Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to the Math twenty podcast with
Speaker 1: me Joshua Fox. On last night's Married at First Sight,
Speaker 1: we saw female friendships fall apart with lines draw in
Speaker 1: the Sanders. Loyalties were made abundantly clear. Take a listen
Speaker 1: to this. I'm not backing Lauren. I want everyone to
Speaker 1: come together. Then stand up for me too, Karena, We've
Speaker 1: done our time. We've literally I've had drawback, I've ad
Speaker 1: everyone's back. Defend me. Maybe, what do you want me
Speaker 1: to say? Like, raise my arms? Raight, chill, chill out.
Speaker 1: My friends have completely dropped the bulk. What started as
Speaker 1: Lauren machine wearing snob going up against the apparently boganic
Speaker 1: Jamie soon dragged Karina and Re into it, who seemingly
Speaker 1: sided with Lauren. And well, all of this was filmed
Speaker 1: six months ago and a lot of shit has happened
Speaker 1: since then. Oh and my reference to Lauren being a
Speaker 1: Sheene wearing snob is no judgment to the fact that
Speaker 1: she was wearing an eight dollars ninety five Spicy Margarita
Speaker 1: T shirt from Sheen on last night's episode. We all
Speaker 1: love a bagging. It's more the absolute hilarity in the
Speaker 1: fact that just twenty four hours earlier, she went on
Speaker 1: this whole elitist rant about Athena only being able to
Speaker 1: afford nylon hair extensions, which apparently meant Athena was beneath her,
Speaker 1: because you know, Lauren is used to the more finer
Speaker 1: things in life. Then the next day she pulls out
Speaker 1: a holiday wardrobe full of sheen consumer and please make
Speaker 1: that make sense. Anyway, As I said, this was all
Speaker 1: filmed six months ago now, and you're probably wondering, well,
Speaker 1: who's friends and who's still holding a grudge, And don't worry,
Speaker 1: I've got the answers for you. But before I get
Speaker 1: to that, a few of you pointed out something interesting
Speaker 1: to me that you spotted during the retreat last night
Speaker 1: that I'm going to be honest, I completely missed it.
Speaker 1: And it is the fact that as the Castroole kind
Speaker 1: of sat there as a group, Paul was holding what
Speaker 1: looked to be a beer and drinking alongside everyone else.
Speaker 1: And if you confused why that's slightly problematic, it's because
Speaker 1: remember my chat with career her on Sunday where she
Speaker 1: revealed this. At the end of the day, I felt
Speaker 1: safe and it was up to me Essentially, he was
Speaker 1: banned from alcohol for the rest of the series. They
Speaker 1: gave him therapy sessions every Saturday morning, so there was
Speaker 1: a lot of things that had to come in in
Speaker 1: the place for it to be a safe fan That
Speaker 1: was Karina basically saying that one of the conditions of
Speaker 1: Paul being able to stay on the show after the
Speaker 1: domestic violence incident was that he was banned from drinking
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. But there he was
Speaker 1: with what looked like a beer. I can't confirm this.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out exactly what the drink is,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to post a screenshot to Instagram. So
Speaker 1: can you all go on after you listen to this
Speaker 1: to help me id what was Paul drinking. Anyway, now
Speaker 1: back to who's friends and who fucking hates each other?
Speaker 1: As well as me being told about the present day
Speaker 1: friendships and feuds, I've actually seen the existing divides and
Speaker 1: drama with my very eyes, and as far as I
Speaker 1: can see, there's currently three groups amongst brides of this
Speaker 1: year's season. You've got the Core four, the plus ones,
Speaker 1: and the rejects. So at the center of everything, yeah,
Speaker 1: we've got the Core four and that is Jamie, Athena,
Speaker 1: Karna and Ree. They're kind of like the current glue
Speaker 1: at the center of all friendships. And following the scenes
Speaker 1: we watched last night, it's no surprise that despite the
Speaker 1: four of them all being tight, Jamie and Athena add
Speaker 1: a little bit closer on one side of the core four,
Speaker 1: and then on the other side you've got Ree and
Speaker 1: Karna who seem a little bit closer. But that being said,
Speaker 1: the four of them are still friends as a group,
Speaker 1: like as far as I'm told, Jamie has moved past
Speaker 1: what happened at the retreat, and you know, they're all friends.
