DAILY ROUNDUP 2/19 TRANSCRIPT
? You are listening to the daily roundup here as part of the Reality Steve Podcast. I’m your host, Reality Steve. Thank you all for tuning in on this Wednesday. Good show for you today. We’re going to talk about what’s coming up tomorrow on the weekly podcast. Also, Dondi last night. We had a mathematical abnormality happen in last night’s show.
I’m going to talk about the Joe Schmo show, which I haven’t talked about since it premiered. Love is blind. We have some answers sort of to why we saw six episodes all in the pods. And then how about episode six of paradise on Hulu last night or yesterday when it was released? Oh man, such a great show.
I’m bummed. There’s only two episodes left in season one. We’ll get to all that momentarily. All right, I want to start out with this. If you were following me on social media yesterday, either my Twitter or my Instagram story, I revealed who is going to be the podcast guest tomorrow. Podcast number 431, it is Darva Conger.
Now, some of you that are maybe in your 20s, mid 20s, late 20s, early 30s, Darvah Conger, the name Darvah Conger probably doesn’t mean anything to you, but on February 15th in the year 2000, Darvah Conger appeared on a show called Who Wants to Marry a Multi Millionaire. The creator of that show was Mike Fleiss, who then went on to create The Bachelor.
This show put Mike Fleiss on the map and is the reason The Bachelor got green lit on ABC because this was a one off, two hour special, I believe it was on Fox. And you gotta remember, this is the year 2000. Nowadays, nobody would blink at a show like this because it happens all the time. Married at First Sight, Love is Blind, all that kind of stuff.
But basically they brought 50 women up on stage, pageant style. They had a guy who was supposedly a multi millionaire, and he was gonna pick one of them. He could see them, they couldn’t see him, and he was gonna pick one of them to be his wife. And he ended up picking Darva, our guest on tomorrow’s podcast.
But then everything took a turn for the worse. First off, two days after the show aired, internet people found, well, I wouldn’t even say internet people. It was revealed he had a restraining order, a restraining order out against him in the past. And it also revealed his finances were in shambles and he wasn’t a multimillionaire.
But then Darva Conger got thrown to the proverbial wolves by the media. And she was absolutely given the scarlet letter treatment. And I didn’t realize it was the 25 year reunion, as I told you. And I hinted at towards yesterday, I saw a story over the weekend. And I was like, I got to get that person on the podcast, people.
com reached out to Darva for the story because February 15, 2000, it was basically 25 years to the day this past weekend that that show aired, by the way, it was watched by 23 million people. The only thing that gets 23 million viewers in an episode now is a football game. There’s no television show on network TV or streaming that gets 23 million viewers.
So this was as big as you could get. This was the advent of reality TV. This was the very beginning of shock TV. You’ve probably heard Darva’s name, but you don’t know her story. And we go over it all in tomorrow’s podcast. I can’t wait for you to hear it. It is a really, really interesting dive into it.
Darva is 59 years old now. She lives in Northern California and the preconceived notions that I had about her that you probably had about her, I think will be shelved after listening to this interview, very calm, quiet confidence about her looks great for 59. Just I can’t wait for you to listen and check it out on my YouTube channel Tomorrow morning at 9 15 a.
m. Eastern Time. Alright, let’s talk a little Dandi We had a well, let’s let’s first go over what happened in Dandi when we last left the show CK was playing in the Bankers Temple and she was down to two suitcases one had 250 and one had 900 and one had I think 2. 25 million or something like that. So the offer was 925, 000.
She accepted the offer. And then we realize 50, 50 shot of winning. She ended up having the briefcase for 250. So she wins, she gets to send somebody home and she sends a shell home. Say, chill, say shell. And then the episode airs. And like I said, I don’t really care about the gameplay. The excursions are just kind of silly.
And we all know basically at the end of the show the biggest cases, the six biggest cases are going to be on one side and four small cases from one penny to 1 to a hundred dollars to two 52, you know, that’s where the show works. So David ends up being the one that played against the banker in the temple.
