Should that vessel had gone have gone out to see what? Of course not,
I mean, of course not and just stuck together with duct tape,
right yeah, um, I don't know. It's about my pain, right,
but you could have died. Hey, thanks for having me on,
guys. I think your show is really funny and stuff. I love it.
Thanks, we've been me. Madison and Alex are all here in the
Bahamas right now. Made both of them watch the show and they both thought
it was hilarious too, So awesome. That's great to hear. Um.
Well, I think that that's a great place to start, um for I
guess joining us on the blower um is Chase from season four of Low Deck
Parsnips is the vessel we're sailing on and the engine is held together by gum.
You're in the Bahamas right now. Yeah, I'm in Nassaw. I'm
actually with Alex, I'm with Mads. Mad's just left yesterday. We're having
a little bit of a getaway time. So okay, great, I'm assuming
you're working that son of them. No, I'm not working. Actually,
No, I just got one week left to freedom and then I'm actually buying
my own sailboat next week, so a lot of work just around the corner.
We're all just kind of handing out together. Oh my gosh, you're
buying your own sailboat. Yeah, I'm very excited. That sounds like that
sounds like such a headache. He's going to be in the captain of his
own vessel. No. I know that's great, and I'm sure you're you're
more than capable of handling that kind of responsibility. But my god, does
that sound awful? No, No, I mean it's both. You know,
it's gonna be excited. Yeah, you know that's the things to fix,
all right, So let's get into it. So, hey, Chase,
if you don't mind, Oh sorry, Pat, Pat, can I
just do this? Oh? Sure, you know, he said, And
I'm sorry I touched you so tenderly right there. You said that you've been
listening to the show with the other cast members, so you know that we
call you ce rats and you might have heard me two impressions of you.
So I think that it's just really great that you got such a great attitude
about the entire thing, and you've been lovely throughout the entire season. We're
about to get into all the stuff from the first six episodes and how bad
Gary has been performing this season? So go ahead, Pat Well, we
always got to start off every interview with the most important question, vitally important,
extremely how'd you get on the show? A happenstance? So I went
into they adding for a few years after I graduated from university and had actually
left the adding industry, had come back home to do some sales. I
was helping my dad with his business, and it was just kind of doing
them. I'm really unhappy about it and waiting for something fun to kind of
come and shake it up. And the casting edget found me, reached out
to me through Instagram and it just kind of in my lap, said hey,
would you do this? You know, and a bunch of people in
the industry people know this, Um, you know, I love the show.
I would do it again. I thought it was an amazing experience.
But when I first got into the industry, a lot of people say,
hey, don't go on the show. It will hurt your chance of getting
a job and yachting the industry, which is you know, it's true,
and it's not true because although you'd get exposure, it's like, hey,
we're getting lit up and pour up in a hot tub and making out with
each other. It's not the most professional look. But since I had already
left the industry and I was kind of in a dead end sales job and
wanted to get out and switch it up and get back on the water,
I said, hell, yeah, I'll do the ship. Oh well,
that that brings me to my next question. You've are NICKI hodgedon a baby
barnacle. We're getting into baby barnacle questions this early. We are Forgive me.
This is Stuart Gunyon. He wants to know you said you were going
to retire at age thirty. Oh yeah, that's right. That was such
a crazy, insane thing. You said, what is the plan here?
Because we should if it's a good one, I might take I might take
that direction in my life. We're gonna retire at thirty? What's the secret
sauce? Yeah, I look. I definitely don't thank you guys for making
fun of me. I know there's a lot of people who say that,
and it's a it's a it's a big goal. Um so, but here's
the plan. And but I haven't spent anything for the last like six seven
years, so a single dollar from still and I've exclusively worked on charter yachts.
