You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality C Podcast. I’m your host reality. Steve. Thank you all for tuning in on this Friday. Good show for you. We’re gonna talk about Survivor from Wednesday night and something that Jeff Probes said in an interview that I thought was really interesting that posted yesterday.
Special forces from last night got a little more on Love is Blind. We’ve got some news in the dance in with the Stars world Max apologizes to Yawn. Cheryl Burke is body shamed and yes. For the last time this week, you’re back to the future fact of the day. I know you’re thrilled. So let’s get started.
Survivor. On Wednesday night, we did have a blindside on Shannon, and it was basically set up by Sage. Sage was sick. Of hearing Shannon’s stories. Sage was sick of Shannon being the yogi person, but she played it up perfectly. She did everything behind her back. She would look at the camera, she would make faces, she would hug Shannon, then look at the camera and make faces.
And even at tribal council, Sage sat there and said, you know, I mean, it was, she played it great. She’s like, you know, when I came into this game, I was hoping we’d have like a, a wellness type yogi person who was all into meditation and breathing and, and we got one and things have been great knowing the whole time as she was sitting there, Shannon was going home and she sent her home.
I mean, I’m sure people feel a certain way about Shannon to me, not my cup of tea. The yogi, the, I don’t know, seemingly lying stories about her remembering herself being in the womb. You know, people start saying that around you. You’re like, you’re just full of shit. Remember George Carlin back in the day, that standup comedian, one of the greatest standup comedians of all time?
He would, he had a bit. Where he couldn’t, he was talking about people that he could do without, and he was basically talking about people that are full of shit. And you can, you can catch it in about three seconds. I, I’m sorry, Shannon. You’re full of shit. You don’t remember being in the womb. That’s so dumb.
That’s, it’s physically impossible. And when you say you remember being in the womb, like examples, what You clearly couldn’t see the outside world. What do you remember? It just, oh my God, that kind of drove me nuts because it’s such bullshit and it’s just somebody saying stuff like that to get attention for themselves, to make it seem like they are so, I don’t know, earthly, whatever the case may be, why someone would even say that outside of just, they strictly just want it to be all about them.
It’s a me, me, me thing. And she did seem to make everything about her. I’m sorry. I just, I’m sure she’s a wonderful human being. It’s just not someone that I would ever have any interest in talking to. For even 0.2 seconds. I saw her on the show. That’s all I needed to see. You could say, well, don’t let the edit of, no.
You could tell who Shannon was. The second she said, I remember being in the womb. No, you don’t. Just stop it. I mentioned in the open that Jeff Probe said something really interesting. We saw the previews for next week’s episode, and we see clearly the merge happens in next week’s episode and. Jeff did an interview on a red carpet yesterday and somebody was asking him about season 49.
I will say, honestly, up to this point in this season, I’ve been incredibly bored by this season. I don’t think it’s any good, and I’m a guy that absolutely loves Survivor. It’s my favorite reality show of all time. You know this, I’m bored by this season. It just hasn’t had any sort of, I, I think you have some interesting characters, but the gameplay has been whatever.
Now after what Jeff said, maybe he’s just hyping up his own show. We’ll have to see as it plays out. But Jeff said something interesting, he says, on next week’s episode at the merge, he tells the cast at the time, Hey, we haven’t cast for season 50 yet. We still have spots available. So just wanna let you guys know you step your game up.
You still have a chance to be cast on season 50. He actually says that in next week’s episode, which we’ve never seen before. Kind of breaking the fourth wall there, and we already know the two people who are on season 50 that end up getting cast. If you don’t know, I’ve talked about it numerous times this season, but if you don’t know mute right now, 3, 2, 1.
It’s Rizzo, Riz, God, R-I-Z-G-O-D. I dunno why he has to spell it out every time. And Savannah, those are the two that are on season 50. I have no idea how well they do on Season 50, but they’re on season 50. But Jeff saying that to in an interview is really interesting because. He made it seem like once I told them that it was game on and he said the rest of the season is fantastic.
Again, he’s the executive producer of the show. I don’t ever expect him to say, you know what? The season was kind of boring. He’s never gonna say that. I understand, but the way he told it, he said, when I said that to them, it seemed to light a fire under a lot of them and. They really started to play the game hard, which is what I’ve wanted to see.
I don’t feel like anybody’s really playing the game hard up to this point. They’re playing, they’re there some personalities out there, but I haven’t pinpointed a wow. This is a very strategic cast. They’ve just kind of been there, but apparently next week of the merge that gets ramped up. Special Forces.
Last night, Chanel Iman was taken off the show because she basically wasn’t any good. Ds came and took her armband and then Jesse James Decker? No, Eric Decker was medically withdrawn. Because of a back issue. And then once doctors told him he was out, his wife said, well, I’m not sticking around here. I want, I, you know, we’re a team.
I wanna be with you. Which I fully expected her to do, but I don’t think that bodes well for future seasons of let’s cast a husband and wife team, because I would think any husband and wife team, when one gets eliminated, the other one is leaving. And I’m just like, well then what are we doing? We still have two left.
