Chicks in the Office

The Men on Love Is Blind SUCK + Traitors Finale Theories

129 min
Feb 23, 2026about 2 months ago
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Summary

Rhea and Fran discuss reality TV drama while snowed in, focusing heavily on Love is Blind Season 6's problematic male contestants, Traitors finale predictions, and their weekly TV watch report covering shows like Summer House, All Stars, and JFK Jr.

Insights
  • Reality TV casting increasingly attracts men with specific physical preferences and unresolved personal issues, creating toxic dynamics that harm female contestants on-screen
  • Women in group settings often undermine each other's valid concerns due to social pressure and self-doubt, allowing manipulative individuals to escape accountability
  • Strategic gameplay in competition shows (Traitors) succeeds through passive positioning rather than active manipulation, suggesting viewers reward non-action over bold moves
  • Audience fatigue with repetitive reality TV formats is offset by schadenfreude-driven engagement, creating a hate-watch economy that sustains low-quality content
Trends
Male-centered toxicity in dating reality shows becoming more visible and criticized by audiencesWomen contestants increasingly calling out problematic behavior in real-time rather than post-productionStrategic gameplay shifting from active manipulation to passive survival in competition formatsAudience demand for diverse casting and fresh faces in established reality franchisesCross-platform engagement (TikTok, Instagram) driving real-time discourse and meme culture around reality TV momentsStreaming services using limited-run seasons with definitive endings to create appointment viewingCelebrity casting (Meryl Streep's daughter, Billy Bob Thornton) elevating prestige of limited seriesMusic curation becoming a key differentiator in prestige drama series quality perceptionAudience skepticism about authenticity in dramatized biographical content increasing
Companies
Netflix
Produces Love is Blind, Traitors, and other reality competition shows discussed throughout episode
Hulu
Produces Love Story JFK Jr. series and related podcast content discussed in TV recap
HBO
Produces The Pit and renewed it for second season; produces Night of Seven Kings
Bravo
Produces Summer House and Southern Charm reality series discussed in weekly watch report
Apple Podcasts
Distribution platform for Chicks in the Office podcast mentioned in opening
Spotify
Distribution platform for Chicks in the Office podcast mentioned in opening
Amazon Music
Offers ad-free listening for Prime members of Chicks in the Office podcast
YouTube
Distribution platform for Chicks in the Office podcast and video content
ESPN
Broadcasts TGL golf tournament presented by SoFi, mentioned in pre-roll advertisement
Microsoft
Microsoft 365 Copilot is primary sponsor; AI assistant for productivity discussed in ad reads
SoFi
Presents TGL golf tournament; mentioned in sports broadcast advertisement
GameTime
Ticket marketplace sponsor offering discounts for concert and event tickets
Planet Fitness
Gym membership sponsor offering judgment-free fitness environment
Ollie
Fresh dog food delivery service sponsor with vet-nutritionist formulated meals
Acorns
Investment app sponsor enabling micro-investing through spare change rounding
People
Chris
Love is Blind contestant criticized for superficial demands about Pilates and physical appearance
Jessica
Love is Blind contestant targeted by Chris; infectious disease doctor described as beautiful and accomplished
Bree
Love is Blind contestant who defended Chris and undermined her friend's valid concerns about him
Connor
Love is Blind contestant who grew more mature after getting a mustache; treated poorly by Bree
Alex
Love is Blind contestant living nomadic lifestyle; repeatedly mentions soccer career and brunette preference
Ashley
Love is Blind contestant with dark features; paired with Alex who expressed preference mismatch
Emma
Love is Blind contestant who doesn't want children; reconsidering due to Mike's family pressure
Mike
Love is Blind contestant from Italian family; wants children, creating conflict with Emma
Amber
Love is Blind contestant with seven-year-old daughter; paired with Jordan; rejected Chris's behavior
Jordan
Love is Blind contestant paired with Amber; initially stated no kids as deal-breaker
Devante
Love is Blind contestant described as disengaged and blah; paired with Britney
Britney
Love is Blind contestant described as cute, beautiful, and bubbly; deserves engaged partner
Christina
Love is Blind contestant in mature relationship with Vic; sent to Malibu instead of Mexico
Vic
Love is Blind contestant in mature relationship with Christina; had separate trip to Malibu
Rob
Traitors contestant and secret traitor; playing strong strategic game; likely to win
Tara
Traitors faithful contestant who suspected Rob but lost confidence; banished Natalie instead
Natalie
Traitors faithful contestant banished after Tara and others backtracked on Rob suspicion
Mark
Traitors faithful contestant; smartest player; only hope for faithfuls to win
Maura
Traitors faithful contestant; cannot fathom Rob being traitor due to crush; enabling his game
Eric
Traitors secret traitor; allied with Rob; likely to be turned on by Rob before finale
Jack Hughes
Olympic hockey player who scored golden goal for USA; lost teeth in game; dating Tate McRae
Quinn Hughes
Olympic hockey player; brother of Jack; part of hockey family legacy
Alyssa Lou
Figure skater who won gold medal at Winter Olympics with stunning performance
Eric Dean
Actor who passed away from ALS; recorded final message to daughters on Netflix special
Brad Falchuk
Interviewed Eric Dean for Netflix special 'Famous Last Words' before his death
Punch
Baby monkey at Japanese zoo being bullied by troop; carries stuffed orangutan for comfort
Lucinda
Love Island All Stars contestant; fourth appearance on Love Island franchise; perceived as fake
Sean
Love Island All Stars contestant; paired with Lucinda; genuine connection questioned
Paul Anthony Kelly
Actor playing JFK Jr. in Hulu's Love Story; first major television role; monotone delivery criticized
Sarah Pidgeon
Actress playing Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy in Love Story; praised for strong performance
Grace Gummer
Actress playing Caroline Kennedy in Love Story; daughter of Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
Academy Award-winning actress; mother of Grace Gummer who appears in Love Story
Billy Bob Thornton
Actor starring in Landman Season 2; carries show with strong performances
Ashton Kutcher
Actor in The Beauty; character's backstory explored; growing on audience as season progresses
Anthony Ramos
Actor in The Beauty; praised as best part of show; strong character development
Quotes
"Do these guys own a mirror?"
RheaLove is Blind discussion
"I think you just want somebody that's on that same routine like it's a routine thing"
BreeLove is Blind Chris/Jessica argument
"Really you're gonna say this when I look like this"
FranLove is Blind male contestant criticism
"You really look to yourself in the mirror and said I have the nerve to talk about women the way that I do"
FranLove is Blind contestant behavior discussion
"I think it's Rob and you're watching you're like you know what Tara yes you're right"
RheaTraitors episode discussion
"When it becomes spring and summer I'm going to be outside skipping around every single day"
RheaSnowstorm opening
"There's something really magical about New York City when we get this much snow because everything shuts down"
FranSnowstorm discussion
Full Transcript
Hey, Chicks in the Office listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Out on the course, they're the PGA Tour's best players. But in the arena, they're primetime. And Season 2 of TGL presented by SoFi is back with lights, cameras, action. We're talking big moments, big personalities, big names in the stands, all on the big screen. Big-time matchups with shot clocks, hammer drops, timeouts, overtime, and playoffs. It's city versus city. Squad versus squad. This sport just hits different under the lights. It's TGL presented by SoFi. Keep up. It's golf. Tune in to every match, only on ESPN. What's up, everyone? It's Chicks in the Office with Rhea and Fran giving you that Friday energy on a Monday. We are home for the snowstorm, but Chicks in the Office is presented by Microsoft Copilot. Before we get into the rest of the episode, talk a lot about TV shows and how we are stuck inside, we need to talk about the thing keeping everyone's lives organized right now, and that is Microsoft 365 Copilot. Absolutely, because the world moves fast, your workday even faster. Pitching products, drafting reports, analyzing data. Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI assistant for work built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft 365 apps you use, helping you quickly write, analyze, create, and summarize so you can cut through the clutter and clear a path to your best work. Maybe you're working from home on this snowy Monday in the Northeast. You're trying to get out there, enjoy the snow day. Microsoft Copilot can help you get all those mundane tasks done quick so you can you know get out there enjoy some snow that's right and you can learn more at microsoft.com slash m365 Copilot happy Monday everybody we are stuck inside because of this blizzard snowstorm and my goodness it just feels like this winter is never gonna end you know when it's like I was thinking about this. You know, when you get a stuffy nose, you get sick and you tell yourself like, oh my God, I really took for granted the times that my nose wasn't stuffed, the times I didn't have a headache, the times my stomach didn't hurt. That's how I feel about this goddamn snow right now. When it becomes spring and summer, I'm going to be outside skipping around every single day. No more couch time. I have had enough couch time to last me a lifetime. I'm going to be out there dancing on the streets because gosh, I just can't take it anymore. I need the sun. I, I need, I need the sunshine. Okay. I looked in the mirror this morning. I said, you know what? Don't even, don't even put makeup on for this zoom recording. Let everyone know what you look like right now with no sun just being stuck inside in this long long winter you know I'm kind of not that not the opposite but like I woke up this morning like I still get excited for the big snow storms like I was like oh my god like there's so much snow like it was still exciting to me if it's a dreary cold winter and there's no snow absolutely I hate it it's miserable but like the excitement of a snowstorm, I, I think it's, I still get like a little, a little zip. Like I'm like, I'm open, I'm open up my shades. I'm like, Oh my God, it's still snowing so much. I'm going outside. I want to see how much snow there is. I put my snow pants on to take all of out. Like I'm ready. I'm walking to the park later. I might borrow someone's sled. Who knows? See, that's great for you. I, I, maybe that's because you're like near parks and stuff like in the city or whatever's going on, I can't go anywhere. Like where I am, it's not fun to step outside. I'm basically in a gigantic wind tunnel that if I step outside, I'm getting blown away. Like there's no going outside for me. And by the way, there's no going outside for me because I'm an asshole who doesn't have any snow gear. Like that's another thing. I don't own a single piece of snow gear. like that does crack me up like you don't even have like rain but i was like do you have rain boots that you could you know put thick socks on i don't even have a pair of rain boots anymore i got rid of all of them i don't know why i don't know why you know when you do like a closet clean out and you just get rid of a bunch of shit you can't even see straight and then months go by and you're like oh i got i got rid of that thing that i was i was probably gonna need you got rid of those snow boots that you brought to Minneapolis eight years ago yeah but those are like the only snow boots I ever had although I did have a great pair of hunter boots right like I feel like there was a time where everyone had just a solid pair of hunter boots yep and I just got new ones last Christmas well I'm thinking about getting a pair even though you know now it'll be I'll have it for next year because I'm late to the game and and I and I said part of the reasoning I'm stuck inside is because I also just don't have snow gear. Like, oh, I'm an idiot. And I know this is all my fault. I know that this is all on me. But besides that, I don't even want to go out there. Like, it's not like I'm like, oh, get me in the snow. I want to play around and do snow angel. I don't want to do any of that. I don't want to. I want to be on a beach. I want to be in the sun. I want to be taking a long walk on like a 60 degree weather day, you know? I don't, I'm done with this. The first time, fun. The second time, all right, cool, snow. I'm over it now. I'm over it. Yeah, I don't know. I just have that childlike love for a snowstorm. I'm so happy for you. But there's a lot of us that are over it. No, I know. I was outside. I was like taking a picture. Because I don't know. There's something really, and once again, maybe I'm just romanticizing the whole New York City. There's something I think magical about New York City when we get this much snow because everything shuts down. There's no cars in the street. I took all of that. There was a man on skis going down my street. He was in the middle of the road just on skis. And I'm just like, it's crazy. It never happens. You never get to see it. It never snows like this here in New York City anymore. And this year we definitely have gotten a lot of snow, that's for sure. but snowstorms like this only it's been a decade since we've gotten a storm like this blizzard so i'm like uh uh what's the right word for it it's like a statistics thing like i'm like man it's the biggest storm we've gotten in 10 years like i'm a friend like i was like it was like christmas eve on on saturday i was like looking out the window like tomorrow we'll have snow like i don't know how you don't get excited about it it's because like your whole schedule gets fucked up but that's like the beauty of it it's like you have