#2987 Below Deck S12E14 Part 1: Don’t Speak

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1:59Ronnie Karam: Who cares what happens when there's so much that crappens?

2:25Ben Mandelker: Amazon live last night. I went over to Ronnie's house to give him his birthday gift. And then we played video games and did Amazon live together. And you all should watch it. Cause we always act like two little kids when we are sitting together and on camera,

2:38Ronnie Karam: we were playing the quest. What is it? The quest three virtual reality stuff. That was really fun. I got to watch Ben play golf. Well, it was pretty fun. And a few daily. And so, yeah, we had a good teenage boy day. Today is Below Deck Day, okay? If you want these on video, go over to Patreon. If you want them a week later, you don't care about getting them fresh, you can get them free on YouTube at our Watch What Crappens channel. Also on Patreon is where you get our bonus episodes. We did a three-hour Love Island last week, which was a lot. And this week we're going to probably do Real Housewives of Potomac trailer trash.

3:17Ronnie Karam: Yeah. Because that just came out. A Below Deck trailer just came out too, but honestly, it looks the same. It's a bunch of fuck boys. I didn't watch each other except this time. There's also captain Sandy, you know, offering a hug after everybody gets fucked up. So that should be fun. It has been kind of weird having a little lighter schedule. We're not used to that. I mean, Bravo has been lightening up and then now we've got make B leaving. I mean, what the heck, what are we supposed to do? Well,

3:48Ben Mandelker: some things we can consider a blessing. I think we're about to get Salt Lake City coming back Potomac is coming back we will have a below deck med I'm sure there'll be some other things but I agree it is kind of lighter I'm sort of enjoying it I mean I'm enjoying this sort of casual but we need to have our Bravo though like we could only have so much downtime okay so like let's fill the Bravo coffers again Let's get some shows up and running. But for the meantime, it seems like this below deck is winding down. The end is nigh. They have one charter left. I just want to say something that I think we've said before, but I feel like it's just important just to say it now.

4:34Ben Mandelker: Like, Fraser, it's been, I think, three seasons of him being Chief Stew. I just don't know if he's up for it. I just don't think he can do it. I don't. I don't think he's a manager. I think he is someone who is detail-oriented, and I think that he's probably a good obeyer. But I feel like when it comes to watching him manage his staff season after season, I just fear that this is not his strong suit. And he always talks about trying to grow and trying to get better. But I feel like when Jess gives Soso the reprimand that's stronger than Fraser, that's not good. You can't have Jess be the one who is a better chief Sue than Fraser is.

5:21Ronnie Karam: Well, yeah, I mean, I think Fraser probably plays to the audience, you know, because he mentions a lot. Like, well, first I said I was this and then they said I was that. And I think he means the audience, you know, like he like he says in this episode. I'm trying to change my managerial skill because I was too confrontational last time. And then now I'm trying to do this. It seems like he finishes the season, reads what people are saying and tries to adjust instead of just doing a good job. You know what I mean? Like he's trying to win points with the audience. He's too affected by the audience.

5:56Ronnie Karam: And I think it's got to be really hard when you're a reality star to, and I'll use that term lightly, but to read all the shit that's said about you online. And we see it with housewives all the time trying to adjust their behavior. And it just ends up screwing you over because then you're trying to be someone else. And if you can't even be yourself that well, you're certainly not going to be anybody else that well. And I think it ends up screwing him over. And Fraser is suffering from that. I saw something. He was doing an Instagram Q &A thing where they ask questions and he answers it. And someone asked him some question.

6:32Ronnie Karam: He was like, well, you know, I've got to give the haters the chance to comment. Have fun, haters. And I'm like, you care too much. Like, you're on a show. So people are going to comment about the show. I know it can't be easy to read that stuff because, listen, we get nasty comments sometimes. And we'll be both of us will be fetal. I mean, not as much anymore. We get used to it. But there have been times where we're like, oh, my God. So I get it. But at the same time, you know, you put yourself out there and people have the right to say something. And I wouldn't be able to read anything because I think even the perfect people get called idiots and assholes on the Internet.

7:08Ronnie Karam: No one escapes.

7:10Ben Mandelker: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think if the issue is that he's too concerned about his public persona, that's not good. I just don't know. He keeps on acting like in the past he was too quick to fire. I'm like, well, maybe you were too quick to fire, but it's also not great to be too slow to fire as well. But it's not even about firing. It just seems like we made some jokes last week about how Fraser was like, I'm going to give so-so talking to. And he walks up and he's like, please be a little faster. Can you please work some more? And it's like, you've got to like have some, you've got to like, you've got to like crack, crack the, what is it?

7:49Ben Mandelker: Crack the whip, whatever it is. You got to like, you got to like, come on, like light the fire under these people a little bit more. And it's not like, okay. So yesterday I went to, I'm going to relate this to terrible parenting. Cause I think that's what this ultimately is. I went to a farmer's market yesterday and they had, you were going to talk about Bueller

8:07Ronnie Karam: because you were over here yesterday and Bueller kept licking you and coming to sit by you and coming to sit on you and coming to sit under you.

8:13Ben Mandelker: I went to my friend's house and his dog was out of control. I was like, wait a minute, this car is heading too close to home. No. So I went to a farmer's market and they had, you know, those little things, the anti-fly things, the little propellers that go around. They're like those little flies. Goes around. So some little kid plucks it like a vendor had put it amongst their wares. Some little kid plucks it off because he thinks it's a toy. So the vendor is smiling at first and the kid's like, ooh. And then the kid starts walking away with it. And then the dad's like, okay, you have to give that back.

8:49Ben Mandelker: And he's like, no. He's like, you have to give that back. He goes, I want it. He's like, you have to give that back. And like, it's walking far away. And I'm like, and the dad's like, the dad makes this sort of like lame sort of swipe at it. He goes, and the kid's like, no. And the dad goes, he has this look like, well, I tried. I'm like, you're the dad. You're bigger. You're stronger. You can pull that thing away from your son. Don't be like, why are you negotiating with your little terrorist? Okay. This kid just stole something from the, from the vendor. And you're like, for a moment, I felt like if no one was watching, the guy would have been like, well, he really wants it.

