#3071 Below Deck Med S10E07 Part One: The Blah-chelor

Summary

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Watch What Crappens #3071: "Below Deck Med S10E07 Part One: The Blah-chelor"

Episode Overview

Ben Mandelker and Ronnie Karam recap Below Deck Mediterranean Season 10, Episode 7 ("The Blah-chelor"), reveling in the first part of a two-part episode in which the crew must accommodate a “Blahelor”-style charter—essentially a Bachelor parody on the high seas. The recap delivers Ben and Ronnie’s signature mix of Bravo gossip, comedic banter, and character evisceration, focusing on the interplay between the Below Deck crew and the over-the-top romantic setup for their bachelor guest and his bevy of hopeful bachelorettes.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. The "Blah-chelor" Charter: Dating Show Chaos at Sea

• Premise: The episode's charter guest is a single, sun-damaged man ("Joe")—whom Ben compares to "a low rent TEMU version of Chip from Chip and Joanna" (09:09)—and several women vying for his attention in a makeshift yacht dating show. The whole scenario is described as a ridiculous, yet perversely entertaining Bravo experiment intentionally playing with the Bachelor format.
  • Ben: "I actually loved it… It was like very small, on the side, and so much of it was about the crew making comments about what they were seeing." (06:50)
  • Ronnie: "Is it human trafficking? What would you call it? This was straight up human trafficking, right?" (07:51)
• Matchmaker Amy: The “service” and commodification of romance deeply unsettles both hosts. They point to Amy’s awkward phrasing—introducing the women as “from her service”—as uncomfortably transactional. (08:06)
• The Bachelor (Joe): Both Ben and Ronnie ridicule Joe for his generic personality and questionable charisma.
  • Ronnie: "The man is severely sun damaged and bald and not very nice... I'm saying hoes. I'm saying this was a boat of hoes." (08:13)
  • Ben: "He's kind of like a low rent TEMU version of Chip... and Chip is already kind of TAMU [sic] version of himself." (09:09)

2. Crew Dynamics & Character Observations

Kizzy: Self-Declared Villain Lacking Bite

• Mixed persona: The hosts pick apart Kizzy’s inconsistent villainy—she postures as a troublemaker in confessionals but never delivers true chaos.
  • Ronnie: "Her villainy is confusing and is actually pissing me off because I feel like she's catfish villainy department, you know?" (13:24)
  • Ben: "She pits people against each other in subtle ways and I don’t approve… she’s on my radar." (14:47)
• Kizzy's Love Life: Her on-off attitude toward relationships is parsed as immaturity more than boldness. (15:03–16:13)

Introduction of Kathy, the New Stew

• Entrance Examined: Kathy arrives, impeccably dressed, instantly causing a stir among the crew, notably intimidating Kizzy.
  • Ben: "She sort of has that [Emily in Paris] vibe coming out the boat… but like British sounding." (26:47)
  • Ronnie: "She's a lady who's going to be by the water cooler complaining about stuff. She’s going to have stringy hair and crazy kind of squinty eyes. She’s Kathy." (25:35)
• The “Snow White” Stew: Kathy is praised for her hyper-perfectionist cleaning techniques, while occasionally casting shade at Kizzy’s standards.
  • "Vacuum, vacuum, vacuum, vacuum, vacuum." (65:16) [Kathy, mimicked by the hosts.]

Max: Left Out and Melancholic

• Displacement and Emotional Oversharing: Max feels isolated after being left out by Nathan and Joe, tying his emotional turbulence to a strained relationship with his parents.
  • Ben: "You also could just be hurt by being demoted on the friendship ladder… you don’t have to bring in the parents." (76:08)
  • Ronnie: "We really blame them for everything, don't we? ...Just say you’re pissed." (76:33)

V and Joe: A Flirtation Fizzles

• Joe’s Shifting Allegiance: As soon as new potential love interests arrive (Kathy, the bachelorettes), Joe sows doubts about V, prepping excuses to back out ("I'm not after a relationship" – 34:26). The hosts predict he’ll gaslight V and frame her as “crazy” when he moves on.

3. Standout Quotes & Comedy Highlights

Bachelor Charter/Guests:

• Ben (on the Bachelor): "He was kind of like a low rent TEMU version of Chip from Chip and Joanna." (09:09)
• Ronnie: "This was straight up human trafficking, right?" (07:51)
• Ben: "If you were still alive, would you Richard Mulligan?" (52:06)
• Ronnie: "She’s the brothel owner." (44:41)
• Ronnie: "He kind of looks like Old Yeller in a bad way. If Old Yeller had lived a little longer..." (58:09)

Crew/Stew Antics:

• Ronnie: "Her villainy is confusing... catfish villainy department." (13:24)
• Ben: "She's on my radar and I don't appreciate it." (14:47)
• Ben (on Kathy): "Normally I'm a chief stew, but I'm going to slum it here... when Charlize Theron put on that ugly face and didn't put makeup on and won an Oscar. That's kind of what I'm doing here." (32:03)

Comic Digressions:

• Improvised Mary Poppins bit: Ronnie incredulously discovers Ben has never seen it—"What kind of homosexual are you?" (27:54)
• Explainer on Gen Z selfie techniques, complete with a live demonstration (67:34-69:47)
• Ben (on the CliffNotes difference between Miss World and Miss Universe): "Ms. World focuses on beauty with a purpose by emphasizing humanitarian work and social impact, while Miss Universe celebrates confidently beautiful by highlighting confidence, glamour, and global ambassadorship." (61:21)
• Running Kathy as “comic foil” for everything: "Vacuum, vacuum, vacuum, vacuum, vacuum." (65:16)

4. Timestamps for Notable Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |-----------|-------------------------------| | 06:50 | Ben explains why he enjoyed the "dating show" twist. | | 08:06 | Critique of the matchmaker ("they're from my service"). | | 09:09 | Ben calls the Bachelor “a low rent TEMU version of Chip...” | | 13:24 | Ronnie on Kizzy’s “catfish villainy.” | | 14:47 | Ben: “She’s on my radar and I don’t appreciate it.” | | 25:35 | Ronnie: “She’s Kathy. That’s all she needs to be.” | | 26:47 | Ben: “She sort of has that [Emily in Paris] vibe…” | | 32:03 | Ben comically compares Kathy’s chief stew demotion to “Charlize Theron putting on that ugly face.” | | 52:06 | Ben: “We screened all the women, and we asked, if you were still alive, would you, Richard Mulligan?” | | 65:16 | Kathy (as voiced by hosts): “Vacuum, vacuum, vacuum, vacuum, vacuum.” | | 67:34-69:47 | Ben and Ronnie attempt the Gen Z selfie technique—live, on air. | | 76:08 | Ben: “You also could just be hurt by being demoted on the friendship ladder.” |

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Tone and Language

The episode delivers Ben and Ronnie’s signature irreverent, rapid-fire banter, liberally peppered with sarcasm, Bravo in-jokes, character psychoanalysis, and campy sidebars. Their goats on reality tropes (“human trafficking”/dating shows), deep dives into the petty politics of yacht life, and over-the-top character voices drive home a tone of loving mockery.

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Memorable Moments

• The "human trafficking" riff (07:51): Ronnie’s comic exaggeration of the Bachelor setup as “straight up human trafficking.”
• Ben’s savage Chip Gaines takedown (09:09-11:19): “Chip is already kind of a TAMU version of himself.”
• Introduction of Kathy the Stew: Her comic perfectionism, and the way her presence unnerves Kizzy.
• Live Gen Z selfie experiment (67:34-69:47)
• Miss World vs. Miss Universe mock research (61:21)
• Kathy as a constant, droll comic chorus: “Vacuum, vacuum, vacuum…” (65:16)

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Key Takeaways for Listeners

• This episode of Below Deck Med doubled as a tongue-in-cheek Bachelor parody, upending the usual charter dynamic and inspiring snarky social commentary from Ben and Ronnie.
• The hosts deliver sharp, campy critiques of both crew and guests, exposing shallow TV tropes and reality TV artifice while celebrating the show’s ability to attract and manufacture disaster.
• Listeners will find both a comprehensive play-by-play of the episode's main events and plenty of meta-commentary on reality television, all enveloped in Ben and Ronnie’s trademark irreverence.

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End of Part One Recap. For full coverage, listen for Part Two!

Transcript

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[Ronnie]

Well, hello and welcome to Watch what Crappens. I'm Ronnie and that's Benjamin over there. Hello Ben. How you doing?

[Ben]

I'm doing great, thank you. Ronnie, how are you doing? And hello.

[Ronnie]

Good. You look very handsome. I enjoy your prepping shirt.

[Ben]

Thank you. It's my little Uniqlo shirt.

[Ronnie]

Oh, looks very handsome. Well, welcome to the show everybody. Today is Below Deck Day. Very exciting times here in the Krampins universe. It's also BravoCon week. So we're gonna go. That should be fun. Getting our fits together. And we are having a meetup in Las Vegas for Crappin's listeners. It is free. So come to it, if you're gonna be in Vegas, we'd love to meet you. Okay. Because that's what a meetup is. We all meet, we talk about our dreams and ambitions.

[Ben]

Can I say something? I think we can officially upgrade it to party. It's not a meetup anymore. It's now a party.

[Ronnie]

Oh, it's a party. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a crappin's party. Jenny's. Did I say Amy's? I'm so sorry. It's because I'm from Austin and that's always Jenny and Amy. I feel like are two just, you know, girls fighting on the, on the playground. Like, he's going to eat my ice cream. He's going to eat mine. Love you both. And so excited to be because, you know, that's Ben's dream and it's become my dream as time has gone on. Because Ben introduced me to Jenny's and then Jenny's introduced me to Jenny's and now I love Jenny's. Jenny's. The only relationship we're all swallow who love, love their ice cream.

