Taylor Frankie Paul Is the Bachelorette, ‘TSITP’ S3 E10 Recap + Shaun White & Nina Dobrev Split

Summary

Chicks in the Office Podcast Summary

Episode: Taylor Frankie Paul Is the Bachelorette, ‘TSITP’ S3 E10 Recap + Shaun White & Nina Dobrev Split
Hosts: Ria and Fran (Barstool Sports)
Date: September 12, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode balances poignant reflection on recent real-world tragedies with signature pop culture banter and reality TV breakdowns. Ria and Fran start on a somber note, addressing recent violence and the emotional toll it’s taken, before shifting gears to dissect the latest in celebrity news, TV recaps, internet culture, and listener-favorite segments. The major topics include the shocking announcement that Taylor Frankie Paul is the new Bachelorette, a full discussion of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” Season 3, Episode 10, the breakup of Nina Dobrev and Shaun White, and a pop culture trivia faceoff.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Opening Reflections: Addressing Current Tragedies

[02:15 – 15:52]

• Heavy Week in the News:
  • Fran and Ria express how recent tragic events (notably, the shooting of political commentator Charlie Kirk and other instances of violence) have created a somber, scary atmosphere.
  • Fran [03:20]: “We’ve reached this point where… this country is so divided now, we’re seeing someone actually be killed for his thoughts and beliefs. ...It is so awful to see, and it’s really scary to see the discourse around something like this.”
  • The hosts acknowledge their show is usually an escape, but they felt this moment could not be ignored. They encourage listeners to process their feelings and prioritize mental health.
  • Both hosts reflect on the 9/11 anniversary and the ongoing, senseless loss of life.

2. Weekend Plans and Personal Catch-Up

[17:02 – 18:46]

• Fran is heading to the Vineyard for her anniversary and 31st birthday, expecting a bittersweet visit since the family dog, Flo, has passed.
• Ria attended a Yankees game — left early “to beat the rush” and to get home for “The Summer I Turned Pretty.”
• Fun banter about Ria’s new nail shape (“square” instead of “almond") which garnered IRL and social media reactions.
  • Ria [21:25]: "The more people DM me telling me not to do it, the more it pushed me to doing it."

3. Celebrity Breakups: Nina Dobrev & Shaun White

[25:04 – 30:18]

• Discuss surprise breakup of Nina Dobrev and Shaun White after nearly a year of engagement.
• Timeline confusion — they’d been on vacation together just weeks ago.
• Theorize about reasons—pushed-off wedding, possible "mutual" issues, but no confirmed details.
• Reflect on how sometimes red flags (like not wearing a ring) don’t mean much in Hollywood, but a pattern can indicate something more.

4. Reality TV Shock: Taylor Frankie Paul Is The Bachelorette

[30:25 – 36:40]

• ABC announces Taylor Frankie Paul, known from “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” as Bachelorette for Season 30 — a huge shakeup.
• Community reactions range from excited to furious, given her controversial reality TV background.
• Ria [32:08]: “If you watch this show for the drama and messiness...we root for madness, and that we will get.”
• Debate on casting someone with a massive social following and rumors about the rules being rewritten for Taylor’s season.
• Fran sees it as an “ABC calculated risk” to boost ratings in a crowded reality TV landscape.

5. Bachelor Nation & Love Island Updates

[36:52 – 40:41]

• Post-Paradise Couples: Fran surprised most “Bachelor in Paradise” final couples are still together.
• Brooks Nader’s rumored flings with tennis star Carlos Alcaraz create social media buzz, helped along by her sister’s tongue-in-cheek confirmations.
  • Fran [42:38]: “It did give me a giggle because...now they have this funny bit that Grace Anne will just tell everyone who Brooks is dating.”

6. Only Murders in the Building: Awkward Fan Encounters

[45:01 – 52:38]

• Ria shares the (failed) attempt to meet her idol Martin Short at an event, with Fran recounting the misadventure and silver linings (“chapter one” in her quest).
  • Ria [51:49]: “It's about the chase...We went to one event with Miley Cyrus, got a picture...That’s a dream come true. It’s nice to have goals.”
• The hosts reflect on how celebrity meetings are sometimes less glamorous in reality and reaffirmed their fandom for the “Only Murders” cast.

7. Pop Culture & Streaming: Love Island Games, Prince Harry & King Charles

[60:58 – 75:03]

• Love Island Games Season 2: Disappointment over the announced cast vs. rumored cast (thanks, “NASCARguy69”), and debate about who might come in as “bombshells.”
• Prince Harry & King Charles reunion: After 20 months, they meet for tea, with emotional speculation over protocol (hugs, bows?), familial rifts, and importance of reconciliation.
  • Ria [72:33]: “You know, you don’t want to... if you’re Prince Harry, part of you is like, I need to see my dad before anything were to happen.”

8. TV Recap: The Summer I Turned Pretty – Season 3, Episode 10

[79:55 – 99:47]

• Viewer Reaction: Audience split; some thought the episode was a letdown, others loved it.
• Major plot threads: Belly's journey, Paris storyline, tension around her relationships with Conrad and Jeremiah.
• Concern about pacing—too little time left for narrative resolution.
• Book differences: Discussion of the use of Conrad’s letters and changes in the TV adaptation.
• Theorize on finale (“will there be a surprise episode 12?”), hope for a proper concluding arc, and the show's reliance on Taylor Swift songs.
• Fun aside about the best "Conrad sweater" yet — green cable-knit.

9. Other Streaming: My Life with the Walter Boys

[94:49 – 97:47]

• Fran recaps her disappointment with the “Walter Boys” Season 2 finale (“waste of time”), given it retreaded Season 1’s arc and non-progressive love triangle.

10. Pop Culture Trivia Game

[101:53 – End]

• Fran. Ria, and Noah play their “Beat Ria and Fran” trivia game with listeners.
• Includes questions across TV, music, movies, and some classic reality shows.
• High-spirited teasing among the hosts, a running joke about cohost Noah tuning out, and playful threats over editing gaffes.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Discussing Tragedy:
  • “As much as we always want to keep it light and discuss our nails and our haircuts... it feels as if we are stuck in a very, like, violent cycle right now. Scary.” — Fran [02:47]
• On Pop Culture Escapism:
  • “We want to be an escape for everybody and we’re not ignoring what’s happening.” — Ria [14:36]
• On Celebrity Relationships:
  • “You begin to wonder, when they make the step of getting engaged... what happens so much that they call off the engagement? ...If you’re calling off that engagement, boom, it’s over.” — Ria [28:32]
• Taylor Frankie Paul as Bachelorette:
  • “Never did we ever think they’d bring someone outside the franchise to do Bachelorette. ...It is Taylor Frankie Paul—controversial, entertaining, but messy.” — Ria [30:54]
• Meeting Martin Short Mishap:
  • “Not only did he not look at me, he almost looked away... I don’t want people getting mad at him, oh, you ignored Ria. Don’t do that... this is just chapter one!” — Ria [50:23, 52:09]
• On TV Tropes:
  • “Nothing bothers me more than a female lead that’s like: I can’t be with you because you make me feel like I lose control.” — Fran [96:05]
• On “The Summer I Turned Pretty”:
  • “I have concerns about the last episode... I like having something like this to discuss, to have fun banter about... not ready for it to end.” — Ria [93:00]

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Memorable Segments & Timestamps

• Addressing Recent Violence & 9/11 — [02:15–15:52]
• Nina Dobrev & Shaun White Breakup — [25:04–30:18]
• Taylor Frankie Paul Announcement — [30:25–36:40]
• Bachelor/Bachelorette Nation Updates — [36:52–40:41]
• Martin Short Story — [45:01–52:38]
• Love Island Games Cast Reaction — [60:58–69:10]
• Prince Harry & King Charles Reunion — [69:27–75:03]
• TSITP S3 E10 Recap — [79:55–99:47]
• My Life with the Walter Boys Commentary — [94:49–97:47]
• Trivia Game with Listeners — [101:53–End]

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Tone & Style

• Direct, conversational, self-aware; frequent banter and playful teasing.
• Vulnerable and empathetic when discussing tragedy; light and quick-paced when switching back to pop culture and reality TV recaps.
• Occasional explicit language; inside jokes with listeners.

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Final Comments

For listeners looking for both thoughtful cultural commentary and a fun, in-depth dive into the week’s reality TV and celebrity news, this episode showcases exactly why “Chicks in the Office” is beloved: authenticity, relatability, humor, and a finger on the pulse of pop culture.

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Transcript

[Fran]

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[Ria]

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[Fran]

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[Ria]

Yeah.

[Chicks in the Office Intro]

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[Fran]

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[Fran]

What's up everyone?

[Ria]

It's Chicks in the office with Ria and Fran giving you that Friday energy on a Friday.

[Fran]

Friday.

[Ria]

Yes, it is Friday. We are going to get into our usual show. We have a lot of topics to talk about. The summer I turned pretty, all of that. But we wanted to start off the show talking about, you know, it's been a heavy week for everybody. It's been a dark week. A lot of tragedies have happened, a lot of crazy things going on and you know, I Feel like the world is affected by this heavily. We're all affected by it, and we can't ignore what's happening, and we want to talk about it.

[Fran]

Yeah. I think, you know, as much as we always want to keep it light and discuss our nails and our haircuts and all those things that, you know, we will and we will. But I know that it's been weighing on us this week. I know it's been weighing on others, but it feels as if we are stuck in a very, like, violent cycle right now. Scary. It's really, really. It is really scary. On Wednesday, whether you unfortunately saw it or heard it. You know, it's like a video that maybe you didn't want to see or a video that you had no choice. It came across your timeline. But Charlie Kirk, who, you know, political commentator, conservative activist, he was speaking at a college in Utah, and it's something that he does. He tours these colleges and he was shot and killed in just one of the most disturbing videos I've ever seen. I, you know, I really wish I had not seen is absolutely terrifying and scary. And it's created this conversation online and in person that people are discussing what happened. And we're, you know, we've been talking about it amongst ourselves and amongst our team, and it's just been one of those things you really can't believe is happening here and happening in this country. You know, I think that we have reached this. This point where at certain times, like, this country is so divided now, we're seeing someone actually be killed for his. His thoughts and beliefs. And, you know, whether you agree or disagree with the things he was saying, that is your prerogative, but it's also your right to get to disagree with him as well. And now seeing his life be taken because of that is so tragic, no matter what side you fall on. He was a young guy, married, father of two really small kids, who now have lost their father, lost their husband. And that is a tragedy on any day. It is so awful to see, and it's really scary to see the discourse around something like this happening and the reactions of people and their thoughts of how this could be anything but a tragedy. And. And it's, you know, it really, It. It's really hard to comprehend that that is where we have gotten, that people could see this happen and say, like, didn't agree with what he believed in. So, you know, I mean, I know I speak for both of us that a lot of the things that he was saying is, you know, we do not Agree with and align with at all. To be killed. Like, that is such a tragedy.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

And it's just wrong. We can't. It's. It's.

[Ria]

Everything you're saying, we can't be having.

[Fran]

This happen in this country. We just can't.

[Ria]

Right. Everything you're saying. Very, very well said. Agree with you on all fronts. That like you are saying, and I've seen many people talk about this in this way that it's like, no matter what you believe, you have the right to believe them, to disagree, whatever it is. And to see somebody get murdered in cold blood, his kids being there video live on forever. Like, it's just. It's just not okay. Like, it's just. It's. It's scary and it's disturbing.

[Fran]

Yeah. We've reached this point of seeing this, you know, political violence. And I know there are people that are upset over the level of, you know, conversation that is happening because of this. And yes, you know, we are talking about it now, and it has been built up to this point, but it is something that must be like, we had represent a representative in Minnesota who was shot and killed in her home with her husband. Like, there is a level of political violence that is happening right now. I think, you know, Charlie had a massive platform that you're. You're seeing this happen, and it's like, holy shit. And we are really become so desensitized to these acts of gun violence in schools and churches and cop. Like, all of these events that are happening. I mean, we're hearing about this happening to Charlie at the same time they're reporting on a high school shooting happening in Colorado. It's. It's so terrible. Over Labor Day weekend, we all. You know that Catholic school kids in mass.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

It's just so terribly sad. And we're seeing this level of violence that cannot be ignored. It's this. We can't just, like, keep letting. Letting this happen. Sounds crazy, but it's just like we. We see these videos. I mean, I know we were talking about it too, and a lot of people are talking about this week because the video came. Whether you've seen it or not, it's another one that's like a major trigger warning because you're watching this poor girl arena a Ukrainian immigrant in Charlotte, on the bus, straight up getting murdered. Just. Yeah, like. And you feel helpless. You're like, what is going on? Like, this poor girl is just killed in cold blood. No one. It seemed like nobody really realized what was going on or could help or Whatever was happening. And we've now gone on a few weeks of just one thing after another after another after another. And I know it's been like that for a while.

[Ria]

Another school shooting.

[Fran]

It's been like that. And we're so in stuck in this cycle of like, oh, school shooting. Oh, school shooting. It's just.

[Ria]

And then when you see the stats of the amount of shootings that have happened just this past year.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

And like you said, like, you. In a terrible way, you become desensitized in a way, because you're seeing it constantly. But it doesn't take away how awful and tragic it is.

[Fran]

It's sick and violent and just disturbing all around us. It really is. And the. That this level of political violence is really, really scary and something that, you know, you. You wouldn't think would be happening in this country and for what this country stands for and exactly what we preach and all of those things. And, you know, it's at this level of gun violence, very clear look at what's happening. Not. Not picking a side. I know that this has been a conversation that runs deeply political, that we've been having for years and years and years now. But at the same time, we continue to watch people die regardless of what they believe, who they are at the hands of guns. Small children in school, small kids that are just going to their first day of school and going to sit in church and start their school year.

[Ria]

So scary.

[Fran]

And it really cannot. You see it every time. You see it online. Wake up. This can't keep going on like this. We can't keep going on this. And yet somehow the cycle continues and it's really, really terrible. And we. We see this ha, you know, happen with Charlie, and it's incomprehensible that something like this is happening at. At this level of having this guy shot and killed. And, you know, I think it really is hard to come to terms with that. And I know that there's a lot of other people that feel really sad about what's happening and seeing these stories and, you know, fear for their safety. Young girl on a bus in Charlotte. Like, it's just. It's really a lot of violence. I keep using the word violence, but it's just a.

[Ria]

That's what it is.

[Fran]

It's what it is. And it's. It's scary and it's sad. And I think that there's a level of fun and laughter we always want to bring to this show. It's always what we focus on. It's an escape for us, absolutely. Getting to sit here and talk about the trivial things and the pop culture stories and the breakups, it's a privilege. We are very fortunate we get to do this job.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

And we hope that we can give you guys that escape from seeing all these moments, because we just want you to know that we are seeing them too.

[Ria]

Absolutely. And we talk about it with each other all the time. Like, we are always discussing these things. And you may not see us talk about it really often ever. Because we do want to be an escape for everybody. We want to be an escape for ourselves. Like, we come here and it's escape for us, but when it is just, you know, ongoing and built up, it's hard to ignore. We don't want you guys to think that we don't see what's going on and we're ignoring what's happening here because we're not. We're talking about it with each other always. And I think everything you said was extremely well said. And, you know, articulating those points for both of us that we both agree on all of that. I think, you know, you hit everything and really articulated how we feel about what's happening.