And David is the former Survivor Australia winner. And he played, and there was only two people that were up for elimination once David played. Well, the three people up for elimination were David, Dr. Will And Dixon, David ends up playing. So he was either going to be eliminated if he didn’t beat the banker or he had to choose between Dr.
Will and Dixon. He plays the game first round, four cases, three of them were low. One of them was high. So the offer was 200, 000. Didn’t take the deal. Then the next four cases too low, too high. The offer was 650, 000. He said, no deal. So there were four cases left and he had to choose two. And both of them ended up being high.
So it came down to two cases left. One was for 250 and one was for 2 million. The banker basically split the difference minus a dollar. The offer was 999, 999. He took the deal. He had the case for two 50. He he ended up eliminating Dr. Will, thank God. So sick of that guy. And Dr. Will claims he’s retiring from reality TV.
And he will never be on another show again. I’ll believe that when I see it, the guy’s got too big of an ego to stay off reality TV. If somebody approached him, if traders came to Dr. Will, he would do that in a heartbeat. So what he says means absolutely nothing in terms of him saying he’s going to retire.
But I will say this, I thought, you know, the fact that we got back to back temples. Appearances because last week’s episode ended on a cliffhanger. So we saw CK and the result of her going against the banker at the beginning of the episode. And then we saw David at the end, both of them ended up choosing the case, the case that they choose in the beginning.
That sits in front of them. Both of their cases had 250 in it. I’m like, geez, what are, what are the statistical odds of that happening in back to back games? Well, obviously the statistical odds of choosing the 250 case is one in 12. So you have an 8 percent chance of choosing it, but how do you figure the odds for someone choosing it in back to back games?
Is that just. 8 percent times 2? Anybody in math majors can help me out here. What’s the statistical probability of back to back people playing against the banker choosing the same exact case? I guess it doesn’t matter if it’s 250 because all 12 values in the cases are different. I could have said, what 2.
5 million if that was the top case? For this sake. Basically, I guess the question becomes, it doesn’t have to be two 50. What is the statistical probability of two people in back to back games choosing the exact same case? Obviously we know choosing the 250 case in this particular instance, there’s an 8 percent chance.
You got a one in 12 chance of choosing two 50. So what’s the statistical probability of choosing it twice in a row? Two different people? I don’t know how to figure that out. I probably should. I like math. But sometimes something like that confuses me. Statistical probabilities. I probably knew this when I took probability and statistics in college my freshman year.
But now at almost 50 years old, I don’t remember what the formula is. I don’t think it’s as simple as percent times 8%. I don’t think that’s it. So, anybody can help me out. I appreciate it. But yeah, I think we’re down to seven people now and Dr. Will is gone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just not a fan of that guy.
And I really hope he sticks to his word and does retire from reality TV. So I never have to watch that guy on my television again. It’s just annoying. This podcast brought to you by Factor. Ready to optimize your nutrition this year. Factor has chef made gourmet meals that make eating well, easy. They’re dietitian approved, ready to heat and eat in two minutes.
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com slash realitysteve50off to get 50 percent off plus free shipping on your first box. ? You are listening to the daily roundup here as part of the Reality Steve Podcast. I’m your host, Reality Steve. Thank you all for tuning in on this Wednesday. Good show for you today. We’re going to talk about what’s coming up tomorrow on the weekly podcast. Also, Dondi last night. We had a mathematical abnormality happen in last night’s show.
I’m going to talk about the Joe Schmo show, which I haven’t talked about since it premiered. Love is blind. We have some answers sort of to why we saw six episodes all in the pods. And then how about episode six of paradise on Hulu last night or yesterday when it was released? Oh man, such a great show.
I’m bummed. There’s only two episodes left in season one. We’ll get to all that momentarily. All right, I want to start out with this. If you were following me on social media yesterday, either my Twitter or my Instagram story, I revealed who is going to be the podcast guest tomorrow. Podcast number 431, it is Darva Conger.
Now, some of you that are maybe in your 20s, mid 20s, late 20s, early 30s, Darvah Conger, the name Darvah Conger probably doesn’t mean anything to you, but on February 15th in the year 2000, Darvah Conger appeared on a show called Who Wants to Marry a Multi Millionaire. The creator of that show was Mike Fleiss, who then went on to create The Bachelor.