[Ben]

And messaging you will you.

[Ronnie]

You will be getting free ice cream over there. So come. There will also be boosts. That's not free. You have to pay for that. But it's free to come. So come. It's going to be at a place called Beer Park. It's in the Paris Hotel and Casino. So it's right there on the strip by Bravocon and the hotels and all that good stuff. So we hope you come. It's at 10pm on Saturday night. We're gonna be partying. So bring your party shoes. Also Amazon Live was a disaster yesterday cause the app broke so we didn't ditch you on purpose. We will be finding a way to make up for that soon. We don't know when, but very soon we'll be doing that. And what else do we have to say? If you want videos of these recaps, they're all on video. Now go over to Krappens on Demand on Patreon. And that's also where you get bonus episod. This week we are doing Real Housewives of Beverly Hills trailer. And that's it for the announcements. Let's get. Do you have anything to add, my little sugar plum?

[Ben]

I just want to say I'm really excited for Jenny's I just want there's, you know, there's not a single Jenny's ice cream shop in all of Las Vegas. So if you want ice Jenny's ice cream on Saturday night, we're going to.

[Ronnie]

Be the first Jenny's shop. We are introducing Jenny's to Las Vegas, baby. It's kind of weird. It's like a 10 o' clock party where we're gonna be like, yeah, let's make some. Let's make custom drinks and get ice cream. Because that's how we.

[Ben]

I mean, you know, that's exactly how I roll. That's what I'm doing at any 10 o'. Clock. I'm like, I want one of those two things, if not both together. But no, just to clarify, Jenny's is providing some ice cream for everyone and it's gonna be a super fun time. But yeah, I'm gonna be getting lit. So anywho.

[Ronnie]

All right, let's get to it. We are here with Below Dick med in which is fun. You know. What a fun show. What a great show. Guys. This One is season 10, episodes seven. It's called LA Vie and Bros. La Vie Bros. Which I think means Max is jealous because his parents got divorced. I don't know, I don't really understand his thing or his parents didn't like him. So he's sad because bros are broing without him. Yeah, I didn't really understand, but it was fun to watch Max cry.

[Ben]

It makes more sense when you realize that Nathan is his dad and you're like, oh, that's why it hurts so much. It's gonna reject it all over again. A lot of French men with daddy issues on Below Deck these days. This is like the second season in a row. It's like we had Anthony last season be like, oh, my daddy. This is for your daddy. And now we have Max being like, oh, I did not speak to my daddy. So I was hoping to get daddy love from Nathan.

[Ronnie]

So. Well, yeah, but Max, the other dad was passed away. Right. So he would. That was true.

[Ben]

That was you.

[Ronnie]

Because his dad died.

[Ben]

A lot of discussion about. Now let's not bury the lead though this episode. Yes, Max was, you know, feeling like, you know, he's. It's an A and B conversation. So he needs to see his way out of it. But the real story with this episode is that Bravo decided to experiment with blending a dating show with Below Deck by having this guy on there and bringing on like six or seven ladies to see who would be his. His forever love and by forever. I mean for the next, like, weekend or something like that. So it's like it became like a dating show. And I have to say, they promoted this. It was in the trailer. They, you know, they really pushed this. And I was like, oh, my God, this is ridiculous. I actually loved it. You loved it? You know why? Because it was like very small. It was like on the side. And like so much of it was about the crew making comments about what they were seeing. And I just, I kind of loved like, ha. Having a focus on an audience reacting to a dating show, essentially.

[Ronnie]

Yeah. Is it human trafficking? I mean, what would you call it? This was straight up human trafficking, right? I mean, I'm not really sure, but when she said the ladies are all from her service, I was like, that's fishy. That.

[Ben]

That's not a great way to put it. She should say, they're all clients of mine looking for love, but not be like, they're from my service.

[Ronnie]

Yeah. And then the guy, the Bachelor. I mean, look, I'm used to the bachelor. I used to recap the Bachelor, but you know, that guy is generally hot and has something going for him. Like he's either an ex football player or an oil magnate or, Or. I don't know. They've been getting worse because then there was like Peter the pilot, and I was like, I think you're maybe a Spirit Airlines pilot part time. Like, I didn't really believe it. You know, they get lower. They're like, oh, it's an accountant. Who's this guy? What's he do? He's got a baseball glove for a face. The man is severely sun damaged and bald and not very nice. So I'm not really sure why anybody would be fighting for him. I'm saying hoes. I'm saying this was a boat of hoes. That's the only way I can get it right in my head. Because no normal person is gonna do. Aren't normal. I just mean. No. No person who's not getting paid is going to be trying to date that baseball glove on purpose.

[Ben]

I know. He was kind of like a low rent TEMU version of Chip from Chip and Joanna. And Chip is already kind of a taboo version of himself.

[Ronnie]

He does have Chip vibes. Yeah.

[Ben]

He just here and like, Chip is there. There's no like high end version of Chip. Chip is already entering the compari TAMU level. So then when you add this like TEMU version of a TAMU thing. Yeah. I don't, I don't understand why people are clamoring for this guy. I mean, in some ways that awful girl, you know, I. I kind of. I kind of bonded with her in a sense when she was like, I'm just in it for the yacht. But then she was actually so terrible that I couldn't. I had to.

[Ronnie]

She's vile. I was like, make her the new stew. Make her the new stew. Why isn't Anna the new stew? That's who we need.

[Ben]

She's also a pathological liar. Right? Like you definitely got the sense that she was high on something and she just lies all day long. Cuz every.

[Ronnie]

Every story was like, well, forgive me for living.

[Ben]

She. She's like a. Not like, you know when you ask like a 9 year old to like, oh, how was your day today? It was good. Like I saw a really famous person and they asked me to come, like hang out with him, but I didn't go because mom said I had to be home. You're like, okay, that's fine. Like all her stories have had that kind of arc to it. Like, yeah, one time I like flew to can for like one day and took a picture and then I left. Yeah, it was so fun. I was like, you are a liar.

[Ronnie]

You got let out of your crate that they have you in on the human trafficking boat for some air in con and then you were put back in to be delivered to whatever baseball club you had to date next. Do not tell me that woman is not a traveling saleswoman. That's.

[Ben]

That's.

[Ronnie]

By the way, I can't stop thinking about Chip from Chip and Joanna. I'm still convinced that that guy is emotionally abusive. I think he has anger issues and I think he probably like squeezes Joanna's arm too hard in confessional. Like there's something creepy about that guy. I don't trust anybody who smiles like that constantly. And it's like constantly like, like making the husband jokes. Something's wrong with Chip. Mark my words, something's going to come out about that guy at some point. That he was just awful this whole time.

[Ben]

Oh, he's terrible. He's just the worst.

[Ronnie]

Yeah. That's why Joanna always looks so miserable, you know?

[Ben]

Always, Always.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, but Chip, okay, so anyway, yeah, Anna too. She's a liar. But I liked her, you know. But of course, you know, I like all the terrible people on this show. They make it more interesting for me. So let's start at 7:30am Everybody's getting up. Josh is mixing something in a kitchenaid and explodes all over the place. So he Grabs it by the head and shoves it down into the hot plate. Tells it to get the fuck over, get with it. He gets in chip attitude.

[Ben]

Yeah. And Kizzy, her big thing is that she just broke up with Tommy on the phone. So now she is. You went. Hold on, hold on, everyone. Let's also talk about Kizzy. I feel like Kizzy is just a, you know, she's, she is a toxic. This is a, this is. I'm not gonna say she's a toxic person, a toxic girl, a toxic co worker. I'm just calling her a toxic because she's just a toxic. And we saw it from the beginning when she was planting seeds to get like V sent out to the deck crew. We saw shadows of that one girl that was on Below deck sailing. I always forget her name, but she stuffed her face full of pasta. But Kizzy, she's not as like outwardly nasty as Ashley. That was her name. But I thought that like this week when she, that girl had like a full on tear in her skirt and she just let it go. So that way the girl could be humiliated or would somehow like it would cause her demise. I was like, oh, you're a vile person. Inside, on inside and out. Like, you are terrible. I, I'm like, I can't.

[Ronnie]

Like, I was like, did she let her do it? I mean, did she see it? Did we see her see it?

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ronnie]

And she was just gonna ignore it.

[Ben]

Yeah. She said I probably should say something and she. Then she like, laughs. I'm like, you are so nasty and you're trying to be like cutesy, but you are nasty.

[Ronnie]

Oh, yeah. I mean, she keeps talking like she's so evil, like she's here to be the villain. You know, she's like, I'm going to go on this TV show and I'm going to be the villain. It's going to be wonderful. But she's not really doing anything. I mean, she says in her confessionals that she's a villain. It's like, yeah, I'm going to steal that guy. I'm going to steal that guy. I'm fucking everybody on this boat and I don't care. I'm going to be number one no matter what. But then she's very nice to everybody, so I'm so confused. Like her villainy is confusing and is actually pissing me off because I feel like she's catfish villainy department, you know? Well, that's why something is, she's not giving it to me.

[Ben]

Yeah, well, that's why I Say she's, like, nicer. She presents. She's not as bad as Ashley because she does. She doesn't seem as bad as Ashley was that one season. But I just feel like I've got my eye on you because I, like, I see how you're undermining people in this episode. At one point, she tells the new girl, like, oh, you know V, she really likes Joe. She's very much like, he's mine. And, like, V never did that. But she's painting a picture of V as being this possessive person you have to be careful of. Like, she pits people against each other in subtle ways, and I don't approve. And the producers are including all those little tidbits because they want us to see it. I mean, or they want to make a narrative, but they want us to see it primarily. I'm just saying she's on my radar and I don't appreciate it. I don't appreciate her the way she's moving.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, okay, well, I just don't appreciate that she's not evil enough. I need more. Okay, so that's. But we both have problems. Not. You're not getting a good Yelp review from either one of us kids, so get with it. So Kizzy is like, oh, God, I did call Tom last night.

