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90 Day Fiance The Other Way S8 E1: Love, Lies and La Dolce Vita · 90 Day Book Club

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SPEAKER_01: The 90 Day Book Club is intended for entertainment purposes only and contains adult language.
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SPEAKER_01: Hello everyone and welcome back to the 90 Day Book Club.
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SPEAKER_01: This is a reality recap podcast.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm your host.
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SPEAKER_01: My name is Jen.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm a romance writer and a reality TV addict.
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SPEAKER_01: You are the people I talk to about this amazing and terrible and heartbreaking and hilarious hot mess of a show, and I feel like zero shame about it.
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SPEAKER_01: But I also recognize that we all probably need to put down the remote sometimes and read a book.
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SPEAKER_01: And so to that end, at the end of the show, I have a little teeny tiny book club corner.
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SPEAKER_01: Book club nook.
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SPEAKER_01: Book club count.
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SPEAKER_01: What should I call it?
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SPEAKER_01: And I'm gonna talk about something that's free this week.
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SPEAKER_01: I have a short, smuddy, slutty workplace romance, or what I like to call my human resources nightmares, and I'll tell you about it at the end of the show, but right now, this is what we're doing.
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SPEAKER_01: We're talking about 90-day fiance the other way, lovingly referred to as Toe, TOW, Season 8, Episode 1.
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SPEAKER_01: And before you write to me and say, Jen, what about 90-day fiance the mothership, the main show?
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SPEAKER_01: You didn't finish.
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SPEAKER_01: I will be.
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SPEAKER_01: I will be finishing.
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SPEAKER_01: On Friday, I'll be recording a recap of episodes 11 and 12.
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SPEAKER_01: Tomorrow, I'll be recording my recap of Hunt for Love, or what I'm gonna call Puerto Rico Banghouse, season two, episode one, which were premiered Monday night.
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SPEAKER_01: I did watch it already, and uh whoa is my summary.
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SPEAKER_01: I have thoughts, but you'll have to wait.
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SPEAKER_01: So let's get into it.
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SPEAKER_01: Ninety-day fiance the other way, season eight.
2:20
SPEAKER_01: Let's let's go through the couples first, shall we?
2:23
SPEAKER_01: Returning to 90 Day Fiance the other way.
2:26
SPEAKER_01: Is Kenny and Armando, babes?
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SPEAKER_01: We know them.
2:30
SPEAKER_01: We know Kenny and Armando very well.
2:32
SPEAKER_01: And we love them.
2:34
SPEAKER_01: We all do.
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SPEAKER_01: If you don't love it, if you don't love them, I question well, I question a lot of things about you if you don't love Kenny and Armando.
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SPEAKER_01: I will sometimes go back and watch parts of Kenny and Armando's story when I need a little pick-me-up.
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SPEAKER_01: When I need a little reminder that not all family is gonna act horribly around queerness.
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SPEAKER_01: This is a family that is so very human and also imperfect, but also the way that they specifically Armando's family came around to support this engagement and then the marriage and the wedding, it's so beautifully and lovingly it restores my faith in people.
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SPEAKER_01: Honestly, it does.
3:24
SPEAKER_01: I'm not even exaggerating.
3:27
SPEAKER_01: Then, of course, we have returning Niles and Matilda.
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SPEAKER_01: Niles is from Alabama, Matilda from Ofinso, Offinso, Ghana.
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SPEAKER_01: These two are already married, okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Niles had promised to bring Matilda on a spouse, Lavisa, to the United States, and things are not going so great with that.
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SPEAKER_01: So he's he's gonna move to Ghana, and we'll get into that in this episode.
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SPEAKER_01: The new people, Jonathan and Allie.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, he's a divorced dad from Connecticut.
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SPEAKER_01: He's 48, 49, I think.
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SPEAKER_01: She Allie is in Singapore.
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SPEAKER_01: Allie's strict Muslim family does not know that Allie is six months pregnant.
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SPEAKER_01: You want steaks?
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SPEAKER_01: We got some steaks.
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SPEAKER_01: Next in the lineup is Zuri, also from Connecticut.
4:19
SPEAKER_01: She met her French boyfriend, Ben, while she was studying in the UK.
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SPEAKER_01: When she moved to France to build a life with Ben, their dream quickly fell apart.
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SPEAKER_01: This is what is described on the um the TLC website in the photo gallery of all the couples.
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SPEAKER_01: Zuri struggled to find her place while Ben questioned whether she could ever truly adapt to life in his country.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, hoping to save their relationship, Zuri's giving France one more chance.
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SPEAKER_01: But between Ben's skeptical friend group and growing questions about another woman he's connected with during their time apart, Zuri must decide whether the future together is worth a risk.
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SPEAKER_01: Next up is Jessie and Vittorio.
5:04
SPEAKER_01: Jessie's a vibrant pageant queen from the Bronx with a history of choosing the wrong men.
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SPEAKER_01: She's hoping Vittorio is different.
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SPEAKER_01: She's moving to Italy to build a future with the charming fashion industry insider.
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SPEAKER_01: These are 90 day fiance TLC words, not mine.
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SPEAKER_01: It remains to be seen.
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SPEAKER_01: Once she arrives, Jesse quickly begins to wonder whether the glamorous life in the Manchival War are really what they seem.
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SPEAKER_01: Blah blah blah blah blah.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get into their details later.
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SPEAKER_01: Michelle and Felix.
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SPEAKER_01: Michelle's a single mom, self-described hustler who flips cars for a living.
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SPEAKER_01: Interesting.
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SPEAKER_01: She met Felix, a preacher's son from Ghana, when traveling through West Africa.
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SPEAKER_01: Although Michelle believes Felix is a love for a life, troubling questions continue to cast a shadow over their relationship.
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SPEAKER_01: It's very vague.
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SPEAKER_01: Andy and Nigel.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay, buckle up.
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SPEAKER_01: Andy is putting her successful music career in Nashville on hold to start a new life with Nigel in Australia.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: While Andy thrives on ambition, structure, and planning, Nigel embraces a laid-back nomadic lifestyle with few long-term commitments.
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SPEAKER_01: Their contrasting approaches to life aren't the only source of tension.
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SPEAKER_01: The couple's ethical, non-monogamous relationship looks very different through each of their eyes.
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SPEAKER_01: And disagreements over children and fertility may push them to a breaking point.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'm gonna jump in with Jessie and Vittorio.
6:48
SPEAKER_01: As we know, Jessie's from the Bronx.
6:51
SPEAKER_01: She's 28 years old.
