Another Below Deck Podcast - Charter Guest Interview - Commander Tony and Admiral Porscha

Episode Date: January 20, 2022

Nick, Pat and Dylan sat down with two incredible human beings, Commander Tony and Admiral Porscha, to talk about fake Captain Lee, what happened with Melissa, who came up with the vow idea and whether or not they'll be Nick's new parents.  Subscribe to our Patreon for our coverage of Below Deck Sailing seasons 1 & 2 and our interview with Lexi Wilson.  https://patreon.com/anotherpodcastnetwork Video of this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpgRn46VevjnBrp5A4tgiqw Merch: AnotherMerchStore.comThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5727246/advertisement

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Transparenly. In my mind, I'm going to annoyed at my guess because I wanted us all to be paying attention to Captain Lee so again you guys I'm a legitimate a real naval off so I serve this country but he's not Get again. Oh, but Captain Lee's not he yelled, but he's not it's what happened. I went through it He owned restaurants in Indiana and Florida. And just had a bunch of crab stacks and he's not wearing that hat. This is true. Y'all must stop baby.

Y'all I'm not going to come for Captain Lee. That's not heart-throwed. the the the joining us on the line the lovely what rank do we go with the command command command

command command command command command United States Navy and Admiral Portia. Boom, thank you. Thank you for coming on. Hello, Commander and Admiral. Shouldn't they ask if they can come on the podcast, ask permission to be on the podcast? No, no, they shouldn't. They don't need to and they didn't need to ask Lee either, but we're going to get into this entire thing. Do you have a semantics? Do you have a question about my hand?

Yeah, I do have a question right off the bat. We are a nautical show. You can see I've got the below deck blue polo with our logo. So he wears this captain's hat. Is that considered stolen valor? Should we put him in prison? So for the record that's not a legitimate captain's hat, it's more like Gilligan's Island.

Beautiful. And I pass for an a true naval officer said beautiful as we say it's actually not a hat we called a cover Okay, that's not a legitimate cover. Well, I better get that 1299 back from Amazon. Yeah, seriously So guys, we want to talk to you about your journey aboard My Sienna How it was What happened with Melissa all of these things. But first and foremost, did you have a good time on the trip?

We always think it looks like kind of a waste of money, but you tell us, how was it? Great time. No regrets. It was not a waste of money. Would I do it again? Absolutely twice on Sundays. Yeah, we had a great time. You know, truly, I've been a long time fan. It's kind of a guilty pleasure, honestly, all the way back to season one. Dan, you have all these weird questions during the pilot. I watch the pilot. And so you

wonder, like, what's really happening behind the scenes? They truly are filming you while you're on vacation. So all of the idiocy, all the s9, the dumb butted nists, when people are doing the craziest things, no one's poking and prodding or getting folks to act, which you see is what you get now with that said, some of the adding, eh, but, but truly what you see is what you get. That's true. Now, how big of a bummer is it to have people filming you while you're on vacation?

Is it something that you need to adjust to very quickly? Because it's one of the reasons why it just seems like the worst vacation of all time. But how did it go? Yeah, I mean, it's crazy, right? It's not a bummer. What it is, like I wore this wrap, like I wore's not a bummer, what it is. Like I wore this wrap, like I wore it not a wrap.

I wore this cover up. Yeah. And I had a two piece on up under there. So they pull this wrap up and I've got a two piece on and they're miking you up and doing all this stuff and the bummer is, I gotta use a bathroom. Yeah. You gotta undo me.

Yeah. You know, and they tell you, and to be clear, they tell you when you go in, you can stay wiped up, but you have to rub your mic or do something with your mic. And I was like, I don't want to do that. It's a bummer especially if you're doing it. You don't want to follow me in the bathroom when I'm not doing the number one. You don't need to be wiped up. They just tell you to time code it by scratching the mic and then just trust

them. They're not going to listen to you, Pizz. So for the record, I play Beethoven. I mean, so the don't don't don't. So it was classic. I mean, it was it was impressed. So this is interesting. I never knew they actually miked up the the primaries for the it was it for the entire trip that you guys have to wake up first thing you get mic'd up. When you walk out of your state room, there is the mic guy which originally I thought had the greatest job in all the world because much like my wife is saying, I mean this guy he's running cables and things through my wife and parts that had, I'm still trying

to explain. Yeah, he's a lot of bodies. The chocolate covered Jerry. You know, and but then you think about it. You have to later, right? I said, let me say this humbling, no disrespect again. I'm, you know, a guy that's watched all the seasons.

