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90 Day Fiance Season 12 Episodes 11&12: Meet The Family; So Help Me God · 90 Day Book Club

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am back.
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  SPEAKER_00: My name is Jen.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am your host.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are listening to the 90 Day Book Club.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why is this called the 90 Day Book Club?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'll tell you again in case you haven't listened to earlier episodes.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're new to the show, I write under a romance pen name called Abby Nox.
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  SPEAKER_00: I write mostly short, sweet, quick, spicy, over-the-top romances, and I love to talk about reality TV.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get started.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are talking about 90-day fiance season 12, episodes 11 and 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: Episode 11 is Meeting the Family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Episode 12 is so help me god.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: You have to say it like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a rule.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna start out this episode with Thomas and Paula.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: We only get a little brief scene with them, but it's really, really good.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to talk about that first.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'm finally paying attention to the Chiron.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: They are in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: That's where the farm is.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: And um, I that's not that far from where I am, so that's pretty cool to see that.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Paola is planting seeds with Rini, Thomas's mother-in-law, as you are, stepmom, sorry, as you recall, they're there to try to convince them to come to the wedding.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of hurt feelings because Paula had previously posted on socials after meeting Thomas's biological mom.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: So she and Rini are having what looks to me like a pretty genuine conversation about all this.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: She says, I was confused.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't want to pick anybody's side.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: I have empathy for all of you and everything you did for Thomas and his sister.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: Rene explains there's just so mishistory, and she doesn't understand, Paula doesn't understand what all happened.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: We don't really get a whole lot of detail about that, other than Thomas's mom left.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tom and Thomas are in the barn, and Thomas is trying to explain, you know, Paola didn't mean to hurt anybody's feelings, like her understanding of family.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: She sees them all every Sunday.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: They have lunch together, they dance.
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  SPEAKER_00: She thinks this is normal and she can be there to repair the situation.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dad says, Well, 10 years from now, if you get quizzed at who is at your wedding, you're not going to remember.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to take issue with that personally.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: I remember who was at my wedding, and I also remember who RSVP'd and didn't show up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because that costs money.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And with Thomas, of course he's going to remember because it's not going to be a huge wedding.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paula says to Rini, I wanted to say, I'm sorry, and I understand you guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rini says, You came from a good place.
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  SPEAKER_00: For you to clear the air is heartfelt and important to me, and I really appreciate that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this was a nice moment and seemed really genuine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thomas says to his dad in the barn, I know it wasn't easy what you did, but I appreciate what you did for me and my sister.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: I knew I could count on you.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I called you, you always pulled through.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I just, I really love that scene.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Paola says, you know, she finally understands everything.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: And she says, I understand better now.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to post anything about social media, about your family again.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: But she just wants people there for the wedding pictures.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Thomas says, So, so you haven't really learned anything.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: She says, just for the pictures.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: Thomas is like, I think that's what got us in trouble for the first time.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, now I'm gonna move on to Marissa and Edward.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: They are getting ready to go spend time with Marissa's friends at her friend Shayla's house for a cocktail party.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: And they're getting ready to go, and she's telling him not to wear his bracelets.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, but why?
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: In the car on the way to the party, she's warning him don't get sloppy drunk and don't talk too much about baseball.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I really can't see Edward getting sloppy drunk, especially if he's nervous about meeting friends, but I mean, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the party, we meet Bob, Danielle, Lisa, David, Caitlin, Sheila, and Shayla.
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  SPEAKER_00: Edward has an interesting moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: He finds out these people are in finance or in insurance and is talking ahead.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_00: He says, these are people I would be taking care of at the hotel where I work in Dominican Republic.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Marissa's having uh some chat just with the girls on the back porch while the men are having the men talk.
