Jason Chambers
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I thought these, these guys are pretty cool. You know, they, they're really good. So, um, I thought, why not do it? My crew convinced me to do it. I didn't think anything of it. I thought I'd just do a season and then go and see my daughter who I hadn't seen for a year. And here we are four years later.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No, never. No, no. So I'm a fish out of water. So if you ever see any of the promos of me coming out of the water with my shirt off and everything, that is not me.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No comment. You have to tell me. Well, I don't want to be derogatory. You have to be. I haven't got much. Well, no.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I think it's an untitled one. It's untitled.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I don't know where it's come from.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, possibly.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I'm 52. I don't see it that way.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Well, the thing is, like we spoke about, the job is real. And then at the end of it, they get us to do all these promos. And to be quite honest, it's taken a bit, but there's so much fun doing these promos, you know? Yeah. Each year I'm like, really? Does it have to be shirt off again?
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I'm sure they would if they could, but they're good. I'm sure they know the market, they hit the market and it's fun. Look, we just have fun doing it. It's after six weeks of really hard work, you know, a lot of fatigue. And it's kind of just this last three days of doing all these commercials. And it's just like, oh, let's just have some fun. And we go with it and have a great time doing it.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Well, I'm filtered a lot. That's filtered.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
There's heaps. I'm down the list. I'm down the list.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So anyway, my daughter.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Look, I think each franchise is averaging just under a mil. Yeah, it varies. You know, it varies. But I think all franchises are doing quite well, really well. And as I said, it's been going for quite some time. And it's coming from someone from inside the industry we used to look at as like, oh, really? But we're actually starting to enjoy it as well.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
People that actually are in the industry, they're starting to watch it as well. It started off with like, we don't really want, the industry was like frowning upon it. Like why have them understand this? But now there's a lot of good points that are coming out of it, which I think we need to work on.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Like Captain Sandy, a female captain who's actually really done a lot for a lot of charities that she works for. And she's probably allowed a lot of females to come up into the industry. They get a lot of female deck stewardesses on board. So it actually just gives a lot of women understanding that they can actually be working outside as well.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
It's not just a stewardessing job, you know, waitress job. You can actually be part of the system where you can get certifications for it. So there's a hell of a lot of good points in it.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
You got the crew.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, captain, captain first, mate engineer, and then you'll have three stewardesses and three deckhands. So you've got 10 or 11, 12, 13 crew depending on the size. Then you'll have 12 guests. Then we'll have four producers at one time, and then you'll have probably five sound and five camera people.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
In general, let's just say there's 12 plus 10, so 22 would be usual.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No, she was a chef. Not my chef on the boat, but she was a chef.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, we just met through friends, yeah.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah. But I know where you're going from and going to, and definitely it's a close environment. So it's a very – you've got different nationalities.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
You've got different personalities, you know.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
These are things that, look, when you go to work at a nine to five job, you know, you might not like Tom who you're sitting next to or Sarah, you know, but you get to go home and you actually just get the clock off and bitch to your partner going, Tom's, Tom's, I can't stand Tom, but I'll go back to work tomorrow. Whereas in our industry, we have to be with them 24-7.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So the only way to combat that is actually respect someone's uniqueness or different personality and understand that and get to know them. We all know people from different countries behave differently. They have different aspects or different views on life or things. Some can be very pig-headed or misogynist or rude in their tone, but they're probably not.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Some people are really, really beautiful people, but just they come across very, very harsh. So give that a moment. Understand where they come from. Learn their nationality. Learn their personality. Learn their behaviors. And not everyone has to be how you think they should be. And that's a big lesson that crew have to learn, especially when you're living with them 24-7.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Me personally? Yeah. I've been doing it for 25 years, of course. Of course. Yes.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No, no. I've had really strong relationships before too. Some that I've actually thought that might've been the one. Right. I don't live up in a suburb with a cul-de-sac with a white picket fence and have barbecues every Saturday. My friends are my crew that I've worked with over two and a half decades. Wow, yeah.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
You're welcome. You're welcome. Well, I have a little 10 year old daughter, so your segment yesterday when we met was very poignant.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
My best friends are crew that I've actually worked with and had a great relationship and then still keep in touch now, male or female.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Well, obviously everything's based around the itinerary that you've already set before. So you're obviously looking at the weather, you've got the provisions, you've got the supply, you've got the maintenance of the vessel, you've got the crew, how are they going?
