Girls Gotta Eat - The Snack: Random Couples, Garlic Baths, and Love is Blind

Episode Date: February 20, 2025

Welcome back to The Snack – a lighter serving of Girls Gotta Eat. This week, we're talking about: New (and random) celeb couples Papa John's has a bath bomb?! Luigi Mangione thanks his fans/admi...rers Who attended SNL 50 The White Lotus is back Love is Blind new season Follow us on Instagram @girlsgottaeatpodcast, Ashley @ashhess, and Rayna @rayna.greenberg. Visit girlsgottaeat.com for more. Thank you to Wildgrain: Get 30% off your first box plus free croissants in every box at https://wildgrain.com/GGE or use promo code GGE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to The Snack, a lighter serving of Girls Got to Eat. This is a Dear Media production. Enjoy. Hi guys. Hi, guys. We are wearing the exact same outfit today. I can't even look at you without a lot of things. Bitch stole my look.
Starting point is 00:00:17 Who wouldn't you buy that? I want to run the tea. It came this morning. For like a week straight. I got this a Christmas. I know. A Christmas gift for my fiance and I wore it for like five days in a row when we were traveling. So this is on you.
Starting point is 00:00:33 I bought this on a TikTok. shop, obviously. Oh, okay. When you walked in in this exact same outfit, you guys, this just happens a lot to us. But it would normally be like a black tea
Starting point is 00:00:41 and some jeans, except that every girl wears every day. Not a white sweatsuit. Well, even on this week's episode, right? We were just wearing like the same citizen buttonfly jeans and I wore black and you wore white. Like, we look ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:00:55 It's real best friendship. I don't, like, couple stuff. Is that crazy, though? But like, you just start to morph into one person after all this time. Except for live shows because you like to wear like an ice capades costume. I want to wear a costume. I can't believe I spent all these years just like putting on clothing.
Starting point is 00:01:12 Like I could have just been shopping on Amazon for costumes. And are these new sneaks? These are old sneaks. They're from aloe. They're so clean. So I haven't worn them. Okay. Like maybe probably worn them twice.
Starting point is 00:01:22 They look brand new. Big logo. As big as it gets. No, it's fine. Okay. So that's just like TikTok. That's the brand. It's some TikTok shop.
Starting point is 00:01:32 It's just some overpriced TikTok shop. It's called S-U-P-E-S-U-S-U-S-U-S-U. Okay. And honestly, it really snatches you. It's cute. Mine's Nike. Nike? Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:01:43 From Portland. I'm a Nike girl. Yeah, I know. I'm more of an Adidas girl. But I'm an Allo girl. You're a Lulu girl. Yeah. And I'm a Birkenstock girl.
Starting point is 00:01:52 I wear burks. I have three hairs. Take a look at my toes. And I had to cut them myself because they were so overgrown. Went back to the French manicure. I was felt like they were putting me up a shoe size. They were stupid. totals get so long.
Starting point is 00:02:04 So I did, I chopped in my God, I'm going to let you finish. I did chop them myself, but I'm going to go in there this week. It looks so nice. Oh, our new, pinkies?
Starting point is 00:02:16 You haven't been there? I haven't been in the new location. It's like on the corner. I've been telling you. It takes up the whole corner. So I've been to these streets a lot. It looks so glam. It's so gorgeous.
Starting point is 00:02:25 And I went last Saturday, and the guy doing my, my pedicure was like, I have to really thank you. Like, you've talked about this on the podcast. We've had a lot of people come in from the podcast. And I was like, like, oh my God, thinking he goes, can I get you a drink?
Starting point is 00:02:35 And I was like, no, like, alcohol. And I was like, yeah. And they were pumping me full of soju. I had to walk home. I love that. They offered to drive me home. Oh, my God. He was like, I'll take you.
Starting point is 00:02:49 I was like, I'm okay. They were a shuttle service. No, he was just going to drive me home. They were like, come get the open bar. Get the soju. We'll drive you home. I'm obsessed. It is very funny what people hear.
Starting point is 00:03:01 My mountain guy. Also said that someone told him we talked about on the podcast. Wait, really? Igor. So I'll mention him again. He's on his own now. You have given me all my mounting guys. Do you know that?
Starting point is 00:03:12 The guy, I've been like, this guy's been coming over a lot. You don't even know about it. Well, Igor is my main guy. And if you guys want to check him out, I'm just going to give him his Instagram. And it's TV mounted. So TV mounted, just that's, you know. That's what it is.
Starting point is 00:03:32 And he's great. He's done three TV. he just recently did the one that we stole from you. Ashley, you will not stop reminding me about this TV. Every day I'm being like waterboarded by the TV. Ashley's like, do you have a mount you could bring over? And then on Saturday, she's like, do you have like the remote control that you could give me? And I was like every day we need to talk about this TV.
Starting point is 00:03:50 I'm sorry, we couldn't use it without the remote. And then yesterday. You didn't give me a full TV. No, you gave me a TV, no mount, no remote. Also, by the way, I just need to make it clear. My fiance can mount a TV. But I just feel like it's a skill that someone comes in. they have all the shit ready to go and it's like done, done, done.
Starting point is 00:04:05 It's like, I just want to be clear because then I wanted to move it up and he moved it up. And I was like, it was very hot, you know, like he can mount a TV. I got to be very clear. Can he mount a TV in seven minutes like Rob? No. You don't know that reference. That's okay. No, it's from Vanderpom, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:04:21 Anyway, guys, TV mounted. Tell Igor I sent you. I've had handy men in the house continuously, just round the clock. I'm finally down with the renovation. But I know I said the beginning of the year that I was going to learn how to do all this stuff, but like I'm not mounting televisions. I'm not doing that. It's just one of those things of like, just bring someone in a small business, pay them. They're going to do it so quick. 60 bucks an hour. They have all this stuff. But yes, we just, we put the TV in the bedroom and it's
Starting point is 00:04:48 been a game changer. Well, your TV's in my bedroom and I couldn't watch White Lotus last night because I couldn't download HBO Max onto that TV without a Samsung login, which I do not have, which is associated with your account. So I had to watch it downstairs in the room that I don't like. That is a tragedy. Yeah. The same thing almost happened to us last night. We were trying to watch on YouTube TV, and it said you had to get an LG login. And I was like, absolutely not.
Starting point is 00:05:14 And so we were able to just not update the app and still watch it. This is so funny. Who knew that we would be dressed the same, but we're Samsung versus LG. You know, I had this moment where I got a little scared because you're using all of my apps that I'm previously logged into, you know? We didn't log into your Netflix. That's okay. I logged out, but I was like, I don't care. I thought I would be seeing something funny on your alga of nothing.
