🛳️ Below Deck Down Under: Love Triangles, Leopard Parties & Producer Tricks

Drama, Darling: A Real Housewives Comedy Podcast

Amy Phillips

Tv & Film, Comedy, After Shows

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Mike is the Tamra of Below Deck Down Under. Amy and Emily recap a Below Deck episode and debate what felt produced, including Captain Jason’s anger over the messy boat and the morning wake-ups, while insisting the drama between Ben and Ellie is real. They react to Jenna kissing Ben and then climbing into Eddie’s bed before quickly ending things with Eddie, questioning her “love bombing” claim and noting Eddie seems more like a nice guy coming on too strong. They discuss Mike stirring the pot (and eating a granola bar during cleaning), Daisy trying to manage tensions, and new charter guests Joan and Joanna, including Joanna’s fixation on lemon-garlic pasta and the leopard-themed party. They cover Ben’s cake and cookie choices, mixed guest feedback on the food, the $2,800 tip and Ben getting the helmet, plus a moment they doubt was spontaneous: Joel pushing Captain Jason down the slide in front of guests. episode and debate what felt produced, including Captain Jason’s anger over the messy boat and the morning wake-ups, while insisting the drama between Ben and Ellie is real. They react to Jenna kissing Ben and then climbing into Eddie’s bed before quickly ending things with Eddie, questioning her “love bombing” claim and noting Eddie seems more like a nice guy coming on too strong. They discuss Mike stirring the pot (and eating a granola bar during cleaning), Daisy trying to manage tensions, and new charter guests Joan and Joanna, including Joanna’s fixation on lemon-garlic pasta and the leopard-themed party. They cover Ben’s cake and cookie choices, mixed guest feedback on the food, the $2,800 tip and Ben getting the helmet, plus a moment they doubt was spontaneous: Joel pushing Captain Jason down the slide in front of guests.

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0:00.0	Drama, darling.
0:07.0	Drama darling.
0:10.0	Drama darling.
0:11.0	Drama darling.
0:15.0	Drama darling?
0:16.0	Hello everybody. Welcome back into drama darling. It's a below-deck kind of day. So we're going to go Dan and Da. And Emily's here to do it with me. Hello, Emily.
0:31.7	I don't give up. You show up to tip meeting. Oh my God. That was so, it was very put on. I loved it, but it was so like last night,
0:42.1	and I wasn't on a gummy. Okay, you guys, I wasn't on a gummy. And all I know what's real now and
0:48.5	what's fake. I've just gotten too good. I've watched it for too long and for two,
0:53.8	don't you shake your head at me. I've been in this
0:57.0	game way longer than you, my friend. I can see where they have to push the needle a little bit.
1:03.8	And I don't mind because that's what reality TV is. But, you know, come on. Sometimes...
1:11.2	Well, we'll see. You know that they're good enough friend. Ben and Captain Jason
1:15.3	seem to be such good friends off the boat that I could see Captain Jason feeling comfortable
1:21.8	to push it with him for the cameras, you know?
1:25.0	Ben's pushing it too. I mean, Ben's pushing it. Oh, Ben's really pushing it.
1:28.2	See what I'm saying?
1:29.4	But the drama between Ben and Ellie, totally real.
1:34.1	Everything, like, here's where you have to understand what I'm looking at.
1:37.4	I'm only looking at the skeleton.
1:39.2	I'm not looking at the meat.
1:40.8	I'm saying that some of the things that they put together for what to get from A to B
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