You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality Steve Podcast. I am your host, Reality Steve. Thank you all for tuning in on this Monday. It is Bachelor Monday. My gosh, it’s been four months since we last had a Bachelor program on, at least Bachelor or Bachelorette. Obviously we had Golden Bachelorette, but you know what I’m talking about.
Grant’s season of The Bachelor starts tonight. We’ll go over a few things. Including something coming up in the future that I’m curious about in regards to grant season. And we have a bachelor in paradise update as well. So we’ll get to all that momentarily. All right. I wanted to start out with this on Friday.
I responded back to all the people who had an email into me about the party, the fan appreciation party this year on May 31st at house of blues at Mandalay Bay. I opened up another 50 spots last week when I released my video and everybody who had sent in an email, I said, look, I’m just going to go in order of the emails and when they were sent to get to those 50 I sent out emails.
And responded to people who said, I’d like to be on the waiting list. The people that did not make and did not get confirmed out of the 150 people that I first had on the RSVP list, I opened up a number of 50 spots and I just went to my email, went back the furthest and said, all right. You book your flight, you show me a hotel room, or you’re in Vegas local, you’re in.
Most of them have replied back and RSVP’d, but there’s I think 6 or 7 out there that I emailed on Friday that I need to hear from this week, because I can’t keep holding out because if all 7 of those respond back, I am maxed out for my party. I cannot allow any more people. Into the party. We are maxed out.
Doesn’t mean that there won’t be possible openings later on, but I won’t know that probably until we get closer to the date, just because some people might cancel. That would be the only available spots I have left is cancellations. We had no cancellations last year, so I can’t predict who’s going to cancel.
We might have. Eight or 10 people that messaged me as we get closer to the date saying something came up or I can’t go. And I’m just gonna go down the wait list of how early your email was sent in. That’s the only way I can do it. So, if you’re listening to this and you did have an email in to me a week ago, two weeks ago, whatever.
Check your email. I sent them out on, I believe, what, Friday night? It was like late Friday night. Cause I was like, I need to get to these. They were all on January 24th. Yeah. Friday night. I sent out quite a bit, probably 15 to 20 telling people who were on my email waiting list. So. Hopefully those people, most of it, like I said, I’d say half of them got back to me and RSVP’d, half of them haven’t responded back yet, but maybe they don’t check their email over the weekend, because I did it pretty late on Friday.
So, if you’re listening, and you have an email in like that, hopefully you will respond back, RSVP, say you’re in, and we go from there. But I will keep people updated, however, if you have not received an email from me yet, you’re probably Means you’re on the waiting list and you have to hope that people cancel and you know, I’m sorry There’s nothing I can do.
Like I said, this is a first come first served party every year. I don’t play favorites here I don’t tell people though. You’re definitely in It is first come first serve outside of obviously family and friends that I have to set aside spots for. And this year’s party just happens to have a lot more family and friends because it’s also my 50th birthday.
So just wanted to get that out there. Check your email. If you have an email into me about wanting to be on the wait list, check your email. I sent it Friday night and hopefully we can get you confirmed. All right. Bachelor. Grant Ellis. What number bachelor is he? He is number 29. Wow. You know, when I had Bachelor Data on, we had talked about the fact that Grant was a late choice.
The way he was promoted, the way he was announced as the bachelor was very underwhelming. The promotion for this season have been underwhelming. And when you look at it, he’s the 29th bachelor and we’ve had 21 bachelorettes. This is the 50th season. Shouldn’t it be a little more like, hey everybody? 50 seasons combined of the bachelor and bachelorette.
And yet here we start tonight. And I think most people will agree. It’s one of the more under promoted seasons of the bachelor. Yeah, they’ve had commercials here and there and granted media at the end of last week. But there’s a lot of people who have just said, I just haven’t seen a lot of promotion for this season.
And I think you’re right. Like, obviously I cover this season. I cover this show. Every season, the only two seasons of the show that I did not write about were seasons one and two. So I have covered 47 of the previous 49 seasons that have aired. And for the life of me, this has to be one of the more under promoted seasons out there, but it starts tonight grant season, and you know what I say.
About the first night of every bachelor season. Look, it’s the same thing outside of the seasons where you had two leads, Gabby and Rachel, Caitlin, and what’s her name? Britt. Sheesh. My mind’s going sometimes, but outside of those seasons where something had to happen on night one, that was different because you were voting bachelorette, the first night is always the same thing.