Starting point is 00:05:34 It's just same as mine. I just, I got worried that you were going to see my porn categories because I watched porn on my TV sometimes. But like, then I remember it. I actually don't watch it through YouTube. I mirror it from my phone to the TV. Okay. You, that is like top tier. I can't decide if I'm proud of that or ashamed that I mirror porn onto the TV from my phone.
Starting point is 00:05:53 Watch it full size. Yeah, full size. Life size. I want the dicks to be enormous. So I didn't know if you were going to be able to stay up, but you're not. Okay. We're just going to thank our partner and we're going to jump in. Thanks to Wild Grain, get 30% off your first box plus free croissants in every box at wildgrain.
Starting point is 00:06:10 com slash GGE or use promo code GGE. And that's it today, sponsored by Brad, this episode, like our bodies. Okay. You want to kick it off with the report. Okay, yes. We have a random couple report. There's just been a lot lately. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:25 Nobody's substantiated, really. Oh, really? This first one, I think, is substantial. The other three, not so much. Not substantiated. Well, you want to kick it off with our first one? Tom Cruise and Anna Dayarmus. Oh.
Starting point is 00:06:37 I don't care. I don't care her Tom Cruise dates. I don't either. And I think that, like, if you date him, I find it a little odd. I feel like the extreme allegiance to Scientology. I'm not trying to, like, insult people's religions. If you guys were Scientologists, you're probably not listening to this show, though. And I know a lot about Scientology, so I can talk about it.
Starting point is 00:06:54 Raina does. Oh, my God. You blew my parents away that time. you just really like presented a thesis to them a cab one night remember it we're I think we're coming back from 12 chairs in Brooklyn yeah I've read a lot about tantalogy I don't know they care about this couple it's just random okay um okay next up we have Zoe Kravitz and Noah Centineo is that how you say it'sa sentino sentino no it's not it's like got an extra letter
Starting point is 00:07:19 I thought you pronounced it correctly sentineo yeah isn't he a TikTok person shouldn't you know or sentino okay so there is an age gap here I thought it was more, but it's not too much. She's 36, he's 28. Oh, is he that old? Maybe I thought she was a little older. I thought he was a little younger. I think I just thought he was a little younger because of like, what,
Starting point is 00:07:37 is he all the boys I've loved before? Yeah, I just think of him as kind of like a teenager, like a hot teenager. No, he's so hot. So I am upset because of her in Channing Tatum's breakup. That's my favorite celebrity couple of all time. I know you are. Okay. But I think Zoe and I have the same taste.
Starting point is 00:07:56 Yeah. Because, like, Chaney Tatum very into Noah Centenio. And then she also dated somebody. I don't think a lot of people know this. This is going to ruffle some feathers because people hate when I say his name. But she dated Drake. She did? Very briefly in 2013.
Starting point is 00:08:22 She dated Drake. Also, this is not that right. I mean, everybody has her taste. Okay. I don't know. Some people think Chaney Tam is a butterface. And I've loved him forever. But really quick.
Starting point is 00:08:33 I just feel like this is some hot tea because my fiance didn't even know that Zoe Kravitz and Drake dated briefly in 2013. They were seen kissing at a Beyonce concert. Really? And then she confirmed it years later on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. I think she is so beautiful. I mean, who wouldn't date her? And she dated Dan Humphreys. What?
Starting point is 00:08:53 Yes. Like I'm telling you I'm really into her dating history. Holy shit. Penn Badgley, you guys. Gossip Girl. What? Yes. You, I just finished Gossip Girl two days ago.
Starting point is 00:09:02 It's really having a resurgent. I've watched the whole thing again. That is, I'm going to say, one of the best season series finales of all time ever. Unbelievable. They closed it out strong. Killed it. Okay. For a long time, while we were talking about this, I was thinking we were talking on Noah Beck, TikToker.
Starting point is 00:09:21 I was like, that guy's so sexy. He dated Dixie Dimmilio. I was just like he's part of, what was that, Hubhouse? Oh, yeah. No, not Hup House. Hype House. What was it called? Hubhouse is Lindsay Hubbard.
Starting point is 00:09:36 I got Summer House on the brain. I thought it was Nobeck and I was like, go up Zoe Kravitz, this young boy. But do you know? When you said there was such an age difference, I was like, isn't he 22? But do you know Noah Centineo? Centennial? I had to look it up. I actually don't really, he's sexy.
Starting point is 00:09:57 He's so sexy. He's so sexy. He's really sexy. Not as sexy as Nobeck. Okay. Another age gap, which this, again, just speculation, right, is Demi Moore and Andrew Garfield. Age gap queen. 62.
Starting point is 00:10:11 She's 62. Most beautiful woman alive. It's shocking. I truly, it's like the hair. It's everything. She's so beautiful. I know. I think she's my top of a woman.
Starting point is 00:10:22 I mean, always she's been beautiful. But a 62. 62, you're pulling Spider-Man? No, it's crazy. Is he like half? Oh, and sorry, he's 41, which we love it. Is he 41? On age alert.
Starting point is 00:10:34 It is. Okay, this final one, Austin Butler and Madeline Klein, so they were spotted out at a restaurant, like a celebrity hotspot in L.A., and people are saying, like, they did this on purpose to, like, announce their relationship. But it's unsubstantiated. However, I would like to just go on record and say, if I could have anyone's dating history, anyone, it's her. Oh, my God. I don't know anybody.
Starting point is 00:10:55 I don't even really know that is. So Madeline, she was the star of Outer Banks. She dated Chase Stokes, who's her opposite. The co-star. Her co-star. So opposite her on Outer Banks. Okay. Just, and he is dating Kelsey Ballerini now.
Starting point is 00:11:07 Okay. They've been together for a while. So one of the hottest men alive, gorgeous, perfect, amazing. Austin Butler. She dated Pete Davidson. I just want to take a ride. I know you do. You've been saying this for years.
Starting point is 00:11:19 I just want to like, I just, we had the same agent for some time. I probably should have struck when the iron was hot back then. I just, I feel like everybody gets to like pay the toll and take a ride. and I haven't. And then she played opposite Dave Batista. Oh. In Glass Onion. And they had like a very like sexy sexual relationship.
Starting point is 00:11:36 She's like all over him. Right. She's riding a motorcycle on the back of Dave Batista. And like if I could have anybody's dating history slash co-star history because she co-stared all these people, it's her. You want to be her. I do want to be her. And I want to be Zoe.
Starting point is 00:11:49 Yeah. Okay. You're more Ashley's friend and more Raina's friend. Yeah. Way in in the comments. Okay. And then just to round up these like collabs that are a little suss, Papa John's released a You said that with no irony.
Starting point is 00:12:03 This is another random couple, you guys. Papa Johns has unveiled a garlic dipping sauce bath bomb. Now, I love poppy. What's that sink in, you guys? Like, you're going to bathe in garlic sauce smell. Like, it's so funny because people would say, like, oh, that garlic sauce, I would bathe in it. And they were like, what is that? Say what?
