Another Below Deck Podcast - Enema of the State | Love is Blind S8 E3

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

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They talk about putting a billion stars on the ceiling and the barely... Well she mentions she wanted to be an astronomer. Yeah. But her drug addict brother kept selling her telescope for drugs. You'd think that people would have had enough of a silly love song But I look around me and I see it isn't so Hi, hello, welcome to a brand spanking new episode of Bad TV. I'm Dylan. That is Pat.

Great to be here. We are here to break down Love is Blind episode three. What an episode it was or was it? If you want to hear us talk about the traders so twiters Go to patreon.com slash another podcast network What else a PS is there PMZ is there the whole lot is there iTunes raising reviews five stars kind words We love you guys very much. Let's get into it

Episode three. Yes, you hated it. No, I don't hate it. And I said this in episode two, six episodes with a duration time of seven hours and 45 minutes. Yeah. Seems like a lot of television to watch before we get to go to the resorts. Let's all be honest with ourselves. We enjoy the journey of these people meeting each other, falling in love, getting down on one knee, but we want to get to the resort by episode four. Yeah, not seven. If you think about this show, you know, the highlights, let's just run through the highlights real quick.

So far? No, no, no. Like a well, yeah, I've liked the lore of the show. Oh, great. It was a great moment. Tank mechanic choking wine hag out. Yeah. Literally. Oh, it was a great moment. Tank mechanic choking wine hag out. Literally.

Focca, for sure. Focca. I loved Focca. Focca. Yeah, Focca for sure. I think, yeah. She threw that ring in the pool. Yeah.

Focca. There was that one time where that guy was eating all that steak and getting really mad, and he was white knuckling his utensils while he was chewing through the raw flesh. Lots of really good stuff. Do you know where the... Alright, there's a box in there. Pick up the box. Yeah.

And then Gia Malady falling down a gully while it was raining. Really, the Jigsaw Killer puzzle that Damien had for Giana Malady was the only like great moment we've had from the pods. The pods are not like it's in a moose bouche. I know that it's part of the process but it's like let's get the fuck out of these things. Yeah. Because invariably what's gonna happen is we're going to have to film them talking about whether they think that universal health care can work. Once again, you should have those conversations. You're gonna get engaged. You need to make sure you're on the same page

with these things. Don't show them to us. But we don't need to see it. Don't you dare show those to us. When we're having conversations about your thigh feeling tingly because you've been sitting on it too long, it's time to whack these things down 45 minutes. Because is this what we are seeing?

And if this is what we're seeing, sorry, what landed on the editing room floor? Yeah, I bet a bunch of great stuff. Let me at this edit, man. With that being said, four pots. This is an episode that is filled with more conversation and I'm getting a little fatigued. This is the eighth season. They've done the umami burger treatment with this one. Okay, they've added more homemade fucking ketchup shit to it. They've expanded to too many different locations they have a Diablo sauce now, which is way too hot for normal people and Now they have German versions and Brazilian versions and it's just all it's all over the planet

Let's just cool it a little bit. You don't make it better. I miss Love is mine so much. I actually watched the United Kingdom version. It's pretty good season. Was it? Mm-hmm. Have you watched any Traders? You've had no time. I haven't. You've had to. No, I had to watch seven and a half hours of this garbage last week. You've had no time. I'm just happy you got an aura in. I got an aura in. Didn't stick the landing like most films. How about that young girl Mikey Madsen? Pretty. How about that young girl, Mikey Madsen, huh? Pretty talented, huh? Is that the girl that played the stripper? Yeah.

Yeah, she's awesome. Yeah. The script sucked. I gotta tell you, that director creeps me out. What else did he make? Just a bunch of movie about sex workers. That's really weird. That's like his muse is like the sex worker.

Yeah, he's gotta learn how to tell a story because there's a beginning, there's a middle, and there is no end. All right, we have to keep... Prove me wrong. Like... I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying we have a lot to get to, and I distract us too often, so we gotta get to love. The reveal.

