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Everything Happens for a Reason (Perfect Match Recap Episode 3 & 4) · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Almost Famous podcast.
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  Speaker 3: It's been in back by.
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  Speaker 2: Very popular man, outrageously popular to the man, the man
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  Speaker 2: who brings the joy, the truth, the light, the man
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  Speaker 2: who lights up our years with his voice and analyzation
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  Speaker 2: of reality television. Easton, Welcome back.
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  Speaker 4: What an introduction. Wow, Well, I'm glad to be back.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so honored to return. I am glad I passed
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  Speaker 4: the audition. Yeah, and I'm excited to continue this world
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  Speaker 4: of Perfect Match with you. Ben. I'm just having the
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  Speaker 4: best time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you blew us away.
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  Speaker 2: Listeners were scraping at their phones to comment. Please bring
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  Speaker 2: Easton back, He's so good at this. We are breaking
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  Speaker 2: down The Perfect Match episodes three and four. If you
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  Speaker 2: haven't been a part of this yet, we're breaking down
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  Speaker 2: the Perfect Match this season because Bachelor Nation has a
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  Speaker 2: lot to do with this season of The Perfect Match.
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  Speaker 2: We have two contestants now starting in episode three from
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  Speaker 2: The Bachelor. Both Rachel and Clayton are on the beaches
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  Speaker 2: in Tulom for the Perfect Match. We got to follow
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  Speaker 2: their story. This is an exciting time for Bachelor Nation
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  Speaker 2: to see if something can be rekindled after the massive
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  Speaker 2: heartbreaks that occurred during Clayton's season of The Bachelor, leading
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  Speaker 2: Rachel to go on to be the Bachelorette with Gabby Wendy. Today,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna be breaking down both episodes three and four
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  Speaker 2: together because this season is great, but it's long and
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  Speaker 2: we need to start consolidating, or we're gonna run out
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  Speaker 2: of time, like.
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  Speaker 4: We don't mean run out of time, like before we die.
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  Speaker 2: Or I feel like this could go on for like
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  Speaker 2: three months, like the show.
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  Speaker 3: It's a really weird.
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  Speaker 2: Thing when a show's streaming and it all gets released
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  Speaker 2: and we're still talking about this like two and a
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  Speaker 2: half months from now, and the show has been aired
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  Speaker 2: for two and a half months and everybody's watched it.
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like we'll get out of date.
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  Speaker 4: I agree, And I wonder if the dating show model
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  Speaker 4: lends itself better to week by week because people love
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  Speaker 4: to analyze and like make theories and stuff. It's kind
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  Speaker 4: of weird to have it all out there at once, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like the binging thing. I also wonder I
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  Speaker 2: don't know this world well enough. I wonder if the
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  Speaker 2: money for a show is is better when it airs
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  Speaker 2: week to week, Like, why would we ever do it
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  Speaker 2: week to week if you're gonna get the same amount
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  Speaker 2: of money for a show if people just binge it
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  Speaker 2: in one night.
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  Speaker 3: But here's the truth.
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  Speaker 2: The press dies off and so the perfect match is
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  Speaker 2: in everybody's thoughts right now, and it's all over the news,
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  Speaker 2: especially episodes three and four, people are talking about and
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  Speaker 2: in a month, nobody's gonna remember it, and so it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of like a flash in the pan because it
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  Speaker 2: comes and goes with a bachelor. It's all the only
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  Speaker 2: thing people have in US weekly for two months as
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  Speaker 2: it's airing exactly Okay, Easton, I'm going to get started
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  Speaker 2: to just kind of get warmed up here. I know
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of nerves when it comes to co
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  Speaker 2: hosting the Almost Famous podcast. There's a lot of responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just like kind of rapid fires. Some thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: How are you liking the show? Obviously you're here week
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  Speaker 2: one we had Clayton and Ashley four, episodes two, you're
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  Speaker 2: back for three and four, pretty far into this thing.
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  Speaker 3: How you liking it?
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  Speaker 4: And I'm loving it? I'm in It's a lot of fun. Again,
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  Speaker 4: I don't watch a lot of these kind of like
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  Speaker 4: dating reality shows, so I'm kind of like learning the
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  Speaker 4: vibes and it's fun. I'm having a really good time.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know who any of these people were besides
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  Speaker 4: Rachel and Clayton, and I'm loving him. I have like favorites,
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  Speaker 4: I have people I dislike, and I'm like forming my
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  Speaker 4: own relationships with these people. I'm forming my own perfect
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  Speaker 4: match as I watched the show, and I'm having a blast.
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  Speaker 4: I'm really joining this.
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  Speaker 3: Who are you liking right now? Like, who are you
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  Speaker 3: rooting for?
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  Speaker 4: I love a d and Ali. They're like my favorite couple.
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  Speaker 4: I love them. I want I know, well you know,
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  Speaker 4: we'll get into it, but I want them to adopt me.
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  Speaker 4: I love them and Louis. I've come around on Louis.
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  Speaker 3: You were a fan of Louis at first.
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  Speaker 2: I've been a fan of Louis not because I think
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  Speaker 2: he's like the best dude in the world. He's entertaining
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  Speaker 2: to me, and he's kind of like this. He's definitely
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  Speaker 2: he actually he wants to not be twenty three. He's
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  Speaker 2: definitely twenty three years old.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, a big time. He threw me for a
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  Speaker 4: curveball in episode three, and I enjoyed that. I thought
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  Speaker 4: that was a lot of fun. He's really standing out
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  Speaker 4: to me and we'll get it again. We'll get into this.
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  Speaker 4: But I really enjoy Freddie too. I've really I really
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  Speaker 4: liked Freddy on the date in this episode. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 4: those but if I had to pick one favorite Ad
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  Speaker 4: and Ali, I will die for them. I love them
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  Speaker 4: so much.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're fantastic and it's awesome to see a
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  Speaker 2: dynamic that you watch them and you're like, you could
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  Speaker 2: actually work. Like it's very clear you can work in
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  Speaker 2: the real world and the perfect match is not set
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  Speaker 2: up as we talked about with Clayton to build those
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  Speaker 2: real relationships, but you can meet your partner anywhere. And
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  Speaker 2: it feels like to me at this point that they
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  Speaker 2: are a real couple who really enjoy each other and
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  Speaker 2: who can make each other laugh, and they have this
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  Speaker 2: dynamic Easton.
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  Speaker 3: You're a married man.
