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 Tuesday. Good show for you. We’re gonna go over that bachelor mansion makeover show.
I’m just laughing because, well, I’ll get to it in a second. What else? I, another 32nd trailer for Taylor. Frankie Paul’s bachelorette season came out yesterday. Not a lot of footage from her season, but just her saying that she was. Gifted the role of The Bachelorette. Okay, that’s the way you want to put it.
Jessica from Love Is Blind, appears on Claire and Emma’s podcast, the Love to See It podcast, and she tells us about things that weren’t even shown on the show, which paints Chris in an even worse light, if you can imagine that than he already has been. And then. Yes, AI has taken over the world as the story that circulated for the last few days, finally has a resolution to it and we’ll discuss it.
So let’s get started. I will be the first to admit flat out 100%. I am not a handyman. I never have been. I never will be. Sorry. I’m calling the plumber. I’m calling the cleaning people to come out. Not that that has anything to do with being a handyman, but yeah, I have a cleaning service that comes out once a month.
Actually, they’re coming today, but I, I’ve just, I, I’ve never been a handy person. I know nothing about interior decorating. I know nothing about architecture. I know nothing about renovating houses, so. While I am gonna tune in every week to the Bachelor Mansion Makeover show, that’s on HDTV and then it’s on HBO Max the next day because it’s bachelor related with former contestants from Bachelor, bachelorette, golden Bachelor, and Golden Bachelorette and good friend Courtney Robertson is on the show.
Obviously, I’m gonna watch it. Now, thank God Courtney told me yesterday, I was like, Courtney, is it two hours every week? She’s like, no, just the premier is two hours. And then every episode after that is only an hour. I think there’s only six episodes. It’s, this isn’t very long, so this isn’t gonna be, take a lot of my time out of my day to watch this show, but I can’t add anything to it with any sort of knowledge because.
I’m just not that guy. You know? I guess I can have opinions on what I saw, but if you’re telling me to break down the crown molding in somebody’s house, no, I, huh? What? I mean, I’ve heard of crown molding. I know what it is. I. But you know, the accent of a room, go, fuck that. I don’t care. I’m sorry. I just don’t just, maybe I’m just being a guy.
I don’t care if, and when I finally move in with somebody in my life, they can have full reign of what the place looks like. I don’t care. I’m not gonna sit here and be like, no, all I care about is you let me have my three TVs in the living room. That, that’s it. Can I have my little three TV set up in the, in my living room?
Other than that, decorate away. Do whatever the hell you want with the place. Make it your own. I just, I don’t care. So, like I said, watching this show, I don’t really have a ton to add, but I have an eye for, does that look good or not? But before we get to the show. I just wanna talk about HGTV as a network.
I wanna say there isn’t a show on that network and it’s been around forever, right? I can’t really say I’ve ever watched a show from beginning to end. Like I watched, Hey, season one of this show’s coming out, or you gotta watch. I, I know, I know the names. Tarek and his ex-wife, the blonde Heather, is that her name?
I could be getting that wrong. I know They have a show and then they got divorced and then he brought in his new blonde that looked like his first wife, and the three of them did a show. I never watched it. I’ve seen episodes here and there of where people are looking for houses. And they’re shown like three and they choose one, or maybe they’re, or maybe they’re selling their house.
No, it’s people that are looking for houses and the realtor shows ’em like three houses and they gotta choose one. Okay. So I, I’ve seen stuff here and there, but I’m certainly not an HGTV aficionado, nor will I ever be. It’s just not up my alley, but I’m watching it last night. And every time they went to commercial break, obviously they’re gonna promote other shows on the network.
I get it. But it was nonstop. Hey, do you know that Renovation Aloha is on that show? How about wild vacation rentals? How about Rock the Block? What about hometown? Hey, there’s gonna be a show where they’re gonna renovate homes. And then the next show it’s gonna be on again, renovate homes and then, and then the show after that.
That’s gonna be on Tuesday nights at eight o’clock. They’re gonna renovate homes. Like, what else can we get some difference in? A little variety in their show. Every show on that network, everybody renovating something. How many different ways can you renovate places? I get it, a renovation. Aloha is Homes in Hawaii.