an excuse to do nothing it's like that's that's also like the craziness of a storm like you're like oh yeah everyone's in it together what's gonna happen yeah like the first time of the year it happens not the third or fourth time this is only like the second real snowstorm like we've had in the last like five years and they both happened this year but it's like we haven't had any snow so i've i've been missing it i i'm with you that like the snow looks cool sometimes you know yeah you're you're a war you're just you're not i don't think i don't think it's crazy that i'm not like oh my god yes we're stuck inside i don't think anyone would have thought you were a snow person to be honest no you don't give off like naturey outdoorsy well i don't think snow has anything to do with naturey i just think i mean i like being outdoors that's my whole thing is that i is that i'm stuck inside right now i want to be outside i don't like being outside in the snow it's just it's just it's just temperature it's like you're never gonna go on a cold weather vacation over a warm weather vacation never yeah yeah never yeah not you're not gonna catch me there no exactly that's totally fine but no it's so crazy i think and honestly this past weekend was so busy for so many people i've had so many friends that were away um trying to get home because it was the trajectory of this storm man it was crazy at first last week they were like oh big storm and then it died down and it was like maybe maybe not maybe maybe not and then like friday saturday they were like uh-oh it's taking a turn big storm brand's guy yeah i know all all of saturday he was because because then also yesterday i was like i was like yeah get him on his instagram stories because people were writing in sunday afternoon because it was snowing but it wasn't sticking because it was still too warm and people were writing in like i don't know this seems like a dud it's been so for hours and nothing's sticking and and he he was like just wait I'm telling you guys it's overnight like and then you wake up and see this so he was definitely right but I think it was a panic for a lot of people to change travel plans and all those things um if you were in New York this weekend you weren't getting out of New York I know people are People are stuck here. I said last week that at the end of last week that that Joe is away this weekend. And I don't know what magic he finagled, but he got on a flight to Philly that somehow landed because flights Sunday, Monday. I have friends in Florida that their Tuesday flights have already been canceled. It's like, it's crazy. So made it to Philly, got on a train, made it home at like 10 o'clock, which I was very impressed by because it's just, it's crazy. Every single person is like, oh, my friends in Florida, they're, I'm like, oh, I just booked this flight 30 minutes later. They're like, flight's canceled. Yeah. Honestly, it is a miracle that he was able to get home because a lot of people are getting fucked over right now. Yeah. which is awful so yeah I mean we also have we we have a vacation at the end of this week and my god if that vacation gets messed up heads will roll yeah Fran and I are going to Turks and Caicos on a couple's trip so that's partially why I'm like all right well you know we'll be leaving soon yeah but at the same time we might not be and at that point like I've already in my head have accepted that like i i've already been like maria you need to get in your head that there's a good chance you don't you don't make it out of here and because on the on the chance that we do make it out yeah it'll be like wow this is amazing it'll feel so good but you gotta set the expectations low right now because yeah my worry is my worry is is that one of my friends is watching olive and she's not here she's stuck in florida so if she doesn't make it back hey friend i'll take all of my mom oh oh that's such a nice offer i was really wanting marie and olive to meet up anyway wow that's actually a great that's a great offer that is a great offer no i may have to take you up on that jen if you're listening i would really love that she is she is getting a foster next weekend i think but i'm sure she could make it work hey i just want to tell my dad about it yeah you just your dad just comes home she's like he's like oh is this the new foster he's like no this is fran's dog i don't know she just popped up here it's uh we're just taking care of her but no it's it and i just can't believe i'm like i keep looking out the window because if you couldn't tell i'm just straight up recording from bed like i'm going full snow day i'm i'm in bed um but also you know joe's here and working and there's one desk in this apartment and i just keep looking out the window it is blowing snow still blowing and it is it's you know monday morning at this point it's crazy i'm gonna give a glimpse on my laptop of what my windows look like right now that you can usually see like the entire city and and everything yeah yeah no nothing that's hey they said white out conditions although it does look it does look pretty cool it's like you're living in a cloud i am but when you get really close to the window should i try to take us over there oh we're traveling when you get really close you could see it blowing like really hard maybe you can't see it no i can i can see some movement and the windows it never usually sticks to the window but it is frozen on the window right now i see that Look, this is like a live weather report. This is kind of fun. Reporting live from Jersey City. I'm falling. My laptop's falling out of my hands. No, look. And then my balcony. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, I can confirm. Rhea, you should do the podcast from the balcony. I can confirm it is still snowing. Yeah. Well, I should have covered or took my furniture in. I mean, it's two chairs and a thing, so it really doesn't matter. Yeah, it's so fine. But it's so fine. But look at that. But yeah, it's so crazy. yeah this storm will be different too where i think from the snow storm sorry i'm having a blast saying i'm putting my window right now if you're not watching on youtube head on over yeah like the last time it snowed it was freezing for like weeks so the snow didn't go anywhere but i feel like this snow's gonna melt like in a week oh look at that look at the ice on the window it does look crazy it's like a little day after tomorrow you know you're in the yeah no you know it says that but then at the same time there's like snow in the forecast for like a lot of the rest of the week there is there's snow on wednesday there's still on thursday there's snow next monday there's snow every day sorry i'm gonna calm down i'm gonna calm down no there is there is i get what you guys are saying there is a little bit of charm of like you know we're all home right now and also like it was during the olympics it was snowing like we're watching the hockey game it's snowing outside wait oh my god my friends just sent me this thing that is because on if you're watching the broadcast it was like after the the men's team won gold they were like their original plan was to fly to new york but because of the storm they're actually going to Miami and we were all joking I'm like oh no they have to go to Miami like they're so there's that's so upsetting and a Miami sports reporter just posted this graphic that says team USA hockey will be celebrating the gold at 11 11 oh my god that is hilarious yeah that's quite the that's quite the switch up from new york 11 they're gonna be at the club men's usa hockey celebrating at the strip club oh my god i mean god knows what what they're gonna be doing yeah i saw a bunch of videos of them celebrating in miami in milan too you know you see that one where they're like being interviewed and like the three of them are just so clearly like blackout drunk at that point oh i i even when they were all in line for their medal who is it like truchuk i don't know all their names so i'll probably fuck it up but like you could see him mouthing yeah someone in the crowd he's like uh yeah trojack he was like i'm getting so fucked up tonight trojack has a um a back and forth with matt because people tell them they look alike oh i could kind of see that so they like message each other like randomly like congrats cousin how you doing cousin like just like this back and forth so people are always tagging each other so yesterday he was like i just sent him a dm like congrats cuz as you should as you should yeah and i because i feel like i get like there's that and then the cut what how do you say there i to chuck i always say their last name weird right yeah you know what hockey last name sometimes yeah i'll just stick to hughes yeah the hughes brothers are easy they're easy and i like them a lot the other brothers not my cup of tea just right not my cup of tea for a lot of reasons but the hughes brothers cutie pie cutie pants love them and now what you were sending us you know a pretty a pretty big statistic the barbitz thing yes Yeah, I mean, hey, that's a very specific statistic. But hey, yeah, he's the Jack Hughes first golden goal and bar mitzvah haver in history. I saw who responded to it. Some famous comedian responded being like, I have one of those. But it was funny. Their mom is sick too. So she was on the women's ice hockey team back in, I think it was 1992 or 1994. I'm blanking on which year it was. And so she was on the Olympic team for them. And then she's on the staff of the USA women's hockey team as well. So they're just a big hockey family. I think their dad worked on the Maple Leafs for a little bit. And who knows what else? I think they're just like very integrated in hockey. And then they have a third brother. I kind of felt bad for the third brother. He didn't quite make it to the Olympics with the rest of the family. I mean, he's a young person. Yeah, he's younger. So he's like, I think he's four years younger than Quinn and then maybe two years younger than Jack. Right. But also he does still play hockey, right? Yeah, he does play hockey. 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Download the GameTime app today. But yeah, it was an insane week for the Olympics. I mean, we were traveling last week at the end of last week. We didn't post about it because we can't yet, but we were on set with Hulu somewhere doing something fun and cool, which you'll see at a later date. And it was awesome. But like I said, we can't post anything or really talk about it just yet. So we were traveling at the end of the week and we were traveling in the midst of figure skating, the end of figure skating, which turned out to be an awesome win for Alyssa. Amazing win for Alyssa Lou. So we were like on our way to leave and I had it up on my phone and I couldn't believe it. It was down to the wire and really coming out of the numbers. But just a stunning performance. I love how she skates. You know, like she gets out there. She's having fun. And I think figure skating can have a little bit of a almost, I don't know, like uppity. Like it's like they're so serious. Like they get out there and polished. It's like must be polished, clean. Sure, they can smile, but it needs to be like a pageant queen smile, not like I'm really having fun smile. And Alyssa gets out there and she's dancing. She's moving. And she's hitting all of her moves. She's hitting every jump. It was absolutely perfection. It was so great to see. She has such a wild story that just seeing her now win gold is – it's just so awesome. So that was so exciting. I was so happy for Amber to – after the short program disaster, she came back to do the free skate. and it felt like she crushed it. It was the best triple axel she did. It wasn't like, I know at the end she was like this close because she had like one little mess up. But it was good enough to really, you know, push her all the way back to like fifth place, which is pretty impressive with the way it all went. But it was awesome. And like you said, we were not here. So it was like we were getting ready to go somewhere and like in the hotel and the women's hockey wins gold in overtime right into Alyssa winning gold and figure skating. It was amazing. It was a great day for the ladies. Pump for them. I mean, the fact that both teams won gold against Canada in overtime. Amazing. And, you know, we do have amazing Canadian listeners, and we love you guys. Yes, we do. I don't know what to tell you. But silver shines just as bright. Oh, yeah. That is beautiful. That was. No, that's. Did you see that, Rhea? Oh, you don't have Twitter. They had Team Canada put out like a graphic. It said Silver Shines. Oh, no, I didn't see that. And they were getting like made fun of so much for that. It's been fairly chaotic over there on Twitter when it comes to them talking about this game and all the hockey, you know, it was so intense. Waking up Sunday morning and watching the game. And I think one of the Canadian players, too, like Nathan McKinnon, was like, I mean you watch that game and tell tell me who was the better team it's like well you lost and you also missed a wide open shot right like I've actually never seen a wide open shot quite like how wide open that shot was that he missed that's what happens though right like you have a lot of people saying you know Canada was the better team for for both women and men's but then you're like but but they didn't win and you kind of you know like that's always the argument is like well then who who won um but it was but it was so amazing um watching both teams jack really got his teeth knocked out full teeth knocked out but really came away you know a huge winner at the end there you're kind of like trading in trading in the teeth for a gold medal there but i saw he was asked like what was your first thoughts like after that happens like where does the human brain go and he mentioned uh megan keller he said that he like immediately thought of her and her goal for u.s women's because he saw her in the in the in the calf they call it you know olympic village he kept he kept saying that i was saying the calf I was like wow that is just Olympic Village talk right there yeah saying how he saw her in the calf and you know congratulated them and so he was like that's like who I thought