Taylor Frankie Paul is the #1 Girl In the Group

Main Character Things:

1. Reverse Reparations

Things That Pop:

1. Justin Bieber continues to embarrass Hailey Bieber
2. Justin Baldoni vs Blake Lively Update: Is Taylor Swift's dad working with Bryan Freedman?
3. Secret Lives of Mormon Wives FULL recap
4. Summer House Finale recap

Hot Girl Things:

1. Kourtney Kardashian says school is "overrated"

Questionable Things:

1. Will I ever go to grad school?
2. Describing my perfect man

Episode Transcript

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Hello and welcome to Surround Things, a podcast where we talk
about pop culture, reality TV, and a bunch of other things that
smart women care about. I am your host to Ron Alcaba.
How do you guys diddly do? I hope you're doing well, my
darlings. Look at all of the alliteration.
We're already off to a fantasticstart.
I want to start off with a singular housekeeping item.

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The podcast has been live for about 3 months now and I feel
like I've learned a lot as well as understanding what timing
would be best to put the show out every week.
And I have finally decided it isgoing to be every Tuesday that
works with my schedule. It's just going to be the
easiest to be able to record andedit and balance all the other
things that I have going on. Starting today you will get a

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new episode of Surround Things every Tuesday.
Everywhere you can find podcast and yeah, it's the only thing
that's changing. So let's jump right on into all
of our segments for the day. We start out with main character
things and my main character things happened actually very
recently. So if you follow me on
Instagram, and I suggest you do if you want, like the inner

(01:18):
workings of my brain. It's where I'm the most probably
vulnerable, the most open about my day-to-day life.
I just share. I just the venue where I share
the most about myself. So I've talked about how I go to
Starbucks almost every morning. I'm not going to tell you I
switch it up which Starbucks I go to, but that is neither here
nor there. I was walking out with my shaken

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oat milk espresso latte, 4-4 shots of espresso and an extra
pump of caramel. That's my preferable order.
But anyways, I'm walking out, Henry is walking on the floor
right beside me, and I hear someone go Miss Mim.
And I look up and there's a homeless fellow sitting like by
a tree on the sidewalk in front of me.

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And he explicitly goes, do you have a dollar to spare?
Do you have money to spare? And I look down and I have this
Fanny pack on and it's open and there are dollar bills invisible
like he could, I don't know if he saw them, but he could see
them possibly. One thing about me is I will pay

(02:23):
basically any amount of money toget out of an uncomfortable
situation. So I'm just trying to get home.
I'm like, whatever, here you go.And so I pull up the 2 two
singular dollar bills. I hand them to this man, And as
I'm handing the cash over, I look up and there is another man
crossing the street about to walk past us.

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As we have this interaction, as we do this exchange and some
important details are this homeless man is white.
OK? The man who was the observer,
the man who was crossing the street, passing us by, watching
as I gave this white homeless man money, was a black man.

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And I swear to God, that man makes eye contact with me and
gives me the most confused. What the fuck are you doing,
bitch? Look like what?
That's not how reparations work.And I swear I'm not the type to
think that anybody is actually thinking about me.
I don't really like if you're not explicitly telling me how

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you feel. If you don't explicitly tell me
what's going on, I'm just going to assume everything is all
right. But when I looked at the man,
the horror in his face, it was just something else.
It was completely undeniable. So I want to say it to that man,
if you're listening and I know he, he obviously is, You're
right, you're absolutely correct.

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That is not the way that's supposed to work.
But I don't know if this makes it better, but I am Ethiopian,
right? Born there family they're
generations so technically the reparations wouldn't be going to
me. OK but I understand the optics
for white man can't make it in this world.
Who is my black ass to be the one to lift him to pull

(04:12):
bootstraps? Boo.
Get those bootstraps and pull them.
But again, I will pay money to get out of uncomfortable
situations, to move through things quicker, to avoid
conversation. And thus I gave him the cash.
But to that black man who was very confused, you were correct.

(04:33):
Honestly, if I am in that same situation again, I'd probably do
the exact same thing. But no, you have a point.
You very much have a point. That is not the direction that
reparations should flow. And yeah, OK, that is all for
our main character things this week.
I wanna move on to things that pop so we can talk about pop
culture. There's so much to catch up on.

(04:53):
All right, let's start with Justin and Haley.
OK, she did her first solo American Vogue cover this month
and it was beautiful, incredible.
But unfortunately, the way that her husband Justin chose to
celebrate it is by posting a caption where he says that he
once told her she would never beon the cover of Vogue, which I
think is weird because one, she was on the cover of Vogue of

(05:15):
American Vogue in 2019 with Justin himself.
And she's also been on the various international Vogue
covers. So American Vogue is like,
obviously the anchor magazine, It's the biggest deal.
It's a head honcho. So I understand why he would
pull that one out of the bunch. But still, like, super petty.
And The thing is, he stole her Thunder along with the cover

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shoot. She did a Vogue what's in my
bag, right? And in it, she finally took the
narrative bag. She talked about how what she
keeps in her bag is like a tincture that she had a witch
cast a spell on to make a Canadian pop star fall in love
with her. Cute, hilarious, a bunch of cell
phones where she said that oh I use these to like stock and
leave anonymous comments and blah blah blah.

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Like she fully leaned into it. She made it funny.
People were laughing with her and not at her for the first
time in her entire marriage. And this mother fucker has to go
out on his Instagram and then post their like dirty laundry.
Now is not the time for that. And then to add insult to
injury, people sleuths picked upthe fact that in 2016, Kendall

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Jenner had a Vogue America cover.
I believe it was her first VogueAmerica cover.
And he posted her on her feed. And his caption was, you look
great. Can you look beautiful?
Can you look beautiful? Congratulations. 5 words and
perfect. Like, why couldn't he do that
for his wife? So strange to me.

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And then Oh my God, there are two more things.
Plus the fact that on Mother's Day, on his first Mother's Day,
he put up a post saying Mom, I love you but Mother's Day
fucking sucks. This was literally his wife's
first mother day. Mother's Day.
As a mother, he knows that the thing that stresses her out the
most is the fact that people areconstantly doubting her

(07:08):
relationship, saying that he hates her.
This didn't help either. And then there's some 17 year
old model that looks like fucking Selena Gomez's
doppelganger that he just commented.
I love you on her post It's weird.
It's weird. Like I want to be of the mind

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that they are in a happy loving relationship, but I don't think
that's the case. And I also don't think that
Haley's the problem. I have settled on her being a
goal oriented queen. OK, she got her eyes on the
prize. She got her prize right.
Unless she drugged him or actually cast some kind of
voodoo spell on him. As long as she's being good to
him now, as long as she's supporting him and loving him
and give him what he like, beinga good person to him now, what

(07:51):
the fuck do we care? It's the problem is not with
Haley anymore. It's with her clearly spiraling
drug addicted husband. Allegedly so.
It's just such a fucking bummer.I really thought that after I
saw that Vogue 21. Like what's in my bag video that
this was going to be a big turning point in the like

