TLC's Suddenly Amish Premiere Breakdown

Noah and Aidan get into TLC's latest foray into the Amish.

TLC’s all-new series Suddenly Amish follows six non-Amish individuals on a rare journey as they leave behind their modern “English" lifestyle and step into a deeply traditional Amish community in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Seeking a profound change from their present way of modern life, each participant contemplates the possibility of converting into Amish society, as they navigate drastically different routines and a culture defined by faith, discipline, simplicity and community.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:14

Welcome back, Note Takers. This is Noah Aaron with the Honorable Note Podcast.

SPEAKER_00 0:18

And this is Aiden, and I was an alternate on season one of Suddenly Amish, but they did not select me.

SPEAKER_03 0:24

Well, they they they selected the other the other New Yorker.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

Well no, she's not from the city. She's not from the city. And you know what? I think I would have offered a unique storyline. I think I would have been, you know, a little bougie, but I would I would I would have been willing to learn. I would have been willing to learn. I would have been crying about taking some lashes off. I know that, but I digress.

SPEAKER_03 0:53

So I in case you guys couldn't tell, obviously. Uh the title and whatnot, we are talking about TLC's newest show, uh Suddenly Amish, which I I'm excited to see that the Amish trend is coming back for reality TV. I'm excited to see that's coming back.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Like 2012. I know 2012. I love that.

SPEAKER_03 1:16

Something there was breaking Amish, there was a different thing. There was uh did you ever watch Amish Mafia?

SPEAKER_00 1:21

I never did, but I think this is by the same production company that produced that.

SPEAKER_03 1:25

Well, Amish Mafia was scripted as hell, but you know what? It was lit.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

Well, I mean, is there is there TLC genre in reality that's really not? I mean, not even a fiance is is close to it, but you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

It's close to reality. Well, I feel like with the people TLC cast, you need to be a little heavy-handed with the producing, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_03 1:51

Yeah, a little bit. I think so. I mean, I feel like Well I mean we'll get into this group. But yeah, so suddenly Amish, basically, in case you guys are not aware of the kind of pre- general premise of the show, it's kind, it's I guess it's like a reversal of breaking Amish because Breaking Amish was about these people raised in Amish communities breaking out into the real world and you know, experimenting, trying. And they also had like spin-offs where they went back to being Amish and whatnot. But um, this show is basically taking six people who are not Amish and were not raised Amish, um, and putting them into an Amish community because they allegedly want to, you know, become Amish. I don't I don't really believe that for any of these people, but I digress. We'll get into it. Um but yeah, overall, Aiden how I was very excited when I first saw the trailer for this show a while back. I was like, oh, this looks good. But what what were your thoughts initially when this kind of the news of this came out?

SPEAKER_00 2:51

Well, I didn't really find out until literally like a week or two ago because I had seen the trailer on like a reel or something. Well, I'm not tapped into the TLC market. I know you're the sister wives girly, but you know, I don't I don't really see what they got going on. But then I saw the trailer, my initial reaction was where the fuck was the casting call?

SPEAKER_02 3:09

Well, you weren't.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

Why the fuck wasn't I informed? Well, I just feel like I would have been I would I feel like I would have been par for the course. Like I I would have seriously thrown my name in that and I would have seen what they were talking about with the coins, what my job situation was. Because sometimes I am overwhelmed. But I know you'd be pissed talking about what I guess we're backlogging 37 episodes because you don't like they're not giving they're not giving me my little pot, my little microphone and laptop to record this.

SPEAKER_03 3:39

I mean, I doubt they filmed that long for this, to be honest.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

Like I don't know what the actual production time was, but I have a feeling they didn't long enough that you don't need to you know go into a leave of absence at work. You could probably do it off a PTLO.

SPEAKER_03 3:53

Right. Well, I think I feel like this is probably a pretty quick filming schedule, if I had to guess. Um but yeah, we have I mean we have a whole cast of characters, and what I what I was excited to see, what I was really happy to see Walks and here is that uh it's not just the non-Amish that are being dropped off here that are the characters. Some of these Amish people, they they're they're something else already.

SPEAKER_00 4:14

Oh yeah, no, they're fun. So we get we get introduced into a few Amish people, Emma and James, and they're both characters in their own right. I think they chose the right Amish people to highlight. That production company was like, so who are the characters around here? Who whip some people off?

SPEAKER_03 4:30

We kind of get like the juxtaposition between the two of them right away because we get we start with Emma, who is kind of like we're kind of seeing her as this like sweet Amish girl, talking about how much she loves being Amish and it was important to her, and she grew up in it, and you know, she comes off very devout, she talks about she's fearful of her way of life like ceasing to exist. Basically, the idea that the Amish are kind of dying out, so to speak, um that these communities are dying out. And then we cut from her to James, who they make it clear has had some trouble. He uh, I mean, he immediately I mean our first our little introduction to him is literally him pulling out his little his little bag full of his contraband of shit he's not supposed to have, his damn alcohol, um, and all his other little all his other little shit. And we find out very quickly that he was shunned for having for having a cell phone, a secret cell phone, which I love that they give us like um on the screen, they give us like the they kind of break down the lingo for us. Like when they talk about him being shunned, it comes up with shunned English noun. A form of church disciples wait, it says wait a minute. A form of church disciple did they mean discipline? It says a form of church disciple and social punishment used to pressure a community member who has broken the rules to repent and return to the church. Um and they kind of do that a few times throughout the episode where they break down like what certain words mean, which I appreciated because some I mean some of these words I maybe like know what they mean, but it's better to get them in like the Amish context.

SPEAKER_00 6:13

Oh, for sure. And it just also like kind of localizes it to kind of see how the Amish view and see it in general. Which I think was interesting in how they kind of frame the show to begin with, kind of like because we're kind of familiar with Amish life, but it's kind of like what's the premise of this? Why are you doing it? And it kind of leaves with the fact because we have the this bishop character who I guess will be our not big bad, but he's you know the matriarch figure, the one who will talk to you if you're you know getting and doing wrong, if you show up in inappropriate garb, for example, you will be seeing the bishop. But his kind of thing and ideology is that the population is shrinking and the youth is going away because you know they they want to turn up for essentially. Yeah. So they're leaving with the concept that they're trying to attract the youth to lifestyle to grow the population. Although the people down at Amis365.com, which I don't know how reliable of a source they are, I don't really know about digital media and the Amish community.

SPEAKER_03 7:05

They literally I have I have found the same article pulled up.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

They're saying that it's false and that they're like one of the fastest growing churches in the country, and then they have large families and upwards of 80 people. They said we're doing just fine. I mean, literally like uh-uh, uh-uh. Y'all gotta talk about our numbers. You want to fuck numbers? So I mean the people Amish 365 say they're fine. But if the families are large, there might be a lot of inbreeding, which is kind of why James wants to leave, but I digress.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

That's what I was gonna say. That's what I was gonna say is that maybe the Amish communities that are blowing up in population are the ones that are inbreeding. I don't know. Um I'm just saying, I don't think you would put it so plainly like that. I I I was about to say no shade if you're Amish, but if they're Amish, they ain't listening to this. I don't know. Apologize today.

