Circling Back - Love Island Boys: The Final Episodes (UK Season 10)

Episode Date: August 11, 2023

And just like that, our two months of residing in the villa are finally up. Messy Mitch finally flies directly into the sun, parents day, The Grafties (!!!), final dates, our winners, and so much more. We also play one final game of "Snog, Marry, Pie" before saying farewell until Season 11. Enjoy a free two-week trial on Patreon for additional weekly episodes: www.patreon.com/circlingbackpodcast Watch all of our full episodes on our new YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/circlingback  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/circling-back/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

tonight all right we're back circling back podcast love island boys final episode of season 10 love island uk my name's will defries it's my left the human daybed david ruff why human daybed or david what did you say i said the human daybed so dayved? What did you say? I said the human daybed. Okay. David Roth. Hey, if you're coupled up with somebody you're not really into or you're in a fight with your sigeth, you can come sleep on top of me. Yep.

Feel free. Yep. Hey, man, as I look back on this, another season of Love Island, a show I was pretty early on, I just can't help but feel gratitude in my heart. What a time. Don't cry because it's over, Dave.

Smile because it happened. You know what, man? That's a great perspective to have. Still got the reunion to look forward to. We got the terrorist snogger himself. Dylan Chivry. The terrorist snogger? Terrorist.

You did make Dude no You did make out With a terrorist I thought you said I probably would I don't know Hey man

Seems like just yesterday Was early days Now it's Like end of days You know It goes by so fast It doesn't go by fast Those 64 episodes

Like just Almost like it's It's here then it's gone Yeah I mean it doesn't Go by that fast That's the thing No no It's two months Of like it's here, then it's gone. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't go by that fast, though. That's the thing. No, no. It's two months of solid television.

Was this the most dramatic season yet? No, but it wasn't a bad season in my humble opinion. Some are saying it was the most dramatic one yet. Who's the hottest terrorist of all time? Ooh. You can't do the chick from Hijack. Dude. Y'all got to stop talking about it.

She's in the conversation. She's got to. I want her to pistol with me and then tell me why i shouldn't be crying i'll look up mugshot shotties and see who's who has the worst rap sheet okay we'll start there's probably some terroristic threats but that's a little bit different well like i feel like if girls found out how tall osama bin laden was they'd be like snuggling up against him six four some dude he's a big dog back his ass down in the paint please he'll take your girl.

That's one terrorist I will not make out with. Yeah, he's dead. Yeah, because you can't reach. They dumped his body in the sea. He's 6'4". Yeah. They said he might have been up to 6'6". Only 165, though, so I could take that pencil ass down. Was he a hooper?

Dude, can you imagine Osama bin Laden yamming on you? No, I couldn't handle that. He could probably get rimmed and not shatter his leg. I would never live that down. Okay. Hey, for future tweets, was it your ankle or your knee? I always forget. It was my knee.

Right below my knee, my fibula. Okay. Right below my knee. Okay. I just need to know that because I think I've messed it up in the past, and so I need to be better moving forward. Well, if you look at the video, it looks like my ankle is what gives in, but it just put a lot of pressure, like moved up my leg and that's where

snapped a little bit word word but hey we made a full recovery dude i think we might snap a little bit on this episode love island boys season finale yeah cool kill kill hey a big shout out just to start us off big shout out for getting rid of the baby episode major shot now all they have to do is get rid of the family's episode and i'll be happy i think they finally uh took the feedback from literally everyone who hates that episode it would be fine if like it was just like a challenge or something but now that i've had a child and i like and i don't love hearing uh babies cry it's triggering like i just don't want to sit there and like during my relaxing time and watch a bunch of babies crying yeah it's just not a sound anyone's comfortable with at this point too much baby cry audio getting a random phone call from lehigh acres florida

answer it oh it's probably the desantis campaign desanctimony meatball ron get hollering at your boy how many meatballs can we put you down for donating? I'm hungry. I'm hungry. Sorry, meatball. I'm pescatarian. I'm just kidding. A meatball sounds really good right now. I need a meatball right now if it's in front of me. I might eat some meat this weekend.

Let's go eat meatballs for a month. Let's go to Subway. Let's all get meatball subs. That's the thing. Since I only eat meat once every two weeks now, I can really be snobby about where I do it. Are you saying you don't want to just waste your meat intake on Subway meatball stuff? Yeah, two days of diarrhea for meatball stuff at Subway probably isn't like what I really want.

I mean, I can't really argue with that. Nobody really wants that. I don't know. Randy was talking up a Taco Bell game yesterday, and it was making me think like, damn, worth it i think it might be i hit moddy's last night really did you dude i've been saying that they're like the goat dude the hacienda one the one down south is pretty darn good man so i discovered that like they might be my go-to takeout from this point forward because i discovered something on their website that they don't publicize you can essentially make your own enchiladas like from top to bottom what you can choose everything on their website it's a game changer go to moddies.com

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You have to disclose that if you do. I don't own any part of Maudie's. I promise you. I'm aware of. Okay. Okay. Do we need to talk about this episode? We should probably talk about when

the families came to town i don't really care about the family episode like at all pretty uh pretty meh family interaction yeah it was kind of lame lame-o shit like it's just a boring episode for me like i don't think that like the it's not like the bachelor i actually think that like the one thing that the bachelor does better is the family episodes because you get to like go into their house and like see how fucking weird these is the family episodes because you get to go into their house and see how fucking weird these Bachelor contestants' families are. Yes. You get to go to their high school. Like that one guy whose dad was just off the wall.

