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Started out on her TikTok. And it got taken down by TikTok for violation, even though she didn’t really do anything wrong. So she put it on an Instagram story. It was about Alex from this season of Love is Blind. And we talk about that very disturbing stuff that she was able to find. And we will get to all that momentarily.
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The third the. Episode number 13 next Friday, which would be what March 7th and then the reunion show is going to air. I believe two days later on the 9th, they taped the reunion show this past weekend, last weekend, last Saturday. So interesting to see. What happens today, Ricky and I, we don’t go over spoilers.
We don’t mention any couples that may have gotten married this season, but we don’t even really go over all the couples. We just talk about basically Ben and Sarah who ended episode nine with their issue and asking Ricky what she heard and when. And then all the allegations, and I wouldn’t even call them allegations.
Rikki has the receipts. You’re gonna really have to go and check out her Instagram story on Storytime with Rikki. It is some very disturbing stuff. I am gonna give you a warning of the stuff that Alex has been accused of by women in his past that Rikki has receipts of, that you will see. Not just, oh, this woman told me.
Or, Oh, I read a text message. She physically shows you the text messages. She physically shows you pictures and it’s disturbing stuff. And it is problem. And one of the problems is, you know, unfortunately Ricky was doing the best she could to get this all together so she could have all of her ducks in a row and present a very clear and concise timeline and receipts.
On Instagram story to show this. Well, she did it earlier this week. The problem was they’d already taped the reunion show last Saturday. So the show couldn’t address it. You’re not going to see it when the reunion show airs of, Hey, Alex, some very, very problematic behavior in your past. What do you have to say for yourself?
No, it’s not going to be addressed on the show. And Ricky and I talk about the fact that, Hey. What do you think this guy does now because this is some serious serious shit that’s going on and that’s being brought to the forefront right now. But the show’s over. Obviously Alex isn’t with anybody from the show.
He didn’t even make it out of the pods. But, does this guy do a podcast? Does he do any sort of written interview with somebody? Does he take to his Instagram story and do a live video? Does he do just something written on his Instagram story or written on his Instagram feed? I don’t know, my guess though, if I’m Alex and I’m giving this guy any advice, dude, disappear, just disappear, because it’s not like somebody just decided to come out and say something and it’s a, he said, she said, there are major receipts.
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All right. Let’s bring her in. You, she covers, she covers love is blind on her Instagram story time with Ricky and has recently started a podcast with reality. Ashley called the reality receipts podcast, which wow. Kind of took off this week. Let’s welcome her back. Second time. It’s Ricky wise. Ricky, thanks for coming on.
Thank you for having me again.
You had yourself quite a week this week,
no
doubt. So I want to go back to when this all started. We know this season of Love is Blind that we’re watching right now filmed last February and March. So I want you to fill everybody in on when you got your first message or when you were tipped off.
To any tea regarding Alex this season, which is what the major story and the major tea that you broke this week.
Yeah. So I started hearing rumblings about some of the male cast had been, you know, circling around in some of the Facebook. Dating groups. Primarily it was actually Ben first that I heard about and once Alex was on, they showed him at the end of the season seven reunion.
Like, you know, they never show the season eight cast. So this was kind of the first time they did that. So. I, that’s when I started hearing this guy has been posted in the groups. Like he’s all over the groups, you know? And I tried to get
around October when season seven aired.
Yeah. Like, and there’s like, there’s some, you should check the groups.
There’s some posts about him. So I tried to get in the groups. They didn’t let me in, but I did get in anyway. And they were gone. Like they were scrubbed. There was nothing. I couldn’t find anything on any, any of the guys like Ben. Alex, Dave, like, apparently all of them had previously been posted in there.
I couldn’t find a single thing. And then I think when the season started airing some of those, you know, some of some people had some screenshots that started circulating on Reddit and they were dated. In June. So, you know, this guy had been posted in, in the groups back in June, which would be before any, before the cast list was announced before he was on the season seven reunion before anything.
