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. We got a lot to talk about. This episode we’re gonna talk about the American, the Great American Bakeoff. We’re gonna talk et was it one of the best movies of the eighties?
Maybe a little back to the future. No, I’m kidding. You know what we’re talking about. There is so much to get to and we’ll just get started right now. So, as you know, the Bachelorette, this upcoming season with Taylor, Frankie Paul has been shelved. They are not showing it. And I’m gonna read you three statements.
Let’s first go with Taylor. Frankie Paul’s statement that she released after her season got canceled. This was through her representative Taylor is grateful for ABC’s support as she prioritizes her family and safety and security. After years of silently suffering, extensive mental and physical abuse, as well as threats of retaliation, Taylor is finally gaining the strength to face her accuser and taking steps to ensure that she and her children are protected from any further harm.
There are too many women who are suffering in silence as they survive aggressive, jealous ex-partners who refuse to let them move on with their lives. Taylor has remained silent out of fear of further abuse, retaliation, and public shaming. She’s currently exploring all her options, seeking support and preparing to own and share her story.
Just an unbelievable. Statement. I mean, I could dissect it sentence for sentence, but let me get to what Dakota said after Taylor released that statement. He said, anyone who has seen the video will understand this is a deeply upsetting situation. I am, unfortunately, used to these baseless claims about me and our relationship, which I categor categorically deny.
I’m focusing on our son and his safety and hope that Taylor will do the same A, b, C according to a source. A B, C is livid over the situation. Taylor had a breach of contract and they are internally investigating. They have already lost a lot of money. They face losing 40 to 50 million now that they’ve been canceled.
Alright, I’m trying to think of where to start. Taylor’s statement that, no, miss me with that. When I say Miss me with that, I’m not saying that we don’t listen to women,
but this ring so hollow after the video came out so hollow
Taylor is finally gaining the strength to face her accuser and taking the steps to ensure she and her children are protected. Like takes two to tango here, but she kept going back to him. And I know that there are Taylor stands out there. Well, that will dispute everything I say and say he did this. He instigated her.
He was the provoker. You have to understand something. When that video came out yesterday, because I commented on what we saw in the video, it’s a really weird flex for people to watch ’cause there was the clip. That TMZ released? Did any of you watch the full three hour, three hours? Three and a half minutes of it?
Because when I say Taylor needs help, that doesn’t mean, I’m saying Dakota is innocent and everything, but the people that are saying after watching, if you didn’t watch the three and a half minute clip, you have no opinion. You’re not allowed to have an opinion unless you watched the full three and a half minute clip.
And if you did, and your response immediately after watching those three and a half minutes is Yeah. But what about, what about Dakota’s role in all this? So you’re telling me after watching that three and a half minutes, I’m supposed to focus on what I didn’t see. I understand there was probably stuff that led up to it and it probably was provoked by Dakota.
Nobody is saying Dakota is innocent, but we don’t know. When I see three and a half minutes of Taylor being the aggressor, why am I supposed to focus on stuff that I don’t even know what happened? You know, what I do know happened? What is on that video? So that’s what we’re gonna focus on. I’m stunned at how many people are like, but what about Dakota?
I mean the What about is in this story is unreal. Just because I’m commenting on the three and a half minutes that I saw doesn’t mean I think Dakota is innocent and did absolutely nothing wrong. No, but you’re asking me to comment on something that I don’t know about. I did not see, the police report says there was like a fight in the garage.
Yes, we’re well aware. What happened between these two? What came out yesterday was literally just visual evidence of everything we knew that happened that night. ’cause there’s been a police report out for three years. You read the police report, it reads bad. But then when the video comes out and you get three and a half minutes of an awful, awful domestic violence dispute, where Taylor is the aggressor in the video.
And you want me to sit there and ignore what Taylor did in the video and just talk about Dakota. I’m sorry. That just proves you’re not being objective and you’re just a Taylor stand. You have to be objective. She needs help. He needs some sort of help as well. These two need to stay away from each other.
