Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Saturday, July eleventh, and only one
Speaker 1: episode left We Love Island season eight, and the next
Speaker 1: to last episode we saw last night, and boy, they
Speaker 1: say they're worst for last. And with that, welcome to
Speaker 1: this episode of Amy and tj Okay. First of all,
Speaker 1: the challenge was awful, and then I'm not happy with
Speaker 1: the final four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: It went from some reflection, some emotion. We're into the
Speaker 3: heartfelt conversations that are taking place among the Islanders talking
Speaker 3: about how wonderful family Day was for just about everybody
Speaker 3: but Melanie and Sincere, and then everyone having serious conversations
Speaker 3: about what their relationships are going to look like outside
Speaker 3: of the villas.
Speaker 4: So you were feeling it, We're invested.
Speaker 3: We're into it, and then producers decide to do exactly
Speaker 3: what we've all been screaming about, put up a disc
Speaker 3: gusting challenge and they saved the worst for last.
Speaker 1: It was it was this was this was the first
Speaker 1: one robes where even the Islanders didn't want to be there.
Speaker 3: I was going to say even the Islanders were grossed
Speaker 3: out in a way that I haven't seen them be
Speaker 3: disgusted before, and I've been we've been grossed out for them,
Speaker 3: and they have seemed to kind of laugh it off
Speaker 3: and kind of be invested regardless even in some of
Speaker 3: the slime and the stuff that they've had to do
Speaker 3: and eat and perform with this sardines and mayonnaise. Just
Speaker 3: having those two things in the same sentence, I actually
Speaker 3: felt like in moments that I was going to barf,
Speaker 3: Like it actually set off gag reflexes for me watching them.
Speaker 3: For them too, it was like they were what is
Speaker 3: it called when you is it uh not you bird?
Speaker 2: Somebody?
Speaker 3: When you actually take food in your mouth and put
Speaker 3: it in someone else's.
Speaker 4: What they were doing. The whole challenge was that.
Speaker 3: And we're talking about from beans to olives to mayonnaise.
Speaker 2: Two, yes, it scardine. It's just unnecessarily we had a
Speaker 2: fish head in their mouth.
Speaker 1: What was the point? I don't know what the point
Speaker 1: of this is? Fine, okay, you know it was funny
Speaker 1: and we're talking about it, and I don't know it
Speaker 1: just I don't know how that is something pleasant to watch,
Speaker 1: enjoyable to watch when even the people doing it aren't
Speaker 1: enjoying it.
Speaker 4: It was disgusting. It was disgusting, baby, It was.
Speaker 3: Like fear Factor meets There you Go, Love Island, There
Speaker 3: you Go, and I.
Speaker 2: Guess there's an audience for Fear Factor. I'm not one
Speaker 2: of those people for a long time. Yes, maybe fine.
Speaker 3: Watching people eat roaches it is a little different to
Speaker 3: me then watching someone slurp mayonnaise and then put said
Speaker 3: mayonnaise in it to somebody else, someone else's mouth, who
Speaker 3: then has to then dump it into a bucket that
Speaker 3: has to weigh a certain amount before you complete the challenge.
Speaker 3: And then even in the confessionals, the couples were like,
Speaker 3: your breath smells like fish, Your breath smells like mayonnaise.
Speaker 2: I mean even thinking about that. Then they have to make.
Speaker 3: Out, by the way, after they have all this disgusting
Speaker 3: stuff in their mouths, then they have to make out.
Speaker 3: So it was like the two things we hate the most,
Speaker 3: sloppy makeout sessions with audio in full blast on top
Speaker 3: of disgusting food challenge.
Speaker 1: So what was the point of this, baby? Why take
Speaker 1: it down this level of why is it supposed to
Speaker 1: be fun? And you see comments more so than I do.
Speaker 1: I don't notice someone raving about this or showing this.
Speaker 2: Everybody's turned off.
