A lot of my time lately has been occupied with watching Love Island USA.

You see folks, I wish this was a visual medium so you could have seen the look of pure contempt.

Luke shot me. Just disgust, but be that as it may. And I'll fully

acknowledge a ruinous waste of time. Like all these episodes, there were 30 episodes, all of them an hour each,

so you end up sinking more than a day of your life,

substantially more than a day of your life into this show.

But the premise of the show is you've got five or six men,

five or six women, all sexy singles. They put them on there at this resort alone and they

see, well, who finds love? And you you know people get voted off people they play

games and such and then as as the show goes on new bombshells are introduced

so new people come in and this this breaks up you know the established order again the look of contempt on his face

Well, it's no it's just I think people know what love island is and people are familiar with the concept of this type of show.

I barely was.

So I think I'm speaking to myself.

I remember about, it was probably about a year and a half ago on our show where you were,

you know, you were talking about how you're watching the bachelor and you were explaining how the bachelor works

You know really on the cutting edge of 2003. Yeah, yeah. Well, hey, I'll tell you something love Love Island, a show that conservatively, millions of people watch,

the metrics on any podcast dealing with Love Island are so much higher than ours.

I never see it in my Twitter feed, which is a real like, you know, what was it the

Pauline Kale said? How did Nixon win? I don't know anyone who voted for him. But just last night, we watched the Love Island reunion where they all come back

through in New York and a couple of interesting things emerged in it just

about the way we live now. First of all, something that reality stars, I don't think, dealt with 20 years ago is social media.

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