[Fran]

Well, thank you for saying that. I just, you know, I think it's really one of those days. It sits heavy with us. We're also in New York City and we're recording on Thursday. It's 9 11. It's just like a day of remembrance that you reflect on the people that lost their lives on 9 11. And it you. No matter what, I think being in New York and feeling that, it brings back a lot of those emotions. We were really young, of course, when 911 happened. But you hear the stories, you hear the people we know. So many people from lies are affected.

[Ria]

Knowing people that were very, very affected by this day, like, it is still very heavy each year.

[Fran]

And one of the, you know, one of the most senseless acts of violence ever. And to sit here, you know, 24 years later and these. These tragedies are happening within our own country. It's really. It's really heartbreaking to watch this all happen this week.

[Ria]

And.

[Fran]

Yeah, like we said, I think, you know, we will continue to do our episode today. And that may be a little bit of a jump right from. From this. And we understand that because it feels silly, you know.

[Ria]

Cause we talk about this. It feels silly to go from talking about, you know, all of these tragedies and how heavy it is for everybody and what everyone must be feeling this week and then to the. Then Go into something as silly as our nails or our hair or whatever it is and we understand how silly that can come across. But we want everyone to know that we are really always here doing it from a place of like trying to give people an escape. Trying to have a fun light hearted show for us, for you guys. So if we do go into talking about all these silly things about pop culture and all of that, it is because we want to be an escape for everybody and we're not ignoring what's happening.

[Fran]

Absolutely. She's just a reminder that we love you guys. We thank you so much for, for being here with us and take care of yourself, whatever you need to do. I know I've been caught in a. Certainly a doom scrolling. I. You know, I think it can be really dark and I know that. I think that there is once again a privilege to be able to put your phone down and, and shutting it off for a little bit. But if there is something that can be done to help give you a little bit of peace after seeing all these terrible things happen, you know, take it, do it, feel it.

[Ria]

Yes.

[Fran]

Feel that. If you feel that sadness, feel it. You know, it's, it's, it's okay to be shook up.

[Ria]

It's okay to be scared by everything that's happening. Like so. Yeah.

[Fran]

Yep. Yep. And so I think we will continue on with the rest of our show. We have a bunch of topics to do. Funny enough and I know that there's are some people that are very concerned about this week's episode of the summer I Turn pretty. So we have that too.

[Ria]

We will be talking about that as.

[Fran]

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[Ria]

We're headed into the weekend. What are you doing this weekend?

[Fran]

You know, I'm. I'm headed up to the Vineyard to see my parents and it is almost my one year anniversary. Yes. Which is crazy 31st birthday. But we'll just.

[Ria]

You know why you say it like that?

[Fran]

Because after, after 30 it just feels.

[Ria]

No. Now. No. This is what people have been saying now. You're young again.

[Fran]

I know. I know.

[Ria]

Because now you're in your early 30s.

[Fran]

You know what?

[Ria]

You know.

[Fran]

Yeah. And maybe other people have felt this way, but I've, like, I've loved saying I'm 30. Like, I've loved being 30. I don't know if I love 31.

[Ria]

Maybe I'll grow to love it.

[Fran]

I'm 31. Yeah. Yeah, 30. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. But I'm excited to get up there. Obviously. We got married up there, so it's a fun to. It's not the same weekend, but close enough where we get to celebrate our anniversary and see my parents. I haven't seen them since Flo passed, which obviously is, I think, going to be pretty sad to be up there without her. But I'm excited to see them and enjoy our time with them because they're. I don't see them as much, and their schedule is all over the place. And then they go down to Florida and I know it's. I know I signed up for it because, you know, I got the dog and I love the dog. I die for Olive. Like, I love that dog. But, you know, the Wednesday, calling my mom, being like, hey, I'm gonna jump on the plane to West Palm tomorrow.

[Ria]

Not gonna be happening.

[Fran]

Not gonna be happening as often. So I'm just trying to take up the time with them that I can. And I. Normally we go up around the end of August for my dad's birthday. And why wasn't able to do that this year, which was sad. I. I always kind of like to pop up there around that time for his birthday. So I'm glad we get to spend this weekend with them. Super bowl rematch on Sunday. Eagles, Chiefs.

[Ria]

Yes, I heard about that.

[Fran]

Arrowhead. So I get to watch. Watch it up there with. With my dad, which is always fun to watch the. Watch the games with him. So I'm looking forward to it.

[Ria]

That sounds lovely. Yeah, that sounds very, very nice.

[Fran]

You are at the Yankees game.

[Ria]

I did. I went to the Yankees game Wednesday night. Did they lose? They did okay.

[Fran]

Like, badly, right?

[Ria]

Yeah. We left in the seventh inning.

[Fran]

Okay. I didn't want to. I didn't see the final score, but I saw at one point I was.

[Ria]

Like, ooh, no, we left in the seventh inning. Mainly because I wanted to get home and watch the summer. I turned pretty.

[Fran]

Yep.

[Ria]

Important. And it's, like, getting late. And I was like, I know when to leave an event, if anyone knows how to leave an event. It's me. I like to get out of there before the rush. Like, unfortunately, I do it at concerts. Like, I like to beat. And I'm not saying I leave early in the middle of a concert, but, like, when I know you're like, the.

[Noah]

Guy that I sat next to who is famous in Fenway, who. That's what he's known for. He.

[Ria]

I beat the. Yes. I like to beat the rush. When you are far from the event, like I usually am in Jersey City, you like to beat the traffic, you know.

[Fran]

Yep.

[Ria]

So got out of there, thankfully. Cause it was not that score when we left, so apparently things just must have went downhill.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

But it was great. Love going to a ball game. First one we went to of the year. Probably the last I've gone to of this year.

[Fran]

I was gonna say really waited. It's September now. It's almost like season's almost over. At least the regular season.

[Ria]

But the weather was perfect, so I enjoyed that spot.

[Fran]

Weather.

[Ria]

I did get stopped for my nails.

[Fran]

You did. Look, I'll admit, I, you know, can't put. Put your paws over here. I haven't gotten a really good look at them.

[Ria]

I love them. So I actually really don't even care. No offense. I do usually care about your opinion. But when I love something, actually, really.

[Fran]

I will say. And I message you. I said, better than I thought. And I stand by them. I think they look really good. I actually.

[Ria]

Thank you. I actually like them better than my almond.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Like, I think they're doing something for my nail shape right now that I enjoy, but give me one of these.

[Fran]

Yeah, I actually. It's a. It's a. It's a flattering shape.

[Ria]

It just cut the point.

[Fran]

The.

[Ria]

The almond off and went square. You know what I mean? Because it does go in still.

[Fran]

Right? It's. Yes.

[Ria]

Yes. But I'm feeling them.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

I'm feeling them a lot. I thought I maybe wasn't going to, but I'm liking them. And I got stopped. A lovely listener of ours said, let me see the nails. I said. She was like, I love them.

[Fran]

So I will say, I think I. You know, I stand corrected. I think it was a good. Not there's really anything.

[Ria]

I understand the fear.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Of changing the nail shape.

[Fran]

Because sometimes also, you never know. Like, you could say, this is the shape I want, and you leave with something that isn't right.

[Ria]

You know, My nail test, I was very specific, and she told me I should do it.

[Fran]

Oh, yeah. This was her suggestion.

[Ria]

No, I brought it up to her and then she said, yes, you should.

[Fran]

Okay.

[Ria]

And I was like, all right. And she's usually pretty honest with me. Like if I say a color or something, she'll be like, don't do that.

[Fran]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ria]

Like, even yesterday she tried three different colors on me before she put this color on. Yeah. And she didn't like the other colors. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would have just been like, yeah, that's fine.

[Fran]

I think the. I think the pretty, like neutral was the right call. Because I think, like, especially when you change your nail shape, you gotta go. Yeah, you gotta like, it can't be that much of a shift.

[Ria]

Yeah, you gotta go.

[Fran]

You can't do that. And then do like a bright green. You're gonna be like, ah, right.

[Ria]

I didn't want to do like a big solid color. I didn't made. You know, the French will be next time. I'm gonna have to test that out.

[Fran]

That's it looks. The natural base is really pretty though.

[Ria]

And I like what it looks like when I talk with my hands.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Thank you very much. So. Yeah.

[Fran]

So I'm glad you made that change.

[Ria]

Me too. And I'm gonna keep it for a little bit just in case anybody was wondering.

[Fran]

Good.

[Ria]

Because I know people were fearful. The more people DM me telling me not to do it, the more it pushed me to doing it.

[Fran]

Right. I felt that way too. I mean, I felt that way for you. I was like, the more people. Even the comments on the. On the social clip of girls being like, no, like Heather, like, oh, she's gonna do it.

[Ria]

Heather McMahon being like, no. And I was like, oh, watch me pop out with these now.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

And if I hate them, I can go back. But I do like them. So that is a huge plus. Noah and I are dancing tonight and Matt.

[Noah]

So only a few hours away.

[Ria]

Long. Not a few hours. We got a long way to go.

[Fran]

I'm excited to see nervous in night class.

[Ria]

I'm nervous about my energy levels at that time. Because guys, I've been hitting the hay early and I've been waking up early.

[Noah]

Like we're talking 8 o' clock, by the way. It's not like.

[Ria]

No, I know it's at 8 o' clock the time. No.

[Fran]

But I mean, you're in bed at.

[Ria]

I fell asleep at 9:30 the other night. I wake up early now and I.

[Noah]

Get tired of this sausage sandwich we're gonna have.

[Ria]

It's gonna be great. I just, I didn't have a coffee yet today. Cause I was saving it for before the class.

[Fran]

You guys are ready to. Did you bleep the song in the last episode?

[Noah]

I did.

[Fran]

You did.

[Ria]

Okay, we can reveal it now, because by the time this comes out. That was so true.

[Noah]

We don't, I guess. Are we just gonna post it, like, tonight?

[Ria]

Or.

[Noah]

Like, what are we gonna do?

[Ria]

I mean, does it need editing?

[Fran]

Like, what's it.

[Noah]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Ria]

Are we gonna let people wait? How long are we gonna wait?

[Noah]

Yeah. I don't know. We haven't. We haven't thought about our triple collab strategy.

[Fran]

I mean, get that thing out there. People are gonna want to see it. No, we'll have to say.

[Ria]

Okay. We won't say the song yet. You'll see.

[Fran]

Well, maybe tomorrow morning.

[Noah]

Yeah, maybe.

[Fran]

Sorry, this is gonna sound silly now, but maybe Friday.

[Ria]

Maybe a Friday. Midday.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Early afternoon drop, everyone. 12 noon.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Noah]

And also, like, if I'm really bad.

[Fran]

If you're listening to this, the video is already out or it's coming very soon.

[Noah]

I'm really bad. Like, I know. And you don't have to say it, just to the. To the people.

[Ria]

Same.

[Fran]

While you're already trying to.

[Ria]

I'm going to get out ahead of myself, too.

[Fran]

I don't want people commenting. No, it wasn't good.

[Noah]

I don't need you to tell me if I'm bad, because trust me, I'll. I'll know.

[Fran]

Well, I don't. I unfortunately don't think you're going to stop people from commenting on your dancing.

[Noah]

In a good way.

[Fran]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ria]

I told Noah before, my goal is for us to be so good.

[Noah]

I'm going to be the worst.

[Ria]

That.

[Fran]

That's okay.

[Ria]

Well, we do keep talking in circles about this. We'll find out.

[Fran]

I know, I know. We'll see. We'll see. That's what happens.

[Ria]

Yep, we'll see what happens.

[Fran]

Exactly.

[Ria]

All right, let's get into the rest of the topics. We got Nina Dobrev and Sean White. Engagement ended. That really came out of nowhere. To Taylor. Frankie Paul announced as the new bachelorette. Love Island Games cast was revealed. Brooks Nader and Carlos Alcaraz. Alleged little fling happening between the two of them. Prince Harry and King Charles reunited after over a year. The summer I turned pretty. Episode 10. And we have a great game of trivia. So let's get into the topics. Let's start off with talking about Shaun White and Nina Dobrev. Their engagement has ended. Now, listen, when I first saw the photographs of Nina Dobrev without her ring.

[Fran]

I Thought I missed that.

[Ria]

So it happened this week because of Fashion Week. It was also shown that she was photographed with a handbag that had where your fingers go through, so it had like the rings around. So I thought, oh, maybe that's why she wasn't wearing it. That's what other people were saying. And then sometimes, you know, I think with people who are fashion models, actresses, whatever, sometimes their ring, I think doesn't match their outfit and then they take it off. I, I don't know, I feel like sometimes that happens. So, like I don't go ahead and automatically. Automatically speculate when someone's not wearing their ring.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

If they're seen multiple times without the ring, it seems to be a trend.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

You start going, ah, you know, maybe something here. Didn't think much of it. Boom. Reported their engagement, their watch has ended.

[Fran]

Yeah, I really didn't see this one coming. I know obviously people were talking about the pictures without the ring, but sometimes, you know, that's not like a huge red flag like you said. But people did confirm that they have split up. A source close to the pair said it was a mutual decision and wasn't an easy one, but it was made with love and a deep respect for one another, I think. You know, I really didn't realize if someone asked me right now, when did Nina Dobrev and Shaun White get engaged? I would have been like, oh, like four months ago. Like, I would have been like, oh, like so recent.

[Ria]

Time flies.

[Fran]

October 2024. It's been almost a year, so who knows what was going on? We may never get those details, but at this could be judgmental, but at that age, I mean, she's by no means like barely older than I am. Like, it's really not a crazy difference, but like, I do think that if you are engaged, you've been together for five years and you get engaged, and if you're going almost a whole nother year and we haven't really heard a peep about any wedding plans, and maybe they were keeping that very, very hush hush. And maybe there was a whole wedding plan and we don't know. But getting to that point, sometimes the question you're asked is like, oh, did they keep pushing it off? Were there things happening that they maybe like inner, their inner dialogue was telling them, like, oh, we're pushing off, or we haven't started the planning yet or whatever it was. Or maybe the wedding was supposed to be in like three weeks and they, and they called it off. Who knows, you know, But I kind of Lean towards. Maybe they just, oh, we're so busy, we haven't gotten to planning yet. And then, you know, all of a sudden, it's been almost a year, and you're like, wait a second.

[Ria]

Yeah. I don't know what could have happened here? Obviously, we have no idea. Like, it just got called off.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

But you begin to wonder, you know what I mean, when they make. When someone makes the steps to get engaged, like they did a year ago, and then they were seen on vacation together at the very last week of August.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

And now walking in the very beginning of September, you're like, what? Because what happens so much so that they call off the engagement. Right. Like, it has to be like a. You know, we're done. Like, if you're calling off that engagement, boom, it's over.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Like, I don't think you call off an engagement and go, but we'll still date.

[Fran]

No, no, no.

[Ria]

You know, like, I think it's like.

[Noah]

Jeremiah, can we just go back to the way we were?

[Fran]

Yeah. True dreams.

