A, B, C made the official announcement yesterday.
We all knew that the Golden Bachelor was going to be airing on Wednesdays in the fall, but we never had a premier date until yesterday. Now we do. It’s gonna start Wednesday, September 24th. Now, what’s interesting, I know you’re all saying, is it gonna be Mel. What’s interesting is while they did release the name the date that it’s starting, September 24th, there was no mention of Mel in that announcement unless I miss something.
All Jesse did was give an Instagram post saying Golden Bachelor coming September 24th. Now I’m very well aware on Game of Roses. Chad said yesterday that they’re keeping Mel and filming starts next week. It’s very possible. I just thought it was interesting that they did not even hype their own guy when they announced September 24th.
Why not hype him? Why not say throw his name out there? I, I said this when everything went down with Mel back at the end of June when his podcast that he did early June for the Go Blue podcast. When it came out, I said, look, I think it is easy to replace Mel ’cause it’s not like they’ve done a bunch of promotion for him outside of that April event where they first announced him.
He hasn’t been on one Bachelor affiliated podcast. I haven’t seen any billboards of this guy. I haven’t seen him on any entertainment sites. He hasn’t done any even written interviews. It would’ve been so easy to replace this guy, but the show has not even addressed this. This was over, we’re close to a month now.
Like, look, he did that interview on June 4th. It didn’t hit the media until the third week of June when Emma and Claire’s podcast. Put the clip out there. Someone sent it to me, I reported it the next morning. And then what a surprise, every entertainment site said, oh, by the way, did you hear this Mel Owens interview, our next Golden Bachelor?
Look at what he’s saying. It’s like, yeah, it’s been out there for three weeks. I’m not saying I broke it ’cause I didn’t hear that interview until that day when Emm and Claire showed the clip. But it was just very funny that all the entertainment sites ran with, look at what this guy said when it had been out there for three weeks.
We know why they started running with it that day, but that’s why when I had Game of Roses on a few weeks ago, I said, look, it’s so easy to replace him. He’s the first one problematic, quote unquote contestant that did their problematic thing before filming started. Every time we ever hear about anyone else.
Especially for a lead or a contestant, it’s usually something that comes up while filming is going on. So there’s nothing they can do at that point. There’s one guy, one guy, the guy that got the first one-on-one on Hannah Brown season he was eliminated and I’ll just leave it at that because he’s also had a tragic passing.
Now the other thing with other people. We all find out about after the fact. You know, obviously Devon’s stuff was after the season had ended, so you can’t really do anything about it. You could have easily replaced Mel, like what you could say, like, oh, but they had, they had poured so much into him already and already shot promos.
Hell, they shot promos with Kayla and they replaced her within a week of the shooting those promos. So I, I, I don’t buy that for a second. The other thing I don’t buy for a second is anything they are going to sell us with Mel, whether it’s a statement by the network they have, Mel, get out there and apologize for what he said.
I know I keep repeating myself, but I’m just going to continue to do it. And that is, this guy has already shown us who he is. He can say all he wants that. I wasn’t being serious. Like Kath’s quote that I read you from her Entertainment Weekly interview yesterday, I don’t even think Kath ever, ever heard what Mel said because that answer that she gave, oh, he was probably just kidding, Kath.
No, he wasn’t. He literally said in the interview, 45 to 60, if I’m being, I’m just being honest. That’s what he said. So no, he wasn’t being flippant, he wasn’t talking to the boys. He did an interview. He has no idea. The magnitude of this franchise and what people will try and dig up on you. This wasn’t even hard to dig up.
It was on a podcast. It’s not like somebody had to go into the archives of mellow’s past and find this. So just a bad decision all around by a, B, C if they are gonna start filming with him next week. And I, I, I just dunno how anybody can get behind this guy. What is their stance on this? Their stance is he was just kidding.
And the women, once they see him, are gonna realize he’s serious about this process. What a load of malarkey that they are selling you. How about that malarkey? Does that make me sound young and hip? Not quite. I know Nick and Natalie are hosting a reality dating show. It’s already filmed. It’s gonna come out in 2026.
We don’t know what month yet, but it’s called Age of Attraction. Because it’s a dating experiment where it’s going to be people that go on this show to date each other, but all sorts of ages. The dating ranges is gonna be from 22 to 59. And the reason Nick and Natalie are the hosts of this show, it filmed in Vancouver earlier this summer or earlier this year, coming out in 2026.
The reason why Nick, Nick, and Natalie are on this is because they have an 18 year age gap in their marriage and. It’s just so ironic because the biggest insecurity in Nick Al’s life is the fact that he wouldn’t go public with Natalie because he knew the age difference was kind of creepy and Oh, yeah.
Did I ever tell you the story of chicks in the office hosting a live event and they did a Q and A afterwards and someone asked them, Hey, what’s something that when you guys conducted an interview. Did anybody ever tell you you can’t ask about this. This is confirmed. You could ask chicks in the office about it.