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  SPEAKER_00: She says, I cannot believe some of the words that comes out of her mouth.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: She says, There is a certain level of sophistication among the people that I run with.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: And let's face it, Edward and my relationship relationship isn't based on intellect.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_00: It was physical at first, and now I'm worried we're not gonna meet on an intellectual level.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: She doesn't know if he's gonna be that sophisticated person who can accompany her to a black tie event.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: How many black tie events do you go to?
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: We talk about sophisticated things and he struggles with it.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's not because he's stupid, but because he's just not exposed to those things.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta take a deep breath.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: I cannot.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: What are you discussing that he can't discuss?
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: You're discussing Shakespeare?
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: You're discussing Nietzsche?
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_00: I kind of doubt it.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: We cut to Marissa trying on her wedding dress at Kleinfeld's bridal, where we all know that she works.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: It looks like apparently she already picked this dress.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: She's going for a fitting.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: It's got like, excuse me, while I try to describe a dress.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: You know I'm mad at this.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's got like a choker halter type situation, and it's like a scoop neck neckline, and the corset, like the boning in the corset is like visible, semi-see-through in the bottom part of the corset.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, she does look good in a halter choker style.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just not a fan of like this visible boning that seems to be in a lot of I said visible boning.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_00: So she's expressing her doubts to her co-workers.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know how close she is with her coworkers that she's talking about how she feels about her relationship.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: This seems like she's just telling everybody who will listen now, and I don't like this.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Dorothy, the MVP of the episode, is like, listen, you have to be 100% or don't do it.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then we find out that when she went to New York City, you know, she when she goes to work, she'll stay overnight at her apartment in the city, away from Pennsylvania.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: And she's bothered because apparently she didn't text him all day while she was at work, and then he texted later, have a good night.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_00: And she read into that as him being sarcastic and upset.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_00: He is upset because later he meets her in New York City to talk about how he's feeling.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: He tells us she didn't say goodbye when she went to New York.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: He didn't get a hug, didn't get a kiss.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: He knows she's he's not gonna see her for a couple days while she's at work and staying in the city.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: And he feels like she's been very cold.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: And he says, I'm sorry for interrupting your time alone.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's important to talk.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: She says, It takes time away from what I'm doing here.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: It has to be important.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: She left work to talk to him?
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think so because it looks like they're meeting on the waterfront, which is not where Kleinfeld is, so I don't think she stepped out of work to talk to him.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: This is very strange, but Edward says, honestly, I don't feel good.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: I know I'm gonna be alone for four or five days while you're working, and you don't even give me a hug.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know I like these things.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_00: To be honest, I feel you are so cold to me.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: I am begging for love, and that is not acceptable to me at all.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_00: I like affection.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: In the beginning, you were like this with me.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: Marissa says she understands that she was at that level of like a lot of affection at the very beginning.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: She's like and she's trying to explain to him that's just not sustainable.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: And right now she's not in a mental headspace to be very loving.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: And Edward's like, I give you what you need, I give you your space, and yet you complain.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: And she's like, You didn't.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_00: You gave me space and then I didn't reach out to you and you got mad.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: She says, Things have changed.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm starting to question things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Edward says, What kind of things?
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: She says, at this point, I'm questioning our compatibility and if we are the right fit to get married.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: In Edward's talking head, he's like, I cannot believe this.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: This is bullshit.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: For her, it's just money talking about, you know, wasting money on the fiance visa.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: But he says, I moved to another country, and now she's saying this.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's not acceptable.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: If you said these things before, I wasn't going to be in this process.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: So he wouldn't come to the United States at all if he knew that she had doubts like this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I find it strange though that she would just, as she does, get up and go to New York to go to her job, leave him for a couple of days, but not say goodbye, and not give him a hug or kiss, not say, hey, get on the train and come up here.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: Let's have a date night, you know, this or that.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's just it without any explanation.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, okay, so you're not in the headspace.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: You need to talk about your relationship, but you don't feel like being affectionate.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you need to talk about it.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I gotta move on to Katie and Josh.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_00: What to say about Katie and Josh?
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: Did you know she was a Lutheran?
