Espresso - FBOY Island AMA | Tamaris Mercedes Louise

Episode Date: August 18, 2022

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Okay. Espresso podcast shot 224. I'm your host, Benedict Polizzi. I've got some guests this week that you might have heard of. Fuck. We got Mercedes. We got Louise and Tamaris. What's up, guys? What's up? What's up? Louise, I said your name right. I've been practicing that shit. I know. I noticed noticed I'm so grateful no more Louise stuff didn't know your name for three months sorry but before we get into it

alright chill yeah that's why we'll get to it you gave the full speech and I was like he fucked up on the first word still doesn't know my name. Yeah. It took everything in me not to call you Mia, like Nikolai.

I swear to God. I swear. I was thinking about doing that, but I was like, too much, too much, too much. All right. Remember to join the Patreon for $5 a month and you get one extra podcast a week. Merch at benedictmerch.com. Get your glonky hoodies, your who's buying this shirts, Indiana land hats, all that kind of stuff at benedictmerch.com.

And this weekend I'm going to be opening or actually tonight I'm going to be opening for Nick Coletti at Helium in Indianapolis. And then this weekend I'm going be upstairs at helium opening for natalie akar so all right with that all out of the way get your tickets yeah get your fucking tickets click the link i don't know it'll be in the description yeah it's a couple of days late you know but it's okay yeah it doesn't matter it's okay this this will drop thursday so we're good i think but okay uh how do you guys feel like has it has anything slowed down or is it ramped up for everybody after the show like are you guys still getting dms and shit from everybody like what's going on

i had to stop at all you know i'm still getting a bunch of dms you know who are your dms from oh just random people just random people come in saying you should have took the DMs, you know. Who are your DMs from? Oh, just random people. Just random people come in saying you should have took the 100K or, you know, stay goofy or, you know, you're a piece of, you know, it's a bunch of crap. Is it like half women, half men, pretty much?

It's mostly women. Mostly women. I feel you. But I knew the homies would be like, yo, bro, I love you. That's kind of like what I'm getting to, but right. Right. Yeah. Because I mean, you look great. So I mean, chill, bro. Chill. What about you guys?

How's what's going on in the DMs for you guys, Louise and Tamaris? Is it still like, yeah, I don't know. I feel like my DMs kind of slowed down a little bit, but now I'm just getting a bunch of girls that are like, I'm so happy you followed your heart. And like, yeah, but like,

I don't know. I got a lot of DMs in the beginning and they were like, you're so stupid. You didn't choose Benedict. Like what the fuck? Yeah. Now it's starting to like turn on my end too. People were like,

Louise is so dumb for not picking you. Now they're like, are you guys together like we actually don't mind her now i'm like what happened yeah well that's like the complete opposite for me i i probably get a lot of females that are like woman empowerment f girl energy love you for choosing yourself and then i get these angry men or angry like married couples that are like you're fucking disgusting go kill yourself we hate you you're worse than garrett and i'm like okay was garrett a fucking weed because all i remember

was the girls were the lead and the boys were the leaders. But just saying. It's my decision. It's my fucking decision at the end of the day, not the boys. So, yeah. Does that shit keep you up when somebody's like, kill yourself or are you like, whatever? Oh, no. I block them or I send them to

leads or I send them to my sister. My sister caught that. I don't know if you guys see that. What did she say? I don't want to meet your sister. No, my sister. My sister caught that. I don't know if you guys see that. What did she say? I don't want to meet your sister. No, my sister loves you. Don't worry. Okay, there you go.

My sister loves you. But I don't know about Mercedes. Love you, Mercedes. But no, my sister, she'd be going. And the first day when people were coming at me that I chose myself and they were like saying i was a slut and shit like that my sister did not play you just gave her your phone group chat

my sister went on like there's like this face i'm not on facebook my sister's on facebook and there's like this facebook uh f boy island chat yeah and on that yeah his mom is in there is your mom in there stirring shit up Like asking questions My mom's pretty wild My sister told me My sister told me about your mom How fucking how poppy she is

She told me My mom she's no joke She's been going off on people on Twitter She's been going off everywhere On Instagram she don't care What's her username We gotta follow I'll send it to you after this Twitter. She's been going off everywhere. On Instagram, she don't care. What's her username? We got to follow. I'll send it to you

after this. She's been going off on everyone. If you're saying something not good about me, she's clapping back. She's not faking it. She's talking about your mom. She'll clap back and try to hurt your feelings too.

