Earle Meets World spills into the sports world and paints a bleak picture of Alix Earle’s fame and family

testing testing hello hey hey hey yay okay all right hi charlotte hello madeline and we're back with another episode of the sports gossip show presented by us hip hip hooray wow how are you uh good i realized we recorded um two episodes no one episode without our sign in the back from tuesday wait what's today today is tuesday the episode that we recorded with this in this outfit it's going up well it's up thursday it might already be oh it's probably i was about to say it might already be awake it might have already opened its sweet eyes sweet little eyes um yeah so we got the sign now we got the sign sorry about that special little bonus episode oh we are here to talk about the new netflix reality show earl meets world all about alex earl the influencer and owner of skincare brand real real real real real real actives um and yeah we just we watched the whole show the whole show we watched it and we had a lot of thoughts about it and felt like it was appropriate to put them on the internet for our dear shareholders to listen to and watch yeah because listen we love a reality show reality shows are sports i used to recap the bachelor 10 years ago can you believe 10 years ago and i would say the bachelor is sports so i think earl meets world of sports it also has to do with tom brady one of the sgs main characters also braxton barrios her ex potentially not ex but pretty sure now ex again boyfriend who is now playing for the giants yep um and just oh also there's an f1 connection potentially that not in the show but this season a lot of sports a lot of sports connections and we obviously talk about sports on the show we talk about gossip we talk about the intersection of both and so the show was kind of a perfect intersection of our interests in many ways yes um and i think our overall thesis if you will yes we've spent some time in academia not to brag i do have a master's degree from oxford university you do i don't but i did get a bachelor of arts it's fine anyway um our thesis is that it is um a pretty bleak look at fame today um at kind of how sports are interacting with everything um but also shows how reality shows have become calculated pr moves that are really referendums on themselves rather than showing you what's actually going on in someone's life yeah and they're basically an extension of the brand you're trying to build because the show has so many incestual almost product placements for things that she's already doing yeah and projects she's working on which i thought was interesting i will start by saying liked it more than i thought i would oh here's what i'll say the first i was locked i was locked in i will say the first two episodes i was felt like they were pretty boring yeah i was dragging a little bit except the tom brady thing which we'll talk about yeah but i felt like it then picked up almost more as a family got used to clearly being on camera yes and there are a lot of great side characters her younger brother thomas i love i think i was like he's my king with his dinosaurs and the ipad i love him star of the show star of the show his dad was like we're not gonna hang out with their girls we're gonna have boy time today and thomas goes no yeah and he says you don't want to have boy time and thomas says no and he says you want to have girl time thomas says yes i want to watch my sister ride her horse and i said and that is a feminist i love him he's an ally i love him um i feel like we should talk about tom brady first because that is what drew us to watch the show in the first place was like how are they going to discuss this rumored tom brady romance for those who don't remember alex are was spotted canoodling with tom brady she was rubbing his back in saint bart's uh over new year's over new year's just a nice little rub rub down on the back um don't like saying that didn't love that um and it got picked up by the press and there were rumors that they were dating they then have now they're not dating no um but it seemed like it was a short lived little trit what's the word trist trist trist that's what it felt like um and one of the first things i would like to talk about because i'm curious your thoughts on she goes to dinner with sally sally i was about to say ashton her sister but it was sally sally who works for it which we'll also talk about that um and it basically is implied alex is talking about how she went on a date with someone and it was really secretive and they're going to maybe go to lunch or something they're going to go yeah get lunch that's what it was a lunch date and it feels like she's implying she's talking about tom brady and talking about what it's like to go on a date with someone who is very famous and trying to keep things under wraps but doesn't want to hang out like you know at their house or something like they want to go somewhere and talking about how it's like you have to go to a restaurant in secret which i thought was so interesting i did too i did too i think it it showed um because she said like i don't want to have to hide right i don't want to have to go places in secret right um but it was also interesting because he's tom brady features in the first two episodes they don't say his name he clearly didn't allow any cameras around but the most blatant um confirmation we get is when she's doing and alex was on dancing with the stars and she was paired up with her pro val um and he there were a lot of rumors like our val and alex a thing which is just kind of sexist bullshit