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Then you've also got the admin, you've got the accounting, you've got the reporting to the management, you've got reporting to the owner. And then you're fulfilling the itinerary and the cruising and the going through the grounds and the activities through the day. And then that's all starting again.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
And then you also for seeing what's happening in about four months time, when you finish that season, uh, going into a shipyard repair maintenance time where you've probably got six weeks to turn the boat over, spend a million or two and then get back out.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Um, and then all that is with, uh, crew vacations, you know, crew leave terminations, contractual stuff for that, um, employment, HR, um, uniform sizes too. Um, and then you've got the crew drama. Which has happened. So that would be a day in the life.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
When I'm filming, that's real life. Filming, we're the same. The only thing different about all that is I'm not foreseeing. It's all set. That's what we're doing. So we walk up to the boat and just focus on that. Every day, a captain, you know, he might go to sleep, you know, after guests have gone down or dinner. And he'd be up early getting into it.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
And we have set hours of rest that the crew have to have. Otherwise, if they go outside that, it's past their legal requirements. They have to have a certain amount of rest in certain blocks for safety. But that does get broken every now and again because we want to try and get things done.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Crew usually get a designated area where they can actually do some stuff. And a good owner or a good management system would understand that, respect that. And really good owners want their crew to have a healthy lifestyle. And I always promote that the crew can always jump in the water with the guests as well.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
They can get on the paddle boards with the guests, you know, because it's actually a safe. Oh, they can. Well, to me, it looks like, well, one, they're actually getting some refreshing activity. Two, they're actually acting as a safety with the guests.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're another set of eyes. So it's actually access to purposes. But I think society's changed a lot too. I think if you go 20 years ago, the crew would work, work, work, go to the bar, get drunk, have a great time. Right.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I think we're a lot more conscious now. I see crew getting up early for the sunrise, meditating, journaling, doing yoga, being their fit. You can see it in society that men, young men are trying to be a lot fitter than they were 20 years ago. Totally. It's become super trendy now to be fit. Yoga, meditating. Yeah, look, breath works is a big thing.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I think crew are taking the more healthy approach to understanding that you can't keep working in these environments without a healthy body. And obviously, healthy body, then healthy mind, really.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Wake up every morning, stretch for about half an hour. What time do you wake up typically? Five-ish, six. Yeah, 5.30, six.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
If I'm with my daughter, I'm up at four because I go to bed at eight. So I stretch, I go for a walk. If I'm not on land, if I'm on land, I go for a walk. I'll do my breath works. I just do my, I usually do that when I'm in bed. I'll put on Wim Hof and do that 11 minute, three rounds.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Oh, really? Yeah.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
And then I'll do some fire breathing. Yeah. And then I'll just do some more stretching. I just do band exercises. I used to play professional rugby league when I was young, so I've got a few injuries. Oh. So I find that if I start getting into the gym, it's just too much. Really? Yeah. The gym's too much. Lifting weights is too much for me.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I find getting into band exercises being more helpful and good for the core.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, a year and a half.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I was stuck in Australia on a boat. I couldn't leave, so-
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Well, normally if a yacht captain, very rarely there is rotational jobs, two months on, two months off, but they're very hard to find. Sometimes captain could be away at sea for 10 months.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Very difficult. Very difficult. That's why my friends are friends on that. Yeah. So we don't have a normal life and you take two months off for a month off. Even as the captain, you're still on the laptop. You're still on the phone. And there's so many jobs waiting for captains as well. If you don't say yes to the conditions, someone else will take it.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So every time you're on holiday, you're threatened whether you're going to keep your job or not. There's a mindset with yacht owners that they're just always there. They're always part of the boat. Whereas, no, you can't have any time off. There's a lot of marital breakups in this industry.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I find the same relationship breakups in the mining, in the offshore stuff where you do a lot of one month on, one month off.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Well, what I see is the same pattern. Let's just say the mother is at home with the children and the father's working away for a month or two. And then he comes home, he walks into the household, he thinks he's back. Right. Well, wait up. This has been my nest for two months without you.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
