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Besides Kyle, Amanda, and Carl with LoverBoy (which wouldn't have been so viable without the show), I don't think any of them really have jobs outside of being on reality TV at this point. Lindsay's PR company's Instagram hasn't posted anything since 2019. I doubt Ciara's done a nursing shift since she started with Summer House. Luke's jewelry and Mya's cookies are kind of in the same category as LoverBoy--businesses that make most of their money (at least at first) via the show's fans.

I'm an editor and I think you are spot-on here. An aggregation piece would be read by the PR shop at a major tech company but would be pretty unlikely to make it in front of the CEO. The exception is if she is really aggressive about monitoring herself--or if it was a really voice-y, snarky piece that somehow went viral. But the headline suggests it wasn't the latter. I don't look down on Rachel for her career. I know a few Rachels who are good people, who like to write and research but aren't really reporters, and who have a place in the digital media ecosystem. I wouldn't want the career but it's not bottom-feeding--it doesn't seem like she's spreading conspiracy theories or misinformation or something. Also if a freelance writer I reached out to told me that she was on her honeymoon, I absolutely would not stop emailing her about writing unless she had said no to several potential assignments in a row already.

I would wager that he was in a hotel room overnight while production talked him into going back. I feel for him. There has been so much progress in talking openly about mental health problems, but it often seems to have a lot of caveats: that we're talking about garden-variety depression and anxiety, that people mostly talk about it as something they've overcome, that it not create any burden or irritation for others. The thing is that mental illness is very often a pain in the ass both for the person who has it and for the people around them. Malia talking about how he should have sucked it up really pissed me off. I don't even particularly like him--but that doesn't mean his anxiety isn't real or that he was being lazy or wanted to create a problem for everyone else.

These women wish they were Real Housewives. Most of the housewives are better than this most of the time. The most interesting part of this group for me was the way the alliances changed. At first Bianca, aka "Tatas for Trump," seemed to be besties with Erica Rose, the former Bachelor contestant, and the two of them were fighting with that brunette Jessica. Then Erica Rose and Jessica seemed to start shunning Bianca. So weird.

I also just recently discovered this show after finally getting Apple TV+. I love it--it's laugh-out-loud funny and compelling, and I think that their quarantine episode was the best I've seen. Really looking forward to the new season.

I think his first name is Stephen and that Stravy is his nickname. His name is Stephen Traversie--S-travy.

Hannah's use of it is obnoxious and would grate at me, but it's not gendered. She's using it for both men and women. If Pete starts calling his male co-workers "sweetie," then I will agree there is a double standard here.

He says that if he had known, he would have handled it--but then also praises Kate for not "throwing Ashton under the bus." He seems to think more highly of people for not telling him what's going on, even as he says he wished he'd known what had happened. It's an attitude I find troubling.

Yes, that's true. But in her talking heads she spoke extremely dismissively of her ankle, as though Caroline were overreacting.

Brian's knee is exactly why I hated that Kate rolled her eyes last year at Caroline's ankle. Yes, Caroline was a lot, but you can't be cavalier about infections in the tropics. And normally I love Kate.

I really like these "DCC in Motion" videos they are posting, but I hate the way they're produced. The effects are really distracting, at least in this video and in the one with Maddie. I found the one with Maddie particularly difficult to watch because of all of the bursts of sunlight.

People quit jobs, even when it's inconvenient for the workplace. It's a cost of doing business. Nobody else's safety or livelihood was on the line here. If they Lee really thought he needed her to stay longer, he would've asked. But he seemed both happy to see her go and happy to be able to complain about her going. Indeed, production probably *wants* at least one cast member to quit or be fired every season. They clearly always have people around as backup characters, and bringing someone new mixes up the dynamic. (Hence the second half of the season looking, frankly, more interesting than the first.)

I think Abbi was taken aback because she expected to go out with the crew that night. I can understand why she might have hoped to have a fun last night, and I can understand why it didn't happen. But I disliked the way Captain Lee in particular talked about her. Yes, it sucks that they are now down a person. But he said something like, "She's not cut out for yachting," as though it's an insult and something she hasn't realized. She did realize it! That's why she left! And not being cut out for yachting doesn't mean she isn't tough or a hard worker--it just means it wasn't for her. It isn't a moral failure. Plus, the captain and Ashton had already complained that she wasn't doing a good job! It's in their best interest to have an employee who wants to be there and is good at the work. I think that seeing things through is overrated. That doesn't mean you can be a flake or quit at everything the first time it gets a little hard--but if she was so miserable, wasn't great at the job, and has the ability to leave, why stay?

I wish she would have shown a little more concern, but I also have to imagine that she sees this sort of thing pretty often. It's very physically demanding work and the women are also trying to stay quite thin. It must be easy for them to overexert themselves beyond what they have the calories (and hydration) for. I don't think they're passing out left and right, but it must happen a few times a year, and most of the time the girls are probably fine afterward.

It would be one thing if he did this privately. But it's totally different to present this conversation as evidence for something in a reunion episode of a nationally aired TV show. It was completely unnecessary for him to jump in on that using a casual conversation as evidence for such a sweeping claim.