SPEAKER_00 7:52

They have radio. We're not on radio though, so yeah, you're right. That's it.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

That's like the Wendy Williams show. They ain't listening to that. Do you think do you think the Amish have ever listened to the Wendy Williams show on radio?

SPEAKER_00 8:03

I mean, maybe when they were flipping through some channels, they were like, what's this? Are they allowed radio? I mean, they're allowed radio, right?

SPEAKER_03 8:11

I didn't think they were. I thought there was like no technology. I didn't think radio was allowed. I guess they're not allowed. I guess they're not allowed. I don't know why I thought radio just seems allowed. And I was about to say, I did cackle. I don't know who this young lady was, but they showed a quick shot of some young lady out in the fields with her face blurred. She was listening to some music. She had she didn't have airpods, but she had the wire headphones, and she was listening to some music shaking ass in the 50s. And they they blurred her face though, so I don't know who that young lady was.

SPEAKER_00 8:42

Not that B-roll for this. Maybe they just got some random actors to do that to be outrageous. And like, we'll blur your face so you don't get sued.

SPEAKER_03 8:51

So you don't get dragged by the Amish. Well, you know what's funny? What's funny though is these these people, I mean, they do venture out into the world, as they call it. Because um literally, so like I literally, because first of all, I don't go to Walmart very often because I don't like I I can't stand Walmart, but there have been a few times that I have been in Walmart and I have seen the ladies in their bonnets. I have seen them in their garb, and I'm like, oh. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 9:19

Where'd y'all come from? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 9:22

Well, and also where I'm at, I I I live in Northern California. I was like, I didn't know we had uh where the Savage cult at? Where y'all at? Because I didn't know this was around here. But uh I don't even know.

SPEAKER_00 9:33

Yeah, I thought they were mostly like in the Pennsylvania area. That's what I think. Maybe a little over into Ohio every once in a while.

SPEAKER_03 9:39

Hey, Aina, that's that's why I'm so confused when I see a bitch in the moment. I'm like, where'd she where'd she come from? Well, maybe she's friends with Billy Joe. Not Billy Joe. Maybe they're committed to the same thing. Oh Lord, maybe, maybe. Well, and and the every time every time I saw Billy Joe, I just thought of that little girl. Have you seen that video of that little girl that like got the Amish outfit for her birthday because she wanted to be Amish? And they they got her a little Amish outfit with like a Amish dress with a bonnet, and she was so excited, and she's like, Can I can I go turn off can I go turn off the lights since the Amish don't have electricity?

SPEAKER_00 10:17

Now she wanted to read by candlelight.

SPEAKER_03 10:19

She did. She was feeling herself, and I was like, you know what, dream big baby.

SPEAKER_00 10:24

That's more of an immersive experience.

SPEAKER_03 10:27

Right? That thing, yeah. She she was fully prepared to immerse herself in other people's culture, unlike some of the people that chose to do this show. Um so one also back to the bishop. I think the the bishop is an interesting character to me because um he made it clear early on that he will not, he refuses to use technology because that's not allowed. But then he basically says, But you know, James, who is shunned, he's still gonna redeem himself. So we're gonna have him use the technology and go recruit these people, which I think it's funny that they that they that they tried to play it off like James is going out and recruiting these people. I'm like, y'all put out a reality TV casting call, and that's where these people came from. But okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

You you conducted bitches with agents and teams.

SPEAKER_03 11:09

What's some of that? Well, I think it yeah, but it's just like, you know, and I guess that was like one of my like what nobody called me in my Abbey Lee voice. But with a lot of the people on here, it just made it it. It was really funny to me how many of them like tried to have like their organic storylines and reasons for joining. It's like y'all answered a casting call and got a gig.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

But you know, everyone you know tries to make it a little something. Yeah, we start with Kendra, she's a dancer from Wisconsin, living in LA, and clearly not cut out for LA. Didn't know what she was signing up. I don't think she ever knows what she's signing up for because she showed up to LA saying hi to people on the sidewalk, trying to make real friends in that industry, because she's a dancer, and then she showed up to the Amish wearing a hoe dress. So I don't think that girl does her research. Yeah. She had experienced Amish boys before partying during one spring guy, so she thinks they're cute. She kind of wants to vibe, but you were just curious. Well, I don't know if she has real motivations outside of maybe not getting any get dancing gigs.

SPEAKER_03 12:15

Well, that's my thing with her. Is so she um, because she was saying she wants to join the Amish community in order to be closer to God, whatever. But like also like she made it very clear in her introduction that like her true, like what she her goal is to be a dancer. Like she wants to be a working, you know, she is an aspiring dancer, um, in the same way that New York was an aspiring actress. Um, you know, she's an aspiring dancer. And I'm like, I'm like, okay, well, you know, joining an Amish community in and of itself, that's not gonna really help you make it in the industry, but hopping on a TLC reality TV show might so there's the real there's the real motivation. Um, but yeah, I agree with you that she seems like she doesn't ever know what she's getting herself up to. She mentioned that she like did OnlyFans and she regrets it deeply. And she also mentioned though that she hasn't done it for five years. So like I'm adding up when this was recorded, I was like, oh, okay, you're one of those girls that created an OnlyFans during the the pandemic like early pandemic days, show Joe Coochie, didn't make like you made maybe five dollars and now you regret it. Got it.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

You don't have to do her like that, but I'm just like the timeline lines up from 55 minutes of television. From my experience with this girl is that she does not think think think things through. But she probably has maybe an agent in a team that was like, well, you booked something. And a casting team that was probably like, yeah, you'll work. Because she doesn't fix the archetype, like, maybe you'll hook up, maybe you'll fuck an Amish boy, maybe you'll fuck someone else in the cohort, maybe you'll show up. Not the cohort. That's so inappropriate. Well, they're a cohort, no, they're a cohort.

SPEAKER_03 13:51

Wow. You you know, we still trying to get into our polycule, so that's that's that that's another day, though, another episode.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

Polycule? No, we'll tell me about that. And you know what? This cast is like like you know, they like to be more colorful over on TLC, so we have Judah.

SPEAKER_03 14:10

I love his name Judah.

SPEAKER_00 14:13

Right? It fits. It seems like an Amish name. The name fits. Well, I like Esmeralda. Do they even know how to pronounce that?

SPEAKER_03 14:22

I I like that like they gave up like halfway through the episode and it says Esme or whatever. I'm like, I didn't know. I I did you choose that?

