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S7E1- You're Pregnant, Now What?
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Welcome to The Unexpected Hour — the podcast where two unapologetically opinionated women break down every moment from Unexpected. Each week, we dive into the drama, relationships, parenting chaos, and family feuds from TLC’s hit reality series, sharing our hot takes, heartfelt reactions, and plenty of laughs along the way. Whether it’s questionable decisions, cringey conversations, or surprisingly sweet moments, nothing is off-limits.
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Introduction to Unexpected Season 7
00:00:09
Speaker
Welcome to the Unexpected Hour, where we're going to be recapping TLC's hit reality show, Unexpected. We're going to start right off with Season 7, Episode 1.
Anticipating Chaos and Drama in Season 7
00:00:20
Speaker
New season. Yay! I'm so excited. i think just the first intro there's going to be some chaos like this season's boys have. But I think they started off with the couples we got introduced with.
00:00:37
Speaker
Pretty good ones. I don't know about what your thoughts are. Yeah, I have been waiting with bated be breath for the show to come back and I was not disappointed. I thought that the three couples we met this episode were right what we needed.
00:00:52
Speaker
And i think there's going to be even more drama in the upcoming episodes because there's going to be new characters introduced. Mm hmm. I think the parents are going to be interesting on this season too. Like a lot of other seasons, our main chaos comes from the kids having kids. But I think this season we're going to have a lot of unexpected interruptions because of parents, which I think is kind of a fun wrench in the plan.
00:01:24
Speaker
i agree. I think that the families all are very involved and are very talk very toxic in a lot of ways. And so it's going to be a lot of drama that's multi-generational.
Diverse Couples and Their Backgrounds
00:01:39
Speaker
And I think all the three couples that we've met so far are all very different, which I can appreciate. Because if you're watching a show like this, where the underlying theme is they're all kids having kids unexpected.
00:01:55
Speaker
Having the same kind of background on the kids makes it kind of boring. And I so far, all three come from very different histories. and backgrounds and like family dynamics. So I think that adds a good talking point as we go through the season on how each kid really is super different.
00:02:17
Speaker
Definitely. And I like that they're different ages. They're all very young, but they're all different ages, different grades, different levels of responsibility that we're that we expect them to have based on those ages.
Impact of Age Differences in Teenage Pregnancy
00:02:29
Speaker
um So it's it's a good mix, I think. Yeah, I mean, we do have some older ones than I was expecting too. i think whenever I think of this show, my brain automatically revert back to like 16 and pregnant and teen mom, which again, 16, 15, 17, like you get those teenagers, but we have some that are 18, like you're an adult at 18 in the grand scheme of things.
00:02:58
Speaker
But then we have like it is less interesting hes at 13, found out he was going to be a dad at 12. Like that's a baby.
00:03:09
Speaker
So i think yes having such a range too is kind of weird, but i don't know. i I'm going to warn you right now. have some strong opinions about some of these 18 year olds because you are 18. You are not, you have the ability to be an adult now.
00:03:25
Speaker
Yes. and and And there's plenty of 18 year olds that are very irresponsible and they're very immature. But we've we've run out of time for that because we're we're moving on to another phase of life where that's just really not going to fly. Right. But also at 18, like you, you have some sense of the world. I'm not saying, you know, anything you you know, very little. But at 18, you know,
00:03:51
Speaker
you are supposed to, if you're not going to college, you're getting a job. Like you're, it's time to get into the world. At 13 and 16, they're still thinking, okay, we got to get you to graduate. We got to get you to to school. Like you can work on the weekends kind of deal.
00:04:07
Speaker
So I know for me, i don't know about you, I have already been judging the different couples differently solely on their age and like graduation status.
00:04:21
Speaker
Absolutely. i think it would be kind of weird if we ignored the ages. it's It's a huge difference. Also, the younger you are, the more significant one or two years is in maturity and responsibility and just in general.
00:04:37
Speaker
her Like at this point, like the difference between 32 and 34 is the same. But 16 18 are very different. 13 and 15 are very different, which will we'll get into.
Isabella and Bryce's Dynamics
00:04:48
Speaker
um I did like the name of the episode.
00:04:52
Speaker
You're pregnant. Now what? i guess we're going to see. That's like the theme of the whole show. ah Again, at that age, that really is the question, right? Like you find out and then it's like, okay, now what do we do?
00:05:08
Speaker
But all right. What couple do you want to start with? So because, yeah, I did break it down by couple. I was hoping that you did as well. I should have said something, but I figured that's pretty much the only way to do it.
00:05:19
Speaker
So I started with Isabella. Who looks like she's 12 and is 18. She looks the youngest. Yeah. Out of all of the couples, I think she is the oldest, if not Bryce, her boyfriend. But like, yeah.
