Another Below Deck Podcast - The Pods Are Open | Love is Blind S10 E1

Episode Date: February 14, 2026

Dylan, Ruby and Pat are back to break down Ohio, love, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Notebook, Christmas, sex and more from Netflix's Love is Blind.PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/anotherpodcastnetwork  YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@badtvpod  INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/badtvpodcast/?hl=en

Yeah. Hey, Amber, if I want to cry, I'll watch Marley and me, okay? Keep the depressing shit till date three or after third base. You know what I mean? Anyway. Pat's got Jordan Belford energy right now. He really does. Hi, hello and welcome.

To Bad TV. I'm Dylan. That is Pat. Great to be here. Ruby is joining us from across this great nation of ours. We fly over Ohio. to get to where Ruby is, the big apple, papaya dog girl. How are you?

I'm doing very well, Joe. How are you? How are you, Pat? I'm doing wonderful. Who would have known Ohio would have this many fun people? We're back doing Love is Blind. You know, a lot of people were pissed that we skipped that one season. Yeah.

They tried to convince us that it was great, and it wasn't. You know what? Can I say, first I want to say, oh, oh, H. I.O. I.O. right. Now, we both, and I did some digging on, because I feel it in my bones that Ohio is one of the most boring places, not only in the country, but in the world. Now, I didn't want to come to this podcast without doing some research. So I went on the internet and I did some deep dives into what makes Ohio tick. But the only person that has any real lived experience in Ohio is, one papaya duck girl who went to Paul Ryan's Miami of Ohio. Okay. Whoa. Now, Ruby, give us a couple of, give us a limerick on Ohio or a couple words on Ohio. Okay. I think that

it makes sense that people have, people from Columbus think that it is better than Paris and New York combined. Yeah, yeah. People. from Cleveland believe that Cleveland sports teams will be better than Tom Brady's Patriots one day and in their bones. People are very proud of Cleveland. Weirdly so. But I will say the fervor for Columbus, I found strange. I found unjustifiable. I've been there multiple times. The state is fine. The school was great. The people are nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's probably what I was feeling on the show. Were you feeling that?

Not that Alex character. Oh, God. By the way, at the time this is probably being released and you're listening to it, there has to be at least a half a dozen girlfriends chiming in on the internet saying what a doucheback he is. Or he's been indicted for something. I mean, that guy gives me the willies. I can't remember what our rating system for this television program is. Blindfolds.

It's blindfold. It's blindfolds. Thank you, Ruby. It's blindfolds. Patty, the first, let's do the first run of episodes. How are you feeling generally about this six episode dump? Yeah. Okay.

So, by the way, I think we should let the listeners know in this episode. We're going to recap episode one and two. And we're going to, because you guys maybe didn't move past one and two yet. So we're going to try and to refrain from referring to episodes three, four, five, and six as much as possible. Yeah. But if we do talk about it a little bit, that's on you. It's not, it's not, it's not a fucking Christopher Nolan movie. Fair enough.

Okay. Okay. I am going to say this. I watch this in one sitting, all seven and a half hours of it. And I do advise anybody who has to watch this show like that. If you, if you have to take notes on it, don't drink alcohol. I didn't. I've refrained from that, which I have to say, what is that?

like 30% of our audience have to take notes while they watch this. Yeah. Yeah. Don't do that. But if you don't have to take notes, definitely drink alcohol. I would say it's probably way more enjoyable. I would say take everything. Exactly.

Yeah, yeah. And also, feel free to fast forward. Oh, my God. Yeah. I got to tell you, I really wish they got to the resort faster. But the producers are listening to old Patty because somehow they eeked out seven couples out of there. It's, you know, I know these, sorry, I know these are your blindfolds. But you said a couple of things that, um, just excited to you that you want to comment on.

I'm just firing. Go ahead. Right. Um, this show reminds me a lot of the McRib. When it first came out, people were floored by it. had ever seen a rack of ribs with no bones. It came around during the holidays, this being the holiday of love. And we were enamored and excited. And then it turns into the McRib is an afterthought, a confusing meat experiment that no one really cares for any longer. This show is extraordinarily

boring. So when you say like you should fast forward through stuff, it's got a pretty big problem in that there's they can't get rid of the pods but they need to not do so much of the pods and really the entire show they should just stop but the pods it's like fucking seven hours we've said this before they heard it because they refuse to trim it down the first season go back and watch it guys there were 17 minutes they are there are 32 minute episodes there are 32 minute episodes because they cut the fat off. Get to Mexico by episode four for Christ's sake. Fuck.

Jesus. The other thing that you mentioned is that we've got seven couples. Yeah. Okay. This is, I'm really pissed about this one. We've had seasons where we've had. You can fuck the right the fuck off. We've had seasons where we've had two couples.

And somehow this shows, this show constantly manages to learn lessons to such a degree that it's like trying to teach a child the lesson and they overcompensate just to show you that they're pissed off at you, you know, that kind of thing. Four couples, five couples, that's manageable. We're at seven couples. It's just crazy. Now, I, all right, I'm going to say this and I'm going to end my blindfolds. Sorry. Yeah. Production. They tried and tried to make sure that I believe Tyler and Kevin got out of these pods and made it to that resort. Now, thankfully for all three parties, and by that I mean Kia, Kevin and Tyler, all for their

sakes and their safety, at least for Kevin's safety. They all did not end up there. Kevin's my favorite character. What color is that, tie? I believe the color is self-evident. What's you going to do, Kevin? What's you going to do, Kevin? Okay.