We kick things off with these two freaking dorks Joey and Monica. This is the dorkiest most adorable little meeting between these two. Oh my freaking God. Okay. These two were the only couple in the teaser trailer, which is online. This isn't a spoiler that are at the altar for the teaser Oh, really? Yeah, so I'm curious how many of these couples actually make it to the altar This is what I'm saying. Like they they said how many couples come out of the pods. Can you just tell me that? Right now we don't know because there's some confusion over Something that I discussed in the past episode, but at, at a minimum four, I would like, or is not enough.

I would like to think, yeah, cause they fall off. Oh my gosh. Some don't make it out of the resort. It's like the front line. You're screaming towards the British and your buddies are just falling. That's right. Yeah It's like a buzz saw so at least four I would like I want I don't understand the producers of this show They've been doing it so long guys Have six couples and I understand like whenever they they'll say like oh we filmed this other couple

But we didn't put them on the show. I'm like And they also claim like budgetary things. Guys, you already paid for all these idiots talking endlessly for days in the pods. Then, what, it was an extra hotel room? The fuck are you talking about? Can I tell you something? Yes. Sorry about the ice. I'm very... I need to stop doing this Mmm, right? I mean it's crazy My wife wife loves eating ice chomping down on it

What the producers did right in the first season is they tortured them? Physically and mentally they tortured them now I guess a lot of people in the cast had issues with that Mmm and came out later to say that we were physically and mentally tortured. Not paid well. Not paid well. And I don't want people to ever be treated poorly en masse. You know that's the kind of thing that can lead to grisly stuff. Mm-hmm. But for our entertainment I really wish those those people wouldn't have ratted because I think

the key to this is really tearing away at the mental faculties of these people. And then they'll start saying things like, fuck it. I fuck it. I know multiple people that were on the early years of reality TV. One girl in particular told me they just feed you red bulls all night and booze. And they say, we're filming at three in the morning. You'll do great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they won't. Because we're always at our best on three red bowls and a half a bottle of vodka. Okay, so they drink champagne out of a golden

opaque bottle and golden flutes. This is like, how trashy can you be where you take champagne take champagne and like think about think about the gold cup and bottle supervisor on this set you have to take someone on that cast or on that set had to take a bottle of champagne and pour it into that fucking mead bottle on amazon it's just i'm not in a good place with this show right now. Yeah, it's tough. I will give it to him though, do they pour that champagne and then, uh, we're the sultry, uh, singings of singings. That's not a word. Sorry. I was just going to give props. They got a budget for music. They have the song mad about You by Belinda Carlisle.

Play underneath them. That's cool. Yeah, yeah. She's the singer of the go-gos, you know. Mad about you. I was like, whoa. Like someone's feelings got hurt hearing us shit all over their music budget.

Yeah. The go-gos are freaking wicked. Oh my God. You and I went the same night to go see them perform and we both wanted to kill ourselves Yeah, biggest fight my wife and I have ever gotten into I Want to see we got the beat what is their fucking time we got the beat I want to see we got the bail was a CC. This is my wife and you want to get the hell out of there I said we don't need to see We Got the Beat. What is their fucking song? We Got the Beat? I want to see We Got the Beat. That was Cece. This is my wife.

And you want to get the hell out of there. I said we don't need to see We Got the Beat. And when I, I don't want to say that in passing. I want you to really think, we do not need to see the Go-Go's perform We Got the Beat. No one needs that. I got stuck in that traffic that night. All right. Daniel and Taylor are up after the lovely engagement between

Joey and Monica. They're the heart of this show. We need them. Because they're both crazy. Daniel and Taylor are up first though. Her voice is getting better. I think they have putt-putt paraphernalia. Not really sure how that would work. But then we get to a 29 year old girl saying that she didn't think that happiness was for her. The episode is one hour and eight minutes long. I think she's 29. She could be older. We're talking about Taylor. Regardless, it's a

ridiculous thing to say. Well, he said he thinks God put him on this show. God's busy burning down Los Angeles. But then she tells us at the ripe old age of 27, that maybe love and life isn't in the cards. And that's an insane thing to say. Perhaps not as insane as God put you on the show, but close. He tells her she's amazing and she'll find a person and not die alone. Don't worry about that. You be Daniel, I'll be God. Do you start it or does?

