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Well, hello and welcome to Watch what Happens. I'm Ronnie. That's Ben over there. Hi, Banoons.
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Good. Everybody, welcome to the show. It is below deck down on the die. We're very excited. The Golden Crappies are still streaming. Go check it out. It's. You've got till the end of like two weeks from yesterday. So go check that out. You can get tickets at watch what crappens.com. it was so much fun. So many people there. We had Backstreet Boy. So go check it out. Ye thanks to everybody who came to Crappy Hour Live last evening. Super fun with our guest, Lizzie Bassett. That was a great show that should be out now to listen to. And every other Monday or every Monday now, we do Amazon live at 1:30pm Pacific Time. So we'll be back up Monday doing that one. If you want videos of our recaps or you want bonus episodes which revert back to normal bonus episodes today, or you want to listen to the all the traders that we did, or you want ad free listening, go over patreon.com that's where you sign up for that good stuff. And also there's a free newsletter over there. Just go sign up and you'll get it every week in your mailbox. Okay. This week we're doing a special Road to the Crappings newsletter midweek tomorrow or Thursday. That'll be behind the scenes with all the crazies we had doing the crappies. So check that stuff out and thanks for being here. Today is Blue Duck down under. Season 4, episode 4
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Textual tension tension. Well, you may have forgotten that like powdered face Ellie Kemper was on this boat and making everyone's lives hell. Her name is Annette and when we last saw her, she was on the verge of death, lying on the beach, suffering from self diagnosed heat stroke, overheating, melting into the sand.
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Soon to leave my tropical vacation in the sun at the beach on a tropical vacation. What if I die? I'm like, I'm glad they don't have pillows on the beach because I would have put that thing over your face.
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Yeah. Now she was being wildly overdramatic. Literally every other person, every crew member, every other person on vacation, every person at the beach, every person holding a camera was fine wandering around and she's floundering around like it's so hot. But that being said, she had actually, I think good cause to be annoyed because she was on the beach. She was an idiot for not bringing her her bathing suit in the first place. But when they she said, could you go back and get my bathing suit? Eddie went, got the bathing suit and then sat around like the idiot that he is. So I too would be annoyed if I were her.
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No, no, he's not an idiot. I'm gonna stand up for Eddie here. I was thinking last week he had to have been waiting for the food. There's no other reason. He's just gonna sit there. And in the after show he said, yes, Jason there and wait for the food because Jason thought the food was coming right out. So he can't go over there and disregard the captain. Of course we didn't see this in the show, so that's kind of unfair to bring it into evidence. But just for the Eddie's an idiot thing, he's not going to just sit there outside the boat for no reason, play around.
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Did he tell Captain Jason that Annette needed her bathing suit? And Captain Jason's like, well, wait for the food. I just don't believe that.
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Yeah, I think that I had to come back and get the bathing suit and I have to go back. And Jason said, well, wait, because the food's coming right out because Ben is down there, he's making wraps by the way. It's not like, he's making this glorious, fabulous meal. He's making wraps, okay. And they still were not coming out. They were taking him forever. And Jason didn't want him to leave. And then now the food's out, and now they're waiting for food and complaining about the food, too. So, you know, ultimately, this lady, this lady's addicted to bossing people around. Oh, go ahead. You have more to say.
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Well, here's the thing, though. As we're about to see, Eddie then complains. Well, I didn't know that I had to bring them right back, right? So if Captain Jason said, you have to wait here, why is he then protesting that? Oh, I didn't know I had to bring them right back. So something is. I think what happened was he was, he was like, oh, I have to get this woman's bathing suit, but is there anything you need me to bring back when I go back? And Jason's like, well, how about the food? It's like, okay, I'll wait for the food and then when the food's ready, I'll take the food back and her bathing suit. I don't think that he relayed. This woman really wants me that wants to go swimming, so I got to bring these back to her right now. He didn't, he did not convey that part, I believe, to Captain Jason, because he said as much in about five seconds. Like, oh, I didn't realize. I didn't realize. You never said that they had to come back right away.
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Here's what happens. These rich people do stupid shit and then they turn us against each other, and now it's us fighting, and then it's the service people fighting. And then it's like, who's in trouble? That lady is an asshole. She. Here's the evidence. She's already told us that her favorite story is that they were on a cruise to Greece and that she left her favorite pillow at the hotel and she had to send the captain back to get her pillow. Isn't that just adorable of her? So she's already got a kink, which is making people do stupid shit for her. Like, whoops, I forgot it. Go retrieve it. Like throwing stuff like a dog, dog. Like they're a dog. And this lady for not being able to go in the, in the damn water in her stupid little cover up thing. She could have gone in that. And now she's fighting, you know, now the poor people are fighting against each other. Instead of eating the rich, eat the rich. That's what I say. Your lunch is late. Eat that bony. Eat that bony ghost. Eat that Victorian hooker. Ghost eater. That's what I said. Yeah, that's.
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That's good. I'm looking up and Annette Perry, she is a partner and project manager at Grand Looking. This is.
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And everyone does what she says because she looks dead.
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Brand development, by the way, her ll. I'm sorry, her LinkedIn photo is. Tells a very different story of who this. She has a totally different look on her LinkedIn. She has, like, bleach long hair.
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Put it up. I want to see it.
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Okay, here we go.
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Is it the same lady?
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Yeah.
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I feel like there's a lot of Annette Perry's.
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There we go.
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Here we go. You know, some people have a picture. Some people will put the picture up, some people won't.
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I never go onto LinkedIn, so I'm not concerned about doxing myself. Here she is, Link. Do you see her?
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Yeah, that is definitely her. She's still got the white makeup.
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White makeup. But, like, this does not look like the same person we saw on Below deck. This looks like someone. They took a picture of her coming out of a bar in Norwalk, Connecticut. So she's great. She. I guess she's part of a. She's part of a Grand Development llc, whatever that is.
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Grand Development.
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I don't think this counts as doxing, by the way, because it's LinkedIn. It's public. Okay, I just did it.
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No, it's not typing. Doxing is. Yeah, doxing is on it when you reveal information. Yeah, yeah. She still looks like a creepy doll, but with worst bleached hair this time. So anyway, she sucks. So she's dying, and I'm rooting for the sun. And then Eddie is still on the yacht. And Eddie. You know, Eddie's like, no one's told me how the gravity of how desperate they're needing the bathing suit back there. And Daisy's like, well, when I go to a coffee shop and say, I'd like a cappuccino, I don't. I don't mean in 40 minutes. I mean, now. I don't have to say, I'd like a cappuccino now. Please, Mr. Barista. I mean, except.
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Don't you, Daisy? Because if you tell me that Daisy Kelleher goes into a coffee shop and doesn't go, I'd like a cold brew now.
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I'm like, can I get your name, man? Five minutes ago. That's my name. That's when I was expecting this coffee.
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How are my cappuccino now, please?
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Oh, really? You Took the time to get the smiley face onto my cup, but you didn't have time to just throw it out here. By the way. You got time to clean. Starbucks apparently had some countywide, countywide nationwide meeting where they're like, okay, people are getting into fights. Because you know, for a while after the Kirk guy got shot, people were going in there and being like, my name is Charlie Kirk. And then they would scream out, charlie Kirk, your drink is ready. And then people would boo. Like there were starting fights in Starbucks over names basically is what was happening. So I guess they had some kind of. And I'm getting this all from like a comment on one of our posts. So they had a meeting and they stopped putting the name on the drink. And now they will put something like have a great day or wow, isn't it beautiful outside or be better. You know, something like they'll put a positive. Although that one's pretty judgmental, but they'll put a positive thing. Or they did. Then they just started putting a smiley face. And then the other day I got a Starbucks and it wasn't even a smiley face. It was a straight line with two eyes. And I was like, so now it's a frowny face, like, what the fuck?
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Starbucks apathetic face.
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And now they just didn't put anything
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to today I didn't get it. It doesn't have your name on it at all.
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Well, it's typed. It's typed on the side with my drink cord.
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Well, I think that's sad. I think that's we have like, we as humans can't control ourselves enough. But also it's, it's sad that like, as you know, I'm not going to blame ourselves. I'm gonna blame the corporation for being like so cowardly that they just can't deal with a little bit of spiciness in their stores. Okay. Like, you know, pranking people or create causing a stir through Starbucks cups is an age old tradition. And it's, you know, it's not good when it's used for tasteless means if someone gets murdered or whatever. But like, don't deprive the rest of us for years to come of silly moments of yeah, some of us, that's
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the only thing telling us, have a good day. Is that cut?
