Hey guys, I did it again. Damn it. I always even thought what's up everybody. I don't I try to say hey guys. I say hey guys a lot. Hey guys Instagram

man. Coming at you. Hey guys. Coming at you hot. I'm very excited about today's episode. I don't know why I'm holding that. I'm very excited about today's episode. I have my ex girlfriend, Rachel.

Also, but I say that jokingly, Rachel and I have talked about that. I just want to get right into that. It's funny because you know, Rachel obviously was on my season, became the

Bachelorette and that's not why she's here. But people like like in Bachelination, people like to think of us as X's and things like that. And we have discussed like the people I've had relationships with on Bachelination, Vanessa's the only one I've considered an X in terms of I have a relationship with. And it's always this kind of funny deep in terms of like, oh like, you know, we had an intense experience together and get to know each other. But like I don't that's like, oh well, those are all your X's from your season.

I'm like, I barely know her name. Like I got like, I don't I've had two conversations with her. I don't I have no idea how they are in a relationship. So I did, did you feel that way?

I feel like you 100% because I don't think it counts until you're just with one person, right? Like when you're sharing with multiple women or men in my situation, it doesn't count, right? Like I always hated when they were like, your boyfriend's out on another day.

And I'm like, he's not my man yet. Because if he was my man, I wouldn't be sharing him with these other women.

How's it feel to your girlfriend? Yeah. So like, I don't like is Andy the bad shred? Is that who who are dating here? Like I was there for like, get two days and like, oh, well, she's out of another day.

I mean, maybe Jen from Paradise, I got to know her like outside of the show. We're going to date outside the show. But, you know, like we had real conversations. And I guess Caitlin before, but like very like the women from my season, other than Vanessa, like, I didn't have real moments with, you know,

I mean, I certainly had real moments with, with Raven and Rachel in the confines of like that crazy staged atmosphere. Yeah. But like, it wasn't like real relationships come from like, you know, what's your favorite color? Like we don't get that into it, though. Doesn't it feel like a polygamous experience?

No, I can't explain it enough. It does not feel like polygamy.

It really does. Although my favorite, and we're not jumping into the episode quite yet, but my favorite line of the episode, when Kate, when, when Collins, like, he does the doing the blog stuff, the vlogging in the morning, each episode, and Collins, like, well, you know, had my 101 day was so and so broke up with the

leasing. It says it's so like, like, this is another day. And it was, but that's the show.

No, but what you guys are talking about just to sign up. I despise it. Maybe it is the person who's vlogging and just not doing a good job at it. It's awful. It's awful.

It's the show. I'm trying to stay current. It's not, it's not Collins idea. It's, but it's that it doesn't come across as vlogging to me.

It's not getting in the episode. No, but back to what you guys were talking about, if you buy into the experience that you're dating multiple people at once, if the girls are buying into, like, oh my God, next my boyfriend, and you're stealing Nick for me, then it's a polygamous experience. That's what it is.

Sure, but like, listen, the producers, the producers are, you know, like, are trying to create this tension. And so they'll ask questions, like, hey, your boyfriend, your girlfriend's on another day because, you know,

it's kind of, well, fuck with you. But like, most people in that, in that environment, when even though they get sucked in, they're still like, they're not like oblivious to reality. You know, they're like, okay, fine. Yes. Like, I'm feeling some people do get sucked in.

Some people, sure. I would say more than half.

But I also would argue that half of the half that do get sucked in are sometimes they're doing it because they think they have to or they should try to make the experience their own.

And I would argue that the people who develop legitimate connections with the lead are the usually the people who stay the most sane at least early on.

I will 100% agree with that. That actually makes me think of something because as I'm watching Colton season, and I guess I look at it this way.

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