Welcome to another episode of Out of the Pods.

I'm Deep T.

And I'm Natalie.

And happy Monday, guys.

Surprise.

We're dropping the episode early.

I know.

This is our little gift to you because we know our episodes typically drop on Wednesday and that's when Love is Blind comes out and we're like, you know what? I think people want to hear our recap. We're such narcissists. We're like, people want to hear what we think early, okay? Yeah. No, we just had to get the info out because honestly, we can't hold in our own thoughts. And I needed to chat with you about what's going on. Yeah, 100%. And to be honest, I just wanted to hear the pod besties opinions. Like what really sucked is when we dropped our episodes on Wednesday, when the new set of episodes for Love is Blind, season nine came out. And then our pop besties is like, oh, this person now does this thing. And I was

just like, okay, no, no. Like, I hate that. Yeah. I hate that. It's a little too delayed. And you know what?

We, we needed to adjust. Yeah. So here we are. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. It's our little gift to you.

Before we start a recap of the episode seven through nine, I did want to talk about some things that I'm just seeing on social media.

The first thing is that Blake, who we haven't seen in this new set of episodes, the last time we saw him was like literally episode two.

He's doing so much press.

And I'm kind of confused why.

Like, there was an official press day, which included Claibria, Madison, Ali, Jordan, and Blake.

And I was like, wait, why is Blake there?

Like, shouldn't be like, I don't know, even Patrick.

Like, it should be Patrick.

Even Brendan.

But I was just confused why Blake is there.

Honestly, I just think it's because Blake just looks so polished and he's, I don't know, he's media ready.

He's media trained. He just is eloquent in the way he speaks. But I just know Natalie has another theory.

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