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Little Bit Leave It
by Ben and Becka
A Love Island UK podcast for American viewers focused on cultural translation, questionable scholarship, and lowbrow humor. Every week, we dive into a (hopefully) interesting aspect of British culture or history--whether it's the most popular sexual fetishes or legends of Celtic mythology. We also spend way too much time talking about a specific episode, go over any new slang terms, and review the islanders' questionable fashion choices.New episodes publish every Saturday on Patreon, and then two days later on Mondays everywhere else.
Episodes
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Friend Island USA: Season 1, Episode 5
Jessica and Karen get a texting challenge and the islanders gather around the simulated firepit for a refriending ceremony.
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Friend Island USA: Season 1, Episode 4
The islanders compete in the "baby bird" challenge. Some friendships are destroyed while others blossom.
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Friend Island USA: Season 1, Episode 3
Jeff attempts to engineer a bonding experience with Trevor and Karen. Uncle Terry makes deviled eggs.
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Friend Island USA: Season 1, Episode 2
Karen and Jessica go on a friend date and we learn more about the cast's lives at home.
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Friend Island USA: Season 1, Episode 1
Ben and Becka introduce the Friend Island villa and this season's opening cast: Andy, Jessica, Trevor, Karen, Terry, Miranda, Kyle, and Jeff.
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Friend Island USA! Coming soon!
Friend Island USA is coming soon and Little Bit Leave It is the official podcast! Here's some highlights from the upcoming season of Friend Island!
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A Little Bit About Casting
Why do some cast members on Love Island know each other? What makes contestants memorable while others are forgotten? Why do we feel "connected" to certain islanders? Why do some people cope well with the stress of being on Love Island while others can't handle tit? For insight into these and…
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Little Scandalous Bits!
We hope you enjoy this re-cast of three of our favorite featured segments from the past season of Little Bit Leave It! First, Becka gets into the fine details of the love triangle between Princess Diana, Prince Charles, and Camilla Parker Bowles. Then, Ben tells us the fascinating story of the…
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A Little Bit About Scotland
This week we are re-casting two feature segments about Scotland! First, Becka gives us the surprising history of kilts and plaids, and then Ben takes us on a tour of Inverness and the Highlands. Grab a glass of your peatiest scotch whiskey and enjoy this compilation episode! Join the Little Bit...
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Love Island UK Season 7: the Summer in Review and the Grand Finale
It's time to wrap up Love Island UK Season 7 with a neat little bow! We're once again joined by guest co-host Logan as we examine all of the summer's major narratives and themes and use enough critical theory to preclude any of us from running for school board! What does it all mean??? Then it's...
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Little Bit Leave It: After Dark
It's time to put the kids to bed, turn the lights down low, and tune your radio to the smooth jazz sounds of The Quiet Storm. It's Little Bit Leave It: After Dark. We pull together three different feature segments from past episodes. You'll learn what a scaffolder is and why the UK girls are...
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A Trip Through the West Country
It's another themed episode! Time for a trip through the west country! Our first stop will be Cornwall, where we'll talk all about Ollie Williams and the odd and delightful history of this distinct region. Next, we will head to Bristol--another historically important city that may or may not have...
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Love Island Season 7, Week 8: Going through the (E)motions
The fall of Jiberty is the week's main event: from an exchange of "I love yous" at the beginning of the week to breaking up and walking away from the villa, it was a week we've never seen any couple in show history go through before. And we've also got a dreadful talent show, the babies episode,...
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The LBLI Wales Spectacular!
It's a themed episode! We're combining feature segments from past podcasts with new content in a series of podcasts focusing on a single topic in British culture, geography, or history. This week: WALES! Join us on a road trip from northern Wales to Cardiff, take a deep dive into the famous Welsh...
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LBLI Guide to British Confectionery, Vol. 1
It's time for a British candy taste test! We couldn't get our hands on the Penguins that Jess and Ched went on about on their date, but we did find five different British chocolate bars to taste test! We tell you what you should think about Cadbury's Flake, Dairy Fruit and Nut, Crunchie, and...