Dude, come on. You can't do our Zen Master like that. You mean Dean? Dude. His dad was a real one. Wasn't his name Dean? I want to rewatch that episode to see if I want to hop on that wave. His dad was like a shaman.

That was interesting. Anyway, yeah, there was no family drama in this episode. I did find it funny how Mitch's mom wanted him to be with Abby so bad. Yeah, she even gave Abby a big hug. Yeah, she clearly was a team Abby. But why are we vindicating Abby here? What? No, I'm not saying we.

Mommy? It's the royal we. I'm talking about everybody. Why is Mitch's mom into abby because abby i think abby is a sweet girl i think if i'm mitch's mom and i see abby locking eyes and doing like mountain climbers with scott in the gym while mitch is on like a date that he didn't ask to go on i'm questioning abby i think abby's a sweet girl who and mitch just completely mishandled that situation every step of the way.

And Abby was like... She looks... If you compare her to Mitch, she comes out as the winner. As like who handled themselves better. Not that she didn't make any mistakes because she certainly did. If you compare Osama Bin Laden to Mitch, they're equally as messy. Wow. One of the

worst terrorists in my history. No, you can't say that. You don't know if Mitch had anything to do with 9-11. It's true. It's true. May not have even been born. You can't compare people to Mitch and say who came out better because you know who's going

to win that fight 99% of the time. Mitch is objectively the goat, the Love Island goat. I've only seen two seasons, but I feel very, very confident in saying there has never been a better character

and there never will be. He's the worst of all. He's the worst to ever do it. Any guesses on how many Instagram followers he's got? Have you guys looked this up yet? I have not. 354. 218.

So like the average when I first started checking, the average for like the top people were in the 500s going about to 600. I checked the other day and people were starting to hit the 600s. Who's number one? When I saw it, when I checked,

number one was Ella. Ella B. Ella B? No, I'm sorry, not Ella B. First Ella. First Ella, yeah, yeah. But like also, we have to also remember

that she was a model before this and she might have already had a stable of followers ready to rip. Very close after was Whitney, but then Molly was actually second okay and then whitney third for me based on who i saw out of the big hitters um and they were all above 500 just barely um mitch whose name is messy mitch on instagram so he's really leaning into being a shithead. He has 290,000 followers on the ground right now.

Okay. Could be worse. Could be better for him. Messy Mitch. Picture him and Sammy. Yeah, he's just vibing with Sammy right now. Oh, man. The boys.

Got the boys back. Ugh. I mean, how do you feel about uh how do you feel about scott hanging out with your boys tom and casey scott i've i found myself getting very mad at scott because it's like dude will you just like someone will you just wait you don't like anything he's a slow burner david yeah guess what everyone who's ever been on that show oh like anything he's a slow burner david yeah guess what everyone who's ever been on that show i'm kind of a slow burner myself that's how they talk the way that scott just completely like put abby on the back burner and acted like there might be something

there instead of just admitting like hey i know we're at the end and no one else is coming in like it was it's just like it's kind of a trash look for me. That's where I will ride for Abby. She deserved more than what Scott was giving her. Yeah, I don't know how to feel. Like, should I be applauding them for not faking it to try to stay on longer? Or just, I don't know. It's weird. Scott was, you know, there were times where I felt sorry for him. I thought he was wronged in the Catherine situation and after Casa.

But he just doesn't really show anything. Scott, there must have been a lot going on behind the scenes that we just didn't see. Because he got wronged so much and it led me to believe we just don't know who he actually is and these people do. It was so confusing to me. Well, apparently, like the uk public loved scott yeah which i don't get i don't i don't yeah i understand loving the guy but i also don't understand hating the guy i don't hate the guy i don't hate the guy by any means but i was not ready like i did not care when he was on the screen it was just like okay but i did start to

hate him when he started to act like he did like abby and he just clearly didn't it's like dude this is embarrassing you're at the end of the season just leave yeah you know there's no shame in just saying i didn't find a connection here i'm out guys thank you people have done it before people will do it again and i actually respect when people are like it's my time see yeah everyone just called him out on that yeah yeah and they should like i guess so abby had been led along enough during this time dude she doesn't need she doesn't need scott doing it too the the morning of family day scott's like sitting there on the day beds with the boys he's like yeah i'm pulling the plug like it's done and then he never pulled the plug and then they go there's the families and i

was like oh this is so awkward yeah but that that could have been just awkward timing that he couldn't have accounted for no for sure for sure it's sure. For sure. I think the family's thing really threw a wrench into his plan. If you plan to end it with someone and then you see their parents walking toward you, it's like, oh shit, maybe I should holster this for a little bit. So that's probably just misfortunate. No, he had time.

Unless they weren't allowed to talk. Unless they weren't allowed to get together before the family's coming. You've got to know families. It's probably about the time family shows up. They probably know it's coming. Once you see one family come in, you've got to be like, oh, shit. Well, you also can't end it with her when you know her parents are about to walk through that door. Yeah.

I don't know. I don't know. It might be a viral moment that you can squeeze a little more Instagram money out of for him. She's like tears in her eyes kissing her mom like, oh, he just broke up with me. I would love to see the dad conversation. She's like, get out of here, dude.

What's your fucking problem? Go sit on the Dave bed. Go sit on the Dave bed. That's you, Dave. We need to have a... My face is on the headboard. There's a pillow with your face on it?

Oh. Which Love Island contestant do you most want to sit on the pillow with your face on it? Oh. Which Love Island contestant do you most want to sit on the pillow with your face on it? I'm going to go with Tyreek. Yeah. They're going to sit on my face pillow? Yeah. Sit on your face pillow.