because val is married and his wife is also um jenna is a um star on is a pro on dancing with the stars so they show val and alex rehearsing jenna comes in it felt like a calculated pr move to be like there was nothing here alex is cool with his wife um and jenna says alex oh my god tom and alex is like we're just having fun and she says so you so you confirm it or something along and alex is like no we're just i'm just having fun yeah and and she's kind of giddy about it and it feels like she is loving a little bit the high profile nis while not having to confirm it directly but then that dinner with sally shows she actually doesn't like the secrecy no it comes with it well because i can imagine for even though alex charl is so famous obviously that there are still elements of fame that you're not used to no matter how famous you are and she's she got famous at such a young age well she was a college student um and she's still only 20 years old and she's still only 25 26 i believe that i i feel like there are elements of fame that even for someone like her with millions of followers she's clearly not used to and it feels like uncharted territory and what i found so fascinating is that there clearly is not a playbook or rule book for how to operate in those situations and i can imagine that for her that probably can feel very isolating especially considering which i'm sure we'll talk about this it's not like she comes from an entertainment family mm-hmm you think about like the kardashians when that show came on while they weren't necessarily in entertainment um they still were more associated with entertainment in la simply because of the geographic location they lived in calabasas and and kim kardashian already had like kind of sports entertaining ties when she was with reggie bush but all that stuff blah blah blah blah blah and ray j their dad was a lawyer for oj exactly so yes obviously so like there was already a clear entertainment connection where it felt like they were in some ways set up better to handle this newfound fame that came with being on that show obviously whereas i feel like the earl family because they are literally from new jersey the dad owns a big construction company they have they're from new jersey they can't be famous but you know what i mean it's like there's just no they to me it almost feels the same way as i was giving you this comparison like an athlete who is becomes one of the most famous let's say college football prospects and gets a bunch of nil deals and the family's like i don't know what we're supposed to do with this fame or in my experience modeling there were a lot of young girls who then became very famous but were not from like they have no connection to fashion or mom so it's like you're kind of like i don't know what i'm supposed to do like oh i'm supposed to go into casting for prada and meet mucha prada or something like how are you supposed to act in that situation that's kind of how this felt like we were seeing in real time someone being vulnerable who's become famous very quickly yeah yeah i agree i i also think that this was an unbelievably smart move for alex earl as a person yes i think she comes out of this show looking very likable in terms of the parameters that she's presented in now alex did not have i believe control over what was shown um and i don't know whether that means she really didn't like she really handed the reins over or if netflix was like okay if there's something you really don't want in here like we'll take it out right and of course the reality show is still a reality show there is a dance that is done it's also interesting i feel like netflix has a formula for their shows like this like on selling sunset the formula is two people are are in a what is made to look like an organic situation with other people those two people who have a conflict with each other say do you have a second to talk yeah they go outside and they talk and then the next scene is one of them talking to somebody else about the conversation so it starts to feel a little bit like this is all engineered yes it's real but it's not um and i think elements of it are very real yeah in here like you see her get into a fight with her stepmom for kind context, her father married Ashley Dupree, who is now Ashley Earl, who was the call girl that Eliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York, was seen with, which blew up his whole governorship and the Alex Rolls family's life because her father, TJ, was still with her mother, Alyssa. They got divorced. He married Ashley. They have three kids. Yes. So the Ashley character I just found very interesting. But you see that it seems like Alex is one of the more emotionally mature people in her family, at least from what we saw, who is also the main breadwinner who's bringing in all this money, giving everybody else opportunities. And she also has to manage everybody else's emotions about that. And I came away from it, you know, we don't actually know what she's like because it's a reality show. You can't, this isn't real necessarily. I did come away from it. Feeling a little more sympathy towards her as a woman who is still 25, who does have the same problems as 25 year olds with boys wanting to be loved, wanting to be liked, trying to make a career for herself and just happens to be on the biggest stage possible while also loving that and feeling very lonely. Yeah. I can imagine. It's very, very isolating to talks about it. