Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Mention at All podcast. We are starting off the new year with a long time Bravo staple. We love Below Deck here. And I am so happy to finally have one of our veteran captains on the show, Captain Sandy Yon, welcome. How's it going? Thank you for

having me. When you say veteran captain, I was like, well, I'm 10 years older. That's a lot.

So it's a decade. Yeah. You're in your ninth season of Below Deck Med right now. It's the show's

10th season. You've been in yachting for

30 plus years at this point. What does it like to kind of look back on that much of your life that

you've spent doing this and now a chunk of your life that you've spent doing it on the show, too?

From who I used to be to who I've become is incredible. It's like night and day, 180 degree

turnaround. And people trust me, which is really cool. And, you know, I was not trustworthy

in the past. However, then I get the show. It's like, wow, I didn't seek it. It came to me.

And the doors, I was really concerned about walking through the doors and go,

should I do this, going to ruin my career, it worked so hard for it. And then I walked through the

doors and it just opened more doors and more doors. And it's really cool because when you see

how excited the fans are and just go to a BravoCon and you could see, because it is definitely

a culture. It makes you want to be a

better human being on the show, do a better job, engage more, and I need to get better at

social media. And that's my goal for 2026 is I'm actually going to put the time in. Because I'm

not that generation of social media. Yeah. So I got to stop saying that and start becoming that.

Well, I think it's interesting because below deck, I mean, when you joined, obviously,

there had been one season of Below Deck Med and there had been a few years of the original

Below Deck franchise.

But it was, I think, sort of around the time that you joined, really becoming this like whole universe and, you know, a cultural phenomenon and people, it was this world of yachting that people hadn't really been exposed to before, at least not in this, you know, this way where there's cameras everywhere on a boat. And I think, you know, over the

last 10 years, it's become something where people are so much more aware of this world of yachting.

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