I made a decision face the sunny sun. I had what's up everybody for
crying out loud? And is it? Though? It is? It is.
I'm here to tell you Stephanie and I had an outing over the weekend.
We sure did. We went out yesterday, We hung out, had
a lovely after freezing afternoon. So tell you all about so first we so
we went to the Love is Blind reunion taping. Sorry, Kaitlin, Yeah,
not only was I not there, but I was at home not watching
the So you were seeing what we were seeing, which was a screen saying
uh yeah, except I was seeing it all night. Yeah, it didn't
come on. It didn't like they because it wasn't live. They tweeted out
like, oh Love is late. Oh it'll be ready in fifteen minutes.
No, no, definitely not fifteen minutes. Like an hour and a half
later, they were like sent out some apology, and I was like,
okay, they'll just tape it and they'll just put it up. You know,
we'll watch the you know, the first round of playoffs. I'll watch
the basketball games, and then before bed I'll be able to check it out.
No. Still last night, okay, great, Jesus did you watch
it yet at all? No, No, I've been working all day today,
so I haven't had a chance. All right, Well, well we'll
talk about that and we'll do our recap. Yeah. So basically I went
and met Patrick and Dylan for lunch. Do we want to say hi to
peeps? I guess of course we do. Like Stephanie Stinker wrinker and christ
get the strolls too, and Jennifer get up and Sarah Stefano and Leslie still
coughing. Yeah, like Zeer, like Xander with the coughing and the fevers,
Alicia Escalante and Aaron who it is? And Amy she's such a kunt.
What a cunt. We don't have any advertisers today now she's a see
you next Tuesday. And Kelly is not your aunt, but she will get
you birth control pills. And Rebecca but you'll kill Yes, it makes me
laugh Missy and Gabby speaking of assholes, and do you think they're ever like
we pay that like this? Uh? And yes, and um, Katerina
get I'm telling you girls, and listen Valerie, um hits out of the
park. At Polly, I love your pancakes, and Athena, we love
your dancing. And Elizabeth Williamson. We adore all of your children, almost
all except that one, and Hero love you so do your kids. And
Rita rocks that bassinette full of Elizabeth Williamson's leftover children, and Jacob You're so
Growley and Ashley's chic and Ulysses we love you exclamation point love you guys.
Yeah, thank you guys. So so Yeah, I have lunch with Patrick
and Dylan. I didn't cally nice guys. Yeah. Lynette didn't come because
she was otherwise. I was engaged. Yeah, I had. I had
a date the next night before went into the next day. Yeah. So
then we were all like taking bets on if Lynette was going to show up
dare dare, Yeah, And we were like should we try to text her
and say like, are you coming? And then we were like, now,
let's let her be like she'll come if she comes, and then we
get there. So we all had to be there at the studio at three
thirty, the ungodly hour of three thirty, and this thing was going to
start live at five o'clock, so we thought, yeah, so we get
there. By the way, we were VIPs. I didn't know. I
just thought we were part of the audience. I know, I didn't know
that either. I was fine with but I walk up to the VIP table
and they're like, Hi, are you audience, and I go, yeah,
we're audience. I go we're not VIPs though, and then I give
my name and he's like, well you sure, Harvy, You're on the
VIP list, And I was like, uh, yeah, shout out to
Jody. Yeah, it's a coincidence because Michael Davies does the uh he does
watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. It's Embassy row as his company.
And I used to work with Michael Davis at ABC then. But Jody's got
a friend who is a lawyer works out in New York for Michael Davies,
and um was in town and and Jody's never seen one episode of Love is
Blind, so she could care less, so she didn't she didn't come,
but um yeah, she was like, yeah, they need audience members.
They're gonna do this live event, first time live. Yeah, so we
were super excited. Yeah, although I have to be honest, and you,
I know you feel the same way. Once when we got there and
even a little bit before, we were like, well, why are we
kind of in the audience for something live, like if it's if you were
going to go to, say, say to a Real Housewives reunion taping.
No, that would be fun. You'd sit there for six hours, get
all the juicy tea, see all the fights, and then they only show
the everybody else a fraction of that, and you'd be like, oh,
girl, I have so much teeth. So much more than that happened.
But this was like, well, we're not seeing anything that everybody's not seeing
it at the exact same time. Right, We're just there, right,
we saw So I get there and as soon as I got there, the
suv pulls up and outcomes Irena and Mica, and Mica and Stephanie was like
yay, and they turned around. I was like, hey, but she
was talking to me because I was hying them because Dylan and Patrick saw her
there, like there's Lynette. I look over literally looking right at Arena,
but I didn't. I wasn't even really seeing her because they see Lynette and
her yellow sweater and I was like hey, and they both looked at me,
and I was like, oh my god. They thought they thought I
was saying that to them, not you two. Not you bitches, and
then Stephanie goes, Lena, if what did you? You're like, If
it was me, I would have send ten texts already. Where do I
go? Where do I park? What time should I be there? I
said, I said, there's no way. I thought, oh, I'd
sent her a text, and I was like, are you on your way?