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Yeah. You know, yeah. Well, I guess we should have all known it was gonna go downhill when they turned that Christmas cup red for one year. Oh my God, a red cup with no decorations.
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Way to erase Christ from Christmas, am I right?
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Cancel culture.
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Why don't we just call it muss. Okay, let's just call it muss. So we go back to the beach picnic and Joao is like, oh, the suits are coming on the way. They're. They're on the way. They're coming from Zim. The Zim suits are. The sim suits are on the way.
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Christian today. Christian's like, yes.
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Christian doesn't talk like that. Christian's like, yeah, it's my birthday. Wow. The husband, because the husband has to be super nice because he's married to such a pill that he. Oh, I got my headphones out. Hold on.
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Oh, wow. You over Christian yourself.
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That I did over stimulate. I was doing jazz hands in here. The other. The husband has to overcompensate for his wife being such a pill. So she's so nasty that he has to walk around be like, hey, it's me, Christian. It's my birthday. We're excited. Horse day. Yes. Wrong kind of horse. Wrong kind of horse. Okay. There's many different kinds of horses. Am I right?
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So they're still making this lunch and Ben's like, did we do the tuna? We haven't done the tuna. And Jason's watching's like the galleys had timing issues. Problem with the clock preparation. I need to step in there. We're skating on thin ice and I'm sure the guests aren't happy. I wouldn't be happy. That's why I'm gonna wrap this tune in a kimono, give it a little spritz of my signature scent and send it to the beach.
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Welcome. This is a signature scent, sandalwood tuna. Hope you enjoy. Make anybody horny, baby. Jason's like, yeah, this is all wrong. So I'm gonna stand here and look blank eyed. That's how I kept him. So Ben's like, generally a captain will not help me with the meal, but this one dressed it in a kimono. Slightly embarrassing, but I'll take it. And back to the beach. Bicnic. Annette is still like, oh my God, what if I die right now? Have all the other Victorian dolls. I'll miss their glass faces.
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Someone give her a volleyball with a face on it. She needs it right now. She needs a Wilson. She is just going to through it. So Finally Eddie arrives 42 minutes later, which honestly, like, that's ridiculous. I would. I would be pissed. It doesn't matter what happened. I would be pissed. Well, because the other thing, by the way, Daisy has like messaged me like, like, so, like it should not have taken that long. And so Jason Heads over. It's gonna head over with the. With the food soon. And Daisy is like, jason. Has Jason had to go over with a thought? And Eddie's like, yeah, he was coming in three minutes. But like, what the fucking fuck? I'm gonna lose my. In a second. Oh, I'm sorry that you're bothered right now, Eddie. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you are burdened when you have, you know, young Ms. Habersham melting on the sand over here. Okay. Like, you're not the one who is. Is put out at the moment.
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Yeah, I'm still team Eddie. I. I wish he burned that suit. Or I wish he brought her the wrong thing. I wish he brought her, like, one of her ballgame dancing dresses. It was like, whoops, Is this the wrong thing? Just to make her stop her kink of making people go fetch. I wish they just did everything wrong. Cause this lady's too much. So he's like, well, you know, I mean, it's just communication. Because I've been waiting here, you know. Zim, Zim, Eddie. Zim. Zim Eddie. You know, didn't you hear it? And so he's like, okay, whatever. So Daisy greets the guests coming back from the sandbars, and Joao's giving, handing out the swimsuit. And Annette just runs. She's like, I need to change. And her husband's like, you want me to cover you? It's like, I don't even care at this point. So she puts on her little swimsuit and runs into the water and frolics, and it's all fine. Then she gets in the water. She's like, yeah, I need coral to be closer to me. So people start running around to move coral closer.
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Everyone's worried about the coral being bleached, but I kind of think it's nice, that color, cuz basically, like, that's her. I think that's like. I think bleached coral is her. Like, that's her. Her mood board for.
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Yeah, it's her LinkedIn picture for sure.
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She's like, I want my makeup to make me look like bleached coral.
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So then they're eating their food while they kind of lie around in the sea in the water. And they're like, oh, my God, is this wrong to be eating fish in the sea? I mean, you eat cows on the land. What's the difference? Mass murderers. Just enjoy it. Enjoy your psychosis. It's time for a commercial. It's time for a Grappens commercial. With so many options for weight loss treatment plans. It can be hard to know what's the best choice, who to trust, what to know about side effects and if something's even going to work. And that's why HERS offers access to doctor developed treatment plans that are personalized to you.
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And I'm really struggling right now to move as quickly as I can. I just don't have the confidence. I've haven't been on the yacht for six years. Secondly, I broke up with my fiance. You might have heard, she cheated on me with one of my best friends. Third of all, I've got bizarre spiky hair that I cannot Fieri off of my head. So is it Fieri or Fieri? I think I used to say Guy Fieri into. And I think you told me it was Fieri. Is that correct or incorrect?
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I don't. I can't imagine that I was like, gonna be like, guys, guys, make sure, you, honor Guy Fury your game.
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I feel like you.
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I don't know if it's Fieri or Fieri. It's. It's probably, it's probably Fieri. If you were to like, you know, like, it sounds like, is it a. Is it a. He's Latino, right? Is it Latino last name or is an Italian last name?
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I don't know. As far as I'm concerned, his culture is drive ins and dives.
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His culture is yelling at us with sunglasses on the back of his head. Did we mention that we saw him? We were, we were in very close proximity to Guy Fieri. Just about a week and a half.
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Yeah. I was gonna say, for somebody who doesn't care about Guy Fieri, you were pretty excited to see him. I was like, oh, my God, we're right by Guy Fieri right now.
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He's like, I wasn't, I wasn't excited to see him. I was excited at the concept of us being close to him, because I think that's hilarious. Close to you because he did. He was just as Guy Fieri as you would expect.
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He's like, ah, hey, stand up, Linda. That's Marco. That's my wife, Linda. Stand up, Linda.
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Stand up, Linda. You gotta stand up, Linda. I was like, let Linda sit down, Guy.
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Yeah, Linda loved it. I think Linda has spent years being like, oh, well, I guess I'm just Linda. I'm not gonna get any attention. Guess I'll go watch you cook another steak. A food show. So he started being like, I couldn't do it without my wife Linda. Listen, Linda is the one who puts the sunglasses on the back of my head every day. So, Linda, take a bow. Take a bow, Linda.
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So, okay, so Guy Fieri. By the way, Guy legally changed his last name from Ferry back to Italian Fieri to match his true heritage. I don't know. All this time I thought he was Latino.
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So he's Italian? I guess.
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I guess so.
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I find it homophobic. He didn't want to be a fairy anymore, so he just changed his name. Well, Erasure. Erasure.
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Well, here we go. You've learned something today.
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We did. We learned something about somebody nobody wants to learn anything about. But there you go. So we go back to the beach. Daisy Joao are talking, drinking Diet Cokes. Daisy's like, just imagine tomorrow we'll be having a drink, and I hope when I order it, it just comes out instead of taking 45 minutes.
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What's your predictions for tomorrow night? Well, I don't know. I think Eddie's gonna still try with Alicia. And Daisy's like, alicia, even though she has a boyfriend. I mean, it's fair play if he's still gonna try. I say go for it. And when I say go for it, I mean go for it now.
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Yeah, I don't think he'll be able to resist if he has a few drinks in him. Ha ha ha ha. So then Eddie and Alicia are in the crew mess, and he puts his arms around her and cracks her back. She's like, could you do the jumpy one? You know the jumpy one. We jump up and he does it, and it cracks her back. And I wish someone could lift me like that. Never had my back cracked like that.
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I'm so alone.
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Cut to Jason and Betul cleaning the bar, and they bump heads. And Jason's like, sorry. She's like, what? He's like, sorry. She's like, please.
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I don't understand. Mike is blow drying his hair. I just went onto our Facebook group, and someone put up a really lovely photo of Mike. He went to Turkey and got the whole hair transplant thing, and he documented it all. So there's like, an image of him, like, a day after his hair plan transplant. It's like his scalp is just, like, red and bloody. And he's like, that's my scalp.
