Comedy
Bagel Bites & Secret Botox
In the inaugural episode of Reality Check, comedians Matt Laffrey and Jen Marsala dive into their unique friendship, sharing hilarious anecdotes from their Hollywood journeys. The episode also feature...
Bagel Bites & Secret Botox
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Well hey there, welcome to the very first episode of Reality Check. Please.
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Hello, friends.
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Yes, our friends. I wonder who's listening to this right now.
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Probably just our friends.
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Well, and our mothers, maybe?
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Definitely not mine, maybe your mother.
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My name is Matt Laffrey and...
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I'm Jen Marsala.
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Yes, and we, you know, the world didn't necessarily need another podcast, per se, right?
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Or ask for one.
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No, nobody asked for us to do this.
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No.
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No, but that's fine.
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Because you know why?
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Why?
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We live in the land of Delulu.
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Yes, we're like a real housewife in that way.
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Yes, which we'll be talking about a lot.
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A lot.
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On this podcast.
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And in real life.
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Well, we talk about in real life, but that's partly why we decided to start this podcast.
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Yeah, because we thought, you know, we were so entertained by ourselves that why wouldn't, you know,
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other people be.
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And in our own minds, we should be more famous than we are.
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Yeah, I mean, I think you should be huge, mostly.
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You mean like huge, like famous huge?
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Yeah, no, you're very skinny.
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I'm so sorry that I said that.
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How many weight jokes do you think we'll make about ourselves over the course of this podcast?
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I don't know. It depends on how much you want me to cry.
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No, I mean, like, not jokes of that.
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I mean, jokes of the nature of like, oh, how skinny we are.
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I can't even see you right now.
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You know what? It's just because you're a really good friend that you do that for me.
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And I appreciate it.
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One thing that we don't agree, like I, in real life, like on stage, we're both comedians.
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If you're listening to this and don't know who we are, now you do.
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We're both comedians, but on stage, I embrace my age.
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Oh, no, and I lie about my age.
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Correct. So that's something.
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I mean, you can because of the way you look.
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Come on, you're so sweet. Also, it's a lie, a lie.
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It's a lie of a mission, which I don't think I, I don't even know if that's a lie.
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If someone were to Google, you would, they'd be able to see what your actual age is.
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No, I paid a Bulgarian teenager to have it scrubbed from the internet.
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Oh, I need that phone number.
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Yeah.
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Actually, I don't think I need it.
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Yeah, I, you know what I would like scrubbed.
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I would like my who wants to be a millionaire scrubbed from the internet.
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Not the actual clip that they use.
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The showgirls clip, which is fun, but like the outcome.
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Yeah, no, I would like you to go back in time and then have you win a million dollars.
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And then do you think still think we'd be making podcasts in my dining room?
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Yeah, we probably would have done it sooner.
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Oh, yeah. And with a sort of higher budget.
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Yeah. What are you talking about? These mismatched mics are on purpose.
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We've arrived.
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So let's, you know, for people who are coming across this podcast,
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we should tell them exactly how we met because it's a real Hollywood story.
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So Jen and I are obviously we're comedians.
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Jen's a very talented actress.
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She's so funny.
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And we've been industry in the industry in some form or on of another for a long while.
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But we met in a very Hollywood way.
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We did.
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Matt worked at a restaurant that I used to go to way too often, right?
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Like probably three times a week.
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That's not as generous as I would say, but sure.
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What do you say?
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Every day.
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Every day. I went to this restaurant every day.
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And not with your husband.
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No, and often when he would, my husband would come with me.
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It would be a real impediment to my relationship with Matt, my favorite waiter.
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Right.
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And I just, Matt was a waiter there and he was so funny and so clever and we had so much fun.
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So I said, like obviously this is Los Angeles, you're not a writer.
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Are you an actor?
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I mean, you're not a waiter.
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Are you an actor or writer?
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And he said he was a writer and I said, can I read something that you've written?
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And he sent me a script and it was really funny.
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I mean, thank God because I would have had to stop going to that restaurant.
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You really would have, you would have to go to hiding.
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I actually, I want to bring that script back.
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I was so good.
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It was so good.
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We should have.
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I love that.
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The thing is, like, it was such a relief because you know when you meet someone and you really like them.
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And then you wonder the thing they really want to do if they're bad at it.
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Talented.
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Yeah, if they're bad at it, then you probably can't continue that relationship.
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Because then it's going to be a lot of lying for a lot of years.
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But Matt is such a talented, funny writer.
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This was before he was doing stand-up.
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He was writing half hour.
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And this podcast is not going to be a circle jerk of the two of us just saying how great we are.
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I mean, yes, it will come up because, like I said, the land of delusion.
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But, you know, this is just to give you the backstory.
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But people should know so Jen's husband is a showrunner in television.
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And so one day out of nowhere after we had developed this relationship from me waiting tables,
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she calls me and asks if I'd want a job on his show that he was doing at the time.
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Yeah.
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And then we became even better friends.
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Yeah, that really solidified our friendship.
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I think it happened when we went to Toronto for the show.
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Alex brought me there.
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Her husband's name is Alex.
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And Jen had helped me gather up videos and create a video to propose to my now husband.
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George, who's the best?
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She really took the lead on that.
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Now, I like to tell this story because this really shows the dichotomy of our friendship.
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At the time, I was the...
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I was the showrunner's assistant.
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And I think I made a good amount of money for a showrunner's assistant.
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But it still wasn't like a lot of money.
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And Jen, when I was saying I wanted to propose to my husband, goes,
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oh my god, I have the best jeweler who can make you a custom engagement ring.
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And I was like, I'm making $600 a week.
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I don't think...
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I think Amazon is where I'll be getting my engagement ring.
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What a lucky man.
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But that's the land of delusion, which makes us so enjoyable.
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It is.
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Our differences are really the things that unite us.
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That was such a fun job.
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It was, you know, the first opportunity for Matt and I to work together.
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Yeah, because Jen was an actress on the show.
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So good.
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If you want to go back and watch it, take it.
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It's on Peacock.
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It's still on?
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Yeah, take it.
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It's going to be on Peacock.
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Yeah, I think it's still on.
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That was a fun job.
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Anyway.
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Also, I do want to point out that Jen was in...
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Probably...
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I would say it's one of the most iconic commercials ever created.
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Which one are you talking about?
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The guy go commercial.
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Oh, we got band in that commercial.
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What are you talking about?
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Yeah, we got band.
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People loved that commercial.
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You know, it was really controversial commercial.
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We got banded by a group called One Million Mons.
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Because it was a commercial where I was on a date with a pig in a car.
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Oh my gosh.
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The reality.
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Guys, this part of our podcast is all about nostalgia.
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And going back to our...
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I don't know.
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Without giving away an age, 80s and 90s upbringing.
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And...
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80s and 90s.
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Revisiting things that we enjoyed as children.
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And seeing how they translate to 2025.
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So that timer was our first one that we're doing this week in the nostalgia check.
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And it's going to be...
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Bagel bites.
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Bagel bite.
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Do you remember the jingle?
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No, it's was the jingle.
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Oh.
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When pizza's on a bagel.
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You can eat pizza anytime.
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I'm not sure.
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I forgot the jingle just this minute.
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That's the power of the jingle.
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But also, why...
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Why could you just not eat pizza anytime in general?
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I don't know.
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I guess it means...
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For breakfast?
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For breakfast.
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But we had pizza for breakfast all the time.
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Did they not go to college?
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Literally wake up and eat pizza that's been laying around for eight hours.
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I'm very excited about it.
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I haven't had a bagel bite since I was in high school, I think.
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And when was lost in you at a bagel bite?
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Oh.
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I don't even know if I ate bagel bites when I was in college.
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I mean, I would eat them all the time as a kid.
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I mean, we're going to throw off the course of this podcast.
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We're going to go through all of the crazy things we had.
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But yeah, they were definitely a staple in my freezer as a child.
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They weren't really a staple in my freezer.
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I do remember like one of the things...
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One of my biggest bagel bite memories was that when I was in junior high,
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I had a friend who I knew was really rich.
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Her family was really rich because when I went there...
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They didn't have bagel bites?
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No, we had unlimited bagel bites.
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I'm sorry.
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If I had a rich friend, I would...
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We were the poorest of poor.
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And bagel bites were one of our staples.
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Oh, no.
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I thought that this...
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So when we went, we would go to Ashley's house.
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We could have as many bagel bites as we want.
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I mean, so many bagel bites.
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And I thought that was the height of sophistication when I was a kid.
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I was like, I don't...
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That's Vegas.
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She's from Vegas.
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I was like, they're so fancy and so rich.
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Because of my house, we would have like the little boxes of bagel bites.
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You had eight bagel bites.
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Like, you would never dream of sharing that with all of your friends.
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I know now that they just had a Costco membership.
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But at the time, I was like, what is happening?
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And what was wealthy back then to you?
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I mean, that was it.
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Her mom would come in with just like,
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tray is a bagel bite.