[Ben]

What did he say?

[Ronnie]

I was like, how do you feel about me kissing other people? And, you know, she's like, yeah, I feel guilty. Because he was like, what the fuck? But Asia doesn't care. I mean, this is about. You were dating for a month. Stop it.

[Ben]

Aisha literally doesn't care. So Kizzy tells us I can write people off quite easily. Like, I can break up with people I've been in a two year relationship with and be like, oh, oh, okay, who's next? I'm like, are you still the same person who says, my greatest hobby in the world is love? I love love. If I couldn't have love, I would want to replace it with, I don't know, more love. I just can't live without it. And then you're like, oh, God, yeah. I just, like, kick people to the curb and onto the next one. Like, which one is it? Like, you have to, like. Like, at what point you have to, like, settle in on a character.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, I don't think she's decided who she is yet. You know, she's just young. I think she thinks it's fun to be like, look at me, I'm sex loving and I have so many partners. But ultimately, I don't think she lives like that. Probably because she seems confused by it. You know, she can. She seems confused by the lifestyle. And now she's like, oh, Tony, what am I gonna do? Yeah, I get over people in two seconds.

[Ben]

Whatever. I don't know.

[Ronnie]

I'm just not really buying it. I think she probably cries a lot.

[Ben]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ronnie]

So we get snips of everybody getting ready for the charter. Josh is cooking. People are mopping Kizzy's laundry. Asia, Josh and V are in the kitchen together, and V comes to visit, and they're talking about Joe.

[Kathy]

Did you make your mind up about Joe? Joe and V sitting in a tree. If you see K finger in the butt. Oh, that's where pink comes out.

[Ben]

Why does V have to make her mind up about Joe, by the way? It's not. It's like, why? What is the deadline? It must be just, like, a production thing. Like, okay, by the end of this episode, we need to know where you're standing with him, because we need to build the rest of the season. So she's like, yeah, I dig him. And that was, like, the last thing V says all episode, because she was just, like, relegated to the sidelines. Like, okay, well, your storyline's kind of wrapped up. You made it to the outside, and now we just want to focus on Kizzy. So V's like, I mean, I'm not trying to do anything serious, but, like, his attention seemed more like just like a regular boat fling. Yeah. So I'm sure I won't get hurt or anything by, you know, opening my heart to this guy. And I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna trust that when he says things, that I have a beautiful soul and that he sees me as different from the other girls, that he actually really means it. And we can build something real on that. It should probably work out okay for us.

[Ronnie]

So now Kizzy is planting some little jealousy seeds with Joe. And he sang last night was so fun. And she's like, what was you necking, V? He's, like, necking me necking. She's like, well, I don't know. You were doing little kissy noises. What was that?

[Ben]

Because you're whispering. You're whispering. Oh, yeah. And the nose got in the way because of me. Big nose. That's what happened. So. So then back in the galley, V is just saying that. Like, oh, yeah, Joe, he said that. He said, I'm really scared of you. Like, I'm like, why are you scared of me? He's, like, so mysterious. I think I really like him.

[Ronnie]

This could Be real. This could be real between me and you. I'm so scared. I'm so scared of how you make me feel. Shut up, Joe. That's why, that's why he was saying he's scared. So Asia's like, well, I just don't.

[Kathy]

Want you to get hurt.

[Ronnie]

She's like, yeah, I'm not gonna get hurt. I'm not going to. You are gonna get hurt. It's Joe. He's a boy, but he's a boy with a receding hairline. He's in a rush to get as much as he can before it starts to fall off.

[Ben]

So it's just like.

[Kathy]

It looks like V and Kizzy are both interested in Joe and I'm worried that last season could play it all over again.

[Ben]

And then we see Ellie and Bri with Ellie being like, you have violated girl cloth. And Bri being like, what? I don't know about girl coat, cuz I lost it in the laundry room.

[Ronnie]

I had girl coat here, but then I lost it because I tried to iron it with, with a curling iron and it got so curly I couldn't recognize it anymore.

[Kathy]

Indubitably.

[Ben]

What was the word that you'd always say?

[Ronnie]

I was going to ask you.

[Ben]

It wasn't indubitably.

[Ronnie]

Is she doing what she is supposed to be doing that for? It was something like that, but I don't remember the word.

[Ben]

Once a season is done, it's like all the jokes get locked away and sent off to Luxembourg or something, I don't know.

[Ronnie]

The BBR has been erased to make space for a million more below decks. So Aisha's like, yeah, Joe's a sweet guy, but he's usually just faking the shit. None of this is real. She knows knows his game. So then we go to Joe with Kizzy and he's like, oh, I feel cheeky. I feel cheeky. Now she's like, hehehe. So now we see more cleaning and stuff like that. And the deck team are talking about doing the flats and the stainless, you know, and Vy's psyched to be out there not doing any more laundry. She's like, yeah, I just want to kill it and prove that I'm an asset to the deck team. Hell yeah. Look at my muscles. Yeah, man, it's time for a commercial. It's time for a Grappens commercial.

[Ben]

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[Ronnie]

I got a cashmere hoodie in like an oatmeal color and it's finally time that I get to wear this thing. I'm wearing it all the time and I look adorable and dashing. I love them for the wardrobe pieces like this. You know, when it's like cold, you get a nice sweater, a nice pair of pants. I mean Quint is great for that.

[Ben]

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[Ronnie]

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[Ben]

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[Ronnie]

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[Narrator]

You're standing on the beach when you notice something strange. The horizon doesn't look right at first. All you can see is a thin white line stretching as far as your eyes can see. Then the line starts to rise, but it's not the horizon at all. It's a wave. A 30 foot wall of water. And it's racing straight toward you. On the day after Christmas in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Indonesia, triggering a devastating tsunami. It struck Thailand without warning. No alarms, no cell phone alerts, no evacuation. In this season of against the Odds experience one of the deadliest natural disasters in history through the perspectives of those who did everything they could to survive. Follow against the Odds on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge all episodes of against the Tsunami in Thailand early and ad free right now on Wondery.

[Ben]

Plus. Guess what? There's a text.

[Kathy]

Bloop.

[Ben]

Oh God, It's Norma. Wait a second. This isn't normal. This is. This is someone named Kathy. Oh my God. My dream came true. Kathy came alive. Oh God. Someone get the chocolate. She's gonna want it. Eck.

[Ronnie]

Oh gosh. All right, Norma. Bloop. Norma, could you get us a water cooler? Because Kathy's coming on board. She loves a good water cooler. Bloop.

[Kathy]

Bloop.

[Ben]

Asia. Okay, question. Do we have any Business suits. Because there might be a meeting. Kathy's not going to be comfortable unless she's in a business business suit. Get that chocolate ready for her. Bloop.

[Ronnie]

Hey, Norman. Me. Sandy again. Hey, speaking of water coolers, could we get a normal cooler? Because you need to be cooler. Bleep.

[Ben]

Hey, hey, Captain Sandy. It's Norma here. I am not gonna get a water cooler. But what I can get you is a glass of water to throw in your face because you're being such a today. I'm not in the mood.

[Kathy]

Bloop.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, you know what? I'm having trouble on the boat here. I might need some new staffing because I think someone's on here because her name sounds like Koozie, so.

[Ben]

You know, for a moment, I thought you already had a staff. As in a staff infection. That's what your face looks like.

[Kathy]

Bloop. Bloop.

[Ronnie]

Rapunzel. Rapunzel, please take up your nose hair, okay? You're black in the hallway.

[Ben]

Bloop. Well, let me tell you something. If I ever drop my Rapunzel hair down the tower, please don't climb it, because I want to keep my head attached to my neck. What I'm saying is you're overweight. Bloop.

[Ronnie]

Okay, you know what? You're coming for the Kinkles now. I'm done with you. Bloop, my bitch. Bloop.

[Ben]

Love you, bitch.

[Ronnie]

Okay, so now we see Nathan and what's his Buns Joe. And they're just being wacky. They're, like, doing, like, jigs and dancing around and doing, like, the river dance thing. And then they're sliding wooden belly. They're sliding belly first across the wooden bar thing. Because of wooden belly? I wish. It's my dream.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's very like slip and slide. Except it's not a slip and slide. It's a bar. It's like a bar top or something. And so they're having fun, and Max is just watching and he's like, oh, no, that was my Nathan. He was my brother. Of all my. Now I'm forever alone. So, poor Max.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, Max is starting to feel very, very lonely. And you see, don't you miss having someone to yell at and feel better than you should have kept that other guy around? Max. This is what you get.

[Ben]

Yep. See, now you're just like the leftover. But, you know, he's taking. Okay. He's just like, well, that is life. Okay, so he's. He's. Yeah, he's the third wheel that's needs to be shammied. So meanwhile, the Kathy is coming. Kathy, the new stew is coming and everyone's getting excited and Kizzy's talking to Josh and she's like, are you excited for the news to you, Josh? He's like, oh, I forgot about that, to be honest, because you're my favorite stewardess. I just want to put a bunch of face paint on you and cram you into her car.

[Ronnie]

I hope she's a lesbian. She's a Kathy, okay? That's what she is, is she's neither lesbian nor straight lady. She's a Kathy. She's a lady who's going to be by the water cooler complaining about stuff. She's going to have stringy hair and crazy kind of squinty eyes. She's Kathy. That's all she needs to be. Do you know young people named Kathy, by the way? That's like an old name, right?