Well, all right. So anyway, yeah, you're sure. Anyway, but the producers, as much as they tried, they were unable to get Tyler and Kevin off to that resort. Had they done that, that would have been quite the achievement for the audience. Again, I would have feared for his safety the entire time. Okay. But all in all, absolutely boring, over bloated, and a complete waste of my time. But the audience enjoys it and we're going to make a lot of hay out of it by shitting all over it. I'm going to give it. I'm going to give it. 60 blindfolds. Okay, Ruby blindfolds. Okay. I think that these people need to be, the show generally needs to have some spice added to it.

That is what I will say. These people are too earnest. This was fun. I think we see some screws coming loose in later episodes. Oh my God. Oh, my God. These first two, these first two, no. These first two should have been 19 minutes total.

And then we should have been in Mexico. Here's another thing. When the barbecue people get here, we want people to be, there is only, and I'm not spoiling anything, there's only one person who seems to give a shit about anyone else in this experiment. We need everyone to be damaged enough to care that the people that they almost didn't get engaged to are engaged to other people. And we didn't, I fear that there's a little bit too much Midwestern goodness.

here. I hope there isn't. And I am remaining optimistic. Also, thank you for minimal amounts of Puffy and Tipsy. Yeah. Yeah. 69 and not in a sexual way blindfolds. It's funny that you say some of the screws are coming loose and it's funny that you're optimistic and I am as well, despite the first six episodes being just unfathomably bored. I am so hopeful for this season because maybe it's recency bias, maybe it's the time away, but I truly feel as though this cast of characters are some of the most damaged people we've ever seen on this show. We have some pod rat sad scale shit on this television show that is just, I want to just transport back to whatever playground this stuff happened on.

and just give them a hug. We've got Emma with the birthmark. We've got dads giving kids drugs to hide from the cops. We've got legs amputated. A custom trope of love is blind. Oh, and then we have crazy Amber. Amber perpetually looks like, what do they call that, the walk of shame?

That's what she looks like. I love Amber. She looks like she's walking around just in her daily, Like just regular. You're 100% right. I know. I know. I really do love Amber though.

Me too. I mean, she's nuts. Okay. All right. She looks like you would be sleeping and you'd have to fear like with one eye waking up and she's standing over you with an axe. Um,

I guess I'll just run through these Ohio states really quickly. Ohio has more Applebee's locations per capita than any other state in the country. Okay. Okay. they have the fifth highest percentage of chain two independent restaurants in the country. 38% of eighth graders are proficient rating. Oh, good. Which that sounds bad.

That's actually 5% higher than the national average. That's what I was saying. Way to go. So that's actually really good. And then the biggest attraction in the entire state, the reason why people go to Ohio is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Yeah. Wow.

What are you at the time? I mean, a lot of people had issues with it being located there. Yeah, given it not really being the birthplace of anything, but a lot of farting. Right, right, right.

It is the birthplace of LeBron James as well as spaghetti with chili. Now, before we get into the episode, should we do the game? I think maybe we should do it at Patreon. Oh, gosh, I don't know,

because I think we should get into it because we got a lot of recording to do it. know. Want to just just play one round? Let's sprinkle them in throughout the episode. Okay, let's sprinkle them in throughout the episode. I love that. Okay. This would be a good way to break up. So I'm saying the episode. That's a good idea. So just to remind the audience, if you haven't played before, Dylan is going to play a song off his phone. And you need to see or let us know if you think this is actually music chosen by the music supervisors of Love is Blind. Was this played in an episode of Love is Blind or did Dylan just randomly choose this? Yeah, the game is,

isn't Love is Blind music or isn't not Love is Blind music? Now, this is going to be a tough season because the music budget is actually getting pretty incredible. And I also think that AI is doing it because nothing is too on the nose for AI. There was a scene where some dude goes, you're just beautiful. And wouldn't you know it? Beautiful Day by YouTube played four and a half seconds later. Right, right, right. Well, let's listen to our first offering.

And you tell me if this is love is blind music or if it's not love is blind music. Okay. I know asleep as friends with death, but maybe I should get some rest because I've been out here working. Okay. This would be music played after a couple just had a great conversation through the wall. And, you know, they're taking their notebook back with their name on it. And they're just heading back to the quarters there.

Yeah. That being said, I don't think this is love is blind music. You don't. I don't because I just don't in my gut. Ruby, what say you? Okay, first of all, love a little Mark Amber. And no, I don't think that this is love is blind music. Wow.

You guys are both fucking wrong. This is love is blind music. Wow. Wow. It's getting tougher over the years because they really didn't have a budget in the first couple of years. I liked it when they didn't have a budget. Yeah, it was definitely a tougher game. Play along at home.

Tell us what you got in the game. Tell us your score, at your batting average. Let's get into the first episode of season 10 of Love is Blind. Let me kick us off here, Dale, because tipsy and boy bands show up. And they always ask this question. They have all the people together. And they say, why are you here?