And she goes, I'm here. I'm just I'm walking down right now,
and I was like what, yeah, because there's no way. I
would have been like, guys, what's the lot again? Where do I
go? And like, are you guys there? I would have had so
many questions already. Yeah, But they send this the sheet of where to
go and what to wear, like, wear colorful outfits, don't wear white,
wear clothes, toe shoes, no jeans. We really prefer you don't
wear jeans. But if you do wear jeans, wear nice jeans, preferably
colored jeans. Right, so, l'urn a text group group text with Dylan
and Patrick in the morning. And absolutely no open toad shoes. If you
are wearing open toed shoes, you will go home. Basically we will turn
you away. No flip flops, no open toes like they said that,
like eight times. Yeah. So Stephanie goes, we're talking about where to
go eat, and I'm like, I'll meet you guys there a little busy
and Stannie goes, what are you guys wearing? I'm gonna wear a white
jumpsuit with flip flops. I was seriously like they were like hip up and
scale attire. I was like, oh my god, I'm in my fifties.
I know where you should have seen the slobs though that showed up and
they're what they were wearing. It was like the most and also huge high
spiked heel. Yeah, they're like no high heels, yeah, spiked like
stripper strip ripes. And Stephanie's like, you're right, you're like nobody listens
to, nobody reads, nobody cared. Lynette shows up in jeans. I
was like, why did I wanted to wear jeans? I would have been
so much more comfortable, But I wore these like kind of black pants and
like a black shirt and like a jacket and like these boots because whatever,
it doesn't really matter. Patrick looked cute. Patrick look ket Yeah, they
look cute. So we go in. We finally go in, so they
lock our phones up, right, Yeah, they put it in one of
those nylon zip block You can't even look at your phone, Yeah, you
can't see it off limits. So we go. When we sit down,
and then we're immediately hungry. Me and Lynette were like starship and by the
way, freezing inside of there. Yeah, freeze like so poor Patrick was
like blue the whole time because he had this thin white dress up shirt and
no jacket, like and Stephanie's offering her leopard print jacket, her leopard print.
Yeah. Oh, this bitch knew it was going to be cold in
there. I used to be on a TV show. I was a studios
are always freezing. The first thing I thought, I was like, we're
gonna be sitting in there for a long time. We're gonna be cold.
I wore a big like I was still cold. You were wearing a sweater
and another sweater on top, and I was freezing. I was so cold
the whole time. I was just they're just they blowing in their hair is
just blowing like Beyonce the whole time. Oh yeah, hair blowing in the
clouds is out. Yeah, hair blowing in the wind's a lash fallen off.
I care so okay, So now it's like four thirty, yeah,
and we're thinking we're going and then we watch all the all the contestants,
all the castmates come there, all they all come out and they sit on
the couch, and we should say Marshall was so cute, freaking out.
Stephanie and I had the hots for Marshall. Yes, oh my god,
he was so cute in person, and he and he kept he was like
dancing, he was like getting up and like he was being fun. He
was being fun because they had the audience warm up dude who Dylan resented by
the end of the night because he kept making a stand up and sang songs
and they were blasting songs. It was kind of fun for ten minutes.
And then I was like, all right, let's get the show on the
road. And I kept saying, like, what time is it? Times,
and then Stephanie leans all and goes, it's after five. And I'm
thinking, if this was network television, this would never They don't. You
can't. ABC's not gonna just sit there with dead air, right, you
know, right it and Dylan kept saying like, they're never gonna They're not,
Like, but the funny thing was nobody was freaking out. So that's
so you couldn't tell that anything was wrong because we're sitting there and oh and
they so it like at like five to five, they're like, all right,
you know, we're about to go like countdown like minutes minutes. Yeah,
and then it's like getting like one minute till and nothing's really happening,
and then just like nothing's then all of a sudden, so they bring everybody
out, Nick and Vanessa and all the and they're sitting there and then it's
almost airtime and then they start one by one getting up and leaving and go
I'm like wait, wait, wait, wait, where's Paul going. The
show's gonna start, Like what the fuck? Where's everybody going? Then it's
like five twenty yeah. Then they're like okay, well they're okay, now
we're really gonna start. Everybody comes back out, they sit down, and
then they're like okay. Then they did like literally got to like a sixty
second countdown, and then they're like and sixty seconds counting down and then they're
like, oh, never mind, okay, all right, we got ten
more minutes, and everybody was like oh. And then it became a joke
where the warm up. Guy was like, I know, I know you're
gonna you're gonna hate me, but we're about to go. And then pretty
soon, like the audience just starts filing out. People are going to pee,
people are going outside, getting on their phones. Nothing was happening,
no producers, nobody was freaking out. I was like, this is crazy,
like yeah, we're like, world's waiting for this, and nobody was
throwing things. And then that I go nobody's screaming, nobody's like what the
fuck is going on right now? And then Luca Jody's friend comes out to
say hi and tells us that that it's the top three topics trending on Twitter.
No flicks, that was one of them, because nothing not flick Yes,
like the top one, two and three topics on Twitter was the fact
that it's just dead air And Kaylin, you were sitting at home looking at
the same thing we were looking at on the big monitor Netflix. You just
go on there and it says, you know, it's like any other title,
and it says live now, so press live and you would hit it
and it would jump to twenty five percent loading and then it would stay there
for a few seconds, and then it would just go, oh, we've
encountered a problem. Yeah, I guess, like I guess that they were
trying to do a live stream and nothing it got. It broke the internet
because it broke the service because so many people were logged on Patrick Stay,
like thirty million viewers or two. I think they thought, well, we
did it with Chris Rock, but like, way more people are fans of
Love Is Blind than Quick. Yeah, yeah right, he's not. He's
not the bigst Chris Rock his first time talking about the Will Smith thing.
