All right. Let’s talk a little dandy deal or no deal Island last night. And let’s be perfectly honest. The first 40, 40 to 45 minutes of Dandi is a lot of filler.
Really all the audience cares about is the temple. Who’s going to play, are they going to beat the banker? And if they do, who are they eliminating? And if they don’t, then they’re eliminated. That’s really all I’m tuning in for. And I’ll be honest last night in the first 45 minutes, I kept dozing off. It had nothing to do with, I had some really stressful and busy day.
Quite the opposite. I did nothing yesterday, so I don’t, maybe the show is just boring me to tears now. I don’t know. The temple kept me awake, but I dozed off in for like, you know, a minute or two at a time. But when Donde does a whole episode and they end with a cliffhanger and we don’t even see the result of temple.
I’m sorry, that’s not a good episode. Just give us the result. CK ended up playing. CK, and again, I’m sure she’s a lovely woman. I’m sure she is a wonderful human being. I’m sure she’s got friends and family that love her to death. Let’s call it what it is. CK is not good television. She has no emotions whatsoever.
And remember last week, how I said, like, look, when you pick a case, I don’t care. Your reasoning behind why you pick a number this week, CK, I mean, last week will did it cause he was just like one, two, three, four, five. You just went in order this week. CK just, just doesn’t, there’s nothing there personality wise and picking cases.
And there’s just no excitability in her. She seems almost annoyed to be on the show. Just, she’s not good TV. She ended up being the one playing against the banker. Four cases the first time around, two of them were high, two of them were low, so her offer was 351, 000. She said no deal. Then she had to pick another four cases.
Once again, two of them were high, two of them were low. The offer went up to 656, 000. She said no deal. So she had four cases left. She had to pick two. One of them was high, one of them was low. So she’s got two cases left. Her offer is for 925, 000. That’s because she has two cases left. One is for 250 and one is for 2 million.
You would think the banker would basically cut it in the middle and just be like, Hey, million bucks, but 925, 000 is the most any offer the banker has given this season and then it ended right there So at the beginning of next week’s episode we’ll find out is the case that CK picked the two hundred fifty dollar one or the two Million dollar one and does she take the deals?
Does she say no deal and play on? Well, she doesn’t have to play on at this point. They’re going to open her case and if her case If she takes the deal and says, yeah, I’m going to beat the banker. She takes the deal and takes 925, 000. Then she better be holding the 250 case. If she’s holding the 2 million case, she loses and she’s gone.
If she’s holding the 250 case, assuming she takes the deal, then she will have to choose somebody to send home. But come on, we’re only tuning into Deal or No Deal Island to see who goes home at the end of the episode and how much money is put in the bank. To end it with a cliffhanger. I know they’ve done it in the past couple of times in the first two seasons of this show, but, or the first season of the show, but I don’t know.
I think it’s, I think it’s bad TV. You’re, you’re pissing people off by doing that. Especially if you do it for the rest of the season. If we get, if we go back to normal and next episode, we get at the beginning of the episode, someone going home, either CK winning or losing. And then at the end of the episode, we’re still getting another temple and we get the result from the temple.
I’m fine with that for just one episode. But if this is going to continue. Frustrating. So last year after the super bowl. I said in regards to Saturday Night Live, they would be idiotic to not throw everything they had to get Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce on. Either Travis comes hosts again and Taylor’s the musical guest or they do a co host and she’s still the musical guest.
Whatever combination you want to do. I don’t care other than obviously Travis isn’t going to be the musical guest, but you’ve got to get them on. It was tough last year because she had still her tour going and there were tour dates and there was just running out of time. She’s off tour. Obviously she does have other appointments and she’s probably got some other obligations.
I get it. But if SNL doesn’t throw the book at them to try and get them to be a host and musical guest, I don’t know what they’re thinking. And especially it’s in season 50, like this weekend is a very big deal in Saturday Night Live because they’re doing three shows. I think they’re doing one on Friday night and then a Saturday night and a Sunday night show because this is, they’re celebrating 50 years of Saturday Night Live.
So there’s going to be a lot of Saturday Night Live programming this weekend. I don’t think Travis and Taylor are part of any of it. We’ve only got about three months left in season 50. I, I, I don’t know what they’re thinking because I know Travis would do it. Travis wants to be a media person. So he’s going to take any sort of gig that he can get that puts him on TV.
Hell, he was the host of, are you smarter than a, whatever it was, third grader that aired while the football season was airing, he filmed it last summer, and I’m sure he’s probably going to come back and film that again this summer, but. He was actually good the first time he hosted Saturday Night Live. He was very funny.
The American doll sketch was one of the funniest things. Probably one of the top 10 sketches in the last couple of years on SNL. So I thought he was excellent. It should be a no brainer. They go after him. I know he’s not the Superbowl champion, but he’s so much. If, if your whole idea is let’s get a host, that’s an athlete that’ll bring in eyeballs, there’s nobody in the NFL.