This show put Mike Fleiss on the map and is the reason The Bachelor got green lit on ABC because this was a one off, two hour special, I believe it was on Fox. And you gotta remember, this is the year 2000. Nowadays, nobody would blink at a show like this because it happens all the time. Married at First Sight, Love is Blind, all that kind of stuff.
But basically they brought 50 women up on stage, pageant style. They had a guy who was supposedly a multi millionaire, and he was gonna pick one of them. He could see them, they couldn’t see him, and he was gonna pick one of them to be his wife. And he ended up picking Darva, our guest on tomorrow’s podcast.
But then everything took a turn for the worse. First off, two days after the show aired, internet people found, well, I wouldn’t even say internet people. It was revealed he had a restraining order, a restraining order out against him in the past. And it also revealed his finances were in shambles and he wasn’t a multimillionaire.
But then Darva Conger got thrown to the proverbial wolves by the media. And she was absolutely given the scarlet letter treatment. And I didn’t realize it was the 25 year reunion, as I told you. And I hinted at towards yesterday, I saw a story over the weekend. And I was like, I got to get that person on the podcast, people.
com reached out to Darva for the story because February 15, 2000, it was basically 25 years to the day this past weekend that that show aired, by the way, it was watched by 23 million people. The only thing that gets 23 million viewers in an episode now is a football game. There’s no television show on network TV or streaming that gets 23 million viewers.
So this was as big as you could get. This was the advent of reality TV. This was the very beginning of shock TV. You’ve probably heard Darva’s name, but you don’t know her story. And we go over it all in tomorrow’s podcast. I can’t wait for you to hear it. It is a really, really interesting dive into it.
Darva is 59 years old now. She lives in Northern California and the preconceived notions that I had about her that you probably had about her, I think will be shelved after listening to this interview, very calm, quiet confidence about her looks great for 59. Just I can’t wait for you to listen and check it out on my YouTube channel Tomorrow morning at 9 15 a.
m. Eastern Time. Alright, let’s talk a little Dandi We had a well, let’s let’s first go over what happened in Dandi when we last left the show CK was playing in the Bankers Temple and she was down to two suitcases one had 250 and one had 900 and one had I think 2. 25 million or something like that. So the offer was 925, 000.
She accepted the offer. And then we realize 50, 50 shot of winning. She ended up having the briefcase for 250. So she wins, she gets to send somebody home and she sends a shell home. Say, chill, say shell. And then the episode airs. And like I said, I don’t really care about the gameplay. The excursions are just kind of silly.
And we all know basically at the end of the show the biggest cases, the six biggest cases are going to be on one side and four small cases from one penny to 1 to a hundred dollars to two 52, you know, that’s where the show works. So David ends up being the one that played against the banker in the temple.
And David is the former Survivor Australia winner. And he played, and there was only two people that were up for elimination once David played. Well, the three people up for elimination were David, Dr. Will And Dixon, David ends up playing. So he was either going to be eliminated if he didn’t beat the banker or he had to choose between Dr.
Will and Dixon. He plays the game first round, four cases, three of them were low. One of them was high. So the offer was 200, 000. Didn’t take the deal. Then the next four cases too low, too high. The offer was 650, 000. He said, no deal. So there were four cases left and he had to choose two. And both of them ended up being high.
So it came down to two cases left. One was for 250 and one was for 2 million. The banker basically split the difference minus a dollar. The offer was 999, 999. He took the deal. He had the case for two 50. He he ended up eliminating Dr. Will, thank God. So sick of that guy. And Dr. Will claims he’s retiring from reality TV.
And he will never be on another show again. I’ll believe that when I see it, the guy’s got too big of an ego to stay off reality TV. If somebody approached him, if traders came to Dr. Will, he would do that in a heartbeat. So what he says means absolutely nothing in terms of him saying he’s going to retire.
But I will say this, I thought, you know, the fact that we got back to back temples. Appearances because last week’s episode ended on a cliffhanger. So we saw CK and the result of her going against the banker at the beginning of the episode. And then we saw David at the end, both of them ended up choosing the case, the case that they choose in the beginning.
