Here it is. The episode you all have been waiting for… The episode where Christina and Em leave the comfort of their reality TV dating show coverage and embark into the unchartered territory that is SURVIVAL SHOWS aka ALONE SEASON 11. This episode of the pod features a competitive draft where Christina and Em both choose 4 of the remaining 8 players to be on their team for the rest of the season. Things get heated. We are both competitive AF. Who will take the crown?!?!?!?! Anyway, if Alone isn’t your thing, don’t fret! We spend the first half of the episode doing deep dives of Love Island USA and America’s Sweethearts: DCC… there was much to discuss! You know we can’t help ourselves!

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Episode Description: SOMETHING IS IN THE WATER BECAUSE WHAT IS HAPPENING ACROSS THESE SHOWS? We need to talk about Harry. We need to talk about Rob. And guess what?????? WE DO. That’s honestly all we’re going to say. Tune in :) 

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WARNING: Very long, meandering conversation at the top of this episode that has nothing to do with Reality TV. That’s just what we needed, OK?! Once we get that out of our system, we dive in. For this first time in history, Christina gives one of Em’s favorite shows an A, which is huge, IMO. Em gives details on a most recent challenge in The Challenge: All Stars, which involves electrocuting contestants, which tracks. Then we talk about the first episode drop of Perfect Match and do a very humane thing where we put the contestants in tiers. Next week, we’ll be comparing LI UK to LI USA… pretty exciting stuff! 

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Seminar was Race to Survive NZ, but in reality this ep is a bunch of mini episodes. We talk F Girl Island—I mean Lovers and Liars—and how that (almost) ends. We talk Love Has Won, and we will never talk about it again. We talk Love Island UK, which should be at the top of your to-watch list. We close with Race to Survive, where we dissect all the pairs of racers, who the favorites are to win, and who the favorites are in our hearts. Awwwwww. Enjoy!

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Welcome back to our (arbitrarily named) Season 4 of the pod! We missed you all! In this ep, we recap all the shows… no really, all of them: Deal or No Deal Island Season 1; The Circle Season 6; Lovers & Liars Season 1; Summer House Season 8; The Valley Season 1; Top Chef Season 21; The Bachelor Season 28; The Golden Bachelor Season 1; The Challenge All Stars Season 4; Farmer Wants a Wife Season 2; Vanderpump Rules Season 11; Race to Survive: New Zealand; The Amazing Race Season 36. We told you-–ALL OF THEM! We also talk about the musical, Cats. Happy Summer Schooling! xoxo

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Don't worry -- we didn't leave you! We are just taking a very short pause. See you in June :)

Yes, we are releasing this a week after we recorded it… but you know what? There actually wasn’t much to talk about in the reality TV space this past week, so we aren’t sorry. Also, we had to recover from our vulnerable stories we share at the end of this episode *shudders* before posting it. We hope you can relate!!! Anyway, tune in to hear our final thoughts on LIB Season 6, and some other stuff! 

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Here we were, thinking we’d not have much more to say about LIB, and yet… how wrong we were! We unpack each couple and get into allllllll the drama. And also, Em asks Christina a vulnerable question regarding Sarah Ann’s decision to send JerAmey a DM. You won’t BELIEVE what Christina says! We also discuss Survivor Season 46 premiere, Couple to Throuple, and a whole lot more. Most importantly (no joke), we also have a truly wild revelation about Beauty and the Beast. In real time. Join us. 

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The day hath arrived: A new season of love is blind, a new EXPERIMENT (barf) to discuss! We invite our fav Love is Blind guest, Ed, to unpack the first episode drop. We originally said we’d just cover the first 3 eps, because 6 is a doozy, but who were we kidding, we cover them all! Prepare yourself, because this is truly a meandering episode with many a tangent and many a hot take, but we had fun, and we hope you do too. Oh, and we also do a little report card run down, of course! Tune in! 

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First things first: Em deeply apologizes for her audio failure. We fixed it after 20 minutes and we are MOVING ON. (Edit: Christina actually doesn't think it's too bad!) In seminar, we do our deepest dive on the Traitors yet—because, honestly, Sandra deserves it. But before that, we discuss a couple classics (Farmers Wants Wives, VPR, the Bachelor), and Em gives an extremely inarticulate monologue about the new Peacock original: From Couple to Throuple. A question for our listeners: Whose hero’s journey are you currently most invested in, across the Reality TV landscape? Let us know!  

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