[Ben]

I mean, I have a friend named Kathy. Well, this is, by the way, Kathy with a C, which is important because that really speaks to the comic. But I do have a friend who's Kathy with a circle. And she's wonderful. But I agree, we don't really see too many Kathy's anymore. We see Kate's. We get a lot of Kate, but we don't get Kathy. Which actually made me really excited. When they said her name was Kathy, I was like, oh, God, I love her. I was like, yes, icon Kathy. Yeah, she's pretty. And she's like. And she's like, really on top of details. I'm like, yes.

[Ronnie]

Yeah. So she arrives and we just see her from behind. It's like, this looks very sexy. She's wearing a tennis skirt, a little blazer, and her hair is all done. She's wearing a hat and she looks very pretty. We don't know yet, but she looks very dressed to be cleaning a boat. Like very well dressed.

[Ben]

She is. She has really. The little hat was what was really doing. Kind of like had an. It wasn't a beret, but it sort of reminded me of like Emily in Paris. The way like Emily in Paris shows up like, I'm here to take over this city. And she sort of has that vibe coming out the boat, but like. Like British sounding.

[Ronnie]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Was it Australian? Is she British or Australian? I think British, right?

[Ronnie]

I think so. So Kathy comes and the boys just start falling out of the boat. Kathy, hello. Hello. Yeah. And like, I'm a hugger, so give me a hug. So they all hug her and just like, she reminds me of a young Mary Poppins. She's a spoonful of sugar.

[Ben]

Yeah, he is. Like, he's, he's very excited to see Kathy.

[Ronnie]

They're all like, you know, people want to Mary Poppins. I don't remember. I was very young when that came out. I mean, I've seen it older. I don't know. She didn't give me, like, big, like, let's vibes. Mary Poppins, right?

[Ben]

You know, I've never seen Mary Poppins.

[Ronnie]

You've never seen Mary Poppins? What kind of homosexual are you?

[Ben]

I just, I don't know. I, I just.

[Ronnie]

How do you even know anything about the suffrage movement?

[Ben]

I, I, I just know that there's umbrellas. And I know there's that crazy song. Well, I know they're super califragilistic. Sbialidocious. And I know Chimney Sweeping. There's that Chimney sweep song, right? That's like, what's like, how's it go? It's like.

[Ronnie]

Oh, no, that's Go fly a kite. Go, go fly a kite. Something over the Something Flight be. It's kind of boring. Honestly. Mary Poppins. Yeah. I'm not gonna lie. Maybe it wasn't really for gay people. I don't think that's like, a huge gay college movie. Mary Poppins. It's like a bunch of kids getting taken care of. I'm sad my dad doesn't love me. And she's like, well, I don't either, but I'll teach you how to clean things. Like, oh, my God, I love her. And then penguins dance around on a Ferris wheel or some shit. But I don't know. Dick Van Dyke's very dirty in it. Oh, yeah, because he's a chimney sweeper, right? So I didn't like it. I was like, that dirty cat's gross. We're really talking to him.

[Ben]

Honestly, it should never have been made in the first place. It's witchcraft. Like, I don't know why we're teaching our children that, like, you can fly with an umbrella. Like, that's, like, unrealistic expectation. This is why children. This is why people don't know how to work anymore. This is why they don't have any work ethic, because they just expect they can open up an umbrella and just fly off to Madagascar. Well, you can't. Okay, get to work.

[Ronnie]

And it also really hurt the maid industry because, like, the maid slash nanny industry because I feel like every time there's someone working at your house, every kid's like, can you do any tricks? Like, no. Like, fucking lame. Maid kind of nanny are you? Can't fly. Can't make things fly through the air. You suck.

[Ben]

If you got time to lean on your umbrella, you got time to clean. Am I right?

[Ronnie]

So, yeah, she's a hugger. So she comes in and hugs people, and then she is like, oh, I'm a princess. You know that, right? And Asia and Kizzy are just watching her, and Kizzy's like, oh, my God, she's gorgeous. My pants. I was everything. Hottest girl on the interior.

[Ben]

Well, and see, just like Max, you got to be careful what you wish for, because if you think that the producers aren't gonna with you, you're absolutely wrong. So now she's. Kizzy was so ready to be, like, the reigning hot girl. Now that she's. She's like, I'm finally single. I'm ready to be the number one. I will be the supreme. And then they bring in Kathy. So Max like, oh, hello. I'm sorry. I was watching your eyes. What is your name again? She's like, kathy. Oh, Kathy Max. Oh, I'm glad, because I didn't remember your name either. Oh, no. Oh, mother's love deprived from Catholic.

[Ronnie]

She's like, oh, it's because you were looking at my eyes, too. I'm like, no. Hello. And so they meet, and then Max is in the galley with Kizzy and Josh. And Max is like, oh, I'm sorry, Kizzy. I'm sorry, baby. I don't cheat on you, okay? She's like, you better not cheat on me, because I'll just hit my finger really hard. It's like, oh, I give you a floor your finger. Kissy kiss.

[Ben]

So Kizzy now meets her competition, Kathy Kizzy. And Kathy, she's like, how you doing? She's like, I'm really. Well, I've been over in America for this season. Disgusting. I know. Awful. Do I look tacky or. Now it's my biggest concern. Well, I'm a chief stew on another yacht. And what about you? Are you the 16th stew? Looks like it, by the way you're washing that surface there.

[Ronnie]

And she's like, oh, my God. So is this on your rotation? She's like, oh, well, I'm off. I'm off time now. I just get bored. I just have to work. You know, some days I wake up and I think I could sleep late. And then I think, no, I could take another step towards perfection. And that's always what I choose. Welcome. I'm Kathy. I'm here to ruin your goddamn life. Everything. I pass sparkles I like that every time she passed a room, she would, like, reorganize thing, and then they would, like, have the cartoon sparkle over it.

[Ben]

I love Kathy's here. Kathy's like, well, normally I'm a. I'm a cheat stew, but I'm going to slum it here. It's sort of like, you know, when Charlize Theron put on that ugly face and didn't put makeup on and won an Oscar. That's kind of what I'm doing here, but it's the aversion, you know? What I'm trying to say is you're part of my slumming it experience. Okay, toodles.

[Ronnie]

I'm going for the Golden Sammy. Win it when. Yeah.

[Ben]

Well, I thought I could do the Nicole Kidman version, put on a fake nose, or I could do the Charlize Theron version and put on fake teeth. I said, you know what? I'll just be beautiful, but I'll do it in the laundry room instead. And I think that should work out.

[Ronnie]

I will limp, though, while I do laundry. Get a little Daniel Day in there, just in case.

[Ben]

Just in case.

[Ronnie]

Oh, my right foot. It's a wrong foot. Sorry.

[Ben]

Should I learn how to twerk? That might work well, based on how Anora did upsetting Demi, so I'm not sure.

[Ronnie]

Nora, it's funny that you say that, because I was thinking, as they make her pass everything and it starts sparkling, they should have Cassie or Kizzy passing everything and just watch it kind of wither away. You know, she's like Demi in the. In that movie that she lost substance. Was it the substance? Yeah, she's like, here I go. It's finally my chance. I finally got the substance. And then Kathy comes in, and she's like, oh, God, why can't I walk straight? Why is my skin falling? Just lost your finger.

[Ben]

Let's be honest. Kathy was birthed out of Kizzy's back. Now we all know what happened. They're like, aren't you too young to have the substance?

[Ronnie]

They've given Kizzy some kind of a pill that she actually has to stay awake and watch what the other one's doing.

[Ben]

Yeah, it's like a faulty substance. It's like a cruel substance. I definitely could see Kizzy doing that scene in the middle of the Substance where Demi Moore, like, tries to put makeup on before a date, and then she can't sleep redoing it over and over and over again until she looks, like, demented. That is. That is definitely in Kiz's future. And I'll give it like, you know, 30 years. Yeah.

[Ronnie]

Okay, so we see Nathan showing V stuff, and then we go to Kathy, and the camera's focused on her butt because it's below deck. They're pervs. And so Asia is called to the bridge, and she brings Kathy.

[Ben]

Okay.

[Ronnie]

Meanwhile, Max is like, which one is your favorite? Joe? And he's like, fix. Hurry up. But she wouldn't want a man like me anyway because I'm not after a relationship. Like, wow, here you go. Already dumping V the second.

[Ben]

Yes.

[Ronnie]

You have a chance to jump to something else. God.

[Ben]

And also laying the groundwork to say, this is going too fast. It's. It's too fast. And like, oh, she's so committed. She's so into me, and I just don't want anything that serious. I'm going to have to dump her. I'm going to have to dump her. She's cray cray. Oh, my God. Look at these crazy women. Can't control their emotions.

[Ronnie]

Yes.

[Ben]

Can they not act like they're. Can they like, not act like they're picking out a Toyota Camry? Like, so which one's your favorite? I like the one with the anti lock brakes. Oh, But I like the one with the sunroof.

[Ronnie]

The glove compartment's a bit rattly on that one, bro. I'm not sure about it, but I forgot what I was gonna say. But, yeah, these guys are gross. Oh, I think he's already working up to use the defensive, like, well, I'm sorry your boyfriend's dead, but it's not my fault, and you can't treat me like him. I'm not him. Get off of me. You know, like, trying to make her. He's gonna try and make her look crazy. Like she's trying to transfer the dead boyfriend onto him, you know?

[Ben]

And he's also, like, a little bit doing the Madonna and the horror thing. You know that concept where someone is like, so is it Madonna the whores, like the virgin Madonna or. I don't know what it is, but, like, one person is, like, actually too special, so you actually don't do anything with them. But then, like, you go to, like, the. And the one that you'll actually, like, get all sexual with because they're the. You know what I'm saying? So he's. I feel like the more he talks, says, like, oh, V, you know, she's deep. She has a soul. She's been through things. The more he's actually sort of putting her in a box of like, well, I can't touch her. So he's gonna lead her on, but he's not gonna do anything with her because she's actually too sacred. But then he'll, like, slum it up with Kizzy or whoever.