[Ria]

Yeah. Why does everything lead back?

[Fran]

Everyone leaves back. Yeah. But no, you're. That's very true. And I do think that there's obviously something. And when it's such a generic statement, like, oh, mutual decision made with love. It was super hard. It's like, something. Something must have happened. I saw one comment. One comment. So, you know, that's it. It's really. Probably means nothing.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Of someone being like, ooh, so the cheating rumors were true. And I'm like, what?

[Ria]

Oh, what rumors?

[Fran]

No clue. Never seen them, never heard them. Don't know what they were. But maybe they. Maybe they didn't.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

I don't know if it was for her, him, or what.

[Ria]

Somebody could just be making that up.

[Fran]

Exactly. Exactly. So I don't really know what happened.

[Ria]

Neither do I.

[Fran]

But it's very sad, I really. That they seemed like a great pair. Every time you saw them out and about. They were. They were one of those couples that every time you saw them, you're like, God, they must have great vacations because you just constantly saw them on vacation.

[Ria]

They were just always on vacation. That's why you thought that.

[Fran]

Yeah. Even though it's like, you know, they weren't constantly on vacation, but anytime that we saw, like, a lot of joint pictures, like a lot of double date.

[Ria]

Trips, like Zoe Deutsch, Jimmy Tetro, Nina Dobrev shot, they were going maybe like.

[Fran]

Miles Teller, you know.

[Ria]

Right, right. They were thrown in there, too.

[Fran]

Three trips that they were all having together. So that Sucks, though. That really. That's. That's a tough one. I thought that they seemed like they had such a great relationship but did not work out.

[Ria]

No, it didn't work out. We're. We're nosy, so we kind of want to know what ended the engagement, but I don't know if we'll find out about that.

[Fran]

Yeah, I know. I don't.

[Ria]

There'll be some rumors on Dumas or something about that, I'm sure. Probably moving on to something big that happened this past week in Bachelor Nation, which I don't think anybody was expecting for a while now we've been talking, what does the Bachelor franchise have to do to change things up?

[Fran]

Right.

[Ria]

What can they possibly do? And never did we ever think that they were, you know, so we've always joked around about maybe they'll bring somebody in out of the franchise to be Bachelor Bachelorette. Never did we ever think it was going to happen.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Out of nowhere, they switched season 30 to be a season of the Bachelorette. It was supposed to be the Bachelor. They changed it to the Bachelorette, and it is Taylor, Frankie Paul from the Mormon Wives who really can be controversial in people's eyes. You know what I mean? She's been in a lot of sticky situations, and she is very entertaining on reality tv, and now she is the Bachelorette. And I have to say, some people are locked in. They're like, oh, my God, sign me up. Which I think I kind of fall in that category. Corey of like, this is gonna be a disaster, and I'm ready to watch it. You know, it's gonna be very messy. And then other people, obviously, very, very upset that she is being given this platform and is going to be in Bachelor Nation. For probably many of Bachelor Nation fans that never watched the Mormon Wives or have any interest in that whatsoever, well.

[Fran]

This is obviously the reaction that ABC wanted and they knew they were gonna get. You don't cast her as a new Bachelorette without knowing. We're taking a risk that we could lose some people, but hopefully gain more.

[Ria]

Right.

[Fran]

Because more, they're looking for a huge show.

[Ria]

And if you watch this show for the drama and messiness which we now have become accustomed to, because once upon a time, we believed in the love the show gave, and then it turned to, you know what? We're just gonna root for madness now. We root for madness, and that we will get.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

With Taylor, Frankie Paul.

[Fran]

Yeah. Yeah. And then, of course, you see the people who are like, oh, my God, you know, they. They go down the line of mistakes that she has made in her life or mentioned the arrests or things like that where you're like, oh, now she's the new Bachelorette. Those people may not be watching, but yes, she is the star of the Secret Life. Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. That one escaped me for a second.

[Ria]

Yep.

[Fran]

And they've kind of discussed like, she's been asked before, would you want to be the Bachelorette or all these things, and she's always said yes. So I think now abc, Hulu, everything that they're doing feels really integrated. They're really trying to expand on their, like, non scripted universe and like having people jump into other shows and doing all that. So having her be the Bachelorette, it certainly checks out. I know everybody was freaking out because she did go on call her daddy. And Alex Cooper posted a video teasing this Monday night. Everyone was like, what the fuck does this mean? Like, is Alex Cooper hosting the Bachelorette? Like, what is. What's going on? But she was announcing that Taylor Frankie Paul would be. Would be the Bachelorette and it's gonna be a drama season. Immediately, I started seeing guys on my tech talk. Like, guys. Random dudes were coming up on my for you page that were like, oh, like, just answered that email from Bachelor at casting. But like, now I'm certainly not answering.

[Ria]

Oh, my God, I haven't.

[Fran]

Or like, yeah, I saw a couple.

[Ria]

I've seen girls talk about how they just went through the process of casting for the Bachelor but now realize that they won't be on that. But I have not seen that.

[Fran]

I saw, I saw like two guys that was like, oh, very interesting because of course it is. It's a very different. It's a very different show you're signing up for with Taylor Frankie Paul as. As. As the lead. And it's gonna be. Oh, my gosh. Honestly, I think, you know, we both agree it's gonna be must watch tv, right? We really don't know which because it's also like, what kind of guys are they casting? Because at this point now she's announced, like, you're probably gonna get the cloudiest clout chasers of all time showing up to be on this season too.

[Ria]

Now you're gonna have such a clout chasing cast. I'm sure I don't have issue with them bringing somebody on who already has a ton of followers and a following. Like, at that point, like, no, no.

[Fran]

This, at this day, at this stage.

[Ria]

With social media, just bring somebody on that has a bunch of followers because we already know that that's where ended up.

[Fran]

What do you think of her? About her? I could be misquoting this because I haven't listened to the whole interview yet, but I saw a lot of people talking about this that I believe. She said something along the lines of, like, if she met someone outside of the show and things weren't really going great on the show, like, she wasn't really feeling it with any of the guys that she would want the guy that she met outside the show to, like, come on, to, like, pop in towards the end of the season.

[Ria]

I think you can't predict.

[Fran]

I don't really think there's any rules. I'm playing with. No rules now.

[Ria]

I assume there's no rules with her. I assume she got a fucking fat paycheck. Like, my immediate thought was, how much did they pay Taylor, Frankie, Paul to do this? Yeah.

[Fran]

Oh. But I think she'd really wanted, you know, like, I would do it that much.

[Ria]

I don't think. I don't know. But it takes much.

[Fran]

Yeah, no, not that much.

[Ria]

But that's true. But much.

[Fran]

Yeah, for sure. No, that's. That's definitely true. So I also saw Dakota make a tick tock. I sent it to. He was like, him, you know, it's like, I'll just be over here taking care of my child.

[Ria]

Of course, that was Dakota. That was the most classic thing of all time.

[Fran]

Like, yeah, it was.

[Ria]

Of course we were gonna get that, but it was. This, I think, is going to be quite the season to watch. Like, no matter if you fucking hate it or you like it, it's going to be interesting. Reality tv.

[Fran]

Yeah, I agree.

[Ria]

Now, like, they have.

[Fran]

They couldn't have just done a normal season of the Bachelor Again, I don't think they would have been able to pull someone that would have gotten enough attention.

[Ria]

And at this point, like, it's just not it anymore. It's just not gonna be it. Like, there's so many other reality shows out there that they need to compete with now. They need to bring in stars and have them be the Bachelor. Bachelorette. And there you go. Yeah, that. That just solved it. Yeah, right there.

[Fran]

Yep. How quickly do you think the Nader sisters will be hosting a date on this?

[Ria]

Oh, pretty immediately. They'll be on this.

[Fran]

They'll be on this.

[Ria]

People thought that Brooks was gonna be the Bachelorette, but we can go right into it.

[Fran]

That could be very possible. Wait, I do want to mention one bachelor related thing before we talk about Brooks. When I. When we were talking about the end of paradise, this was, whatever it was a couple weeks ago. Remember when I was like, I betcha they're not. They're all broken up and none of them together. Boy, did I put my foot in my mouth. Because I didn't. They're all together. They're all together, all of them.

[Ria]

I'm so happy.

[Fran]

The final four, they're literally all together. And I had hope for some of them. Like I think Andrew and Alex, so happy for them. Such an amazing pairing. Like, I really think they make so much sense. But. But I was just worried, you know, they only filmed the show for a couple weeks. Like, what's. Is it going to work in the real world? Because a lot of times it just kind of crumbles in the world. And paradise has not been that successful as of the last few seasons. It's. It has been in the past, but the last few seasons I feel like not so much. And seeing them still together, I was like, oh my God. Fuck, yes. I'm so happy they're still together. But they all are. Jess and Spencer together. Bailey and. Shoot, what's his name? Jonathan. No, Jeremy. It came to me. Bailey and Jeremy and Cat and Dale. Listen, all still together.

[Ria]

Those two are match made in heaven.

[Fran]

Cat and Dale really are.

[Ria]

They actually, really are perfect for each other. They are.

[Fran]

I first I. That kind of was like, ooh. But now that I'm seeing them, seeing them like outside of the show, I'm like, these two were actually made for each other.

[Noah]

Did they do their like reunion on a podcast? Did I see like that came on my tick tock?

[Fran]

I'm like, they did a really interesting breakdown, but I, I don't know if they just didn't. If they just like ran out of time on TV or like the season had to end because of X, Y and Z, like football. I don't know what happened. But they. And it was weird too because it's like they put it out in podcast form first for like days, which had to have been hard to listen to. I know people I'm sure listened and I mean they did it got. It has tons of views. But then when I saw it posted, it was like full sit down reunion on Bachelor happy hour Wednesday, released on YouTube on Sunday. I was like four days later, people. The audio of like 12 people trying to talk at the same time with no visual aspect to it.

[Noah]

People get you guys messed up still.

[Fran]

They do.

[Ria]

They really? They do. They.

[Fran]

I'm Fran, by the way.

[Ria]

And I'm Ria.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

And that might have just shocked some People.

[Fran]

It might have. And so they put us next up. So. And I know it was like the drama they had shot back, talking about everything that he said during the finale and yada, yada, yada. But I think Wells. I'm pretty sure Wells hosted it and it was put out on YouTube. Last time I looked, it had, like hundreds of thousands of views. I just had. I have not fully watched it, but really, I was just happy that those couples are all together.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

That is.

[Ria]

You know what? That's a. That's a. A success right there. Why can't I say success? Success over there. I haven't had a lick of water today. I'm. My mouth is dry. I haven't had a liquor water. I haven't had coffee. Like, I haven't had any hydration.

[Fran]

No.

[Ria]

It's three o'. Clock.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

And I got no hydration, but it's okay. I'm not gonna stop now. Just gonna keep going. I gotta hydraul before the dance class tonight.

[Fran]

You do, you do.

[Ria]

That won't be good. Gotta hydrate. Anyways, speaking of Brooks Nader, people thought that she was going to be announced as the Bachelorette. Not the case. She's having a little fling with Carlos Alcaraz.

[Fran]

Yeah. This is funny because Carlos Alcaraz is.

[Ria]

A very famous tennis player, by the way, for people who may not know.

[Fran]

Yep.

[Ria]

He just won the US Open.

[Fran]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ria]

So congrats to him.

[Fran]

Yeah, he's a fantastic tennis player. And I think that some people jumped on this because while the sisters have all been doing press for the show, they did an interview, like, a couple weeks ago. I saw this on my Tik Tok, where, like, they were talking about Brooks's roster. And one of them, I think, alluded to, like, a tennis player. And the hosts of the show were like, oh, we don't. We don't know 10. Like, we don't know tennis.

[Ria]

Like, yeah, one of them said Tommy Paul.

[Fran]

Yeah. They were like, yeah, they said Tommy Paul. Yes. We can't even throw a name out. So I think they just, like, googled. And the first thing that came up was Yannick Sinner.

[Ria]

Mm.

[Fran]

So they were like, oh, Yannick Sinner. And then, you know, the girls laughed and blah, blah, blah. So there's been this rumor of the last few weeks that it was Brooks and Jannik. Sinner. Now, Brooks was at the US Open final match. It's like the challengers, which was Sinner and Alcaraz. And now it came out that Carlos. Carlos is, quote, the man of the Hour. Because Grace Anne has, you know, as much as. I kind of think it's a little bit of a bit, but also fun. Like, also dead serious. Cause it is kind of like, it's real. Like there are real people. But I think Grace Anne now is really leaning into being like, let me just tell everyone who Brooks is talking to. And she was doing Fashion Week stuff and was asked who Brooks is currently seeing named Carlos Alcaraz. Was like, yeah. Like, it's not. You know, they're not boyfriend, girlfriend. Like it's not. But like, they've been seeing each other, whatever. They're dating. And that's the quote. He's the currently the man of the hour. Brooks has. Has quite the roster, allegedly. So that obviously went nuts. Was posted everywhere. And it did give me a giggle because I did. Brooks wrote back to me and was like, I hate her. Like, it's just like, you know how much that they actually, you know, their sisters. So it's like they stir the pot. I think it's a funny bit now that they have going that like, Grace. Grace and does this. And then Brooks is like, what the fuck? You know, it's like. And it's. There is feelings there. I think Brooks is like, shut the fuck up.

[Ria]

Right.

[Fran]

But every single time, it gets everybody talking about it.

[Ria]

Yeah. I mean, it makes people intrigued. And then everyone's like, wait, Brooks Nader? And everyone's really blown away by this.

[Fran]

I was. I even got a text from my mom.

[Ria]

Yeah, I was blown away by this too, because I was. I just cannot picture the two of them having a conversation.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Straight up, like. Well, yeah, but it's very possible.

[Noah]

He doesn't speak great English.

[Fran]

No.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

No, but, you know, it's been done before. Kendall and Bad Bunny.

[Ria]

It has been done before, you know, and it's. It can't not.

[Noah]

He's really young. He's 22.

[Fran]

He is 22. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, look, Carlos is having the time of his life. I think that's pretty clear. There's plenty of New York Post.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Photos. He was out celebrating his win. It was like mod Models. Models, models.

[Noah]

Like this hair kind of badass.

[Fran]

He what?

[Noah]

Bleached his hair.

[Fran]

Oh, I didn't see.

[Noah]

Yeah, he's blonde now.

[Fran]

He's blonde.

[Noah]

Buzz cut blonde. He's like, it's the Beckham.

[Fran]

It is. Well, he got a terrible haircut. And then he had to buzz his head. That's what he said.

[Noah]

Oh, that's why he busted his head. I thought he just did to be like a badass.

[Fran]

No, I, I, I'm pretty sure it came from that first. Wow. You know, now I see the, I see the photos. Look at that full. The blonde.

[Ria]

Oh, that's not even blonde.

[Fran]

That was white.

[Ria]

White bleach.

[Fran]

It's like Danny Phantom style.

[Ria]

Yeah, that's like Justin Bieber's.

[Noah]

What do you think, though? He can pull it off?

[Fran]

I mean, he can pull it off. Yeah, he can pull it off. I think he's a cutie pie. I know. I've been really criticizing his not to, you know, not to expose what everyone's criticizing him for, but his teeth, I've been seeing. I know. Which is tough.

