've got everything back there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. How boring can you be? Did we also just on the stupid fucking kids party thing? Did we talk about the circus event?
SPEAKER_03Oh my god, I'd rather rather forget that.
SPEAKER_01So would I, but it just came to mind.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, when they did the circus thing.
SPEAKER_01That was I think the first time that like the stabilizers they didn't work, and the whole setup just kind of was blown away.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then they did that really, really unfortunate circus performance with Harry as a giraffe. Bree as the teamer.
SPEAKER_03Why? Look, just get them naked. Like, there's no you don't need an excuse. Just be like, all right, boys. That's yeah. It was me. Like the theme is Dixie.
SPEAKER_01Just be naked, yeah. That's it. The theme is beefcakes. Where's what you have? Beefcakes.
SPEAKER_03And it was their last dinner. So of course, uh Alicia and Zerena come out in silly chefs' hats. Like they've been wearing them all season. I died. I was like, why are you wearing these hats?
SPEAKER_01I died at Zarina's entrance. Like what? Like that was the most yeah. Like she did like her Wallau impression.
SPEAKER_03Just like the grace of an elephant. She walks in, she's like, oh, boom! And that hat's kind of like ill-fitting on her head.
SPEAKER_01Oh she's just Oh, bless her. She can't really pull off a lot, you know?
SPEAKER_03The guests apart. Uh, we toot the horn on the season, and it's like, yay. And then, yeah, really, this is now the part traditionally where it's like the couples all have to decide like, are we doing this or was it a bonance?
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_03And like spoiler alert 99% of the time it's see ya.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they yeah, they go on their trips away that they've planned, realize they hate each other.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, on the trip, they yeah, they get to the hostel in New York and they're like, This was a terrible mistake. I need my mommy's Alicia, like uh really strangely backs out of the night thing. She just kind of like says the kissy wissy. She goes, You said kissy wissies. And he's like, Well, actually, I said smoochy woochies. I'll stop you there. Uh but then that's kind of it. I was like, oh, and climax.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, then she was just like, I just want to focus on my career. Like, I came in here, like I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I've like found this passion for cooking, and now I just I'm gonna go to culinary school.
SPEAKER_03That's right, because she had like next to no experience.
SPEAKER_01Which is like, how did she get the job?
SPEAKER_03She also applied for Vanderpump Villa, I reckon. And they were like, nah. She got the job because she's hot. That's true, she is. If not a little basic. Definitely, yeah. But hey, yeah, no, I this annoyed me to no end. Like, so yeah.
SPEAKER_01What just yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, stop trying to make it wholesome, you know. It's like that's not what we're here for.
SPEAKER_03Exactly.
SPEAKER_01Want the drama.
SPEAKER_03And then with Brian Harry, this is so awkward. Like, not only has he already like forced her into a exclusive arrangement, but then now he's like, Oh, what did he say? He's like, Oh, because you're my GF. Oh no! He like GF.
SPEAKER_01No, because the night before the night before when they're getting all messy.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's right.
SPEAKER_01And Alicia's decided to make out with Serena before that. She was grinding up on Harry. Bree gets super jealous, and then in the in the car on the way back, she forces she's called him boyfriend.
SPEAKER_03That's right, that's right. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01And then she does, she even says something.
SPEAKER_03He was like jackpot, I'm pocketing that. He's like, I'm in now. She's accidentally slipped up.
SPEAKER_01No, she wanted that. I think it was just a classic case of you're not interested until someone else is. I forgot about the grinding.
SPEAKER_03I think it's because I just checked out of their relationship. I wasn't that into it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I thought that she was literally just like dancing and just Harry was like behind her. But then when I guess in Brie's recollection, it was like a full like thrusting situation.
SPEAKER_03It's like we we could only Harry.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Harry just Harry does Harry Disney.
SPEAKER_03Nah, mate. Yeah. Oh, that's where he got it from. I thought he was just like hood, but he was like GF, which is again classic Harry, like he like abbreviates it to make it cute. I was like, no, Harry, stop. Just walk at this point, just like walk the plank.
SPEAKER_01Please.
SPEAKER_03There is no way in hell they are still together now. Like, I haven't checked, but like I'll surely not.
SPEAKER_01I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Have you deep dived?
SPEAKER_01No, I didn't deep dive, but I don't know. Like early in the season, Bree's talking about her fiance or whatever, and they show like a picture of the fiance. He looked exactly like Harry.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I feel like that I feel like there is a chance that it could work.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Probably not.
SPEAKER_03Uh no. I reckon he stayed at that hostel solo.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, they came back to the room one night and people were fucking and she just left. Just not built for it.
SPEAKER_03They head out on their final night out on the town. Oh, I love this. Serena like cheers. She's like, cheers to Lara. I was so lucky to have an incredible switched-on Chiefs show. I really am so lucky. I was like, what the fuck, girl?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03No. And Lara's like in confessional, like, wow.
SPEAKER_04It's like not buying it.
SPEAKER_03This is the one time I'm like, yeah, I'm on Lara's side with this one. Like, that was so unnecessary. But this is, I think this is how uh Zarina's like anxiety presents itself, you know?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But at the same time, I could see how Zarina would think that like that was fine to say, because they did have that like makeup session.