You know, don't just, don't just come in here. So you always see like a week of teething into slowly walking into the relationship with arguments when you come back. And then they finally get settled and then you feel, then the wife or the mother feels like, well, about two weeks before they're departing, like, starts to get that anxiety. Like, and he starts to get that anxiety.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No, there's no rhythm.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So when this season, I put everything into building that place in the Philippines.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
A nice little five-star resort. You know, her mother really did a great job building it. Even though we weren't together, we said, okay, you build it, we'll be 50-50. It just gave us, it gave me, it's what I've always wanted was... My daughter grew up with a unique environment. So she grew up as this white blonde girl that speaks fluent Tagalog, Filipino. She actually thinks she's Filipino.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
She's got that empathy. Really? She just wants to give to other people, make sure everyone's looked after, which is just that true- It's a caretaker of vitality. That real true Filipino care. She grew up in a very remote location and we've given her that. And now they've moved to Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah. I met her mother in Spain. She's from Australia. She was a chef on boats. And I always had a dream of building a place to replicate a super yacht on land. You know, we do hospitality, like a resort style thing where we could actually provide some health and wellness, but also give that special five-star service.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
That's what we do on boats. Well, that's what we do on boats. We have luxury yachts where hospitality really, I'm just a concierge really for anyone's needs. I drive a big boat around and provide wealthy people for anything they want from me.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Thank you. Thank you.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Thank you.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Thank you.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Thank you. Thank you.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So this is our third season coming out, which has been, what, about four years it's been done. So I was a captain for about 20 years prior to that. So I've been captain for 20 years, and then the show's been going for four.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
There's no bathroom. So that was the school I got given last year. And I put it up. I threw it out there. Sheena of Vanderpump Rules threw $5,000 and got it started. And in four months, we raised $100,000. And I built the school. And I took my daughter to open it and cut the ribbon. And last month, we went to Melbourne, Australia for a gala. We had to raise $60,000 more. I spoke at the gala.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
We raised $140,000. It's a great foundation. And It's fantastic. And my daughter's part of being there with it too, which is a good thing for her.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Last month I took her up into the mountains of Bali. There's another foundation, Bali for Rice, with all the construction that's going on in Bali. Bali for what? Bali for Rice. Right. Rice? Rice. As in... As eating rice? Okay. And all the rice fields are getting taken for construction with all these foreigners building.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So there's a lot of elderly and disabled people and special needs people that are actually not getting fed. So these foundations supply rice every week to these families. And that's a great organization. And there's plenty of foreigners in Bali that are giving back. But look, Philippines is my heart and I'd love to take some stuff to Philippines in the future.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Bravo have gone off into a few other franchises, franchises. We have sailing, we have Mediterranean. We did have adventure and we have down under. So Captain Lee was the original. Okay. And, um, he's, um, he's just, uh, hung the boots up a couple of years ago, actually. So we still have a few other captains, Captain Sandy, um, for the Mediterranean. Great female captain.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
But at the moment, I'm in Bali and it's something that I feel passionate about and I don't know what to do on my social media. I'm not very good at it. Do you do your own social media? I do my own social media. Everyone's like, you've got to get more in front of the camera. And I'm like, okay, but I don't know what. But this is easy. It's something I'm passionate about.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
It aligns to the ocean conservation. I've got a child. Education is a big thing. I think my daughter's very lucky that she's growing up in a unique environment, you know. And she didn't want to hold the camera for me the other day when we were giving out the rice.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No. And I said to her later, I said, why didn't you want to do that, Saskia? And she said, I was embarrassed. And I said, I know why you're embarrassed. And she said, tell me. And I said, because you've got more than them. And she said, you're right. I was like that in the Philippines, you know, to bring the people to our house because we had a bigger house.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