9:25Ben Mandelker: So, and I kind of feel like that's how Fraser is with Selene. He's kind of like, well, could you not take any breaks? That would be great. Thank you. And you just need to sometimes grab the toy out and give it back to the farmer.

9:40Ronnie Karam: Yeah, I mean, look, I'm not as down on Solane as everybody else. I think in the whole scheme of things, the people that we've seen on Below Deck, I mean, we could have Camille. You know what I mean? Someone like that who is just literally the worst. Solane has an attitude. Solane does smoke when she's not supposed to. She did do that thing where she just went to bed and didn't finish her work. I mean, I'm not going to sit here and say Selene is a good employee, but I think we've seen way worse. And one point that he made in his Q &A, he was kind of standing up for Selene and saying like, because everyone's like, why aren't you firing Selene?

10:15Ronnie Karam: She's terrible. And he said, you know, because she at least she's nice about it. And she like takes the notes and she actually does work hard. And, you know, people are like, what? What about the time she went to bed when she did it? You know, I see that side, too. But I also do see his side in that, in that Selene does work. I mean, we don't, we see Selene take too many breaks or eat breakfast when she's not supposed to. And Barbara even said, and I trust Barbara, like Barbara seems like a trustworthy employee, right? And when she says we're all used to Selene not really doing as much work as she's supposed to do.

10:49Ronnie Karam: So, and making Rainbow. You know, we give Rainbow a lot of shit on this show, but Rainbow does pick up a lot of slack of this girl. So I'm not standing up for Selene and saying she's the best. But I do think that we also see Selene working. And that seems to be a hard job. And I see her working and keeping it light and having fun. So I don't know. But the thing with Fraser is he's just such a wuss. He always does these manipulative ways of dealing with things instead of just dealing with it head on. He's got the balls to go to the captain and complain to everybody. But he doesn't really have the nuts to do it right to their face in the proper way.

11:25Ronnie Karam: so I definitely see what you're saying and he does it again in this episode it's like you know you tell people not to talk to Selene it's brought up right in front of you and you just stay quiet and wait for somebody else to get accused and it's like that's not cool like you've got to have the stones dude to say I did that because you were not because you're not working right so I'm trying to you know whatever his reasoning was he should have just said it instead of staying quiet and just letting Selene go on a rampage trying to find out who did that. You know? He's just a wuss. He's a wuss, you know?

12:00Ben Mandelker: Yeah, I just don't think he has necessarily, like, I don't think he has the management skills. Put him out the pasture. Yeah, I just don't think this is his... I don't think it's his strong point. Sorry.

12:12Ronnie Karam: And as far as what you were saying about that kid, you know, I saw a kid, I was at the music store last night and this kid, this dad, there's another dad, comes in with this kid. His kid's in his diaper. You know, it's Hollywood. Like, put your kid in some shoes, sir, and put your kid in some clothes. Okay? Because this is a grimy-ass town. Okay? It's Sunset Strip Guitar Center. This baby runs in and runs straight to a bass drum and just starts punching the shit out of the bass drum. And the dad's like, I'm a little musician there. Look at this. I already got a little beetle on my hands. Am I right?

12:49Ronnie Karam: And I just thought of something I say on the show all the time, which is the late, great Bernie Mac. America, beat your children. Okay? I mean, what the hell? If they're beating a drum, then you can beat them. Yes. Okay. So here we go. Below Deck, Season 12, Episode 14. Nobody puts baby breaks in the corner.

13:15Ben Mandelker: Kind of funny. um so previously uh carrie has told kyle that he can't mingle with guests anymore he's on guest probation and uh where we left off was rainbow being like ah ah don't punch her ah don't punch her but i want to punch her i want to punch her take me to holland don't hit her bro she's not

13:38Ronnie Karam: fucking worth it, bro. Bro. Bro. Bro. Very tough, Rainbow. So Selene is like, oh, Rainbow again, she did the fucking list. I will report this book every day. I try. I try. Why does no one give me the questions? I try. I'm not the children.

13:58Ben Mandelker: I will say this. In Selene's credit, where I think Selene really excels is that she is strangely very plucky. She gets yelled at, and then she sort of shrugs. Okay, you want to have war? We have war.

14:08Ronnie Karam: but okay go back to work now well it's like someone it's like jacks on vanderpump rules right jacks is the quickest he's the best apologizer because he's had to do it so many times and i think that's how selene is i mean she's just so fucking annoying she's probably been told off by everybody that she comes in contact with and she's just she can bounce back yeah she really can um

14:31Ben Mandelker: so yeah so rainbow is like going through it but like of course like nothing happens like Like, literally nothing happens on that front. So, Celine is basically just like, you know, Rainbows, again, she do the fucking list. I report back to book every day. I try every day. I just try every day. But, ah, good-do, good-do, bonjour. So, basically, she doesn't. She just ignores Rainbow. Whatever Rainbow yelled at her about last week.

14:57Ronnie Karam: And Rainbow decides instead of beating her ass, she's just going to make her take some champagne upstairs. So, she gives her a drink order. and Selene is telling Jess, she's complaining to Jess and saying, oh, this girl, you know, I do the work, but this girl doesn't do nothing, but all day freaking day she acts tough. I don't understand this girl. And then she spills her drinks. And she's like, oh, no, it's the last one. I don't have any work.

15:22Ben Mandelker: I definitely can see SoSo is not working up to her standards. I know Rainbow has been working her ass off all season. And I do think so-so is an apple at the moment that's rotting. But she did that to herself. Some would say these are the consequences of her actions.

15:43Ronnie Karam: Yeah, you were fine with that when you were, you know, hooking up with Solaine, ma 'am. I think she's pulling kind of a Gary here. She's pulling a fuckboy where she's not hooking up with the person anymore and then suddenly starts coming up with reasons to not like her. Not that she's really not only that, but this was fine with you a couple of weeks ago in the shower, as I recall.

16:07Ben Mandelker: Yeah, not only that, don't forget last episode, Selene sat down Jess and was like, I didn't like the way you treated me. I thought we had something and you were like really mean to me and you discarded me. And so Selene went off on Jess last episode. And now all of a sudden, Jess is like, she's not a good worker. I'm like, OK, so this is your revenge. You're going to plot out revenge against Selene. it happens to be that you're right, but we know your motivations are not because of the vessel.