That sits in front of them. Both of their cases had 250 in it. I’m like, geez, what are, what are the statistical odds of that happening in back to back games? Well, obviously the statistical odds of choosing the 250 case is one in 12. So you have an 8 percent chance of choosing it, but how do you figure the odds for someone choosing it in back to back games?
Is that just. 8 percent times 2? Anybody in math majors can help me out here. What’s the statistical probability of back to back people playing against the banker choosing the same exact case? I guess it doesn’t matter if it’s 250 because all 12 values in the cases are different. I could have said, what 2.
5 million if that was the top case? For this sake. Basically, I guess the question becomes, it doesn’t have to be two 50. What is the statistical probability of two people in back to back games choosing the exact same case? Obviously we know choosing the 250 case in this particular instance, there’s an 8 percent chance.
You got a one in 12 chance of choosing two 50. So what’s the statistical probability of choosing it twice in a row? Two different people? I don’t know how to figure that out. I probably should. I like math. But sometimes something like that confuses me. Statistical probabilities. I probably knew this when I took probability and statistics in college my freshman year.
But now at almost 50 years old, I don’t remember what the formula is. I don’t think it’s as simple as percent times 8%. I don’t think that’s it. So, anybody can help me out. I appreciate it. But yeah, I think we’re down to seven people now and Dr. Will is gone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just not a fan of that guy.
And I really hope he sticks to his word and does retire from reality TV. So I never have to watch that guy on my television again. It’s just annoying. This podcast brought to you by Factor. Ready to optimize your nutrition this year. Factor has chef made gourmet meals that make eating well, easy. They’re dietitian approved, ready to heat and eat in two minutes.
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So I’m all caught up and it’s basically in the same vein as the jury duty show that had James Marsden on it, which I believe was on Amazon prime where everybody was pretending they were part of a jury duty case and everybody there was an actor except for one person on jury duty who actually thought.
They were being part of a jury duty. And then obviously the Joe Schmoe show that ran three seasons back in the early 2000s. So this one is about a fake game show called the goat and everything. And every challenge is surrounding goats. They do stupid chance Shabuya he Shabuya ho, like just silly stuff.
And there’s one guy in the game. His name is Ben. Who has no idea that this is fake. He thinks everything around him is real. He thinks he’s on a game show. And the whole point is. They’re going to throw stuff at him the whole time, but they don’t want, obviously, him to figure out this is all fake and I’m being pranked here.
You’re just watching the show to see him get to the end and to find out and then see his reaction. I really like the initial seasons of The Joe Schmoe Show. This one is okay. I just don’t find it nearly as funny. I don’t know if it’s because of the actors they have hired or they’re just not putting him in positions that make it very funny at all.
Like, you’ll never get, you’ll never convince me that Season 2 of the Joe Schmoe Show wasn’t hilarious. And that’s probably because I’m biased towards the whole It was a parody of Bachelor and Bachelorette. It was a, it was a parody of a dating show. Not to mention the numerous sexual innuendos they made throughout the show.
Instead of a rose ceremony, the guy gave the girl pearl necklaces. He asked every time a girl came up to him, May I give you a pearl necklace? I’m sorry. That was funny in 2003 or whatever, and it’s still funny because it’s a parody. Parodies are supposed to be funny. And when it was the woman’s turn to give out, well, she didn’t give out roses.
She had each of the guys bring up a candle and she had to light their wick. And a couple of the guys, the actors hired for the show would hold their candle right at their penis. And so you said, may I light your wick? So not to mention all the other sexual innuendos that happened throughout the course of the show.
And I just haven’t found this one to be nearly as funny. And I just don’t feel like the envelope is really being pushed all that much. And I’m still going to watch it. I want to see it through the end. I’ve seen every episode at this point, but. That’s really all you’re watching for. I think Ben wins a hundred thousand dollars if he makes it to the end.
And look, even if he’d figured it out. They’re still going to give them money. I mean, it just, they’re not gonna be like, Oh, you figured us out. Sorry. You get nothing for us bringing you out here and trying to prank you. So it’s just more about how’s he going to react. He’s already thought a couple of different times during this season.