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. It seems very isolating. I do want to talk about the Ashley Earl piece of it because they did have that big fight. And I was thinking about when I was watching the show because Ashley, then Dupree before they got married, became like a tabloid star essentially overnight because of this affair she had with Elliot Spitzer. And I do wonder if in some ways there's clearly tension between Alex and Ashley because of the fact that they were both thrusted into the spotlight at almost the same age, different reasons, obviously, but still they're two. They were two. Yeah. Young women who were became tabloid stars for different reasons. And I wonder if there's almost this like underlying tension where Ashley in some ways is like, I kind of know what you're going through completely different situation. I don't know. It just feels like there's some sort of like underlying tension because in some ways Ashley is sort of the closest person in that family that Alex can relate to in some ways, whether Alex thinks that's the case or not. And I do feel like that's why they had so many fights and there was so much tension between them is kind of because of that. Yeah. In some ways they are sort of similar. Yeah. I think that's spot on. I mean, Alex's mom at one point says to Alex or says to camera that there's always been this competition between Ashley and Alex or Ashley feels competition with Alex. And in some ways, if you think about it, Ashley was given a platform. It was 2008. The options were very different. She was offered Hustler magazine for a million bucks or something. And she turned it down because she was like, no, that's not what I'm trying. She was trying to be a musician. Right. She's trying to be a singer. And if social media had been around, um, Ashley could potentially have had the trajectory that Alex has. Yes. Instead, Ashley was disgraced and had to marry the guy that she had the affair with and have three kids and spend the next 17 years trying to be a respectable mom in New Jersey. Right. Alex gets to now, because there is some progress in terms of how we talk about young women, she gets to be a star and you can sense this. I also think that Ashley comes across as a very immature person. Oh my God. For sure. For sure. She, she, it's a, it's astonishing to me the lack of boundaries this family has. I think that's part of the show, right? Like they all have to hang out with each other for the TV show, maybe in ways they wouldn't normally, but it seems kind of like they do. Um, and I almost wanted to take Alex aside and be like, Hey, you don't have to like do this, right? You don't have to be close with your step-mom who your dad cheated on your mom with, right? You don't, you can have a good relationship with her. You don't have to keep saying, I love you. Even though like after, let's talk about the Superbowl thing. The fight, the big fight. Yes. They had a big fight because Alex Earl was featured in the Superbowl halftime show that Bad Bunny performed in this past year. She's like in the casita, just kind of dancing, which is something Bad Bunny, if you saw videos from his concerts, he had famous people dancing and people online were like, why is Alex in this Superbowl halftime show? And I think elements of it were because she is a white girl and it's supposed to represent this culture. Of Puerto Rico, um, which you could argue is valid or not, but was something people were talking about. It was something people were talking about. And then Ashley posted a TikTok and the TikTok was set to a Bad Bunny song and the copy on the video. Let me see if I can pull it up. Exactly. Unless you remember what I think it was is now a good time to remind everyone that my niece is part Guatemalan, something like that. Yeah. And Alex, before Ashley, when she's talking about this, she says, people were upset about this. And it seemed like she was listening to the criticism. Yeah. She wasn't mad that people were mad at her. She said, I, she said, Ashley posted this insinuating. We have a mixed family, like meaning mixed race family. And she was like, we don't. Yeah. She was basically like, we're a bunch of white people. Right. And it seemed like she was upset by the, not upset by the criticism. It was like, she heard it and was like, I would like to not contribute more to this narrative. She also in a recent, um, I believe it was a Rolling Stone article said that she was upset by the criticism. And she was like, I would like to not contribute more to this narrative. She didn't support Trump. She didn't vote for Trump. Like I feel like she is trying to be taken out of being seen as this sort of, you know, white blonde lady who has ties to MAGA, which I think is what people assume. And then Ashley goes and post this as if to say why, like we are right. Right. Right. Right. It feels as if Alex was upset because she's like, I am the one holding this family together. I think her dad feels like he's that one. But I don't think he's that person in that family. He is her manager. He's her manager. He runs a construction company that seems to be very successful. I'm not saying that it's not successful. He ran family business with his brothers. And it's like a generational business. But he's not he's not an entertainment manager. And so I think he thinks he has a lot of control. But actually, Alex is the one with all the power because she's the one who brought all of this capital to this entire family. So I would imagine for Alex when Ashley posted that video, she's like, really? You're going to do this and screw up. Basically, her Alex's reputation doesn't really matter. Ashley is like, it's fine for her. You know what I mean? It's like