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Yeah, it looks like he's wearing. He's like, clown. What's the clown from the Simpsons?
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Yeah, it looks like that.
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Like, it's shaved in the middle, and then it's all red from the blood. You know, there are some Things you don't need to put on the Instagram. Like, nobody needs to see that. I don't want to see that. But it also explains his hair, because his hair does look like ball hair
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that's grown on top of it. Also, it also explains why he's, like, so adamant to shape his hair, like, you know, one of Bowser's children, Super Mario Brothers. Because he's like, I spent a lot of money on this, so you're gonna see it in all the different shapes and sizes. Do I look like the torch that Lady Liberty is holding up? Yes.
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I think it's because it doesn't look like normal texture hair, because they. When they do that, they get the hair from either the back of your neck, which grows differently, or they just get it wherever there's a follicle. So maybe they get it from your nuts, or maybe they get it from, like, your arm or, like, your ankle hair or something like that, and then they put it on your head and then it looks crazy. So he's like, I'll just make it look like the Heat Miser then. Make it work.
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Yeah, don't love it. So Joao is like, well, Mike told me he tried to give you a little smooch the other night. Or as we called in Zim. Zim Kiss. I do not screw the cruel. I don't believe that.
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I've seen your previous seasons, ma'. Am. I've seen your previous seasons.
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I take that back. I've screwed the cruel and it fucking bit me on the ass, which was part of the screwing. And we see, you know, some of Daisy's greatest hits with Gary, etc.
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Now you want me. Make up your lunch, Gary.
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I want you so badly, Daisy. So Joelle's like, I've had my fair share of experiences with Chief Stews, but Daisy. Daisy is really fun.
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Well, my past working experiences were. My relationships were super turbulent. And I would, like, ask Gary if he was hungry, and I would get pushed back. And for me, it was exhausting.
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Well, we work on the same principles of how we can work hard and play hard. Haha. And Daisy says, ha. I'm like, oh, oh, I'm hungry. And Joao's like, oh, my God. What can I get you? It's just so refreshing.
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He brings me a sandwich that says, here's your sandwich at Dumb Hot Fitness. So romantic. So then we go to the galley, and Ben is calling Alfonso, asking for whole fish. He's like, hey, but we get our fish tonight. You got any whole fish? I love our fish. All right, all right. Now, Ellie, you got any dessert experience? Actually, when I was growing up, my cousin had dessert shop. So every summer my parents would send me off to work and they would call it vacation.
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He's like, what did they pay you? She's like, no, I was kid. They used me as free labor. All my other friends were at beach
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swimming and I'm just like in the
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dessert shop, just whisking egg whites, piping, icing.
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I was paid in dessert. Ah, so what did you get bullied for? Being fat. Check. I've never been fat. Watch your mouth. I love cakes. Unfortunately, being person that has absolute time, you might want to show OnlyFanshot. Please put QR code this season. I'm working for QR code. Okay, thank you. We see her like with her abs as she's doing her backwards down dog off the back of a couch and she's like, I've never been fat, you know, but I've had abs at all times. But I cannot eat these desserts. I want to make them and feed them to somebody else. It heals part of my soul that needs abs more than dessert.
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That's hilarious. Yes, it's good. Old Hugo's loving upbringing. You know, old Hugo's loving and saying is cake is nice, Abs are better. Eat some cake. I have abs.
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Nothing tastes as good as ab feel. Yugoslavian thing.
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You can't have your cake and your abs too. It's very tracks. It's right at the point
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fat people stay poor. Old youthful Yugoslavian saying, nice belly. Cake eater.
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Very famous Yugoslavian story.
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You're spinster because you're fat. Old Yugoslavian saying, I am the second stew, not you. Eat your cake.
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I have abs.
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So a guy arrives with some fresh fish and Christian's been begging on about having a salt crusted fish. And for Christian's birthday dinner, this is going to be the perfect reparation for today's tardiness rap. Tardiness.
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I know. I was immediately nervous. Salt crusted fish. I was like, what's going to happen? What's going to happen? You know, last time there was a salt crusted fish, we saw a destruction of a friendship that was actually on this show. This was when Lara and Zari, I think Zarina made a salt crusted fish. She wanted to bring it upstairs. And Lara's like, you can't come upstairs yet. It's not ready. And I was like, but Zarina's like, but I have to bring it up. And Lara's like, but you can't. And I Want to serve it on blue plates? It was something like that. I just remember that Tsarina brought the salt crusted fish and then went off to the corner, and she was, like, all upset that she had to do all the stuff in the corner on. On that deck. So when this salt crusted fish comes along, you know, it comes with high stakes.
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Yeah, I remember them. There was that one where they were doing a salt encrusted fish, but they couldn't fit it in the oven. That was a good one. Oh, salt encrusted fish.
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That was a good one.
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You little rascal.
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So Ben and Daisy are talking about dinner. And Ben's like, all right, so what we're gonna do here is we're doing a chilled gazpacho. It's already made, and you'll be happy to hear that it's already made. So then we're gonna do an entire crusted snapper. I got a 17 pounder from Alfonso. It's a bit of a mix up at first because I called him and he said, I'm busy right now judging dancing. And I said, what are you talking about? He's like, Dancing with the Stars. I said, oh, my bad. I called Alfonso Ribeiro. Okay, Daisy, you're not laughing at my joke. That's fine.
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The point is, I asked Alfonso, I said, can you get me a goal weight Ellie fish? He said, what's that? I said, a 17 pounder. Am I right, honey? Pounds goal weight Yugoslavian saying, you can
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teach a man to fish, but. And he will eat forever. But you teach a man to have go with a fish, and he'll look good forever.
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I'll break it up in that sort of kitchen area. I don't want a massive leg between courses, Daisy. Right? Nor do you, obviously. I'm just really trying to sharpen up here, okay? Really trying to sharpen up. I'm so happy. He's trying to sharpen up. But the plan, it makes me very, very nervous. Gaspacho. What about that?
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Nervous? She's just nervous because she just knows, like, salt crusted fish, it's gonna go wrong. So then he's gonna. She's. He's gonna make a cake too. And she's like. So Eddie O radios for Mike to give him a hand. And then Mike, Mike grabs something from the tender, and he, like, is doing something from the tender. The whole thing slows down and like, a big swath. The screen gets blurred out. And I was like, I'm supposed to look at something. What am I supposed to look at? And I Could. I swear to God, I could not find what they were trying to make me look at. I was like, what has happened? I thought someone was about to fall into the water or die. And then afterwards, they're like, you dropped your radio. I was like, could you put an arrow up on the screen for those of us who can't follow what's going on? I. I missed the entire thing, and I was too lazy to go back.
A
He's like, I thought it just floated. And Daisy and the stews, she's telling them dinners at 8. Jason's sitting with them. It's been a show, so get together. And then Mike walks away from the deck and goes back inside. And Daisy's like, is he putting stuff away at the bar? And they're like, where. Where did Mike go? Mike?
B
Mike.
A
We just hear hairspray somewhere, you know that Mike is doing hairspray. And sure enough, everybody's looking for Mike. And then it just cuts to Mike in his room, like, trimming his nose hairs with. With a nose hair trimmer.
B
I know. Great. That's not gonna be good for my. After the Valley, Persian style. There was a scene where Amir, like. Like, was like, Natasha waxed Amir's nose hair out, and we talked about it. And now I'm getting, like, best nose hair removal ads all over my Internet. I'm so mad. This is the worst example of computers listening in. Like, that's the part you decide to. To. To. To eavesdrop on. I talk about in a garden every five seconds and Allison Roman and, like, beautiful food, and you're going to give me nose hair? Please.
A
Well, as the song from Color Purple says, God is trying to tell you something. Okay.
B
Without that,
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God's like, I'm in your algorithm. Trim your nose hairs.
B
It's Chris Samuels. So Joao is like, the problem with Mike is if you give him a gray area, he will take advantage of it. So then we see them all like, where's Mike? So he's like, where's Mike? And he's just in his room trying to find sunglasses. He's just primping.
A
He's primping. So finally, Joao finds him, and he's like, oh, it's cracking. Are you inside or out, Mike? And he's like, I'm pretty much doing everything at the minute, so I don't really know. Well, I asked Daisy, and Daisy said that you. You must help us out. You're needing him now. She's like, no, I take him. I don't. I don't tell him to come back inside either. I don't know what he's doing back inside.