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And when we ate those bagel bites, more bagel bites would appear.
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And I thought, wow, this is...
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Ashley is living the life.
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So we have them.
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They're ready.
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My husband, who is helping produce this podcast,
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graciously brought them to us.
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Thank you for your time.
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Now...
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For those of you who have never had a bagel bite,
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I'll just...
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Because we're recording this too, if we want to ever use this as a clip.
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But they aren't consistent.
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Some of them have zero chunks of cheese product.
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Yeah, I mean, I would honestly say that quality control
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at the bagel bites factory is sort of...
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They really let themselves go.
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I thought...
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This is not how I remember them.
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Like, I thought they were way more uniform.
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I thought...
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Some of these have like two little cheese cubes.
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Some of them have no sauce at all.
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I barely see the pepperoni.
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That one doesn't have any pepperoni.
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It's straight.
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Okay, well, you have to take a...
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You have to...
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I'm gonna take a few...
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The last time Jen ate a carb was...
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Who is president?
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Clinton.
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So, okay, cheers to this.
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We're gonna taste the bagel bite.
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Oh.
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Oh my god, it's so hot.
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I'm gonna burn my lip.
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Okay.
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I just get dull.
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Yeah, I...
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I'm so sad right now.
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This is...
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This is sad food.
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I'm so sad right now because I remember this being...
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Maybe one of the tastiest things I ever snacks I ever had as a child.
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You know how like when you're sad and you're ice cream it makes you happy?
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Yeah.
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This is the opposite.
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Like when you're happy and you want a little depression kick,
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you just grab a bagel bite.
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Oh man, oh, I did hear the saddest story from a friend who ate a bagel bite the other day.
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It's actually what reminded me of what we should have these bagel bites.
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And she had a bagel bite and then she told me that she microwaved it.
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Which I mean...
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Straight to Jill.
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Yeah, honestly.
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If this is bad, imagine if it had been micro.
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What kind of time crunch was she in that she needed to microwave a bagel bite?
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I mean, I know.
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Also, why is she buying bagel bites?
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I think they were in her freezer for a mystery reason.
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You know how sometimes things just appear?
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Maybe like a guest had come to town from like a visitor from the 1990s.
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Like left the bagel bite in the freezer.
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It's like a portal to another dimension and she was like, oh, a bagel bite.
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I'll try this bagel bite and she...
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To be fair, she has like a three level house and on the bottom level is a freezer.
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And a microwave but no oven.
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And she didn't want to walk up two flights of stairs, which I can respect.
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Rich and lazy.
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That's...
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We all aspire to just be rich and lazy.
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Yeah, so I can respect her reasons for doing it.
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She found the bagel bite.
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She was like, oh, I'm a microwave these.
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And then she ate them.
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Although, she's not rich enough to just have somebody get the bagel bites for her.
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No, but I mean goals.
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Okay, well, that is...
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Yeah, so we all got to have a level to go up to.
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So let's just read what's in these.
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Okay.
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I'm going to try another bite.
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Get the ASMR.
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Get up in that microphone.
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Come on.
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Give the people what they want.
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I don't know how to do ASMR.
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I just want to point out that you took a second bite of the bagel bite.
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I know that was my sneaky way of getting more carbs.
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And I am the biggest fat ass and I literally was like, I don't...
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Or George, you were going to have one of these?
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I have one for the low one.
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George, have a big one.
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You eat one.
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Give us your...
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Your opinion as well while we look over these wholesome, clean ingredients.
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Thia mine mono nitrate.
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Oh my God, that my grandmother used to put that in everything she made.
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Oh, I mean, I don't...
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Oh, pepperoni is probably the 16th ingredient down.
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So I guess that's what we're missing is that.
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Because you know, they can list ingredients from that.
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What's the first ingredient, bagel?
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Many bagel halves, yes.
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This isn't saline.
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In rich, weak flour.
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Yeah, I mean, guys, we were bamboozled as kids.
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These...
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I think so.
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What would you give them out of 10?
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I feel bad.
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I feel like I'm ruining a childhood memory.
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Do you know what I mean?
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I think that's what we're here for.
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We're here for a reality check, please.
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Yeah.
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Okay, well in this reality rewind, I give bagel bites like a two.
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Oh, that's...
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Well, a two?
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You had two bites.
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You're giving them the one point for every bite you had.
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Yeah.
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George chomped down on his own.
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So...
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Wow.
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George is not very discriminating.
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I do.
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And he's your husband.
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Maybe we could put this to the fans.
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Because Jen called it reality rewind and we've been discussing what we wanted to call us.
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I think it should be called nostalgia check.
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Okay.
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So maybe we'll ask the people...
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All the people listening to this.
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Matt's mom, should we call it nostalgia check or reality rewind?
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Pretend Matt isn't the one who said nostalgia check.
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I don't even think my mom knows how to access a podcast.
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I think we have to call her and play notes for her phone.
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Oh my god, please.
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That's...
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When I call her, I have this problem where I'll say goodbye and she'll be like,
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okay, bye, and then she'll bring up another story.
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And so, there's 15 goodbyes before we even end up ending the phone conversation.
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Yeah, but is the thing that she brings up ever actually a story or is it just something like...
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Colleen's taking swim class.
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No, oh, it's even worse.
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It's like, what's the weather like out there?
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I'm like, you could just use your app.
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You could go look it up.
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Oh, he wants another bagel bite.
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Gosh, George, wow.
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Finish him.
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Finish him.
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All right, well that was a reality rewinder and nostalgia check.
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Yeah, and it's bad for us as children kids.
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It's not good.
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I actually feel better because this makes me feel like Ashley, the fanciest girl I knew in middle school,
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you know, this makes me see that through different lens, you know.
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Yeah, I'm going to give him a little more four.
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Oh, yeah.
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Just because I don't, you know, what up to see like as we move forward with other products,
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what if something's worse and you gave it a two?
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You don't have much lower to go, are we going to go negative?
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No, I don't think it's based on the continuum of all things we're testing.
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Like, we're not ranking them.
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I think on a scale of one to ten of how much I would want to eat a bagel bite again,
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it's a two.
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And the scenarios in which I would want to eat a bagel again all involve me being drunk and a different person.
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So, I am...
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You've been drunk one and a half times in your life.
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Yeah, and I need a bagel bite.
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You have one and a half times.
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I do actually know them thinking about the theme song.
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Do you think there's ever been a person who's had bagel bites for breakfast?
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Yeah, I think I had, I would have...
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For breakfast.
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Yeah, if your pop tarts are like, if you run in a pop tarts.
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Okay.
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If you say so, I don't believe her.
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I don't think she's ever had a bagel bite for breakfast.
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Or a pop tarts.
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Well, pop tarts, they're coming.
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They might be next week.
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I know what I mean.
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Pop tarts, I don't know if we can do them because you probably haven't had one in a long time.
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But I probably had a pop tarts like a year ago.
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And what were the circumstances?
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Well, the sugar cookie pop tarts that they bring out during the holidays, which will be coming out soon.
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So maybe we'll do that and I'll have you taste it because it's like one of the best pop tarts you ever have in your entire life.
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Really?
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100%.
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Okay.
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I sometimes in elementary school, I would walk to the bus eating a cold pop tart.
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Yeah, I don't need my pop tart to be in a toaster.
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We will table this conversation because we should have to do this when we do pop tarts.
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Yeah, alright.
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So we're going to do that segment later, but the timer went off guys.
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Because we wanted to go into our next segment, which we're calling reality self checkout.
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And I had something very devastating happened to me this week.
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No, what happened?
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I had to get reading glasses.
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No.
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I did.
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Because you couldn't see her because your eye doctor told you, girl.
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Well, I noticed things up close like when I was reading because I've always had such amazing vision.
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What do you mean like 2020?
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Like even below 2016.
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Like I could always read the bottom line.
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What?
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I still can though because that's from afar.
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But up close, I've had this eye twitch and my left eye and it's because my vision,
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I guess when you can't read up close, it's far-sighted.
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I think it's what it is.
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It's like the off-line.
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Yeah, when you can't read up close, it's far-what?
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You're near-sighted if you can see near things and you're far-sighted if you can see far things.
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Right.
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And if you can see all things, you're a mutant that shouldn't be existing in the world.
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Right.
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So I went from my yearly checkup and it had gotten worse since last year because I had...
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I go get my eye checked a year.