Alex is like this could this is a reputation tarnisher for me, which also has ripple effects for the entire family. Yeah. And so I feel like all of the pressure and responsibility lies on Alex more than anyone else in the family. Yeah. And so I think that she maybe that's why in the past she like, I feel like she's been sort of quiet and hasn't really said this is the first time you're sort of seen more of this. Yeah. And so I think that she's like, I feel like she's been sort of quiet and more of her personality. Yes, you see her personality in her TikTok videos. I'm not saying that you're seeing a curated version, but you're seeing more of how her head think how her head works, you know, and what she's really thinking about. And I just feel like that was an example of her being like, really? Totally. I'm keeping this family together. She's also a very savvy PR person. And so she says to Ashley, do you not think before you post? And then her dad and Ashley gets all defensive and is like, if I were Ashley, I would be like, hey, sorry that I also do get the sense that Alex, yes, it's a reputation thing. But also, I don't think she wants to make a situation worse. No, no, where she's like, entered into I'm a white girl fighting about that. She's like, I hear you. Yeah, not trying to defend myself. Right. I was just there, whatever. Right. And so it's like, when she says, do you not think I was like, yeah, I would have asked the same thing. Because, but but her dad and Ashley then get mad at Alex for saying something to Ashley, instead of Ashley being like, hey, sorry, I did that. And that happens again and again. And so I think that's a good thing. And I think that's a good thing. And I think that's in her family, even her mom, who seems, you know, less like this than Ashley and her dad, will will get mad at her for not being invited to things. And I'm like, Alex is holding the immature behavior of so many adults in her life and feeling like it's her responsibility in a way that you just want to take her side and be like, hey, this isn't this isn't your problem. You can tell everyone to F off. Yeah, this is right. It's not a problem, which is sort of painful to watch her still try to keep her family together because she loves them. Yes. But it's a lot of a lot of a lot of Yeah, yeah. One other thing I want to talk about related to PR and just branding is I mentioned this, but there are a lot of almost like self spawn con from self promotion spawn con moments in the show. Like in the show, clearly, there was a deal with Dunkin Donuts. She she made a meal and a meal with Dunkin Donuts. And there's a scene in the show where she's picking out what she wants her meal to be with her siblings. And then later on in the show at a random there, I think there are two scenes, I think I clocked where they're all the families drinking Dunkin. And I'm like, was that a deal with Dunkin that they were like, oh, we'll embed the product in the show without really disclosing anything? Or was that Alex just being smart, being like, I'm doing this deal with Dunkin. It's coming. I don't know when this meal launch, I'm assuming around the time the show came out, I would guess that they were like, I'm going to Alex is thinking I'm going to have Dunkin Donuts around. Or was that partially a deal that her dad did? I don't know. But I thought that was really interesting. There was just like this embedding of all of the businesses of Alex Earl, the Dunkin thing, her talking about her skincare line, there's a whole behind the scenes whole episode, whole episode when the skincare line launches, and there was drama with like, Ashley and Ash and actually like teasing the product on Instagram, again, another social media moment. But it's like the show feels like it's Alex's way of having a LinkedIn resume, but as a reality show to point out. All of the different business endeavors she's doing and embedding them inside of a reality show. So if feels kind of meta 1000 they do it with door dash too she orders a bunch she orders wigs from door dash for a wig costume party and then uh decorations for ashley's birthday yes from door dash to prove like they don't just do food potentially right um and i think that is also yes that's brands that's that's a um like clearly monetized thing the less unspoken part of it is that she knows the whole family knows that this show will put them at another level obviously the most blatant comparison as we've said is the kardashians um i think what's different is because it's 2026 everybody who's on a reality show knows that they are performing and everybody who's watching a reality show knows you were watching a performance when the kardashians started it was still a little bit like oh we're just watching these people live like it's a wild wild west now every bit of drama everything that happens you know is to a certain extent calculated because they're saying it with cameras there and maybe they're letting them in more than they would because you get used to the cameras there and that's where you start to get more of the real drama i think what you see is there are a lot of conversations they have because of the show that they probably should have as a family in terms of like working through their issues because they talk about someone know that someone that other person is going to see it when the show comes out so they talk about it with that person before the show comes out to say hey we see it when the show comes out so they talk about it when the show comes said this and it actually makes them communicate more because they don't want other people