ICYMI - Reddit is the Real Host of “Love is Blind”
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by Jonquilyn Hill, the host and reporter of Vox’s policy and politics podcast The Weeds. The two reunite to discuss the most recent season of Netflix’s Love is Blind. Following an unmemorable season and a disastrous attempt at a live reunion, the sixth installment of the reality dating show finally managed to re-capture the magic that made the show’s initial premise so enticing. How’d they do it? By taking their cues from the sleuths, skeptics and superfans that inhabit the Love is Blind subreddit which boasts over 1 million followers.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Rachel Hampton and you're listening to I see why am I in case you miss it |
| 0:17.8 | slaves podcast about internet culture and today we're doing a little throwback to a different time. |
| 0:25.0 | Do you remember when y'all used to just tune in and hear me monologue for five to seven minutes? |
| 0:31.0 | Don't you miss that? Well lucky for you. You get to relive those glory days because our beloved |
| 0:37.1 | Candas is out in the world brokering connections with Audi and temperpetic for us. We salute you. |
| 0:45.0 | But today's not just a throwback because I'm back in the solo host chair, but because almost exactly a year ago we did a very similar episode. That's right, it is now time for our newly annual Love is Blind Recap and we are making |
| 1:08.1 | this annual not just because I'm obsessed with this time |
| 1:15.0 | time with this show or because as I said this time last year the internet is |
| 1:18.4 | basically the secret producer of this show as it is from most reality TV shows and I'm not just blowing hot air. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm not the only one who thinks that because today I'll be joined by none other |
| 1:31.1 | than John Quillen Hill, reality TV scholar, and reporter and host of |
| 1:36.1 | Vox's Policy and Politics Podcasts The Leeds. As you'll hear her say later in the episode, |
| 1:42.0 | the fourth wall constantly being broken by contestants awareness of the internet |
| 1:47.6 | is the unspoken cast member of this season of Netflix's a mega hit dating reality series. But first we got to set the table a little bit. We got to put the pieces on the chessboard so we know what's happening. |
| 2:01.0 | Love is Blind first aired in a stroke of almost incredibly lucky |
| 2:06.9 | and uncanny timing in 2020 when the concept of getting engaged |
| 2:11.8 | to someone you'd never met before seemed a little less |
| 2:14.4 | outlandish because it felt like the world was crashing in around all of us. Do you remember that? |
| 2:19.1 | That's also the year that I wrote about the show. And once again, I will be plagiarizing myself |
| 2:24.1 | because I work smarter and not harder. |
| 2:26.6 | So this is how Love is Blind works. |
| 2:29.8 | 15 men and 15 women are separated into dormitories and at first are only allowed to communicate |
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