She's going under her actual name, not like a fake name mercedes mom 069 but she goes by tia tia yeah yeah my aunt told me she was like yeah i saw his mom posted on facebook i can't wait to see this shit. She's pretty wild. Dude. Okay. Is there anything you guys want to get off your chest about the show? Like something you didn't get to clear the air about or something that like didn't, it didn't perceive you in the right way. Like after the show dropped, is there anything that you like want to say? Like, okay, well,

I want to get this off. I do. I just like want to tell people like, I'm a real genuine human being that gives back and cares about people. 110% and that like, I think people just think I'm a heartless bitch and like, I didn't have any conversations with these guys. They just cut all of that out understand that i am real and that i am going to talk my shit and say how the fuck i feel and if you don't like it then go fuck off but don't fucking come at me on

my fucking pulse trying to attack me because i'm not having it i heard some brooklyn come out i heard some Brooklyn come out. I heard some Brooklyn. Yeah. You know, obviously I came in playing the villain. Um, so, you know, I see where Tamera's kind of ended as a villain. So, you know, she, me and her kind of relate in that way to where people kind of think we're actually bad people when they don't actually know us. Um got to understand that it is a tv show things are edited and changed and words are twisted um you know obviously you know i did what i did on the show i'm not mad about the

edit i kind of knew i was going to be the villain i mean everyone did um so you know it is what it is but i obviously i do want people to know that i'm actually a good person i'm not you know a complete dickhead like halfway through in the house we were like all right we think mercedes is playing the villain but he was still cool as fuck in the house like that like he was like you know what i mean like maybe when we were rolling cameras that's when luis was like everybody in the house fucking hates you but like that was just him being his like role on the show but like low-key off camera like he's our dude right right people don't see that people don't see off camera but yeah it is i knew it was gonna be like that um but you know people gotta actually know your

character instead of just judging it by character you're kind of playing on tv dude when did you come up with that game plan though like did you have it down before you went out there or were you like piecing it together i mean i feel like i kind of had it down like i kind of knew basically if you watch first season all you have to do is no locker room talk don't tell anyone and just basically you know don't talk too much you know i'm saying because you talking too much will get you killed that's how everyone got eliminated their mouths don't run your mouth and you're gonna be good so i mean as long as i didn't sit there the only thing that could have beat me was me and me talking too much but i knew how to come in there and play the game the right way that one night when they didn't cut

us off on the alcohol i was like mercedes you better slow down boy yo i was going crazy those first couple days it was my fault it was my fault that, you know, everybody got shut down to two drinks an hour because we're all, you know, getting really drunk. And then Brandon comes in and he's running. He's like, don't drink anymore. But I already had a shot of Costa Migos. And I was like, I won't drink anymore after that.

And then, you know, he got mad and went and told Dory. And they're like, all right, we're cutting y'all off. Didn't we get yelled at? Yeah, we couldn't drink for, like, two more mixers. And the mixers were so lame, bro. They were terrible. They were terrible. Yeah.

Can we know what mixer was that? Because, like, we never had this problem in our house. Like, we had liquor in our house. Like, we never even touched it. Wait, it's three people. What house like we've never even touched it wait it's three we never touched it you're talking about we're not like wrong no no that one time in the hot tub we had margaritas and cynthia kept pouring us margaritas i don't know if you guys do you guys have cynthia in the hotel

i met cynthia for that 24 hour date. She was like your guys gatekeeper, right? Yeah. I was asking her a hell of questions. I shouldn't ask. I was like, I was like, Louise, who are you picking? And she would like get right in front of you and be like, don't say it. Don't say it.

I was trying to get all the info. Yeah. We didn't have access to alcohol like that. That would have been a disaster. Exactly. Y'all are easy. Y'all are just three girls. Y'all are easy to kind of control. You got 30 guys, yo, somebody's going to be crazy. You know what I'm saying?

It's going to get wilder easier than y'all three. I think at one point we tried to break into your house and steal your alcohol, actually. Yeah, you guys did. Literally. They literally went running across the beach at night.

And I thought they were going to die. With no phones, okay? Were you guys using a vape or something? Oh yeah, they used the vape light so they didn't trip on a rock. The only light they had was the light up thing at the end of a vape. How F-boy is that?

Exactly. That's dedication. I think you were asleep on the couch, man, weren't you? I was asleep. I was knocked. Knocked up. I'm glad, though, because I would have went with him and got thrown off the show for some dumb shit. For sure.

That's my shit. I was kind of upset they didn't invite me, but whatever. Yeah, you're a knock, bro. Alright, one thing you're pissed that they didn't show on the show. You know what I mean? Like one thing that you're like, damn, I said that that one time and they didn't put it in there. Is there anything like

that that comes to mind? I wish they would have shown more of the beach state and shown like... Oh, they didn't show that at all. They didn't show any of that. They showed like a little parts of it, but like you know, it wasn't like the entire beach state. That's when we were playing Never Have I Ever

and Tamaris was just going off with all her answers. Do you remember that shit? I was like, I don't have off, guys. I know. Playing with their feet. Back to back. I was like, never have I ever had sex in my parents' bed.

And Tamaris was like, well. That was the only one. That was probably the only one I didn't put my finger out for. I hate you for that. They didn't show Tom Speedo when he put it on. Oh, yeah, that was such a funny moment. Right.

Dude, remember you guys were burying me in the sand at one point? Yeah, what happened to that? That was kind of funny. I'm kind of upset they didn't show the NFT challenge. Like, I'm happy I didn't come out with an NFT for that NFT challenge and then it didn't come out with an NFT for that NFT challenge, and then it didn't come out.