of first um so just a bunch of people scoring those golden goals you know you see the what him and Quinn said about like the night before like that they were like couldn't go to sleep and then like two hours after like they've been lying in bed he's like what are you what are you thinking about and he's like thinking about scoring that overtime goal and like he said me too and then like he actually did it like that's insane so sick i mean it's something you dream of right like i imagine all of these people in the olympics it's what they're envisioning and then it happens and i you know i i'm seeing all those those cheesy sayings but it's so true it's like if you don't envision it how will you be ready for the moment you know yeah mike dorico had a great sign off shout out syracuse new house graduate he did he definitely did I think like seeing everything that they said I mean even Jack said that he was uh that when he got that penalty towards the end of the game he was like in the box thinking like oh man I'm gonna end up on I'm gonna end up on Barstool is like the most hated man in America uh quite the opposite and yeah just seeing him smile with all his teeth gone his mouth's bloody I'm like oh amazing pictures amazing pictures that will photos are yeah they will live on forever but I'm sure Tate McRae is like hey you gotta you gotta fix those pretty quick well that that leads me to you know congratulations to all the Olympic athletes that that that won medals and everyone who participated as well who didn't win but now I want to you know go into is he still dating Tate McRae like I like I am I I mean my guess would be yeah but it's also like they could be on a break considering he's been at the Olympics. Right. Like I'm just trying to figure out if they are dating or not, because the last time that we saw them together, right. Was like in December. Yeah. I forget when exactly it was, but it's at this point. It's like, Hey, I don't know. He's probably been in training, probably like a crazy schedule. Um, put the focus on the Olympics maybe after he's won. It's like, Hey, all the, all, all things open up now. I don't know. I kept seeing memes being like, I'm Jack Hughes. I just scored the golden goal for America and I'm dating Tate McCray. Yeah. It was all like, I stole your medal and your pop star. Oh my God. No, it was, I know there was a lot of commentary for that too, but I just like, it was, it was so great to, to see them win for so many reasons. And of course we know it's been so long since 1980 and it was the same exact day, February 22nd to the day and seeing them bring the dro kids onto the ice i was sobbing like a baby i sobbing like the baby and also once again here's how tick like tick tock just your phone your algorithm is just like listening to everything you're doing as soon as the game was over all day sunday everything on my for you page was either about hockey or honestly like videos of noah and like because she's she's like a little star yeah she's out there there's she's you know making all these little videos i think with maybe her aunt i don't i'm not sure who exactly she the she is the one posting all these videos of noah but she's so fucking cute and oh my god her smiling ear to ear on the ice with her and her little brother and it was his second birthday and i was like you gotta be fucking kidding me i was just like full bar you know his family their family there at the game just an absolute puddle it couldn't yeah they held up his jersey for him which was beautiful and i saw people talking like about how the kids they immediately went into the arms of these players. Like they were so comfortable with them, which is also so beautiful. And they were just happy to be on the ice. And that's, that is also a picture that will live on forever. It's just beautiful that they honored him in that way. Um, and also just so sad and so emotional at the same time. I know, I know, but it's just, it's so nice for them to, to do it in that way. Cause it is something that they will have forever. The kids will have forever. Their families will be able to remember and of course honor him since you know he was should have been on this team so I think having that moment was so special and just like really icing on the cake of what an incredible accomplishment that that whole thing was really just what a fun like I know I been joking about how much I love the Olympics but I do and I just think there's there's so many shining moments and it's just the peak of competition and everything that these people have dreamed of their whole lives and they get to go and do it and I love that women won the most gold for the U.S. in this Winter Olympics and you know we crushed a lot of a lot of big wins and I thought that was amazing. So gosh, I was, I'm sad it's over. I know it was amazing all around. Winter Olympics always go quick. It did fly by, but it was honestly just so fun to watch this year. Like it was all, it was all so fun and amazing to watch. And I'm sad that it's over, but it was, it was nice to have while we had it. I totally, and I don't know if anybody's even going to know who I'm talking about, but if you kept the broadcast on after the hockey ended and there was a couple metal ceremonies that happened, there's this – I don't think I could even pronounce his name properly, but I hope people know who I'm talking about. There is a – I think he's Norwegian. Skier, cross-country skier is the prettiest human being I've ever seen in my life. I didn't say. Oh my God. My jaw hit the floor. He was up there getting his gold medal. I guess he got like, he has six gold medals now in cross country skiing. And my God, it looked like a prince out of a cartoon. Oh, they're calling him the new winter Olympics King. It's got to be him. His blonde hair. Yeah. He looks like Prince Charming. Do you see him? yeah i i was taken aback like i his face came on this on my tv sorry i don't know why i'm laughing because you kind of described him like it is like a cartoon no i'm like this guy yes it's like a fake human like i'm like this is that looks like uh like if like i know hans in frozen like kind of has a little bit of a goofy look to him like in the cartoon but it's like if hans is a real like person it'd be this guy wow yeah i see what you're talking about no he's and unfortunately a lot of his pictures you know he's in the goggles and the whole cross-country thing right oh here we go i mean my goodness gracious yeah i'm seeing that that was him getting his medal i thought wow great hair fantastic hair he does got good flow going on great hair but um i don't know if anybody I saw that in the moments. But, yeah, that's it. That's it, and we'll see everybody in L.A. in 2028. They're already starting to run the promos. They got Kate Hudson out here singing, which would not have been the person I expected to be in charge of the first ads for NBC for the 2028 Summer Olympics, but it all under the NBC Universal umbrella They like oh song sung blue She sings Let get let get Kate out there Yeah they they already marketing for it Absolutely. Seems a bit early, but you know what? They got to get people pumped for something. No, when the Olympics end, they got to be like, all right, we're on to 2028. We're on to summer, guys. We're on to summer because it's it's like, hey, we're on to summer and it's here. So that makes a big impact for sure. Oh, and by the way, we just saw this because it's being posted on the internet right now while we are recording. So we've seen bits and pieces of it. But Trump making fun of the women's team calling the guys in the locker room is so fucking lame and such bullshit because these women work so hard. and by the way like like i just said better this like more gold medals yeah more gold medals right um and just like seeing the camaraderie between the teams before yeah and how it's all felt like it was all good like what you were saying with with you know the hughes's mom and like all these things and then he just has to come in and stomp all over it and ruin it it's just like so frustrating so frustrating and it's just takes it takes such a turn because it's like oh you're so excited to see this moment you're happy for these athletes it's such like an awesome thing and you know sports unify this country and then he's gotta step in and just ruin it by having to like knock down the oh i gotta i have i'm gonna have to invite the women's team yeah no shit it's just whatever Yeah, no, it's brutal. It's so annoying to see. And I just want those women athletes to know that you are the best and your performances show that. And they are unbelievable. And we all know it. Exactly. So just got to let this stupidity, you know. Yep. But yeah, that's a wrap. Have you guys seen the other huge thing on the Internet this past weekend that has also taken up my entire feed? Oh, Punch the Monkey. Punch the Monkey. Oh, yes. Oh, my God. I'm so glad that you brought up Punch the Monkey because I almost forgot. I cannot watch these videos. I cannot emotionally handle these videos right now. No, I can't. But he's been accepted, right? It looks like he has, like, a bodyguard now. Like, one of the monkeys. That's one of the tweets I saw, and it's literally, like, a bigger monkey, like, protecting him. Thank God. They got some monkey stepping in to help. Listen, when I saw rumblings of this at first, I was like, do not start feeding me these videos. And then all of a sudden, of course, I just was getting nonstop videos of punch. First, I was like, I hope this isn't AI. Right, you were getting God again. Yeah. Yes. So if you somehow didn't see this monkey in the last few days, he is in a zoo in Japan. Yeah, Japan. He's in a zoo in Japan. Which, by the way, looks like more of just like a concrete pit. Like, what zoo is this? Yeah, and he was kind of like abandoned by his mother. I've seen abandoned, but then the more recent news I'm seeing is that his mother died. Oh. So I don't know which is true. Which is true? Okay, well, either way, he started his life being raised by the human zookeepers. And that obviously doesn't let him assimilate into the group of monkeys. And they have a pretty legit system. We know that. I think a lot of people have seen it, especially for those. I know you guys both watched because everyone was like, this really was reminding me of Chimp Empire. yep really so once he was big enough or they tried to get him to back into the group back into the pack and he's just not he's just non-stop being bullied i mean the poor little guy was being knocked around and because he didn't have a mom they gave him this stuffed orangutan stuffed stuffed animal that was like his comfort and he always brought it around everywhere carried around everywhere, hugging it, snuggling it. And you're seeing these videos of him getting tossed around by these big monkeys. And then he's running to the stuffed animal. He's hiding behind the stuffed animal. By the way, I don't know if this is true, but apparently he's only nine inches tall. What? Listen, that makes sense. He probably is. The whole thing is too much to handle. Like, I can't... And here's the thing. There's a lot of people that know more than we do about the way they these monkeys act and operate and whether or not it is bullying or if this is just like the chain and how it happens and all i know is the videos are just too sad at times and then he has this stuffed animal orangutan on on top of that which is just like adding to the whole thing which now i know why people had to make sure that this was real because you were like you're watching this monkey with a stuffed animal orangutan you're like is this a real video it is very much i'm like falling asleep on top of the on it using it to protect him like it's crazy like being attacked by another monkey and then running across the whole zoo to get his stuffed animal right and he's like i need my stuffy like i just need to be safe with my orangutan and he's just carrying the fucking orangutan around no it's so apparently because it's an ikea it's from ikea the stuff like that they sent like a bunch of i think it's already sold out i was trying to order one honestly yeah it's sold out everywhere it makes sense it's it's a hot toy right now but this you know this reminded me of i said this to matt the other day where I was like, when we have kids and like one day, what if one of them comes home and is like being bullied? My heart can't handle it. Like even thinking about that, I'm just like, what do you do? You know, what do you do when you find out your kid is being bullied? It's, I was, my nephew, Luca, it was his second birthday this weekend. and he had his birthday party on Saturday to infinity and beyond. Very cute. Very fun. He's very big into toy story right now. And watching all these little kids play with each other, like just like him and a bunch of other two-year-olds or three-year-olds or whatever. And I'm like, this is so freaking cute. Like watching the ball interact. But then you remember like one day he's going to go to school. And what if he gets- They're going to grow into monsters. Yeah. Like what if he gets bullied? Like I just, oh my God, it's too much. It's too much on the heart. it really it really is i guess on on friday the um zoo he's in the ichikawa city zoo put out a statement that said that before that video was recorded punch attempted to communicate with another baby monkey in the habitat but he was rejected punch was then confronted by an adult monkey likely the mother of the baby monkey that punch tried to interact with and in the statement the zoo said the mother may have thought her baby was annoyed with punch which upset her the zoo statement said while punch is scolded he shows resilience and mental strength when you observe these disciplinary behaviors from other troop members toward punch when he tries to communicate with them we would like you to support punches efforts rather than feel sorry for him it's like um impossible it's impossible it's impossible not to feel sorry for him when you're watching these videos also whenever the zookeeper comes in and punch like jumps onto the that one zookeeper every time i don't know if you saw those videos but yeah so they also said he's getting um he's getting groomed playfully poking at others getting scolded