It’s an awful, awful video. I just don’t understand her statement. I can’t believe after that video comes out, the whole statement is about blaming him. What is she doing? There are too many women who are suffering in silence as they survive. Aggre, survive, aggressive, jealous ex-partners who refuse to let them move on with their lives.
I’m not disputing that. Of course there are. There are plenty of women who suffer at the hands of their abusers. I get that. But to throw in a sentence, who refused to let them move on with their lives. So that is saying that statement right there is saying absolutely 1000%. There’s nothing Taylor could have done.
And Dakota’s the one that kept in the relationship. Did you watch season four of Secret Lives? We know these two can’t get enough of each other. We know all she does is talk about how they fight and make up and have sex, and they fight and they make up and have sex. It’s a horrible, horrible cycle. We know both of them should be out of it.
We know these two should not be together ever again in the same room, probably till as long as they live.
But to sit here and say, to put it all on him in your statement, why couldn’t her statement yesterday. After this came out be, I’m appalled that that video is out there. That was one of the worst moments of my life, one of the worst nights of my life. I cannot believe I have to live through this again. I hated myself for the way I acted that night.
You know, just apologetic in some way, but to come out and double and triple down and just say, yeah, but he was the one that made me do it. That’s essentially what her statement is saying. I don’t care if Taylor, Frankie Paul walked into their house that night and Dakota was banging the nanny in front of the kids.
That doesn’t give you free reign to Chuck Bar stools at him. That’s criminal behavior. She can be mad at him all she wants. She could yell at him all she wants, but the second it got physical, she’s grabbing him by the hair. She’s putting him in a headlock like people are focusing on the wrong things here.
And that doesn’t mean that Dakota didn’t do anything wrong. It’s not what that means, but I can only comment on what I saw in the video, and you want me to comment on stuff that I don’t even know happened. I didn’t see any of that in the video. If she’s got a video of Dakota being the aggressor like she was in that video, I’d absolutely be trampling him for that.
But I haven’t seen that yet. Is there a video out there of that? Maybe there is. And if it gets out, it’s just gonna be further proof. These two just don’t need to be in each other’s presence anymore. But to sit here and throw it all on him, I just don’t get it. Jealous ex-partners who refuse to let them move on with their lives really.
And I know I, and trust me, I understand what she’s saying, that, you know, it’s just not so easy. It’s one thing to still be tied to Dakota because you have a child, but I’m sorry. That argument that she just made in that statement lose its all, loses all its credibility by watching season four of Secret Lives.
You heard me and Chad and Lizzie talk about it on the YouTube yesterday. It is unbelievable how much season four of Secret Lives set her up to not be the Bachelorette. It was an anti bachelorette campaign that whole season. She wasn’t ready. Her mother’s telling her she wasn’t ready. The other women are telling her she’s not ready.
She says, I love you to Dakota before she left, the day before she left. Not to mention banging him the night before she left. I guess the good thing is I’ve been consistent. Ever since September 10th when she was named The Bachelorette said it shouldn’t have been her. It’s just too much baggage. Why even go there with her?
Can you really be surprised? Now, I don’t think A, B, C or any of us expected another or expected this video to get out, but I just, I just don’t understand at all that statement that she released yesterday. This podcast brought to you by Factor somewhere between the first warm weekend and realizing short season is getting close.
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Offer only valid for new factor customers with code and qualifying auto-renewing subscription purchase make healthier, eating easy with factor. Now just as mind numbing as Taylor’s statement was. I didn’t understand ABCs at all. A, B, C is livid over the situation. Taylor had a breach of contractor they internally investigating.
What situation are they talking about? The fact that the video got out, the fact that they didn’t know about the video. It didn’t matter if they didn’t know about the video. They read the police report. Hulu read the police report and decided after that police report, okay, she pled guilty to one charge.
She gets probation, she goes to therapy. We’re gonna film a show about the Mormon wives. So who knew what, when, when it came to that video? I don’t know. And I guess we’ll never know. ’cause certainly A, B, C and Hulu aren’t gonna come out and admit, yeah, we knew that video existed. We were just hoping it didn’t get out.
