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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I know that finally now is the right time. I'm ready. That's Recaps. Can't wait to talk shit. Shit. Shit. Hi, everyone. This is the final maths recap. Let's get it fucking done. We're speed running. Jesus Christ. Okay. Listen, the final episode is a couch session and I do want to say this. Alyssa and David weren't fucking included. I'm enraged. Why? Why?
That's actually the only one that I wanted to see. I got to the end of the episode and I was like, What the fuck? That's it? I had to sit through Steph and Tyson and I didn't even get to see Alyssa and David after 39 episodes.
And after all the drama in the past four episodes being around her.
Like I thought we were building up for either more drama, a resolution, like whatever it was. I thought it was going to be a part two. Yeah, I was scared there was going to be another episode.
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Chapter 2: Why were Steph and Tyson on the couch during the reunion?
You're living in trauma, babe. Trauma spots. No, I've got like Stockholm syndrome now.
Yeah. So if you want to know what happened with Alyssa and David's couch session, there's going to be an interview with Alyssa coming out soon or maybe when you're listening it might already be out. But go and check the feed. It will be out probably by the end of the week. It'll be out because we've got to do some editing and Amy, her little fingers need a bit of a rest.
Jesus Christ. We need to go. Get an RSI from maths.
absolute parasite screaming. But let's get into the episode. Let's go. It's a couch session like a ceremony. Rachel and Stephen start first. Rachel tells the experts that Stephen said he can't be the man that she needs, which is the cop out that he's been using. I think it's a cop out. I don't think Stephen's evil. I think he's
no it's setting himself up to sort of let her down easy or like like he doesn't want to be the bad guy yeah and obviously they had a you know nice relationship and care about each other but it's sort of a way for him to be like oh I'm not what you need so you better break up with me it's kind of
weak yeah it's a little bit weak it's a little bit cowardly i would say yeah and it's like if you know that you're not meeting her expectations what are you doing about it yeah or say i i mean this is i was gonna say or say you're not worth me check But that's what it is. Yeah. That's kind of what it is.
If you're saying to someone, I can't be the partner that you need, like I would become any partner that Adam needed. If he needed a certain kind of partner, I would go, I will do anything.
For the right person.
For the right person. But if it was a situation where I couldn't or didn't want to change, it would be translated to, yeah, he's just not worth me putting in any extra effort. But I think we know this and I ā You know, it's not that interesting to talk about.
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Chapter 3: What happened to Alyssa and David's couch session?
And while it is difficult and while you do need to make a little bit more effort in certain arenas, it actually is, I would say, less effort than... Yeah, less pressure to see each other all the time. Yes, and less time commitment as well. You can see each other once a fortnight, have a little hang. Mel responds and she's like... Okay, like this doesn't make sense.
Yeah.
Do you want to be with Rachel? Because at the last dinner party, the reunion dinner party, he'd put his ring back on for some godforsaken reason. Yeah, that was really weird. Very weird. And he says, yes, but I can't make her a priority. Sorry. Not good enough, mate. No. John then agrees and he goes, sorry, not on, not happening.
You aren't making any sacrifices and you're trying to wiggle out of this. Yeah. Which I think was very accurate. Again, I don't know if it's a malicious wiggling.
I think it's a panic wiggle. Maybe more self-defence than malicious, you know.
Yeah, self-defence wiggle.
Yeah.
But it's a wiggle nonetheless and he's wiggling. So John says to Stephen, you have to be clear. So we ask him a few times, do you want to be with Rachel? And he keeps answering, if there was this change, yes, but I don't know if I can. And eventually... He says, you know, part of me does. And they're going, no, what is going on? Like do you want to be with her or not?
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Chapter 4: How did Rachel and Stephen's final session unfold?
And eventually he goes, I'm going to put a bullet in it. No. Thanks. That's actually way less painful than what the fuck we just watched.
Yeah, actually I wrote we needed to get there.
Yeah, that wasn't like ā and Rachel starts crying and that was a really hard moment. It was very tough. Very tough. But like ā She wouldn't have been crying that much if he just said it, if he hadn't at the reunion dinner party given him, put the ring back on. Why'd you do that? Yeah.
I get that he was conflicted, but I think that the lesson here is if you're conflicted after four months of a relationship, it's a no. That's a sign. That's a sign. So Rachel... sobbing, so upset. She goes, I feel so silly. I'm just a silly girl in love. And John says, let me be clear, you are worth it because she goes, I feel like I'm not worth it. I'm not worth the effort.
He goes, you are worth it and there's nothing silly about you. And Steve, I'm not trying to make you feel like you're the bad guy. Steve says, well, if you like it. Did you catch that? No. He goes, well, I feel like it under his breath. I missed that. I go, grow up fucking man versus taking accountability. Like what?
No one throughout the ā you've actually had it really easy in comparison to someone like Dani, for example, who has had a similar pattern. I think that Dani has a different, completely different personality type to Steve that to me is much more off-putting. Yes. But similar thing, you've kind of led these women on.
I think Steve was much more conflicted and much less calculated with it than how I perceive Dani as being.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Stephen's comments about Rachel?
But it kind of showed a little glimpse of ā
Yeah.
What he's like.
True.
Going, I feel like I'm being made out to be the bad guy. It's just like an emotionally immature response. It's such a man response.
Yes.
Being called out for something which he wasn't even being called out. It was just do you want to be with her? And this moment right now is not about you actually. Yeah, so again, I think that it's a good thing they aren't together anymore.
At the end though, I've noticed this pattern about Steve throughout the whole experiment and people online have as well, is that whenever he speaks nicely about Rachel, it's more often than not about how she's made him feel. And at the end of this, he goes, you know, they go, how do you feel about Rachel? How do you feel about the experiment? As like a kind of closing question.
And he says, you know, I came into the experiment with a black heart, believing that I couldn't be loved, but Rachel showed me differently.
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Chapter 6: What controversies arose during Gia and Scott's couch session?
A soggy one with not even barely cooked skin. Then they show his final interview and he's asked how life without Beck would look and he says, life without Beck, it's going to be great. After this there are going to be women queuing up for me, throwing their pandies at me, so either way it's going to be all right.
Pretty tough for Beck to have to watch that.
Yeah, and they also included the montage of her going, we're stronger than ever, we're stronger than ever, we're stronger than ever, we're stronger than ever. I'm going, don't do that. It was so rough. They're going, look how dumb you look, Beck. They're going, look how much of an idiot you are. That's what the vibe was from the editors. Look, she says, I think he's cruel.
I think he's out for himself. And I definitely turned a blind eye to the signs he didn't like me because I wanted it to work so badly.
Yeah. And he seemed to be sort of giving her little breadcrumbs of reasons for her to keep, to stay invested basically.
Yeah. I think it's fair from her. Yeah. She finally says that she does believe that he said that Gia is more of his type. She admits it. She goes, I do believe it. But the reason why is because apparently he said he would never talk to Steph, yet here he is. Yeah. And he actually called Steph a skank. Yes. So there's after party footage as well. Include this in the show.
Why aren't we including this? Like because also then everyone would be more on Steph's side as well going, oh, no, fuck this guy. He called her a skank and was talking about how she wanted more 15 minutes. She wanted more air time.
She was using it for air time.
Yeah, and that she was like fucking things up for him basically. She didn't do anything at that dinner party. Like I don't agree with her texting him. Again, I don't think it's like ā Send her to the gallows for it.
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