So some other things I wanna talk about in regards to this bachelorette announcement.
Again, by the time you listen to this, it’s probably already been made, but I just wanna get my thoughts out there early. The other two names that I heard people bring up the most were Brooks Nader and Kristen Cavalier. Both people with giant followings would get people to watch instantly. Even if you don’t follow them, that’s fine.
If you don’t follow Kristen Cavalier, you hate Kristen Cavalier. That’s fine. Millions of people love her. Millions of people love Brooks Nader. So just because you won’t watch, I’d say the same thing. If they cast a retread like they have in the past and people say, Ugh, I’m not watching him. I’m not watching her.
I didn’t like them. Great. Other people will. But now we have completely turned the chapter in the Bachelor franchise because they are casting a celebrity. We’ve never had a celebrity in this role ever. In 22 Seasons of The Bachelorette, it’s always been a former contestant. Now they’re just saying, fuck it.
We’re casting somebody who’s got millions of followers and a ton of TikTok following. They have a built-in audience that’s way bigger than any built-in audience we can get by casting a Latia or a Susie. Not that they wouldn’t have been good choices. But you see what the franchise is doing here, just accept that this is not The Bachelor and the Bachelorette that we once knew.
It looks like they have turned the page and the only way they feel that they can compete with the other dating shows out there is just saying F it. We’re going the celebrity route. Does it lose a little bit of authenticity? Absolutely. Do you think Brooks, Nader and Kristen Cavalier, if it’s them, or even Taylor, Frankie Paul, if it’s any of those three, do you think they’re remotely interested in dating?
Yahoo. Numb nuts. Who’s a personal trainer in Marina del Rey? Of course not. Do you think those women actually need to go on the show to find a guy? Are you kidding me? Those women have the pick of the litter. They don’t need to come on the bachelorette to find a husband. So that’s where it loses a little bit off of authenticity to for me.
But at this point, I don’t care. I don’t care. The show’s a dumpster fire anyway, so why not just blow the whole thing up? Start casting celebrities. Do I think whoever the Bachelorette is, if it is Taylor or Brooks or Kristen, do I think do I think if it’s one of those three that they are honestly going to pick a guy that isn’t famous or a celebrity or an athlete and actually have it last with them?
My guess is no, they’ll go through this. They’ll go through the song and dance of being the Bachelorette for the season. They’ll say what they need to say and they’ll produce a dramatic season. But I mean, my gosh. You all have complained about the quality of men they cast on the show. Now they’re doing it for somebody who’s actually famous.
Two of those three women have children. Do you think, like I said, Yahoo, numb nuts, who’s the personal trainer in Rita Del Rey. Do you think he’s ready to live the lifestyle that Brooks or Kristen or Taylor live? That’s what I’m saying, like the fantasy is now out the window. I think by doing this type of stunt casting, this is clearly a publicity stunt.
But if you would’ve cast a Susie or a Latia or a Maria, yeah, you would’ve had interest. But those women aren’t drawing in millions and millions and millions of people who already follow the Taylors and the Christians and the Brooks’ of the world. They have a giant audience, 10 times more than any woman they could have cast from this franchise.
So. You might not understand why they’re doing it, but in 2025 they had to, this franchise is dying a slow death. They’re gonna try something new. And I guarantee, I guarantee you, if it’s one of those three women or anybody else, we already know, it’s gonna be somebody famous who’s been on tv. It doesn’t matter.
They are drawing bigger ratings than anything that Grant did, anything that Jen Tran did, it’s going to blow it outta the water because those women have millions of followers. Like shit. Even if a quarter of their followers say, I wanna watch The Bachelorette now, that’s way more than would’ve watched, unfortunately, A Susie or a Latia or a Maria.
It’s just fact. So do I think it loses its authenticity? Of course I do. This isn’t about love anymore. This is about a TV show. It’s always been about a TV show, but at least you can make an argument that the bachelorettes in the past, you know, weren’t famous. Did get famous once they got off the show, but they weren’t famous going into the show.
They didn’t have millions of followers going into the show. They had a storyline that people liked and followed, but again, do we honestly think Brooks Nader or Kristen Cavalier need to go on the show to find a husband, please, publicity, stunt. It’s just not, to me, it’s not about finding love anymore. It really isn’t.
And that’s fine for a lot of people because people just want entertainment. The amount of people that are commenting on Call her Daddy and have sent me messages in regards to if it, if it was Taylor, Frankie Paul. I don’t, I don’t know how many of those people know she had the domestic violence arrest in 2023.
Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t. But immediately their thought jumped to, oh my God, this season is gonna be so messy. I love it. So that’s what people care about. They honestly don’t care about a love story. So why should I?
My preference would be to cast a Susie or a laia, but my preference doesn’t matter and it, they’re clearly not going that route. So we adjust and we move forward and this is what we get. I’m fine with it now. Before I was a little hesitant. Remember when I had Game of Roses on preseason and Chad said, well, if they go bachelor, they gotta do someone like Harry Jie.
And I’m like, yeah, but that is that believable? And he’s like, does it matter? The show’s dying? They need some sort of injection of life into this franchise. And this is exactly what this announcement has done. 1000%. And finally, let’s talk about a big brother. Last night we finally saw it all play out.