Of course, they’re never gonna admit that. But when you look at it, it’s like, what is a livid over what situation? You were the ones that basically caused it. You’re livid over the situation. What? That the video got out. I, I don’t understand what their livid over. She had a breach of contract. Well, this video wasn’t a breach of contract.
This video was 2023. You still made the choice to make her the bachelorette, even though. You knew what the contents of this video were because of a police report and you didn’t care and neither did Hulu. And I know, trust me, I’ve heard from a lot of you that said she already accepted responsibility for this.
She took accountability. She pled guilty to one charge, got probation. So what is a b, c livid about? Because the problem is. What’s rumored to have happened three weeks ago is going to be what a, B, C should be livid about because that’s violation of her contract because that happened after she signed a contract to be the bachelorette.
And if what we’re hearing is any indication that’s a violation of her probation and that’s probably going to result in jail time or, and or losing custody of her children. TMZ reported yesterday. They have video of Tate and Dakota at the courthouse on Tuesday, both filing restraining orders against her and both filing for sole custody.
Pretty sure the restraining orders are going to get granted and the sole custody. I, I don’t know, I, I’m not a judge I, but if I know the basics of she’s on probation for three years and that three years ends in August. And this incident three weeks ago, which is currently being investigated by the Draper Police Department.
If they come up with something and they feel that she was the aggressor in whatever happened three weeks ago, I gotta believe that’s going to lead to jail time, which then could subsequently lead to a different change of custody with her children. I mean, it is. This is one of the worst days in bachelorette history.
You notice I haven’t talked about the show at all. Like I know you said, Hey Steve, this is your show. This is your livelihood. You cover the Bachelor. Well, yeah, but it’s way more important now of the people involved because we’re talking about children. Again, don’t just watch the clip that TMZ posted, ’cause that’s only about 30 or 45 seconds.
Go watch the whole three and a half minute video and trigger warning for anybody who does. If you have children, it’s probably gonna bring you to tears. And even if you don’t have children, you’re gonna be like, holy shit. This is what I mean. It’s one thing to read that police report that has been out there for three years, which again, the police report was out there, and Hulu just stood by, well, a judge only said one charge probation.
Okay, we’re moving forward, she’s going to improve, she’s gonna go to therapy and she’s gonna become a better woman. And then you watch Secret Live Season four, and you’re like, huh, this woman doesn’t seem ready to be the Bachelorette yet. They didn’t seem to care. A lot of this just doesn’t make sense honestly, but I really can’t stress enough that just because I comment about what happened in the video doesn’t mean I absolve Dakota of everything, but you’re asking me to comment on something that I have not seen and nobody has seen.
I watched that three and a half minutes, and I’m supposed to be like, yeah, but Steve, what happened before that? What did he do to instigate her and provoke her? What can you imagine? Just, I want you to hear me out for a second. Could you imagine if that video came out and it was Dakota in that video doing everything that Taylor did to her?
Would any of you be saying Dakota chucking two bar stools at Taylor in a drunken rage, right, with her child scream, crying on the couch, and it was three and a half minutes of that and it was all Taylor, or excuse me, all Dakota as the aggressor. Would you be saying to me, yeah, but Steve, what did Taylor do to provoke Dakota?
No. That’s why I don’t understand the immediate turn to why did Dakota, what did Dakota do to provoke her to act this way? Sorry. Wrong take. Absolutely wrong take, and again, I’m admitting he probably did do something to provoke her, but it doesn’t mean it can provoke a fight. It can provoke an argument.
It can provoke a disagreement. And people raising their voices. Yeah, you don’t certainly want to do it in front of kids, but I understand it happens for sure. It’s not the only household that has yelled in front of their kids, but when yelling turns into that and the drunken rage that she was in, chucking bar stools at him and the part of the bar stool possibly hitting her daughter.
Hell, you even hear Dakota in the video saying, Taylor, it’s your daughter. Take care of her. And her only thing was, no, not to run to her daughter and put her arms around her and say, I’m so sorry. Mommy’s here. It’s okay. Everything will be okay. Her daughter was in danger and you know what her response was To yell more at Dakota and say, this is all your fault.