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  Speaker 2: They have this dynamic that only exists within like years
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  Speaker 2: of marriage where you can kind of like joke with
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  Speaker 2: the other person about what's annoying you and you just
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  Speaker 2: know it without saying it. But the person's like, I
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  Speaker 2: know I'm driving them crazy right now. And it's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, And like I was watching them and I
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  Speaker 4: kept having to remind myself, like, oh, they've only known
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  Speaker 4: each other a couple of days at this point, like
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  Speaker 4: they four days, Yeah, four days, that's crazy. But like
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, they've been together six months at least
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  Speaker 4: or a year. But yeah, it's really I know that,
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  Speaker 4: like this setting lends itself to a very intense connection
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  Speaker 4: very quickly, But I just think that they get along
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  Speaker 4: so well. They seem so compatible to me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it starts out with eighty and Ali were kind
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  Speaker 2: of transitioning from episode two. They're in the boardroom making
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  Speaker 2: the decisions on behalf of the house they just signed.
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  Speaker 2: They decide to send Louis and Alex on a date.
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  Speaker 2: Alex is the one that Ali was really pushing to
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  Speaker 2: get into the home. I never felt like he was
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  Speaker 2: doing it because he necessarily wanted to move on from Ad,
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  Speaker 2: But I do think Ali was saying it with like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind looking at her in the house for
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  Speaker 2: the next few weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, And I mean Alex is attractive. And I got
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  Speaker 4: to shout out this quote from her like introduction, I
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  Speaker 4: just I loved I rewound it and watched this two
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  Speaker 4: or three times. I am constantly horny, the sexiest fire
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  Speaker 4: I've never been in love. So I want to save
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  Speaker 4: my freaker side from my man if I find him here.
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  Speaker 4: I am constantly horny.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 4: I want that on a T shirt.
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  Speaker 3: Just walk around town.
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  Speaker 4: I am constantly horny.
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  Speaker 2: It's still amaze me since at the vulnerability and the
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  Speaker 2: transparency that these contestants bring to the beach.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like a theme of.
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  Speaker 2: The season that they have found not only I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what is it, ten attractive people, but ten very
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  Speaker 2: vocal people about what they're on the beach four And
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy it because again I go back to and
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  Speaker 2: I sound like a record that's repeating itself. It makes
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  Speaker 2: me uncomfortable, and I enjoy it because it's so different
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  Speaker 2: than how I would function on a show like this.
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  Speaker 2: And I enjoy watching it because I have respect, honestly
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  Speaker 2: for their openness to just say, hey, I'm letting it
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  Speaker 2: all out there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm with you. I think if I
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  Speaker 4: was on the show, I would have completely differently than
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  Speaker 4: they are. And so that's why I love watching this,
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  Speaker 4: because it's like, oh, this is what it would be
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  Speaker 4: like to be this open in this vocal.
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  Speaker 3: This hot and horny all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, too hot to handle in a lot of cases.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So I think on this date you preface Alex's
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  Speaker 2: kind of feelings going into this date. They are a
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  Speaker 2: very attractive couple. They have a lot of physical chemistry.
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  Speaker 2: Here's my take on the date. Though, louis like she
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  Speaker 2: makes him nervous. I think he's all talk, that's my
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  Speaker 2: take on him. He's coming out swinging from the very
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  Speaker 2: opening of this show with how Smoothie is and what
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  Speaker 2: he can offer somebody, and he's kind of confident and
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  Speaker 2: he's there. He goes on this date with Alex. It
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  Speaker 2: feels like she makes him shudder, meaning he is so
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  Speaker 2: like intimidated.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I agree. And when they're on the date, they're
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  Speaker 4: like in this pool and they do the underwater camera
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  Speaker 4: and you can see Alex is like touching his leg
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  Speaker 4: and at one point I think she's like playing with
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  Speaker 4: his curly leg hair.
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  Speaker 3: Which it's kind of a weird camera shot.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, very very weird. But I can tell he's like
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  Speaker 4: I got the same vibe that he's being. He's quietly
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  Speaker 4: intimidated at this point and it's like, oh God, what
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  Speaker 4: is this force of nature that I've been reckoning with?
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  Speaker 3: I had to stop.
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  Speaker 2: Like that shot made me feel awkward because I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know what they were going to be showing underneath the water,
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  Speaker 2: Like I don't need to know that she's touching his
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  Speaker 2: leg hair and that he is enjoying it.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want to have to see that.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see it, luckily, but it felt like that's
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  Speaker 2: what they were going to back us into.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a We've talked about the camera work
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  Speaker 4: in this show, like the the ims with the really
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  Speaker 4: wide angle and like and this underwe the underwater camera.
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  Speaker 4: Realizing that's an option, I'm like, oh god, what else
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  Speaker 4: are we going to see with this thing? Now? I
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  Speaker 4: know that's there?
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  Speaker 2: Is there like a dude scuba diving like right next
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  Speaker 2: to him, Like how is is this a drone camera?
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  Speaker 3: Is it on a rope?
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  Speaker 2: Like in my In My Years of Bachelor, they did
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  Speaker 2: have some underwater shots, but it was a guy holding
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  Speaker 2: this underwater camera. That shot was very close, so you
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  Speaker 2: see like three ft away kind of floating into him.
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  Speaker 3: Be like, oh my bad. Guys, Like.
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  Speaker 4: That's the thing I keep reminding myself too, is like
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  Speaker 4: they're they're doing this stuff. It's no different from Bachelor,
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  Speaker 4: but like and there's like, you know, a guy like me,
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  Speaker 4: like wearing a backwards hat and cargo shorts is holding
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  Speaker 4: a camera like it's the at them.
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  Speaker 2: So odd, that's so weird. Uh, this day doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of like depth to it more than the
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  Speaker 2: fact that they just feel like they're both into each other.
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  Speaker 2: They're both there for similar reasons. They feel like very
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  Speaker 2: similar humans. At this point Easton, it feels like to me,
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  Speaker 2: there is no shot Louie is going with anybody other
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  Speaker 2: than Alex.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, but he's you know, he's really into Sandy. So
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  Speaker 4: like when I saw this date, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: it's over. It's over for her. He's good. And they
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  Speaker 4: keep showing other contestants talking about how Louis loves a
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  Speaker 4: shiny new thing out Louis loves new things, like okay,
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  Speaker 4: well here's a new thing. He's on a date with her.
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  Speaker 4: It's over, and we learned that that is not the case.
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  Speaker 4: It's very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: It is very interesting. Freddie and Rachel are also set
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  Speaker 2: up on a date. Remember this is all done by
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  Speaker 2: Adi and Ali. The really funny dynamic. Here is Ady
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  Speaker 2: back at the house. She's telling all the girls how
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  Speaker 2: beautiful Alex is and how beautiful Rachel is, and how
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  Speaker 2: nervous she is about her man, who also helped her
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  Speaker 2: invite these people.