Wait, was that the painting one? Yeah, that was the second episode, our group date. All right, can someone explain that real quick? So that was, we all split up into groups with the girl we were going after, and we painted them, and we were supposed to sell it as an NFT, and they never showed it, right? Is that pretty much, much like the basis of it yeah we didn't have any paint brushes

we had to use like abs asses and tits and shit like that yeah so we were just like rubbing paint on each other's asses and abs I wish we had those pictures and then like didn't this is weird but didn't

Mia say like queen f girl on it and she ended up with all f boys that was like the most foreshadowing ever yeah that's what that was that was my questioning because she kind of called herself an f girl the entire time you know yeah you're calling yourself an f girl but then like she was upset that she had all f boys it was like but you know it is what it is yeah but yeah that was we all had our moment where we said that we're yeah yeah we did no because we said we're channeling channeling our f girl oh i didn't even think about that yeah you and your like ai voice there's a theory i read on the internet that people think Louise is actually a robot.

Who said that? It's on the internet. HBO funded you. Yeah, this is my debut, my robotic debut. That's funny as well. Sometimes I do think I'm a robot is there anything you wish they didn't put on the show

anybody I don't like how they put in that thing of me taking my shorts off I just hate that part so much oh shit I could not get my shorts off I'm at this like date and i'm trying to get these fucking shorts off and like i'm like it's the most awkward moment like it was so awkward oh i heard you talking he's had to come help me like it wasn't that bad it wasn't that bad

it's so awkward i like when was that like i kind of can't remember it was like 24 hour date type shit oh damn yeah i closed my eyes that whole time no louise i heard you talking on your youtube channel about how you couldn't remember the dance yeah that was so embarrassing i'm so glad they didn't put that in there because literally like i was off on the side like marking it out crying like that was the most embarrassing moment of my life and i'm just thinking to my health and like to myself oh they're definitely gonna put this in like i don't think it was as bad as you're thinking i'm just like you weren't even bad compared to like my group we all have like left feet like my group was okay but i was crying about it that's what's so hot i know but i don't even think anyone did you guys notice her crying

no you couldn't tell at all no even during the actual during the actual filming i was i had no clue there's so much going on like yeah that was a lot my team definitely noticed but they were nice about it so i mean you had the you had the hardest dance you had to like jump and shit like we were just me and tamaris were just like sliding well i wasn't doing anything obviously you saw me dance yeah we're just doing the cha-cha slide bro am i just so sexual too i'm like backing my ass up on jeremy like yeah it was so weird oh my god i'm upset they didn't show jeremy's like his leprechaun like little feet or the way i know grant grant no they did put that in there grant grant what is this okay Okay. You know, his name is Brett. I don't give a mess up with Brent. Whatever.

Yeah. That's another question. I had to steal the entire like HBO crew roster because I couldn't remember like a lot of people's names. Cause half of them were fucking Nick in some form. So I was like, I don't know how I'm going to do this. Nikolai,

Nick, Nick P Nick. There's just so many. So how did you guys keep all your shit straight? Like you guys had like 15 dudes. It feels like, or Tamaris did at least. We didn't have earpieces. I swear to God you did.

It was the producers. No, I swear to God. We did not have any earpieces. It was the producers constantly correcting me. Jay Br did not have any earpieces it was the producers constantly correcting me jay brin's name i could not get his name oh my god i called him jay for like seven weeks and they were getting mad at me they were like why are you not saying his name right i'm like it's fucking hard like it's not easy like when you first hear it it's not easy name to remember your name i'm gonna remember forever your name was throwing me off too at the beginning i might

have called you tamia like 17 times you guys fucked up my name like so many times in the beginning i literally wanted to kill you guys but abby didn't they didn't put me like spazzing out about you guys fucking up my name and we're still fucking up louise's name which is hilarious anybody's name like i think i got everybody's name so fuck you guys but for real like okay so there's five guys getting ready to talk to you and they all have like different storylines that they already talked to you about how do you remember who is who and shit like that you just knew that i forgot no i forgot about that so you had like i got like elon and carlos confused like because i didn't know yeah you're talking to so many people and i don't know one of them

told me i remind them of the cows back home i think that was carlos i think that was carlos yeah you remind me of the cows back home i was so mad because i'm like trying to get away from my cow image of michigan it's kind of funny though it's kind of funny yeah i remember one time you told me uh your hometown is anikama and i look and you're like i never said that it's anakama oh i mean one letter off but i looked at you and i was like that sounds like a disease and i thought i was being funny you go don't I say that so seriously? yeah because we were like joking around hardcore like in between filming that's why I think

people didn't see that part I wish that part was in there but you said your hometown was in Necromar or whatever I was like that sounds like a rash oh my god I don't know and I was like oh she'll like that you know we're joking around and you go don't fucking say that I was like oh

I know I was like damn I gotta get my shit together like you should learn my hometown thank y'all alright let's let's go through some of these questions real quick oh fuck oh you guys the ac is out and i'm just like dying over here all right let me know let me know if this is coming in clear ladies who were chosen and the guys who were chosen picked was their recruiting done from social media or was there some sort of application process

that you all had to go through no it's all on social media on instagram they reached out to me like through like dms yeah dms same but i know Mia had to get flown out to LA for casting. Mia got flown out. Why is that? For one day. I don't know. Just like make sure she was a real person or something? Is her profile like super catfishy?