Yeah. And we get lied to with answers like this. I'm here to find. my best friend. Well, yeah, my favorite are the platitudes at the beginning of this game. And my favorite one of this season was, um, this is me showing up for my life. Oh, yeah. I believe that was Tyler. This is me showing up for my life. Yeah. Well, uh, yeah. And Tyler is 30 and she's here to find a man and, uh, not be single like Jesus. And, uh, just to let her know, uh, Jesus didn't die alone because that's how she said Jesus died.

He was pretty much alone. Well, also. Well, he was surrounded by those other guys that were up there with. Well, no, I'm saying he didn't just die alone. He was a poor dude who was stapled to a couple two by fours with metal stakes. Jesus fucking Christ. Literally. Yeah.

Also, the truth sneaks out sometimes. Do you have any thoughts on the crucifixion before we move on? No, poor guy. Yeah. Also, when tipsy and boy been asked this question, occasionally the truth sneaks in. I believe it was Elisa said that guys think she looks like a whore. So they usually just want to have sex for her. So that's why she's here.

Because we're about to be behind a pay wall. We are wanting to pay well. No, we're not. The first episode is free. Jesus Christ. Well, her words, not mine. Okay. But they weren't her words, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dylan, before we open the pods, is love truly blind? It is not. That's right. Correct answer. We are a shallow species.

Ruby is love blind? Absolutely not. Yeah. To blind people love is blind. But not anybody else. Well, they can still feel your face. Yeah. There's that, what is that show?

One of my favorite family guy bits was that show where the guy, it was in the 80s, he had that really jacked up face. He looked like carrot top. Mask. Mask. Yeah. I think it's, well,

it was played by Eric Stoltz. His mom was played by Cher. Yeah, it's this blind girl. She's having a picnic with him and he's like, I love you. And then she starts to feel his face and she's like, oh my God.

Oh my God. What happened to you? Family guy did that. All those guys. Yeah. Okay. So I don't know who's first in your notes, but my first is the Optimized.

Okay. So the first is actually Amber, crazy pants, and Jordan, who actually end up together. which is kind of fun. Spoiler alert. No, it's in the first two episodes. Okay. So now we've... Is it? I believe so.

Okay. Now we've seen this archetype before. He's lovable, good day, and he's an ogre. And that's why everyone loves him until we find out he's a cheating asshole. And he tells girls he wants to come on her hair. Do you remember that guy? Yes. So first let's throw to Ruby because I think me and Ruby,

being can feel the same way about Amber and Jordan. And my favorite couple, by a mile. Mile, four miles. You see that trail? I, when, yeah, okay, well, there were two moments that made me just, just jump for joy. Yeah. I don't know anybody's name. Amber is just hilarious.

She's weird and I think she's great. When the other couple both admitted getting busted for weed. Yeah. My heart skipped 4,000 beats. I thought it was incredible, and I just loved that for them. You know what I mean? Those moments were highlights for me. But this couple, Jordan is an ogre.

Amber is a weirdo, and I do believe they will be like Shrek and Fiona and live happily ever after together. I hope. Well, I do have one problem. Well, he's a husky man. Later, she's like shaving his back. And he also wears Baines mask to sleep. Yeah, he has a bit of an hour.

I think she admitted that she had sex with him while he was wearing it. Gross. Also, my issue with her. her she's an oversharer right out of the gate like first date she admits that or she shares that uh at christmas time one year she couldn't um couldn't afford christmas presents for her daughter yeah hey amber if uh if i want to cry i'll watch marley and me okay keep the depressing shit till date three or after third base you know what i mean anyway pat's got jordan belford energy right now he really does and i just want to clarify marley and me

isn't a cry movie. Marley and me is a sob movie. You go to bed after. You know what I mean? Don't, don't watch. Be careful. Marley and me is the emotional equivalent of like a howl and raise chicken sandwich and french fries. There's there's nothing that can be done after the consumption. It's sleep or bust. Now I want to say this. I also had complained before that this show is about people that are unemployable that lie to each other through a wall for two weeks. It's only lies. It's only lies. But the lying is still there. But these people have real jobs.

There are several doctors here. There are professors of universities. There are several nurses here. I'm not saying that that's not a real job. Jess is a doctor. She's a doctor, but all she described was she watches people die all day, and I don't even know what field that is.

And then Krista was in Black Hawk Down or something. He's one of those guys that lived, I guess. Uh-huh. Anyway. Mogadishu is supposed to be just beautiful this time of year. I, Jess is, can we get to the optimizer,

please, Chris? Which one was, oh, yeah, Chris, yeah, yeah, okay. Chris is,

Chris is one of these men that have cropped up as a result of a certain ecosystem within podcasting. The, the wellness, the optimization, the David Gockins, the Andrew Huberman, the Joe Rogan, the goblet squats and all of that. Cold plunges. The cold plunges, the red light.

And here is a man who is deeply pained because no one on this show isn't. And there are much more unhealthy coping mechanisms from to alleviate the cycle. torment that you endure every day of your life than cold plunging and stuff. But I, my favorite thing is that just, I don't, this is kind of a, he gets, he gets together with, how do we do this? Because you don't want to tell your microphone, told you fake.