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  Speaker 3: Into the home.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy these conversations because not only did it bring
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  Speaker 2: some suspense to the show for me, where I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I get it, eighty, You're you're not wrong here, it's
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  Speaker 2: also just funny and enjoyable to see contestants on a
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  Speaker 2: rally show in a lot of ways be supportive of
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  Speaker 2: other people, like Ady was saying, nothing more than just like, gosh,
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  Speaker 2: dang it, these people are pretty coming in here.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's again this like uh mechanic of bringing in
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  Speaker 4: the new people through the boardroom. It's so it's so
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  Speaker 4: interesting and it makes you like it adds so many
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  Speaker 4: different layers to how you're playing the game here. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, eighty's really excited about everyone that could potentially
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  Speaker 4: be coming in and uh and what she ends up choosing. Rachel.
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  Speaker 4: Rachel Rekia are our favorite person someone I've spent a
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  Speaker 4: lot of time with. Rachel. I was like seeing a
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  Speaker 4: friend on screen. It was really cool.
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  Speaker 2: It was I haven't seen her on screen a long time.
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  Speaker 2: This felt like a very good, like Dan Namic, for
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  Speaker 2: her to kind of walk in late meet this guy.
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  Speaker 2: Both these dates Easton, in my mind, were perfect setups
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  Speaker 2: if they were gonna break up a couple currently existing
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  Speaker 2: in the house. It was just remind everybody, it's Freddie
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  Speaker 2: and Madison still in the villa up to this point.
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  Speaker 2: It was Louis and Sandy in the villa up until
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  Speaker 2: this point. It felt like they hit a home run
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  Speaker 2: when it came to breaking up these relationships because both
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  Speaker 2: dates feel really good to me, and they feel like
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  Speaker 2: very similar people.
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  Speaker 3: Freddie.
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  Speaker 2: If you listen to our last episode where Clayton co hosted,
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  Speaker 2: he talks about just how great of a dude Freddy is.
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  Speaker 2: He's everything you think he isn't and more. Rachel's an
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  Speaker 2: amazing person, and so in my eyes, I'm like, Rachel
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  Speaker 2: found her guy. There's gonna be no drama between her
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  Speaker 2: and Clayton. They might even just say hi to each other,
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  Speaker 2: but there's no way there's any crossover here. There's no
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  Speaker 2: way these two entertained getting back together. That would be
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  Speaker 2: foolish for them to try to do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this painting. Date is so cute and they seem
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  Speaker 4: to be getting along great. And Rachel Rekia we know
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  Speaker 4: her very well. She's gifted in many, many ways. Painting
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  Speaker 4: is not one of her talents. I'm sorry, Rachel.
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  Speaker 3: She can fly a plane. She cannot paint.
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  Speaker 4: She cannot she cannot paint.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to say it right here. It's just the
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  Speaker 4: worst painting I think I've ever seen. This is all
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  Speaker 4: just abysmal. It made me want to turn the TV
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  Speaker 4: off when I saw that painting. But that there, the
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  Speaker 4: date is so cute, and I'm like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 4: this is it. And I keep tricking myself because I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: this is this is her mat. She found her guy.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to ride up in the sunset. Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: And Alex's return from their date, Sandy says that her
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  Speaker 2: stomach has dropped. Also, Freddy and Rachel returned back to
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  Speaker 2: the villa from their date, and as Easton was kind
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  Speaker 2: of referencing there, we have to remember that Clayton is
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  Speaker 2: still at the villa with no idea that Rachel is
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  Speaker 2: going to show up. Clayton is shocked. In fact, Easton,
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  Speaker 2: we were all shocked. It's fun to see the two
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  Speaker 2: of them together in a house that we can watch.
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  Speaker 2: We have gotten to see it on an almost famous
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  Speaker 2: podcast trip before there did seem to still be sparks,
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  Speaker 2: so I wasn't shocked that maybe they would entertain each other.
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  Speaker 2: But I was also thinking, at this point Rachel's with Freddy,
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  Speaker 2: Clayton is not even going to get the time of
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  Speaker 2: day from Rachel.
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  Speaker 3: Why would she do that again? That would be.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy interesting takeaway. It feels like most of the house,
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  Speaker 2: if not all of the house, had no clue that
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  Speaker 2: Rachel and Clayton would know each other.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it seems like most of the people there, maybe
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  Speaker 4: all of them have not seen The Bachelor before, Like
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  Speaker 4: they seem very like they're aware of it, but.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: There wasn't anyone that was like, oh my god, it's Raly,
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  Speaker 4: it's Clayton from The Bachelor, like like they have those
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: reactions to other people like Juliette got a big pop
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: from a O. The csta key fans out there were
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: losing their minds. Uh, But they didn't know they had it,
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: that they knew each other A littlone had this dramatic
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: history and uh. Clayton says that the last time he
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: saw Rachel in person was about a year ago, and
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: I was thinking about that, and I'm like, was that
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: the Almost Famous trip. I got so excited because I
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: mean I wasn't there personally, but I was like, oh
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: my god, that's I wish. I was really hoping he'd say, yeah,
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: it was about a year ago in Pebble Beach, California
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: with the almost Famous podcast. But then actually I.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: That you can listen to it anywhere.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you can listen to my immediate reaction. I
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: think I talked about it on the on the podcas. Yes,
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: but yeah, they're their reaction or their reunite recarnunion, Yeah,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: their reunion. I was expecting it to just be like, oh, hey,
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: I'm doing I'm here too, like it's it's good to
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: see you, like may the best man win, and then
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: just kind of like going their merry way. Oh god, Uh,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: it didn't happen. How did this happen? Like, like, how
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: did they how did that sparkt re ignited it?
