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 Friday as we head into the weekend. We are gonna discuss, yes, the Golden Bachelor. I watched it yesterday. Give you my thoughts. We’re also gonna talk about Big Brother as the penultimate episode aired last night.
Eviction, not a surprise, but again, stuff happening in the house. Vince is in full crash out mode and I almost am starting to feel sorry for him and I’ll tell you why. So let’s get started. I watched the Golden Bachelor and it pretty much confirmed what I thought. I don’t think Mel is a bad guy. I don’t think he’s an evil individual.
I just don’t think he should be the Golden Bachelor and nothing about the show last night. Nothing about Mel. I had someone email me. Say, you know what, Steve? This is why I’m not watching Mel. Yeah. Didn’t appreciate what he said about the podcast, but he seems somewhat sincere about it. He apologized right away.
The girls gave him shit. Okay. She goes, I stopped watching after an hour. I cannot take his voice. He’s got a very gravelly voice and sometimes it goes in and out. And I was like, I guess I never really. Thought of it that way. It didn’t bother me as much as this person, this person said, I’m not watching the rest of the season because of his gravelly voice.
I’m like, all right. To each their own, I guess. Here’s the thing though, I can still watch this show and not even concern myself with Mel. Mel is kind of irrelevant to me just like it was on Gary’s season, just like it was on Joan season. It’s more about the contestants and their stories. You know, Cheryl, the first one-on-one date of the season.
Well, let’s back up. Before we get to Cheryl, let’s talk about what Mel said. This show did not shy away from what he said on the podcast. They addressed it, they. Had him say and repeat what he said on the podcast. We know numerous women out of the limo gave him shit for it, but as I’ve said since the day this quote came out, and as I’ve said since then about when he talks about it, he’s still not addressing what we all want to know.
Which makes me think he’s doing that for a reason. So some of the things he said in my, in Wednesday’s episode, I messed up. I was wrong. That’s not who I am. Those are the kind of apologies you make if, and we’ve heard people say this when they end up saying something racist and they’re like, you know what?
That’s not me. It was a bad moment. That’s not who I am. Anybody that knows me knows that’s not me. This, like I said, he didn’t say anything homophobic. He didn’t say anything racist. He said, I like women between 45 and 60. I hope they don’t gimme anyone over 60 or else I’ll cut ’em, no artificial hips or wigs.
So his response to that is, I messed up. I was wrong. That’s not who I am. What were you wrong about? Like you just completely made that up on a podcast. You were just like, do you believe that? Is that what you really, truly believe? I think he does. I think this is what he likes. He likes younger women. His wife is 20 years younger than him.
I said that from the day we found out Mel Owens was the Bachelor back in April. I said this man the very next day on the podcast, I said, this man’s ex-wife is 20 years younger than him. If, and I said this in April, if the casting of the show stays the same as they did for Gary’s season and every woman is over 60, I’m supposed to believe that this guy is now interested in women over 60 when he is had a wife, 20 years younger than him for however many years that they were married, 20 years or whatnot.
Not to mention he married her when she was in her early twenties. I think she was like 22 or 23 when they got married, and he was in his early forties and all of a sudden, this guy’s gonna be interested in 60-year-old women. I said, I just don’t buy it. And then he said what he did on the podcast, and I’ll repeat myself.
Yeah. Nothing wrong with what he said. He’s allowed to have his own preferences. That’s no different than anybody saying, oh, I like tall guys. I like short guys. I like big chested women. I like small chested women. I like big butts. I like small butts, whatever. Everyone’s got preferences of what they like.
His was an age range, whatever. We’re not surprised that somebody who’s in his sixties would like to date someone between 45 and 60. That’s not surprising at all. So when he says, I messed up, I was wrong. That’s not who I am. To me, he’s now saying, oh yeah, I just made that all up, which I don’t believe for a second.
What do you mean you were wrong? And he didn’t explain that he didn’t really have to do anything other than, you know what ladies? I’m sorry. Spirit has no age. That was his favorite line last night. Spirit has no age. Gimme a fucking break. You know, Mel’s just there to me. I’ll watch the season ’cause I find the women very interesting.
I love hearing the stories of the women. So now let’s get to Cheryl. First one-on-one date of the season at the Queen Mary. I can’t see any date at the Queen Mary without thinking of the season finale. Season six Beverly Hills, 9 0 2 1 oh episodes 31 and 32. Steve Sanders birthday party on the Queen. Mary, like I I, I cannot see anything Queen Mary related without thinking of that, because number one, season six was six was my favorite season of all time when it comes to 9 0 2 1 oh.
And I thought that. Season finale was awesome because so much stuff went down. You took the job, you took the job. You know what I’m talking about? 9 0 2 1 oh fans. Brandon finds out that Susan Keats takes the job in DC after he had passed up a job at the Boston Globe because he wanted to spend the summer with her, but then she turns on him and takes the job and then he gets all pissed off at her and literally gets in her face and it’s kind of creepy.
Steve had the party thrown for him by Carl the Prince,
and Carl the Prince expresses his love for Claire since they knew each other and grew up together. And Claire gets mad at Steve for not protecting her and giving Carl a chance. So Steve and Brandon. Brandon’s pissed at Susan. Claire’s pissed at Steve. So Steve and Bran are like, let’s go to the peeler bar.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard strip bars called Peeler bars, but I guess that was a thing back in 19. This would’ve been 1996. And so they go to the peeler bar in Long Beach, and that’s where they run into Colin, who’s a fugitive from justice. They chase him, they catch him, whatever. So much went on in that episode.
David and Donna ended up getting back together in the season finale in Season six, and the Googo Dolls, one of my all time favorite bands played at Steve’s party. Even though yes, if you watch the show now, you’re not gonna be able to see the Goo Goo Dolls play because the music wasn’t copyrighted back then, and you either.
If you try and watch it on streaming, those episodes aren’t even in the streaming. If you go to season six on Paramount plus episodes 31 and 32 aren’t even there because of they couldn’t get the music approved. Now, if you have the DVD set like I do, sure you can see every episode of episode season six, but I believe 13 episodes are have.
There’s 13 episodes missing on streaming DVDs. They’re all there, but anytime there’s a music scene, something at the Peach Pit or The Goo Dolls in the season finale, the music is either changed or it’s cut completely. It just sucks. How’d they get off on this tangent? Oh yeah. Cheryl had a date at the Queen Mary with Mel on Wednesday night.
Now, the one thing that I wanna say about Cheryl and I thought was interesting because like I said, this show is more about the women and learning more about them because they are, they are going to be just like Gary’s women. These women are now gonna be part of the Bachelor franchise. You’re gonna hear them on podcast, they’re probably gonna show up at some point on Taylor, Frankie Paul’s season of The Bachelorette, you know?
Giving out a date card or hosting a group date, something along those lines, you know it’s gonna happen. And then assuming there’s a paradise next summer, we’re probably gonna get some of these goldens on Paradise next summer. So just keep that in mind. But Cheryl’s backstory was quite interesting. 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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