Welcome to another episode of Out of the Pods. I'm deep tea.

And I'm Natalie. Um, okay. I feel like this is going to be an unhinged episode because before we

pressed record, deep tea was like, I'm in an unhinged mood today. And I'm scared.

I am kind of in a, I'm going to give zero F's kind of mood today.

Yeah, what's up with you? Typically you're like, you're like more like poised and refined,

but today you're like, let me just like recavic. I think it's because of the rain. It's raining

in Chicago. It's got me. I'm like, where's the sun? And I'm just angry, you know?

I'm actually really excited for this episode. I know that I say that forever episode,

but this one I'm actually looking forward to because we are talking about one of our highest

requested topics, which is dating as main cast members from a popular reality TV show that was

seen by like 60 million households. And so let me tell you, that's a very specific number.

I feel like that's what I read or heard like when our season came out that 60 million households

watched the show, which is a lot of households. That's a lot. Are we every, or every household name?

Probably not. So I think it's different because like if you compare viewership to like the

bachelor franchise, obviously we're much higher than them, but like we're in so many more

different more countries like we are international. And I think I think our show shows in like,

is it 100 countries? I think so. Something like that. So I actually heard that we're a little bit

less popular than the bachelor franchise like within the US, but like obviously our show is seen

by more people because it's international. Oh, that makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah.

Spit your facts, honey. I also might be just like making this up. I feel like someone told me,

but I can't remember who told me. Wait, can I tell you I often make up facts and I just am very

confident and when I deliver them and people are like, wow, and no one questions it. And I'm like,

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