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So excited about this week’s podcast guest. For the first time ever, Emily O’Brien from Ben Flajnik’s season will be joining me this Thursday. And no, it’s not to talk about the 8 year crush I’ve had on her. Please, people. She’s married woman with a child and another on the way next month. Emily is the only person in franchise history who is an epidemiologist. So what better person from this franchise to come on and talk about the coronavirus and give her thoughts from a medical perspective on what we’re facing. Sure, we open the podcast talking about Ben’s season for maybe 15 minutes, but then we talk about the virus for the next hour. So informative hearing someone who literally studies viruses and diseases for a living discussing this stuff. I wanted to make it basically a Virus for Dummies, as there’s so much misinformation floating around out there. So I tried to approach it from the angle of knowing absolutely nothing. Sure, there are things I’ve read over the last 2 … Continue reading →

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I’m really, really, really trying to give “Listen To Your Heart” the benefit of the doubt, but honestly, it’s damn near impossible. Like I mentioned before it even started, it was always going to be the same thing as the “Bachelor” except with a singing theme behind it. Here’s the problem though – it’s not like this show went out and found some of the best up-and-coming singers on the planet. This show was cast as a dating show first, and THEN if you could sing, that helped you get cast. Obviously singing is subjective, and who you might think is a good singer someone else might think sucks. My point is more that the experience these people have, or lack thereof, is what is hurting. Starting next week, each couple performs every show, and judges decide who to keep and who to send home. So just that right there makes the format all kinds of weird. Two episodes to couple up with someone and then that’s the person you have to tie yourself to … Continue reading →