Speaker 3: Everyone's like, well people even said, first of all, I
Speaker 3: have to keep dealing with Melanie and Sincere, and second
Speaker 3: I have to now watch this disgusting food challenge with
Speaker 3: more kissing afterwards. I haven't seen one person say wow,
Speaker 3: that was a fun challenge. The only silver lining please
Speaker 3: was watching people fall. Melanie and Sincere like bottomed out
Speaker 3: and it was funny.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing that we could have done that
Speaker 1: make a challenge where the slame slippery thing is there
Speaker 1: and you have to race the get your product from
Speaker 1: this end to that. It would have been the same
Speaker 1: fall and been same hilarious. I just don't get it, bro.
Speaker 1: I didn't like the kissing challenges. There was too much.
Speaker 1: And I said, you know what, I'll defer producers, y'all
Speaker 1: know what you're doing. There's an audience for this. This
Speaker 1: is the one and it's hard to do. I will
Speaker 1: be critical of. This is one where I will actually
Speaker 1: request stop, Please don't do this, bro. This was not
Speaker 1: an enjoyable watch of any kind.
Speaker 3: This.
Speaker 1: I've seen horror, disgusting horror movies I was more comfortable
Speaker 1: in than this shit.
Speaker 2: That's a really good way to put it.
Speaker 1: Two, there is a too far. There is a too
Speaker 1: far that was it. They tried it, they challenged, they
Speaker 1: know not to do it again.
Speaker 3: My hope is that they are reading and I will
Speaker 3: say some of these comments and they are. There is
Speaker 3: a absolute consensus everyone that I saw.
Speaker 2: I didn't see one person.
Speaker 3: First of all, early on, with all of the ridiculous
Speaker 3: high let's kiss before we even introduce each other, Let's
Speaker 3: kiss before I even know you're name, let me bump
Speaker 3: and grind all over you before I even you know,
Speaker 3: introduced myself. Everybody that, not one person thought that was
Speaker 3: sexy or fun.
Speaker 2: It was all gross.
Speaker 3: And then so we saw the kissing scenes start to
Speaker 3: go down, and the challenges were not as gross makeout
Speaker 3: sessions like we.
Speaker 1: I do think, so I thought it was just a
Speaker 1: matter of the progression of the game that there just
Speaker 1: wasn't an opportunity not switching up as much anymore because
Speaker 1: we got coupled up. You think they actually, I'd like.
Speaker 3: To think that they were taking notes and were in
Speaker 3: real time recognizing how grossed out everybody was, how you
Speaker 3: were almost like ready to stop watching the show because
Speaker 3: it was so appalling. So they really got and shied
Speaker 3: away from that, And then why then stick this last
Speaker 3: disgusting challenge into do they I think they think it's
Speaker 3: funny or interesting or.
Speaker 2: Like the way people like to watch body horror.
Speaker 3: I know you don't like the substance like that somehow
Speaker 3: that that I can't believe I'm watching this is something
Speaker 3: that people want to actually watch. I just disagree, and
Speaker 3: I think they made a really bad calculation, and I'm
Speaker 3: hoping that they will take again notes for next season.
Speaker 4: You know what, Robes, this is not just the moment.
Speaker 1: I know that was a bad episode, and I like,
Speaker 1: obviously I've invested in all these couples. Now, Rob, I
Speaker 1: am not excited about the next season of this show.
Speaker 1: They lost a little bit of me this year. I
Speaker 1: guess it eventually happens, right, We were hot and heavy
Speaker 1: on married at first site for a little while. We
Speaker 1: have some shows, and I guess it's just the matter
Speaker 1: of the cycle, and I think they have to keep
Speaker 1: They know shows only have a certain amount of time.
Speaker 1: They're assuming they do, so maybe they're trying to extend
Speaker 1: it by always being fresh and new and whatnot. This
Speaker 1: was the season that I'm finally eh, I'm over it.
Speaker 2: It jumped the shark is usually what people say.
Speaker 1: This is the one baby I really really do, and
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy about the last four couples. I'm excited
Speaker 1: about Tomorrow night, Sunday Night in the finale because we
Speaker 1: have a whole crop of folks and we're having a
Speaker 1: party here. That's gonna be fun.