To be clear, this is not mypillow.com. This is different. It's just I'm not the MyPillow guy. I'm going to go with... I don't know what the answer is here. I'll go with – Which one? Original.

Okay. She's got a big following. Is that what you call it? Hey, let's talk about the talent show. Let's talk about the talent show, my friends. Okay. It's not. Okay.

I wouldn't mind if they got rid of this. I want some instant. No, no, no, no. I want some instant takes. I want some instant takes from you guys, okay? Hula hooping Molly. Hot. I thought she would have like a different talent, but she was fine.

What would your talent be? We'll talk about that in a second. Locken being a Frisbee guy. That was cool. The best one. Certified cool. Yeah, but he's also a Frisbee guy. That was cool. The best one. Certified cool. Yeah, but he's also a Frisbee guy, which means that like...

It's weird. Yeah, but he's like... Kind of lame. A very skilled Frisbee guy. Yeah, but like... He's like an ultimate Frisbee guy, right? That's like being like a... I don't even know.

I'm trying to think of something lame that's like... That you can be really good at. He said he was on like the England... Golden Tee? Something team. Yeah, but like... I didn't know they had teams like that for Frisbee.

Right? I feel like this is where you chime in. He'd be devastating at beer. Have you ever played beer frizz? Check my Instagram story one time while I'm out of town, dude. Like, come on, player. All I did was play fucking beers, dude. Imagine playing against Locken. Do you guys even have ski poles down here to play with?

Wow. I mean, someone has a ski pole. You can find other means of holding up a beer bottle. Ty and Whitney's rap together. Just bad. Felt uncomfortable. I appreciate that they made the effort. That's hard to do.

I was actually very impressed that it wasn't as horrible as it should have been. Can we get to Abby and her balloon animals, please? They should have been worse. They should have been worse at rapping. And the fact that they didn't have any music to rap along to i give them a lot of credit for accomplishing that and you know you know that i'm a i have a love hate with whitney how about sammy dude he can do headstands and juggling he actually he surprised himself when he juggled he was funny because he was like i have

so many talents i don't know which one to. So he kind of did a few of them. His was good. His was fine. It was fine. There was part of me that was hoping Zach would wreck his fibula when he was dunking. By the way, that was like a nine-foot goal. There's no way that was a regulation hoop. Hoop.

Goal. I know you hate goal. Have you guys seen him on Instagram at all? No. He's not a big man in the paint he he wants to have the nicest jay in the game he's no word on his bounce pass but yeah you can't be you're not a center at six five you might be in like an english league where they don't have like there's tall people in england yeah they have tall people there too how tall are the people i'm like like

there no one's going to england to play professional basketball i feel like that's just the scrubs who find sponsors in the UK. Some people who are from there do get tall. You got to go to Greece or something. Thank you for mansplaining humanity to me. Dude, you can live a pretty good little life going and playing Greece ball. Greek ball. Not Greece ball.

Greek ball. Right. Greek freak is from there. I think Boddicker did that. Yeah, that's right. You make a good living. Yeah. Maybe like 500, 400, 500K, just live in Greece.

Live in Greece, yeah. Kind of sick. Greek freak. That's what they're called. Trying to figure out who he played for. I want to know like. Boddicker? No.

You don't care about Boddicker? Fuck. I'm talking about Zach Noble, dude. Our guy. Yeah, that was not regulation. At all. I think he played for the... For the what, Dave?

For the Manchester Crumpets. Really? Yeah, the Crumpeteers. Sounds like he played for the Worcester Wolves. Molly was all hot and bothered. Pretty dope name. Watching him dunk on a low rim. Wow. Low hoop. She's not very tall. Watching him dunk on a low rim. Wow.

Low hoop. She's not very tall. Can you dunk on a nine foot right now? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. If I could touch rim,

I'd get a whole foot above it. You kidding me? I'd yam on you. That's for sure. I don't recommend you trying it. I'm not going to try it. I could. Just know that I could.

I want to go on record. I just looked it up. It appears as though the tallest player on the Worcester Wolves is 6'8", so not that much taller than Zach. Okay. Fuck y'all. Well, maybe it's a small ball. That's who he plays for?

That's who he played for at one point. I just looked up the roster, dude. I had to convert from meters. Did he get paid money? LB brought the heat. That's kind of how he was paid monies he's a semi-professional i don't know what that means you get you have to go out there and play when you're all semi-rocked up you paid more for it i didn't realize that was part of it well yeah i already had to look up every person's height on the team i'm not looking up how much they make oh it's too much work it's lb you're talking about her dance routine she brought it dude yeah anyone who doesn't like ella b at this

point i'll talk to i'll ride for her she's very flexible she seems nice um ella and jess dancing jess should have just played soccer again do you remember when she played soccer in that one challenge you did a rainbow that nothing has horned you up more. She was so good at it. I was just like, you should just be juggling. You're good at soccer. Just do this. I don't remember that for some reason. It's because you're not a footy boy. Mitch's roast was probably the hardest

watch of the season. It was terrible. You got to run that material by some people. Maybe one of the producers can look it over. Unreal bad. If you're sitting there watching one of your friends wrote like present a roast like that don't you have to give him like a pity laugh too the crickets was it made it more i think there was some editing yeah the editing wronged him for sure it was not funny just like how the editing completely like serves like other people very well like i'm sure like sc I'm sure Scott was probably a heartwarming moment for the villa when they all started singing together and stuff,

but Scott's performance was not impressive. What did he sing? Truly, Madly, Deeply? I don't know. Yeah, that was really uncomfortable. That would have been cool if the guys for their talent show, they just all stood up there and did Truly, Madly, Deeply like they were in a pub.