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I think it was a hello to a can we
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: come talk conversation where it and it happens at the
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: end of the night. I think both had had started
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: to realize that if not for each other, they were
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: going home. You know, the beauty of reality television and
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: how these shows are set up. Nobody really wants.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: To go home.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: You don't say yes to this experience, and you don't
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: get in shape for this experience. You don't buy clothes
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: for this experience. You don't start prepping for this experience
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: with the idea that, yes, I'm just going to give
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: it a good couple hour shot.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of reasons why you want to stick around.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: I think that is something that we have to remember
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: when it comes to the Clayton Rachel dynamic. Is it
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: definitely felt like Clayton had no interest in Juliette any longer,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: that the two of them were holding on by a thread,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: and that he knew if he didn't make the move first,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: she would be probably dumping him as soon as she
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: was set up on a date with somebody she liked
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: just a little bit more. Rachel comes into a house
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: with some strong couples that already exist, and really her
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: shot is with Freddie kind of shockingly because I don't
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: see it, Freddie, the Freddie Madison relationship. I definitely see
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: that Freddi Rachel. I don't see the Freddy Madison relationship.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: You know, Freddie seems pretty stuck on Madison. He comes
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: pretty much right back to her when he walks into
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: the house. This all comes up to Nick Lachey kind
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: of sharing with us the two ladies will be leaving
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: at the end of the night. So two of these
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: ladies that are in the house currently people who have
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: you know, been in cup relationships previously on the Perfect
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Match and some of those newbies could be going home.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Alex and Rachel obviously newbies, but they had great dates.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: This brings us to I think the Perfect Match we
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: would call like the cocktail party where everybody starts to
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: have to come together in some way to see who's
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: going to match and who's not.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I was thinking about the Madison Freddie relationship
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: and like Freddy goes on the date with Rachel and
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Madison's just bawling. She's like so sad. Yeah, And I
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: think I can't remember who said it. It was Louis
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: or one of the British guys was like, oh, you
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: think that he just went away to wool and I'm
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: like yeah, yeah, I'm like screaming my TV. I'm like,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: you've known each other for like seventy two hours, why
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: are you reacting this way? And I know they just
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: want to you know, they want to hang on, they
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: want to hang onto each other, they want to stick around.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: It's Ollie says that she's that Madison's manipulating him with
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: her tears. This made me I'm not a Madison fan
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: at this point. I don't like Madison. I want her
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: to be castaway immediately. And but you know, then we
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: start this game of musical chairs at this cocktail party.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: We're going to figure out who who has to go
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: home and and who gets to stay. There's a lot
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: of interest in Alex at this party. A lot of
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: people have a wandering eye.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, Madison, you know, she was kind of a character,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: not top of mind until this moment. She was so
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: emotional that it did rub me the wrong way. What
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: you came on this show. You just met this guy
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the day before, you're so sad. It feels it does
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: feel in a lot of ways where Freddie is a
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: sensitive fella, that this will play into his decision making
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: because he doesn't want us to make Madison cry. I just
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: don't see it, Easton, I don't see it frustrates me
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: like it frustrated you. I don't like that she's doing this.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Everybody else there is handling it with respect and humor,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: where it's like, gosh, dang it, yeah, our guy went
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: on a day with hot girl, or our girl went
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: on a day with the hot guy. She absolutely breaks down,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: which to me would be in a lot of ways
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: a red flag on a show like this, where it's like,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: how emotional can you really get after forty eight hours
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: of knowing somebody that they just went on a date
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: that they didn't even choose to go on. They got
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: told they were going on it. It's not like he
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: was like asking for it.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: That's true. It's so bizarre, But you know, I guess
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: that this is the nature of perfect.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Match and anyway to see some relationships. Alex is getting
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: a lot of attention from the guys. It is a
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: very superstar moment for her. She comes into the house
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: and every head turns. I think that almost goes against
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: her because so many people are interested in her that
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of the guys are nervous to
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: even talk to her because they know that if they do,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: they might get convinced to go a different direction. I
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: also don't know how much interest she showed anybody other
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: than Louie. I mean, I think there was obviously some
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: some single men in the house or some men that
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: were a lot more accessible to switching to somebody new
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: than Louie. But I kind of feel like she didn't
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: play it as hard as she could have. I think
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: she had Clayton. She could have gotten Clayton in a second.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I could honestly have seen her. I don't know where
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Freddy's mind was at. It felt like Freddie was very
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: much a free agent, but shockingly he maybe isn't.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: It just didn't it didn't make sense.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree. At one point, Ollie talks to her
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: and again, like you know we said earlier, like I
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: think he just wants to have her around because she's
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: nice to look at, and it's like, oh, it would
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: be fun to just kind of have her nearby. But
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I don't think we're gonna be the match. But I agree,
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: she's only really shown interest in Louie and I, you know,
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: I wonder if she she's from Temptation Island, so I
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: wonder if she is aware of Louis's reputation. I do
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: really I enjoyed they go on like a they go
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: off on their own, Louis and Alex and they do
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: like a speed dating thing because Louis like really trying hard,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: like do I need.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: To This is so funny. I forgot this scene.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: It's so good. Uh, he's trying to decide if he's
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: gonna leave Sandy and go with with Alex, And something
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: I just thought was funny is he's like, uh, we
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: need to do a speed dating thing here, like let's
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: get to know each other. And then like then he
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: has just nothing to say, he has no question. She's like,
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: you ask me a question, are you are you interested
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: in anything? He's like, uh, what's her favorite color?
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: So good?
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: It's such a I mean, that's what I'm saying. I
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: think she throws Louis off.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I don't think he has the confidence that he communicates
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: and has shown most of the season. I think she
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: intimidates him and he's nervous about that. For whatever reason,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: she makes him so nervous and you see it there. Well,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: this kind of goes back and forth. It comes all
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: back to the Clayton and Rachel conversation. Ultimately, no big
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: shockers here. Ali Ndy match. First, then you have the
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Freddie and Madison match. I think that is a shocker,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: but we've kind of talked to that here, and at
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: that point, Rachel's seeing that maybe this date that she
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: went on is not going to be something that keeps
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: her around. Daniel and Lucy match not surprising. So we
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: have Rachel and Clayton, we have Louie still sitting out
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: there deciding between at this point Sandy and Alex, Clayton
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: wants Rachel to match. Yeah, Easton, as we live in
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: this vacuum and in this moment, I hear this and
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: see this, and I am saying, I remember when Rachel
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: co hosted a show with us, and I feel like
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I asked her. I said, there's no way you got
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: back with Clayton, right, and she didn't answer me. I'm
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: at this point going, what are you doing?
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Rachel?
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I get it because I want Rachel around. And so
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: there is this side of me Easton when it comes
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: to gameplay that's saying, Rachel, just say yes, but don't
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: get too invested into this and wait until the next
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: week when somebody knew is here. I want you on
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: this show, so just do what you gotta do to
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: get on the show.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: But there's a twinkle in her eye that.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I see that makes me feel like goodness gracious, Rachel,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: you're still into this guy, like this is real for you.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: I got the exact same vibe and we see, you know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: things go different way later on and we see her reaction,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: and I felt so bad for her because, like, going
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: into this, I was remembering how Clayton treated her on
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: The Bachelor, and I was like, oh, there's no there's
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: no way, there's no way. But like when you're especially
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: in this, you're in tu loom, you're in this like
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: you're back in a very similar scene. How easily can
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: you slide back into those emotions or remember those initial
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: connections you had? That's those are hard to ignore in
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: those in those situations, Clayton says something to her that
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: I found that really stuck out to me. I enjoyed.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: He said, I believe everything happens for a reason. It's
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: the screensaver on my phone. That's so good. With respect
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: to Clayton.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: So deep, goodness, gracious, have never heard it before.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: It's so deep, you know. So then after that moment,
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: anytime I was watching this with my lovely wife Allison,
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: but after anytime someone would like kind of say like
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: a cliched platitude or something, we would just go. It's
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: a screensaver on my phone.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm always horny.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Is the screensaver on my phone? And I wonder if
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Clayton actually does have a have his log screen just
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: say everything happens for a reason.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: I hope he does, and I hope it helps him.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Bless his heart, it helped him make this decision. Wants
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: to get back with Rachel.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Pause here for a second. Allison does watch this with you.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: She's not big into reality television either. Is she enjoying
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: the perfect match?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: She is?