6:52
SPEAKER_01: She describes herself as loud, Latina, and Leo.
6:58
SPEAKER_01: She's going to a Dominican salon, and if we know anything about a Dominican salon from 90 Day, it is a scene.
7:07
SPEAKER_01: She says she met Vittorio at Art Basel in Miami.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, I don't know what Art Basel is, but she says they both work in fashion, and that's how they ended up there.
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SPEAKER_01: He asked her on a date, and then everything flowed from there.
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SPEAKER_01: Later he invited her to the Bahamas.
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SPEAKER_01: He swept her off her feet, not like any other American she's dated.
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SPEAKER_01: And Dominican ladies at the salon say she's crazy for wanting to move overseas to be with this man.
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SPEAKER_01: They have a little discussion about there's no empanadas in Italy, but they do have pizza and pasta.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, because I'm a Rube about art, I had to do a little Google and I did a little Google, and it says Art Basel.
7:53
SPEAKER_01: How do you say it?
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SPEAKER_01: Basil Basel in Miami Beach is North America's premier international contemporary art fair bringing together leading galleries, artists, and collectors from around the world.
8:07
SPEAKER_01: Okay, that sounds incredible, and I would like to go.
8:12
SPEAKER_01: As much as I don't love humidity, humidity loves me.
8:17
SPEAKER_01: Humidity loves my skin and my hair, my eyeballs.
8:23
SPEAKER_01: It's weird, it's true.
8:26
SPEAKER_01: And this sounds amazing.
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SPEAKER_01: What what could be wrong?
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SPEAKER_01: Art?
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SPEAKER_01: Amazing food in Miami, from what I understand, the beach.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to go.
8:35
SPEAKER_01: And then it gets to the point where Vittorio asks her to move to Florence.
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SPEAKER_01: So Jessie went to visit him, fell in love with Florence, said a lot of it reminded her of New York.
8:46
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I can see that there's a lot of culture, a lot of good shopping.
8:53
SPEAKER_01: He has no desire to move to the United States right now.
8:57
SPEAKER_01: Can we blame him?
8:58
SPEAKER_01: No.
9:00
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so Jessie has her fresh hair and she is going out.
9:05
SPEAKER_01: She is head-to-toe leopard print.
9:08
SPEAKER_01: Is it leopard or cheetah print?
9:10
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: I cannot tell the difference.
9:14
SPEAKER_01: Um, Wildcratz, you failed me because I can't tell the difference.
9:18
SPEAKER_01: But I do know an animal print, and it is fur cuffs.
9:23
SPEAKER_01: She's got a fur collar, faux fur, of course.
9:25
SPEAKER_01: Faux fur collar, faux fur cuffs.
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SPEAKER_01: She's a lovely woman.
9:30
SPEAKER_01: Out on a town, going to the bar in the Bronx.
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SPEAKER_01: This bar called Republica.
9:36
SPEAKER_01: I looked it up on Yelp.
9:38
SPEAKER_01: The photos are actually really, really beautiful.
9:43
SPEAKER_01: It has this tree growing in the middle with these pink blooms just falling down everywhere.
9:49
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's probably all all fake, but it's beautiful.
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SPEAKER_01: It looks like a fun place.
9:54
SPEAKER_01: She's going to meet her ladies and gayties.
9:59
SPEAKER_01: The gay besties, Manny and Brian, and also her friend Rochelle have very strong opinions about her moving to Italy.
10:10
SPEAKER_01: Brian asks, is he gonna be able to pick you up, like physically pick her up?
10:15
SPEAKER_01: Because according to him, her thighs are bigger than his legs.
10:22
SPEAKER_01: Vittorio is a slender man.
10:26
SPEAKER_01: She says she's normally not gonna choose a guy who looks like him.
10:31
SPEAKER_01: She says, Well, I I told him he needs to do leg day.
10:35
SPEAKER_01: Manny says, I don't know if he's gay or European.
10:38
SPEAKER_01: Uh her face is kind of annoyed by that.
10:40
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I would be too we get a little peek at their at her relationship history.
10:46
SPEAKER_01: Jesse says she tends to pick the bad boys.
10:50
SPEAKER_01: She likes six foot five, tattooed, darker skin.
10:55
SPEAKER_01: We see some uh other animal prints on these boys in these pictures from her past.
11:02
SPEAKER_01: She likes beards, she likes muscles.
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SPEAKER_01: Vittorio is about her height, and he likes to wear suits.
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SPEAKER_01: Rochelle has concerns about the fact that they have not had sex yet.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
11:18
SPEAKER_01: She says, and yet you're gonna move all the way to Europe.
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SPEAKER_01: And I have concerns too, because why is she moving to Europe without knowing she's sexually compatible with this man?
11:29
SPEAKER_01: Jesse's like, well, I want to hold out as long as possible so I know he's gonna be there for me, and it's not just about sex.
11:35
SPEAKER_01: Okay, fair enough, but still moving, moving, uprooting your life for that before uh anyway.
11:42
SPEAKER_01: It's this show this show.
11:44
SPEAKER_01: This show.
11:45
SPEAKER_01: Rochelle says she's not sure if Jesse is truly attracted to this man.
11:51
SPEAKER_01: She says, you get turned off easily.
11:54
SPEAKER_01: Huh.
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SPEAKER_01: Manny and all these other friends clearly have been witnesses some bad choices in Jesse's past.
12:04
SPEAKER_01: Manny says, you know, you've had someulu situations in the past.
12:11
SPEAKER_01: What?
12:12
SPEAKER_01: I need some information on the doolulu choices.
12:15
SPEAKER_01: Jesse insists, he treats me well, he gives me gifts, we go on trips together.
12:20
SPEAKER_01: Pretty much all Jesse can say is I have a good feeling about it.
12:24
SPEAKER_01: Finally, we get to meet Vittorio.
12:27
SPEAKER_01: He is living the dream.
12:29
SPEAKER_01: He's 29, riding around the town on his little motorcycle.
12:35
SPEAKER_01: Now I wish it was a Vespa, but it's not.
12:38
SPEAKER_01: It's a motorcycle, it's a full-on motorcycle.
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SPEAKER_01: Not like a big loud Harley Davidson.
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SPEAKER_01: It's classic motorcycle.
12:47
SPEAKER_01: He's going around, he is getting huge, amazing, fresh cuts of meat from the local butcher, and then he's off to go shop for fabric with his friend Irma to get ideas for his next design, I guess.
13:04
SPEAKER_01: In his talking head, Vittorio says, gay men think I'm gay.