16:34Ronnie Karam: You're not sure, ma 'am, your motivations are not pure. And we've seen this many times. It's usually with men doing it to women, but you know, congratulations on breaking that ass ceiling. I mean, Jesus, now you can be just like Gary. Congrats, Jess. I'm rooting for you, Jess. So, um, also her name, I have to say it every week. You can't expect much from a person that you call. so, okay. So then Celine is called over by Rainbow again. And she's like, you wanted to speak. If you have a second, I would love to have a talk. Oh, my God. I thought we were done. You want to speak here? You want to speak here?

17:12Ronnie Karam: You want to speak again? How many times you want to speak? Oh, my God. There's so much speaking.

17:18Ben Mandelker: I'm just trying to clear the air, bro, because it's like most of the time it's like cool. but then like the other like 23 hours and 57 minutes it's just not cool and i just would love us to get that three minutes where i can tolerate you per day i would love to expand that out to at

17:36Ronnie Karam: least like a good seven minutes can we do that yeah sometimes it's okay but i don't know what happened it's the war you talk to me like i'm your baby children baby children it's like okay well

17:50Ben Mandelker: can we just like try can't we try for a little more passion can't we do this tomorrow like tomorrow can we just try to be like to work better together i'm like rainbow why are you this is my problem with rainbow is that she's like that's it no more mrs nice guy i am gonna let her know how i really feel and then she's like tomorrow can we like try to make it work can we be better tomorrow i'm like rainbow give it up well rainbow wants to be friends with

18:19Ronnie Karam: She wants to be liked ultimately. And I don't think it's just not it's not going to happen. So keep it curt. So, Lane, here's your things. You got them done. OK, you can go to bed. That's it. You don't need to have a whole discussion with people about every little thing. No is a full sentence. Yeah.

18:36Ben Mandelker: So a guest asks for booby cake for tomorrow, like a surprise booby cake, which I don't want that.

18:44Ronnie Karam: I don't think so. Would you want that? Okay, you just had cancer. You're about to get a double mastectomy, okay? And her friend is like, well, my friend is about to lose her boobs, so let's make her a boob cake. Why the fuck would you do that? I don't want that. Listen, what if I just lost all my money? I want someone to make me a money cake. No, I don't want that. Don't make me that. Yeah, I can't say.

19:09Ben Mandelker: I can't say if I'd like it or not. Is it like owning the moment or is it like a brutal reminder? I'm not sure, but I also thought they got a breast-shaped cake last episode, too. Oh, they did? Did they not? I thought so, but maybe it just was something that happened earlier in the season, because this seems to be a relatively common request across reality TV.

19:32Ronnie Karam: A boob cake? Yeah, we've seen it before, for sure. I mean, I know that for my 50th birthday, I wanted a moob cake, so I got some big, hairy orbs for everybody to enjoy. no i don't want that you think i want to be reminded of my moves no

19:52Ben Mandelker: yeah um so anyway that's the plan surprise cake and then uh then kyle is talking to barbara and he's like selene doesn't oh because it's the second second day of charter at 6 a.m it's the morning everyone and kyle's like selene doesn't think that she's done to me what just did her and barbara's like that is not cool or as i like to say that's not nice so kyle goes not at all, but at least I'm getting a ride out of it. I need to keep fucking falling for women. For fuck's sake, I have to stop falling for women all the time. I'm like, yes, and we also need to stop having these storylines about Kyle and the woman he falls for because it's been two seasons worth and honestly, it's never been compelling for me.

20:32Ronnie Karam: Kyle, until you clean up your act and you're not just a shaky drunk, you're going to be last choice. And that's just the way it is. And Celine's not even lying. She's just like, well, you are all this left. So. Well, until next week, and I make out with your best friend. But, or fuck your best friend. But for now, you're my only option, okay? So have fun, only option, Kyle. Clean up your act. You seem like a nice boy.

20:59Ben Mandelker: Yeah, I don't think the cleaning up is going to happen anytime soon.

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23:28Ronnie Karam: and things um so then just and barbara are eating and jess is very tired it's just it's a rainbow she's like up to here with so so and all this personal stuff aside like you're really crap at your job and also you yelled at me so i'm going to make your life hell now and barbara's like so so

23:49Ben Mandelker: she doesn't take anything serious you know and she goes yes she thinks it's a joke it needs to be a point where you're held accountable so that you feel the consequences of your actions this is

24:01Ronnie Karam: some bs you're not even on the you're not even on the clean team ma 'am you are a deck lady so why don't you stay in your zone stay in your you never even talk to rainbow yeah like no one talks to

24:16Ben Mandelker: rainbow like rainbow has no friends on this boat like i think they interface with her they say hello but no one has any meaningful conversations or bonding with rainbow so don't try to act like

24:24Ronnie Karam: you're gonna take up uh on behalf of rainbow yeah so barbara's like well i'm the only one that work with solane she doesn't work enough i mean it's not a surprise it's not a surprise like it doesn't even bother me like why would it be bothering jess uh so clearly it's not about work you know she sees she sees that um so then the deck team is setting up the water toys etc and then fraser is uh the guests are eating breakfast and fraser and hugo hugo were talking so fraser's like well today on the beach i'm sending rainbow and solane because you know that'll work out well here's what i do to two people who hate each other i put them alone on the island now call me daddy

25:10Ben Mandelker: if you could just tell your crew not to talk to her sleep with her walk anywhere near her look in her direction um just ignore her presence entirely pretend like she's a piece of trash that's just washed up on the shore could they do that for me please that'd be so wonderful thank you

25:27Ronnie Karam: so instead of managing his own crew he's asking hugo to manage his crew in a way that's not going

25:36Ben Mandelker: interact badly with it's just so come on this is weak this is and this this is bad parenting where you expect everyone else to make modifications for your devil child right and if it's that bad

25:49Ronnie Karam: then you should just go to the beach and do the beach job instead of it's like going up to the

25:53Ben Mandelker: saline yeah it's like going up to the farmer and saying hey i'm gonna bring my kid tomorrow could you not put out the little propeller thing for the flies otherwise he's gonna take it it's like no you tell your kid not to take the propeller thing so the farmer could ends really upset at that flight the lettuce very upset i'm telling you if you had seen it if you had seen it it was horrifying like this kid was such a brat and the dad i mean this dad was like six three towering over not there's the kids but most of the people in the market and he was like he had just this like oafy look like well there's nothing i can do i was like we tie the kid to a pole and chop and then untie him at the end and load him into the car.