He’s already thought that something seems amiss with the, with the game show. He really thinks there’s a game show called the goat, the U S version. And I just don’t find the challenges all that interesting. And I just don’t find. Him being like, and the stuff that they’re trying to pull on him as like, Oh my God, I can’t believe they’re doing this to him.
I just feel like, honestly, they’re just kind of going through the motions. I hadn’t talked about it in a while and I wanted to bring it up. I’m not discouraging people from watching it. Some people might think it’s funnier than I do. I’m just partial to season two, which was the parody of the dating shows.
And you’re just never going to beat that in, in my eyes. Let’s talk a little bit about love is blind. Found this out yesterday. Okay. I’m sure it was already out there, maybe before, because I don’t know when this interview aired, but I think it was Parade. com, that entertainment site, did an interview with the executive producer of Love is Blind.
There were two couples this season that got engaged at the end that the show isn’t following. So, I don’t know if this means, once they got engaged, they just told them, hey, we’re not going to bring you to Mexico, we don’t want to follow you. You’re not interesting to us or these two couples went to Mexico and somehow when we start watching the Mexico episodes on the honeymoon episodes This Friday they’re gonna just have all this footage of them not in it or they’re just gonna have to like edit them out of the Footage because aren’t a lot of the times they’re all sitting around talking in groups.
They’re all like I I don’t know how they do this, and I know a lot of you that have watched this show from the beginning. This isn’t news, in terms of, this has happened before, they have had couples that got engaged, that they just chose not to follow. One of them is Kylie and Brian. And if you go back and watch the first six episodes, I don’t think Kylie and Brian get ten seconds in the pods.
So it’s not like it’s with some people that we even really know, that we’re partnering up with somebody else, and then they end up getting engaged to somebody else. I don’t know who Kylie and Brian are. I had to look at their photos that were part of the cast release and I still can’t find I can’t, I still can’t think of 10 seconds I saw of them in the pods.
They kinda look familiar by hanging out in the common area. So that’s one of the couples that got engaged, but we’re not gonna see their story. And the other couple that got engaged is, I actually, I don’t know who it is. It’s out there and I tried to Google it yesterday, I couldn’t find it but I think the woman is Britney.
Brittany, I think it’s her, but I don’t know the guy she got engaged to, but Brittany, Brittany was the one that Riley ended up, once she told him she’s been with women, you could tell it didn’t sit well with Riley. It’s the one that Riley dumped. I think she’s engaged to somebody. I think that’s the other couple, but we’re not going to see her story either.
I could be wrong. I know Kylie and Brian are one of the couples cause it said it in the article. The other one didn’t say so, but I know it’s out there. If you go to Receipts with Ricky, Ricky wise, who was on the podcast a couple months ago, or when the last love is blind season, we talked about the whole Tyler Ashley thing.
She has it on her podcast. So if you want to go check it out and you want to know the answers, go see that. But I find it interesting because two couples that got engaged, we haven’t seen literally any seconds of their relationship in the pods yet. The whole Alex Madison Mason love triangle and the Dave and Meg relationship.
That never made it. And Alex’s relationship with Madison and Mason’s relationship with Madison. Those people never got engaged and yet we saw their whole courtship, but they laid off two couples that did get engaged. Very, very weird. I’m just curious. Maybe someone knows the answer to this and you can spoil me on it.
Do you know if these two couples that did get engaged that we are not going to be able to follow them? Were they brought down to Mexico and we’re just not going to see them and they’re basically going to be X’d out of every single scene and edited out of every single scene or Were they just never even brought down to Mexico and after they got engaged they were just told like yeah We’re not going to bring you so I’d like to know the answer to that and finally I know it’s only been A little over 24 hours, but episode six of paradise on Hulu was released yesterday.
And in my opinion, it was the best episode of the season. I mean, we’re rumbling towards the finale. We’ve only got two episodes left of the show. It’s only eight episodes and. We are in full blown, okay, we’re starting to get some major, major answers. There’s still some that are just like, wait, kind of know something, but we don’t know the full answer.