We’re going to get an intro video of Grant introducing us as. Introducing him to us as our bachelor, probably get some clips from him on Jen season. Then we’re going to get some, well, it depends how they do it. They’re either going to say, Hey, before we meet the women coming out of the limos tonight, let’s meet a few of them in video packages.
And we’ll either get video packages before they exit the limo or as they’re exiting the limo, we’ll get the video packages. They’ve kind of mixed that up in the last couple of years, but we’re going to get limo entrances. And then Jesse’s going to tell Grant. The First Impression rose winner also gets the first one on one of the season, and then we’re just going to get a cocktail party and a rose ceremony.
And then your cocktail party will have like a mini drama. We know first night drama a little bit is the fact that Zoe steals him more than one time, and Zoe is the woman there that’s not there to make friends. You know, the same shit we get every year, nothing different. Doesn’t make her a horrible person, but within the confines of this show and within the atmosphere of the house, it just, it’s not a smart thing to do.
Doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. Doesn’t mean Zoe is a bitch. Doesn’t mean everybody should send her death threats. It just means within the confines of this show, doing that is going to put a target on your back. It doesn’t mean you have to braid your roommate’s hair every night, and tell stories until the wee hours of the morning, and play with a Ouija board with all your castmates.
No. But the second you do something, That kind of separates you from the rest of the group. You get labeled a certain way on this show, unfortunately. And the other thing I want to say for Zoe without even seeing tonight’s episode is, you know, anything she does in the episode tonight, where she goes and steals grant, she listened to a producer, so a producer.
Is behind whatever Zoe is doing tonight. Zoe just can’t go interrupt Grant on her own. We all know this. You’ve heard past contestants on this podcast, on numerous other podcasts saying you don’t go and get time with the lead unless you’re told you can. And for whatever reason, production decided, Hey, Zoe’s going to be our girl this year that we’re just going to let go in and run rough shot and steal him away from numerous other women.
Zoe chose to do that. You could say why she could have just said no. Yeah, she could have, and she probably would have got sent home. Because, we say this all the time when it comes to this show. You gotta know how to play the game. You play the game with producers, you’ll do well. And Zoe was willing to play the game.
That’s what she did. They asked her to do it, and she did it. I’m sure there were others that were maybe asked, or maybe others weren’t asked. And I guarantee there are some of the women of the 25 tonight that were at the cocktail party. I’m sure some of them never got to talk to Grant at all on that first night.
And Zoey’s going to get to talk to him two, three, four times. It’s the way it goes. It’s part of the show. If you don’t know that by now, unfortunately. That’s on you more than it is on anybody else. But you also have to understand the 25 women that were flown out for night one. They were obviously in contact with some producer and some producer was hyping them up the whole time.
Oh, we think you’re perfect for ground. We think you’re going to be great on this season, knowing that seven of you are going home on the first night. So just know producers lie. It’s their job to lie. It’s their job to pump you up because if they just say, you know what? I have no idea if you’re going to do well on the show, but get on a plane and come out and we’ll see.
Women probably would be like, you know what? I’d rather not. Of course, every girl that gets eliminated tonight, all seven of you, if you’re being honest with yourself, let me guess a producer pumped you up for the two or three weeks leading into the show saying you were going to be great for Grant. I think you’re a perfect fit yet.
Knowing seven of you are going home on the first night. So just know that just because a producer tells you something doesn’t mean it’s true. In fact, most of the time. It isn’t something that came up yesterday on Instagram, on his Instagram story, which he has since taken down grant released a rap song.
It’s called party girls can listen to it on Apple music, but I thought it was really interesting. He released it on his Instagram stories yesterday. Jeremy, who was on GenSeason, finished 4th last season, a buddy of Grant’s, he reposted it. And maybe an hour after Grant released it, he had taken it down.
Don’t know why. We know that Grant sings a couple times this season. On his first date with Alex, he plays the Piano. Oh, whoops, by the way, I just gave away the first impression rose and first date of the season, but if you follow spoilers, you knew Alex is the one that gets it. Anyway, we’ve seen in the previews, Grant playing the piano and singing to Alex.
And then we also know there’s an R& B date as well in the second episode of the season, a group date where Grant sings there. So obviously music is a big part of Grant’s life, but yesterday he just decided to drop that he released a single on Apple Music. And then within an hour he had taken it off of his Instagram page.
So. Your guess is as good as mine, as to why he had to take it down. But, I’m guessing that wasn’t because he wanted to take it down. My guess is he was told to. Why? I don’t know. I, I have no idea. He’s got a song out there, Party Girls, if you want to go listen to it.