How do we do? How do we do this? Should we just say screw it and be able to talk about future episodes? Try to not allude to what happens in them. I think it's fair to say, if you're listening now, we might spoil the first six. I'm just going to put spoiler in the, whatever. Okay, fair enough. Anyways, it's very annoying to watch him thrust his lifestyle upon these women,

saying if you need help being physically fit, I will help you. I will challenge you. I will challenge you. Ruby, what would happen if your husband tried to challenge you? in the physical realm if you tried to get you up off the couch. I don't think they'd make it past the appetizers in the first date, Dylan.

It would be so fucking funny if that. So when what's her face poured eye glue and she had to break the pipe and drape into the production, as soon as there was the word cold clunge mentioned with like challenge in an actual like I would like to include.

I wouldn't take my notebook. I would rip my microphone. I would go outside and say, I don't know what the fuck this is, but no. Right, right. And we'll get to the eye glue. We also have some of the dumbest people we've had on this show. I don't know how you mistake nail glue for eyedrops. That's a disqualifier for me, by the way.

Ruby. Like, I'm afraid of you walking. No. So you guys are thinking, most of it is like brush on nail glue. There are, I know exactly what she's talking. about this, I, I almost broke the skin in Ryan's hand because I was squeezing it so hard when she came back on the screen and said what happened because that would be, it would be the worst. I would rather have my butthole sewn shut.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's not that bad. Okay. I've gotten glue in my eye before. Not no glue. Skin glue, yeah, skin glue. Okay. All right.

You want to get to Bree and Connor? Yeah. I mean, a match made in heaven. Sure. She says she's given a lot of mediocre losers a shot and they've disappointed her. So why not try an upgrade by coming on this show? They bond over the song Mr. Brightside by the killers. That's right.

Could be worse. They could have said they both love Bruno Mars. Losers. Well, Bruno Mars is. Unbelievably talented. Extremely talented. He is a factory, a assembly line. factory for pop songs.

And so and he would have to disagree with most of you. Yeah. He listens to hit songs from the 70s and 80s and goes, I'll take the chorus from that hit song and I'll take, oh, I like the keyboard part from that 80s hit song. And then he glues them all together. Limitation, the finest form of flatterer.

Yeah, but stealing is criminal. Couldn't, I don't know enough to disagree with you, Pat. So I'll say for sure, definitely. but also he is just unbelievably talented. I mean, he sounds like a dream every time he opens his mouth. Yeah, I don't know. You should go to one of his live shows. They should just sell Activia there.

The yogurt? Yeah. Okay. He attracts an older crowd. No, no, no. He attracts everyone. Right. Right.

Number one song of the year, I believe. But every year, number one song of the year. Probably. Yeah. Wait, speaking up, can I tell you guys something really, really nutso? I'm really sorry, 35 to 80 second diversion. Bad Bunny, Super Bowl halftime show. It just goes year by year descending order of the most popular, so it was Bad Bunny,

then Kendrick, whatever. Every year, it's like 20, 24, 23, 22. Want to know what? It's Bad Bunny. It's Kendrick from last year. And then number three by like one million less people. Can I guess? 19. Okay.

Sure. But you're talking about viewership? Yes. It's got to be that Creed one where the guy flew like a bald eagle down onto the field. Creed played the Super Bowl. Was that it? No. Oh, fuck.

Creed played the Super Bowl. I think they might have just done like the pre-show kind of the way that doesn't count. Green Day. What was third? Pat, give it a guess. it would have to be something in the last five years. No, she said 19 or she said there was a nine in there. There was a nine in there.

Yeah. Okay. So it's taking too long. Yeah, it is. I think so. It's Michael Jackson. Oh, yeah, for sure. It was 93.

And that man had as many people watching him as bad bunny, I believe, minus 500,000 or a million or something like that. Right. Well, I, hold on. Hold on. Ruby, Ruby, Ruby. They, okay. They didn't have the Super Bowl as a thing back in the day. They were still trying to convert people because prior to Michael doing that,

they would have like the marching band from like Sacramento State do the halftime show. So what you can see is what I encourage everyone to do is go to YouTube and watch it. It's a good 13 minutes. He plays the first two notes of thriller and then just looks at the audience. I think for four minutes. It doesn't seem to work. And then he has a bunch of children come up. Oh, wow.

Come on. I like him. And we sing, We Are the World. And I don't know the chronology of the bad stuff, but it was very, in terms of what we see now. Yeah. I mean, kind of underwhelming. And again, it made me think, wow.

Yeah. You know, it was crazy. He did a thriller. We Are the World. He went into Liberian Girl. You know, Liberian Girl. Yeah. I don't remember.

And then he did some more stuff. Oh, did you beat it? Yeah, he did beat it. Where did we're the children go? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyways. Yeah, Prince is obviously the number one best Super Bowl performance in my opinion. We need to stop.

Okay, let's go. All right. So, uh, la la la, Connor and Emma. Let's take a quick break for a little inclusion of, uh, is this love is blind music or is it not love is blind music. I think that this is going to be actually maybe pretty easy. Hmm I trust you Sounds like love is why music

But is it I am I want to say yes Because the lyrics are so spot on But Dylan knows how I go with this Because it's so on the nose With the lyrics I trust you Right

All right Dylan I can see I got a factor And Dylan knows how I think So I'm going to go against Dylan Figuring out how I think I'm going to go

this is not love is blind music. Rudy? I'll say yes. We'll split the baby, Pat. Okay. Oh, there it is again. Repetitiveness. It's for stupid people. It's also for love is blind. That is love is blind music. Jesus Christ. Yeah, you're 0 and 2.

