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I forgot to drink them at my party. I will remember I'll do it tonight. Yeahah, wait for the wine. We also have new shirts, Pacecase is wearing one right now if you're watching this video. It says build a better game. And I've come to realize that phrase can basically be used in reaction to anything. It doesn't have to do even with reality TV necessarily or a game even.. It can be in any situation simply where you you don't even have to disagree. You can use it for anything. Say something to me, pace,case Anything Clues Why are we going to get that love island Cast breakdown Build a better game. It works, I think. Figurered it out, try it out for yourselves. to strangers. Yeah. Let us know how they respond. Yeah Excuse me. Could you give me directions to the nearest hotel? Build a better game It's just it's kind of how you say it. You know what I mean? 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So and Violin preremiere is my suuper Bowl I have so many Super Bowls. The Love Island coming up. I don't want to step on my screen, but It'st get h from getting it I'm getting the itch. Y Twitch also ye, I'm like, I'm getting the itch. I don't want to step up on my sc scream from the pit That letter game.head scratches. That's from Scabby. We also have in Costgore a perfect match season four finale is going to be coming out on Wednesday. We'll have that ASAP and then this Friday we'll be giving our kind of season ending awards and wrap up of what did this season a perfect match mean to reality television to the NRU That's all of our business. Now. let's jump into this. Are you ready Pacecase for The state of the game. Let's go Game of Roses Data for the game Stay of the game is currently Full anticipation for Love Island USA season eight. Um, I How to describe this And again, I don't wan to stub on my screen No. But That it is it is a kind of sensation. I think we all feel it that rises in the body almost like Chakra is being released a certain tingling, a certain anticipation, a certain excitement that begins to overtake your physical being at the thought of what you might see. We right as of right now, we're recording this at twelve forty five PM on Monday. may twenty fifth mayay twenty fifth. We don't know who any of the players are. We don't know what they look like. We don't know their names. We haven't seen any of their social media. There's anticipation for that But then also anticipation for seeing these players play. So there will, I assume, be an initial round of the cast comes out. We're going to be doing a cast breakdown as soon as it does thenen the internet's going to internet and we're going to get potentially what happened to Y Lisa last season We're going to get potentially I guess Austin never really faced any backlash for his pro Trump stuff But but alsoso the other player who was kicked off The violent Sierra Mhm I mean I'm so curious how they're going to handle if anything like that happens again. I'm hoping it just means they've scrutinized and scrubbed and learned from last season so that This doesn't come up and we can just enjoy ourselves. Is that too u Am I being too naive Well, I mean, it begs the question like with last season, we talked a lot about and never got a straight answer to this question Did they cast Yisa purposely because she was pro Trump and had all this messy shit in her background? Did they cast Austin specifically because he's pro Trump? Are they trying to as much media is now. We saw it on Love as Bind this past season. We had a pro Trump conversation in the document. I think a lot of media is trying to bend the knee to Trump And so you have to ask yourself, is Love Island part of that? Are they going to cast specifically people on the show who are pro Trump in some way Mhm. That answer I don't know I mean, will there be pro people one hundred percent guaranteed, will they have social media posts of them posing in I doubt it That's what I'm saying though. Do you think that they are trying to course correct and be like, we can't have another Elisa? Yes can't have another Austin. Let's makeake sure that doesn't exist. I think they are going to try to do that 'use that ' that makes it less fun? Love islands should be fun. Summmer should be fun Of course, fun I mean, I'll say this about all the people who produce all of these shows. They are all to some degree Machiavellian and they do have an antagonistic relationship with both the players that they're producing and the audience, us, the fourth audience. You don't know that of all producers. tone is in every one of these dating shows. I kind of fuck you to the audience. If you don't like it When you see Chris Coolen come out in all these interviews that's like, we've edited everybody and this is just an experiment. Fuck you. He doesn't say fuck you, but that's the tone of his comments. And I think that there is a kind of L, I'm not saying Chris Colen's not M. But you are people who do love Island or like doing it. There who work on the show who like work with the players and of course friends with them are like, what would you like to do? Andop trying to screw them over course, but in the casting of these shows, that's not your rank and file day to day like producers on the ground People making decisions about who gets to be on the show are the executives at