Speaker 4: Robes. I am.
Speaker 1: It's almost like the show has almost been trying to
Speaker 1: break up with me this season. And I'm talking about
Speaker 1: this personally. Obviously, other people feel however, they feel it.
Speaker 4: Just it went a direction. Robes.
Speaker 1: I almost feel the Islanders themselves save the show, with
Speaker 1: their human elements, with their human flaws, with their redemptive moments,
Speaker 1: with their story things were thrown in there, Robes. And
Speaker 1: maybe the producers will say, the only reason they were
Speaker 1: able to have these stories and that you love them
Speaker 1: is because we created an environment.
Speaker 2: Well, you can create drama.
Speaker 3: I believe you can create tension without repulsion. And the
Speaker 3: audio on the kissing, the over sexualization of the Islanders,
Speaker 3: and then the gross food horror of it all just
Speaker 3: to add to all of the grossness. Look, I'm wondering
Speaker 3: if that's if they're trying.
Speaker 2: To appeal to a younger audience.
Speaker 3: How long, because I think preteens, because I do think
Speaker 3: younger kids like all that grossness. They think it's funny,
Speaker 3: like you know, think about Nickelodeon and getting slimed. I
Speaker 3: do think there is an element to that gross kind
Speaker 3: of visual that younger kids like, and they want to
Speaker 3: get them young because then they'll keep watching the franchise.
Speaker 3: We know that the demographics key demographics are always trying
Speaker 3: to get young people in any advertiser. Anyone who is
Speaker 3: selling a product wants to get and hook people as
Speaker 3: young as possible, so they'll consume the product or the
Speaker 3: show for the advertisers for as long as possible, because
Speaker 3: that's the only thing that makes sense and to be
Speaker 3: that provocative.
Speaker 2: Us grown ups, we don't need to.
Speaker 3: See all that spit swapping to get into a couple
Speaker 3: and to kind of be rooting for love. But younger
Speaker 3: kids might think it's Ooh, I'm watching something I shouldn't. Ooh,
Speaker 3: I'm seeing something for the first time. That's the only
Speaker 3: thing I can think of as to why they would
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 1: But your suggestion there is that kids are the younger
Speaker 1: of the audience is not into the relationship part of
Speaker 1: the show that we.
Speaker 3: Are, so we get the relationship part of it that
Speaker 3: we're all invested in and want to learn from, and
Speaker 3: just it's an incredible to me, like you're almost getting
Speaker 3: a sociology degree and just watching how people operate, how
Speaker 3: people react to rejection, how people try to navigate when
Speaker 3: they're trying to be liked. It's all something in each
Speaker 3: of us and we can all learn from it. That
Speaker 3: part of it I think appeals to the older audience.
Speaker 3: And then I do think the grossness and the sexualization
Speaker 3: appeals to a younger audience.
Speaker 2: And they're trying to get everybody.
Speaker 3: That's why we do have people from thirteen to fifty
Speaker 3: three on our couch watching this show.
Speaker 1: That's true, and that's and I hate that. I just
Speaker 1: there there's an excitement. I am not excited. You tell
Speaker 1: me the next season's coming. I go, okay, let me
Speaker 1: know when it gets to the last couple of episodes,
Speaker 1: let me know when the ceremonies are for them to
Speaker 1: dump people off the island. And I hate that because
Speaker 1: it is, or it has been, something I have been
Speaker 1: excited about and ropes. I also appreciate the dynamics and
Speaker 1: being we are surrounded by nothing. I say, we are.
Speaker 1: I am just in our house.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: We got two kids here, one thirteen, one's back from
Speaker 1: college at twenty. But all they're surrounded a by is girlfriends, right,
Speaker 1: and this is very much a communal thing, that part
Speaker 1: of it. I have enjoyed being around and listening to
Speaker 1: and learning from different generations of how they're actually watching
Speaker 1: the show. And in some ways from thirteen to fifty three,
Speaker 1: all the women agree on a lot of suss. It's
Speaker 1: fascinating to see you all actually the recognizing things that I,
Speaker 1: as a guy, don't see at all.
