Best HuffPost Weird News Podcasts (2025)

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‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ Works Better Than It Should w/Arden Myrin 2:03:15

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Friend of the pod Arden Myrin joined us for our first rom-com rewatch of the holiday season! We dove into 1994 classic “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” starring Hugh Grant and his slutty little glasses alongside Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, John Hannah and Simon Callow. Somehow the movie manages to work, despite the fact that the central lo…

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‘The Bachelorette’ Casting Sneak Peek 1:33:33

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Since we have to wait a few months before we watch Taylor Frankie Paul’s season of “The Bachelorette,” we decided to take matters into our own hands and google the 26 potential men who will compete for her heart! What we found are a bunch of scruffy-faced, cowboy-adjacent men of faith. But a few of them had some shockingly fascinating backstories –…

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News & Gossip: Mel’s Petty Press Tour and Taylor Frankie Paul Filming Leaks 1:15:32

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Now that season 2 of “Golden Bachelor” is safely in the books, Mel and his final choice Peg have been making the rounds. We get into their magazine interviews and Bachelor Happy Hour episodes, all of which are drenched in his trademark defensiveness and disdain for quitters. Plus, we discuss some Bachelor Nation news and gossip, including leaked ti…

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Introducing How We Made Your Mother Season 2! 5:08

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It’s been 20 years since How I Met Your Mother premiered, and just over 10 years since the finale. Josh Radnor, who played “Ted” for nine seasons teams up with series co-creator Craig Thomas for this episode-by-episode rewatch podcast. For the superfans, HWMYM (listen to the trailer to learn how it’s pronounced) will get into all the secrets, theor…

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‘Golden Bachelor’ S2 Finale: Love Is Not A Football Game 1:35:26

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The two-hour “Golden Bachelor” finale actually did bring Mel’s soporific journey to a relatively dramatic conclusion. In large part, this was thanks to Cindy, whose refusal to stay on the field like a good little football player and continue to compete for Mel’s (begrudgingly offered) companionship finally unleashed some real emotion in Mel. And th…

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‘Golden Bachelor’ S2 Fantasy Suites: Two Good, Great Women 1:13:36

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It’s the penultimate episode of Mel’s Golden Bachelor journey, and the final two women are finally ready to ask him the hard questions. Like… “Are you even into me?” and “Are you really afraid of stingrays?” and “What’s wrong with you?” Mel, for his part, is gearing up to finally express his deepest emotions. He’s ready to finally reveal to Peg and…

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Gerry Turner’s New ‘Golden’ Memoir Is Laced With Bitterness 1:55:24

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OG Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner’s new memoir is here! “Golden Years: What I’ve Learned from Love, Loss, and Reality TV,” dives into Gerry’s early life and career, as well as his marriage to his beloved Toni. But the lion’s share of the memoir is focused on “The Golden Bachelor”: his casting, the experience of filming, the women he met along the jou…

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‘Love Is Blind’ S9 Reunion: Let Them Eat Shake(s) 1:43:47

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Season 9 of “Love Is Blind” has finally come to a close, complete with an outdoor concert and some warmed-over revelations about post-filming shenanigans. This reunion featured a not-so-surprising surprise baby, new partner reveals, and a lot of half-hearted rehashing of heartbreaks the cast has long moved on from. We discuss it all, and offer our …

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‘Golden Bachelor’ S2 WTA: Give Us The Lemon Bar Timeline w/Leslie Fhima 1:24:50

1M ago1:24:50

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It’s Women Tell All time! Or at least… women tell… some? OG Golden Gal Leslie Fhima joined us to break down the incredibly tepid drama between the “Golden” season 2 crew. We saw Nicolle get called out in a very direct and measured way, some real audience love for Cheryl and Debbie, an extended Jared Freid cameo, Mel wearing greige, and yet no real …

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‘Golden Bachelor’ S2 Hometowns: 3 Women, 0 Reassurances w/Lisa Belkin 1:29:16

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Mel has three “great” women left, and it’s time to jet off to their hometowns: Las Vegas with Peg, Denver with Debbie, and Austin with Cindy. This tour of the metropolises of the American West may be exciting, but Mel remains stolidly underwhelmed. He meets the women’s families, and offers their daughters and siblings lukewarm reassurances about ho…