And I was like, Sass, this is just learning and I'm glad you've got that feeling because that's empathy.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
And that's not a bad thing. And don't be shy of that. You know, you can be embarrassed and you can actually have empathy as well. But just know why you've got it. And it's because you have appreciation of what you have.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
That's all we have to do, you know. Yeah. A little bit. We don't have to ask for much. Yeah.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Okay, she loves her iPad now when she can get it. She doesn't get it with her mom, but she gets it with me.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Look, she gets, I would say, a couple of hours a week.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, I'm pretty bad with it. My mom's good with it. Your mom's good with it. But two hours a week. But she does crochet now. She does crocheting and stuff. Really? Yeah, she does. She makes things. She's got her invisible friends. She's got her other dolls and stuff that she makes things for. She has a little word to it. The other day she said, you can't sit there.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I said, well, she goes, blah, I can't remember. Big dog or something. I'm like, oh, that's cute. I'm not going to take that away from them. Like, that's great.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
If we had it, we'd be fine. You know, entrepreneurs have it.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
But you can actually visualize and imagine where the end is. Well, 100%. And not actually look at the obstacles in between.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
That's really, um, you know, setting a good example for, um, for females out there and striving in this industry. Uh, and, um, Captain Glenn, who's sailing and Captain Kerry, which is taken over from
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
It's a good question. It's been a very, very low, low period where I've actually moved in probably into a bit of a cave as well, you know, because I know when I'm out, I'm out. Right. Um, when I've got these things, you know, so health is a big thing. Um, I've just had a huge end of the year with my father with Alzheimer's, um, and
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
They're turning 80 next year. So I just, mom had a heart attack. Dad had Alzheimer's. I flew back to help. My best mate passed away in a horrific accident. I had the melanoma. I had a diagnosis of melanoma. I had a lot going on. And I think that's nothing but going to propel me into where I really wanted to go anyway. I've always tipped around my yoga, my health, everything like that.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
But I want to move right into like a I'm not going to say peak. I want to see how far things my body can be. I want to know more about mind, cognitive behavior, preventative reversing Alzheimer's a little bit, know about the foods that we eat, what we can take, because I want to know more about it because of my dad. Of course.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, they did the whole lot. We always had, for the last six or seven months, we could see changes. And then when mum had a heart attack, a triple bypass, and he was by himself, it just came on like a ton of bricks. And it's really there now. It's prevalent. And now he's on medication to take that back. But I've been listening to a lot of podcasts. So I'm actually just trying to teach myself now.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
But I want to see what I can do too. And I know that I've got a good journey ahead because of everything that happened at the end of last year. So I'm thinking, wait up. I'm doing manifesting and mindful coaching. I want to do some journaling of where I can go and follow the journey, see where I am now.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Start selling some stuff online to try and make a passive income so I can actually try and use something from this. With Alzheimer's coming on with Dad, I feel like I've got the opportunity to learn more about that. I am doing mindful And manifesting coaching as well, which is good. I'm starting to do the therapy that my mate suggested when he passed, before he passed away.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
There's been five. We're down to a couple now. But we did have Adventure, but that didn't last too long. But Sailing's been a stable mark, which is a sailboat, 50 meters or 170 foot. And then Sandy, Captain Sandy, who's in the Mediterranean. And then we have one in the Caribbean and down under. So the guests get to see, it's kind of a bit of a fun, travel, reality, real, unstructured program.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, I've got a coach now. I've done two sessions with her. I get a lot out of it too. She asked me the other day, what are the things I want to get out of it? And I said, I want discipline. I want... continuity and accountability and execution. And she said, explain that. I said, well, you know, I've always been that person to go with the flow.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So I want some, I want to be more disciplined to actually set my targets and actually do it. Like, yeah, go and see that person or go and do that. Like, don't just brush it off and go with, if it happens, it happens. Continuity is actually continuing and doing that.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