Starting point is 00:12:23 We'll do it. Say less. I love Papa John's. I've been a long time fan. Right, right. Because your Papa is and I'm Dominoes. I actually love Dominoes and pizza hi. Of course, everyone loves Dominoes.
Starting point is 00:12:36 But if you, like, we've kind of, I went to college with the girl. So I went to college with daughter John. And I love Papa John's. I love their breadsticks and their garlic dipping sauce. I would drink it. And I love the smell of garlic. There's no better smell when you walk into a home and somebody's cooking.
Starting point is 00:12:52 I think the, I would even do like a garlic candle. But I don't want my body to smell like that. What if somebody was going down on you and they're like, what does that smell? It's crazy. And like my first thought was like, okay, you're bathing in the garlic. It's going in your puss. And I was like, A, it's giving BV. But then I thought, or also the cure for BV.
Starting point is 00:13:14 Because if you ever heard that people say that you're supposed to put garlic up your So is it BV or is it the cure for BV? Okay. It is the cause and the cure. No, so I was like trying to remind myself, like, I swear people used to be talking about putting garlic up their pussy, right? So a 2014 study found that garlic supplement tablets had a similar therapeutic effect in treating BV as metronize at all, an oral antibiotic. However, it is important to note that the above study assessed oral garlic supplements only a person should never place garlic or garlic products in or around their vagina. So no.
Starting point is 00:13:50 But people, I swear to God, I think there's people out there and like let us know in the comments that we're really pushing that for a while to. put garlic cloves up your vagina. Oh, I think that this is, like, widely known that, like, people do this. Yeah. It's probably, there's probably no real garlic in this, probably very similar to the Papadjohn's garlic sauce. It's probably just natural flavors, which means not natural flavors. So it, but it got me thinking about other, other collabs.
Starting point is 00:14:11 I'm just going to read them to you and you just, I mean, you can give me a yes and no, fuck no. All food related. Coca-Cola Oreos. These are real collabs, by the way, that have existed. That have happened. Okay. Coca-Cola Oreos?
Starting point is 00:14:21 I'd give him a spin. Okay. Mustard, yellow mustard skittles. No. Hard pass. Van Lewin Kraft mac and cheese ice cream. No, no.
Starting point is 00:14:31 I feel sick. Similarly, Papa Bagel had a cheese-it cream cheese. 100%. Okay. I'm in. Yeah. Makes sense.
Starting point is 00:14:41 Cream cheese-it. You just kind of wrap that. Cream cheese it. I threw this one in here because we're across the street from Arawon. Airwine bag, Balenciaga. It's kind of food-related. Old Spice. did an Arby's collab where they did meat, sweats,
Starting point is 00:15:02 Arby's under, like, deodorant? Yeah. I mean, I'd have to smell it. I don't want my man smelling like roast beef. Okay. And then Pringles and the caviar company. It was caviar flavored? It's actually comes,
Starting point is 00:15:15 it's a little set that comes with, like, a can of Pringles and a can of caviar. Like, totally makes sense. Great, right? I love that one. What about vibes only in Dill Pickle, Blow Joe? That's what it's giving.
Starting point is 00:15:25 It wasn't for me, but it was a big seller. Yeah. People sold it out in one day. One day. Yes. Bybrily.com. Okay. So we are a few days, almost a week past Valentine's Day.
Starting point is 00:15:37 And something really stuck out from our collective Valentine here in the U.S., in the world, really. He spoke out. The voice that we needed. We're still talking about it was Luigi Mangione. Again, America's Valentine. He finally released a statement from jail. He released a website. We've been waiting.
Starting point is 00:16:00 We have. I feel like I haven't felt joy in weeks without Luigi. So here's the statement on Valentine's Day. I am overwhelmed by and grateful for everyone who has written me to share their stories and express their support. Powerfully, the support has transcended political, racial, even class divisions, blah, blah, blah. While it is impossible for me to reply to most letters, please know that I read everyone that I receive.
Starting point is 00:16:21 Thank you again to everyone who took the time to write. I look forward to hearing more in the future, Luigi Manjioni. While I read all them, I just wish I had time to reply. It's giving like just an influencer girlie. It's giving way better than Matt James' breakup post. I'm so glad you brought that up. Dear Father God. Okay.
Starting point is 00:16:38 Also like I want to know how many letters he's getting. So many people must be writing to him. Like, you know, he's that probably got to be all he's doing in there. I mean, what else? He's just reading his fan mail. I mean, do you think him did he were talking? No. They're going to do an album.
Starting point is 00:16:54 I mean, what else is there to do? I'm sure he's getting like a ton of letters, a ton of attention. he's nothing else to do. Why aren't you writing me back? Elizabeth Holmes is, she's reading Harry Potter and doing something else for like 30 cents an hour.
Starting point is 00:17:07 So she finally also... She says it's like hell. Prison? Yeah. Yeah. She's like, this sucks. Well, you shouldn't have defrauded. All these people.
Starting point is 00:17:15 Elizabeth Holmes. Well, you know, to make an example out of her. They did. I think a lot of the men that corroborated with her should be also in prison. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:17:23 I'll talk about Theronose and Elizabeth. Don't get me started on my Theranos. Yeah. Matt James. I'm glad you. Oh, yes, right. Oh, my God. So his behavior on social media has been crazy. He is not acknowledging the breakup at all with Rachel Kirkconnell, which I always say,
Starting point is 00:17:39 it is your right to not acknowledge them publicly. You don't have to make public statements, but he started this. Yeah, right. He just like dropped the breakup post and walked away, which again, and again, if you guys, this was a former bachelor, his breakup with the woman who he left the show with, it just was super public news. but yeah, I get. I mean, the less you talk about it, the more it's going to go away.
Starting point is 00:18:01 So, I mean, I guess that's his frame of mind. I don't know. I just don't know why he talked about it to begin with, because it looks as though through his social media, if you go through it, he's scanning the comments and filtering them. They're all really positive, which couldn't be the case. I feel like he was like the most hated man in America for two weeks. Oh, my God, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:18:17 So it felt like he was really filtering comments. And then he went to, he posted this thing that she said, like, I bought a one-way ticket to Kenya. My father was from Nigeria. does anybody have Africa wrecks, the biggest continent on the planet. Nigeria and Kenya, they're so far away from each other. I'd look them up. That's like saying, I'm going to New York.
Starting point is 00:18:35 Do you have any California wrecks? When you send that to me, I was like, does anyone have recommendations for this continent? The continent. Does anyone have any North America wrecks? I'm out here. Anything in Asia? You guys know anywhere in Asia to go? But like, for a place for dinner?