Again, I, I, I, I can’t see where that is. Good parenting. And being a good mother, like she said in her media interviews. I understand Dakota drives her absolutely bonkers. I’m not saying he doesn’t, but I’m sure there are plenty of couples out there whose spouses and or significant others drive them nuts sometimes.
But how many of them in those rages pick up bar stools and chuck it at ’em twice with the kids in the room and screaming and crying? That’s what I mean. It’s just, it was a bad look and I just think people are focusing on the wrong stuff. Why was it released now? What does it matter? What matters is we’ve now seen the footage of what we saw in the written word on that police report.
That’s what we’ve seen. So at, at this point. It’s just an awful situation for everybody involved. Taylor needs help. Taylor and Dakota need to be separated. I’ve been saying this for months. They don’t need to be in each other’s lives. And considering what’s happened in season four, I wouldn’t even just say season four.
You guys have all watched seasons one through four. It’s the Dakota and Taylor Show. All they do is fight and break up and then get back together and fight and break up and get back together. And that’s what happened in season four. It’s like, okay, now that this is all out there and restraining orders are being filed, people asking for soul custody, all this craziness that is happening now, God forbid, and especially after that statement, I, I want people to save that statement that Taylor put out there.
Because as much as I wanna believe that, that’s what she truly believes right now, if I ever hear, if we ever, not just me, if we ever hear that these two are even trying to work stuff out and trying to be better, I’m saying together, not work stuff out on their own. It’s just Taylor, what about that statement where you said this about your abuser and it’s just like, we don’t need that.
She doesn’t need that. And I know it’s not just easy. If it was easy, what is, what is the statistic that usually in a domestic violence case, it takes seven times for the victim to leave? I understand it’s not easy, but when she doubles and triples down on that statement and says the things that she did.
About her accuser and she needs to break away. She’s currently exploring all her auctions, seeking support, preparing her own to own and share her story. She’s remained silent out of fear of further abuse, retaliation, and public shaming, all that stuff. That’s great, but if we ever hear that these two are trying to reconcile, that shit goes out the window and you’re full of shit.
Like we never want to hear that these two have ever trying to reconcile. And if you can say, say, well, Steve, they’re trying to reconcile for their child. You and I both know if they try and reconcile and try and make it about ever, it’s going to go bad again. At some point down the line. Could be a month later, could be 12 months later, could be five years later.
There’s no way these two can co-exist as a couple. And if Secret Lives wants to make a storyline out of it, they’re just as culpable as anybody. Hell, they’re already a culpable. By choosing to look at that incident from 2023 and then film four Seasons of a show and pray on the fact P-R-E-A-Y. Pray on the fact that Dakota and Taylor are just their messy couple that everybody wants to see.
Drama. It’s one thing to have drama. This is the different story. Drama on a show where, oh. Who are you texting and this and that, but then if someone picks up a phone and throws it and things get violent, like we don’t wanna see that when we watch our reality tv. We just want superficial drama. Women jealous of somebody else, men jealous of somebody else, sniping.
When it becomes criminal activity, that’s a totally different story and we don’t need that. And that’s what this is turned into. That’s why. My stance is she should never return to Secret Lives of Mormon wives. We already know the Bachelorette is off the air. She should never return to Secret Lives of Mormon wives.
However, I have a feeling that she’s going to, they’re going to use this as literally footage of maybe even her, if she gets put in jail, going to jail that day and then coming out of jail trying to reconcile with all the women. You just know that Secret Lives is eating this up and they shouldn’t. And we shouldn’t as a society give this anymore.
That show can survive without Taylor, Frankie Paul. And if Taylor, Frankie Paul’s not on Secret Lives, I can’t imagine Dakota would be, he doesn’t need to be on that show either. Even though he’s probably friends with the guys, the, the husbands, I’m sure he’s friends with them. Right. But he doesn’t need to be on that show if she’s not on it.
Just get them both off the show. Why would you keep them, you know? It doesn’t make any sense to me. I mean, there’s a lot. There is so much, and I’m sure the problem with this is this story is not going away because we have an incident from three weeks ago that the Draper Police Department is currently investigating, and God forbid something else comes out of that, whether it’s photos or videos.