to be blindsided but at the same time we are watching alex earl put on a play of her life yes and i think as a viewer what we are at least for you and me we are watching thinking what are the chess moves she's making here not what's going on in her life i think we get some real moments sort of as a byproduct of that but it's like what are they choosing to show us and i think the byproduct that they may have accidentally not meant to show us is how no one's really having that much fun no one's having fun it's it's no it's bleak they're at the they're at the mercy of the algorithms just like any of us are who are doing something public and trying to get people to watch it well and clearly that's why alex launched a skincare line because that is in a lot of ways removed from the algorithm while she used her influence to then get those her followers to purchase those products like that is a physical product that will probably eventually i'm sure that brand will be bought by some bigger company most likely she'll get a big payout and that is like a capital infusion that doesn't rely on tiktok sponsorship deals yeah you know um no i agree i think i think it says more about um like the darkness of fame and and the darkness of the specific type of fame that alex earl has she i mean there of course there is a crop of famous mostly women who became famous around the same time that she did on the internet like charlie d'amelio who's also i believe going through family drama i think with her family i allegedly i think she's like not even speaking with her family or something i don't know what's going on i think it's something like that but it's interesting like this age this group of gen z women mostly who became famous on the internet very quickly at a very young age and watching them navigate fame in real time and yeah i agree i don't think it's alex's intention or her family's intention to kind of show like almost the dark sides of fame and how bleak and isolating it is but i do feel like that's kind of the takeaway of the show yeah i mean she's crying most of it she she did go through a breakup right before the show starts filming which actually ends up being a a gift from the gods in terms of a narrative arc right because it's i broke up with braxton and then he sort of pops up throughout the rest of the show and then at the end they leave it open would they get back together he refuses to be on camera at one point she calls him he calls her and she says we're filming yeah and he hangs up immediately yeah which i thought was really interesting that's where you get stuff where it's like you see and and she read a text from him that she says i wanted to talk to you off camera and he says seems like nothing's off camera these days and she goes well he roasted me and then like because and she's like he's right yeah she's reading the text on camera yeah and i think that gives you the closest idea of the trade-offs that you can have when you're in a relationship where you can see her struggling to make where she she's like oh my god if i want to have a relationship yeah where there's anything private that is directly at odds with my business right and i think that she wants on a on some level she wants people to see how hard this can be because she's like i really am a real person i swear and and this is very difficult and i'm under a lot of pressure yeah i don't know if she intended to show quite as much yeah i also really hope that she's found a therapist i know i can't believe that she is not on any as someone who is on antidepressants and anti-anxiety meds i i have a hard time i can't believe she's doing this with what seems to not be medication or a therapist right at one point she says i need to find a therapist i hope she's found one i mean that's right that's that's so much stress it's so much stress it just i i will be really curious to see i'm assuming the show will get picked up for second season i can't imagine it's not i think it's like the number one or second most watched show in the united states on netflix when i press play on it so i would imagine netflix will probably renew it i wonder what the narrative arc will be and how much we will see next season if now because the family's more used to cameras around we will see more um of them be more candid on camera or if it will become even more about just promoting the earl world brand and each of the family members getting like a narrative arc around like the brand because you know ashton her sister was like trying to be a model but then they kind of never really that never really goes anywhere and also based on her answer i don't think it has happened for her yet um i'm curious if it becomes more about like they each get a narrative arc around their own brand to promote it on the show or if you do get more personal elements from alex in these more vulnerable moments i mean that's a great question i think to your point about being one of these gen z women who who gets famous alex made a really interesting comment where she says um you know i wanted to do real actives essentially to introduce myself as a serious person she doesn't say i'm not a serious person i'm not a serious person i'm not a serious person like that but that's what she's getting at and she says rather than just posting videos on the internet it's almost like there is this internalized feeling of hollowness from the sort of human centipede of creating content on the internet where she was like i want to have something to show for myself that isn't these ephemeral sort of self-referential moments of my life yeah which is you