13:12
SPEAKER_01: He says, I appreciate the gay.
13:15
SPEAKER_01: I'm 25% gay, but that side of me is lesbian.
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SPEAKER_01: The producer's like, What uh what?
13:22
SPEAKER_01: Explain.
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SPEAKER_01: Vittorio says, He embraces his feminine side, but that feminine side is attracted to women.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
13:36
SPEAKER_01: Anyways, he says Jesse's New York accent drives him crazy in in a good way.
13:42
SPEAKER_01: Uh, then we meet Irma at this huge warehouse with bolts and bolts and bolts of fabric.
13:50
SPEAKER_01: Are they bolts or are they rolls?
13:52
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
13:54
SPEAKER_01: But it looks like a wholesaler.
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SPEAKER_01: She is into him.
14:00
SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna say that.
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SPEAKER_01: I think Irma is into him.
14:03
SPEAKER_01: She hugs him the way she looks at him, the way she's super skeptical about Jesse.
14:08
SPEAKER_01: I I think she's a little jealous.
14:11
SPEAKER_01: But when the producer pulls her aside and asks her if anything's ever happened with him, she says no.
14:18
SPEAKER_01: She says at one time something almost happened, but we're better as friends.
14:22
SPEAKER_01: She would prefer that Vittorio go for an Italian girl.
14:28
SPEAKER_01: She finds Jesse to be superficial.
14:30
SPEAKER_01: Too much talk about money and looks and makeup and surgery.
14:35
SPEAKER_01: Girl.
14:36
SPEAKER_01: Girl, I see your lips.
14:41
SPEAKER_01: I see those lips.
14:44
SPEAKER_01: Mostly Irma says she thinks Vittorio is not ready because he loves his freedom.
14:50
SPEAKER_01: Vittorio admits he's been afraid of commitment in the past and done things he's not proud of to break up with women.
15:00
SPEAKER_01: Sounds like to me he ghosts people.
15:03
SPEAKER_01: But he feels something is different with Jesse.
15:07
SPEAKER_01: Also, we find out he's hiding something from Jesse.
15:12
SPEAKER_01: What is it?
15:12
SPEAKER_01: We don't know.
15:13
SPEAKER_01: He says when you play poker, you don't put all your cards out on the table.
15:16
SPEAKER_01: You wait.
15:17
SPEAKER_01: So I wait.
15:20
SPEAKER_01: Okay, but poker is not a relationship, especially not when somebody's moving overseas, but this is the show.
15:32
SPEAKER_01: Okay, not much else to say about that couple, but I do have things to say about Andy.
15:41
SPEAKER_01: And mostly Nigel.
15:43
SPEAKER_01: But we don't actually get to meet Nigel yet in this episode.
15:46
SPEAKER_01: We just meet Andy.
15:48
SPEAKER_01: Uh, this one is gonna break my heart.
15:52
SPEAKER_01: Andy's gonna break my heart.
15:55
SPEAKER_01: The saving grace about this storyline is that Andy has a very strong support system.
16:03
SPEAKER_01: Her parents seem very grounded.
16:06
SPEAKER_01: They care very much about her, they're very close, and she's got two really cool sisters who are on um high alert about this Nigel person.
16:21
SPEAKER_01: Where do I start with the photos they show us of Nigel?
16:25
SPEAKER_01: He has a mullet, he has a handlebar mustache and a little goatee.
16:33
SPEAKER_01: He is called a free spirit.
16:36
SPEAKER_01: Andy calls him strange and weird and wonderful.
16:39
SPEAKER_01: She was told by a psychic that she would meet her soulmate on a beach.
16:46
SPEAKER_01: And sure enough, she met Nigel, who is from Australia.
16:51
SPEAKER_01: Oh, the psychic also said he would be foreign, not American.
16:55
SPEAKER_01: This man has about 97 red flags that I can see just by her descriptions and by looking at the photos.
17:01
SPEAKER_01: And I hope to get she will see these before she gets on a plane and completely torpedoes her life.
17:09
SPEAKER_01: Let me back up and explain why the stakes are actually high here.
17:14
SPEAKER_01: Andy is from Tennessee.
17:18
SPEAKER_01: She moved to Nashville something like seven, eight years ago, to be a professional musician in bluegrass.
17:24
SPEAKER_01: She plays bluegrass and country, and she's actually making it.
17:28
SPEAKER_01: If you know anything about Nashville, it's really hard to break into the industry.
17:33
SPEAKER_01: And right now her band and she are are booking gigs all over Nashville, she says.
17:39
SPEAKER_01: And I believe this because we they go to a gig, they film a gig, and her voice is wonderful.
17:47
SPEAKER_01: She has a lovely sound to her voice.
17:50
SPEAKER_01: The music is good, the songwriting is good.
17:55
SPEAKER_01: We don't know much about Nigel other than what she said.
17:58
SPEAKER_01: Um, and that includes he has a talent for convincing her to hand over her credit card at inopportune moments.
18:09
SPEAKER_01: He also has a talent for convincing her to be in a non-monogamous relationship, the likes of which she's never done before, and she is clearly not emotionally prepared to do.
18:21
SPEAKER_01: Andy is a giver.
18:23
SPEAKER_01: She is kind and sweet and talented, and it is all over her face.
18:28
SPEAKER_01: She radiates the goodness, from what I can tell.
18:32
SPEAKER_01: I may come to regret that, but I doubt it.
18:35
SPEAKER_01: I doubt it.
18:36
SPEAKER_01: She seems like she comes off like a fun, warm, sweet person, and she has gotten herself tangled up with a rake.
18:48
SPEAKER_01: If you read historical romance, you know what a rake is.
18:52
SPEAKER_01: Not only that, but now she's on the hook to pay annually for a timeshare because he decided it was a scam after the fact, and he is no longer going to contribute to these annual monthly, I don't know, payments anymore.
19:08
SPEAKER_01: And this is the point where I would say to him, Look, if you're not actually going to take vacations at this timeshare, then I'm going to sue you for breach of contract.
19:21
SPEAKER_01: What is he bringing to the table in the relationship?
19:24
SPEAKER_01: I find myself asking this often, what is that person bringing to the table?
19:30
SPEAKER_01: But she is smitten.
19:32
SPEAKER_01: He's her wild Australian man who is not afraid of anything, and she needs that in her life.
19:38
SPEAKER_01: She needs somebody to push her out of her comfort zone.
19:40
SPEAKER_01: I think Andy's got quite a bit of personality herself.