That would have been great. That would i truly abby's balloon animals she unlocked a new a new ick for me i mean that that if she isn't aching people before that was so ick how do you not have like any tangible skills she i mean she did a balloon animal she made one a producer taught her how to make one beforehand. The clown makeup is what really drove the ick home for me. If there's anything else you can do, anything that doesn't require you to wear clown makeup for the entire evening, you choose that. And then she just stayed in it the rest of the evening, too.

Yeah, she's having serious conversations about Scott. It's just got clown makeup which is kind of topical for her looking at her like this is why i'm not attracted to you i just can't get past this it was really bad man i don't you know i don't like the heart the heart that she made with the balloon with the balloon you had to hold it in place to form the heart if you let it go it just turned into who did she give it to she didn didn't give it to Scott. Right. I don't know. Yeah, that was tough. I think we need to move on

to the Graffitis. Oh, hell yeah. This is the new edition, correct? This is where it got. Yep. The Graffitis have seemingly replaced the Baby Day, which is so welcome.

Which is a huge win for us. It's... It... Where do we start off the grafties? I will just say that after I watched this episode or as I was watching it, I texted you guys who I believe hadn't seen it yet. And I said, this is the most uncomfortable I've ever been watching this show. And this is like my fourth or fifth season to watch. Oh, man.

I loved it. So that's saying quite a lot. It was so awkward, so uncomfortable. And it's 100% because of Mitch. I thought Mitch crushed those. Mitch did get hammered. You could tell. Mitch was hammered.

I do think that they had some extra drinks flowing that night. This is the first time watching Love Island that I thought, oh, that person has had too much to drink. The producers, they fed him alcohol, and then they started the Graffiti'sies and they're sitting back like bird man like what this is going to be great television the i i found it was the mitch stuff yeah it was uncomfortable but i found the ty whitney back and forth to be more and the ty whitney locken to be the most uncomfortable potentially yeah quite icy in that in in that villa for Ty versus them. Yeah.

What team are you on? It's hard to go against Ty. Really, it's hard to go against Ty. But Locken is such a nice team. Yeah, I don't know enough about Locken yet to really jump on his side. Locken seems like a nice dude. Everyone rides for Locken. I'm fine with that.

I don't see what everyone else sees in Locken from a standpoint of wanting to like put him up on a pedestal. He's just a really nice, harmless guy. I think he's a great guy in the villa and I'm sure that he's great in casual conversations. But for me, like not that much that I saw on camera made me want to hang out with him more than like someone like Ty who's funny.

So I ride with Ty. This is when we saw the clip, the actual clip of ty and ella b after she came into the villa and he said he made the comment about it's a shame that was our last kiss that was 100 a flirty comment i don't know ma'am you can take it two ways and not like uh yeah too bad it's never happening bro like it had maybe been from somebody else maybe you could argue, that wasn't flirty. But, dude, it's just... 100%.

Everything that dude says is flirty. Yes. No, here's the thing, though. Ty was batting 1,000 when it came to flirting with any girl that pulled him. Like, this isn't something new. He's a flirtatious dude. So, we shouldn't be shocked that... And he's still not, like, girlfriend, boyfriend with Ella.

I'm not shocked by it i'm just saying he yeah he didn't tell the truth to his girlfriend well he said what he said what he said you could make a case that it's the perfect statement he gets benefit of the doubt but then again it's tied so it's hard to do that it's the perfect statement for a guy like him because he's like what this is what i meant by it and you can back that up technically you can't prove it wrong i mean it'd be difficult to have a girl that you previously had like a flirtation with or make like they obviously made out it'd be tough for her to come into the villa and not have like a little flirtation that like brings you back to your home i feel like especially if you're like still early days with people yeah and i guess it wasn't early the. The comment was made on the heels of her saying, you're kissing my face.

And he's like, you're kissing mine or whatever. Like it was just the whole thing was just a big flirt fest. I thought there had to have been some behind the scenes tension with Locken and Ty. Because for him to like go at Locken for telling Whitney what Mitch said about the, I think, what was it, about the ick, right? Right, which they all do all the time. Dude, yeah, that's not crazy. It's not like he told a bunch of other people. He told the girl he was paired up with.

Yeah. That's not that wild. Everyone talks like that. Ty was just looking for a reason to go with them. Yeah, I agree. I had the same thought because that wasn't like an egregious overstep or anything. It was just a conversation that everyone's having.

Yeah, if I were Ty, I simply would have been like, I don't believe that you two actually like each other very much. That's what I would have said. And then he shushes Whitney. He tells her to stop. She starts to chime in between the two

and he just tells her to stop or whatever, which is pretty fucked up. Pretty fucked up. I think this villa was truly tired of each other yeah you spent was it how long three months are they in there for is that what it is two months two months essentially you get tired of people if you're around them that long dude i can be i could be at someone's fucking like lake house for three days and i will get tired of a couple immediately. I'm just like, all right, I don't want to be around these people

for longer than two more days. If they didn't give them that one day a week to get out of the villa, they would go insane. They shouldn't give them that day. I think they should just lock them in. Cabin fever will set in. They'll just go crazy. They should just lock them in.