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: Did she talk about being a Lutheran at any point?
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: We've had ten episodes of her partying and cheating.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: Because getting drunk and trying to make out with everybody, that's cheating.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: Not sorry.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: But they're getting ready to get on a plane to go see her parents in Alameda, I think.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: It's in the Bay Area, I do believe.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: And they're already fighting.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_00: Just trying to get out the door.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: Josh is a nervous traveler.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: She's a very whatever traveler.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: And already this is giving me hives because I can see where Josh is like, we need to get to the airport early.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, um, it's whatever.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, fine, I'm gonna go get a donut, and I'll see you on the train platform.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, they're also having a conversation about Lutheranism and saying, you know, she wants her kids to be baptized and raised in the Lutheran church.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: Josh seems very surprised about all this.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: So they arrive in California at Katie's parents' house.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: Daniel and Deb.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever met somebody's parents and you realize, oh, they love, they love their child, but maybe they don't really like her.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know what I mean?
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm getting this.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: We love her, she's our daughter, but we don't really like her very much.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's just the vibe I'm getting.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so Katie and her mom are in the kitchen talking about the fight that Katie and Josh had this morning before going to the airport.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_00: Her mom, you can almost see a hint of panic in her eyes.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: And she's like, Josh is a nice guy.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: You should be nice, you need to make this work.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: Subtext is, do not become my problem again.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: Become Josh's problem, not mine.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: Katie says, Well, we've been fighting a lot.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: I had tequila on my birthday, and I tried to kiss everyone I know.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_00: And you see the mom's face just uh like this again.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: She says, that makes me sad.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: She says, Your behavior gets obnoxious and it's gonna hurt somebody someday.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: And Katie's like, like what, murder?
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, no, spiritually, not physically.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: She tells Katie, I like Josh and I want you to do what it takes to keep him because he makes you a more stable person.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want you to mess that up.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: They go for a cake tasting, uh, they don't really know what they want.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: Then they're talking head.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: The producer asks Katie's parents, Are you surprised that they have planned as little as they have?
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: The dad says, Knowing Katie, no.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_00: While they're having the cake tasting, Katie gets a notification on her Apple Watch or Smartwatch or something.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: She says, Josh, you need to call the delivery company.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: So apparently, the company that's delivering all of Josh's worldly goods from the UK to Portland have been contacting Katie, letting her know that they're gonna give 24-hour notice of a four-hour window for this these things to be delivered.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: And Josh's like, what?
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: Excuse me, what what's going on?
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: She's just hemming and hawing, and she's like, it's a stupid window of time.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: Josh is like, why have they been contacting you?
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: And she's like, I today, today they contacted me.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: I told you.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: He says, No, you didn't.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: Katie's like, he's being a little dramatic.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: And Josh is like, okay, walk me through what you've done.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, I explained it.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: You did not explain anything.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, she drives me crazy.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: Josh says, I've been trying to work this out for weeks, and you've not told me any of this till right now.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: She said, between eight and twelve.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: Josh says, What have you done since receiving this message?
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: Katie says, They called me and said, if the four-hour window doesn't work, call back and pick a different day.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: She says, It's not my fault.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: They called me.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: You weren't there.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: And we come to find out they called her while she was on her run.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: So of course Josh wasn't there.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: She says, Okay, I was out on my run and I texted you.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: I said, I'll tell you later.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: And you never asked about it, so so he walks off to call the delivery company.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: He's extremely annoyed.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, I I would be too.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: Mom and dad look like they've been down this road before.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: So in episode 12, so help me God, um, they're chasing chickens in the yard.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's Easter morning, and the dad has put together an Easter egg hunt for the two adult children.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: And they look around and they find the golden egg that has cash in it.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: This is like an Easter egg hunt is really for little kids.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: I don't really understand, but okay.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: All right, somewhat cute, I guess.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: Grandad and grandma come over for Easter dinner.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: Grandad says she's a good hearted girl, but pushy.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so they say, Grace, Josh very nicely makes an English sausage roll for everyone.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: They seem to enjoy it, and they're being very nice and polite.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: And then Debbie's mom says, Do you celebrate Easter, Josh?