Speaker 4: And it doesn't matter if it's.
Speaker 1: Thirteen, twenty forty or fifty on our couch, All of
Speaker 1: y'all see it.
Speaker 3: Not only it'll be so fun in the finale because
Speaker 3: we actually so. The twenty three year old has asked
Speaker 3: to bring three or four friends, the.
Speaker 2: Twenty year old, I'm not sure how many. And we're
Speaker 2: gonna have a big old houseful women and.
Speaker 4: What But not one guy?
Speaker 2: I guess I don't think there's one guy coming from
Speaker 2: what I know.
Speaker 4: I get Charles here.
Speaker 3: You should get a heterosexual male, and I would actually
Speaker 3: they if they, especially.
Speaker 2: If they haven't been following the show, it would be.
Speaker 4: Even that would be fun. Okay to have them sit.
Speaker 3: On the counter with you and watch all of us
Speaker 3: go crazy about something.
Speaker 2: Y'all are scratching your heads over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that part has been fun enrolled communal. Can
Speaker 1: you argue or put this with I know a lot
Speaker 1: of women are sports fans, but sometimes ropes. A lot
Speaker 1: of women get into certain events because they're communal, because
Speaker 1: it's a big it's a party of some kind. That's
Speaker 1: what I feel like with Love Island now, like I
Speaker 1: want to be a part. This is a communal this
Speaker 1: is a fun thing and it's cool. The show has
Speaker 1: absolutely turned me off. Not sure if it's lost me
Speaker 1: this year, but Robes, it still is a fun, communal
Speaker 1: thing to be out somewhere and overhearing somebody talk about
Speaker 1: it and you want to jump in ooh, sincere, I'm
Speaker 1: with you girl. That kind of thing because.
Speaker 3: If you aren't watching it, if you go on social media,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure my algorithm has adjusted to knowing that
Speaker 3: I'm watching Love Island, but it is NonStop. I am
Speaker 3: seeing advertisements and folks weighing in, like everyone is jumping
Speaker 3: on these couples and who they are and what they
Speaker 3: mean and what team you're on and if you're not
Speaker 3: watching it, you kind of feel like you're out of it.
Speaker 3: You don't know what's happening. So it is fun to
Speaker 3: be a part of it. Look, my daughters on Friday
Speaker 3: night don't usually text me that often. I was getting
Speaker 3: NonStop text from them because they were watching Love Island together.
Speaker 3: And so it is a reason to be connected to
Speaker 3: your kids, and if that is the only reason, it's
Speaker 3: fun to be able to do that. In the same way,
Speaker 3: sports brings folks together, and you don't always get the
Speaker 3: outcome you're hoping for. You might be rooting for a
Speaker 3: team and they may lose, and that is exactly what
Speaker 3: happened last night. When we come back, we will talk
Speaker 3: about who got dumped and why we are so pissed off,
Speaker 3: and well, welcome back everyone to Love Island edition of
Speaker 3: Amy and TJ. Episode thirty three was a shocking one,
Speaker 3: and you mentioned that it was the episode before the finale,
Speaker 3: which is Sunday, but there is actually one on tonight.
Speaker 3: We don't usually watch after sun it's distinguished from the
Speaker 3: regular Love Island episodes. But this Saturday night, I know
Speaker 3: we're going to be out somewhere, but I want to
Speaker 3: come back and watch, because guess who they're going to
Speaker 3: be interviewing Corbett and Parmida and then the two couples
Speaker 3: who were dumped last night. Yes, we were all expecting
Speaker 3: Kenzie and Dylan, and you were celebrating the Dylan half
Speaker 3: of it for getting voted off. No one was surprised
Speaker 3: when they opened their fortune cookie last night and found
Speaker 3: out that their journey has ended at the villa. But
Speaker 3: then and I was nervous because I saw how they
Speaker 3: were placed, or Casey and TT and then Zach and Cada.