So before anyone knew who this guy was, yeah.
So you started hearing it then the Ben stuff was, we can briefly go over that. What I’ve seen is when he’d have sex with a woman and leave his YouTube card.
Yes, yes,
quite a weird flex, but whatever.
Yeah, there’s that. And then, I mean, Another thing with Ben that actually made its way onto the show was around last year a woman on TikTok like made a video crying saying, Oh, my God, why does Netflix keep casting these, you know, creepy men or these shitty men?
And it actually. She posted it while they were still filming. So that’s why we seen in these past couple of episodes that, you know, they actually picked that they actually saw the tick tock, got wind of it and, and addressed it on the show. And it was coming from a past, a girl who had dated Ben.
Yeah. And this, our, our talk is airing on Friday.
So people we know, I’m assuming to episode 10 today is going to start with. Pick up where it left off, which has been in Sarah’s conversation of Sarah confronting him and saying, look, you got to tell me everything because even at the end of episode nine, his story literally started changing in the moment because at first it was just like, no idea who that is.
Yeah. And
she’s like, but what about this? And he’s like, oh yeah, one time, four years ago, went out with her, but we never hooked up. And then it was just like, but she’s saying all this stuff. Well,
actually the girl, the girl who posted the tech talk actually did post a follow up video episodes aired. And she actually kind of admitted that she overexaggerated in her first couple of videos because her, her videos, I don’t know if you’ve seen them.
They were very, she posted like two or three. They’re very dramatic, leaving people. To think what happened, what had been due to this girl. I know I thought the same thing myself because I recapped one of her videos and she got really upset with me. So I’m like, Oh my God, I was thinking something happened.
And she actually made a followup video saying that she did end up only going on a date and a half with him. She said the second date was so horrible that like her friend had to come. Rescue her from the bar and then he hit on her friend and that he ghosted her. So she did, you know, admit in her video that she kind of maximized it.
She was like, I was, you know, I was dramatic, not because of my experience with him per se, but because other women had shared their experiences with him and I was, my tears were for them. So she kind of admits that. I think this is the one time that Ben maybe was telling the truth that. You know, it’s four years ago.
I ghosted her. I only went out, went out with her for a few times. We didn’t hook up. Like, I don’t really know why she’s crying. Cause she kind of, in so many words, had the same story as what he said on screen. So,
and that’s what makes it so. I guess tricky because we’ve seen it. I mean, I deal with it in bachelor world.
When cast is announced, you just get this information like, Oh my God. So, and so, especially when it comes to the men of the the bachelor franchise, Oh, so, and so such a player, he’s only out for clout. It was just like, okay, but at this point, that’s not even worth reporting anymore. It has to be some serious, like almost criminal behavior because somebody, somebody, an ex coming out saying.
This guy ghosted me and he’s a jerk or he sucks in bed or whatever. It’s just like, okay, you’re just seemingly jealous that this guy that you used to date, whether you like him now or not, when you probably don’t, he’s now going to be getting attention from a bunch of women and you basically just want to rain on his parade.
There’s really It’s okay that you had a guy that you once went out with that is, that maybe was a jerk to you, but if he was just a jerk and he was a player,
it’s a lot of
people that are jerks and players that are going on
reality TV.
Yeah,
and I think it’s always like, I hate to like minimize someone’s experience, but that’s kind of like what she was alluding to in her videos, but she was being so vague about it that And her reaction, I thought like, Oh, maybe something more serious happened.
And like, I’m sorry. Like I didn’t, I didn’t know, but then it’s like for it to actually be exactly that, like you actually only went out on two dates with him. You said you didn’t even finish the second date and you know, it was all like, yeah, he, he treats women like objects and he’s, you know, wants to be, he’s on the show for the wrong reasons.