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And he was like, yeah, this is why your eye is switching because you're straining your eye
spk_0
because you're reading all the time and on a screen all the time and you need to wear these glasses to see.
spk_0
So I had to get readers and it's like, that is something where you're like, oh my god, I'm old.
spk_0
Yeah, I agree.
spk_0
I'm not there, obviously, yet in the reader's day.
spk_0
You don't have contacts in your eyes?
spk_0
I have contacts because I haven't been able to see since I was a child.
spk_0
At what age?
spk_0
A small child.
spk_0
Okay, exactly.
spk_0
So, right.
spk_0
But I can see up close.
spk_0
I just can't see distance.
spk_0
I've had contacts since I was like 15 years old.
spk_0
Right, so that's not a flex.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
That's...
spk_0
Matt, I've always been blind.
spk_0
But I did read...
spk_0
I was reading without glasses and I was reading an article about how they're coming out with eyedrops now that fix far-sightedness.
spk_0
Or that fix needing reading glasses.
spk_0
So...
spk_0
You just put these eyedrops in.
spk_0
Uh-huh.
spk_0
I don't know.
spk_0
I think you need eyeglasses because your muscles get weak.
spk_0
Your eyeball muscles get weak.
spk_0
I guess I'd rather that get weak than another kind of muscle.
spk_0
What kind of muscles are you getting?
spk_0
Like as you get older, other muscles stop working.
spk_0
Well, you know, I don't use any of my muscles.
spk_0
But...
spk_0
Yes, you do.
spk_0
I'd absolutely not if I can help it.
spk_0
Do you know what I mean?
spk_0
Uh-huh.
spk_0
I'll do anything to not have to exercise even a little bit.
spk_0
And that's the only reason I understood my friend who microwave drew bagel bites because I was like, oh, two flights of stairs.
spk_0
Now I get it.
spk_0
But, uh, yes, so they're putting these drops out, I think.
spk_0
It's like going for approval that will just correct your vision.
spk_0
So you might not need readers for that long.
spk_0
They're cute, though.
spk_0
They are?
spk_0
Uh-huh.
spk_0
How can we not order in them right now?
spk_0
I just got them.
spk_0
They came this morning because I ordered them online because, you know, the eye...
spk_0
The eye doctor, they...
spk_0
First of all, my eye doctor is amazing.
spk_0
I love the actual doctor, but then they're like, do you want to buy your frames here?
spk_0
And all they have are like, saline frames.
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And they're all like $1,000.
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And I'm like, I'm not paying $1,000 for a pair of readers and I'm only going to use...
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...one some week because I'm actually not going to use them.
spk_0
Because you don't breathe.
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Like I didn't bring them here.
spk_0
Who doesn't read?
spk_0
He's like, no.
spk_0
No, I'm not.
spk_0
Readers, I don't need these at all.
spk_0
What would I ever use these?
spk_0
I will.
spk_0
I will read you right now.
spk_0
You need a contact that you are a 15.
spk_0
You don't need glasses for that.
spk_0
I'll say the year that you were 15 and then our listeners could figure it out.
spk_0
How dare you.
spk_0
Oh, that's like a real housewives' fight.
spk_0
Um, so...
spk_0
I'm really sorry that that happened to you.
spk_0
Thank you.
spk_0
Would you have anything that you would like to?
spk_0
Um, I uh, that I need to check in about reality.
spk_0
I think this is actually leading us into our next section because I find I get most of my reality from social media.
spk_0
Okay.
spk_0
Um, this is a segment that we call ad nauseam.
spk_0
Right.
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And it's ads that were kind of a reality check for us.
spk_0
Right, and I think that you should know because you probably, I don't know if you do,
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but so Adam Mosari who's the head of Instagram, he actually just did a real on his own personal page about two or three days ago,
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that Instagram is not listening to you.
spk_0
There's no way that what you say affects the ad you get and his comments were hilarious.
spk_0
Okay.
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And people are like me when I lie because nobody fucking believes that shit.
spk_0
It's just impossible.
spk_0
No, it isn't possible.
spk_0
It's just a coincidence that like you get all the, you know, porn that you like on your Instagram feed.
spk_0
What kind of porn are you getting on your Instagram?
spk_0
You're getting porn on Instagram.
spk_0
Are we not on the same Instagram?
spk_0
Well, can you tell me what this Instagram is?
spk_0
Adam Mosari, if you're listening.
spk_0
I'm sure he is.
spk_0
No, I mean, I, I think, you know, it's kind of my porn because right now,
spk_0
the thing that is my biggest turn on is just like before and after photos of plastic surgeries.
spk_0
That's like the thing that turns me on the most.
spk_0
I mean, it's like all my whole Instagram feed is just pictures of like necklifts and brow lifts and face lifts.
spk_0
Like basically like if you lift it, I will come.
spk_0
I can see you in the bathtub just scrolling through these before and afters and your husband's like, are you okay in there?
spk_0
I'm not finished yet.
spk_0
Shut the door.
spk_0
Yeah, I just, I've reached the stage in my life where before and afters of plastic surgery is like so hot.
spk_0
I just need to be planning for my future.
spk_0
What would you get done if you needed to get something done today?
spk_0
Oh god, I have such a list.
spk_0
Well, what's the thing?
spk_0
Very number one thing on the list.
spk_0
Well, here's the thing that was very upsetting for me.
spk_0
So I have always been told if someone's like, you know who you look like, which is not good when you're an actor yourself, but they're like, you know, you look like Anne Hathaway.
spk_0
I have a joke about it in my set that I look like Anne Hathaway.
spk_0
Anne Hathaway has a new face and it's so good.
spk_0
It's such a good face.
spk_0
Like Lindsay Lohan could.
spk_0
Yes, it's incredible.
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I remember.
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Chris Jenner could.
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It's so good.
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I don't know which surgeon she saw.
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It's so good.
spk_0
She just looks like herself, but like it, you know, 20, but still like rich and successful.
spk_0
Like she looks so good.
spk_0
And so now the really depressing thing is like, if people tell me I look like Anne Hathaway, I'm like the before picture of Anne Hathaway.
spk_0
I'm so upset about it.
spk_0
So I don't know what she had done.
spk_0
People are discussing it.
spk_0
And the word is maybe like a ponytail lift, which is just like watch.
spk_0
I get so much cuter.
spk_0
Cute.
spk_0
It's like don't see it.
spk_0
It's different.
spk_0
Oh my god.
spk_0
Thank you so much.
spk_0
And then, and then, oh, I want an upper bluff.
spk_0
That's where they just make your eyelids.
spk_0
I think so much.
spk_0
I think that's the right decress head done because his eyes are like really big.
spk_0
They're like, you could you have big eyes?
spk_0
Big eyes, but think about how big they would be with an upper bluff.
spk_0
I'd look surprised all the time that every day would be a surprise party.
spk_0
That's just the cut.
spk_0
The cut, they cut the extra skin out.
spk_0
And then you just look so, you such snatched lids.
spk_0
I would go like, on my eyelids are so snatched.
spk_0
That would tear if I don't want a knife, a needle or anything going near my eyeballs.
spk_0
I don't want it.
spk_0
I want the result.
spk_0
Like, I don't want a facelift in that I don't the whole process of it feels terrifying for me.
spk_0
I just want to wake up one morning having had a facelift, do you know what I mean?
spk_0
Yeah, like it just happened overnight in your sleep.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Oh, yeah.
spk_0
I mean, I guess it is what surgery is technically.
spk_0
It happens in your sleep.
spk_0
But I don't want to have had the I'm very scared of plastic surgery, but I'm also really sort of thrilled about the idea.
spk_0
So you're you're targeted ad you're saying on social media are all for plastic surgery.
spk_0
Okay, Instagram feed all plastic surgery, but like I was on Facebook the other day.
spk_0
And like I know no one's on Facebook anymore, but like I'm just on the you just want to see what the old people are up to.
spk_0
Well, I'm no I'm on there for the ads.
spk_0
Oh, okay.
spk_0
Sorry, because they have had my algorithm longer.
spk_0
They know me very well.
spk_0
So I get I buy a lot of stuff on I'm a mark on Facebook.
spk_0
You order things through Facebook ads.
spk_0
Oh my god.
spk_0
So way too well.
spk_0
What do you mean you don't order things through Facebook ads?
spk_0
I have never ordered something through a Facebook ever never.
spk_0
Wow.
spk_0
Wow, Matt.
spk_0
Well, I've actually never ordered anything through a TikTok shop, which is what the kids are doing.
spk_0
Oh, well, I'm not on TikTok.
spk_0
Okay, first of all, I just want to preface this by saying you look very young.
spk_0
However, you're really showing your age by selling people you shop on Facebook and you don't know what TikTok is.
spk_0
Really like I have to be on Facebook.
spk_0
It's the only way I hear from my mom.
spk_0
So what's the last thing that you bought on Facebook?
spk_0
Okay.
spk_0
So through an ad, I should say not like Facebook marketplace like you're actually shopping ads.
spk_0
Yeah, no, not the marketplace.
spk_0
I don't use that.
spk_0
Well, no, the marketplace is fine.
spk_0
You could get good stuff on Facebook marketplace.
spk_0
Listen, I only all of my targeted ads on Facebook are anti-aging products or products that allow you to stop working out.
spk_0
And so the thing that I just bought is a vibration plate.
spk_0
Okay.
spk_0
What?
spk_0
I thought we were going to say a vibrator.
spk_0
No, I don't get it.
spk_0
To go along with your plastic surgery before and after.
spk_0
I mean, they go hand in hand.
spk_0
I bought a vibration plate.
spk_0
You know what that is?