networks, studios and the head, head showrners and creators. Those are the people deciding that. If you have your rank and file producers on the ground that are like, I want to work with these players and make them feel safe and seen, and et cetera, et cetera. those people certainly exist. That tone is also in all of these shows. But from the top down, the people deciding who's getting on here, whoo are we going to represent? and in what capacity in terms of their political ideologies, social ideologies, blah, blah, blah That's some other people. And I think those people do have a kind of contempt for the audience that watches the show Yeah, I mean, they tend to be like farther removed from the average viewer than the lower ranked producers. that's for sure thing I'm hoping that it's not all press is good press I'm hoping that they are not seeking out that type of controversy. Maybe someone who has a secret girlfriend or something, like that would be fine. Maybe they would purposely cast someone like that, but not the Not the darkness. That's what I'm hoping. You don't think they're going cast an Iice officer on this season I mean, they had one in overboard He wasn't a nice officer, but he was a cop close enough, right? He had some views that were ye. Not fun. Yeah. So I don't know. I mean, we'll see if that's the case, but I agree with you. It's much more fun at least as a member of the fourth audience to see things uncovered that are like you're saying, secret family, secret girlfriend, secret children, sperm babies. you know. I'm hoping those way more sperm babies this season. do it No, I Um I am curious, you know, as all of the media forming together, all of the legacy media, rather Um will I do think there is something to that conversation of like, Where they going? Survivor, I feel like this was a huge part of the End of Survivor was like some like shady like under the radar political conversation. Wh Who produces Love Island? It's paramount, right U the Love Island gods. What do you mean Hang on, what studio produces Love Island. I think it's Paramount. Oh, it's ITV But who produces Love Island U S? ITV America. art So don't give it up. I mean, that's a British company. I don't know. I don't know But it airs on NBC and Pacock I don't know who owns all that shit who owns peacock NBC Universal, which is subsidiary of Comcast. So they're not. I was trying to see if it was the Ellison family, but I don't think it is Um, Anyways That's a piece of this The to me, the anticipation that I'm feeling for this, this will be my third season of Love Island watching it like as it airs. No, sorry, my second season watching it as it airs. Yeah because season six I was was the only one we did. Yeah every day. And I just I mean, there is no other viewing experience quite like it. in terms of I'm watching all the NBA playoffs right now as well, you know, watching a live sporting event is very similar to how loveove Island is because it's not quite live, but it's like a day shooting basically, you know, that you get to see what happen. And it's knowing that those players are there at the time you're watching the show And it hasn't been months or in like Netflix's case years after they shot it that you're you're getting to see the shit. It's just a there's nothing quite like it. And I'm so happy that we're about to have this injected or wr right back into our goddamn veins. Me too. can you imagine being one of those players right now sequestered waiting and you're like I have about to play on the world's biggest stage And You're like, I don't know how it's going to go for me and you're probably thinking back to that one thing in your past. You're hoping the fourth audience doesn't take up. Exactly that skeleton. I mean, it really is like I was going to say it's like, you know a player waiting to come out and have your first at bat in Maj Leagueaseball but that ain't it ain't like that because you're sequestered. And it's like It's more like a horse race. like the gates are going to open and you're out or you know what it's more like actually these hunger games. This is the most hunger games and of all. Very hunger games. They have that players requestered and they're telling them right wait in their tubes to go out and then they Y go play for our entertainment and we own you forever even after the show's done That's right. No that way, I've already like I'm going to Minneapolis next week. and peopleople been like, oh, want to do this, this, whatever. this day. I'm like It's love violent season and I'm so sorry. I'm holding a nextth. couple of days't do anything. This and the child. Oh my God. I's gotta take back seat to this. Sorry. I another for Love Island season. Yeah, exactly. You just need to get a hotel room where you go and live the Love Island lifestyle for a month and a half Um, You know, there there is a bit of sorrow And again, I don't want to st on my screen But there's a bit of sorrow that comes with this season for Mamiga I don't know what your scream is, but it feels like you are steppering on it. I am a little bit. I'm foreshadowing my screen There is a little bit of sorrow in that usually by this time. We have had at least one bachelor product, if not two Yeah. And now we got zero and it's been that way for a long fucking time. And it's just like I know that my when Bachelor comes back supposedly next January