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 few topics that I want to talk about today. Number one. I’m gonna talk a little bit more about the Golden Bachelor, where we’re at with everything.
Premier is tomorrow night, and I just wanna make a couple things clear regarding this show. I am gonna speak a little bit more about Big Brother because I’m just as confused as you at the time of this recording. Not a whole hell of a lot of new news to report in terms of what is this quote unquote, unique eviction that the Mastermind is talking about.
Again, at the time of this recording, which I’m recording a little bit earlier tonight, Mondays, I try and get them out of the way a little bit earlier ’cause I’m playing poker with the boys on Monday night online. So Monday nights I do a little earlier, so this is about seven o’clock right around the time the Monday night football game is kicking off is when I’m recording this 7:00 PM central time.
And then I wanna discuss what happened last night. Even though at the time of this recording, it hadn’t happened yet. This Dawson’s Creek pilot reading to support James VanDerBeek. Alright, let’s get started. So the Golden Bachelor season two premieres tomorrow on a B, C, and the women are out there, they’ve been running promos for it.
They had a Mels Rose Avenue where Mel and a few alumni made appearances this weekend. In la, I guess on Melrose Avenue, you see the tie in there. His name is Mel Melrose. Rose is a part of the show. Ah, you know what I’m talking Just, I don’t even know what it was other than they set up like some booths and people stopped by and took pictures with him, and alumni were there, whatever.
But when Mel came out back in June and went on that football podcast and said what he did, which was. He’s attracted to 45 to 60 year olds. He told the producers Don’t want anybody with artificial hips or fake hair and all that stuff. It was clear who Mel was at that point, and I brought it up Everybody that was covering this show, every content creator who covers the Bachelor and the Bachelor franchise.
Was throwing it out there of, you know, replace this guy. And once we realized he wasn’t replaced as the Golden Bachelor, it turned into, well, this is what we have to accept. And we’ve seen Mel in preseason interviews that he has done and he basically said, I apologized to the women on the first night, and I think they pretty much all forgave me.
Which it seems like they did. ’cause you watch in the previews, they’re not showing all these women saying, you’re an asshole. I hate you, I’m leaving. No, they’re just, they clearly still did the show. Now I’m not gonna sit here and jump down these women’s throats for like, this guy has no interest in you because you’re over the age of 60, yet you still want on his show.
So clearly you’re on the show for clout. I’m not gonna jump down their throat for that. Because they could have been going on for a, a variety of reasons, some of which we’ll maybe see as the season plays out. Maybe someone wants to get their story out there about their ex or their widow, because that’s what the Golden Bachelor and the Golden Franchise has been built around.
Not necessarily the lead, but just about the stories and it’s not about the cattiness in the mansion and the cattiness amongst the contestants who are competing for the Golden Bachelor or the Golden Bachelorette. They don’t focus on that stuff like they do on the Bachelor or the Bachelorette or Bachelor in Paradise.
It’s more about bringing the stories of these women and the men who were on Joan season to light and. I think it’s just a completely different show. It’s the same concept, same format. Clearly one lead, they’re at the mansion, there’s roses, there’s group dates, there’s one-on-one dates. It’s like the format is the same.
But to me, and I said this for Gary season after I watched it, I said it during Jones season and I’ll say it going into Mel’s season, while the format is the same, it’s just not the same show. As the Bachelor and the Bachelorette. You’re not watching Golden Bachelor to see the cattiness among the women and everybody who’s talking about Taylor.
Frankie Paul’s season of the upcoming Bachelorette isn’t talking about, oh, I think it’ll be so great to watch Taylor, Frankie Paul, finally find her man so he can move to Utah and become an immediate stepdad to three children from two different men, like nobody’s talking about that. Everybody that is complimenting Taylor, Frankie Paul being the Bachelorette, is talking about, oh my gosh, this is going to be messy and it’s gonna be must see tv.
