You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality Steve Podcast, I am your host reality. Steve, thank you all for tuning in on this Monday. Good show for you. We are going to discuss what I talked about on Friday on my YouTube channel, and that is the first three episodes of the traders that dropped.
Hopefully you got around to watching them at some point this weekend. If not checked out my YouTube video on Friday. But for those that didn’t, I’m just gonna give you a few of my thoughts. I’m not gonna go over everything that I went over, but my main. Issues that I’m having once again with the traders.
We’re gonna talk about the Golden Globes last night. Maybe get into the Masked Singer a little bit. And I have a reader email for you as well. So on Friday I discussed the traders on a YouTube live at 3:00 PM Eastern Time. And I’ll be live Friday, every Friday at 3:00 PM Eastern Time to go over. The traitor’s episode that aired the day before.
And for me, my main takeaway, I’m not gonna sit here and go over all three episodes and go over things that happened in one and two. My main issues with this show have just become, there is something inherently wrong with the format of the game. This talk about, oh, I can go on that show and do really good.
I’m a good strategist. I think I would be great on that show. I’m sorry that show is 95% luck. It really has nothing to do with how good of a liar you are or how good you can scheme at all. Like it really doesn’t, when you think about it, how do you even gain evidence on who is a traitor, especially when you have.
The daily missions or the daily challenges, the missions. The missions are so irrelevant to that game. They could literally save themselves 20 to 25 minutes of an episode by doing something completely different. Because those missions are so pointless. You can say they can earn them more money. We all know that.
Let’s just say they failed every mission and didn’t add anything to the pot. This show would make sure in the very last mission. You have the ability to get the pot up to 250,000 bucks, you’re not gonna have a show that has no pot. And these missions are dumb for the main reason that the faithfuls and the traders are all fighting for the same goal in these missions.
And that’s to collect as much money as possible. Yeah, you’re looking out for shields, but everybody’s trying to do that. So if everybody’s fighting for the same goal and the mission, the whole point. And the thing that would make the missions actually interesting is if the traitors, which the audience knows, but the other people out there don’t know if the traitors had a way to gain an advantage on their end during the missions that the faithfuls didn’t know about and vice versa.
Here’s the other issue I have with the show. There really isn’t an advantage to vote out a traitor. You’d be like, Steve, what are you talking about? That’s the whole point of the round table. Yeah. And they vote out a trader. And what happens, let’s just say this season, as we know, started with four traders.
Let’s just say the next four round tables, they vote out a trader, you know what the show’s gonna do, replace those traders with other traders. The whole point is to get as far as you can in the game with the traders in there. So then at the end you can pick them off and win. It really doesn’t do you any good to get ’em out early, especially when there’s no incentive now.
I think in the Canada version, I think someone said in the live on Friday in the Canada version, the faith will get $10,000 added to their pot if they do vote out a traitor, absolutely. That would make sense in the US version, but it doesn’t. They don’t have that as an incentive. So what is the ultimate goal?
Why do you care about voting out a traitor? They’re just gonna replace him with other traders. The other point of this game is your whole job as a faithful is to find out who a traitor is, right? If a traitor knows that you’re onto them, they’re just gonna murder you. So it doesn’t even benefit you to ever express to anybody who you think is a traitor, because if you happen to be right, and word gets back to someone who is a trader, either you say it directly to a trader without knowing you’re saying it directly to a trader.
Or someone tells somebody and that somebody happens to be a traitor, they said, oh, so and so threw your name out. You’re gone. So I guess when you look at this game, ultimately just say nothing. Say nothing. And if you think you know who a traitor is, that’s who you need to befriend. You need to befriend a traitor.
And even if you are a hundred percent convinced that that person is a traitor, by all means, you need to befriend them so they will keep doing whatever they can to keep you in the game because they think that you don’t think that they’re a traitor, so you’re not a threat to them. If you had a whole house of those people, I, I just think that this the format of this game and I just don’t think it’s a very strategic game at all.