Now, my goal is always for Pat to get none correct. I've gotten five. No, you've never gotten five. Yes, I have. No, you haven't. Good guess, Ruby, you're one for two. All right. Let's keep the show moving.

All right, we got Connor and Emma, and Connor starts handing out stars like he's a kindergarten teacher. He should be careful with that because the ladies do all chat at the women's quarters, okay? Yeah. Yeah. And then we... Stars and demerits. Then we learned he sells dumpsters for a living. Now, a hardworking guy.

And he gives Emma three stars for accepting him for a less than impressive line of work. Let's talk about Emma really quickly. This episode should have been called episode of Emma. Yeah. So Emma is, she has revolting displays of behavior throughout this entire episode pretty much. This one or later on when she. For the whole season pretty much. She omits a certain piece of information as she's letting Mikey know that she wants to be transparent with him later on.

Right. Now, so Emma is, she's quick to tears. Many of us are, right? And she's certifiably unhinged. But I completely understand. This is where I just want to go to the playground and I want to give her a hug because I can't imagine being adopted. You look different than your parents. You have this birthmark. She was probably ostracized to such a degree that it just turned her into a pit bull that cried. a lot, right? She is so bizarre about her parents. Well, she refers to him as being raised by white people. Right. But she was dropped off at a train.

She's just had a very, very sad life. By the way, how about those parents? Hey, I think you can make up the something a little less dramatic. Why don't you say that you kidnapped her from a rich family. Okay. You know what I mean? What the fuck. That's a really good idea.

Yeah, you were left at a train state. Ruby, thoughts on Emma? I think that Emma is very young and has a lot of healing to do. I can't imagine the weight that she carries much like you, but I also think that these young men are not equipped to have their throat slit because they asked about their first kiss. And it made me feel as though I wanted to not support her. But then I had to remind myself that her life, like you said,

has been probably much more difficult than any of us understand. Right. And that's, you know, she's very strong for enduring that. Yes. Also, though, too, the kid thing was kind of curious to me. And I'm an ignorant, dumb, dumb, stupid piece of shit idiot. Yeah, for sure. I believe there's, no, but actually, in this regard, there's kind of a lot of testing

you can do that, like, even if you don't know what your parents have. So it's kind of like, I think maybe not necessarily something that should prohibit you at all from having kids. That gets brought up. later by the guy that she ends up picking. Now, I want to get to Stephen. You're talking about buddy, the guy she gives buddy to?

You're talking about Mikey? Yeah, yeah. I want to get to Stephen because Stephen was a real highlight. Yep. So she says her dog is her best friend, and that's when the kids come up. And Stephen mentions, you know,

he's had this in his back pocket, you know. I think he senses that she's Asian, right? So he goes, his grandparents had a love, like no other. And then he gets into the background. They meant after the war. He's referring to World War II. He said he just returned from a mission bombing several villages in Japan. And he was suffering from PSD from all the carnage he created. Yeah, PTSD. Anyway, from, you know, killing all those people in the villages. Anyway, they fell in love.

Yeah, it was a beautiful story. He's filled with beautiful stories. I want to play a quick clip of Stephen talking. I want to play a quick Steve. What were you wearing when you lost in Virginia? I want to play a quick clip of Stephen trying to pull Emma out of herself. You're down. I can turn it upside down. Yeah.

So there's a moment wherein, and Ribs, you know what we're referring to all too well, correct? I wanted to remove my hair from my body one by one. Yes. Um, yes, a housemaid kind of punishment. Um, ribs, did you see it? Not yet. So fun. Oh, there's, there's a housemade type of behavior in here.

Uh, did you catch how, um, Mikey really wants to make sure, like there's cleanliness? Oh, yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Really clean guys like that. They bug me. They give me the hebie.

You do. Okay. But yeah. So Stephen senses that Emma is, she needs to be pulled out. And in order for them to progress, they need to get deep, right? Right. They need to access depth in conversation. Plumwood life means, get into philosophy.

What are your viewpoints on this world, this crazy. Let's do it. Let's get into it. Let's mix it up, man. Let's start. Yeah, I lost in college. Oh, I've, I've lost in college. Oh, I've.

So we should set this up and say that his, the way that he's going to pull this out of her is by asking her how she lost her virginity. And then he's going to divulge his. Okay. It's a really incredible moment. Oh, yeah, it was. The boy. Yeah, like, it was just like. So deep.

Are you comfortable with telling me about like how you lost your virginity? Yeah, I lost in college. Oh, I thought I was a late bloomer too. God, you're beating me. I don't, I don't like this. I don't like the comment of life. late bloomer. I think everyone is on their own journey and yeah no I just felt like I was behind like all my friends like yeah I I didn't date in high school I wasn't a huge

dater so in college um it wasn't romantic I I um started talking this guy we liked each other and we just we just did it did it was it like early in college like freshman year type thing I was just like, I got it is what it is. I like this guy. He likes me. Like, let's just. Now, it's a long clip because he's going to get into some insane stuff. But this effort to try to pain down.

