hi guys welcome back to the channel. you join me on a beautiful spring day in the UK
as you can see from outside here -is absolutely fantastic i think it's about
17, 18 degrees right now which for me is perfect it's not too hot , not too cold
yeah perfect for me as you probably might have noticed as well i finally got my hair cut
when i had the long hair a lot of people commented on that i looked
better with it younger or whatever and i kind of agreed and i liked it -so i said to the hairdresser
i want to keep the length on top just tied it up around the back and sides and blend it in
and this is what she did so yeah - anyway so what i wanted to do today is a little while ago on Joe
Rogan, if you watch my channel regularly you'll know i'm a big fan of Joe Rogan and when i do
the trips back and forth between Italy and here i listen to a lot of Joe Rogan as well
and - One of the people he had on, is a chap called Brendon Schwab and
they're both mixed martial artists and Brendon Schwab was for a time a fighter in the
UFC and they're both now both stand-up comedians and they both have podcasts and stuff like that
anyway in the interview they were talking about Conor McGregor and i touched upon this once
before i made a video about Conor McGregor and they were talking about in the in this podcast
they were saying about Conor McGregor and there was a lot of misinformation in there about which
yacht he owned and all this kind of stuff and these guys they don't know anything about yachts
but they're just talking -you know if you're
any women watching- if you ever want to know what guys talk about when there are no women around
check out the Joe Rogan podcasts and you'll find out in this particular one they go on to Joe
Rogan starts talking about a friend of his who owns a super yacht and he he says then he starts
to talk about what it must be like to own a super yacht and what the crew get up to when the owner's
not on board and i thought it would be interesting to make a video about it and talk about what they
say and then compare it to what actually really happens all right so uh let's go ahead and do it
i don't i hate to brag about my rich friends but i have a rich friend that has- look at that thing
that's that'd be funny that's the sailboat - it'd be fantastic pretty cool a podcast on there
joe bishop bro dude bicycle podcast on a yacht sounds like a lot of fun there's no fights on it
i have a friend who actually bought a yacht uh i was going well how do you what do you who who
drives out he goes there's a full-time staff they live on the yacht all year round they're there all
the time i have to pay their salary i go what he's like like the other all year round yeah they
live there they're on his yacht right now i go so it's their yacht well obviously that's not that's
not true they do live on board there is a crew that lives on board they don't all of the crew
don't live on board all of the time uh there's a rotation so there are different people living on
board so what they don't understand is the crew have their own area that they live on so you know
for joe rogan he's thinking that they're living in the same cabins that the owner would live in
which is obviously not true um the crew have a crew area and the crew do not go into
those other areas and left that unless they're doing a job in there i go yeah it's like if you
have a house it's a time shift there's a bunch of people partying at your house and they cleaning up
right before you come in yeah that's what's going on you smell other people's farts on your sheets
okay so he says that the the crew are partying on board, sleeping in your bed and
all this kind of stuff and they just clean it up before you arrive clearly that is not the case
we are career professionals - we don't treat other people's property that way and the i mean
is another thing if any of you have been in the military you'll know that when you-
when you're held to such a high standard you have to make sacrifices to keep that standard high
because it's an impossibly high standard in the military i'll give you an example in boot camp
your bedding and all of your uniform and everything that's in your room you have
to make it perfect every morning for inspection now the standards of it are so high what we had
to do in the military we had to take all our sheets and fold them into a thing and put it
at the end of the bed and a pack with all of your sheets lined in it and your and your blankets and
everything like this oh and you have your cupboard open with all your uniform and pressed
and everything so what we did it was so difficult to maintain that standard some guys slept on the
floor so they didn't have to disturb the sheets they would do it the night before and then
and then or they would put this bedding pack to one side sleep on the bed in the sleeping bag
get up in the morning place it on board so that the standard is so high that they had to work
out a way to keep it so high and and not touch it and that's what we do on on the yacht so the
when the owner leaves obviously all of the bedding is stripped off uh all of his personal belongings
are secured in safes and in in places of storage and the the room is you know cleaned and then it's
prepared for a status of nobody being in there so but it's it's immaculately clean
and the crew will go in there the people that are are in charge of cleaning they'll go
in there probably once a week and they'll clean and dust and all that kind of stuff
those rooms are not used by the crew the same with the public areas the areas where the owner would
go and sit you know to watch movies and stuff like that the crew don't go in those areas so
we have our own areas in the crew in the crew areas right we have a crew like depending on
the size of the yacht they have a crew lounge with tvs and stuff like that or you might just