I have the craziest idea. Please tell me God. Okay, you know that show, you know. I love this boy. It's like, that's kind of how that went. Like when does God turn into freaking, when does God turn into freaking? When does God turn into freaking? Turn? What is her name? Who is the woman from? She looks like a horse. She's from Sex and the

City. What's her name? Sarah? Jessica Parker. Yeah, I shouldn't be able to recall that name is no no, it's fine. She's a talent. I apologize for my tongue did there. Let's get to Ben and Sarah back to the gays and Christians. Well, he wants to know what does he have an issue with her being gay, even if God believes she will burn in eternal hell. Yeah, he's a handsome kid. Mason. Yeah. Oh, no, no, Ben. Yeah, he's a good looking guy. I

can't tell him apart from Mason. He's the better looking Mason. Sorry. Okay, so um, she asks him about his like childhood memories. Yeah, yeah, he says he loved watching the prices right with Grammy. Yeah. And then he'd play a little uh, T-ball with his friends and then at the end of the day they'd watch a little family food and and then they'd have ice cream and then they off to baseball practice again yeah yeah she loved the Xbox is it weird she was really good at Halo which is really fucking awesome I love Sarah is it weird to watch game shows instead of cartoons when you're a 12 year old boy? No, I watched game shows with my Grammy. Yeah.

Not cartoons. All right. Lots of memories watching game shows in the morning. Are they in the morning anymore? Besides Price is right. Well, Family Feud is on 24 hours a day. That's true. I'm always.

He said what? Madison is up next. Oh well first one thing of note, in the women's quarters, Madison tells us she really likes Alex and because she told him about her drug outage degenerate family he's running for the hills and she's got to get him back she's a little too much candor in those spots you know so then she talks

to him in the pods yeah and to show him how much she cares about him. She places her berle in in the pod for him. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so they talk about putting a billion stars on the ceiling and the bar she mentions she wanted to be an astronomer. Yeah. But her drug brother kept selling her telescope for drugs. Can you please stop doing that? But he probably did do that.

No, she didn't say that. And she would have. I mean, God, what she's, you know, unfurled already. I don't think there would be any hesitation. He apologizes at some point for being concerned about her past drama. And I don't think he owes her that. No, I mean, listen, it's a it's a very vulnerable experience So yeah We get back in the pods with Madison

He tells a pretty crazy story. He was a bit of a loser. Is this Madison and Mason? Yeah, yeah, he's a bit of a loser and Got a horrible score on his SAT. D- that That's not a pass, by the way. No. A D plus is. As is evidenced in Tommy Callahan's excitement in the beginning of Tommy Boy. So he was a bit of a loser, but he somehow miraculously got into the University of San Diego, which

is kind of a difficult school to get into. Personal story, I've told this before. The first place I did mushrooms was at the University of San Diego, which is kind of a difficult school to get into. A personal story, I've told this before, the first place I did mushrooms was at the University of San Diego. Yeah, and I proceeded to do wind sprints on the football field. Wow. And turns out that campus police did not like that. And so for hours we didn't know because we were so zonked on the magic fungus. We had rent-a-cops on our beat. They were haunting us. We had no idea. I mean, that's how bad these people are. We were sitting crisscross applesauce, poking at spiders for what felt like hours, and they still couldn't catch us. Crazy.

Were you floating away? I don't know. So Meg is wondering what's going on with Mason. I don't, what the fuck did they even do? They, they get to the Emerald tablets of Toth. Well then she wants to know where his head is at. And then once again, he mentions her. Yeah.

And that is a movie with Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. The voice of Scarlett Johansson. It's directed by Spike Jonze, who's actually banging the girl from the Valley. Really? I thought that's what you said. Well, it was rumored, I don't know.