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narrative about their relationship.
But he couldn't let that happen.He simply could not let that
happen. He likes her stressed out.
I think otherwise, why don't youjust shut the fuck up and let
her live her life? So she pulled this tincture out
of her bag and her Vogue what's in my bag video and she says
this thing about, oh, I, I cast a spell on him with this
tincture. I put it in my mouth every
night. A witch did some voodoo over it,

(08:34):
blah blah blah. And it brought me back to this
TikTok video where it was a pastor and his wife talking to
some podcaster. And the wife was saying
something about how her husband,the pastor, had an affair on
her. And eventually she found herself
washing not only her adulterous husband's laundry but also his

(08:55):
mistresses because that's what God would want her to do.
And someone said that's a bitch that did a love spell on a
person who was unwilling. This is an example of a woman
who used magic to cast a spell on a man to be with her who
never wanted to be with her. And that's how this manifests
into this ugly, unhappy union that neither of them can break

(09:20):
from for some reason. Do I believe that?
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. But it's giving Justin and
Haley, right? If she did cast a spell on him,
this is actually how that would manifest in the world darkness.
Not good, not good, not good at all.
Next topic, Blake Lively, Justin, Justin Bieber, Blake

(09:40):
Lively, Justin Baldoni and BrianFriedman and Taylor Swift,
actually. So Brian Friedman said he's
dropping the subpoena that he was sent to Taylor Swift about
Blake Lively potentially extorting her public support by
threatening to release 10 years of text messages if she doesn't

(10:01):
say something to the world abouthow she backs Blake Lively in
this insane fight she's having with Justin Palzoni.
So a lot of people from Blake's camp were like, oh, this is such
a win. He knew it was stupid and
pointless. So of course, he's just not
enforcing the subpoena. I don't think you formally drop
a subpoena. I think you just say, I'm not
moving forward with this anymore.

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But The thing is, most like legal experts I've heard say
that it's probably a good sign for Baldoni because that
probably means that Friedman gotexactly what he wanted.
And if you can get what you wantwithout having the courts
involved, without subpoenas, without motions and paperwork,
then that's the way they're going to do it.
And everybody is saying that it's Scott Swift, Taylor Swift's

(10:42):
dad, who reached out to to Friedman and had that one hour
long conversation where he explained how his daughter
Taylor was being extorted by Blake and her team.
And this seems, no, there hasn'tbeen any word from Taylor's camp
denying it. And it feels real to me, guys.

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That's his daughter, his only daughter.
I can imagine the anger he wouldfeel if that was true.
Plus the fact that Travis Kelseyunfollowed Ryan Reynolds the day
before the news came out about the subpoena.
And another point in that this was a good thing for the Baldoni
team and not Lively was the factthat after the subpoena was it

(11:27):
was very clear that it was no longer going to be enforced by
Justin Baldoni's legal team. No one said anything publicly,
not Venable and Taylor Swift's camp, not Brian Friedman, Justin
Baldoni or anyone on that camp. The only person's team that
spoke up saying that this was a good thing is Blake Lively.
And that kind of that could potentially indicate that that a

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deal was struck that I share this information with you.
Perhaps it was the e-mail sent from Taylor Swift's camp to
Lively's camp saying you're trying to extort me, stop
talking to me. I have a feeling they got that
letter and if they have, if Scott Peterson, Scott Scott

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Peterson, oh Scott, if Scott Swift was like more than happy
to turn that over. There's no need to go through
any kind of formal legal processto get the information.
The subpoenas are sent out when it's a third party, someone
who's not lame named in the case, has information that's
pertinent to the legal action. That's how you reach out and get

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that information. Other than otherwise, you can
only receive information throughdiscovery from the defendants
that are named in the lawsuit orthe prosecution.
So I have a feeling this is going to be Taylor Swift's last
formal, first and only formal action within this whole Baldoni

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Swift drama. Baldoni Lively drama.
OK, The secret lives of Mormon Wives.
I finally finished it. This is a perk of having this
episode late in on our new day. I got to watch everything and
it's all so fresh in my mind. And I must start with Zach and
Jen. Oh, what a disaster.
First it was like, did Zach get some kind of exorcism?

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Who is this man? Who is the supportive king?
And then we got to Jen talking to Demi and Jesse.
And allegedly Jen told Demi and Jesse that Zach had gambled away
his money for medical school. And when Zach, when Jesse and
Demi confront Zach and Jen aboutthis, Jenna's no, that never

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happened. What are you talking about?
And she looks at Zach and he's like, do you want to handle
this? So what I think is that Jen was
definitely being honest with Demi and Jesse the first time
around when she said that Zach had gambled away money his
parents gave him for medical school.
OK. He definitely, in my opinion,
gambled away money that his parents gave him for medical

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school and then once they realized this, they cut him off
so he cannot enroll in his firstyear of medical school.
It's not that he's doing it to be closer to my family.
I literally think he gambled away the money for enrollment,
so he's deferring for a year andtrying to figure out how to
raise that money. And this also explains him no

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longer going to church and like moving away from conservative
Mormonism because his bad behavior was very much showcased
on national television, including his gambling.
And his parents are probably very pissed at him.
So now he's like, I guess now that I have no money to pay for
Med school, no money period. Actually, I think I'm gonna just
make it work with my wife and kids.

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That's what it's fucking getting.
Also, this might be a controversial take because I do
believe the two things can be true at once.
But I think that Jen backing outof recording the rest of the
season had equal parts to do with her being embarrassed that
she lied so aggressively to basically everyone about
everything, and her needing to take time for her mental health

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because she wasn't in a good place and she needed to be good
for her baby. I think that she has a hard time
with the truth and when I started watching the show I was
fully ready to believe to believe Jen, Jesse and Demi are
the fucking worst. But again, two things can be
true. Jen can be a liar.
Jesse and Demi can be the worst.And that does seem to be what it

(15:23):
is like with the whole Chippendale situation at that
party. I was shaken when they flashed
back to the conversation with with Jen and Jesse getting her
hair done with Jesse saying OK, clearly hearing what they had
planned. And then the next day, because
she doesn't want to deal with the trouble with her husband,
she's just going to lie and say,oh I didn't know anything about

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that. I understand that you're trying
to avoid conflict, but being an adult is having to deal with it,
especially you're on reality television.
This shit is being recorded. And I also I don't understand
why Jen would send her husband to talk to Jesse and Demi if she

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knew she was lying. Not the math is the mathematics
are so weird to me. She's just very immature and she
makes me sad. Oh my God I didn't know the
thing about that fucking party with the Chippendales.
This is when we have to get intoDemi being a fucking psychopath.
When she walked into that room and yelled at her husband, he

(16:27):
laid his hands on me. He didn't lay his hands on you.
He like grazed your arm as he was walking past you in a
crowded room at a party. It's so fucking scary the she
just activated him like this, knowing that it was going to be
disastrous, not caring who got hurt, hoping that punches would