Hey. And exact age. Yeah. How old were you? I guess like if you lost your virginity at 22, it's different than losing your virginity at 17. But like, it's not that important. I mean, it's he's so.

fucking anyways let's keep going what were you wearing like was it hot it is so like 19 20 mine's it like beautiful it's sort of like notebook ask i did this girl for like a year loved her i just remember we were watching like a love movie like a bunch of light was coming in we were like laying on this floor and and i just remember she's like hey like i just want to say like i love you and i really appreciate you like just like waiting for me and like not pressuring yeah yeah and she like gave me a kiss and she's like i think i'm ready to have sex Oh. And then we had sex, and it was beautiful.

It was like the notebook. I literally feel like I had the notebook, like, Virginia scene. And then, yeah, the morning after, we had sex everywhere. I actually have never seen the notebook. Come on. No, I actually haven't. You never saw, like, the abandoned house scene on the floor? No.

Like the creaky wood floor where they just lay her down. Nope. Rachel McAdams can't deny him. No, I actually didn't. Come on. You got to add the notebook. I can't believe you never added it before. Like no girls have talked about it in high school

I think every girlfriend I ever had Watch the notebook with me Yeah, never Just to set the expectation He's gonna regret that If he ever matures someday That's gonna that's gonna follow him And haunt him

I want to say this And I understand that we don't want to slip into the language of the Austin comedy scene But that is the gayest thing I've ever heard in my life Now I say that jokingly because he's having sex with women. But what is happening? Who, how?

He's watching the notebook with every person he's ever been with. Dylan, my God. He thinks that's going to make him sound sensitive, but he doesn't piece together that it makes him sound like a pig. It makes him sound like Buffalo Bill. Go ahead. Go ahead.

Yeah, this was bad. And then it only got worse. And then it was, you know, it reminded me kind of like when someone, when you ask, someone says a word and you're like, what does that mean? And they say it again. And you're like, nope, still not sure. And then they say like a version of it with an L. Y. And you're like, I just want to kill myself. And then I'll kill you. This was that times 4,000. Also, Emma, if you actually have seen it, proud of you for saying that in the moment because that was the only appropriate response. Right, right. We don't need to get into it. Marston, all of it. Let's get to Vic and Christine. Okay. Do we? Is that an episode two? We're not close to episode too yet.

We should burn through this one because there's a... Yeah. Okay. So, la la la la la la. Oh, okay. So Emma and Mike discuss kids. By the way, I have to say this. Emma really wants to get to that resort, clearly,

because... And Mike does too. because I would say someone saying definitively they do not want to have children. That's a deal breaker. I recently I had some friends that got divorced because the girl had said she had basically said she didn't want to have kids because the guy had said he didn't want to. And then eight years later she wants to have kids and they basically divorced. So it's stupid. Wait for Emma.

Well, we'll see. She's trying to get to the resort. She wants, yeah, yeah. I don't fault anyone for lying in the pods to be on. The show is a complete fucking racket. You might as well just get the screen time. Okay. Let's get the IG up.

We don't want to be a fucking barbecue person. We need to lie and go to paradise. Fair enough. Big Ed was on a podcast today. He said he was making $300,000 a month on Cameo. Well, that's a lie. But who's Big Ed? Big Ed was from 90 day fiancé that we could.

Oh, he might. Yeah, he might make that. All right. Kevin and Kia, they discuss movies. She does not like love in basketball. That was a great movie. I saw in the movie theater 20 years ago. And then Kevin and Tyler.

She says distance isn't a big deal. Now, these two women, they fight over this guy. Yeah. Like crazy for the next three episodes. Yeah. They do a lot of stuff in episode two. So I think we'll focus on that. get to Kevin in that left triangle.

Yeah, yeah. The episode seems to wind down. Alex and Ashley, they start, they don't waste too much time talking about how much they want to lay next to each other and give each other massages. Ashley returns back to the women's quarters and she tells her roommate she needs to splash a little water downstairs. You remember that one? You remember that right, Ruby?

Right. Yes, I do. Thank you. Dylan looked at me like he was disgusted. Oh, no, no. I just, did that happen? Yeah. She said she had to splash a little water down on her tongue holster.

And then I guess we get over to, by the way, I don't even want to talk about Vic and Christine. They weren't on the show. Can I, do they go to Mexico? No. They go to Malibu. They go to Malibu at Calamigos. I think there was a passport issue or maybe like a transportation or like, I don't know. You don't go to the resort.

I don't want to see you. well it's also they're they bond over their faith they're very they're very religious people and they find one another in that but here is where we get um a lot of um a lot of pod rats at scale um they both got busted for having weight uh they both have bad dads um vick's father figure actually snatched his mom's hair and beat the shit out of her and then christine's dad told her to hide pills when he was getting pulled over by the pigs. So they have a lot of shared pain, which is maybe one of the only things that can actually see people across the waters in this shell. Well, here's the good news deal. I can't wait to meet their loser parents. I don't, yeah, I don't know that we might, I hope we do.

Well, Vic said he had a tough childhood and a stepdad with some anger issues, to put it mildly. Right. Well, they're going to, they're just going to get out of here and get married episode one. But the episode ends with a vague ambulance call and a contestant evidently putting nail glue in their eye. Maybe the only reason I confidently said that she was a little lacking upstairs was because I asked my wife, I don't know about these vessels. When I think about eye drops, I think a very, very distinct vessel, be it a red eye or even a roto. You know that it's, you know that it's eye drops. You know, I don't know how this mistake can happen.