And he doesn’t want to get married. I think a lot of, I think a lot of people. Are on the show for the wrong reasons and don’t want to get married. And like you said, like, okay, more than he was a douche bag to you. Like what else? But it seems like in this specific situation, he, she definitely Max, she admits that she overreacted and like, it was like, she wasn’t crying because of something Ben did to her per se.
It was because of what she heard Ben did to other people. So
now was that behavior bad?
I’m sorry,
criminal act to other women,
you know, a few women have come forward that I spoke with and all of them were very they made it very clear that there was no physical abuse. They just, it was like that he is, I mean, emotional or psychological, maybe, but that he was a douche that he was a cheater, liar, manipulator, gaslighter, all those things.
So more along that, that’s what I’ve heard. I haven’t heard any, like, formal claims of abuse.
And I guess that’s what makes it tough. And like, I’m not going to sit here and say the love is blind casting team does such a great job every year. But when you’re casting the people for this show, something like that, it’s not going to come up in a police report.
It’s not going to come up in a background check. So these women coming forward saying, Oh, another cast of guys that are just, you know, horrible men or whatever. But it’s like, what is the casting team in this particular situation? Just, just speaking about Ben here and we’ll get to Alex in a second. What are they supposed to do on something like that?
Call every single ex he’s ever been with and say, Is he a nice guy? Is he a good guy? Did he ghost you? Was he a gaslighter? Was he emotionally manipulative? I don’t know. What do you do at that point? It’s almost like all they can do is background checks and if this guy had any sort of restraining order out against him or any sort of criminal activity with a woman, boom, you should not be cast.
But that’s not what we’re getting. We’re just getting guys that are players. And when you’re casting a show that has 25 to 33 year old good looking people. I’m guessing they are going to have one or two X’s and maybe more. That maybe they weren’t the nicest to and they ghosted and they’re just a player and it’s just like, okay, well, that’s dating in 2025, you know,
yeah, no, yeah, I agree.
I mean, I think I don’t think it would be too much for casting to infiltrate these groups and see what’s being said about their cast. And again, if something. You know, as far as them hooking up with lots of girls and lying, like, I don’t think that that’s something that should necessarily keep you from being cast because, you know, people change not saying that been changed.
I think he’s still a douche, but you know, but then again, then you would also find out about some of the more serious accusations and allegations that are what people are saying, like, what’s going around about Alex. So,
yeah, and that is, it’s an interesting point because. When you look at it overall, and the one thing that this show does that, or doesn’t do that the bachelor does do, and the bachelor started this, I can’t remember what year it started.
But they basically say, and they release it on their Facebook page. If it’s a bachelor season or bachelorette season, they say, here are the potential, let’s say for a bachelor season, here are the potential women for the next season of the bachelor. And it’s just. First name, last initial age and city.
And that’s usually released about three days before filming started. And they implemented this because they wanted to see. If anybody came forward in those two to three days, because these women at this point have already been flown to LA and they’re sequestered before they do the first night. And this has only been going for about maybe five years, maybe last 10 seasons, they’ve done this.
They never did this before. It was just, we didn’t know who the cast was until. Filming had started, pictures started getting out, and then it was just, Oh, Hey, I know this person. So something you can do at that point. So then they just started saying, Hey, let’s, let’s do it early. Love is blind. Doesn’t do that.
This filmed last February and March and. You know, the only reason that girl released a tick tock last February was because I guess she heard through the grapevine that
yeah, really, really small town, I think. And I think people had seen him filming around and with love is blind. It’s very, it’s very obvious because they have the golden goblets.
So you kind of, I guess it got back to her that, you know, they were filming around town and it was obvious what show he was going to be on because of the golden cup. So that’s how she knew.
And they just, but the public, I mean, unless you’re living in that city or whatever you see filming or you hear about filming, we, the public, I didn’t know who the cast was until what, two weeks before the first episodes drop when love is blind comes out.
