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 Tuesday. A good show for you. I’m gonna tell you exactly why I did not watch Bachelor in Paradise last night, where I was, what I was doing. And maybe some news to come from it.
Juliana went on Jason Tarek’s podcast. We’re gonna talk about what she said. We are gonna talk about Big Brother, just absolute chaos. Started by Rachel Riley yesterday at the Veto Ceremony and I want to talk about another Netflix documentary that’s from the reality TV world that I watched over the weekend, which I found fascinating.
And we will get to all that right now. Let’s get started. Alright, yesterday. For those that don’t know, and probably a lot of you don’t know, twice a year, there’s something called podcast movement. It’s basically a convention where you go to a certain city and it’s usually held at a hotel and they use all their convention space and.
You just go into different rooms and hear different speakers talking about podcasts and stuff like that? Well, podcast movement 2025 started yesterday in Dallas, and most of the speakers start today and it goes through Thursday. I did not attend yesterday, but I did attend a happy hour, kind of a kickoff.
Lunch, no luncheon kickoff. Happy hour at Cosm in Dallas. If you’ve never been to Cosm, there’s only two of them right now. There’s one in LA and one in Dallas. It is a just an absolute crazy place. It’s basically a mini version of the sphere in Las Vegas. Just a giant screen where you can watch movies, you can watch sporting events, and it feels like you are literally in the crowd.
There it is. I’ve never been there for a sporting event. That was the first time I’ve ever been there at Cosm. I knew what it was. It’s 15 minutes from me here from where I am, but. We watched a documentary about surfing, but it was more of a networking thing. I was there to network, to talk to people in the podcasting industry.
Met a couple people. Hopefully it’s gonna lead to some guests that you’ll hear coming up in future weeks. I can already tell you this week’s guest is somebody that I’ve known peripherally because we are both part of the same media group that sells our advertising, but it is gonna be Taylor Swift related this week.
I know I talked for 90 minutes about it on Saturday. I know you heard me talk about Taylor and a podcast yesterday. Not talking about Taylor today or tomorrow, but she will be part of the weekly podcast on Thursday because I’m bringing somebody on who has a podcast about Taylor Swift, and she was just recently quoted in the Wall Street Journal for it.
Looking forward to having her on and to talk more Taylor Swift this week with an absolute. Super fan, if not the biggest fan. You know, you can’t say somebody’s the biggest fan in the world of Taylor Swift, because I guarantee there’s a lot of people that will claim they’re the biggest Taylor Swift fan.
Well, this person does have a podcast dedicated to all things Taylor Swift. She knows everything about Taylor Swift. Way more than I know, and it’ll be good to just kind of bounce stuff off her about Taylor, about her history. How she got into this, all this stuff. So that’s coming on on the weekly Thursday podcast.
The other thing that was, got the ball rolling a little bit yesterday at this happy hour, and I got to talk to a lot of advertisers when it comes to podcasting and just kind of looking for sponsors, as you know, for next years. Fan appreciation party. It is year number 10 next year. Probably going to be in the same place as it was this past year, a couple months ago at the House of Blues.
Just ’cause that venue is perfect for what I want to do it. We can get up to 200 people there for sure. And you know, next year, 10th annual, I’m not gonna do any sort of theme, I don’t think. I do wanna have a DJ there again, but yeah, gonna have a lot of fun at next year’s party and just was able to, you know, shake hands, kiss babies at this event yesterday.
And hopefully it can lead to some things in regards to sponsorships and, you know, future podcast guests. One I’m really, really excited about if we can make it happen. But because I was at this event. I missed Bachelor in Paradise last night. I will watch it today and I’ll talk about it in tomorrow’s podcast.
I know obviously he was eliminated. You knew that when I gave out the spoilers on Friday, but I know nothing about what happened last night. So I just wanna kind of throw that out there and let you know I’m not talking paradise today because I did not see it. But what I am gonna talk about in the bachelor world was Juliana Grant’s ex-fiancee who won this past season of the Bachelor, Juliana Pascal, went on Jason Tarek’s Trading Secrets podcast and talked about the breakup.