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: She is tolerating the perfect match. I would She's not
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: at home right now desperately wanting to watch episode five.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: But she had fun and she like I was just
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: I put it on, and I'm like, oh, she's gonna
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: be on her phone immediately, But she was like locked
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: in and she kept like pausing it to be like, Okay,
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: here's what I think Allie has to do here. So
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: she got more locked in than I was expecting. So
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: I think she's more into it than she's letting on too.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it is it's Jessica for me. They're
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: both big readers. I thought she was just gonna be
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: kindling the whole time during this show, but no, she
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: watched it also, which shocked me and surprises me at
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: every level. I don't know what it is about this show,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: but we're hooked. Rachel and Clayton end up saying yes,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: let's match. We see them go back to the room together.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: It feels comfortable and also uncomfortable in a lot of ways,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: where they're kind of reintroducing each other to one another,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: even though they have had a history. They will now
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: be spending the night together in this hotel room for
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: the first time in years since Clayton was the bachelor
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: in the Fantasy suitees week, which we all know, you know,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: blew up in his world and also hers. She was crushed.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: But they say yes to each other. It is a
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: source of comfort for them to regnite in tou Loom.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Then we get into the Louis situation. Going into this evening,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: I thought there was no question he was going to
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: be going with Alex, but we see something in Louis
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: that I don't know. I think it's a big moment
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: for Louie. I don't know if anybody has ever seen
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: this from Louis before, where the shiny new thing even
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: though it's shiny, very shiny. He says, no, I'm going
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: to go back to what I have. I think it's
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: a great moment for him when we should celebrate what
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: he's pushing to get with Louis. Juliette at this point
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: is saying, Hey, Louis, we're friends. Let's just make this
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: thing work, and he kind of laughs and says there's
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: no way. Sandy comes into the conversation not wanting to
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: work hard at convincing him. She just pretty much says,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: do you do what you want to do. I'm not
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: going to try to convince you here. And I love that.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: There's like a confidence in Sandy. And Alex is sitting
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: off to the side, fully expecting Louis to come back
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: to Alex, but he doesn't.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: He picks Sandy.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: It's beautiful. It's a big moment of growth for Louis.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: For me personally, I don't know if he was actually
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: going through growth, but at least my experience, YEA a
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: living like, Wow, this guy's really like learning about like
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: connecting emotions to these to these feelings he's having and
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: looking at a future with this person, not just what
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: is exciting to me right now. However, we can't ignore
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: that during his speed dating with Alex, she she said
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: something about well, like I think she said something like
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: you seem like the type of guy that needs more
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: than one person or something, but like I'm down to share.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: And he's like, oh really, and he's like saying, hmm,
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: what can I And so then he and then, with
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: the confidence of a twenty three year old man on
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: a reality show, he walks over to Sandy and he's like,
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: maybe a thriple situation and she's like, no, not at all.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: And he's like, Okay, what a shot.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: But I forgot that.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: At that moment, He's like, I think he realizes what
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: he stands to lose, and he and he stays with Sandy.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: It's really it is really beautiful. I do feel bad
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: for Alex because she she is only there for a day, right, Like,
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: she goes home immediately.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: And it feels like she, in her mind did all
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: the right things. She petted his leg, talked about throples,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: and I think she thought, Hey, what else could I
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: have on here? Yeah, we didn't get to know Alex well,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: there is really one storyline that we got to know
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: about Alex. It is beautiful, though, and I don't know
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: if Louis would say that this was a moment of
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: growth for him or not, but it felt like it.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: It felt like he was processing a lot slowly, but
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: processing it and deciding that, no, this Sandy is somebody
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I am intrigued by, interested in.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: And it's good for me. Let's stick together.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Their relationship skyrocketed to a depth that did not exist before,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: so maybe this will end up being good for them.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: But one thing that is never good for a couple
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Easton is to see your committed partner in a monogamous
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: relationship make out with somebody else in front of you
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: in a lot of ways, or at least right beside you.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: And that's what happens next in the Perfect Match, because
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: goodness gracious, that's what the Perfect Match is. The next day,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: as everybody wakes up from the craziness of the night before,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: we have said goodbye to Juliette at this point, who
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: says that Clayton and Rachel are going to be boring.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Nick Lache introduces us to something that I'm guessing is
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: tradition on this show, the kissing challenge, where all of
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: your senses are muted and you are now to kiss
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: every person in the house and rate it. A few
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: issues I have with this. One is obvious it's gonna
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: only affect the stronger couples.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: The second is, how do you not know who you're kissing?
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Even like all these people are either big or they're small,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: they have beards or they don't. You gotta be knowing
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: who you're kissing at any given moment. There's no surprises here.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, if you're like really just out of
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: it and not paying attention, how could you at least
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: not know that you were kissing Alie? Like he had
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: to be the one who like he's the only guy
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: with the giant beard.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: It's you know, and at the very least, like the
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: person you're matched with. You probably hopefully you've unless you're Clayton,
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: you've been kissing a lot at this point.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: And you probably know how they how they work their mannerisms.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: This Uh, this kissing competition, the Waivers people must sign
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: to be on this show. It's crazy to me. Allison
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: called this consent to the game, and I was like,
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: oh my god. Uh, But then I was also, we're
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: watching them do this. They're wearing they're wearing blindfolds and
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: the ring these like these noise canceling headphones or something,
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: and they're just making out all at the same time,
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: all in a row, and we're hearing like music, you know,
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: royalty free music in the background. And but I'm wondering
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: at that, like Nicolache is standing there, is it just
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: like you just hear the sounds of the beach and
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: this just kissing noises. It must be such a gross
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: like thing to listen to as a crew guy there.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: I couldn't stove thinking about that.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is one of the things with audio.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: I remember talking about this when I was The Bachelor,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: because you're miked up all the time, you know, you
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: go to the bathroom, you forget that you're miked up
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: after a while, you're kissing the noises like these poor
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: audio people have just heard the worst of the worst,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Like they mike up all the people at you know,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: seven o'clock in the morning. At nine thirty, they're just like,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: goodness gracious to turn them off. Nickolas Chay's job here
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: is so weird.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: He's he's gotta be.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: He's really though, fell into his his groove with Netflix
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: and all of these odd shows that he hosts, and
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: he hosts it in such a way that does bring humor,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: but also just he feels disconnected. Honestly, he's just one
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: more body there, full of all these bodies kissing each other.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I think this game gets better Easton if they're gonna
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: play this game, like why blindfold and why put noise
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: canceling headphones on? You know who you're kissing, Let's really
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: make it awkward and make them look at each other, like,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: let's make them recognize what's about to happen. I feel
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: like these blindfolds and noise canceling headphones are really just
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: an excuse to make this feel like it's acceptable.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Yes, I agree, I don't know if it works.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: You're rating people of you know, I questioned the couples
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: that didn't rate their partner super high. But again we
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: go back to our love for Ady and Ali and
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: they give each other amazing scores. Eighty gave Ali a ten.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: How sweet and cute is that?