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Little Bit Leave It Season 1: All the Ads
You might be asking yourself why we'd release an episode compiling all the advertisements from our first season. And no, it's not because we're looking to cash in on our internationally-renowned Love Island podcast. You may have picked up that the ads are fake, but over the course of producing…
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 36: I Want You to Know I Love You
It's the grand finale of this season of Little Bit Leave It! We celebrate the final episode of Love Island UK Season 6 and welcome back our special guest co-host Logan! Not only do we tell you how the final should have gone and review the evening's festive attire, but we tell you how this year's...
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Love Island UK: What Happened Next, Part 3
It's another very special episode of Little Bit Leave It where we discuss part 3 of Love Island: What Happened Next. This episode featured an amazing scene between Amber and Ovie, fun with the boys of Destiny's Chaldish, and a bit too much of the islanders watching themselves on the "telly." Join...
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Love Island UK: What Happened Next, Part 2
We're happy to present the second installment of our take on each episode of Love Island: What Happened Next! We discuss who showed up and who didn't from seasons 3 and 4, from the Chris and Kem reunion to an awkward lunch with some of the girls from season 4. We're on vacation and will return…
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Love Island UK: What Happened Next, Volume 1
We are on vacation this week and are recasting a bonus episode that was previously only available to our supporters on Patreon: our discussion of the first episode of Love Island: What Happened Next. We cover the dramatic reunions of Love Island UK's season 1 and 2 casts! Join the Little Bit…
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Love Island UK Season 7, Week 7: Jake Breaks Kayfabe
In honor of Jake committing the ultimate reality TV sin, we are presenting to you this virtually unedited episode of Little Bit Leave It! Are Faye and Teddy making up or breaking up? How about both? Millie and Liam may refuse to work through their issues, but Liberty won't let Jake get away with...
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 35: One Last Smoulder
It's the penultimate episode of Love Island UK Season 6, starring Ched's dad's smoking jacket! Time to meet the families and for the families to meet each other. And we sadly say goodbye to Mike and Priscilla. We are re-joined by Billie Jo Gibson of the 0151 Club Scousecast for a discussion about...
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Love Island UK Season 7, Week 6: Roller Coaster
Liam and Millie are done! Faye and Teddy are back together! Oh, wait, no they're not! And Toby's head is turned yet again... but by Chloe? What a week at the Love Island villa! We break down everything that happened from the post-Casa recoupling to Mad Movies, review the State of the Couples,...
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 34: It's Going to Be VERY Magical
It's time for the final final dates as we wrap up this season of Love Island UK. Demi and Luke M. enjoy a continental breakfast over a lake, while Siannise and Luke T. get a fairy tale early bird dinner for two at South Africa's finest castle! We also welcome Mx. Billie Jo Gibson from 0151...
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Love Island UK Season 7, Week 5: Something about Clarisse
Love Island is BACK! It's Casa Amor week and it does not disappoint! But before the real action happens, we lose one of the season's best islanders in Aaron. Lucinda also gets dumped from the villa. And then it's time for heads to turn and a postcard from the Casa pushes Faye over the edge! It's...
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 33: Did You Smoulder?
We rejoin the islanders mid-dumping for the last bit of drama and tension this season of Love Island UK! It's time for the final dates. Mike and Priscilla get the best date in Love Island history, Fin rows, rows, rows his boat to a picnic with Paige, and Jess and Ched grill kabobs. Mike and...
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Love Island UK Season 7, Week 4: Swerved and Curved
The action at the villa is really heating up, and the most problematic islander in show history makes an early exit but not before making some waves. We say hello to Tyler, Abigail, and Georgia, but we say goodbye to Sharon, AJ, and Georgia. And no, we didn't say goodbye to Danny. But nothing...