Speaker 1: And then on the outer circle of the core four,
Speaker 1: I've made that turn up, by the way, but I
Speaker 1: kind of like it, so can we make it? I
Speaker 1: think we've got the plus ones. And there you've got
Speaker 1: intruder Beth, who seems a little bit more aligned with
Speaker 1: Athena and Jamie given the fact that I've seen it
Speaker 1: like hanging out with them more in tickto and just
Speaker 1: like present day stuff. And then you've got Ashley and Katie, who,
Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, are kind of friends
Speaker 1: with everyone, but they're not necessarily as close with everyone.
Speaker 1: Mostly given the fact that they left the experiments so early,
Speaker 1: and also, as far as I'm told, there's not really
Speaker 1: much drama between all of those brides there, the core
Speaker 1: for and the plus ones, And you know, it's only naturally,
Speaker 1: I suppose that over time, you know, some people become
Speaker 1: closer than others. It's like, did anyone go in Akontikito
Speaker 1: when you're younger? Because when you do, you're kind of
Speaker 1: friends with everyone. But then when you all return home
Speaker 1: and back to your real lives and you know, these
Speaker 1: distance between you, some friendships will naturally fade a little bit,
Speaker 1: whereas some people you kind of just keep a daily
Speaker 1: back and forth with on the WhatsApp, you know, So
Speaker 1: that kind of seems what's happened here. As I said,
Speaker 1: you've got like Jamie and Afina seem closer with Beth
Speaker 1: hanging with them a bit more than you've got re
Speaker 1: and Karina, who seem a little bit closer. But then
Speaker 1: everyone's still hanging out as a big group. And now
Speaker 1: we have the rejec the ones who aren't in the
Speaker 1: group chats, and the ones who aren't invited to the
Speaker 1: big catchups like that Valentine's Day lunch that I rocked
Speaker 1: up to And as far as I'm told, the biggest
Speaker 1: outcasts of this season are Jackie, Lauren, and Sierra, which
Speaker 1: I suppose comes as no surprise to anyone. Marena also
Speaker 1: kind of falls into this category, like people are catching
Speaker 1: up without her and she doesn't seem to be invited
Speaker 1: to like the big lunches. But I believe that she's
Speaker 1: still in contact with a couple of the brides, and
Speaker 1: I suppose she is like older and her kids and
Speaker 1: you know, a bit more going on than maybe the
Speaker 1: younger ones who are going for lunches constantly. And then lastly,
Speaker 1: we've got Veronica, and she's quite an interesting one because again,
Speaker 1: as far as I'm told, she left the show with
Speaker 1: only one kind of real friend who she's still tight with,
Speaker 1: and that's Karina. But interestingly, something I'm also told about
Speaker 1: this year's female friendships is that no one is necesscessarily
Speaker 1: making people pick sides or whatever like we've seen with
Speaker 1: previous casts, Like if one bride dislikes another, she's not
Speaker 1: then saying to her friend, Hey, you can't hang out
Speaker 1: with her because I hate Like, if you want to
Speaker 1: be my friend, you have to choose my side, Like
Speaker 1: apparently everyone's kind of cheer with Oh, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't like that one. But yeah, you go hang
Speaker 1: out with her if you want. I don't care anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's your update. So Jamie has moved past the retreat drama.
Speaker 1: She's forgiven Karina and Rey. Everything's good. Goodbye. Oh Also,
Speaker 1: if you're still listening, I've spent the past week doing
Speaker 1: another investigation. This one's bigger than the last one. The
Speaker 1: episode's going to be longer, and one I'm going to
Speaker 1: reveal in it is even more shocking. Stay tuned, guys,
Speaker 1: It's coming very soon. I don't know why I'm whispering.
Speaker 1: There's no one in the studio with me, just letting
Speaker 1: you in on the secret. That's why I've not been
Speaker 1: posting much on Instagram the last couple of days, because
Speaker 1: this has consumed me. As I said, stay tuned,