There was a part of me. That still held out hope that Rachel, while we knew she had been gone ever since last Thursday when that competition took place and she wasn’t living with anybody else, that there was somehow some way she was gonna be able to earn herself back into the game. It’s clear after last night’s episode that is not the case.
She was eliminated and rightfully so, that everybody is upset. I just don’t see any way I, I’m gonna talk to Sharon Tharp today. Who got to submit questions for Rachel last night? Unless this is one giant ruse, as I mentioned yesterday, if this is a summer slam, Seth Rollins and the C-B-S-P-R team has just thrown it out there.
That a send your questions in for Rachel because she’s the latest evicted house. Well, she wasn’t evicted, number one. She was eliminated. Big difference. And I threw the question out to you yesterday in regards to has this ever happened before? And the only thing that I saw was season 14. Jodi Rollins got sent out the first night after her team lost the first competition, and Dan Lease Dan Gling picked her to go.
And then in season 18, Glen Garcia lost three consecutive competitions going out on day two. But this is the first type that elimination that wasn’t a vote out. Those two while they weren’t voted out, that happened in the first week of the game. So everyone has a right to be upset at this. I don’t understand it whatsoever.
I’m guessing Rachel is livid. If you noticed when she was competing in the white Locust Challenge, when she had three and a half minutes to get through that maze and then they were cutting away to her confessionals, you could absolutely tell. In those confessionals, they were filmed after she had already lost because she was basically in tears filming that confessional.
Obviously you can’t film a confessional in the middle of while you’re competing in a competition. So you have to either do it before or after, but if you do it before, you can’t be saying things like, I just completed the I just completed the maze and I won. Well, how would you do that? You didn’t know if you won.
So. I noticed that, that when they were showing Rachel’s confessionals, while she was struggling with the maze, it was clear as day those confessionals were filmed after she had already lost, and she knew that she had been eliminated. And that was just something to look out for. But I, I just, I, I don’t understand big brother’s production of this.
What executive producer made this decision? I understand that they laid it out there for everybody. Yeah, you could possibly be eliminated. If you don’t complete this maze, you will be eliminated. However, we’re seven weeks into the season. Is this how you should be eliminating people? You’ve never done it in 26 previous seasons.
Why are you doing it now? And it just so happened, yeah, that one of the fan favorites and the most polarizing figure of this season is the one who got eliminated, but they should have never been put in that position. Every elimination should be an eviction. Your peers get to vote you out to decide whether or not they still want you in the house.
Rachel hadn’t been on the block all season long, even though all season long, all anybody ever talked about was getting Rachel out and she was so good at this game. They never got her out and let alone never even got her up on the block. And this isn’t me just standing for Rachel Re, I like Rachel. She’s been on this podcast two or three times.
Watching the way she played the game, I was like, she deserves to compete just like everybody else. You shouldn’t be sent home on a competition. And this show’s gonna have a lot to answer for When Julie does her weekly interview with Dalton Ross, I’m curious to see what she says. Is she gonna stump and just be a homer for the show and back them and say, Hey, expect the unexpected.
You can expect the unexpected and shove it up your ass. It’s a stupid line to a corny show. Then I’m still going to watch. But man, this thing has gone downhill really quick because that is just a horrible, horrible way for a former winner who hadn’t been even up on the block in seven weeks to go home because she couldn’t complete a maze in three and a half minutes.
Maybe it should have been, she automatically goes up on the block. I would’ve been fine with that, and then you would’ve had one more person, I guess, who finished second to last in the con whatever. One more person would’ve been the person that, that, that goes up against her and then she has, you know, to convince the jury to keep her there.
I just don’t understand why this white locust change had to be the way it was. I who decided this. Why did you do this? It is so bad. Every single alumni is furious. Even people that didn’t like Rachel Reilly are furious that this is the way someone got eliminated on Big Brother. You know me. I only started season 21, so I’ve watched every season since then and I’ve watched every episode.
I’m not this huge Stan. I’m not this one that defends it till the death, but even I’m bothered by how this played out. How couldn’t you be? It’s just dumb. It makes no sense. I would love an explanation and let’s see how open they are. Let’s see if Allison Groner does an interview at the end of this season saying, yeah, that’s what we decided and we just wanted to it’s, it falls under the theme of expect the unexpected.
Oh, shove it so dumb. You can expect the unexpected and twists and turns that maybe give somebody an advantage or maybe give someone immunity. That’s fine. Expect the unexpected shouldn’t be. If you don’t win a competition, you’re going home. Period. End of story. Thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it.
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Yeah, it was clearly on Apple’s side. It uploaded at the same time every morning, but when you hit play, same thing. It happened for me when I hit play, it says episode can’t play on this device. And I’m like, what’s going on? And then about I think two or three hours later it was working. So those stuff, Adam completely outta my control.
In case you didn’t go back and check yesterday’s episode wasn’t able to play for about two or three hours, but it’s up there now. But I’m sure you wanna listen to this episode right now and hope we don’t have any more glitches. It was strictly an Apple Podcast glitch and a Spotify glitch, so nothing on my end.
Anyway, thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it, and I’ll talk to you tomorrow. See ya.
