Before we begin our coverage of “Love Island USA” – we did a little cast preview during this episode (!!!) – we had to discuss Netflix’s latest addition to the reality romance space: “Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark.” Hosted by Chloe Veitch, the show follows pairs of people who were once each other’s “sneaky links” (a.k.a. situationships), and challenges them to explore those relationships for real – or just date another hottie who has checked into their shared motel. There’s a lot about the show that doesn’t really work. The structure is murky, the casting is meh, and the goals are confused. However, one thing that it does make clear is that the men are NOT alright.

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In recent weeks, *a lot* has happened: Two more “Love Is Blind” babies were announced (AD and Ollie! Lauren and Cam!), Ashley Adionser gave her first interview since separating from husband Tyler Francis (of “LIB” S7), and both Peter Kraus and Cassidy Timbrooks gave candid – exceedingly off-contract – interviews about their time within “The Bachelor” franchise. So naturally, we had to hop on and discuss it all. Come for the Ashley tea, and stay for the production reveals.

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It may have taken “Farmer Wants A Wife” a few years to warm up, but after watching the end of season 3 we are ready to declare that this show scratches the itch that old seasons “The Bachelor” once did. In the two-part finale, Farmers Jay, Colton, John and Matt meet some families and then make their final decisions. There are some genuine surprises! And genuine drama! And genuinely romantic moments, despite the fact that there is an overarching dark-sidedness to it the whole enterprise! And throughout it all, Kimberly Williams-Paisley’s outfits get increasingly deranged. Thank you for your service, farmers and prospective wives/farmhands. We truly love to see it.

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NYMag Features Writer Rebecca Jennings joins the pod to discuss her new book, “Be The Bombshell: What Love Island Teaches Us About Dating.” We dig into how “Love Island” reflects the hellscape of modern courtship and simultaneously offers an antidote to our app-forward dating culture. (Our main takeaway? Girl, leave your house.)  We also discuss how the show reflects our increasing political polarization, plays into the growing tendency to perform our relationships for external approval, and releases everyone from the tyranny of “the right reasons.”

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As “Bachelor in Paradise” filming continues, we finally have some casting leaks! We discuss some of the big names who will be appearing on the beach. Then we dive into the latest episode of “Farmer Wants a Wife,” in which the farmers and one of each of their finalists introduce their families to each other. As farmers’ siblings and mothers make sure their potential future sisters-in-law plan to have fruitful wombs, the ladies bring their moms for that bff-level support and their dads for that FBI-level questioning. One step closer to finding the four tradwives to rule them all!

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We’re talking about two shows with polar opposite vibes this week! First, we get into the final solo dates on “Farmer Wants A Wife,” and discuss who each farmer picked to be in their final two. Then we switch gears into the Bravo-verse and discuss the new dating show, “Love Hotel,” which takes four iconic Housewives and puts them in a villa to mix and mingle with a bunch of eligible-ish men. But some of them don’t have money, hunny! And that’s a no-go for these ladies.

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This season of “Farmer Wants a Wife” has been the juiciest one yet – so we were thrilled to sit down with Julia Mya (Jay’s farm) and Rachel Eve (Matt’s farm) to find out more about these bonafide city girls and their foray into agricultural dating. We discussed how they ended up on this show, what we missed about their relationships with their farmers this season, and some of the shocking details about their in-house conflicts.

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Bachelor Nation’s hottest singles, regular and Golden, have hit the beach in Costa Rica to film a new season of “Bachelor in Paradise”! We run down the news and speculation about who and what are going down this season. Plus, we get into the seventh episode of “Farmer Wants A Wife,” where, lo and behold, Farmer Matt is finally forced to make an active decision! And Farmer Jay is really focused on “picking the brains” of his remaining women to do informational interviews on the subject of whether they have feelings for him.

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In this episode of “Farmer Wants A Wife,” the agricultural dating show goes full pronatalist, as the farmers display their deference to their mamas – and let them have a shot at picking the next women who will clean up after them for no pay. We dig into the show’s deeply conservative vision of motherhood, especially white motherhood, and the fantasy of overflowing wombs the episode weaves for us. Next, we discuss the Netflix crossover reality show “Battle Camp,” a sadistic summer camp featuring stars from “Too Hot to Handle,” “The Circle,” “Squid Game” and more. The show is brutal physically and perhaps even more brutal socially, but at least they’re ruled over by their new god: the wheel of misfortune.

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