19:45
SPEAKER_01: She's got the baby doll bangs.
19:47
SPEAKER_01: She's got this haircut.
19:48
SPEAKER_01: I don't know how to describe it, but it's cute and full of personality.
19:52
SPEAKER_01: I could never rock that kind of haircut.
19:54
SPEAKER_01: All around, she's loads of quirky, like genuine, genuine quirky, not a put-on kind of quirky for television.
20:06
SPEAKER_01: She is truly an artist, has an artist's soul.
20:11
SPEAKER_01: Artistry is dripping off of her.
20:13
SPEAKER_01: And she's selling herself short.
20:16
SPEAKER_01: I think she's already pushed herself out of a comfort zone, or else she wouldn't be up on stage telling stories and singing personal songs and playing guitar and playing a washboard.
20:28
SPEAKER_01: Was the last time you saw somebody playing a washboard?
20:32
SPEAKER_01: At least we get a moment of her saying, but she loves Nigel, but singing is her first love.
20:39
SPEAKER_01: I hope she remembers that.
20:40
SPEAKER_01: She says, I'll be giving up a lot of momentum and starting completely over in Australia.
20:46
SPEAKER_01: But I have to go all in to figure out if Nigel is my soulmate.
20:51
SPEAKER_01: Sister Carrie tells the producers, when I first saw a picture of Nigel, I thought, yeah, that tracks.
20:59
SPEAKER_01: So these sisters, they know, they know and they know Andy very well.
21:05
SPEAKER_01: Um they're in the kitchen, they're they're doing a cookout with the family.
21:09
SPEAKER_01: The hamburgers, the hot dogs, classic.
21:13
SPEAKER_01: Mom's asking about Nigel.
21:15
SPEAKER_01: Can he cook?
21:17
SPEAKER_01: Does Nigel know how to cook?
21:18
SPEAKER_01: Andy says, Well, yeah, we um we went camping and we did a really good job working on like we made some stuff, you know, like whatever you got.
21:27
SPEAKER_01: We put together something good.
21:29
SPEAKER_01: Uh and yeah, I don't know what she means.
21:33
SPEAKER_01: And I wonder if she's talking about campfire pies.
21:37
SPEAKER_01: Do you know what I'm talking about?
21:40
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes they're called pie irons, campfire irons.
21:46
SPEAKER_01: They're these heavy cast iron squares that lock together, and you fill them with bread and other things, and you put them in the hot, hot, hot coals at the bottom.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: Maybe your campfire.
22:01
SPEAKER_01: And then when it comes out, it is toasted, grilled, like a grilled cheese on the outside, but sealed together if you did it right.
22:11
SPEAKER_01: The bread seals together, and inside it is whatever you and it, it's whatever you make it, and it is so good if you do it right.
22:19
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I love it with a little bit of peanut butter and banana.
22:23
SPEAKER_01: But you can also do pizza.
22:25
SPEAKER_01: You can do cheese, a pepperoni, and make a little pizza version of it.
22:29
SPEAKER_01: You can do whatever you want.
22:32
SPEAKER_01: You know what?
22:32
SPEAKER_01: I'm really hungry.
22:33
SPEAKER_01: I think I want a Nutella and banana campfire pie.
22:38
SPEAKER_01: My family called them pudgy pies.
22:41
SPEAKER_01: And it's one of those things where your family calls it one thing and you think that's normal your whole life, and you go your whole life and you realize that's not what they're called.
22:50
SPEAKER_01: And then I had it took me a couple of times where people, it doesn't come up very often.
22:54
SPEAKER_01: You know, people look at me like, uh, what are you talking about?
22:58
SPEAKER_01: And then I asked my mom, and I found out that they're called pudgy pies in our family because my mom had a cousin or an uncle or somebody.
23:10
SPEAKER_01: My family apparently has been camping for generations.
23:13
SPEAKER_01: My mom had a cousin or uncle whose nickname was Pudge, and he loved to make these campfire pies, and so they just became pudgy pies in my family's.
23:25
SPEAKER_01: And I'm gonna continue to call them that.
23:26
SPEAKER_01: But anyway, that's what I think that Andy and Nigel were making that turned out to be pretty good.
23:32
SPEAKER_01: And uh you can't subsist on campfire pies, but yeah, I think mom's just trying to suss out what does Nigel bring to the table, and we don't know.
23:46
SPEAKER_01: So she says, if you figured out the thing with the timeshare vacation, and he says, um, he said he wasn't paying for it.
23:55
SPEAKER_01: Wanda's like, what?
23:56
SPEAKER_01: Is he gonna pay you back?
23:58
SPEAKER_01: She says, hopefully that's the plan.
24:02
SPEAKER_01: Wanda's like, oh, so that's what he said he's gonna pay you back.
24:06
SPEAKER_01: She's like, he didn't say that.
24:09
SPEAKER_01: Wanda's just looking at her daughter like we've been down this road before.
24:16
SPEAKER_01: So we get an explanation from Andy in her talking head.
24:20
SPEAKER_01: She says, when Nigel and I were on our first vacation, we got roped into a free lunch where they give you a timeshare presentation, and lo and behold, Nigel said, We should get one.
24:33
SPEAKER_01: She's like, Well, you want to make a 10-year commitment to me, with me, with our money, with my money and your money, but mostly my money.
24:43
SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
24:44
SPEAKER_01: And he said, Yeah, because water slides.
25:04
SPEAKER_01: No, he was swept away by the water slides.
25:08
SPEAKER_01: And you were swept away by the idea of a commitment.
25:12
SPEAKER_01: He is ready to commit years to visiting a water slide at a private condo in Mexico, unencumbered by any type of thought process.
25:20
SPEAKER_01: But lo and behold, they made a few payments, and Nigel looked into this and they're like, this sucks.
25:28
SPEAKER_01: The terms of this timeshare sucks, and I want to cancel it.
25:32
SPEAKER_01: Well, they couldn't.
25:33
SPEAKER_01: It was too late.
25:34
SPEAKER_01: And it's all on her credit card because they couldn't, for some reason, take two credit cards when they signed the contract.
25:43
SPEAKER_01: Or Nigel's contract.
25:45
SPEAKER_01: I mean, Nigel's credit card didn't work in Mexico conveniently.
25:48
SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
25:49
SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
25:50
SPEAKER_01: Sure.
25:51
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
25:53
SPEAKER_01: So Wanda and one of the sisters, I think it's Kari, were chatting after Andy went outside to check on dad at the grill.
26:05
SPEAKER_01: And Wanda's like, oh, are you kidding me with this timeshare bullshit?