By the way, cheap little promo here. The Valley starts April 4th, and we'll be covering it. Oh yeah. Maybe behind a paywall. It's gonna be a lot of fun. So they talk about the emerald tablets of Toth. And he's found in Egyptian pyramids. That's crazy, man.

Yeah, Toth. And he says they're made of, this is what he says. And it kind of sounds like a Monty Python sketch but he says the emerald tablets of thought are made of a material that we have no idea what it is aliens obviously yeah if I was a betting man I would go with emerald but I don't know Lauren and David are up next we took kids She says we're 30 Her and her friends. They're all 30 and David says that's disgusting. You're getting old. You need to hurry up

Then they quickly swiveled a dick pics. I believe well they first they discuss The two most hated chores around the house, laundry and dishes. What's your preferred? Neither. No, but which one would you rather do? I can afford a housekeeper. Well, good for you, but are you serious you don't do the laundry? No. Are you are you serious you don't do the laundry? No

Wow mr. Big stuff. Mm-hmm. Who do you think you are? Mr. Big stuff? Well, I hate doing both but I much prefer doing the dishes over laundry laundry is just Can you imagine sitting there you swap it out? You know, you move it into the dryer. You're gonna pull it out, you gotta fold everything. I mean, it's a whole, it could be a whole day. Sounds like a real pain in the ass. Okay. I will say this. This is one of those conversations that I felt could have been left on the editing room floor.

All right, so David is torn between Lauren and Molly, Molly, Molly. They talk politics. The episode and religion, the episode before this episode. Molly and David were talking about how dumb they are. OK, they were laughing with each other we're talking about how dumb they are. Okay? They were laughing with each other about how fucking dumb they are. So definitely off the heels of that,

don't serve up a conversation on politics and religion. Gotta stop doing this. And this is why we have to bring in Poppy with her sunken face and alcoholism. She's too despondent and discouraged to talk about politics. Okay, Dylan, this is going to play in two future episodes. I understand why this is left in because he's hiding something here. I think he's got a mega bumper sticker on his truck. You think so?

There's something in blue line. I do not judge people. We have listeners for both and whatever you believe. Yeah, don't I I agree with that. Yeah. Unless it's something I disagree with. You know, buddy of mine kicked a somebody was working on his water heater, saw a Trump sticker, kicked him out.

I was like, what are you doing kicking him out? Do you see? You got no, you got no hot water. Who gives a fuck? He's a man of principle. Wow. That's surely in demand these days. No, it is it really is we're living in an era devoid of

Principle we exist in the shadows. I saw a man Ravaging through the trash cans for aluminum cans as I was Arriving here and I thought about the wealth disparity in this country. It's absolutely disgusting But you know what we don't need to talk about it and these two dumbasses definitely need to talk about it okay they don't this was the only one this conversation because there were multiple pod conversations where they would touch on this stuff this one I think is gonna be juicy I really do I think we might have an ad read oh by the way oh yeah yeah that's a great point have an ad read. Listen, it's getting late and I am gonna get home and I have not eaten in a while

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and use code factor podcast to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping. That's code factor podcast at factormeals.com slash factor podcast to get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box. Thank you factor for sponsoring the show. Let's keep moving. Women's quarters boredom is setting in because they build a fort and Molly shares about the bond with Lauren. I'm sorry,

about the bond in Lauren gets upset. Yes, she does. Lauren is very, very protective or possessive over David. I'm sorry about the bond in Lauren gets upset. Yes, she does. Uh, Lauren is very, very protective or possessive over David. I have to say that she just likes him. The guys were not trading secrets, uh, or back channeling in the men's quarters. It only happened on the women's side, which, uh, you'll see in future episodes. Sorry, little tease. And spoilers will affect the game cause it is a game. Oh, that's one thing. Um, observation I made this time. There is truly a strategy to this.

One strategy is you can, are you saying that women are gossipy? Yeah. This game has a strategy and I never caught it before because once I connect, if I'm here to be on TV, because clearly I would be, because yeah, the way that you lock in a person is I would think is after you have a couple of good conversations, you go, you know what? Screw it. I'm ready to get down on one day. Let's go get a free vacation, right?