spk_0
Yes, you stand on it and like shakes your body and it's supposed to like work.
spk_0
Did you like Chloe Kardashian use this or something?
spk_0
Oh, I don't know.
spk_0
I just, it just, the ad was all about how you could like not stop working out because it is lymphatic drainage, weight loss, and it helps with bone density, which you know.
spk_0
Yeah, you don't want to shrink.
spk_0
I don't want my bones to become hollow like sort of like wind chimes.
spk_0
You know what this makes me think of?
spk_0
What?
spk_0
The thymaster.
spk_0
Oh, yeah.
spk_0
And now that's still working out.
spk_0
spk_0
You still have to do something.
spk_0
Right, but it actually didn't do anything.
spk_0
No, I think it would.
spk_0
It's just resistance training but between your thighs.
spk_0
Were you like a little 12 year old boy using a thymaster after your weight watcher meeting?
spk_0
It was 100%.
spk_0
You were the cutest little boy.
spk_0
The cutest chubbiest little boy who ate bagel bites after school and watched Ricky Lake.
spk_0
Well, he's just thymaster.
spk_0
Yes, I was obsessed with Susan Summers.
spk_0
Oh, my God.
spk_0
No, how my parents didn't know that I was a homosexual.
spk_0
Yeah, I don't know.
spk_0
That just seems, if we are delulu.
spk_0
I mean exactly.
spk_0
That's what I'm saying.
spk_0
We are. We're very delulu.
spk_0
But yeah, so have you used it?
spk_0
Or is it just sitting there?
spk_0
The vibration plate?
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Oh, you have to use it every day.
spk_0
I'm asking you though if you have used it.
spk_0
Yeah, I have used it.
spk_0
You have to use it.
spk_0
You used it every day.
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Your life.
spk_0
I'm not lying.
spk_0
Yes, you are.
spk_0
You have not even.
spk_0
It's in the box still.
spk_0
No, it's in my living room and we can go.
spk_0
It's in your living room.
spk_0
Like set up on the floor right now?
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
You have to use it 20 minutes a day.
spk_0
I watch a lot of the shows that we're going to be discussing from my vibration plate.
spk_0
Oh, my God.
spk_0
You'll see it in three months to a year.
spk_0
I'll be, you know, all of abs.
spk_0
I probably won't have abs.
spk_0
I don't think that does that.
spk_0
But my bones are going to be so fucking hard.
spk_0
You know?
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Oh, my God.
spk_0
You are going to be so.
spk_0
You don't even need a costume.
spk_0
And for Halloween, you could just be a skeleton.
spk_0
So I would take a, just walk around.
spk_0
People are like, oh, my God, those bones.
spk_0
Those bones.
spk_0
I can see them.
spk_0
That bone density though.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
So that is the ad that I got last week.
spk_0
And then I bought it.
spk_0
And now I am the proud owner of a vibration plate.
spk_0
I mean, if they are listening, your phone's going to be blowing up with everything now, because they know that they got you.
spk_0
Oh, I know.
spk_0
Everything you see you're going to buy.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
And have and will and have.
spk_0
So let's see what we get for next week's segment.
spk_0
I am actually.
spk_0
So now you actually have to buy something every week.
spk_0
Oh, it's not just the ads I'm listening to us.
spk_0
He's like shutting the credit card off right now.
spk_0
He already thinks Amazon.
spk_0
He already thinks I have a dedicated Amazon delivery driver.
spk_0
He probably do.
spk_0
Ron, stop talking about him.
spk_0
He's so nice.
spk_0
He's a family to feed.
spk_0
So you mentioned the show.
spk_0
So I guess we'll get right into the meat of this, which is our reality check in.
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What do you want to start with?
spk_0
I think the biggest bomb this week.
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Now, we're going to release on Mondays.
spk_0
So we're talking about the shows that occurred the previous week from when this drops.
spk_0
But for this week that we're recording, the biggest bomb was probably the Miami reunion.
spk_0
At the end, Julia announces that she and Adriana slept together.
spk_0
I mean, it was pretty shocking.
spk_0
Do you think that that really happened?
spk_0
Why would you say it if it didn't happen?
spk_0
It doesn't do you any...
spk_0
It doesn't look good, doesn't it?
spk_0
Well, no, because it means she cheated on Martina.
spk_0
Exactly.
spk_0
So why would you say...
spk_0
I don't know why you'd say a period.
spk_0
But why would you say it if it hadn't actually happened?
spk_0
I think what...
spk_0
I think that Julia had such a tough season.
spk_0
She came into the reunion crying about the comments online and she played the whole first episode with this like...
spk_0
puppy dog looking down so sad, vibe.
spk_0
And I think she thought that by revealing this information, this happened in season four, apparently.
spk_0
We're on season seven.
spk_0
So this is years.
spk_0
So is this about the time when she did the proposal?
spk_0
Yes.
spk_0
The friend proposal to her.
spk_0
That's when we're talking about...
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spk_0
That's exactly the time.
spk_0
They slept together apparently in the Hamptons during the friend proposal?
spk_0
Yes.
spk_0
While they were filming the show.
spk_0
Okay, well, I mean, it was strange if you flash back to that friend proposal.
spk_0
It always felt very strange to do as your friend.
spk_0
I mean, I love you dearly, but I'm not called my custom ring guy to make a ring for you yet.
spk_0
No.
spk_0
What who looks worse in that situation?
spk_0
Is it Julia cheating on her wife or is it Adriana knowing that she's married and sleeping with her?
spk_0
Or both? Is it equal?
spk_0
I don't know in this situation because you know how they always say don't blame the woman.
spk_0
What do you do when they're both women?
spk_0
Oh.
spk_0
Like in a cheating scenario, they're always like, oh, you always blame the woman.
spk_0
The man did it too.
spk_0
But like in this scenario, who is the home wrecker or the home wrecky?
spk_0
I don't know what it's the...
spk_0
Would you remember Julia's first season to though?
spk_0
You could see that she and Martina kind of weren't.
spk_0
Do you think that Julia married Martina out of true real love?
spk_0
Yeah, I mean, listen.
spk_0
I believe in love, so let's just say yes.
spk_0
Let's just say yes.
spk_0
We don't have any evidence to the contrary, do we really?
spk_0
Well, she was engaged nine times.
spk_0
I mean, but like Danielle.
spk_0
19 times.
spk_0
Nobody competes with Danielle's stuff.
spk_0
I know.
spk_0
But nine times, I mean...
spk_0
Do you remember when there was a large suburb that the thing about Julia making out with a man
spk_0
that she was caught making out with a man?
spk_0
Oh, I remember that.
spk_0
And she's been kissing everybody on the mouth on every trip.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
So maybe they have an open thing?
spk_0
Yeah, maybe.
spk_0
I don't know.
spk_0
I get weird energy from her.
spk_0
From Julia?
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
Okay, but where did you flashing back to last week's episode just while we're here?
spk_0
Where did you fall on the Julia Adriana sort of fight about them?
spk_0
Like not supporting each other in the music?
spk_0
And why were there so many Christmas parties in that episode?
spk_0
Well, there were four...
spk_0
They had like four events in one episode, which was so strange to just cram that all in like that.
spk_0
And like, the nothing really happened.
spk_0
It was all exposition to set up the last party where the fight had.
spk_0
But we could have just not had any of that.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
Yeah.
spk_0
I like Adriana so much.
spk_0
I think she's so funny.
spk_0
And I think she's an integral part of the show.
spk_0
But I don't think she played that right.
spk_0
To yell at her like that.
spk_0
Yeah, and to say no one would have came in guard you from that shitty place you were living.
spk_0
That is so...
spk_0
I mean, did I laugh?
spk_0
Yes.
spk_0
Do I think it was wrong?
spk_0
Yes.
spk_0
In life, but not on reality TV.
spk_0
Yeah, exactly.
spk_0
We need that.
spk_0
Like when she yelled at Mara...
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We're going...
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We haven't...
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This is our first episode.
spk_0
We could talk about all the Miami shit.
spk_0
Like when she yelled at Mara saw you old whore with your...
spk_0
Bony ass and these old ass-nees?
spk_0
That's hilarious.
spk_0
I'm sorry for Mara saw that it affected her to get surgery, but she's getting it for free.
spk_0
Well, that's true.
spk_0
She's getting it sponsored.
spk_0
So Adrianna did her a favor.
spk_0
Anyone wants to say that I've old ass eyelids and then someone else...
spk_0
Your eyelids are so...
spk_0
Good saggy.
spk_0
Okay, not my best friend.