26:10
SPEAKER_01: She didn't curse.
26:11
SPEAKER_01: That was me.
26:12
SPEAKER_01: Sister Kari's like, yeah, I knew he wasn't making payments.
26:15
SPEAKER_01: She told me not to tell you.
26:17
SPEAKER_01: I'm guessing everybody's pretty pissed about this whole situation.
26:22
SPEAKER_01: Wanda's like all the positive and wishful thinking and hopefulness that I thought I was trying to hold on to with this move to Australia.
26:32
SPEAKER_01: It just went right out the window.
26:36
SPEAKER_01: Wanda tells us, Andy's a wonderful person.
26:39
SPEAKER_01: She has a lot to give, but unfortunately, she is a bum magnet.
26:44
SPEAKER_01: Her words.
26:45
SPEAKER_01: She says, I hate to put it like that, but that's what it is.
26:47
SPEAKER_01: People see how good she is, and she's easy to take advantage of.
26:51
SPEAKER_01: So they're all eating together on this very sweet little porch.
26:54
SPEAKER_01: There's lots of plants.
26:56
SPEAKER_01: And I don't know, it feels like a green flag when I see Wanda and Robert's little porch.
27:03
SPEAKER_01: So they're finally all together in the group, eating their burgers, eating their hot dogs.
27:08
SPEAKER_01: Sister Kari says.
27:16
SPEAKER_01: And she says, like, you like the dopamine rush.
27:19
SPEAKER_01: You're very impulsive with their spending, etc., etc.
27:23
SPEAKER_01: Need more information.
27:26
SPEAKER_01: Andy says, Maybe that's why Nigel's perfect for me because we're in a non-monogamous relationship.
27:32
SPEAKER_01: Wanda is like, oh boy.
27:35
SPEAKER_01: And she throws her head back.
27:37
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to hear this, she says.
27:40
SPEAKER_01: Much in the way I would respond to either of my children who told me they were in a non-monogamous relationship because I am doubtful that uh these children that I brought into the world would be able to handle that either.
27:55
SPEAKER_01: I mean, at least he was upfront in the beginning.
27:57
SPEAKER_01: He didn't try to pull a last-minute hey, can we be non-monogamous?
28:01
SPEAKER_01: Like days before the wedding, looking at you, uh Katie and Josh.
28:06
SPEAKER_01: Andy says, It makes sense when you're long distance.
28:10
SPEAKER_01: Wanda says, This does not sound like a relationship.
28:13
SPEAKER_01: Andy says, Well, my feeling is when I get there, we'll be monogamous.
28:19
SPEAKER_01: The sister, Kari says, Have you discussed that with him?
28:23
SPEAKER_01: Andy's like, No, I feel like that would be understood.
28:27
SPEAKER_01: This seems obvious.
28:28
SPEAKER_01: If I'm coming all the way to Australia for him, he's not gonna be running off and trying to bang other ladies.
28:35
SPEAKER_01: Sister says, I feel like you need to talk to him about that.
28:39
SPEAKER_01: She says, Yeah, you're right.
28:42
SPEAKER_01: Sister says, You've dated some doozies, and I can't say that anything I've learned today has made me believe that Nigel is not another doozy.
28:56
SPEAKER_01: So apparently Andy's last relationship was the worst of all.
29:00
SPEAKER_01: And at the end of that, when she was at rock bottom.
29:13
SPEAKER_01: And his relationship feels really freaking special.
29:16
SPEAKER_01: He is strange, he is weird, he is thoughtful.
29:22
SPEAKER_01: Wanda says, You need to find someone who treats you the way your dad treats me.
29:27
SPEAKER_01: You deserve more.
29:28
SPEAKER_01: You deserve all of it because you've got it all.
29:32
SPEAKER_01: Oh gosh, her mother.
29:34
SPEAKER_01: Wanda made me cry.
29:36
SPEAKER_01: I got choked up for real.
29:39
SPEAKER_01: I'm just really happy.
29:40
SPEAKER_01: Like I said, she has such a good family in her corner.
29:45
SPEAKER_01: Andy says, I do have some worries that I'm giving more.
29:50
SPEAKER_01: Her dad finally pops up, pipes up, says, You gotta listen to the voices in your head.
29:56
SPEAKER_01: The little voices, so let you know.
29:59
SPEAKER_01: Uh, later on, they show Andy packing her plane leaves today.
30:04
SPEAKER_01: She says, she says she's excited.
30:07
SPEAKER_01: She's been excited, but she's not feeling good today because a couple weeks ago, Nigel was planning on going to a festival and told her he was going to be camping with a lover.
30:20
SPEAKER_01: He bought her a ticket.
30:21
SPEAKER_01: They're going camping the whole weekend.
30:23
SPEAKER_01: Andy didn't like that.
30:24
SPEAKER_01: She thought it sounded like a girlfriend kind of thing.
30:28
SPEAKER_01: She says her understanding of non-monogamy is more spontaneous, but it seems like Nigel was planning on all of this in advance, which is not what I agreed to, she says.
30:39
SPEAKER_01: So she told him that she didn't feel good.
30:43
SPEAKER_01: And he accepted that, but he made it very clear.
30:45
SPEAKER_01: He was bummed about it.
30:46
SPEAKER_01: He canceled the camping trip with that lover.
30:50
SPEAKER_01: Uh, but then the other day she texted him, How was your weekend?
30:54
SPEAKER_01: He sent back a long brick of words about everything he did over the weekend.
31:03
SPEAKER_01: And then at the very end said, and then Saturday night I spent with a lover.
31:08
SPEAKER_01: And she's like, Why did you tell me that?
31:12
SPEAKER_01: And he said, Oh, I copy-pasted it to you from somebody else that I had texted.
31:21
SPEAKER_01: This man could not be bothered.
31:26
SPEAKER_01: You guys.
31:27
SPEAKER_01: He could not be bothered.
31:32
SPEAKER_01: And also, understandably, it bothers Andy that he's telling other people, just willy-nilly, he spent the night with somebody else.
31:42
SPEAKER_01: She says, I've ignored many red flags in my life, but it's important to me that I listen to my intuition on this one.
31:48
SPEAKER_01: And yet she's still packing.
31:50
SPEAKER_01: A little bit later, she's writing a song about it because she realized that this lover he spent Saturday night with is the same girl he was gonna go camping with.
31:59
SPEAKER_01: What if I get there and he's in love with somebody else?
32:03
SPEAKER_01: This is definitely repeating past mistakes.
