Hi, I'm Taine.

And I'm Aid, and this is Alter Call, a married-up First Night podcast.

Welcome to Week 11, week by week, day by day.

We're making it through.

And I'm glad the couples are doing just fine and maintaining their pace. Because I think for me,

personally, it's just been a long week. Yeah, it has been very rough. You know, the day of the show,

the decision about Brianna Taylor's case came out. And it was just sad. And I definitely carried that.

At first I was sad and then I was enraged.

And I feel like I carried some of that rage into watching this not on even close to the same level show.

So hopefully I'm not too angry with our people tonight.

They shouldn't have to suffer.

But yeah, it was rough.

This is just hard.

It is. And I know reality shows they serve as a bubble,. This is just hard. It is.

And I know reality shows, they serve as a bubble, but it's also hard not to sometimes

watch it and think it's just, you know, frivolous, but, you know, it serves as purpose, I guess.

It has been a lifesaver over the past few months reality television, but yesterday it just

wasn't working.

So I watched the show,

but yeah, it was hard. So we're going to, you know, today's a new day. There's not really much else you can do besides keep going, even when that feels very difficult. And so we're going to try.

We are. So how was couples cam? It was good. Don't worry, guys.

I mean, we're going to get into it and pick everything up. We're just, you know, trying to be honest. We have what we're feeling this week. And it was just the timing of the announcement about the Brianna Taylor judgment and the show. But yeah, we're in. We're here today. Couples cam was good. It was the season's finale. And it was packed full of everything that they've not shown us all season.

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