I don't know. She said there was a lot of girls in that casting. Oh yeah, that's's weird were they like did they tell you guys like wasn't somebody really like a late add-on I think I heard that like one of you guys was like a super

like last minute I think it was might have been Mia she said she was an extra and then she got added in yeah that's wild I thought she said she was an extra and then she got added in after yeah that's wild what i thought you said that me i was an extra i got added on in january right that's what i'm saying like we left in january though you know what i'm saying so i would figure they'd have the girls said by then you know oh yeah no but Mia was saying that

she and another girl were flown to Cabo and then the other girl was supposed to be the girl and then they picked Mia instead in Cabo like they made a decision and I'm going to confirm on that because my

hotel room was right in front of the pool and we had like certain times we were able to go to the pool right so i'm like looking at all the people that are at the pool and i'm like i see i saw louise i saw louise on the plane me and her plane ride yeah did you guys talk to each other thinking and i'm like this is the reason why i had to dye my hair pink because of this girl because she's gone a hundred percent i literally call my sister on the phone and I'm like this is the reason why I had to dye my hair pink because of this girl because she's blonde a hundred percent I literally call my sister on the phone and I'm talking to her in Spanish I'm like yo creo that this is the girl I'm thinking that this is the girl like that I for sure a hundred percent and then all of a sudden I see the same AG bag that she has it's tan

the AG bag that you had it's tan at the fucking pool and of course she has no phone so i'm like yeah for sure she's in it oh shit it's right there right there other girl this girl had like very long black hair like beautiful silky like indian like i don't know it was fucking beautiful um and I didn't see Mia and we go to the conference room that same day later on that day and then I see Mia and Louise and I'm just like who the fuck was that other girl because she was definitely with um she was with Chris one of our PAs um so it was weird oh shit I remember we were at the airport and you were looking at me like, and I was looking at you like, who are you?

Did you like kind of know? My bad. So there are extra girls and there are extra guys. So there's other guys who, you know, got flown out there too, who were extras and not, you know, who weren't actually on the show. Like I was flown in with some guy named Gage, you know. Oh yeah, I was gonna say Gage. I heard about Gage. Who was that?

He was just some dude. He was just some guy and he literally was on the bus with me, Nick W and AC when we were all going to the hotels after we just got off the planes and, you know, he was cool. He didn't talk much but he was supposed to be on the show and I know that he was there at the holiday inn with us but you know he never actually made it in the house and

no one knows what happened i guess was that was that just in case one of us got like covet or something right yeah for sure i mean there's bound for something to happen to one at least so i know they have extras of probably everybody yeah yeah that's fucked up um okay so when you got the dm or whatever was were you like nah fuck that and then like went on with like a week or two of your life and then like went back to it or were you just like oh i'm doing this like what'd you think like out of the gate when you got the dm to be on the show i mean i i like reached out back to them and I was like, Oh yeah, let's set up a zoom call. But I was like low key in a relationship. So I was like, let's set up a zoom call. But like, you know, I don't know if I'm really going to do it. I just want to like, I want to,

I'm curious about the process. Yeah. Yeah. I think that like for me, it was just like, I'm so used to people just reaching out and getting casting calls so it's like another casting call so if i get it i get it if i don't i don't um wasn't expecting them to like me so yeah i kind of had the same thing someone just DM me and you know just responded and you know you don't think too much of it you're just like cool it's an opportunity we'll see how it goes but you know with this situation you know we went all the way yeah there you go i uh i've auditioned for the bachelorette before and i got to like the

final floor the casting call i don't want to see it dude it's so bad but i actually it's so fucked but I actually learned a lot from that, like what kind of questions and how to be and what they want. And for this time around, I was like, I don't know, I'm kind of going to do it as a joke and if they like me, they like me and I just fucked around for every single question.

It was so off the wall that they were like, alright, we have no choice but to talk to him. But I didn't do it in me. Say what? This was more fun than Bachelor. Bachelor was very very serious oh yeah you know that wasn't for me dude yeah it's like way too like we're gonna get married I was like but I probably went like a month without like even looking at it cuz I was like whatever I'm probably not gonna do that then my I told some my homies and they

were like bro do it you pussy and I was like alright whatever, I'm probably not going to do that. Then my, I told some of my homies and they were like, bro, do it, you pussy. And I was like, all right, bet. So that's like, that's like what it was for me. Do it, you pussy. I know. I was like, all right, I have to know. I don't get anybody to do anything. I swear to God. All right, let's keep going. Here's another voice message. Mercedes and Louise went on the body casting date and they both chose to do each other's asses. Vinny, if you and Louise went on that date, which and they both chose to do each other's asses Vinny if you and Louise went on that date which body part

would you guys have chosen um I know what you think I'm going to say so I'm going to say boobs but you already know I'm going to say feet oh god that would be funny I hate you if I did your feet that would be so funny That would be funny. I hate you.