All of the ladies are not built like my wife. And so, you know, so some of them, he's running wires through and the wires probably get lost. She's so, yeah. So his job, maybe not as pleasant, but literally for the time we walked out of our state room into action, I mean, you're wired and with the exception of when you're physically in the water or when you're in bed, all times you are live and hot on the mic. So to your question, we actually learned how to talk in code.

Yeah. Make sure we don't say something or do something. I mean, we had these. Oh, that's how it should always be on your vacations. Yeah, it's vacations. It's all guys. What the hell? Listen, it's not as bad.

I mean, no, no, no, it seems like an awesome time. Yeah, I mean, the person vacation for us is not doing a whole bunch of extursions, jumping out of stuff, right? It's relaxing at the beach with a nice foundation. Yeah, it's some great snacks, listen music, and we're cool. I don't let you have music on the board. Yeah, they had a great time. Okay, we got to move on. Yes, I got so many questions, so many questions. Alright, Dylan always gets annoyed by this question. But since you were, you mentioned you were a fan of the show since the pilot. Did you have any connections or how did you get on this boat?

So no connections. So here's the deal. And this is the Clifnose version. I have said for a long time, you know, hey, babe, we're going to go on the show. We're going to go on the show, we're gonna go on the show. During COVID, with everything, everyone globally we're going through. It's kind of in a piff in the moment, so Thanksgiving a year ago. I'm sitting in bed, typically I'll record a couple of shows. Transparenately, my wife and me, she watches a little bit to kind of indulge me, but she's like, so I'm sitting there, record a couple episodes on that bed.

We're going. So my wife, while a home, a stay-home mom now, in a formal life, she was like this grand researcher or something, but she's like, look, bullcrap hard. She's on her laptop. She's like, here's the cast and director, production company information. And it's like, show me. So I send an email, I say, look, okay, straight up, and this is in the middle of,

which you name the Floyd incident. All this stuff going on. And so it's like, look, I said, I'm not a professional athlete, I'm not a rapper, I'm not a musician, but I'm a a professional athlete, I'm not a rapper, I'm not a musician, but I'm a successful, successful African-American. I have a beautiful wife. My friends are wonderful. We're very, very successful. And by the way, I served the United States Navy for 30 years.

Yeah. And we need more folks like us. Yeah. And so they responded. I won't mention the casting directors name, but if she's watching this, she's an angel from above. I hope she didn't respond with the word gold. I don't. Jackpot. You're responding by that Monday. And she's like, look, let's go casting call. And so the way it works is, by that week,

obviously we're in COVID, we're doing virtual casting calls. We did a casting call. They said they wanted four couples, but we actually invited a toll, including us five. And then we kind of had a backup to the backup to the backup just in case, because of COVID and protocols and that sort of thing. And so you can hold it over there ahead in case they act wrong.

And you can be like, you're disinvited. Yeah. Exactly, exactly. And so the long and short, they sent it up to Bravo couple two, three weeks. We got approved. And boom, next you know, it was like, Hey, we're actually, so season nine, Charter six, there were seven charters. We had the opportunity to choose between a couple charters. So Charter six was the one that works, worked the best right. And our schedule and the rest is It was last, I was doing the timing basically

on the show we're talking last March or April when they filmed. It was March. Well, you guys were incredible guests, genuinely. And we don't like most of them. No, no, no, they're usually horrible. Do I say too nice? Yeah, and I'm a little suspicious

of anybody who wants to go on reality television, but you guys were lovely people. Everyone had a lovely time. You tipped like angels, but Melissa seemed to have a bad time. Now, what were you guys thinking when Rachel came out after a pretty tense dinner and said, we don't want anybody getting cranky because it just seemed like the worst thing you could possibly say in that situation. So let me be clear. I'm a Homer for Rachel. Okay.

So I'm not going to say anything. Rachel is the real deal. I'm originally from New Orleans. My wife is from Arkansas. We're from the dirty South food, family family fellowship, and lots of libation. Okay? So it's all about the food. Rachel can cook.

Oh my god. You can cook. You get away with a couple of things. Right. Right. She fed us. Like truly. It's like, Mr. Girl, you can almost say about anything you want.