But in this game play, if you tell someone that they're the only one that you're focused on now, that hurts you. That will factor in because people see that as like, oh, OK, so you only, now I can play. Right, right, right. You're freeing yourself up. Yes.

You're freeing other people up, right? So if you're going to say that and free other people up, you've got to mean it. That's right. This is squid games. Kind of. You've got to have decor. All right, so we get to Virginia and Devon.

Virginia sees herself at Park Center with walk and tacos. What is a walk and taco? I don't know. But that's our five year plan. Okay, he tells that they need to go deeper before he can get on one knee. Yeah. And he tells us she's hiding some. Yeah, well, he also asks. Virginia says that she doesn't feel like anybody. You know what? We don't need. No, we can move on. We don't need to talk about that. He also has a connection

with Brittany. But again, he doesn't know what she looks like. So he's not going to pick her. Right. He knows what Brittany did say that she played basketball, I think professionally, or something like that. Maybe Maybe where maybe I'm leaning to a, maybe he might not know what Virginia looks like, but him and Brittany play the would you rather game. Would you rather get locked out of the house or have a tattoo of a whoopee Goldberg on your ass?

I, you know what, I would welcome a tattoo of whoopee Goldberg on my ass. So would you. You already got rockin'. Did you ever watch that MTV show before MTV just had 24 hours of what's that television show with that skateboarder? That is what is that called? Oh, round deer dicks. Yeah yeah yeah, yeah. It's, uh, go ahead. But before they decided to give a 24 hour cycle of him watching people getting their balls smushed after being on skateboards.

Is that show called? It's been on for like 15 years. It's pretty crazy. Yeah. They had a show on where someone you were, had a beef with in your neighborhood, you'd show up and they got to decide what tattoo would go on your body. Did you ever see that insane premise?

Uh, beat up bully beat down? No, no, no. What are you talking about? This is like 2010 and someone that dislikes you gets to pick what tattoo you have. And they literally like have like a dick on someone's ass or something. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. I couldn't believe they did it. Yeah, MTV had some wild programming back in the day. They had some really wild programming.

In our comments, if you're familiar with that show, leave the name of that. And let us know what the Rob Dyrdek show is. I have the faintest idea what that thing is. I want to say Insomnia or something, but that's not it. I'd look it up. All right, no. So Madison and Alex, they decide that they're

going to be each other's only. And that's because they love each other, and they're both lactose intolerant. And he is over kind of, he's overcoming the fact that she wrote her parents a letter, and they chose drugs over her. She asks him what he would say to aliens when they come down to Earth, and he says that

he would tell them that he loves them and that he would welcome them to Earth. This conversation definitely stuck out in my mind. Yeah. Uh, mainly because it started with more dumb questions that we don't, I think she asked, uh, would you eat my pizza crust? And are you a pickle guy? And I was asking myself, can we please get to the fucking resort? Um, and then, uh, she shares when she when she stressed when she was 17, she learned how to be a robot and shut down with her feelings like not be in the room.

Can you imagine? It is so insulting. You know, it's like you go to a buffet, right? And they serve you I don't know, Luke won't grab. And you go, why buffet right and they serve you I don't know Luke won't grab And you go why did you think it was okay to serve me this you know it's really insulting and Disgusting the fact that they are putting on television Two people in their late 20s asking each other about milk and pickles It's so crazy to me that they think that that's, we're consenting to that, you know?

Yeah, this is gonna live on forever. It's so wrong. You know what else is gonna live on forever? Her talking about that nutty family of hers. I got some advice for Madison. I guess it's too late to give it to her. Yeah, I would say. Stop talking about your family.

It's not helping you. It scares people off. Well, I mean, Christmas is weird when you're, you know. No, listen, it's her truth, right? So she's got to speak it. I guess so. But it's a lot. It's too much.