Look, we knew, even though when they made their announcement, hey. Everybody, this is tough for both of us. We respect, you know, if you respect our privacy at this time, you knew one of ’em, if not both of them was gonna do a podcast at some point. And it took Juliana basically a month to go on a podcast and I’m sure Grant will be on one sooner or later as well.
And it, look, it’s not like Juliana took shots at Grant in this podcast. Not at all. You know, she talked about the fact that she had a lot of angst because she takes marriage seriously. And her family, she didn’t wanna let her family down. She didn’t care what people on the outside were saying. And she just said she wanted to make her family proud.
And it was really hard for her to announce the breakup because she knew she had failed and the family wasn’t mad at her. So Jason also asked her about looking. Watching the show back and she admitted there were times when she got frustrated with Grant. She said quote, there were times in the conversations that I watched when he would say certain things, I would get more upset with him because I’m like, do you understand the weight of what you just said to that person?
More as an accountability than being flustered, because I knew that he was going to be doing that when I was filming and I can’t be upset with something that I agreed to do. So I reminded myself of that a lot. She said. She didn’t feel like she owed anybody anything in terms of the breakup, but viewers do become invested in their love story.
So she said, I, I think it would’ve been nice to provide some clarity, but I also think that that would’ve been really hard conversation for Grant and I to have on how do we verbalize it? After the initial conversation, we had a lot of conversations. It just made sense for the both of us. She said, she was asked, where do they stand today?
She said she wishes him the best. I wanna see him succeed. I will always support him. I think he’s a really great, genuine guy and I can tell he’s supporting me from afar. So wasn’t really any T on this podcast. Obviously. One thing that she did address, and I guess it’s T related ’cause some people thought it was t.
Is she posted a video recently where she was kissing Matt Rossi, who is the guy who showed up on Jen season. Jen’s ex-boyfriend. She said, I went to high school with Matt Rossi. We are totally friends. We actually put up a video the other day, just kinda like teasing that we are kissing. But no, it’s just fun.
So nothing’s going on with Juliana and Matt Rossi. It’ll be interesting to see if Grant actually comes out and does a podcast at some point. Maybe he will, maybe he won’t. I’m not sure if Grant is gonna be up for it. And if he does, does he take shots? Juliana did not take a shot at him yesterday at all, nor did I really think she would.
I, I, I’m not disappointed that she didn’t. I know a lot of people when they hear from contestants, especially ones that won in a recent breakup, you just want to hear all the dirt and all the tea. And then if she, but the thing is, it’s almost like a, it’s almost like a lose lose situation for Juliana and Grant if he goes on a podcast, because Juliana did not take any shots at Grant yesterday on this podcast.
And so everyone’s like, Ugh, boring. You know, we want to hear the T and then I guarantee if Juliana did take shots at Grant, it would be like, what a bitch can’t believe you would say that about your ex-fiancee. You know, she can’t win. It’s probably better to go this route than unless Grant totally mistreated her and she felt like she was being, you know, emotionally or mentally abused by the guy and she wanted to call him out for it and tell other women who are possibly in that part of their relationship right now with somebody.
Yeah, I could see her doing that if that was the case. But it doesn’t sound like it was, she was basically, yeah, I was disappointed it didn’t work out. It didn’t feel like we needed, we didn’t owe anybody anything, but we gotta talk about it ’cause people care and they invest in your relationship. So no t there.
I’m fine with this appearance by her because frankly I, yeah. Would it have been clickbait and really good gossip if she threw shade at him and she shared some stuff that we hadn’t heard about their relationship? Yeah, I guess. And then we definitely would’ve talked about it on this podcast. Every bachelor content creator would’ve talked about it.
But I’ll give her grace for the fact that she didn’t come after him. She didn’t shit talk him. And she says, yeah, I, I support him and I hope he’s supporting and I think he’s supporting me from afar. Might be boring to you, but not everything has to be t you know. For me in the mornings, got a lot of work to get to, making sure the podcasts are posted, getting them out on my socials, checking the news, responding to emails.
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