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All right. Welcome to Saudi. Appropriately named with me, Captain Lee, along with my assistant and trusty co-host Sam. Hello. Hello, Graham. Would you do me a favor? Please give us a follow. And please, please, please leave a rating and review wherever you listen to podcasts because it really, really does make a difference. It will help immensely. Absolutely. And I need all the help I can get these days. That's for damn sure. Somebody woke it up. OK, let's start with Bravo and what's going on over there. It's our favorite subject. Let's get into it. Well, Bravo and I are joined at the hip. Bethany, my girl, Bethany. She's doing a hostile takedown of Bravo and reality TV, so she wants. She says that Andy Cohen and Bravo despise her for her union efforts. Now, I'm not saying that I wouldn't like to get paid more. I'm not saying that. I wouldn't like to get residuals for the 14000 times a week they show is on TV. But I have never been a big union person per say because I've never I've never been fired for doing a good job. I don't know until now, but I don't. I don't know why. I mean, I know Bethenny. I've talked with her before. I've had conversations with her and it's she's always been upfront and honest with me. I know she does a lot of philanthropic work. Yeah, because she's she's associated with Jim and Michael Company Global Empowerment Mission, and they do so much good work all over the world. Haiti, I mean, wherever there's a disaster, they're sending airplanes and truckloads of stuff. Yes, she does do that so that she doesn't just and she puts her own money in because she has a little bit to spare. Well, of course she does. As we all know, Bethany was part of The Real Housewives in New York, been there for ever, and she was. I think she was one of the reasons that it succeeded. Yeah, she's been there since the beginning. In fact, we have a clause in our contract called the best bethenny clause. Do you really? Yeah, we do. And it's because she she came out with her. She came out with her Skinnygirl brand. Yeah, I remember and travel promoted it heavily on the show. But and then when Bethenny sold it, there was nothing in her contract that said she had to get Bravo any of it, even though they had done a lot of heavy lifting for her, I'm sure. And she gave them zip. Zero, zilch, nothing. So you're telling me that lesson learned. So Bravo's right in every contract that I've ever signed with Bravo, it states that if I do, something like Bethenny didn't really, really hit it big. Bravo has the right to. If they promote it on the show, they get a percentage of how convenient. Well, it's fair. Everybody gets a whack. They they promoted it on my show and. Bethany followed the rules of her contract, and you got to have big stones to do that. Apparently she does, and that's why she's taken on all of. I'm trying to figure out why she was, I don't know, she was on with Rob Lowe, right? I've listened to a couple of his podcasts. He's he's very good. He's funny as hell. And one month after Franco confirmed she was trying to organize a union for reality TV show Farmers. That was right after the show where she had some comments about it, and it was right after the SAG after strike. The writers strike, which is like crippling the mill, especially late night. But I mean, there's going to be a lot of reruns on TV this fall. Without a doubt. Yeah, because the writers aren't writing and none of the late night people are on TV. I know they believe they started a podcast of their own now just to try to raise funds for the crew. It's going to be a disaster and disaster. Why? Because of five chefs in the kitchen now they don't have any g*****n writers. You don't think they write their own stuff. You never know improv. They have a bank of writers. OK. Yeah. And it's just I don't think it's going to go well. That's my opinion. I guess we'll wait and find out. So Bethenny wants, wants to organize all. And yes, she's got 80 some Bravo stars. And I use that term loosely because if you're on one season of some show, it doesn't really make you. To me, a real person of interest. But she's got 80 some people that are on board with her and we'll have to see where it goes. Now she did this, she did this thing with this podcast with Rachel. Mm-Hmm. Recuperacao, Rachel, whatever she's going by today and. She claims that, Rachel, somebody else is claiming that Rachel didn't make any money for her stint on on Bethany's show. No, no, no Bethany show or I'm making her money on Vanderpump. No release those numbers. Yeah, which isn't George. I guess she made about 350, which that's pretty good money if you're on Nick Chapman. I don't know how many weeks the year they filmed, but it's not. It's not a year round job, something I saw some article. It was like 20000 an episode. She was getting. Can I sign? You sure can. I love that you're just going to have