B
So they put him back to work outside. And Alicia's coding folding tags. And, you know. I'm sorry, Folding clothes. And, you know, all the crew uniforms have their initials on them. And she's like, dk. Who is dk? Dk. Is there even anyone on this boat whose name starts with a D? I think we really need to check in on Annalise. Yeah. Something is happening. This woman is regressing. She is Benjamin Buttoning. And, like, I. I think that she's actually 86 years old. And we're coming towards the end of her Benjamin Button journey because she is progressing.
A
The lights are slowly starting to dim in a lead behind Alicia's eyes, for sure. So for those of you who didn't watch the crappies yet, because you still can, because they're still streaming, you should watch it. Serena was one of our guests. She came on. She was in la, and she came on. So fun. What a bundle of energy this lady is. She's so great. We really love her. And she was. I asked her about the Reddit conspiracy, that it's really Alicia's twin on this show and not Alicia, and she's like, no. She's like, listen, trust me, the twin does not look that much like her, and she's much crazier. She's like. She's even crazier than Alicia. So I guess that that put that one to bed. I believed that, but it also made me want the twin to come on the show.
B
Yeah. And I did also ask her. I said, what happened to Alicia? Because she seemed somewhat competent under you, but now she's, like, a disaster. She can't even do anything. And Zarina basically was like, alicia really responds to positive encouragement, and in a stressful situation, she just sort of, like, goes brain dead, which I get. That's how I was. Like, I used to have a. My old back, like, 20 years ago. I was the assistant to, like, a studio executive, and he was. He was so mean to me. So mean at all times. And it was. And so I was always flustered, and I, like, I was terrible at my job, and, you know, and when you have to, like, organize all these things and, like, which call gets to go through, which one doesn't, which meeting, and everyone wants him, and you have to be sort of, like, you know, doing traffic, and I couldn't do anything because I was so paralyzed. I was like. I was afraid of getting yelled at, and I was, whatever. And then I finally quit, and for some reason, I gave a three week notice because, I don't know, I'm neurotic. And. But then since I didn't care anymore because I'd already quit, he stopped. He just stopped yelling at me because there was no point in yelling at me. And then all of a sudden, I did my job. I was like, amazing. And then he was like, why are you now being a good assistant? I was like, because you're not yelling at me anymore. So I definitely get it. I definitely get it.
A
Well, I'm surprised you didn't just stay.
B
It was. It was. The truth was, actually, I really liked the guy, even though he was so mean to me. Maybe Stockholm syndrome. And, like, he took me out to dinner once or twice, and we got along so great, but it was just like, in the office. I think that was like that weird, like, toxic Hollywood love language thing of, like, I'm gonna yell at them because it's gonna make them stronger. And it just crumpled me. But I didn't.
A
Yeah, it's like being in the army, where they're like, you again at the end. Yeah, that's right.
B
I'm like, I'm a pussy.
A
You're right.
B
I'm gonna leave the army now.
A
By the way, while we're on tangents and talking about things that are not this episode, did you see the Captain Lee post on Facebook? Did I already talk about this?
B
Correct me if I did, but there
A
was a Captain Lee post on Facebook. And he was like, all right, I just want everyone out there to cut the shit, okay? I'm not dead. Everyone keeps telling everybody I'm dead. Well, look, it's me and Marianne. We're sitting here. We're having the greatest time of our life. I'm not dead. Cut your shit. Face. Facebook. It's, like, yelled at Facebook. Because, you know, Facebook has all those AI articles that are like, kenya's arrested. She's been. She's in prison. And then, yeah, like, Captain Lee has died. I mean, why do we. Why is Facebook even still a thing? It should be illegal. Everything that comes out on there is a lie.
B
I'm not dead. Yeah.
A
Okay, so back to the galley. Jenna comes in, and Ben's like, oh, hey there. You look great. It's a big pile of salt with fish in the middle. What do you think of that, love? I'm just like, oh, you know. Well, it's experience expensive restaurants. That's what does it. Oh, might have some expensive taste there, honey pie.
B
And she. She. Ellie, meanwhile, is like, Gina, could we get some plates, please, so we could plate the food, which I think is a perfectly nice and normal request that someone from the kitchen may ask someone who's in service. And Jenna's like. I was like, whoa.
A
Excuse me, like, telling me about today at my job. Who do you think you are? Who do you ever think you are? Well, the energy I'm picking up from Jenna is almost as if she's trying to establish herself above me. Like, my presence is not important enough for her to acknowledge me, which is what I've encountered all my life with insecure women. It's a story of my life. Insecure women.
B
You know, I call women like Jenna cake and women like me abs.
A
There are cake people, and they're abs people.
B
You know which one I am.
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Eat the cake, never get the abs. Old Yugoslavian saying, hey, what's for dinner? Yeah, what is for dinner? I'm heading up there. I've got to eat with normies. This is horrifying. It's a big snapper I bought today and crusted in salt. What do you think about that?
B
You're gonna crank that up there? Very nice. So the guests walk in, and they're happy. No criticisms about the proper.
A
All the.
B
We have proper horses tonight. Country horses. So then Daisy's trying to radio the galley. She's like. What she's saying is, all right, it's time for dinner. But what they're hearing is
A
so, Daisy, Daisy. It is very difficult for us to understand. Please take the cake out of your mouth.
B
So Jason sits down with the guests. He looks totally unenthused, and Annette has sparkly conversation. She goes, so what is your favorite activity?
A
What.
B
What team building exercise are we doing right now?
A
Free diving. It's actually free diving. Oh, well, how long can you be underwater without, you know, breathing or whatever? How long can you be underwater without somebody bringing you the proper swimsuit that you've requested?
B
Have you ever gotten heat stroke while you've been swimming underwater? Just want to know.
A
Well, I average about 2 minutes, 3 minutes, 4 minutes. I'm falling asleep. Need to stop counting out loud.
B
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A
It's like a snail's pace down there. Can we start firing up the second course once this goes? Cause they're gonna eat this really quick. It's a gazpacho and a shot glass. Whoever thought that would be good? First course. Ben's lab organization seriously affects my service. Jason is watching this meal like a hook. And when I mean a Hulk, I mean with Homer Simpson eyes just blinking blinkly. You don't know what's behind there. I'm there to make him look good, just as he should be trying to make me look good.
B
Have you. Have you ever seen a hawk in a kimono that smells like sandalwood? That's what's going on upstairs. So then she's like. She's like,
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fish.
B
And I can't understand a word that she says.
A
Hey, days, we really can't understand anything you say on the radio. Okay, well, I'm saying go over service. What do you think I'm talking about? You think I'm giving you the lyrics of Bloody Mary Poppins? It's dinner time.
B
I would like to know those lyrics. How's it go again? California. That's a lot of chimneys. You know, when I grew up in boarding school, we only had one chimney. I'm gonna cry. Okay, well, listen, I'm sorry.
A
Was someone singing Zim Zimini? Zim Zimini, Zim Zimini.
B
Joao, where'd you get that umbrella? I Got caught up. So Ben's like. But moving forward, it's very frustrating. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. Ben, why are you complaining to Daisy about. She can't control the radio disturbance. Okay. She goes, well, do you have your phone on your. I'll text you. It's like, no, I don't. Because that. What happens is you got a lot of disturbances. Okay, well, how about we stop talking and go with service, please? Can we talk about that at all this afterwards? I love it.
A
Yeah, but you gotta do it again in five minutes. That's gonna be the same thing. So good spot.
B
She's like, that's fine. I don't care if I do it.
A
Five minutes.
B
I love her yelling at Ben. It's so. I feel like it's been forever since we've just had a stew. Just yell at the chef the way the chef needs to be yelled at. We've had too many nice, nice, chief stews come through. So Ben is like, well, that's going to be great. That's going to be great. I'm. I'm able to actually plate soup and have a conversation with someone. It's not actually going to end. The world goes off and. Just do your job, Daisy.
A
This is not personal. All right? Yeah, I know, I know. I got it the first time. I literally said that. What you might have heard if you'd get that snapper out of your ears. God damn it. He's like, all right, now I'm over it. Perfect, perfect, perfect.