26:33Ben Mandelker: That's what you do at this point. You don't need a fly fan.

26:37Ronnie Karam: You need a fly swatter for your child. Swat him on the head. My mom used to do it. That was her peaceful way of child abuse. She would just smack us with the fly swatter. It wasn't a bat. So I guess she felt like she was a good mom. So, yeah. Also, Fraser, if you feel like you're having trouble managing an employee, don't send them off to a fun beach day or why don't you go to the beach with selaine so you can train her like if you're going to keep somebody that everybody else is pretty much agreeing is not trained well enough for this job then go train her you know that you're putting rainbow into a nervous breakdown i mean go train her yourself sir yeah i mean i think there should be

27:19Ben Mandelker: consequences you told her not to take breaks she took breaks all on the last episode she does not get to go on a beach picnic now maybe maybe a beach picnic is i don't know is that considered fun to go to or is it considered a pain in the ass i'm not sure probably like yes but you know they never get off the boat so it's

27:35Ronnie Karam: kind of like when you when you're in prison like going into the prison yard is not a great yard right but at least you're not in your cell yeah and you know they all seem to love interacting

27:46Ben Mandelker: with guests i would not have sent her in the first place i would have punished her like there should be repercussions to her there should be consequences to her actions so kiri

27:56Ronnie Karam: All right, Captain Kerry here. We're going to St. Baths. We've got a very resource-heavy day today with the beach picnic. Now, let me tell you something about beach picnics. They're fun. They're gorgeous. They're glamorous. They can kill you. We could lose the entire cast today if something happens. There could be a tsunami that we could put a rope down on top of a guest's brain. We never know what could happen on a beach picnic. Like, okay, calm it down. Just go to St. Barth's, okay? It's going to be fine. But even worse, even worse, once we get to St.

28:35Ben Mandelker: Barth's, we're going to have to Medmore. That's right, everyone. Countdown to Medmoreing is on. Watch out for Medmoreing. And did you know that nine out of ten Medmores end in a shipwreck when someone's played volleyball on a beach early in the day? This is a high-stakes operation, and I'm not going to take it lightly.

28:54Ronnie Karam: Mid-mores are difficult and the crew are going to be tired. And if they're off their game, it can severely impact what I do. If things go directly as planned, if things don't go exactly as planned, we're going to be in severe trouble. Guest brains all over the beach. At the very least, it'll be an adventure.

29:21Ben Mandelker: So Fraser goes up to Selene. is like, okay, Rainbow is going with you and she's in charge. Just make sure you're helping her with anything she needs with service-wise and make sure that if anyone comes over and talks to you, that you remind them that they're not supposed to talk to you. Thank you so much. What? Bonjour? So then Hugo now goes around and tells everyone, hey, um, Fraser's asked me to just, while you're there, like, don't talk to Rainbow or don't talk to So-So because he'll distract her. Now, this is what I don't like about Hugo. He should just say, when you're on the beach today, don't distract the team because they've got to deal with the guests and we just don't want any distractions.

30:05Ben Mandelker: Just say that. But he's also kind of like throwing Fraser under the bus. He's like, well, Fraser told me to tell you. I'm like, what sort of leader does that? Just say, okay, we're cutting down on the chit chat. I don't want to see you guys talking with the interior team because they've got to focus on the guests and there's been too many distractions this season. Do it that way, I think. I think Hugo's way of way of cop out.

30:25Ronnie Karam: Yeah, he does tattle. Yeah, it's a cop out. Yeah, Fraser.

30:28Ben Mandelker: Oh, sorry, go ahead. No, I was going to say sort of probably what you're about to say is that like by saying, hey, Fraser told me to tell you, it kind of like loses a lot of authority too. Like people don't take it seriously. It's like this isn't for me. I just have to tell you. And I just don't think that's a good leadership quality from Hugo either.

30:47Ronnie Karam: and saying stuff like you know don't talk to so-so because he's worried about rainbow and so-so getting along and you know she's flirting with boys she's not pulling her weight it's like bro those are like managerial things you had in a managerial discussion you shouldn't go to the other employees and be like wow the boss hates her flirting with boys and then and then it's like that's not your business to be spread out and also he's telling it to another bad employee damo who's just a big fucking gossip and wants to start shit at every turn apparently because of what he's doing in the second half of the season so he's really the soul cast is ridiculous at this point this whole cast is is full of shit at this point so demo is like okay oh i mean it's impossible it's not ideal i suppose that we don't get to talk to so-so it's not ideal well just

31:37Ben Mandelker: what is not ideal i mean like how how much how much value are you getting out of so so at this point anyway out of your conversations with her yeah so they're all talking like well she can't

31:47Ronnie Karam: do a job and that's not our fault and he's like well i don't care if she could do her job let's someone else's problem but i don't want any of you talking to her that's it okay so he's like yeah you know she sucks but um if it'll make fraser's life frasers god it's hard not to say fraser fraser's life and also i'm gay so i think my zez often turn into jazz so anyway um and because i was trained by zha zha the gay icon zha zha gabor zha zha see so the z turns into

32:20Ben Mandelker: jah blame zha zha okay why can't why okay here's a question why can't we invent a new letter in our language that does the zh sound. I'm just so sick of, is it ZS? Is it ZH? Is there a J in there? Can we just create a new letter? Is this like the worst thing in the world if we create a new letter? Who says that we can't start a new letter up?

32:42Ronnie Karam: We've got so many people who don't even know the alphabet as it is. Like we don't need to add to that. Do you know how many people can't read in America? I'm going to look it up.