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Saggy ass eyelids.
spk_0
If your Anathomies surgeon, please give me a go.
spk_0
Yeah, I don't know.
spk_0
I love Adrianna.
spk_0
So I...
spk_0
See you and I...
spk_0
You and I have very different tastes in housewives.
spk_0
You don't love Adrianna.
spk_0
No.
spk_0
Why?
spk_0
I don't know.
spk_0
It actually kind of is against what I usually want in a housewife because usually in my
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environment...
spk_0
What do you want in housewife?
spk_0
My requirements to be a good housewife.
spk_0
Are you either have to be rich, a bitch or funny?
spk_0
Rich, a bitch or funny.
spk_0
Okay, that tracks her.
spk_0
Right.
spk_0
spk_0
So...
spk_0
Did Adrianna's funny?
spk_0
I don't think she's that funny.
spk_0
That's the problem.
spk_0
I think she's much too serious in all of her talking heads.
spk_0
She kind of...
spk_0
Especially the season is getting me down.
spk_0
Yeah, no.
spk_0
She has been a downer, especially in this second half of the season.
spk_0
I still love her.
spk_0
I think she's necessary energy on that show.
spk_0
But who from Miami, do you...
spk_0
Like, who's your number one from Miami?
spk_0
I mean, I actually really liked Stephanie this year.
spk_0
And I think the...
spk_0
The entire season.
spk_0
From the moment she walked on the scene, you liked her.
spk_0
Well, she definitely brought the bitch part and the rich part.
spk_0
Okay.
spk_0
So, we're two out of my three, right?
spk_0
The rich and the bitch part is like,
spk_0
if you are going to be a housewife,
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you either have to have like a private jet
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or like give fabulous parties
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or do something that is making me watch you
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or bring the drama,
spk_0
or if you're not rich or a bitch,
spk_0
you should be very funny, right?
spk_0
Like, I think she's bringing a couple of the things to the table.
spk_0
She's not funny.
spk_0
But I did appreciate that she got right in there.
spk_0
And her, the first thing that she said,
spk_0
really like pissed off Alexia immediately.
spk_0
And you don't want to do that.
spk_0
And then...
spk_0
So, I kind of appreciated that she brought so much drama
spk_0
to her first season.
spk_0
I waffle with her because she can be inseparable.
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But she also, I feel like,
spk_0
did bring a necessary new kind of juice to the cast.
spk_0
So, I think that she did a good job.
spk_0
She got on my nerves sometimes though.
spk_0
The whole jet thing, like, I get it,
spk_0
but she brought it up too much.
spk_0
And they call her out for it, which is fine.
spk_0
I just don't think she needed to bring it up that much
spk_0
and then with the whole seating chart on the...
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And then there was a fight where she got up
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and crying from the table.
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And it's like, you're on housewives.
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You're going to fight at dinner.
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Yeah, I didn't really get that.
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I mean, I liked that it gave her that bonding moment
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with Marisol and Alexia.
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I didn't really get what her sort of like...
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Although you're in another country,
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sort of like you're American shouting and spain.
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Like, it's so unbrained, right?
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It's just sort of like, I would be embarrassed too
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and walk out.
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She clearly is someone who like travels
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and is, you know, in the world.
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And it would be embarrassing.
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But all those people in that restaurant
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were probably paid extras, right?
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So, they've really been people in those scenes.
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Not in the big trips.
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It's just regular people in the ruining their dinner.
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Yeah, but I don't love it.
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I would be embarrassed.
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I would run out crying.
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I love when they get the reactions of the real people.
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The laymen just sitting there.
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Yeah, I mean, I would be embarrassed.
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Would I run out crying?
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I'd probably run out crying.
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I'd be a terrible housewife.
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I'd probably run out crying of every interaction
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of all time.
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I think I'm too sensitive to be a real housewife.
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So, but, you know, I did think she came out.
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She had a nice moment of Marisol and Alexia
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reminded herself that she shouldn't be sad
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because she is a private jet.
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And then it was fine.
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You're giving Lisa energy.
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Lisa who?
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Don't say Barlow.
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No, Hawks team.
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Barlow energy.
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Oh my god, no.
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If you gave Lisa Barlow energy,
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we wouldn't be sitting here right now.
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There you are.
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We'll get to that.
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Oh, Lisa, Hawks team energy is in.
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I want friends to be rich.
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Yes, you want to be friends with her
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for the fucking private jet.
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I don't.
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I want to watch her on TV for the private jet.
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Okay, but if she were...
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I would never go into private jet.
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If she were to slide in your DMs and be like,
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Hey, her's you're on the podcast.
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You want to come on the jet?
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You would pack that bag in five seconds.
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I would absolutely not because I have a rule
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which is that I'll never go on a plane with someone
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who's more famous than me.
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Because if we crash,
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I'm not even going to make any kind of headline.
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And that, you should know my rule about that.
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It's really upsetting that you don't.
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I could see the headline.
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Stephanie from Real House,
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I said, Miami dead in private jet crash.
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Friend found with saggy eyelids.
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Stephanie from Real House was like,
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Miami dead in private jet.
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Sheep old and half the way also killed.
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But the plus side is,
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you wouldn't have to worry about your eyelids anymore.
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Thank you, right.
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That is a silver lining to my own death.
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You're right.
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Stephanie, if you're listening,
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invite me on your private jet.
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There you go.
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Come on, Steph.
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Well, since we,
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Jen didn't get to a chance to catch up on OC
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from this week,
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so we can't really discuss Tamara's Spring-Fling.
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Should we just talk generally about what's been going on on OC
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since the, as of this recording,
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I haven't seen the Spring-Fling.
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So how are you feeling about this season?
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Since this is our first episode,
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and we haven't talked about it yet.
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I think that they thought that they were going to have
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a tamer takedown season.
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And Katie came in and did her thing
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and kind of gotten the way of that,
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and they got Katie out of the way,
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and then they thought they were still going to do the tamer takedown,
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and it's not working.
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So Katie is just without any explanation gone forever.
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Correct? Is that like...
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She comes up next...
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She tamer films with her next week.
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Okay.
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Because last week's episodes
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where they went on their separate trips,
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and then reunited after their separate trips,
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like everybody just sort of like...
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No one even talked about Katie.
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Katie is just sort of excised from the world of OC Housewives.
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She has been removed, and that is like it.
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Yeah.
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So, and because she committed the Cardinal Sin
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of making no one want to film with her, right?
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Well, so what is your take on this?
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Do you think that they had a real reason
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not to want to film with Katie?
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I mean, it's hard to say, like,
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clearly nobody trusted Katie, right?
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But do you think that she did anything
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that was so extreme that it would require...
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It would lead to her not being able to film with the group?
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No, I don't.
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Okay, great.
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I agree with that.
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I don't, because I think that I think the reason
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that they don't want to film with her is
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because she's like a newer housewife,
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and they can flex on her and say,
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we're just not going to film with her and be united,
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because they all do way worse things to each other all the time,
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and they film, and they continue to film with each other.
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She just didn't have the history with them
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to earn those little sort of like, betrayals, right?
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She went into hot too fast.
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Last season?
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Last season or this season?
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Both, because she didn't ever establish trust with anyone.
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Like last season, she did the same stuff.
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I think she was always hunting for her storyline
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to make her kind of relevant,
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and then she didn't establish trust with anyone.
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And also, she wasn't fun or funny enough.
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And honestly, like, they forgive anyone if they're fun.
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I wouldn't say that the OC cast is the fun cast though.
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But I mean, you know, Shannon,
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poor Shannon is such a mess.
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Poor Shannon?
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Well, she's such a mess.
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I mean, poor Shannon in having to get through life.
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Do you know what I mean?
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Like, it's...
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How do you get through the heart?
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Dad is filthy rich.
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But did he just give her any money?
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She lives in rented houses.
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I don't know.
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Her financials, I mean, we know that she was sued for $75,000,
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because she borrowed money to get a piece of money.
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How about if he's lived?
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If anyone would like to lend me $75,000 to get a piece of money?
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I think that...
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I think Shannon gets a lot of passes.
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Look, there's a lot of fire with Shannon about...
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Katie filmed her.
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Should she have filmed her?
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Probably not.
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Would I have done it?
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Maybe.
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I mean, Shannon obviously is a lunatic.
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Yeah.
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And like goes off behind the scenes.
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We know what happened with Joel Kembouster on Love Hotel.
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And for some reason, she continually gets protected.
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Yeah, I think it's because she has a history with these women.
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That that's not...
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You can't continually blow up and treat people like shit
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and everyone covers for you.
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Well, you have, of course, they all do it for each other.
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Tamara blows up all the time and they cover her.
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No one covers for Tamara.
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Tamara's literally the villain every season.
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But they forgive her because she's fun.
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No, I don't know.
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Nobody...
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See, the thing is, did Tamara go about Shannon's alcohol
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whatever she has when she drove into a house the correct way?
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Probably not.
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She was probably too aggressive about it.
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However, should other people have maybe had more of like
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holding Shannon's feet to the fire rather than coddling her?
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She's a fucking grown-ass woman.
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No, I agree.
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When I say poor Shannon.
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Lied, she tried to flee the scene of that.
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That's the thing that wasn't really delved in.
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They didn't delve into like how what she actually did in that crash.
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Oh, of course.
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It was...well, I mean, she did.
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Right, and we kind of just treat her like she's a fucking child.
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No, I guess I mean poor Shannon in the sense that like...