But again, I just love mystery shows. I love shows that have intrigue to it. Love shows that have cliffhangers, even though it is frustrating. We got to wait a week, but every single episode of paradise ends with a cliffhanger and the one that came in this week’s episode, you’re like. Now, wait a second. Is this even true?
Or is this person trying to manipulate the other person to get what they want? I don’t want to go into spoilers because it’s only been over 24 hours. Maybe some of you haven’t watched it yet. Maybe I’ll bring it up towards the end of the week. However, I want to go back to something I said last week about Paradise.
And now I can talk about it. Well, actually I can’t because it would give away a spoiler of this episode. But, the thing that I thought, remember when I said, There was something that happened in last week’s episode where I was like I immediately thought something of it But when I read three episode reviews, none of the people who reviewed the episode had the same thought that I did Well, those reviewers were right the thought that came to my head when I saw what happened in last week’s episode is not what?
I believed it to be and it was proven in this week’s episode. That’s why I don’t want to go over So maybe I should even bring this up the next day if I’m not gonna talk about the show and not name names and not named storylines What’s the point? I just, I don’t think I ever lead you astray when I come to promoting shows.
Although Joe, although Joe Schmoe this season could be one of them, but you gotta watch Paradise on Hulu. If you have Hulu, it’s only been six episodes. You can get through it. If you watch six episodes of Love is Blind on Valentine’s Day or you, or you powered through it at some point this weekend, you can certainly get through Paradise on Hulu.
It is excellent, really good thinking person show. And again, I just want to give you a, not a warning, but a way to watch the show. This is not a show to be watched when it’s on in the background. This is a show you gotta, gotta pay attention to. And you got to listen to every conversation because every conversation seems to be very, very important.
You are going to miss details. If you have this on in the background or you’re on your phone during the show, which is something that drives me absolutely bonkers, I don’t do it. Even though I’m home alone watching, I still won’t do it. I will wait until the end of a show to text somebody back on a show like this.
Bachelor I’ll usually text. Although sometimes I’m getting blown up with texts during the bachelor. So I can’t get back to everybody, but for Hulu’s paradise. Yeah, I’m absolutely locked in for however many minutes the show is. Some episodes there, they’re usually about, I think around 50 minutes each episode.
There was a, there was an episode. I think that was close to an hour, but they’re right around. I think anywhere between 50 minutes, 50 to 60 minutes. And obviously, well, I have Hulu with no commercials, so I don’t have to deal with any commercials like that and such a good show and yesterday’s episode.
Personally for me, I thought it was the best one of the season. And I got to imagine next week’s is going to be even better because we’ve only got two episodes left and they’ve got some questions to answer. So anyway, thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple podcasts, also rate and review, but you got to hit play.
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I will put some of my thoughts that I had in yesterday’s podcast. I will have those written out in today’s column along with reader emails and the transcript for this podcast. So thank you all for listening. I appreciate it, and I’ll talk to you tomorrow. Save.
Something that I haven’t talked about since the first episode aired was the Joe Schmoe show on TBS. It airs every Tuesday night and I had fallen behind by a couple of weeks, but I watched two episodes over the weekend and then I watched last night’s episode last night.
So I’m all caught up and it’s basically in the same vein as the jury duty show that had James Marsden on it, which I believe was on Amazon prime where everybody was pretending they were part of a jury duty case and everybody there was an actor except for one person on jury duty who actually thought.
They were being part of a jury duty. And then obviously the Joe Schmoe show that ran three seasons back in the early 2000s. So this one is about a fake game show called the goat and everything. And every challenge is surrounding goats. They do stupid chance Shabuya he Shabuya ho, like just silly stuff.
And there’s one guy in the game. His name is Ben. Who has no idea that this is fake. He thinks everything around him is real. He thinks he’s on a game show. And the whole point is. They’re going to throw stuff at him the whole time, but they don’t want, obviously, him to figure out this is all fake and I’m being pranked here.
You’re just watching the show to see him get to the end and to find out and then see his reaction. I really like the initial seasons of The Joe Schmoe Show. This one is okay. I just don’t find it nearly as funny. I don’t know if it’s because of the actors they have hired or they’re just not putting him in positions that make it very funny at all.