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be thrown, hoping to cause chaos.
It's actually sick. I don't like that at all.
It's very unnerving. She doesn't know right from
wrong. I don't get it.
We witnessed that a whole lot this season.
Demi is a bad person on almost every fucking level.
The cease and desist that she tried to send Jen for talking

(17:11):
about how she was being overly flirtatious in Italy with the
Mauricio or Marciano whatever towhat?
Throwing, trying to stage a coupand kick Taylor out of mom talk.
First of all, who told you you had that kind of authority?
Who when she said I was the fan favorite and what like, what can

(17:35):
be given can be taken away, darling.
And that shit is gone now. You don't think that Taylor is,
you know, the best representation of mom talk?
It's our business. She started the business.
She's the president and she's the CEO.
She's the majority shareholder. There is no mom talk without
Taylor Frankie Paul. All right.
And another thing about Taylor, Frankie, Paul, she's the only

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one I trust. I believe all of those women are
liars to a certain extent. They're all hiding things.
They're all trying to figure outhow can I be on this show that's
meant to be salacious while not being so vulnerable that people
actually see my humanity and howmy family operates, the way our
relation, the way we speak to each other, the fucking

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skeletons in their closet. They're still trying to figure
out how to appear to be open andvulnerable without actually
sharing any vulnerability. When you have Taylor fucking
bleeding out this shit. She is dying for her craft.
And she said as much as she's telling the fucking truth, she
doesn't hold anything back and you the emotion she shares is

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raw and that shit cannot be faked and she's just like in it
to win it. So it's very obvious that these
conservative women are having a very hard time showing that they
are not the picture of of trad wife civility.
And it's stressful. Layla is so fucking annoying.

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She was the pawn, the puppet of production this entire season.
They had her do a lot of their dirty work.
She just kept bringing up shit that had absolutely nothing to
do with her. And then the pregnancy bit, like
the, oh, the pregnancy test roulette crazy decision.

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I know production was the one who said, hey, let's do it.
There's no way. She was just like, oh, my
period's late, so let's play this.
No, it was production that definitely set her up to do that
to me's response? Bat shit crazy, Buck.
Motherfucking wild. It is insane.
Jesse's reaction to Demi's reaction?
Equally insane. Come on, guys.

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Someone has to tell her who's pregnant.
It's just not fair. Look at what you're doing to
her. What the fuck are you talking
about? Jesse?
You have bigger fish to be frying than why Demi's crying
right now. That woman hates you, right?
She, Taylor, Frankie, Paul talked to Demi, Say I'm gonna go
get my hair colored with Jesse. And Demi was like, Oh my God,

(20:07):
don't ever do that. She's taking money out of your
children's mouth and you're worried about why she's
boohooing in the corner? No, she is a bad motherfucking
person. You don't know anything about
Demi. None of us know anything about
Demi. She other than she is has a huge
ego. She's cute, she's annoyed, and

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she's also 30. You should be better than this.
You should be more mature than what we're seeing here.
You should have learned something.
I don't know. I hate all of these bitches.
The only three I fuck with Taylor, Michaela, Macey.

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Everybody else is a weird weirdo.
Michaela is a gangster. She is not playing any games
with you. She's not mincing her words and
she's not beating around the Bush.
If she doesn't like you, you will know about it.
She won't placate you. She will tell you with a smile
on her face and she's not backing down.
I swear with Whitney. First of all, fuck that trifling

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bitch. I cannot believe that Taylor
Frankie Paul was the only personto raise her hand to allow
Whitney back in the group because I believe in second
chances, blah blah blah. And then Whitney when, when Demi
is trying to stage a coup and kick Taylor out, she's like, I
don't know, shut up, Whitney. There is a darkness in Whitney

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too, Whitney and to me, bottom of the pyramid, two women I
would never share any information with.
I know that Whitney, we saw someof her softer side when she was
dealing with Jen, but I don't know if that's an isolated
incident. Even even the worst of people
can show can be nice every once in a while.
That doesn't change it at their core.

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You cannot trust that bitch as far as you can throw her.
There's just something. So she's just the whitest woman.
She's white and just the way shecries about everything and the
way she can't take accountability for anything.
The word salads, it's too much. I can't deal with her at all.

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I think she's beautiful, but she's just so fake and affected.
And they all care about the stupidest things.
They don't care about real things.
It's and Mace. I love Macy but when Macy said
she that Jesus was a Mormon not one threw me for a loop.
I made a tick tock about that one.
You can catch that information there.

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But I'm pretty sure Jesus was a Jew and I almost certain that's
the one thing that we can all all the religions agree on.
So what the fuck are you? Anyways, back to the point at
hand. Demi is a psychopath.
Her crying upon finding out the two of the girls were pregnant
diabolical in the way she did it.

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It was not a graceful like, oh, that's so nice.
I'm going to just excuse myself.It's a fucking just hysterical.
Yeah, I'm going to call her hysterical, just weeping.
And I understand fertility is like not is a hard Rd. for some.

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And sure, perhaps she has my empathy.
Maybe. But that doesn't change that the
women who took these pregnancy tests didn't do it on purpose to
hurt you, and you certainly shouldn't ever see someone
else's pregnancy as an attack onyou people, regardless of their
circumstance, when they make moments like this about
themselves it really gives you aclear idea of who they are.

(23:43):
Completely self-centered. 0 self-awareness.
Just selfish egomaniacs. And I stand hard by that she
displayed that behavior in her interactions with quite
literally everybody in the group.
I don't understand how she couldsay Taylor, Frankie Paul is a
problem. All she did was make a fucking

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Ted talk saying it's just funny that nobody supported me.
And I think that Taylor is wrongin that situation.
I think it's weird and embarrassing for her soul to
admit that she cared that much about these women commenting,
the commenting, the typing out of words underneath this
picture. Especially when so many of them
reached out to her and said someshit.
I think that's lame. I think that's weird, I think

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that's wrong. Even if it was some coordinated
effort to make Taylor feel like shitty and alone, I still don't
think that Taylor should bring that up.
Because bringing up that they did that is lamer than what they
did. But at the end of the day, is
that worthy of a coup? Is that worthy of Demi?
Like gathering the troops and putting it to a vote?

