Video - Beach Ball

This is an old video.  Apollo, Ashley, Gene, Kevin and Mike, sitting in the living room.  Is there a TV hanging behind them?  Must be a camera.  Gene says that anyone who lets it drop has to tell a fact that no one knows about him.

• Mike doesn’t like peas.
• Kevin loves tomato sandwiches.  Huh.  I loathe myself for having that in common with him.
• Gene entered four speech competitions each year until 8th grade.  I bet AFTER 8th grade, he entered five.  :)
• Apollo tells us that he’s actually the mole in the competition.  Gene calls him out, and then Mike says it’s OK to lie.  Gene says that it’s NOT OK to lie, so Apollo tries to come up with some other fact.  He tells us that he was in the New Jersey spelling bee once.
• Kevin hasn’t worn a suit in over a year, but he brought one, just in case.  Apollo thinks they should all wear suits for the finale.  I question his math skills, as the finale will likely not have five remaining contestants (especially not THESE five).
• Gene’s old nickname was “Silk.”
• Ashley hates the word “moist.”  Mmmm, Ashley, I have the most delicious MOIST cake here.  Everyone tweet Ashley suggestions with the word moist!!
• Ashley tells us that she has, in her life, punched someone.  I would like to hear more about this.
• Holly wanders in, and Gene explains the new rule.
• Apollo hates the sound of nail files.  If he were still in the house, I would ask them to do manicures on each other.
• Holly drops it, but is unclear on the concept of “fact.”  She says that she is right handed, but when she eats steak, she cuts it with her left.  I actually knew that, because she posted it on Twitter.
• Ashley was the first person in her family to graduate from college.  Good for her!
• Someone is talking elsewhere, but I can’t hear it.  I just see the contestants awkwardly sitting in silence, looking into the distance.  Apollo wanders into the kitchen.
• Randomly, I hear a producer telling them to clear off the counters.
• Mike went to six proms “back in the day.”  Did his friends have sisters?
• The sound cuts out entirely.  That’s really annoying.
• In the kitchen, Apollo is talking to someone quietly, apologizing, and telling that person that his heart is in the right place.  I think he was talking to Stephanie, but it’s not clear.    Is it Erica?  
• Gene graduated high school at 17.
• In the background, Apollo wonders if he should do his laundry and pack now.  Probably.  Sorry, dude.
• Gene asks for a ruling on “retracting arms on retractable balls,” as Holly totally could have hit it but didn’t.  Kevin says that he thinks Gene is throwing the challenge so he can tell them lots of crazy facts.  Ha!
• Gene used to wear Vans.  I hope they looked like these:

                                                

• Mike kissed a girl named Cynthia in third grade, and then she punched him.  I like this Cynthia girl.
• Essentially, Holly is missing every ball Gene hits at her, and then he has to come up with something.  Gene once dated best friends.  He doesn’t say whether it was at the same time, but it’s implied.
• What it up with this video?  It keeps freezing or restarting.  I think I’ve heard Gene say that he used to wear Vans like 12 times.  Dude, no one likes Vans THAT much.

I’m going to have to assume that it ends on “dating best friends” because the video tells me that there’s 9 minutes left, despite it having been on for quite awhile, and then it freezes and restarts again.  So, that’s all, folks!  More videos this afternoon.