I think it’s a bunch of luck. It’s a bunch of speculation, guessing, especially in the early, going with the round table where you don’t get any incentive to vote out a traitor. And if you vote out somebody who’s not a traitor and you vote out a faithful, there’s no penalty for it. So who cares if they voted out?
Porsche Great. One less person that is on the show. And I think after this season we can ultimately see that, look, I’m a little bit biased because I like Rob Storino and I’ve always liked Rob. He’s been on the podcast a couple times, but it’s proven now on this show. If you’re a gamer, you have no way to last on this show.
Johnny Bananas gone early Boston, Rob gone fairly early. Rob Serino gone early. Hell even Ian First one murdered. Why? ’cause he won Survivor once. And the traders were like, yeah, this guy won Survivor. He’s very good. He’s very smart. Let’s get rid of him. Okay if trader’s gonna have that type of mentality, why would anybody who’s ever been on a game in, in a game show format ever go on this show?
They have no chance. Rob, sister Nino hadn’t been on TV for 22 years. He’s built a tremendous podcast empire. We all love that. He was coming back on TV and he lasts two episodes. Now. I know, I understand. They can’t fix it For him. It is a game. There’s money involved. There’s standards and practices involved, but it’s just highly disappointing because he was really murdered for no reason other than people knew he was smart.
You could say no. Remember he said to somebody in one of the rooms, he thinks this is a murder in plain sight. Yeah. He said that. In front of Candace, but Kansas never got a, Candace, never got a chance to tell Lisa or Rob from Love Island, the other two traitors. She never got a chance to tell them that until they had already murdered him, which if you listen to Friday’s show, I thought the murder in plain sight was totally dumb.
That was about the easiest murder in plain sight ever. All they had to do was get people out of a room, open up a picture. Take out the cards and take one card out, and then just go drop it in a fire. It was so easy. It wasn’t difficult at all. My suggestion that I suggested on Friday is on the night that there has to be a murder in plain sight.
I think it should be announced. I think Alan should announce to everybody a murder in plain sight is happening tonight. You know how much more difficult that would make it, and so much more interesting to us as the viewer. I don’t think anybody would’ve been left alone in a room. Knowing that that night was a murder in plain sight.
I just think there’s so many things wrong. Formatically with the show. It doesn’t mean it’s not a good show. I just think people getting caught up in the game aspect of it and said, oh, this person’s gonna go on traders, they’re gonna be really good. Not really because it’s a bunch of luck. Rob, sister Nino probably would’ve been good on the show, but that’s the exact reason he’s not on it very long.
’cause they don’t want him there because they think he’s gonna be good. There’s nothing he could have done. If people already have it in their mind, oh my gosh, you were good on Survivor. You were a good schemer, you were a good liar. Or in Big Brother, you had a great social game and you were very good and you were a schemer, you’re gone.
Why would those people even go on the show anymore? Like it’s smart for the traitors to go after those people. The bananas, the Boston Robs, the Ian’s, the Rob Sister Ninos, it’s smart, but for us television viewers. Total, total letdown. Raise your hand if you’ve been putting off a dental cleaning or an annual checkup, or honestly, any kind of doctor’s appointment.
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Like I said, when I come to the Golden Globes, although I watch more TV than I do movies. I can’t say I’m up to date on all these TV shows, but the reason that I do tune in, one of the main reasons I tune into the Golden Globes is because of Nikki Glaser and I wanted to see her monologue, and we talked about this last year after the Golden Globes.
But Nikki Glaser spends an awful amount of time with her writing team testing her Golden Globes monologue. Like she uses it at clubs. She will go to the Hollywood Improv and the Laugh Factory and basically just test out material months leading up to the Golden Globe. She did it last year. I gotta believe she did the same process this year, and again, I think she nailed it.