to sign a sign to sit with Tom Sandoval all the time A-Rod and have enough money to make me with temps and all the time. So and then I then I saw a thing from Kyle, from Summerhouse. So he's criticizing Bethenny as a hypocrite. Right, right. Where the f**k does he get off criticizing Bethenny as a hypocrite? He wasn't there. I don't believe he's ever met her, and he's saying that she's getting slammed for exploiting Raquel without paying her. And then she made a bunch of money and not a bunch of money, a bunch of money by somebody somebody standards. But for her, by her standards, I guess it was a buck and a half. Mm hmm. Which is not a lot of money by her standards, where she's at right now. By her interview, it's a three part interview with Rakhale, right? But Kyle is never I mean, he's on summerhouse, he's not on Vanderpump. So how would he know? Was he in the room? No, probably not. So where does he get off criticizing? Anybody. But didn't Bethany make a ton of money off of the podcast episode with Rachel Rakhale, whatever she's going by, she because she had sponsors. She made about a buck and a half. Hundred and fifty thousand. I mean, that's not hurting me. No, that's fine. But that's not that's not the kind of money that I'm sure Bethany's used to making. Yeah, probably. Especially with her skinny girl line when she said that. OK, so to quote Kyle Kyle, you know the guy with the mullet. When did those go out mullets a long time ago, but maybe he's trying to bring it back. He thinks everything's coming back to circle. Good luck with that, Kyle, anyhow. He says the irony irony of it all is Bethany cashing in on ads as she exposes Bravo for exploits and will give Rachel a voice. Kyle Commoner Down from two judgy girls on Instagram, she literally has more ad spots than any other podcast I've ever listened to. Well, he's contributing far as I can tell. He's signed up. He listens to all of them. Yeah, and Rachel won't see a dime. How does he know that? He has no idea. So he's just blowing smoke. Yeah, but his name's in the headlines. And then he's saying he had. And then she had to pay her way to fly to Bethany just to record this. If it was a true PSA ad. It would be free. Who the hell would describe this as a public service advertisement? Why does he care? Who's paying for the airline ticket? I don't know. Why does she care about what Bethany and Rachel do? It's none of his business. I agree. So apparently Rachel or Rachel, who are whatever she's going, she's going by Rachel now. I don't know. I feel like, you know, better than I do. She opened up to Frankel for the first time since completing a mental health treatment at her center in Arizona. Good for her. I think you need to get it. Absolutely. And she wants to use her. She says that she chose she chose to go on Franco's podcast because she's using her case as example of exploitation. I don't know. I'm not buying that s**t. I feel like she got her hand caught in the cookie jar. Now she's getting wrung out by society because three hundred and fifty grand. And it wasn't Bravo's idea for her to screw Sandoval. No, but thought she was while he was involved with what's her name? Listen, I commend her for standing up and addressing what she did. But when did she do that? She I mean, she maybe she did it with Bethenny, but she sure as hell didn't do it on the reunion. No, she kind of touched her tail and she reset her, saying there was no there was no empathy at all in her eyes. Not one tear was shed for her transgressions, which like it or not. And as far as I'm concerned, my moral compass, those are transgressions. Mm hmm. So enough of that s**t. Jesus Christ, what else is happening? Tell me about your friend Carl Bethenny trying to take down Bravo. She better get a bigger bank account. Listen, I'm sure she's trying to make headline news. Yeah, I suppose. Carl, I don't know. This came right out of the blue for me. Yeah, you and Carl are pretty close. Did you know anything about this? We are. I could. I just got I got a text from him that I haven't read yet. But no, I had no clue because we're supposed to be at the wedding. Yeah, in November, it's it's two days after my birthday, the 17th in November, and my birthday's on the 15th in case anybody wanted to know. 15TH November this year. Don't worry, it's in my calendar, OK? So they already had the venue. They had a special block of rooms at the hotel. Yeah. For all of their guests for flying in, shared with her hair and makeup walk through like she was, she had her bachelorette party planned that was ready. The hair and makeup run through was done and a source. I love that a source. A source, what a source says. You always OK, guys get that when somebody doesn't know what the f**k they're talking. At the end of the day, my question is what happened? We don't know. I don't know. And Carl and I are close. And if I did know exactly what happened, I wouldn't tell you how