SPEAKER_00 14:29

Was there an extra? I'm glad you brought that up because I noticed that too.

SPEAKER_03 14:33

Well, because then I never heard anyone actually call her Esme though, but like it said it on the screen. I was like, okay. I was like, where did those nicknames come from?

SPEAKER_00 14:40

Right.

SPEAKER_03 14:42

Right. But Judah, I know it. I mean, it's it's it's a mixture, it's like a mixture of Jonah and Judah. So I was like, ooh. I was like, are you are you are you a complex character?

SPEAKER_00 14:52

I mean, I think he is. But his kind of whole story was that like the black community ignores depression and anxiety, kind of ignores it, you know, which is true. And then he kind of saw it on social media, was curious, kind of saw it as like a simpler life and ideology. But um, him being 22 and just the relationship he seems to have with his sisters. I'm gonna, you know, the spoiled child, youngest, didn't really do anything. He's like, okay, let me let me get into some bullshit. Maybe a comedian, maybe wants to do something. But I always calculate the situation with his family because I think my family would be reacting the same fucking way. Like this was so funny. Like, well, this isn't how you go tell your family gonna go live with the almond. It's just not how you do it. It's a way to introduce them. Which I'd be thinking, like, what is the way to introduce them?

SPEAKER_03 15:37

But right, she didn't have valid questions. How do you soft launch this? I agree. Uh, or hard launch it, but I just thought it was funny in his introduction, like when he talked about because I I put in here in my comments like, oh, he's high maintenance because he's talking about getting his hair cuts every two weeks. He was getting his manicures, his pedicures, his facials.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

It's more like three or four way down, but I've got that part for the first if you're black.

SPEAKER_03 16:02

Yeah, but I mean, but I I'm not the facials, I'm like, ooh. I'll say I don't see you out here getting all these facials and and and manny patties. And then and his mom said she was talking about like she's like, well, he's not really about like you know, outdoors, bugs, farms, like, oh, you just subscribe where he's going.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

So right. But that's not something he's accustomed to. And I like how the sister was like, Well, who are you staying with? Who are these people? That's what I want to know.

unknown 16:28

Right.

SPEAKER_03 16:28

I'd be like, who, what, like, what uh and then his uh, I think it was his mother was like, Well, so are there black Amish people? And I I love because she paused, she's like, Are there black Amish people? And she like kind of paused and looked at him, and then she was like, Not to be racist, I just don't know.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

That was Sedic B. And then took a question that was like, Well, God bless me with the certain name. I was like, you know what? You have an answer for everything, don't you? What's he do? He's pretty work on his feet. He's very he's smart and sharp. I feel like TLC should have used him on something else, but I'm curious to see how he experiences you know the show. He's funny.

SPEAKER_03 17:04

I mean, if he if he is a spoiled youngest child like you, like you are thinking, then that would make sense why he's such a damn smart ass.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

Well yes, well yes. Wow, very much of a smart ass. Later on in the episode. Well, we will get to that.

SPEAKER_03 17:20

Yeah, no, he he has he like you said, he's quick. He has some quips. And it looks it looks like based off the the preview for the remainder of the season, it looks like he'll he'll get into some stuff. He he's gonna be dipping and doing.

SPEAKER_00 17:33

Right? But I was screaming like when he immediately got to the house, they were offering him water from a mason jar. He's like, let's keep it the bottles. I was like, I don't think they're gonna do that. He called them ghetto.

SPEAKER_03 17:48

I was like, sir. He look he literally sat, he said, I know I'm from the ghetto, but this is too ghetto for me. You know, I think I think in those parts they prefer the term rural.

SPEAKER_00 18:04

The stove might be outside, girl. It's some it's some Animal Crossing Stardew Valley type shit.

SPEAKER_03 18:11

Okay. What do you do you want to talk about Esmeralda? Because she she she was sending me. Um be more receptive. Well, I think for I mean, what sent me is similar, I guess, similar to Judah is like she uh she's kind of describing kind of like her expectations in life and her routine and how she likes to be treated and pampered and whatnot. I'm like, do you know what you're you know what you're going with? Um because she was talking about that she is very big on her looks, she's very into her makeup and her clothes and her hair, and that she's very obsessive about her weight. She weighs herself every morning. So it's it's interesting to put that in tandem with her desire to join an Amish community. Um, and I kind of it was a kind of a red flag to me when she said that she was hoping to fix her self-image issues by joining an Amish community. I was like, oh, interesting.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

I mean, I definitely from her intro got the vibe that she's yearning for some kind of community or belonging, and that she also wants a husband that's very traditional. But she's talked about growing up Mexican but not having like a large family or like really being involved in the community, which I think is twofold. One being an only child, not really having cousins or siblings or anything, but also not really having a connection to your community, especially in a very Latino place like El Paso. I can definitely see her like, well, I want some kind of community, and then she connected that with her Catholic upbringing, and then how she's like likes traditional things. Her mom was always dressed up in makeup, you know, she wants she always yearned for a father figure and loves like traditional roles and that glitz and glamour side of it, woman taking care of the house. So I'm like, okay. I can see how you can maybe fit. At least, you know, the storyline made sense. But I don't know if the execution really was going. I mean But I think she is too pretty for any of these Amish boys to handle. I don't know if they can handle a baddie like her.

SPEAKER_03 20:09

Well, the thing is, she's so pretty and she wants all that. I'm like, girl, just go become like a TikTok trad wife or something. What are you doing? Um I think that would be easier than doing a TLC show, but yeah. One thing and the thing is, you you'll be praised for your nails and lashes on there.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

Well, I don't know. Don't those trad wives like to be she looked prettier than some of them girls I see, but I mean the trad wives I usually see are I mean I guess it depends.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

I feel like if you're like if you're looking at the more religious y trad wives, the more devout ones, I feel like they're like more like toned down, but the other trad wives, the one, especially the really like popular, like alt-right looking ones and stuff, they're like glammed up. They got their fillers, they got their extensions, they got their makeup, they're full beat, they're in couture.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

Not the couture, and some of them be having the bad tracks, like this, like the Mormon wives.

SPEAKER_03 21:06

Not the bad tracks.

SPEAKER_00 21:07

This is visible tracks. It's like girl blended. I'm talking to Taylor Frankie Paul. Taylor Frankie Paul, I'm talking to you.

SPEAKER_03 21:14

Now you know she doesn't. You know she doesn't give a fuck.

SPEAKER_00 21:19

Her and Leanne both. Her and Leanne both. But we're not talking about it.