and having all sorts of experiences every day steadily learning how to live as a monkey within the troop he's learning i hope so i'm sure we'll get more updates i hope so because my god that was just the worst thing i've ever seen in my life i just so sad but also so cute you know i know it's a lot it's a lot to handle punch it really is that it's just like just like make sure he's okay you know yeah but there is a system and it's like they want to get him back into the system of the family life, the troop life, as they call it, so that he's not fully reliant on humans. Or on his stuffed animal. I know. His orangutan. I wonder what the other monkeys think about his stuffed animal. They probably hate it. They're probably like, are we just not going to tell them that's not a real monkey? They're talking to each other like, is someone going to let Punch know that this monkey isn't real they're like look at this little monkey carrying around this fake monkey oh shit it's all well we're thinking of you stay strong out there bud stay strong we are rooting for you big we are rooting for you um on a you know very sad note uh unfortunately eric dean lost his battle with als um on thursday it was reported um just incredibly sad all around i mean everything it seemed to happen so fast with him yeah and you know we're seeing so many videos he had um his thing on netflix friend you said you watched uh it's just all so sad and heartbreaking yeah it's just it's super awful super sad we've known about we've known about his battle he has been open about it and really it seems like he just wanted to get a message out to his girls He's his two daughters with his ex, Rekha Gayhart, who they have not been together for a while, but actually never fully got divorced. And he kind of talked about that in the Netflix thing, but he did a famous last words with Brad Falchuk. Valchuk and he's being interviewed and they're really just in a room. The two of them, no one else is in the room and he's just sort of talking about his, his life, his experiences, his relationship with his family, his parents, you know, some of the moments in his career, things he's proud of his family life. His history with drugs and alcohol and his relationship with his dad. And really sharing a lot of things that I'm sure were extremely therapeutic to get out there. But it really is a crazy concept because they start it and they're like, look. uh if if you're watching this that means eric has passed because it's something that they recorded purposely for after he had died so it's just it's kind of crazy to see him speaking from that perspective of you know at this point i'm not here anymore so let me let me share my story and towards the end brad got up and left and just it was just eric in the room by himself and he just you know looked directly in the camera and was like these are my my last words for billy in georgia his his daughters um and it was just incredibly heartbreaking i was another time crying like a baby. I just, it was so beautiful what he said. And I think it's a beautiful thing to have that moment, to be able to do that for his daughters, but also do it in a public way, which I'm sure, you know, people can have your opinion on if that's a private thing you want to do or a public thing you want to do. But as someone that's in the public eye, and has been in the public eye for a long time, I thought what a beautiful thing to do not only for his daughters but for other families that could relate to the situation that he is in or losing a father at a young age and kind of having that message. But my God, it's just so, so, so, so sad. So, so sad. And, you know, those his girls are still pretty young and. It's hard to wrap your mind around because. ALS is just a brutal, brutal, brutal disease, like it's just brutal. So. Right. I mean, it's sad to see. It really is so sad. And it's kind of crazy to wrap your head around, you know, someone knowing that their life is coming to an end. as sad and scary as that sounds when you film that yeah you you know what's ahead and the amount of courage it takes to get on camera and film your last words knowing what's ahead for you is really quite heartbreaking and sad but also like you said beautiful at the same time for him to be able to get his words out there for his family and for other people out there that are dealing with the same thing because it is such a scary, brutal disease that so many people deal with. And it unfortunately takes a lot of people's lives and in such a quick way, you know, and we saw that happen with Eric, that it seemed like one moment we heard of his diagnosis and, you know, the next year this happens, which is so incredibly sad, but beautiful words to watch and to live by and for his family to see that and so many people that worked with him to have so many lovely things to say about him um he did film euphoria yeah apparently before before he passed um so that's interesting as well but the whole thing is just so so sad and and it's always a reminder that you know as sad it is that you just don't know you just don't know yeah and it's it's just another moment he kind of spoke on this too of just you really gotta you really gotta live your life in the fullest and not and not take anything for granted because you just you never know what's you never know what's coming and absolutely it's it's so true it's it's one of those dark times that reminds you that you really don't know and you can't take life for granted and also another reminder that you don't know what other people are going through maybe behind closed doors that they don't even talk about their suffering of of this disease or many other ones as well so just you know thinking about his family and and friends and anybody else suffering from this right now because it's just so awful yeah absolutely absolutely so and brad i thought brad did a lovely job sort of navigating the conversation and giving him moments to speak but asking really you know thoughtful questions which um which was nice so it's it's a beautiful thing to watch even you know of course it's super sad it obviously is it's very very sad but still um just a still put out a great message there and to kind of learn a little bit more about him and how he is, you know, how he reflected on his life. 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You must be 18 years old to enroll or 13 to 17 with a parent slash guardian. weekly watch report on monday weekly watch report on monday weekly watch report on monday weekly watch report on monday all right let's get into everything we watched this week it was a good week of television i was excited to have a lot of things to watch um we had traitors love is blind love story i gotta break out my list for for the things we've watched i'm catching up on on all stars shit my goodness gracious yeah my goodness gracious finale's tonight oh shit yeah all right well i'm gonna catch up before the finale i only have a finale it's live in the uk tonight so okay okay yeah i have like i want to say like three episodes left i was really trying to chug along yesterday sunday it was a great day to catch up yeah this was the weekend to do it it was i was like you know what i'm doing this i'm gonna start off with the things that i'm just gonna get out of the way first before we get into the bigger recaps uh watched is this thing on the Will Arnett, Laura Dern, Bradley Cooper movie. It was fine. Like, I didn't think it was great, and I didn't think it was bad. I thought it was fine. There were some funny moments. Yeah, by the way, since I watched it, apparently it's like semi-true story, which I didn't know when I was watching it. It is based on, they said, someone, I guess. It's not Bradley Cooper. it's not Bradley Cooper and it's not Will Arnett but yeah like I liked it like I'm not going to rave about it I didn't find it to be one of the best movies ever watched and I don't know if I'll ever watch it again but I understood the message behind it and I liked the concept I mean no I remember you talking about this last week saying you have to like you know expand your reality kind of there yeah suspend your belief suspend your belief yes or expand your reality whatever one you want to go with I like that I've never heard that expand your reality just made it up here on the spot but yeah you sort of do but it's fun because it's it's once again takes place in New York City the comedy cellar kind of yeah they don't ever like say comedy cellar but you see my dad about it but he was like if you aren't from New York maybe you don't know like how like famous that place is it could just be any comedy club right and you don't know that you can't just pop into a place and do that but i kind of liked that he didn't like bomb right away you know what i'm saying like when you when he first goes in you're kind of expecting him to be like oh this is fucking awful he's gonna get up there and bomb but he didn't really like people laughed and it wasn't as uncomfortable as i thought it was gonna be because i was kind of like you know when you that first moment you're kind of like cringing really hard like what's gonna happen um but yeah it was it was fine i I will give it a B minus. I'll give is this thing on. Watch Neighbors. So Noah had talked about this, I think, two weeks ago, or maybe last week it was, this show on HBO that follows Neighbors in different states and the fights that they get into. And now it's weekly. So I thought there was a bunch of episodes out, but when I first watched it, there was only one episode out, and now two is out, and I don't know when the third one comes out. so i'm caught up on both one and two and it is a very interesting show the dynamic of neighbors and who's right and who's wrong and my goodness gracious some of these people are just so fucking annoying like you're just like oh my god um it is interesting though and definitely funny at times um but also sad at times too because you know these people are dealing with this shit and they just want to you know live and neighbor neighbor neighbor banter neighbor dynamics and it is interesting though i'll give it a b it's just something it's quick it's 30 minutes yeah i have to watch the new i haven't watched past one the second episode is crazier than the first like oh my god but i won't i won't give anything away but wow uh i'll give that a b and summer house i will give a B minus. Summer House was a tough watch this week. Yeah. It's one of those shows that I'm always into but at the same time I'm like... No, I mean I love it. I love Summer House in general. Just watching Amanda and Kyle fight like that on the beach was tough to watch and I don't know. There's some there's a lot of deep deeper rooted issues I think with Kyle that as a viewer it seems so clear but for them in their real life it is it's not but watching him become so defensive as soon as his drinking is brought up is such like it's just not good and it really makes you think that there are potentially some deeper issues there because for him to kind of immediately go for the jugular on on amanda it's like oh amanda's just saying hey the partying the drinking if that was all reined in a little bit I wouldn't be acting the way I am. Like he keeps throwing all these accusations and all these things at Amanda, but he can't acknowledge that it all stems from his actions and his refusal to step back from the partying and the drinking and all these things. And it's like, if you were to do that, maybe there is a way to save this. And instead he attacks Amanda and he's like, you do this is this talking about her personality he's like get a personality like i hated every second of having to watch that and it also clearly looked uncomfortable for everybody else in the group having to see that happen the boys kind of checking on amanda and being like you know i think it was west who was like i hate when kyle gets like this like it's it's it's too much like yeah west was like he's he's just a fucking baby sometimes and i week after week talk about this fucking man child i don't have patience or tolerance for people like that i really don't it's like get yourself together you're a joke you're actually a joke i i the way that he treats her makes me feel physically ill because the fact that he can't wrap around in his brain that it has to do with his actions genuinely pisses me the fuck off i'm like how do you not get yeah that her actions are a direct reaction to the way you act yeah going back to before they got married he had to sign something about his drinking that if he didn't get his drinking in check he would owe amanda's parents every dollar that they put into whatever how does he not see it how does he not have any listen you can enjoy your life have fun want to do things go out hang out with your friends all those things while also having a want to be a good husband and partner and like want better for yourself and for your family and for your wife it's like he just he automatically jumps to okay fine I'll just stop drinking and I'll just stop DJing like he's just a big baby like he's just a fucking baby you know it's the immediate jump to conclusion of well I'll just give up my entire life and a man is like well yeah like you knew how i felt and then you just started djing like it's it's just a slap in the face i can't stand it i honestly i have like i just and every week people are like but i love kyle he seems so fun to hang out with i'm like i actually don't see that i actually just find him to be quite annoying because of the way he treats amanda like yeah there's sometimes a line of like yeah someone could be like a fun person to hang out with and maybe they're bad in relationships but at what point does it become like actually i'm just kind of like grossed out by your behavior and like i actually don't even think you're fun anymore because you're gonna choose i saw somebody put up a video that was like him djing in kansas city this weekend and it was like this or amanda batula and i'm like you have it right there Like really you chose this life instead of your wife. And to me, that's pathetic. Yeah. Cause it really is like, it almost just seems perfect world. Kyle wanted to get Amanda to live his lifestyle. Want to go out, want to be social all the time to all these things and