rude. It's rude and no mercy. Sadly, this is this is OK for you to make public knowledge. Then I would say that's fair game. But unless he said those words to me and anything that he told me would be in strict confidence because this is back to life and you of all people know what it's like to have your personal life hung out, like dirty laundry. I do. That's a part, of course, Luke and Luke Jones and La they got fired for. Below Deck Down Under, as they should have. I have my own feelings on the matter, but I want to hear what you have to say on it. I wouldn't have handled it as well as captain Jason did. I mean, yes, I would have fired him. And yes, he would have been off the boat that evening. Mm hmm. His exit wouldn't have been as comfortable as his exit was under captain Jason. Are you trying to tell me you would kick his a*s off the boat and throw all of his stuff with him so he wouldn't be going to a hotel to sleep it off? I would drag his a*s off the boat. He would have bounced going up every one of the stairs in the crew mess. Good. And then bounced down every step of the gangway until he landed next to the bags of trash, where I would have had him picked up with the rest of the trash. That's a good place for him. Yeah, that's right. We're getting our evening shower. Yes. So anyway, back to and Laura was there. She was it Tuesday, anyhow? I mean, she did everything she could to get Adam between the sheets so short of dragging him and raping him. OK, you had you had your say my opinions on this whole thing, this, Luke. Yes, I 100 percent agree with you, but it went too far. But in today's society, no is a complete sentence. There is no justification for any of his actions, regardless of how much alcohol he has in his system. No, I agree not. Try again later, not wait until I roll over. Like, No, absolutely not. Well, she was passed out. Exactly. There's no consent there, she said. No before that. And there's still no consent. He had no rights to be walking in there, and he's just lucky he got another chance by the power going out that she had to. That she still had to go look, check on the on the boat that he got and tried to slime back his way back in their disgusting. I'm just actually proud of production for breaking that fourth wall and intervening at that point. Sometimes I think production needs to break the fourth wall more than they do. There's a lot of situations that didn't have to happen had they broken the fourth wall that they think is so sacrosanct. Well, I don't share that opinion. I listen. There's certain instances where I think they can take that fourth wall and put it where the sun don't shine. I think they have, at least in the two situations I'm thinking of was this one is being one. And when the cameramen on below deck drop the camera to go release the line. Yeah, that was. Or Ashton, right? Yeah. Thank God for that. I mean, sometimes there's no question about right and wrong. Wrong is wrong. Absolutely wrong, Luke. You deserve to be fired. And you know what? You can be hung out for that one with Oliver. He's going to get hung out forever for that one, and so be it. It's kind of like a pedophile. Once you're a pedophile, you're always a pedophile. You don't get to scratch that from your record. And good luck trying to convince some fair minded female that you're not going to take advantage of her when she's drunk and passed out. Let's talk about our buddy scannable Tom Sandoval scandal. He is joining a new reality show. I don't know if it's because Bravo or dysfunction like, OK, go ahead. Go ahead. Do it like you're a complete s**t show and we'll get ratings, so you might as well go on to another one. No, he's got he's going to join a show that calls it's called Special Forces. Oh, great. Who is involved here? And what he wants to do is he wants to be punished. Sounds like an S&M thing. Well, doesn't it? He didn't have enough people involved in his love life. Now he's what he's going to do is it's this survival type show. OK. And so no pun here. After surviving the biggest TV scandal of the year, he's ready to push himself to new limits. I think the guy's a pussy anyhow. He's joining season two of Fox intense reality competition series called Special Forces World's Toughest Test, where he will test his mental and physical strength alongside other celebrity contestants. I don't know. Do you know Tyler Cameron is? Yes, I do. OK, what does he do? He was from? I think he was in a bachelor or some something like that. But when we got, we got by me. He lives up. I mean, we got Savannah Chrisley. I know who she is black right now. Well, listen, Black China's thirsty, she just wants to get back in the headlines, Oh my god, I don't know. Jojo Siwa is the owl. Brian Austin Green, Dez Bryant. I've heard that name before. Robert Horry. I don't know that Aaron Jackson, Bodie Miller. I know Bodie Miller, Jack Osbourne, Kelly Rizzo, Bodie Miller. Wasn't