could argue like being an influencer is a totally valid job so it's a little bit of a right but also maybe it is a valid feeling to like what am i actually making like when you and i do stuff on social media or we promote our show i always feel really good because i'm like there's a lot of meat behind this in terms of the actual show that we're making um and i wonder if that's what the netflix show in part is as well of this feeling of something off platform yes she wants to be taken seriously yeah and i think she wants she knows that tiktok is it's going to eventually die like it's not tiktok won't be forever and i think that she's clearly recognized has clearly recognized that and knows that she needs to expand her brand universe and she also wants to be taken more seriously yeah and i think that even though people might say oh we'll do a reality show you're not being taken seriously i do think in her case it is a way to be taken seriously and to your point it's something that's different from posting a 30 second video on tiktok yeah that it's like it's something that lives forever on netflix she can promote all these other real life things that she's doing i would not be surprised if in two years or something she's on the cup i mean well hasn't she already been on the cover of time magazine i think she was i think she was but that was tied i believe to the to the brand yep i think yeah because that was recently yeah i think it was so it's like she's clearly already making intentional pr moves and business moves to distance herself from the way that she became famous yeah and i think we're going to see that more and more if the show continues and in terms of the endeavors she's embarking on she invests in a lot of companies she's an angel investor in a lot of business i think poppy i believe was one sit margs yeah i guess she did didn't she do poppy i think so maybe the soda yeah the soda that i'm like that to me feels like the direction it's going it's almost like in some ways the show mirrors the kardashians by it being about a family and the the younger the younger siblings sort of being like kendall and kylie you know that it feels like in some ways it mirrors that but then in other ways it differs yeah because i think they have that and on the kardashians it took longer to get to the point where it is now where all the sisters have their own huge billion dollar businesses obviously i feel like the alex earl show it's gonna fast track that yeah a lot of ways they're getting to that conclusion quicker i think you're so right i think you're so right i think it's also um so fascinating because in every instance where alex has a idea about what to do um pr wise yeah and her family has a different one and she doesn't go with her gut she was right the whole time yes like there's a whole thing about the alex cooper storyline oh yeah host of call her daddy where alex cooper calls alex earl out for sort of reposting things saying they have drama but never directly addressing it and alex earl never directly addressed alex cooper and at the time you're sort of like what's going on she was holding that whole story for her netflix show exactly she says that she says that originally she had a tiktok ready to go where it's her without a care in the world saying look i don't want to beef with you we know a lot of the same people like and she was like if i had just done that this whole thing would have gone way but you know that she didn't respond to alex cooper so that they had extra drama and build up yeah to address it on the show yes and their whole conversation about how to address it was a meta conversation because previously off camera i bet you they had a conversation about how they have to address it on camera and seem like they're being real about how to address it so that everybody watches it when it comes out to find out what went on behind the scenes 100 you know those producers were working behind the scenes like do not post a tiktok we're going to talk about this on the show yeah do not and it was brilliant perfect because i watched it to know what happened exactly exactly and it's also just very interesting i think um from a perspective of two people in this business with a podcast which was the beef that they were sort of yeah yeah yeah was alex earl saying she felt that alex cooper was predatory towards her and took advantage of her and i i do find myself sympathizing with alex earl like sure if you go and call her daddy or if you did back in the day you could call her daddy and she would call her daddy and she would call her daddy and she before you know she was interviewing kamala harris right um it was going to be questions about your sex life and you could argue that alex earl signed up for that by going on the show alex didn't feel comfortable with it said she was drunk asked them not to put those questions out that she answered and alex cooper was like no no it'll be funny and alex earl trusted her as this mentor and you watch that trust erode yeah and that is regardless of what we don't know because this is only alex earl's point of view i did find myself being like okay well yeah yeah i get it i get it i get why you feel that way and i get where if i were alex cooper i certainly wouldn't have behaved that way no and alex earl looked up to alex cooper like she talks about that on the show so i can imagine it was like your trust trust in the process yeah she trusted alex cooper and then that trust was eroded over time clearly and it didn't work out so and now alex earl doesn't need a podcast she has a reality show she doesn't uh two