SPEAKER_03 21:23

They're gonna do what they do. I mean, it it it's it's like I mean, people have been telling Britney Spears her tracks are fucked up for like 30 years and she's still got them. She just likes the way she just likes the way she does them. She just likes them the way they're they are. Right. Um well, someone who really came off strange to me was Aaron. Um Aaron was very strange to me. Um I was I was confused. Yeah, I was confused during his introduction. Well, because first he talked about how he has a disability and he is hoping that the Amish will accept him. So I was really curious. But like, I'm like, what is this disability? Yeah. And then, like, eventually we finally find out what it is later in the episode. But in spoiler alert, he has like he wears a hearing aid. And I'm like, Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

They made it some they try to make it a big gag. I was like, okay, girl.

SPEAKER_03 22:13

But then I see later on in the episode why it's kind of a big gag. Why it's a problem, yeah. Yeah. But then he also he mentions basically because he's 42 years old now, and he mentions that like oh no, it's 42 and 32 and a half. Yeah, he was 40. He was yeah, he was uh he was 32 when he did what he did. Well, and so that's what confused me too. Because like so, and I'm the thing is I'm really I'm not trying to be funny because this is a series. Um, but so he said that he like grew up with being very much like save yourself for marriage, you know, uh be pure, all that stuff. And then he mentioned that he lost his virginity 10 years ago at 32 years old. And then he like mentioned that it was not by his own choice. It was really weird because to me it almost sounded like I'm like, are you saying you were like sexually assaulted? I think he was.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

I think that's what I took from it.

SPEAKER_03 23:07

Yeah, but then also yeah, like a four, but then also like the way he was also going about it, like it almost seemed like he wasn't explicitly saying that. Like maybe that he was like like it was consensual, but he regrets it. Like, I'm very con I was very confused by the way it was worded. So that's that's why I don't really want to make jokes about it because I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 23:30

No, I definitely see that. Well, it's I could I could took it as that, and he seemed very devout overall, kind of despite the gay man Botox you know, starter pack. You know, he talked about his relationship with his dad. You're laughing, I'm serious. Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03 23:49

Well, you you can you you can't say gay man botox starter pack and expect me not to lay off but despite that he talked about very religious upbringing his dad, you know, being very into the church, a pastor, I believe, and then becoming a driver for the Amish.

SPEAKER_00 24:04

So just always really having um you know a relationship there. And his hope is that he'll feel as at peace with the Amish if he gets accepted. He seems to have a lot going on in his life. I mean he doesn't really talk about what he yearns for personally, but I never think there's a lot to unpack with the sex of it all.

SPEAKER_03 24:22

Yeah, yeah, no, he definitely he's he he he he's got some trauma. He's got some trauma Wells.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

And this is what they also showed up. Yeah to the farm, but the Lancaster Pennsylvania.

SPEAKER_03 24:40

Yeah. And so is it because I saw so I've always said it Lan I've always said I've always said it Lancaster, and I saw I saw someone on Reddit say that they knew these people were full of shit about being Amish the moment they pronounced it Lancaster. I was like, oh, is that how you're supposed to say it?

SPEAKER_00 24:59

Right? Well, I didn't even know the Amish spoke English like this to begin with, for real. I thought they spoke some kind of not another language, but I thought it was kind of a mix of Dutch and Old English and English.

SPEAKER_03 25:09

Well, and he also said that the the the bishop was saying they like spoke like a form of German to a certain extent. Gotcha. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

That makes sense. I didn't know what they speak. And that's why they called like the everyone else the English, because they speak English, even if they're not British. But I'd be cracking if somebody was calling me the English. Like, what should we not English, huh?

SPEAKER_01 25:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:31

I know, but yeah, we do start getting people showing up, and this is where it kind of um the kind of format of them introducing people changes because like we have some people like the ones we were just talking about that were introduced before anyone showed up, and then we have them showing up, and then from there, some people start getting introduced, like they like walk up, and then we find out who they are, and so it takes a little bit of a turn in how they kind of format it.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

They didn't mix it up because I didn't think there would be this many people. I don't bought the trailer or anything. I saw like one little TikTok clip that was mostly just Judah, to be honest. So I was like, why they got this black boy out there? But I'm glad that there's more follow up more stories than me. But I'm glad there's a few more stories to follow, especially this next one. I think she'll be one of our favorites with Miss Billy James.

SPEAKER_03 26:16

Oh, she's she's Billy Joe was already my favorite after the first episode. She when she walked up already wearing that Amish outfit, I was like, oh I thought she was like one of the people. Like, okay, they got a new helper. I was confused. I was like, I thought she was talking about the community. I was like, oh no, she's just she's upset, she has that obsession with the Amish.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

Um she's an Amish enthusiast, ladies and gentlemen.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

And they're I saw somebody on Reddit describe her as a cosplayer.

SPEAKER_00 26:44

Um I mean, she's close to where she definitely seems like somebody that would have been on TLC like 10 years ago.

unknown 26:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Like they're giving my strange obsessions.

SPEAKER_03 26:55

Yeah, I know. Like 10 years later they called her up, like, bitch, do we got a show for you? Your your time has finally come, Billy Joe. Well, some the person on Reddit, well, somebody on Reddit, they described well, they said what they said was um they said, um, I think the cosplayer is the only one that's actually cut out for this. And even and even that, I don't know if she is because she was not happy about that that damn that damn outhouse.

SPEAKER_00 27:24

Uh-oh, she was gay. She gave herself a damn splinter.

SPEAKER_03 27:29

Yeah, it sent me when she showed up and and then they like cut to her in direction. She was twirling around in that Amish dress and showing off her apartment with all of her Amish stuff and it, her dolls and her, you know, just things. Yeah, without faces, because she said that's how a true Amish doll would be. Um, and then I cried when they were showing her like footage of her at work as a barista talking to these these patrons.

SPEAKER_00 27:53

You know, the footage of her and her Amish bonnet behind that kind of where her coworker is with Russ the regulars is ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 28:00

And the customer is like having a conversation with her about like, so do you think that like the Amish find it offensive? And she's like, no, because she's like, I think they see I would think they would see it as me being very respectful. Next thing you know, it cuts to her putting a bonnet on her damn dog. It's like, okay, respectful, okay, okay, Billy Jo.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

And Billy Joe is immediately a character because as they arrive, she sees Kendra what Kendra is wearing. And she says that a smuddy cheerleader dress to meet the Amish. Which, for all intents and purposes, Kendra was wearing a smuddy cheerleader dress. I don't know how to describe it, but it was very low-cut, pretty short, very summary. Something cute for like, you know, the rooftop pool.

SPEAKER_03 28:42

I mean, something cute for literally anywhere else besides here. I cried I cried when I cried when it cut to Billy Joe and her confessional, and she says, Kendra has her cha cheese out in prepped.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

But yeah, no, the bishop immediately shows up when everyone arrives, and he's like, This ain't no game. You need to mimic the culture and your address.

SPEAKER_03 29:11

We didn't introduce Matt. Oh, I mean failed rodeo guy.

