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 good show. Heading into the weekend, we’re gonna talk about those first six episodes of Love Is Blind in a kind of condensed version of what I did on my YouTube channel yesterday, which is also in your podcast Feed Now, dancing With the Stars.
Oh my gosh, look what US Weekly reported yesterday and didn’t credit me whatsoever. Shocker. Caitlin Bristow addresses her criticism that she recently received. I will talk a little bit about that. And Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. I’ve got thoughts. So let’s get started. Before we get to anything at the time of this recording, James Vanderbeek’s GoFundMe is now over $2 million.
And basically what we’re hearing is over the last two or three years since he has been dealing with this. This family has basically had to rip through all their money to pay for his medical bills because apparently his health insurance dropped him once it got too bad for him. And yeah, that sucks.
Hell, I’m dealing with health insurance issues as we speak, and it’s not fun. And I’m not someone that has nearly the health problems that he had, so. It’s unfortunate, but it is what it is in today’s world. But to see that he’s over 2 million, like I said last night, he’s gonna blow past. When we recorded last night, he was at nine 17 when I started the podcast, and then at the end of the podcast, 20 minutes later, he was at 936,000.
So he’s basically making a million dollars a day. Obviously that’s going to slow down, but at what point does it stop? 5 million. 10 million. They need every cent they can get. So thank you to everybody who contributed to him, because that’s, that’s just huge. You just don’t see an outpouring like that over a guy who hasn’t been a, never been a major movie star, never been a major TV star.
And if he was at, at the time, in the late nineties, early two thousands, yeah, but that was over 20 years ago. And look at what people are doing for him, just kind of shows the effect he’s had on people. So great to see. Alright, love is blind. I watched the first six episodes on Wednesday. I went live yesterday afternoon.
That video is on my YouTube channel. I took the audio and put it in my podcast feed. So if you’re on Spotify, you’re on Apple Podcasts. You should have it in your feed from yesterday. I put it up about, I don’t know, four 15 Eastern time yesterday. So maybe some of you have listened to it, maybe you haven’t.
But I want to kind of zip through a few things in regards to this because it’s 45 minutes and I’ll, I’ll condense it for you. Although I do think you should listen to the whole thing because I go through every single couple and I also. I go through the couple that got engaged but didn’t get shown, and then the love triangle as well, but of the seven couples, Jordan, Amber, Vic, Christine, Mike, Emma, Connor, Brie, Chris, Jessica, Alex, Ashley, and Devonte and Brittany.
I really do think Vic and Christine are getting screwed out of all this. So we said yesterday. Chris Colin did interview and said, yeah, Vic and Christine basically gravitated to each other right away. Neither of them really formed any sort of meaningful connection with anybody else in the pods. So they were the easiest couple to approach and say, Hey, we only have six spots available in Mexico, but we want to give you guys a honeymoon.
Would you be interested in going to California? ’cause they felt like, I don’t know, Chris Colen felt like they weren’t gonna have any drama. Of running into somebody else and meeting somebody else. So they said, yeah, we’ll take it. My question was how does this show only have a budget for six couples in Mexico?
It’s not like they didn’t give Christine and Vic one, they gave ’em one in California. Yeah, I’m sure Cal Amigos Ranch in Malibu was cheaper than what they do down in Mexico. But still, they still had to pay for it, I’m assuming. Just seems weird that they’re like, Nope, we can only do six. And my gosh, if we get seven or eight engagements.
Well, only six of you are going. We’re gonna have to make a decision on who else doesn’t. Just seems weird. Why don’t you just send everybody down to Mexico? The show is very popular. The show is making money hand over fist. As far as I know, these contestants don’t get paid. What do you mean you only have six spots in Mexico for your couples?
It seems so misguided, and not only did they get screwed by not getting to hang out with everybody in Mexico. They got screwed in terms of camera time for the first six episodes. Yes, it’ll change when they get to Ohio because they’ll be there with everybody else. But do we see anything of Vic and Christine outside of, Hey, they’re playing cornhole.
Hey, they just woke up this next morning. We never saw one conversation that they had with each other once they went on their honeymoon in Malibu. Just, I feel bad for them because they’re just getting the short end of the stick and maybe, hey, if you don’t bring drama to the show. We’re not gonna, you know, give you much camera time.