him not have to change a single thing. Like him just get to do what he wants, but she now has to change to his, to his life and what he wants to do. So. And if that's the case, and if you're like that kind of person, and that's just like, you want to be selfish in that way, then best is that they're not together anymore. And now he can sort of do that and just live in his, in Kyle's world. And maybe he'll just be by himself, or maybe he will be with somebody who adapts to his lifestyle. And then fine, good for him if he could figure out that. but Amanda did not deserve any of this and he put her in a in a shitty situation because you know now she has an attitude with him and now she's kind of given it to him and it's on tv and people are watching and you know it's like oh Amanda's giving him attitude well yeah no shit she's giving him attitude because she's she's fed up with having to explain herself to her husband that she has explained to him long before they even got married. So it's best now that they, they are separated and can hopefully just move on from this and they can both have what they want in life because clearly they did not want the same things. Completely. It's, it's like you. And I saw, I saw a lot of people saying this, like, thank God we are watching this and they are broken up because if we were watching this and all this shit was happening and they were still together it would be it would be like impossible to wrap our minds around and i could see that amanda's being nice to kyle on social and i think it's because probably she she seems like such a wonderful person and i think that she's probably gonna see the backlash that kyle's gonna get this season and is maybe like hey we're we're cool now like since we're separated and it's like you know you don't have to we don't have to attack kyle online or do any of that we could talk about his actions and how much they're pissing us off like watching but at this point let them be separated and let them live their own lives and like for sure you know that whole thing um so i'll give i'll give uh summer house is a b minus i want to learn more about the new people i think that you know kj and ben and bailey and levi they're bringing like a a fresh perspective to the show and it could be fun to learn more about them i'm not like annoyed by them and i'm not like oh my god love them yet they're like perfectly fine yeah kyle and amanda are really just dominating the storyline right now mhm sierra is cracking me up yeah he's like i am the you know i'm a i'm a strict probation officer but i'm allowed to clock out yeah which is very very funny um and west being like i don't know if we're friends we're flirting or she hates my guts and that's kind of where she should keep him you know it's like right where you want him right and he where he's got absolutely no idea but it was cute him being like so excited he's like at the best site with sierra like he's just like it is cute yeah yeah and then there's a preview for next week where jesse's like asking west if he can make out with sierra and it's and i just want to know like does sierra have a say because all these guys are like oh make out with sierra this that's like i don't think sierra wants to make out with you so what does it even fucking matter you know Like, and Wes kind of says to him, like, you know, anybody else would be like, you're a fucking dickhead for asking me this. Like, kind of absurd. So whatever that. But moving on to Love is Blind. My God. I feel like I'm just going off on all these, like, men on reality TV today because they are just so frustrating to watch these fucking pieces of shit. Like I was getting so boiled up watching boiled up. I don't even know if that's a phrase. Expand your reality, boiled up, watching Love is Blind. I mean, these guys are just such assholes this season, besides maybe like two of them. But really quite the pick of the litter here because, oh my God. Did you guys hear that? No. sorry there is literally clumps clumps of ice and snow falling in front of my face right now wow i watching from the window holy shit that was wild sorry sorry not to get off i not getting off this rant right now these fucking terrible men on love is blind but the nerve that these guys have when these women wouldn't even look in their fucking direction in real life oh goodness gracious i don't even know where to begin i don't even know where to But I guess we just begin with Chris because he really ended up stealing the show in the 11th hour of Love is Blind. Yeah. Where he just turned into one of the worst humans I've ever seen on this fucking show. Absolutely. But don't forget that he does not give a flying fuck. And he'll say it three or four or five times. And I love when Connor stepped in and was like, oh, no, he said, I've heard this the second, third time I've heard him say this or whatever he said. this guy Chris this little troll this little elf this little fucking shrimp really had the nerve to tell a beautiful gorgeous doctor doctor okay infectious disease doctor infectious disease doctor who is busy in the hospital on the daily saving lives doing her work being a boss that he wants someone who does Pilates every day. And he can't get past the fact that she doesn't work out every day. And he's looking for, and by the way, the fact that he kept repeating the Pilates part of it. I know. Pissed me the fuck off. Cause it's like, you're just like, it just sounded like he's looking for a specific like thing. You know, like it's not about working out. It's not about a routine. It's not about this. He's the Pilates every day. Him saying that was him perpetuating the like stereotype of what a Pilates body looks like. And let me tell you something. I thought we were texting about this because we were both infuriated. I'm just like. Do these guys own a mirror? Sorry. I'm just like. Okay, great. Chris if you like to work out every day enjoy your time fine but to say that to someone and then Bree kind of like defending him in that argument he was like oh no you just like want somebody that's on that same routine like it's like a routine thing I was like Bree you got you have got to be kidding me because as of right now connor seems like a very sweet guy sure maybe like some immature areas here or there but all in all seems like a pretty nice guy like he he's he's seems like he's got his sure he's got a keg in the backyard but and his christmas tree's still up but like those are things you could get past but the way that brie treats him like she's constantly talking down to him constantly like kind of making fun of him it seems that she's over here talking to chris like defending him in this weird way and chris is like i think you just i think you need somebody like more dominant and like all i'm like is that supposed to be you i can't no first of all connor got a mustache and became like the most mature guy in the show like all of a sudden when they came when they moved back home and connor got a mustache it was like oh connor grew up and he has mature thoughts now first of all i didn't want to go after any of the women on this show because the guys just suck so much that i was really disappointed when i felt like we had to criticize brie here because the the guys are bad enough we don't need a woman on the show enabling their bad behavior which by the way brie who is like mad that you know connor has a keg and whatever calls herself breezy so if we're like like we're stuck on a guy who's like like you're like call me breezy like that's like you know like i'm just well that's her name no but her name's brie and she's like call me breezy like as if that's not like a fratty thing to do sorry like her nickname her whole life right but breezy is like a fratty name you're not gonna you're gonna tell me breezy isn't like a frat name no it's not i i do i i mean i i get what you're saying i just think that's what their family fine that's her nickname fine i'm just mad that we had to watch her no i just told it was fucked up like her even to entertain chris right i was like why are we entertaining this conversation right now like immediately it was like i'm not taking sides i could see where you're coming from it's routine that's not what he's saying he keeps saying pilates body like or like pilates every day like you i get like you know what he's saying with that and which was pissing me off and then on top of that he gets into his like sex conversation and he's like let me know is this the best sex you ever had she's like no but it's good it's like breezy if you're gonna marry this guy and you're saying this on tv like why are you even talking about your sex life with connor with another man like to me that is just so inappropriate when you're like engaged to this guy it's like all around inappropriate she i don't think that she was defending connor in those conversations at all she she wasn't defending her friend either like it all around was just a a mess of a conversation in in my personal opinion and was so frustrating to watch because as bad as chris is and was acting because my goodness gracious he is terrible you would hope that a woman talking to him would be like bro get out like kind of like how amber did like amber was like nah like amber was killing me in the conversation with chris where she was just like like she wasn't having any of it like chris was being annoying being like you know we say like amber is crazy but she was just like uh uh i'm you know i'm walking away from this uh-uh brie could have done that she could have walked away but for some reason she has like a liking to him i guess because they bonded in the pods and i'm just like this guy is so not it at all he's fucking terrible he is terrible and i i truly think that maybe he was like i'm like was he on drugs when he was like was at that bar oh i think he was fucked up because the way he was acting was so crazy i i posted my instagram like a demon took over his body i'm like we haven't seen this guy act like this one time now all of a sudden he's this hot shot they're talking about he how he's on making an instagram posting from a strip club like being like that like it's like ah like what's happening literally is this like his true self coming out like he was like just a fake person in the pods and now I don't know it was just it was just so bizarre to me right and you see Brie and Jessica talking about like how and Jessica kind of protected Brie when you know Brie had said that Chris DM'd her right but then we see Jessica talking to the other women and she's like you know he he did message somebody she doesn't say like she's you know and I'm just like the nerve the nerve of this guy really I just felt so bad for Jessica in those moments because she is so awesome and you could tell like just everything about her like the way she carries herself and she's so beautiful as well so the fact that we have this little shrimp of a guy making her feel less than oh it disgusts me it does I mean and this is just the nerve that guys have in general like they just it's like you you really look to yourself in the mirror and said I have the nerve to talk about women the way that I do when I look like this and you don't want to go low like they do you know you don't want to go lower and start making fun of the way they look when they talk about it but that you just got to remind them you're like really you're gonna say this it's it's ridiculous but it's i don't know they have they have a lot of a lot of couples this year picture this it's monday morning maybe it's a snowstorm you open your laptop outlook hits you with 87 unread emails your calendar now looks like a game of tetris your boss wants a report your team wants a presentation and you just want to snuggle up in the snow and take a nap Enter Microsoft Copilot. 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There's just sometimes when you get the guys like this, you're like, okay, you clearly have a lot to work on yourself before you have some sort of partner uh a lot of talk about the soccer a lot of talk about living nomadically i i if i have to hear this guy say one more time either of those things but now also because in the preview he's like you know i and he said it before is that you know he normally goes for for darker features ashley is stunning she's a gorgeous girl you hit the fucking lottery my guy and he's like i prefer brunette i this is what drives me nuts because like then you're like okay you clearly had the wrong intentions coming on this show all of those things you're you're an insecure man you got all these issues and you're gonna look at this another stunning woman and be like i actually like dark hair and dark features it's crazy and i don't really think that they're compatible anyway um i think that i don't know the sex stuff was kind of weird i'm like clearly ashley ashley clearly needs her needs met the period trap the it was that was her conversation when he was like do you want to share your what is going on what is going like i said once again he has a lot of his own issues that he needs to work through before he can be in a relationship talks about his mom and his family and he definitely had a fucked up parental situation and you know he was an accident and he's he seems to be very afraid of being trapped into like having a baby like i think that's what he's afraid of that he She's going to get pregnant and it's like, oh my God, now I'm having a baby. And I don't think he really needs to be worried about that in this scenario. She's repeatedly said that she doesn't want to have a child right now. But it's just the same thing that he keeps on bringing up. It's like, okay, you guys are not going to work. I saw people loving her dad. no thank you no thank you not for me i actually didn't like one second of that neither did i i was like what is this like both of their ends yeah both all around i was like this is fucking bizarre and i didn't like it at all and i also now that we're talking about the parents because you brought up her dad Mike's family the Italian family yeah was so absurd like wait I love them you do like I just thought it was like such like a you know dominant like we don't call it sauce it's called gravy it's like first of all nobody no it's first of all you're gonna open up a whole whole other