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, he's like, Yeah, when I was younger, it was more about the chocolate, not particularly religious.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: And then everyone's kind of quiet, and he says, I wonder what that looks like to you.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: Debbie says, Well, I would like your children to be baptized and raised, raised in the church.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: The dad asks Josh if he'd consider converting.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: Josh says it's a big consideration.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's not something I'm jumping to answer.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: Katie says, Would you be open to it?
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: Katie and her mom have a conversation about how one time Katie called her mom because she was stressed about heaven and hell.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: Katie's wondering how she can enjoy heaven if Josh is in hell.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I can tell you all the Lutherans I know do not talk like this.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: At this point, we're not sure what kind of flavor of Lutheranism they are in, but yeah, they don't really emphasize hell in this way.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying, this sounds very evangelical and seems a little bit extreme for Lutherans.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna put a pin in that, and right now we're gonna move on to Debbie and Mito.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: Are they kayaking on the Mississippi?
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: Looks like some kind of canal in New Orleans.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: It looks nice, it looks fun.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: Debbie tells us in her talking head, since the big fight they had on Halloween, they did not speak to each other for days, and then they finally had a conversation in which Mito did not take any accountability.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: He told her that her actions would determine whether or not he would return to Egypt.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: Since then, she says they've had some downtime with just the two of them together, and the communication started opening up again.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: She says, I've decided to take the pressure off and not have any heavy conversations.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: That's been the best medicine you can possibly think of for the situation.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: So to be clear, the medicine is to not talk about our problems when we're alone together.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: She says, but he still hasn't proposed and we're running out of time.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: So even though he's technically your fiance, he is not officially proposed.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: This show is insane.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: What's even more insane is Mito sitting on the floor in the apartment, staring at the mirror and doing Shakespeare badly.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: He's saying to be or not to be, that is the problem.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: He does this two or three times with different intonations and expressions, and it's wrong.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: But he has a meeting with an agent over Zoom, somebody named Jason, bless you, Jason, for enduring this.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: He asks him, What kind of actor do you want to become?
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, El Pacino, Brad Pitt.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Jason says, Well, okay, um, right now, take classes for English, acting classes also, and maybe in the future we can work together.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: Meito reminds us, I am a good actor.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: I deserve the good.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, Debbie comes home.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, How was your meet meeting with the agent?
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, Good.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna represent me once I get my English and acting classes going.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: Debbie's like, Really?
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: She seems genuinely shocked because he's not really telling the whole story.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: Debbie's like, well, acting classes are gonna be on hold until we know for sure that you're staying.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, time is a chicken.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: In her talking head, Debbie's like, whenever Mito talks about acting, he comes alive.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: I wish he would show this much enthusiasm when he's talking about me.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, get a clue, Debbie.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: You're answering your own questions.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: So Debbie takes him on a little outing to a place called the chapel in New Orleans.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: This is cute.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: Little small wedding venue to surprise him.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: She's really wanting him to make up his mind.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: So she's playing this card to get the wheels moving.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's a small, sweet little space, holds about 30 guests.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, well, it's only gonna be my daughter and my son.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: And it's gonna be in three weeks.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: Mito says, Debbie surprised me with the wedding venue, and there's a lot for me to think about.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: She's pushing me, and I don't like it this way at all.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: So the coordinator takes him into the red room, which is very pretty.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's just like drenched from ceiling to floor.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: Red, red, red, red textiles, red upholstery, red furniture, red everything.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of unsettling, but also cool in a very New Orleans kind of way.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: So the coordinator's like, yeah, uh, what do you think?
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, uh, you guys are kind of freaking me out.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna leave and give you guys a minute to talk because you know, everybody can pick up on the uh vibe in the room whenever Meatho is just shutting down.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: Debbie's like, so what do you think?