So I don't know. I thought it would have been like they got there,
that's true, you know, under control, So that's true. Like
you wouldn't think that they would have this ship figured out. I was just
picturing some guy sweating behind a monitor going like I'm trying to it's not working.
It's crash, keeps crashing. But right right, all of the problems
that they must have run into, Like I don't imagine anybody that was actually
there, like if you could see like Hammerman or producers, they can't do
anything right, they can't exactly. It seemed calm down there because the problem
is, you know, on a server at a you know, at a
different location, So I can't understand why nobody was freaking out there because they
couldn't do anything about it. I would think the director though I kept seeing
that guy. There was a stage manager dude who's like the guy our audience
member goes, okay, sixty seconds, now we're going, and I saw
him like literally, do this like the prey thing and like look up to
God. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, and then and then it starts
finally, which was so so it's now but now it's like an hour and
a half past and we're all freaking out, and Lynnette was literally like I'm
leaving, like if it they do this one more time, like I'm so
tired, I'm just gonna go. And I didn't. I couldn't blame her
because it's like, well, yeah, what are we gonna see? Like
I'm gonna go home and watch it at home. And I was like,
I mean, like, I don't know. We're not getting any specialty,
right the audience. The cast members weren't talking to us like nothing. We
weren't privy to anything that they're gonna be privy too if we just watched it,
yes, in our nice warm bed with a pizza, right, because
I was so hungry. You guys went out to eat we had eaten.
Yeah, although Dylan and Patrick were like girls, they're chicks. They are
such chicks that I was like, guys, I'm hungry. I ate some
oatmeal this morning. Like, let's order some food. And Patrick you'd think
he'd never eaten sushi before. He was like, oh, what do you
guys? Uh? And I was like I don't know. Let's get some
like um, Crispy rice, like the spicy tuna on Crispy Rice. And
he's like okay. And then Dylan was like Patrick, like, let's get
him some chicken. He ordered him some like fried chick and something else and
Patrick's like, no, I'm fine, I'll just eat a little bit of
what you guys get. I was like, the hell you will. Sorry.
I wish I was there Stavini, you and I would be going to
town. Oh yeah. I was like, oh, it has some albacore
and some yellowtail and keep it coming. I tried to order a spicy scalop
handrol and the way she was like, oh, they don't, we don't,
we can't make that. I was like, really, I've never heard
of a sushi place. They can't make like a scalop handrol but whatever,
Okay, I had eaten some food. Those two really hadn't right, so
then but then um, Dylan went and got us. Dylan was like,
do you guys want something from craft Services? Like what are you doing?
He's got a d D. He kept getting up because he was sitting in
the middle because they they they put you right next to each other. And
as soon as he gets up there, like the audience coordinator comes over and
it's like, oh, you guys can scooch down, like the guy's coming
back, don't worry, and we're not going to air anytime soon, so
what do you care if there's a seat empty? But yeah, Dylan kept
getting us caught fee and chips and let's take a quick break and we're back.
Yeah, so we got we had some some chips, We had some
chips. We we we settled down. So then they do start the show,
but we knew they weren't. They didn't do it live right, They
just weren't going to tape the which we were had said the whole time.
We're like, why don't they just record it right and then if they get
their ship together, go live. Otherwise then you play it in an hour
when it when you're done, yeah, okay. Oh, and that's the
other thing, Like we were like, asked Luca, like, so it's
one hour, right, he goes, yep, one hour because he was
leaving that night to get on a plane, so we're thinking the shows only
one hour. It turned out to be an app like, wait, it
was probably ninety minutes. I think it was an over It was definitely like
I think it was over an hour and a half. It felt long.
It did feel so long, so parts of it were so boring. Yeah,
okay. When I went on to Netflix later and it would it said,
like, you know, there's twelve episodes in the season, so it's
aid episode thirteen reunion. I looked at it and it was over two hours.
That's what I thought. I was like, wow, But I didn't
know, like I don't know if it was really up by then or if
it wasn't. Like I don't know how accurate that time was because but I
saw over two hours. Can you find out? Can you google how long
running to? I think it was over two hours. I'm so curious because
it did. It definitely was longer than an hour. Yeah, and at
some points, like, let's be honest, it got too long. It
was like, great, you've exhausted this topic. Yes, yeah, but
you're going to freak out when I tell you this. Okay. So we're
watching it though, and Nick and Vanessa. Vanessa was we thought our opinion
was so good, like she was. First of all, Nick could not
be more boring. He just sat there like a Stephanie. I just when
we saw them walk out, I just was like, I feel I get
the feeling that Nick is not really the brightest guy. It seems kind of
dumb. But yeah, she has the star power, let's be honest,
right, And I feel like she's really into the show, like she's a
fan. Yes, that's how I feel. Yeah. And what what she
did that we loved was she was asking all the questions. Yeah. And
when they win, these contestants because they don't want to talk about this stuff,
they don't want there, they don't want to air the dirty laundry.