sports things yes one i kind of wish they had talked about like who does the earl family root for great question who does alex earl's dad what are his sports teams i'd love to know what are ashley dupree's sports teams because let us know we also we looked at the um the earl construction website which is absolutely incredible because you scroll down and you see that alex earl's father runs this business with his brothers who all look like him they all look the same they're just like different people they're just like different people they're just different versions it's rob michael and tj it's walter rob earl the second michael earl and then thomas j whatever so he's tj and their dad built this business it's a like 58 year old business so thomas i mean sorry tj he didn't build this himself no he built this on the back of his dad's hard work with his brothers right right so he talks a big game about being such a good business person and it's like well you were handed um what seems to be a pretty robust asphalt business in new jersey he's a construction nepo baby he is he is and i'm not saying he didn't put in hard work for sure he did he did i'm sure it's a lot to run that sort of business but you didn't do it by yourself and you didn't invent the company the page six thing when ashley dupree was seen with tj earl for the first time yeah says the rich like asphalt scion he was rich he's already been rich like alex didn't start for nothing she went to you miami yeah yeah yeah that's an expensive out-of-state school yeah no it's true so i don't know i i mean i guess what's interesting now is that they leave the show seeming like alex and braxton could get back together alex was seen this summer with f1 driver lando norris and recently madeline who is braxton barrio seen with i believe last weekend let me pull it up i just saved it it was on dumois everyone stand by stand by stand by i saved it okay where is it hold on okay where is the post it was well it was it was lando norris's ex-girlfriend i was trying to get her name i was trying to get her name what is her name it was m-a-g-u-i like italian maggie but i don't remember her last name oh here we go here we go yeah maggie um corsiero of course so it seems like yes and a few days ago alex unfollowed braxton on instagram right so feels like they're done but i also i said to charlotte i text her i go i feel like they could just get married it kind of feels almost like in some ways it's like j-lo and um ben affleck kind of feels like that a little bit that they'll just keep getting together and breaking up but they're always meant to be together yes no matter what timeline like one thousand percent also alex's mom alissa and her boyfriend todd oh they break up every six months todd and the tank tops tank top todd love him todd was my favorite i love todd todd looks like a former hockey player i love todd hey he's in good shape no he is he said if you had my arms when you were tanked you know what fair enough todd um but i do think here's my okay do you want to hear my galaxy brain conspiracy theory what alex is smart enough to know that she needs like a romantic tension at the core of each season yeah so maybe they're starting filming again and it starts off with her unfollowing braxton and maybe they're secretly together this whole time i don't think so i don't think so but i would be i wouldn't be surprised if he was in on all of this a little bit more than we think behind every great reality show is a team of great producers so they i'm sure are producing some nice storylines for us for next season and i hope there are a couple more because it did drag and you know that's what i'm saying it needs a little bit more umph i it really just again felt like it's people who haven't been on television been on reality television before and they're trying to make some storylines and it's not quite there yet yeah um and there were some moments that were really fascinating but there were some points that dragged and i do think that next season they will be like all right we may have to fake some more drama yes the plot and that's what you need in a good reality show it is also so crazy to put a time capsule of yourself out there like that isn't that crazy i found a journal yeah when i was like 27 and reading back i mean the amount of stuff that i had forgotten about or just chosen to block out of my head yeah oh my god and i was like and i started reading it and then i stopped because i was like i don't want to know this no and and it's basically your journal preserved forever you gave yourself the ick i did and i wonder what that does to you it does to a person when you have to when you have to have everything we're not supposed to remember i don't think you can you watch it back no i don't think you watch that back and then and then if you have kids and they watch it you say well or the kids end up on the show well like on the kardashians there you go that show's been on for literally generations god you're so right really crazy well all right wow well that's our show i hope you enjoyed this little deep dive yeah we went on i and let us know your thoughts if you watch the show and if you like this video we'll do more of them yep um look what love is blind the next season in boston yeah i'm saying we may need to do love is blind to support to that all right well well as always please rate review like and subscribe it makes a huge huge difference you can follow us on instagram at sports gossip and tiktok at sports gossip show and you can subscribe to our sub stack at sports gossip show.substack.com okay bye