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‘Love Is Blind’ S9 Finale: Runaway Bride(s) 1:47:37

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Season 9 of “Love Is Blind” has been full of twists and turns – and those continue right up to the final minutes of the season finale. This stone cold bunch of Denver weirdos loved… and ultimately lost. This episode, we catch a glimpse of the bachelor and bachelorette parties, finally see Ali and Anton’s engraved sweatshirts, and learn the fates of…

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Get Undomesticated 4:30

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Candiace Dillard Bassett (Bravo’s Real Housewives of Potomac) and Michael Arceneaux (New York Times best-selling author and culture critic) have thoughts…and on Undomesticated, they’re sharing all of them. Think of it like the group chat you wish you were in - brutally honest, funny, smart, and gloriously unfiltered. From viral TikTok drama to the …

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Madison & Kait From ‘LIB’ S9 Are Ready To Spill 1:05:09

2M ago1:05:09

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We were SO excited to chat with these two “Love Is Blind” season 9 ladies that we knew we had to drop an extra episode this week. And it’s a juicy one! In the wake of a truly brutal episode 10 and 11, we were dying to ask Madison all about her experience with Joe, her reflections on their dynamic, and her takeaways from her time in the pods. Kait a…

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‘Golden Bachelor’ S2e4: Kisses For The Cameras 1:17:37

2M ago1:17:37

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This week, Nicolle’s reign as groundbreaking Golden villain came to its pitch-perfect end. Mel faced the daunting task of narrowing his final 6 women down to a final 3 for Hometowns, so he set out to ask the deep questions, like “Where do you see yourself in five years?” and “Where is your hometown?” And even though Nicolle brought him lemon bars, …

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‘LIB’ S9 E10-11: Stupid, Crazy, Shallow Love w/Jove Meyer 2:25:06

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The best part of this entire season has finally been located: a masterful Sabrina Carpenter needle drop at the end of episode 10. If there was ever a theme song for this season, it would be “Manchild.” (Which isn’t to say that the women in Denver are incapable of acting badly…) In the run-up to the finale of “Love Is Blind” season 9, we get two of …

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‘Golden Bachelor’ S2e3: Stealing Lemon Kisses 1:27:12

2M ago1:27:12

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We’re just three weeks into the second season of “Golden Bachelor” and already a new archetype has emerged: The Golden Villain. Through stolen lemon bars, stolen kisses, and some very overt influencer ambitions, Nicolle has pioneered a pathway for villainy on “Golden Bachelor.” The aspiring midlife beauty influencer also has a lot of thoughts about…

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‘LIB’ S9 E7-9: Chicken Smoothie Horror Show w/Alison Roman 2:26:18

2M ago2:26:18

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‘Golden Bachelor’ S2e2: Darling & Aggressive w/ Rory Uphold 1:43:54

2M ago1:43:54

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Another week, another lackluster performance from Mel. This week, the Golden ladies do some very cathartic standup comedy – and really cut Mel down to size. Then, Debbie gets a romantic culinary one-on-one date, during which she gets to do her favorite thing: learn when to put the cheese in the omelette. Mel engages in some serious conversations wi…

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‘LIB’ S9 E4-6: Dirty Talk and Bad Vibes 2:15:54

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In the second half of the first “Love Is Blind” S9 drop, our very motley crew of Denver health nuts, biohackers, and homophobes seduce each other with dirty talk and promises of Christian babies and white houses with red doors. They also make their final pod choices, get engaged, and head off to Baja for a very sexy – and VERY drunk – honeymoon. On…

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‘LIB’ S9 E1-3: Stone Cold Denver Weirdos 2:07:14

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“Love Is Blind” season 9 is here, baby! The pods are open and they’re full of greater-Denver-area weirdos. This season is pure chaos. We’ve got love triangles, love squares and love chains. We’ve got pod GHOSTING. And we’ve got… a lot to say. There was so much content to dive into that we decided to split this recap into two parts! This one will co…

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LTSI Live: Kaitlyn Bristowe’s ‘Bachelorette’ Season w/Sharleen Joynt and Andy Levine 1:51:30

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Earlier this year, we put on a 10-year anniversary show in New York to celebrate a decade of “Bachelor” commentary. And to properly mark this milestone, we rewatched the ENTIRE first season we recapped: season 11, which starred Bachelor Nation icon Kaitlyn Bristowe. In this live taping, we revisited all of the colorful villains and jaw-dropping dra…

