All right.

All right, let's bring him in.

He was one of the singles this season on Temptation Island. He left the island with Sydney. Let's bring him on right now. It is Xavier Odom. Xavier, how you doing? I'm doing good. How about you, Steve? Good. I want to start out with the first thing. Maybe you've gotten this a lot. Maybe you haven't. I've never seen Xavier spelled the way you spell it, right? Yeah. No, it's extremely unique. It comes from like an Ethiopian background with the Z. It's a little funky, but basically unique. So yeah. Yeah, because X-A-V-I-E-R is always pronounced Zavis.

Yeah, standard, yeah. Yeah, because X-A-V-I-E-R is always pronounced Z-V.

Yeah, standard, yeah.

So you just included the X and the Z and the X is X silent just like it is in regular.

So anyway, just wanted to throw that out there.

I was like, I don't think I've ever seen that before.

Like you said, it's unique.

But let's get started with your season of Temptation Island.

I ask this to everybody who comes on just your background.

I want you to fill everybody in like everybody to know a little bit more about Xavier.

What's your background?

Where are you from and stuff like that?

Yeah, for sure. Born and raised, Midwest, and Michigan. Went to Michigan State and North Carolina, and T. I studied mechanical engineering, so

I have a tech background. I was a technical program manager, product design, and then also working on autonomous vehicles

and stuff. So big tech guy, very new to the whole reality space stuff of things. And then,

like, as you see on the show, like, I'm a creative. So, I mean, I like guitar and then other, you know,

meetings in that space as well. So when are you based out of, where are you based out of right now? Where do you live now? Right now I'm in L.A. Previous to the show and a little bit after I was in Charlotte. But yeah, right now I'm in L.A. yeah. Okay. So, so but you are, but you currently, your home base is Charlotte or are you moving to L.A. now?

I'm, right now, I'm, I'm taking the call right now. I'm in Culver City now. Okay. So you're in Culver City now. And again, I asked this to everybody, what was your background in, not reality TV in terms of what shows you've been on? I'm assuming this is your first show. But had you heard of Temptation Island before, how did you get cast?

That's always an interesting thing because we've heard stories about,

oh, my friend nominated me or somebody reached out to me on LinkedIn or they reached out

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