Yeah. And so, you know, in the moment, and again, it's probably, so which you don't realize, like dinner started, like typically about 7, 7, 30. I mean, by the time we're at dessert, it's 10 o'clock, and transparently, I turn into a pumpkin about 9 o'clock. Sure. So, Mark, you were in the Atlantic time zone, so I'm already in hour late. Right. So, at this point, in the Atlantic time zone. So I'm already an hour late, right? So at this point you can almost say anything like porous pinching me

And I'm like leaning in on her. So honestly, I was not offended I mean, I wasn't offended either Rachel Rachel what she said Honestly, it went over my head. I was Anything mean right what are they talking about and and clearly everybody was like, oh my gosh. I was like, she didn't say anything to me. Right. What are they talking about? And clearly, everybody was like, oh my gosh, she said cranky. She said, don't want anybody to be, once she say hangry. Yeah. Yeah.

And to be fair, she was only talking about one person sitting at the table. Sure. And that's it. So I mean, if you know she's not talking to you, you're not offended, right? Right. I'm not angry, your foods are amazing. Yeah, and I guess, sorry to interrupt you, but even outside of the racial context of those kind of trigger words,

when people are upset at a table, regardless of what they look like, you don't wanna go, wouldn't want anybody to get cranky here, would we, it just comes off weird? Is there racial? This is the, this is the crankyy this is the whiny liberal over here hey I got a question for you all right so was it as it uh... tense with Melissa there basically taking doing a hunger strike not was not that some and when I say

creative editing so the table is I mean what is it I think it's a 10 cedar so there's 4 4 2 and 2 so we're sitting down on the and we're captain Lee I mean obviously I'm paying attention to the folks on the other side across from us that night were Jermon and Denise I believe Claudia and Daryl which are right so transparently in my mind, I'm going to annoyed at my guess because I wanted us all to be paying attention to Captain Lee. So again, you guys, I'm a legitimate, a real naval officer. I serve this country. But he's not.

I'm not kidding. I'm kidding. Oh, but Captain Lee's not. He yelled, but he's not. It's what happened. I went through it. He's not. He yelled. The old restaurants in Indiana and Florida and Florida just had a bunch of crab checks and he's wearing that hat

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18 plus terms and conditions apply. See website for details. When I tell you he is distinguished, he has this air bottom bed like I'm like, why are you guys in no shade? My heart was four captain Lee and this guy. This guy's been wanting to do it since day one. Captain Lee and he, they didn't show this.

The Captain Lee and he talked the whole night. Y'all don't know that. They literally talked like the whole night. The final night. It was every night. It was as if we weren't there. They don't really show that. But I literally am sitting next to Captain Lee

and I scooped my seat back on purpose. So my husband can have this interaction. It was organic, by the way. It wasn't trumped up. It was organic. They talked like if it was two friends sitting at a table. Well, it's because he looks up to Tony. He wants to aspire to be a real man.

You know what, you don't stop it. It's a sloppy. Let's go back to Melissa real quick. As a Navy man, were you embarrassed that she got water in her hair? So again, we didn't know about that until the next day. Now, you know, you guys asked the question, I mean, we, you can hear things. I wanted them to be paying attention us. I saw that she was a little annoyed. I had no idea what was going on now. With that said, we don't get an advance of viewing. We see what you guys see when you see it. So whether you're subscribed to Bravo Insider or whatever access

you have, that's when you get the stuff. So when we saw the preview, not mind you, going in, we know it's reality TV, so there's a couple of things. In our preference sheet, we talked about black excellence, black love, all the things we wanna minimize and show to the United States and the world for those viewers, like, hey, this is how you do it,

and we're not rappers athletes, anything else. You know, real life, this is really you do it and we're not rappers athletes anything else you know real life this is really our it's not trumped up so I was a little annoyed that something was going on I didn't know what we had a watch party okay on the first night virtually were the core people so you know I go it's like a intro there's a segment then there's a commercial so when they get to that part we're sitting there and each time in like the intro, the segment, then there's a commercial. So when they get to that part, we're sitting there and each time in between, we all go on mute because we're on Zoom. And then we're kind of talking like, oh wow, they get this.

And you remember this and with about this. And then they get to that part. And it's like one of those. Right. Everyone's like WTF over. Yeah. And so silent. You know how you have the picture on Zillware?