00:05:35
Speaker
absolutely looks the youngest which is weird to me she looks extremely young and I think like she's very thin and she doesn't wear makeup in a lot of these scenes so and her clothes are a little large for her but think all of that kind of makes her seem younger but yeah she really i was surprised when it said that she was 18.
00:05:57
Speaker
But I will say my first impression of her thus far is very age-a... knowing she's 18. Very age-appropriate. I think her kind of approach to it... She has a sister who's five, I think it was. Yeah, truly.
00:06:16
Speaker
having like multiple siblings and the youngest one being so little that your kid and your sister are basically going to grow up together. And...
00:06:27
Speaker
But I think her expectations, because she has such young children, she's not going to be unfamiliar with taking care of kids. who We did see in the episode, like her mom left and she was in charge of her younger sister.
00:06:42
Speaker
It would be like an assumption for me, but I feel like a fair assumption. She probably knows how to change a diaper. She probably knows how to kind of take care of a kid. So having a baby in the house is not going to be foreign to her.
00:06:56
Speaker
It's going to be fun for her baby, but it's not like some of these other couples who are 15, they might not have had that experience. And she at least has some kind of familiarity with what a baby is.
00:07:12
Speaker
Yeah, because, i mean, she would have been 13 when Trulie was born, which is old enough to be a dad, apparently, but also old enough, certainly, to help your mom with her baby, especially because, as we find out, her mom, Tasha, has had...
00:07:28
Speaker
five kids and no husbands. There's no there's no men in the picture. Yeah. So I think that probably Isabella was helping a lot with Truly and possibly other siblings who I don't know if they're older, younger, they're just not able to film. Maybe they do have semi-involved dads that, you know, didn't want them to film.
00:07:52
Speaker
That's possible. i mean, we might see them as the show goes on too, because we really only kind of saw them for what you could assume was maybe over like a week span.
00:08:04
Speaker
So I think that's the other option. Like the kids could come in later. Like you said, like if there's a dad involved, like they're going to be here here and there, but they're not going to be there consistently or like,
00:08:15
Speaker
Maybe they were at school, at a friend's house, whatever the case was. Sure. Definitely. Could be. But for a mom who has five kids, she basically admitted that she never had the sex talk with her kid.
00:08:29
Speaker
And I think that's wild. me And you are raising her with a religion aspect, but like nothing about and either of them in their conversations would have pegged me to say that's a religious household right there.
00:08:47
Speaker
So I have definitely noticed on 16 and Pregnant and Unexpected and all of these type of shows that there's often a conversation about, well, we didn't have the sex talk because we told them to wait until marriage because that's like the religious thing to do. Again, with no evidence that there's any kind of religion being taught. I mean, perhaps that's just not being shown on TV and they go to church and whatever. But it always seems very hypocritical and delusional to expect your teenager to wait until marriage when their model of a person that they grow up with, their mother that they live with, has five children from five different fathers.
00:09:32
Speaker
It just seems like more likely then not in general that someone's not going to wait until marriage. But especially if that's the model that you have, it seems even less likely.
00:09:45
Speaker
so right and i actually wrote down they did mention the sex talks with each of these couples and i wrote down both all of them were because i thought it was really interesting again we had three very different approaches to sex with parent to child so but yeah we started off with no history and now she's sitting there like well if i knew what i knew now i probably would have done that like no kidding babe no I mean, it seems like she was so naive that she didn't even realize that she had sex the first time.
Bryce's Job Refusal and Relationship Tensions
00:10:15
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She said his P bird was so little or his P word. I'm not actually sure. i guess his little his little member was so small that she didn't realize that it actually had gone in.
00:10:26
Speaker
i wonder at what point she realized that that counted. And I also wonder how true that is too, because yeah the more that we are seeing Bryce, who is also 18 and her boyfriend, the more I feel like he's probably a jealous type.
00:10:44
Speaker
He If him hearing like she had sex with another man beforehand and he was like well endowed and super good, like I feel like he wouldn't take that well. I guess that's true. I guess that's maybe she's just sparing his feelings. Yeah, that actually is.
00:11:01
Speaker
I mean, Bryce is fixing to have a baby, but it seems to me like Isabella hates him and I also hate him. He is my least favorite character so far on the show.
00:11:13
Speaker
And I can't imagine. Yeah, I don't know if agree that he hates she hates him, but I definitely think. she's like disappointed in how he's behaving because and kind of what I said is like I hold these 18 years to a little bit of a different standard i don't think anything Isabel is asking from him is unreasonable like of course not hey you need a job we're having a baby and he's like I don't understand why you're trying to control me. Like, sir. why
00:11:47
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And then it goes into like, I'm willing to take a $15 job, but $10 is beneath me with my zero work history and a mouth to feed soon.