But when they would try to snake out of a question or be like,
you know, can't we all just get along or whatever, she'd be like,
really, yeah, I don't think so. Yeah. Like so at
one point, Mica, who you know, was so Paul said about Mica,
like, I just don't see her as a mom. He said that
on the episode at the end of after they got married. Remember I thought
you saw the finale, right I did, but so after I missed that
part. Yeah, so after they get married, after they he says no
to her and she runs off. They interview Paul and he's says, yeah,
I don't know. I just she's just not very nurturing, Like I
can't see her as a mom. It was really harsh and mean. So
Vanessa says to Paul like there She's trying to get something out of him about
like, so, were you would if she had gone first and she said
yes, would you have said yes? And he's like, I really don't
know, yes, you do you know? And then he and then he
says, well probably not. It probably wouldn't have changed anything. And then
she's like, Okay, let we need to talk about what you said about
her not being a good mom. And you can see that Mike is really
upset. She's upset the entire day, Like not just when she sat down
right right, didn't you She didn't crack a smile. She did not crack
a smile. The rest of them were like happy and dancing. Now came
out dancing in and she looked like she sucked a lemon. Yeah before she
walked out there just her aunt Paul. They didn't seem like they wanted to
be there. Paul. I thought Kay had more asshole vibes. And I
was tea side before the reu onion. I was on his side, and
I was like, she's an asshole. She's so mean. She's a mean
girl. All the stuff she's fake, like, you know, her and
her eyelashes and her makeup and you know. But I felt bad for her
sitting there and her yeah, and her dumb, stupid friend Shelby. I
felt bad for her so so but here's my point. So Vanessa says to
Paul, like, well whatever, why but but do you did you feel
bad? Like seeing like her reaction? So Micah says she didn't know that
he said that until she literally saw it on the episode. But he didn't
give her any warning. And it did turn out that they dated a little
bit after after he said no. Apparently they went on a date. He
was very mean about it. He's like, yeah, we went out one
time. And by the way, Nick asked that question, and you know,
somebody in his ear told him to ask oh yeah, yea, yeah
yeah, but Vanessa was like on it every time. And then so then
Paul says this answer about how well I didn't. I guess I just didn't
really phrase it right, Like I mean, I was really saying that I
can't see both, like I'm not thinking about having kids right now. So
I guess I was kind of talking about both of us and maybe I just
don't see myself being a dad with her being it was so and Vanessa goes,
um, is everybody as confused? I am like that? And she
goes, what are you talking about? Right? So, anyway, here's
the thing everybody all the reddit threads about. But everybody's hating on Vanessa worst
host. Yeah, from what I have seen, it's been they hated,
thank you. What do they hate? She was so mean, she was
like so aggressive. Get reddit Reddit side. I wasn't even looking at Reddit.
This is just a mixture between I guess, Facebook, wow, and
um. And then I'd kind of go on you know, I'd google it
and see whatever's on the come up on Twitter. Yes, but I didn't
see any that we're specific about Vanessa it was both of them, like,
yeah both he both get rid of both of them. Oh he was.
He didn't even look like he knew where he was, right. It's like
he's like the guy, like the husband that gets dragged out with the front.
Yeah. He was just like, I don't know what you guys were
talking about, what shows, which housewives? Which real housewives? Is that
we are these people? He was just like, I don't know where I
am. She was like, I'm into this, yeah, and then she'd
ask him in a question that she'd have a follow up question. And then
the only the thing that she didn't do I thought was she did not take
Jackie and Josh were only there on a zoom right. Turned out that they
said they didn't want to come because they had received death threats, which I
don't believe Jackie for a minute. What we received death threats? So we
didn't kind us see Jackie for wasn't she going back and forth with a lot
of people online? She was, yeah, I've seen arguing the people online.
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean I saw a couple of you know,
they post that in like the bad TV group and they all look at
the drama going down. So I did see she was she was talking you
know these days. Yeah, I mean some people so chu security, nobody's
coming for her jump her And definitely not the real reason why she didn't.
She doesn't want to go, don't want to deal with it and deal with
the hate. And I do wish that on the zoom Vanessa had taken her
more to task. But at the same time, it's like, what are
you gonna do. You're trying to get her to answer questions. You're on
a zoom, which if she doesn't like it, she's gonna hang up on
you. She's gonna What were the people like complaining about with Vanessa, Well,
first of all, they hated that she asked everybody, when are you
guys going to have babies? Or are you gonna have some babies? Which
that it wasn't That's not her fault though, and they told her to say
that exactly. I always say it every reunion when y'all having a baby exactly
exactly. So whatever on that, Like, it's not like she did that
on purpose. But the other thing was they're like, oh, she was
really going after these people, and she should have gone aft more after Paul,
more after Micah than all I felt like she did go after Micael.
They showed clips of Micah being a mean girl, and they asked her what
she had to say herself. They didn't let her off the hook. They
did the same thing to Irena. Oh my god. The only thing that
they don't They didn't like it that Paul got asked about why he said that
comment and that, oh they felt like she was taking Mike aside. But
mostly they were like, she was so aggressive the way she was going after
all the contestants. Here's the thing, these people would be so unhappy.
