You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality Sea Podcast. I’m your host Reality Sea. Thank you all for tuning In a good Monday show for you, we gonna talk more about the Golden Bachelor Mel Owens. Who had a date this past weekend, but we’re gonna talk about the interview that came out on Friday with Glamour Magazine because this guy is making it worse for himself and not better.
I don’t understand. I’m gonna read you some of his answers, and I’m actually not even like, oh my God, this guy’s an idiot. I just don’t even honestly even know what he’s saying. Seriously. We’ll talk about that. We’ll talk about Big Brother. Very crazy episode last night. We are gonna talk about spoilers because they didn’t even show us who the nominations are this week.
If you’ve been following along, you know, but if you don’t, you wanna know, you’ll be getting ’em in this episode, and then I’ll give you my spoiler free review. Not that there needs to be spoilers on a movie like Naked Gun, but I’ll tell you what I thought of Naked Gun when I saw it on Friday. We’ll get to all that right now, so let’s get started.
All right. One thing that I posted this weekend was that Mel Owens had a one-on-one date, Thursday at the Orange County Fair, and it was with Peg, and that’s all we know about her. Her name is Peg, she’s 62 and she’s from Las Vegas because that’s in the list of women that were given out on the Golden Bachelor Facebook page.
We know nothing else about her. So one-on-one date, I had a couple still photos of them sitting down, and then I had a video that I posted. They basically were brought up on stage or brought from backstage of Casey in the Sunshine Band. By the way, I grew up in Orange County, pretty much went to the Orange County Fair at least once every year growing up, and I swear Casey and the Sunshine Band was performing at some point during the Orange County Fair when I was going to it, which was 30 years ago.
Now granted, the Orange County Fair goes on for a month, so it’s not like it’s a a weekend thing, but very, very typical. I wasn’t surprised that Casey and the Sunshine Band, but if you watched the video that I posted, there were definitely some booze coming from the crowd when they brought out Mel and Peg.
Now, it might’ve been because Casey and the Sunshine Band had to stop down their set to introduce these two people that I’m guessing 95% of the audience did not come to see. Maybe the booze were because they knew who Mel was and they were like, boo, this guy sucks. Either way, we don’t really know much that has happened this season, although we got our first comments from Mel, so we know that Mel met up with some of the media and one of the interviews that he did was posted online and it was from glamour.com by Jessica Rad.
This is the first time. Either he’s addressed it or the show’s addressed it. What he said back in that June podcast on the MLO Blue podcast, where he made the comments about, oh, like I’m 45 to 60. That’s just me being honest. If they’re over 60, I’m cutting them no artificial hips or wigs. You know what he said?
So we get to see this. We get to see his first statements. Mind you, this podcast was on June 4th that he did, where he said these things, it didn’t make national news till about three weeks later. And now at the time he did this interview was basically a month, maybe five weeks after that. So he’s had plenty of time to craft exactly what he’s going to say now to someone like me and a lot of people, no matter what he said, it wasn’t gonna convince me of anything but.
Maybe this guy was really media trained and he turned on the charm. Honestly, I think it did the opposite. This is one of the worst interviews I’ve ever seen for somebody that was in deep shit and needed to get himself out of it by actually giving good answers. I, I don’t even know what he was getting at in this interview.
So he’s initially asked, did you have any inkling that people might be upset by your comments when you said them? And he said at the moment, no, but I had a friend call me from Michigan. She’s 65. I went to school with her. She’s an attorney. She’s also a big fan of The Bachelor. She said to me, Mel, no. What are you doing?
I’m reading all about it. And he said, I don’t know. It hit that hard. She goes, you’ve got the, you’ve got to right this wrong. And he said, so I listened to her. That’s how I found out. And then Jessica asked him, did she explain to you why it was wrong? She said, what you said was insensitive and it’s not who you are.
My reference of here’s where he gets, he loses me. He said, my reference of dating was 39, 40 years old. I hadn’t dated in 26, 27 years. That’s what I told her. She goes, it doesn’t matter. You said some things that are just incredibly wrong, and he said, I’ve got to apologize. Alright. There’s two things in that answer that we need to go over.
Number one, he said my reference of dating was 39 or 40 years old. Okay, I get it. You haven’t dated since basically you started dating your ex-wife, which we know you started dating her at 39 or 40. You got married a couple years later, you’ve been divorced and you haven’t started dating fine. But what does it have to do with what he said?
That doesn’t make any sense. My reference of dating was 39 or 40 years old. Okay, dude, you’re 66. I I beyond me. And then he says, I’ve got to apologize. So his friend told him, you said a bunch of insensitive things, and he tells her seemingly around this time where it went national, you’ve gotta apologize.
And he says, yeah, I gotta apologize. Then why didn’t he, it’s been five weeks. So
he and and Jessica says to him, totally fair to have an age range that you feel comfortable with for dating, but why did you decide to go on the Golden Bachelor if you didn’t wanna date women who were over 60? This is the biggest question we’ve been asking from the get go. When I see people shooting back and saying he’s allowed to date who he wants, it’s like, okay, you’re not even listening to the argument.
You’re completely missing the point. Nobody has said that Mel isn’t allowed to have preferences. We know older men, like younger women. That’s not the issue here. The fact is he admitted it publicly and he admitted it publicly as the Golden Bachelor. Someone who is 66 and everybody on his show is going to be 60 years or older.
And he’s 66, and he said, my preference is 45 to 60-year-old women. What, what are people missing about this art? It’s very, it’s very straightforward. It’s very plain and simple. And then he said, because I didn’t know anything about how the Golden Bachelor ages, I didn’t, I had watched the first show when I was younger, blah, blah, blah.
I didn’t know the age range because I wasn’t watching it. I’m thinking, to me, the age range was 45 to 60. That’s my age range. I’m thinking that’s the Gold Years for me. My reference again was when I was dating at 39 or 40. I hadn’t dated in 26 years, so I had no clue. Okay, this guy’s the dumbest guy on the planet.
Seriously, quit talking, dude. I’m gonna start calling you Kelly Wolf. Just shut up. Stop talking. These answers are making it worse. I didn’t know the age range because I wasn’t watching it. That’s fine. He didn’t have to watch the show. But I don’t know, maybe when you’re going through the process and they approach you, Hey, we are thinking maybe you can be the Golden Bachelor this year.
I don’t know. Maybe take a look at the show, know what you’re getting involved in. And then he said it again and this interview, I’m thinking to me, the age range was 45 to 60. That’s my age range. Okay. He just admitted it again. That’s who he’s attracted to. 45 to 60. Dude, great. That’s perfectly fine. But as the Golden Bachelor, you’re not getting women 45 to 60, you’re getting everybody over 60 except for one woman named Maya who’s 58.
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