SPEAKER_00 29:16

I got I got three bullets on Matt, but yes. A handsome man in a beard shows up, and I'm like, who's he? Is he a producer? But no, that's Matt. Kendra's immediately like, oh, he's fine. So that might be in the storyline. But Kendra has Kendra has given us, you know, fast that she's going, a little eager. So not fast. That's part of the course. But you know, Matthew. I mean, what do you want to get out of wearing that? That would gagged me. I would have to think and reflect on that. But back to Matt. He grew up in rodeo, wasn't really his thing, more his dad's thing. So, you know, high school musical of it all. Is a father to seven-year-old twin boys do the do the Amish do divorce, man? Are like past kids? They they seem to be very, you know, you know, one baby daddy type of people.

SPEAKER_03 30:10

But right. Well, and I s well I I saw because I saw like in the trailer for upcoming parts, it looks like they he's it looks like they kick him out. Because I remember James was behind him with an axe. I'm like, I'm gonna walk. I'm gonna walk you out. Um, so maybe that's something one.

SPEAKER_00 30:25

I don't know if it's like a misdirect though, because sometimes they like a red covering in a trailer, but that could be the reason. But he said he wants a simpler lifestyle for him and his kids, but like, you're not gonna bring the kids to Testeron? I mean, he probably don't got custody because he's doing this, but I think you want to bring your also can you part-time kids? Like, I don't they're gonna do summers with the Amish and no no trist. No, how are they gonna do their summer packets? Like, I'm confused.

SPEAKER_03 30:49

Literally, what you said, that's exactly what a Reddit comment said on him was basically like, so I'm confused, like, if there's like a split custody thing, like, are the kids Amish one week and not the next week?

SPEAKER_00 30:59

Because yeah, like I'm thinking about the babies. Even if they do breaks and stuff, like that's not setting them up for success. They're gonna be real bored, real annoyed. And what if they gotta do what if they gotta watch a movie for an assignment?

SPEAKER_03 31:14

Yeah, no, I'm sorry. If I were if I were the kid, I'd be begging mom, like, don't make me go with daddy this week. It smells like ass there, and duck goose and goose poop. Duck poop. I'd say that that they they make you shit outside. They make you shit outside.

SPEAKER_00 31:31

Yeah, so we got Aaron, Judah, Esmeralda, Matt, Billy Joan, Kendra.

SPEAKER_03 31:37

Yeah, so I mean we we meet everyone, as you said, the bishop kind of shows up um to kind of have that initial talk with them. He calls them all over, and it goes left, especially because Kendra got singled out right away.

SPEAKER_00 31:55

You know, he pretty much calls her inside, asks her some questions. She's a little gay. And in that moment, I'm wondering, did she not do her research? Which probably not, given how she approached LA. It seems like none of them did or both. But I mean, he essentially calls her a whore, but you know, he tries to be nice about it. He asks her what she intends to get out of dressing like that, or something along the lines.

SPEAKER_03 32:17

I don't know. So I have the quote here. He says, because I was gagged by it. He says, What is the motivator for you to dress the way that you dress? I was like, uh oh.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

Right? That's like that has you thinking it's deep. It's like calling you a whore, but also like I want you to respond to your words.

SPEAKER_03 32:33

That's exactly how like a religious figure would say it to someone in the trench. And she immediately starts crying. I I I literally in my notes, I in my notes, I quoted Giselle, tears, tears, tears.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

Well, she doesn't seem like the type of student that did well with free response questions. I'm not surprised at that. And if she tried to explain it, like, well, on dance auditions we're naked, I'm like, well, this is not a dance audition, baby.

SPEAKER_03 33:01

Right. What I mean, I guess she's treating us like a damn gig. But actually, she's not gonna get it. She's not doing she's not gonna get it. Well, that's what he told her. He's basically like, you know, the wives are not gonna want you around their husbands or their sons dressed the way you're dressed. They they don't they're not gonna like that. That kind of gagged me though how open he was about like um the bishop when he was like, they don't want competition.

SPEAKER_01 33:25

He was keeping his luck.

SPEAKER_03 33:27

He was keeping it very real. Um and I cackled afterwards when she's when she was like crying to the group, and she goes, I don't act like a hoe. Well, not anymore.

SPEAKER_00 33:37

Um and then Judah gonna say, Jesus, didn't we help a prostitute? So why wouldn't they help you? He was crazy for her, which had me falling out. She seemed to just take it like, okay, they should gloss over that. We got one professor from Billy Joe, but everyone kind of moves up.

SPEAKER_03 33:53

Yeah, Billy Joe was like, So you basically called her a prostitute. Which I'm like, Billy Joe, you call you already called her a slot and horror.

SPEAKER_00 34:00

Yeah, yeah, I'll call her the whore of Babylon, Sodom and Gomorrah. Like, she gets she getting dragged up and down the Bible.

SPEAKER_03 34:06

Probably everyone's saying it. Um, but I do because you brought up an interesting point about like the production set her up because the thing is, like, we've because you know, I mean, we've interviewed reality TV people um on this podcast, people that have participated in reality TV, and multiple people that we've interviewed. Um, we had a really in-depth conversation with about Nayanka um from Survivor. That typically on these reality shows, production does play a big part in what you get to wear in a lot of these shows. So I mean a lot of times you might maybe have a few choices for outfits and production gets final say on what you wear because they kind of have to determine like what's gonna look good on camera. Um so I mean, I feel like at some point that dress, well, maybe it was her dress, I wouldn't say that might that might have not been like necessarily her full choice to wear that particular dress.

SPEAKER_00 35:00

Right, for sure. Maybe they were like, Oh, it'll be fine. But then even after that, when they go to the houses, so they're split into two groups Aaron, Judah, and Esmeralda go with one family, Matt, Billy, Joe, and Kedra go with another family. But even then, I feel like it makes sense, at least storyline-wise, continuity, or maybe they don't want to mess up continuity shots, but at least give the girl a cover-up or something to show that she's learning and addressing. But if they go send her to meet her family after the conversation, it's like okay. Yeah, maybe she just she just didn't make the adjustment or didn't you know seek it out. But your suitcase is literally in your hand, girl. You could you you would I don't know. You got nothing else but cover it? You got nothing to cover shoulders.

SPEAKER_03 35:37

It didn't seem like they were given it didn't really like at least timeline-wise, it didn't really seem like they were given the opportunity to change, but that's true. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 35:45

Well, bro, if if I'm like, okay, y'all just call me the whore bad bot, I'm pushing my suitcase over right there and unzipping it. I'll be the last one to the house, I guess. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 35:54

Nothing.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

If my suitcase is in my hand, I get it if like production, you know, put it in the van, give it to you later.

SPEAKER_03 36:02

That's true. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:04

But I'll have a bit of product inside. Oh, you can't go to the bathroom right now, but well, I'm either pissing on the floor or y'all can wait for me. So which is why I've never been cast on a reality show.