And accountability to me is not just of the things that are going wrong, but be accountable and appreciative of things that you are doing right. So when people, probably not the sexy stuff that's going on, but like when people say, when people say, oh, you, you, you know, you, you did a good job or you did that. I'm going to say, thank you. You know, I appreciate that. Yeah.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I'm going to take that on, but write that down as well. And, and be, be grateful every, every, every day and, and, and say that to myself every day as well. And then execution is to get, uh, get all of those things going. And, um.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Well, I'm in A now.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Well, that's where habits are formed is through subconscious and that's about you actually doing.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
It's action-based. If I pick up that phone every day, if I pick up that phone every day, if I pick up that phone every day at 9 o'clock, eventually next minute I'm just doing it without even 9 o'clock coming. 100%. And that's what it's for. I just used that analogy because there's a phone there. But you know what I mean.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
But it's body movement. It's body movement, I think. It's not just mental. It's not just saying it. It's actually doing it.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
You've got to move your body into that habit.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Very hard. The habits fall off. It's very difficult. It's very hard to actually have that, even traveling with the stuff that I like to eat. I found that this year my body went down a little bit in health because I was on the move for three months. But usually when I'm in that little mode, I've got my things I do every day. I eat my turmeric, my ginger, my onion, my garlic, all that.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I take my Brazil nuts and stuff like that. If I'm doing all that, I'll take my creatine every day. Oh, I have creatine for you.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No, but you've got the magic mind there.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
These honestly does work.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I always leave a bit in there that gets to the bottom.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Probably not.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Well, I have not had one of these for about a year. And when I did have one, it changed me. And I would love to, um, sponsored by.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, I did some today. Yeah.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Totally. But traveling is a big thing. What do I travel? How can I travel around with the less things? Well, that's what I'm saying.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah. Ice bath a couple of times a week, easy. Red light sauna for sure. Okay.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah. Okay. So I'd love to do red light therapy. I've been looking into it.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No. I understand the concept of it for sure from a light frequency point of view. I've read about it or understand it that the ailments in your body are broken up through your light frequency. The red light actually brings it back together. Um, and I, I, I'm, I'm across all that. I, well, I'm not across it, but I, I definitely, um, believe all that. I'm going to give you something.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
That's not a belief. It's a, it's a fact.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I just had a rotator cuff injury for last month. Okay, so that's perfect for it. It's good now. And I actually think I did the NAD IV 500 milligrams. Oh, yeah, you told me that. And then I did another one a week after that. And it did improve it a hell of a lot.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Well, actually, when it was going in, I actually felt that was the pain straight away. So they say it goes straight to where you need it. To wherever you need it.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No, I cranked it right up. It was fine.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I reckon 45 minutes.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, there's that aspect that the audience get to see a different location as well, like the Caribbean to the Mediterranean to Down Under. So it's not just about the dynamics of the crew trying to actually do a real job in a pressure cooker environment and see what actually unfolds.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, I could feel it. It was just, yeah, it felt like I did a couple of shots of tequila.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Look, to be quite honest, in this industry that I'm in, obviously, I loved it. But now I do big moments of no. No alcohol. No alcohol. And big moments of... Not big moments, but moments of yes. Look, I love a steak and a glass of red wine. I love going out once in a while. But I must admit, I'm a bit more... As I said, introverted these days. I don't go out too much.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
If I'm in Bali, I'm with my daughter. I don't go out. So if I am traveling, you know, look, I don't want to be drinking at events anymore. I want to be focused. So that's my rule. But if I'm with friends and stuff and there's something on and I feel comfortable and in a good position, I will. But I actually have, you know, the anxiety, you know, the day after.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