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‘Golden Bachelor’ S2e1: Mel’s Apology Tour w/Jonathon Johnson 2:00:07

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When Mel Owens arrived at the Bachelor Mansion on night one of season 2 of “Golden Bachelor,” he knew the task at hand: To apologize to the 20+ gorgeous, accomplished, interesting women who were there to date him – a man who said a bunch of dumb shit on a podcast. The first half of his premiere was spent doing just that, and then we got to move on …

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‘Golden Bachelor’ Cast Bios: 23 Women Too Good For Mel 1:42:53

3M ago1:42:53

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Season 2 of “The Golden Bachelor” is kicking off next week, and ABC has dropped those cast bios! The fact that 66-year-old lead Mel Owens has said he doesn’t want to date women over 60 (i.e. everyone in the show’s typical age range) has cast a pall over the proceedings, but who could be mad about meeting these 23 vibrant, multifaceted, brilliant wo…

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Taylor Frankie Paul Is A ‘Bachelorette’ Chaos Pick 1:34:20

3M ago1:34:20

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This week, Bachelor Nation was rocked by an unprecedented announcement: the next Bachelor would actually be a Bachelorette, and that Bachelorette would be… “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Taylor Frankie Paul. The MomTok founding mother and gossip magnet is already massively famous, and comes with an unusual reputation and background for a “Bach…

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‘BIP’ S10 Reunion: Men Take Accountability Challenge (Impossible) 1:55:31

3M ago1:55:31

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The ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ season 10 reunion dropped last week – and then it dropped again, and then it dropped a third and final time. We listened to the two-part podcast reunion, and then watched the YouTube video edit that finally came out this weekend, so we could take in every bit of the room tone, cross talk, and confusing circular arguments …

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‘BIP’ S10 Finale: Revenge, Love And Money 1:52:36

3M ago1:52:36

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We made it to the finale of “Bachelor In Paradise”: the reboot. As our final couples ponder the question of love or money, Sean and Allyshia make a chaotic return to the Hotel Azura to wage the failing-est political campaign in Paradise history. But for two couples, the rom-com vibes remain high. Who will choose love? Who will choose money? And wil…

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‘Love Island USA’ S7 Reunion: Rancid Vibes All Around w/Rachelle Hampton 1:41:02

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At long last, we can finally put season 7 of “Love Island USA” to bed. Andy Cohen and Ariana Madix did their level best to pull out some emotional truths and reflections from the season 7 cast, in a two-hour reunion special. Rachelle Hampton of “Normal Gossip” joins Emma to discuss the unseen footage, Nicolandria, Austin’s inability to speak, and, …

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‘BIP’ S10e9: Lord Of The Flies 1:57:36

3M ago1:57:36

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The penultimate episode of “Bachelor In Paradise” has one major goal: Eliminate as many couples as possible so we can speed-run right into a finale next week. And it almost gets there! After a regular elimination mid-episode, the show leaves us on the brink of a double elimination. In between, the couples have a camping trip that features broken eq…

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‘BIP’ S10e8: Politics For Dummies w/Ali Barthwell 1:57:47

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“Bachelor” recapping legend and “Last Week Tonight” writer Ali Barthwell rejoins the pod to discuss the losingest political campaign in “Bachelor in Paradise” history: Sean’s Parliament of Paradise, a would-be alliance that immediately alienates friend and foe alike. But at least it unintentionally delivers something we haven’t seen before – Spence…

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Rachel Recchia Spills On The ‘Perfect Match’ Finale & Post-Show Drama (Part 2) 1:07:37

4M ago1:07:37

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Rachel Recchia is back for the second half of our interview! During this chat we dig into her feelings on the winners of “Perfect Match” season 3, how all of the couples left things at the end of filming, and whether she’s single now. We also got to hear her reflect on the differences between her “Bachelor” and “Perfect Match” experiences, whether …

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‘Perfect Match’ S3 Finale: Queens Do What They Want 1:19:14

4M ago1:19:14

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“Perfect Match” season 3 has come to an end, and like all seasons of this Netflix universe crossover show, the final stretch is inherently anticlimactic. And yet, we still had a lot to say about it! True drama ensues at the last mixer, all of our final 5 couples go on questionably romantic dates, and then the group gathers to vote for the titular P…