conversation right now where it's not fucking called gravy it's not it's called sauce but besides that like i it's crazy because you really are it is going to be such a battle my my mother-in-law says gravy does she uh-huh that's wild yeah that's wild but no i just felt like it was just it was it you know listen i it was crazy what they were doing at the beginning like i thought oh like they're they're really you know they were doing the full it almost felt I called the Italian Inquisition it was like uh you know we're big Italian family how are you gonna fit in like just looking at her but then I felt towards the end they like dropped that a little bit and they were like look like you guys are happy these are things you talked about like you seem like a lovely girl it seemed like they were more open to it but of course right away especially with you know that kind of family it's like if and and you're and uh an italian mother with her son she's like my boy isn't gonna doesn't isn't gonna have babies so i i get it like i'm sure that they're um they have their their worries about that situation but i i mean i love emma i think she is so sweet yeah and and so genuine and has obviously extremely valid reasons for being nervous about starting a family what I thought was crazy was them going to her family and she is definitely I guess shared with them or her family that she's never wanted to have kids and that her family felt like that was a hard stop and now maybe she's entertaining it and that could be a little like whoa are you okay this is something you've never ever said she's been fiercely independent her whole life now this guy's here now she's like oh maybe because like he wants kids um but her sister saying like I have two kids I love them so much like I love my kids so much but if I could go back and and live this life again I wouldn't have kids and just like live life for myself I thought what a crazy thing to say um as something another thing where you're like you're on tv and this is recorded and your two small children could eventually see this and be like wow mom never uh if mom could have a do-over she'd want us out of here like it's like I, you, you texted me and you were like, you texted me. You were like, just wait until you get to this conversation. Now, here's the thing. I, I do appreciate mothers like being honest about their experiences and like what they go through and how hard it actually is to be a mom. Because I do think a lot of it is like glamorized. A lot of times are people like, oh my God, you know, I would be nothing without my kids and all this. And like, and sometimes people aren't open and honest about like how hard it really is so like I do appreciate that aspect of it but the way that it was worded on like a big Netflix show like this and you're like man these kids when they grow up and see this they're gonna be like uh so mom's basically saying yeah she wouldn't have us again um felt like felt like it maybe could have been worded a little bit differently you know yeah definitely like more of like a hey if you don't want to have kids don't because there is something to be said about living for yourself and just for yourself and you don't have to have kids um and i feel like that is that is a great conversation to have um so i think it was the way that it was worded it was like whoa yeah it's like oh okay it definitely could have been definitely could have been said in a in a different way i thought but yeah so i that seems that seems like a big issue for them i think on the kids front we'll see what we'll see what happens and the same thing with um amber and jeremy right his name's jeremy jordan jordan why did i think jeremy jordan jane i don't know yeah where it's like oh you see him in the pods and he's like hey my one deal breaker was no kids and here he is with a woman with a child and I'm like okay which is just crazy to me on this show is you can ride this whole thing out to the end potentially get married and be like ah you know it just didn't work out because she has a child already it's like okay well did you just do this to stay on TV? because you had said pretty clearly that that was a deal breaker to you um so I don't know but as of right now they seem to have a great relationship so I hope that it doesn't become an issue because I think she is so great and deserves someone that treats her like a queen and I think it could be him like I think they they could have a really great relationship if that's something that they can get on the same page with because she's going to put her daughter first when it comes to where they want to live and the house and all these things. And he's very much like, I want to be close to the city. I want to be close to the city. So it, is it going to be a problem? It might, it might be. I do think Amber and Jordan are really sweet though. I really do. I really do like them together. I really like Amber. I, I think that she's great. And you know, like I said earlier, I love that she like wasn't having Chris's bullshit and I love the way that she like talks about the like she's just had bad experiences with guys and she's like fuck these guys um and I love that and you know she has a seven-year-old daughter and I think she's great and I think Jordan is great it's just about if he is ready yeah to take on the role of being stepdad and also not being near his dive bars that he wants to be near so um we'll see what happens there but my goodness are these people frustrating time and time after again when you when you watch you go then why the fuck did you go on a show called love is blind when you had specific types yeah you know alex like being so stuck on liking somebody with darker features or chris who wants pilates body or whatever the fuck it's like well then don't call on this show okay i had and then also guys that are just seem so disengaged oh like devante just seems like he doesn't want to be there no watching davante i'm like okay please britney is so cute so beautiful so like bubbly she deserves a man that is interested in her and loves her and wants to be all up on her and showing her that love and he's just he's just so blah it's like he has no personality um i just it's i i don't know how long this show's going to go on for but it seems like it's going to keep going you know what i mean like it's you you wonder when are we going to realize this whole thing maybe isn't working but it's also so entertaining every time but it's also it's entertaining but at what expense right it's like we're watching these men get to just like shit on these women and make them feel bad about themselves when they absolutely shouldn't be and then they have like insecurities after this that they also had going in before yeah i had a a lot of women respond to my instagram story being like yeah this is what we're dealing with in columbus ohio like these are the kind of men that are in the dating pool here and it's just fucking bullshit like and it reminds you of the stupid guys online too that just have so much to say about beautiful women everywhere and you're like what the fuck do you look what do you bring into the table my guy seriously yeah yeah i know you know what I also found so confusing and like maybe it's how it works or not but Christina and Vic are just a beautiful couple that seem to be mature and have real life conversations and you're like okay this process could work they're on their own show like they're not it seemed like when they walked into that bar is the first time they'd seen each other in weeks because they weren't in Mexico with all the rest of the cast. They were in Malibu. And when I looked it up, it was like, oh, Netflix or not. The production company only has like a set budget for a certain amount of couples. And this season, they had more couples than usual. So it was like a budget thing that all of them couldn't go to Mexico. And I said, I'm so sorry. I don't believe that. Like you're telling me you don't have enough money to send one more couple to Mexico. It was so weird. I'm like, that can't be the reason a budget issue that you can't send the lot like one more couple to Mexico. Really weird. But seems like they had a lovely time in Malibu. I those two are adorable. And I'm like, wow, listen to them have such mature conversations about life and what it would mean for them to be married and start a family and all these things. And you're like, you got to deal with Chris on the other side of this. But I don't even know if they were like, hey. And it seemed like they also thought like, whatever, blame it on budgets. But then it was like, oh, also, you know, they're going to pick the couples that could potentially have the most drama with each other. And those two were having drama with nobody because they were they were locked into each other, which is like, OK, so punish them that they don't get to go to Mexico. know like weird weird weird but i have faith in those two because every time they cut to them i'm like ah breath of fresh air two very mature adult humans trying to have a relationship right it felt like they netflix was like hey can you get some uh phone footage of you guys because none of these other couples are like oh we're not even sending a producer yeah we're gonna need to edit some of this in to make it look like you know one of these experiments worked uh crazy i am interested what happened there but i will give this season i'll give it a a b plus i mean like yeah i'm around the same the pods were funny enough like normally the pods i find more interesting and the pods were a little less like less exciting to me than these last three new episodes i thought were more interesting because these guys are starting to lose their minds it appears it's just a hate watch it's just like all around yeah um moving on to traitors so we are nearing the end we are close to the finale now this week this thursday night is the finale and they almost had him they almost had them this week the faithfuls they were right there all right they were almost at the fucking finish line if they would have just trusted their gut they just have no they have no confidence in any move so it's like of course eventually out of weeks of doing this show or whatever you know they're there for day after day after day that like eventually rob's name is going to be brought up in conversation it has to there's no it's going to get to a point where they're so confused they just got to start naming everybody so it's frustrating when you're like you're on the right path but there they have no confidence zero confidence in anything that they're doing and then they just eat each other alive because finally tara is on it she's like i think it's rob and you're and you're watching you're like you know what tara yes you're right you got this girl you've been doubting yourself you've been doubting yourself the whole time but she's got no reason yeah they're like but why she's like i don't know yeah she's like well we're just we just gotta look at him and you know she's been she's like i'm so bad at this game she finally is like i think it's rob something's not right candace threw his name out there you know that was something candace throwing his name she goes to natalie she's spreading it they get to that round table that man doesn't receive one vote that man does not get his name written down one time she crumbled so hard Tara and Natalie just turn on each other and they were in it like and honestly justice for Natalie at that round table Natalie was frustrating to watch at times during this show yes but the way that it just flipped to Natalie when when she brought up It may be being robbed. And Tara just crumbled and was like, I don't want to say anymore of who I think it is. And it's like, okay, but you are also playing a game. And I know that it can really, like the where and Tara gets to you. And now time and time again, you're wrong. And it's getting to you. And, you know, you see her break down in tears and she's comforted by Mark after. But it is, you are playing a game. And right now you have to name somebody. So just stick, like stick with Natalie and be like, yeah I did say it was Rob but she all of a sudden was like I don't want to say who and then kind of just left Natalie out there to be banished because Natalie was like what's going on right now like you we all talked about this all day and now you guys are just cowering like everyone just like backtracked and they're like we're just gonna fucking go for Natalie right now I wish Natalie because there are so many times at a round table where it felt like Natalie just went into hardcore defense mode. And instead of creating a good argument for why it could be somebody else, it was always either like, well, it's not me. It's not me. It's not me. And if you're the person that brings up her name, then she's just like, well, then it's you. So it just took a turn for her. And instead of being able to like shake people off of her and be like, actually, let's all have a conversation of why it could be Rob. They just lost it between the two of them. It didn't work out for her, which. Which sucks. And Rob wasn't good at defending himself. No, he wasn't. And it's just it's just so great. talking about this where it's like he's had so much time to like come up with an excuse for that and he had nothing other than like i don't know i thought that was weird well you know what's so crazy too is like he just has he has certain people and now of course eric is on the same side of him but like mora can't possibly fathom like we get it you have a crush on rob like get She cannot. It's impossible. She can't even let his name be brought up and have a discussion because she's so like, it's not Rob, which is great for Rob. But it's just like, they can't even have a conversation at the roundtable about it being Rob because more like it's not Rob. it's really crazy it's like listen at some point it falls and you're like you know what it might be fucking rob we're with him long enough the show's over tomorrow we had him here let's get rid of him now all right we're all going home tomorrow anyway we don't gotta keep him around it's like she just thinks because the one person she knows outside the show is with her there she's like ah i can't possibly be him they're not even like good friends outside the show they're not they're not friends at all i think they just were on love island not not even together she was like the host of the after show and like talked to him one time it is really nuts because maura is talking about her defense of rob as if she's tara and johnny yeah she's like i could never believe it's no it's it's it's actually baffling she knows it's the i think it's not rub like it's just like I think this I think that it's just but it's not Rob like yeah when Tara when they first brought it up to her her face was like it's not Rob trust me trust me it's not Rob if it is like why why is it not right like why yeah why is it not him I know that is the question but so he skates by again we all have love languages and if you have a dog you know they have one too Some dogs are definitely all about that quality time Some love physical touch But most dogs, their love language is definitely food Celebrate the one you love the most by giving them the best, highest quality ingredients with Ollie And yes, it's the kind of meal dogs actually get excited about It's real fresh food that they'll love and devour Which is the best way to show them love every day Because if they're giving you everything, the least we can do is make dinner absolutely delicious It's human-grade recipes backed by vet nutritionists and crafted with culinary experts for tailored meal plans to meet your dog's specific needs. 