[Ronnie]

I'm just. Yeah, I think he would have done something with her. It's just something new came in and he knows all the guys want her, so he wants to win.

[Ben]

That's what I think it's called the Madonna whore complex. I just want to say the Madonna whore complex.

[Ronnie]

Or as my mother would call it, the Madonna. Madonna complex. I remember one time we were in a. In a department store or something when I was a little kid and like a virgin came on and my mom was like, coming, covering my ears through the store. She's like, do not listen to it. Do not listen to it. That is just sin. She's like, why are you playing sin in the stores? Is this a family friendly store? Because you are playing a prostitute's music right now.

[Ben]

My dad has been dealing with 40 years of an eternal question saying, she doesn't even have a voice.

[Ronnie]

Why.

[Ben]

Why is she on the radio? She doesn't even have a voice. She's not hitting the notes. That's my dad. Every time I'm. A Donna song comes on.

[Ronnie]

Well, it's before auto tune. Give her a break. I mean, he didn't. He didn't have a terrible point, honestly.

[Ben]

Yeah.

[Ronnie]

Okay, so Captain Sandy's like, okay, well, you know, look. Hey, Kathy, got a water cooler for you. Can't wait to hear you. To hear what you think about 9 to 5 life, am I right? Anybody inviting Kathy to their birthday party. Didn't think so. Kathy, this is going to be fun. It's going to be like having Norma here on the boat. Okay. So excited for you. So anyway, Asia's a great leader. Okay. And I've been looking at your cv. You were a chief suit. What do you think about that, Asia? Little competition there.

[Kathy]

Oh, I'm just happy. Have you been one? And she's like, oh, my God, yeah.

[Ben]

Yes. And then her mouth just hangs open for, like 10 minutes. So Captain Cindy goes, well, okay, so Kathy will begin charter today. Do you have anything to say? But I can't believe this. Can't any man in your age bracket fix anything? Is your generation letting the fine art of fixing things just die? God, I love. I love when you just speak the truth, Kathy. It's just so fun. Like, you really just nail it.

[Ronnie]

So meanwhile, we go back to the other people. Josh. And Kizzy. And Kizzy's like. I mean, she's a fucking chief, Steve. I feel like my life. Life's about to turn into a living hell. I mean, she won't want to be in laundry. And he's like, well, at the end of the day, she signed up for this. If she doesn't want to do it. And there's a door. Right.

[Ben]

We'Ll remember that, Josh. Next time you complain about some. About cooking something for someone. Next time you complain about cooking up some szechuan chicken at 2am I don't know why I'm coming for Josh. He's right. So then, now it's time for a preference sheet meeting. Okay. Okay. Preference sheet. Okay, I got. I really want to be on the Kathy side of this, but I gotta stick with the deck crew because it's closer to wind. Okay, so this is a cool charter, everyone. We've never done anyone like this. It's our first time we're doing a charter with a lady who works a nine to five job. Okay, Kathy, come on, pick it up. Tell us what's going on in your workplace, Kathy.

[Ronnie]

Tell us a little bit about yourself. Well, you know, as I always say, three bagels, two bowls of fudge ripple ice cream, 17 Oreos and a Twinkie.

[Ben]

Me.

[Ronnie]

So what? It's not like he'll ever call me again anyway. Haramf. All right, so true, Kathy.

[Ben]

Yeah, well, she's really. She's really teaching me. She's really teaching. She knows things. She's been out in the world, you know.

[Kathy]

Okay, well, this primary, he's enlisted as Joe. He's the CEO and founder of a wealth management company, and he's enlisted as personal matchmaker.

[Ben]

Amy.

[Kathy]

Amy is well in her field and she really doesn't like other people, but she tries real hard for the cameras to put on a smile every now and then.

[Ben]

So please enjoy that when she does that.

[Kathy]

But this is the first time she has ever hosted a singers event for client while they're chartering a yard.

[Ronnie]

There were six eligible women to join.

[Kathy]

Him on this trip with the hopes of finding love. Oh. Oh, Kathy, do you have something to add to that? It looks like you're raising your hand.

[Ben]

Yes, I'd like to say something. My friends all hurry home from work to be with their husbands, and they plan every day around spending time with their children. It just makes me feel like it's time to make some big changes on my own, Mom. And I think I'm finally ready to make a real commitment. And I Remember, my mom said, oh, sweetie, does that mean you're. You're. You're young? And I said, said, I'm going to get a dog, Mom.

[Kathy]

Okay.

[Ronnie]

All right. So now the question is, who's he gonna choose out of all these beautiful women? Well, this the primary. Single. Joe is coming on with six birds, but I'm the bad guy for only wanting two, you know? Damn. And then we see a split screen of Kizzy and V. They didn't add Kiz. They didn't add Kathy yet.

[Ben]

Kathy.

[Ronnie]

Why would they. They never add me, do they? So back to interior. Kizzy is reading hers. Night two. All the women that are still on the yacht will have dinner together with Joe. And then after the final breakfast, if Joe's made a lasting connection, then he may leave the yacht with his new bought and paid for girlfriend.

[Ben]

Mm. Who's he gonna pick? So that's gonna be the whole thing. It's basically just like a mini bachelor happening on this boat, and there's. With eliminations and all. So basically, first they're going to pick up Joe and Amy, and then they're gonna go bring in the girls a little bit later. So now it's time to get clean. And Kathy's walking around like the crew message. She's like, I don't know. This is really driving me crazy. And she goes, just. She just starts cleaning everything. Like crazy.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, it's just messy. Like, in her eyes, she's a perfectionist. And so she is even organizing the pillow at the crew table, which is.

[Ben]

Is something.

[Ronnie]

She's like, this is too much for me. I just can't do it, you know? Oh, God. Ack. Can I just say, Ack.

[Ben]

I think about how much I love my own time. I love getting to do what I. Whatever I want. Me, Kathy. Thank you. That was one of my greatest quotes.

[Ronnie]

So now everybody's working. Kathy's removing provisions from bins with rubber gloves on. Okay. So she's very careful. And this might also means that she's committed crimes before. And then the guests arrive, and Aisha loves what Kathy is doing. She's like, oh, my God, the crew.

[Kathy]

Mess looks amazing, Kathy.

[Ronnie]

And Kathy's like, oh, by the way, Kizzy, the. The roles you did for the towers are wonderful. Just wonderful. I'm so excited to know I'm working with such a knowledgeable human being. She's like, aisha did it because. Oh, of course. Okay. I'll find you something to compliment you about soon. Look at you. Look at you getting Joe's attention What a handsome man. Congratulations. You're gorgeous, and you deserve it. That's actually V. Oh, all right, well, I'll keep trying. I'll find something soon.

[Ben]

Hmm. The way that you piled all those rags on the floor in the shape of an amoeba instead of putting them in their own separate bin. Not my choice of how it operates, but I love your artistry. I respect your voice. That one. Okay. That was me. I know.

[Ronnie]

I know. Dear, dear, dear Kizzy. I know. So now we see a Wicked themed commercial with Ariana Beerman and Meredith and Sutton and Giselle. It's a lot of people on a Wicked.

[Ben]

It was a good commercial. It was. I feel like Bravo's best commercial since the heydays of. Of Summers by Bravo, or whatever it was. I mean, I don't know.

[Ronnie]

Summer by Bravo things, they really need to bring this back.

[Ben]

That was great brand building. Why would they stop? That was, like, the best. That was the. When they would finally emerge. It was the best. But, you know, maybe we can relaunch that. Maybe we can get into some people's ears at BravoCon this weekend and be like, you know what? We really want to bring back Princess Long Island.

[Ronnie]

No.

[Ben]

Summer by Bravo. That's what we want.

[Ronnie]

So Amy is telling bachelor Jo. Amy's like the assistant or the. No, not the assistant. The love. The love. The brothel owner. She's the brothel owner, and she's telling bachelor Joe that she feels good and she's purchased a lot of amazing people to come on this boat. And he's just like. He has that, like, old, confused look in his face, you know, just like, huh. Yeah, I can't wait to meet women. I hope to find someone worthy of me on this boat. Get out of here with your knockoff Tommy Bahama clothes and your. Your nasty, you are greasy, your chip nastiness.

[Ben]

This guy, and he says at one point that he's 47. He is not 47. I'm turning 47 in three weeks. You are not 47.

[Ronnie]

Your bald spot is 47.

[Ben]

Inches. Oh, chocolate, chocolate, chocolate.

[Ronnie]

That man is 60 if he's a day.

[Ben]

Yeah, he's definitely in his 50s, which.

[Ronnie]

Is fine, but, you know, don't lie about it. And then also getting everybody in their, like, early 30s to date. It's just guys are just so close.

[Ben]

23 year old. Yeah, well, to quote Fergie. To quote. To quote the great poet of our time, Fergie. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't lie. And then I did a cartwheel. Everyone People who are not watching. I just did a cartwheel. So Kathy is cleaning and Kathy's like, I have a question, Kizzy. Captain Sandy. So she has. She gave me a bathroom Matt. So what kind of. What kind of towels does she have? And because he's like one of the gray ones. Okay, is it a huge gray one or the normal size gray one? Because obviously you've been working on this boat for, I guess, six episodes of this season and you should know which size towel the captain of the boat has. Right? So which one is it? Can you tell me? Because he's like, I think the normal size one. Okay. Your lack of confidence shows me that you're as inept as I initially thought. Thank you. Carry on.

[Ronnie]

Well, you're certainly not an abacus, are you? I'm definitely not going to be counting on you. All right, thank you. Thank you for your time.