Then we got the Mitch stuff. Yeah, I mean, Mitch is an he he he was always going to get caught i just think he thought he was not going to get caught until after i mean obviously these guys didn't know what the grafties were so like after movie night they probably operate like you need to go around saying whatever you want to people i think mitch part of the reason he acted out he was just embarrassed that he got caught like making those comments i don't know when mitch like i feel like mitch got enabled at some point. Something in his brain got unlocked

midway through the season that made him go from being just a general, standard run-of-the-mill douche into thinking that he's the guy. Because he has this cocky aura about him when he starts talking like this. And it's just like, dude, this is such a bad look for you.

No one's riding for you right now. It got really annoying for me how they couldn't resist an opportunity to take a shot at each other. If the subject was broached again between Abby and Mitch, they'd be like, again, he's like, well, I'm not with you. You're with him because I didn't pick you, stuff like that. It just kept going on and on and on and just breathed new life into this argument. And it got so tired after a while. This is why I don't really like watching Abby.

Like I'm sure she's nice, but every situation that Abby was in was a situation that I got tired of. Her and Mitch, her and Scott, like it just dragged on and she got to the point where I was like, okay, you need to leave too. She and Scott just should have gotten eliminated way before.

Yeah, so he got exposed for saying two different things, and he won the grafting for it. So he had to deliver his little speech up there, and that's when he did the quiet the crowd move. Dude, what do you – like what? Okay. I'm so glad Scott said something. I am really happy that he called him a fucking knobhead

because he was being a fucking – I don't know what that means that he called him a fucking knobhead because he was being a fucking, I don't know what that means, but he was a fucking knobhead. It's a penis head. Okay. He is a dickhead. Why are you allowed to call someone a dickhead but you can't shush someone?

I think it was the male female. Dude, that was a great, that was so, that was really embarrassing what Mitch said. No, I know, but like, I feel like taking the high road is not calling someone a knobhead when they already look like an asshole themselves. Right, but it was Mitch, man.

Someone needed to say something. Where I'm coming from right now is way more anti-Scott than pro-Mitch. I don't like – I'm not a huge Scott guy. Don't hate the guy. I don't like him. But when you compare that we compare him to mitch he comes out ahead every time yeah you still shouldn't call someone knobhead like at the like in front of everyone especially the grafties that's fucking asshole but that's asshole behavior

it is you don't do that there but it was kind of deserved in that moment this isn't the was he being a knobhead yes will i ever be the person to sit there in front of a group of people and be like, you're being a fucking knobhead? Like, no, that makes you look like Mitch owns way too much real estate in your head, Scott. And having Mitch own any real estate in anyone's head is just a tough look at this point because he's a mess. Mitch has like four and a half acres in Dylan's head. If he just laughed at him instead of calling that, it would have been probably delivered much better it would have been like more effective they're like yeah i think that there could have been way more ways that he could have cuts uh cut mitch down than like doing the name calling thing but i also just hate scott like sorry i just do the guy just is a nothing burger to me yeah i get

it i get it it is amazing how many people tanked their stock toward the end of the season for me. Just the finger, like, quieting the crowd when he was up there was probably my cringiest moment of the season. The roast for me. Yeah, I thought the roast was much worse than the finger. The roast was tougher for me. What would you rather have, him shushing the crowd or Bachelor Bibiana dropping the mic? Oh, God. Oh. Why'd you have to bring that up?

Yeah, I tried to wipe that from my memory. Dude, you love the Bibiana mic drop. Remember she was on Bachelor in Paradise, and she just absolutely just flamed out immediately? That's what she... I think that... Dave, I think that applies to numerous seasons. She talked to zero dudes.

Yeah. It was like, yeah, I guess I'm going home, yeah. I don't know why I loved how much Dylan hated Bibiana. The man hated her. Well, the mic drop really solidified it. Yeah, the mic drop didn't help her cause. I liked that she would go on a dating show and show zero interest in people. And then right when she realized she was going to be eliminated, she would always try to find someone.

I think she did it three separate times on the show. The ultimate procrastinator yeah like i'm gonna start writing this essay uh the night before should we move on to the next episode yeah okay we've got ty apologizing to lock into whitney whatever i don't really think that those two like those three actually dislike each other very much uh mitch tells scott that he should just dump abby if he's not feeling it yeah whatever i mean at this point like six different people have said that to scott yeah yeah it's like mitch you didn't have to chime in they announced the bottom three couples uh through the public vote mitch ellaby molly zach scott abby the only surprise for me here was molly and zach

i still don't totally understand why they aren't uh more liked by people i don't either in the general public i'm not saying they're my more liked by people. I don't either. In the general public. I'm not saying they're my favorite couple or anything, but it doesn't really make sense to me that they find themselves on the bottom as much as they have. There were moments in this season where I thought they were the runaway winners of the show. They were flashes, yeah.

But I also thought that they started sinking back a little bit, like Kai and Sanam. And I thought that they might kind of get that same kind of public love for that. Like not engaging in the drama and stuff. Instead it seems like it backfired. When they finished fourth in the finale I was shocked. I thought maybe second. Sally called it the entire season. She was like yeah the public doesn't like them.

And then when they finished in this vote I was like how did you know this the entire time? I haven't really made sense of it. The only thing I can think of is like that we can't see maybe the cultural difference between them like you could if they were from the united states that's something that kept getting brought up is it yeah she's from and i never i have no context she's from a more remote era or area and he's from london right yeah so he's he's a city guy

but like that's not a reason not to like a couple. I agree. I don't get it. Maybe they just didn't. There was a part of me in the beginning of the season, if you run the tape, that did not like Molly at all. She gave me theater girl vibes. But she absolutely grew on me throughout the season.