If I hit your feet, that would be so funny. That would be the most funny. I would put it into a candle. Yeah, burn that motherfucker. I don't ever want to see it again. That's a fried ass question. Do you guys still have those, like, casts of each other's asses? Dude, I think I left mine

in Cabo. Yeah, I left mine in Cabo. It's in a thrift store somewhere. Yeah, bring it with your carry-on items. They're like, what the fuck are you into? That belongs in there. We were supposed to have scenes though where we

like put it in the middle of the table while we're eating. Yeah, it was kind of where we like put it in the middle of the table while we're eating. Yeah, it was kind of hanging around for a while in the mansion. I was like, Mercedes, get her ass out of here. So literally when we're filming that, he waxed my ass. Like literally the hair came off of it and i looked at the mold and there was hair attached like he waxed it he literally waxed your ass yo seriously like so when you when you do it you're supposed to put vaseline over everywhere nope and in the vaseline i didn't get it deep

enough in there right so when I was putting the little plastic stuff in there, it got stuck to her actual skin. So we're taking it off and she was like, ow, ow. And I'm still like, sorry, it just has to come off. She just ripped it off along with my shoes, everything. So smooth now.

You're like, fuck Vaseline, where's Elmer's glue? Gorilla glue. Yeah yeah we made it all right let's keep going here's another one bp what's up man hey i'm gonna keep it short and sweet i ain't got a question bro i just want to tell tamaris that i think you're beautiful and i see you queen fuck thank you thank you thank you who is he there you go it's anonymous i can't tell you i'll tell you after the show though i think he just wants some of your money loki i've been getting a lot of people asking me if I can take them out on dates because I have 100k I'm like I'm not taking you out on fucking dates why you got it

I know why you might as well I still want to be spoiled take us on a date though I'm hungry I got you are we all going to Disney we should I'm down I've never been I bought my ticket so y'all are slacking damn you already got that

yeah I got that good rate I've never been. I bought my ticket, so y'all are slacking. Damn, you already did that? Yeah. I got that good rate. I feel like if I go, I'm going to turn into a Disney adult. I don't want to do that. I'm here for it. That's Mia. She said you might. Adult.

She loves that. Well, if Mia gets us all matching sweatshirts, then yikes I'm not doing that that's a little too much that would be a good ass picture though we might have

we can do it for a pic but I'm not walking around the park like that I'm not rocking that shit yeah we could do one of those like look for the blue shirt guys you'll find them a whole group of us. Dude, I think we like each other too much. I think we do too.

Bro, people are probably getting annoyed how good of friends we are. I swear to you. I can't hang out with anybody else anymore. They all want us to hate each other. They really want the drama. Right. They think that it's fake because they're like, dude, all that drama went on in the house and now y'all are cool hanging out. It's like, they're like, they're like think that it's fake. Cause they're like,

dude, all that drama went on in the house and now you're all cool. Like hanging out. It's like, well, is it fake? But it's like, we're just all chill people that we're not, you know,

assholes. So it's like, people don't want us to be nice to each other. Yeah. And it was a different game in the house. Like people were coming at each other's throats a little bit. Cause that was the game plan. But now that there's no competition,

it's like, fuck it. Yeah. All right. Let's keep going yo what's up guys huge fan of the show benedict main reason i tuned in really happy i did uh love everything you do my main questions for mercedes uh not sure if this was covered on another episode, but what happened in one of those finales where you were just straight up missing from the elimination round? Sounded like you had some tummy troubles. Is that accurate?

What did he say? What was the last part? He said it sounds like you had some tummy troubles. Is that accurate? Um, I mean, I'm not supposed to just say it now.'t um so we're able to drink in the house you know there was i'm so glad you're saying this there's alcohol there you know gators you know other things um so one of the nights you know the guys were drinking and I kind of a little overindulged and um I went to sleep

woke up very hungover I had to I was like sick like throwing up I had to go to the hospital and get an IV um so yeah I went and got an IV it still wasn't feeling well and I was kind of like bed like bedridden you know for the rest of the day. So, you know, I was just sick, hungover. But, I mean, I didn't really need to be there. I knew I wasn't going home. So, I mean, it was just basically like saving a speech. I was hella jealous. There's no way KW was going to, you know, be staying longer than me.

So I didn't think I really needed to be there anyways. You literally, you got a hall pass. That's so unfair. Because I wanted to hear your speech i was so mad like you only gave one speech didn't you i gave like okay two you gave two yeah so you remember so you remember they cut out the part where listen remember the reveal when they cut out the part where you picked me and benedict to be in your bottom two and we're like what what the hell is going on right and then benedict and i both had to do like a little spiel yeah but then they cut that out of the show so that was like one and then there was the next

week where i was and then i was in the bottom two with aaron uh i had to give a speech then um so i mean it's not like you didn't hear me it was just like I didn't really need to do that one I forgot they did cut that out when I put both you guys in my bottom two right they cut that out of the show oh damn you remember that right it was right before the reveal