I mean, I've worked on programs where you know, you do a
twelve day trip and it's a thirteen five thirteen thousand dollars each And I just
still have money. And I live in Charleston, South Carolina. I've poured
any dollars I've spent, I made, I put into real estate, just
sold four airbnbs I had fixed up all right, all right, such devices,
plumber and I kind of do all that on the side, and yachting
just brings in the money to kind of fund all that. But I've just
I've kind of just done it. I've just sold it on. I'm buying
my sailboat, which has been like a six year dream. So I don't
know if I can, if I could retire forever, but I'll probably won't
work for the next pad game. Hey look, if you do what you
love, man, you never you don't work a day day in your life
and your life so okay, um uh no, so um we we need
to Okay, So you're a shrewd investor, you got a good head on
your shoulders, hard worker, hard worker. What do you do when the
sea rats go out to dinner to get fucked up, because you know it's
it's that first question, how did you get on the show? It always
births a horrifically boring answer, and yours was. I don't want to say
no different. I mean a casting agent reach out to you on Instagram.
But you did bring up the fact that, yeah, this show could be
bad for your career ultimately, because um, you know you see people acking
out right, Yeah, the black Yashang and the yeah yeah, the semen
and whatnot. But um, when you go out for these evenings, what
do you do? Like? Do you do you not chip in on the
meal because you're trying to save I mean, what's how do you remain frugal
in Sardinia? Yeah, it's definitely not easy. Um, I think we
all did a pretty good job of taking turns and chipping in. It's usually
the junior crew gets the first couple of meals. It's like, hey,
we're right guys. You guys pick up this tab the rookie wide receiver h
is big checks? Now? Is there a little part of you when you
guys get handed that tip money at that tip meeting and you're like, I
got twenty two hundred bucks in my pocket. And how do you feel the
next morning when you just burn six hundred restaurant that you can't even remember anymore
because you were so drunk. Yeah, does that happen often? Yeah?
I don't know quite six hundred, but yeah, that the remorse the day
after is a real thing, not just that's just the industry. You know.
There's so many guys and girls who buy a Romance or Louis Baton the
next day and you're back to being broke, and it's just this fucking hamster
wheel of being poor and played live every day like it's your last right,
right right, see rat way. Um Okay, So I think that we
can transition into the blood feud between you and your bought scary, which I
don't know. Perhaps you guys have healed, but um it would seem to
me as though Chase is a little bit different than you know, the common
frequenters of the yachting world, and that he has a plan of sorts.
So perhaps, um, I don't know, Chase's standard of excellence is getting
shit on by Gary um and and Chase is having like a little bit of
an existential panic about it because Gary's not doing it for any rhyme or reason.
Gary's just in an identity crisis. He's lashing out. Let's hear what
Chase have to say about that. All right, let's back up a little
bit. Yea, So Nicky Hodgson wants to know, do you think Gary's
bad attitude or how he's behaving towards you? Do you think the start of
that was because he missed that first charter? Does that have anything to put
into play with this? I don't, not entirely, but it definitely has
a part. I think it's the perfect storm of a lot of things.
M okay, um, okay. So well, I don't want to jump
ahead because we kind of want to know where Gary is now. All right.
So, uh, Louise Giovanni wants to know why did you give up
so quickly once Gary had announced that he was into Mads. Oh, I
just didn't really give a shit, to be honest, Like we had a
long conversation about it, you know, I mean, um, it just
wasn't a winning scenario for me. You know, people say, don't screw
the crew. It's it's a true thing. You know, you don't want
to ship where you eat and look, I just I just spent the last
couple of days with Madison on vacation and we're close friends. Now, you
know, I'm not one of these guys who has to get off with a
girl just to get along with them. You are you saying you're not a
sex addict. No, I don't think I'm a total sex addict. No.
No, Listen, your boss and your and your co worker are both
volumes for the same girl. It's just not a good idea to fucking give
a shit. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's smart, wise wise words.
Now listen, we we have all. I wouldn't say that we love
Gary, but Gary is an important part of this show, and Gary's been
um, you know, Gary's been Gary. You know, there's there's nothing
that to hate that much, but this season he's just he's not having a
great performance, and you seem to be a target for all of that resentment.