Well, it helped that once she came back on the show, she was somehow hotter. Yeah. It also helped that she coupled up with Zach, who turned out to be one of my favorite guys to watch. He's just a cool customer. Broski. Broski. We've got the... Okay, so they finally dump Scott and Abby, which was long overdue.

And then Mitch decided to just go absolutely off the rails and tell everyone before bedtime that he thinks ellaby is fake which by the way oh fuck he says she's fake to numerous people and uses the word fake later when she gets when he gets called out for it by ellaby she's like what exactly did you say and he did not he lied. He blatantly lied. He said, I didn't use the word fake. You did more than once.

This is like- We shouldn't be surprised that he lied. Like he's lied to Ella Bean numerous times at this point. He carries on like there aren't cameras everywhere. It's so weird. I respect it. This is what that man does, dude. Right when the show is about to get boring again for a few more episodes,

it's like, all right, well, we're past everything. He just says, you know what? I'm going to step up here. I'm going to give you something. Watch this. Chick I'm with, LB. Fake. Fake.

Don't like her. She's fake. The look on Lachan's face when he said, he was like, wait, what? I thought you guys were doing great. He is just, it's a master class in self-destruction. Oh, and then less than 24 hours later, he asked her to be exclusive with him. Do you think he was doing this just for the cameras? Like, instead of the theory that he operates like the cameras aren't rolling,

do you think he's doing this for the cameras intentionally? Does he know? Is he trying so hard to just villainize himself? He doesn't seem like he knows. And that's what blows my mind. I think the producers were like, hey, this, I mean, like this has been an okay season, but like we need a little more juice.

You think she's fake? If so, you should probably say that to your friends. Go do it like, like just kind of do it like randomly. Like out of nowhere when no one else is talking about that. I would like to know the producer's involvement in everything, like how much they talk to the cast. Probably a lot. I think it's more than we realize.

Yeah. But I also, I'm sure there's like a, I'm sure there's a video from an ex-Islander on like YouTube that's describing their experience that could tell us all this stuff. But like, I kind of don't want to know certain things. Yeah. In this rundown that put together again by Blakey Locks, shout out to him.

He said, Mitch, out of nowhere tells the boys that he thinks Ella B is fake before promptly kissing and cuddling. yeah in this rundown that put together again by blakey locks shout out to him he said mitch out of nowhere tells the boys that he thinks ella b is fake before promptly kissing and cuddling her he just had to see if it was real yeah if you want to know if she loves you so it's in her kiss that's where it is that's where it is oh yeah you gave me the rock mitch mitch mitch hey y'all might have to uh y'all might have to holler at the rest of this uh rundown because your boy's computer is just going what's happening crazy right now we got final dates next okay i'll be honest those final dates for me all time skip episodes man yeah they are they are lame i i find myself skipping forward the only

one with any intrigue was the Mitch and LB because we didn't know if he was going to, like... Dump her? Yeah, which... Or tell her that she was fake, but instead he did the exact opposite. No, no, he became exclusive. He gets back to the villa,

and everyone's like, how was the date? And they're like, oh, we're exclusive now. The guy's like, what? Oh, really? What? And then she walks... Ohney pulls whitney pulls her aside pulls lfb aside he's like look this is what he said last night he says that you're fake and then she walks up to she pulls mitch oh you really you weren't kidding about i wasn't fucking around dylan uh she pulls m, hey, did you say this?

And he's like, yeah, I didn't have a chance to talk to you yet. Like, you weren't going to. We all know that you weren't going to pull her yourself, you idiot. He's so funny because he's such a moron. I kind of think Sally's fake. Really? Yeah. Your wife.

Yeah, do you guys see that? Like, I kind of think she might be fake. Yeah, I noticed it. But I didn't want to say anything yeah yeah i'm gonna have another kid with her oh okay yeah are you gonna tell her you think she's fake first or just no no i'm gonna tell her that like i was just unsure you know okay that's a good idea i like it i was like maybe this is too good to be true what else we get from uh from these dates zach drove a ferrari dude cool i just wish these dates were like not as like produced as they are the way that they do it all like when sammy and um jess were dancing with all those randos can you imagine being in a ballroom and

just dancing with all these random fucking people that you've never met before no it sounds terrible it's just like weird there wasn't much else from all this yeah like the the dates the dates themselves like everyone all that all the people did was vote for ella and mitch because like he called her fake two days ago you might as well just like yeah get them get them off the obvious how that was gonna go it's like oh my gosh oh man by the way their date was so early the sun wasn't even up when they were they got the text remember that's devastating tough that means that you're the low man on the totem pole when it comes to everything ella woke up and she said where where mitch and ella be like oh they've been on a date for the last two hours

like what it was weird so we head to the next epi? Yeah. I mean, unless you guys really want to talk about the dates, I just don't see myself caring. No. Really nothing. The yacht was tight. Whitney, Lockett.

