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 Monday. Good show for you today. We’re gonna discuss. A little bit of the traders that I talked about on Friday with Tess Higgins more on the traders in terms of Colton Underwood, he did an interview with Variety that was very, very tone deaf.
Also, you thought Madison Maiden Bird from Love is Blind. Season nine. Denver was done with a two-part series on her breakup. No, she wasn’t. She put out two more videos this weekend. We’ll discuss it. The ratings for the Muppet episode is in. I’ll tell you how that did. I haven’t talked about it. Two episodes into the season American Idol.
I’ve got some thoughts on that, and I finally finished up my rewatch of lost. I’m give you my ending thoughts on that. Let’s get started. So one thing I wanna talk about that I spoke about on Friday. If you missed it on my YouTube channel, it should be up in your podcast feed. It went up about an hour after we recorded Tess Higgins, content creator.
We discussed episode eight of the Traders, and I thought what was interesting about it was, and this is just a a small minor thing, but I guess I might be in the minority here, and that is this, Tess was talking about the fact that when she watches the traders on Peacock, she has not. Upgraded to the ad free version.
Now I’ve got all of ’em. I’ve got Netflix, paramount Plus, Amazon Prime, peacock, Hulu. Every single one that I have is ad free, and I understand it’s more expensive to have ad free, but as I pointed out to Tess on Friday, people that are not going ad free, you don’t know what you’re missing out on. Like when I watch the traders ad free.
When they go to that breakfast and they go to that final group coming in and the knock at the door and then it goes to commercial for you guys, I get a black screen for like two seconds and then it plays, and I find out who’s walking through that door. I can’t imagine sitting through the commercials on that.
People still do that, and I know, I understand. It’s more expensive. Buy like two or three bucks a month. Maybe it’s four. Even if it was five, I’m telling you right now, peacock, sub peacock subscribers or anybody who doesn’t go ad free on streaming, you’re missing out. Trust me, those three or four or $5 extra a month are totally worth it, totally.
As I described on Friday to Tess, it’s almost like living in Southern California and you only know when you go to Vegas to drive. Usually three and a half to four hours. If there’s an accident, you’re screwed. ’cause a lot of that drive is a two lane road and then you’re just backed up waiting for that thing to get cleared.
You’re at the mercy of an accident happening and then the first time you get on a plane and leave Burbank, orange County, LAX and fly to Vegas and you get there in 45 minutes, you’re like, yeah, I’m never driving again. That’s how I equate watching any streaming service with ads. Must feel like, right?
Trust me. Anybody watching with ads, change your plan right now and go to paying it off. Go to paying the extra three or four bucks or five, or whatever it is. So obviously Tess and I discussed Colton Underwood and the fact that he got murdered. He was gone very beginning of the episode. So since he’s gone, he’s now doing his post-show interviews and he did an interview with Variety and I gotta say this isn’t coming across well at all.
So one of the questions he was asked was. There’s been terrible toxicity from the fandom this season, resulting in peacock pleading with the audience to calm down. What’s it been like for you to experience? And he said, first and foremost, I wanna say I’m proud of Peacock for standing up for the cast, the people, the human beings who are being put on this show for these fans.
Honestly, that statement was made because of him, because there’s nobody else in this fandom and nobody else on this cast that is being attacked by the fans, not nearly as much as Colton is. So of course he’s gonna thank them, basically. Thanks for sticking up for me. He said, I think what makes the traders so successful is all the cast who are entering the castle have their own fans, and they have their own groups who are rooting for them and cheering for them.
I totally understand the intensity of rooting and being upset when your player goes home. I think for me personally, there were a few lines that got crossed with messages sent to me and things that were brought up, lacking context and also lacking accuracy of my past, which. I will always and have taken accountability for.
That was something I wasn’t fully prepared to deal with six years later and at this stage of my life. But I do understand there are new fans, people meeting me for the first time. There are also people who watched my Bachelor season six years ago and then forgot about me. Then all of a sudden, this is jarring.
Who is this dude? A lot of life has happened for me in six years. A lot of growth, a lot of self work, and I’m in such a different place, man, that could answer, couldn’t have been any worse. What is he talking about here? There were a few messages sent to me and things that were brought up, lacking context and also lacking accuracy of my past.
This is where he loses me for this reason, because of the NDA that he signed. He can’t go into detail about what that is. He can’t talk about it. We both know exactly what this has to do with and saying, oh, I got these messages and people are just coming at me for and sending me this stuff for a lack of context.
Okay, then what is that context? Oh, wait, you can’t talk about it because the NDA protects you. It’s so utterly ridiculous that this guy keeps opening his mouth and talking about this. That was something I fully wasn’t prepared to deal with six years later. In this answer, is he giving any sort of sympathetic answer?
Is he apologizing in any way, shape, or form? A lot of growth, a lot of self work. I’m in such a different place. What is that growth? What is that self work for? For any of us, we don’t know what that is because we don’t know much about you other than what is out there publicly, and I hate, I just hate that he’s throwing out this lack of context in there.
You know, they also asked him, you’re not new to receiving backlash online, but did it feel different this time with people bringing up the restraining order? How bad has it been? I focus on the positive. I’m gonna shoot you very straight. An example of a message that I had to send to Peacock is after the Michael Rappaport comment, somebody told me to stick a gun up my ass and pull the trigger and call me the F word that’s crossing the line.
If you don’t respect my gameplay, if you don’t like the character I showed up in as traders, that’s one thing, but to receive a message like that, to receive emails of my home address and referencing my child and my husband in it, that’s not okay. I agree. We’ve talked about this with every show. Anybody that sends a death threat to a contestant is a loser, but there are people, he’s focusing on those messages that he’s getting.
And he’s trying to avoid the bigger story here, which is content creators calling him out and calling out Peacock for not vetting this guy, which is the easiest vetting you could have possibly done in your entire life. Nobody’s calling him out for any of that. It doesn’t make any sense. We’re calling you out for what you did six years ago, and he’s saying, you know, I’ve grown since six years ago.
I don’t wanna be defined by that. Well, we don’t know what you’ve done since then other than sign an NDA and not talk about it. So unfortunately, Colton, you’re screwed here. I don’t think many people are talking about your gameplay and are mad at you for your gameplay. Maybe a few are, and yes, they shouldn’t send you threatening emails.
They shouldn’t mention your family. They shouldn’t dox you. Nobody is saying that, but most of the online discourse about Colton Underwood has been about. What he did to ever get on this show in the first place and why it wasn’t vetted and why he was even allowed on this show in the first place after what he did to Cassie.
It’s so ridiculous. And this answer and this interview with Variety is so Tone deaf. This guy still doesn’t get it. This podcast is brought to you by Ollie. It’s officially the month of love, and we know you wanna celebrate with the one you love most, your dog. Let’s be real. There’s no more love unconditional than the one you share with your dog.
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