Okay. But Rock the Block. Did I see? What’s his face from the Home Makeover show? That was around years ago. Ty, he’s on the Rock the Block Show, whatever that is. I just, it’s so funny to see is like every single, and I’ve never gone through the TV guide of HGTV, but I’m guessing what 90% of their shows are.
Hey, we’re gonna renovate this house, we’re gonna renovate this rental. I just feel like we need some variety on these shows. That’s why, probably because I don’t care about the renovation ones. Like I said, the ones that I probably did see episodes of are the one where like, Hey, show me three houses and I’ll pick one that I like the most.
I’m looking, you know, we’re looking for something cozy with a three or four bedrooms and two or three baths, but we want this and we want that, and we see three of ’em. And then you can make your own decision sitting at home like, oh, I like that one the best. I think they’ll pick this one. But the renovation shows I just absolutely do nothing for me.
They just don’t. But I am gonna watch this one. The first thing I wanted to say about this show is I hope we get around to a point in this show. We’re only got, I think we only got five episodes left, and based on what I saw, I don’t think we’re gonna get around to this. And it’s the one thing that fucking Mansion needs, and that’s a giant paint job.
My gosh, when you take a wide look at that mansion, they haven’t painted that thing in years from the outside. Yeah. They’re renovating the rooms inside and painting the rooms. That thing needs an overhaul paint job on the outside because it looks gross and it’s been that way for years. So you would think with a bachelor mansion, makeover, maybe actually do something to the outside of the Mansion.
But I don’t think that’s happening. I think everything they’re doing on the show is doing the rooms and that’s not going to improve the mansion. And again, I think the, the curious thing is, I talked about this in yesterday’s podcast is, wait a second, are these rooms really going to be the rooms? They’re gonna look like those rooms when the show premieres?
In three weeks. Remember this Bachelor Mansion makeover show filmed all of September last year, and Taylor, Frankie Paul’s first night of filming, I believe it was October 26th, so they only had about three and a half weeks. Did they just take all these renovations that the men and women did on this show and said, Hey, thanks.
Really appreciate the hard work and effort you put into this, but we’re gonna do our own decorations for this season of Taylor, Frankie Paul. Then it’s like, okay, well then what was the point of this show? Whatever. I guess we’ll find out in three weeks if these rooms look anything like what these people did when they filmed this show back in September last year.
Anyway, the only thing I really have to critique, and it was the same critique that Tyler and Tisha and Hannah had was what the hell were the guys doing with that Santorini room? Like, I don’t know what a Santorini room is. But if I’m supposed to look at that room and think Santorini room now, I think it’s a room for a 4-year-old.
That’s what I related to. What was Santorini about that room? The colors, the blue ladder. I don’t even know what made it Santorini, but then again, I’ve also never been to Santorini, so maybe that’s where I’m missing it. I don’t know. But that room looked childish and considering their other room. Looked much better.
I don’t understand what they were going for. Like the rooms I figured would have some sort of flow to them. Oh my God, listen. Listen to me, Mr. Architect here.
The rooms would’ve some sort of flow to them.
No, it was like this blue and white room that was made for a four-year-old, and then you go into the other room, it’s like, okay, this seems more like a room that would be in this mansion.
So, yeah, I thought the woman, the women won on that task last night. The room was better. I did get sick of them talking about arches because every time I heard them talk about the arches, I’m like the golden arches. Is McDonald’s a sponsor for this show? But unfortunately, no. It wasn’t the golden arches.
It was just arched this arche that. Let’s put arches here. Let’s put arches there. I’m tired of talking about arches. Let’s move on. The women deserve to win. They did a better job on their room than the men did. The men did a, a, a good job on one of the rooms and did a piss poor job on the blue and white little tykes room.
’cause that room sucked. They had to eliminate somebody. On the first day. The women got rid of Sandra Gee, I wonder why. Let’s get rid of the oldest person here. I’m sure that really felt good for her. And then the men got rid of Jeremy even though it was a tie vote. And then the men lost the competition.
So we’ll find out at the beginning of next episode, who goes home? Spoiler alert. Well, I’m not gonna tell you. I think I know who goes home. I think I. So of course, like I mentioned, this show was filmed about three and a half weeks before Taylor, Frankie Paul started filming her season at The Mansion.