I know that my excitement level for it will return. but it's just like I haven't had that feeling in a long time of a new Bachelor season coming out And now I'm kind of getting it. here a little bit. It's a different feeling, but whatever. it just I'm a little sad by the season of Love Island coming out for what it means to our Bo team Yeah, it's, u is still a TFP bachelorette sized hole in my heart that, you know, I'm just dumping things in. I'm doing my Not to step on my scream, my summer house and And nothing is just like quite fill in that hole, you know I do. I do, unfortunately But that's where we are. Let's say think Game Island will fill a lot of it Love Island doesn't fill any holes for me. It just like erases my entire brain. I don't Like I don't know what day it is, what time it is. if I'm even on fucking planet Earth. I'm just like in a haze, a neon and goo colored haze with like twirking butts and people saying weird phrases and spiders crawling on faces. Oh my God. We're so close to butts So close to a bunch of butts. Uh, so close to to seeing like, justust in that initial day day one, the OGs arrive and seeing like, okay, which one of these is going to be Leia Kateab, who's going to be Hood, who's going to be Nicolandria, you know, will we will be able to see players reach those heights? Are we going to see play that is inspired by last season, you know, the game is constantly evolving I could see people looking at what Nicolandriia have done and been like We gott to do our friends to lovers O enemies will they be able to do it because the Nicolelandria thing was U largely, I mean, their play was great, but it was largely the fourth audience's reaction to Nichelandria that allowed them to keep participating in the rest of the season. So because we liked them so much together, the producers were like, o, fuck, wait a minute. we just kicked off the most beloved couple. Let's manufacture a whole thing where they can fake like they're coming back on the show. Well, that's why it will happen again because the third audience is still there. And they want a Nichleandria also They're going to be like, okay, who are you guys shipping? Okaykay, we're going to force them together But they may not get that. That's what I'm saying. It's like Nico Andria had M Some special I don't know S mate I saying. No they're still together. Its for life They did not have true love or soul mate them. I'm saying they had a Both of them were like superstar level reality players. and together as a duo They like elevated one another. That I think is difficult and rare. I just don't know if you get something like that every season. And so if the producers try to manipulate us into like, o this is the nexte Nicleandria, but it don't fly with the fourth audience, that's going to be very bad. I know people said that about like stop trying to make PPP happen again of like the triangle trio of friendships. They felt like the producers were trying to force that again last season, I remember. But U, you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it I think we'll see a lot of the same same archetypes cast Oh, one hundred percent hundred percent is the phoners It should be imminently. I mean, we're a week away from this We'll do breaking news if it happens while we're recording We'll see, some rituals start with a candle others with a deep breath. This one starts when the air shifts The sense of calm collection from the Pura Calm partartnership is three fragrances designed with sensory science to ground your space and quiet your mind Sleep story, a lavender drift into deep restast Breathe bubble A mindful reset wrapped in white tea and cashmere Soundscape. a fresh clearing rush that restores your energy. Ground your space, quuiet your mind. Explore the sense of Calm collollection at pura d. com slash calm. My summer calendar has suddenly become There are dinners, weddings. 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The winner takes home two hundred fifty thousand dollars And it seems the devil knows something about thirird wave because the star of the show Is former Temptation Island player Ashley Moore along with Grant Larson, who dated more on Temptation Island The entire thirty day season plays out over a single thirty nine minute video currently has sixty eight million views Is this single episode season format a new path for reality dating or just a massively successful one off from the Jin Satan I don't know. I haven't watched the whole thing. I just kind of like Th it wasn't that interesting to me, but it has sixty eight million views. And it's just one video It's thirty nine minutes Yeah, and it breaks down all thirty days. You. isn I wouldn't even call this like a reality show It is, though One episode The document is the document. likeike whatever. You can choose to present a document which is the recording and manipulated editing of what transpired over the course of your produced season He's just doing it in a weird way, but still I mean, if we're to believe what's on that tape He put these people on this island for thirty days and had them do a game of attrition very similar to any other dating show That's interesteresting. Interesting premise Um I mean, I'm like The views are less impressive to me, I guess, knowing that it's only one episode as opposed to like, oh, the first one of this series. But that