[Ria]

Well, you know what? You get out there and throw the racket around.

[Fran]

I know, I know.

[Noah]

It doesn't matter if he's dating Brooks Nader.

[Fran]

And by the way. And once again, Models, Models, Models. That was like, literally.

[Ria]

That's the headline.

[Fran]

Models, Models, Models all over whatever party he had after he won the US Open.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Do you refer him against center?

[Fran]

Because that's, I, I, I'm an Alcaraz guy. I do. Because I like, I, I like Carlos. I like Sinner too, though. I really like.

[Noah]

There's not much more of a fun guy.

[Fran]

Carlos has a good likability, for sure.

[Ria]

Janik, he's Italian.

[Fran]

Yeah, but Janik doesn't have, like.

[Noah]

There'S.

[Fran]

Not really that, like, there's not much to dislike, you know, it's not like a, it's not a very controversial fit, you know?

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

He's just really fucking good at tennis.

[Ria]

Just too good.

[Fran]

And like every time they play each other, they hug afterwards. It seems like they have a nice guy.

[Noah]

Marty played against Alcaraz, right?

[Ria]

Yeah, yeah.

[Noah]

And Sinner.

[Ria]

I believe so.

[Fran]

Rhea.

[Ria]

What?

[Fran]

I can't believe we're gonna bring this up in the middle of the podcast, but we, I have to. And the mention just, for some reason, just Noah saying Marty reminded me we didn't talk about the only murders.

[Noah]

Oh, my God.

[Fran]

We didn't talk about you being snuffed by Martin Short.

[Ria]

I've clearly.

[Fran]

We blocked it out of our.

[Ria]

Blocked it out of my mind.

[Fran]

We blocked it out because I almost forgot. I don't know why Noah saying Marty that way, like, made me think of Marty.

[Ria]

Well, they all do call Mar and Short Marty. I didn't, you know, and. Wow. Yeah, that.

[Fran]

Do you wanna walk us through that experience for a second?

[Ria]

I'll walk you guys through that experience. It wasn't a good one. I went home very upset that night. And then I thought, you know, I've had a really spectacular year, and I need to have something to strive for in the year of 2026.

[Fran]

You need a goal.

[Ria]

And I just thought, I'm just gonna get all my goals done in 2025. You know what I mean? So, like, that was my silver lining. But I will take you to. Through the process. We showed up to the Only Murders event. Very cool. Shout out to Only Murders. Very, very cool.

[Fran]

Season five is out.

[Ria]

Yes, Season five's out. High stakes theme. So think casino theme. We walk in, there's a big roulette table right in the middle of the table in the middle of the event. I thought, this is a good sign for Maria. You know, a little roulette, a little bit of this, a little bit of that casino. This is where I feel natural. This is where I feel at home. This is where I feel comfortable. And we maybe had an inkling the cast would be showing up and at some point of this event, but we didn't really know. We just went there in high hopes that they would be. So Fran and I, you know, sometimes I'd like to think we're a little bit awkward at these event, at these events, because we're trying to find our footing for sure, and we're trying to find where we fit in. And the two of us, we go right to the food.

[Fran]

And I mean, like, I, like, bit into a slice of pizza. It fell down the front of my dress. Like, the security guard was like, you good?

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

You know?

[Ria]

Yeah. We're like, we're the pickle. Yeah. Where's the antipas? Like, that's where we're headed. And that's exactly what we're headed.

[Fran]

Where's our seats? We can sit down and eat, right?

[Ria]

We put our drinks down. We said, these, like, give us the antipas. So we grabbed plate.

[Fran]

We tried to find a seat.

[Ria]

We asked these lovely ladies, oh, you mind if we, like, squeeze into your table? They said, yeah. They got up. So then me and Fran realized we were sitting in prime real estate, right in front of where this elevator was that would open up and reveal the cast.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

So boom, about 10 minutes later, they come out of this elevator. We're in a prime location. Fran's above, I'm below. We got him. Martin Short, by the way, looked me directly in the eyes. I have it on camera directly in the eyes. And I was going to, at that moment, say, I love you, Martin.

[Fran]

But I didn't.

[Ria]

You know, when you, like, realize you do have, like, it you can. Really?

[Noah]

Free will.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Like, you can. If you really wanted to, you could. In that moment, you. I could just be like, you could.

[Fran]

Derail the entire speech.

[Ria]

I could. Steve Martin was giving a speech. Whitley gum. Is Martin short? It was dead silent. Besides Steve Martin, if I really wanted to. And I thought about it, could go, I love you, Martin. And he would have to address me because it was that small of a room and that little people. And I thought about doing it, and I thought.

[Fran]

He said, I could make this about me right now. I could.

[Ria]

And I. And I just. I get annoyed when other people do that.

[Fran]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ria]

Like, I'd be like, shut up. If somebody else did that.

[Fran]

You'd be like, oh, that person's just trying to get a viral moment. That's annoying.

[Ria]

Yes. And. And so I stopped myself from doing that. And then the speech ended. And it looked like they were maybe going to start mingling with the people because they kept. Oh, we're. Some of the best influencers are in this room. Da, da, da, da, da. Okay, they go off to the side. They take more pictures.

[Fran]

Ankle cracking.

[Ria]

I hear that. I've never heard your ankle crack like that. Anyways, sorry, I'm done. Once again, they go off to the side. They're going to take pictures. We're being stalkerish now, and it looks like we're stalking Selena, but we're stalking Martin.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Everyone else there is stalking Selena.

[Fran]

Yeah. And I. And I'm like, our eyes are on Marty.

[Ria]

Yeah. And I'm like, fred, should we start telling people? Like, we don't. Yes. We care about Selena, by the way. Looks stunning.

[Fran]

Stunning.

[Ria]

And we obviously care about Selena. Should we start telling people we really care about Marty? Like, we want a picture with him because, like, they think we want one with Selena. We want one with Martin. That's. That's really important. Fran did make a very funny joke and said, like, Selena did the last.

[Fran]

Piece of our puzzle, because this year.

[Ria]

We were Jonas, Demi, Miley. She would have completed on. Would have been a very funny thing. But, yeah, they were walking out. Yeah.

[Fran]

Could have been. Could have photoshopped ourselves in with that.

[Ria]

And it would have been perfect. But anyways, they're walking out, and we knew the exit strategy, so we said, we got to get right in front of this elevator and catch them as they're walking out. He's walking. I'm like, it's my time. I'm gonna tell him. A big fan. I'm gonna have my camera ready. He's gonna. I'm gonna Say, I'm a big fan. He's gonna look at me, and then I'm gonna say, can I get it?

[Fran]

Picture?

[Ria]

And I'm gonna go like this.

[Noah]

Was he taking pictures of people?

[Ria]

No, no, no, no. Not only.

[Fran]

They went to take, like, a. There was a big photo op, like, spot. I don't even know it. Like, a big cool. Really cool.

[Ria]

With each other.

[Fran]

They were taking, like, cast photos, all of them, and people were standing around them watching. And then we couldn't tell if they were starting to take pictures with people there. But then Selena had walked through, and then Martin was walking, and I was. I literally was like, here he comes. Here he comes.

[Ria]

Yeah, I was ready. And not only did he not look at me, he almost looked away. Like, it's almost like he looked.

[Fran]

He did almost turn the other to.

[Ria]

The right instead of. I was to the left. Now he's probably hard of hearing.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

And that's fine.

[Fran]

People commenting like, Rhea, you should have said his name. You did.

[Ria]

I did. When people say, you should have said Martin, I said, martin. I'm such a big fan. I didn't want to scare him either. I didn't want to jump in front of him and go, martin. Poor guy would have fell over.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Yeah, I want to scare him like that. I had. I had everything.

[Fran]

Like, I know.

[Ria]

Such a big fan. I also love dips. Like, I just. You know, it was there.

[Fran]

We had the scenario planned out in our head, and.

[Ria]

And I was truly, really upset. Leaving.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Like, I was like, all right, let's get an Uber. Like, I was like, let's go.

[Fran]

You know what?

[Ria]

And Fran was like, you want to go? I say, yeah, I'm leaving.

[Fran]

She's like, I'm going.

[Ria]

Like, he's gone. And now I'm gone. Like, what? I got to go. I got to get home.

[Fran]

The story. Think about it this way. This is just chapter one, like, your story.

[Ria]

He's playing hard to get with me.

[Fran]

Really?

[Ria]

He doesn't want Meryl to.

[Fran]

How easy would it be if he just gave in right away?

[Ria]

And you know what? It, like, it's about the chase. It is. And honestly, it's like the humbling that you need a lot. Like, it's like, all right, we went to one event with Miley Cyrus. Got a picture with Miley Cyrus.

[Fran]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Ria]

You know what I mean? Like, that's a dream come true. Yeah, it's nice.

[Fran]

We can't be used to that every single time.

[Ria]

No, you can't. It's nice to have goals. It's like, I need a little bit of a chase with this and that. You know what? He'll be sitting in this seat soon enough.

[Fran]

I. 100%.

[Ria]

And listen, I don't want people getting mad at him. Oh, you ignored Ria. Don't do that. Don't throw it on the guy. Yeah.

[Fran]

Not that he would. Where would he even see that?

[Ria]

He. He wouldn't, but don't leave him a voicemail.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Don't call him up and say any of that. Don't write it online. Let him be he.

[Fran]

Now. We're all rooting for it. I think if you do, it's like, we're all rooting for it. He'll get there eventually.

[Ria]

I was so upset. Seriously. In the car ride home, I was so upset. I was like, oh, my God. I. And you want to know what's worse?

[Fran]

We have it on camera. I was filvio.

[Ria]

When you.

[Fran]

Your face. When you turned around and looked at me. Devastation. Like, you were like, he didn't even look at me.

[Ria]

No, he was like. He literally didn't even look in my direction. It's not even like he looked in my direction, didn't respond back.

[Fran]

I say, though, at least, like, you weren't the only one. Like, he walked down the line and really didn't pay attention to anybody.

[Ria]

He looked on the other way. It's like, marty, everyone's standing on your left. Why are you looking to your right?

[Fran]

Because he was ready to get out of practice.

[Noah]

And they're like, just so you know that there's a crazy girl coming. She's at the back of the line.

[Ria]

Yeah. I mean, the. The only thing that made it worse is, like, obviously. No, I know that that was my opportunity. Right. Right. I then have no. But then I then have girls dming me like, damn, Rhea, that really was your one chance. Oh. And I was like, that's.

[Fran]

Don't crush you like that.

[Ria]

Pretty bold to say. How do you know I don't have other chances?

[Fran]

And you could have other chances.

[Ria]

Dam Rhea. That really was your one chance.

[Fran]

Shit.

[Ria]

Like, I already feel like shit about missing the chance.

[Fran]

All right. You know what? I understand.

[Ria]

It was my one chance.

[Fran]

We will put it out in the world that that will not be the last a room with Martin Short.

[Ria]

Let's hope, you know? Let's hope.

[Fran]

Y.

[Ria]

But anyways, sorry.

[Fran]

That was really important to put in there.

[Ria]

It was, though. I can't believe we forgot it. And it's because I truly forgot it even happened this week.

[Fran]

I know. I know. We blocked it out. But can I also just say the three of them, God, they're delightful. That's another thing. I really would just die for the three of them. Steve Martin is so killed. Right?

[Ria]

We don't even talk about Steve Martin.

[Fran]

We really don't. We don't. And he deserves all the credit because he's spoke the most when he came out, and he is just. I mean, obviously. They're so funny. They're so sweet. They're so cute.

[Noah]

Steve Martin, I feel like he's the glue.

[Fran]

You think Martin's the glue?

[Noah]

Steve Martin.

[Fran]

Steve Martin's the glue.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

I. I don't know.

[Fran]

I don't know.

[Noah]

He seems more of, like, the fatherly figure for the group, even though him and Martin are, like, the same age.

[Fran]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they were very sweet, all of them together. They had a lot to. You know, they were, like, making fun of Steve for talking too long.

[Ria]

Yeah. It was good banter.

[Fran]

Good banter.

[Ria]

It was very good.

[Fran]

They have a very natural banter, which is why the show seasons, you know?

[Ria]

But, like, I just. I'm not gonna say it. You all know what I'm gonna say.

[Noah]

What?

[Ria]

There's really no need. Take a guess. Take a guess of what I'm gonna say after that.

[Noah]

I honestly, I really don't.

[Ria]

You don't know?

[Noah]

No.

[Ria]

I always thought I was a little predictable.

[Noah]

I mean, in this case, what could you say? I'm sure it's about Martin, but I don't know.

[Ria]

Nah, I was gonna say that, like, I really think I could really mesh well with Steve Marr into Martin Short.

[Fran]

Oh, I could have. I could have guessed.

[Ria]

You know what I mean?

[Fran]

Like, you're like, put me in with, like, swap me with 6 Lena out.

[Ria]

And put me in.

[Fran]

I think only murders is going 10 seasons.

[Ria]

That's basically the gist of what I'm saying. Not that I think Steve is bad. I just think I would be great.

[Fran]

No. Yes.

[Ria]

I think I would have banter beyond belief with those guys.

[Fran]

Yeah, I do.

[Ria]

I truly feel it in my heart of hearts. Remember when I will say, though, can I.

[Fran]

And this is not to diminish your feelings. Yeah.

[Ria]

I'm Martin.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

You're Selena and you're Steve. Yeah, done. And then the Jonas Brothers. You're Kevin, she's Nick. I'm Joe.

[Fran]

Yeah. Yep. Not to diminish your feelings here, because I do think you are right. But I do think, like, a lot.

[Ria]

Of people feel that way. Yes.

[Fran]

I do think they have a. Like, I do think they just have that magic. Like, they just. They just. It's almost like when people, like, hear.

[Ria]

Our podcast and they're like, oh, I would fit in with this group. You know what I mean?

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Or like, you. We watch a show. Oh, we would hang out.

[Fran]

You got the banter. You would fit in 100. And they would. But, you know, those two, really. Those two drive it.

[Ria]

I put on my story. This could be us. But you play in art and short one of Selena's fan pages. Screenshotted it, posted it on their fan page, and then Selena posted that on her page. They credited me in the caption.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

But I just thought, nobody can get this to Martin.

[Fran]

I know you remember when I almost.

[Ria]

Spent a large amount of money to bet on going to the only murder set? And, like, yeah, I should have done.

[Fran]

Was a lot of money. And you were like, we're going halves on this, right? I was like, yeah.

[Ria]

You were like, you were not for that. Like, I wanted to go halvesy so bad. You were like, dude, no.

[Fran]

I was like, whoa, this.

[Ria]

I'm not going havesies on you.

[Fran]

Numbers going up and up and up. Yeah, yeah, hit a point.

[Ria]

I.

[Fran]

At the auction, I was like, I don't know how.

[Ria]

I can't go anywhere if we're being completely honest of when that was. It was right after I did Surviving Barstool, and I knew I made it to the final three, and there was a strong chance that I did win. And by strong, I mean a lot of people told me they voted for me, so I was like, oh, my God, maybe I could win. You never know. And so I was like, shit.