32:51Ben Mandelker: I know, but like, why do we have to punish those who do and who are just trying to find like better ways to express themselves? Like, I think we need like a dedicated letter at the very least an accent but like and i understand this messes up keyboards so that's why maybe an accent's the better way to go that we only have to press option

33:07Ronnie Karam: you know how long i had to wait for a keyboard with usbc like it took a long time okay so in

33:14Ben Mandelker: 2024 i'm saying maybe an accent an accent is good because you can press like the option button and then and then like a little sub i don't even know the accents as they are there's one that goes this way there's one that goes that way there's what i'm saying let's let's just start a campaign and we'll increase public awareness and we'll know what the like i think it should be like a z with like something on it and and like that will be our just sound going forward because you know what i hate is when you want to write as you because like instead of saying i'm going there as usual or like let's keep it real cash and you have to write like c-a-s-z-h and it just doesn't feel or look right.

33:51Ben Mandelker: I think I'm done. I'm done. I don't want to do it anymore. I want to pioneer a new accent so we can all be on the same page.

34:00Ronnie Karam: Okay. Um, so in 2024, an estimated 21 % of us adults are functionally illiterate. That's crazy. And you want to add letters?

34:10Ben Mandelker: Well, they're not getting any better. I mean, like, it's not like that. It's not like the letter is going to be the thing that breaks them from being literate. Again, we need to just add

34:18Ronnie Karam: grunts to the american language we just need to start grunting at each other and pointing at seats and rubbing our values and that's it so let's go back to grunts harder just i don't know why are

34:29Ben Mandelker: we so locked in on what letters we can and can't have like wait why can't we just add more letters why can't we have like why can't there be like a like a like a why can't we do this you want to

34:38Ronnie Karam: really fuck with people add a new number that's really going to throw everything off that'll be not be wild come on that would be amazing all the smart people would be like wait a minute everything's changed okay but the number's called jevin and you're like how do you spell that

34:54Ben Mandelker: yeah i know a kid named jevin actually no jevin jevin well see if you use my new i would know that use my new letter wait a minute you just won this argument okay so um now rainbow now

35:08Ronnie Karam: they're doing beach setup and rainbow's like um a lot of things drive me one of my exes told me i wasn't ambitious enough for him i mean fuck that guy but also i've seen success i mean look at me i'm kind of like a heartless killer in the sense that if i really want something i'll get it no ifs ands or buts it's my rainbow you clean toilets i mean there's nothing like to look down on with that i'm just saying you're acting like you just won a fucking pulitzer girl like you just cleaned shit off the toilet this morning

35:49Ben Mandelker: that is hilarious yeah no but a lot of things drive me and and it really bothered me when my ex said that I wasn't ambitious, but to be fair, he was literally driving me at that moment because I said I didn't want to learn how to drive. So I guess there was something to it. Things do really technically drive me. But yeah, it's hilarious. I love it when... I love it. Look, she's cleaning toilets, but she is on a career path. She wants to move up. She wants to be a chief stew someday. So you can still be ambitious even when you clean toilets. But she is acting like she is a character on Succession.

36:29Ronnie Karam: Totally. You're not serious people. So, Rainbow is talking to Kyle. She's like, so how are things going with you in Soso? He's like, oh, you want to use me? Use me. I'm fine with being used. And then he tells Damo, but did you hear the guy say not to speak to her? And he's like, oh yeah, we're not allowed to speak with her. Which sounds like a her problem and not of me problem. So I'm going to go gossip about it and make it an everybody problem. It's going to be amazing.

37:02Ben Mandelker: Yeah. So now they all tumble into the tender and head to the beach picnic and everything. And Rainbow's giving some orders about drink service and everything. And, and like almost pops a cork into Solaine's eye, et cetera. And Solaine's like, Oh, you tried to kill me already? She's like, yeah, I know you just got here. Oh God. I didn't even think I could kill you with a

37:24Ronnie Karam: cork but now that you've opened up that possibility so so i'm gonna start calling you bro bro bro i would really like to start over um i did just poke you in the face with a cork but i think it's we need to just start over clean slate bro clean slate okay you want clean slate now fine we have another clean slate well i mean what is this later so then uh fraser is talking to jess and asking about Soleil and if anything's going to happen with him after this season. And she's like, you know, I don't know. Like, sometimes I have a feeling that she has something still for Sosa. And he's like, honestly, I really don't think they do.

38:07Ronnie Karam: Really? Because Jess is slowly breaking down because she's freaking out over Soleil. Like, she's acting like a maniac at this point. So, I don't think Fraser has the best instincts as far as this stuff goes. Yeah.

38:21Ben Mandelker: And then he's like, so questioned. Have you, you know, finger, finger, scissor, cigarette? He starts doing all these like scissoring pantomimes and like all these weird little hand things. And Barbara's like, no, no, that's not nice what you're doing. No, no, we don't do that. And we can do them all at once, okay? It doesn't have to be like one after the other. It's okay.

38:44Ronnie Karam: Well, just as your boss, it's my job to know whether you're doing the uh, uh, uh, or the this, none of this is that or is it that little oh no no none of this she's like please stop doing that

39:00Ben Mandelker: so uh so lane is talking to demo on the beach and she's like i love the feeling to escape and he's like yeah do you hate the feeling to work because you're like chef both of you complain all the day about your job but you choose your job it's like oh okay okay demo thanks for that she's like do you have a problem with me demo he goes no way and then he just like walks off

39:21Ronnie Karam: yeah what the hell i mean look i think this is why i came into this episode kind of being apologetic in her favor because i think they're kind of ganging up on her in this episode and i really don't like it like what the fuck what's what she do to you demo back off yeah i mean look do anything to them like all the all the all the debt crew ganging up on solane is weird

39:45Ben Mandelker: yeah i um i also do think that like even if you are in different departments if there's one person who's doing a really shitty job the drama around that does sort of like it sort of takes over the whole boat so i understand that people from different departments can still be frustrated because they get dragged into stuff but also demo needs to relax i know what you're talking about It felt cruel. It felt cruel that everyone has to ignore this one person. I don't like that everyone has to change to make Solaine be better when Fraser could just tell Solaine to be better. I do think that there is some value in saying, tell your department to stop distracting my people.