already, the amount of views he has eclipses all views for any recent entire season of Bachelor. All the children, right What's that According to Jeff Pros, all the children love Mrter Beast, Satan. Yeah, he has a big fan base that's little kids, for sure But I mean that I don't know how much money you're making off that. Obviously it's he's got brand deals and all that kind of shit thrown into it as well But I have to assume,'s he's making all the money back that he paid them plus all the money for the production and all that kind of stuff. More interesting thing to me is like, is that a format Like he's really messing with how you even present a reality dating show now by beinging like it's one episode. The whole season is one episode. and then they of course, clip it I mean, infinitely so that you're seeing a little clipse of it on Tikok and Instagram and blah blah Is that a way to present a reality show?' kind of faced with like That's one way. The opposite way is Lve Island Wh it's like an episode every night, one hour, you know, more episodes than any other reality dating format will produce. So I don't I don't know what the answer O dum One long dump Love Overbard could have been a thirty nine minute episode, my opin. L dad Thank you. Mving on. U'm next Aastational Nation News Love Island USA season seven. Mamasita Huda Mustafa and NRU superstar Louis Russell have officially ended their relationship after almost nine months There was an amount of news that I can't believe that they were only dating nine months. I know. That just shocked me. In a joint statement to E News, the duo said, We want to share that after taking time to reflect on what's best for us both, we have mutually decided to part ways for the time being Huta and Louis were first linked in july twenty twenty five shortly after she left the Love Island USA villa The two recently had some family issues with Louis's ex filing a temporary restraining order in March against Huta, whom she accused of making terrifying and extremely mentally unstable threats At the time the Lo Island USA star made a statement on her Instagram story, I'm aware of what's being said and it's not true. I'm handling everything the right way. By letting Lgal take care of it, I appreciate everyone who continues to support me Hooda has expressed that she iss going to take this time to focus on her music career, which brings us to our next item of A Nation News. Hooda released a song and music video called Bad Girls The video which has racked up seven hundred sixty three thousand views in three days, features Hooda dancing provocatively against the background of a bustling office complete with flying papers, copy machines, and backup office dancers The reviews have been mixed, although you wouldn't know it from looking at the comment section which seems to be benefiting from heavy policing by Hooda's PR team to filter out any negative comments. Good luck to Hooda on her musical career and please Hooda, let me know If you're looking for a songwriter Do you think she you don't like the writing? Well now I'm looking at it This kind of looks like it's u this, no offense to anybody involved in the project It's just not Very strange. The hair It's very forgettable. in my opinion It's like I get it, she's a bad girl and she's saying how she doesn't care what people think and she's gonna to do it I get it U the song is not like, in my opinion, catchy. in terms of melody The lyrics aren't that memorable. It's just kind of like we got her, what should we do? Okay, do this, Have her dance around this office. She's making copies, whatever. It's kind of break up I don't It didn't strike me as something that's going to launch a music career but has seven hundred and sixty three K views, It's like maybe it will. I could be fucking completely wrong. But I would love to write you a song P her hit me up. Tag will tell. How they didn't make her first song Mama Sita too, like Yeah, that seems like a forced aer unforced error Yeah, Forstter. you will fuck this up. I promise I'm making it happen. I'm gonna assure you I'll do everything in my power to make sure you fuck this up. Yeah. Yeah and my mama see the hat. hits differently now Up next in Bacheloration News. We have talked about the obvious problems that prediction markets like Calcici and Polymarket have with allowing people to bet on the outcomes of reality shows. Most reality shows are shot months before they air, meaning there are dozens and in some cases, hundreds of people who know the outcomes of the show they worked on and could easily bet on these outcomes with insider knowledge. Luckily, the head of Enforcement at Kalsi, Robert Denult, issued a lengthy post on Twitter assuring everyone that everything is on the up and up and there is absolutely no insider trading going on of any kind whatsoever in any capacity. That's good. and all tweeted, pre taped shows mean that people have knowledge of what happens before the show airs. including contestants and production staff. But they typically sign legal documents preventing them from telling people Otherwise, shows would be constantly spoiled for everybody Uazing b information for profit is not allowed So that's the first paragraph of this. That makes me feel better. Like typically they sign legal documents preventing them from tell Otherwise must be constantly spoiled. Shows are