Yeah. Cool. Sally has a theory that whoever gets the yacht date is like the top couple. So when she saw Whitney and Lock lock and get the yacht date she was she was pretty sold they were going to win the whole thing yeah date is that's a recurring final date dude i guess i don't really remember yeah i'm dumb yeah i don't remember anything at this point too many early birds the undercover mission that the guys were on that was some lame

that was some lame-o why they're trying new material why wouldn't jess like try the smoothie drink the smoothie yeah she did kind of fuck that up for the boys but sammy took that on to he was too upset by that i in the past they've given the scavenger hunt to the girls i feel like more often and i feel like the girls are better at it i feel like it's more entertaining to watch the girls do it for some reason yeah sammy was legit put out by jess not trying the smoothie it's like i didn't know it was part of the challenge dude so close i'm going to need to just try it i would just hope the producers wouldn't like pour me out and i'd just be like jazz is part of a challenge yeah i'd be so bad at that they the producers would hate me

they'd be like dude will you gotta stop saying would hate me. They'd be like, dude, Will, you got to stop saying like, hey. We're going to ask you to leave if you keep doing this. Yeah, like you keep tearing down the wall, whatever wall. Like stop doing that. Finale? Mitch and LLB went home. Obviously. Mitch had a nice moment with the boys. You know, brought them, got them around the circle, the fire pit.

It was good. It was his way of like trying to salvage some kind of respect but i mean mitch mitch all-time bad dude in terms of like personality and and operating on the show um that being said i'm glad he was on the show this entire season i'm glad that we got to see the train wreck unfold you always need a foil and mitch was that for us he wasn't like some crazy villain he just operated like a true dumbass and that that's some of the best tv you can have dumbassery he was he is an all-time character but he's also just all-time doofus so in the penultimate episode which is between uh

so in the penultimate episode which is between uh between the final dates and then obviously the finale ty and ella got into a big fight because they had to squeeze one more end before the season was over well obviously just a good pointless fight so so ty and ella this is from blakey locks again ty and ella get into a fight about what's wrong with Ella, and Ty tells her to shut up. And then the fight carries on inside the villa, and they both say fuck you to each other. Remember that? The way that they fight is a little more toxic than the way that I've traditionally fought with significant others. That one came out of thin air.

That was just like a... Dude, I think they also just need some time away from each other like they're not married they don't like live with each other they're still in the early steps of their relationship they're just regular out of nowhere um for no reason fights are like most couples like bad fights yeah yeah yeah like they they're just on another level like to say fuck you to your significant other is pretty serious. Yeah. Yeah.

Like that only comes out if you're really fighting. Yeah. Like really fighting. This was based on absolutely nothing. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. That's just how Ty operates, dude.

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Hey, somehow my computer is running like way smoother now, but I still think that might have a virus. All right. If I have to that might have a virus. All right. If I have to go to the Genius Bar... Fuck. Dave, can you give me some of that Norton update you did the other day? You should get an Appletini. Can you get those at the Nerd Bar?

Yeah. Okay. randy likes that one oh i think it might have just ruptured a vocal cord let's move on to the uh the finale finish strong let's let's just get out of here let's just figure this out mine's back forth highlight the finale a lot of maya jama oh my god a lot of maya jama a terrible i will say that terrible production for the finale in terms of like it is everything not entertaining the sit down interviews with the couples it's like but even from like the camera was way too close to people when they were like on screen it was like you need to back off of maya jama a little bit well no they needed a back they need to take it like two steps back okay two steps back yeah finale's kind of boring uh really just it's about who wins were you guys

surprised by the results fourth place molly and zach third place ty and ella second place whitney lock and winners sammy and jess my only surprise like i said earlier i thought molly and zach would be second i thought they were still very well liked but i i did think sammy and jess were going to win this thing i i'm so little surprised whitney and lock and stock didn't fall to third or fourth but whitney had certain moments where she was like my favorite person in the villa i thought she was like the most entertaining person to watch like talk to people about situations because she was so blunt and so entertaining like with it but then there were other times, like when she got in the fight with Ella.

That was bizarre. All that stuff where I was just like, you're a toxic friend. That was bizarre. I would not want you in my crew because I don't know if you're, like you're unhinged. If you told me a year from now

that the Mitch LLB fake thing and the Whitney Ella, whatever that was. You're the most selfish person I've ever met. Yeah, it was like they kind of told him to do that. I wouldn't be shocked because it was so out of nowhere. The way that Whitney just tried to stand her ground when she was saying the most selfish person you've ever met. I don't know.

That's just not how you should operate. She would not let it go. Ella was trying to make up with her, and they had a nice conversation. She goes, but you are the most selfish person I've ever met and i was i want you to know that she's like why do you keep telling me this like yeah drop it really weird i think lock and carried he and whitney to second place i think he was he was so well liked i think she was also really well liked though i think despite those moments like i think i think we i think we were like

i don't know i think locken has a big frisbee following too that was riding for him yeah that's true i heard j-bone was voting for him non-stop all the uh non-ball golfers out there yeah yeah like can you imagine if i was like really good at slam ball or not slam ball spike. Like what if I was really good at spike ball, like I was world class? It's still just spike ball, you know? Still. Still nuts. It is still nuts.

It is still nuts. That's true. We've got a finale that's dropping tonight. Or sorry, a reunion that's apparently dropping tonight. Are you guys going to watch this? I will absolutely watch it. You don't always get a reunion on these Love Island episodes. Yeah.

So I asked this in the office the other day when Barrett was here, noted Oysters, Clams, and Cockles co-host. Right. So the British film industry has not shut down. I had hopes that the entire world's entertainment industry was shutting down so that we could just get as much Love Island as we could possibly take in. Do we know when the next season is going to be? I think there's rumors that it's going to happen sooner than we think. Because wasn't this a surprise season? A little bit.

