‘Love Island Games’ and ‘Big Brother’ Finale Recaps! Plus, ‘The Golden Bachelor’ S2E2 and ‘Love Is Blind’ S9 Updates

Bachelor Party

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4 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Juliet and Callie are back to recap all of your favorite reality TV shows! First, they discuss the ‘Love Island Games’ Season 2 finale! They share their thoughts on the winners and discuss how the show is similar to ‘The Challenge’ (01:15). They share updates on the ‘Love Is Blind’ honeymoons and predict which couples are still together (20:25). After, they talk about ‘The Golden Bachelor,’ mixed with a light football chat (26:08). They share their thoughts on Mel as a lead, and they agree that this season lacks the kooky characters that Season 1 had. Finally, Taylor Hale joins Callie to break down the ‘Big Brother’ Season 27 finale, including Ashley’s victory, Vince and Kelsey’s relationship status, and much more (43:43)! Hosts: Juliet Litman and Callie Curry Guest: Taylor Hale Producers: Olivia Crerie and Jade Whaley Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A wise man once said in this world, nothing can be certain except death taxes and your boy Johnny Bananas.
0:07.2	Welcome to the brand new Death Taxes and Bananas channel where we'll be recapping season 41 of the challenge every week with all your favorite cast members.
0:15.7	I'm going to dive deep into the drama, get every side of every story, and tell stories about behind the scenes on set
0:22.8	antics. So, follow Death Taxes and Bananas on Spotify, where you can watch every episode
0:28.3	or subscribe to YouTube.com at Death Taxes Bananas on YouTube.
0:33.8	Thank you. on YouTube. Welcome to Bachelor Party.
0:48.3	I'm Julia Lippman.
0:49.3	I'm here with Callie Curry.
0:50.3	Hi, Callie.
0:51.3	Hello.
0:52.3	How are you?
0:53.3	I'm good. How are you?
0:56.4	I'm doing well. Thank you. I'm actually like I haven't been talking to you for 15 minutes, but I have.
1:01.6	Um, we got a lot to chat about today. Love Island finale. Love is Blind follow up things we
1:07.6	didn't hit on Friday, Golden Bachelor, and reality TV news and notes.
1:13.2	Plenty of stuff to dig into. I'd like to start with Love Island Games, which concluded last
1:19.2	night. Spoiler alert. I don't know. Can Love Island Games really be spoiled? It's not really
1:24.3	about the result. Anyway, congrats to Lucinda and Zay. I definitely would not have
1:30.8	chosen them to win this television show. So that was surprising to me. Perhaps it is a spoiler in that
1:35.3	regard. I would not have chosen them either, but I feel like them winning, like satisfies everyone.
1:42.1	Like, it's best case scenario for everyone to leave happy.
1:45.7	I would have rather Justine and Ty win.
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