And that’s when us 99 percent of the public that follows the show is, is hearing it for the first time. Obviously you had known some names and stuff, but yeah, it’s just, it’s, it’s, it’s different because they’re not letting you know, Hey, we’re about to start, you know, for Minnesota last February. We didn’t hear last January.
These are the people that we are casting that are going into the pods.
Let
us know anything that you know, so we don’t let them into the pods, you know, so we can cast somebody else. We have alternates standing by but they don’t do that. So it’s just, this is what they’re going to come up with every season.
And I’m sure something is going to happen next season with Boston. I’m sure already people are talking about Boston’s cast.
Right. For sure.
When, oh, by the way, real quick, when did Boston film? October of 2024.
My dates are all messed up. I think sometimes they film, so there’s no telling when they’re filming, because sometimes they do two seasons at a time.
So they do do that. I heard that Boston is filming currently, right? Like right now.
Oh, they’re filming now?
Yeah. Okay. So they’re This is around the time they film. February is when they’ll film.
Okay. So the Minnesota cast had to wait a year for their season to come out. Boston’s probably going to have to wait six months, probably coming out in October.
Yeah. Or it’s probably coming out next February, to be honest. Yeah.
Oh.
Yeah. Cause we have Denver coming. Yeah. I think Denver is what is going to premiere in October.
That’s what I meant to ask you. When did Denver film? I’m assuming last October.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I would assume. And
then they have a, they have a year to.
Before their season airs, just like Minnesota. Okay. So yeah, we got Minnesota now. Denver is going to be the second season that airs in the calendar year of 2025. And then we’ll get Boston in 2026. Got it. Okay. So now let’s move on to the Alex stuff. Again, so much stuff here and I want to commend you because the vetting you did on this was so top notch and so precise to where you didn’t just get a few emails and a couple.
Hey, I know this guy. He’s a jerk. It’s got some problematic behavior. And you’re just like, okay, cool. Send me some text messages. Like you really, really dug deep and on your two Instagram stories that you released this week on Storytime with Ricky. I mean, it was just constant showing and we’re seeing and reading text messages and all this stuff.
The amount of times I had to Hold my finger to my phone so I can read everything. That was great. But I mean, that’s what we want to see. And so because it’s very easy to just take what an ex says and run with it. I used to do it all the time and it got me in trouble sometimes, you know, believe it or not, people are just jealous that someone they used to date is now.
Like I said, getting attention. So they just want to bring them down and they’ll just trash them just to trash them. But this was a little different with Alex’s exes. How many women that Alex used to date have contacted you in total?
I’ve spoken to many different women in different lanes of his life. So I’ve spoken to two exes. I’ve spoken to a few friends that he confided certain things in that he met in like a dating aspect, but maybe it didn’t transpire that way. And they ended up being friends. I talked to women who allegedly attended these parties, so it was, it was a.
It was like almost every avenue of his of his life because there were so many anonymous users that came forward in these forums and on Reddit and like, they’re trying to get their story out. And people are just discrediting them and saying, oh, oh, you just want attention. And I always stop and think, no, no, no, no, no.
Like, there’s no way that 7 women. I’m talking roommates, exes, you know, people who are at the parties or people who have had a bizarre experience with him are saying these things and there’s no truth to it. And I, I didn’t understand why no one was just talking to them. Like, okay, why doesn’t instead of just saying, Oh, it’s just a Reddit thread or, Oh, it’s just a Facebook post.
Like, why does it, why is nobody talking to them? So originally it was six. 6 different women, and since I posted the video on Instagram, 3 more have come forward. My video actually got taken down off of TikTok for a guidelines violation. So, it was up there first, and they took it down because TikTok’s very, very sensitive.
And, you know, the photos with the minors and the alcohol, like, that, that would, I guess, be a guidelines violation, so.
But you covered their faces, right?
I did. But that’s still a guideline. It’s still a guideline violation. It’s like showing dangerous activity with minor. So I’m going to attempt to repost without the photos because I do think it’s an important story.