Starting point is 00:18:52 Right. A place to go to dinner. Africa wrecks. ever. Even like I'll be going, I'll be doing a few countries. Yeah. Or maybe he's just like, I'll do whatever. Can't come back to America. Yeah. They don't want me. It's crazy. I died over that. Do you think, and we are going to move on? I have a theory about the bachelor that I wanted to run by you. Okay. Do you think, so the bachelor's put on pause, what indefinitely, right? It was supposed to air in June. They allegedly had picked a lead and they've pivoted. And we talked about this last week. Yes. Do you think that they're waiting for Rachel Kirkconnell to agree to be the Bachelorette? Oh, my God. What a theory. That's my new theory is that they, this happened and they were like, who on the planet could be better than her. Yeah. Like maybe.
Starting point is 00:19:31 I mean, again, if the franchise is struggling, that would bring it back. You know, that would be somebody people would tune in to see. So maybe they're like, it's Rachel or nobody. That's my new theory is they're trying to like negotiate with her. Okay. I like it. Well, we're just going to tell you guys about wild grain and then we'll get back into it. This episode of Girls Got to eat is brought to by Wild grain.
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Starting point is 00:22:16 I mean, wow. Like, what a dynasty, S&L, hot take. I just, I mean, we love it. I can't sit here and say I watch it every week, but it's, you know, I think it's interesting to think about the cast that, like, speaks to you the most. You know, like, I saw something that was like, this was a lot of millennials' original cast,
Starting point is 00:22:33 like Will Ferrell and Tina Faye and all those Molly Shannon, Amy Polar, like, all around that time. I mean, Will Ferrell for me. It was just... I mean, when you say the most iconic cast, the first person that comes to mind is Will Ferrell, yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, what they did, a concert.
Starting point is 00:22:49 On Friday night, a concert or radio city, music hall. It's every person in the entertainment industry. I couldn't believe the red carpet. Like if a bomb went off in that room, that would be the end of the entertainment industry. Oh, right now. That's so dark. That's what I think about it. That's 2025 for you. I mean, just seeing who was at the concert and the actual show was the coolest guest list ever, because it's all these people in comedy and then everyone's who's hosted it. Like, I don't know what cooler red carpet than for this, because it's still all like the main celebrity. but like you had to have hosted for the most part, you know, like even kind of seeing red carpet.
Starting point is 00:23:25 I'm like, oh, I forgot when they were on it or whatever. It was really, and every musical guest also. I mean, it is the coolest carpet that exists. It was like, the first time I saw Kim Kardashian was when I went like, oh my God, like everyone is here. Yeah. And it's just special, yeah, I mean, some of the best comedy moments of our lives are from that show that's not a hot take. But to really think about the fact that this was 50 years and how many people's careers
Starting point is 00:23:49 came from this. It was so, so special. And I watched part of the special on Sunday night. That type of sketch comedy isn't really always my favorite, which is not. It's never going to be. I think there was a lot of like throwback moments. They were probably really special. I was talking to one of my friends and she was watching it with her mom and her mom has been watching this for 50 years. It was like, this was amazing for her. Yeah. Right. Like, how do you condense 50 years into three hours? You know, like, I think it was a solid representation of the show. I don't, if you were expecting something more than what were you expecting? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:24:20 I mean, I just, I thought I was really special and beautiful. A lot of crazy moments and from like touch on a couple. I just, I was, that, the after party photos really got me. Like, I just was like, every person was in that room. And like, I was like dying, you know, or Kim and Pete kind of talk. Oh, my God. And like, he has, like, got his tattoos removed since. And is she, like, into that now?
Starting point is 00:24:36 Is she dating somebody? I don't know. I don't know. But I was just dying. You're like, did they bump into each other? Did they talk? Yeah. And then like, him, I'm sure he had more exes in the room than just her.
Starting point is 00:24:46 Right? Okay, so let's think. I mean, he had to have. Who hasn't dated Pete Davidson? Kate Beck and Sale. Madeline Klein, Kim Kardashian, Ariana Grande. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:57 I'm trying to do more exes for Pete Davidson. I think that that's all I can remember right now. But the biggest news of the night, Ryan Reynolds and Blake lively hit the red carpet. It just, I mean, exploded the internet. Because we just haven't seen him out. Yeah, so they skipped awards season. Right.
Starting point is 00:25:12 They haven't been on any of these carpets. And obviously, the lawsuit's been so messy. And so people did not expect them to so publicly be there, but they've both hosted SNL before. This is not such a shock. Yeah. You know me. I'm not a Blake lively apologist or Ryan Reynolds. But like, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:25:27 Like, I guess I don't, maybe I'm missing something, like why people would criticize them going to this. They need to stay in their house. So people really came out in full force against this. And they were just like, it's really tasteless to be in the middle of a lawsuit like this. Who isn't in the middle of the lawsuit? Who in Hollywood isn't deal of a lawsuit? something. The world is on fire. The trial is set for March 26. So are they supposed to stay in the house for the next year? Like at what point are they allowed to come out? But what do you,
Starting point is 00:25:59 whatever you think, like, they aren't on trial for, I don't know, assault or, you know, sex offender stuff? Like, I don't know. Like, yeah, it's all messy and, but I guess I just don't understand. Like, yeah, they can go to that. I didn't have a, I didn't think that was weird. I'm like, let's see him out. I said to you, like, before we even started talking about this, like, am I missing something? Right. I think. I'm sure people let us know in the comments, but I don't know. I mean, again, I think if the lawsuit was something really harmful. Totally. To, I don't know, women, children, like, whatever, but yeah. And then I saw some other criticism about him, sort of like poking fun. So what happened was Tina Faye said, how's it been going? Ryan Reynolds
Starting point is 00:26:42 stands up and says, well, why? What did you hear? I thought it was really funny. It really made me laugh. It was light. People were saying that he was making light of basically her, this case, which essentially when you boil it down to it, is his wife saying I was sexually harassed on this set. And still, it's, it's SNL. We make light of everything.
Starting point is 00:27:03 This is a comedy show. I don't know. I mean, the whole show is, again, and sometimes I don't like the stuff that over the years that I think is so serious that they've made fun of. They had Donald Trump host. You know, what, he wasn't there because he had to go to the Daytona 500, fucking bitch ass riding around. I cannot with this fucking president. But anyway, it just is like, it's SNL.
Starting point is 00:27:24 I don't know. It's not that serious. I'm not saying what's happening isn't serious, but like they made, it's good. Their jokes are going to be made. It also wasn't a joke about the case. It was a joke about the attention on the case. Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:27:38 It's the biggest thing in media and has been for months. There is no other stories bigger than this. And that's all it wasn't. I thought it was like funny. People were debating whether they know, they, Blake lively knew that he was going to do that or not. I didn't think her reaction was that surprise. But you and the rest of the internet say that she did look surprised. And you think I watched the wrong thing.