because they didn't say it was going to be a reveal so they just brought up and then we're like her top two guys in her bottom two so it was very confusing we kept looking at each other right and then we're like oh it's going to be a reveal so it's very confusing we kept looking at each other right and then we're like oh what's gonna be revealed so it's like you know they're playing the game the whole time but you know we both still had to say a speech you know yeah i was a little just wanted the drama right yeah bro that was it i was just sick um i was hungover and i didn't really think

i needed to go anyway so yeah if you're you were going to miss one it would have been that one for sure there's just no way that Nick was going to stay alone with me I just knew I cut out a lot of my stuff with Nick actually they've cut out so much

of my stuff with Nick he didn't get a lot of camera time there was no real connection there so I didn't get a lot of camera time because it was really it was like there was no real connection there. So it would have been a waste of film. Yeah. That three way day, though, they cut out all that.

Yeah, I mean, I look pretty good, but I wanted to say that it was so funny. Dude, I wish they would have just had more Like of us like trying to Like golf bro Cause that shit On the way there you and Nick were like have you done this before And I was like no You were so good

I was like what the fuck I'm like shit I'm getting roasted for my swing But Mercedes look pretty good. One half, and they made it look like I freaking hit a bomb, but it was probably, you know,

the other half of Ben's. Yeah. And then they had that one little part where you like hit it and it was like a bad hit. And it was like, that was your one bad hit and they put it in. So they really kind of played you. Fuckers. Yeah. who do you think uh who do you think looks the worst on the show like out of the whole cast nicolai yeah he looks pretty good yeah what about like um

damn what about aaron yeah I was going to say, I feel like Aaron, like, it's like, I mean, he didn't even get to talk at all. Like when you're promoting that and then you're like, get everyone excited about seeing you on the show and then you don't even

talk. Yeah, that's wild. Uh, I guess they did. I mean, they kind of did Tom a little dirty with the trombones. Yeah. yeah that's wild I guess they did I mean they kind of did Tom

a little dirty with the trombones yeah they did but they did but also his crime was him so I mean what else music were they going to put in the background yeah I get that

no but like why did they make every single time he was crying about other stuff though and put in the background. Yeah, I get that. I get that. No, but like, why did they make, like, every single time? He was crying about other stuff, though. Yeah, like, he was crying about other things. I swear he didn't cry that much, dude. I swear, I swear. He didn't cry that much.

He had one interview that he cried in and they just kept reusing that interview. Yeah, exactly. Did they? Yeah, he had one interview. Who knows?

It was. He told me that. It was like, he only cried in one interview, he had one interview. Who knows? It was. He told me that. It was like, he only cried in one interview, but they kept putting parts of that, like, later on in the season, so it looked like he was crying the whole time. There you go. This is an edit. It's a TV show, and, you know,

they're going to put anything to make the TV show funnier or better. That's good shit. I didn't know that about Tom, dude. I just thought, like, it looks like he just cried like 32 times yeah just once but he did bring that journal everywhere

that's true I think everybody had a low key journal but Tom was just busting that out that was like that was his thing right did you have a journal Mercedes? Yeah, I did. I still have it. You need to reveal that. Bro, you need to reveal that.

It's just like written in blood. It's like a real like Joker ransom note. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, I kind of just use it to like write down my thoughts and, you know, kind of like when I was doing speeches to write down my speeches and,

you know, kind of, you know, almost, almost even like game plan and like, you know, what to say in conversations with Louise and, you know,

kind of like that. It just kind of organized my thoughts. Yeah. Yeah. sure uh how did I have a journal too I wrote about but no I did but I wrote about it like I was writing like Bridget Jones diary like literally like dear diary today I went on a date oh my god it was perfect like literally writing like I'm like a teenager. I hate Kylan. XOXO bye. I did little like hearts around their names and everything. I was playing it up. I'm awesome out when you eliminate them.

Like this guy. Put him in the burn book. Yeah. Mercedes, how hard did you prep for the finale speech where the hell did you go bro oh that's how much you prep um did you prep pretty hard for the finale like speech at the end um yeah I mean kind of but you know during the finale um they separate us so we have all day to sit there and think about what we're going to say, what we're going to do. And we're by ourselves, you know, we can't talk to each other.

Um, so I kind of had it planned out. I kind of knew, you know, kind of like after pay like week two that I was going to go far. And I kind of had the, the lanyard thing planned out very early. I knew I was going to do that. Yeah. When you busted out that lanyard, I was like, fuck, I'm done for. I was like, that was smooth. I don't have a prop. Nico did that first, guys. Nico did that first on our date.

Oh, did he? Wait, did they show that? No, they didn't show it, but we're at dinner on the boat, on the sailboat, and he's like, Tamera's like, I hope you choose me, and he takes off the lanyard it but we're at dinner on the boat on the sailboat and he's like tamaris like i hope you choose me and he takes off the lanyard and like i'm like oh my god my heart yeah but inside you're like uh-huh right fuck are you playing that shit too well no real real shit tamaris did you know the whole time like the whole time from day one that you're gonna like do what you did at the end no everyone keeps asking that did you did they hire you as an f

girl no every single like clip that they put together at the end i'm just being fucking real what do i think about when i wake up in the morning money who doesn't think about money i'm serious like you know and i was just being honest. I've played D-Bull before. I'm crying. I don't. I think about money and what's the next step and how I'm going to become a billionaire one day. So I'm sorry that none of those guys were on the same mentality.

