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Hey, bitches.

Welcome back to another episode of Bitches Better.

I'm your host, Raven.

And today, I'm here with my fellow baddies enthusiast and host of the dumpster dive

and good Judy's podcast, Tom Hamlet. Hey, Tom. Hi, Raven, thanks for having me. I know I need to get back into Bodies. I fell out for a little bit because I just felt like other things in life happening. And I did get back in. I understand. Listen, it happens. I missed all of Badi's Africa. I still haven't watched that. Batty's gone wild. Still haven't seen it. Yeah. So, like, it happens because it can be a lot. And you were, like, binging it. So that. It was hard to binge, too, because you're like, because you'll finish binging it and you'll be like, should I go fight someone? Right. And I'm like, wait. Who can I punch? No, because I don't have Natalie none here. The situation's not right. I probably will go to jail and we don't need that. Have you been watching House of Villains? No, I haven't started it yet. There's too much on. No, I know. And then I don't know where anything is either. I'm like, is that on

peacock? It's on peacock. Okay. Okay. So I was like trapped in my child at home for like a

week and I was just like been catching up on tons of shows because it was like the only thing

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