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: I love it. There's a point in this challenge where
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Freddy reveals that he eats thirteen boiled eggs every morning
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: and a tomato a baker's dozen eggs every morning, and
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: I can't remember why he said that it was like like,
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: look how good I am with my lips or yeah,
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: I don't. I wrote that down. I was like he
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: eat thirteen boiled eggs every morning. I don't remember what
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: the context was, but we get to learn that about Freddy. Oh,
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: they thought it was a food challenge at first, before
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: they start the challenge. That's why he brings that up.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: And and also just you know, before we move too
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: far on from the the blindfold. I was just thinking,
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: like if I was doing this challenge, I keep putting
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: myself in these situations.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: I think we all did have to.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: I was like, they'd be we'd all be lined up
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: in a row, ready to like do the kissing, and
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: I'd be on my hands and knees trying to find
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: like where I'm supposed to stand stepping off the platform
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: or something. Ye like, it would just be sad.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: I'd be Freddy pecking. He has an amazing scene of
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: just pecking people he can't find their lips.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: He kisses like a bird. Yeah, there's there's I don't
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: get how people don't know they're kissing Alie that that's something.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: And I like Lucy gave all the A ten and
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: I see that, and Daniel gets all mad that, like
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: he's like, how do you not know it was him?
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: And I have to agree, And that's why I like,
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: I don't want to think that like there's any producer
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: manipulation here, But I'm like, how could part of this
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: not be cooked a little bit? You know, like it's
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: just such a weird competition.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know who you're kissing? Yea if. But at
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: the same time, kind of.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Like Clayton was saying last time he was on the
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: show last you know, last episode, it there is gameplay,
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: but there's also not. I think a lot of these
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: people are just kind of winging it and having fun
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: and they're not really thinking, oh, I should give my
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: partner the highest score because I'll win it and.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Then we get to go to the boardroom.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of them are still just like
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: having fun and being funny and doing crazy stuff.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: I mean we see it with Louie. Obviously you would
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: know if you're kissing Louie or Clayton. But Sandy gives
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Clayton a ten not and Louie gets mad and you
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: know that that wasn't Louie. So you're giving somebody a
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: ten who you know is not your part, and that's
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: foreshadowing for the future, but it happens the the episode
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: kind of ends. After this competition. The winners are Sandy
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: and Clayton. They will be going to the boardroom. They
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: do have now the power and control, and Clayton and
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Sandy have a campfire date starting episode four. Now he
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: just coupled up with Rachel. We want to see where
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: the Rachel Clayton thing is going to go. But because
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: of the competition and the rules of the game, he
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: is on this date with Sandy.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Thoughts, I thought that was fun to put two people
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: that weren't matched up on a day, like the winners
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: of the competition, like make them go on a date.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: That was kind of fun and some man wasn't expecting.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: But it's just and I don't know what the timeline
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: actually is here. They make it seem like it's like overnight,
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: you know, and I like to think that it is.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: But it's just crazy to me that he was so
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: hot on Rachel that night and then immediately not it
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: feels or like already climbing out of the pool. He's like, uh,
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: I'm open, you know, I'm open to exploring this with
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: someone else, and it's just like, oh my, it keeps
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: talking about my intuition. I wrote, like I was trying
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: to down I'm like I again, I'm sorry, Clayton. You
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: are a friend of the Almost Famous podcast. We like you,
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: we enjoy you, but my god, you suck here my intuition.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: Oh come on, give me a break man. Also, I
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: meant to bring this up last time I was on.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: The rooms are so messy. Their rooms are like disgusting.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I know they're small, I know they're like busy.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: It's just crazy, like it's just like suitcases with underwear
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: spilling out. There's all the hair, progress just towels everywhere.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: It feels like it feels like a you're on spring
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: break or something with like college freshmen.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: These are adults. I think that's a good note. He
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: is a fair note is these are adults. And if
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: no matter where, I would expect Dalton adults to clean
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: their room like I just do.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, especially when you know there's cameras in there. I mean,
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: come on, man. Uh so yeah, Clayton. Clayton is ready
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: to uh to to get out of this match with
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: Rachel already and uh I mean, at this point, is
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: he like, is he trying to hook up with Sandy?
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: Is that is that what he or No, He's he's
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: excited to see who's a potential for him in the boardroom.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: That's that's what He's already looking to the next thing.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: And is that like, do you think that's Clayton wanting
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: to stick around or is that Clayton like changing his
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: mind like he did as the Bachelor. What's happening here?
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: It's I think it is the moment, honestly, Easton. So
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: the uproar for from the fan base is loud against Clayton.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Uh this, I think we could confidently say that Clayton's
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: time on The Perfect Match did not help his image
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: and did not bring him fan support like he maybe
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: wanted it too or desired it too. And I would
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: think that out of everything else, I think the fan
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: base would have been okay with them going their separate ways,
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: especially if the two of them sat down and talked
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: and like, hey, this isn't working, but I'm glad we
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: were here another week and you met somebody and I've
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: met somebody, so let's continue on in different paths.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: And it's been great.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: I think this is the moment, the really the catalyst
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: of this episode happened so early in the episode where
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: he shows us that he is almost and playing Rachel
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: again again, And I think this hurts. I think it's weird.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know how he thought this was a good
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: idea or why he decided to do it, especially if
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: he went on the perfect match to show that he
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: has grown as a person and that he believes everything
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: happens for a reason, all these things.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: It is the moment.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: That we see that I said, what is he doing?
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: He knows it's just gonna hurt Rachel, especially with the
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: the excitement that she showed to maybe rekindling with something
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: with him.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I'm just like And I know he's talked
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: a bit about like, oh that the editing didn't show
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: me in a great light or so, and I'm like,
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: how is like this is beyond Like I don't understand
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: how you can edit this to make it look different
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: than what it was here. Uh, it's I'm just like,
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: what is going on with this guy?
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: What?
