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Hello and welcome back to Well Played presented by this game. I'm Caroline Henderson.

I'm Blake Morgan, and this is our very last episode of 2025.

Tear, cry, sad. are you going to do without me? I was thinking about that. We've sent so much time together lately. Too much, question. I know. I'm like, are we allowed to say who's show we went on the other day? Yeah, I think so. You already kind of put it out there with your Instagram post on accident. We went on Tobin Heath and Kristen Press's podcast. The episode is not out yet. However, it did mean that we got to spend 12 hours together in the LA sunshine. It was supposed to be more than that. Our flight got delayed and then we had to have a sleepover. But United didn't want us to enjoy the sun. They didn't. They didn't. So we did a little 12 hours stints. Yeah, Blake did sleep over my house.

That was cute. Oh my God. It was immaculate. Because Caroline has a whole queen-sized bed. The whole last bed. Yep. And she even put on like white noise for me. She tucked me in and said good night. She said good night. It was like 1 a.m.

It was really, I don't want to say romantic,

but it was really special. It was romantic.

It was intimate.

And I got to hang out with Scott.

Yeah, and we made Scott take it. like 1 a.m. It was really, I don't want to say romantic, but it was really special.

It was romantic. It was intimate.

And I got to hang out with Scott.

Yeah. And we made Scott take a IQ quiz at midnight. In New York Magazine. Maniacs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was fun. He's my favorite hab. Yeah, he is a great hab. Yeah. He is great hab. Okay, before we get into the episode really quickly, because it has become my entire

personality this week, you were recommending, or actually you spoke about heated rivalry.

I was recommended last week, and then you recommended that I watched it. Right. But I had

like, it had been completely off my radar. Now I don't know how, because I am a woman possessed.

I read the book in 24 hours because three episodes, four episodes were not enough for me to consume. So I had to read the entire book in 24 hours. And also, by the way, last week I was like, oh, it's sold out everywhere, but you got it on your Kindle. Oh, I fully bought it. I didn't like, oh, you didn't even like rent it. It wasn't like,

I didn't like, I have Libby. I often use Libby. Guess how many people were in front of me? 48. You think I'm waiting that long? This honestly not that many. I thought there would be more. No, I, well, that was just for the that one book. I think it was the series probably the starter is backed up plenty because this was the second book you know that right they're in books

two and six ilia and Shane in the series. The series starts with Scott Hunter. I love how like I taught you something last week and now you didn't take me more. And now my OCD has taken over. Before we started recording Caroline had to, I was like over there doing some shit. And Caroline was like, I have to go watch my videos. And she was watching like fan edits like this on this couch by herself. It's not my fault that they started putting these fan edits to Taylor Swift music. That makes me black out. I just, I lost all control. I don't know what it's happening. But anyways, if you think, oh, like, you're nervous to

watch it because it might be too raunchy for you. No, it's not. It's like through the female gays. It's everything and more. I'm foaming at the mouth for episode five that comes out on Friday. I know I'm going to cry. I'm just like so here for it. I know. So anyways, also read the book because it's great.

Right. We'll support it.

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