Love Is Blind Netherlands: Episodes 6-8 Recap & Review - Ep 496

Sharleen Joynt (0:00)

So he runs a bath for them, and then when he fetches her, she's like, oh no, go take it solo. And then the music goes, don't, like a horror movie. Yes.

Andy Levine (0:09)

Like just when you thought, you were making a bath for you and your loved one. Dun, dun, dun.

Sharleen Joynt (0:23)

Welcome back to your Dear Shandy Love Is Blind Netherlands recap listeners. Hello, Andy. Hello. How are you today?

Andy Levine (0:30)

Doing okay. Doing okay.

Sharleen Joynt (0:31)

How are you? I'm okay. Looking good.

Andy Levine (0:33)

Nice curls.

Sharleen Joynt (0:34)

Thank you, husband. Thank you.

Andy Levine (0:37)

Oh, excuse me.

Sharleen Joynt (0:39)

We're so careful about interrupting each other.

Andy Levine (0:41)

We have to watch out. I actually have a public apology.

Sharleen Joynt (0:46)

Oh, I know what this is.

Andy Levine (0:47)

So, yeah, I know that the Shandy's expect the highest level of excellence from my statistical information.

Sharleen Joynt (0:55)

Yes, I respect that, especially involving numbers, especially well, statistics or numbers, numbers, statistics. Yes.

Andy Levine (1:03)

Thanks for the correction. But I misspoke as can happen when you have a podcast. We speak about 100 million words a year. And you know what? Sometimes sometimes things go awry.

Sharleen Joynt (1:15)

And we roll for over an hour, sometimes two hours straight.

Andy Levine (1:18)

It just, and you're stressed and you're tired, and you know, you're trying to cover everything. Anyway, I said that the population in the Netherlands was 500,000 people. I know that not to be true. However, it was a brain fart. I was doing research, which I was so appalled and aghast at the cultural issues with with Jury and Mika, that I researched the demographics of Netherlands and found out that 3% or 500,000 people in Netherlands are black. So I wanted to understand the cultural make-up so I can understand what was going on here. So that number got stuck in my head, and then I said the population of Netherlands was 500,000, which is really 18 million, so I was off by 97%, which is fine. So I apologize to the people of Netherlands and to all the Shandies at large for this inaccuracy.

And now, are we okay?

All right, let's go.

Sharleen Joynt (2:19)

I don't think we need an opening other than that, Andy. Let's get right to it. Episodes six through eight of Love Is Blind Netherlands, the only season thus far, and perhaps the only season period.

Andy Levine (2:31)

No.

Sharleen Joynt (2:32)

Oh, quick notice.

Andy Levine (2:34)

Sorry, I didn't give you that. Yes.

Sharleen Joynt (2:37)

Okay, so a quick notice before we get rolling, that we recap here at Dear Shandy in chronological order. So let's say you have only seen episode six, you have not seen episode seven and eight. That's okay. If you scroll down to the timestamps, you can see where episode seven and episode eight begin. And so you can just follow along at your own pace.

Okay, Andy, let's do it. Episode six, our big cliffhanger was Yasmin and Miguel meeting at a restaurant. They finally meet.

Andy Levine (3:04)

The great meeting.

Sharleen Joynt (3:05)

The great meeting. She basically says she's been thinking of him every hour of every day. She felt she was with the wrong person. And then when he's like, well, what about Rauel? She kind of plays victim here, honestly. She makes it sound like Rauel made it really hard for her. She felt the first half of their breakup conversation was all about his ego.

I mean, I could not disagree more.

Andy Levine (3:27)

It was the opposite.

Sharleen Joynt (3:29)

He expressed how he was feeling. And then she took it personally and got defensive.

Andy Levine (3:34)

Right.

Sharleen Joynt (3:35)

Oh, my God.

Andy Levine (3:35)

That was so frustrating to me.

Sharleen Joynt (3:37)

She said he was really hard on her. And it's so hard when someone doesn't believe your intentions. I mean, give me a break.

Andy Levine (3:45)

Wow.

Sharleen Joynt (3:45)

Give me a break. You know what I find extra annoying about this whole Yasemin Rowell thing and Miguel is the fact that she clearly just wasn't attracted to Rowell.

Andy Levine (3:56)

Clearly.

Sharleen Joynt (3:56)

But she didn't like how that would sound coming out of her mouth.

Andy Levine (4:00)

So she wanted to make herself look good.

Sharleen Joynt (4:01)

Yes.

Andy Levine (4:02)

And not saying that.

Sharleen Joynt (4:04)

Yes. And so it was all like twisted. Oh, I'm still thinking of this other person. I wonder if I made the right choice. I wonder if I'd given you both the same chance. Like not thinking about how that might hurt his feelings. It kind of felt like she saw him and was like, oh, your feelings don't matter anymore. Now, how do I make myself look good?