Alright, some bachelor information to go over, not information but bachelor news. First off, tomorrow’s weekly podcast. Episode number four 50 is with Chad and Lizzie from Game of Roses. And I wanted to bring them on.
Mainly, I would say, I think the first 25 to 30 minutes is all golden bachelor stuff, and I think it’s a really good conversation because Chad and I do not agree on where this is headed. You know me and you’ve heard me for since last Thursday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, and yesterday’s podcast talking about Golden Bachelor and.
Since I first talked about it, when I said, you know what? I think it’s probably about a 10% chance Mel Owens gets recast. Two. My new stance is I’d be shocked if he wasn’t recast at this point. Chad doesn’t think he’s gonna get recast. Lizzie does. Lizzie and I are on the same boat on this, and Chad just doesn’t think he’s gonna get recast.
Not saying that Chad doesn’t think he should be recast. Chad just doesn’t think it’s going to happen. He thinks he should. But he thinks the show doesn’t think he should, and the show will sweep this under the rug like they do a lot of other things, which is a fine take to have. And look, neither of us are right at this moment.
We will find out, we will have our answer within a couple weeks because either Mel Owens is gonna begin filming as the new Golden Bachelor, or they’re gonna make an announcement and say we have replaced him. So Chad and I are just kinda like waiting in anticipation because there is no answer right now.
He presents a compelling case because I absolutely, in the beginning thought the way Chad did. Like they’ll sweep this under the rug like they do everything else. My stance has changed once all the national outlets ran with it, and I just don’t see how you can trot him out there at this point. Now, the other thing is, the thing I don’t know about is logistics, but as I said.
Outside of the April event where they announced him, they haven’t promoted him at all. He’s not on the bachelor nation.com website. He hasn’t done one interview with any of the podcasters in this bachelor affiliated world. He hasn’t done almost famous. He hasn’t done bachelor, happy hour. He hasn’t, hasn’t done Susan and Kathy’s podcast.
He hasn’t done Nick’s. He hasn’t done Caitlin’s. Nobody affiliated with the show. Has he gone on their podcast? So it’s not like a, B, C has been shoving him down our throats. And as you’ve heard me say, it’s a hell of a lot easier to replace him than it is to replace 20 to 25 women, however many they were planning on having on his season, who I guarantee you a lot of them are probably having questions about whether they should show up because I guarantee you every single one of them has heard what he has said.
So if you are one of them, if you’re not questioning. Going on the show, then I doubt your sincerity about actually finding somebody. It seems like you’re just going on to be on TV and look, everybody has their own reasons for going on, but if you are truly looking to find that guy and truly thinking and, and trying to convince America you’re interested, you think going on this show that Mel Owens might be the one, but you’ve heard what he said and you still want to go on.
I, I just, I have a hard time believing you. Because I don’t believe anything he says when he says if he comes out and releases any sort of statement or if they do end up casting him and they go through with his season and he says, you know, I said some things that, you know what I regret and oh my gosh, you guys are totally blowing me away.
Boy, I should have never have said that you women have gone above and beyond what I ever expected. I’m sorry. I’m still not gonna buy it. I don’t care what he says in a statement on the show. Nothing. We know how he feels. He has shown us who he is. He’s got a wife that’s 20 years younger than him who Chad and Lizzie didn’t even know that I had to inform them of that.
And he’s just not interested in women his age, which is fine. I’m not killing him because he is not interested in women his age. I’m killing him because of what he said publicly and. He can like women younger than him and he can want women 45 to 60 age range, that’s perfectly fine, but that’s not perfectly fine if you are the next Golden Bachelor because the point of the show is to be with somebody in their sixties.
So that’s why I just can’t understand for the life of me, how in the world they tro this guy out there. But we will see, Chad doesn’t think they can, thinks it might be too late. Lizzie and I are like, you can’t put this guy out there. You are feeding him to the wolves and this season is doomed from the start.
And I think one thing that’s being forgotten in all this, you could be like, well, they have been able to sweep other stuff under the rug. That was Chad’s point. They sweep everything under the rug and they just will move on and not say anything. And I had two responses to that. Number one, put this in mis made national news.
I said, as I’ve said, if it was just us content creators talking about this. Easily, they could have avoided it and ignored it and just moved on with their season. But every single national outlet you Google, Mel Owen’s name, these are all the articles that pop up. Negative, negative, negative, negative. And the second thing that I wanted to bring up is this.
We’ve never had a lead, whether it was The Bachelor or the Bachelorette. In the 50 seasons we’ve had between the two seasons, between the two shows. We’ve never had a bachelor, bachelorette lead. Say something like this pre-show, every time we find out something about a contestant or a lead, it’s either during the season or after the show has filmed or while it’s airing, and it’s like, well, of course they can avoid it now because the show’s already out.