I think she’s one of the best Golden Globe hosts we’ve ever had, because while she does go after people, that’s pretty much the point of the Golden Globes monologue. It’s a lot harsher. We saw what Ricky Dravet did back in the day. Some of Ricky Vet’s stuff was flat out mean, even though it was done in a funny way, it was pretty, he like had his own agenda essentially.
But for this, for Nikki, while she does go at people and she calls people out, she basically just goes around the room, finds one person that’s a, a big name. And has a little quip about them. You know the stuff about Leo, it was, it was the same joke we’ve heard for years. It was gonna be a joke about dating women under the age of 30.
But then she also threw in the caveat. I know that’s an easy joke, Leo, but unfortunately we don’t know anything else about you. Speak up like we have no idea anything about your life other than you date young women and. Yeah, there were so many good one-liners. I’m not gonna sit here and go over her whole monologue, but if you saw it, she was really, really good for the second year in a row.
I hope she gets asked back again. I hope she wants to do it still. She seemingly said, and in pre show interviews that this is something that she likes doing and probably wants to do. But again, it could just come down to, I don’t know how much you get paid to do something like that. I wouldn’t even be get does she get a million dollars for that?
Does she get 500 grand for one night? I don’t, I have no idea. But, uh, she’s really good and she’s one of the top five comedians in the world right now. I would say just based on marketability, based on how many things that she does do based on touring, all that stuff. She’s really, really good. Again, comedy is subjective.
You might absolutely hate her and not think she’s funny. I personally think she’s hilarious and is a very, very good rider. And her niche is the roast type format, like a Golden Globes is. Would she be good at the Oscars? Probably not. ’cause she has to tone it down a little bit. Grammys, Emmys, no. Golden Globes is Ry up alley because people are a little bit looser in that room.
They’re drinking. It’s just not as stuffy and uptight as the other award shows. I read something about the mass singer over the weekend that I guess only people who have been to tapings can confirm this because I’m in and out on the mass singer. Sometimes I’ll watch a full season and sometimes I won’t watch any episodes, and then sometimes I’ll watch if it happens to be on, but.
I didn’t realize this about the mask singer. Now it does make somewhat of sense, but then I read something else and it didn’t make sense. The thing that I read was when they do the reveals, when they have the audience chanting, take it off, take it off, and they do the reveals of who is under the mask.
There’s no audience in the crowd. You be like, that makes no sense. They’re all chanting. Take it off. Yeah. That’s like how the men tell all, and the women tell All is filmed where. They get all the crowd reaction shots before the show even starts filming if you didn’t know that that’s how it works.
Same thing with Mass Singer. They are telling the crowd to chant take it off during commercial breaks, during performances, but apparently. Everyone is out of the room. It’s just the way it’s filmed and the way it’s edited makes you think that everybody is there when the singer takes their mask off, which, okay, that would make sense when they take it off.
But the singer who loses and has to unmask always then ends the show with a performance with their mask off, and I’m pretty sure the crowd is there because they do a wide shot. It’s easy. To not have a singer there, to not have an audience there and edit it in a way where the au you wouldn’t see that the audience isn’t there when the mask comes off.
’cause that’s just sound and just focusing on the stage. But I could have sworn when they perform at the end of the show with their mask off, the audience is back in the room. So what does it matter if they’re out, if they’re seeing. If they’re out, when they unmask, what does it matter if they’re seeing them perform as who they are, unless the people that are there during that are just stage crew and whatnot, which could be it.
So I read that, that they send the audience out during the unmasking, but then I also read from people who were there, they said they used to do that, but now everyone just signs very strict NDAs and you’re just not allowed to say anything. Which, I, I, again, I, I don’t know if people do or not. But again, there’s always people online anyway that are able to figure out just by the clues and the voices who each person is.
I think I came across on TikTok yesterday. I didn’t even watch this season of the Mass Singer. I haven’t watched however many episodes there have been, and that person has already revealed who four of them are just based on the clues and the voice. You know who the best roommate I ever had has been my dog.
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