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And I kind of forget how it ends. Like if there is a traitor, you know what I'm saying? like it's like they go around and they i think this is how it ends maybe i'm maybe oh my god things are like sorry i keep getting i heard that you can't hear it yeah but you know like i'm like if he does turn on eric and then they get eric out and then they think that that's the last traitor yeah then they go to the end and it's like do you believe everyone here is a faithful that sort of thing and then they say yes right and then they all reveal themselves and they go i'm a faithful I'm a faithful. And then I'm a traitor. So if Rob, so if Rob like says, yes, we're all faithfuls. But then when they reveal, he's like, I'm a traitor. Then Rob just wins. Then Rob just wins. Because if, if they all agree and say, yeah, we think we're all faithfuls. Cause I just remember from how it's when it's only been faithfuls and then they just have to argue about the money. Right No I think it I think they all have to agree Like yes we all faithfuls here and then they reveal themselves and it like yeah Rob like I a traitor Haha I won the whole thing strategically though Like, yes, it would make sense. I think to try and get rid of Eric, but at this point, like I don't, I, at this point, I imagine Rob is at his, at his most confident. Like I, I think every round table has proven that like they could turn it. And I feel like he could probably create an argument for Johnny or something. And they'd all be like, okay, like, yes, you wouldn't get Tara, but I think you could get the rest of them. Like Tara's not going to vote for Johnny, but I think you could, you could get Mark, Maura, Rob, Eric to all vote for Johnny. Right. But if Johnny then reveals I'm a faithful, they're going to go, oh, there's a traitor left. yeah yeah you know like i think i i'm not 100 sure how it's supposed to end here that's a good point because i think that they would be like there's got to be one more traitor who do they murder do you think i think see mark is like most people think mark most people think it's mark mark is definitely the smartest in the bunch yeah so i'd be like let's get him out of here i would also go with mark because the the rest of them yeah i see the like you know rob's argument of more of murdering Maura, but then they might go, Oh, he murdered more to get the stink off him. You know, it might turn. And also you kind of need more as vote at the end because she'll be like, Rob's a faithful. My God, she won't vote against him. So you should absolutely keep her. I would be nervous to keep Johnny and Tara together. Yeah. And that's why I would maybe entertain murdering one of them. Because I really wish we asked Mark this when he was on, because it just seems so clear. And we've talked about this, Rhea, and you pointed out too, I don't know how they're not having any conversations that's like, it has to be a guy. Like all the other traders have been women. So why are none of them like, just, you know, statistically speaking here, it has to be a guy. I don't know either. And maybe they are talking about it and it's just not being shown because there is so much footage we don't see. They got all female traders this year. Right. Maybe, maybe they're thinking like that. Who knows? but I cannot wait for this finale. I can't wait to figure out how this ends. Does Rob win it all at this point? He deserves to win it all. Like, I, you know, if the faith bulls come out with a win here, I will be mighty impressed. I think it would be quite the turn of events and it'll be shocking. And I think a lot of people would be excited though, because they're just like, it would be a change up from what we think is going to happen. But all in all, I do think Rob deserves to win in the end because he's just gotten by this, this entire time and um but a lot of people's like argument to that it's like like he probably will win and like he's done fine but it's like he hasn't done anything crazy because he's just had to sit back and like no one's come for him and then the second they do like it passes over and like but this is what this is what happens though when people play a good then there's the argument of are they playing a good game are they not playing he's playing a good game like let's let's call it how it is yeah he's playing a good game he he did what he had to do to get out of lisa scramble the candace scramble like he's playing a good game yeah yeah it does like the conversation always like but is he it's like no he is he is he is he is although the faith was our extra bad right now yeah they're all-time bad but i i'm curious what pilot p was here he'd be gone let's just say oh no i mean the the fact that they all fucking switched up on each other i couldn't believe it i was like poor natalie who just oh yeah which does make me think though that if they murder like if johnny and tara are still left together at the end i think that they would go for rob because it does seem like johnny did agree that rob was a traitor so you know at the end of the episode when they when it shows johnny saying there are two traitors left and it's rob and eric i think that was edited in because they never showed his face saying it yeah yeah yeah and they just it like moved quick and they just you hear him say it but you don't see him say it And I'm wondering, and I don't want to not give Johnny credit here, but it was just weird that they didn't show him saying it where I'm like, I'm wondering if the faithfuls were doing so bad that in post-production they went in and, you know, because sometimes they have to re-film confessionals. They went in and had him say, like, I know that there's two traitors left and it's Rob and Eric. Because maybe they were doing so bad that they were like, we got to re-film something here. just in post to have something to have people wanting to tune into the next episode which they will anyway you get what i'm saying because yeah it was really bizarre to me that you didn't see him saying it i i agree but i also think like because they don't really show anybody speaking at the end because of like the the trailer they don't want to reveal who's been murdered like if obviously they're speaking then they know like if you actually see them speaking like you're like oh then they weren't murdered um so i don't know i'm just yeah it wasn't a confessional though when they showed it so i was just really interested to see us to really really interested to see how it all ends but yeah look the most clear path makes sense for rob to lean into you know perhaps whispers of it being eric and see what happens and he could be the last man standing we'll see we shall see i will give this episode i'll give this one a b plus and i will uh we just have to acknowledge um rip natalie's club outfits she packed for an entirely different trip than being at the castle in scotland pop-off girl she's so she's so jacked it's like it's so impressive her body's sick her body is crazy uh but when i saw her walk into breakfast in um heels and the dress i wore to the club on your bachelorette i thought oh no i know you texted me immediately you're like i literally wore this dress on your bachelor i'm like i remember and and it's like and it does crack me up because it's like that they do have to wear it all day it's like yeah she wore it to breakfast but then they whatever they have to do the challenge but then it's right back into that dress i know it's so uncomfortable i'm like props to her for rocking that club outfit i don't think it was that warm and you're saying that's a it's a little dress no it was oh my god that was so r.i.p natalie's club outfits you will be missed yes you will be missed um all right that's everything i i actually love island all-stars i did mention um i'm like three episodes away from being officially caught up i totally get what you're saying now yeah um lucinda is really hard to figure out so hard incredibly hard to figure out um and these girls they are they are getting she is getting to them and at times you can't blame them you know and and i just watched movie night where they're like we're you know sammy and bell and whitney they're like we're hotheads and like this is pissing us off yeah and i think she i think lucinda absolutely knows that she's pushing their buttons i just think lucinda's fake like i and i don't meet like she's entertaining she's funny she's obviously been good tv because this is her like fourth love island show that she's done i do think she likes sean but at the same time she says things that i'm just like she totally doesn't mean that like not to um you know really give anything away but there she says it earlier on too of like and they talk about a movie night like i look up to bell like i i think she's so strong like i'm like lucinda you're full of shit yeah like you don't like i'm sorry i'm not gonna believe you're gonna like have these conversations with her but then also be like well she's such just such a strong woman that i admire so much i'm like no you're just that's like a performative thing you're saying and if i was bell i'd be like shut up like you don't think that yeah i can't understand her for the life of me i'm like and honestly there really is nothing that pisses me off more as well when someone's laughing in like a serious conversation or a fight and you know I understand people laugh like get a nervous laugh um but all the time it's just like you know Sammy's frustration be like she's pissing me off yeah I feel you girl but I'm not all the way caught up um I will give uh all stars an a minus because it is quite entertaining and that's everything I watched um I will give all stars I'm caught up I'm I'm on the I'm on that VPN so I can see how it all ends live I love when they bring the Islanders back all the Islanders back and they've all had like access to their phones and shit so they start like ripping things that are happening online like to their faces um that just happened which is always fun to watch so i'll give that an a minus i'm worried because let me tell you that like i'm on different sides of tiktok where there's some people that love lucinda and like they're like fuck yeah she's so funny like she thinks we all hate her but we actually all love her and like they're just in it for the plot of like having Lucinda and Sean win. But I don't know. I'm not going to give too much away on who I'm rooting for, but it's not them. Traitors I'll give. Traitors I'll give a B plus. And love is blind. Like pods to me were a B. these last three new episodes i'd give like an a minus because i was way more locked in summer house summer house i'll give a b as well mostly because it just enraged me yeah um what else oh i'm caught up on southern charm i know we haven't really talked about it that much but um it's been a fairly interesting season i'll give it to the girls because they brought the drama you know everyone has their feelings about sally but i just think like someone like sally is just necessary to a show like this like i think there's times when southern charm can get really repetitive and it's like oh every season we're watching the like the fighting is coming from the boys it's like oh austin and craig are mad at each other again it's just like can be kind of repetitive and there's not as much maybe dating aspects to it and this season that changed that big time and Sally just being like open and honest and like you know I want Austin despite him literally just breaking up with his girlfriend um is a little nuts but at the same time like it's making for good it's making for good TV this last episode I'll give like this last episode I'll give a B they are now on their trip I think Craig's got to cool it with Vanita I know that they don't get along, but I think he, I don't know, just like sometimes says inappropriate things that he, it's just rude. And I know she doesn't like Vanita and he has his reasons and Vanita doesn't like him, but I don't know. It's, I don't, I don't love seeing that. And then I fucking love Molly. I just, I love, like, Molly's, she's doing a little open mic night on this episode. She's got a great voice. I'm like, this woman can do everything. Like, she's just, she's just the best. So that was great. And I'm caught up on Shrinking. The new season of Shrinking came out, which I had a bunch of episodes to catch up on, which was great. I totally missed that it came out. Yeah, yeah. It's, I think, like, four episodes are out. I love this show. I just, it's just a warm hug. It is funny. It is heartwarming. It's just the best. It's a solid A. Like Joe and I watched one through four, like all in one night because we were loving it so much. I am caught up on the beauty. Noah, totally agree with what you were saying last week of the last few episodes, sort of like the background of how