B
Oh, it's so good. So then Eddie is talking about how there's, like, the communication is really rough and everything, and everyone's just staring at Ben as he plates the food. And the. Finally, the gazpacho goes up. The gazpacho arrives. And then Annette is like, I don't really much care for tomatoes, but I don't mind tomatoes in a soup. Well, thanks for that insight into your life, Annette.
A
It's everything. It's everything that happens. You shouldn't base your entire personality on the one thing you can complain about. Now, am I hearing that and something is dinging in my head because I'm talking about myself.
B
Yes, but still, you don't like Annette. We do not like mirrors of ourselves, okay?
A
Exactly. So then we go to the galley. Ben's looking for broccoli. He's like, oh, my God, where's the broccoli? Where is it? Look for the basketball Nelly. She's like, Ben seems very frazzled. And then Daisy is coming, and she's getting frustrated, and I can see where she's coming from. I can see. I can see it. He's like, honey, honey, hey. Saccharine sternum. Do you know where the capers are? Capers? Please.
B
Come on. Ben's job is to be my manager, but I feel like what's happening is
A
I'm trying to manage him.
B
It's like I am trying to feed him cake when he should be making me work out for abs. It is all reverse.
A
So now we're back at the dinner table, and they're like, oh, my God, Jason. Jason. Jason, can you take a question? Jason? Jason, it's me from abc. Jason, do you cook? And he's like, well, I enjoy it, but, you know, I could do tuna. Tata.
B
Oh, well, you know, I enjoy tartar as a fish preparation, but I don't enjoy it on my teeth. All right, well, it's another fascinating insight into your life in it. Thank you so much.
A
Love tuna. Not so much as a tartar. Wow, Wrong answer. Really tacky chef here. So now, one time I had a chef on a yacht, and I asked him what he'd like to cook, and he actually chose the right thing. God, that was a good chef. I mean, that was a good captain.
B
The answer was asparagus. So Eddie brings up fish, the. The big fish. And Ben follows, and it's like, okay, it's all exciting. And Jason's telling us the white between dishes. I could have had five dinners. I'm not very good at small talk. So, Ben, hurry up. Yep. Save me. So it's kind of funny because we have all this hype about the. The fish baked in the salt, and then it goes off to the side. I feel like we don't even see Ben crack it open. Right. Isn't that, like, part of the fun of salt baked fish is that you bring it to the table and you thwack it with a spoon and everyone goes, oh, my God, there's a fish in there. And then you move on to life, you know?
A
Yeah, I guess so. That's true. They don't care. They don't appreciate anything.
B
No, they don't.
A
They're awesome. So then we go to Ellie icing the cake, and she does a great
B
job, by the way. I want to point out, she iced that cake like a pro. For someone who's like, just a sous chef who just comes in and doesn't really have culinary experience except having worked at a. Well, clearly she has experience from working at this dessert shop. I was like, damn, I've never frosted a cake that looked as well as that. That was insane. It was just like, perfectly, like, even and like. Like, nice sides.
A
It was pretty nice. Yeah. She did a good job.
B
And she did the decorations, those cherry decorations. Hello. This is nice.
A
Yeah. The strawberry. The strawberries dipped in whatever did. Were they strawberries or cherries? Maybe you're right. I don't know.
B
I don't know.
A
But they did look really nice to make cake.
B
But I make beautiful, beautiful cake. On first try, I was like, what's going on here?
A
Yeah. Yeah. This is my job. My child. My child labor job. So Ben's like, well, one of my biggest things is you'll always remember a bad meal, but you don't remember if the food is a couple of minutes late. If dinner is great, you'll just remember it as a great experience by a band with slightly spiky hair for no reason.
B
He's wrong. You actually do remember those things. You remember. Well, you don't. You don't remember a couple of minutes late, but you do remember 25 minutes late. You remember that the meal took forever and ever and ever.
A
Yeah, for sure. So. And I'll tell you, that white face lady will definitely remember it. The white makeup lady.
B
She will.
A
So we go back to the galley, and Ellie's cutting some bread, and Joao's washing dishes, and she's like, would you like some focaccia? Yeah, it looks delicious. Mmm, Zimkacha. I love that. Yeah. Well, I think he just made it today. Oh, you made this? No, the bakery made it. Come on. No, we made it from scratch. Oh, God. We've been making. Have you seen this kitchen?
B
Us make fresh focaccia. Questionable. So then. So Ben is like, oh, look at that cake. Sugar, sugar brows. I'm noticing now that I did not react well to Alicia's energy, if one would even say she has energy. Sort of like a lump with blonde hair buns. I just didn't react well to it. She's ultra sensitive, whereas Ellie, she's just smashing projects, cleaning up after them and asking me for the next one. That's all I want. That's all I require.
A
Oh, the honeymoon face. Isn't it cute? So now they serve the face, and Christian's like, this looks great.
B
Whoa.
A
50 is the new 30.
B
And he blows out the candles and does finger guns and, like, a woohoo lasso thing.
A
Oh, God. Now, back in the galley, Dr's checking in with Jason. He's like, God, that was a long wait. Jeez. Oh, oh, hang me, hang me. He was doing kind of like a hanging thing, but also a blowjob sign at the same time.
B
He's like, he's like, let's engage in auto erotication. So, so then Daisy and Jenna do like a little cowboy dance thing to celebrate that they got done with this. And Daisy's checking with Ellie asking how the day went. And Ellie's like, it was crazy. We both felt really bad about being late. Well, he needs to take responsibility for the way I would like to take responsibility for my team. You know, like the pressure's there. He just needs to rise to the occasion. Yes.
A
Okay, what do you want me to do about it?
B
I don't know what else you want me to say. I'm not even sure I understand why this is in TV show.
A
Next morning, 6:30am betool and Alicia get dressed and batul like, you look beautiful in this blue thing. And she's like, what? Blue is your color. She's like, cheers, Bab. I like the Ed.
B
Is that the editors, I think, just kept that in there because Alicia was just like in the thong and her butt was like facing the c. She was like bending over. Her butt was in the camera. They're like, let's keep get it in there. Whatever they say. And then Eddie and Alicia have a little hug and Daisy serves breakfast and reminds everyone that there are comment cards. So there's like docking. Guess what? They don't crash. Everyone's like, wow, how did he do that? They redocked.
A
And then we're excited to see how the docking goes. But guess what, guys, it's time for a fish report. Fish report. Oh my God.
B
It's a fish report. Fish report.
A
This is one of the most handsome stingrays I've ever seen. This is a good looking stingray. It. Look at his eyes. He's got triangle eyes. He looks like he's judging, judging you. But he's got such a nice body. Look at these little triangle, this triangular belt he's wearing. Just fantastic. What a handsome devil.
B
He's he. But he's also kind of like the boss of the office because look, here come. Here comes like Francine and Pamela. Mr. Mr. Mr. Boychick, we have. Would you like your coffee?
A
There's a. You have a.
B
You have a call on line three, Mr. Boychick. Well, I need you to look at these, these files right now. We need your signature on this. Excuse me.
A
He's a badass. He's coming through the office. Everybody's scared. Look at these Other, like, zebrafish things looking at him like, oh, my God, it's Mr. Boychick. Look at him go.
B
Oh, my God.
A
Is that a new belt? That is a fabulous belt. Get back to work.
B
Mr. Boychick, there's an issue with the air conditioner. Do you want to take a look at it, Mr.
A
Boy Chick?
B
Here he comes.
A
Okay, next we come to our mass murder scene of the season, which is very dark. And that is these dead fish, the snapper. And is that one snapper and then other fish, or are they all snappers?
B
I think so. I think it's like one snapper. This is one snap. Burns and some side snappers.
A
This is death. I don't like it. And I don't like when they don't close their eyes. Because you know in movies when people die and they're like. They close their eyes out of respect. They don't do that for fish.
B
This is. These fish are like the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory family in their bed right now. They're like, wait a second, we're not in the water anymore.
A
And this mean snapper1 just finally got a waddle job. Look at this right here. He finally got his waddle done, and then they killed him.
B
God, what a shame. What a shame. Yeah.
A
Dead fish. Okay.
B
It's a beautiful fish. Honestly, it is. Oh, sea snake. Or is that an eel?
A
Whatever the hell it is. This shit's scary as hell. But it's cute. I like its little orange face, and then it has a green body.
B
Its face is cute. It's like the Annette. It's like the Annette of.