What was she supposed to do? Just go well, thanks for your stupid
for a boring land statement. Right. I guess we'll move on to another
topic early because you guys don't want to talk about any of this. Of
course she's gonna have to. She has anybody ever seen Survivor with what's his
face? I mean, he goes to town with those people like he calls
them out. Yeah, he's a guy. I think it's because yeah,
but if a girl does it, they're like, oh, she's so yeah,
what a bitch. I was thinking, but I couldn't. These people
were such everybody was so mad and oh and they were like she seemed drunk,
and she seemed like she was on drugs or drunk or on xanix.
And I wanted to go on there and argue with these people, but then
I was like, then they're just gonna come after me. Ye. First
of all, she wasn't drunk at all. She was being super friendly.
She was very people and the audience. She was so short, came out
to the audience afterwards and thanked everybody. Her girlfriends were I think in the
front row, which was cute, like for support, and she came and
she thanked everybody, like for sitting there and waiting in the freezing cold for
so long. Yeah, blah blah. Yeah. She was nice to like
all the people around her. She was very gracious. She would like acknowledge
everybody the stage manager like, I mean, you know there's people ellen degenerous,
like when the camera turns on, ye like, oh smiles, we're
dancing, and then when the cameras are off, they're like, fuck you,
fuck you. Somebody bring me a fucking heavy on and don't talk,
I mean, don't look at me. And Vanessa was just like, couldn't
have been right happy last night. I wanted to go up to her and
be, my god, you were so good. Yeah, me too,
I was. And it is a hard thing to do what she did.
She had to probably have teleprompter for the transitions between going to video clips,
plus an IFB and her ear or producers telling her like what to say,
Plus she had to be on her toes. You could tell she knew every
nuance of every story and what people wanted her to ask and what she wanted
to ask, and like, oh, but hold on, but I want
to know, but what about this? But what about that? And I'm
not going to let you off the hook so easily. Yeah, it's such
a good job she did. She did a great job, and she had
technical difficulty. I don't know if we don't know if it came through.
Did you find out the running time gay? This website said ninety minutes.
And I think the reason why they told you an hour before was because the
reunions for seasons won two in three were all an hour. This one was.
But there was technical difficulty, Like it's pretty much in the beginning of
the show because she started talking. Well, first of all, she's talking,
we're watching it on the there's a monitor too that we're watching so we
could see everything and there was a little bit of a delay, you know,
so it was kind of confusing. And then like meaning the people on
the screen right in front of us, their mouths weren't matching what was happening
on the stage right. And then she's talking and then you hear all this,
like you hear cross you have somebody else talking? Yeah, and we're
like what what? What? And it kept going and we're like, what
is going on? We're like, is somebody interrupting her right? Or are
we just hearing We're all looking at each other, We're like, what is
this is weird because there's something wrong with the audio because you can I think
we're hearing a repeat of what? Yeah, there was something and well turned
out she had she had to stop. She had to go, um,
we're hearing some interference from the control room. The control room had their freaking
mic on. This is what a shit. The control room had an open
mind and they're like, whoa if you do this and you flip it around
like they're having a conversation minutes of the show. Yeah. Yeah. It
went on for so long a time it felt forever, and finally she had
to say something Vanessa was the only one who was on it. She literally
had to kind of stop it down and go, guys, yeah, we
can hear you, right, we're hearing you. Fucking Nick is just sitting
there like, what where where am I? Am I in a coffin?
Am I alive? He was? He was like he'd been reanimated just to
okay, just sit on the couch. Every once in a while he'd say
one thing and it was like no personality. Somebody just put it in his
ear. And the girls behind us were so funny because they were super fans
and they didn't see Irena yet and they were like, were was before the
show and they were like, I wonder if she's here, and we were
like, she's here. We saw her. She's here. So then when
Irena I was watching it on the TV this morning, you can't it doesn't
come through on television like it did. And when we were sitting there because
when she came out, you know, there was a certain thing like like
she'd say something, we all like, uh, like we were like a
girl by like you could hear like we were now we didn't know, but
we were laughing when we were laughing when she was like well, I'm really
sorry because if people misinterpreted the way blah blah blah, we were laughing.
Yeah, we were like could you hear it? No not, you know,
like you couldn't. There was one time too, I remember specifically.
Yeah, she was like like she said something that was like she said something
like I didn't mean it or I wasn't you know whatever, and we were
just like, uh, you know, and you could hear that. Yeah,
I mean there was some of it you could hear, but there was
a lot of it that we the reactions, it just wasn't coming across right
on on the TV as much. But like yeah, like when they showed
the package of her being mean and like he's dropping and stuff like that,
and you know, but uh, there was something else about Arena. Uh
oh when wait when Paul was like when Zach accused her being there just for
fright right, there was that and we were like, oh oh yeah,
yeah. The freaking worm up guy was like, Okay, what are you
gonna do if something's disgusting and everybody's like, like, I mean, he
wanted these big reactions and then he was like so many times he was like
you guys were on TV, you better fix your shit up. You better
like fix your hand up straight. Yeah, on and on and on and
on. No camera went on. That was I watched it. Not once
did they compant to the audience now, so there was a It was a
complete up. It was totally messed up. They didn't know. They really
didn't do it right. I was thinking it was going to be like when
when you watched The Bachelor after the final rows and it's constant like contestants looking
at each each other like something surprising happens and they're like to each other.
People try it's all these huge reactions, right. I was like, Oh,
we're gonna be in charge of the big reaction, right, I got
this got not once? Yeah, I got my face ready yeah now.
