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Lauren Zema and Chris Harrison.

Hello everybody. Coming to you. ever, Lauren Zema and Chris Harrison.

Hello, everybody.

Coming to you from, as Chris always says, the home office in Austin, Texas.

And I'm taking the reins a little bit today for this playbook.

You know, on the playbook we get into something

that's a little more evergreen,

just a good topic of discuss.

And I was inspired to spring something on you.

Okay.

Our daughter Taylor, she's been watching Love Island with her friends and it just got me.

I didn't know that. That's great. Yes. I think Love Island has maybe finally figured out its formula

after a few like it was fame, it started out in England, then CBS aired it for a few years and it did not do well and it was very expensive.

And then they brought it to Peacock and it still wasn't really doing well and then they brought on Ariana Maddox of

Vanderbilt Rules to host and maybe that combined with I guess this is just maybe they've gotten

their casting and producing finally

figured out I've heard it's a good season I guess that's the good thing for the

streamers is they could kick it off NBC put it down in the minor leagues put it on

peacock figure it out and now it's it's really found its footing so I good kudos to the peacock and NBC for giving it time and I wonder if they're spending less when it was on CBS I remember even thinking God the amount of money they're spending on like royalties for songs

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