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Rachel Recchia Talks ‘Perfect Match’ S3 & Clayton’s Press Rounds (Part 1) 53:40

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Former Bachelorette Rachel Recchia joins Love To See It this week for the first of a two-part interview digging into her experience filming “Perfect Match” season 3! She opens up about her side of her short-lived match with Clayton and its sudden end, her reactions to his postshow press tour – including what their “lifestyle differences” are – her …

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‘BIP’ S10e7: More Like Douchebag Code w/Allison Williams 2:24:33

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Actor (“M3GAN 2.0”), podcaster (Landlines) and BFF of the pod Allison Williams makes her triumphant return to Love To See It – just in time to discuss the horror of being forced to agree with both Brian and Wells during an episode of “Bachelor In Paradise.” Brian goes rogue, doing some poor gameplay and violating Bro Code, in order to tell Bailey a…

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‘Perfect Match’ S3e7-9: The Audacity Of Bros & Clayton’s Press Tour 2:01:11

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Season 3 of “Perfect Match” is in full swing! We start off this episode by breaking down Clayton’s maddening non-apology podcast tour, then get into the new drop of episodes. With the men and women separated for mixers with the singles, a familiar pattern ensues: the women behave, to protect their relationships, and the men gleefully indulge in car…

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‘BIP’ S10e6: The Godfather Of Roses w/Tess Barker 1:53:28

4M ago1:53:28

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As Jesse keeps reminding us, this is the week where EVERYTHING CHANGES in Paradise. Instead of just finding love, the cast is now tasked with finding someone that they can pretend to enjoy enough to make it to the end and secure half a million dollars. The first challenge of this brave new world boosts some, like Jeremy and Bailey, while others, li…

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‘Perfect Match’ S3e1-6: Bad Intuition 2:15:33

4M ago2:15:33

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“Perfect Match,” Netflix’s zany revolving door summer dating show, is officially back! And this time, there’s some non-Netflix talent in the mix, including two Bachelor Nation icons: Rachel Recchia and Clayton Echard. In this episode we discuss episodes 1-6, which means that a whole lot of love and drama occur. We get into Rachel and Clayton’s ill-…

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‘BIP’ S10e5: Flocking In Socks w/ Wyatt Metzger 1:54:58

4M ago1:54:58

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This week in Paradise, we have a few days of BIP normalcy before, as Jesse Palmer announces, “everything changes.” Lea, Nancy, and Faith get date cards, the whole gang engages in a very feathery mating ritual, and Allyshia arrives to stir up conflict between Dale and Kat. We’re joined by Wyatt Metzger, host of the BachMakers podcast to break it all…

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News & Gossip: ‘Love Island’ Podcast Blitz, ‘Beyond The Villa,’ & ‘BIP’ Drama 1:57:18

5M ago1:57:18

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Good morning, islanders! Season 7’s time in the villa may be over, but the “Love Island” discourse continues. The cast has been making the podcast rounds, with Amaya and Huda sitting down on Call Her Daddy, Chelley and Olandria chatting with Keke Palmer, and more. And one interview in particular (*cough* Huda) has been fueling the drama. Meanwhile,…

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‘BIP’ S10e4: Over My Deaded Body 1:54:18

5M ago1:54:18

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It’s only been 8 days in Paradise, but so much is happening! The chyrons are cooking, people (namely Kat and Dale) are having extremely circular, potentially relationship-ending arguments, Jeremy and Bailey are sharing one piece of gum, Kathy is doing body shots, and the Goldens finally get a date card. “BIP” is finally feeling like (almost) paradi…

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‘BIP’ S10e2-3: Slurping For Roses 2:24:14

5M ago2:24:14

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“Bachelor in Paradise” season 10 is underway, with an epic FIVE-HOUR week: Monday night’s three-hour episode, followed by a cool two hours on Tuesday. ABC, please! We need a free night to do our laundry! But with the return of “Almost Paradise” (the remix) and snarky chyrons, not to mention some love geometry and Goldens who arrive ready to flirt, …

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‘Love Island’ S7e33-36: Amaya Papaya Finds Her Glass Slipper 1:59:11