[Ben]

So.

[Ronnie]

I know, dear, I know.

[Ben]

Does that mean I get to kiss Abba?

[Ronnie]

Yeah. So now V and Joe are talking about soccer. And he's like, oh, I played soccer. And she's like, what position? He's like, oh, the forward. The forward ass face position. She's like, oh, my God, I paid forward ass face too. Isn't that great? Like feeling like you're just so in charge of everything. Like, I'm totally on equal footing as you as soccer. And he's like, I can't wait to dump this lady. I'm jumping out. Look at her hanging all over me with a soccer bragging.

[Ben]

God, she's so clingy. She wants to know anything about my childhood with soccer. And then we see like rival goofy photos of them in soccer. Her. It's like, here's Joe looking, looking awkward as a 12 year old. And here's V looking awkward as a 12 year old who looks more awkward. And then it cuts to Sandy, who's very serious all of a sudden. And she goes, finally, Nathan has an experienced deck team so he can do his job properly. His test as a boson starts now. Hey, relax me. Okay, Sandy?

[Ronnie]

And now it begins the great test. So then we go to Asia on the deck talking to Joe, and she's like, have you had a terrible relationship in the past? Bachelor Joe. He's like, oh, yeah, you know, several of them. Many of most of them. God, ladies, am I right? Can't live with them, can't live without them.

[Ben]

So then Asia is telling us about her worst date.

[Kathy]

She goes, the worst date I ever had was this guy that I was sleeping with. He raped. Had me a Bath and use dishwashing liquid instead of bubble bath. So I had to wake up the next morning, and I'm covered head to toe in a giant rash. So I hope bachelor Joe has a much better time on a first date on a super yacht in Spain.

[Ronnie]

Poor sweet Alicia. I mean, Aisha, that. That's her worst date. That's your worst date story? Someone put dishwashing soap in your bath? I mean, seriously, you're too innocent for this world.

[Ben]

Kathy just walks by and says, I know too much about life to have any optimism. Exclamation point.

[Ronnie]

I'll tell you who my best date is. Myself.

[Ben]

Should I tell you about the guilto meter? So, for instance, imagine my mama saying, you who? And she has cake, and I just say, ack, you're welcome. The guilt O meter.

[Ronnie]

Okay, so bachelor Joe's like, yeah, you know, you get more particular as you get older. You know, like about age especially. You wanted to be younger. You know, I don't really have any kids in my own. It would be nice to go. I mean, I do have some kids, but it would be nice to go to a high school play and be like, that's my girlfriend.

[Ben]

That right there, that's my girlfriend.

[Ronnie]

She's like, well, I guess you get.

[Kathy]

Stuck in your ways, do you?

[Ronnie]

She's like, yeah, yeah. Don't worry, you're not the only one with the comb over. Nathan's right over there. If you ever need to bond with somebody.

[Ben]

This is like a Christmas Carol for Nathan. It's the ghost of Christmas Future is Joe. Except Nathan has a much better personality. So now we go back to laundry, and Kizzy tells Kathy that she's, like, in the laundry doing stuff. And Kathy's like, oh, question. Okay, do you have the separate bag for the rags? You know, the dirty rags? Know those disgusting rags you use to clean up things? You don't just throw them on the floor, do you? That's like. I mean, I was just in America, and that's something that Americans would do. But you're not familiar America, so you wouldn't do that, right? She's like, I actually do just throw them on the floor.

[Ronnie]

Oh.

[Ben]

Oh, you do? Oh, that's so adorable for you. Let's use bags.

[Ronnie]

We'll use bags. And also, do they just wash the rags with the regular clothes? Is that what she's saying? Because she's saying, do you have separate bags for rags and stuff? I thought she meant, like, are you just throwing them in with the regular uniforms and stuff like that? Because that's nasty.

[Ben]

I thought she meant, like, are you just throwing them on the floor? Like, when you're done, you throw them on the floor and you gather them up and you throw them in the laundry. I wasn't totally sure. All I did know was that it was her subtle boss bitch British way of saying, you're doing it wrong. And I loved it.

[Ronnie]

So now we go to Amy, and she's like, when the women get here, Joe, I can go talk to them as a group and kind of let them know what to expect. You know, I'm going to show them a little golden pond. I'm going to show them a Paul Newman salad dressing cover and just say, he's not really this hot, but he is this old. Okay, Thousand island for the win. And then I'm going to say, okay, girls, come on up. Let's go meet Joe. And then one by one, he has a question. Quick chat, okay? He's gonna have a quick chat with each of them, okay? He's gonna be checking IDs just to make sure they're not over 32. Okay?

[Ben]

We all. We screened all the women, and we asked, if you were still alive, would you, Richard Mulligan? And they all said yes. So they're approved. They're on the yacht.

[Ronnie]

We each said, okay, Richard Mulligan versus Dreyfus. And they all chose Dreyfus. This. They're gonna love you. They are absolutely gonna love you, Joe.

[Ben]

There was one person who said, David Leisure. And we. We accepted that. We said that was fine. We said, you know, Joe, Isuzu is okay.

[Ronnie]

You're extremely popular. There's a woman named Park Overall threatening to blow up the boat if I don't let her on. But I'm gonna call her bluff. I'm not letting her on.

[Ben]

I told her she can come on, but she can't actually wear overalls. And she said, that's just my name. And I said, okay, I wasn't sure. You don't have to get hostile. And she said, you don't tell me who's to get hostile with who. So I said, okay, just come on the boat and you just get rid of her first. Okay? Just. Just do me a favor.

[Ronnie]

So now deckhand Joe takes some of Vy's water, and he's like, we can share it because we're sharing spit. Anyways. And then Sandy calls people to the bow for the anchor. And now it's bow time. But everybody's kind of running into each other and stuff, and it's looking a little messy, and Max is like, well, I don't know about this. V and Joe splitting. It might be hurting us.

[Ben]

So now we go back to the Bachelor, Bachelor Joe. And he's talking to Amy on the deck, and he's like, you know, I've come. I come from a long history of not very successful relationships, so I have commitment issues. Oh, really? You wouldn't say. I mean, what part of courting seven people at once says you have commitment issues? I never would have thought. Thought. And Amy's like, well, you did put here that you like confidence. What do you mean by that, Amy? I think it's a pretty straightforward sentence. Confidence. What does confidence mean? So he says, yeah, well, I've dated some folks that had some insecurities about themselves. You know, somehow I get involved with people that need things. So in order to weed out the people that need things, I decided let me bring them all onto a yacht, because they probably want to come onto a yacht because they need this experience in their life.

[Ronnie]

Well, that's the thing. He's basically saying, I'm rich, so people are using me for my money, and so I need more confident people, basically. Maybe I need people with money, so I'm going to rent a yacht and get a bunch of desperate people from some dating service brothel who won't be using me for my money at all. Okay, okay, Joe, you're setting yourself up. And I love that he's blaming all the women for just being so insecure around him. Joe, I don't think they're the ones that are insecure. They're not having to pay somebody to bring them. People that can't escape him. You know what I mean? Because this is a situation where they can't just leave the first date. When they think he's fuggo or gross or smells weird, they have to stay. So he's just a gross guy. So she's like, oh, yeah, Joe, you just taken the stray cats? Well, I've been a stray cat before. Now I'm mama cat, and I run all the stray cats. Don't damage the cats, Joe. Don't damage the cats.

[Ben]

And then she gets onto a tire and ascends up to the sky. So then. So then Joe and Max are off to go pick up the guests of the tender, and. And everyone's talking about. The girls are all on the docks, talking about, oh, my God, they're gonna.

[Kathy]

Be partying, sunset fun's out, or whatever.

[Ben]

And Bachelor Joe is like, do you wanna. Do you wanna put a bed on who I'm gonna land up with and end up with. And he's like, no, I don't, because I want it to be me. So now the. The girls, the women get into the tender, and of course, Joe goes, I just have to say something. Y' all look fantastic, by the way. Y' all look fantastic. Okay, can you just, like, you were there to pick them up. Can you like, not be this cheesy with the guests? It's, like, borderline offensive. Okay. I mean, it's nice to get a compliment, but, like, also considering that he then turns and says the same thing to Kizzy in the. In the kitchen. He's like, just want to see. You look fantastic. It's really the Carl Radke. You look great, by the way. Yeah, you have a great. You look great, by the way.

[Ronnie]

So Kizzy is talking to Aisha, and she's saying it's the perfect charter for her, because I just love, love. But now I'm getting on it, you know, and I'm getting on. And so Asia asks who's in her sights, and she's like, all of them. I think V will be upset with me if I. With Joe. So probably Joe. Why can't we just share? Why can't we do.

[Ben]

So women arrive, and Amy's like, everyone. These women are part of my service. You can find them at 1 900, Amy girls. And then Asia's like, oh, this matchmaker's a bit weird.

[Kathy]

But I'm so excited for the charter. Who's gonna choose who to be? Let's do this.

[Ronnie]

This.

[Ben]

I love that. She just starts off saying, the matchmaker is weird. Anyway, these girls seem great.

[Ronnie]

The matchmaker is weird. There's something fishy about this lady. She seems so miserable. She's.

[Ben]

She seems miserable. She is. Like, she. Every time she has to smile, she seems so pained, like she hates Joe, she hates the women, and she just. You can tell she wants to let out her inner. But she doesn't want to be a on tv. So she's just, like, really keeping it all in. She's holding it together. She's brass knuckling it yet?

[Ronnie]

Well, just the whole. How the whole thing works. Like, okay, Joe, here's. Here's a bunch of girls lined up. Which do you like? Which don't you. All right, let's just get rid of those. You know, it's just so businesslike and weird. It's like a job interview, and it's just. It's creepy. I wouldn't like my life either if. If it was. If it Was like this, you know, it was probably a sizzle.