A
It is the Annette.
B
It's like, I did my face.
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It's like, come to my LinkedIn. You won't understand it. I'll guarantee you that much.
B
I think it's. I think it. I think this eel is lost. I feel like those eels going up the other fish. Like, I'm sorry, do you guys know which way to get to West Street? Coral? Like, no. I don't know.
A
No, but I know we're strangers, but just a piece of advice. Fix your face. You look crazy.
B
Look at the. Check out the tourist here with the orange face. Am I right?
A
Look how it turns away from the other fish. It's like, okay, well, my face is stupid. I guess I'll just go this way.
B
My God, I hate when the eel comes around. Just don't tell me you're a tourist without telling me you're a tourist. Am I right?
A
Seriously. Then we come to these fish. I don't know what they are, but they have square heads and I kind of like them. They're like, please don't get us in the light.
B
Our foreheads are hideous.
A
Please don't look at us. But I think are they. If they all came forward with those foreheads, then everybody would accept them.
B
For a moment I thought they may be mahi mahi, but they're not mahi mahi. I know from my time with animal crossing, I, I had a period of time when I was really good at fish shapes and everything because you catch so many fish in that game. But yeah, I love these foreheads.
A
They look like baby doll heads on fish, which is actually pretty creepy. I can see why they're in the dark. I mean, these are creepy looking fish.
B
Look at that, look at that little, all the way to the left. The little fish that's, that's under the big fish.
A
That's fine.
B
You know, that little fish is like. You know what's great? When you have a reverse commute, there's no traffic.
A
I'm telling you, going over the hill at six is a lot different when you're coming from the valley, I'll tell you that.
B
Look at the, look at all the traffic on that side. God, I'm glad I'm not them.
A
Guess there's a baby face convention. Everybody's on their way to. God. Glad I'm not going to that.
B
Geez, why are all these people wearing helmets? Huh? Little football helmets. Yeah.
A
Then we come to some kind of shark. I mean this is a gorgeous looking shark. Is this a shark? I'm assuming it's.
B
Yeah, that's a shark. Wow, I love, just beautiful, beautiful shark. Oh, there's bad news for those yellow fish down there. Hello. Take a look in your rear view mirror. There's a shark coming for you.
A
Yeah, and he's fabulous. A shark. It's got like stained glass body. It's got a beautiful kind of new fin. Like it's a little lower on its back and it's not just a triangle. It like slopes up into the triangle and then the actual, what do you call. This is another fan, right? His tail. Yeah. You know what, Long one, short. I mean, good looking fish.
B
Look at those and those lines, the sort of like those. Yes, very aerodynamic. It reminds me of when Toyota was like, you know what we're gonna do? We're gonna make the Toyota Camry sporty. Someone like someone from Toyota came around and was like, guess what? The 2026 model of the shark is going to be more sleek and can go faster.
A
And also, like, when guys work out a lot and they get that V that goes down their stomach, that's like this version of this. It's like the shark's version of the V. It's like, I work out. I work out.
B
Yeah. I'm training for a marathon.
A
Yeah. 24 hour fitness is literally 24 hours, people.
B
Yeah. Oh. Oh, I like this one.
A
This is kind of the big orange bland fish. It's just like, I have a fish too. Yeah. Nice lips, though. Janine has, like, a very plain face, but beautiful lips.
B
Janine's going out on a date. She's like, well, it's been a while, but I figured I'd put myself out there
A
coming out of the dark for the first time in a long time. Janine's like, I'm ready. Listen, I don't have an outfit for this, but I've got lipstick. Okay, let's show me. Show me the bliss. Another stingray. Okay. Who cares about the stingray when we have this fish? Our favorite.
B
Yeah, Actually, so I told Ronnie beforehand there was a fish I saw that I absolutely loved. And it was this fish buzz from a different angle. So it still counts, but I'll try to find it on my own. Time and present.
A
Okay. This is gorgeous. This is a yellow striped fish. Very pretty, you know, coloring. The patterns are pretty good. The fit is great. The skin fits it very well. The eyes are my favorite. It looks like a cartoon fish. Very big eye. It's kind of confused, confident, you know, stupid people are.
B
And I like that. It's just. It's like. It's just nice to be alone. All those other fish are around. So many other fish. I'm just gonna hang out here in this sort of like. This is kind of like the. This part of the coral is kind of like the. It's like prime for gentrification. It's like, you know what? I actually really like it here. I like it. It's a little bit more quiet. It's a little bit more down to earth. You know, there's like, I'm gonna be
A
the first person to build on this block. God. Before you know, there's gonna be a Starbucks. Okay. And then these fish, these are purple on the body and then orange on the tail. And it's just so sad when everybody shows up in the same outfit. Like, we're all on the same tick tock. We all have the same.
B
I know. These are all, like, unremarkable to me. This, to me is like, you know, when you're playing with like the tint or something on a picture on Instagram, and you go too far and suddenly your face turns pink. Think, like, that's what I feel like everything is doing in here. I feel like the. The coral is doing it. I feel like the fish are doing it. I feel like their color adjustments wrong.
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I think they're so pretty. I really like these fish, but it's so. It's so hard, I think, to be beautiful. I think this is a very la fish because people come here and they're like, oh, my God, I'm so gorgeous. And then they get here and they're like, oh, my God, everybody's gorgeous. Oh, no. Yeah, I do. We're all in the same clothes. We all have the same body type.
B
Look at all their week. These are all the. The hot fish. And then their assistants are all like, those sort of, like, blue fish. Those blue sort of like, bulbous assistants. Like, their assistants, like, they're like, stop
A
yelling at me, please.
B
Do you have an availability at 3:00pm on Wednesday? Availability on Wednesday. Okay. Please hold for Mr. Connors. Okay, thank you.
A
Okay. Fish rapport. Fish report.
B
Save that document.
A
Save that Fish report. Report four is what it's going to be called. Yes. You got to replace that.
B
Yes.
A
Okay, so now the charter is over, and people are given comment cards. And Christian's like, whoa, I think you guys were outstanding. Many. Everybody made it so enjoyable. It's my birthday. Thanks much, everybody. Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. And he gives a tip. And as they walk away, Christian's like, I think they did great, honey. What about you? And she's like, I think that you and I have different opinions on what was good and bad. Okay. Just like. I mean, I did accept this today. I knew I married a tomato eater, but whatever.
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Jason. We now see afterwards, Jason's reading the comment cards. He's like, all right, well, okay. Service and hospitality is 5 stars. The staff was exceptional. Overall experience, 3 stars. Meals took too long. Overall experience, 3. Speed on dining service. Almost lost. Lost Liz snorkeling. I love that. That almost lost Liz snorkeling.
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It's another thing we're gonna blame the staff on, not Liz chasing a stingray.
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Yeah, Serious, Serious.
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Put an air tag on Liz and stop bitching to the staff. Okay.
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Liz's fault.
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All right, Tip meeting number two. We're going into this charter. They were going to be demanding. We knew that. So the reviews do speak volumes. All right. Being late for their arrival, not great. Not a good start. Joel. Snorkeling. The risks involved in that. That spoke about that, but there's no excuse for that, right? All right, now, the problem could have been worse, right? We did get Liz back, and that made the problem worse because Liz is terrible. Trust me, as someone who spent two hours waiting for dinner with Liz, it sucks.
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Safety first. Liz last. Okay. Galleon Daisy. You knew I sat at the table, and the service took way too long. I mean, have you ever listened to Liz tell stories about how she went to Trader Joe's? I don't even know who this Joe person is. Ben's got to really get his systems right there, because I'm really aiming, you know, for a hell of a lot more. We can do a lot better. The tip was $20,000. Apparently there was $5,000 more, but Liz dropped it on a stingray at the bottom of the sea.
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Liz, let's dropped it on a stingray who got on the bus, and now she's actually chasing a bus through the town. So we've lost Liz again. No longer our responsibility. All right, this is a reflection on how we're performing, which is terribly. Get it together. This is like, I'm not surprised. The lack of urgency is literally killing me. It's embarrassing.
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Now, the helmet, I didn't know when I was going to give it out, if.
A
Or if.