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Whether or not Taylor can stay in this group that she herself
built. Bitch, get the fuck up out of
here. And then when she was like, if
she's in, I'm out, get the fuck out, then go.
Why are you still here? Why are you still sitting here,
Demi? Why?
Full of shit? Nobody cares if you walk.
Nobody cares if you walk. What she did to Jesse when they

(25:08):
were trying to negotiate for a bigger contract saying Jesse
doesn't have to be here. Who are you to be cutting,
slicing, and dicing? Who are you to decide what the
fat is and when it should be trimmed?
What is so great about you, Demi?
Oh God, it is absurd. And when she claimed that Jesse
was selfish for still remaining on the show and in mom talk

(25:32):
because she's independently wealthy because she has this
like hair styling empire. What is that's the dumbest thing
I've ever heard in my life that that's not how that works.
You don't cap out. There's no maxing out in how
much financial independence OR how much money you can earn.
OK, you should know that big problem here in the United

(25:53):
States, a big problem around theworld, and that's her best
friend. This is what leads me to believe
she doesn't actually have any friends.
If you can do that to your best friend, listen.
If my best friend in the world had a hair salon and she dyed
people's hairs, and even if I knew she was shitty, listen, I'm

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not saying anything. I'm not saying anything at all.
I am going to say you should go to her and act surprised if
something goes awry. That's what a friend does.
Am I wrong? As you all know, I'm of the mind
of seven million people on this planet.
You only have to ride and ride hard for a few.

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Why are you going to be the OP? Why do you want to cut them
down? It's competition.
I've heard somewhere or maybe I probably saw this on TikTok,
that like only people who are miserable in their own lives in
their own noggins, it's impossible for them to be happy
for anyone. So like to me, you saw the look
on her face when Macy announced her book deal disdain OK every

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time she talks about Taylor Frankie Paul disdain Taylor is
the fan favorite. You were a fan favorite maybe
for a season Chuck that shit outthe window.
Taylor Frankie Paul she's alwaysgoing to be the fan favorite
because she's always going to beherself and herself isn't
perfect. Her herself makes mistakes
herself can be a mouthy broad and makes odd decisions at some

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of. But at the end of the day, we
know that she's decent on the inside, that her intentions are
good, that she's able to acknowledge all of her faults,
not only within her romantic relationships, but even in her
interpersonal relationships withher friends and her family.
And she's shown an almost like asuperhuman amount of empathy to
these women and even to her family.

(27:50):
Oh my God, Taylor pranky Paul's family.
First of all, when her stepdad when she said, oh, I'm going to
be Gretchen Wieners from Mean Girls on Halloween.
And he said like a sexy Gretchen.
First of all, Sir, what the fuckdo you?
I've had to pause the TV and gaga little.

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She said, I'm going to be wearing a cat suit, so I'm going
to be really covered up. And Taylor, Frankie, Paul, I
know you said that you love thatman and he raised you and he's
like your dad, but that's weird.That's weird, that's creepy.
I know you think that's weird and creepy too.
Just let me know if he says any weird shit like that again and
I'll have a talk to him. Because listen, you don't have

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that many like you. You only had him as a male role
model growing up and he was the only father figure that shows
you love. And it is important to me that
he doesn't act like a creep because you deserve a good man
to be watching out for you. But then I already know he's not
a good man because I heard the way that man talked to you when
they tricked you into having lunch with Dakota.

(28:54):
That man called you a whore and said you deserve to be lied to
because you jumped into bed too fast with him.
But I guess that's just religionfor ya.
I guess that is just religion for ya.
And rewind to Macy saying that Jesus was Mormon.
I laugh at that. And I'm like, oh, it's fucking
crazy. But I do say that while I
understand that every religion has some fantastical shit that

(29:17):
you just have to have faith in and believe and not try too hard
to wrap your mind around. Because there is absolutely no
logical sense to be made and nothing tangible that you can
find that will confirm that whatyou're believing is true.
OK, It's a lot of faith. There's a lot of crazy shit in
every single religion. That was just a new one for me

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with a very established character.
New lore. That one just threw me for a
loop. Enough about Jesus.
Can I just say with Chippendalesand with what's it called again
like the skinny dipping stuff. I am not religious right?
I'm I'm ethnically Jewish, I believe in God, but other I'm
not conservative in any way shape or form.

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That being said, I'm not. It's probably skinny dipping in
front of a bunch of cameras. I'm not.
It's just, I just don't feel. It's just not me.
It doesn't feel like something Iwould want to do.
Chippendales, you. I think that male strippers are
disgusting. I think they're absolutely
gross. I don't think any man needs that
much muscle. What are you fucking

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overcompensating for? What are you doing in the gym?
How long do you spend in the gym?
What else do you do? Do you read books?
What are you talking about? The only time I've ever found a
male stripper remotely attractive.
Obviously Magic Mike, Channing Tatum, but that's just because
his they don't all dance like that guys, but they all don't
have those moves. So unless you're Channing Tatum

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C to the TI, don't want to see it.
And if I was Zach watching that,I would think this is the least
sexy thing I've ever seen. Jen doesn't look into it like
and also we saw on Jen's what's it called again on her social
media that they eventually did go on a date night together, 2
Chippendales, Zack and Jen in Las Vegas.
So I'm glad they've conquered that.

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But it's just they're not sexy. I don't Maybe there's something
in me that just thinks that men who are too buff or stupid buff,
I just don't. I don't even like that word.
I don't know any man who cares that much about how he looks is
just not my man. Thing about Jen before we go is

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that when Zach was talking to I can't remember who oh Whitney
and her husband about Jen's struggles, he said that 90% of
what she's going through right now has to do with mom talk.
And I don't want to be insensitive, but I might be
insensitive. What the fuck are you talking
about? How could it possibly be that

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dancing in a circle with a handful of women the this is
causing you to spin out? I am so sorry, but what the fuck
are you talking about? But I want to say buck up,
buttercup girl. This is it's not life is harder.
And also, if we've seen anythingfrom Whitney, whether or not

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you're in Montauk, whether or not you're allowed in one of
those like soulless beige Mcmansions to dance in front of
a tripod poorly with a bunch of extensioned, bleached blonde
faux Mormons. If that's what's tearing your
world apart, girl, you need to figure this out 'cause it, it

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shouldn't be like Taylor. We see her falling apart.
We can say why she's terribly disappointed in herself for
basically every decision she's ever made.
She's calling herself a slut constantly in her brain.
She I know she's freaked out about the fact that she has two
baby daddies and that's just notthe life that she envisioned for
herself. And that's not the life that her

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family envisioned for her. And that's why they're like
begging her to stay with this man that she can't trust to,
despite knowing that he's lied to her and despite it being the
same man who they didn't want her to be with prior to her
having a baby. And if she meets someone new,
the love of her life, the personthat she actually wants to spend
her life with, she probably willwant to have kids with that

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person. So does that mean that she's a
three baby daddy Mama? I can understand why that would
be running through her head constantly worrying about how
she's going to be perceived given where she was raised and
how she was raised. She can't help it.
She can't help it and it's eating her the fuck up and it
shouldn't. I wish I could.

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I wish I could fucking get that into her brain.
But I like, hopefully therapy ishelping her get there and then
the empathy that she shows people who fuck her over is
wild. She's just like a good messy
bitch. And she's a great mom and she
will continue to be a great mom no matter how many children that

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she has. I think that the ability to
actually reflect on your behavior in real time is not one
that many people possess. Often people need a lot of space
and distance to take get that like 50,000 foot view of
whatever the fuck is going on and how they're playing a part
in their own demise, in the demise of their relationships.