Speaker 3: But when they opened the fortune cookies at the exact
Speaker 3: same time, I had hope because I was like, don't
Speaker 3: tell me that Casey and t T are going home
Speaker 3: and Zach and Kida are staying.
Speaker 2: But that is exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: That was b there are I would have taken Melanie
Speaker 1: and sincere kDa and Zach and Anaya and Carl out
Speaker 1: before k.
Speaker 2: C and TT absolutely agreed.
Speaker 3: I actually was suggesting that they should possibly win, and
Speaker 3: maybe even Corbra and Parmida.
Speaker 2: They should have been the final four.
Speaker 3: None of them are there in terms of compatibility, in
Speaker 3: terms of what we saw as genuine connection genuine excitement
Speaker 3: for one another, similar backgrounds, similar.
Speaker 2: Just incredible compatibility.
Speaker 3: I actually think those are the two couples who have
Speaker 3: the best shot at making it.
Speaker 1: It's a popularity contest as well.
Speaker 4: Maybe who do you like? Who do you not like?
Speaker 1: Who do you have in the And yeah, I get it,
Speaker 1: that's why folks might be turned off from KC. But
Speaker 1: KC was safe in the last go round with t T.
Speaker 4: That's the pro as the hell out of everybody.
Speaker 1: So how did he end up all the way in
Speaker 1: the bottom?
Speaker 2: I don't know. He might have been it might have
Speaker 2: been razor thin. We don't know.
Speaker 4: It might have been rigged. I'm going to go with that.
Speaker 4: I think it was rigged. Yeah, why not? It was rigged.
Speaker 4: They rigged the vote.
Speaker 3: Maybe people felt sorry for Kata because she was crying
Speaker 3: so much. Mm hmmm, that could have been the case.
Speaker 3: But here is your final four, just to be on
Speaker 3: the record with it. So, yes, Zach and Kata, Anaya
Speaker 3: and Carl, Bryce and Trinity and Melanie and Sincere.
Speaker 2: So those are your final four couples.
Speaker 4: Obviously it's going to be Bryce and win this thing.
Speaker 4: Did they give the numbers of the vote, Yes, it
Speaker 4: should be overwhelmed.
Speaker 3: You will find out who came in fourth, third, second
Speaker 3: and first?
Speaker 4: What would they give us percentages? Do you remember?
Speaker 3: I don't remember how specific it is, but we do
Speaker 3: know we will find out the exact order.
Speaker 4: So what's the order going to be for you?
Speaker 3: So what I Number one happened? So obviously number one,
Speaker 3: Bryce and Trinity. Number two, I actually think it might
Speaker 3: be Anaya and Karl. Number three I think is Melanie
Speaker 3: and Sincere. And number four I think is Zach and Kada.
Speaker 3: That's who I think America is. And there were four
Speaker 3: hours to vote yesterday I went to bed, I did
Speaker 3: not vote.
Speaker 4: You said a Naya and I think Carl.
Speaker 2: Will come in second. And because people like each of
Speaker 2: them so much.
Speaker 1: Individually, Yes, okay, who in the last four, who's the
Speaker 1: hottest couple? Like, just walking down the street, you would go,
Speaker 1: those two are into each other.
Speaker 4: Who is that?
Speaker 2: Probably Zach and Keada of the four?
Speaker 4: Wow, that's funny.
Speaker 1: Yes, if you don't know anything about them, yes, if
Speaker 1: you haven't had to watch their journey, maybe.
Speaker 3: If I watch a good point game down, I think
Speaker 3: it might be Zach and Kada and Price and Trinity
Speaker 3: might be Melanie and sincere are pretty bowed up.
Speaker 4: They look compatible.
Speaker 2: They do look they look like brother and sister.
Speaker 4: They kind of do.
Speaker 2: You said that one time, were like, wow, they look related.
Speaker 1: Don't don't couples off of them end up looking like
Speaker 1: each other. We saw an old couple the other day.