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When I was going to give it out or if I was just going to give it out this season. But I just think it needs to be given out. So I'm going to give it out to someone who actually knows not to drop a radio in the water. So I think the helmet's night might actually stop him from. From talking a little bit. And so he gives it to Mike, and Mike's like, will I ever learn from me mistakes? Probably not. More than likely, Jason will end up giving me the helmet again.
A
I mean, look, Mike did drop his radio. He was talking. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna protest this too much, except to point out that Ben fucked up two charters in a row, and he is his timing wise, and he still does not get the helmet. But okay, so Jason's like, self reflection, and Alicia goes, self reflection, same different toilet.
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So then Daisy makes a toast to having a full team, and they cheers. And then Eddie and Alicia are, like, being flirty because they keep sticking their tongue tongues out at each other, and they're doing this little bowl thing, you know, with their fingers. And then Ben is obsessing over the comment cards, and we hear all these. All the guests commenting in in his head, like, marry us from prison.
A
Okay. Hate his haircut.
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Two and a half hours later, dinner. It was good. He stars. Where was the cracking of the salt of the fish at the table?
A
Why didn't Ben get the helmet? It's just us. Why do those fish have baby heads?
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So then Ben is like, there's lots of things about the food. It's all timing. Could have done better. We will do better. Let's cake. More abs. Is it my fault? Yeah, it's probably my fault. It's all about the guest experience. That's why I'm here. I've never really felt this not hitting the mark. It's upsetting. Almost as upsetting as paying $50,000 for a wedding that you never have.
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So clean, clean, clean. Cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. Eddie and Alicia are lying out in their swimsuits later, and they're talking about how they're gonna it up tonight, guys. Nettie's like, yeah, I'm wearing my travel top that has come everywhere. I mean, you'll see it tonight. Yeah, it's my travel top. I'll give you a freebie. We'll see it. And he shows her a picture of him in a Speedo.
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Yeah. He's like, yeah, but swipe through those photos. And she sees him playing soccer. She's like, what position? Rugby. Yeah, rugby. And Alicia's like, what position do you normally play? And he's like, normally inside center or 12. She's like, that's sexy. You can count to 12. I've only gotten to nine myself. Yeah. Do you reckon I got. I grow out the chest tummy here a little bit? She's like, yeah, I kind of love it. No, Eddie's got great energy. I see myself a lot in him. He comes in wanting attention. I want attention to you. I mean, like, do you have a boyfriend? But, like, I'd rather leave the country than break up with someone. That's what I did with my last ex, which is how I got into yachting.
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She's like, wait a minute. I'm doing it again, aren't I? Oh, my God. I just want to be loved unconditionally. I should get a dog rather than a boyfriend. Dogs do not love you unconditionally. That's a lie. They love you for food. Yeah, I know. We all like to tell ourselves, oh, my God. People are really. I mean, just the way he looks at me, it's just so loving. It's really not. He's looking at me like, when the. Are you gonna feed me? Feed me again. I don't care if you Just fed me. Feed me. Feed me right now. If your. If your hand was made of actual edible meat, I would eat it. Please let me eat something. So Eddie touches a scar. She's got a scar on her stomach. And she's like, I got my appendix taken out. He's like, oh, you're even more beautiful now. Appendix. That's disgusting.
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Their flirtations are off the chain. So Ben asks Jay Z. He's like. Ben's like, hey, so tonight I'm just. I've been going through a lot, wondering if I could just chill out in the guest cabin. Tonight. I just need it. It's like, okay, sir, this is your second time in a row that you're going for a guest cabin. This is going to be a problem.
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Yeah. Every single time. He's like, whoops, I'm feeling so bad, Daisy. So he'll find a reason to feel bad every now. So now Ellie is saying that they're sad that Ben's not there. Daisy's like, yeah, I'm sad too. And Jenna's like, because he's not going out, he's gonna stay in and chill. And Jenna's like, I'm a little bit disappointed because I was trying to get to know Ben. Ben's such a sweetheart. It's so fun to have. I just want to cry to him like a little broken bird. And you want to just look after him. He can't fly. It's just a little bird. He can't fly. Then try and help him, and he starts abusing you. Verbally sexual harassing you. Oh, just love him.
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So then Alicia turns to Ellie, and she's like, so you guys get along so well. I've never heard so many giggles before. And Ellie's like, yes, we have very similar sense of humor. We understand each other quite well. Probably better than. Than Jenna could ever understand Ben. I will just say probably because she's always eating cake week.
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So they arrive out to this club, and there's dogs everywhere. They're so cute. And Jenna's like, ben would have loved her. To all these dogs. Ben's really a love of dogs and anything living and that needs him. Just want to go to Ben.
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I really have to find that sound clip. I have it somewhere. So then we see a shot of Ben trying to put his shirt on. Maybe that's why she left him. And then at the bar, Alicia, I
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just wanted to say he was struggling, and he couldn't get the shirt on. He was like. And then he goes, all right, that's hilarious. Because he knows he's gonna make it to the edit. He's been on so long, he's like, all right, guys.
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All right. Then Alicia and Eddie are being flirty at the bar and everything. And then Ellie and Joao. Cheers. And Ellie's, like, at work, I'm very focused, serious, but off duty.
A
All better off.
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My type of guy is big muscle, a Viking, manly man. No abs, all cake. Basically, Joao. And there's a primal part of my brain that wants to merge genetics with Joel. Okay, that's pretty technical, but yes.
A
Yeah, merge genetics with Jenna.
B
Yikes.
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So now Jenna is flirting with Eddie, and she's like, you know. You know, competitors. He's like, yeah, New Zealand's better, but that's all right. Just now, South Africa's on for a World Cup. So many of you won three. Exactly. All right, well, how many rugby championships have you won? How many tronations have you won? What's a winning percentage? What's your home and weight loss? You want to get into that or beat you.
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Yeah. And so then Jenna's like,
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okay, listen, this is boring, okay? Or, you know, this is boring. Or as we call it where I come from, Jenna. Okay, let's get to know each other for real. Ladies, ladies, the question is for you. How many squirters do we have here?
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What podcast has Ellie been listening to? Sounds like she was trying. She was listening to some girls girls podcast. She's like, look, I could be like, podcast also. Look, Call me daddy. That's me.
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How many squirters in the house? And they're like, oh, my God. Jenna said, I don't know if I'm at the right fucking table. That's a lot. I haven't had sex in a very, very long time. I don't even know if I squirt anymore.
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Betula's like, unfortunately, that was one word I understood. You know, you only got here. I want to know about your experiences. Where have you been? What were you doing where you came from? Not your pussy girl. No.
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Well, you want to know about her experience? She's an only fans girl. I mean, she's been squirting. That's what she's doing. So the food arrives, they start eating, and Mike's like, ellie, I heard you speak a few different languages. I. I speak quite a few. English, Croatian, Russian, Spanish. Cake.
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In Yugoslavia, they say, onlyfans is a great platform for merging genetics while you squirt. Am I right, everyone?
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So he starts talking to her in Spanish, and he's like, oh, yeah, Ellie's looking fire like, that girl wants to have fun. And I feel like she's there for it. There are so many things to learn from each other. You're boring me. No one wants to talk about Squirt.
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So Jenna's like, hey, Mike, want to take a picture with me? She basically asked for a picture with Eddie, so she takes it. So she. So Mai takes a photo of them, and then Alicia is now jealous us. So she's like. So she stands up, and she basically jumps in, and she's like, how about a picture of the three of us? So then they both kiss him on the cheek. I don't know why they're fighting over this guy. Basically, they're fighting Mr. He looks like Mr. Mr. Peanut, right? Like, why are you so obsessed with him?
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Mr. Fena, the backstory. So they come to the bar, and Daisy and Jenner are by the bar, and we see Alicia hanging out by Eddie. And Daisy's like, ah, you and Eddie are having a good time, aren't you? Like, oh, if they ever take our dogs as well, I wonder if that just needs a hog.
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And so. And then they're all dancing, and then Ellie is just, like, filming herself dancing.
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Like, squirt.
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Squirt squad. Squirt squad. And Joao tries to flip Daisy, but then drops her in the sand. And he's like, well, because of sand, it's okay. In Zim, they call this the sand boogie. And she's like, but then I'm covered in sand. My apologies.