constantly spoiled, you fucking idiot. All of them. That's the whole point of this U Part of Wland L Island. He went on to say This week, there was a New York Times article titled People are Making Money, betting on pre tape S sururvivor episodes that suggested insider trading is happening with our survivor markets. We've investigated and so far, have not found definitive evidence of that. We've been checking backgrounds of traders in this market and have not identified anyone with any connection to survivor. After reviewing the trading activity, it appears the likeliest explanation is that traders are following public rumors following other traders who place trades in the opening hours of the market or just trading based on research and conviction Hh. Same scenario for the Bachelorette, and same conclusion thus far. It seems that Reity Steve' site post spoilers that tend to be right People can look at those predictions and place trades on prediction markets. That's not insider trading Still, we are continuing to monitor these markets and analyze trading patterns, we'll take action if we find anything anomalous So where do you think reality Steve gets the information you know, just research and conviction, I think reesearch and conviction It's so No one's day is breaking any My mind please Why always see the worst? You could make hundreds of thousands of dollars Doing this? why would you break your NDA for a job that's paying you like five grand? Why would you do that You've got second place in Survivor Oh, there we go. Now we're talking the I mean, this's just a blatant lie. It's a PR Kind of like everything's fine don't worry, donon't worry. Of course people are betting on this that worked on the shows. At the very least, like they're saying, no, no no, reality Steve just post these spoilers How do you think he fucking gets them But then it's also about it's not even It feels like I don't like to use the term gaslighting because I feel like it is used a lot and the definition is ambiguous, but It feels like castighting. It's like Yeah. it feels very bachelor bachelorette producary to be like Oh no, they've got NDAs. Yeah, they've got NDAs, they've signed. anybody betting this is just some random person taking a gas, a shot in the dark. Yeah. Except ninety nine percent of all of them, all the bets know exactly who wins It just makes no fucking sense.. It's like It's asssuming that we're stupid O also using like legalies to be like, nah, it's fine. Yeah, this is not the insider trading you're looking for Not to mention Like it's not just the people who work on the show and the players Imagine like you're in Bachelor for example, and they are doing the finals at an all inclusive resort somewhere tropical, everybody who works at that resort sees who fucking wins. You could be on vacation and see some shit. You can go to a fucking grip date or a one on one day and be in the audience of Bachelor or any of these fucking shows. It's abutelyy insane local county fair and just kind of sneak around in a brightly colored hat You can find out shit I definitely saw some things that day, but the idea that they're like, listen, everything's fine, nothing to see here. abbsolutely fucking insane. I'm surprised they even address it.' gonna like these these markets yet, but now I'm kind of like, fuck should I At least for one like survivor where it doesn't seem likely that they will not air it. Bachelor, I don't know if I will at this point. like how about somebody like me I don't sign NDAs. I have no legal obligation to keep anything secret that I know And I certainly know some shit about seasons of reality shows way before they air like who the winners are or who makes it far or whatever. Am I okay to do that better I will say nothing on the record Hit me up, Denot What is Don't make anyone break their NDAs I don't Uh Robert Denull I just, I don't know, I read this and I was like, what a fucking pile of shit And it encourages these markets encourage people to be betting on things like it came out that that guy, I think he used Polymarket who was The military guy who was part of the kidnapping of Maduro That onn the day it was going to happen it made like four hundred thousand dollars and then they arrested him The government is doing it every day That ain't no shit. So they don't even need polymarket though. They're doing it in the stock market. Yeah Unfuck unbelievable. And any wasways the The vibe of the CEO tends to trickle down through that Anyway, we have some non news, but kind of news. The parocial plays that were the best this week on social media Whver you get it Instagram, TikTok Threads threads is huge in Summer House right now popping off. U Twitter is still still exists This is the topop five plays of the weeek Because pererfect Match is only released in three dumps All of the players have to save all their best social media for these short three weeks. So we had a lot of very strong perfect match plays this week. Starting with number five goes to Jimmy Pres now. The Love is Blind and Pfect Match playayer posted an Instagram reel with Allie Luber hyping him up under the chiron, how I expect Allie to introduce me to her friends after being open the whole time. Ally then lip syncs into a hairbrush, introducing the greatest of all time. seven point one K likes one point four million views The pair are making so