I mean, maybe there’s a few out there that are like, oh, I hope she finds her man on the show. But let’s be honest, nobody’s tuning in for that. ’cause nobody believes it’s actually going to happen. And if it does, it’s gonna last a few months and then this guy’s gonna be like, what the hell did I get myself into?
I’m out. But I do wanna say like, I was the first one to bring this up. While the clip from the podcast was three weeks earlier, the day I brought it up on my podcast that night is when entertainment sites started reporting what Mel said. So it’s not lost on me why this got mainstream publicity of what Mel said.
And here’s the deal. I don’t hate Mel. I don’t know anything about Mel. Well, I know he played for the Rams from 1981 to 1989, and that’s when I was. Six to 14 years old. Growing up in Southern California, living in Orange County. I think I went to like one Rams game, maybe two when I was growing up. I can’t say I remember the name Mel Owens.
I’m sure I heard it on tv, but it wasn’t like I had a jersey of the guy and he was my favorite player. But that is my connection. I was a football fan, a huge football fan growing up in Southern California. The Rams were not my favorite team. The Raiders weren’t my favorite team when they were both playing in the eighties in Southern California, but the name Mel Owens kind of sounds familiar to me.
But here’s the thing, I don’t hate the guy. I just know who he is based on that interview, and that’s why I’ve said I’ll cover the show and hopefully at some point I’ll get spoilers. Right now I have none. I couldn’t tell you where they went for Final Rose ceremony. I can’t tell you who the final three are.
And for the first two seasons of Golden Bachelor and Golden Bachelorette, I had all that info and you knew it, at least for Gary’s season, you knew who the final two were. You knew it was Leslie and Theresa, where the final two and Faith was Final Three. And I said Leslie and Theresa are the final two. Faith got eliminated at Final Three and.
It was like, I think two or three weeks before the finale where I said, he’s with Theresa and they’re engaged. And then for Jones season, you knew who the final four were because a lot of those hometowns actually got out and I had pictures of those and then I was able to put it out there. I initially said it was Guy, and then I immediately changed it to, oh no, she’s married, or she’s not married.
She’s engaged to chalk for Mel. I’ve got nothing. I got nothing right now. If I did, I would tell you, but. The days of me coming on the next day after a Golden Bachelorette or a Golden Bachelor and breaking down what we saw on the episode, certainly not gonna be writing anything about it. The coverage of Golden Bachelor is gonna be very, very minimal from me just because I don’t care, and that’s my stance.
I don’t hate the guy, but I’m just not buying anything that this guy is selling. I don’t care what he says on the first night. I’ll watch the Premier tomorrow night. Knowing what he’s gonna say and knowing he’s gonna apologize to the women. And the women are pretty much gonna forgive him, but I don’t have to buy it.
’cause I don’t, you don’t say, I’m only like, I only like 45 to 60-year-old women. And then you get 20, 25 women thrown on your show who are all over the age of 60, outside of one, and then all of a sudden, I’m supposed to believe that he’s completely changed his type. No he hasn’t. He’ll completely change his type for the sake of this show.
And I’m sure he chose somebody, and I’m sure he’s engaged to somebody right now. Do I think it’s gonna last? No, because we know the engagement at the end of this thing is usually just a product of what the show wants you to do. Not necessarily this is what this guy has in his heart. I already know what he’s gonna say.
I’ll show about, oh, I made a mistake by saying that these women are so amazing. But he showed us his true colors in that podcast. So. That’s what I’m going to believe. Mel Owens is not anything He presents on a television show that the PR team was basically telling him, you need to do this or else, basically nobody’s gonna buy it.
Well, some people might buy it. I’m not. Because I know what he said on that podcast back in June on the Michigan Football Cod podcast is who he is. So that’s what I’m gonna go with. And if I get spoilers, I’ll definitely put them out there. But right now I’ve got nothing. And you’re not gonna hear me talking about this show very much.
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