[Fran]

Right? But which is why I was also like, rhea, you can't spend all your winnings on meeting Marshall. I was like, I can't let you do that. Yeah, yeah, it was. You know, I. I don't blame you for the thought popping in your mind.

[Ria]

My financial advisor was to the right of me, and she let me know, don't do that. Do not do that. Do not do that. If I would have went home.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

And told Matt that I spent a lot of money on.

[Fran]

For a good cause. For a good.

[Ria]

He honestly, I think he'd be like.

[Fran]

For a good cause. Listen, you'd say, but it was for charity.

[Ria]

He would have supported that. Yeah, he would have supported that for sure.

[Fran]

But it was for charity. But, yeah, it ended up going for a large sum of money.

[Ria]

It went for a large sum.

[Fran]

Yes.

[Ria]

And I'm very glad that I didn't spend all my winnings on that. You Know what I mean?

[Fran]

Yep. But look, there's. There's going to be more opportunities. We'll put it out there. We're going to make this meeting happen.

[Ria]

Yes, we're going to make it happen.

[Fran]

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[Ria]

All right, I got a couple cough. Let's continue the love island cup of cough. Yeah, I got a couple cough.

[Fran]

Cup of Jav Cupa. Joe, what is this for your nails?

[Ria]

Oh.

[Fran]

Cause your mood.

[Ria]

Yeah, yeah. Why is it always Carmela, never Adriana? Riddle me that. You know, like when people say to me, oh, you're giving Carmelo Soprano.

[Fran]

You're giving.

[Ria]

Why Carmela never Adriana. This is just because Carmela is the Carmela boss.

[Fran]

Yes. Yeah. More.

[Ria]

More. I mean, you know, more of a.

[Fran]

Just so you know, higher, higher up on the. On the call.

[Ria]

She never Carrie from King Dog, you know?

[Fran]

Yeah. Anyways, why would it be, is my question.

[Ria]

The nails.

[Fran]

No, I know.

[Ria]

I know. You know.

[Fran]

Love island games.

[Ria]

Love island games was announced season two.

[Fran]

I got underwhelmed.

[Ria]

I got.

[Fran]

For right now. Underwhelmed for right now because they're Going.

[Ria]

To bring people in. Obviously, they'll bring people in, but I got. You got got. I got got. Which when we say that Ria got got, we call it NASCAR Guy 69.

[Fran]

Yeah, we do.

[Ria]

Because once upon a time, out of.

[Fran]

Context, that really makes no sense.

[Ria]

It doesn't make any sense. But once upon a time, I got by a guy named NASCAR guy 69.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

And so now when I report news to the group and we're not. We're not sure about it, it's. Did this come from NASCAR 69? Yeah, it could have been.

[Fran]

Yep.

[Ria]

This one was because I saw a cast that was superb. Like, it was like every star you could imagine from Love Island. All the single stars you could imagine. Love island games. So I was reading the cast to no one friend the other day.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

And they were like, what cast is this? That sounds great.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

And then that wasn't the cast.

[Fran]

I was like, I'm reading the Deadline article. I don't see any of it.

[Ria]

I was like, oh, I'm reading NASCAR guy 69 tweets. Yeah. I don't even have Twitter anymore. Like, downloaded on my phone or anything. I don't go on Twitter. But I saw a tweet embedded into an article that was this insane cast. It had every star you could imagine.

[Fran]

Would have been nice if that was. It wasn't the case because.

[Ria]

Because on this cast that I saw, Nicole and Kendall were on.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

In the cast. In the cast that was announced, it's just Kendall.

[Fran]

Right. And you said M from Australia, too.

[Ria]

And M and Mimi. Yeah, Mimi and M. From Australia were both in there. Because I was like. I was like, oh, my God. Mimi and Em are both in it. And Fran was like, what? And I was like, that's crazy to get both of them.

[Fran]

I know. Now, granted, maybe even said Nicole was.

[Noah]

On it with Kendall.

[Fran]

Maybe they'll come. What?

[Ria]

I just said that, dude. I can't. I can't.

[Fran]

I was actually. I was shocked. Like, I almost just had, like. I couldn't believe what I just said. I was like, wait, what?

[Noah]

I'm cutting this one out.

[Fran]

Clarify.

[Ria]

You better not cut that. You better not cut this out. I'll. I'll air it out right now.

[Fran]

I'll air it out.

[Noah]

Come on.

[Ria]

You're not cutting it out.

[Noah]

Come on.

[Ria]

No, you're not cutting it out. You can't cut it. This is proof right here alive, that Noah is trying to cut something out of the podcast. And I am documenting it right now. You can't cut it out.

[Fran]

It was About Love Island.

[Ria]

It's about Love Island. And I said I thought Nicole and Kendall were both on it. That's what I saw. And then two seconds later, Noah said, you said both Nicole and Kendall were on it.

[Noah]

The crazy thing is I was listening to every single thing you said.

[Ria]

You don't hear me.

[Noah]

I heard the Mimi. I heard the Australia. I heard every other thing. How did I miss.

[Fran]

I don't know.

[Ria]

I don't know. I'm actually getting upset. I don't know.

[Fran]

I don't know. But we'll leave it in and we'll move on because that was ridiculous. But we'll. We'll just continue. Do you want him new co host? No. No.

[Noah]

You even have to ask.

[Fran]

Nicole and Kendall. I just want, like, we got to get through this.

[Ria]

You know what I mean?

[Fran]

Like, I don't.

[Ria]

We can't have this.

[Noah]

The frequency of your voice, just like a dog, like. I'm joking.

[Ria]

Lord.

[Noah]

You know what? I don't. I don't have an excuse for this one. I really don't. I don't know.

[Fran]

The frequency of your voice is so annoying of him to say.

[Noah]

We're not clipping this one.

[Fran]

Oh, God. Maybe only dogs can hear you talk.

[Noah]

Yeah, I got my ears cleaned or something.

[Ria]

Oh, he doesn't even know how mean I can get. He doesn't even know. For him to do this pre dance class crazy.

[Fran]

Oh, man.

[Ria]

All right, well, I'm too stunned to speak. I'm sorry.

[Fran]

I know, I know.

[Ria]

I'll continue. So Nicole, I'll listen. I'll be. Nicole, I would like to be an audience member today.

[Fran]

Sure. Maybe Nicole will be back As a bombshell. I would see that there are have been lots of rumors on TikTok. She's been asking. I've seen her, like, answering a lot of Instagram story. Q and A's. People been like, you going on the line games. So there's a lot of those, but not currently confirmed. This is the cast. They must be adding some good people because like I said, iffy. You can continue to give him death stares while I read it. Andrea from season six, who, by the way, Noah put out a full statement on her Instagram. I don't know if she's already in Fiji. I didn't see that, but someone put out a full Instagram story on her behalf that she is single.

[Noah]

No, that must be acid. Recent.

[Fran]

Yeah, it said.

[Noah]

No, I'm not upset.

[Fran]

I was like.

[Noah]

I was like. I swear I thought she had a boyfriend.

[Fran]

Yeah, Welsh. I think a lot of People felt that way because there was a clarify clarified on the story. Andreina from season seven, usa, Charlie, season seven. Chris season seven. And then we have Keep laughing over there. Keep laughing. You're just Keep laughing. You're gonna make this harder and harder for yourself, Garby.

[Ria]

You're walking across Manhattan yourself.

[Fran]

Seriously. You're gonna start losing people to do these things with you.

[Ria]

I'm gonna have the Ives hive go against you. But. And by the way, speaking of the Ives hive, we post the video the other day of Noah blatantly ignoring me. And then somebody comments, poor Noah. How is it a video of him ignoring me and him doing something wrong? And it's still poor Noah.

[Noah]

It was like one person.

[Ria]

Yeah, that one person victim.

[Noah]

I'm not asking for it. I have no defense for this today. I really don't.

[Ria]

Good.

[Fran]

Good. The frequency of your from you.

[Ria]

Oh, maybe it's the frequency of my voice. Yeah, that one will really stick with me. That one will stick with me. Yeah. You'll get what's coming to you.

[Fran]

Okay. Anyway, Garby from season four of Love Island's Belgium, Netherlands. They're really. We're expanding. We're expanding some new names, which is fun. I like that. But wait, really not enough UK people. I don't know if they couldn't get the UK people to do it, but not a lot of UK people in the. In this listing. Maybe there's gonna be more. I don't know. But it's also like, they don't start with this many people. So if this is like the whole cast, then we have Ja. Oh, no, wait. Isaiah Campbell from season four, usa, Josh Goldstein, season three usa, KK Gray from season five of usa, Kendall, season six. Lucinda, who was on season seven of uk and then she went on season five of Australia. So she's on both. She's doing this Mert. Ok. From seasons two and three of Love Island, Belgium, Netherlands. So he's already got two Love Islands under his belt. Nicola, from season one of Love Island, Malta. You're really learning that there's a lot more Love Islands than you realized. You know Solen from season two of Love Island, France. Apparently she is on Below Deck as well. I saw people saying, like, oh, my God. From Below Deck. So I guess that's the same person. And tyreek from season 10 of UK. And those are all the names once again, a lot of obvious people. Like, I think like Charlie, Chris, Kendall, were all people I really expected to be on the Violin Games. I'm not shocked by any I would have liked a little more uk, but, you know, it'll still be interesting. I'll still be watching, obviously.

[Ria]

Right. And they're always gonna bring people in, so you never know who they're holding on to to come in as a big bombshell. They probably need, you know, some big names coming to this big bombshell.

[Fran]

Yeah, yeah, I would think so too. So that's the whole cast.

[Ria]

All right, moving on. And I don't want to punish you for his actions.

[Fran]

I know.

[Ria]

You know, I know when I stop talking, I'm not trying to do it to you. I would never punish you for that.

[Fran]

I feel it going this way.

[Ria]

It is totally that way.

[Fran]

It's going this way. Yeah, I feel it going that way.

[Noah]

Suspend me for. I won't speak for the rest of.

[Ria]

I'm not suspending you. You got to do your job.

[Fran]

Oh, yeah.

[Ria]

Suspending you would be like giving you like a break, time off.

[Noah]

No, no, that's not what I meant.

[Ria]

That's what I never understood in school when people got suspended. It's like, oh, so you get to stay home from school.

[Fran]

Right, right, right. Yeah.

[Ria]

Big punishment.

[Fran]

Oh, man. Or what's the last topic?

[Ria]

Are you sorry?

[Noah]

Oh, I am sorry. I said there's no defense. Yeah, I apologize. I just gotta lock in. Yeah, just gotta lock in.

[Fran]

He apologized. All right.

[Ria]

Okay, Fair.

[Noah]

Do you accept it.

[Ria]

In a couple of minutes, you know what I mean?

[Noah]

By the end of the podcast?

[Ria]

Yeah, like, I don't want to accept it immediately, but yeah, I mean, we got a dance together tonight.

[Noah]

I've. I've stand down, like I'm saying, I've. I've stand down like it's my fault, you know?

[Ria]

It is. And we have to dance together tonight though, so. For the camaraderie of dance will be.

[Fran]

Spirit of dance.

[Ria]

For the spirit of dance. Me and you, bro, we'll be just fine. Yeah, but next time you go into an hour long story about your life, catch me on my phone or something. Anyways, Prince Harry and King Charles have reunited. Reunited. And it feels so good. There's that frequency of that voice again. I'll shut up.

[Fran]

Anyways, okay. Prince Harry has spoken about his long awaited meeting with his father, King Charles, after the duo finally spoke face to face for the first time in 20 months.

[Ria]

Wow, that's a lot.

[Fran]

It's almost two full years.

[Ria]

That is almost two years.

[Fran]

Almost two full years. Prince Harry arrived at his father's London residence, Clarence House, Wednesday for a, quote, private tea. And the meeting lasted nearly an hour. Moment Horse.

[Ria]

They meet over tea, obviously.

[Fran]

Moments after the duo's talk, Prince Harry offered some insight into how his father is doing. He's great, thank you. The Duke told a royal watcher who had asked how the monarch is doing after the meeting. And Harry's rep has told the Post, he's obviously loved being back in the uk, catching up with old friends, colleagues and just generally being able to support the incredible work of the causes that mean so much to him. He was then whisked away to host an Invictus Horizons event in central London. And that's. And that's about it. But just the fact that he was obviously able to sit and talk with his dad is good because, you know, and it mentions in this article as well, but we know that Charles was, you know, diagnosed with cancer and we don't know really what the full diagnosis is and what that looks like for him, but he is on the older side, so I think, like, time is of the essence if you're trying to reconcile or at least be at peace with each other in some kind of way.

[Ria]

Absolutely. That makes a lot of sense. You know, you don't want to. Sadly, King Charles, he is getting up there and he has had health issues and whatnot. I'm sure if you're Prince Harry, part of you is like, well, I need to see my dad, you know, before anything were to happen.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Have that peace.

[Fran]

Yeah. I just, you know, you would hope that they can have some sort of relationship. There's clearly. I don't know. I think Prince Harry is very conflicted with a lot of his, like, one on one side. He, like, wants to be in that world, involved with those people still working for those same causes, being in the UK with everybody and then at the same, like. And then also have his life in California and, like, be able to do both, which maybe in this world is just, like, impossible. I don't know. It would. Logically it would. You would think it would be possible, but all the. The drama and stories and everything around it has just, like, escalated to the millionth degree and everything that has happened with all of them. But you do like to see them, at least they're able to. To have a scone and a tea, perhaps a finger sandwich.

[Ria]

And that's how people can come together with a cucumber sandwich and tea. And that's how the Royals do it.

[Fran]

Yeah. You know, no Prince William, though, which sucks, because those two really are not clearly not talking.

[Ria]

Right. So couldn't get both brothers in the room.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

But at least this happened, right?

[Fran]

I think 20 months is a lot.

[Ria]

Long time. It's a long time.

[Fran]

Long time to not see your dad.

[Ria]

That first initial step in the room has got to be so awkward.

[Fran]

It must.

[Ria]

Do they. Does he bow to his father?

[Fran]

Great question. I think.

[Ria]

Shake hands. I think.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Hug maybe?

[Fran]

I think perhaps formal first feel it out and then becomes informal. Or a hug goodbye.

[Ria]

Bow and handshake.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

And then a hug goodbye.

[Fran]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ria]

Kiss on the cheek.

[Fran]

One can only hope.

[Ria]

Perhaps.

[Fran]

One could only hope. One could only hope there was an embrace.

[Ria]

Yes. That would be nice to think about.

[Fran]

Right. If they had that you'd like to see, you know, maybe some. Some nice father son moment.

[Ria]

Yeah, me and. Maybe me and I will hug it out later. You should, after the dance class.

[Noah]

Dance it out? Yeah.

[Fran]

Well, just start off the class with a dance battle.

[Ria]

Yo, let's battle. I'll wipe your ass.

[Noah]

I'm sure you will.

[Ria]

No, no words needed. You won't have to hear my high frequency voice. You'll just see my dance moves.

[Fran]

Just a quick running out of the building dance battle. And then you guys will be all good.

[Ria]

Yeah. And then we'll like, you know, like hug it out like that. Like a dap.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Chest sort of thing. Yeah, yeah.