It's just not me. It's just not me. I don't like – waking up in an environment, if I'm in a safe environment, I'll do it.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I totally agree. I've had last year, I went November till May, nothing. Look, we were talking about this today in the car, like the focus you get after three months is just insane. It's so worth it. But, you know, I just love drinking. sitting with a nice big steak and a glass of red as well. I know.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, totally. That's all I'll eat.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I'll try. It's not the same, I know. Well, I know, but I've been looking at Nootropics. There's a company in Australia I was going to talk to. They do a gin and tonic. They do an Aperol spritz, and it's all alcohol-free, sugar-free. And I'd love to work with a company like that. There's another one in New Zealand called Apera. Apra. What do they do? They do a blackcurrant. It's nootropics.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah. But what is this exactly? Explain this. These are drinks. These are drinks that actually support cognitive behavior, which is just made out of- Oh, okay. But it's not- Is there alcohol or no alcohol? No, no alcohol. Oh, no alcohol. I was going to say that doesn't sound- They taste like alcohol. It's a gin and tonic. It's an Aperol spritz and it's a Moscow mule, but it's no alcohol, no sugar.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
And, um, you know, there's, there's good.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Mimics the drinks, but it's using nootropics plant-based. Interesting. Yeah. So there's a few of them coming out now.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Well, this is why I've brought out a fragrance this year. I've got a fragrance I'm bringing out because I usually do essential oils. So I have a fragrance launching in March. You do?
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Do you want to pass me the fragrance?
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I am starting now.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I usually do a lot of essential oils spray face mist on crew and on the sound. Oh, okay. Let me see this. And on the sound and production team. So in Bali I started doing this, I started learning about fragrances. So I put it, it's a gender neutral fragrance and that's coming out in March. Now I didn't want to promote alcohol. Everyone does promote spritzers and everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So this was something that I thought was totally different. It's along what I like. I always had my essential oils and I thought, well, I'll do a fragrance. And I sat down for about two or three months. It's taken about eight months to come. For about two or three months to develop the fragrance The scent and it's actually kind of me on a boat, the sand, waterfalls.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No, they don't script it. They don't tell us how to run the boat. If they did, a captain wouldn't be a captain. As a captain, I wouldn't allow that because there's a lot of safety aspects behind it. So we have to hold that. We have to be firm about that as captains. We're driving big boats. We've got a lot of people. We've got a lot of camera crew in the background as well.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
It's got some earthy tones and it's definitely got some nature there and it's long lasting and it's actually done by some beautiful people that have actually got some great hearts.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
It'll be on my website, which is coming out soon, which is captainslounge.captainslounge.life, which will be on my Instagram, and that'll be dropping in February.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Eventually, yeah. I'll work on it.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No, it's just me.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
It's just me.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Me, yeah.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I mean. I'm a boat captain.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
You can do.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Let's go.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Maybe that's part of one is discipline. Probably a little bit more confidence and less insecurities. I could probably do that. I don't know. I'm a fish out of water in all this. You are.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah. I can drive a boat with 30 people and crew and do all that there and make decisions and make on the spot. you know, emergency decisions and stuff and look after your life and take it for the best ride of your life. But, um, when it comes to open up that laptop and looking behind the screens of that social media, I got no idea.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I had, I had a manager for a while. Not much came through. I had a good deal with, uh, Invisi line. I had, yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. I had a good deal with, um, uh, Johnson and Johnson with, um, with, um, AccuV?
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So they've been good. They're the things that have got me through. But when it comes to doing the stuff for myself, I've never.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
But I have this philosophy and I actually think I'm sticking to it pretty good. I do not want to be selling things everywhere all the time. No, you do not. I want to be true to what is for me and what I stand for. So when I do try to voice something like that, now there'll be a portion of every sale of anything I ever do that will go back to a project.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Well, which, that's where I'll get the love out of it, you know?
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
The safety always falls back onto us. Obviously Bravo in the background have got their policies and procedures, which are pretty strong. But when it comes to the actual boat, starting the engine, getting it out there and providing the guests their quality time that they pay for.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Shed on or shed off?