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: Is it too much?
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: He says, I think it's a lot.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: She says, I Know what you mean by that.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: He says, I think we need to talk.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: Debbie says, What's wrong?
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: He says, I think it's time to go.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: Return back home.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: Debbie is kind of doing a double take, making sure she understands what he just said.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, Are you kidding?
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: He has this weird, creepy half smile.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, What's going on?
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: He says, I don't know.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: She says, You need to talk.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: You can't just shut up after saying that.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: He says, I can't find myself here.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: Debbie Fulan flees the scene.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: She leaves the chapel, goes outside, slams the door in the cameraman's face.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: Rude.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: Walks a little way down the sidewalk in front of the chapel.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: And she's turned away from the camera, sobbing.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: Mito is not following her right away, by the way.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: Finally, Mito comes outside, walks up behind her.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: Baby, look at me, please.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: No, she says.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: Baby, she says, no.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: He puts a ring box on the ground, opens it up, and then comes up behind her and hugs her.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: She's still sobbing.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: He sort of forces her to turn around and then gets on his knees, picks up the box and points at her and says, I got you.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: I would have murdered him at this point.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_00: I know I just walk away.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'd probably be like, fuck you.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: Walk away.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: She's just feeling way too many emotions at the moment.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, I'm gonna kill you.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: She hugs him.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: She's still sobbing.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: She doesn't I don't think she can pick an emotion right now.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: In a talking head, he says, I've been carrying the ring around waiting for a good time.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: I thought now was a good time to surprise her since she surprised me.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: She's like sobbing and sobbing.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, You scared me.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: And he says, It's not easy to be with Mito.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: Boy, you said a mouthful.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we gotta move on to Mallory and Rashit.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: All the friends are gathering at Michaela's house again with the chickens and the cornhole and the cookout.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: Ever since the baseball game, they haven't really hung out with anyone because Rosh showed his ass.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Rosh says he still doesn't feel bad about how he treated Brandy at the game.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: He feels bad about Ryan or Rin, excuse me.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: Rin R-Y-N is Rin.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: Rin.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: Why do I want to say Ryan?
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: Rin and Michaela.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Rin's been texting me, letting me know if I ever need anything to let him know.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: So he knows that he's surrounded by good people and he yeah.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: He needs to pull his head out of his ass.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: But, anyways, Rin's cooking up.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: Deer, he's cooking up venison on the grill.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: Brandon is coming, and Rosh is already starting to act like a dick about it.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_00: So everybody's in the kitchen.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: Mallory is talking to her girlfriends about how they're settling in, and she explains that she brought up the idea of a prenup.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_00: And Rosh was so bothered by that, by thinking that she assumed they weren't gonna last.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: She's thinking, well, there's a language barrier, makes it hard.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: And she guesses that prenups don't really exist in Turkey.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then Brandy surprises everybody by taking up for Rashid in the whole prenup discussion.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_00: Mallory's like, well, you know, I bought the house before I knew him.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, I'm just trying to protect myself and my assets.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: Brandy's like, did you ever think he gave up his whole life to move here?
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: His family, his work, his friends, his culture.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Mallory's not a dumbass.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_00: She knows that.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: Michaela's trying to explain, she's not projecting that will be they'll get divorced.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_00: She's just protecting herself.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: And she says, I'm the one who brought it up.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: If she was marrying someone from Alabama, I would say the same thing.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: Rin says, Rosh put everything into you.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: Why can't you put everything into him?