much relationship content together in the watchback period It's almost a spoiler Should I call Calie T we' tell But they broke up n the show. But they're making so much content I don't know. It makes me think they're together They didn't come back Resurrection Maybe We'll see Or Posto reunion could be Coming in fourth place this week. It is Damari Davis and Kayla Ricart, Richard How he say? I assumed to Richard, but I don't know I don't know. R ICH ART, the two out to handle players Execute an incredible Instagram post hard launched Taser via Instagram this week by posting a series castmates sharing cocktails, the caption reads Kay and Mari vibes U White heart emoji at Netflix at Kinetic content. This is an homage to BIPs, Kenny and Mai Is this an homage to be a peace cmary, sorry. Probably not. Perhaps. Who else would it be U Kayla and Demari Proably what it is placeacs up the fourth audience who ferently want to know if Damari is still with Marissa from perfect match sixty point nine kalkes There is a lot of like teasing the audience of who's together with who this week Our third top play, however, goes to Katie Thurirsten. She made an incredible short funny Instagram video this week starring her husband, civilian Jeff Acuri. In it, Arcuri walks down their hallway and gets jump scared by Katie. He then continues to try to talk in his quote scaredy cat voice, saying, I was wondering They laugh together. The caption reads This felt like it deserved a permanent spot. been scaring at Darkuri since twenty twenty four Hashhtag marriage, hashtag job scare, hasashtag comedy wo million views, eighty one thousand likes. Damn, nice work Mm Coming, second place. Nat and Nikki from perfect match Nat's been making incredible promo content for Perfect Match and this week she posted a reaction video with Payescase' Chaos King of Dump onene. Nick Yeah. Is this a soft launch of Natalie Cruz and Nick Palecia The pair watch their hookup scene on TV. Nick describes how the other couples are being cutesy and for TRR and they're running around naked biting each other's asses I gotta see this. The caption reads, We're just two peas in a pod. a wild face smiling, laughing emoji. What are those emojis called? Yeah, like laughing emoji. laughing crying emoji At Perfect Match Netflix, hashtagetflix Netflix, hashtag Pfect Match hashtag reality TV, hashtag million dollars secret hastag Tentation ising tw point three K likes, one point one million views These two are doing a lot of content together, making me wonder if they're together IRO Gation City All of these were strong plays. However, There can be only one winner. Our P of the week goes to Sewn Low spepecifically his kid Isaiah The Glden boy himself Sean Low posted an Instagram reel in which he first sets up quote the greatest honor of his life talking to camera. tells this story and then cuts to a video of him He is thinking he has He's just returning a big tub of chicks to his son's first grade classroom. Instead He finds his kid wearing a football jersey covered by an apron and topped off with a blonde wig while handing out a bunch of roses and giving a presentation about his dad. He says his dad had a show about him and how his dad is his hero He was apparently the only kid in class to have chosen one of his parents as their hero. It is so cute sixteen point seven K likes, two hundred and seventy three K views To be a kid of Glddini You'll never fill those shoes, but You know, you can try Sorry It's like having who's a good example? like Bob Dylan as your dad. He had a bunch of kids. None ofem Bob Dylan You had Jacob Dylan as the lead singer of The Wallflowers for a minute Jesse Dylan was a movie director. Yeah, I probably wouldn't go into music in that case. I think Isaiah should probably he could fill different shoes, you know, I wouldn't go for bachelor, but You know, you know what he could do? He could actually usurp his dad in football His dad never played pro football. Hed played D one, Kansas State Maybe he could go for inity there I also just loved like the perspective of the kid being like, this is a show that's about my dad It was. It's cute For one beautiful shining season. And then I would even say part of hisZack Chaross this season it was also about his dad. What if he goes into that lore? he goes And on another season, my dad ate this sandwich while watching this other guy lift weight That was amazing. And then you started selling sofas called the pit? Yeah. We also have to discuss a non human creature this week who made some great parasocial content. This week's parasocial creature the week goes to Rachel Nance's canine beach buddy. Nance posted a three slide main grid offering featuring the pub with herself enjoying a day in the sun and sand, which she captioned Thank you for keeping me sane Double dog paw emoji very cute pup G check that out on her. Oh ins the at her beach Some rituals start with a candle Others with a deep breath. This one starts when the air shifts The sense of calm collection from the Pura Calm partartnership three fragrances designed with sensory science to ground your space and quiet your mind Sleep story, a lavender drift into deep restast Breathe bubble. A mindful reset wrapped in white tea and cashmere Soundscape fresh clearing rush that restores your energy Ground your space, quuiet your mind Explore the sense of Calm collollection at