this all started with the billionaires and Ashton Kutcher's character's background and all that. Very interesting. I feel like the end of this is going to be fucking wild. I really liked it. B plus. I think it's good. These last few episodes definitely got way more interesting. And I feel like you're seeing sort of a direction of where they're taking it and the manipulation and all that that's going on to get the drug out. caught up on all the Chicago's across the board probably B minus we're in a lull until the big crossover event in two weeks I am waiting for the crossover event in two weeks is coming so I'm looking forward to that and I did not watch the last Joe and I saved it because he got home late, but we didn't watch the last Night of the Seven Kingdoms yet, so I have to watch that. But episode four of Love Story, JFK, we didn't talk about. Oh, that's what I watched too. Yes, so episode four came out. I'm just loving the show. I don't know what to say. I'm loving it. A lot of it is probably fake as fuck. Yes. which is so fair because you know we obviously don't know this in depth of the ins and outs of their relationship but I think he's getting better I think now that Naomi Watts is off the screen it's better and just like this whole episode was way more focused on the two of them which I loved boy did I not expect to see Dana Gordon playing her mom the absolute jump scare of realizing that that was dana gordon holy fuck matt and i literally looked at each other like no is that oh no she's no her mom literally we were like is that dana gordon like genuinely afraid like yeah you know it's like one of those things we're like wait this can't possibly seem right no oh my god that was that was a jump scare totally i you know i'm still a little I don't know I'm still a little iffy on him I think Sarah Pidgeon is fantastic she's great I just like um I'm really loving her so it's a it's a b for me I'm enjoying it it's good honestly one of the best parts is the music fantastic music in this show I'll give it a b plus that was my best part by the way the Jeff Buckley something is a Jeff Buckley song I was And they went, they're really leaning into the 90s thing, which as they should. That's obviously when they were, when the time period is. But like both Jonah and the couch, when the beginning of linger started, we were like, Ooh, yeah. Oh, that was a good one. Yeah. I'll give it a B plus. Let me tell you, I texted my hair girl and was like, Hey, can we get highlights going? I literally, I literally texted her yesterday. I was like, all right, let's, let's get the appointment. I got to, I want to throw some blonde back in my hair. you know just inspired by the blonde locks on Sarah Pidgeon right now but yeah no it's enjoyable I get what you mean about Paul Anthony Kelly listen I love a fresh face though that that's what excites me is is seeing fresh faces get their star get their get their shine no he's never been in anything before and that's why I just keep reminding myself like let him find his footing all right this is his first television show he's probably getting used to it all right so yeah no it's enjoyable though and like you said a lot of it's probably fake um oh yeah but they're i think their chemistry is so good and i think that's a big draw totally i think the chemistry the two actors their chemistry is really really great um so yeah that's a that's a b plus for me yeah and it's crazy because he has such a specific look at the show like he obviously really looks like jfk junior in the show uh but they're i'm seeing him now because they hulu also did a pot like a you know short firm podcast kind of situation for this show as well and he's he's got a mustache he's got this curly hair i'm like ah this looks like a totally different guy yeah like did he get a perm like is this how did he get his hair like this yeah it is it's awesome though to see him transform yeah for the role because he does really look like him yeah i just like i need a little more emotion from him in the show and i don't know if maybe maybe that's just like jfk jr wasn't like that i don't know but like even in the in the makeup breakup i'm like give me a give me a little more yeah i don't know if i don't know like i i i sort of get what you're saying but i do think it's because he's kind of monotone yeah i do that might be why right i just do think that their chemistry is so good and i think you know i'm sort of definitely is falling into that i just find it hard to like because i've seen interviews of jfk jr and i'm like this guy just doesn't have it he just doesn't have it oh like and like that like no one like it's hard i don't think anybody does it would be hard to replicate i don't think he's really like necessarily like that close to having like that like yeah he kind of looks like him but like that's it like he doesn't have that um caroline is played by meryl streep's daughter right yes okay i just wanted to you know i oh really it could have just been a google search yeah i didn't realize that was her daughter um yeah right what's her name um i was just trusting my knowledge on that one i can kind of see it now her yeah what's her i always forget her name um oh grace gummer yeah yeah no street yes her pair her mom is meryl street yeah she's married to mark ronson really i didn't know that uh-huh i think she plays a great i think she's great yeah she's good i mean she's bound to be great yeah totally smirrell's daughter i know i know but um yeah that's that's everything for me when you see me rocking blonde hair soon okay i watched a ton of uh what were you gonna say so i was gonna say blonde hair, a nice crisp blouse. 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Investing involves risk. acorns advisors llc and sec registered investment advisor view important disclosures at acorns.com slash chicks i watched a ton of land man um i only have like five episodes left of season two now so i watched like the like i guess yeah 15 episodes or something um it's good like it's entertaining not the greatest show you'll ever see but like obviously billy bob thornton's always good and like it's kind of fun it sounds like pretty funny like the dynamic that he has with Michelle Randolph's character like which is his daughter in the show we're like it's a good mix of funny there's a lot of action like a lot of things are going bad all the time people are dying good family dynamic Jon Hamm he's in it Demi Moore she's pretty good at being an unlikable character and uh yeah i'll give it a b plus i would say like it has me like binging so that's good nice uh tell me lies i guess i'll give it like a b plus like i guess we have to grade the finale yeah it was like a good i liked it but it i wasn't like this is a great it just wrapped things up for me that it kind of felt like we were there like we have to wrap this up like that's our main goal here and it's like it felt a little bit rushed and i and I said it last week, but I felt like it didn't really match the tone that was set up until this point. It was very serious and dark, it felt like. And then we're like, you know what? Let's just wrap it up in a really funny, lighthearted way, which I was fine with. But it wasn't what I was expecting or necessarily wanting. Fair? Yeah, super fair. I think I guess if we're upgrading it, I would give the finale a – honestly, I'd give it an A-. I enjoyed it, and I listened to Jackson on Call Her Daddy, and he was funny because he was like, I hope people laughed. Like, I hope – I think it was – he was like, I thought it was hysterical because you were like – And Alex was like, people obviously didn't want Steven to win, but that's just sometimes the way life goes. And I thought that made a lot of sense. And he was like, no, he's like, I thought the ending was hysterical. It was. I thought it was funny too. I'd also give it an A-. Yeah. Okay. And then I watched the latest episode of The Beauty. That's like a solid B-plus right now. like um Ashton Kutcher is growing on me yeah he's good like he's pretty good uh and yeah all like getting all the backstories and everything and Anthony Ramos is just like he'll always be the best part of the show his character is so good in this show and he's he's so good in it um so yeah that's the show that I look forward to every week that's a b plus Traders I'll give an a minus like it's still like the chaos and everything is I'm loving it like it's fun to watch these people just like be so dumb like there's no other way to say it like or scared i don't know like i mean more is just no offense to her like love more but like in this game she is just so dumb like it's crazy like i think she's single-handedly like winning rob the game um and yeah so i'll give that an a minus and honestly like i really hope mark doesn't go home because he is like our only hope not that i don't even think he like they don't even have enough numbers really where like it probably wouldn't happen anyway but like he he's at least refreshing where like he actually thinks about things yeah and like when he when he looked at rob and was like look at me in the eye and tell me you're not and rob was like yeah like and he's like oh that's all i knew rob basically told him yeah i am a traitor and it's oh no when when he when uh when mark laid down on the pool table next to rob they're both laying down he goes they're playing us and i'm like you're so that was that was rob's uh dive into the pool and hide moment except there's a pool table uh the pit another great episode oh shit i'm caught up on the pit too i forgot oh really yeah i would say this last one i'll give it an a i'll bump this one up to an a like i think it's just really good like very sad um but i think the new character they brought in what's his face back which was nice i like him in it the yeah um i don't forget his name now but um i like the way that the new characters are now like mixing in with the season one people like i think it's all kind of working yeah i it's the pit this last episode is an a-minus for me and i thought it was very interesting that they're going uh it was a great ending because now we're going fully like technology off like no yeah that's cool like a full system shutdown is going to be crazy to watch because of um a cyber attack which is once again another very real thing that happens so yeah the one thing that i am seeing which i like wasn't really thinking about that much but when you think about it it's kind of like that doesn't make any sense where it's like it is supposed to be july 4th and it's like what's her face has a deposition in the middle that like why would she have that on a july 4th why is there like a high school football team practicing on july 4th like there's all these things happening on july 4th where it's like no one has anything on july 4th like that's like a holiday for everyone in the country so when you actually think about maybe he's on a really intense football team that's making them work out on on july 4th maybe why why why does someone have a deposition on july 4th no that i don't know because i every everything the government's closed so yeah uh but yeah i'll give that an a jfk jr is like a c plus it's called love story it's just just grading jfk jfk jfk jr i'll give uh but the thing is it's like i thought that this is one of those shows where it's like what is it like american horror story or like uh or like monsters where it's like the name of the show is love i didn't know if there were other ones yeah the name of the story is love story the love story like they're gonna make more so they're gonna make more so it's like i'm not gonna say just love story the next one's gonna be kelsey ballerini and jay stokes yeah uh i'll give that like a c plus as my grade although i i enjoy watching it just for like all the things that you mentioned like the music the the new york city in the 90s and also just like the fact that i'm interested by that family but i uh it is like there's so many points where it's like just too too corny for me and like uh and the and he's just i don't know i i don't think he's that great like no offense to him but uh it's fine i just i just can't get past like i just think they cast a guy who looks like him and he doesn't have the acting chops but um i'll give that a c plus and then night of seven kingdoms finale last night i thought it was great like i'll give it an a minus like the whole show is probably an a like uh just like a they wrapped everything up and the way they ended it i don't think this gives anything away it's like because people were saying they thought they were only going to get this one season so it kind of has a nice like ending to it where like you don't think there could be another season or you think it just no like like i think it's confirmed that they're they're doing more now but the way that they had shot this it looks like they did it not thinking they would have more so they ended it pretty like like ending oh so they could not i think it's confirmed i think they like came out and said like hbo came out and said that is yeah hbo has renewed for a second season yeah um but that kid like you better win some oscars because especially in this there's more material for it too yeah i'm like i'm like how many novellas does dora dara martin have about these two i guess enough yeah um what's his name though uh who are you talking about egg uh dexter he better win like he was so good like i don't know how like no offense to jfg jr i keep going back to him but like going from that to then this like 11 year old like putting on like an insane performance of a lifetime yeah i'm like this is the dip like this is this is what acting should be no offense jfk oh if you shave your head can you still excel and i like like hey you have a great hairline buddy you're a good looking guy but that doesn't mean you're gonna bjfk jr uh but yeah i'll give that an a minus and that's all i watched all right a good week for tv we got more to catch up on this week it'll be exciting to watch the the traders finale and we'll talk about it next monday and love is blind and all that so that wraps up the weekly watch report all right that wraps up today's episode of chicks in the office olive wants to give everybody a good goodbye. 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