[Fran]

Yep. Anyways, boys are so funny. You know, at the wedding I was at last weekend, it's like the. During Peace be with you in mass, the groom, like went up and dapped up like, all of his boys. Like all of his.

[Ria]

I've never seen that.

[Fran]

Like all of his groomsmen. Yeah. And it was just like. But it was like, like it was.

[Ria]

Like.

[Fran]

It echoed in the church. Yeah. And like, man, they were getting good.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Good contact on the. On the claps and hugs and the, you know, kiss on the. Thanks for peace with you. With you. Thanks for being here.

[Ria]

I know that there was like a classic joke. It might have been Dane Cook years ago. Like, I was way younger about, like being en masse and like looking around of like, who you're gonna do Peace be with you. With, like, you know, the peace be with you. With you is coming. And you're like, who am I shaking hands with? Who am I not shaking hands with?

[Fran]

That was maybe the biggest concern I had in middle school when it came to your crush. Your crush. Because I'm gonna.

[Ria]

Peace be with you with my crush.

[Fran]

With your crush. Or we went to, like, each class had a different morning mass you would go to once a week. So, like, there was two sixth grade, two seventh grade, two eighth grade. Classes and like 6A and 7B would have, you know, Tuesday mornings and blah, blah, blah, whatever. So. But depending on who you walked into mass behind, you would also hold hands for the Our Father.

[Ria]

Yes. So true.

[Fran]

Do you remember that? So it's like there was times when I was caught behind the guy that I liked. And literally all my friends would be around. Look, they're holding hands. Because then you have to hold hands.

[Ria]

Hold hands for the Our Father. And then you get to touch their hand again.

[Fran]

Oh, my God. Would you be like, oh, my God.

[Ria]

Oh, I remember.

[Fran]

Remember, let me hand before you went.

[Ria]

And then another, like. And oh, my God, you don't. And you're like, should we let go now?

[Fran]

No. Yeah.

[Ria]

Like, you know the time to let go. But you're like.

[Fran]

And like, the amount of pressure because sometimes the guys who were, like, so grossed out by you, like, you know, like, the guys that were just like. They're like, literally be like this.

[Ria]

Yeah. It would just be like. It's like a dainty touch.

[Fran]

Like, you are barely touching. You're like. And then you're going like this. And the. And the guys like, give me your hand. Is like, you put your hand out up like this. The guy would be Helios.

[Ria]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was just like.

[Fran]

You're just like, how can I hold this hand and not hold this hand at the. At the same time? But, yeah, that was the biggest concern. Yeah. You are looking for. You wanted to be around your friends. So that piece with you, you did all maybe holding hands with your father. That was the biggest concern.

[Ria]

And then maybe if you were like, in a little tiff with somebody.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Like, oh, now I gotta peace be with you. Now we're. Now we're piecing. And now this is the tiff's ending.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Yep, yep. Or like, we come back and be like, oh, my God, did you see Fran and Danny holding hand? Like, that was such a weird. Our Father. Like, they were really holding hands. Yeah, the.

[Ria]

Our Father went crazy today at mass. Yeah.

[Fran]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ria]

Well, anyways, maybe nuts. That was always Prince Harry and King Charles. Double no.

[Fran]

They should. Yeah. I hope that they hug it out and that they can see each other more often and. Because I just want. I just want them all to get along.

[Ria]

You know what? I think a lot of people do.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

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[Fran]

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[Ria]

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[Fran]

That was a long pause. But you know what? Sometimes that pause speaks volumes, you know, because it wasn't. It's not like. What's funny is I posted on my story about the episode I wrote, please be good. And I will say very mixed of people being like. It was like, yay. And people being like, fuck, no, giant waste of time. So it's like. It's actually crazy how mixed it is because some people loved it, some people didn't. But I do feel like what my worries were at the beginning, when we talked about this at the beginning of the week are where we are at. Because it's like, if this final episode is in two hours, man, this thing is gonna feel like it's moving kind of quickly like this. The last episode needs to be a feature length film at this point of like, what. Of what happens, but we'll see. And at the same time you're like, I really have no clue what's gonna happen in this last episode. Because I'm seeing theories being thrown around that I do not like. I'm like, these can't be what happens. Have you seen these?

[Ria]

Throw them at me. I have seen some that Conrad says. Yeah, yeah, I've seen like, no, I.

[Fran]

Think people are scarred from the recent movies that have been coming out that they're like, oh. And then they thought like, John having heartburn was like a. Was like some sort of sign. I. I can't. I just. I don't know that I'm not gonna jump to that. Let me tell you something. That can't be it. That just can't. And I. That just cannot be it. I refuse to that.

[Ria]

And if that's the case, Jenny Han better rewrite and reshoot this within a week.

[Fran]

Yeah, that's gonna be a Big problem. She wouldn't do that. That would be absolutely. That feel.

[Ria]

You're gonna have the mom die and then him, like.

[Fran]

Yeah. No.

[Ria]

Supposed to kind of be like a lighthearted.

[Fran]

Yeah. Yeah. It can't. It can't go that way.

[Ria]

You know, it's not light hearted, some of it, but, like, for the most part, it's supposed to be just about a girl who loves two brothers.

[Fran]

Right.

[Ria]

The pulp does not end with Conrad dying.

[Fran]

No.

[Ria]

So that would be just crazy to.

[Fran]

Splice that in a major drastic change.

[Ria]

Are you just gonna, like.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Break Belly's heart like that?

[Fran]

I know. I know. At the end of the show, I did see someone say. And I kind of get it, but I also kind of don't get it. Like, a little bit of both. Where she was like, belly should be yearning more. And I'm like, you know what? I don't blame you for that take. But I'm also happy that Belly seems to be, you know, trying to explore other things and break out of it a little bit. Because I don't know what would be more frustrating if she was just also, like, if she was silently pining, pining, pining away and just wasn't doing anything about it. Like, that's frustrating to watch too. Or is it that, you know, she really is trying to move on. But I saw someone be like, you know, it's five years later, Conrad's writing her letters that she's not answering, and she just, like, seems to not care. Like. But I'm like, the thing is, she doesn't not care, but she wants him.

[Ria]

To chase even more.

[Fran]

Yeah, it's. Yeah.

[Ria]

I thought that this episode was a bit boring.

[Fran]

Yeah. She definitely pulled from the letters. If you have read all, like, there is a version of the book, I believe.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

That has all the, like, multiple letters.

[Ria]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Fran]

And so there are things like that were pulled from that that are in. It's like Conrad writing. Heard you heard you met a guy named Bonito. Like, really? So, like, all of a sudden, you know, here's Bonito. We see him. That's a real person in the book that I read yet. Yeah. Not everybody has that. Like, the. That wasn't in the. I could be getting this wrong of what came first or last. But that. I believe the letters were not in the original versions of the book.

[Ria]

Okay. Yeah, gotcha.

[Fran]

Yeah. I've been talking out of my ass a little bit when it comes to books. Like, like, I was like, oh, my. My Life of the Walter Boys one book. No, it Wasn't too. So, you know. But I'm pretty sure, like the orig when I first read it there, those letters were not in it. I think that came later.

[Ria]

Speaking of books. Sorry, I still want to talk about somewhere too pretty. But you still haven't read the House Made. Correct. And you said you haven't read any freedom McFadden.

[Fran]

No.

[Ria]

Can you read one of them? Yeah, because I'm on a. I'm reading every freedom McFadden.

[Fran]

I definitely. I'm definitely gonna read it before. When does the movie come out? November, I think.

[Ria]

Moved it up. I think it was originally December, but now I think maybe they released still shots from the movie. Actually looks like Michael Moroney or Michelle.

[Fran]

Right?

[Ria]

Michelle.

[Fran]

Michele, maybe.

[Ria]

Michele, yeah. Michelle.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Sorry. Is the most perfect casting for Enzo ever. You haven't read it.

[Fran]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Ria]

If you would know what I'm talking about. And I believe you do. But it's the most perfect casting for Enzo literally ever. I believe Sydney Sweeney is a good casting for the role. And Amanda Seyfried as well.

[Fran]

Weirdly, it's a story that hasn't been spoiled for me. It's not.

[Ria]

That's kind of crazy.

[Fran]

Yeah, it is.

[Ria]

Crazy choice. But her books in general, like, all have weird twists in them. Some to be predictable, some not me. But I have my favorite genre.

[Fran]

But really? Yeah.

[Ria]

It is mine, I believe. Yeah. And I read all three of the Housemaids. I read the Boyfriend, which I thought was really good. I just finished Never Lie. And now I'm reading the Teacher. Because now I'm just trying to read them all because I went down a TikTok rabbit hole of people who have read every Freedom McFadden book and ranked them all. And now I'm like, well, now I want to read them all and rank them all.

[Fran]

Your own ranking.

[Ria]

And I'm blanking on what I even was bringing this up for. I'm sorry, but really, because I wanted to discuss her books with you.

[Fran]

That's so fine. You were just like. You brought up book. Well, you said, let's talk book.

[Ria]

Yeah. You were like. You said the word book. And I thought, okay, book a book. I am.

[Fran]

I have a book.

[Ria]

I'm on a Freedom McFadden kick. And I would like to discuss it with somebody.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Because I will. I got nobody to discuss it with right now. I mean, my mother in law actually just read. She's on it now. Like, I'm like, all right, this is the next one. This is the next one we're doing. This is the next one. Cause I'm like, like, I want to have a little. Not a big book club, but I want to be able to talk about these books. Yeah.

[Fran]

Yep, yep. That's so fair. What was I saying? Oh, the letters. The letters do like there are things that are being put in. The Benito thing was one. I think maybe he. Something about cutting her hair. I don't know. Clearly she's about to cut her hair at the end of this episode. That's like the true sign of names.

[Ria]

Be ob. But they're calling me Bob.

[Fran]

Real sign of a. Of a female transformation. She gets a Bob. I do like that. She clearly is.

[Ria]

Finding her path in Paris.

[Fran]

Yeah. Like experimenting in Paris.

[Ria]

Happy to see her and Taylor together.

[Fran]

I like that. I loved seeing her come go visit. I really don't think that. I really don't think that, like, they needed to make Bonito, like as potentially serious as they have, like being like, oh, come home to Mexico with me and like meet my family. It's like, okay, well, we don't want to be rooting for Bonito now. Like, right.

[Ria]

It wasn't serious like that.

[Fran]

For Bonito's heartbreak, she was having a.

[Ria]

Little fling with Bonito in the book and then it ended.

[Fran]

Right. So. So, yeah, exactly.

[Ria]

Sorry, Spoiler.

[Fran]

No, I. That's totally fine.

[Ria]

People understand.

[Fran]

I think at this point we're there at this point. I certainly giggled because exactly what we said needed to happen for Jeremiah. Did you know he's open Thanksgiving, friendsgiving. He's making out. Multiple people he's hooking up with clearly are clashing. Like, yeah, that's going to be a problem. That's going to be a problem. I did think he was going to hook up with Denise when he was on the couch with her. I was like, ooh, something is happening here. Yeah, something is happening here. Not sure what, but something is happening. I liked the conversation between him and Conrad. Felt like that made sense, was written well and you know, he's got to do what he's got to do. So he's hopping on that frickin plane to Paris and my God, it better work out.

[Ria]

It better. Because if it doesn't, there's going to be a lot of angry people about this last episode.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Did you see people discussing that? They maybe think there's an extra episode?

[Fran]

Yeah, I saw that. I don't think that's a reach.

[Ria]

I think it's a reach as well.

[Fran]

I think that's a dream. That's a dream.

[Noah]

That'd be very Taylor Swift. To be like.

[Fran]

It was actually.

[Ria]

They're saying they're like, do you ever think. And. And this is. You know, you got to be careful with what you say. Because I don't want people to think that I'm like, against the Taylor Swift songs in the show because all the ones she picks, I love. Perfect.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

But you ever think, like, there's other artists out there? You know what I mean? Like, yeah, it's become like.

[Noah]

It's like. Yeah, it's too much.

[Ria]

It's the Taylor Swift.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Version of the TV show. Like.

[Fran]

Right.

[Ria]

You know what I'm saying?

[Fran]

But I think it's so part of the show now.

[Ria]

Do you think she feels. Yeah, it's necessary now because people love it so much.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Because I'm just like, there are other artists and songs out there that you could be using for this moment. Like, it just feels like every song.

[Fran]

You know, I think it's really intentional, though. You know, I think it's like, really, like. No, we want Taylor Swift. Yeah.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Of every. Of every episode. Yeah. Sign of the Times was perfect.

[Ria]

You put sign of the times in anything.

[Fran]

Sign of the Times was perfect. Really, really perfect. There would have been more perfect if Benson. I love that. I know. I love that. I love that. Belly just needed a few. A few months. Fluid in French. Fluid, fluid.

[Ria]

Smart gal.

[Fran]

Fluent in French. We're losing it a little bit. Fluent in French. But yeah, all of a sudden she was like.

[Ria]

I didn't even notice that you said French.

[Fran]

Yeah, I said fluid in French.

[Ria]

I said, yeah.

[Fran]

She's not right. That's not right.

[Ria]

I'm not, but she is.

[Fran]

That's not right. God, I feel like such an idiot.

[Ria]

All because of Noah's comments.

[Fran]

My self esteem.

[Ria]

Now we got past that, my self esteem's in the gutter.

[Fran]

Blame it on Noah.

[Noah]

Just, I have bad add, so don't take it from me, but I'm always.

[Ria]

Rooting for you, bro. And that's what hurts the most. You know what I mean? Like, I'm your biggest support, and I'm.

[Noah]

One of your biggest supporters.

[Ria]

What?

[Noah]

I'm one of yours, so. Oh, am I not? Am I not?

[Ria]

You are. You are. He is.

[Fran]

You are.

[Noah]

So don't say my ADD as a personal attack.

[Ria]

Right. But it's just, why is it always me? You know what I mean? Like, I don't understand. This one's mean to you.

[Fran]

I operate on a different frequency.

[Ria]

Shit. Yeah. My gosh.

[Fran]

My sternness.

[Ria]

Yeah, maybe you're scared. You're so scared of her. You can't ignore her.

[Noah]

Yeah. I'm too chillaxed with you.

[Fran]

Right?

[Ria]

You're just too chillax. Yeah.

[Fran]

That's a great spin.

[Ria]

It is.

[Fran]

That's a great spin.

[Ria]

She won't care.

[Fran]

You guys are just, like, too close and too good a friend.

[Ria]

Yeah. That you're just like, oh, she won't care about this.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

But that's what. That's what I said. It's always the people you're closest to. Think about that.

[Fran]

Anyways, anyway, Belly is fluent in French, and it's very interesting of what's. Like, she's. She. What a beautiful apartment that she just seems to be.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Gifted.

[Ria]

Not realistic.

[Fran]

Yeah. Stunning.

[Ria]

Okay. That's what we want.

[Fran]

It's all right.

[Ria]

That's.

[Fran]

You know, unfortunately, that is the way the show. These shows go.