40:30Ben Mandelker: I think you're allowed to say that. But it feels like it's not just that. Well, they're making it such a big thing.

40:35Ronnie Karam: They're making it like, oh, we can't speak to her because she's so immature and now we all have to blah, blah, blah, blah. No, they're just saying don't distract her while she's supposed to be working. Well, actually. They're all making it this huge thing, you know? Well, because Hugo did that. Well, Hugo, yeah. But the original directive was like, tell people not to like talk to Celine while she's working. Like it was a kind of a simple thing. And they're making it into this huge, like, oh, now we can't talk to Celine. Well, that's Celine's fault. Now we're mad at Celine because we're all being told we can't talk to Celine.

41:03Ronnie Karam: It's like it's being turned like, oh, now we're being accused of doing something wrong. All they're saying is don't distract the distractible child. For Christ's sake. You know what?

41:14Ben Mandelker: They're all fucking idiots.

41:15Ronnie Karam: You don't have to beat her up.

41:17Ben Mandelker: Just idiots. They're all idiots on a boat.

41:19Ronnie Karam: I know. And why do I get mad at every little thing? I mean, that's like a personal thing with me. I could never have that job. I would just be furious all the time. All the time. I can say I am now. Well, this is me happy all the time. So imagine me doing that.

41:35Ben Mandelker: But we get to be furious while sitting down. And they don't. They have to be furious and wiping things.

41:41Ronnie Karam: Yeah, thank the Lord for chairs. I mean, there's so much to be grateful for in this world. The most grateful I am. Chairs. I just love chairs. I love them so much. Even uncomfortable ones. I love them.

41:54Ben Mandelker: I think Amy Grant should rewrite her seminal song, Hats, and turn it into chairs. Chairs. why do I gotta have so many chairs in my life it's great song I like big chairs and I cannot lie no other brother can deny when a chair rolls in with an itty bitty there you go you're getting it now wait when a chair walks in with an itty bitty waist and uh then then that you get sprung Okay, you're closer Commercials Here comes one right now

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45:39Ben Mandelker: Wow. Wow. You looked at Kyle and saw like the tire mark on his face because like a truck ran over him because he was drunk and passed out on the road and thought, wow, this guy had a tough upbringing. What part about like his perpetual black eye bruises from getting into bar brawls? And what part about like the strange chicken pox he has on his face at all times tells you that this guy had an easy upbringing? Jeez.

46:03Ronnie Karam: Yeah. And Instagram, it's Hugo. he's like I grew up in a pretty rough part of New York it wasn't pretty and it wasn't nice so we left when I was 10 because my dad didn't want me growing up in that lifestyle you left because your dad was getting in trouble for knocking on doors in the Bronx and let's not pretend it's for any other reason because you cannot just be pulling that shit in New York City okay no no no where did he grow up he says it wasn't pretty and it wasn't nice but he doesn't specify where it was And I felt defensive for New York. It's like South Street Seaport. He was like, I grew up on 61st and 2nd.

46:45Ronnie Karam: And it was a horror show.

46:49Ben Mandelker: I grew up upstairs from Cipriani's. And let me tell you something. One horror after another.

46:56Ronnie Karam: Who can even spell that? I had to move. I felt very defensive for New York. I mean, you know, give New York a break, Hugo. Hugo's just bad-mouthing everybody today.

47:09Ben Mandelker: He really is. He needs to get over it.

47:11Ronnie Karam: And it's one of his worst memories of growing up in New York. He goes, you know what? I remember police sirens.

47:17Ben Mandelker: Oh, oh. Oh, really?

47:20Ronnie Karam: Police sirens. Oh, police sirens.

47:23Ben Mandelker: Oh, God. Do you want to know something, Hugo? While I was literally watching this scene, his monologue, I was also listening to a helicopter overhead with a searchlight scanning the neighborhood for someone who had tried to break into someone's house. Yeah, because I looked it up on the Internet. Possibly Bose's house. I will say this. I guess I'll say this. Bose lives very close to me, as it turns out, because I've done some Internet stalking and I'm really good at it. And there was the helicopter was overhead for a very long time. And I was like, what is happening in the neighborhood? and I looked it up and I saw it was like 12 minutes ago someone trying to break into someone's house and I looked up where it was and I did some cross-referencing and I was like, that's Bose's house.

48:07Ben Mandelker: Was someone trying to break into Bose's house? I don't know. I don't know if she still lives there. She probably moved out since she's now on a TV show. But I'm just going to say I've just got to say Hugo, some of us live in real crime zones

48:20Ronnie Karam: where real housewives houses get get maybe like their alarms go off helicopters come just living in um big cities i guess listening to somebody being like i had to move we heard a siren it's like oh wow move to the suburbs dude and and listen to leaf blowers all fucking day and tell me what you'd prefer because i'd much rather a siren okay at least why are we not just we are criminals around like the fucking leaf blowers do at least the police come and pick people up probably the wrong people half the time but at least they're not just blowing them around the yard like the leaf blowers

49:00Ben Mandelker: useless leaf blowing the most hilarious rant i cannot believe we are ranting at this guy because he would hear gunshots and sirens outside we're like get over it

49:10Ronnie Karam: we both live in places where we hear gunshots and sirens and we think it's yeah but we know like listening to somebody else being like oh my god i heard a police siren shut up

49:23Ben Mandelker: yes but i'm gonna say this is just purely because we're annoyed at hugo because like honestly it could have been really bad there's a difference between hearing a police siren in one neighborhood versus another and like when he said he lived in a rough neighborhood of new york i believe it i just don't want to hear it from him i don't want to hear it right now yeah he's just annoying

49:42Ronnie Karam: me so i'm not gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna bitch about every single thing he says that's it i'm I'm not going to let him give himself a victim edit on my watch. Police sirens. Fuck out of here. I heard somebody yesterday trying to play two notes from a rap song over and over again for two and a half hours at the top of the volume. Okay? Two notes. Yeah, two notes. it was just like it was like some plinky like song and they just kept playing it over and they were playing the song and then the piano was like trying to play over the song I was like oh my god it's two notes it's two fucking notes I almost marched over there and played it myself I was like come on

50:32Ben Mandelker: you know as a wise man they not like us they not like us

50:37Ronnie Karam: um so he left because of police sirens and he remembers hearing gunshots okay well gunshots

50:43Ben Mandelker: are worse okay so i mean gunshots listen who hasn't heard a gunshot here and there am i right

50:50Ronnie Karam: just suck it up hugo maybe i should have maybe i should have finished reading the paragraph before i went off for 10 minutes about what a wits he was because then i just like worse okay okay

51:02Ben Mandelker: And I co-signed just because it was fun to co-sign with you.