Yeah, I mean, listen, you listen, we're in a place now where we're really open to people sharing their, like I said, their truth. Their truth. I always love the truth. But this is a really, really heavy thing for somebody to share. And it should be shared with people

who you've developed trust with. But there's also this side where maybe it helps a lot of people. Maybe people feel seen when they hear. Yeah it's called a therapist's office. Well she could be helping a lot of people. Oh okay. But for her it's ruinous. But you know maybe it's helping people. I don't like me. I don't like her. Okay. What don't you like about her?

Something's up. Something's up. Okay. We get to Meg and Mason. Mason. It's a bugger pot. Yeah, there is. There's a bugger pot. Yeah, there is.

There's a bug in there. You're turning into Indica Patty right now. There's a bug in that, but it's like I walked into a fucking saloon. Who the fuck is that guy? He's been here for 50 years. Okay, so um, yes, there's a bug in there, but they get to whether or not they would have sex at the getaway. Oh, yeah. Yeah. She tells him she hasn't had sex in a while, but she wants them to be truly before bonded before. You know, a couple conversations earlier, she said a perfect date is eating Chinese

food and banging on the floor. Yeah. Well, I mean, that is her perfect date, but that's with somebody that she really trusts. Now, I think it's beautiful that she says this. She looks at sex as though it's a very vulnerable intimate thing. Puts a lot of value on it. Now he just eliminated her after that. Yeah. You know, cause he's a pig. He's cooking up her favoritism on this show. Okay. Um, well, wait, is this, is this Mason? Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is Mason. Yes. So the favoritism.

So she asked his fantasy and he likes role play. And this is where we talked about earlier. And then she harkens back to, to an image of a famous record. Blink 182. Oh, yeah, it was a nurse on the cover, cause she's a nurse, you know? Enema of the state. That's right. Yeah.

And I don't know if she knew this, but that nurse on the cover was a porn star named Jenna, I'll mess up her last name. There was a doc on her lately. All her children have been taken away from her and she lives in a van. But anyway, she's smitten with Mason and you want to see a sad doc. It's called after porn three, I don't want to there were three of them. I don't want to watch that.

They were all by the nurses trailer. She's just like, what's my age again? Pretty sad stuff. Like when 82 joke. There can be witches that live in trailers, right there they don't just live in the woods. Oh yeah they live in trailers. Yeah. What if it rains?

Good point. So we get to Madison and Mason and we kind of end things here. He really cares about our feelings and Mason says that he's never broken up with anybody before. Patrick, men lie about this. Yes. You know, what would bother me here is, and I've made fun of a lot of female reality TV cast members,

his vocal fry is hurting my ears at this point. I don't know what they're putting these people through, how many conversations they have to have, maybe less booze. I don't know what they're putting these people through, how many conversations they have to have, maybe less booze, I don't know. Yeah. Drive me crazy. But she admits to a another strong connection. And he pretends not to give a shit. Yeah. They begin, they talk about breaking up for what feels like an hour and a half, and then they don't break up with each other. So that's the end of the episode. I think we did a bang up job.

I think we nailed it. Yeah. Oh, sorry though, we need to discuss this though. This is when Meg in Virginia chat at the tail end of the episode and this is where she gives her the information or she refers to the Hunger Games in reference to winning Mason over. Yeah yeah. Yeah that's why this episode was called Hunger Games of Love. Wow. Which is a little bit like who are some hair metal people? Oh boy I don't want to be basic Brett Michael, Cece DeVille, Bobby Dahl. We're talking hair metal? Yeah. Joe Satriani, okay, so any alchemy knee

Let's take a Vinnie alchemy the album right there's song guitar player. Yeah, yeah kiss They would name shit like this hunger games of love Who is your favorite amongst those Vinnie? Altra meanie, no as far as like hair metal beds. I like white snake Let us know if you what like white snake let us know Warrant was pretty good. Let us know if you like war me down Jamie down. Yeah, that Banner man as a singer get in the comments. Let us know what you think about the episode We'll see you on the flip side with more bad TV. We love you guys very much. I'm Dylan saying goodbye. Pat say goodbye. Later dudes! But I look around me and I see it isn't so

Some people wanna build a world with silly love songs And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know