Like, you’ll never get, you’ll never convince me that Season 2 of the Joe Schmoe Show wasn’t hilarious. And that’s probably because I’m biased towards the whole It was a parody of Bachelor and Bachelorette. It was a, it was a parody of a dating show. Not to mention the numerous sexual innuendos they made throughout the show.
Instead of a rose ceremony, the guy gave the girl pearl necklaces. He asked every time a girl came up to him, May I give you a pearl necklace? I’m sorry. That was funny in 2003 or whatever, and it’s still funny because it’s a parody. Parodies are supposed to be funny. And when it was the woman’s turn to give out, well, she didn’t give out roses.
She had each of the guys bring up a candle and she had to light their wick. And a couple of the guys, the actors hired for the show would hold their candle right at their penis. And so you said, may I light your wick? So not to mention all the other sexual innuendos that happened throughout the course of the show.
And I just haven’t found this one to be nearly as funny. And I just don’t feel like the envelope is really being pushed all that much. And I’m still going to watch it. I want to see it through the end. I’ve seen every episode at this point, but. That’s really all you’re watching for. I think Ben wins a hundred thousand dollars if he makes it to the end.
And look, even if he’d figured it out. They’re still going to give them money. I mean, it just, they’re not gonna be like, Oh, you figured us out. Sorry. You get nothing for us bringing you out here and trying to prank you. So it’s just more about how’s he going to react. He’s already thought a couple of different times during this season.
He’s already thought that something seems amiss with the, with the game show. He really thinks there’s a game show called the goat, the U S version. And I just don’t find the challenges all that interesting. And I just don’t find. Him being like, and the stuff that they’re trying to pull on him as like, Oh my God, I can’t believe they’re doing this to him.
I just feel like, honestly, they’re just kind of going through the motions. I hadn’t talked about it in a while and I wanted to bring it up. I’m not discouraging people from watching it. Some people might think it’s funnier than I do. I’m just partial to season two, which was the parody of the dating shows.
And you’re just never going to beat that in, in my eyes. Let’s talk a little bit about love is blind. Found this out yesterday. Okay. I’m sure it was already out there, maybe before, because I don’t know when this interview aired, but I think it was Parade. com, that entertainment site, did an interview with the executive producer of Love is Blind.
There were two couples this season that got engaged at the end that the show isn’t following. So, I don’t know if this means, once they got engaged, they just told them, hey, we’re not going to bring you to Mexico, we don’t want to follow you. You’re not interesting to us or these two couples went to Mexico and somehow when we start watching the Mexico episodes on the honeymoon episodes This Friday they’re gonna just have all this footage of them not in it or they’re just gonna have to like edit them out of the Footage because aren’t a lot of the times they’re all sitting around talking in groups.
They’re all like I I don’t know how they do this, and I know a lot of you that have watched this show from the beginning. This isn’t news, in terms of, this has happened before, they have had couples that got engaged, that they just chose not to follow. One of them is Kylie and Brian. And if you go back and watch the first six episodes, I don’t think Kylie and Brian get ten seconds in the pods.
So it’s not like it’s with some people that we even really know, that we’re partnering up with somebody else, and then they end up getting engaged to somebody else. I don’t know who Kylie and Brian are. I had to look at their photos that were part of the cast release and I still can’t find I can’t, I still can’t think of 10 seconds I saw of them in the pods.
They kinda look familiar by hanging out in the common area. So that’s one of the couples that got engaged, but we’re not gonna see their story. And the other couple that got engaged is, I actually, I don’t know who it is. It’s out there and I tried to Google it yesterday, I couldn’t find it but I think the woman is Britney.
Brittany, I think it’s her, but I don’t know the guy she got engaged to, but Brittany, Brittany was the one that Riley ended up, once she told him she’s been with women, you could tell it didn’t sit well with Riley. It’s the one that Riley dumped. I think she’s engaged to somebody. I think that’s the other couple, but we’re not going to see her story either.