51:06Ronnie Karam: He's like, who knows if I would even have gone to university? I mean, people in New York, they don't go to school. I mean, who knows if I would have gotten into yachting? And I think that if Kyle wants to be better, then great. He's trying to figure himself out on who he is and where he fits in. Okay, well, that's good. So you're very forgiving of Kyle because he might have had a rough childhood. so it's okay that he's like wasted to the point of shaking half the time and sticking his dick in Big Ang but Selene talking a little bit too much is going to send you over the fucking edge I see you I see you Siren Scaredy Cat

51:45Ben Mandelker: if you're raised in a tough neighborhood you stay in the tough neighborhood and you stick it out yeah God forbid you try to make your life better

51:53Ronnie Karam: I'm not saying any of that I'm not saying not make your life better. I'm just saying, come on. That bad. I know.

52:01Ben Mandelker: There are people that are starving. I mean, also, you know that this is probably like when he was talking about his neighborhood growing up. This is probably spliced from some interview from several weeks ago that the editor just put in here to try to give some context as to why he was like being nice to Kyle. And like, you know, they make it sound like, well, I grew up in a bad neighborhood and I had to leave and I feel bad for Kyle because he had to grow up in a rough, rough place. And like they probably just spliced two concepts.

52:29Ronnie Karam: I think it was one of those interviews where they were like, listen, this season is all about grandparent, grandparent trauma. Do you have a dead grandparent? Do you have a grandparent that died horribly? We every cast member needs to share something about he's like, no, but I did hear sirens and gunshots when I was young. They're like, that's it. Okay, we're going to take that. Could you just make it that the gunshots might have killed one of your grandparents? Please. We really need to fit it into the season.

52:56Ben Mandelker: Was your grandparent, did your grandfather drive a patrol car? No. Okay, can we say so? Can we say those sirens where your grandfather -

53:04Ronnie Karam: Can you just say Kyle stuck his dick inside of your grandmother over a police car while people were shooting in the background? Could we just, maybe just zhuzh it. Just zhuzh it. Okay, we're using the new letter for that. okay that's a new letter that's why you didn't understand the directions

53:21Ben Mandelker: he's like i was so confused what the when i got the email about what i was supposed to say i didn't really understand the z and the h i was like and then there's a j at the end

53:33Ronnie Karam: okay so um solene has a big knife a big chef's knife and she's like oh how do we wash this knife how do we wash? And Rainbow goes in the ocean and she goes, I'm a professional washer. I would wash in the ocean. It is natural. So she's just carrying this big thing and then puts it blade facing up towards her in her belt. Rainbow's like, bro, why are you putting sand on that? Bro, bro, please don't put the knife in your pants. Bro.

54:06Ben Mandelker: She's washing with sand, which cannot be good for the knife. Also, with her bare fingers, that's a chef's knife like that she was just like massaging it like a like a genie's lamp lamp and it's like you're gonna slice yourself and then the fact that she puts it in her belt like a holster but then she drops something so she has to bend over but like avoid this knife sticking out of her i was like you are you could like literally kill yourself that knife could just slice your wrist

54:30Ronnie Karam: in one second and then you're done see that's why i don't give selene too much shit because selene is one of those people that you see walking around and you're like you know what they're still alive more power to him because you know survival of the fittest etc like this in nature like let's say even a hundred years ago she would have been dead in a week so good for her she's a survivor

54:56Ben Mandelker: that's what i say yeah yeah okay well good for her she that was a crazy scene her washing that knife and then putting it in her belt was actively horrifying. But she did survive. And then everyone goes back and Fraser's like, Hello everyone, welcome back. We've got a nice little refreshing raspberry vodka treat. It's not too strong. And then we're going to head to port. And then we're going to also go, we're going to maximize the experience to stay here and you can watch the sunset. And they're like, So they're going to be heading to St. Barts soon. And so Carrie's like, All right, everyone. I hope you didn't get too fatigued serving lunch today because we'll be doing some med moor in St.

55:38Ben Mandelker: Botts, all right? It's very scary. The guys will tell us where to put the anchor, so just keep on telling me where it needs to be because it's med moor. It's going to be a med moor, not a med less.

55:48Ronnie Karam: Idea follow. The biggest two things that all captains fear in the Caribbean is going through that bridge and trying up in St. Botts. In St. Boss, old mooring is what's called med mooring. It's where you put two anchors and you go back to the dock. There's a lot of vessels in there, all jam-packed. The lines in the water I could run over. A person could fall slightly in. They could lose their hand or their head. One of them could hit a coral reef, which would knock one of the pieces out over the boat, land on someone and gouge their eye out. Anyone could die in med mooring season. God damn it, we're going to draw a med mooring.

56:37Ben Mandelker: The two scariest things in the Caribbean, a small bridge in St. Martin, med mooring in St. Parts, and also if Captain Glenn is nearby, just Captain Glenn. We all try to avoid him. You know, lots of accidents.

56:52Ronnie Karam: Or Jason, really. Captain Jason. Half the captains in this franchise, let's face it. Terrifying. Terrifying to be at a wheel.

57:02Ben Mandelker: Yeah, we actually used to be quite afraid of the Kraken, eating ships up whole. But then one day, Captain Glenn actually crashed into the Kraken, and the Kraken actually died. So that was helpful. We don't worry about the Kraken anymore. But, yeah, there are some other concerns that we have.

57:18Ronnie Karam: I don't know if you saw it on the news. Can we roll the footage? I love when they just kept rolling the footage of Jason crashing into that restaurant. That was the best. Was he at a restaurant that he crashed into? Why do I have that in my head? He crashed into a dock or something. Okay. So I guess a dock from a restaurant. With a what? From a restaurant?