Starting point is 00:27:56 Yes. So she absolutely did look surprised. But the question is whether she knew he was going to do that, which I'm sure she did and then she was acting or if she really didn't know. I'm assuming that she did. But I have, and we can play this. Well, here you go. Here's this. I have a question.
Starting point is 00:28:13 Oh. Hi, Ryan Reynolds. Hey, how's it going? Right. Why, what have you heard? Oh, that, okay. So I guess I didn't see that exact. Maybe I just wasn't looking at her face.
Starting point is 00:28:28 She, like, whips her head up. Like, what the fuck are you doing? But she could just be, she's an actress. You know, whether you think she's a good one or not, she could be acting. I think she knew. They seem like they would be weird to not tell your partner.
Starting point is 00:28:39 I have, like, a line on SNL tonight. So, you know, who I have been gossiping about Blake and Justin with. Who? is my new friend who is Damien from Mean Girls. So the actor is Daniel Fran Sacey and I met him at a show the other night at the comedy store. To get to gossip with Damien. No, we're like in the DMs. Like I'm like the fact that I'm gossiping about like lively with Damien from God.
Starting point is 00:29:10 The cast of Mean Girls. It's insane. The original cast. Yeah. So he walked into the green room the other night at the show and we just. got to talking. It was so, so nice. Sparkle eyes. My fiance was there. He loved him. And we just really had a fun conversation. And we took a little picture. I posted on my story, but he had a sticker of him like in the purple hoodie. Okay. Was he carrying that around with him? I think he just
Starting point is 00:29:32 has them. I love him. So he tours all over and he does a lot of colleges. Okay. And I was asking, like, do you lean on the mean girls thing? Are people like dying for you to mention it? You know, and he was like, yeah, it's not my whole set. But I mention it. You know, he's proud of it. That's how people know him. And anyway, he was just wonderful. And like, we both got talking about how we just can't get enough of this story. Like, we're locked in to Blake and Justin until March 2026 and beyond. Hope it never stops. Yeah. So now we're like in the DMs about it. I'm like, this is a fun friendship. God, you're so lucky. Yeah. So I know. I like texted you guys. I'm in the green room. I'm so jealous. And then someone was like, you go Glenn Coco.
Starting point is 00:30:11 What I mean, my favorite line from his is like she doesn't even go here, obviously. But I sometimes forget about none for Gretchen Wieners. No, you really, like, not you, the plural you, like, there was so many good one-liners back then, and we had less content. So we really cared more about one-liners and movies back then because there was a movie back in our day, like, probably once a year. Yeah. I saw a mean once that was like, you guys don't understand.
Starting point is 00:30:34 Like, we used to have to take like a quote from an Adam Sandler movie and that had to last us for like three years. Old school lasted. Old school still. I milked that for a decade. We're still milking it. Yes. Oh my gosh.
Starting point is 00:30:45 So, yes, that's my new friend. And yeah, I mean, it's just, I do think there's going to be obviously less and less, like, lively and Justin. They're amending the complaint. She's amending her complaint. So there will be more news. No. Yep. What, like, like, backtracking?
Starting point is 00:31:03 We're not sure yet. But the judge has given her, it might actually come down the pipe today. The judge gave her 48 hours to amend the complaint. So as we're recording it, we record two days before we drop the episodes. is Tuesday. This will come out Thursday. So we may get this news before the episode drops. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:31:20 Please. But I do feel like in the meantime, thank God we have so much to entertain us. There is so much television on right now. I feel like this is the Super Bowl of television. Actually, the Super Bowl kicked off some really good television for me. I am thriving because Southern Charm is on right now, which I'm loving. Summer House premiered last week, which the second episode will be this week. Obviously, two episodes will be in a film.
Starting point is 00:31:44 Strong premiere. Yes. We're into it. Lindsay, three hour, three hour speech about being pregnant. She's like, I've been on the show for a hundred years, and I have to do a summer house pregnant with all these 25-year-olds, and I'm going to take my time. She gave the speech that they had a clock going,
Starting point is 00:32:01 whether they were exaggerated or not, but she gave like a 20-minute speech, which is like an insane length of time. And the way she kicked it off was like, so my first summer here, and you're like, oh my God, this is going to be a seven-year. Like, it's when like a best man or a maid of honor starts a speech. Some of you may not know me.
Starting point is 00:32:15 that's what it was giving. Yes. If it's like, I've seen speeches where it's the brother is the best man and he starts with childhood. Yes.
Starting point is 00:32:22 And it's like, are we going chronological 30 years? That's how it felt. Like a maid of honor speech and she's like when we met in kindergarten. I was a wedding once
Starting point is 00:32:30 and the maid of honor gave a speech and she brought someone else up there to turn her pages. I'm going to make somebody do that when I do your wedding. Raina, front back is all you get. Tessa has to do it.
Starting point is 00:32:39 You can't have a page. Also, you're officiating. That's your speech. I'm going to make her flip the paid this. Tess is in all my wedding photos. I'm going to be like, next slide.
Starting point is 00:32:53 Tessa runs in from the projector screen. Wait, should we do a PowerPoint? Honestly, like, as I'm planning this wedding, I'm like, let's fuck it up. Like, I told you, I was like, we got to get a drumline. When you said drumline, I actually, no part of me thought you were kidding. Were you kidding? I'm not kidding. I'm not actually, Ashley Eo book them through BTE.
Starting point is 00:33:12 100% I'm having a drum line. Just casual at the reception and the strippers. that's for tessa no because like when i have my wedding when i have my wedding we won't have we won't have toured it so long i know you know the cryo tess you got to book the cryo
Starting point is 00:33:33 slide so yeah lindsay started with i was dating everett when we first came here and i was like we're starting with everett yeah from a hundred seasons ago and it's just it's been like a it was a strong open I loved it. I just, I like this cast. I cannot wait for the Sierra West showdown. I am just like foaming at the mouth for it. I can't wait. I just, I'm really excited for the season. I love it. Yeah, I'm excited for the season. And next, let's see, what should we do next? White Lotus. So we both watched it on Monday. What were your thought? We actually have not discussed this. Okay. So I am so into it. Okay. And the show, I have to remember, it does always start a little slow. I mean, well, I guess it starts really hot with something crazy. That, like,
Starting point is 00:34:21 like, spoiler alerts ahead, by the way. That shooting scene gave me a lot of anxiety. It's my biggest fear to be in any sort of shooting, active shooter situation, whatever. So that's how it kicks off. But then it really is just kind of a slow burn as you get to know these characters. But I'm really obsessed with the three friends.
Starting point is 00:34:39 That's my favorite. And this one famous friend. And then it's just, I don't know. Like the dynamics there. And then that's my favorite dynamic. Yeah, for sure. And then the family. Parker Posey with the Southern.