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It doesn't seem easy to be her.
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Do you know what I mean?
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Like, it seems...it doesn't seem happy.
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She has never seemed happy.
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What does she do it to herself?
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Yes, but like, don't you feel bad for people who are such a mess
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they do it to themselves?
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No.
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It's almost better when other people do it to you.
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Because then you're like...
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No, but isn't that exhausting for the people around?
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Like, you shouldn't be so exhausting to everybody around you
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and be able to continuously get away with it.
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Like, she does.
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On that show, whereas when you have someone like Tamara who's putting in the work and trying to like create actual conversations and story and make her the villain.
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Like, I think that Shannon...
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You can't keep making excuses.
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Like, obviously she drinks a lot.
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Yeah.
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And obviously she has a temper and she treats people beneath her off camera.
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And it's been allowed for a very long time.
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And I don't understand why she keeps getting passes.
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And I think Katy filming her while it broke privacy, I think it was one of those things where it was like...
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Someone should see this, like, the world?
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Someone should see this.
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Someone should see this.
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Someone should see this.
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Like, why do she need to act like this towards people?
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Well, you and I agree that we don't think Katie should have been sort of like taken down.
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No, it's crazy.
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Basically, I mean, she'll never get another season.
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No one will film with her.
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That's it.
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No, I don't, I disagree with you. I think you think they're gonna bring her back.
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I think the reunion is make her break for Katie. I think she has an opportunity to come back.
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How? How does she build trust with these women that makes her want them want to film with her again?
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I think it seems even her coming into the show feels like it was such a reach to have her come in as
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like a friend of Gina's right? They weren't like friends. Yeah, but we can't, you that's housewives in
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general. Okay, but she doesn't have relationships with anybody and they came in hot and it doesn't
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serve Gina to keep apologizing for her when she keeps sort of like. But Gina doesn't need to
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apologize for her. But I mean, Gina's, if you, if you actually look at the history and the
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thing and depending on who you believe, Gina was the one who kind of pushed her as a newbie to come
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in and call out Heather for the paparazzi stuff. Right. Is what she's saying. And I believe that.
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You believe Heather called paparazzi? No, I believe that Gina told Katie you should bring this up on
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camera. Got it. Okay. Which, which you go after Heather to bro, you really got to, you got to
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hit. I wouldn't go after Heather to bro. I'd like to be invited to one of her sleepovers.
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They look so fun. And then they woke up and they the way that that man looked at them when they
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wanted to order those eggs. Oh, he's still just served them fucking omelets. Like, I don't care
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that you want your eggs over hard. To be fair, it is a real criminal thing to order an omelet,
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well done, and eggs over hard. I mean, what is going on with these people?
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You have a private chef and you're ordering your eggs over hard. Yeah. I mean, a microwave could do that.
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Never microwaved an egg in my life. That's worse than a microwave to make a bite.
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But so I think Katie, I think one, the women obviously have seen fan reaction online and they know
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that a lot of the fans are on Katie's side. To I think that they're watching back now and seeing
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Gretchen's lies coming out in real time on the show and they're thinking, oh, fuck, Gretchen is a
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fucking operator. Liar. Like, and she'll literally say something on camera. And then the next scene
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say I never said that. That's crazy. That's what I really never have understood about any of the
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housewives who get caught in lies because don't they know everything is on tape? That to me
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doesn't ever make any sense. So like effortlessly, it's nuts. Well, I think that you think that Katie
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has an opportunity in the reunion. 100%. If you were Katie, what would you do in the reunion?
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Well, I've already said this, but I will say here, I think that she needs to go in there and
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just blow it up. I think Katie plays too passive as a housewife on the show. I think she needs to
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fight fire with fire and really like fight back. I think she needs to be a grip come in aggressively
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and tell them off with receipts. Well, I think she just needs to tell them off. Like when Shannon got
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up and yelled at her at Heather's birthday party and Katie was like, you left your girl cheese,
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I would have fucking stood up to and fodder. She stays too chill to calm. She needs to she needs to go
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forward. Go for it. It is strange that she says so chill and calm because if she's doing all of this
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operating behind the scenes to sort of talk to bloggers and talk to and get the dirt and whatever.
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Like if she's in it as much as she like putting her foot in it as much as it's seen they're all
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upset about her doing, she's really then not able in a direct confrontation to hang with a housewife.
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Right? Like she's not able to have a fight and fire back which is a real
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environment. But I think she has it in her. I think she has it in her. Do you want to give her
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housewife training before Katie if you're listening? Do you want housewife training for me? No,
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I mean we interviewed her on two T's in a pod and we I had a conversation with her and she
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she's so nice. And did you tell her she needs what she needs to do? She is beautiful, really beautiful.
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I did tell her what she needs to do. We just had a conversation and she met with Tamra for lunch
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this week. Okay. On the show. Yeah. No. Well she met with she no this week in real life they met.
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They went to lunch. Tamra posted about it. And they filmed her reunion next week. So we'll see
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what happens. Well I'm very excited. I hope she takes your advice. Why didn't give her advice?
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Okay. Well her advice your advice that is out in the ether. I hope she takes that advice.
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Well let's get to the best franchises God has ever created. Oh my God Salt Lake City. Why are you so
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good? They just don't miss. They don't miss. So we've had three episodes. Yes. The first episode
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which who names these episodes? You have a lot more housewife sort of knowledge than I do
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because they really missed a trick on naming that first episode. They named it like hot dogs
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in some shit right like not good. That was a I don't I never look at the episode title. Oh I
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I look at the episode titles and that one was Blair Bitch project. I mean that how did they not
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name it Blair Bitch project? Like the whole thing is a spoof of Blair Witch project. Oh that is so
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that's so good. I mean should I be naming housewives episodes? Yes. They had the cameras and
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everything they're all wandering around screaming in the woods and they call it hot dogs and the
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heart breaks or whatever the fuck they call it. I mean ridiculous. I someone who loves horror films I
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appreciate what they were doing there but I thought it went on a little bit too much. Like we know
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they're not in danger as Meredith said they're not bravo is not gonna let them die in the woods.
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There was nothing like I thought they were gonna do a prank and then the prank never happened. I
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thought all of a sudden we were gonna have like an actor. Oh I see. An actor be the you know. I see
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the this cast to me is so even Lisa Barlow who makes my blood boil in such a rageful way that
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probably isn't healthy. I still she's necessary. She's really great for the show. Right.
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Honestly first of all let's talk about the elephant in the room with her this season which is the
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eye makeup in her. Well she addresses her life. She just said it's a smoky eye that didn't fully
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like she has to blame her makeup girl but she said she she forgives her. I know but doesn't it
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just look like bad bad Botox? Maybe it was maybe she had a little Botox that went bad. I've had it
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I've had a bad Botox situation. If my husband is listening to this I've never had Botox and I'm
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lying right now but like otherwise I've had he's listening to this. You're right he's never gonna
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listen to this. It's like listening to NPR somewhere. So my husband said to me a few like a year ago
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he goes I don't want you ever to get Botox. And you said okay. What do you mean? And he goes it
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just looks so unnatural. Please promise me you'll never get Botox. And then I had to look at this man
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that I love so much and say I promise. And that is the only lie I've ever told him. So now I get
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secret Botox that he doesn't know what I that I get. It's the only secret I have from him but I
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had been getting Botox for so many years before he said I should never get Botox and he didn't want
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to break it to him. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. So it's their one secret. This can't be a social media
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clip. No you can he's an ununsocial media. You can put it on social media. The one time he opens
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Instagram would probably be the first thing they sell him. That's secret. Jim secret Botox. Yeah I do
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get secret Botox and one time my secret Botox resulted in a slight drippy lid for like you know like
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a week or two. And I just had to tell him I had a minor stroke you know like a normal person.
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Just a little bell policy happens to the best of us. But yes so I thought it might be a I thought
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Lisa Barlow's I think might be just like a touch of the a touch of the droop. But maybe it was
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like I make up in which case that but you know it's because her glam her makeup artist works
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every day even when she's not filming is that true. I mean that's what she says. Do you believe
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that though who gets claimed every day. Okay I do believe it about Lisa Barlow because do you
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remember I don't remember if it was last season or the season before where they told her she couldn't
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have glam and she lost her mind. Yes because I mean yes so it was at trixies. Yes at trixies. So
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I do believe that someone who can't look at camera. I think she this is a woman who believes
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she's on camera every day. She's very big and important. That didn't you hear her say how
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her life is unlike anybody else's life. Oh my god is she the real life Truman show. I mean she is
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living a big important life and she needs to be camera ready at all times for when you know
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Channing Tatum or whoever comes into her. Oh Steve Carell and Ben Affleck and first of all why is
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Ben Affleck always brought up in Utah. Like what is there a festival Ben Affleck? I think he's like
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Mormon adjacent royalty. Is that what it is? I don't know because on the secret house what the secret
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life is like. They just did commercials talking don't it's commercial together. Oh yeah so I think
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it's just because he must be he must be he must have cousins that are Mormons or something. I don't
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know that to be true but like. So the meat of everything that's happening is this lawsuit dismissed
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party. Oh that party. Which is so Karen Huger coded. Do you remember when Karen Huger did her?