pura d. com slash calm. h Now we've come to that time in our program where we must, we must Dive from the top of the pit down into the murky depths of the waters below, where the dark energies swirl and make us who we are today, this is We strong the per pan I have I guess a couple mini screams. One is based on the paris social playay of the week. Seaan Low's kid making a presentation about him I was thinking, how could I as a long term goal for Ollie Get him to make a presentation about how I'm his hero in the same style when he is in first grade And what would be the steps I would need to do? What would my job look like through the eyes of Isaiah you know H And my mommy has a microphone and she's talking about the TV people. Yeah. My mommy smokes a lot of weed and then watches TV all night long. I never get to see her anymore. Oh my God. But it's Love Island season. My mommy is nowhere to be found. Definitely gonna be on the assignments Mommy loves her medicine, which she uses all Gove Island night. There's a weird sms around Mommy. There's a weird smell around. Mommy's eyes are always rolling in the back of her head and she's screaming Mama d I don't know what it means Ollie, don't listen to this one. Yeah Sorry. Ollie, we're just joking and you happen to listen to this.'re just joking. J jokes My other one was I am in a parent and me group, which is like a my and me group, but we're both parents are involved and I started explaining my job to someone. they were like, Oh, do you watch Summer House? Like, are you going to watch the reunion I had one of those moments where I was just like Am I gonna watch the reunion? I'm like, I did a two hour palapo last week for the finale I have been watching, rewatching all ten seasons. leading up. to this week's episode the reunion I still have F seasons to go. I hope lot to do in two days But it was just like in that moment I was like, okay, searching my head for a normal answer The switch can. definitely gonna wash that I saw it a little bit in you at your Y birthday party This past weekend I was talking to somebody else fully Ab bachelor, about TFP or something. Just a casual conversation about it. Yeah And you were standing right next to me but didn't know that you were next to me. and your head snapped around like like you heard somebody saying the magic words and you were just like ready to jump in. And they Oh it's you. Oh my God, tririple scream. It was pretty funny. It was like if you hear the words at a party or something, reality TV, summerhouse, TFP, Bachelor. Any of the trigger words It just fucking locks you in. Like if I heard people in public people I don't know talking about summer house, I probably It depends on what they're saying, but I probably have to get involved. I've started like videotaping the TV at certain points. I don't know what this is for videoot taping J recording a video on my phone. It' just for you to look back at you're laying paper bllet staring at the ceiling. you're like, wait a minute, I don't have to imagine these scenes I have them on my phone Um No, those are good screams. I like these screenss. Thank you N My scream is a little it's a little sad. Stepped on It's basically this feeling that I'm having right now. and I know this isn't healthy. No one should have a feeling like this with regard to reality television but I have it It's Well, we talked about earlier, the anticipation of Love Island, the excitement I'm feeling for it It used to feel like Up until maybe a week or two ago, it felt kind of like bad in a way because it was like, I'm ignoring or putting to the side my true love about You know what I mean?? I felt almost like I was, um being unfaithful to the bachelort or something. Yeah, it's something like that. But now it's progressed to a different point, that feeling, which is making me even sadder but also happier simultaneously. And it is a feeling of likeike letting go. It's like getting over an exx or something almost Where like you're sad for a while after a breakup, but then you get to that point where you're like, no, I'm ready to find love again. And that is love Island to me. Like I'm ready for that relationship to start. And then I yes. So I'm having these feelings and I'm just sitting there like, yeah, I guess I am ready for love Island. And then I'm just like, what? It's a TV show love again Exactly. But that's how I feel about it. and you know fuck it. That's I can have these feelings in the bottom of the pit, but I am sad about it and I am happy about it. And I know the bachelor is going to come back But then I'm almost like it's In relationship terms, it's like sometimes you break up with an ex and You date other people, they are too. and then you go out and have dinner with them like three or four months later and you're like, is there something here still? And that's going to be what happens next January I mean, I felt like that at the party being like, o, someone talking about my ex? I gott to get in here Exactly. Okay We are not the only ones screaming. We have a scream Today. who was brought to us from LJC in NYC. Are you ready? death It's a little bit of a longer scream, one minute and fifty one seconds. Enjoy eg in a bonjour pit I come to you today with a scream that maybe even darker than the time I almost skipped what turned out to be my own surprise engagement because it was the same night