00:11:59
Speaker
A job is a job. And at 18 in Texas, in texas You getting a $15 job straight out of high school with zero experience? I mean, maybe,
00:12:09
Speaker
but But you need to be applying and pursuing it, which it does not seem like he's even trying to get jobs. Like, what are these $15 an hour jobs that you're applying for? Like, let's put some examples.
00:12:23
Speaker
if yeah If it was me, if I was Bryce, I would be showing Isabella and showing her mom, I've been applying to these jobs. I applied to 10 jobs this week. I haven't heard back. I have an interview next week. I'm really trying. I'm so sorry, obviously.
00:12:39
Speaker
I should have been doing this before my girlfriend is 34 weeks pregnant. We've had 34 weeks. Yeah. And it sounds like he used to have a job because he made a reference to like how they didn't fight as much when he had a job, which again, we could put that together. Probably.
00:12:56
Speaker
i was out of my mind when he was saying that Isabella just needs to go get a job. ah my mouth. She is eight months pregnant. looks twelve she is eight months pregnant You can't get a job? You think she can get a job?
00:13:13
Speaker
what Who's hiring her? and also, like, she made a good point of, okay, like, our baby... You can kind of infer that, like, they're not going to have a ton of familial support where, like... and they're going to have to figure out where they're going to put this baby for eight hours a day. And her response was, like, where is the kid going to Like, if I'm working, are you going to take them?
00:13:39
Speaker
And he basically was like, no you need to get a job and you can take care of them. And i think eventually we know how the reality is of young people having kids. Like they're both going to have to work.
00:13:53
Speaker
But... Then it's okay, daycare, who's watching the kid? Like, there's more to it than just, okay, well, I'll go get a job. why Oh, God, he bothers me.
00:14:07
Speaker
He, I was so, i was so upset multiple times. I just thought he was being extremely unreasonable. He seems so immature.
00:14:18
Speaker
They bonded over not having dads in their lives and then he's going to be repeating that pattern because i i mean obviously it's early days and things can change and people can change. He is not setting himself up for success.
00:14:35
Speaker
He is not making everybody feel very confident about his like dedication to being a father. but then on even on top of it, they haven't been together all that long. They've only been together for year. so and Yeah, in eight months of that, she's been pregnant. Right. And that's a lot to process. And within a year, you really are trying to get to know that person. Plus, having a baby, it really makes it into like a different expectation. They're not just two teenagers hanging out.
00:15:07
Speaker
i I'm going to make an assumption here that if she wasn't pregnant, they probably wouldn't be fighting about him getting a job because it's not as impactful. It would probably be annoying because, and you hey, we don't have any money to do anything.
00:15:20
Speaker
But it's not like he has to support her. She could be doing whatever she wants to do. And it's a lot easier to leave and break up when there's not a baby involved, regardless of how old you are.
00:15:32
Speaker
Definitely. I mean, it doesn't seem like he really cares about that or taking anything that she is saying seriously. I think he, I think in his mind, we're having a baby together. She kind of can't break up with me.
00:15:45
Speaker
Yeah.
Bryce's Misunderstandings and Blame
00:15:46
Speaker
I don't know. I don't think it's hit him either. Like I think, and going to be a little gender judgy.
00:15:57
Speaker
Like once a woman is pregnant, it it becomes real to them. Like there are things happening in your body that you can feel and it immediately impacts you. Versus a man, it doesn't really impact them until the baby's sitting there.
00:16:13
Speaker
And I think it just hasn't really hit him the same way that it's hitting her where she's going to these doctor's appointments, she's getting bigger, she's having these feelings And he can just go about his day like he normally did.
00:16:31
Speaker
And I think that's part of why he pushes back so hard and feels like you're controlling me and like she's asking me all these crazy things of me, which are not crazy, they're completely acceptable. But I don't think he's realized or it's hit him that this baby is real and this baby is coming.
00:16:51
Speaker
I could agree with that to an extent because he seems like he isn't understanding that their relationship is changing a lot. And that it's not just like we're in high school and we're we're dating or we're going to hang out on the weekends or whatever. Like this is going to be like much more of a commitment and a responsibility than he seems to be understanding it. It's definitely it's definitely the difference between men and women for pregnancy. But it's also just extreme immaturity and lack of foresight.