[Ria]

You know, I do have concerns about the last episode, and I didn't rightfully prioritize. I did not prior to this episode. I thought that I would be okay with, you know, ending it there. You know, it's. So maybe it ends this way that they end with, you know, their wedding, whatever. But for some reason. And maybe it's opposite. Because I didn't hate last week's episode and a lot of people did. This one I disliked more than last.

[Fran]

Week.

[Ria]

Maybe because I'm just like, I'm rooting for Belly to enjoy her life in Paris, but I'm like, God damn.

[Fran]

I mean, I think people are really putting out there, like, oh, there's a surprise 12th episode. Because it feels like 12 episodes would have been perfect. It almost just feels the way it's going. Like, 12 episodes could have been perfect. 11. He shows up in Paris. Will they? Won't they? They got to figure it out. They hashed it all out in Paris. They feel maybe Conrad lives with her in Paris for a little bit.

[Ria]

Maybe. But maybe it's because we feel like we're, like, in Uncharted 12, they figured in Uncharted Territories, we are like, we're not a cousins anymore. Oh, my God. Move the whole chair. Strong mama.

[Fran]

Whole chair. I just moved.

[Ria]

Like, maybe we're just not in cousins.

[Fran]

We are not in cousins.

[Ria]

And I think that's.

[Fran]

Oh, that's the problem.

[Ria]

I think that we're like. I'm like, oh, my God. I miss cousins a little bit.

[Fran]

I saw people, like, season this episode. 12 better be in Cousins in the summer.

[Ria]

It better be.

[Fran]

Or 11. Sorry. I'm saying 12.

[Ria]

They better have a fudgeing summer wedding.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Those two actors. Cousins.

[Fran]

I want this episode Hour and a half at the minimum.

[Ria]

Backyard wedding at the house at cousins. Yeah. Please don't let us down. I'm not ready for it to end. I like having something like this to discuss.

[Fran]

Every time I post on my Instagram story about a new episode, Joe writes back the show still on.

[Ria]

Wait, speaking of. So Matt is. Has been behind on the show because the last. Not this week, but the last two weeks, he had been traveling in the middle of the week for work, and we haven't been able to watch together last night. So he hasn't watched those two episodes. But last night we put it on, and he was like, all right, can you film. Like, if you want to watch this episode, you need to fill me in on what happened in the last couple episodes, because I'm just going into this plan. I said, they called off the wedding.

[Fran]

What?

[Ria]

He jumped out of bed. What do you mean they called off the wedding? It was the night before they called up the wedding.

[Fran]

I said, they called up the wedding. Day of.

[Ria]

With the guests at the venue.

[Fran]

He's like, what are you talking about?

[Ria]

He was shocked. You didn't know where this was going. You didn't.

[Fran]

How would he.

[Ria]

No, but I just thought that, like, one would assume that the wedding was being called off, you know, like, you watch the whole series.

[Fran]

Yeah. Season at this point, his mind, he'd be like, bella's gonna do anything to get to get married.

[Ria]

I think maybe it's because we knew. We knew, but there are people that just, like, did not know it all. He doesn't know what's. No, he.

[Fran]

He literally was like, what do you mean they called it off?

[Ria]

He was shocked. I said, oh, to live in that brain.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

You know what I mean? Like, to have that shock that they called out the wedding. I would have loved to have felt that we knew it was coming.

[Fran]

I know. I know.

[Ria]

But we did that to ourselves.

[Fran]

That is true. Yeah, we did. We did. We definitely did. By the way, I finished. I know that.

[Ria]

I'll talk.

[Fran]

I mean, I'll talk about it on Monday, too, when we do Weekly Watch Report. But I finished My Life with the Walter Boys Season 2, and.

[Ria]

My God, you wrote waste of time on your story. I saw that.

[Fran]

Waste of time.

[Ria]

Oh, wow. Like, why it.

[Fran]

And I said this criticism on this week because I saw other people saying it, but I was like, I'll finish it for myself. It ends the exact same way. It's the same season over again. Season one ends.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

It's like, I like Alex, but I kiss Cole. What Do. I do run away. And, like, whatever. She runs away. She comes back for season two. Spoiler. If you haven't finished season two yet, FYI, Just, you know, spoiler. Gonna say it the whole season. Alex isn't talking to her. Alex isn't talking to her. He hates her. She kissed Cole. The whole thing. Just kidding. He can't. He can't quit her. He actually still likes her. They start kissing again. Cole's been pine pining after her the whole season, and she's like, I can't be with Cole. I can't be nothing. Dry. Sorry. This is, like, mean to the female leads of these shows. But, like, nothing bothers me more than. Than a female lead. That's like, I can't be with you because you make me feel like I lose control.

[Ria]

Like, honey, then get on board and be with him. You know what I mean? Let your body. Let your body lose control.

[Fran]

We make it all the way. Yeah. Like, we make it all the way to the end. She's kissing Alex again. They're keeping it a secret because she still likes Cole, but she can't. She doesn't want Cole to know she's with Alex again. Comes to find out. Then Cole finds out she's with Alex again. They have this confrontation at the end of the last episode, 10 episodes in, and she's like, oh, like, I. Like I. He's like, I love you. She's like, well, I love you, but I can't be with you because, you know, you make me feel all these things.

[Ria]

You made me lose control.

[Fran]

Yeah. Literally, That's. Yeah.

[Ria]

I mean, my body.

[Fran]

And then Alex, you know, he's like, you love him.

[Ria]

Shocker.

[Fran]

Shocker. Now we're stuck in the exact same place of really picking either of them ends the exact same way of, oh.

[Ria]

No, that's how they keep.

[Fran]

Now she doesn't know. And they left on quite a cliffhanger because I think the dad was being rushed to the hospital. Oh, it's not good. I feel like they may kill him off.

[Ria]

Oh.

[Fran]

Which would be bad.

[Ria]

I mean, this is the summer I turned pretty, but they're killing off the dad.

[Fran]

Yeah, I know.

[Ria]

Like, this is a summer I turn pretty.

[Fran]

I know, I know.

[Ria]

Sorry. I'm getting very worked up.

[Fran]

It would be sad. This is the same exact show they were gonna do. They are gonna do a season three, so they're gonna do a season three.

[Ria]

In the season three with 11 episodes.

[Fran]

It's, like, gonna be a whole nother thing of, you know, well, if that happens and like the family's got a band together to. To take care of the ranch. And like, what does that mean? And will she ever pick somebody?

[Ria]

Gosh darn.

[Fran]

I know it was a frustrating watch.

[Ria]

I just. That does sound frustrating. That's why I haven't jumped aboard that one.

[Fran]

Although.

[Ria]

Because I tried watching the first season, I was like, this is.

[Fran]

No, it's really bad. Yeah.

[Ria]

In my opinion. But.

[Fran]

And the second, I mean, it was.

[Ria]

Just the same thing. That's how they get renewed for the third. You gotta know where it ends up.

[Fran]

The same thing over again.

[Ria]

But we will find out what happens next week in episode 11.

[Fran]

I know. I can't believe there's one left.

[Ria]

One left. And we'll miss this. And we will miss talking to you all about it. I had a lovely listener tell me at the Yankee game. The same one who mentioned my nails.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

That she's obsessed with our recaps for the show. And I said, thank you so much. We'll promise to give a good one today. But also, I'm very sad when a show like this comes to an end. A show that we feel passionate about and can discuss and have some fun banter about. And then it'll.

[Fran]

Especially Conrad in those sweaters. Let me just say the Christmas sweater, the green cable knit. His best one yet.

[Ria]

Really?

[Fran]

His best.

[Ria]

Divine.

[Fran]

By far.

[Ria]

I. I took pictures of it on your phone.

[Fran]

Yeah. Cuz I was like, oh, I'll post it on my story later. But then I didn't, you know, just.

[Ria]

For you to have.

[Fran]

Well, because sometimes I watch the episode at like random times and I don't want to be posting like posting pictures of the screen because I'm like, maybe other people haven't watched it yet. And even if I do put a spoiler, it's like the picture is the screen. Like it's. You know, you can. Even if you click fast, it's like you may see what it is.

[Ria]

Right? Yeah.

[Fran]

So I was like, oh, I'm not gonna. I'll take it. Maybe I'll put it up later with my thoughts that this is by far the best sweater.

[Ria]

That's a good one. Yeah, It's a good color.

[Fran]

A little chunky, little oversized. Makes you just want to give a.

[Ria]

Big hug, you know? He was like, safe in there when you give him.

[Fran]

100%.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

100%.

[Ria]

All right, well, we'll see what. We'll see what happens.

[Fran]

Connie's headed to Paris.

[Ria]

Yeah. As he should be.

[Fran]

I know.

[Ria]

That's where he should be going.

[Fran]

I know. Please I hope they, like, frolic around Paris for months.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

But I don't know how that. I don't know what that works.

[Ria]

They start from the beginning.

[Fran]

I don't know.

[Ria]

Yeah. And they just.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Rendezvous in Paris.

[Fran]

I just. I don't know what that. What that would do for, you know, everything that he's doing in his life. Like, Dr. Wise.

[Ria]

That could throw off his plans. Could throw rent.

[Fran]

Could.

[Ria]

But I throw off the plans for love.

[Fran]

You do.

[Ria]

Throw off the plans for love.

[Fran]

You do. You do. And maybe they should just. Now she's got her own apartment.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Fran]

In Paris.

[Ria]

So it's so, like, adult, like. And play.

[Fran]

Maybe he can go to whatever he needs to do in Paris.

[Ria]

We'll figure it out next week.

[Fran]

Yeah. Fingers crossed.

[Ria]

Fingers crossed. All right. That wraps up the topics. With NFL season just starting, it's the perfect time to talk about our favorite hats from 47. And also with talking about going to the baseball game last night, the Yankee game on Wednesday night. I was wearing a new Yankees hat that I got from 47 at the game. Got many compliments on it. I got a couple other hats. I loved it. Super cute. Could wear it forward, backwards, all around. Fran got some eagles hats from 47 that are so cute. Maybe I'll get a Bills hat. Oh, who's to say I won't? Check out their site for new drops all season long. We are so excited about their NFL hats, but they also have drops launching for NH NHL, NBA, and NCAA all fall and winter. So make sure you look out for those hats. Now that I'm talking about it, I want to get myself a bill's hat. I want to be rocking it this season. 47 isn't just game day where they focus on the quality and style of the product. And 47 is not just hats. They also have T shirts and sweatshirts to put together the perfect outfit for your favorite team. Shop 47brand.com now and use code CITO for 20% off your purchase. All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another game of Beatrian fragment. This is game number 189. And we are joined by Amber and Christina. They return from the April Fools game. Dun, dun, dun. The two that pulled one over on us with Noah. But they're back for a real game this time.

[Fran]

Ladies, I'm surprised you made it into the schedule five months after the. The first time. Noah really must squeeze you in.

[Ria]

Yeah. Yeah. Has it been five months? Wow.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Fran]

April. All right, ladies, we're gonna do this again, hopefully for real. This time. 15 questions. You get the question right, you get the point. If you get it wrong, that the team can steal the point. Whoever's the most points at the end wins. To determine who goes first, Noah's gonna give us a movie. We're gonna guess the Rotten Tomatoes critic score of that movie. Whoever's closest will go first. We each get our own individual individual guess and alternate between teams for guesses. So, Noah, what is today's movie?

[Noah]

Today's movie is a recent movie. My Oxford Year.

[Fran]

Okay, so one of you guys guess first.

[Ria]

Me. Yeah. Oh, I liked how last time I, like, magically knew the answer. I'm gonna say it's a new movie.

[Fran]

I'm gonna say 72.

[Ria]

45. I'm gonna go 34.

[Fran]

What'd you say?

[Ria]

45. Oh, no, I'm an outlier already.

[Fran]

41.

[Noah]

34 is the closest. 29.

[Fran]

They went down the last time I looked.

[Ria]

Damn. It's not a good movie.

[Fran]

I did look recently.

[Ria]

And.

[Fran]

No, it's one of those ones. Like, I. I didn't. I liked it. Yeah, you liked it. I cried a lot. But that doesn't, you know, not the judge judging fact.

[Ria]

It's a Netflix movie, you know.

[Fran]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Noah]

Okay, question number one. 29 to Amber and Christina, shout out Morgan and baby Ginny and baby Ivy. Oh, what is the name of the camp that Annie and Halle attend in the Parent Trap?

[Ria]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. The name of the camp is like. Is it a P?

[Fran]

P?

[Ria]

Oh, shoot. You can, like, see the colors. I don't know. Okay, I'm gonna. So let's roll with the P. I'm say camp.

[Noah]

The time is.

[Ria]

Okay. Camp Pendleton. Yeah.

[Noah]

Their first wrong answer.

[Fran]

Isn't it like a W camp? I can hear this. I can hear them in the. In the speakers.

[Ria]

Camper. Oh, fuck. What is it?

[Noah]

It's a W. 10 seconds.

[Ria]

Winona. Camp Winona.

[Noah]

Sure.

[Fran]

Camp Winona. Rider.

[Ria]

Final answer.

[Noah]

Camp Walden.

[Fran]

Walden. Walden. Oh, I knew it was a W. Campanon Rider.

[Ria]

That was good, though. Damn.

[Noah]

Okay, question number two to Rianne. Fran, shout out Megan from Jack and Phil. We were just talking about this. So what actress voices Rapunzel in the Disney animated film Tangled?

[Ria]

Oh, Mandy Moore.

[Fran]

Final answer correct.

[Ria]

That's weird.

[Fran]

We just recorded, like, a full segment on Tangled today.

[Noah]

The game was already made.

[Ria]

There's your kryptonite, bro.

[Noah]

Okay. One, nothing. Rhian. Fran, question number three to Amber and Christina, shout out Danielle from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. What artist won best new artist at the 2023 MTV VMA Awards and thanked her Munchkins in her speech.

[Ria]

Munchkins. Munchkins is no Lady Gaga's Monsters. 2023. New artists. So what are like new artists right now? What was 2023? Madison. She. Or is that too old? New. New. Not Billy. Billy Eilish. Was she new? Anyway, what year is it? I think that's only two years. I feel like she's been around longer. Five seconds. Dosha Cat. Madison Beer. Madison Beer.

[Noah]

Incorrect.

[Ria]

Carpenter.

[Fran]

I kind of thought maybe Sabrina's. Well, that was a guess. I had my head. I don't really have any other guess.

[Ria]

All right, let's just go. Sabrina Carpenter. Finalizer.

[Noah]

Incorrect. Ice Spice.

[Ria]

Oh, Ice Spice. Oh, you know what? I saw her with DOA Cat, but yeah, wasn't. Help me that one. I. I don't.

[Noah]

All right, still one nothing. R&Fran, question number four. To them, shout out Laney from Philly. She says, go, Birds.

[Fran]

Go Birds.

[Ria]

Go Birds.

[Noah]

In part. You gonna say that now? Now that you're a Bills fan?

[Ria]

People know that I like the Eagles. Now that I like the Eagles.

[Noah]

Okay. How many teams she can have?

[Ria]

As many as she wants. I'm never, like, shouting to the rooftops about the Giants at all. Really. Ever.

[Noah]

Oh, no. Were you Jets?