Starting point is 00:34:51 accent is throwing me. She's doing all right, but. So I think there's supposed to be from South Carolina. North Carolina. The whole Duke, UNC thing. The accent is giving Dallas. She sounds like my ex-step mom. And I'm, I'm like feeling like triggered by her when she talks. Yeah. His, the dad's accent is pretty good. It's like a little, because I mean, whatever. There are plenty of people who talk like that in the Carolinas, but it's a little more subtle. Uh-huh. I mean, again, it's really a spectrum. There's people with no accent that live in the Carolina. So those people are like, What are you talking about? But they're different.
Starting point is 00:35:23 Yeah, but the dad has that more subtle. He really is a good, like, North Carolina accent. And hers is just, I don't know why they did that. I was surprised. Like, it's not flawless to me. And I love her as an actress. I don't know. I love the role, but it doesn't, it doesn't add anything to the role for me.
Starting point is 00:35:40 It actually just makes her kind of hard to understand. Yeah, yeah. It's too much. It's a little overdone. And the kids don't have that accent. Yeah. So it was a little just, yeah, overdone for me. But I just, I love Parker Poseum.
Starting point is 00:35:51 so excited to see her in any role. And so there's always like three dynamics in every season that they focus on. So this one is like the girl group and then the big family and then the couple. And I like what they've picked. I haven't decided. I don't care about this couple yet. Yeah, he gives me anxiety. But I want to go back to the family really quick. I want to say a couple things. Patrick Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger, yeah. Arnold's son. I saw the funniest comment that it was like a Nepo baby playing a Nepo baby. So he's the oldest son, Saxon. They all those like southern family names, whatever. I have something to say.
Starting point is 00:36:25 Ladies, I'm going to tell you right now, if you are watching this show with your man and he likes that character, break up with him. If he is watching... I'm just saying, if you're watching that show and your man is like, oh, he's pretty cool. Or like, oh, he's the man.
Starting point is 00:36:42 Break up with him. Well, it's Nick James' character. It's Jake Lacey's character. It's the Patrick Schwarzenegger. It's the same all three seasons. They do. this character. It's so worse to me. It feels so weirdly predatory.
Starting point is 00:36:56 Well, because he's talking about his sister being hot and he's jerking off in front of his brother. That's what I'm saying, but they are kind of give, they're, I'm just, that's all I'm saying. And maybe there's no one out there. There's no man alive. That would be like, oh, like, that wouldn't be repulsed by him. But I'm, I feel like they're trying to make him kind of seem
Starting point is 00:37:11 like this. Alpha? Yeah. Yeah. So I read that there was an incest storyline and I felt like anxious in my body, like preparing for it, like what's it going to be? because you just don't see it that often? I mean, to me, yes, of course. It's really weird.
Starting point is 00:37:27 I got whiplash when he said his sister was hot. I was like, did I just hear what I thought I heard? But when he's in the pool and he's like, I'm so horny, it's giving like really predatory. Like this guy would like force himself on you. Like I don't know if they're queuing him up to have any sort of like sexual assault. It's just the energy is like really, really tough to watch. So I'm just like saying ladies, like listen, if your man doesn't. see it, it's a red flag. That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:37:53 And you're right. Of those three characters, he is clearly the best because Nick James in the last season of... Nick James? Theo James? Nick James is your friend. I met Theo James. And by the way, I said Nick James a few minutes ago, I forgot about Jake Lacey's character. Like, I do think that they've
Starting point is 00:38:09 taken this character and made it worse all three seasons. Yes, they're ramping it up. Jake Lacey is like the least of the bad and he's like in the first season. He's just kind of a jerk, he's arrogant, he's a bunch of money. But like harmless. You're right. They're just like like up in the Annie. And then the second season, Theo James fucking prostitutes. Yeah. And now this guy's gonna fuck his brother. Oh my God. They both just want the brother.
Starting point is 00:38:29 Like the brothers like the, I don't know they want approval from their parents. They have these narcissistic parents, but then they also like the brother to like them best. I don't know. But I know you feel the same way. But the theme song is an insult to the viewer. So I wouldn't, I feel like all, we all feel the same. We're all in the same in America, the same bucket. I don't know what happened here. Because second season was like the great like build up to like, do I hate this? This is weird. And then you're up out of your seat. There's so many memes and like gifts about it. I mean, it was so incredible. They changed the theme music from the first season to the second season. Two bangers. And then the third season,
Starting point is 00:39:04 the art is also not as sexual. And I was like, all right, keep an open mind. They've clearly pivoted from Italian and French art to to tie Asian type of art. Okay. But the beat never drops. There's no beat. Don't. This, it's not a theme song. What is it? It is like an instrumental score with like a little bit of a crescendo. It's not memorable. It's not unique. You can't sing it. Like this is not a theme song to me. Like if it's inspired from Thailand, like I understand that. I can respect where the inspiration came from. But I thought we were going to have a play on the previous two seasons. I think they should take a note from Walmart's rebrand, make it basically the same. Like I don't understand this. Like we would sing the other one.
Starting point is 00:39:44 Like, oh, up out of my seat, dancing. Like we would play it at shows. Arms in the air. Every single show. We would, I mean, like, this is not a song. Why is they do this? I don't understand it. Have you read the comments? I was in the White Lotus's Instagram last night. It's all the comments. I'm like, why did you guys do this does? Okay, do you think, what's the point of this? Do you think next week they'll have a different theme song? No. You think they're just going to come back with this same dog shit theme song. What was the decision to do this? That's what we deserve in 2025. Like, what is the other song like, I'm from Thai? Oh, made in Thailand. Like, that's better. That's way better.
Starting point is 00:40:20 I was saying that all night last night. It was in my head. I don't understand the decision to do this. I just thought at some point the beat was going to drop. It never did. Never. It's an insult. And it ruined the show for me because it's a really long intro.
Starting point is 00:40:34 And I was like, stick with it, Raina. Look at the art. Enjoy the music. Surely something is going to happen. No. No one likes it. I've not seen one positive thing about it. It's giving like the opposite of Nikki Glazer's Golden Globes hosting.
Starting point is 00:40:49 where like literally everyone agreed it was amazing. Not one, not one negative comment. I did not see one. I've not seen one positive comment. No, it's terrible. Everyone's insulted and hurt. I'm just, you know what? I'm not mad who's disappointed.
Starting point is 00:41:02 You know, it's just, it was something I look forward to every week. It's one of the very few shows I actually don't binge. I watch it every single week. I cannot wait for it to start. It's my Sunday tradition. To your point, absolutely I don't have another one in the bank. But it's not too late to change it. They can do whatever they want.
Starting point is 00:41:17 They can go back into the editing room. they can change this theme song. Like, how amazing if they were, be like, we hear you? And we're going to make a new song. You guys deserve better this year. Like halfway through. They're like, you know what? We get it.