00:17:24
Speaker
I think he's he thinks like oh she just wants me for my money or something like oh she just wants me to pay for things for her she wants me to subsidize her life when she's not working not really taking into consideration that she's growing his child which is going to impede her from being able to work right also I was mad that he said that he gave up going to college because of the baby why If you're not going to get a job, why not? yeah yeah Is there no college? Like drivable, has online classes, community college? like
00:18:00
Speaker
there' i feel like college seems like a good idea. Maybe trade school, maybe something to fill your- like That would mean you have to do something. It sounds like he just sits around and plays video games all day. College would interfere with that.
00:18:14
Speaker
Well, he wants to be able to go hunting and fishing and drive around his truck for what he wants to do. And definitely be on his computer playing video games all night or fighting with Isabella on FaceTime all night long, which also sounds exhausting.
00:18:29
Speaker
Yeah. And I don't know. I feel like they were not a e Out of the three couples that we saw, I feel like they were the second most shown.
00:18:41
Speaker
um And just from our conversation so far, but we have a lot of opinions about it. So I'll be very curious if that starts to shift a little bit as we learn more about them and the more screen time that they get.
00:18:56
Speaker
Because so far, I feel like Isabel hasn't really asked for anything outrageous. I don't think she has any out of the box expectations. I think she actually has a pretty level head so far.
00:19:11
Speaker
yeah So I'll be curious if my opinion changes as we see more of them. So obviously it's only been one episode, but my prediction is that Bryce won't be involved at the end of the season.
00:19:24
Speaker
That's my prediction. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he'll grow up. I would love to be surprised. But my last note about them is dump him. i'm our I'm done with him already. last note is he's the worst.
00:19:38
Speaker
He was so rude to her mother who was being, i can't even believe how reasonable he
Bryce's Upbringing and Family Influence
00:19:44
Speaker
was. Yeah, but again... think that Tasha should be supporting your baby?
00:19:49
Speaker
But then you got to think... that What we do know about his family is they really don't give a shit. Like, they kind of said that the reason they even got pregnant is because they spent all their time at his grandparents' house because they could do whatever they wanted.
00:20:05
Speaker
Tasha had rules. She was yeah at least around. She was a little bit aware. So I'm wondering... You only know at that age what you're taught a lot of the time. Yeah. So it'll be curious how his family looks at the situation. Because we haven't met his family.
00:20:23
Speaker
We only have seen hers. Yeah. They only really showed them in the coming up next week. I don't know if you watched that, but they were showing his grandparents and his mom being upset with Tasha. Like, how dare she tell our boy what to do?
00:20:39
Speaker
And yeah how to how dare she tell him to get a job? Like, how is that her business? Which... ah Tells me everything I need to know that you guys are the problem and your permissive nonsense has made.
00:20:52
Speaker
so he lives with his grandparents and the mom is shown my assumption, which I'm making off very little evidence, is that mom is a loser. And so he lives with his grandparents who created a loser.
00:21:06
Speaker
And now we're going to have a third generation. We have a third generation loser who is not going to take any accountability, no responsibility, just being completely enabled by these grandparents and told that he doesn't have to do anything and he doesn't need to have care in the world.
00:21:22
Speaker
Yeah. I'm very curious to see the reason why we're with grandparents, even though mom is shown for a minute. So that's why I'm like, He is the worst, but I have a little asterisk here of like, what's his family life?
00:21:38
Speaker
Because you this is learned behavior. So we will see. Yeah.
Bella and Hunter: Challenges of Young Parenthood
00:21:45
Speaker
I guess we could go to Bella next. Or do you want to do Amaya?
00:21:50
Speaker
We can do Bella. Okay. it's ah It's like a rough time to be named Bella or Isabella. I will say I think Bella and her boyfriend Hunter, I think they got the most screen time this episode.
00:22:03
Speaker
Well, they're the most interesting. Yeah, for sure. um and her boyfriend is hunter who was 13 found out he was going to be a dad at 12 which i my first thought is what was i doing at 12 like i cannot not much imagine imagine having that kind of pressure put on to me at 12. But that's again, where I come into like the reality is at 12, your family help meet needs to do that. Like your family's helping you.
00:22:46
Speaker
There's no question of if. At 18, you could do it. You can do it by yourself. Not great. but you sure You can't do that by yourself at 13. So even can you work?
00:23:01
Speaker
been on I guess you get permits or something. I feel like there was something or you could like fill out or your parents could like sign permission or something. um Definitely 16 you can get a job, but 13, you're going to be able to get a lemonade stand. You could sell some Blue Scouts popcorn or something.
00:23:21
Speaker
sure you could be shoveling snow mowing grass you know cleaning people's pools off like you know under the table kind of thing but i agree i think that if you're 12 year old get somebody pregnant that is now um your responsibility because he's 12 so he really yeah can't even consent to any like i don't know 15 13 is kind of gross it's Well, I'm also wondering. think if it was reversed, we would also have a big problem with it.