Is this your picture, your professional picture? Yeah. Everyone's like WTF over. It's so silent. You know how you have the picture on Zill where is this your picture, your professional picture, where you're off? I was like, it's your picture. I just needed, so we can just get off our,

everybody's expressions are like, now let me jump in. So here are a couple of things. What I hate is, and I know Nick, by the way, Nick, on record, yes, if you like for me to be your dad I'm down for okay what you use I think you said that last week

Dylan you said that you want to be with it my spirit and Yes, and Nick yeah, I'll call you That makes me that's fine my grandma raised me so I was essentially a feral child. Yeah. Yeah. What's up dad? Well, so so at any rate, you know, so I'm you know We're looking at each other and it's kind of like you know one of those awkward moments know, we're looking at each other and it's kind of like, you know, one of those awkward moments because it's like, again, at the end of the day, that's not what we want to demonstrate. And I'm not a fan. I've been, I've been talking, you know, between Twitter and social media, social media. And again, I believe that, you know, Bravo and the Blow Deck production kind of hyped it up just because you have money affluence, wealth

doesn't that give you the right to be a cheese nut to people? I don't want to transcend. It's to the least of them. I don't care what the circumstance, period. That's my perspective. Now, with that said, comma, when you spend a crap ton of money on a mega, you expect service.

There's a line there. Pat, I went back and watched a couple of the podcast. I'm full on board with you. She should have taken a shit in the muscles. Hey, exactly. It's like, bro, I want it when I want it how I want it. And at the end of the day, Heather, with that, you know, that passive aggressive, you know, snarky, my wife's

sad, she can call her snarky. And let me be clear. Until I saw it on TV, I was team. I was like yeah, so I'm truly a Fane a fan of a Kate so I was hoping you were going on. I so bad they want a Kate so Kate if you're watching It's quite of the same. You're one and one a Kate and so you know, we got Heather was like cool But you don't see any of this stuff. That was that was snarky. Right. I'm just. All right. Yeah. Heather was there. It was fun. Kate is a. Kate is a fan, by the way, she will hear this.

She's been on a number of times, even in studio and person. Awesome. Awesome. No, we love Kate. But with that said, it was a little snarky. And I've even read and I do believe this, you know, this is a five star mega yacht. So on some yachts, that probably would have been fired on the spot. I know, five star mega, right? Right, in quotes. So yeah.

You don't talk back to the guests. And what Heather did was 100% talking back. You just say yes. Oh, it was insanity. It was insanity. Insanity. Yeah, we've had a number of, you know, a number of sea rats, not you.

You're in the Navy. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Sea dragons. Right. You're a sea dragon. But these, these maids on a boat, they can get a little nasty, but they always say that you can never talk back

to a guest or that's a fire on the offense. So Heather should have gotten fired. Speaking of the crew for more things than one. Did you notice any of the tension on board between the guests? They kept it all behind closed doors. So you are filming a bubble and a bubble. And it's a little, it's actually was quite shocking. And it's a little it's actually was quite shocking all of the Monagé, Twa and twist and all the things that were happening this season were we were oblivious to yeah Um, we had absolutely no access to it. I mean Raina was an angel. Eddie was Eddie Yeah, you know, we absolutely loved Frazier. I mean Frazier you know Frazier introduces himself

He says it's Frazier like laser.. So you pronounce it Frazier like a Laza. You know, that kind of thing. That's how Jake was calling you. You know, we love Wes. So it's really weird because you don't get to see below deck all of the stuff. The irony. So I'm a fan and honestly, here's my perspective.

You can only show so many beach excursions, because mind you, we're very, very limited. So we're in St. Kits, at that time, in the peak of COVID, there are two cases out of 50,000 people. So we were very, very limited, and our options of what we could and could not do. Now again, we're the family that look, as long as you give a son, you know, drink, leave us alone, we're good. So we don't have to do a lot of things. But we literally, the most we could do is go to beach. So in my mind, you can only do

so many things. So you got to spice it up. I mean, you know, the thing that calls this riff that has been the undercurrent around the end word. I mean, it's just been nuts. And so, you know, but you just don't see you don't feel it. I mean, Jake talked to us and we were giving them like love advice. I mean, we're talking up there in the comments. Talking about his fiancee and everything else. Yeah. Can I ask you guys a question? This is obviously a manipulative. You're not gonna have some of Jake try to have sex with Tony.