And tick tock is where I get most of my traction. And I do see some, you know, articles quoting like in a now deleted tech talk insinuating, you know, that I took it down because it’s not true or, but, or anything like that. It’s like, no, it got taken down for guidelines violation. So, and I do think it’s important.
So I will try and like refilm it. And be very sensitive because even with the topic at hand, it’s tick tocks, very sensitive, and I don’t want to get my account banned. That’s for sure.
So with Alex, obviously nine different women, six, that way you included in your story. And then you said, ever since you put out the story on your Instagram story, three more have come forward.
We don’t need to go through all nine, but inform everybody what the most serious allegation against him is, or not even allegation. It’s. You have the receipts for it. So exactly the most serious thing that Alex did and why you decided to bring this to the forefront.
Okay. So I think originally what was going around in the groups was that Alex would host parties in his twenties and he, you know, would have strictly teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 17 there, and he would provide paraphernalia and alcohol and, you know, there were some reports that he would.
You know, allegedly take advantage of them when they were in an intoxicated state. So I think those were the surface allegations. Right? So, in order to, I talked to some women who attended these parties. Like I said, they were able to provide pictures of these parties, proving that they did in fact happen.
And I was able to, they were actually able to. Look at their photos because they had photos from the parties and ping their location. Look at the location. And we were actually able to find the house that these parties were allegedly taking place at. And we were able to trace that address back to a known previous address of Alex.
So, of course, there’s no way to, you know. Say what exactly was taking place at these parties, but we were able to verify that these parties were in fact happening. So,
and then the women that came forward there, their complaint towards him was what exactly was it just, he was. Feeding or giving underage women alcohol.
And like you said, take advantage. Did you speak to any woman that he took advantage of who was given underage?
So I will, yes, I’ll make that clear. None of the women that I spoke with specifically got taken advantage of by Alex to their knowledge. And that is their words specifically. Now, were they in intoxicated States and didn’t want aware what happened while they were in these States?
Yes. Do they, did they see suspicious? Things happening. Yes. But to them directly. No. So even, even if you listen to my videos, I never say, you know, they’re accusing him of this because there is no police report. There is, he’s never been criminally charged. There’s never been anything formally filed against him.
I say, you know, we can prove that these parties happen, but there is no proof of. What went down at these parties, except for what these women claim to have seen. But there again is no evidence of that. So I tried to present what I had and just let the you know, the viewer decide for themselves what they think happened.
And I think the another part to the story was I did speak to an ex who, you know, Is now able to look back and see all of the red flags are concerning behaviors within her relationship. And I don’t think like, it’s like talking to this girl, you know, that it’s not just like a jealous ex. Like, she is she is married.
She has moved on in a new relationship, you know, family. And it’s just like, She’s still working through everything that she went through in her relationship. And she’s more so coming from a place of concern of like, I, you know, him being on this national platform, I think these women are genuinely concerned of the type of access that he’s going to have to young women.
And they just want to kind of put a warning out there. And if their story is the way to do that, that’s what they’re hoping to do. So
what is the Is that the one that had the text message exchange about the paper that he wrote? Explain to everybody what that was all about.
Okay. So she told me a lot of things that in her relationship with Alex that he, you know, would request that she dressed younger that she looked younger, wear her hair a certain way, wear braces.
He would like to watch young. P. O. R. N. together and would tell her porn. Okay, so they would watch porn together and he would kind of tell her how to search certain sites to where you could get people who look really young. He asked her to role play pretending that they were in middle school. So I did have a text thread of that of him like.
Literally asking her to role play. So just establishing a pattern of like behavior sort of speak. And she said that, you know, she did, you know, she was a T. A. And she would often critique his work. And he asked and I tried to access the paper. I wasn’t able to he did a paper on utilitarianism where he was arguing that stealing a coworker’s food and replacing it before they know it’s gone is the same as sexually assaulting a woman in her sleep and she doesn’t know that she got sexually assaulted.