Can you imagine if something comes out of that, because that’s now a direct violation of her contract. Excuse me, direct violation of her probation, and then she’s facing serious, serious issues. It’s just the whole thing is sad all around. As much as I’ve come down on Taylor, as I said in my Instagram clips from last week, she doesn’t need, or earlier this week, she doesn’t need TV cameras in her face anymore.
She needs help and Dakota needs to be separated from her. This whole situation needs to be, they just can’t be together because clearly when she went and filmed The Bachelorette for two months, as far as I know, she didn’t chuck any bar stools at any of the guys on her season. She didn’t scream bloody murder.
Her kids weren’t screaming in the background when they filmed The Bachelorette. She wasn’t in a drunken rage with any of those guys. You know why? ’cause she wasn’t around Dakota. It’s clear that this woman can live a productive life and she can stay outta trouble and she can avoid crash outs when Dakota Mortenson is not part of her life.
But unfortunately, I understand that they are connected because they have a child together. But you and I both know they can do child exchanges with a mediator. They could technically go the rest of their lives without seeing each other if they didn’t want, if they wanted to. And I’m talking, you know, Christmas holidays and stuff like that, maybe.
But you know, Everett gets married one day. I’m sure they’re both gonna be there, you know what I’m saying? But for the time being, these two should never have any contact with each other. And according to this statement by her, and according to this statement, by him as well, he’s basically saying she’s a liar.
So if she’s a liar, Dakota never be around her again. Taylor, if he’s been doing all this to you, never be around him again. Seems like that would be the thing to maybe clear all this up and maybe make things easier. Maybe get her to be better. Get her to do better. Get him to do better. I understand it’s a very, very sensitive topic.
DV is not anything to joke about for sure. We know this, but I didn’t really spend any time today talking about. The show and the after effects that is on my YouTube channel here. Me, Chad, and Lizzie, break down all the different branches for this because it’s not easy to go from all this heavy talk to be like, so what is this gonna do to the Bachelor franchise?
We did talk about it and I’ll probably bring it up on Monday, but let this fester and I understand if you are a Taylor, Frankie Paul fan and you want things to be better for her, that’s fine. But your immediate reaction to three and a half minutes of her being the aggressor in a video should not be.
Yeah, but what did Dakota do to provoke it? He’s the, he’s the instigator. He’s the douche bag in all this. He very well may be, but all I can go off is what the video showed. That’s what I was commenting on. Please do not take that route. It’s an awful, awful take because you know, if it was the other way around, you wouldn’t be saying.
If it was a video of Dakota doing all this to Taylor, you wouldn’t be saying, yeah, but what did Taylor do to provoke that? You wouldn’t be saying that You know it and I know it. So I just want to end with this. If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1 807 9 9 7 2 3 3 for confidential support.
Anybody who either knows somebody involved or you’re invol involved yourself. 1 807 9 9 7 2 3 3. You can get confidential support on the National Domestic Violence Hotline, everybody. Let’s take a deep breath, have a great weekend, watch some basketball, great college basketball to start the tournament yesterday, and we’ll revisit this on Monday because I guarantee 3, 4, 5, 10 more headlines are gonna come out of this over the weekend.
So let’s pray. Things get better for every party involved. Let’s not be so one-sided when talking about what that video entailed and what it, what it eclipsed. I mean, obviously everybody has seen it. It’s an awful, awful video, but if you haven’t seen it, I don’t really think that you should be chiming in on your opinion of Dakota.
He released the video and you know this, how. If you don’t have any proof, what we do have is a three and a half minute video proof of what she did that night, and it was awful. We have now seen what we have known about and it just made it even worse. And A B, C pulled the plug, which is something they absolutely had to do once that video got out.
Anyway, thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple Podcast. Also, rate and review, but you gotta hit play. It’s the only way it counts as a download. Sports Daily coming up in an hour from now. If you wanna check that out. Also, it can go to my YouTube, check out the interview I did with Chad and Lizzie yesterday on this whole situation.
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