I don't know. Well, let's have so. Laurie Shriegel wants to
know what was the major issues with Gary towards you. Where was this coming
from? Do you do you have any insight into that? All right,
I'm gonna go into a long winded answer, please, Yeah, Look,
just to say Gary and I are cordial, and I really have a lot
of respect for Gary. I saw him in La like a month ago.
We played a great game of pool. We get along, and I understand.
Gary is on this blowdeck totem pole and he makes great TV. And
you know, he's a big part of the reason people watch the show I'm
on, not because of me, but because Gary. Yeah, that means
he can be a royal asshole. Yeah, I think everyone you know,
like I respect Gary, and I know that he knows a lot more than
I do about a yacht industry. He works on participle year round. He's
got all this experience. But it was this perfect storm of you know,
Alex and I came in and we kind of established a workflow before Gary showed
up because he had COVID, And then Gary wants to like I guess,
he shows up and maybe he's intimidated by us. I don't know why you
would be. You know, I'm a pretty dorky, unassuming guy. But
he we could sense he was intimidated, and then he just wanted to knock
us down off of the ladder a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, so
it could be that's what he cares about. But I have no idea why
he came out on me at wow. I know that I can be a
little much to handle, you know. I know that sometimes I run my
mouth and I have so much energy trying to stay moving and trying to get
all the work ethics stuff done that I can come off as a lot.
But I just tried to help, and he was mad from to get go.
You have this unique breed of or brand of optimism that like, you
just have this this um kind of lust for good work and a good day.
And and I can see how, I mean, you get away from
me. I could see, I could see how people experience. But it's
there's nothing malicious coming from you at all. So Gary shouldn't have been anywhere
near his hate. Don't listen to Dylan. Yeah, you don't listen to
me. You're talking about Chase is the great co worker that you want on
one of these vessels. Absolutely okay, So Katie Lexander asked, Gary said,
and watch what Happens live. He'd never work with Alex again. Yeah,
can you give us some insight to that without spoiling the rest of it.
Don't spoil anything because we want to keep this in the show. Oh,
man. You know, I can't. I can't speak for why.
Garry would say that I have a couple ideas, but I can't really say
anything just because I don't know. I think there's a couple of reasons why.
But I would say that I would work with everyone else again. You
know, it's different throughout the season than I want to kill everybody, and
I would I say, oh, I would never work with you again.
Yeah, looking back, I don't think that he would. He actually means
that. Well. Speaking of killing, let's talk about Captain Glenn Um.
Captain Glenn, what's up the women of the night? Yes, you guys,
Yes exactly, Yeah, no, no, we know we're spot on.
Thank you, thank you very much, thank you. We appreciate it.
But was Captain Glenn m hands on with the team's more hands on than
other captains you've worked with because Captain Glenn's EMO has been he just lets department
heads do their thing, and you're the right people let them do their One
of the reasons why there's so much turmoil with the department heads is because I
think that Glenn is trying to make a transition in his life. Maybe he's
trying to not slaughter as many people, and he's trying to be more active
in the yachting world or something. But his involvement in your guy's work seems
to be causing a little bit of friction. Was he kind of lord lording
over some of the minutia of your work. I've been seeing this a lot
on Twitter. I think that he's like micromanaging or something. I have to
come to the guys next to you. He's one of the captain really got
a good bats up it. You're the Bahamanian Internet is too bad because I
think you were going to give him some props, some props, so we
do want to hear it. But now you're frozen. There's a storm coming
through there. I think, okay, there he is, there, he
is can you I'm sorry, Do you mind starting from the top of regarding
Glenn and your defense of him, Can you guys hear me? Yeah,
yeah, yeah, we got yeah, awesome. I think he's got a
good balance. He really lets us go, and he also is there to
kind of like push the narrative just a little bit, push the envelope,
say hey, I think we could change it like this. Look you gotta
think. Yeah, he gives us feedback at the tip meetings. But the
guy only gives us feedback at the tip meetings for three days while we're on
charter. We don't hear anything from him, positive or negative at all.