And they never panted the audience Nope. But it was fun, No,
yeah, it was really fun. Should we take another break and we're about
princess cruizes we're back. But h Marshall was just adorable. Yeah, so
cute, cute and yeah, and just kwame was really cute too. And
Kwamee and Marshall were dancing. It was shocked that they got married. I
didn't think that was I didn't think he was gonna say, I know they
too, Sure, I don't know. I can't. I mean, it's
been a year since they got married. It's crazy that I'm well, like
what, we just watched him get got married last week and I'm just looking
at them, going, they've been married for a year. These people,
it's crazy to me. Yeah. And then Tiffany and what's Brett so cute?
They're cute? Really, she looked really pretty. They all looked really
good, you know in person. Yeah, but Jack and Bliss looked happy.
Zach was very you know, I think Zach has some demons. Yeah,
he seems like he does. You look out. He was very kind
of aggressive. He was very mad at Micah, and he was like,
you did so many bad things, yeah, weren't. Yeah, he was
a little much for me. Yeah, but they looked like they were happy
together as a couple. They did every the couples looked happy. They're all
touchy feeling. And also you have to remember we were watching it for a
long time with no cameras on them, because they just weren't. And they
were all sitting really close together, arms on each other, touching and like
and cute and comfy, Yeah, flashing their phones. We have no phone,
We had no foe were sitting there, all of us with no phones
for two hours. I know, I do think that Paul there's something very
fake about him. And as soon as the reunion was over, he was
like stood off. Everybody was like mingling and saying hi, and Paul just
stood off by himself on his phone. Yeah, he was sitting there on
his phone the whole time. Very serious. Yeah, but scientists don't,
you know. Yeah, yeah, right then. The other thing too,
is Vanessa said they were going to get into more with about Micah's friend what
was her name, Shelby huh oh. Yeah. She's like, well,
we'll get into that in a minute, and they never did. Like they
talked a little bit, but I guess there's not much to talk about.
This is the fact that she's just oh well, they did talk about it
because Mica said, remember she was like, well I think I think she
was, you know, trying to be protective of me, and like,
yeah, she went into her explanation. She did, and then then but
right then she said we'll get into it, but then they never did.
I don't know, but well, maybe what she was going to get into
was that the other friend that because they accused Paul of like patting the other
one on the butt. Oh yeah, maybe that's what. Yeah, I
don't know. I don't know. Yeah, but Klin on a different topic,
you had a good reason did you do this weekend? Yeah, you
went out of town? I did. Yeah. It was my birthday,
last birthday to you. Your dad was a hit by the way. Everybody
loved having your dad that. Yeah, it was fun. Um, it
was my birthday on Tuesday, and I like worked all day long. I
didn't, so it didn't really feel like much for birthday. So we decided
to, you know, go away for the night on Friday after your Dave
Investor's party. Yeah, yeah, no, we went. We went away
for the night on Friday. We went to Lahoya nice. Yeah, because
we just like going to the beach and we go we always go to Santa
Barbara or we go to San Diego, and so I was like, let's
try a different beachy down So let's try Lahoya. So we went down there
and we stayed for the night. And what I really wanted to do,
what I've been wanting, what I wanted to do for my birthday last year,
was go into Big bear, go rent like a cabin and take mushrooms.
That's what I've been wanting to do for like a year. You know,
kids are at home, were away. I'm very curious about these mushrooms.
I tried them a couple times when I was a teenager, but each
time I did them, I was smoking pot with it. No no,
no, no, yeah, and I and it makes me paranoid and anxious.
So then with the mushrooms on top of that, I was like,
you know, it was not it was not a very good time. But
I'm like now, I think now, I think I'm ready to enjoy some
mushrooms. So I got some and we went down there and I was told
told ahead of time, like these are very potent, so like, so
be careful. So who are you doing them with? Just you and Amy?
It was just me and Amy. Yeah, and I was just going
to do most of them, and she just wanted like a little bit or
whatever. And the plan was to have like one of those like mushroom experiences
yeah really yeah, really spiritual type really really like you're gonna fucking heal some
childhood shit. Yeah yeah, I'm gonna, you know, end up talking
to like a bush for like two and come away with this. Yeah,
so that was the plan. We got down there umen they were a bit
early, so we went and just had a couple of drinks at the bar.
You know, I met some really friendly couple. Got to the hotel.
It like it was some like um, I don't I forget the name
of it, but it was like it was like a tie type of hotel.
It had like a great view of the ocean. Okay, it's it's
not like on the ocean because it's like a cliff side. Yeah. Most
again that later, but it was pretty much we had a big, big
view of the ocean. So that was nice. And so I had had
a couple of drinks. I wasn't like drunk, but I was like,
okay, I'm gonna I'm just gonna end the area we're in. There was
a lot of people around. So to do that real mushroom experience, it's
like I don't know if this yeah where Yeah, I don't know. You
didn't want to wait till the next day until you were like sober. Well
I thought about it and I was like, okay, so if I want
to do this like this experience and like really go after it, then I
would like to be sober for that, but I was like, there's kind
of too many people around for that kind of thing, So I'm just gonna
do a little bit and kind of see how I feel and then maybe I'll,
you know, want to do a bunch more later at night when they're
on too many people around or whatever. So I ended up just taking like
a little bit, and I just started, like he said, the guy
got him from was like eat it. Wait a half hour, see how
you feel, and if you want, you can take more after that.