Yeah, I know a lot of people have that question. I like you, Tamers. Alright, let's do a couple more then we'll bounce out of here. If Luis wasn't there, would you pick Mia or Tamaris? Oh, shit. Whoa, fuck.

Oh! See, I would have had to talk to him and date him and I never did that, so I really don't know, honestly. But Mia kind of gives me more like best friend type of vibe. Like she would look out for me. So I might. But I don't know, because we didn't really get that close.

Can you just answer it? I'd probably say Tamaris, honestly. Yeah. What the fuck was I doing beating around the fucking bush? What about you, Mercedes? If Luis wasn't there um let me think so he's gonna do what i just did watch i just thought you're gonna give him a run around conversation the first day um it was a cool conversation um and i me and Haddo had one conversation also

I don't know I think I also would agree that it was more of a friendship vibe with Mia so I mean I'll probably pick Camaris there you go cool I didn't know if I was super off no Louise

what if me and Mercedes weren't there if you guys weren't there and mercedes weren't there no if you guys weren't mercedes weren't there yeah you can't lie either fuck no honestly like first impression i actually thought tom was cute and i told i think i told tamaris that but like i don't now i'm like i think i told you i think i told you i was like but i don't see anyone i like here yeah and i was like i was like the cowboy is cute and then she was like well yeah but that's the only guy i like here and i'm like okay you can have him like yeah it was literally like that damn yeah tamaris if you had to pick anybody

literally anybody you want me to be real you could be a chef okay yeah yeah yeah okay okay okay i'm gonna tell you my real crush and oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god I'm really embarrassed to say this okay my real crush is one of the executive producers and that's all I'm gonna say I knew she was gonna say that bro I knew

say his name say his Instagram Bill well Bill Dix I knew I had the craziest crush on him hey is Bill married yeah not for long he doesn't want me it's fine but like yeah oh you already asked you like hit him up no but he doesn't want me yeah okay yeah he doesn't want f girls i get it so you lied earlier about what your dms are like it's never going to work out he doesn't want F girls

I get it so you lied earlier about what your DMs are like it's just all Bill I wish alright let's do one more here we go would you return to the show ooh

did you guys hear that no one more time would you return to the show? Oh. Did you guys hear that? No. One more time. One more time. Would you return to the show? That's like a robot. Siri. That's you. Did you hack into that?

Would you return to the show? I don't know how I would return to the show, but I'd be down. Yeah. I don't know how you wouldn't like Tamaris. Would you, I feel like if there's one person that wouldn't, it'd be you just cause like, you, you did your thing. Like you have nothing else. I feel like would she would come back as like an F girl leader, like Garrett. Yeah. Like I actually want to have like HBO, if you're listening, you know,

Tamaris here, Tamaris underscore F. Listen, like, I really do think that like I should be like they should make my own reality show where I teach these F girls how to be an actual F girl it's like a boot camp and then Mercedes runs F boy boot camp I split the money so

I'm like I'm not really listen oh he's reformed I'm crying um oh yeah you're reformed shut the fuck up so me and Mercedes we train these people how to be like original like F people and then they go on

to like F girl island or F boy island HBO hear me out hear me out let me be a producer I'm telling them um yeah F boy training F boy two days or FBoy Island. HBO, hear me out. Hear me out. Let me be a producer. I'm telling them. FBoy training. FBoy two days. I'm in the Nice Girl Grotto. I'm joining the boot camp. Fuck it. I don't think

I would want to go. I don't think I would want to go back on the show as one of the pool of guys. I mean, I feel like I guess I would if I got the opportunity, but I would rather go in as a What? You're going to go back and go for another girl?

No, listen, I didn't say that. What are you saying? I love this. Like, what? What? He's saying if it didn't, if you guys stopped talking and shit and like everything was erased what do you do it right so like i guess it would be a you know

another opportunity um but i would feel like i would rather be a lead on a show like this yeah you know then one of the people were just one of the guys you know kind of one of the suitors you're a suitor i mean y'all have more control over the game i feel like it's easier and more fun and you you know to where you can like enjoy you know your time and your time with other people like when you're in the pool of guys you don't know where you're at and it's nothing i i i would have to agree with you to an extent on that like we we yeah it was very stressful in the beginning we didn't get to enjoy until we cut down for our final two so yeah it's a lot of stress being a lead i'm not

gonna lie like we had long days like 14 hour days of shooting where you guys had like multiple different breaks so it's stressful it's fun but yeah no i feel you yeah dude if i came back and i was in the pool of guys and mercedes was there bro i would be fucking terrified of you dude i can't imagine you doing that shit again i'm like what kind of master fucking plan is this guy have again i know you pull that shit off too which is hilarious I would definitely go back to probably no matter what they ask I'd probably just be like yeah why not

it's a once in a lifetime thing so whatever my question is do you guys play island filming whoa what do you miss filming um I say I do now but like if they threw me in the situation, I'd probably be like, oh, fuck, here we go again.

