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 Friday. A good Friday show for you. We’re going to go over yesterday’s interview with Lauren O’Brien. We are going to definitely discuss the Traders finale last night.
I’ve really got some thoughts on this and they’re not really positive. And I’ll explain has nothing to do with the winners, but I’ll explain what I’m talking about. We’ve got more reaction to Jax Taylor, admitting a cocaine addiction, which has me puzzled a little bit. And we’re going to talk about some other reality shows as well.
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On your first box. All right. I did want to start with this real quickly, since we know the women tell all for grant season is this upcoming Monday, meaning the overnight dates is going to be the following Monday on March 17th. The finale is on the 24th and that became. I guess somewhat official yesterday when the bachelor nation website put out anybody that wants to attend the live after the final rose, it’s on March 24th.
It’s a long day. It’s like one to 9 PM. You got to get there. Yeah, you got to get there by one o’clock and you’re going to be there till about eight, 9 PM. And you can go on bachelor nation. com website. Give them your email address. All the particulars that they need. And you can do that. The thing that like my timing just sucks usually because, you know, I go to Vegas for the first week of NFL or excuse me, first week of March Madness every year.
And usually. At least the last two years when I’m in Vegas is when they release the men on the Bachelorette Facebook page for the men for the upcoming season of The Bachelorette. And I have to, when I’m out of town, I have to do that. I team with Bachelor Data. We find the men, but it’s, it’s not something I want to do when I’m out of town.
Well, with, with the finale being on the 24th, I’m going to be out of town. You’re going to be in California because I’m going from Vegas to California this year. Actually, as I have the last couple of years because my fantasy draft is on Sunday, the 23rd, but I’m in California on Monday, the 24th, and hopefully the Hulu password I use to watch when there is a Maverick game on Monday nights here.
Hopefully I can use it as well and watch the East Coast feed. So I’ll be watching it from what five to 8 p. m. So that could be good. Hopefully that works. If not, man, it’s going to be on for me for eight to 11 and we’ll be able to record my podcast till after that. Who knows? Hopefully I’ll be able to watch from 5 to 8 pacific time.
Well, it’ll be 5 to 8 pacific time, but I’m watching the east coast feed, which will go from 8pm to 11pm. But it just always seems to be something. The timing of March Madness and the end of the Bachelor season, whether it’s a finale night or I’m out there because they’re releasing the men for the upcoming season, but we know there’s no Bachelorettes, to worry about that.
Trust me, I’d actually rather be out of town for the finale than be out of town when they release 25 men that I have to find last names and Instagram pages for, so. But, once again, timing sucks for reality, Steve. Alright, let’s talk about the Traitors finale last night. If you did not watch it, I would suggest Fast forwarding through this, actually, I’m going to get to the traders in a little bit.
I want to talk I’m going to, let me talk, Lauren first, Lauren O’Brien, who was on the podcast yesterday. I hope a lot of you watched it on my YouTube channel. I hope a lot of you listened to it. It was, you know, judging by the numbers, one of my most downloaded episodes in recent memory. So thank you all for listening.
And like I said, we’re going to start having more love is blind contestants on today. Maybe by the time you listen to this podcast, you’ll have already stayed up and watched. The love is blind finale. I’m not going to talk spoilers yet cause it’s too early. I get it. Some of you probably aren’t watching it until later on today, but you get the resolution on the four marriages and then Sunday night is the reunion show.
So Monday, we’re going to have a lot of love is blind talk. Probably going to have another love is blind guest on the weekly podcast next week, but for Lauren, I hope that you paid attention to a lot of the things that she said I thought she handled herself gracefully and while you can tell. She’s not thrilled with the way Dave handled things.
She didn’t destroy him. She didn’t call him names. She just laid out there like, hey, this was my life. This is what I had to experience. It was very frustrating at times. Dave, what was the phrase she used? She felt like she was getting emotional whiplash from him. And I said it on the podcast. I said it to her after the fact.
I said, you know, Lauren, the thing that If I were you, I would be most disappointed in. And the thing that’s probably the most frustrating was the fact that you were his fiance at that point. I understand. She said, look, I have every right or not every right. She said, I totally get Dave barely knowing me.
We’re in Honduras. He hears this rumor before he even left for the show that some girl’s got a girl, some girl’s got a boyfriend on the show I get. And then once it was established that it was quote unquote me. I get him having doubts. I have no, I have no problem with him questioning me. She admitted that, but her frustration and my frustration, I think a lot of people’s was frustration was, Hey, why isn’t he believing his fiance over his sister and his friends, because clearly somebody was telling him the wrong thing.
And the way Lauren explained it, she was very up front. She said, yeah, was hooking up with him for two months, but he was seeing other people as well. So clearly we couldn’t have been in a monogamous, exclusive, one on one relationship. He was seeing somebody else. She said at times she felt like she didn’t even know he was even into her.
And when she found out he went on a hinge date one time, she was like, oh, looks like we’re on the same page. Thank God. So. It was just weird how Dave constantly used that as a reason to get out of the relationship. And I think a lot of people thought that Dave probably really didn’t care. And when you hear Lauren talk about it, she’s like, He only brought this up on camera.
Which makes probably even more people think. Yeah, he was just using it as an out to get out of the relationship because if he truly did care, if he truly did care and hell even said at one point during the show to Lauren about not meeting his family, basically said, if I wanted my sister to be here, she’d be here.
Which is basically him saying, I don’t want you to meet her. So he wasn’t putting in the effort he needed to. And I think that was the big problem. And that was one of the major problems that Loren had with him. And we all did. It’s like, she’s your fiance. You chose to get engaged to her in the pods. Why wouldn’t you give her at least the benefit of the doubt?
And even if you still doubted her, have her explain to your friends and your sister the situation. Because when it’s coming from them telling you, and you’re like, yeah, you know what, I think you’re right. But she’s telling me, no, how, why not have her talk to your friends and your sister and say, this was the situation, everything she said on the show, everything she said in the podcast yesterday, it seems pretty clear to me, you know, I don’t think Lauren was just lying on the show and lying straight to my face.
I really don’t believe that for a second. I think she was very clear about what that relationship was. It was a friends with benefits situation. She said it on the show. And then when you see this guy act this Dan guy. If you see him act the way he’s been acting on Instagram, this guy is clearly out for clout.
So he loses all credibility, even if he does come forward and say Lauren is lying. I’m sorry dude, you lose all credibility when you’re tagging Nick Vial and you’re tagging CallHerDaddy in your post because you want to be on their podcast so bad. Which is exactly what he’s been doing. Just, this guy has zero credibility.
I don’t think he’s ever come out and said, yeah, I was her boyfriend, but even if he did at this point, he’s got no legs to stand on. He’s got absolutely no credibility for what he’s done on social media. So if Dave really, really wanted to make it work. And that to me is the simplest part of all this. If he really wanted to make it work with Lauren and he wanted Lauren to be his wife, he easily could have made it happen.
He chose not to, he chose the path of least resistance, which is, I’ll just believe my sister and her friends. And that’s going to be the reason I get out of this. I feel bad for her, but I’m glad it was a year ago. She’s clearly over it. She even dated somebody that was, she met in the pods that has since ended, but she seems happy and she’s not distraught over this anymore.
And that’s probably the best thing to come out of it.