He's there to help a little bit, but he's mostly just kind of in
the background. That's how a captain should be driving the bow sale make sure
we're all safe, and then at the tip meeting he gives us a little
feedback. I don't think it's too much at all. Okay, so do
you think, and this is Brianna Karen asked, do you think when Daisy
got very upset at the tip meeting? You were there obviously, do you
think Glenn handled that correctly? I guess the question would be do you agree
more with the sea dog Colin as opposed to kind of Daisy's perception of how
that tip meeting went? How did you take it? It's tough. I
see both sides. Let me tell you when it first happened, I had
no idea where it came from. You know, I had no idea why
Daisy was upset. So if you look at it like that, Colin might
not have known, you know, Glenn might not have known if you're watching
the show and you see all these moments where people let Daisy down and like
Daisy's getting called all over the place. But we didn't see that, you
know. I didn't know that Garry was sitting on his ass not help and
I didn't know why she was upset. I didn't know that she felt attacked.
So I think that they handled it as best as they could. Yeah,
but I definitely see he was coming from she she got worked this little
last charter. Yeah. Do you think Erry could have helped out more?
Of course. I mean, look, he's got scenes on himself sitting in
the bridge doing nothing. I just I just didn't happen for me for six
weeks. Yeah, you know what I mean. I feel saying, if
you got time to lean, you got time to clean. Yeah. A
lot of people they get the level of authority, like they become the boss,
and they think that that means that they can just chill them. Yeah,
but no, it should be the opposite, helping other department heads especially.
It should be that way. But people, you know, can really
justify a lot of lads behavior because management is the hardest of all the work.
All right. A couple of fun questions Um, should that vessel had
gone have gone out to see what? Of course not? I mean,
of course not. Ye just stuck together with duct tape, right, Yeah,
Um, I don't know. It's above my pay grades. But you
could have died. Look, I mean, I honestly, I know it's
stuck together. But we'll just let the store Katie. This is a fun
question. Katie wants to know if you've ever hooked up with a fellow person
in the below deck world. Never never chart. I guess I haven't been
so lucky. I didn't you think of a door? Apparently? Yeah,
Jay, you're luck and and let's say this, you're a handsome man,
I mean, good god. Yeah, you gotta watch the video. Peeps,
he's got do you got a little hair on your face? It's just
it's the sun is kissing him. I mean he's he's so tanned. I
mean he's he's cut up. I bet too. Um, all right,
next question, Okay, Kath Craish wants to know did you feel left out
of the man Bun Club? Yeah, because you're the only guy on it.
Well, yeah, you looked you looked ridiculous not having a man bun
chase. Look, I didn't get a fucking memo. I showed up clean
shape. I had Gillette still on my face when I showed up. Yeah,
yeah, fade I could possibly have. I didn't win it with any
of the below deck ledges because I showed up to the Fabio contest and you
know, I, yeah, yep, you look like a marine. Well
can I ask you? Can I ask him something really quickly? And you
know, this is the issue with you being too far forward. We can't
pick up on visual cues, like if I want to ask him something,
you're up here, you know, all right? Can we sailing sounds?
It just looks awful? Um? What? How? How dangerous? Is
like? Like did a knife fly at you? What? What is it
like below deck? When I'm sure you're above deck a lot of the time
when you're sailing. What is the destruction that is going on below deck when
you guys sail, I mean, it's just it's turmoil. Glanna is out,
you guys are on it. Yes, there's just no there's no heads
up. Keep in mind, this is my first sailing yat ever, so
you know, I've gone sailing. I've worked on motor yachts, but the
combo is ridiculous, And it's like two minutes maybe warning before we're at a
forty five degree angle. It's just not enough time to lock everything enough and
stove. You know, you're in the middle of cooking a fucking maal,
somebody's asleep, nobody gets word of it, and then it's all hell breaks
loose. Yeah, I don't get it on boat. Imagine if you're paying
Hey, honey, yeah, can you believe we're paying for this? A
knife almost took my eye out? Um, all right, well, we
yeah, we got we got a couple more. It's beautiful, all right.