SPEAKER_03It's landing on thick, though. It is absolutely laying it on thick. The makeup session is one thing, but in front of everyone being like, oh, my best friend Lara. And she's got the most beautiful eyebrows I've ever seen. It's like, come on. We all know you're like, you know. It's like, wow. Took it too far.
SPEAKER_01Well, I guess we knew which girl Zerena wanted to make out with.
SPEAKER_03Mm-hmm. Uh Nate gets his balloon popped by Alicia, who's not that into him. And we get we get a final boys' bathroom chat, little simple chat.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it was cute.
SPEAKER_03Uh, and then Marina dances in the rain. And it was hot.
SPEAKER_01Marina was so hot dancing in the rain. I hated that it started with Zarina like doing whatever the fuck she was doing in the sand.
SPEAKER_03And then Alicia and Serena ruin it by having a unattractive make out. And Nate was like kind of like, oh okay. Like he was like, because everyone. Oh, also they like cut to everyone being like scandalized by it, which was so stupid. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01And we actually did get a Lara clutching her pearls moment. Yeah, she was like, oh my god, what is happening?
SPEAKER_03And then Nate's kind of jelly, because that's like he didn't get that. And it's yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but that's kind of she should have just it's the last night.
SPEAKER_03She should have fucked him.
SPEAKER_01She should have fucked him. Yeah. I I don't know. He did dig his own grave, though. It's like you can't ask a woman to just fuck you in a casual way if you're also being like, have my babies.
SPEAKER_03True. Live to the suburbs with the baby stuff, I think, was like separate to her, but then he but then just like don't say that at all.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but I mean he's still angling for that. He wants to settle down.
SPEAKER_03He yeah, but maybe not with her. I don't know. He should have just not at all gone there.
SPEAKER_01He yeah, he really shouldn't have to go. Fun time that a long time. Absolutely. Stop slinging your expectations on potential like fuck buddies. Like, damn.
SPEAKER_03We also get a Nick and Marina making out of the rain, which I thought was cute.
SPEAKER_01That was cute.
SPEAKER_03And then they all say one uh goodbye to Captain One by One, which this bit's always this is when I'm like, all right, the season's done. Yeah, yeah. They come in like bye Captain. It's always, oh, thank you so much. Oh my god, I've gr I've learned so much. I've changed as a person.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's like thank you so much. You were the best captain. Like, I'll come back if you want me to.
SPEAKER_03Send me that kimono. I'll post kits in it. It's like, okay. And Nate's like, well, I'm leaving without a woman. It's like, okay.
SPEAKER_00Wham way.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and then Lara leaves and they give us a montage of her being thirsty after Jason for one last time. And then we end with Harry and Captain, who's kind of like a proud dad, because you know he had his ups and his downs.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03He was such a little gossip girl too, which I kind of loved.
SPEAKER_01Oh, it was great.
SPEAKER_03He was when there was drama, Harry was like, there.
SPEAKER_01That is the best thing about Harry is like he is just he just flits around, gets kind of gets involved, kind of doesn't, just adds fuel to it sometimes. Yeah. Oh, that's great.
SPEAKER_03I wish them well.
SPEAKER_01I wish them well.
SPEAKER_03Journey. Most likely separately.
SPEAKER_01Most likely.
SPEAKER_03Oh, Fatima, thank you so much. Oh, thanks for having me. Trauma bonding with me here.
SPEAKER_01I feel a lot closer to you now.
SPEAKER_03Me too. I feel like we lived through a very boring season of Belowdeck Down Under.
SPEAKER_01How did we do it?
SPEAKER_03I don't know, but I'm looking forward to the next one. It's I'm I'm a g I'll do it. You're a button for punishment. I just this show is it's fucking crack, man. Every week I'm like, there's Mambaloneck, man. Yeah. We've gotta get my Mum Balonick man. I need my fix. It's I'm getting twitchy just thinking about it now.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I need my sexual repression and like petty drama.
SPEAKER_03And we're starting again next, same time next week with uh Captain Kerry. Who how do you feel about Captain Carey?
SPEAKER_01Captain Carrie, he's the bold one.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I mean, wait, is he the is he the one that's like really harsh about maritime law?
SPEAKER_03I love it.
SPEAKER_01He's so kind of loved it too.
SPEAKER_03He's harder than like he makes Jason look like such a little bitch.
SPEAKER_01He does.
SPEAKER_03He's like, I won't stand for it, I won't tolerate it. Get out, get off my boat.
SPEAKER_01At first I didn't like Kerry because I was like, oh, how boring. And then you know, I I came around. Kerry really keeps it going. And he's really bogan.
SPEAKER_03Like guests will come on, they'll be like, We're from I don't know, California. Like, where the fuck's that? That new kabucha. Like he hasn't like he's no idea what's going on. But he's I'm I don't get that. I'm like, you like sail the world.
SPEAKER_01Hey, he's good with the sea, not the land.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh all right, teams.
SPEAKER_03Um, I'll see you next time.
SPEAKER_01See you next time. Thanks for having me.
SPEAKER_03Oh, my pleasure. Bye bye.
SPEAKER_01Bye.
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