So like right at the half hour mark, I could like feel it like
hit my stomach almost and then like move throughout my body. And I was
having the greatest time after really, And wait, okay, so where were
you on our balcony, Bony. We stayed in the room, okay,
and we're on the balcony just watching looking at the ocean, staring right at
the ocean, watching all the people blow us and um, yeah, I
just like, how, like how did it make you feel? Yeah?
And did Amy do a little bit too? Well? Amy was going to
kind of wait till later in the night, but as soon as she saw
how much fun I like, I have not laughed that hard in the longest
time. Really. Yeah, just like that, you know, like my
stomach hurts, my cheeks hurt. I'm just laughing so hard, like that
kind of laugh like when your stone laughing like like that. Was it like
that? I mean I guess, yeah, you know it's it's it's just
that laugh that makes your stomach hurt. Yeahs like that. I'm now laughing
so hard that I can't stop laughing. And so she saw me and she's
like, oh, wow, you're having a really good time. I think
I want to be there too. So then she kind of did, but
she kind of eased herself into it a little bit more. Um, But
yeah, we just sat there and did she feel it too though she felt
it better? Yeah, not like I was. Though she never really got
to a point like I was, And so I didn't end up taking a
whole bunch more at once. I just kind of maintained that feeling all throughout
the night up until like midnight. I was just I was doing this all
through a little bit more and a little bit more. I would take that
small amount like every hour and a half or two hours, and we were
drinking, but not like a lot because you know, I didn't really need
it. I was you know, I was having a good time anyway,
So it was kind of doing both, um, And so yeah, I
just maintained that level throughout the night. I didn't end up having that real
spiritual, really tripping experience. Um, but I could still like, you
know, see some shit. You know, I just I could kind of
almost like I coulduld function normally if I was doing something, but if I
sat down and stared in one place for five to ten seconds, I would
just start cracking up laughing, right, just start laughing. Like. So
it didn't make you like paranoid or anxious or I forgot that there's this real
like bodily feeling that goes along with it. For some reason in my mind
was just like, oh, I'm just gonna see things. I'm just gonna
like it's gonna be all in my head. Like, No, there's a
whole like body experience that goes with it. Really. And there was kind
of times too where you know, because naturally I have a lot of anxiety,
and I could kind of almost feel where I could feel the anxiety come
up. But my mindset was just like just like just go with it.
Yeah, just you know, just let it go kind of almost you know,
like I was just staring at the waves, going like just you know,
just like a wave, it's just gonna cring's just let it happen like
that sort of thing. And I would just stare out in the ocean and
I would just see these like bluish purple e swar like hallucinating a little bit
if I if I was staring at something for long enough, mostly only the
ocean, I would see a little bit. Did you guys like get into
like deep conversations or you kept it light? No, No, it was
it was pretty light. Yeah. Um, the highlight of it was at
this point she was you know, yeah, I was. I was mostly
on on the mushrooms. But so right below us was something where they called
the Lajoia Cove. It's like I said, it's kind of on a cliff
side. So you walk down some stairs and it's just it's cove with you
know, a bunch of rocks kind of on bottom. And the sun was
setting, so we were like, let's get out of the room, let's
walk down to the cove and sit there and watch the sunset. And there's
a lot of there's a lot of people around, so we did. We
walked down the stairs and walked on the cove, kind of sat on a
rock, and we watched the sunset, and to the right of us was
kind of like a bigger cliff and like a big rock that kind of came
out that if you're not on mushrooms, it's very easy to just kind of
stand there and you know, sit down. But that wouldn't that wouldn't be
something that I'd be like trying to fuck with. That's smart. And uh
So once we got down there, we looked on this rock up there,
and there was this girl sitting there that looked exactly like Amy's niece. She
was this like sixteen seventeen year old girl who was all by herself and had
her notepad. She was like scribbling in it, and since she journal yeah,
journaling, and so she became the focus for me and Amy. This
girl who we called we'll call her Chloe, and we go, oh,
there's Chloe. We've made up like a whole backstory for Chloe. I did.
I was like, oh, burn, her boyfriend just broke up.
But she broke up with him. She's done crying over him now. Now
she's sitting on this rock, she's reflecting on her life and she's writing down
in her journal, just all alone, and right behind her up a little
more ways is a like an Instagram spot, So there's constantly people getting on
the rock taking pictures walking away. And it was like the juxtaposition of like
the teenage girl who's not using any who, not using her phone, just
living in the moment, you know, having her moment, and then all
the other teenage girls behind her that are just taking Instagram picks. And I
was I was so proud of Chloe for you know. But what really made
me laugh the hardest was right as the sun was setting, she just had
to take her phone out and just take a quick couple pictures of the sunset.
You're almost there, And then you went and you did that. You
had to get the technology out for a sunset, which you know, who
knows when you're gonna get another picture of a sunset, nor are you ever
gonna look at that picture ever again. And all throughout the night, I
was just laugh and at one point, like Amy kind of couldn't stop staring
at her, and I kind of couldn't stop laughing, and I was worried
that she knew we were laughing looking at her. Yeah, so I started
feeling bad about it, but I was really hoping that she wasn't like knowing
we were sitting there laughing right, um, but I couldn't stop, Like
I couldn't stop laughing. And even like later that night, I was just
laughing about Chloe's little ah. I love that. And then yeah, we
just went back to the went back to the balcony and just kept doing I
just kept doing that for the rest of the Wow. Did it make did
you guys have Well I don't want to yes for that. For that yeah,
that wow. But it was Yeah, it was just so much fun.