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: And then Rosh asks Brandy to go outside with him out by the chickens, and he apologizes for acting like a dickhead in the past.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: And they make up.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think they're BFFs.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think they're ever gonna be BFFs, but he apologizes.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: Brandy accepts his apology.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: Rush does look genuinely sorry.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: In episode 12, Mallory is dress shopping.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: The first one she tries on is sleeveless.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_00: It has sort of like a ruched, scooped neckline, semi-sweetheart sort of line to it with a long train, fitted, structured bodice with pockets.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's real pretty.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then she comes out in this one that has like pearl accents on over the shoulders that are really pretty, like pearls, strings of pearls like draped over the arm.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_00: And then the whole dress is this floral embossed white on white print from top to bottom.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: And it's really pretty.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: And she says, This is a damn dress.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: And then she tells her friends that there's still something that she and Rosh need to have a heart to heart about and that she's been procrastinating.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, What?
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: What is it?
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: Is it bad?
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, it's so bad there might not be a wedding.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_00: And then it comes out, she admits she doesn't know if she ever wants kids.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_00: And her friend is like, I think Katie's like, you know, he'd have them right now if he could.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: And we know he wants to put a baby in her, like right now.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, listen, I don't believe this at all.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: I believe at one time they had a conversation about her hesitating on the idea of having kids, but I have a feeling this was already resolved beforehand, and they just decided to sort of reenact it or revisit it for the camera because this none of this seems very real to me.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_00: However, I do believe it when she gets emotional in her talking head, talking about her dad.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: So this man divorced her mom, got remarried, started a new family, kicked Mallory out of the house when she was 18, and then never even came to see her after her horrible car accident.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: Rosh and Mallory are at home, and she's looking down in the dumps.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Why is your face like toilet right now?
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so she makes him some Turkish tea, which he says is meh.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: But they go on the porch to drink it because that's what we do in the south.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then they have the whole, I don't know if I want to have kids conversation that I think is not real and or reenacted.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, as of right now, I don't know if I want to have a baby.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know how to be a mom.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_00: Rosh reminds us he's one of eight siblings.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: He has nine nieces and nephews.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: He always has wanted to be a dad.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's very important.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, well, maybe you'll change your mind.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, what if I don't?
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_00: What if I don't change my mind?
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm scared and I don't want to lose you.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: Rosh is like, you've been together two years.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_00: We know everything about each other, and she's just telling me this now.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: If you told me this before, I left Turkey, I wouldn't have come here.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: He's pissed.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: He walks away to the woodshed, and that's where we leave them.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we gotta move on to Aisha and Maxwell.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: The last time we saw them, we know the family was having concerns about the age gap.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_00: I believe there's a 10-year age gap.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_00: Aisha's 38.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: Aisha butters up Mama Maria with a bunch of pretty dresses and purses she bought at the marketplace.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: Good move, Aisha.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, What concerns do you have?
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: Mama Maxwell is mostly upset about all the changes that Aisha wants to make to Maxwell's appearance.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, Our body is a temple.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: We don't change it.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: Aisha's like, well, sometimes we renovate the temple.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: Maria's like, it's not the same thing.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: Isha's like, well, what about his skin treatment?
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: It has gotten better.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_00: Maria says, My husband had that same skin problem.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: When you start to bear children, everything will disappear.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: Aisha's like, so whatever's wrong, you just have kids.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: And she says, Mama is tripping.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_00: She kind of warms up to her, though, in this conversation.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: I have to say, Aisha is really good at getting people on her side.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_00: And now that she's got Maxwell's family out of the way, she's gonna have to tell her family and Rod, Godbrother Rod.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_00: So she FaceTimes him and he takes it very well.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_00: The news that she's gonna get married.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: Just kidding.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: He takes it very badly and he says, You cannot be serious.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_00: Bitch, you are crazy.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: You fucking crazy.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_00: What the hell?
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_00: Did you just run off and elope like a 12-year-old?
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean a 12-year-old can't legally do that.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_00: He says, You got a whole life over here, and you're giving up your whole life for it, dude.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_00: You don't even know.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: He's like he's scamming you.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, I'm not giving up anything.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'm adding to my life.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_00: And to her credit, she's being very calm and he is flipping his lid.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: She says, This is typical when he doesn't get his way.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, here's my thing.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: Do I think she's being hasty and rash?