Now, one omission or oversight on your part, though, Dale, we do have our first, Vic is in love. Oh, the album. Yeah, we know this by a powerful 24-second montage of their journey in the pods. Yeah. So thank you for that. And just like that, cue the Cole play. Mm-hmm.

And Christine Louise Hamilton, will you marry me? Right. Right. Yeah. And then, you know, off to a resort and mess. Malibu. Yeah. Now they, I believe the next episode kicks off with their engagement.

No, a real nail biter, Dill, or glue nail. Biter. Elisa apparently mistakenly thought she was using eyedrops when it was nail glue. I just texted Dill in a photo. Okay. Okay. Of eyedrops next to nail glue. Okay.

Amazing. So I'm, I'm being too harsh when I'm saying. Oh my gosh. Wow. Okay. That's a very easy mistake. to make. So a crew member should have gotten fired for putting that. Or if she's just like a contact wearer, maybe she's a like doesn't have the best. Look at that. I don't fucking know. It's very scary though. Okay. It's that bottle is very similar to a lot of medicine and whatever. Yeah. That's a very, very easy mistake to make. Wow. That's horrifying. Is this love is blind music or is it not? Okay. Give it to us. Ruby, you go first this time. You could give me chills on a summer day

Shit I'm going to keep my heart raise I'm going to say yes I'm going to agree with Ruby You're going to say yes It's love is blind music You guys don't think this is on the nose I do

Is there ever too on the nose there is two on the nose because this is not love is blind music. Ruby, you jinx me. I'm kidding. It is love is blind music. Because still, yeah, Ruby's doing really good.

Okay. Because we're about to have a reveal with Vic. Yeah. And Christine, where they tell each other that they're beautiful. And wouldn't you know it two seconds later, I think AI is now the music supervisor. Because we hear Beautiful Day by you too.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Little on the nose, AI. We'll see them implode later, but they seem great right now. We get back to Emma who feels gaslit by the guys. And the women try to calm her down because they're worried that she's going to light the entire place on fire. I mean, Emma is not doing well psychologically.

And I don't know. I think like it's feeling TLC right now, the exploitation of Emma over these two episodes. This is a very, very, it almost was a little bit too much for me. I felt bad seeing Emma get like this fucked up by this process. Can I say this too? When Brittany and Devonte came on the screen later on, which I think we got a total of three interactions with them, where the fuck was Brittany?

We have almost like, I'd say 20 little vignettes of Emma talking between Mikey and whoever that I'm telling you, the show has a serious fucking problem on their hands. They have a very serious problem because they, they need to go back to the first season and just see everything that worked. We have, we, you need the love triangles, but you also can't just completely fast forward and have people at the resorts.

It's just really, it's, it's just boring. The pods are just boring. again the McRib was amazing when we first saw it but now nobody wants that well I've also said why are we getting well at least they're not doing an hour and a half episodes remember when they started doing an hour and a half pot episodes like that was crazy but they're not selling ad commercial time here so why not trim them down to 40 minutes it's stupid I think they need to next season

explicitly go and cast at least two people on the nose for every person. So I want every single person and they're promising one person they will propose and then breaking it an hour later. And I want everyone to spiral three in a row every time. So that's what they need to be more intentional or trim the fat and we need 17 minutes of pods. Yeah. And that fucking guy, I can't remember his name. He had a long neck and a lanky face, but he ruined it for everybody. you complain that the conditions were not hospitable enough. Oh, him. Oh, I can't stand it.

Now they've all got fucking in and out catered and fucking veal parm in the pods. It's like, what are we doing? Back to Emma real quick. Okay, so I do think she is being selfless by, well, she's terrified of having a kid because she's concerned that it could be her same diagnosis could happen with, you know, her offspring. And I also appreciate that while she is a little insecure about her arm in the way looks she does not hide it sleeveless every day all day yeah yeah she said fuck it beautiful yeah

yeah i just i hate to to be a person that makes any of this about looks but um she's a hot person with a birthmark it's not like she's an ugly ugly yucco girl and she has this this birthmark on her arm right she's she looks like a she looks like she's in rip curl like yeah she's right yeah she's right yeah she does look like she's yeah she's kind of a kind of kind of kind of a kind of of a baby demon, I think. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

She's fucked up. A tiny little baby demon. Yeah. Actually, we get to Jordan and Amber, I believe. Hmm. I just think they're a great love is blind couple. Oh, okay. Wait.

We can't, we can't hit everything, Pat. Oh, sorry, sorry. Yeah, this is a short episode, though. Okay. Mike said something stupid, and I thought he was going to be a barbecue person. But winner, okay. winner of the dumbest conversation of the night. It's when Jordan tells the group he's not sure if he's ready to marry Amber,

a woman with a kid. And this is when I think Connor steps in to tell him to not focus on the past, referring to the fucking kid, I presume. Yeah. And then focus on the future. And this is when Jordan concedes, and I quote, kids are pretty hysterical. And then he spent more time, I think, focusing on learning about kids.