32:05
SPEAKER_01: And this is also a little bit of magical thinking because the whole damn it, I want true love, and the psychic said he'd be a foreigner and there's a beach, and so no.
32:15
SPEAKER_01: What you need to do with any money you have saved for this trip, and hopefully your flight is refundable.
32:21
SPEAKER_01: Hire yourself a lawyer, get this man to pay you back.
32:25
SPEAKER_01: Although I don't know if that's enforceable since he's in not in America, but you do at least need to go talk to a lawyer, cut ties with this loser.
32:32
SPEAKER_01: Sorry, I don't like the word loser, but I'm calling him a loser right now, based on everything that I know.
32:42
SPEAKER_00: I am so not prepared to watch this guy drain the life out of her.
32:54
SPEAKER_01: So just lighting a candle right now for Andy.
32:56
SPEAKER_01: And moving on to John and Allie.
33:01
SPEAKER_01: Um, Allie's 28 from Woodlands, Singapore.
33:06
SPEAKER_01: John is, what did he say?
33:07
SPEAKER_01: 48, 49 in Connecticut.
33:10
SPEAKER_01: She, Allie, is at Lama's class or some kind of birthing class with her friend Megan as her coach because John isn't there yet.
33:19
SPEAKER_01: She's six months pregnant.
33:21
SPEAKER_01: Allie says she never expected to be single and pregnant at 28.
33:26
SPEAKER_01: But about two years ago, she met a guy, an American, at a bar one night.
33:33
SPEAKER_01: They danced, they drank, he was the best sex she had ever had in her entire life.
33:41
SPEAKER_01: She likes that he's super tall.
33:44
SPEAKER_01: She likes that he wears tall socks, I guess.
33:49
SPEAKER_01: She says he has daddy vibes.
33:54
SPEAKER_01: And who is the sex machine that dicked her down so good?
34:00
SPEAKER_01: The divorced father from Connecticut.
34:02
SPEAKER_01: When we they cut to him, they show him like welding in this like workshop.
34:08
SPEAKER_01: The way they cut to him, right after she says that he was the best sex she ever had in her life, makes me think the producers want us to be surprised that this man is capable of performing in bed.
34:22
SPEAKER_01: John just looks like a guy from Connecticut with two kids.
34:28
SPEAKER_01: He's not bad looking.
34:30
SPEAKER_01: He has a business with his dad.
34:33
SPEAKER_01: Don't know if he owns the house that he lives in with his dad.
34:36
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if his dad lives with him or he lives with his dad.
34:38
SPEAKER_01: It's unclear.
34:40
SPEAKER_01: He says, I don't have a typical job.
34:42
SPEAKER_01: I design, manufacture underwater listening devices or sonar.
34:49
SPEAKER_01: What I do know about underwater equipment, manufacturing, designing underwater things, welding things underwater is a very niche and pays extremely well.
35:04
SPEAKER_01: Pretty sure.
35:05
SPEAKER_01: This is the sort of thing you get government contracts to do, right?
35:11
SPEAKER_01: Pretty sure.
35:12
SPEAKER_01: Um, my husband, the engineer, could probably tell me about that.
35:16
SPEAKER_01: But I am a little nerdy and I want to hear more about it, but that's not what the show is about.
35:21
SPEAKER_01: John calls himself a nerdy mad scientist who somehow landed himself a hot girl on the other side of the world.
35:28
SPEAKER_01: Allie says they have to go long stretches without seeing each other because he has a lot of responsibility with two sons, his dad, who he's in business with.
35:37
SPEAKER_01: He is recently divorced from the mother of his children after 25 years of marriage, and she, his ex-wife, mother of his kids, lives with him and his dad.
35:47
SPEAKER_01: Now, normally I would say this is a red flag because why would you be living with your ex?
35:55
SPEAKER_01: But the way that they present it and the way he talks about the situation seems to me she was possibly a stay-at-home mom, a homemaker, and he's letting her live in this house with him and his dad and their son until she can get on her feet.
36:10
SPEAKER_01: If that is the case, then the vibe is good.
36:14
SPEAKER_01: So far, he sounds like so far in the episode he sounds like a good man.
36:20
SPEAKER_01: I may come to regret this.
36:22
SPEAKER_01: He seems decent at this point.
36:26
SPEAKER_01: More to come.
36:29
SPEAKER_01: Allie says being long distance is so hard.
36:33
SPEAKER_01: She sometimes wants to break up with him.
36:35
SPEAKER_01: At one time, she asked the universe for a sign about whether they should stay together, and a week later she found out she was pregnant.
36:43
SPEAKER_01: Um, her fiance visa got denied.
36:46
SPEAKER_01: Also, her parents don't know she's pregnant.
36:48
SPEAKER_01: She's worried about telling them because it's very taboo.
36:52
SPEAKER_01: They are Muslim.
36:54
SPEAKER_01: I do believe from context clues that her parents are in India and she lives in Singapore.
37:02
SPEAKER_01: Less than 3% of pregnant women are unmarried in Singapore.
37:07
SPEAKER_01: I have a theory.
37:09
SPEAKER_01: Does she FaceTime with her mom?
37:11
SPEAKER_01: Does she video call with her mom?
37:12
SPEAKER_01: Because if she does, her mom already knows.
37:18
SPEAKER_00: Mom doesn't have to see the belly to know.
37:24
SPEAKER_01: So after this birthing class, um Allie breaks down crying a little bit with her friend Megan, her stand-in coach.
37:36
SPEAKER_01: She says she was looking forward to having this baby with John by her side, and now she feels so lonely in this pregnancy.
37:42
SPEAKER_01: John's telling us that his youngest son, Ryan, has been very supportive of his move to Singapore.
37:49
SPEAKER_01: They show a flashback of Ryan and John driving in a car.
37:53
SPEAKER_01: Got something hard to talk about?
37:54
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna tell you, drive in a car with this person that you need to talk to because and my therapist will tell you this too.
38:01
SPEAKER_01: It's easier to talk about when you're both facing the road instead of each other.
38:08
SPEAKER_01: It works.
38:10
SPEAKER_01: Uh, Ryan's telling him, I support you going.
38:13
SPEAKER_01: Allie and the baby are gonna need you.
38:16
SPEAKER_01: I appreciate that they didn't show John actually dropping the bomb to his son in real time.
38:25
SPEAKER_01: I think that shows that he's got some respect for his kids.
38:30
SPEAKER_01: This man travels on a plane for 24 hours to get to Singapore.