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Love Island UK Season 6 Character Quizzes and More!
We've got a "special" episode this week featuring part of a patron-only episode where we answer the question you've all been dying to know: which Love Island female islander are we? We've also got a segment about possible missteps by producers in past seasons in honor of the first few weeks of...
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Love Island UK Season 7, Week 3: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
We discuss the controversy over whether Chloe is a bully and the 3rd week of the 7th season of Love Island UK--from three dates with dreamboat Teddy to two dates with Danny, the chavviest chav ever to chav on Love Island. In between, we've got a recoupling, a public vote, and Brad getting the…
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 32: Impatient Little Sausage
It's party time in the villa, and you know what that means: time for someone to leave the premises! Perpetual basement-dwellers Jamie and Natalia are sent away unceremoniously, but we're not done--the islanders must choose another couple to keep them company on the plane ride back to old blighty!...
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Love Island UK Season 7, Week 2: In Which the Girls Get Pied
It's our second week back in the Love Island villa and the bombshells are multiplying! Rachel picks Brad only to get pied a day later, Faye remains unlucky in love, Sharon's fling with Aaron dissolves as quickly as it commenced, and in the first major drama of the season, a confused and confusing...
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 31: Is Your Belly Full?
Luke T. may have lost his bedazzling but the shine hasn't worn off his new relationship with Siannise. We spend time learning about Paige and Finn's alleged flaws in a game that only gets Mike in trouble, and the islanders have to vote on which couples are least compatible which can mean only one...
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Love Island UK Season 7, Week 1: Welcome Back, Islanders
It's been a year and a half, but we finally have a new season of Love Island! We're here for it, and so is Faye! Faye! Faye! We've got a whopping fourteen new islanders to meet in this first week, but don't worry--one of them is already gone! And not without controversy! We lament that it's a bit...
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 30: Operation Fairy Tale
Perhaps the best episode of Love Island Season 6! We've got a recoupling! We say goodbye to one of the season's defining islanders as Shaughna gets a send-off! To top it off, it's Valentine's Day! We're going to carry some spag bol through a car wash and force our significant others to complete a...
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 29: Have You Seen a Birth?
Grab your biggest beach towels, because it's time to clean up after the News Splash! Multiple couples are on the rocks, while Demi and Luke M. seem to be getting on like a house on fire, so Shaughna decides to make her move. Will it pay off or will she get pied off? A classic episode of Love…
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 28: Give Me Some Lip Gloss
It's another exciting episode of Love Island UK and Little Bit Leave It! Mike and Priscilla in the Hideaway! Jess and Ched hang out with penguins! The islanders find out what's being said about them in the tabloids! Did I see Meryl Streep? Because this episode has a lot of drama! This episode...
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 27: The Foot Pump's Pregnant Now
The villa is in turmoil after two couples have been dumped, and a new boy arrives to shake things up even more! Jamie takes Shaughna and Demi on dates, but he and the rest of the boys have their work cut out for them when we learn that none of the girls have ever had an orgasm! Demi seems the…
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 26: Sauceless Individual
It's another action-packed night at the villa and another jam-packed episode of Little Bit Leave It! We've got the debut of The Breakfast Club, the girls chow down and do their best Speed Racer impression, Demi and Luke M. get snogging, and two couples get dumped from the villa, including podcast...
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 25: Someone'll Appreciate Us Somewhere
It's an action-packed podcast for an action-packed episode of Love Island UK! Sean Paul is in the house, and Siannise and Luke T. are in the Hideaway! We've got part one of our interview with Jacob Waller, man about Bristol and proprietor of Big Yellow Praxis, who tells us everything we got wrong...