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But Taylor's got a finger on thepulse of who she is, and that
doesn't mean that she loves herself.
She doesn't love, not yet, but she understands herself.
She doesn't give herself any grace, and she should.
And she's just an incredible example, I think.
And I'm sure that if she heard me say that, she'd be like, what
the fuck are you talking about? But I do think she's a great

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example of how people should move in this world.
You don't have to be perfect, but you do have to learn from
your mistakes. You don't have to be perfect,
but you do have to be honest with how you're coping and how
you got there. And she's able to do that

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masterfully. Her vulnerability is also a
superpower 'cause that bitch lays it all out there.
Like I said, she bleeds out for her craft and she should be
getting paid the most. Let's move on to my second fave,
Michaela the Gangster. She has seen some shit.
She's been through so much, so Icompletely understand why she

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would be particularly sensitive about people, new people coming
in and out of mom talk because Iwould imagine she has stress
issues. And now she's found this
supportive unit, her chosen family when her mom and her dad
fucking failed her. She wants to preserve it and
make sure that everything remains OK.
And Whitney is she's, she's insidious.

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She there's always something going on under the surface that
you never quite know what it is.She has alternate motives.
She's also one of those that is obsessed with how Taylor is
always and always has been, always will be the fan favorite.
She and I will never get over her not fucking backing Taylor

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after Taylor was the only one who said she could come back.
I can't, I can't. But you better never make that
mistake again, Taylor. Never again.
If I see Whitney commenting likehearts on your posts now I will
flip my lid cause Taylor, there's a fine line between
forgiving and fucking stupid. Do not cross the line into

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fucking stupid. Cause girl, fool me twice.
It's shame on me. It's shame on you.
The worst. Michaela has dealt with so much
in her life and still she thrives.
She's so bound to read that bitch is a fighter.
I just love her her. She just has a swag about her.
Did you see her shake her ass, Michaela?

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Michaela, where did you learn that?
Because you grew up in you grew up in Utah.
You're a Mormon. How did you learn to shake your
ass like that? I was shaken to my core.
She dances like a stripper, and I mean that in the most
complimentary of ways. OK, she looks like she's has

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some experience on a pole, and Iknow that she doesn't.
Maybe she takes strip aerobics or like pole dancing classes.
I wonder if Mormon women do that.
Honestly, it seems like Mormon women do everything.
They just lie about it and are extra judgy about it when it's
brought up in public. That seems to be the commonality

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here. And then there's Macy.
Macy the sweetie. Macy is just a reasonable bitch.
She is a great mom. She's honest.
She doesn't talk out of both sides of her mouth.
She is about to be a published author.
She jeans like a decent person, Like someone with good, really
good insides. OK, Jesse, I don't.

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There's something wrong with her.
She's a sniveling fuck right alongside Layla.
Layla, I understand you grew up with a lot of white people.
I did as well. That's still no excuse to be
such a sniveling fuck. Get it together, have a
backbone, figure out what you believe, figure out who you are.
You're a fucking ship without a sail out here.
You're stressed. And I think you should go to

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therapy. I think there's a lot of
important therapy that needs to happen.
I do not believe, Listen, I don't know what the black
therapist community in Utah is like, but get yourself a
telemedicine appointment with a black therapist.
For fuck's sake, girl, you can'tlive like this forever.
I was just so disappointed in her when she looked at Taylor
and she was like, of course I'lldefend you.

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And she just sat there with her eyes wide open on that couch as
Taylor got attacked. I know you're scared of Demi but
buck up you gotta figure that shit out.
Who cares what Demi thinks? Demi hasn't been successful in a
single one of her attempts at A at ruining one of these bitches
lives. She tried to get Jesse kicked
off the show. No, she tried to get Taylor

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kicked off the show. No she's not good at that.
She's a lot of like bark. 0 bite0 bite.
Thank God the cameras are on with that fucking compulsive ass
liar. Demi certainly doesn't give a
fuck about Jesse. Jesse she is so annoyed and
jealous of because she doesn't feel like Jesse one deserves her

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empire, all of her money. She's annoyed that Jesse is so
rich because she sees Jesse as like less than her.
When they were at dinner and Taylor asked to me like, OK,
what if you and I had a falling out?
Would you be fall or like fighting for me to be off of the
show? And she was like, never, not

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you. So what, you think Jesse is
expendable, your best friend? And Taylor said I wouldn't even
do that to any of these girls. And I'm actually the head girl
in the group. I'm the Queen here.
And I would never just be like, hey, if you're not going to
fight for the same salary as us,we're just not going to have you
around anymore. And I believe Taylor when she

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says that because the bitch has feelings far more than she
should, frankly, especially whenyou're down.
She wants, she's the kind of person who wants to pick you up.
And she definitely doesn't want to be adding to any of your
stress. She's a forgiving bitch.
I'm so glad I don't have that trait.
I am so glad that is not something that haunts me after

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what Demi did. I don't understand how you can
move past it. I don't understand how Jesse
moved past it. I don't understand how Taylor
moves past it. Taylor, I don't.
I would say teach me your ways, but I don't want to.
I don't want to be that person. First of all, I want to be a
little scary. I think I have already
solidified that. I want to be the kind of scary
that when some person verbalizesthat they are going to do

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something that is out of pocket,that someone else would look at
them and say I wouldn't. I wouldn't wouldn't like this
came up with with flights to Bachelorette.
I've gone to a bazillion bachelorettes all over this
fucking world world and he's alland the question came up, is it
OK if you're going on a destination Bachelorette trip to

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fly separately to fly first class when everybody else is
flying coach? The question threw me for a
fucking what do you mean? How does my arrival and
departure have anything to do with anybody else?
How is that anybody else's business?
I don't have a single friend whowould be comfortable questioning
how I choose to travel. So yeah, no, it is not weird to

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travel first class if everybody else is traveling.
Coach, how would you know what my seat was in the 1st place?
Also, are you planning on talking to me on this flight?
I'm not talking to you on this flight.
I'm gonna have my headphones in.I'm gonna be asleep.
Are you out of your mind? So that's the kind of situation
like in that circumstance, if one of the bridesmaids at The

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Bachelorette on was like, oh, Sir, she's about to fly first
class and she's not going to be seated with us.
Isn't that weird? You want me to talk to her?
I want the bride to be like, Oh no, I wouldn't.
I would just leave that one alone.
Leave that, leave that. I think that Taylor is scarier
to men than she is to women. Like it's hard for her to not

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empathize to a woman with a woman that's struggling, but she
is so good at tearing a man apart.
Like immediately. It takes a while for that anger
to build with Taylor and women, but with men she's ready to
slice and dice and I fucking love that energy from her.
What a Quan. What a quani.
Also Dakota, fuck you. Gross.