Starting point is 00:41:28 It's a tough time. They just bring back last years. I would love that. Oh, God, what a good song. Okay, well, I'm excited for the season. I'm excited to watch these dynamics play out. Me too. Oh my gosh.
Starting point is 00:41:39 I couldn't love them anymore. So we will, we're not going to, I mean, every week. Well, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. Okay. And then Love is Blind is back. Love is in Minneapolis. which we love Minneapolis.
Starting point is 00:41:50 We knew it was going to be there. This is season eight. Six episodes in the pods. When you told me that, I almost skipped the show. Like, I was so excited. I started the first episode. I watched it on Valentine's Day with Hannah.
Starting point is 00:42:03 I was excited. I was like, okay, I can get behind this. These girls all seem nice. And then you said there's six episodes in the pod. You know, you guys get upset when we don't say this. When I personally don't say this, a bunch of spoilers ahead. Yes.
Starting point is 00:42:16 A lot. So skip this if you haven't seen it yet. But six episodes. last season my criticism was they got out of the pods rather quickly and did so many meet the family ones. I mean, there was like four episodes of meeting the family and friends, which I just thought was like overkill. They've never done this many episodes in the pods. I mean, it is so much overkill. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:35 And like I have always said that that's my favorite part is in the pods, but it still felt like an appropriate length of time. Like when I said that, which maybe other people echoed that sentiment, it didn't mean give us two more episodes of it. Like, I was through with episode four. We had seen one proposal, one reveal. I'm like, what is actually happening? It is so slow. Typically, by, I think they usually release five episodes, not six, and you're through the honeymoons by then.
Starting point is 00:43:00 You're halfway through the honeymoon. They usually get to that. Everybody meets that first night and starts fighting. Oh. And then they cut it for the rest. And then they cut it. Right. So this is six episodes in the pod.
Starting point is 00:43:10 It's hard to even comprehend. A couple things. I have a couple notes. We do really like most of them. These are really nice people. These are some of our favorite people when we tour, Minneapolis people, just like, you know, it's a great city and people are really kind.
Starting point is 00:43:25 And, you know, a very homogenous looking group. And I don't mean that in a bad way, but like everybody. It's a bunch of blonde white girls. I mean, and just brunette white dudes. Like, all the dudes ran together. It was really hard for me to tell these people part this season. So I have a couple things to say. So the music has changed drastically.
Starting point is 00:43:42 Early days, you know, it was just like copyright-free type music. or, you know, made for TV type music. It's the hits. They're playing music music. They're playing Billy Elish, birds of a feather. It was up for a Grammy. I got the money in that budget ago.
Starting point is 00:43:56 Yeah, the budget is increased drastically on the music. I don't know if you guys are noticed. It's like real music. Oh, apartments have been getting nicer every season. So now they're music. The food spreads. Okay, I want to talk to you about the food spreads. This picture.
Starting point is 00:44:09 What is that a photo? These, is that sushi? Sushi was sake. And then this one. this was my personal favorite. This bread, okay, so this spread has pancakes,
Starting point is 00:44:21 eggs, looks like lemon meringue pie, looks like pickles, and looks like cheese. Okay, you know what I've never seen. I know this exact. Okay,
Starting point is 00:44:31 so there's a lot of scenes. There's quite a few. There's three or four where people sort of, there's a meal, there's a spread, and then they break up in the pods, and all of these people are like,
Starting point is 00:44:39 I can't eat this right now, and they have to carry the trays of food down the hall. It's so awkward watching them. And I, in the moment, when I was like, this is so awkward, but then I was like, maybe it is just nice that they're not like cast and crew, you clean my shit up. But like, it's funny to watch these cast members
Starting point is 00:44:54 walk down the hall with TV trays. I couldn't agree more. I hate also the thought of like wasting that food. Like I just, I feel like I don't, I want to know what happens to all the food that doesn't get eaten. Like do cast and crew eat it. Like, it can't just all go to waste. It like really bothers me. Sure they do. Yeah. I was surprised. Like, are they told like clean up after yourself? or are they just like, I'm going to want that later? Like, they really, they could probably leave the tray in the room. Like production would grab it. But they're like, no, I'm going to walk down my blanket over me with this TV tray.
Starting point is 00:45:25 They keep having to like get broken up with and they carry this TV tray with them back to the rooms. And it's so awkward to watch. And you've never seen it. But also like there's like Minneapolis nice. Yeah. People always say that like people are so nice there. Minnesota nice. Oh, so maybe that's what it is.
Starting point is 00:45:41 Yeah. This season I will say a little slow for me. This is my favorite dating show of all time. I still loving it. But I skipped from the middle of episode two to the beginning of episode five, and I did not miss a beat. Every storyline just picked right back up where I don't know what happened in episodes three and four and half of two, but nothing of substance,
Starting point is 00:46:03 so you guys can skip that too. Yeah. This is the season where I've seen the most people be in like love triangles and find connections and a lot of people go home without that person. I have not seen that. And I was wondering what you thought, like, do you think these people are just a little more willing to be like, I'll just damn them when I get out of here? I don't have to go through this whole thing. Well, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:46:25 Because I'm like, yeah, you could just find them when you get out. But you also, why don't you want to take the vacation? I guess. But like, do I want to take the vacation with a camera crew? No. Yeah, that's true. Like, right. I mean, I guess it's a matter of are you enjoying this experience and like being on camera?
Starting point is 00:46:43 Is it overwhelming to you? you having anxiety. Like I can see that. Like, it sounds fun to, like, go on this trip with somebody and have this, like, sexy vacation and they're all, like, fucking in the hot tubs. But there's a crew of five people in the room with you where you're doing that. Yeah, that's true. That's true.
Starting point is 00:46:56 So I want to chat, like, about one thing. Like, I guess the main drama that it really ends on in episode six. And that is that Taylor and Daniel, who's the short guy, who that's his whole storyline. Yes. He's insecure about being short. I think he's a cutie. I really like him. I've been rooting for him.
Starting point is 00:47:12 We don't know now. So she's basically. has an inkling, he followed her on Instagram, which is weird, because they brought this up already in the pods. You probably miss this, but they talked about Instagram. She dropped her handle in an episode, and I went and looked her up. She's
Starting point is 00:47:26 not a super influencer. She's maybe like a micro-influencer. I mean, she has more followers now, but I think when I looked her up, she had under like 10,000 or something. And then the next day it was like 15 or something. This is a developing story. But she's basically saying, like, I saw this follow request come in, what
Starting point is 00:47:42 months prior? And so when she went to follow him when they got out of the pods. A picture looked familiar to her. And she was like, oh, he followed me before. And then she's in her head, like, he's known everything about me. He's known that I like Taco Bell and Christmas and I'm a nurse. Gamed the system. Okay. I got to ask you this. Okay. I think there is a wide spectrum. One side of it being like he found her on Instagram. He somehow figured out how to get on love is blind with her. And he's known everything about her and he's used that to manipulate her to fall for him. What? How could he do that? The other side is they have mutual friends. He thought she was hot. He followed her. He didn't
Starting point is 00:48:26 commit her details to memory and he doesn't even really remember it. And the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. But I guess my gut feeling is not that he like remembered all the stuff about her and is what used it in the pot. Like, do you, does she think, what do you think? I feel like I'm having trouble like, she's so upset and I'm like, why is she? And I'm not invalidating it, but I'm like, is it just because of the way the experiment's supposed to go? I don't think he memorized all that info about her and like used it in the pod.