00:23:54
Speaker
I doubt. But I'm also wondering if it's just like the birthday thing. Because they talk about only being one year apart in school. Yeah. so So maybe he's summer and she's fall. I think it's a birthday thing. Because I did the same thing. yeah But then when they started talking, I'm going jump. But like Hunter is an amazing athlete. Shows a lot of natural talent, but like not a huge school kid.
00:24:19
Speaker
And pretty much was failing everything. And then when they're talking about it, she basically expressed like, it's one thing to be one year apart, but being two with a toddler in height, fi that's crazy. She's like, don't want that.
00:24:33
Speaker
I mean, look at her having foresight, but oh yeah. I think it's more of a birthday thing. They probably like one's a little young for their grade and one's at the average age. And they're just the way they timed the show. she probably just turned 15 would be my guess.
00:24:52
Speaker
Oh, yeah. It's I mean, they're both extremely young. He is crazy young. Like the youngest person I've seen on one of these shows, I think. Yeah. And together on and off for three years. How are you on and off dating at 10 or nine? like Well, they started dating at 12 and 10 they live across the street from each other.
00:25:16
Speaker
so that like it seems they're a little bit more rural too. So like that doesn't totally shock me. Like it's the next door neighbor thing. Like that actually tracked for me with their ages being next door neighbors.
00:25:31
Speaker
I don't know. Well, it gives a lot of access. Well, yeah, you spend more time with them. Like, and they kind of talked about how the families are close. And like, again, it seems like these parents on both sides are more involved with their kids, let alone the future grandchildren. um But once they said that they live across the street from each other, I'm like, oh this makes so much more sense. Yeah.
00:25:54
Speaker
Well, I can tell you we would have been moving if that was my case. Like, oh, we can't live here anymore. Because there's no way to keep them apart. I mean, it actually might be kind of helpful with the baby. um Just because they have obviously very easy... It's almost like they live together. Because they can just walk across the street to each other. Right.
00:26:11
Speaker
um But if I... Like, if at 12 and 10 they were dating and I was concerned about them having sex, we'd be moving. But I don't think any...
00:26:22
Speaker
one's parents are like oh yeah my 10 year old's having sex like I don't think that's normal thought process to have well I think they were also very on and off it sounds like and they were back on for a couple of days and then she's pregnant so I could see how maybe you wouldn't think that's something you needed to worry about think about like elementary school kid be like I have a boyfriend we held hands like you're like great do it out why
00:26:53
Speaker
But at the same time, her mom and like her mom and dad were together since they were 14. And your daughter's 15. So maybe we could also put some things together. Yeah. and we could then Her first kid at 19. They were high school sweethearts. And like, again, so we look at family history. Like, you know what you see.
00:27:12
Speaker
I didn't like when her dad was joking about her failing sex ed. I thought that was all weird. I think it's a cope. um and yeah So yeah, kind of like, again, we have, what was your sex ed history? So she got through sex ed in school and then birthing and mothering or something or whatever. have Child development.
00:27:32
Speaker
um But she passed that one. So i think it was reality shit TV being like, hey, talk about like what your sex ed was like. And clearly that was their, her main education was through the school system.
00:27:47
Speaker
which she failed, which is not great. um I didn't even know you could fail that class. I mean, if you don't go, you don't pass in any work.
00:27:58
Speaker
It seems like they both are kind of not showing up to school. Yeah. But I look at too, like that just reiterates the failures of the United States sex ed classes and like our public education, which I will go on a rant on on a different and day. We should do a whole episode just on that. Yeah, because it doesn't exist. yeah And a lot of it, what they're teaching isn't accurate information. It's not helpful information. It's either the mean girls have sex and die plan or the abstinence plan. And it's not a lot of reality. um
00:28:37
Speaker
So having that be your only form of sex ed is a disadvantage.
Different Approaches to Sex Education
00:28:44
Speaker
But also with having such young parents, you would think that they would be more open to talking to their kids because it is not as big of a gap. I mean, I guess it's still your kid and it's still weird, but like my mom was a little bit younger than a lot of my peers' moms and it wasn't as weird for me and a lot of my friends would ask her questions because again she was younger versus asking your 55 year old mom at 15 what sex is like I think I don't know I just think it's such a cop-out to say that it's awkward so you can't talk about it like I think you kind of get to decide what's awkward with your own kid like if you make it awkward guess it's awkward in general
00:29:29
Speaker
Like, they're not going to want to talk to you about it no matter what you do nobody Nobody has ever had a sex talk with me. That um did not happen in my household either. And I did have sex ed in high school and I guess, you know, watched a lot of 16 and Pregnant. But i no one ever sat me down and had that conversation. And I think that probably would have been like a good thing to do. But I think it's also it's something that having sex at at school, it almost gives like the parents an out, you know, where it's like, oh, well, I don't really have to like talk to them about that. and it would be kind of weird for me. So I'll just like have the school handle it, which this is the result of that, I guess.