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: Like it's just it's cruel to Rachel's It breaks my heart,
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: you know, I personally just I I was such a
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: big fan of Rachel. It kills me to see her
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: in pain like this. I'm like, oh my god, he's
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: doing this again. This is just so insane. Clayton, Damn.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: It's rough. It's a rough, It's so rough. It's tough
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: for him.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: There's no really excuses at this point to why he's
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: making the decisions he's making. When you have somebody that
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: you care about, that you have a history with, I think,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: if anything, you can go on this date, but you
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: owe her a conversation before you make any drastic statements
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: or any changes to your relationship. But he didn't. Back
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: of the house during this date, Easton, we see some
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: couples get very upset about the kissing challenge. Shockingly, the
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: kissing challenge cause controversy in the house with some couples,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: especially Daniel and Lucy. We get a little bit of
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: a glimpse into some people's mindsets during the kissing challenge,
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: but it hurt people. Shows me two things Easton, love
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: to hear what you think. One is, you know, a
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: few days into this experience, people do care about somebody.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: There's some couples that I think are really invested into
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: each other. Some couples that have really grown and are saying, hey,
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: I don't want to see you with anybody else. As
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: a result, I would have loved for you and the
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: kissing challenge to rate me higher than the other person
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: that you knew.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: Was not me.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: That would have just been a nice thing to give
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: me some confidence moving forward. Even if you did think
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: that kiss was fantastic, I don't want to have to
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: think about it. It also shows me that the kissing
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: challenge should just not be a thing if they actually
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: want couples to form on the beach.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: Wow. Yeah, I mean, I agree with you. It's so
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: hard for me to think about, like, because every relationship
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: I have been in, no matter how short lived, that
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: did take months and months of like emotional investment on
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: both parts, usually on the other person. But so it's
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: hard for me to understand that these people are so
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: connected after just a few days. And I know this
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: is like I know everyone we've talked to, it has
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: been on the show, on the Bachelor, Like it's just
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: the nature of how you have no other distractions, all
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: you're doing is thinking about your connection with these people.
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: So I get it, but it's just like it is
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: kind of I don't know it's just it's so interesting
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: to me that like, it's just it feels like such
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: a deeply emotional connection and decision to have to make
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: the kissing challenge is really just a minefield. I mean, damn,
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Like when Daniel Lucy have this conversation. I mean, Daniel's
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: in the shower and Lucy is like, she's like, oh no,
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, Shu'll wait for him to get out
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: of the shower. Maybe we'll get to see some towel action. No, no, no,
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: she wants to talk about this right now. She is
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: not going to wait. He hit the water's running over him,
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: he's putting the he's putting the garnei frue tiss on,
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: and she's having this conversation with him. It's and I
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: feel bad for her, but also like, you know what,
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: there's a way to do this kiss game to save
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: the feelings of your partner. But also, I mean it's hard,
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: you like, can you identify everybody? I don't know, It's
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: it's tough. It's just it sets everybody up to fail.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: I agree, I don't like the kissing challenge. You should
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: get it, Nicholas Schey, get that challenge out of here.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hurting. It's hurting people. I don't like it.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: It's making me feel something for them. Sandy and Clayton
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: returned from their date back to the house. Sandy and
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: Louie obviously are gonna have to talk. Did this date
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: go great?
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: Did it not?
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: I don't think anybody is too shocked that Sandy and
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: Clayton did not have this magical connection. I think Louie is, though,
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: frustrated because he is on this date with Sandy because
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: of the rating system of this kissing challenge. Goodness gracious,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: I didn't even realize it until now. It feels like
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: this kissing challenge is lasting us a lot longer than
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: I wanted to. Yeah, Rachel and Clayton at this point reconnect.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Louis and Sandy are gonna be fine. They're gonna work through. Yes,
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: they're gonna make this thing work. But it's the Rachel
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: and Clayton relationship that I think now everybody's on the
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: edge of their seats to hear what is going to happen,
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: because his intuition knows that it's not going to work
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: out between them, and he doesn't want to hurt her
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: even though he's going to uh and it's just, you know,
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: the nature of how this thing has all been set
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: up Easton, I gotta get because I mean, I'm biased
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: and we're both biased. We love Rachel, She's been a
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: great friend of the podcast. Clayton just came on to
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: help us co host here. I just have a hard
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: time justifying any of his behavior here in any way,
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: shape or form. He It just to me feels like
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: such a game, place like moved by him to keep
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: her around, knowing it was gonna ultimately really hurt her.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: Yes, I agree. I mean, even if you look at
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: this so coldly, just like a I am here playing
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: a game. I am playing a board game that means
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: I get to stay on vacation into Loom longer and
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: be on TV. It's still just like it is baffling
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: to me, and I just don't see how you can
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: have how you can act that way with such disregard
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: to the feelings of the other person. It's it's it's
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: it's insane because, like I, he could have just not
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: they could have just existed together. You know, she could
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: have come in be like, oh hey, we're both from
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: the same franchise, like you know, and fist bump each
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: other and then this kind of continued on. But he
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: initiated this whole reunion thing only to kill it twenty
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: four hours later. It's it's so crazy. I feel so
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: bad for her. She is clearly so hurt by this.
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: But you know, hey, Clinton's intuition said this is what
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: he has to do, so hey, my hands are tied.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: You know, he needs to check that a little bit.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: His intuition that I don't think it's working out for
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: him because either by a brilliant joke of the show
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: or just really bad unfortunate luck from Clayton. He decides
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: to go to the board room to hopefully set himself
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: up on a new date because his intuition told him
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: this was going to be the best decision for both
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: he and Rachel.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: The brilliant joke, I think here, and I do.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: I feel like the show has honestly kind of poked
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: fun at him and the Bachelor throughout. Really, I mean,
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: I think the Bachelor is I don't know how they
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: view it necessarily, but there's been these jokes in these
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: like one liners that have definitely poked fun at the Bachelor.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: I also feel like Clayton has kind of gotten poked
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: fun at a few times here. I mean, I'm thinking
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: about that challenge where his head was in the water
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: when they were floating and pulling and getting cards and
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: he was too big for the raft.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: He's a big dude, and he seemed to do it.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: Just find it feels like they almost took a board
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: out of Clayton's raft so that he would sink.
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: The boardroom has four men as choices for this upcoming week.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: Clayton is shocked and not able to put himself on
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: a date unless he is also going to be interested
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: in somebody that has not been what he's traditionally interested in.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: The couple of things that stand out here, Jr.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: Is on this he's from the ultimatum. He did a
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: trial marriage with Sandy, which I have never used that
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: phrase before marriage.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know what that is.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like is this something? Is this like another game?
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: Like it's that's so weird? How did that work?
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: God?