We’ll know how many of these rooms are still decorated like that once her season starts. But another 32nd trailer came out yesterday of Taylor, Frankie Paul talking about her season and you know, acknowledges the fact there is voiceovers of her saying. I know I’m not the norm for this franchise. I know I’m the first woman in this franchise to be the lead that isn’t from the franchise.
So she’s aware. I’m sure she was told that, I’m guessing before she was even approached to be the Bachelorette, she had no idea about that. And you know, for all the Colton talk that I have had the last three or four days. You know, I’ve been just as harsh on Taylor, Frankie Paul as I have been for Colton, and essentially I’m saying the same thing about both of them.
With Taylor, Frankie Paul, it’s no, it’s not that she doesn’t deserve to find love. Of course she does. She deserved to find love as much as anybody else in this world. I just don’t think that she should have been given the lead role of the Bachelorette to find that love and with Colton. My whole thing is he has every right to earn a living, and if that living means being in the public eye and continuing to go on television shows, he just needs to be prepared for people not to like the fact that he keeps showing up on our television shows because he seems to be bothered by people that are bothered by his past, and he is telling us to get over it.
And we’ve, and we need to move on. It’s like how convenient that he’s telling us to move on. So I’ve been saying the same thing ever since Taylor, Frankie Paul was named The Bachelorette. It’s a joke. It’s stunt casting. Doesn’t mean she’s a joke. Obviously. She has done some stuff in her past that is very questionable and I said it from the very first day that she was named The Bachelorette, which is.
This is actually more about the fan base. I’ve dealt with this fan base for 20 years. I know how this fan base functions and they play favorites. If you love Taylor, Frankie Paul, because you love Secret Lives of Mormon wives, that’s great and all. But if you watch The Bachelorette, all I’m here to tell you is if there was a bachelor that was brought in from the outside.
Wasn’t on the bachelorette before, or hell, maybe he was on the Bachelor before. It doesn’t matter. The point I’m trying to make is if our bachelor that was named whoever it may be within the last three years, had a girlfriend that he threw a chair at and swung and missed, well, not threw a chair at her and missed, so basically had a DV charge against him.
And he was named the Bachelorette. Would the response be the same for him, that it has been for Taylor, Frankie Paul now? Yeah. There are people out there that feel the same way I do, which is like she just shouldn’t be given this opportunity. It doesn’t mean that she can’t earn a living just like Colton.
It doesn’t mean that she doesn’t deserve to find love at some point in her life. I just don’t think it should be this way. She’s being rewarded. You could say, Steve, she’s been to. Counseling. She’s been to therapy. Why don’t you give her a second chance? I’m not saying people don’t deserve second chances.
What I am saying is if a man with the same exact past as Taylor, Frankie Paul was named the lead on the Bachelor, there would be pitchforks outside of A, B, C, and they would be forced to remove him. That’s what I’m saying. You know Taylor, Frankie Paul in this new trailer yesterday is talking about she was gifted the role of the Bachelorette.
No, you weren’t. It was corporate Synergy. A, B, C and Hulu worked together and they decided to cross promote, and one of their most popular shows on Hulu, they just plucked one of the women from that and put them on their show. You know why? Because she’s got 2 million followers on Instagram and 7 million followers on TikTok.
That’s why she’s the Bachelorette. It wasn’t because she was gifted, it wasn’t because she’s got this unbelievable story that everybody’s gotta see. No, she’s got a shit ton of followers. They made her the Bachelorette because they know her audience will tune in to watch her. Period. End of story. Let’s not try and over complicate this whatsoever.
That’s why she’s the bachelorette. And I’ll continue to speak out and I’ll continue to call out the hypocrisy by the fan base. ’cause you and I both know if they named a bachelor, whether it was somebody from a previous season or somebody that just brought in from the outside and said, here’s our bachelor, and he had a DV charge against him within the last three years, you would absolutely lose your shit and say, why are they platforming this guy?
Yeah. All I’m saying is keep the same energy when they cast a woman who has that, because I don’t think your response would be, well, he is been to therapy and he’s gotten better. You would be, they’re platforming a man who abused a woman in the past. That’s what you would say. I know you would, and that’s all I’m saying here.