38:35
SPEAKER_01: Allie is so excited.
38:37
SPEAKER_01: She is gonna bounce up and down in the airport.
38:41
SPEAKER_01: I am worried she's gonna give birth.
38:43
SPEAKER_01: She's bouncing up and down so much.
38:46
SPEAKER_01: But she is the cutest pregnant lady.
38:48
SPEAKER_01: Her cute little bell sleeves, short dress.
38:52
SPEAKER_01: She is really stunning.
38:54
SPEAKER_01: She says she doesn't feel good pregnant, but pregnancy agrees with her.
38:58
SPEAKER_01: And I think that's a hard thing to explain, but I understand it.
39:03
SPEAKER_01: Pregnancy agreed with me on the outside, too.
39:07
SPEAKER_01: It was really good for my hair, my skin, my nails.
39:11
SPEAKER_01: On the inside, I was just wanting to gag all the time.
39:15
SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna get into it, but um so their airport reunion is super cool cute, super sweet.
39:24
SPEAKER_01: She loves to smell this man's armpits.
39:28
SPEAKER_00: Listen, I get it.
39:32
SPEAKER_00: It is not an infrequent microtrope in romance books.
39:41
SPEAKER_00: Some of these people love the armpits, and that's all I'm gonna say.
39:47
SPEAKER_01: They really should have waited to have a talk about him converting to Islam until after he had a good 16 hour sleep.
40:00
SPEAKER_01: But they don't.
40:01
SPEAKER_01: They talk about it in the car, like immediately leaving the airport.
40:06
SPEAKER_01: By the way, Singapore is gorgeous, it is clean, it is so green.
40:11
SPEAKER_01: I've never been there, but I really do want to.
40:14
SPEAKER_01: I have a child, by the way, who cannot stand the smell of smoke and lots of different types of smells, and I just feel like I wonder if Singapore would be a good place to visit with this child because you're not allowed to smoke or chew gum and do lots of things in Singapore there's a lot of rules that we would consider very crazy in Singapore, but I feel like my child would enjoy it.
40:41
SPEAKER_01: So they're in the car talking about the fact that John has agreed to convert to Islam and he's making jokes about the five pillars, and he's saying maybe we should go eat a bunch of pork.
40:53
SPEAKER_01: I mean, yeah.
40:55
SPEAKER_01: I would really miss barbecue if I well, he says he was raised by hippies and scientists, so religion's not really a thing for him.
41:04
SPEAKER_01: But he wants to do it because it's important to Allie and her family.
41:07
SPEAKER_01: He says, Okay, the five pillars.
41:09
SPEAKER_01: One, don't fart when you have diarrhea.
41:12
SPEAKER_01: She's like, you can't make jokes like that.
41:14
SPEAKER_01: It's offensive.
41:16
SPEAKER_01: I mean, yeah.
41:17
SPEAKER_01: Allie says she loves his dad jokes, but sometimes it's inappropriate.
41:22
SPEAKER_01: He says, I'm willing to do whatever you want me to do.
41:24
SPEAKER_01: You know, okay, sorry, I'll take it seriously.
41:27
SPEAKER_01: And she's like, Okay, what about the vaping?
41:29
SPEAKER_01: He says, Well, I don't have any vapes.
41:31
SPEAKER_01: She's like, Well, when was the last time?
41:32
SPEAKER_01: He says, I don't know.
41:35
SPEAKER_01: She says, What about that time I found that vape when it fell out of your pocket?
41:39
SPEAKER_01: He says, That was the last time.
41:41
SPEAKER_01: She says, Really?
41:42
SPEAKER_01: He says, Well, I don't know if I can promise that.
41:45
SPEAKER_01: She's like, Well, so you vaped after that?
41:48
SPEAKER_01: He's like, uh, maybe.
41:50
SPEAKER_01: And now Ellie's upset.
41:52
SPEAKER_01: She's like, I don't want to talk to you anymore.
41:56
SPEAKER_01: And by the way, it's illegal to vape in Singapore.
41:58
SPEAKER_01: She says, you can pay$10,000, which is equivalent to like$7,000 something American dollars, and go to jail.
42:07
SPEAKER_01: She says, you promised you wouldn't vape anymore.
42:11
SPEAKER_01: He says, I'm not vaping currently, like in this Uber.
42:15
SPEAKER_01: She says, if you want to die early, fine, just be honest with me.
42:19
SPEAKER_01: He says, let's put this out there right now.
42:21
SPEAKER_01: I'm 49 and you're not my mom.
42:25
SPEAKER_01: He says, I don't want to feel like I'm in trouble over something a grown man is able to do if he wants to do.
42:33
SPEAKER_01: You can't go cutting off my nuts and expect me to be a proud, providing man.
42:41
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if I like this language.
42:42
SPEAKER_01: Are we getting into some like masculinity podcast territory?
42:49
SPEAKER_01: It is just the wrong time to be talking about any of this.
42:51
SPEAKER_01: And then he tells her to relax.
42:53
SPEAKER_01: And my opinion of him just went way, way down.
42:57
SPEAKER_01: And then he says, What have you done to give up?
43:02
SPEAKER_01: What have you given up for this relationship?
43:04
SPEAKER_01: You're not having to do what I've had to do.
43:09
SPEAKER_01: Excuse me, this is not the thing to say to a woman carrying your baby.
43:16
SPEAKER_01: Just because she's hurt and grilling you about vaping.
43:21
SPEAKER_01: You don't want to be grilled about vaping?
43:24
SPEAKER_01: You don't want to be grilled by your wife, future wife, supposedly, in general, about anything.
43:33
SPEAKER_01: Maybe this is why your first marriage didn't work out.
43:37
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna wrap it up with Niles and Matilda.
43:42
SPEAKER_01: Niles is on the autism spectrum.
43:47
SPEAKER_01: He says this is why he's had a little trouble.
43:49
SPEAKER_01: The dating scene in America.
43:51
SPEAKER_01: He met Matilda on social media.
43:54
SPEAKER_01: They were friends first because she was in a relationship.
43:56
SPEAKER_01: Then they broke up.
43:58
SPEAKER_01: And Niles swooped.
44:01
SPEAKER_01: They talked online for two years and then he flew out to Ghana to meet her.
44:06
SPEAKER_01: He said it was the happiest day of his life.
44:09
SPEAKER_01: He said initially he didn't want to rush things, but he knew he wanted to marry her.
44:14
SPEAKER_01: But the more time they spent together, they knew they needed to get married.
44:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, they show the sweet wedding, and he points to her.