00:30:08
Speaker
Yeah. this But no, and I think they're going to be an interesting couple because i of the involvement of both the parents and the fact that the parents like the kids, like both of them.
00:30:23
Speaker
So I think like separate from Isabel and Bryce, like, They don't, Isabel's mom doesn't like Bryce, no question. But like Bella and Hunter, they're both the parents like both the kids. So I think that helps when you're talking about, hey, our baby is having a baby.
00:30:43
Speaker
Let's do this together. I'm hoping that that that positive kind of relationship that they have will stay consistent in supporting babies having babies. Yeah.
Hunter's Academic Struggles vs. Sports Focus
00:30:58
Speaker
Yeah, I just I'm worried about Hunter getting left behind, like getting held back a grade because he's failing all of his classes. He's skipping school and he's only in eighth grade. He has so many years left to graduate and he's just going to be setting that clock back further. And I feel like everybody's just obsessed with him playing sports. And to me, that is the least of our priorities right now. And a 12 year old being good at sports doesn't mean anything because there's a ton of time before you could even go pro and you may be hurt by then because you're playing a ton of sports and that's your primary focus.
00:31:39
Speaker
So I would not be betting the farm on that and I would not be saying, I don't know, encouraging that at this point. I think we have other priorities. We need to be really working on the grades, working on supporting Bella. We're going to,
00:31:57
Speaker
realign our priorities a little bit. Yeah, I see where you're coming from, for sure. But it my other part of me is like, the only thing this kid cares about right now is sports.
00:32:08
Speaker
And I think, again, baby isn't reality to him right now. It is just this thing in my girlfriend's stomach. um He really only cares. So if you had the option of doing this, but like, or sports, he's going to pick sports.
00:32:27
Speaker
And if you're not going to school, and they you did see them kind of do this. So like, listen, if you fail, you can't play sports, like using what his passion is to get him to focus on the school part.
00:32:40
Speaker
Because when you have that natural gift, Colleges will start looking at you early. Not saying yeah at 12. But they're going to start looking at you earlier in high school than they would a lot of other kids when they're looking at you at junior, senior year.
00:32:59
Speaker
But to their point, they're not going to look at you if you can't pass a class. i Unless you were like the Michael Phelps of whatever you're doing. But... You can't even be eligible to play.
00:33:14
Speaker
but he's failing all of his classes. In high school, anyway. You couldn't play games if you were failing a class. I mean, maybe in middle school. school though So if he's doing like club, doesn't matter.
00:33:26
Speaker
Oh, I guess that's true. And... I think that's what they're trying to do is being like, listen, if you want to do sports and that's your passion, you got to get your grades in or you can't do it. And I think they're trying to get him to to motivate. And like the only reason I think that's where my brain went is growing up, like when I would get in trouble, my mom would be like, I'm going take your cell phone. And I'd be like, okay. And I'd just hand it to her. But then if she was like, you're not going to practice, my body would be like, all right, I'll do whatever you want me to do. Like...
00:33:58
Speaker
So I'm wondering if that's what they're trying. Like maybe they tried already prior to filming. Hey, you got to go class. It's important. School is important. Education, get a job growing up one day. And none of that's worked.
00:34:12
Speaker
You now have a baby and that's not working because it's not real yet. Maybe, okay, let's try if you aren't going to be able to play sports anymore. Maybe that will get you to do it.
00:34:22
Speaker
Because at the end of the day, if a college, a high school dropout is not a lucrative future. a middle school dropout. A middle school dropout. um So I think they're just trying any possible way to get him to go to school.
00:34:42
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I mean, school is just a waste of his time. It's like being in jail eight hours a day. So I don't know. He did say that he would turn it around and then he would get his grades back up.
00:34:53
Speaker
So hopefully that he hopefully you will. But I feel like they were giving him a lot of excuses and they were trying to have him agree that he needed some of these excuses. Like, are you just really stressed about the baby? Are people saying things to you about it at school? Are you upset about your father? Because apparently his dad is done with him now that he's having a baby, even though he wasn't really involved in the first place, it doesn't seem like.
00:35:22
Speaker
Yeah, we don't know too too much about his family. We know that, like, the parents get along and the moms talk, but we haven't really met them. um We really kind of always Noah's side. Well, don't think...