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: Do I think this is gonna work to get him to the United States?
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_00: But I also think it's one thing to be skeptical.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: It's another thing to go on a tear, take off your sunglasses, and like pop your eyes at the camera, tell your godsister she's crazy.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_00: And telling her that this Maxwell has nothing to offer.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: This makes me feel bad for Aisha, that he can't even give a little bit of support.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yeah, this whole thing is a bad idea, but he's just being a jerk about it.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: But, anyways, he comes to Nigeria with Aisha's sisters Jacoba, her other sister Glenna, and mom's friend Kathy.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: I cannot believe Rod trekked all the way to Nigeria with three women and did not spill the beans that Aisha was gonna get married.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why did they need it to be a secret?
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: So when he gets to Nigeria, he's like, So did they put something in your food or drink?
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_00: Did they practice voodoo over here?
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: Which feels like really inappropriate question.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_00: And she's like, you know, they they practice voodoo in the US, dude.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: He just thinks that she's getting scammed.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: But they all go to dinner together at this waterside restaurant that's really nice.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: Santa Cruz Beach Resort.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: Maxwell's family's all there.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: Sister Blaze, Dad Clement, Mama Maria.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_00: Asia comes out with it.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: She tells everybody what's going on.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna be married in a few days.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: The sisters and Kathy are in shock.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_00: Juliet, her mom says, Rod, what you got to say?
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_00: Rod says, I see he got you charmed real good.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_00: He says, What if you get married?
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: And they deny the spouse of Visa.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: Asia's like, I just feel like it'll go through.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_00: We'll have the marriage certificate.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_00: Rod just gets worse.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_00: He doubles down.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: His lack of support.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: He says to Maxwell, You do realize American women are expecting their husbands to work hard.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_00: So he doesn't think this man works.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_00: Maxwell looks at him and says, You have machines to work in the United States.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_00: I use my hands to work.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: You might not be able to do what I do.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_00: He says, I do not think Americans work harder than Nigerians.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_00: You are just blessed.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: In his talking head, Maxwell says, Ask me what I do for a living.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's a normal question, but asking me how much I have in my bank account, that's a dumb question.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_00: You don't ask a man that Rod is going off on a tangent about how he thinks this is scamming involved because just because it's Nigeria, Blaze is like, that's not our family.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's fine to have fears and anxiety, but that's not my family.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_00: So this guy is just being a total asshole.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know why she even wanted him there.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: But, anyways, we got to move on to Shay and Annabelle.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: The morning after the lake party, Shay is up cleaning and taking care of shit.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just kidding.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's Annabelle.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_00: Annabelle is awake before Shay, well before, cleaning, cleaning, cleaning.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_00: And Shay is, of course, hung over as shit.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: Annabelle hated the lake party.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_00: He was slorting.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_00: He was dancing with other girls.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_00: He was so drunk.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_00: She is pissed.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_00: And she's a fussing at him.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, don't yell at me.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: My head is killing me.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but she she loves him very much so much that she gets a hot towel for his head.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: She gives him a massage.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_00: He says, Oh, thank you for the massage, baby.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I don't like anybody touching me but you.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, That's not what I saw last night.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_00: I am just glad she calls him on his shit and doesn't stew in her negativity.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_00: Well, she does maintain a lot of negativity, but uh, you know, she lets him have it.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_00: She is going to town on his butt.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: She is knuckles deep in that butt muscle.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_00: She's going, oh my god, this ass is so chunky.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, they are going to church today, the day after the lake party.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_00: Hung over as shit, going to church.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: She's a Catholic.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_00: She's never been to other kinds of churches.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_00: Never been to a Protestant church, let alone one I like to call it happy clappy.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_00: You know the one.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: There's a big stage, there's rocky roll instruments on stage, and there's fancy lighting, and this church, this church is called Grace Point Church.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I gotta tell you, if you are in America and you see a church that has a name Point, has the word point in it or cross in it, unless it says like Holy Cros Holy Cross Catholic Church, something like that.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: If there's a cross or a point or a grace in the title, you're gonna get you're gonna get some happy clappy rocky roll type of activity in there.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_00: They call it non-denominational with a Southern Baptist feel.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_00: Alison is meeting them there, looking very conservative in her glasses.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: She's she's she's a handful, but she's cute.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'll say that.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_00: She says, I know you're not Catholic, but you're gonna love this.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_00: Annabelle's like, Where am I?