Starting point is 00:48:58 So my take on this was that actually, you know, Minneapolis, it's a smaller city. A lot of people know each other, they're all out in the scene. I think that he probably, that people that applied for the show probably heard that other friends of theirs or friends of friends that applied for the show. You think? So my theory is that somebody that he knew said this girl I know applied for the show. And he looked her up and followed her and was just like, that girl's hot. She's so beautiful.
Starting point is 00:49:23 Who would it be like, let me get in there. And I don't know, maybe looked at her stuff and then was just like, oh shit, this might be weird if we both get casted and unfollowed her. And like it's not deeper than that. I don't think that he had some like crazy string whiteboard where he's like Christmas, Taco Bell, Jesus, all this stuff. I think that I don't think it's like beautiful mine. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:47 So I think that this, that's my theory. Not that he stalked her, found a way onto the show, gained the system. I think that maybe he had followed her and maybe when they were in the pods. Maybe he was like, oh, I kind of do know who this is. Yes. So if he, but then he, then he blatantly lied because, and I don't know why that came up. Maybe they just showed it because obviously it's going to come up later. maybe other people talked about their Instagrams
Starting point is 00:50:10 and they didn't show it because it wasn't relevant to the storyline. But like, that's the only time I've ever seen. I think she said like, oh, do you follow me? And he was like, no, I think I'd remember that. So maybe she's like, did he blatantly lie? So that's another one of those things. We have an episode coming up about like white lies. And sometimes you just get asked something in the moment and you're like,
Starting point is 00:50:27 I want to appear to be a certain way. And it's not too insidious. But he's just like, if I say yes right now, I am off this show. I blow this up. Blow it up. I'm off the show. Like maybe he's just like, this is a tiny little white lie. and we're going to get out of here.
Starting point is 00:50:39 I'm going to be like, hey, John is mutual friends of ours, and, like, he told me you were going to be on the show, and I thought you were, like, hot. Like, I just, I think it's not as insidious, but I respect her right to, she was tremendously uncomfortable. She seemed extremely, like she felt like she felt unsafe. Yes, and, I mean, listen, I hope they work it out. I like them a lot.
Starting point is 00:50:59 I'm rooting for them. And again, we're not picking sides. I just, I don't think it's as bad as she might think it is, but it could be. But yes, to your point, I think she's like, oh, my God, like, he's been playing me this whole time or he's been manipulating me this whole time, which, I don't know, it was not kind of flattering. He came and he knew what he wanted. But I just, I do think it's like somewhere in the middle. And he was like, I don't know what to do here.
Starting point is 00:51:20 Yeah. And I do think he talks a lot about being short and being 5'8. And like, I think it's hard to be a shorter man. I think you don't get matches on dating apps. I think women don't approach you at bars. I mean, I think it really fucks you up psychologically a little bit to be on the shorter end of being a man and your whole life feeling like people want somebody with a different physical body type and you're on this show and you're like, I saw this girl on Instagram. It's the prettiest girl I've ever seen and I'd like her to like me. And so maybe I'll use little details like likeing Christmas and Taco Bell to make me like her back. Right. And like, make her like me back. Does it change the feelings they have for each other? I mean,
Starting point is 00:51:53 that's for her to decide. You know, if it could be something she can't get passed and that's her right too. Yeah. If she's a hard pass on this and she's like, there's enough things to worry about in the world without thinking this person on this dating show is stalking me, then good for her. she could be off the show. She's not in the previews. I know. I noticed that too. So I don't know if they purposely left them out or if she just left the show. Or, you know, there is a world in which I'm not saying just her and I'm not saying anything the way he looks. If with any couple, if someone wanted an out, they could take it here.
Starting point is 00:52:27 You know, so it doesn't matter what it is. But if you have felt like, oh, upon meeting them or seeing them or being in their presence, I don't want to go forward with this. you have an excuse. And that would also, again, if it wasn't anything insidious, and then she used that as an excuse, that would be a suck for him. But we'll see. I mean, let me ask you a final question about this dynamic.
Starting point is 00:52:48 She is saying to him, I saw this photo. It's very clear you're sitting down, you're in front of a Christmas tree, your legs are crossed, you're holding a drink. And he's like trying to kind of back pedal. He's like, I don't know what photo you're talking about. Like, I'm in front of a fireplace and some photos. Do you think he's lying?
Starting point is 00:53:03 I cannot tell. That whole dynamic is very weird. She is like interrogating him on the photo. He's being, you know, he's trying to bring up random details. But like she committed that photo to memory. That's all very weird. It's also like something's not sitting right with me. Like she got a random follow request.
Starting point is 00:53:22 She committed this photo to memory. Uh-huh. Like did someone else tip her off? Did the producers start this? Which she, did she, did she, did they start this whole drama? And now they're like, say you remember the photo in front of the, Christmas tree. Like, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:53:36 Yeah. Well, he, his reaction is not. I can't, I can't sniff out the lie. Because I think if you're clearly not lying, you're like, I don't know what to tell you. you. I feel upset that you feel like you feel like that's, that's not a photo on my feed. He doesn't feel like he's protesting too much, but he doesn't feel like he's chill
Starting point is 00:53:54 about it either. He seems scared like he's been caught. Yes, but probably like, it's not what you think it is kind of vibe. You know, I think that there is a photo that exists that he knows and she knows and they're talking about the same photo. Yeah. That's what I think. Yes. Okay.
Starting point is 00:54:06 So we'll see. I'm excited to see it play out. I was surprised that so many people made it almost to the finish line and all left. There were quite a few people that had two really solid matches and all walked away. Yeah. So I'm interested to see. I thought we were going to have a ton of couples, but I think we have four couples that will go on this trip now. Five.
Starting point is 00:54:26 If she goes. Yeah. Yeah, if they go. Okay. So I am excited to get into the season now. Yeah. Now that we have six episodes of our books. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:54:34 Yes. We're excited for it. I'm going to do my doppelgangers next week. We're out of time. No, maybe I'll come up with another one, but I've been working on them. You guys know I have a talent for naming who people on Love is Blind look like. And so I'll do it next week. So stay tuned.
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