he an Olympic athlete? Sure. And I got a I got to believe that a guy like Bodie Miller is going to eat scannable for lunch. Well, this the especially when it comes to their mental acuity park. I was going to say, when you say his mental and physical strength. Oh yes. Seemed like, I think he's going to get punished. I think he's going to get exactly what he wants. A little bit of a massage, can I? The fact that he's willing to put it out there to be just, I mean, isn't. When is enough humiliation enough? Again, if he's volunteering to get back into the ring, I'm cheering because he wants to get paid. Of course, he does not bulls**t each other here. I can only imagine who, honestly, I don't know. But did his restaurant succeed with all of the chaos, or did it go and taken down the tubes? I don't know where it is right now, but I do know that his his partner, Tom Schwartz, decided to change his view and he went all blond friends. Yeah. Hurry up to make sure there was no confusion with who was who. Well, there be no confusion. I mean, that's what one one zero with a mustache in in a in a weird hat and Johnny Depp haircut. Yeah. From Johnny Depp wannabe. Yeah. And the other one is just going like, Tom, did you really do that? Yeah, yeah. I hope to gross it well, and it's a pretty accurate portrayal of what happened. So what you're telling me is they really should be on that new movie strays talking about stray dogs. He wants to get punished, and it appears his term and enduring series will do just that. He's got a bloody face during one of the grueling challenges. Did he do it himself? Because that I could see happening? I don't know. He signed himself up for all of this nonsense. I could say something really bad here, but I'm not going to withhold for me. You know, I'm not withholding for you. I'm withholding for all the people that would email and take potshots at me for saying this, or I'm going to. I'm going to stay. Oh, come on. I think I think they can't. I think the guy's a pussy. Yeah, I agree with you. So I don't really agree with you. And he's going to. I think he's I don't know how the elimination series works, but I do think that he won't be far into the competition. I guess we're going to have to find out before his turn. I'm not going to watch it. You don't want to give him the pleasure of the ratings. I could care less what happens to him. We'll just see these newsreels the next day. He does get me stuff to talk about and make fun of because it's just he's easy target. Very easy. This is like going to a shooting gallery, and he's the only guy on the target. You know, it's just like, Whoa, what happened to the rest of the ducks? Here you go with those damn Lee isms again. Well, no. Just like, didn't you ever go to the Carnival or the fair? And they're shooting galleries and you would have like ducks in or, you know, flying by and you'd have to shoot them now? And yes, I have. I'm just shaking my head at this analogy and also picturing Tom Sandoval's these. So let's talk about Vegas. Oh, yeah, let's let's talk about Vegas. I am excited about Vegas. We have. I'm going to be out there. No November, November 2nd. Yeah. And we are doing a one show, one night nightcap, which is intimate, intimate evening with me Captain Lee November 2nd at the Westgate Resort and Casino. Tickets are available now on Ticketmaster and I think you can you get him through our website? You sure can. So that would be at Captain Lidcombe. You sure can. But Captain Lee, what is nightcap? What is this intimate night night? It's just you. OK? I'm out on the stage all by myself, and we are going to go over everything that you always wanted to know, maybe afraid to ask, or maybe not afraid to ask. We'll find out when you get there, but we're going to delve into how I got from point A to point B and what it was like filming what it was like. You know, how did I make the transition from just being a yacht captain, which in anybody's mind would be just a dream job, which it was in mine? And I got there. And then all of a sudden this thing fell into my lap of below deck. And there's a lot of fun topics that are going to be revealed. A lot of fun facts that people didn't know before. You know, there's I'm really excited about this event specifically because you and I have known each other for quite a few years and I spent a lot of time with your family getting to know you guys. And the show is just honestly the very tip of the iceberg for for who you are and how much I love you. So I hope that the fans really get to see more about you and your life and why. I'm just a big fan of you without Captain Leigh's below deck because I had no idea who you were when I met you. Thank you. That is funny, and thank you. So what do you say? We want to do some quiet. You've got some questions for me from from some of the listeners. Absolutely. We have some fans all over the world, but I pulled out some really good