What are they gonna do? It’s already happened. Mel hasn’t happened yet. You can go in and make a change. It’s just this has never been done before. No one’s put their foot in their mouth before they stepped on the show and said. I’m gonna be the new lead. It’s the first time it’s ever happened. So while other leads, I’m sure thought in the back of their head, oh, this is a great opportunity for me.
I don’t really care if I meet anybody. If I do, great, not a big deal. If I don’t, they never verbalized it on a podcast or in any form, and every national outlet ran with it saying, Hey, you know that new bachelor that’s coming? Look at what he said before even filming his season. So that’s why I think it’s different and that’s why I think they have the ability to change.
Chad doesn’t think so. Chad thinks he’s gonna sweep it under the rug, which is fine. One of us is gonna be right. I think it’s gonna be me. I really do think they will recast him, but just have to wait and see. Bachelor in Paradise laid out their schedule for the month of July. We all know the show starts next Monday.
Did you know next Monday’s show is three hours? Holy shit, that’s a lot of hours to the show. For the first episode. I mean, come on. Do we need three hours? Are you kidding me? Three hours next Monday. I just want my TV guide and on my, my guide on my TV remote and just went to next Monday ’cause we’re only five days away.
And it clearly shows central time. It’s on from seven to 10 next Monday night. So I’m like, oh God. And then episode two is the following Monday, but episode three, which on their calendar says Goldens arrive. We know episode three, that’s gonna air on Tuesday the 15th. So episode one, next Monday the seventh, episode two, the following Monday the 14th, but episode three is gonna air on Tuesday and then they’re back to Monday on episodes four and five, which are July 21st and July 28th, respectively.
They haven’t given us August schedule yet. We don’t know how many episodes are on this season, but for July we are getting five episodes. The second week is gonna be a Monday, Tuesday, back to back episodes, so get ready for that. I think Monday the 14th is also three hours, but then after that, I think every episode is two, but we have, we don’t know for sure yet.
What I do know next Monday is three hours, and that is just way too much. And finally. One thing that I did not bring up yesterday that was announced the day before on late Monday. Yeah, late Monday. The Bachelor has been renewed for season 30 and they announced their show runner is Scott Teddy, the guy who just did Bachelor Paradise.
This is something we’ve been wondering because they have a different show runner for Golden Bachelor. Her name is Jessica Castro. She has worked on a show called Cosmic Love on Amazon. She has also worked with Scott Teddy on claim to fame, and then she also worked on Netflix show. Next in Fashion, I’ve only seen claim to fame, so Jessica Castro is the show runner that’s going to run Golden Bachelor and boy would I like to be in her brain right now finding out what the hell she has planned.
Is it gonna be Mel or is it not? We’ll be getting an answer, I would think within the next week or so, but this bachelor being picked up. Remember everyone was worried back in June when a B, C released their fall schedule and Bachelor hadn’t been picked up and people were like, oh my God, it’s gonna get canceled.
I was like, if you actually read the quotes from the A, B, C executives, those weren’t quotes of an executive that was looking to shit, can this show? They basically said, we’re taking our time. They made their decision, the Bachelor’s coming back. Now, they didn’t say when, but they did say it’s been picked up for, I think it said spring of, you know, the spring of 2026.
So my guess is they’re going to stay on the same schedule, which is film mid to late September through right before Thanksgiving, and it’s gonna air. After the college football season is over, college football national championship is Monday, January 19th, 2026. So the earliest you can start the next bachelor season would be the following Monday, the 26th.
So that’s the way it was for grant season. I’m assuming that’s exactly the way it’s gonna be for the next bachelor season. As for who the next bachelor, is it gonna be off Paradise? This is another discussion. That we have in tomorrow’s episode, which is really good. I think it’s a really good discussion that the three of us have because we kind of just kind of talk things out.
None of us have any answers yet. We don’t know, but we give our reasonings about why we think certain things. Chad seems to think they’re gonna go off the board. Chad seems to think for the first time since Matt Grant season, they are going to choose a bachelor that isn’t from the franchise. I said, I’m not sure, but.
We go back and forth on that tomorrow. So we don’t, we don’t know anything other than we do know. And like I’ve always said, I don’t care who gets the gig. I really don’t. All I care about is that there’s another season and there’s going to be, so we’ve got Golden Bachelor seemingly coming up in a couple weeks, start filming, and then it’s gonna air on Wednesdays starting in September.
And then we know that the Bachelor is coming in 2026, I would assume, even though they didn’t say. I would assume it’s gonna start Monday, January 26th, which is the week after college football season, because you can’t start it any earlier than that. Then you would be having to take a week off on Monday the 19th, because that’s when the College Football National Championship is airing.
So obviously as time goes on, we will get answers to Ismail. Still gonna be the Bachelor Golden Bachelor. When is it going to air the start date? We just know it airs on Wednesdays in the fall and when is bachelor filming and all this stuff. So just keep an eye out for all that stuff and I’ll keep you updated on anything that I hear.
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