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That's all I got to say. He's giving.
First of all, poor. Why are all of these men so
poor? It's insane.
I think that's basically all with mom talk, right?
Did I forget anyone? OK, the last person to address
is Miranda. She cracked me up in the when
she was like flailing about in that lobster costume at the

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Halloween party. Miranda is the other lady in the
swinger scandal, and she and Taylor had a falling out when
Taylor told everybody that she was a swinger and named the
couples that were involved and they didn't speak for three
years. And now she's back and
everybody's like, oh, now you want to come back because.

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Why? And it's obviously because of
the success of the show. And, and some of people are
trying to paint her out to be some kind of villain or like
fake or clout chasing because ofthat.
What are you guys talking about?You're standing in front of a
camera doing a viral dance with five other grown women every
single day. Yeah.
You all want attention. It's not exactly the most, like,

(43:58):
revelatory, unique, even particularly interesting work
that you guys are doing here. It is lucrative, sure, but she
also has her own following. All of these women, they don't
share a mom talk account. They're individuals.
Yeah. She wants to be back in because
it is getting very popular and you guys are getting a lot of

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attention. And that obviously equals, like,
some kind of monetary gain. Does that make her a bad person?
No, no it doesn't. It just makes her the same as
all of you, and that's perfectlyfine.
Listen, I'm sitting here in front of a camera and a
microphone right now, who I obviously want attention as
well. There's nothing wrong with that.
I think denying that and trying to vilify someone for seeking

(44:41):
out the same thing that you are,perhaps in a different manner.
She had a different circumstance, different drama
and different healing. So I'm glad that Miranda has
returned. I am annoyed that she also
didn't fucking stand up for Taylor, but it is what it is.
She and Taylor seem to be doing fine now and Taylor as usual is

(45:04):
a forgiving Quan. Let's hope their relationship
continues to be OK. But that's pretty much
everything that happened this season of ma mop talk of the
secret lives of Mormon wives. It was so fucking good.
He had me at the edge of my seat.
I've had a very stressful week. My dad was back in the hospital
and then we ended up having to go into a nursing home and I've

(45:27):
been spending a bunch of my dayswith him.
So this was really great to havesomething to watch while I'm at
the hospital and at the nursing home.
So this show was perfect for that.
All right, and that's all for Secret Lives of the Woman Wives.
On to the Summer House finale. Where the fuck was the part
about Paige catching Craig cheating, texting other girls

(45:50):
twice while they were in a relationship?
Where the fuck did that go? Also, where the fuck did the
after show go? What is going on?
Have you guys noticed that not only sometimes they're in the
promos, they include things thatyou don't actually see in the
season? That happens from time to time.
But the fact that the after showjust fucking went kaput and
stopped like weeks and weeks ago, I'm a little confused.

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I'm a little confused by that because because like after shows
are where you get the real juice, where you get the real
tea. And I think that might have been
the problem because Paige was spilling a lot of tea about
Craig. And I don't want to say that the
network might be protecting him.But we also heard at the
beginning of the season that from Kyle that we were going to
see Craig acting up on summer house this season.

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And that leads me to believe that Craig went to the house for
more weekends that we saw but hejust wasn't included in the
final cuts. And it's just, I don't fucking
understand why we've all seen him messy.
Craig messy before winter house.I will never forget him being
like I'm too rich to clean afterhe created that mess.
Like stomping glass everywhere, throwing plates.

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Woke up the next morning, I don't clean, I'm too rich to
clean. We know he's a douche and
obviously this is just me guessing, but something has to
be going on for them to just completely pull the summer house
after show it that doesn't just happen for no reason.
I find Lexie and Jesse so fucking exhausting.
I can't with them. It's gotten to the point where I

(47:20):
don't care what's going on. This was three months.
You've known each other for 12 weekends, 12 weekends, 24 days.
That's how could that possibly be enough to merit all of this
goddamn drama It. It's too much.
And honestly, both of them are lying.
Both of them are lying. Both of them are deflecting.

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Both of them are immature. Jesse, like I've said a million
times, quintessential fuck boy. Look up fuck boy in the
dictionary. It's Jesse in all his teeth.
Just like smiling back at you. Lexi.
She is she a pick me? I don't know.
It's giving. Yeah, she gives a little pick me
shot and that's a match made in hell.

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So do I think that Jesse was going out of his way to
purposefully keep her away from the girls and keep him all to
her himself? No, I think Jesse was going out
of his. He was suffocating her, like he
said, because that's what you dowith a girl who like has dated
Drake in Brooklyn Beckham before.
He literally said, yeah, I've love bombed her.
I could see that because I was dealing with a girl of her
caliber and so that was the motive.

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Not I don't want her hanging outwith the girls.
I want to ruin her relationship with the girls.
That's not it at all. First of all, that's up to her.
You're a grown woman. You're only, she's only two
years younger than Sierra. Guys like see, he's like 27.
Sierra's 29. If you want to hang out with the
girls, get up and fucking hang out with the girls.
You're living in the same house.If he was being overbearing and
weird, why don't you tell him tocome the fuck down because you

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want to hang out with the girls.If he was telling you I love you
and you didn't feel it back, whydidn't you tell him to slow
down? He didn't cast a spell on her.
She was equally a part of makingthis relationship a shit show
and I find that she often does not make sense.
I don't understand what she's saying.
Ever really like with Sierra? I still can't wrap my mind

(49:10):
around why she wouldn't trust Sierra.
I just saw her in what was it that desert show Coachella with
Jessie. So obviously they're friends
again. We talked about this last week,
but just but Sierra, we have this word in a heart.
It's called Sinistrat. She's a it means like she's
serious, like she's a serious person and she like moves about

(49:31):
things with purpose and with with her head held high and she
just knows what she's doing. She's a bad bitch.
She's Sinistrat. She's a serious girl, she's not
one to just get over things or let things go.
So if Jesse was really talking shit about her, saying horrible
things about her, then I don't think that Sierra would still be

(49:53):
giving him the time of day. She's just not that kind of
bitch. So that leads me to believe that
Lexie is exaggerating probably all the things that Jesse said
about Sierra or didn't say aboutSierra.
I think she's just inferring quite a bit from that weekend
that she was away that everybodysaid they were make they were

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what is it called again, flirting.
So Jesse and Sierra were good for two weekends out of this
summer prior to him telling her don't touch me anymore and her
being like OK fuck you avoids him for the rest of the summer.
Where could Sierra possibly be the issue in this circumstance?
They didn't even interact long enough for her to be seen as

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particularly flirty. He is the one who is obsessed
with her and rightfully so because that is the baddest
mission of the land. Lexi finding a way to project
this onto Sierra makes it clear that she's it's giving pick me
ish. So the pick me and the fuck boy.
A grim fairy tale. I feel really bad for Ciara

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trying to like live her life footloose and fancy free, not
even thinking about Jessie and suddenly she's every time she
walks into the room she's what'sthe drama?
Truly expecting to hear some shit about someone else and she
hears it's actually about you. She's shocked, she's shook and
she's shaken because like how could that be possible?