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Yes. Yes she is recycling a bit of that but I did appreciate that on all of her billboards
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which did bring me back to like elementary school science fair. I was really appreciate it. I was
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really appreciative of that little throwback. I did appreciate how just for no reason there would be
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like a glamorous picture of Lisa doing something for no reason on the lawsuit pictures. It was just
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she was like you know what? Yes we're gonna be dealing with my lawsuit but also I was once on a
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yacht. Well it was her she and the picture of her and her husband at the whatever the sports
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game is that they just went to yeah she is her delusion like we were saying this podcast is about
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our delusions and having Rallye checked that I don't think it's I think she actually believes
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her delusions like she's not aware that she's delusion. No I think that's true and I often have
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said that I would like I think I'd be way further in my career if I just had the delusion if I was
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just as delusional as one real housewife. Do you know what I mean? We're here for. Yeah and she
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is as delusional as 10 real housewives like she is singing cabaret all over the place. Do you know
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what I mean? Like she the world is her cabaret. Like more delusional than Countess Lueanne. Yeah
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yeah she is the world. Like she makes Countess Lueanne look grounded. She makes Countess Lueanne
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look like Mariah Carey. Yes. Oh speaking of we have to talk after this about I went to the Mariah Carey
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Concert this past week so we have to come back to that. We have to be careful there's no Mariah
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Slander on this podcast. I know I would never do that to you. But Lisa since she came in in
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season in episode two she just has had this energy of panic. It's like she's constantly I'm
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gonna use a sports analogy. What? Oh my god. She's like a quarterback that is constantly in nerve
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of being sacked. Well I couldn't even get it out. You were like oh my god. But I know this about
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football. So like when a quarterback is like cornered and he's about to be sacked it's like that panic
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of what you even know the word sacked. Well you know it's kind of sexual. Okay okay got it. So that's
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what I feel like her vibe is on coming in on these past two episodes she's just constantly
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and panic about like being tackled and being taken down that she is like just spiraling.
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Which is never good. No I mean it does feel pretty frantic. The whole her energy is kind of
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pretty frantic. Also I'm you know her not being part of the first episode of the season is just
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setting you up for being the topic that everyone talks about right? Like you can't be absent
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whenever once together and expect no one to talk shit about you can you? No she had to have known
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I think she was trying to hold out for more money at that. I know she said she was working but I
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personally think that she was she wanted more money. She said she was at a premiere part in. She's
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always at a fucking premiere. She talks about the all these celebrities we ain't seen a damn one. I
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know and also like premiere part like what you just provide alcohol for a premiere party and you can
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be there. Alcohol that let's be free. No I have looked for Vita tequila like I would it does it
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even exist outside of Salt Lake City. So do we think that the business stuff these these lawsuits
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are from Vita Tequila? Does she have another business that I don't know about? She has her party
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planning event business that's like what she does all the Sundance events which I think is a
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viable legitimate business like she's been doing Sundance events before the show even started.
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So that's just what all the premiere parties are it's just party planner. Right. So she's the
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an event party planner for the I don't I couldn't even tell you don't know. Well I think that first of
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all all the dismissed stuff and then I love the way she would just like interchange was interchanging
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denied a denial and dismissed. No my favorite part of the whole thing was she brings them there
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prints out these things and then she goes ask me anything and then they ask and she goes that's
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none of your fucking business. Oh, Lisa Barlow. She's insane. I'm not an insane person. I really
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respected it. But it's what I'm saying she makes me so angry but I'm like oh you need
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she need this person on this television show. You absolutely need her she is going to provide
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so much for us to talk about. And and Brittany is okay in small tiny like one milligram
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dosage. We need micro doses of Brittany right she's like a shroom like just micro doses of
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Brittany. I can't even micro dose. I have to say and I think it's because first of all it's
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very difficult when you have someone who doesn't know what an announcement is. No well that's the
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thing. She got last season she did her little announcement thing and it maybe was organic for her
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and she saw that the fans like loved it and then she tried to recreate it this season and you can't
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do that. No. You can't recreate something like that and we'll get to survive. I hate so we're
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going to get to survivor next and then we'll talk about that but I don't I hate a reality
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person who comes in and tries to make things happen rather than just letting them happen. Right.
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And there's somebody on survivor who does that and I cannot stand it. I'm excited to hear what you
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think. Let's wrap up Salt Lake City. Yeah. Heather Gay is my queen. I love her so much. She is the
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perfect narrator for Salt Lake City and has been serving it for seasons. She's funny. She doesn't
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bring the other things that I really appreciate which is rich and a bitch but I think she's so
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funny and so like so able to narrate perfectly what is happening with everybody else that I love her
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so much. She is a little bit too faced this season already going to. This season. Okay. She plays
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all sides. How do we now have any of the same favorite housewives? She is a little bit of a
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vagina when it comes to Lisa Barlow. If I were sitting across from somebody and they said my life
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is so different than yours I would have a visceral reaction and let them have it. Okay but I think
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she found it amusing. Yeah but we're on housewives. But then she just talks about it in her talking
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head. What I think is fun is that she's like okay your life is so different than mine that's fine
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and then she can make fun of it. I think I think she's setting herself up for a joke in her talking
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head which I respect. Yeah I would rather just do it in in the moment then. What are you going to
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say to someone who honestly thinks that they're so big and important and you're going to tell them
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they're not? Yeah. I never going to happen. I think that she understands what she's dealing with
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and she's like this will be fun to make fun of later. I don't know. You know those friends
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that you have and you're like no one's going to tell them anything. Like why should I even try
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but I thought the two faceness is her sort of pretending that she doesn't agree with any of it
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at that lunch and then even at the at the dismissal presentation you could tell that she
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was not on Lisa's side about it but she presented to Lisa like she was. I agree with you when it comes
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to Heather that she's a great narrator. She's an amazing ability to kind of tell the story and
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do the through line the threading of it all for us. I don't think that I think she can be
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funny herself but I don't think she has a sense of humor when it comes to her. So I don't think she's
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able to I like I don't think she's able to let things go. I think when somebody does something
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in her she instead internalizes it and then it's passive reciprotals. Like she is with Bronwyn.
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Which is sad because Bronwyn has been I think Bronwyn is a really good housewife.
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Amazing. And she can read people. She's really she really is a really has like a sharp sense of
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like what people what the bullshit is in this moment. She's funny in her talking heads and her
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fashion is ridiculous. Well I think we're about to get Bronwyn big I think Lisa Barlow is going to
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bring up that fact that she's been accused of gram theft larceny. She has. Yeah and sealed
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records. In sealed records. They've been sealed. How do you know about this? Well Reddit figures out
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everything Jennifer. Really? So I think that Lisa Barlow is going to bring that up. Wow. Okay.
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I'm excited for that. We'll talk more about the housewives next week. Let's jump in the survivor
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real quick because this is you know guys we have a lot to worry. Just have a lot to talk about.
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So thanks for listening. But survivor has been two episodes of season 49 and who are you liking
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right off the top? Well I I like Nate a lot. He's the sort of dad guy like this sort of
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older producer. The producer. Hollywood producer dad. Look at us loving the same survive.
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Is that your favorite? I love him. I love him. Yeah. I love the way he's sort of like I don't
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know what any of these kids are doing but I'm just going to be like I mean he just seems like a good
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guy. So maybe that's what I like about him. I also like Jason who's like the alternate.
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Oh he has no personality yet. No well that's you so Jason this is so survivor the editor sometimes
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I want to punch them in the face. The fact that we don't know anything about Jason he's had like
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maybe one half of a talking head. He's going far. 100%. He's 100% going far. He's so good at puzzles.
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So good at puzzles. And we don't know we haven't seen him. They've given him literally 30 seconds
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of camera time. I think the problem though now that this now that the episodes the seasons are so
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sure and the episodes are not as long you don't see as much of everybody there's no reward challenges
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anymore. Like there's a lot that I have problems with. Please the reward challenges are the best
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and the the auction they need to do the auction. They need to do the auction again. But I do think that
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Jason just coming out and saying like I was on the mat in the first day like I was a I was a first
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I was an alternate. I just found out less than 24 hours ago. I was going to be here like immediately
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made me love him so much. He feels kind of like a voice of the audience like a fan just a super
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fan showing up. I think that's a story that they want to tell too is like look at this. He was
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an alternate and he made it so far or even wins. I would love it if he wants. I like him so far.
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Who who who other than those two are you liking? Oh gosh. I oh I do like I do like Michelle. Oh MC
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that's what they're calling her right? Yeah I like her a lot. I like that she was in on she new like
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oh they're asking me to come in but like if I'm the fourth I'm not the bottom of the floor.
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I mean I like her I like what she's doing there. I don't mind Steven I think he's likeable.
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He's Steven is almost hearing aids right? Yes. Yeah I think he's likeable.