SPEAKER_03 36:14

So not not you throw not throwing on your little Stevie Neck shots to cover up a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

And then they check their bags. So speaking of their bags and their suitcase and their luggage, just you know, they go through their bags, make sure there's no technology, no ripped jeans, no bright color clothing is allowed. Which Emma, the Amish girl who's kind of like overseeing them, she can actually be talking about I'm not hanging out on my clothes. Which her delivery is funny. But apparently she was like, oh, no, start rumors and people are gonna talk about it, not your reputation. Which I guess, but what hypothesis are they gonna reach? What hypothesis what hypothesis are they gonna reach off of some orange shirts?

SPEAKER_03 36:54

Well, they might just I don't know. And this is the Amish community, they might just say that means she's a whore, who knows?

SPEAKER_00 36:59

Well, Emma seems like she can beat anyone's ass in the community, so I don't think they'd say that to her face.

SPEAKER_03 37:06

That's true, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

Um But Judah's boots were fly that they took, like the little black boots with the straps. I was like, oh, those are some cute boots. I would have I don't know if I would wear them every day or you know, maybe every once in a while, but they are some fly boots.

SPEAKER_03 37:19

They kind of they kind of look like a pair of boots that I used to have.

SPEAKER_00 37:23

Um they tried to snatch my girl Esmeralda, her little skincare setup. Oh, this makeup sign? No, it's for your eyes, for your eyes.

SPEAKER_03 37:33

Yeah, what I found it interesting too, because they were kind of like, you know, you're not really supposed to try to beautify yourself out here. You're not really supposed to use things or wear things that are meant to make you look more pretty or draw attention or whatever. Um, it's it's very all natural.

SPEAKER_00 37:52

Okay, they didn't play that.

SPEAKER_03 37:54

Yeah. Um but what I found interesting was the fact that James was sitting here conducting bag checks and judging them for what was in there. I was like, sir, you you showed us your bag in the episode. Yeah, let's see your bag. You show us your bag with your liquor, with your liquor.

SPEAKER_00 38:10

Dark liquor too. He's crazy. Not just liquor, he got a bottle of dark liquor in there. He he turned up. He probably got buns in there too. He didn't want to show that on camera, because I don't think Pennsylvania is a legal state. Or maybe they are. I think they are legal state allied. Either way, he has bunts in there. I'm I'm convinced. I can't prove it, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:29

No, he would he was ridiculous. I was like, I was like, you I don't think you really are in the space to be judging people, but okay.

SPEAKER_00 38:35

Right? So this brings us to kind of like some of the main conflicts of the episode are like, you know, roadblocks that they face. One of which is Esmeralda and her nails, the other which is Aaron and his hearing aid.

SPEAKER_03 38:49

Two very different things, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 38:52

Right? So yeah, they kind of keep Aaron's thing a gag until later in the episode. So then they reveal he has a disability, which is the hearing aid, and then he's kind of sharing his experience growing up with it, you know, it being hard. I'm like, okay, representation. And then we get to the roadblock that they're Bluetooth connected, and it's through his phone. And I'm like, oh, you can use shit.

SPEAKER_03 39:15

Right. Well, it's it's just like I think just their reaction, James, was like, you you can't have your phone if you're gonna be Amish. And he and he was like, and Aaron was like, Well, I needed to hear.

SPEAKER_00 39:26

Um it was ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 39:29

James is like, he wants to keep his phone, but I think he just wants to hear, but yeah, no, that's like they were acting like he was gonna do something shifty with it. And they were, I mean, I guess like they were kind of explaining their logic. They were like, oh, it's temptation. Like having a phone is temptation.

SPEAKER_00 39:41

But once again, James maybe not just for him, but like everyone, you know?

SPEAKER_03 39:46

Yeah, but like James delivering that message, and I'm like, sir, you are currently shunned for having a self-dess. Oh James does kind of look like he'd be on grinder. Um he but the thing is though, I'm not saying James is gay. I'm saying that James would probably fuck everybody and anybody. I'm I'm saying I first want to see he seems like he's almost and curious, like he wants to see what goes on. That's uh I feel like James is pansexual. He might fuck the whole cast, all six of them.

SPEAKER_00 40:15

He might just ask questions.

SPEAKER_03 40:17

Um, he like he wants to he likes to hear some house stories.

SPEAKER_00 40:22

Maybe, maybe. And that brings us to um Esmeralda. Who at first it seemed like she would transition well, maybe, you know, well-mannered, intentioned. But then we got to her, once they said, Oh, you gotta lose the nails and the lashes. She said, uh-uh, I don't know about that. I don't know if she was more upset about the nails or the lashes. I couldn't tell which one, maybe the nails.

SPEAKER_03 40:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:42

But she was not about it. But what made me confused with this scene was like there was a lot of ADR. Like they were putting in audio of her speaking, which I don't know if it was from a confessional or what. That sounded like it wasn't from that conversation, or like was maybe from a confessional or something. Well, shifting the camera away. So I'm thinking okay, she clearly pissed the producers off because they want to make you seem like a bigger brat than you are. Because the scene already comes out kind of bratty, but they're trying to make it worse. Like they give up a smart ass remark, like, yes, I'm not milking cows. But she didn't say that.

SPEAKER_03 41:12

One thing, yeah, it was kind of like um because and especially because like the escalation of it, because it's kind of like it starts out during the bag search, she's like, I'm not, you know, I'm not doing it, I'm not taking off my lashes or my nails. And then it kind of we kind of get Emma and James basically being like, We're gonna have to bring in Alan and Sarah to see if they can work with her. And then it cuts to they're all in the house inside, and Alan shows up and he's just looking her up and down. Um that thing, and he kind of reiterates that you know you need to take the nails and lashes off. And that's yeah, that's where she kind of refuses and says, I'm not going to. Um and like you said, we kind of get that random ass line about, well, I guess I'm not milking cows. Um when they said Yeah, when they said that you're not gonna be milking cows with with the with those nails. Um, and then yeah, and then kind of then basically the episode pretty much ends with them telling her, like, you're not willing to do that. And she's like, Well, I guess not. I'm I guess I'm not gonna stay here. And it kind of ends with like that tantrum.

SPEAKER_00 42:18

But it kind of leave us on the hangnail, not hangnail, cliffhanger.

unknown 42:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 42:24

But the funny thing though is they leave us on a cliffhanger, like she may maybe she's about to leave, maybe she's gonna stay, and then like we see clearly in the preview that she stays because we see her like numerous like scenes of her. Yeah, we see numerous scenes of her like throughout the preview, so I'm like, clearly she's gonna stay, but well. But I could honestly watching the preview, I couldn't tell if she had her nails or lashes on, so I don't know if she wins this battle.