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I didn't even fuck with you for 70% of the summer.
What? How could it possibly have to do
with Ciara? Gross.
One more thing about Lexie, she was like, oh, he keeps trying to
make me out to be like this jealous person that I'm not.
Didn't Lexie literally on their first date when they went like
bowling or something, Say I get really jealous.
You are the one who said that about yourself.

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So I think he was just trying tolive within those, force himself
to live within those parameters that he didn't want to.
He wanted to have sex with you. Being exclusive was the only way
he could make that happen. So he did, even though he would
have rather preferred to just keep it casual and then fuck
around. When that happens, the
relationship always ends poorly.OK, if a person is just being

(52:05):
exclusive with you just so they can get into your pants before
they even know anything about you, how are you going to be
exclusive with someone after a first date?
You don't know if you even like this man.
How are you going to give up other Dick for this man?
I don't understand. You don't know him.
He could be a bad person. You've decided now, after an
entire summer that he is a bad person, But like, that just

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seems unreasonable to me. Him getting his toe sucked?
It was probably his Dick. Did he agree to be exclusive?
Yes he did. Does that put him at fault?
Absolutely. Should he have agreed to be
exclusive Abso Fucking lutely not.
Should Lexi have even wanted to be exclusive after knowing him
for two minutes? Absolutely not.

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So they're all fucked in the head and I no longer give a
damn. Just leave Sierra out of it you
absolute cookadoodle doos. Right.
And also I just saw Jesse on Watch What Happens Live and he
was on the show with Wes and Andy was like so Wes, how do you
feel about Jesse getting jealousabout you and Lexi potentially

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like flirting on that night out and Jesse has the audacity to
say fake news. Andy was like, Sir, we are on a
reality television show. We saw it and he was like, no, I
don't actually think that was what it was like.
Let me, I'll have to watch. The gaslighting was fucking
insane. Even Wes was like, bro, it's
fine. We saw you were it's OK.

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But and he just kept dumping like, no, I don't think that.
I think I was saying that I was really happy that she was
flirting with Wes because because she sees that I was
doing the same thing with Sierra.
And if she's doing with Wes, then obviously neither of us are
doing something bad. It's just like, what are you,
first of all, you the disagreement you're having is

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like she said, I was not flirting with this man.
He was blacked out drunk, drooping over and I was trying
to drag him into the house. And I believe her when she says
that. And I absolutely believe that
Jesse was drunk and trying to find the one thing to grab onto
to justify any previous or future flirting he might do.
See, you were you were flirting with Wes and I didn't care.

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So it can't be that bad that I flirted with Sierra or Oh my
God, what do you mean? You were flirting with Wes last
week? Why do you care that I'm like
buying this girl a shot? Come on.
It's just, it's disingenuous andit's bullshit.
Just like he is disingenuous andbullshit.
And I've said it once, I've saidit again, for someone who has
looked death straight in the eyes, Jesse has a shocking lack

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of substance. It is incredible.
One would assume he'd done some soul searching, but no.
No, it's giving Saxon. And I don't know what's going to
get him to the point where he picks up that book and starts
reading it. I don't know the How to Be a
Better Person book, but it's time to check it out from the
library. Boo.
He's a motherfucking mess, Wes. Oh, Wes, What is there to say

(55:04):
about Wes? Wes is a nervous little man.
He's an anxious little feller. I don't know how he ended up on
the show guys. He is entertaining, he's funny.
I really enjoy his confessionals.
But I do not understand how he ended up on the show because
real time conflict, not his expertise, actually any kind of
situation that isn't like objectively funny, light

(55:27):
hearted, silly. He no idea how to communicate,
how to interact. It's like he's a fucking Bambi,
just born learning to walk. He doesn't know what's going on.
I saw a preview for Summer Housenext week and he's like pulling
a paper out and he's like, yeah,I brought notes.
It says speak bitch, Please tellme you took a beta blocker.

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Please tell me that page past you a beta blocker because I
don't think that note is going to be enough.
I don't know what it is. Maybe he needs hypnotism therapy
for him too because whatever he's got going on there is so
bizarre. But I just came across a video
of Wes talking about how he voted for Kamala and how he's

(56:10):
like a feminist and his mom was an OBGYN.
So he's a good guy. He's just a scared little boy
and just grow up, learn how to speak, string some words
together. I wonder if it's just like he
has a hard time communicating while he's on television, or if

(56:31):
it's like that's just who he is.If he was having dinner with you
and he got uncomfortable, would he be able to finish a sentence?
Would he start sweating profusely, like water trickling
down his face? Sir, would you like a napkin?
I don't know, but I'm interestedto see how he behaves at the
reunion, which should be OK for him because he's probably not
gonna be on the hot seat this year since he didn't say

(56:53):
anything all summer. I didn't hear a pig out of that
man other than him saying that Wes and Lexie are weird.
Just a bit like everybody agreesthat Wex and that sorry Jesse
and Lexie are weird. So at least we know for
Shirzee's that Lexie has securedher seat on Summer House for
next season because they love anuncomfortable X situation up in
that bitch. But I put money on the fact that

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they end up hooking up again next summer because that's what
pygmies and fuck boys do. That is the natural cycle of
their relationships. That is how that works.
So finally OK Danielle came backand I gotta say, still hate that
bitch. She is the absolute worst And

(57:35):
the part that really pissed me off is when she was sitting
there talking to Kyle and Lindsay and she kept going on.
This feels like the end. This feels like the closing of a
chapter. You're crazy if you think this
isn't the end of something. What are you even fucking
talking about? First of all, you don't think

(57:55):
she's already thinking of these things?
This is her livelihood and she just had a baby and she's trying
to figure out how those two things can exist in the in this
world. It is not so black and white
when this is your entire world and just because you are no
longer on the show, it doesn't mean you should be chomping at
the bit for it to be over. She is such a fucking hater.