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She just starts dancing. So then we go back to Jen and Eddie, and she's like, oh, you've got at least his lipstick all over your face. Yeah, I promise I haven't been kissing her. Yeah. Yeah. Am I right? Well, she's got a boyfriend. If you've got a boyfriend, stop being so flirty. Am I right? Well, if I'm dedicated to a relationship, I can never embarrass my mind. I won't embarrass my mind. Like, she's embarrassing her mind.
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I really, really think that is a healthy. From you. You okay? I've got to be honest. I thought Jenna was really ditzy. Like, not a lot going up there. Like, basically a human doorknob. Like, have you ever seen a cloud and thought, could a cloud actually do chores around a boat? And then it can, because there's Jenna. Like, just an empty vessel. Like a big nothing. Like a plank, Like a rock. Like, I found a spatula and put it. Put an apron on and had it. Clean dishes. That's what I thought she was does, but now that I get to know her, whoa. She's actually got some brains in there.
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She likes rugby, so now I want to banger. So Eddie's like, well, you're an ideal woman. You're what every guy wants. She's like, Ellie and Jenna. Oh, no. Alicia sees us. She sees them. It's like Eddie and Jenna. I think you can see on my face. It bothers me. Look. That's the face you always make though. Say, look. So they're like, why are you jealous if you've got a boyfriend? She's like, it's human nature. I mean, if your nature is to be really jealous,
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Okay, sure. So Eddie kisses Jenna's cheek, and then Eddie, then Ellie and Mike are watching Jenna and. And Eddie and Ellie is like, they're. They're gonna get laid. And Mike's like, $50 that they don't. And then so they shake hands and Ellie's like, mike seems like a fun time. He's got like teenage boy energy, you know, which is basically code for friend zoning. But Mike just is like, wow, there's like a tall, skinny girl right next to me. And I'm going to shoot my shot
A
because I've tried it with literally everything in front of him, you know? Well, I think. I think it's your pretty girl. You're. You're very good looking. Like, thank you. You are. You are very good looking yourself, little man. Very, very good looking as well.
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The moment that Ellie goes, thank you, that means that I am not sexually attracted to you anytime.
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Yeah, that voice is definitely not into you. She's doing her, like, coming on the boat, like, hello, my name is Amy. I really happen to be here. I'm nothing but positivity all of the time.
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Have you noticed that it is. This is a very dry bench. That's because no squirting is happening with you, Mike.
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I was a squirter until I missed you. Until I met you. Now my keep insider. So Mike is like, would you like to have some fun? And she's like, oh, we will see, little person. So he tries to go in for a kiss and she pulls away and she's like, all. You get this pick. Okay, Pick. I'm in no rush. She is to get the away from you. What are you not getting, Mike, you creeper? Mikey's.
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He's more like my little brother. You know, I'm still liking Joao, but I'm not a person who pursues men. I like a hunt. You know, somebody who's A hunter. I don't like gatherers. They want to merge my genetic DNA with a hunter, not a gatherer. Thank you.
A
Shoot it, don't purchase it and put it in grocery bag. Okay, so now everybody's. Ellie tries to get in the girl's car to go home and Jenna shuts her out of it and slams the door on her face. And she's like, just shut up over there. Go over there. Whoops. Wasn't intentional.
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It was 100%.
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She's gonna get it. I don't know who Jenna thinks she's with, but yeah, you're in danger.
B
Yeah, yeah, that's you.
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Watch out, you're about to fafo, babe.
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I can't. I can't figure out who Ellie is gonna go like be angry at. She can be angry at Daisy cuz Daisy and Joao are being romantic or she can be angry at Jenna cuz Jenna is being a bitch to her right now. I don't know. But it's gonna be bad for whoever.
A
So they go back, they play truth or dare in the hot tub. And Mike's like 12. I dare to strip. Stalkers run around. He's like, technically I only need one hand. The rest I could wave around because it was so cold. Ha ha ha ha ha.
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So he gets naked cold in the Caribbean. Ha ha ha ha. You're in a hot tub and you're in the Caribbean where it is famously frigid. That's why you'll need one hand. Joao. Is that why?
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So he's running around all naked and stuff. And then now it's Daisy's turn.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait. I. I can't emphasize this enough. He runs around and then he like flops down on like the, like this like the sun chair or whatever, the sun bed. And he's just like on it face down and. But has like his like doughy Michael Buble but is just like up. I'm like, are you going to put your swim trunks back on? I'm just gonna lie there like that.
A
Okay. I've been a douchebag on this show off and on. But he's. I like his. I like his. He's hot. He's hot naked. I like it.
B
It's cute.
A
I like that he just lay there naked.
B
He is a good looking guy. Just was like funny because he's just like. It was just like a whole lot of pale, pale booty right there.
A
So then now Alicia dares Daisy to kiss someone she really, really wants to kiss. And she turns to Joao, who's Like in naked dolphin pose on the thing, you know? Cuz he does hop up there like a dolphin at SeaWorld. And she's like, well, I've got to give you a kiss because we've got to get on. So she kisses him and they're both super happy. He's like, oh, I'm really happy. I'm facing downwards on the mat at this stage.
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I've got a zim boner. So then Daisy is like, well, it's the only attention I'm probably getting all season. So then Jenna asks Eddie, like, okay, truth Eddie, who do you wish to go on a date with? He's like, yourself. Me. Oh, thank you very much. All right, I'm gonna go to bed. And then she promptly falls out of the hot tub onto the floor.
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So now Alicia hears that. So she goes up to Ed. She's like, swims over to him, to Eddie, and she's like, you said you wouldn't date me. I think that's really rude. He's like, I've shut up, tops. You've got a boyfriend. So Elise is like, daisy, you've got to give someone a truth to dare before you go. She like, all right, just neck on Eddie, then that's all you want. Jenna, you do it. Not Alicia, you do it. It's like, wait a minute.
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Yeah, wait. So then Jenna's kissing Eddie. Oh, this is where Daisy falls over and everyone goes. Everyone goes back to bed. So then Jenna walks by Mike and Eddie, and Jenna's like, I'm going to use your bathroom because I'm going to pee because my bath, like, what was that? Are you saying your bathroom's full? Okay. So then Jenna and Eddie are like, in the cabin. They start making out and Alicia walks by and sees and is like, very jealous. And so then they. They are in their rooms and then Jenna tells Alicia, like, he kissed me. And Alicia's like, who? Alfonso the fishmonger.
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So Alicia is sending him texts and she's like, oi, oi. I haven't got a clue what's going on in my head, but you need to get out of it. He's like, believe me when I say I haven't been able to stop looking at you. Well, I was saying, but you've been getting on with Jenna. She's a safer bet, I guess. He's like, I would drop her in a second if I got to be alone with you.
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Yeah. And then they're like, we'll talk in the morning. It's like, love you. And then Alicia's like good night, baby. And just like good night, sweetheart. So intrigue and our notion. Well, I'd like to point out from our note taker who says, oh my God, what a. I'm sorry, but that seriously just did not like that violation of girl code.
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Well, they're just going to use each other to get back. Jenna and Eddie are just going to use each other to get the person they're interested in interested in them. Right. It's classic. She's going to flirt with Eddie so Ben notices her and he's going to flirt with her so that Alicia notices him. Oh, I love a mutual use because usually on these shows only one person gets used. So I'm glad they're using each other. Sweet.
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Yeah, it's great.
A
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Ben Mandelker and Ronnie Karam return for another lively, irreverent recap of Below Deck Down Under's latest episode, "Ballroom Doom." This time, they dig into chaotic guest behavior, timing disasters in the galley, crunchy yachtie flirtations, and what might be Bravo’s most hilarious fish report yet. With their trademark wit, Ben and Ronnie dissect every meltdown, miscommunication, and awkward hook-up, proving once again that the real drama is in the recap.
This episode is packed with the signature Watch What Crappens blend of absurdity, shade, and improv comedy. Ben and Ronnie are unfiltered and affectionate in their ridicule, calling out both crew and guests while remaining deeply invested in the Bravo-verse. The tone is snarky, affectionate, and deep-in-the-weeds Bravo fandom, as always.
Even if you haven’t watched the episode, this recap brings every petty squabble, ridiculous guest request, and drunken flirtation to life—often funnier than the show itself. Key moments (like Annette’s meltdown, mutual crew “using,” and Daisy ferociously managing Ben) are made memorable by Ben & Ronnie’s relentless riffs, with a show-stopping “fish report” ensuring no detail is too small to mock.
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