They squeeze one in? No. This wasn't a surprise because it's summertime. They always do it in the summertime. The surprise ones are always during the off season, during like fall, winter, or whatever. Got it. So I hope that the next season is not like january i think that's what the last one was i hope it's sooner than that yeah that's too far away

love the show ma'am sorry good season i do that stop are you masturbating right now wasn't great but i thought it was a good season it was a really good season i thought it was it was in the top it was one of my i wouldn't say it was one of my favorite seasons but it was a good season. It was a really good season. I thought it was in the top. I wouldn't say it was one of my favorite seasons, but it was right in the thick part of the bell curve for me. Tip of the cap to the producers on this one. I thought they put together a masterpiece. The wrinkles saved it. I was pretty critical of the cast early on

because I didn't see much personality from anyone. I think the producers brought some good characters in, but they also, like Dave said said they created new little wrinkles that like created a lot of drama and it ended up being really entertaining the producers are probably the mvps of the season yeah i will say that i i was a little bummed we did get some bromance this season but we didn't get the bromances that i wanted ty ty and zach oh that reminds me ty and sam where i think we're the best friends that's right yeah but zach was part of that little trio too yeah yeah when mitch was saying his goodbye speech to everyone he's like i made a best friend my best friend for life and he was talking about zach no they are boys though but the vibe i get is that zach probably would not have said that

about mitch had he been leaving i'm excited to see how often they're together on Instagram after this. Yeah. Yeah, that was pretty funny. Let's do it. The final Mary Snog Pie of the season. Okay. This is the season-wide one.

I think I said- Who are you marrying him? I think I said early on, I'm going to start with my pie. No, start with, it's Mary Snog Pie. Oh, fine. That should come after marriage. Fine, I'm going to marry Maya my pie. No, start with, it's Mary Snog Pie. Oh, fine. That should come after marriage. Fine, I'm going to marry Maya Jamal. Disgusting.

You know, I'm not allowing you to do that. That's a mail-in. I'm high key in love with her. That's an absolute mail-in. Or Molly. Big Molly fan after all this. I think she's a sweet gal. She's very beautiful to me.

She was riding for one guy throughout the entire show. I'm into her. Marrying her. just a little boring but i do like her okay she grew on me over the season okay i'm gonna marry ella which one original ella okay i just i just want to be berated for the rest of my life yeah but i want to be in a hyper toxic relationship yeah with a smoking hot girl exactly exactly i did like her personality when she wasn't arguing with people though i ride for ty and ella i think they were my favorite couple by the end of the season really

i enjoyed them i really like i thought ty was hilarious the entire season he's unhinged but i'm gonna marry jess oh yeah good we haven't even talked about i thought i loved jess's Ty was hilarious the entire season. He's unhinged, but I'm going to marry Jess. Oh, yeah. We haven't even talked about Jess. I loved Jess's personality. I thought she had good takes. I truly think that she was getting totally beaten down by the show by the end of it, though. She was ready to leave as much as anybody was, I think.

When she didn't want to drink the smoothie, it's like, I just don't think she wants to be here anymore, guys. She needs Sammy to say I love you, and she needs to get out of this villa. Snogging. Who you snogging? I'm going to snog Jess. Okay. I want to go way back. I'm snogging Leah.

I knew you were going to snog Leah, dude. I knew you were going to snog Leah. Don't hate that. I'm going to snog Ella B. Okay. I want to be able to say to her later in life, like, it's a shame it's the last time we kiss. That's good.

I like it. So who are you pying? I said early on that every chance I get, I'm pying Mitch, and I'm going to stick to that. Mitch gets all of my pies, all of them. He's just such a moron. I want to pie Locken for being a Frisbee dork. Aww.

I thought he was sick with that thing, man. He's deadly from 10 feet in. If you do it that way. Yeah, but if you're playing Beersbee and a dude walks up and starts doing that form of throwing, you know it's over. It's not fun for you anymore. But it's impressive.

I went 7-1 while I was in Michigan, by the way. I'm really bad at throwing a Frisbee. Maybe that's why I'm so impressed. I think I'm good at short distances, which is why I'm decent at that game, because I'm not good long distances. My shit be wobbling. It's not good, man.

I'm pretty sure that like 90% of my Frisbee throwing in life is from that game. And so I think like that distance is perfect for me. Anything outside of that, I can't do. Who are you pining, Dave? Scott. Fuck yeah. Scott, just pying, Dave? Scott. Fuck yeah. Scott, just fucking figure it out, dude.

Would you just pretend to like somebody one time? Jesus. Yeah. Scott, play with someone's heart just once in your life. Yeah, lead her on. Fucking do something. Poking you with a stick. No, I like the pie of Scott.

I like all of our pies, if you notice. Who'd you pie? Locken. He's a frisbee dork. No, I like – if I ever see Locken in person, I will completely act like I never said anything negative about him or called him boring or anything like that. I will absolutely try to be his friend. Yeah, that goes for most reality TV stars that we've been critical of, including Colton. Iggy.

Iggy. Was Iggy the airport guy? Yeah. When he was like super swagged out in the airport't even that's he was just like was wearing he was wearing the the zebra print yeezys that's what it was a little just a little unnecessary for a monday morning airport trip i don't know he's kind of swagged out he's a short king he's a stout king though i wouldn't want to go up against him i could see him on the flanks in a rugby match. I don't know what I'm talking about. Should we get out of here?

Yes. Hey, good season. Thanks for sticking around with us, and shout out to our new UK listeners who tuned in. Yeah, shout out to all the people in the UK who absolutely love us. We love you, too. Hundreds of thousands of you guys who watched or listened. Shout out Blakey Locks. Major shout out Blakey Locks. Go follow Blakey Locks. Go listen to his podcast. I had Ellen on it today.

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