SPEAKER_00 42:49

You know, that's it. I'm curious. I couldn't tell either.

SPEAKER_03 42:53

The thing is, what the the lashes are one thing, but the thing is with removing the nails, is her natural real nails are probably like really like weak and damaged under those. So I don't think I don't think she should remove them. I think she should keep them on for safety concerns. Not for safety. But also, then again, then again, though, if they're gonna I I because as we saw, we we didn't really get too far into it, into this particular thing. But Billy Joe had to we got to see how Billy Joe go goes out and uses the outhouse and has to wipe her ass with uh newspaper. So I don't know how that would go because I mean I feel like for the girls that have nails, it's already hard enough wiping your ass with regular toilet paper, but now you gotta use newspaper. That's a whole situation.

SPEAKER_00 43:39

Are they gonna get a yeast infection? They're gonna be uh gonna be good down there. And I'm I'm concerned about the Amish diet. Like, does it have a lot of fiber? What do y'all be eating? Are these people vegans or anything? I'm sure they couldn't get around like I'm sure a vegan couldn't make it because like all that milk and cows and shit you gotta do.

SPEAKER_03 43:55

Yeah. I I did. Belly Joe was cacklin, like she had me caclin. She's like, where's the bathroom? She's like, I got a shit now. And then um they gave her the outhouse and the and the I just thought she goes, she goes, Alan, I know you lie. And he goes, and he was like very scary. He goes, I don't lie.

SPEAKER_00 44:21

I think I got a splinter. I think she's gonna need I think Kendra's gonna need to help me with this.

SPEAKER_03 44:28

Um Kendra probably would help too, that's that's we girl. Yeah, not the end, but just like just Billy Joe walking around there talking about, oh, I don't know how sanitary this is. Um and then when she comes when she comes out, just the way she's at, she's like, I think I have a pretty big splinter. She was made to be on TV.

SPEAKER_00 44:49

She's a gag. She's the gag. Um I'm I'm glad TLC brought it on this. He's gonna mix up the cast. I will say there seems to be some duds, or maybe because like Matt, like you you theorize goes early, he's not getting a big edit. But you know, Matt seems whatever. Aaron outside the hearing aids also seems whatever. But you know, Esnaralta's giving us something, Kent's giving us something, Billy Joe's giving us giving us material, Judah's funny and off the cuff, and I think they're all kind of like different enough, at least background-wise and personality-wise, it's a good mix. So the point there's probably gonna be conflict with each other because I see one scene of people yelling like, Oh, I don't trust you. I'm like, well, are they snitching on each other? Is there a prize at the end? Oh, yeah. The show is like there are some confessionals and editing moments where I'm like, does the show have a money prize at the end? Because they're kind of acting like they're there is.

SPEAKER_03 45:37

I think that would have made this more interesting if like whoever whoever whoever is deemed the best Amish would be like.

SPEAKER_00 45:43

Right, whoever lasts the longest, like you have to make sure someone else quits turgo's home or something.

SPEAKER_03 45:47

Yeah. Are the almost vote for who gets the prize money? Can you imagine? Not not it, not it, or not it being like the end of bridal plastic where they gotta go sit at your table. They they gotta go sit at your milk and stable.

SPEAKER_00 46:02

I would love that. I feel like a competition probably would make this a gag, but it probably would have made it less authentic than it already, you know, barely is.

SPEAKER_03 46:10

Which people are have I saw people are heavily questioning whether this is authentic or not. Um I mean it's I saw, and the thing is, I haven't seen any confirmations, I've just seen rumors, the the rumors and the nastiness. Um and what's interesting is and I wish I could, I I had it pulled up at some point. I wish I could remember the word they used, but they basically what a lot of people were saying is that none of these people on here that are Amish are actually currently Amish. Um, they're all left.

SPEAKER_00 46:47

I mean that makes sense. I'm like, I've don't you gotta film confessionals and use mics and shit.

SPEAKER_03 46:51

Yeah, well they and there was a word there was like a word for there was a word for it. There was a word they were using. Um basically say like there was a specific term for people who are like no longer in specifically the Amish community, but like still maybe practice certain aspects of it. They're basically calling them frauds.

SPEAKER_00 47:14

Um I didn't get into the Reddit up at all. You know, I love a Reddit deep dive after watching something, but my schedule was tight today. I I turned the video off and got right on the recording session.

SPEAKER_03 47:25

Yeah, when it was just um it was just kind of like it it was kind of like just none of it really a lot of things just weren't adding up to me like as I was watching it. And the thing is, like I I questioned myself though, because I'm like, I mean, I'm not like a fucking expert on the Amish.

SPEAKER_00 47:48

Um I mean I was taking it with a grain of salt. It was very much giving like 2010 reality show. It's very old school coded.

SPEAKER_03 47:56

Okay, I found I found the word because I I had it in my notes and I couldn't find it. So they referred to them as Mena mena knights. Oh, Mena Knights. Okay, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 48:07

Because I remember some of the people on Breaking Amis were like that, because they're a little less strict with the rules.

SPEAKER_03 48:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

I remember.

SPEAKER_03 48:13

And so that's what they were calling them, and then um they were talking about Vernon, who was the the bishop, and they were saying, and the thing is though, they somebody threw out this accusation, but they didn't provide anything to back it up. Um he said Vernon was an Amish deacon, not a bishop, but he was Amish until two or three years ago, which I'm like, where are you getting this tea? Um but yeah, so there's definitely a lot of scrutiny around it.

SPEAKER_00 48:42

Lancaster seemed that big or however you pronounce it. I don't know how the how the real Amazon is.

SPEAKER_03 48:48

How are we supposed to pronounce it? How the real Amish bitches. This this is what this is how real Amish bitches get in.

SPEAKER_00 48:54

Is it like Houston Street in New York? Is it just like a Ron Kankama on Long Island? Do you just not know?

SPEAKER_02 49:00

No. I guess not.

SPEAKER_00 49:03

I guess not. But um, I don't know. The trailer has me intrigued. I'm intrigued enough by the characters and the concept, and you know, generally just wanting more campiness in my life and light hearted topics. I probably will keep watching this.

SPEAKER_03 49:17

Yeah. I wanna I wanna know what's gonna go down between Billy Joe and that man she was talking to with the scary haircut that had the alleged. Yeah, and she had she had it, she was rubbing his nipple through his shirt. I was like, what the heck?

SPEAKER_00 49:31

Is it is that a lap? I want to know what gets her turning up on the portal, but I don't give a fuck if the cameras are watching me.

SPEAKER_03 49:39

That was so funny.

SPEAKER_00 49:40

She was she was dropping the mouth bomb.

SPEAKER_03 49:42

I don't give a fuck if these cameras are fucking watching me.