57:36Ben Mandelker: It was shot from a restaurant.

57:39Ronnie Karam: Oh, okay. All right. Once we get both anchors out, make sure they're slack. Very important. I'll bring the boat aft. You're going to give me distances. Do not talk to Selene. All right. Now, you'll have interior staff on fenders. This is where they'll be most important. If I drift into a boat, those fenders are where I need to be. Let's get the sinkers up. Let's boogie.

58:00Ben Mandelker: Let's not die. Hold on. I've got a transmission with St. Bart's. All right. This is St. David to St. Bart's. Yeah, I'm here. Yeah, I'm here.

58:11Ronnie Karam: This is Captain Sandy. Okay. All right.

58:14Ben Mandelker: I just want to make an alert to everyone in St. Bart's. Okay. When we arrive after our med mooring, no one on the island is to talk to Solane.

58:23Ronnie Karam: Do you copy? I really don't know who Solane is. I can tell you this. You've said med more so much that I'm back and ready to give you some more med. Okay. So good luck with you. I've just dry cleaned my two pairs of capri pants that I bring on the show. And so I'm ready to go. Just don't die.

58:43Ben Mandelker: All right. Well, Captain Sandy, before I hand this off to you, the below deck thing, please go tell your friend Norma that Medmore, more like Medpour, that's Norma. You can judge that one up. I'm sorry.

58:59Ronnie Karam: Norma's not speaking to me right now because I didn't invite someone named Goerty to a dinner on a boat. Norma's still pretty upset with that.

59:11Ben Mandelker: Goerty. More like, go, weirdo. I'll talk to you later.

59:16Ronnie Karam: I mean, bloop.

59:19Ben Mandelker: So, um. Wait about the customary sign-off. And now he wants me to tell everyone about Solan. He won't even do the bloop.

59:30Ronnie Karam: So they lift the anchor and they depart. We have a short stay leading five o 'clock. Anchor chain straight up and down. Anchor chain straight up and down. anchor in the pocket. That is the consequence of my actions.

59:48Ben Mandelker: All right. We're heading to St. Bart. So, interior. Radio silence, please. Why is no one talking on the radios?

59:56Ronnie Karam: Why is no one talking? I need some community. You just said radio silence. God damn it. I've put myself in a real quagmire here.

1:00:05Ben Mandelker: I was just making commentary about the future of legacy media. radio silence so he's like alright alright Jess what do you see out there she's like I see consequences I see actions no okay listen I don't care about the grey boat I only care about relentless I was too relentless I was relentless about my own personal no there's a boat called relentless I don't want to hear about your thoughts about being relentless

1:00:35Ronnie Karam: distance to relentless 40 40, 40 meters. Captain, we're going to be dropping anchors between two yellow boys. 10 meters between two yellow boys.

1:00:51Ben Mandelker: Copy. It's buoys. It's buoys. Please remember, it's buoys, not boys. Boys. It makes a big difference. Boys. Buoys. Boys. He goes like, bridge, bridge, bridge. Your son is now passing the sound of the ship. Bridge, bridge, bridge, bridge, bridge.

1:01:03Ronnie Karam: Dropping anchor, dropping anchor, dropping anchor. Don't test it. Where's my sitting?

1:01:07Ben Mandelker: Where's my sitting? It's about 25 metres, closing slowly.

1:01:12Ronnie Karam: Oh, a bit of the coral reef has flown off and has just landed into a guest's skull, gouging her eye out.

1:01:20Ben Mandelker: There's a starfish on my head right now. Could someone please help me? The starfish came up with the anchor. Help me. Is it a face hugger?

1:01:27Ronnie Karam: Big Ange from the last chart has come to find a penis. Ah, she has been strangled by one of the mooring ropes.

1:01:35Ben Mandelker: There's a xenomorph on board, everyone, I hate to tell you. Something happened terribly with the med mooring, and now there's a xenomorph, and we've heard that Hugo has now been killed. Is everyone okay? Everyone's safe?

1:01:48Ronnie Karam: I've been decapitated, Captain. I can't see anything anymore. I can only see my body on the other side of the anchor.

1:01:58Ben Mandelker: Is there any way that we can transplant Jess's brain into a synthetic body so we can save her and we can rename her after a Peter Pan character and she can continue on guiding us into port.

1:02:11Ronnie Karam: Oh, never mind. I put it back on. Okay, we made it. All right, we're safe. God, thank God. That could have been terrible.

1:02:21Ben Mandelker: All right, turns out actually there was no damage and no aliens on board. Congratulations, everyone. Everything's fine.

1:02:27Ronnie Karam: Everything's fine. All right, talk that one up a little bit, but you know what? It's sweep season, I think. Do we still have that? all right right uh hugo radio somebody would you he's like hold on to engines oh god we're still doing this never mind okay it's over it's over it just goes on for of course everything's fine

1:02:43Ben Mandelker: yeah everything the number one rule of below deck is that if they're going to crash into something it's going to be in the trailer that's we know i still remember the dock crumbling on camera

1:02:52Ronnie Karam: with captain blend hello there this is a two-part recap okay this is the end of part one so thank Thank you so much for listening to this. Just come back a little later for part two.

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1:06:15Ronnie Karam: I mean, I just have. It is delicious. Caesar sauce is like a Parmesan, garlicky blend with some lemon in it. And you can dip anything in there.

1:06:23Ben Mandelker: One thing I have been known to do is to stop over at McDonald's and go to the drive-thru and get myself a Caesar snack wrap and just dip some fries in the Caesar sauce. Also, the Krispy Strips in the Caesar sauce. Honestly, try it. It's really good.

1:06:38Ronnie Karam: Listen, I say if you put Caesar sauce on something, that automatically makes it better. Yes, that's really all you need is the Caesar sauce.

1:06:45Ben Mandelker: I think I just want to have just a constant supply of Caesar sauce and put it on things at all times.

1:06:52Ronnie Karam: Yeah, I'm a straight up French fry and Caesar sauce kind of a boy. That's what I love. And that's how I'm going to go down.

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