44:24
SPEAKER_01: That is the woman I want to marry.
44:27
SPEAKER_01: We meet up with Nigel at a game store.
44:31
SPEAKER_01: He's selling a bunch of Dungeons and Dragons, figurines, and Magic the Gathering cards.
44:39
SPEAKER_01: We get a little bit of Matilda, but not much.
44:42
SPEAKER_01: She's driving around in a car in Ghana.
44:46
SPEAKER_01: I know that she's having a little bit of money trouble, and I don't know why or how she got a car.
44:51
SPEAKER_01: It's unclear if Niles helped her get that car and to where she is driving.
44:59
SPEAKER_01: In that car.
45:00
SPEAKER_01: But, anyways, Niles said it was really stupid of me to promise to bring her to the United States in five months.
45:07
SPEAKER_01: Because now it's been two years since they've seen each other.
45:10
SPEAKER_01: Matilda says he tells me he's been busy working to build her life.
45:14
SPEAKER_01: But she says life is hard being alone and married in Ghana and not having sex.
45:20
SPEAKER_01: But her dream is to live in America, have babies, get an education, and just live with her husband.
45:25
SPEAKER_01: Niles, we find out, is coming to Ghana.
45:28
SPEAKER_01: She thinks he's coming for two weeks.
45:31
SPEAKER_01: He says I'm gonna surprise her when I arrive and tell her I'm staying.
45:35
SPEAKER_01: He hasn't told her that yet.
45:37
SPEAKER_01: He says, because I'm a thousand percent sure she's gonna explode, I'm just gonna deal with it when it happens.
45:44
SPEAKER_01: So a little bit later on, we're at his apartment.
45:47
SPEAKER_01: He's got interesting sodas in the fridge.
45:52
SPEAKER_01: Bacon flavor, ranch dressing flavored soda, buffalo wings flavored soda, and peanut butter and jelly.
45:58
SPEAKER_01: His friend Gabe has come over to game with him.
46:01
SPEAKER_01: Gabe says, uh, I guess I'll try the peanut butter and jelly.
46:05
SPEAKER_01: That sounds like the least disgusting.
46:10
SPEAKER_01: And it's instant regret for old Gabe.
46:14
SPEAKER_01: Gabe is a good friend.
46:15
SPEAKER_01: He says, What's the housing situation like in Ghana?
46:19
SPEAKER_01: Niles like, um, I don't really know.
46:22
SPEAKER_01: Apparently, a couple months ago, he and Matilda got into an argument because she needed money for a new apartment.
46:30
SPEAKER_01: He says, Well, no, you need to move back home with your family, and we will figure something out when I get there.
46:36
SPEAKER_01: She didn't like that.
46:38
SPEAKER_01: Gabe says, How does she feel about you moving to Ghana?
46:42
SPEAKER_01: He says, Well, I should probably tell her.
46:44
SPEAKER_01: Gabe's like, What?
46:45
SPEAKER_01: Well, what?
46:46
SPEAKER_01: Excuse me, what?
46:49
SPEAKER_01: Niles is like, well, you know how she is.
46:54
SPEAKER_01: Gabe says, What are you gonna do?
46:56
SPEAKER_01: You're just gonna go over there and say, Hey, by the way, I live here now.
47:00
SPEAKER_01: Nail's like, yeah.
47:01
SPEAKER_01: Well, when you say it like that, it does sound pretty stupid.
47:06
SPEAKER_01: Gabe tells us, he's heard a lot about Matilda that she has temper tantrums.
47:12
SPEAKER_01: He says, But I cannot believe he hasn't told Matilda he's planning to move there.
47:16
SPEAKER_01: He shrieks, What's wrong with you?
47:21
SPEAKER_01: Talk to your wife, please.
47:24
SPEAKER_01: He ducks down out of the frame, being so dramatic.
47:28
SPEAKER_01: He's so overcome he has to squat.
47:33
SPEAKER_01: Nile says, if Matilda blows up, I'd rather be face to face.
47:38
SPEAKER_01: So when she finally tuckers out, I can explain my reasoning.
47:43
SPEAKER_01: Niall says she did say at one point she'd be happy living anywhere as long as it's with him.
47:50
SPEAKER_01: He says, but this is a real test of that.
47:53
SPEAKER_01: Gabe says things are different in Ghana.
47:57
SPEAKER_01: And he tells us, Niles is less prepared for this move than any man in the history of the world.
48:06
SPEAKER_01: Gabe is pretty funny.
48:08
SPEAKER_01: I kind of want Gabe to go with him and do a running commentary about things.
48:14
SPEAKER_01: Next week, we will meet the rest of the couples.
48:20
SPEAKER_01: That's all I have for my recap.
48:21
SPEAKER_01: Moving on to Book Club Corner, Book Club Nook.
48:26
SPEAKER_01: What should I call it?
48:26
SPEAKER_01: You tell me.
48:29
SPEAKER_01: I have a free little slutty, smuddy book this week.
48:34
SPEAKER_01: It is a workplace romance.
48:36
SPEAKER_00: It's called Nailed.
48:41
SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's called Nailed.
48:43
SPEAKER_00: It is funny.
48:46
SPEAKER_00: It is an age gap.
48:48
SPEAKER_00: It is pretty spicy.
48:52
SPEAKER_00: It is a boss, an employee.
48:57
SPEAKER_01: Um, it's everything that you should not do in real life.
49:02
SPEAKER_01: But this is fantasy, right?
49:05
SPEAKER_01: This is romance, so it's very short.
49:07
SPEAKER_01: You can read it in uh an hour, 90 minutes, tops.
49:11
SPEAKER_01: Anyways, it's free on Amazon right now.
49:15
SPEAKER_01: So go get it.
49:16
SPEAKER_01: I will put a link to it in the show notes.
49:18
SPEAKER_01: It's free until Saturday, by the way, October 10th.
49:22
SPEAKER_01: So you've got by the time you hear this, you'll have uh two days to go get it.
49:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so go do that.
49:32
SPEAKER_01: And that's the show.
49:33
SPEAKER_01: That's all I have for you today.
49:36
SPEAKER_01: I think we covered that pretty thoroughly.
49:39
SPEAKER_01: If you like what I do, please follow the Amazon link in my show notes and go read some books.
49:47
SPEAKER_01: If you have Kindle Unlimited, I have lots of books in Kindle Unlimited.
49:54
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50:01
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50:04
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50:11
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50:21
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50:24
SPEAKER_01: I will talk to you all soon.
50:27
SPEAKER_01: Have a good one.