This week’s seminar is all things Ultimatum: Queer Love. Christina rants, Em cries, what’s new? We unpack our journeys with each contestant from Episode one through the Reunion, and boy did our impressions change over the course of this season!!! Em caps the episode off with an office hours segment that sheds light on why some people seemed to feel more sympathy for Rachel/Raquel after the VPR reunion. Plus a smattering of other coverage in homeroom (Love Island UK, Stars on Mars, Love Allways, and more), you might say this episode has it all. We hope you enjoy!

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Buckle up, students, as (our arbitrarily decided upon) “Season 2” of the podcast has officially launched! A little structure shake up, a lot of rambling. We high-level cover Stars on Mars; The Ultimatum: Queer Love; Barbecue Showdown Season 2; Race to Survive Alaska; Queer Eye Season 7; Below Deck Sailing Yacht Season 4; and Top Chef Season 20 Finale. Seminar this week is a deep dive into the truly incomprehensible world of the Scandoval, with our first ever returnee guest and resident VPR expert, Jen D’Angelo. 

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The good vibes are back this week, baby! Chrishell’s journey on Selling Sunset! Let’s let people be both emotional and strategic! Watching people be mentally tortured in physical competitions is not it! The complexities of deciding who to bring to Final Tribal in Survivor! To cap it off, Em hosts an office hour session where she goes deep on the social psychology of emotions in order to unpack why Rachel/Raquel’s emotional expressions in the VPR finale were so deeply irksome! Prepare to be DELIGHTED! 

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Why are emotions so gosh darn hard!? What’s up with the reverence for ship Captains? In what ways are news headlines misleading? Could we love the Fab Five (Queer Eye) and Carolyn (Survivor US) any more? We maybe took a lot of tangents in this one, but we think the journey was worth it—and hope you agree!

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For the second time ever, Em and Christina were in the same city this weekend. So we recorded the podcast together, in real life! Join us for this scintillating episode where we discuss a wide range of topics, such as, how do we feel about live eels and Gary, respectively, on Below Deck Sailing Yacht? In what ways is Jewish Matchmaking sparking memories of our own dating experiences? What is the best loved ones reward on Survivor? What’s the intersection between Top Chef and labor rights? Sorry if we overshare on this one, that’s what happens when we record IRL!

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If you’re not watching Jury Duty, what are you even doing? Does Christina come up with the most insightful metaphor that aptly summarizes Survivor 44? (spoiler: yes, yes she does) But mostly, this episode is all about Top Chef, with esteemed guest Kendra Vaculin. What would she value most if she were to be a judge on the show? Who are her winner picks? What meal would she spend all her Survivor auction money on? Also, her Top Chef thesis is so good, Em cannot stop thinking about it. You do NOT want to miss!

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Can we get behind any of Netflix’s production decisions (spoiler: no, we cannot). What’s the casting process like for the Farmers who want wives?  In what way is Survivor like baseball? Can you ever benefit from being strategically prosocial? What did theater people ever do to Christina? Brace yourselves: this is Em’s favorite episode, to date.

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Will we ever be able to trust Netflix again? Which men disappointed Christina this week? How might the concept of false positives vs. false negatives help Love is Blind contestants make optimal decisions? Who broke the cry count record this week, and why? Tune in to this week’s ep to find out, and apologies in advance for how upset Em is, throughout, on the Live Reunion failure.

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Are we too nice to reality TV contestants? Was Jackie (LIB) legally allowed to keep her engagement ring? How confident would you be in running up a wooden half-pipe wall? When is keeping something a secret (i.e., a lie of omission) the best choice? Is there such a thing as “lawlessness” in the Alaska wilderness? Tune in for our most chaotic episode yet (by a long shot, tbh).

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What is the difference between falling in love and being in love? What is more important to us: The Jedi or food? How would we redesign the “Is Love Blind?” experiment to make it more scientifically sound? What is Ed’s core thesis about LIB (hint: it involves the concept of “transference”)? This episode was truly a blast, and we hope you agree!

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