ones. So it looks like pretty. Pisces one has one question. What is the weirdest part of being filmed doing your job? It's pretty easy being filmed doing my job. That's the weirdest part. Well, yeah, the first time, the very first day that we were filming, I was a little not intimidated. That's not the right word. Uncomfortable with, you know, having a soundcheck in and a guy with a camera, you know, six inches from my face. Yeah. And I thought, Do I have any hats, anywhere or anything? I can do it on my nose? And that took probably half a day to get used to. And then after that, I just reverted back into here's the deal. I've got a job to do. I'm getting filmed doing it. So I had a I broke the fourth wall. Get out of my way now. I just had a discussion with the camera guys, and the sound guy had to go like, I got a job to do, and it's going to take a while for us to learn each other's movements and reactions and all that sort of thing. And have you tell me to stop so that I can, you know, before I move forward so they can get cameras in place? I get all that and we'll move on. But I still have a job to do, and I know your job is to film it. And after that, I just kind of forgot they were there. They were just part of the family, part of the crew, and we went ahead and both did our jobs and it worked out really well. And 10 years later, here we are, 10 years later. Here we are. All right. Well, Connie, I love Connie. I love Connie. She was one question, right? I do love Connie. She's always got the best questions. And she was one of the first ones who jumped in on this one. Her question is, and are you ready for it? In true Connie fashion? When the f**k are we going fishing? Oh, that's my girl. Tell her if she's waiting on me, she's backing up. All right. All right. All right, Tom Rockwell asked. And this is I don't even know if I want to know the answer to this. When did you last eat somebody who's asked for dinner? Oh, I can tell you that. Oh yeah, that was just the other day. Oh God. And it was my contractor who's doing the renovation on the front of our house. We're just taking a little courtyard. Mm. Right? And we're just closing it in. And he he makes a mistake, he doesn't get his tape measure up, and he doesn't measure and the city says, no, you're wrong. And he swore he was right. And so they made him rip out the foundation of what he just put in and what he just put in. So it put the whole project back a month. And then he went to charge me another eight grand. I don't even want to be in the neighborhood, so if you wanted to see what happened with the conversation between me and him, I'm sure one of my neighbors has done on tape. Yeah, they've got it on their phone somewhere and they're going to go, I'm going to show this s**t sometime. TMZ. Give us a call because it wasn't a pleasant conversation. Well, it's understandable, especially because you guys have been in construction for such a long time. It seems like it's been. Well, we had we had a long day at the office that were coming in right now, which is really nice. But it didn't last longer than we had the flood. Yeah, last year. And so we had to get the office redone and then we we were debating whether to do the project out front or not. And here we are. And we decided to go ahead, even though it was, you know, we thought we were going to be divorced if we did it. Hey, which made it through a jury's still out. No, no. You said how many years? Forty eight. Thirty eight. And but it's I mean, I'll see it, 50 in 50 countries for anybody that thinks about getting renovations done to their home. Don't, don't do it. Just about find out what she wants and what you want. Merge the two together and go buy it or build it and don't live there. No, don't build it to go buy it. Don't be able to just go buy it. Already done finish. Just move in because you will be better off for it. All right. I'll take your wise words with me. Trust me. Check with Mary Ann on the way out. Well, do so. Thanks, everybody. Unless we do, we do. We have any more questions. No more questions until next week. But you know what? While you say that, please feel free to send us your questions on any social media platform. We'd love to kind of go through them, pick out some funny ones, something that I guess I don't even want to know the answer to. But this is this is all about having fun. That's why we're doing this. So I want to thank everybody for listening and please follow salty. And if it's if you're of a mind to leave us a five star rating, we would really appreciate that and give us a review. Wherever you get your podcasts and Sam, do the rest of it. You can follow us on Instagram at Captain Underscore Lee underscore Ross and its SAM underscore d. You can submit any questions us at any time. We would love to see them, and at this point, we'll see you next week. So your ninth coach?
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