And not only that, but once it was kind of because I could
kind of feel it coming down and stopping, and it just it felt so
I guess like natural is the right word, you know. I remember back
when I used to go to raves and like do ecstasy, it was just
that coming down it was the worst feeling in the world. And this was
just like just back to normal. There was no after effects really, like
I hadn't even done it. And so you were able to go to sleep
that night and or did you stay up all night? Yeah? Well,
I mean it took me a little while, but at one point it was
dark and I was I was so tired or like, I just had to
close my eyes. So then I went into the room and I closed my
eyes. But I spent another good like hour and a half just seeing shit
with my eyes closed, and so I was just yeah. So it wasn't
like a thing where you're like, Okay, I'm ready to go to bed
and it won't end, or it was like I would like to keep sitting
outside and looking at the stars, but like, my eyes are clear,
getting tired and not stopped them from closing. So I went and laid down,
and as soon as I laid down, I was like, oh,
this feels right. I'm going to stay here in bed. I'm not gonna
move. I'm gonna close my eyes and just just see what I see what
I see, just enjoy and it was wow, so much fun. See.
I would have been like, Okay, this is all good on the
balcony, but like this whole figuring going downstairs, and I would be like,
do we did somebody? Is somebody gonna like leave a trill of breadcrumbs?
We can get back to the room, because you know, what high.
You're like, I don't remember where stuff? Where are we? Right?
I mean, you weren't high last night? We couldn't find your Car's
got to be sober. I'm like, when did this parking lot become like
a split level? Right? Oh? Yeah, we had a hard time
finding the car last night. Yeah, imagine if we were high. I
know, I guess the car got well. In fact, the one floor
that we were on, we knew we were on the third floor. Well,
Patrick and I were the ones who had driven there, but on the
third floor there were no cars. Luckily, the one thing that helped us
not feel crazy is there were two other girls that were also like we also
parked here and there are no cars. Were freaked out, but then you
could see like this that there was another floor on the other side of the
park. It's hard to explain, but you could see a bunch of cars.
So somehow we had to like, how do we get over there?
I blame Dylan, but anyway I would have been like, oh my god,
are we amy? Yeah? I know where our room is. Well
again it was. It was not a big hotel. It was kind of
small, it was, and what the cove that we went to It was
literally just like, you know, forty feet in front of us. Okay,
that's we could we could we just walk right there and then come back.
Were you hungry? No, I didn't eat anything. Oh really no,
I didn't want anything to eat. I didn't even think about it.
Wow. I had eaten a little bit before when we were having drinks at
the bar, and that was it. I wasn't hungry at all. Yeah.
That sounds like a great weekend. Yeah, it was awesome. Was
that sounds nice? So you did that the first night? Were how many
nights? You was there for? One night? Yeah? Nice? Yeah,
what a nice birthday? It was really fun. That's awesome. And
did the kids stay with Amy's parents? They did perfect? Yeah, that's
good. It's good when you go for a night, you know your kids
are in good hands. You don't have to worry. Yeah. Yeah,
it's nice feeling. Yeah, well that's nice. I know, but I
would still like to do that. That spiritual experience too, that aouaska Yeah
aouaska sounds way too intense. I mean because last like something like days,
right, I don't know, I've seen I don't think so they monitor you,
and I think my faust has done it. She's really hippie dippie therapist.
Yeah, would she say about it? She said that, um,
it's good, Like she wouldn't recommend it for everyone, but you gotta do
your research and find the right place to do it and people with experience and
um. But she said it was a good experience for her. Wendy's dying
to do it. She really wants to do it. I don't. I
don't know if I want to do it. This hallucigenic shit, like do
I really want to throw up for an hour? And I don't know.
It seems torturous. I don't mind the throwing up part because that's kind of
always makes you feel thinner afterwards, stomach gets flatter. Stephanie, last night,
the first part of my sty We're staring at Vanessa's legs and she's like,
her legs looks they were looked. They look so good. You're like,
it makes me want to work out again. I'm like, ah,
And I was starving last night and I ordered a pizza when we were in
you drove me home. When we were in the car, like pulling out
of the studio parking lot. Ordered the pizza so it would be there.
Didn't get there for like another forty minutes after I got there, and I
was freezing. It was cold and just soggy and sucked at one piece and
I went to bed. I was I was too tired. I was like,
really, you're trying to talk to me last night. I'm like,
yeah, everything's fine. It was like in the like, well I had
no phones, right, like we need let's talk, let's talks for kids.
I'm like, they're fine, it's tired. She's like, I'll tell
you on the pod. I was over it. I mean, if it
would have started on time, but after a while, I was just like
starving and freezing. I was so cold. Well, we all busted our
houses to get there on time. I don't let anyone down. We were
like three thirty eight, we're here, and so three hours later, most
of which with no phone, right and just each other. Yeah, and
it's like I talked to you for a lot of hours. I'll tell you
tomorrow. All right, Well this was super fun. What a fun show.
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