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Even from Lindsay having her baby.
You guys don't live together Lindsay.
It's like a little like every time she's on the screen she's
just nagging at Lindsay about what she's doing wrong or what
she's expecting that isn't real or whatever.
Girl, how is Dawn doing? Is Dawn going to be here next

(58:39):
season? Is Don a functioning app CEO and
founder? How about you worry about that
and worry less about what Lindsay's going to be doing next
season? Because you bet you I would be
down to see Gemma doing a milk bong.
Frankly, I would a million timesrather have Gemma be the new

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cast mate then bringing Danielleback.
For God's sake, please. And I speak for all of us, all
of us. She is infuriating.
She just carries herself as if she knows everything.
She has all the answers. She is wise and she's Aceo and
Thunder and she's a bad boss bitch.
And it's just I'll. First of all, your app is a

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disaster. It doesn't work, OK?
Everybody hates it. You can't know everything if you
don't know how to run your business.
And for our segment Hot Girl Things, where we talk about
things in politics, policy and global news because hot girls
stay informed. I want to talk about Kourtney

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Kardashian. Actually, she was on Khloe
Kardashian's podcast and she wassaying how school is so
overrated, All right? And when I tell you the fire
that was lit under me when I heard her say that.
And of course, Khloe agreed. And I usually love Chloe, but
this is a huge miss on her part.What do you mean school is

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overrated? Where do you think these
children should go? Education is important.
Not everyone can afford a private education or afford a
tutor. Not everyone has the time to
dedicated to making sure that their children are reaching
their educational milestones, and some, frankly, simply are

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not prepared to provide the kindof education that a student
requires to excel academically. For the vast majority of parents
in this country, having their kids out of school with a
governess or some shit is simplynot an option.
And when they talk about school as if it's overrated.
And do we really need it in the time when Donald Trump is

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actively trying to tear apart the Department of Education that
millions of children depend on not just to learn, but to eat,
to eat for safety? When COVID happened, the amount
of abuse cases amongst children skyrocketed because there was no

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escape. There was no respite.
There was no place to go, no no freedom from their abusers,
their captors, which sometimes are their parents.
There are so many circumstances where school is the only
lifeline for children to get outof a tough situation, the only
lifeline for a parent to be ableto keep their kids somewhere
safe and be able to work to support them.

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It's it's so important education.
You can't just think of it from the scope of your own socio
economic place. We are all existing on this
planet. We all exist in this country.
You have to be conscientious about how these systems, these

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departments, all of these federally run organizations that
are key parts of keeping children alive, safe, educated,
moving forward in life, might not touch you directly, but they
are impactful, important, and just their only life lines.

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So it's just insane. Like you can go to, I take my
kids to a soup kitchen every Thanksgiving so they can say
like how lucky we have it, that's OK, fine, whatever tepid
as it might be, fine. That's OK.
But what I would really prefer is if you educated yourself on
basically anything, anything that doesn't immediately have to

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do with your own ID and your ownfucking just nonsense beliefs.
She's just such a nonsense person.
On that note, federal judge did just block Trump's attempts to
dismantle the Department of Education.
So just buckle up for another four years of this exact thing.

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Trump trying to to tear this country apart and the federal
courts having to block him. Truly, the judicial branch of
the United States government is the only thing that's holding us
together right now. That's all we got because it's
our fault. And honestly, let's not go down
this road right now. And that is it for hot girl

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things, OK? The Department of Education is
open currently. Hopefully it remains open.
Kourtney Kardashian, you're a stupid girl.
And that is all, on to the next.Welcome to Questionable Things,
a segment where you ask me questions.
They do not have to be pop culture related, and I do my
best to answer them. All right.
And today our first question is from Jarobin VM.

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Are you going back to grad school ever?
That's a good question. I honestly I never thought I
would when I was younger. I assumed that I would take my
English degree and I would eventually get my MFA in
creative writing and hopefully be like a starving artist my own
entire life. And as I grew up learned that
isn't a life for me. But and also don't really see

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that much value at this point investing money in an MFA.
But now as time goes on, I'm actually considering law school.
I have been poking around, seeing what my credits look
like. It's so fucking crazy going back
and like looking through your transcripts to see whether or
not you have prerequisite this or that in order to like

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actually be able to matriculate.But yeah, college was like a
decade ago. I have an incredible amount of
life and professional experience, and the law schools
seem to value that. And I don't know if I would
want, I don't know what I would do with it.
That's the thing. Part of me feels like it's the

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right thing to do, but I don't, I don't really know what kind of
law I would want to practice. Like entertainment law does
sound good and interesting, but it's also like a lot of
contracts. And but that's law in general.
It's all of that to say, yes, I have thought about going back to
law school. I am most likely going to take
the Lsats and I just want to take it one step at a time.

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Let me get my Lsats done and we'll see how I score, and then
we'll see if I'm still in a place where I do want to go to
law school. And if so, we'll continue moving
forward. And I know that some people
might say it's crazy if you don't go take the Lsats without
planning on going to law school.Don't tell me what to fucking
do, and don't tell me what I canand cannot do if I take the

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Lsats and decide I don't want I don't want to go to law school,
fuck it if I do. And I still am in a place where
I think that's the right place for me.
I will really. The world is my oyster.
When I was younger I never considered it law school, but I
think it really does make sense and I find the law interesting
in general. I've taken a bunch of practice
tests and I've done pretty well for someone who hasn't been in

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school for a very long time. It's a lot of like logic and
reasoning. If you catch me out here saying
I I passed my ass that's or I got a high score, don't be
surprised. And if you don't hear that, then
no, I fucked it up. OK, next question.
This is from Eli, Eli Elils 924.Describe your ideal partner,

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Rich. I'm just kidding, just kidding.
My ideal partner, kind like decent, has integrity, values,
doing the right thing. Someone who is smart, who is
curious and asks questions and finds, finds things outside of

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his like immediate day-to-day life interesting.
Someone who I don't know cares around about the world around
them. Someone conscientious, someone
very honest, civically engaged. I want someone who cares about
politics and this being a contributing member of society,
of the society that we all have to take a part in.

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Someone who is not judgmental, who is not like high strung.
I not Moody. I don't handle Moody people
well. I think that it's not a real
thing. It's like a choice.
You're not, you can't. You're not just Moody.
You have control over your emotions.
Act like a normal person. Don't let your nonsense permeate
through the whole room. I hate those kind of people.

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I just fucking hate that shit. So not that.
And like a feminist, a guy who really wants daughters, a Jew
preferably, but I'm open, financially stable, obviously.
I feel like that goes without saying.
Someone with a career, someone with a passion, someone who
feels they have purpose in this world and someone very

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supportive and who isn't cagey about his feelings and who knows
how to communicate. Isn't this what everyone wants
though? Who would hear those descriptors
and be like, oh, I don't want a conscientious, kind man with a
job. We all want that.
Of course I don't want to see a conservative get out of my
sight. And no, I just like no

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douchebags. I want very limited ego.
One thing about me is that narcissistic men hate me.
They hate me so much. I don't know if I give off an
odor. I don't know if there's a look
on my face. But every narcissistic man I've
ever had to repeatedly come in contact with just find me
infuriating. And I honestly, I'm just running

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around living my footloose and fancy free life and something
about that tends to piss them off.
That's my claim to fame. But yeah, someone who's just,
like, gentle and stable and honest and obsessed with me.
I don't need a golden retriever.I want like, a Doberman on the
outside, golden retriever on theinside.

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To me, the only person you have to be like, nice and super
obsessed with is me and potentially our children.
I don't care about the rest. Yeah.
And someone who will let me do absolutely whatever I want and
who will support all of my dreams, whims, ambitions,
purchases, all of the above. Right.
That is my dream, man. Thank you for asking.

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OK, that is all for this episodeof Saron things.
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