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So thank you very much for all doing that. It's been quite a week. The last week for me. As you know, you read yesterday's column.

There's a lot of a summary of what I gave out in my tweets from last Friday until Tuesday. Everything that was going on in Virginia.

And I mean, it's, it was a lot of stuff. I know. And obviously I was hoping to possibly have more stuff on the Tia Colton drama.

But I don't as of yet. I think I will eventually. But the bottom line for me is Colton flew Tia out to see him for a weekend.

Like if that's the only thing that happened, which obviously it wasn't. But if that was the only thing that happened, it makes me question what Beck is doing with this guy.

Obviously she hasn't interest in him. But why would you want somebody who was just weeks before he came on your season was hitting up your one of your close friends from your season. It just doesn't, it doesn't really add up.

I mean, there might be more to the story, but the basics are that Colton was seeing Tia before he went on this show. And if he was seeing Tia, that means he was also talking to the show and applying to be on it and meeting with producers and going through testing.

So it just. And now Beck knows this. So it is really confusing. I don't really understand it. But I guess we'll find out what happens. But Colton is certainly an opportunist.

We all know what happened with Ali Rasmain and how that came to be. And it's clear what this guy's agenda is. I mean, I, you know, you know about his legacy foundation is at the name of Colton on the woods legacy foundation where he gives.

You know, it helps kids with cystic fibrosis, which is great. I mean, I applaud him for that. But it doesn't change because you run a legacy foundation that helps kids with cystic fibrosis doesn't change the fact that you were seeing Tia and flew her out to spend a weekend with you weeks before you show up in a limo on Becca season. Like one has nothing to do with the other. They are mutually exclusive. So I will guess we'll Colton will certainly be a polarizing figure this season. No doubt.

A couple of things I want to get to before we get to our guest. Starting next week on Friday, we will have recaps of X on the beach on MTV Nell Coulter will be recapping those you red nails recaps on my site for a couple of years now. She's great. She's going to be covering X on the beach.

It does have a bachelor flavor to it for those who are unfamiliar with it. It's an MTV show where they cast MTV people and this season they've included some bachelor people where they're just singles going on a beach thinking they're just going to hang out and then they bring their X is on halfway through. It's very similar to real world season skeletons where they thought they were all just on a regular season of real world and then they bring in people from their past or explosion the one where they only brought in their X skeletons was they brought in people.

From their past that they might have bullied or stuff like that. So yeah, Nell is going to be covering that. Check that out every Friday. That's going to be great because Nell is a great writer. If you've read her stuff, she's very, very funny, very witty and she loves these trashy MTV shows. So check that out next Friday.

X on the beach premieres next Thursday night on MTV and the two people from bachelor nation that are on this season are Chase McNary and Jasmine Good. So that'll be interesting when their X is show up and wreck havoc or whatever the case may be.

So and also before we get into today's podcast, Susie Meister, who is a former challenge competitor and is now in the media entrepreneur business.

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