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I'm just hiding away in Bali somewhere. I really, I need to get out there. I need to be represented a bit better and probably learn a bit more, I suppose. So, you know, but meeting you has probably given me a little bit of, I'll take this on. It's a little bit of discipline and maybe a little bit more advice would be great.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah. But they're not going to give us any.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Let's go. Sign me up.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Sign me up. Sign me up.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
They pay. You have to pay to get on. So just to sum it up to make it easy, a boat our size would be anywhere from $300,000 to $500,000 a week to rent. Right, to rent, yeah. We actually – and you might do eight charters in a season from, say, May to September or from December to May. And eight charters is a pretty busy charter season.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I'd love to.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
My Instagram, Captain J Chambers. And on there, my website is captainslounge.life, which is all on there. And also on there in links, you'll see the foundation as well. And you'll see a lot of my grid on my Instagram is a link towards the foundations that we've been doing and the schools that we've been rebuilding as well.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So from there, you'll find us and we'll get a bit more active on the other social platforms as well. But for now, Instagram's the go-to and Captain Jay Chambers. And as I said, captainslounge.life. Thank you so much, Jason. It was so nice to have you. I'm glad we met. Me too. Me too. Thank you.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
And you might do a week, have a rest, week, have a rest, week, week. And in between that, the crew will let loose, relax, get set up for the next one and go again. We actually do nine charters in six weeks.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So we're doing nine charters in six weeks. We're not doing eight charters in six months. And not only that, I turn up to the boat. I don't know the boat. Never driven the boat. The crew turn up. I very rarely know 80% of the crew. I might know a few return crew. Then the food turns up and all the provisions turn up and the next day the guests turn up and it goes straight for six weeks.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Not only that, after each charter, the crew go out, they relax, they celebrate their tips they've just got. They have a little bit too much sometimes or they hook up with someone or a bit of romance comes or a bit of argument or a little bit of argy-bargy, a bit of... Bit of misogynism comes out, egos come out, you know, it develops. And people say, well, that's not real. Well, you know what?
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
It's actually about two years of yachting shrunk into nine weeks. So it actually does happen, but we get to see it over a short period of time due to the environment that that's filmed in.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
The casting actually picked the crew, the crew, experienced crew. They actually apply for it, obviously. Right. I don't get to pick them.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
They are experienced. They've got qualifications, yes.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Usually you have some fan favorites or people that have performed well will return. Okay. But that would only be about maybe maximum two. So there's eight crew every year, new crew. Sorry, there's about six new every year.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, rather than paying that $300,000 to $500,000 a week like a normal person, they're only paying $70,000 to $80,000 for three days.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
And then they have to tip on top of that as well.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
$20,000. For charters, how long, you said?
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
For three days. So we do nine of them. So we walk out with, say, $200,000 tip after nine weeks, and we split that between the 10 crew.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, but look, a lot of guests want to be on the show and want to travel and enjoy the – I'd want to be a guest on it, yeah. Look, bring your A-game, complain about the crew, make it hard for us, and that's all you have to do to be a guest.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
We want guests to actually be engaged, be authentic, but also be active, but also be honest as well. We want to be critiqued. And as a captain, I want to be critiqued as well. Like I would like to, I'd like my chef to be under the microscope. I want my stewardesses and the service to be under the microscope. It's better for us.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
It's better for the show, but, um, it's better than it's better for us to actually, uh, to learn from and get better. So these ups and downs that go are real. And look, there's not a boat out there that charters that doesn't have a bad guess that actually is really hard and that's fine. That makes us better.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So every charter boat can have only maximum of 12 guests. Okay. So it doesn't matter how much, how big Jeff Bezos boat is or whatever. It's, they can only have 12 guests. Otherwise you're moving into a passenger liner, which is a different realm.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So 12 guests. And then the crew, we have about 10 to 12, 13, 13 crew.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, yeah. Sometimes double bunking. Not the captain. He's got his own. But the crew always double or triple bunk. And then that's below deck. And that's why it's called below deck. All the adventure goes on below deck.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No, I would say probably 10% of it's about the guests, 20% of it's about the location and the activities. And the drama between them. And I think a good 70% of it then is about the crew and how they actually perform and get on.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I'd have to say that. Blow Deck Down Under. Yeah. Well, yeah. We're all going pretty strong. We're all going pretty strong. The ratings have been strong. It's been going for 10, 11 years. It's been fantastic. I can't believe it. Yeah. We got nominated for an Emmy nomination last year. Our one, season two. So that was a good- Yours?