But I mean, doing it a second time around is so much easier. You saw Casey, the way he and Peter, they just knew how to be on camera. Yeah, very smooth. They knew how to do it, knew how to play. It almost looked effortless when they were doing their thing. And with the guys, it wasn't like that. When you're new in front of a camera,

you know, you're not going to be that comfortable. You're not going to be that smooth. Casey was the smoothest dude I'd ever seen. I was like, how is this guy doing this? Bro, it was crazy. Bro, that's why I was like falling for him the whole time. I'm like, oh my god, okay, Casey, whatever. I believe it. He's smooth. He's got to do it. So, I mean... He was so composed. Like, when you watch it over and, like, oh my God, okay, keep talking, whatever. I believe it. He's smooth. He's trying to do it.

He was so composed. When you watch it over and Tamaris is talking to him like Grillum, he's always like... He's like really thinking. He's thinking about the whole shit he's about to say. He's like, okay, I'm comprehending. It's almost effortless.

It was cool to watch. His speeches were so smooth. I was like, dude, I can never speak like that i swear dude i mean like when you when you've done it before you know you know obviously gets easier so yeah so i just miss being on a schedule like i miss filming like and just like waking up and like having my schedule all planned out for me like i didn't have to cook like i was just really chilling i did like how we didn't have to make any decisions they're like it's breakfast just fucking eat now we're gonna do a scene like it was just all planned out i was like fuck it i guess i'm just here like whatever just flowing through life yeah it made it nice but so we'd all probably say yeah if they asked us again we'd all probably go yeah for sure i don't know anybody who wouldn't if you had like even like tom i feel

like tom like he didn't maybe it looks like he didn't have the greatest time but I think he'd still go back and like try to avenge it at least right right oh shit that would be crazy oh my god that would be epic

that would be epic Tamera's changed me she broke my heart and now I'm a fucking f-boy I'm a run yeah and he's just like super emotionless like he's like all about a girl on season

three like and it's like going well and then Tamaris like is the twist in episode five and you show up and he's like fuck I can see he's just crazy he just comes and just like, oh my god, Samaritan, I love you. You have his journal. It's just all fucked. Like, remember me. Tom needs to

avenge himself, though. He needs another opportunity to avenge himself, I think. I think it's coming. Yeah. I think he does. By the way, I have his ring, that ring that he threw. I fucking after that, after that episode and everything was done and we were like done filming for

the day. I was like, can I go on the beach and try to find that ring? And they're like, yeah, you won't find it though. Literally took me 20 minutes and I found it. Wow.

The funny story. You got a couple of days. Wait, hold it up. I don't have it on. I'm like, I'm your queen, Tom. I'm your queen. I wish I would have known that you found that ring

because me and the hairstylist was looking for that ring. On the fucking beach for like a whole hour. A whole hour looking for the ring because I wanted to make a TikTok how I found it. And you found it. I'll mail it to you.

You guys are out there with metal detectors and shit. Right. That's it. Not playing. I'm just up there eating an apple fucking wearing it. Stupid. What the fuck are they doing out there?

I'm like watching them over. Looking for seashells and shit. Oh, Lord. All right, y'all. Let's wrap it up there. Thanks for coming on, guys. We got Mercedes. We got Tamaris.

Follow everybody. Mercedes at Mercedes Knox. Tamaris at Tamaris underscore SSS. And Louise under Louise Bernard. Louise and Bernard. Oh, Louise and Bernard. My bad. Messed up your name for the 62nd time. But alright, guys.

That's the Espresso Podcast shot 224. I'm your host, Benedict Polizzi. Thanks for listening. Join the Patreon for $5 a month to get an extra episode every week. Get the merch at benedictmerch.com and follow Mercedes' merch line. He's got

the hat on right now. In his club, baby. Tamaris, you have something? Oh, you guys are doing the heart thing? We are too then. We do have something. We always do have something. That's hard.

Wait, am I going the wrong way i think so this is way too confusing how do we nail that it is what it is hey uh you guys said you're gonna you're trying to like what are you guys doing you're like collabing on something tamaris louise yeah what are you guys doing? You're like collabing on something. Tamaris, Louise. Yeah. What are you guys doing? Can you say, Oh, you can't say, Oh wait, maybe you told me, maybe we shouldn't say it.

We're not going to say it. Tease it. Tease it. At least tease it a little bit. You guys are good at that. I've got some music out. Check out my music. So,

you know, Tamaris sings a little bit. So, you know, my goodness, or know, or whatever. Lab out. I'm ready. I'm ready.

I'm excited now. Yeah, we're going to be talking about you guys. So, I'm just kidding. Yeah, make a diss track about us. Diss track. Goofy. Yeah, called Goofy. Oh, poof. Goofy.

All right, we'll be on the lookout for all all that all the f boy stuff keep up to date follow us and we will talk to you later i'll talk to you guys next week all right fam like an hour