But yeah, we just never saw any conversations with them. The kinda wide lens perspective I have on the six couples down in Mexico, they didn’t show, in terms of in Mexico, I thought the couples that didn’t have any issues in Mexico were Jordan and Amber and. Chris and Jessica, everybody else, they showed some cracks in the armor, right?
For Mike and Emma, I think it has to do with the kid talk. Now, Mike had said she’s disorganized and messy. Okay? That’s not a huge, that’s not something major to overcome in a relationship, especially when you just find out about it. That can be, that’s not a deal breaker I don’t think. Now the issue of kids certainly is, and my issue with Mike, as I said in the podcast yesterday, was the way he talked about, I don’t wanna say coercing or manipulating, but he did tell her, and he did say in confessionals, I really hope I can convince Emma to have children, which is like really?
That’s the way you’re gonna go about it. Like, did you just put the ring on their finger in hopes that you would change your mind? Like, I don’t think that’s a good reason, and I feel like this is probably going to be their biggest sticking point. I, I can’t imagine it’s not. We had Connor and Brie Brie’s hole insistence of.
Why can’t we have deep conversations with people we just spent 10 days in pods with and had these vulnerable moments with, and now everybody just wants to party and not talk about anything. I dunno. A lot of people are coming down on Brie for that, and I see it from one perspective in that. Brie, you’re with Connor now, why do you even care to have conversations with Chris, the guy that you had an attraction to, or had a liking to in the pods?
Now, if this consumes Bree. And Brie is constantly telling Connor, I need to hang out with Chris. I need to talk to him. I wanna get to the bottom of why it didn’t work between us. Then yes, that’s gonna be a major issue, but I can see to defend Brie. I can also see like why she would just want that conversation, why she finds it weird that no one else wants to have conversations with anybody else other than surface level stuff.
I guess it’s just a level of how deep is this bothering her? Yes, in Mexico, but remember. They literally just met these people and after spending 10 days in the pods, so I can see her being like, this is just weird. Nobody wants to talk about anything. They just wanna take shots and have fun. It’s like, yeah, I get it.
You’re on your honeymoon, you wanna do that. But in Bri’s defense, in, in the first nine seasons of this show, when these couples do meet up on the honeymoons, yes, there are hard conversations had between couples that maybe had a liking for somebody else. Before they got there. So I, it’s not out of left field, it’s just a matter of how much, if she’s gonna keep bringing this up, then yes, Connor’s gonna be like, no thanks, you’ve gotta get over this.
But she had one conversation with Chris that we saw, and I, I didn’t think it was flirty. Maybe some other people did. I don’t know. I didn’t see it as flirty. I guess we just need to give this one more time. Chris and Jessica are the most. Irrelevant couple to me be just ’cause I feel like I know nothing about them other than she’s older than him and she’s divorced.
And I just don’t get any strong inkling that these two are ever going to last. Nothing about these two screams. Oh yeah. Great match for each other. I just feel like no deep conversation has happened. And obviously the whole Alex and Ashley and Devonte and Brittany, I mean, Alex pretty much made it known to Brittany’s face when he pulled her aside.
Yeah. Not attracted to blondes, even though when he saw Ashley at the reveal and they sat down on the bench, he told her, I’m so excited, or I, I was so happy that you’re blonde. And then we find out, yeah, I’m really into women with darker features and more curves. And he tells that to Brittany. So he’s clearly attracted to Britney, whereas Devonte just doesn’t even seem to care about Britney.
Totally disengaged, doesn’t, she doesn’t feel like he’s acknowledging her. She has to initiate everything. She always has to go in for the kiss. She’s always having to hold his hand. I mean, if that’s what it’s like in the honeymoon phase, they’re done. There’s zero chance. Devonte and Brittany are coming out of this as a married couple, no chance in hell.
As for Kevin and Tyler and Kia on that love triangle, I mean what? Huh? I watched it a couple times. Had to rewind a few times to try and understand exactly where Kevin was coming from in all this. Like, did he not know what show he was on? Did he not understand? He couldn’t pick multiple people. Did he not understand the concept of telling somebody, you’re my girlfriend, and then telling somebody else you had feelings for, Hey, I can’t continue with you.
Like he just seemed so baffled by this whole experience, which I’m sure it’s hard. I’m sure it’s difficult, but dude, you gotta know what you’re getting into, right? You have to know that you can only choose one person. Kevin was a lost cause, and Kia did the right thing by telling him, yeah, you’re not ready for this process.
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