SPEAKER_00 49:45

I was like, whoa, whoa. And I'm proud I want to see what happens with the you know, the cast dynamics that has it feeling like a social strategy game.

SPEAKER_03 49:54

Right? I mean, the thing is though, uh a lot of times in these deeply religious groups, I mean, part of the culture is snitching on people. Like if you if you see someone, if you see someone break the rules, you're like, oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna go tell the bishop and get you in trouble and gain favor for myself. And no offense, Billy Joe, because you are my favorite, but you seem like the type that would have accused someone of witchcraft back in the day. You would have been like, yep, I saw Kendra dancing with the devil.

SPEAKER_00 50:18

And then cackle and offer them a hug when they come back crying from the little trial. Because she did go hug Kendra after the bitch of the car throw. I won't say it wasn't genuine. She probably didn't feel bad seeing the girl cry like that.

SPEAKER_03 50:32

She probably she was like, uh oh. She's like, it's going down like this.

SPEAKER_00 50:40

As we close out the episode, I want to ask you if if Casting reached out, if Casting reached out, would you do it? Would you do it? Would you come on season two with me?

SPEAKER_03 50:52

Unfortunately, I would do it purely to gain exposure for the podcast that we are recording right now. Those would be my intentions, and I I I already know. Oh my god, I already I already know somebody would call me out from the little wardrobe check would not be co- not that I would do. One of the other one of the other participants would definitely call me out like it was flavor of love. They'd be like, you are here in case of an opportunity. I'd be like, well, yeah, bitch, we all I'm here to promote my podcast.

SPEAKER_00 51:26

Not me pretending like I I I'm there to better myself and live a simpler life. Well, now I go right back to brand, I go back to brand deals and bullshit.

SPEAKER_03 51:36

Not that I I'm I'm gonna be I'm gonna be portrayed as the villain of the podcasting duo.

SPEAKER_00 51:40

Well, my thing is I think I would look the fuck good on them overalls. Because Judah looked good in them overalls. But do you get like color choices or you gotta go with the little Amish blue? Not that I don't think I look good in the Amish blue, but like I want to mix it up.

SPEAKER_03 51:52

Do you think they would uh do you think they'd ask me to leave if I if I came out with the overalls with nothing underneath them, like Rob on the traitors?

SPEAKER_00 52:00

Yes. Yeah, I think they'd ask you to leave. Notch you with your fucking no undershirt show in print. Talk about I'm ready to mug some cows.

SPEAKER_03 52:13

The bishop's like, no, can you come inside? Oh my god, not not the bishop asked me what what what my motivator is to dress the way I'm dressing. I'd be like, I'd be like, well, I'm I'm here to make a TV, Mr. Bishop. What are you here to do? That's why you're gonna go chase off the farm with an axe. That's why you're gonna chase off the farm with an axe. Oh my god. I would, I would, if if he was if he tried walking through the box, I'd I'd be running and screaming like Nene in those.

SPEAKER_00 52:38

I'd be looking around at the producers and the camera people like uh I'm gonna break the fourth fucking wall.

SPEAKER_03 52:46

If somebody, if I saw anybody approaching me with an axe, I would definitely I would definitely break the fourth wall. Like, uh, I'd be like looking at producers and crew, I'd be like, ah, get him, get him away from me. I don't do this.

SPEAKER_00 52:57

There's there's no fourth wall. I'm not keeping no fourth wall with that. I don't do this shit. But uh like I I I tried my hardest to not to break the fourth wall this whole fucking time.

SPEAKER_03 53:08

But now y'all got some yeah, you now y'all got some crazy looking guy with an axe coming at me. Uh-uh. I don't do this. No, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 53:20

Alright. But you know, I would take the offer for the show. I I I would. And I think I'd be good up to a certain point. I think I'll I think I'd be really into it the first three days. I'd be like a top performer, and then it'll be like, mm, I'm kind of over this.

SPEAKER_03 53:33

Not too like, I think I'm ready to go home.

SPEAKER_00 53:39

And you know, producer trying to fuck shit up, trying to tempt you.

SPEAKER_03 53:42

Oh Lord, not not well, I feel like the producers would be going off on you um talking about like bitch, you you're not gonna get that fucking check if you think you're going home.

SPEAKER_00 53:55

Oh what? But I don't know. Also, all all the physical labor, I know I'd be tired. They be building houses, they be building like a house a day. They're like the Tyler Perry studios of construction in the Amish community. Like, they be throwing them sets and shit up. I'm not getting on nobody's roof. I'm not like a licensed general contractor. So I don't know what they'd have me do. And I think only the woman got to turn the butter, so I think the physical labor of it would get to me. I'd be tired.

SPEAKER_03 54:22

I would I would definitely be being difficult when they asked me to milk a cow or trim, but I'd be like, I want vegan, I don't do that.

SPEAKER_00 54:29

Well, but you'd probably be starving. I'm probably gonna have a lot of potatoes and beets and shit. Not you live on potatoes and beets like a Greta Thumber.

SPEAKER_03 54:38

That'd be crazy.

SPEAKER_00 54:40

Well, beets are good for your heart. Or they're good, they're good for something.

SPEAKER_03 54:48

Yeah, I think I think that that they're heart healthy. They're heart healthy. And you know, potatoes that that's that's like a good complex car. That's a good complex car behind you.

SPEAKER_00 54:56

Okay, okay. Well listeners, note takers, get your beats, get your potatoes, and get your way over to suddenly Amish, because it is a hit.

SPEAKER_03 55:06

Go go top some Amish people. Um, I don't know about that. If that's if that's what you do.

SPEAKER_00 55:14

But do get Amish pretzels. The pretos are good. But you can catch this. I believe on HBL Max, TLC and Discovery have all of their programming now.

unknown 55:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:23

But if you have TLC anywhere else there, likely on demand as well. But I had a good little time with this, so I post it on the TikTok. I'll probably be talking about this. Because I want to see what the TikTok TLC girls have to say.

SPEAKER_03 55:40

I really do, yeah. I wanna I wanna know what they're talking about. I I feel like I just I know in my heart that they love Billy Joe. I know it in my heart.

SPEAKER_00 55:48

Billy Joe give me that she's gonna be in the com she gives me in the comments. Like, oh boy from Got Together.

SPEAKER_03 55:54

Oh my god, I would love to interview her.

SPEAKER_00 55:57

I want to interview Billy Joe and I want to interview Kendra and Esmeralda. Actually, most of them. Most I talk to most of them.

SPEAKER_03 56:04

I don't I don't think Kendra would do our show if she listens to this episode, so let's hope she doesn't.

SPEAKER_00 56:08

Um I I think I think we were fair. We were fair.

SPEAKER_03 56:11

You you were fair, I was rude. Um thank y'all, and have a great rest of your day. You can follow us on social media. We are at on a real note pod across all them platforms. Thank you so much. Have a good one.