00:35:35
Speaker
I don't think the dad's going to be in it. We saw Stacy Hunter's mom, who's only 34 and she looks very young. um But I don't think his dad's going to be on the show. but I think he's going to show about later. Ooh, I hope so.
00:35:48
Speaker
I think, I think he's having the shock right now. And now, cause they're in a ah small town, middle of nowhere. Like you're out of the small town in sports, which is again, I think it's the reason why they're zoning in so much.
00:36:05
Speaker
but I could see dad, my 12 year old, knock someone up. This is horrifying, small town. Now everybody's talking about it. Everybody knows about it.
00:36:19
Speaker
I'm upset. I'm embarrassed. I did all this work and this is what you chose to do. And now you're going on national television about it. like I also would be bad if I was dad, but I'm wondering if like when baby comes,
00:36:33
Speaker
that's when he's going to show up in the show i hope so maybe he just needs to process maybe i mean it doesn't sound like he was overly involved to begin with but it definitely it would i would have some complex feelings about my 13 year old having a pregnant girlfriend yeah complex is a very polite way of saying it yeah Well, I mean, the main thing, obviously, is that he can't get left back a grade because then he wouldn't be able to go to junior prom with Bella because junior prom you can't be a freshman. You have to be at least a sophomore.
00:37:11
Speaker
um So and that is the priority. her But if that's age age appropriate. well Yeah. She also, the baby isn't here yet. She's still thinking like a 15 year old where prom is...
00:37:24
Speaker
so important prom is so exciting like it's not like they can't go also of course they could still go so prom as long as he doesn't get back i guess right and so like you got to try to think back when we were in our freshman and you're in high school like One small thing was catastrophic to your life.
00:37:48
Speaker
And the potential of not going to a dance, devastating. So I do see where she's coming from. 100%. But again, episode one. All right, what's one prediction you have by the end of the season about this couple?
00:38:07
Speaker
We did the other one. What about this one? Okay, so my prediction is that...
00:38:16
Speaker
prediction is that
00:38:20
Speaker
hunter's unfortunately probably not going to turn around his grades and that's going to continue to be a problem and that they'll probably stay together because they live across the street from each other you have a prediction uh mine is the opposite think they're not going to stay together and i think he's going to have a new little girlfriend and i don't think he's gonna tell them about the new girlfriend oh my gosh because maybe we'll see her or something yeah like he's not a bad looking kid he's good at sport you could definitely kind of see like when he talks about he kind of feels himself like and on again off again over multiple times i think he's gonna get a new girl and he's gonna leave isabelle
00:39:08
Speaker
That's my prediction. i hope I'm wrong. I hope he's a little boy and does his school. but But that's going to be so awkward because they live across the street from each other. It's so tough.
00:39:21
Speaker
Yep. That's my guess. Oh, man. All right. Well, we'll see. i guess we just need to talk about Amaya.
Introducing Amaya and Jose: Early Parenthood
00:39:28
Speaker
And last but not least. A true 16-year-old, which I do appreciate. 16-year-old couple also, which is nice. would say.
00:39:37
Speaker
amaya and jose jose is into big chicks he likes big girls and they said that a million times which i thought was pretty funny um and she's already 37 weeks when this first episode starts the other girls were 34 weeks but yeah we show her going into the hospital and like starting giving birth like episode one hit the ground running She had a trinkle of fluid coming out and her mom was like, and I don't know if your water really broke. It sounds like it didn't break because or it only partially broke because she went to the hospital and they ended up breaking it for her.
00:40:11
Speaker
um She was really scurred. ah kind of got a kick out of them. Yeah, i I think they're going to be an interesting family dynamic.
00:40:22
Speaker
um But, ah and I will say, she's the least amount shown for the first episode. And I think that's mostly because we really did have her go straight into giving birth.
00:40:33
Speaker
um Immediately. But the sex ed talk, ah which, again, I started cracking up. Mom basically was like, I didn't really give her one because she was a lesbian at the time and told me she wasn't interested in boys.
00:40:51
Speaker
Which... I... Mama D got played. she got completely played. like, in mom's defense, I see where she's coming from. I'm like, listen, my daughter has zero interest in dick, why am I going to go through this whole process now?
00:41:07
Speaker
at the same time well we don't need to talk about you still need to know about like how your body works right like you would still talk about sex and like i would have had more of conversation about like respecting people in relationships and like right you know like something Yeah, like don't be, you know, don't be controlling. Like always respect yourself, or respect others, like whatever. Like general advice for dating. No still means no, it's okay. For sure. and like, oh, if you're dating someone, like bring them around so I can meet them. and But I wouldn't be worried about birth control if my daughter was dating girls.