Meredith Smith wants to know this is more just like living in those small
quarters, Like how do you work it out with your roommate, like with
things like going to the bathroom? Like is this stuff kind of worked out
before ahead of time? That was a terrible question. I mean, that
was such a bad don't eat, don't eat in the bed, or don't
take a dump when I'm sleeping, said says. All right, it's a
practical question, but just the reality thanks such little amount of time in our
cabins, you know, like I think National Rest say that you're not supposed
to work more than twelve hours a day and you're supposed to have a two
hour breakawold rest that never happens in the yachting industry. News news flash.
We worked sixteen eighteen hour days now, so we'll just effort to be an
issue and we're all pigs, right, all right, this is a fun
question, and maybe we'll wrap it up this way. Oh. Actually,
Leslie Harlowe wants to know how beat up is that boat? Oh, I
hope this doesn't get me in trouble. It's a beautiful boat and I love
the boat, but you can definitely tell it's been through a lot of charter
seasons. Yeah, there's more to come season. We have some serious boat
problems. Yeah, I can't wait to see that. All right. Last
question, This is a really fun one, and Chase, you've been an
absolute delight. Yeah, Chase, you've been awesome. This is a game
played by the sea Rats, usually when they're in the van, either leaving
the venue or going to the venue. Mary f Kill, I hope this
is men and not women. I Harry, Okay, Glenn Colin, Thank
god, Mary f Kill, Gary, Glenn and Colin. Yeah, obviously
we'd have to make love to Alex and and this seems this seems obvious,
Chase, but there is a killer be killed element here. I hope you're
not going to marry Glenn because that's a death wish. So but go ahead.
I just want to tell you, guys, this is really high level
journalism. Yeah, yeah, thank you, beautiful program. Um, yeah,
I guess you know. I guessed I'll shag Colin because that's what everyone
on Twitter says. Yeah, I gotta kill or he gets me now in
the middle of and oh no, that means I'm Mary and Garry. I
gotta rethink something. Yeah, um, oh god, yeah, killing Glenn,
Mary, Colin, Gary, Yeah, yeah, yeah, and thank
you so much for joining us. But a perfect way to end the interview.
So, Chase, we got a fun season out of us, right,
We're not just gonna hit this low where it just goes down. We
got some more exciting again, I was wrapping up the interview. That's a
bad question. He's not gonna say there's gonna be a lull Patrick, My
fucking god, Chase, honestly, honestly, let me answer this. I
am a fan of the show. I've been watching the show for years.
I mean, this is my aunt and uncle's favorite show blowing, And so
I know I know what makes a good season. I've watched y'all show for
a while. It's a damn good season. Guys. It doesn't low,
it just builds. It gets way more hectic than what people think. There's
a lot of stuff that you didn't see. Trader is credit. All right,
I'm excited for it. Hey, Pat, great question. I apologize.
That's okay, Chase, thank you so much for joining us. Um
plug away? Where can people follow you? What do you want people to
do? Um to you for you? Go ahead? They book here?
How can they book your sailboat? Famous plug? I got a sailing channel.
It starts next week. It's called Chasing Grace. It's me and my
wind dog, Charlie. We're sailing around the world five years circumnavigation. A
lot of people from the Belowdeck cast will be joining me. So tune in
and it's on YouTube. Say it one more time, Chasing Grace. Chasing
Grace. Find links in my bio. Okay, all right, amazing,
Chase, thank you so much for joining us. Um you're you know,
to come back to your normal life. Who cares about me? No?
No, no, go follow him? Um You've been awesome. Thank you
for being such a good sport. We really enjoyed talking to you man.
Thanks for doing this chase. Thank you guys. Budgers all mine, all
right, God Spid