5M ago1:59:11

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Season 7 of “Love Island USA” has limped to a conclusion, and the final was just as underwhelming as the season. Of the final four couples, the longest-standing couple only got together after Casa Amor – and by the time the winner was announced, they had already broken up. With every solid connection from the season booted from the villa, all our f…

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‘Love Island’ S7e27-32: The Kitty’s Out Of The Hideaway w/Jo Piazza 2:14:07

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This season of “Love Island USA” is an unmitigated mess. Nearly every strong connection has been thrown out of the villa, one of our central couples was partially disappeared (with good reason) this week, and the vibes are, overall… unsettling. But from the wreckage of this season, can something beautiful still be salvaged? A friends-to-lovers stor…

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‘BIP’ S10e1: Hot Girls Get Seasick w/ Shaina Taub 1:53:31

5M ago1:53:31

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After two long years, we’re back in Paradise! But instead of the gritty, sandy, crustacean-filled beaches of Sayulita, we’re at a glossy resort in Costa Rica, sipping champagne by the pool while Dale Moss is forced to do sketches. The long-awaited “BIP” reboot is here, and based on the three-hour premiere, production took the original “Bachelor in …

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‘Love Island’ S7e21-26: The Group Project Is Bullying w/ Leigh Blickley 2:46:34

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It’s a two-part episode this week, in both timing and tone: In the first half, Claire and Emma giddily bask in the romantic climax of Nic and Cierra’s post-Casa reunion. In the second, pod bestie Leigh Blickley joins Claire to pick up the pieces of our hopes for this season, as offscreen revelations and onscreen heel turns – especially in the bruta…

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‘Love Island’ S7e15-20: Not Mamacita’s Little Meatball! w/Kelsey McKinney 2:11:33

6M ago2:11:33

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BFF of the pod Kelsey McKinney joins us to discuss a real rollercoaster of a week on “Love Island USA.” We start with some truly baffling eliminations – how dare they do this to Hannah??? – and then head straight into the most pain-filled Casa Amor Fiji has ever witnessed. (We feel personally victimized by some of these choices. Stop taking cues fr…

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‘Pretty Woman’ Is The Most Charming Vulture Capitalist Fairytale w/ Josh Gondelman 2:16:12

6M ago2:16:12

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It’s rom-com rewatch time! We head back to 1990 Los Angeles for a beautiful tale about a sex worker (Julia Roberts) being lifted up into wealth, privilege and classiness by a corporate raider with a heart of gold (Richard Gere). It’s the ultimate capitalistic fairy tale, dreaming up a ruthless investor who has amassed millions by destroying things …

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‘Love Island’ S7e9-14: Hurricane Huda Is A Mamacita 1:44:01

6M ago1:44:01

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“LOVE ISLAND USA” SEASON 7 IS CINEMA! We weren’t quite ready to commit after a week of episodes – one can’t lock in too early, you have to explore! – but after watching episodes 9-14, we’re closing off. The drama in the villa reached all-time highs, with a pancake incident pushing Huda and Jeremiah’s bond to the breaking point, a forced recoupling …

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News & Gossip: 2 Weddings, An ‘LIB’ Divorce, And A ‘Bachelor’ Breakup w/ Zachary Reality 1:01:25

6M ago1:01:25

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Bachelor Nation and Love Is Blind Land have been rocked by two major splits – including an acrimonious divorce between Lydia and Milton of “Love Is Blind” that finally closes the book on a disastrous season 5 (from which zero couples now remain). Then we discuss the entirely unsurprising split between Grant and his “Bachelor” winner Juliana, delive…

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‘Love Island’ S7e3-8: Ace Loses Face 1:54:24

6M ago1:54:24

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“Love Island USA” is getting juicy. Huda and Jeremiah are careening towards disaster, two new bombshells enter the villa to try to turn the men’s heads, and we have our first exit from the villa. (We’ll miss you, Belle-dasha. Sort of.) We also are getting some strong redpill vibes from certain men – cough, Ace, cough – and honestly hope that our fa…

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Introducing Reality Gays 8:14

6M ago8:14

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Jake Anthony and Matt Marr are two Southern Queens who absolutely love reality shows about lonely hearts looking for love. They recap it all on the Reality Gays podcast, including: TLC’s 90 Day Fiancé, Love is Blind on Netflix, Love After Lockup, and some other shows where the people are just hot messes looking for love. Matt is a clinical psycholo…