it not being a deal breaker. Did you notice that Jordan basically works it out in his brain that he won't have to like talk to the kid that much because he's got a dad? All right. So you're you are you accuse you accuse us of being cynical quite often and I honestly like I think me and Ruby just love Jordan so much. I think that the framing of that was actually really beautiful. Go ahead, Ruby. Okay, so I think that Amber is a weirdo. She's a fucking weirdo with a hot bod, and I love that. And she's very, very, I think nice, actually. I think she wishes that he was less, that he had a different body, but that's okay. And he, I think, is just happy that her father is active in her life because he is not ready to be a stepfather to a girl that needs a father. Right. He is ready to step in and get to know someone who has a father in her life who already loves her very much. Yeah. And he does. doesn't need to. That's right. Maybe, maybe catch up wounds that from from not having daddy. Sure, sure. He says that it, it is less pressure and more privilege. And then he makes her cookies. And I just can't. I'm just a massive fan of these two. Okay. Let's break down the game film,

though, where they're at. Okay. So they both bond over having shitty credit. Yes. Okay. And boy, I bet they'd be a blast at their high school reunions. Okay. And then this prompts him to match her down energy by admitting he was called dumb in school. Yes. And then as of today, he has yet to find a direction. And he hasn't been using his time wisely. Yes. And she said that she was fake-assed out in school.

And she told the person to fuck off. I mean, these are real, these are real traumatic memories for people. And they bond over childhood pain. And this happened at my high school, wherein there was a young woman. I hope she's doing amazingly well now. her knee would constantly dislocate and she was a horse person and she was voted prom queen and it was a joke done by the popular kids and uh the administration had to step in and go guys we can't do this you're not going to award her prom queen and i you know it's a sticky

situation for the administration i would have just let it go right but anyways i'll share a trauma story um when i was in 11th grade um i cheated on a paper and then the girl who uh whose paper it was She couldn't go to prom. And then everybody wore her name, what her name was. I'll keep that anonymous. They wore free her name bracelets. And the administration, they did nothing, though. Yeah.

Yeah. That was a big thing. So anyways. Oh, Tyler and. This is where we get to the love trial. Oh, I love this. All right. So Tyler and Kevin next.

I think she asked him a line of question trying to feel out if he's homophobic or not. She wanted to know how he'd feel if his son was gay. She should have just asked him if he planned on voting. voting for Pete Buttigieg. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. He shares how he was suspended one day from school and it actually saved his mom's life. Uh-huh. She thanked him for sharing. I wouldn't. You made me uncomfortable. Don't bring that stuff up. Well, they speak on whether or not he can travel to a new place or meet halfway or if his

partner would have to come to him. And the reason why this is challenging is there's a bit of an anchor where he lives, that being his mother with one leg. It was amputated. And we, not even kidding, get probably one of those a season. It's almost like a love is blind ad lib or the top corner of a love is blind bingo card. Arms, legs, heads, bodies. It's all up for grabs.

It's a real head, shoulders, knees, and toes. But I also want to point out, he did say foot once and leg the other time. So I'm not sure. Yeah. Oh, wow. Well, get your story straight, Kevin. His first choice is Tyler, who he is speaking in the pods with and says, you know, I had a great date with another person. What are you going to do?

Well, she's going to stand up and she's going to fucking leave. And that's exactly what she does. She gets up and she quits the show. Now, I'm not sure when. Does that happen? Yeah. Yeah. She gets up.

She leaves. And production tells her, I'm not sure at which point in the show this transpires, but production's like, I don't think that you really understand the show that you've signed up for. It's, it's been 72 hours. He's dating other people. You can't just quit the show, Tyler. That's right. Because the love triangle, I believe she walked in.

He promised her that it was all going to work out. Then Kia goes in and the genius of Kia is rather than really put. pressure on the young man. Yeah. She kind of lays back and says, I understand, let's just talk a little bit more. Yeah.

Because I don't know if she knew how immature he was at the time. Right. But I think her laying back really kind of won him over. And then that's how it played into Tyler. Yeah. So then she has anger issues.

Let's just all be honest, right? Well, I mean, don't want to stay in age. I think she's all angry. Yeah, we're all. Can I do, um, you could do whatever you want.

Well, I was going to do a recap of, of the, uh, of the pod, uh, discussion. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. He shares that the, you know, the mom leg story too. And she says that's fucking, uh, that fucking sucks. And his mom's dope though. And her dad's dead and her mom's actually on dope. So her Grammy raised her.

And then she talks about a watch and the watch reminds her of our dad, who, if you remember, is dead. And then Kia returns. Tyler realizes it's Kia that she's in competition with, then goes into that room with Tyler. She wants to know what the fuck's going on, gets pissed, puts the hardcore press on him.

And then that's when a producer, very, that's what producers need to do, says you need to go back in there. Yeah, you got to go back in there. And they should crack the whip a lot more often. And I think that that will wrap up episode two for us.

But before we head out, is this love is blind music or is this not love is blind music. Go ahead. He can't do all four as love is blind music. Just like imagine being at a roulette table and like four in a row black. No way. Although, let's go red.

Odds, but odds would say why would it not be black? It's literally a coin toss. It's not love is blind music. You guys are saying no. Ruby? Correct. No.

Now let me ask you guys a question. If I've done three love is blind musics, why wouldn't I just make the entire, you guys know me? Why wouldn't I just? My answer is no. The answer is no. Yeah, I don't need you adding your.

Yeah, I got it. Well, let's not love his blind music. Pat, buy a lottery ticket. Oh, damn. I got to say, that pisses me off so much. me. All right. Get in the comments.

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