I could be wrong. I know Kylie and Brian are one of the couples cause it said it in the article. The other one didn’t say so, but I know it’s out there. If you go to Receipts with Ricky, Ricky wise, who was on the podcast a couple months ago, or when the last love is blind season, we talked about the whole Tyler Ashley thing.
She has it on her podcast. So if you want to go check it out and you want to know the answers, go see that. But I find it interesting because two couples that got engaged, we haven’t seen literally any seconds of their relationship in the pods yet. The whole Alex Madison Mason love triangle and the Dave and Meg relationship.
That never made it. And Alex’s relationship with Madison and Mason’s relationship with Madison. Those people never got engaged and yet we saw their whole courtship, but they laid off two couples that did get engaged. Very, very weird. I’m just curious. Maybe someone knows the answer to this and you can spoil me on it.
Do you know if these two couples that did get engaged that we are not going to be able to follow them? Were they brought down to Mexico and we’re just not going to see them and they’re basically going to be X’d out of every single scene and edited out of every single scene or Were they just never even brought down to Mexico and after they got engaged they were just told like yeah We’re not going to bring you so I’d like to know the answer to that and finally I know it’s only been A little over 24 hours, but episode six of paradise on Hulu was released yesterday.
And in my opinion, it was the best episode of the season. I mean, we’re rumbling towards the finale. We’ve only got two episodes left of the show. It’s only eight episodes and. We are in full blown, okay, we’re starting to get some major, major answers. There’s still some that are just like, wait, kind of know something, but we don’t know the full answer.
But again, I just love mystery shows. I love shows that have intrigue to it. Love shows that have cliffhangers, even though it is frustrating. We got to wait a week, but every single episode of paradise ends with a cliffhanger and the one that came in this week’s episode, you’re like. Now, wait a second. Is this even true?
Or is this person trying to manipulate the other person to get what they want? I don’t want to go into spoilers because it’s only been over 24 hours. Maybe some of you haven’t watched it yet. Maybe I’ll bring it up towards the end of the week. However, I want to go back to something I said last week about Paradise.
And now I can talk about it. Well, actually I can’t because it would give away a spoiler of this episode. But, the thing that I thought, remember when I said, There was something that happened in last week’s episode where I was like I immediately thought something of it But when I read three episode reviews, none of the people who reviewed the episode had the same thought that I did Well, those reviewers were right the thought that came to my head when I saw what happened in last week’s episode is not what?
I believed it to be and it was proven in this week’s episode. That’s why I don’t want to go over So maybe I should even bring this up the next day if I’m not gonna talk about the show and not name names and not named storylines What’s the point? I just, I don’t think I ever lead you astray when I come to promoting shows.
Although Joe, although Joe Schmoe this season could be one of them, but you gotta watch Paradise on Hulu. If you have Hulu, it’s only been six episodes. You can get through it. If you watch six episodes of Love is Blind on Valentine’s Day or you, or you powered through it at some point this weekend, you can certainly get through Paradise on Hulu.
It is excellent, really good thinking person show. And again, I just want to give you a, not a warning, but a way to watch the show. This is not a show to be watched when it’s on in the background. This is a show you gotta, gotta pay attention to. And you got to listen to every conversation because every conversation seems to be very, very important.
You are going to miss details. If you have this on in the background or you’re on your phone during the show, which is something that drives me absolutely bonkers, I don’t do it. Even though I’m home alone watching, I still won’t do it. I will wait until the end of a show to text somebody back on a show like this.
Bachelor I’ll usually text. Although sometimes I’m getting blown up with texts during the bachelor. So I can’t get back to everybody, but for Hulu’s paradise. Yeah, I’m absolutely locked in for however many minutes the show is. Some episodes there, they’re usually about, I think around 50 minutes each episode.
There was a, there was an episode. I think that was close to an hour, but they’re right around. I think anywhere between 50 minutes, 50 to 60 minutes. And obviously, well, I have Hulu with no commercials, so I don’t have to deal with any commercials like that and such a good show and yesterday’s episode.
Personally for me, I thought it was the best one of the season. And I got to imagine next week’s is going to be even better because we’ve only got two episodes left and they’ve got some questions to answer. So anyway, thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple podcasts, also rate and review, but you got to hit play.
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