[Ben]

Yeah, it was. Well, it was probably sizzle reel. She probably had a sizzle reel going with a production company. And Bravo was like, we're gonna pass. So they said, how about we just like, like put her on the yacht instead? So she's probably so upset because she, she was supposed to have her own TV show. Instead she's getting like shoehorned into a below deck season.

[Ronnie]

Yeah. So Deckhan Joe gives them all the. All their shoes and he's like, oh, I've smelled all of them ladies. Gross. And then Amy greets all the ladies and she's like, ladies, I cannot believe you are all here. Stretch your backs. I know it was rough in those crates. Now listen, there's a lovely bachelor. By lovely I mean, yeah, it kind of looks like Old Yeller in a bad way. If Old Yeller had lived a little bit longer and not falling down that well trying to save Timmy. God, I'm depressing myself, aren't I? Well, he's really old. He farts on accident a lot. Just pretend you don't smell those. He's looking off into the distance. Just tell him, don't go towards the light. Joe, come back. Come back, Joe, because otherwise we're not going to get as much money. Okay, Now I'd love to introduce you. Here he is shuffling, looking for the bathroom like it's three in the morning. Joe. It's still the daytime Joe. Okay, it's Joseph, everybody.

[Ben]

Now if he starts talking to you about some little kind of like robot aliens that like are sitting in his tenement, just. Just humor him, okay? He's really obsessed with batteries not included. So just let him. Just let him just have that moment.

[Ronnie]

If he looks bored, just ask him if he thinks Steve Gutenberg is gay and or talented. He will not stop talking for at least 15 minutes.

[Ben]

He will offer to dive into the community swimming pool and just don't let him do it. Let him know that the aliens never came for him. He doesn't. It's dangerous for him to do it.

[Ronnie]

So one of the girls was like, I'm ready, honey. And Amy says, there's love in the air. That was chickpea farts. I shouldn't have let. Had. I shouldn't have let Joe have chickpeas. It's Joseph. So they all come up to meet Joe and they were supposed to go one by one. But they tackled Joe and we see their photos and description. So we see Anna first. She was 20, 23, Miss World, which is very important if you're looking for a good relationship. Okay. Beauty queens only. Well, she needs a resume.

[Ben]

Is she? So Anna Aliman. So how she really was Miss World, that's shocking. I was like. Because she acts so crazy. There's nothing about her that seems like a pageant person in. In this episode. But I guess. But I guess Miss World is different than Miss Universe, right? I wonder if Miss World is a different. Okay, you know what? I'm just not gonna go down this path. I. I'm just gonna stop myself right now.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, it's different. There's like Ms. County and then Ms. City and then Ms. State and then Miss, you know, country, and then Miss Universe and then Miss Worlds and then Ms. Planet and then Ms. Interplanetary, Ms. Saturn.

[Ben]

Ms. World focuses on beauty with a purpose by emphasizing humanitarian work and social impact, while Miss Universe celebrates confidently beautiful by highlighting confidence, glamour, and global ambassadorship. So, I mean, I should have been able by. By watching the way Anna talked and behaved on this episode. I should have clearly understood that Miss World was about emphasizing humanitarian work and social impact. So that's my bad, everyone.

[Ronnie]

Well, I think, you know, another difference is like, Miss World is generally the most. Because it's the whole world, and the whole world is so.

[Ben]

Let's just face it.

[Ronnie]

So Anna. Yeah, and I'm surprised she was 20, 23, Miss World too, because she seems vile, like, as a person. So then we go to Leah. She's a soprano opera singer, which is something. I wasn't expecting that. Except I was, because I saw the previews. And then Alicia is a former champion bodybuilder, and Brooke has a master's degree from Harvard. We don't know what in. But really, she's going up against an opera singer, Miss Worlds and bodybuilder. So at this point, she's just. She's too good to be here. Right? Wait, is Brooke the blonde girl who's like, oh, my God, poodles talk.

[Ben]

Is she the one who. I don't remember which one was Brooke, but. And then there was also Mary Ali, who specializes in red carpet makeup. And her face is like her. She's like. It's like an extreme close up on her face. And I was like, whoa, be careful of this one. But actually she wound up being one of the more normal ones. Turns out. Yeah, I was like, red. Specializes in red carpet makeup. And that close up face. I was like, red flags all around.

[Ronnie]

Do the carpet.

[Ben]

I take it back.

[Ronnie]

Show up like bays. Okay, so she has to make.

[Ben]

She does the makeup for the actual carpet. Yeah. Like, hold on, everyone. Don't walk on the carpet yet.

[Ronnie]

Makeup on. So now they're gonna do their one on ones. And Anna is taking pictures of the caviar, and.

[Ben]

Which is so basic. I mean, not like. And I say that as someone who takes pictures of caviar. Anytime I see it, I'm like. I'm like. I'm just saying I'm basic and she's basic. We're basic together.

[Ronnie]

Yeah. And, well, it's just one of those things, like, look, I'm around caviar. Ooh, I'm rich.

[Ben]

That's the thing. It's like, I take pictures of things that, like, arrive in front of me that look beautiful, but I would never go to a. To a. Like a buffet. And if there's a caviar, they'd be like, oh, I gotta take a picture of the caviar so people know I'm around caviar.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, yeah. But that's what they're doing. So that's what. That's Anna's vibes.

[Ben]

So.

[Ronnie]

No, I'm with you. I'm following you. I'm just reading the notes at the same time. So Josh is kind of looking at Kizzy in the kitchen. She's like, what are you looking at? He's like, nothing, nothing. I was just wondering where my tongs were. Oh, smooth. Smooth, buddy. All right. So now he's getting one on one time with Ashley. And he's like, you look amazing. And she's like, oh, my God. Listen, this was a pretty hard first date to top. I mean, it was crazy. I was brought over here with my wrist tied with a bunch of girls I really didn't know. And then I was brought on a little dinghy over to this big boat with them with an elderly person and a lady taking pictures of eggs. This is terrifying. Would you let me off this boat?

[Ben]

And then we see Amy talking to the other women, and she goes, guys, let me tell you about Joe. He is a great guy, okay? He's a finance guy. He's 47, and he's definitely 47. Don't even need to fact check it, so don't do it. And he already has two kids. Kids. He would love to have more kids. He just wants to have. He just wants to have a lot of babies. So that way, he's not the only bald one in the household, okay? Anna goes, ew.

[Ronnie]

He's like, listen. But it's not only about being bald. He also doesn't want to be the only Infirm one in the. In the household. Anna. She's like, oh, gross.

[Ben]

Amy goes, but he's all about chemistry, so things are negotiable. I'm like, thank you for highlighting that, because imagine if he was like, you know what? I don't care about chemistry. I don't care if there's chemistry. Just. Just find me a lady.

[Ronnie]

So now Kathy's downstairs mumbling about herself, and she's like, oh, I suppose some things don't need to be washed then, because things here just are not washed. And then she's vacuuming the washers and the dryers. There's too much dust on these. Vacuum the washers, vacuum the dryers. Vacuum, vacuum, vacuum, vacuum.

[Kathy]

Vacuum, vacuum, vacuum.

[Ben]

When life gives you lemons Squirt someone in the eye A.

[Ronnie]

So now she's moving stuff on the counters, and everything's gleaming in cartoon gleams, you know, and she's wearing her little rubber gloves, and it's like Snow White has just passed all the. Everything's gleaming and gorgeous. So then Asia runs into Sammy. Sandy. Sammy. Hey, Sammy. He's like, I can't stop making out with women, guys. So Captain Sandy's like, what's it like up there?

[Kathy]

It's good.

[Ronnie]

We've got them hanging out there. I'm taking them one by one, and they keep going up to him and saying, santa Claus, when did you lose so much weight?

[Ben]

Oh, God. And then we see Nathan and Joe. They're talking about it, and Nathan's like, how do you reckon the dating is going? He's like, oh, well, when you have money, you can do anything. Yeah, that's the way I probably would do it, too.

[Ronnie]

Would you?

[Ben]

He's like, yeah. Oh, oh, Light them. Light. Light them up. Fly them in. Like, Nathan. You realize you had, like, a supermodel hanging off of your arm for, like, the past year, and you're still, like, fantasizing on ways that you could, like, pick out the creme de la creme of. Of the dating pool. Like, you realized you had something, you probably messed it up.

[Ronnie]

I don't know if this is the creme de la creme. I don't think the creme de la.

[Ben]

Creme, but he's fantasizing. He's fantasizing. Oh, if only he had money, he could just fly in the women and.

[Ronnie]

And.

[Ben]

And make his choices. It's like you already had someone really hot and nice.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, send me a plumber any day. You know what I mean? He needs all this. Just send me a man, man, who knows how to do Mario? Yeah.

[Ben]

Ladies are mingling. Anna is like, oh my God, I want to take a photo. And so she like, she keeps doing this pose on the boat where she like leans back and puts her like hand on her forehead and then closes her eyes. And she likes.

[Ronnie]

Girls love having a pose that they do all the time. I mean my niece does it. She does this thing. She does a couple. She has like three that she goes through. One is this where she puts her hand under her chin like this and smiles like really big and she does it. She's got like hundreds of pictures like that. And then my favorite one that she does is where she stands straight with her hands on her hips and then she looks behind her.

[Ben]

She's like, oh yeah, that's the picture.

[Ronnie]

Why, why are you taking the picture? Oh, I don't want to see the back of your head. What are you doing?