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_00: There's folding chairs, there's flashing lights.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_00: Looks like a concert.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_00: There's drums on the stage.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_00: Is this a church or a disco?
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_00: She falls asleep halfway through the service.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, you know, I know I know these kinds of places.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_00: I've been to these kinds of places.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_00: Their sermons go long.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_00: In Catholic Church, Episcopalian, Lutheran churches, we get so 10, 15-minute sermon or homily, sometimes they call them, and then and then we're done.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_00: Communion.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_00: Wham bam, thank you, man.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_00: We're gone.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_00: Not non-denominational, non-denominational.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_00: You just uh don't be turning on the crock pot before you leave your church because your roast is gonna be um soup by the time you get home.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_00: Allison's real put out by the way, Annabelle was falling asleep in church and checking her watch, giving dad looks, giving everybody looks, making what she calls rude comments.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, she was like, are we done yet?
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_00: Allison says, She has a horrible resting face.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_00: They get into this discussion in the parking lot, it gets a little ugly.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: Allison asks, How'd you like the church?
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_00: She doesn't.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_00: Allison says she was not acting right.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: Annabelle tells her, tells Allison she's being a brat.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna join that church.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_00: And Allison's like, Well, I'm not changing my church.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody asks you to, Allison.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody asks you to change churches, no one's asking you to be Catholic.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_00: This has nothing to do with Allison.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_00: But Allison is pissed, and she gets in her minivan, drives over the curb in a rage, and she drives away, and we see the mupper sticker.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_00: It says MILF mobile.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: She drives a MILF mobile, a minivan with I'm guessing at least two car seats, calling it a MILF mobile, right over the curb.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_00: And um, that's good TV right there.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: Allison is a brat, but that's good TV.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_00: Allison is good TV.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_00: And what else is there to say about this?
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: I will say, one time, two times perhaps, I went to a Catholic church and I didn't really understand what was going on.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_00: But I appreciated that it was short.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I was raised in a kind of church, and I don't know if you're interested in this or not, but I was raised in a pretty conservative Protestant church where we had long, long sermons.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, these were if your sermon in the church I grew up in was not at least 20 minutes, there's something wrong with you.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_00: The council, they called it the uh some other word I can't remember.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: All men on the council, they would probably be meeting with you.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_00: If you had a pattern of sermons that were like less than 20 minutes, you your butt is out the door.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_00: Your sermons have to be consistently 30 minutes, they have to be five points.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_00: You have to have may have they have to be easily outlined, and there has to be five main points A, B, C, D, E.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like you're making an outline for school.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_00: Do you still do that?
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_00: Do kids still do that, students?
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I feel for Annabelle, and um, I just think everybody could just be a little bit more compassionate because this is wild to somebody who's from a foreign country and extremely Catholic, this is kind of services wildly different and too long, and also not just wild but boring at the same time.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_00: Have a little compassion.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_00: But also, thank you for driving away over the curb in your MILFMobile.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_00: Were the kids inside the car at the time?
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure in all of Paducah, there's gotta be Catholic churches that Annabelle can go to.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I honestly think she'd be happier.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_00: She'd have less of a resting bitch face if she did get to go to a Catholic church and find people who understood her a little bit more.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_00: And that's about all I got to say about that.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's my recap of episodes 11 and 12 of 90-day fiance season 12.
• 42:03
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• 42:18
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• 42:24
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• 42:26
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• 42:36
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