[Ria]

I grew up a Jets fan. My husband's a Giants fan. I grew up a Jets fan. You know, my best pal right here is an Eagles fan. And now I'm part of Bill's mafia.

[Fran]

Now she just wants something for herself. So she's in Bill's mafia.

[Ria]

Right. The Bills is for myself. But I'll always return to Go Birds. Yeah.

[Noah]

Okay. In part one of the series finale of Friends, which airport do Phoebe and Ross mistakenly drive to? And which one is Rachel actually flying out of?

[Ria]

Oh, is this me? Yeah. Newark is definitely involved.

[Fran]

Yeah. I go to jfk.

[Ria]

I think they.

[Fran]

I think she's actually flying from Newark.

[Ria]

I.

[Fran]

Or they go.

[Ria]

I think they could go to Newark and find jfk. It's one or the other. I think maybe they go to JFK because she's actually flying from Newark.

[Fran]

That would be.

[Ria]

That would make most sense.

[Fran]

That would.

[Ria]

Why would they randomly choose Newark?

[Fran]

Like, JFK would be first guess.

[Ria]

All right, let's go. They. They go to jfk. But she's flying from Newark.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Final answer correct. Yes.

[Fran]

Just need a little common sense there.

[Ria]

You know, LaGuardia was not.

[Fran]

Not in the mix. This is international travel.

[Ria]

Yes.

[Noah]

Okay. Two nothing. Ran friend question number five to Amber and Christina. Shout out Riley from Michigan in the crossover episode between Vanderpump Rules and Summer House. What meal did they have on the beach that none of the Vanderpump Rules cast had ever experienced?

[Ria]

Oh, crossover. Yeah. I remember them in the Jacuzzi with Stassi and her sweater. Yeah, I know. What is the meal that they never had? Amber, you got the Oregon. Would it be like. Because they're in Summer House. So, like, what's like a food? Right. Would be like, I don't know, crab. What's, like. What is that thing called where you have, like. What's not like a boil? Oh, yeah. Crab oil. Yeah, let's do crab oil. It was a crab oil. Finally. Okay.

[Fran]

I'm in that realm with them. Like a. Like a clam bake.

[Ria]

Baked clams, Lobster night. But they definitely have had lobster before.

[Fran]

Yeah, right. Probably had clams too. No, thanks.

[Ria]

But sometimes people haven't had, like, 15 seconds. You'd be surprised how many people don't know what Penny a lavac is. Right, right, right. So. And they're in New York, so you gotta. Maybe it's something. Some sort of Italian.

[Fran]

But they're on the beach in the Hamptons.

[Ria]

Okay. They're on the beach in the. They definitely have a shrimp.

[Noah]

Time is up.

[Fran]

Clam bake. Final answer.

[Noah]

Correct.

[Fran]

Nice.

[Ria]

All right.

[Noah]

Three crab oil.

[Fran]

Very close.

[Ria]

Very close. Yes. I would have said Penny Ala Vodka.

[Fran]

It's not about the pasta.

[Ria]

They probably have never. You guys, you shocked the amount of people that don't know what Penny Albach is. It's really sad. Didn't Raquel never have. Well. Oh, no. Is this a trivia? There's a lot of people at Barstool that have never, like, heard or have had Penny Alabaca. Weird. I don't. I can't relate. Yeah.

[Fran]

I.

[Ria]

Anyone who's listening has never had Penny Alabaca. Just do it. Yeah, it's my favorite pasta anyways. Or Tony Vodka. Honestly, really.

[Fran]

But. Okay.

[Ria]

Sorry. Continue. Okay.

[Noah]

Three. Nothing.

[Ria]

Re.

[Noah]

Infran question number six. To them, shout out Libby and Sophia from Lafayette, Louisiana. In Harry Potter, which Weasley dies at the Final Battle of Hogwarts?

[Ria]

Wait, this is to you guys, right?

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

No ringing any bells?

[Fran]

No, the problem is, is.

[Ria]

How many Weasleys are there?

[Fran]

Name them and pick them. No, no, but the problem is it's one of the twins. So, like, if I. You know.

[Ria]

Okay, so what are their names?

[Fran]

The other one is obviously the answer. If I guess so, I'm not gonna.

[Ria]

You know.

[Fran]

I'm sure they would know. Anyway. Fred dies. Final answer. Correct. Nice.

[Ria]

Who was the other twin?

[Fran]

Fred. It's either Fred or George.

[Ria]

Sure. Gotcha. Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Noah]

All right. For nothing. Question number seven to Amber and Christina.

[Fran]

Really put the pressure on me there. I liked it. You're like, which one is it?

[Ria]

So honestly, after that came out of my mouth, I thought aggressive, but then I said to myself, you know what? We're playing a high stakes game of trivia, and that's okay.

[Fran]

I needed it.

[Ria]

You need a push?

[Fran]

Yeah, I needed it.

[Ria]

Okay, question number push every once in a while.

[Noah]

Seven to Amber and Christina. Shout out Izzy from Boston. In 2018, on season 27 of Dancing with the Stars, pro Jenna Johnson competed with celebrity contestant who was on the Bachelorette and Bachelor in paradise, commonly known by his nickname. What is his name? And his nickname.

[Ria]

Oh, wait. In 20. What year?

[Noah]

2018.

[Ria]

2018. Who's was his name? Nick. This. I was gonna say, was it Matt, Matt or Nick? What are their nicknames? I don't know. I really bad. I don't know. We were just talking about how we don't remember 2018, so I would not have the nickname right by. Yeah, I'm gonna guess Nick. And he is Gold Golden Boy.

[Noah]

Incorrect.

[Ria]

It's Grocery Store Joe.

[Fran]

Yeah, Grocery store. Final answer.

[Ria]

They came in six. They won, they went far, and he was not good. You know, we love Grocery Store Joe.

[Noah]

I remember them. I remember you interviewed him in la.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Okay. Five, nothing. Ray and Fran. Question number eight to them, shout out Caroline from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Name. This year, Finding Nemo premieres. Kelly Clarkson's Miss Independent is released. Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin get married.

[Ria]

2003. 2002.

[Fran]

Missing.

[Ria]

2001. Ms.

[Fran]

Independent. 2002.

[Ria]

Because she won in 2001. No.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Ria]

Want to go 2002?

[Fran]

Yeah, I like 2002.

[Ria]

All right, 2002.

[Noah]

Incorrect.

[Ria]

I think we should.

[Fran]

Amber.

[Ria]

I was thinking my first Instagram Instinct was 2004, but I don't know if it's 2003. Oh, I'm thinking 2003. But did it come out before Mean Girls? Mean Girls came out in 2004, I think. I think it did, so I'm gonna guess so. Should we say 2003? Yeah, yeah. 2003.

[Noah]

Correct.

[Ria]

Yeah. Rats. All right, Amber, we got one. We got one. Yeah. Quite the change of lots of cracks. Don't call it a comeback.

[Noah]

Okay, question number nine to Christine and Amber, shout out Bethany from Boston. Which actress was in the following movies? Brokeback Mountain, the Dark Knight Rises, Valentine's Day.

[Ria]

Oh, there's so many people on Valentine's Day. Wednesday, you said actress. Are we So a female actor? Is that right?

[Noah]

Yes.

[Ria]

Okay. I don't know. Is it Maggie Gyllenhaal? Oh, yes. That's a good guess. I don't know. What? Brokeback Mountain. But is she in. Well, Jake, was he. Was she in Brokeback Mountain? Her brother? No, but she was in Dark Knight Rises, right?

[Fran]

Yeah, I don't.

[Ria]

I don't remember anything else in Brokeback Mountain. I was paying attention, honestly. Let's say Maggie Gyllenhaal, because I can't think of anything. Amber. Sounds good.

[Noah]

Incorrect.

[Ria]

Okay, Maggie Gyllenhaal's in the first Dark Knight, right?

[Fran]

Dark Knight Rises is after that. Yeah.

[Ria]

Is she in that one? Well, it doesn't matter. I don't think so. That's not the answer anyway, so. Right, right, right. Who's in? I've never seen the Dark Knight Rises. Really? Mm.

[Fran]

I've never seen Broke, like nine, five seconds.

[Ria]

Valentine's Day. I'm drawing a blank.

[Fran]

I mean, Valentine's Day, there's so many.

[Ria]

Name an actress in Valentine's Day.

[Fran]

Oh my God. Jessica Biel. Final answer, incorrect.

[Noah]

Anne Hathaway.

[Fran]

Oh, shit. I was actually.

[Ria]

I'm so sorry.

[Fran]

Anne Hathaway. You know what's bad is I was.

[Ria]

In the Dark Knight Rises.

[Fran]

I was gonna say, well, Anne Hathaway's Dark Time Rises, but then in my head I was like, but she's not in Brokeback Mountain. But I've never seen. How would I even know? I've never seen it.

[Ria]

Years ago.

[Fran]

Must have been a small.

[Noah]

Yeah, I don't know if it was. I. You know.

[Fran]

Have you seen it?

[Noah]

I haven't seen it, but I looked it up and like there were a lot of pictures of her in it. Oh, okay. Okay.

[Fran]

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[Noah]

Five one, Rhian. Fran, this is question number 10 to them and I'm playing movie clipping. You tell me what movie it's from.

[Ria]

Mr. Environmental is also a hunter. It's kind of an interesting combination. I hunt quail, Jeremy. They're overpopulated in this crash and they're decimating the grubworm population. You got a fucking problem with that? Wedding crashers? Not nearly as much as I do. With the attire they have on or just your general point of view? It's Wedding Crasher.

[Fran]

Correct.

[Ria]

It was a good clip.

[Noah]

It was a funny clip.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Noah]

No one will ever hear.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Yeah. Okay. Six one ran Fran question number 11 to Amber Christina, shout out Liz from Rochester, New York in cheaper by the dozen too. What lake is the vacation spot called?

[Ria]

You guys were just talking about this and I have no idea. Do you know Christina? No. I'm singing a Hillary Duff. What lake? Where did it take place? I haven't. I can't remember. Is it a real lake? I have no idea.

[Noah]

15 seconds.

[Ria]

It's a great lake. Lake Michigan. Yeah, we'll go that. Lake Michigan.

[Fran]

Definitely. Like a made up lake.

[Ria]

Wichita.

[Fran]

I like that.

[Ria]

No, that's not it. Lake Winnipesaukee. Yeah.

[Fran]

That's an actual lake.

[Ria]

Yeah. I think it's another W, but I'm not quite sure. That would be random. Or is it an M? No, I'm thinking of the Mur.

[Fran]

The Murtas.

[Ria]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Five seconds.

[Fran]

I don't even have a gift. Guess.

[Ria]

Witchita.

[Noah]

Lake Wetka.

[Fran]

Close.

[Ria]

I knew it was close.

[Fran]

I should have known that. It's a W. That's the town that Lauren's from. I should have known that.

[Ria]

Oh my God. I was like just like talking about two. Probably doesn't two for like three days straight.

[Noah]

Okay, six, one. Re Infrance still question number 12 to them. Shout Out Gina from New Jersey in the cheer competition movie. Bring it on. What were the names of the two teams that closely competed against each other?

[Ria]

The Toros and the Clovers. The Clovers and the Toros. Final answer correct.

[Fran]

Nice. Good pull.

[Noah]

All right. It's a beat down.

[Ria]

Payback. Thank God.

[Noah]

7:1. Question number 13 to Amber and Christina. Shout out. Molly, what did Brooke Davis find in Rachel's cabinet at her family's cabin in One Tree Hill? And what did Brooke do afterwards?

[Ria]

Oh, what did Brooke Davis find in her cabinet? Is it the list or is it something else? I don't know. That's actually something else, I think. No, it was a list of. That sounds like that's. I just remember There's a list. 10 seconds, and she. She's. Like, he was on the door or something, right? No, that's. That's ringing some kind of bell. So it's a list, and he exposes it.

[Noah]

Incorrect.

[Ria]

Rachel finding Rachel's cabinet when they're away. Remember Rachel? She was, like, gonna hurt herself.

[Fran]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ria]

She doesn't she find, like, an old picture of Rachel?

[Fran]

Isn't it like, she's. And then she does something bad with it, doesn't she?

[Noah]

Or if she.

[Fran]

Or does she throw it away? No.

[Noah]

Five seconds.

[Fran]

I don't remember.

[Ria]

She finds a picture and she brings it to her.

[Noah]

Time is up.

[Fran]

Yeah, it's something along those lines.

[Ria]

Finds a picture.

[Noah]

She finds a picture of her when she was overweight before her plastic surgery. She puts posters all over the school.

[Fran]

Oh, she put posters.

[Ria]

Yeah, I forgot about that. I blocked that out because that's.

[Fran]

I remember finding the picture of her, and I. Yeah. And then I just couldn't remember what.

[Ria]

What she did with it.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Okay. Question number 1471. Ran friend shout out Jen from Downington, Pennsylvania, on New Girl. What is Nick's go to song to pump himself up?

[Fran]

No.

[Ria]

I don't know.

[Fran]

No clue.

[Ria]

I don't know.

[Fran]

I don't even have a guess.

[Ria]

15 seconds, no answer. Pass.

[Noah]

Amber.

[Ria]

Christina, is it Cotton Eye Joe? Does that sound right? Christina, I. I knew you would know this. I know you're. I'm gonna go Cotton Eye Joe. Final answer correct. There you go.

[Fran]

Yeah, I would have never got that.

[Ria]

No, I would get.

[Fran]

I was gonna guess, like, a Britney Spears.

[Ria]

I heard new, like, Amber's got this, so.

[Noah]

All right. 7:2. Final question to Amber and Christina. Shout out Daniella from Windsor, Ontario, Canada. In season two of the Jersey Shore, the guys come up with an acronym. Gff. What does it stand for?

[Ria]

Oh. Oh, gf. Not gtl. Gff.

[Noah]

Gff.

[Ria]

Oh, I don't know. Oh, oh, wait, wait, wait. It was about Ronnie, wasn't it? The get Foundation. Am I allowed to say the F word? Yes. Yes. Okay. Something like that. Like, yeah. Something like, yeah, that's my best guess. It's like, yeah, yeah. That's my final answer.

[Noah]

Incorrect.

[Ria]

Is it a like gym? Find out who so and so's.

[Fran]

I actually have no clue, so.

[Ria]

I don't know. Jim, find out who Sam is.

[Noah]

Incorrect. Grenade. Free foundation.

[Fran]

You got the foundation, right?

[Ria]

Yeah. I was thinking, like, when Ronnie. When they were like, you know, but I think that's like, later on, so. Okay, there was good game. Good game by us.

[Fran]

Revenge game.

[Ria]

Revenge game. Yes. Well, thank you guys for playing again. Thank you for supporting us. Rocking the sweatshirts. We appreciate it. And you get more merch anyway, so. Oh, excellent. Yes, of course. Thank you, Noah, with the rest of your list.

[Noah]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Ria]

Just send Noah your address and sizes and we'll get that sent to you. Okay, bye.

[Fran]

Bye, guys. Thank you.

[Ria]

Bye. All right, that wraps up today's episode of Chicks in the Office. Thank you so much for watching and listening. The best show on earth. We love you guys. Have a lovely weekend and we'll talk to you on Monday.

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[Fran]

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