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
It's amazing. Unstructured reality TV show. So that was a pretty- We only got knocked off by Ryan Reynolds, so that's not too bad.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Some of the other franchises have done Housewives and stuff, but no real big celebrities.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Back in the day, I did. I remember both the boats that I were on, I was on with, I think we had Jennifer Lopez on once down in the Caribbean. You think?
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Jennifer Lopez is the Patriot games or Patriot or something with Harrison Ford. Yeah.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Oh yeah. That's right. She was in a heyday too.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, definitely.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Look, I can't remember that. I think I was really green then. That was my first season.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, that was weird. And actually all that crew were the crew of Wolf of Wall Street too. Oh, of what? The movie, The Wolf of Wall Street, the boat that sank. My first captain was the captain from that boat. Oh, really?
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
It would be.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I could probably. Look, the crew that came off that boat, they were pretty tight-lipped. They didn't talk about anything. Really? And so he can rest assured that no bad words were said about him. Oh, my.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
He's probably gone through the other side now.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I was in Papua New Guinea working for an American family there, which I wish I could tell you because they actually did some great work while we were there with some villages and stuff and rebuilding hospitals anyway. You were? Yeah, we had a great opportunity.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Yeah, I was on a boat. They didn't turn up because of some political issues here. They just didn't want to be seen on their boat. They're a very big family here in America. Anyway, so I was working on that boat. What boat? Can you tell me? I can't. I'm not going to say. So they're very low key. And we dropped it.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I remember dropping an anchor once and I had to go ashore with the helicopter pilot to find the chief to talk about whether I could anchor it in his bay. And we had a bag of, we had a bucket of nails, some flour, some tarpaulins and some tools to give as a present. And we found this old deserted hospital and it still gets used with like 60 people.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
They average a month with paddle and pass on canoes.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
Babies being born, no lights, no running water, absolutely horrendous conditions. So we went back and we got all the engineers off the boat. We went up there. We looked at everything. We came back again. We fitted out running water. We fixed their pipes. We put new plumbing in. We put new pumps in. We put LED lights in and everything. Oh, wow.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
And then when the owners did come, they wanted to come and see it. And they said, how much did this cost? And I said, well, it cost me nothing. It cost you $10,000, $15,000. He said, triple it and keep doing it. And his guest was a big medical supplier. So he actually sent over a pallet of medical supplies to him as well. And he said, just keep doing that. Whatever you do.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
So we just cruised around and through the agent that we used there, we just found things to do. And a lot of boats do contribute when they go through these areas. But wow.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
What a moment in life. I remember once on the back of the boat, we had kids just sitting in dugout canoes and we set up a big sheet and a projector and we watched Moana at night. They've never seen TV before.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
No. And anyway, I was back in Australia. COVID was happening. I couldn't get back to the Philippines where my daughter was. Right. And it was at the end of COVID, just at the end, and I was about to try and get out of Australia and leave this job because it was coming to America and I wanted to stay in Asia.
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
And I got an email to join Below Deck Down Under, which was doing a franchise in Australia. So yeah, why not?
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Episode 423: Jason Chambers: Below Deck's Captain on Navigating Fame, Fatherhood, and Luxury Yachts
I actually got an email through another captain friend. So through their casting, they put it out there and my friend emailed me with their minute and said, listen, this is the guy that should be on the show. He's down there. He knows the area and, um, he should be on it. So, uh, we hooked up and we made contact and I really fell in love with, uh, the production team and talking to them.