Of, oh, I'm trying, of course gonna get to that, but he sees everyone as whole. He was manipulating you guys. He's an incubus, but did he come on to you guys in any way shape or form? That probably would have been, it would have not come below that. It was been called Tony B. Desire.

It was probably would have been, yeah, it would have changed the whole thing. So no, he did not. He did not. You know, I changed the entire thing. I think Portia would miss Tony, but but I'm going to start something with Bravo producers. He's already understands the ocean. Yeah. I think we need Tony as a captain on the show.

Get Lee out of here. They're talking they're doing spit. They're doing spit. They're doing spit. This is gonna sound absolutely pompous. Why drive the boat when I can be the passenger? I guess so, yeah, that's a great point. It's a point, I'm all good. You're fine, you're fine.

And we could talk to you all night, but we have another guest in five minutes. Yes. We have five more minutes. Well, honestly, do we have a fight? Because I was gonna let them go. It's getting late. They covered a lot. And by the way, thanks for doing this. I know it's late on the use coast for you guys. We have time and we were up now. So if you guys need more

with good, I'm going through the questions. I mean, they covered a lot of the fan questions. Honestly, you guys told us everything that we and the fans needed to hear. We really, really hope that you guys go back on again next season. The whole crew was infectiously wonderful. We hope to see you again soon. Has there been discussions like that about doing it again? She believed it. Again, I don't want to get myself or anyone in trouble. We've been invited back twice. I declined twice just because I wanted to see the editing and how it would be. Smartly sweet be so now that we've seen it I we just decided of course you gave the green light this morning that I'll be reaching out and saying okay

We're ready for another round amazing We want to be able to come back and talk with you guys of course of course the door is always open you guys are amazing When you're on call one of them a seerat that'll be a little wink and a nod do not do that enjoy your vacation one more thing did you guys have any plans to renew your vowels or was that foisted upon you because you guys have only been married for five years okay all right say listen I don't want to get in trouble with the bravo piva that's a great question perfect question so ragged with jewelers we had negotiated with well in advance to get, yeah, big reward.

No, they did not. I was actually pretty shocked at that. It's one of those things we don't want to embarrass them. You just roll with the punches. But think about this. Why would I let Heather as a teacher? Her wife? Like, you know what I mean?

And let me be clear. I mean, you guys saw my wife in the red dress. Like, I'd marry every day and twice on Sunday. Okay? But it's love. It's love. It's like, no, that was all me and my guys. And we got hardware.

Like they already, like we didn't know. Can I say this really quickly? Amazon boxes come to this house every day. I never say a word. I never say a word. I never go, what's that? This hardware came, that they planned. Yeah.

And it was spooky. I go, what's in that box? Never. We get three, four deliveries a day. Oh my goodness. And the one freaking day, the box, and it's benign. There's nothing on it. John, from Rackclips, his dear friend,

I like real- He goes, how do you care what's in the box? Borscht, I go, what's in that box, that little square rectangle box, I never asked him that. So all of our favorite. So the the long and short of it, they kind of flip that on us. And as you can see, no shade to Heather, she's a bad actress. She's among that whole segment. It was terrible. Yeah. She's laughing. And then she goes to the captain and I'm like, that was so bad. Yeah.

But with that said, no, we did that. It was in our preference sheet. The women did not know. We did. It was a surprise. Again, our goal, and we put this in our preference sheet, we wanted to show America that, you know, all folks aren't cheesy.

You know, the really is, we generally love each other. We're really our friends. We really have a good time Darian was the best man am I waiting? I was the best man in his so this is not some trumped up made up thing We really have fun and during COVID at that time that was an extension of the fun and that's in zoo Well, you guys were awesome you guys were absolutely awesome I don't want to talk more about that But we have to go that that is the weirdest call by production, the weirdest call by production. But yeah, like I said, we can't wait to talk to you

guys again. Can't wait to see you guys on below deck again. Thank you very much for joining our Facebook group. Get in there. Mix it up. That's where I saw Tony and one of the other below deck Facebook groups. There's like 90 of them. We'll talk to you guys soon. Thanks again guys. Thank you. Appreciate it. Nice second request permission to go short. For me, for me, for me, for me, for me. Great. With lucky land slots, you can get lucky just about anywhere.

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