Hi Steve.
Who of the remaining women do you think could be the next Bachelorette?
Comment: I will give the same answer I give every season. In 19 seasons (and 20 Bachelorettes since Clare and Tayshia each had their own “season), only two women chosen for the lead ever finished outside of the top 4 on their “Bachelor” season – Hannah Brown finished 7th, and Katie Thurston finished 11th. So if you take those statistics, that means there’s a chance it’ll be Charity, Gabi, or Ariel. They’ve also chosen a Bachelorette a few times that wasn’t from the immediate preceding season: Emily, Clare, & Tayshia. That’s in the last 20 seasons. Before that, there wasn’t always a Bachelorette season every calendar year. So it’s always possible they pull someone from a previous season. We just don’t know. I haven’t heard anything in regards to this season just yet so we wait.
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Haven’t heard any Joe Millionaire updates on the Daily Roundup in so long. Are they filming? Will the next one be two guys and the smaller cast? I hope so, much more enjoyable and realistic.
Comment: I don’t know everything about every show, but considering I haven’t heard a peep about anything regarding JM, it doesn’t look like Fox is bringing it back for a second season. Looks like that “Farmer Wants a Wife” is their dive into the reality TV show dating show world for 2023. Which sucks, because I really liked JM last year. And Amanda Pace might literally be my favorite human in all of reality TV ha ha.
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I’m probably going to listen to your podcast twice. When you start listing all the scenarios why zack has made decisions and then gone…bla bla bla gone! Holy flip dying laughing. I am really liking this season for this exact reason. Zack you da man! Funny, no drama, I’m okay if others think it’s boring. I’m here for the love story. What’s funny is when Zach does this, there are people who complain he’s being too quick to judge. But then if he keeps anyone around with drama attached to him, he’d be criticized for that too. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. I just know we’ve never seen a lead do this before so I like it. It’s something new.
Hard to pivot. So I started watching this show on Crave called The Other Two. It has the actor Ken Marino from Burning Love 3 and Molly Shannon, omg hilarious. Well the scene with Derek Peth making fun of “The Nation” Steve you gotta check this.
Also I haven’t been listening to your sports podcast because it’s not my thing but I did listen to the one post Super Bowl and found that super interesting. One) I wish you would have won. Two) I liked your take on the game. I may have to listen now and again.
I think I’m going to check out Perfect Match on Netflix.
Comment: Sure. Even if you don’t listen every day, just subscribe and press play. That’ll help ha ha.
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Hi Steve,
Longtime reader. I wanted to comment on the transcript you posted. The format was fine! No need to edit. As someone with ADHD and auditory processing issues, I don’t listen to podcasts as it can be hard to focus my attention on sounds. I read all of your columns and appreciated getting to read your daily roundup for the first time. The grammatical/formatting errors didn’t matter as I still got the gist of what you were saying. Just wanted to give you a perspective from a neurodivergent brain of why the transcript is appreciated. Thank you for keeping the show entertaining for me for 10+ years.
Comment: Really? Seeing 25 minutes of audio transcribed into text in one giant long form paragraph with barely any punctuation, or paragraph breaks, or differentiation between thoughts was readable? Wow. I couldn’t look at that for more than 3 or 4 sentences. People have sent other options to me today. I’m looking at all them. There may be a solution.
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Just my thoughts on something I found interesting about 1 on 1 dates this season. Based on what we’ve seen and your spoilers for upcoming episodes, I believe this is the most girls we’ve ever seen getting 1 on 1’s, as in a different girl every time. No repeats until right before hometowns when Kaity and Brooklyn get their second one, and Brooklyn goes home. For those that might not believe your spoilers, this is pretty telling that Kaity is his choice.
BachelorData may have these stats, and it wld be interesting to see.
For those who don’t want to go back and check…
Christina
Kaity
Aly
Kat
Brooklyn
Gabi
Charity
Ariel
Kaity/Brooklyn 2nd ones
Maybe if Zack had not gotten Covid, someone might have had a second one in London.
Comment: Honestly, that’s usually how it goes. It’s almost always every 1-on-1 is a different person until the episode before hometowns and that’s when repeats happen. Maybe we’ve had a repeat happen in episode 6 (the one before the episode before hometowns), but I think that’s rare.
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Hi, Steve,
Longtime Fan here!
I have followed your column for many years. I am deaf. I can’t really hear podcasts, so I am grateful you still do written columns/recaps.
One tool for you and your followers to be aware of is Live Captions on Google Chrome. So if you are watching a video on YouTube that is not captioned, you can update your accessibility settings in Chrome to have “Live Captions”, and these would show up whenever a video or audio is played on the Chrome Browser.
Here is how to set it up:
Use Live Caption in Chrome
1. On your computer, open Chrome .
2. At the top right, click More, and then Settings.
3. At the bottom of the Settings page, click Accessibility.
4. Turn on Live Caption.
So for your podcast I tried it out and like you said, it’s never going to be a perfect transcription, but it’s free.
Comment: I tried this out. Definitely works. The only thing is, that’s if you listen to my podcast by hitting the player within my column on desktop. And judging by the download breakdowns, that’s less than 2% of you. But hey, if that’s how you listen, and you follow those 4 steps, it absolutely gives you a closed caption of my podcast while listening.
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So I have a couple random questions for you. I use to watch the show all the time, stopped watching for a long time and started watching again for Gabby and Rachel’s season. Anyway, here are my questions.
Do they no longer do 2 on 1 dates? Very rarely anymore. They did for Clayton’s season, that was the last one. But before that it had been 5 or 6 seasons I believe.
When the dates are 2 parts, do the girls go back to the hotel to get ready for the night portion or do they go somewhere else? They go somewhere else closer to where the day and night portion of the date is. Usually it’s in a changing area/bathroom where they are having dinner.
Let’s say they when they ask someone to be the bachelor/Bachelorette, are they allowed to decline? This will be discussed on tomorrow’s podcast with Kristen Baldwin from EW.com as she asked Zach directly about the Kylee/Anastasia confrontation Monday night.
Do any of the past contestants actually have a job or do they just party all the time? Seems like all they do from their IG is travel and party.
Thanks for still spoiling the show! I much rather watch knowing what the ending will be.
Comment: Influencer is now a job. I know you stopped watching for a long time, but things have changed now. It’s not about partying. But women from this show can absolutely come off the show, works with all different types of brands and become a marketing influencer, which can pay way more than any standard 8-5 job they may have been working before. Which in turn allows them to be their own boss, not confide to any sort of job restrictions, which will then allow them to do whatever the hell they want in their free time. Times are a changin’.
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Hey Steve-
Blast from the past question because I happened to watch the Rozlyn episode from Jake’s season this week on Hulu. What do you believe/know really happened? And what was the timing-was it while they were in their hotel before showing up the first night at the mansion? I know it’s been over a decade, just wondering what you might know and remember!
Comment: Ahhhh, the ol’ Rozlyn question. Yes, many years old and at this point, not really a story we’ll probably get any clarity to. All I’ll say is this: What I reported at the time, about a year later I heard the exact opposite, so my stance is: I don’t know what to believe anymore. I have no idea what happened.
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