I don’t know if they’ll say it publicly. They did after their event. ’cause I know somebody was there and they told me of all the examples they could have given. And chicks in the office have had a lot of good guess, right. Of all the guests that they’ve had, someone asked them what is one guest that came on and said, you cannot ask us about this, or you cannot ask me about this.
They said, Nick Vial told us we can’t ask about the age discrepancy between him and Natalie. It was off limits. And then here Nick and Natalie are about to host a dating show called Age of Attraction, where people 22 to 59 date each other. Such a fraud. I’m sure you’ve all seen by now. The cold play concert had a kiss cam a couple nights ago, and the CEO of a company called Astronomer was caught on the kiss cam behind a woman who is the HR person of that company.
He was holding her, and you can tell like they were being very coupling with each other. One big problem, he’s married and she’s married and not to each other. And right when the camera, right when they saw each other on the kiss cam, they immediately separated because they realized, oh shit, we’re busted.
So obviously everybody’s talking about this and he gave a statement yesterday. And he basically said it was supposed to be the night of music, and joy turned into a deeply personal mistake, played out on a very public stage. I wanna sincerely apologize to my wife, my family, the team at Astronomer. You deserve better for me as a partner, as a father, and as a leader.
This is not who I wanna be or how I wanna represent the company. I help build. I’m taking the time to reflect, take accountability, and to figure out the next steps. Personally and professionally. I ask for privacy as I navigate that process well, I’m guessing at least his wife should leave him in about 14 seconds, but.
The last paragraph of his statement I found really interesting. He said, after all that he said, I also want to express how troubling it is that what should have been a private moment became public. Without my consent, I respect artists and entertainers, but I hope we can all think more deeply about the impact of turning someone else’s life into a spectacle.
For whatever points this guy tried to earn with his first three paragraphs saying, I’m gonna take accountability. This was embarrassing. My wife, my family, I apologize to my company. Did he literally just blame the kiss cam? What? Are you kidding? Dude? First off, so many arenas have the kiss cam. If you’re dumb enough to take your side piece to a concert or a game and.
Be standing there hugging on her, then you clearly don’t seem to care about getting caught. Not to mention, I mean, I don’t know anybody, I, I didn’t even know there was a company called Astronomer until yesterday. I’m sure their business has taken off now, but everybody that was in that suite with him or around him, they’re basically enablers, right?
’cause they, I’m assuming, knew, hey, there’s the boss with the HR woman. They’re both married and not to each other. The balls on this guy to be like, Hey, kiss cam people, you really ruined it for me. Like he’s mad that he got caught. It almost, it almost nullifies what he said in the first three paragraphs, right?
Because he is like, oh, I’m sorry. I’m gonna take accountability. I’m embarrassed for my wife and my family and my, and my company, but hey. Maybe you shouldn’t go around filming people who are cheating on their wives. What a more on this. Andy Byron is Andy Byron, who probably just lost half of his net worth after that video went viral yesterday.
Congratulations, Andy, and congratulations to Astronomer, which is now on the map as a company that I’m sure Andy is either gonna step down from or. Something’s gonna happen other than him losing his wife. Yeah, not a good look. And an even worse look to blame the kiss cam people. Just, some people just absolutely amaze me.
And finally, I want to end with this. I know what you did last summer. Comes out nationally today, but in select cities. It was released yesterday. I went and saw it. I’m not gonna give any spoilers out, but I’ll just give you my quick review of it. I really, really, really liked it, like I thought, okay, updated version.
Look, I knew Freddie Prince Jr. And Jennifer Love Hewitt. Were gonna be in it, like it’s all over the, in the trailers. I’d say they’re both in it about the same amount. Probably 25% of the movie is in it. It, and it does have a lot of nostalgia to it. It does tie back into the 1997 movie and yeah, it’s almost a modern day of a group of friends kill somebody at the beginning of the movie.
They come back a year later and somebody is haunting them saying, I know what you did last summer, but it ties into the 1997 murders in Southport from the first movie, and I thought it was really, really good. I really enjoyed it. I’m down two thumbs up for me. I also wanna say anybody that is going to see the movie, there is a mid credit scene that I think you wanna stick around for.
I’d say it’s relevant. So once the credits start rolling, maybe you have to wait. Maybe it was like a minute, maybe 90 seconds. But there is a mid credit scene that is quite important, so if you go see it. I just know I warned you, but two thumbs up for me. No spoilers. I think you will enjoy it if you liked the original, even if you liked the second one, which was kind of campy and kind of ridiculous.
But there’s a lot of throwbacks to the first two movies in this movie, so it’s got something for the newer audience and it’s got something for us. Old fogies who loved the 1997 original. Anyway. Thank you all for listening. Really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple Podcast. Also, rate and review. You gotta hit play.
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