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, what are we doing? Like really Easton, Like
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: where are we taking society? That His description on here
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: is he did a trial marriage with Sandy and they
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: didn't work out for them. They do know each other well,
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: so Clayton decides to put his own interests aside, even
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: though he's probably gonna go on match now officially at
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: the end of this episode, we don't know that for certain,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: we don't know how this plays out, but he matches
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Rachel and Scott. I think he gives her another chance
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: at a perfect match by putting her on a date
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: with Scott. We see him lead leave the boardroom and
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Sandy has set a D and Jay are up her
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: former husband. Is that what I'm calling him, Sandy.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: Husband fleeing? I don't know.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: She sets a D and j R Up on a
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: date pottery class. I mean, good move for Clayton. I
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: do think out of all this craziness here, we do
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: have to give him some credit that he recognized that
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: he was leaving Rachel on her own lonely island, and
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: that he gave her a shot at a potential partner.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: I do think that.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Was a in the midst of all this, it's a
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: chapter closing of him doing something good.
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a tiny sliver of redemption. I was really really
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: hoping when he saw the four guys on the in
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: the border room. I was really hoping to be like, hey, well,
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: you know, I came here to try new things and
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: be my real self. So I'm gonna set myself up
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: with Jalen. Yeah, I was going for that.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Oh that would be amazing.
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: Which, by the way, when they do the like introductions,
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: we get to meet these four new guys, a couple
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: guys from Love Island and Jalen from Too Hot to Handle.
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: They animate him looking like a demon. He leans his
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: head back and they give him red eyes and horns.
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: I was like, what the on earth?
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: I just don't know enough about these people to even
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: like understand.
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: Is that an in joke or something?
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Now I'm afraid of him, Like I'm
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: literally afraid of Jalen when he shows up there. Yeah,
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: but Jaron's a another cute date. I'm really enjoying the
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: these like crafty dates are setting people up on It's
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: the pottery date is very cute, and uh JR Is
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: coming in like a my guilty pleasure stealing girls from
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: their guys. I was like, oh damn. But then it's
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: a really sweet moment. They have so much in common.
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: They've got like they both have an insane amount of
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: brothers and sisters, like seven. Uh and uh, they're you know,
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: they both have like what three brothers and two sisters
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: or something like that they have they're both scorpios. I mean,
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: you can't deny that.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: I you know what a couple of things.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know how they get these people to say
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: the things they did like that, Carrington says, I'm a
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: a self aware douchebag.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: Through like love bombs girls.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: This guy's going my biggest pleasure is stealing girls from
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: their guys.
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: Like I just where are they finding these people east In?
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: What are they people doing?
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: And also, I'm with you in the midst of all
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: this wild and eaziness that is the perfect match and
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: guys talking about stealing girls and all of these things.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: The producers are brilliant.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: Because there's all this wild things happening and then they
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: put them up on the most wholesome dates of all time.
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: It's so funny, like there would be a challenge where
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: it's like, Okay, here's you're gonna lick each other's buttholes
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: and see if you can identify your partner. And then
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: then the next one is we're going on a picnic,
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: like what.
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: Ye come pick flowers?
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we're picking wild flowers. I'm doing flower ranging.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: Oh it's so ridiculous.
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: There's nothing about this that doesn't it's just all crazy,
• 56:43
  Speaker 6: Like it's a it's a mental roller coaster watching this,
• 56:47
  Speaker 6: because as soon as you also start to invest into
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: some person like eighty and Ali, she goes on a
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: date and as you said, it is cute.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: Rachel seems to be really into Scott. He has a
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: dark sense of humor. They have a nice little date together.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: He is trouble, she thinks and feels. But I think
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: at this point she's into it because I feel like
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: Rachel's kind of saying screw it. Like I tried to
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: go the safe route. I tried to do the thing
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: that made the most sense. It felt like I'm just
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: gonna enjoy my time here.
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, they get along great. I did think it
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: was funny that Rachel didn't remember his name halfway through
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: the date, because there's times during the show where I'm like,
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: oh God, who's that person again? So that's a nice
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: analog for the audience there. But I just want to
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: see I want Rachel to have a good time. I
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: just want her to be happy and have fun and
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: be treated with respective and kindness. That's all I'm asking for,
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: and she has Scott seem like they get along great.
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: Something I wanted to point out that goes on back
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: at the Villa that I really enjoyed was we get
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: introduced to the concept of Louis logic, where Louis logic
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: and he says the editing is so great because he says,
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: I'm a smart individual and then immediate cut too, I've
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: gotten back with my ex five different times, like five times.
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: My god, they can Clayton seem like a saint over here. Yeah,
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: So how they get these people say these things is awesome.
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: I'm loving it. I hope we get more Louis logic
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: as the show goes on. I want to know what
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: else goes on that man's in that man's mind.
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, Eastern great call out on the Louis logic. I'm
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: loving it. Man.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: That's why I'm saying I love this show because I
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: don't fit in and I feel like I just soak
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: up all the craziness and try to understand what exactly
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: is happening.
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: There's a lot to be left desired. At the end
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: of this episode, we have a lot of questions on
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: our mind. One is Sandy's nervous to bring or to
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: see Jr. Again, But she's the one that brought him
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: into the house.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So the question is did she just not want
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: to set herself up on a date because that would
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: be a little too forward and to let him come
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: into the house they can rekindle something, maybe like Rachel
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: and Clayton tried to. Rachel does seem to be beaming
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: with happiness and joy as she enters back into the house.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: In Ady and Jr.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Return to break all of our hearts. They're holding hands Easton.
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: So sad to see that. I know this is how
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: the game works, This is perfect match. We are not
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: in a fairy tale. We are in nick Lache's twisted mind.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: And I hope nicko Lache is making all of this.
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: That would be fantastic to me.
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: He's up in his ivory tower down there in tou loom,
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: moving his little pieces around the board for his own amusement.
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: But it made me so sad because I really I
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: had such high hopes for Ad and Alie and I
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: could see them going all the way. I really could.
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: I was like, will they be the one couple? Will
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: they be like Hannah, Hannah g and Dylan. Will they
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: just like link up at the beginning and then make
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: it all the way? Will they get married and have children?
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: Is that what's gonna happen? I don't think so. We're
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: in danger here. I would be very sad.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: I'll be upset if you.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: Find me during episode five, well yeah five with tears,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: feeling like I just got played by love. It's because
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: eighty and Ali didn't work. I'm hoping that they find
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: a way to come back together again Easton. As always,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: it is such a pleasure breaking down the Perfect Match
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: with you. You are a wizard when it comes to
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: reality television. You bring insights into things that so many
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: of us miss because of your skills, and I can't
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: wait to do this again with you very soon. This
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: has been a breakdown of The Perfect Match episodes three
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: and four. We'll be here on the almost famous podcast
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: breaking Down episode five, six, seven, eight nine, So continue
• 1:01:06
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• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: contestant may be leaving another one staying that doesn't change
• 1:01:16
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• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: Even if both of them are gone, We're gonna finish
• 1:01:21
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• 1:01:25
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• 1:01:29
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