We have Sean Johnson East and her husband and, oh wait, maybe they’re the only, maybe the only couple married, couple left. Yeah, they are. I’m sorry. They’re the only married couple left, and my guess is if one of them doesn’t make it to the end, the other one is leaving with them. Although they’re doing really well and I could see them being two of the winners this season.
Because I think if we’re looking at it right now, I think Randall Cobb gets to the end. I think Sean and her husband get to the end. I don’t think Brianna does. I don’t think Gidi does. I forget her first name. Theresa’s daughter, Kristi Ramone has a shot to win this thing, but she could be medically gone.
It’s very possible I could see her getting medically evacuated. Something tells me that she’s gonna get injured. And then because the TikTok guy, Kristen Cavalier’s, ex-boyfriend Mark, Mark Estes, right. Something that tells me, because he’s barely been featured this whole season, like I think he’s had one confessional all season long.
I, I get the sense that maybe he isn’t important to the season, meaning he doesn’t win. So if I had to guess three winners, I’d say Sean, Andrew and Randall Cobb. That’s what I’m gonna go with. A little bit more talk about Love is Blind and the finale the other night. Seeing a lot of sentiment online saying that was one of the worst finales ever, and I feel like this show gets it a lot.
As you know, I’ve only seen, this is only my fourth season of watching the show, 6, 7, 8, and nine, and I feel like after every finale we get, oh my God, that sucked. But you gotta remember some of the finales, at least that I remember in my head, they bring back contestants from three or four seasons ago. They ask ’em questions.
They’re sitting there in the audience. Outside of them shooting buckets with Chris Paul with a segment that probably went three or five minutes too long. Every single thing was addressed. At least they, they just went from couple to couple and they addressed a lot of things. Now, they didn’t necessarily talk about everything.
They never got into Anton’s drinking. They never really asked Casey about why the breakup with Patrick. So there were things that weren’t asked, but I don’t think there was a lot of fluff to the episode. And I thought every single season, at least every single finale and reunion show that I’ve seen for six, seven, and eight, there was always parts of the finale where I was like, oh my God, that was totally unnecessary.
But outside of Patrick and Casey shooting buckets with CP three, which I know camera angles can be a little misleading, but they literally looked like they were taking, I mean, they were inside of. A free throw, a free throws 15 feet from the basket. They were, they were not 15 feet away. So it was just, it was just silly.
But other than that, there was, I mean, unless you wanna say in the open of the show where they had a band playing as the people came out. But I, I don’t know, I don’t understand why they did it outside. There was really no explanation for that. But I was. My biggest thing, and as I said yesterday, was outside of Megan.
Every single one of those people had done a podcast or some sort of written interview, so nothing they told us really on the finale was anything new. I was just shocked that this show let these people talk as much as they did while the show was airing, Megan was on AD’S podcast. And I didn’t listen to it.
I saw a couple things on TikTok of people recapping it. They said it really wasn’t all that informative. Nothing that Megan didn’t really say on the reunion. Some people have already found the guy that she’s living with. He is the CEO of his own company. So she did say they are living together. She did say that she did buy a house last June.
I just think the most interesting thing about the Megan stuff is how this woman was able to keep it from everybody. ’cause you saw her on the reunion, like Allie was sitting there going, oh my gosh, I had no idea. KB was like, no wonder you got bigger, or had curves or whatever she said got thicker. It just seemed like this cast apparently.
You know, I, I wanna say this cast doesn’t seem like friends, but then we find out a lot of ’em, were hooking up with each other. I just, I guess I give Megan all the credit in the world that she was able to keep this a secret for not just the fact that she had a baby two and a half months from the time of the reunion taping, but that was delivering the baby.
The nine months before that, you start growing a belly. So she really apparently never saw any of her castmates outside of, she said Casey knew, but the fact that Allie didn’t even know until Megan set it on stage that night. It’s pretty amazing in this day and age of reality tv. When this show was filmed 18 months ago.
In 18 months, not even the castmates on her season had any clue that she carried a baby in her stomach for nine months and then had a baby two and a half months before the reunion, and nobody knew outside of Casey. Jordan didn’t know until he was told by someone who messaged him on Instagram, so she obviously had to fess up to him, but I, that’s amazing to me that she was able to keep that Now.
Even though I don’t watch the show, perfect Match always takes contestants from Love Is Blind from what I’ve been told. Perfect. Match is filming right now and they’re kind of wrapping up filming right now. Apparently. I gotta believe Ali is on Perfect Match and or Casey. Right? I I, I mean, I don’t know. I heard it was filming right now and this reunion filmed I think two weeks ago.
So I guess either Ali went to go film Perfect Match. I don’t have no idea how long Perfect Match takes to film either. But how in the world is Ali not on Perfect Match? They love casting people from Love Is Blind that are single. She is perfect for that show. And then the answer that she gave on the reunion show, when Drew asked her when, yeah, drew, when Drew Lashay, when Nick asked her, are you single?
She said. I respect you asking the question, but I wanna keep my private life private, so I don’t know. I’m sure there are people out there that know whether or not she is, if you know, I would just like to know personally if she went on that show or not, or Casey and, or maybe they’re both on it. Maybe they both not on it.
If any of the men went on that show, I have no idea. But it seems like Allie and Casey are exactly who perfect Match would want to cast from this season.