00:41:45
Speaker
Yeah, so like I get where she's coming from. And like you can tell when she's talking about it, she's just like, oh, God. This one is not on Mama D. i i don't think this is her fault at all. I really don't. The other ones, i kind of do blame their parents. I feel like she's going to be my favorite mom.
00:42:02
Speaker
yeah I feel like she's realistic. And she seems like she's embracing Jose and she's embracing Amaya and her baby and like yeah being extremely supportive, very hands-on. I think she's doing the best she can with the circumstance because we did see her take a minute. She's like, I stepped out of the delivery room. I know she wants me to be there. She's like, but I need a minute.
00:42:24
Speaker
Again, making sure she's taking care of herself so she can take care of her baby and her grandbaby. And i think that's a very like... the best response you could have, right? Like, I don't agree with what happened, but I'm going to support you and it's going to be okay. So, yeah um but again, her other version, Anaya's version of like, didn't think she could get pregnant because big girls have a harder time to get pregnant due to her weight.
00:42:55
Speaker
again, not a form of earth control, baby girl. I think she was just kind of, you know, hoping for the best. It's just not not what happened.
00:43:06
Speaker
I also feel like it's kind of like, I don't know, it it's almost unfair to compare this story against the other ones just because of where we're starting, because we're just fully in labor.
00:43:18
Speaker
And even if there was drama, if there was problems in the family or with the mom and Jose, like I would hope they would kind of. but you know Put it aside for today. ah And they were both there the whole time. you know, we're getting checkups at 11 hours in 23 hours in and you can tell they're exhausted. It's been full on. Maya does not have a high pain tolerance and she's dealing with a extremely painful situation. she's terrified of the epidural.
00:43:48
Speaker
I do think it was a good call to get it. yeah i don't know how people do it. You know, all different kinds of opinions. But I think that if you're not going to get the epidural, you have to probably do a lot of... You don't have to, but i would expect you to do a lot of preparation for that.
00:44:07
Speaker
Maybe take classes, like Lamaze, have a doula, have some sort of alternative pain management plan. um Didn't seem... Like that was the case though.
00:44:19
Speaker
Again, I think she was just hoping for the best. Yeah. And she was like, I didn't really think about the birth part. She's like, I realized I got pregnant. i realized this is real. But I didn't think about the fact that I i have to birth it, which again, relatively age appropriate. You're not thinking about long-term behavior. What comes next? um But no, we don't really know much about them.
00:44:43
Speaker
Other than that. So with our very little information, what is your prediction for this couple? Again, we know very little about them though. So we'll re predict later.
00:44:55
Speaker
So my prediction is that Jose is not going to be that helpful. And that it's going to be mostly just Mama D and Amaya taking care of the baby. Maybe a lot of Mama D doing it. Hmm.
00:45:12
Speaker
I agree with Mama D. I am unsure about either of them as parents. It does sound like they're going to be, i do think they might stay together, but I could see, and the reason I'm going to say this is because like going into the hospital, Jose was like way ahead of everybody over.
00:45:36
Speaker
She was kind of thinking of the, Made comments of like, I didn't really think about what next. Like it was just kind of that immediate. Someone likes me.
00:45:46
Speaker
Now I'm straight and I had sex. I'm having a baby. Didn't think about, oh, the baby's going
Parental Involvement in Teen Parenting
00:45:52
Speaker
to come one day. Like, I think it it's all going to fall down on Mama D.
00:45:58
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. I think this is going to be, I think this season we're going to see a lot of grandmothers parenting um and just cycles continuing. That's what it seems like to me. I think maybe the exception is really Isabella will be doing a lot of the parenting and her mother will be supportive and be helpful and financially helpful. But I don't think that she's going to have to do as much hands-on stuff because I do kind of think Isabella is going to stack, like stand up. I think the other ones,
00:46:28
Speaker
We obviously don't really know Amaya. We've really just seen her at her absolute worst so far. Right. And that's why I'm like, we'll make another prediction for them. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And we do have a fourth couple that eventually will show up.
00:46:42
Speaker
Yeah. and I did see the preview and it looks like insane. So yeah that will be an interesting when they get eventually introduced. ah I kind of wish they gave us like a little snippet of at least who they were.
00:46:56
Speaker
ah That would be my only complaint because we got a lot of Bella and
Preview of Mia and Jesse's Potential Drama
00:47:00
Speaker
Hunter. Then we got a good amount Isabella and Bryce. A snippet of Anaya and Jose. I would have loved a snippet of Mia and Jesse.
00:47:09
Speaker
Just to introduce them, tell them, hey, you were our last couple and then then let it kind of ride. But that's okay. Episode two. Yeah, I'm looking forward to episode two and we'll pick right back up here next week.
00:47:22
Speaker
Till next time.