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I'll tell you who I can't stand. Wait can I? Oh you know what I I do love Joanne. I love
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Joanne. I love that he won and chose to do the try. I think he played it really right. I think that
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they made who Joanne got the uh you got the advantage. He took the team advantage. Is that
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your time out? Who got the idol though? Oh Alex got the idol. Alex got the idol. I was good
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that's amount of different training thoughts. Sorry. Yeah Alex got the idol. I um think thank goodness
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that he got that advantage for his team because I don't think he would have still been around if he
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hadn't gotten the advantage for his team. They were ready to cut him loose. Yeah. And it's always
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so hard for me to see like the ones that like the one who went home spoiler if you haven't watched
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this week's episode coming up. The woman Annie who went home this past episode was one of those
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characters that you always know is going home really quickly because they always say something
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in their talking head like I'm running this whole show. Yeah no one knows I'm a puppet master
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and then it should always just immediately cut to them getting every single vote and being voted
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out because it happens every single time every time people have no hubris and don't know that
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they're not running the whole show they were voted out immediately so we all saw that coming.
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That's one of the things where I think the producers on Survivor get involved. That's what I was
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going to bring up is because there was no way Alex was going to use his idol to save her. No.
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And that he said it in his confessional and I think they were just like look we know this is
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vote is going to go the way it's going but for the viewers sake can we please at least try to add
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some tension and say that oh maybe I'll use the idol to say like that was never going to happen.
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No I do think that he might have been trying he made this decision before he went in that he
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wanted to find like a mom figure to have an unlikely you know unlikely alliance. Yeah I don't really
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like it when they go in with a game plan of like I'm going to have an unlikely alliance that's my
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game plan going in. You mean about Jake who came in and said oh we have a bromance you met him
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five seconds. I think he just saw a meat shield in some kind of way right then he's I joke can we
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is Jake are we naming him the person we like the least this season. I know. So much you can't call
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yourself the shoe bandit and just start a thing. I fucking hate him. It's like people who give
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themselves their own nickname. You loser. I can't give yourself your own nickname. And I think I don't
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know if casting personally purposely cast these mussely buffed meathead guys to be this but like I
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always find myself not enjoying them. Well I think casting has to they went a different way
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for several seasons and season 46 had this which was why it was such a terrible season which is
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that it was all just super fans of the show who were like really weak and sort of like
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unable to do any of the physical stuff and like really not competing on the level that like old
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survivor players where you were like oh my god they're incredible at every like a pausier like
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and so then they went away from that. Well people were also scared to be the villain because of
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social media backlash. Yeah which would I get it. I don't like it when I think anyone's mad at me
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let alone the whole internet but I mean I think that they've now found Jake and he is fully throwing
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himself into the sort of meathead category. If he makes it one vote past the merge it will be
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a miracle and we know in this new modern era survivor the merge happens like 30 seconds after
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season begins so I don't know I don't I don't think you're gonna have to be annoyed by Jake
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for very long. Uh please someone needs a take of one of those fucking shoes and shove it up Jake's
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ashes. That's what I think. That's a survivor request. The only other thing with survivor I think
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I wanted to ask you is how do you feel about Rizzo cheating? Um wait remind me about him cheating.
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He went away. He went with Alex and Alex had finished the puzzle first yes. Yeah I think it's
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hate that. I don't like it but when do they not they they they know it's part of the game so much
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that usually on the puzzles they have a cloth that will let you cover it. Yes I know. They didn't
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have that in this season. I think it's bullshit though. Well it's bullshit but it's also like
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and then he comes back and they're celebrating him for what? He didn't do anything but cheat and then
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dig fast. Did he say that he cheated when he came back? Yeah I mean listen I feel about Rizzo
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I sort of his immigrant story really hit for me. I felt like okay this is a kid who's like I
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mean he's a little skinny kid. He's calling himself the Riz like I know you're saying me criticizing
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him makes me like a member of ice. Yes. It's what you're saying. Thanks a lot. I would never say that
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but I do. I do think that Rizzo is listen he's not good at puzzles. He knows he's not good at
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puzzles. He didn't want to lose for his team. He cheated. Alex you know it was fair game. It was
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there Alex didn't mess up the puzzle so he couldn't cheat. I think. Which you can. So if you had to
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pick at this point who would who do you think is going to win? I'm like a Nate and Jason
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right this minute but I don't even know if we've met the I don't know if we've really and maybe
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for that reason that you were saying we haven't focused in on who is going to win yet. I don't think
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they would do that. So yeah those are my my my favorites you. Yeah I there are my favorites as well.
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I do love Sophie because she's bananas. Which Sophie? The Latina girl. Oh yeah. I love her. She's
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crazy. I enjoy that energy. I forget what my girl's name was the girl. Carolyn. No the dark hair
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girl. She was a real skinny. I loved her. She was maybe two seasons ago. I don't remember her name
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but I love that character. Like just a girl who's there to fuck shit up. I love it.
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Okay before this you know this is our first podcast so we don't know. Yeah guys we're just
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going with the flow. So one thing about Jen and I is that I love pop music. It's one of my favorite
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things in the world. She will tell us about her Mariah Carey experience after we do what I'm
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calling the culture popped quiz because Jennifer knows nothing about any musical pop culture at all
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and I am obsessed with all things music charts everything. So just a few questions for you today Jen.
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Okay I would just like to clarify it's not just music pop culture I don't know about. I just don't
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know who's famous anymore. All right well then I'll start throwing in TikTok stars in these but for
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this week this this is all music. Okay related. Okay so which two female rappers got into a
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nasty X battle this week. Do you even know any female rappers names? Yes. Okay I'm in a guess.
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Okay. Glowrilla. No just because you just saw Glowrilla at the heart festival. I just saw Glowrilla.
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Okay. The only one you know. No. Cardi B. Correct. Okay is that is that one of them? Okay yes.
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Cardi B and there's literally come on. What do you mean there's literally sometimes when you're
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having a quiz your brain goes I didn't I wasn't told to study for this. Well that's the point.
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Cardi B and okay I don't know this who is the Nicki Minaj. Oh I would have said Nicki Minaj
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if I had remembered. Yeah and look it up because it was nasty. Why what was that? Oh they were going
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after each other's kids it was bad. Okay. Really bad. But to be fair I think Glowrilla is Cardi B's
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cousin. Is it we need to get a fact check on that I don't know I honestly don't know. Okay what
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artist released her 12th album this week the life of a showgirl? Oh ding ding ding ding ding I do
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know this one Taylor Swift. Do you would be a swifty? I'm not a swifty although they say that like
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70% of the country is swifties which I think might be the only thing that he likes us. Okay.
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Maybe because we're all asleep when we listen to our music. Okay finish the lyric. Uh-huh.
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I get wet at the thought of you being a responsible guy treating me like you're supposed to tears run
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down my. I? No. Yes. Yes. Dirty. It's dirty. I love it. Uh so bonus points if you can name the song
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and the artist. Is this going to be one of those people I've never heard their name before?
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If you have not heard her name you really really should think about your life's choices.
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Okay. Just give me the first. Oh. Oh. Um. Okay. It is. She's coming to Los Angeles to do a concert.
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And wow. Not not the very rare event of coming to Los Angeles to do a concert. Very few
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musical artists ever come to Los Angeles to a concert. If you like her so much that you don't know
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her name. But you just give me her for the first letter of her name. What did Jesus do
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as a job? Oh. Reach. Okay. So Jen doesn't even know pop culture going back to BC times. Wait
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are you talking about? What did Jesus do as a job? Carpenter? Yes.
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Okay. Does it help you? Is she even alive? I don't think so. I think there was a document. I
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think there was sort of like one of those movies had after school movies about her when we were kids.
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Wow. I don't know how I failed you so much as a gay man. Eliza Carpenter? Is that a person?
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Oh no. Such as someone I went to high school with. Oh my god. Sabrina Carpenter. I don't know.
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This is this segment is called pop culture. It's very telling. But should be carpenter.
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It doesn't know who anyone is. Alex. Do you know who Sabrina Alex is? Jen's husband. He's in
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the kitchen trying to make his little noises possible. Do you know? He says he absolutely don't know
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who Sabrina Carpenter is. Hot singer. There you go. Hot singer. All you gotta be is a straight man
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to know who Sabrina Carpenter is. I'm gonna bone up on my Sabrina Carpenter for next. What?
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Cindy Swing is an actress even I know that. Okay. Well obviously your husband has a type that is
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not you. Well we're gonna discuss that next week. Well you will. Actually I'm gonna be discussing
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that all week long. When Jen returns to this podcast next week with new boobs in a blonde wig.
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You'll know why. So that's gonna be it for us kids. Matt this has been so fun. Oh.
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One of the best things about this podcast is that I get to see you all the time and we get to
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discuss our favorite things. Yes and some of our non-favorite things like bagel bites. Yeah that's
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big boot for us. Sorry but we'll be back next week guys so we'll see you then. Thanks for listening. Bye.
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