Speaker 1: They had the same posture.
Speaker 3: You actually looked at them and you said, is that
Speaker 3: going to be us in my thirty years, where we
Speaker 3: actually will have the same gait, the same hunched overness,
Speaker 3: but we'll be holding hands.
Speaker 2: You know how owners look like their dogs, or dogs
Speaker 2: look like their owners. But the one thing I can
Speaker 2: say about you and me, we won't ever look alike.
Speaker 4: We will not.
Speaker 2: We will never look related.
Speaker 1: You are never gonna have coarse hair, and I will
Speaker 1: never be blonde. This is not gonna be an issue.
Speaker 2: But I still think we can look hot together and
Speaker 2: not hunch over. We keep working out, honestly. When we
Speaker 2: see that, I'm like, let's keep working out. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: let's keep our physics.
Speaker 1: We see some hot couples as well that are older,
Speaker 1: and they look alike too when they're running, Like, wow,
Speaker 1: they clearly they had an impression on each other. But
Speaker 1: to the point of these two robes. Melanie and sincere
Speaker 1: go together.
Speaker 2: They do.
Speaker 1: They look more so than anybody, like the normal to
Speaker 1: be expected couple that you look across from when you're
Speaker 1: sitting at a resort. They're the couple on vacation as well. Yep,
Speaker 1: Ryce and Trinity. You might not think that immediately Keita
Speaker 1: and Zach. You watch them for a little bit and
Speaker 1: you go, what's wrong with those two?
Speaker 2: Why is she crying so much? And then Karl and
Speaker 2: Ya don't look like they go to at all.
Speaker 1: They would be the couple talking to you a lot
Speaker 1: at the bar because they want to spend time with
Speaker 1: another car.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they want to like spice up their life with
Speaker 3: with another.
Speaker 2: Couple, Like, hey, what are y'all doing? You want to
Speaker 2: go on a boat with us?
Speaker 4: Nay, that would be any.
Speaker 2: Talking to and like they can look great. They are
Speaker 2: like besty frenzies.
Speaker 3: But I just I'm sorry, I just feel like the
Speaker 3: sexual energy is forced.
Speaker 4: But they can find it.
Speaker 1: It's okay, baby, they can find I disagree, I don't disagree.
Speaker 2: That is absolutely fine.
Speaker 3: But anyway, so we will find out tomorrow who wins
Speaker 3: the whole damn thing.
Speaker 2: One hundred thousand dollars and again I do tonight. I
Speaker 2: really want to hear you know.
Speaker 3: Parmita is gonna be amazing in the After Sun. She
Speaker 3: is going to say exactly what she thinks, and Corbyn
Speaker 3: will be hilarious. I am here for one and to
Speaker 3: have Corbyn and Parmita, Kenzy and Dylan and Casey and
Speaker 3: t T together.
Speaker 2: That's fun.
Speaker 1: You lost me at Dylan, But I get what you're
Speaker 1: saying this. This might be because of Corbyn and Casey
Speaker 1: and Parmita and t T. This is the first time
Speaker 1: I've looked more forward to the After Sun than I
Speaker 1: do the actual episode.
Speaker 4: There's no drama in Sunday.
Speaker 2: We know, you know what That's so true.
Speaker 1: Well, if they don't win it, now we got an issue.
Speaker 1: But but bro, this has nothing to talk about for
Speaker 1: two three weeks, maybe even they have had this thing
Speaker 1: locked up. There is no drama. There is no drama.
Speaker 4: There is no Sunday night.
Speaker 2: The drama will be tonight, which we will.
Speaker 4: Be here for Jean, for me, the baby seen corn.
Speaker 3: I can't believe we're saying that, but I totally agree
Speaker 3: with you, all right, And with that everyone, we always
Speaker 3: appreciate you listening to us. Hope you have a wonderful
Speaker 3: Saturday today. We'll talk to you soon on Mami Robot
Speaker 3: alongside t J.
Speaker 4: Holmes