as the long awaited cururse Double Bachelorette season premiere. Alas, I have now married him and dragged him down into the depths with me A couple of twibins ago, as I walked through my neighborhood in N York City, where part of my job is making sure the streets get cleaned I tried to not take personally that my best pair of social friends would besperch my beloved city. I finally had the chance then to pop into my local Sinnabon car valley to inquire about the existence of the TFP boxes After a couple of failed explanations, I found a picture online and the worker said, Oh, yeah, we have those and gestured to a packet of box wraps sliding off a shelf next to the fudgey of the whale cakes where anyone could walk in and take. After some persuading, she allowed me to purchase one, only if I also bought a box of cnagons. I was over the moon and could not wait to make contact with cles I returned to the Cinnabon at a later date in hopes of a more agreeable salesperson and found myself face to face with a manager who seemed willing to strike a deal When asked how many I wanted, I made the universal sign for about an inch And asks how many I could have She pulled out a fresh package and began to count them There were fifty Y ask how much I pay for them and as I started the mental math of a pit dweller, I asked her how much she wanted As I thought this see, she said fifteen, and I paid as quickly as I could without letting on that I would have paid more Shout out to my dear pit cousin who received my laugh crying news of this great acquisition. and hopefully as we listen now, Cues has received the precious cargo from the forgotten storage shelf of a random Cnabon in Queens Py our Beloved game and the greatest city of the world Oh my God, my stuck on I didn't I didn't realize the whole story of this. Hang on. I have the right here. I feel so horrible This the fresh and I said about New York City I'm going to keep I think, u I'll keep this in this pack probably forever. I don't think I'll ever take them out. I'll keep them in pack This is it. Yeah, like the season These are the TF. If the season airs, you can open it Heelo, I'm never opening this. This is the TFP stack like it is about an inch thick stack of the unused TFP Cinnabon boxes. I cannot thank you enough for these. This is a very high level scream, of course. you went out of your way to basically procure an item for the pit It is going to be in the museum forever now. I cannot thank you enough for it. It truly feels to me like I think I've made this analgy before when I was a little kid I was like a huge Star Wars fanatic and return of the Jedi. Yes, I know, it's hard to believe I'm not anymore though. They fucking ruined it. Same with Marvel. Disney fucking ruined it. They ruined everything Star Wars, man Um, I remember when returned to the Jet I was coming out. Initially, George Lucas wanted to call that movie revenge of the Jedi. But then they changed it because the Jedi has no hate in their heart. said They cannot seek revenge So we changed it to return of the Jedi. There were, however few waves of toys printed Little action figures and stuff with revenge of the Jedi on it And that was always something that I wanted to get. I feel like this Taylor Frankie Pul Cinnabon box is my revenge of the Jedi. Wow. I mean, I this scream has so much because I know you've tried at Sinibon And Now I'm just like This person is probably not the only other person. So I'm like picturing all of these people who are working at Seneabon being like, what the fuck? Wh would you want this That was how I was met when I asked the question at my synabon at Century City Mall, I was met with a huh And I was like, so Caayleb Frankie Paul was scheduled to be the Bachelorette. You guys did a big promotion with her. and I know that you made boxes that have her picture on them and just trying to get some of those boxes. It's just ye we reases. Okay? Yeah. Yeah, donon't worry about why. just do you have them. And I'll take ten synabons if that's what it takes I would just imagine that that type of an interaction doesn't happen very much. People asking for like extra packaging. So I imagine the conversations afterwards being like guy was just like really into Taylor Frankie Paul or like Taylor Frankie Paul has some wild stance I mean, I'll never forget the moment when I went into the first season of Golden Bachelor. They did a bunch of pop ups out here in Los Angeles. One of them was at Mel's Diner. went there. peopleeople were wearing these golden jackets, which I also still have, hang on, let me get In't tell for everyone of everything I know. You need to put all of these things up behind you somehow. You need your wall to be further back What's that I had to take out my head which just said I said, you need your wall to be further back so that you can pin all of these things behind you This Ive hered this It says golden bachelor. It's a golden jacket That's be see it on the lapel there, it's got a little rose 're doing Golden Bachelor jacket ASMR right now This I want that jacket. It was procured via similar means I simply saw a man wearing it and said, how much for that jacket? And he said, meet me here in the parking lot tonight at eight PM and I'll sell it to you for fifty bucks or whatever it wass And that's how I got that. So

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