have a crew mess with a big tv on the wall and the crew will hang out in those places and then
when the boat is laid up then we'll you know we'll be go let's say we're in Palma de
Majorca -we're laid up there and in the evening the crew will go out and come back and go to the
cabins they do not go in the in the guest areas they do not use the guest facilities
like the gym even the guest gym is not used by the crew usually if you have one if your yacht's big
enough and you have a crew gym you'll use that and if not you go out and go for a run or something
like you don't think bringing girls back that you're on all the way banging chicks on your
head yeah come on dude it's so weird like are you counting all the liquor you got in there
okay so two more things that he says that he says that the the crew are well in in a way they're
assuming that all the cruel men because they're saying that the the be bringing back women and and
having sex in those guest areas like i said we don't go in the guest areas when the guests
when the guests are not on board but also we are not allowed to bring people on board
so um even even people who are married are not allowed to have their wife stay in their cabin
even if that person has a single cabin so like let's say a chief officer or captain even though
they have a single cabin so they have a double bed in the in their cabin they're still not allowed
to bring their wife on to stay on overnight that's how strict it is um so the idea that they're gonna
go out meet some woman in a bar and bring her back to the boat and have sex in a guest cabin it's
just unheard of oh yeah and the other and the next the next question is or the next point is that
that the crew are also drinking all of his alcohol and that again is not true
a lot of the yachts i've worked on have massive sellers wine cellars of you know alcohol storage
areas that's a bonded store those stores are secured and usually one person has the key uh
to that store and they're not allowed to go in and take things out so nobody's drinking the owners
alcohol one of the things that might happen is if some of the alcohol becomes um
what in the few occasions i could remember in over a decade on super yachts i remember once we were
in italy and some of the alcohol in the bonded store they couldn't account for it receipts wise
so the italian government or the italian authorities said that you have to get rid of
everything out of that store because um it's not um you can't keep it on board because you because
they couldn't account for like a couple of items they had to get rid of everything in the store
some of the bottles were already open some of them were new so what they did is they put it all
in the crew mess and they let the crew take from it and that was because it was going to get thrown
out right so we couldn't keep it so so they gave it to the crew now that was a decision made by the
captain for for the crew otherwise it was going to go in the bin so that is and that has happened to
me i've been on one yacht that that's happened to in over 11 years so yeah it's pretty rare
just so he pays full time for the staff yeah i was like what are you talking about like you have a
full-time different level i better go couldn't you just rent a yacht like when you wanted to like you
have money and then take care of that thing- isn't that a service it'd be smart right it seems
like a better way to go you don't have to think about it he has so much money he's like ah listen
i don't know dude so the next the next thing this day is that yeah you have to pay for this crew
he said wouldn't it be better to just rent a yacht well that is a that is a reasonable proposition
it it just depends on how much do you want to use it like i've worked on yachts where the owner
has only used the yacht for a couple of months a year now in those circumstances it would be
better theoretically and it would be better from a money standpoint for that person to just
charter a boat every summer because the the owner i was working for he only used it in
july and august so for two months a year the amount of money that he paid for that yacht
it doesn't really make a lot of sense now if you consider if he spends all his money on the yacht
and he and he's struggling to maintain it then he's only using it for two months a year
that makes perfect sense but if you're if you were if you're worth 10 billion and your yacht costs
300 or 300 million and the upkeep of that yacht is 30 million a year that's not a lot of money to
that person so it's a bit like having a car like i my 911 -I don't use it that much i use it maybe
a 1,000 miles a year which is not a lot and theoretically it doesn't make monetary sense
for me really to have that car but it doesn't cost me all of my money it costs me a small amount of
my money to maintain that car so i can use it when i want and it's a it's something that i love
so i keep it anyway now technically i could i suppose hire a car for those times i want to go on
a road trip or whatever but it's not my car it's different it's not the same thing so i can kind
of relate very loosely to what to what they're saying compared to owning the the vessel if you if
you have so much money that it's inconsequential then why not own one anyway guys i thought if
you've if you want to see the the episode of Joe Rogan - it's episode 1603 with Brendon Schwab
um it's very good i love what i love listening to joe rogan it's it's really good
if you've got any other recommendations for other people talking about yachts who don't apparently
know what they're talking about uh send them to me and um you know maybe we can do a video like this
on what they've been saying and we can correct the inaccuracies in the story anyway guys i'm
going to go and enjoy the day outside because it is beautiful so uh thanks for watching
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