Because baseball season is just about starting up, and the NBA season and NHL season are currently in play. So clearly none of those, nobody from those sports is going to be able to be a host. That only leaves football, and he’s the most popular football player that’s part of the pop culture world. And then obviously getting Taylor Swift, who’s been a musical guest and a host on your show on at least three occasions that I could think of.
I could be, she, it might be four for her, but in terms of mixing and matching, I don’t know how many times she’s hosted versus how many times she’s been a musical guest, but it’s a no brainer and you’ve got three months to fill it out. She doesn’t have a tour. I’ve got to believe SNL has got to get them.
Maybe if they can’t, maybe if they can’t commit for a whole week, I don’t know. Maybe they can’t do a whole week, but at some point in any episode, the rest of the season until their may finale, you don’t have Taylor and Travis show up in a sketch or you have Taylor performance, a musical guest, or they co host the show.
SNL is making a huge, huge mistake. All right. I want to end with two food related stories. The first one is this. This happened to me last week and I never brought it up, but after what happened to me last night, I want to bring up last week’s story as well. I would say I’ve eaten at Chipotle maybe three or four times in my life.
There’s plenty of them out here in Texas. I’ve just never been a Chipotle guy, I don’t know. I, when I have gone, it’s been good, but it’s been such a long time since I’ve been. I had it last week, and I just got your basic protein bowl, which is rice, chicken, lettuce, and beans, right?
Maybe, I don’t know if they’ve changed, or maybe you have to specify. But I’m not a big spicy guy. I’ve just never been a big spicy guy. When it burns your mouth, and then everything else you eat just doesn’t taste as good because your mouth is burnt from the food you’re eating. And you might be, Steve, oh my god, you think Chipotle is spicy?
Look, I know it’s not the spiciest food in the world, but whatever chicken I got in the protein bowl had my mouth burning and my eyes watering for ten minutes. I, I didn’t, I thought they had regular chicken. And I didn’t ask for spicy chicken. At least I don’t think I did. So I was not happy with Chipotle.
I thought they just had regular chicken and maybe it’s changed or maybe you have to specify. I don’t know, but let’s just say I’m not thrilled with Chipotle and what they did. Now here’s the other one. Yesterday I was craving Chick fil A and with Chick fil A for the longest time, fries wise, outside of McDonald’s.
And I’m pretty much a fast food connoisseur. If you, I’ve told you this story before in high school, I did it. And if you did it to me now, I could do it. If you went to the five biggest fast food restaurants and just bought an order of fries, brought them back, blindfold me and told me to taste test them.
I could pick out which fast food fry I was eating very easily. I’d go five for five hell. You could find 10 restaurants and I’d be able to pick out. Which fries were which, but I’d rank in the top three Chick fil A’s waffle fries. However, and maybe some of you have noticed this. Maybe you haven’t, maybe you don’t need a Chick fil A.
But somehow in the last, I don’t know how long it’s been. Maybe a month? Maybe a couple months? I don’t know. Because I can’t think of the, when it started. I just know the last few times I’ve had Chick fil A. I’ve noticed that their fries are a lot crispier and harder and almost kind of scrape the roof of your mouth when you eat them.
And that’s not the way it used to be. Not to say that they were soggy. But they were never as hard and crispy as they are now. And I’m like, you know, remember I told you during COVID I knew within three seconds when I went to Olive Garden one time that they had changed their bread sticks and they had changed their marinara sauce.
And I literally had a discussion with the bartender and they kind of succumbed and said, yeah, we did make some changes. This was during COVID. This was four years ago and they still have not gone back to the pre COVID marinara sauce and pre COVID breadsticks, which is disappointing. Places that I eat, you know, somewhat frequently, and I’ve had Chick fil A quite a few times.
I knew within the last two or three times that I’ve eaten there, I was like, something is different about these fries. So of course, I’m not going to go into Chick fil A and ask somebody, but I googled it. I said, I just Googled our Chick fil A’s fries different now. And I got this answer. Yes. Chick fil A recently made a slight change to their waffle fry recipe, adding pea starch to the coating to help them stay crispier for longer while the company claims the taste remains the same.
Some customers have noticed a difference in texture due to this modification. Here I am right now. You can’t see me, but I’m raising my hand up. As high in the air as I possibly can. And it says the primary change is the addition of pea starch to the fry batter. Chick fil A states the goal is to maintain crispier texture for a longer period.
Some customers have reported noticing difference in the fries, with some expressing dissatisfaction. Yes, that would be me. I’m expressing dissatisfaction. Thanks a lot, Chick fil A. You don’t mess with a good thing. They had top three fries, and I’m telling you right now, I think these fries suck. They taste different, and they scrape the roof of my mouth.
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