[Ben]

Oh wait, she's not, she's. Oh yeah. Well, I think that's like a camera, a Gen Z thing I think has to kind of obscure your face a little bit. Like there's also a thing that I see gen zers do where they'll take a picture but they'll have like their hand in front of their face a little bit. Kind of like, like you can't see it all. It's a mystery. You want to see more blocking or like going like this or like a hand or like a cup or something. There's also the Gen Z selfie. You know about the Gen Z selfie?

[Ronnie]

No. What's the Gen Z selfie?

[Ben]

Let me look the Gen Z self. I'll describe it. What you do is you take your phone and you, if it's an iPhone, you put it on the 05 lens so it's the wide angle, you know, but you don't do it. You don't do it like fit.

[Ronnie]

You don't.

[Ben]

Not aiming it towards yourself. Like you're not. You don't have the, the face forward camera. You do like the normal cameras if you were taking a picture of like food or a landscape and then you turn the phone around and you hold it out in front of you and you aim the lens at your face. And you just have to become really good at knowing which way it's looking. It's kind of like how, how we had to do selfies back before we had front facing cameras. And so you do this wide angle phone flipped around picture of yourself. And I've tried it a few times and I look crazy when I do it. But that's the way the kids are doing it. That's what they're doing.

[Ronnie]

I'll try.

[Ben]

I'll try to do one right now. See if I can do it.

[Ronnie]

Okay, I want to see you do it.

[Ben]

Okay, let me try.

[Ronnie]

My.

[Ben]

My office is messy right now. Everyone. You're gonna see a messy background. I apologize ahead of time. Okay, so I have it. It's. It's on the 0.5. Okay. So I'm gonna try to take it. It.

[Ronnie]

Okay.

[Ben]

Okay, it's on point. Oh, no, it's not on point five. Now it's on zero point five. I'm going to turn it around and you use the side buttons. Okay? What? So this is how. This is how it turned out. But what happens is. Do you see? Yeah, sorry. People who are listening. This is not compelling.

[Ronnie]

Hold on, let me show. Let me show to Bueller and see what he says. Okay.

[Ben]

But what it does is it makes my head look tiny and my torso look enormous. Yeah, that's a weird.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, that's a weird one. Yeah, I see what you're saying. They also like doing it really close to the face but from above. So it looks like your head is giant and then the rest of your face is tiny. It's really weird, the things that they do.

[Ben]

It actually completely distorts your body and it. It looks. It actually looks crazier than you can imagine.

[Ronnie]

That's what Beela thinks of yourself. Yes, Stabilor can. Okay, so let's get back to it. So now Bachelor Joe is talking to Leah and she's like, I'm an opera singer.

[Kathy]

I just sang for President Trump.

[Ronnie]

And he's like, badass. She goes, I know.

[Ben]

I love him. So for anyone who is wondering who is performing at the Kennedy center these days, keep an eye out for Leah, the one and only performer. Like. And now the one lady production of. Of Les Miz starring Leah as all the roles. She's like, running around the stage.

[Kathy]

They're there in the darkness.

[Ben]

Melania.

[Ronnie]

Because they can't sell any tickets.

[Ben]

Hey, Leah, are you comfortable doing Little Shop? Because that will require you to climb in and out of that plant.

[Kathy]

I'll do anything. I'm a big rebound from outer space at all.

[Ronnie]

But.

[Kathy]

Somewhere, that screen.

[Ben]

Get back in the plant, Leah.

[Kathy]

I'm getting there. I'm getting there.

[Ronnie]

Oh, so now let's see. Sandy's just loving this speed dating. And then we go to Bachelor Joe talking to Alicia, and he's like, you know, my phone knows I go to sleep. So it tells me it's time to go to bed. And she's like, oh, my God, you are speaking my language. Why are we awake right now? Now.

[Ben]

I love when I. I love that he acts like the phone divined that. It's like you enter it in your settings when you like to go to sleep. And then the phone gives you. Like, you. You say, like the health setting, right? You say how many hours you want to get per night. And then, like, it calculates when your alarm is. And then it says, it's time for bedtime. He's like, wow, it's just, like, nosy.

[Ronnie]

I turn that off immediately. I turn all those things off the phone. It's like, time to stand up and breathe. How about it's time to sit down and die. Hi, stupid phone. Tell me what to do.

[Ben]

Off.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, for you. For you to tell me to breathe the out of here.

[Ben]

Stupid. Yeah, stupid phone.

[Ronnie]

So, yeah, he goes to sleep at 9:30. He's like, yeah, my phone knows I, like, mushed up food. Will you mush up this food for me? It's caviar.

[Ben]

Still mush it up.

[Ronnie]

Get some coffee. Hold on.

[Ben]

Can I take a picture of it before you mush it up up? So back then, the jo. Joe's talking to Mar. Mary and he's like, I'd like to go to Brazil. Oh, I have to invite you to go to Brazil. Brazil would have everything. Like, if you want to go to the beach, we have the beach. If you want the mountains, you have the mountains. Really? You don't say merrily. You mean this giant country of Brazil has a beach and a mountain? Oh, we have everything. You want to see a tree? We got trees in Brazil. You have. Have you ever heard of sand? We have sand. It's like the country has everything thing.

[Ronnie]

So now Josh and the boys are talking in the galley, and they're talking to Kizzy, and he's like, so, Kizzy, when are you up? And it's your turn to go talk to old man Joe. And she's like, I'm up next. They're like, don't be a tramp, Kizzy. And she goes, oh, you're going to get fucking smacked, mate. So now we go back to him with Anna, and she's like, oh, this is my first time in Barcelona, unfortunately. And she looks really uncomfortable. And he goes, isn't it amazing here in Barcelona? And she goes, yes, but it unfortunately can't compare to Saint Tropez.

[Ben]

She thinks she's doing some sort of flex. And he's like, you know I'm the one who chartered this yacht. Like, it's.

[Ronnie]

Yeah.

[Ben]

Impressed me that you mentioned I'm paying.

[Ronnie]

For your trip, and now you're saying it's not good enough. So enjoy your old people in Central Bay, because that's who you're going to be stuck with, okay? Because this senior is not putting up with you after 9.29pm, ma'. Am.

[Ben]

I know. My phone is telling me it's time to go to sleep. So he's not into her. So now Kizzy and Kathy are separating. Laundry. And Kathy's like, so this laundry. This is. This is Joe's laundry. And because he's like, yeah, he's so beautiful to me. He's mine. He's mine. Kath is like, beautiful, isn't he? Has anyone else hooked up yet? And Kizzy's like, well, V and Joe did, and they're getting quite close. I think she's kind of like, he's mine. Like. Like, jealous. Be careful. Get too close, you'll get a stiletto in the eye if you know what I'm talking about. Watch out.

[Ronnie]

Meanwhile, V out. V and Joe were outside flirting. She's like, oh, my God, this is wet. And he's like, oh, really? Who isn't? And she's like, that's hilarious, Joe. So then Asia is asking one of the ladies how it went, and she liked him fine. And everyone's like, well, yeah, I guess he seems nice, right? And then Anna is over there like. Like, making gross faces.

[Ben]

Yeah. Deck team's getting the toys out, and V is like, yeah, they're not even using anything. And then they're just doing some, like, some administrative stuff. And Max. Max has to go down. Like, Nathan sends Matt Downs, and then. Which leaves Nathan and Joe to hang out on deck and just have more fun. So this is where Nathan. Nathan, I'm sorry. This is where Max tells us his tragic backstory. He's like, Nathan, like, L. Me on day shifts at the beginning. And then, like, his best Frank arm. And they changed everything. Like, I'm feeling bad, and I understand that it's because I don't speak with my parents anymore. And, like, we have real bad relationship. And all this love that I lost, I was like, finding a friendship because I always like having connection with people. And what I couldn't find with people, I found with jellyfish. But I don't know. I just. I get emotional.

[Kathy]

I am so emotional every time you walk in the room. Oh, no, but it's good.

[Ben]

It's okay. I'd Be good. I'd be strong.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, he really stretched that out into something. I mean, he's like, I hurt. My feelings are hurt because my parents. Wow, geez. Like, we really blame them for everything, don't we? I mean, I blame my parents for everything, so I'm generally, I'm in, I'm in that, you know, Like, I like that. But this is a little bit of a stretch.

[Ben]

You also could just be hurt by being demoted on the friendship ladder. Just, I think just the simple act of it is, is enough. Like, you don't even have to bring the, the parents into it. Like, if you say, oh, the two of us were like, we're. We're like the buddies and we were running things and now his friend came in and now I'm just kind of like the run to the litter and I'm sent to do overnights while they get to play and have fun and I'm left out. Like, that's enough to make me feel bad for. You don't even have to bring in the parents.

[Ronnie]

Yeah, you don't need it. And I feel like that's kind of a modern thing, right? It's like if you don't like something, you can't just have an opinion anymore. It's like, well, my opinion matters because this is how I'm a victim, you know? No, your opinion matters. Even if you're not a victim. Like, you still have the right to, to have your feelings hurt. I agree with you. You don't have to be like, I have parental trauma. Who cares? Get over it. You're old. Like, just, just say you're pissed.

[Ben]

Well, you know what? At this point then Kathy comes upstairs and goes the story of a mother's life trapped between a scream and a. I don't understand. You'll see it someday in the paper.

[Ronnie]

So now Jo is going down to the mess and complimenting Victoria and flirting with Victoria. And it's annoying watching him because we've already heard him say things like, well, she won't be in a relationship with me anyway. So we know that he's getting ready to lily pad away from her. And he's still flirting with her really hard to make the fall harder for her, which is really annoying. And he's like, vee, you're really an asset to the team. And Aisha's like, oh, Jesus. Because she hears it and she knows exactly what he's doing.

[Ben]

Right.

[Ronnie]

Hello there. This is a two part recap. Okay. This the end of part one. So thank you so much for listening. To this. Just come back a little later for part two.

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