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Fake Solutions for Real Love Island Problems
Today, we have a special episode for you--it's the entire interview with Parker James from the podcast A Modern Proposal. We included about 20 minutes of it in our episode covering episodes 23 and 24 of season 6, but we present it here in its entirety--well, it's all of the parts we think are…
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episodes 23 & 24: #StickOrTwist
Congrats, hun! It's the moment we've all been waiting for: the post-Casa Amor recoupling! The most drama-filled episode of the season! We combine both episodes of the TV show into one glorious podcast, discussing the tearful reunions that had some girls crying in joy and others crying in despair....
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 22: Pressure Makes Diamonds, Baby
Turned heads become budding romances at Casa Amor while the action has fizzled at the main villa. Priscilla decides that blondes have more fun and Jess tries to prove her right. We do a deep dive into tartans, plaids, and kilts (oh, my!) after Biggs declares that he might wear one when he gets...
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Love Island Season 6, Episode 21: Mustard on Toast
Callum's head is turning and Siannise's ears are burning as Luke T. pines away in Casa Amor. Mike makes yet another connection, this time with Priscilla, and Demi makes up her mind to stay loyal to Nas--but will her loyalty be rewarded? Our feature segment highlights the just a few of the impacts...
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 20: Lads on Tour!
It's everyone's favorite episode of Love Island UK! The Casa Amor episode! Season 6's version delivers six new girls along with six new boys to keep the original girls busy at the main villa. We breakdown whose heads are already being turned with special guest co-host Logan! He also weighs in…
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Love Island UK Season 6 Episode 19: Pucker Up, Big Boy
The islanders know somebody is going home tonight, but before they do, we get a classic game of snog, marry, pie--or as this season's cast calls it, Jess, Sophie, Siannise! The Luke M./Jess/Mike love triangle is finally resolved and we say goodbye to a beloved islander who will truly be missed at...
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BONUS: Love Island UK March Madness Tournament!
Love Island UK March Madness! It's four divisions! London! Essex! Hotties! Hustlers! A total of 64 Islanders square off to get to the Final Four! Who will win? Who is even in the tournament? You'll have to listen to find out!!! This is a sample of an hour-long special episode available to our...
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 18: Bend the Knees
The love triangle between Mike, Jess, and Luke M. continues, and Wallace does the worst thing he could have ever done to Rebecca by making her avocado toast. The guys soak the girls in beer and the couples roll around with hot dogs in their mouths before deciding which of them are least…
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 17: Mike Makes Mad Moves
Mike dumps Leanne from the villa and heads straight for Jess. Shaughna is angry with Mike but not angry enough to distract her from her mission of pushing Sophie out of the villa, too--or maybe she was just taking her anger out on Sophie. Luke M. does what he can to stop Mike from grafting but…
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 16: Siannise is a Beautiful Hen
The Worst Rebecca continues to create trouble, Mike gets sleazy, Paige and Fin head to the Hideaway, Nas and Demi reveal troubling pizza preferences, and on top of all that, we've got a recoupling! Another original islander goes home as we say goodbye to Leanne. Our deep dive subject is the...
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Love Island UK Season 6, Episode 15: They're Dunking Tea Bags Together
We rejoin our islanders with appetizers already in progress, and the triangles are everywhere! Will newcomer Wallace force Luke T.'s hand with Siannise? Leanne dumps Mike but could she get dumped in return? We ponder these questions, do a deep dive into the Charles/Diana/Camilla love triangle,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A Love Island UK podcast for American viewers focused on cultural translation, questionable scholarship, and lowbrow humor. Every week, we dive into a (hopefully) interesting aspect of British culture or history--whether it's the most popular sexual fetishes or legends of Celtic mythology. We also spend way too much time talking about a specific episode, go over any new slang terms, and review the islanders' questionable fashion choices.New episodes publish every Saturday on Patreon, and then two days later on Mondays everywhere else.
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Ben and Becka
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A Love Island UK podcast for American viewers focused on cultural translation, questionable scholarship, and lowbrow humor. Every week, we dive into a (hopefully) interesting aspect of British culture or history--whether it's the most popular sexual fetishes or legends of Celtic mythology. We also...
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