Tupac Mystery Solved + Golden Bachelor in Paradise + Guest Host, Matt Blankenship Jr.!

This week we're joined by host Maddy McClain's brother, Matt Blankenship Jr.!

Among bed bugs & other fun life things, we're talking about the decades-old Tupac murder mystery & co-conspirator who is now in jail, Duane 'Keefe D' Davis. Why were police able to catch him now?

Next we're covering Bachelor Nation, including Golden Bachelor with America's favorite grandzaddy, Gerry Turner and Bachelor in Paradise.

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Transcript

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Hello, homies. And welcome to another episode of Easily Entertained. I am your host, Maddy McClain. So glad to be sitting down here once again, talking to my friends, my mother, my father, my aunts and distant aunts and all of those that fall in between. It's been another week, you know, I, uh, it's another week.

Tuesdays actually are the shittiest days of the week. I've come to the conclusion. Mondays, they've taken the rap. They've taken the fall for too long. I think it's Tuesdays and, um. If you disagree with me, I don't want to know. So, that's that on that. But, just kidding, let me know, what's your worst day of the week?

This week, we'll be talking about Tupac's alleged murderer that has been arrested 30 years later, nearly 30 years. Because if you fact check me, it will be 27. Nearly to the date, but Tupac, Shakur, oh god. Shakur. Shakur.

I'm gonna get so canceled on this episode. Um, Tupac's murderer, nearly 30 years later, was finally arrested, taken into police custody with a trial on the way, potentially. But, um, to say this has been a mystery that a lot of people have had a lot of fun creating various conspiracy theories around would be an understatement.

So low key, kind of disappointed we can no longer entertain those conspiracy theories, but mostly pretty sick that we are here today. To, uh, witness the alleged murderer be taken down by the Big Popo. Anyways, um, so we're going to talk about that. And we will also dig into the Golden Bachelor that premiered last week.

And by the time you hear this, we will be... Prepping ourselves for a Thursday episode number two. There was also, uh, Bachelor in Paradise, which is like the trashy trailer park cousin of The Bachelor and Golden Bachelor. We might, you know, we'll, we'll dibble dabble in that, of course. And, um, some other fun, interesting stories that have to do with Cher potentially.

Wait for this. Kidnapping her son? Question mark? Hiring people to kidnap her own son. Dun dun dun. I wish I made that up, um, because that'd be pretty creative, but I did not. So we'll talk about that, and um, last but most definitely not least, we have a very special guest co host today, my brother, My producer, Matt Blankenship Jr!

Welcome! Hello world, I'm here. Do you really think Tuesdays are the worst days of the week? For sure, yeah. But Taco Tuesdays are on Tuesdays. 

 Oh god, I didn't consider 

that. But maybe that's just like a, uh, Tuesday propaganda. The Tuesday propaganda machine, you know. I would argue Wednesdays? 

What? Really? Hump 

day?

Yeah, but who's really getting humped? Like, it's, it's in the middle of the week. And, depending on if you're at the beginning of the day or the end of the day, the work week is either not yet halfway over or it's more than halfway over. I don't know, I just, I think Wednesdays are very blah days. Nothing really happens on a Wednesday.

I feel like that's when all like the after school activities even though we're not in school anymore. I'm not in 

school I'm in my 30s If I were a doctor I would have even graduated by now

Well, I just there's like I feel like it comes Wednesday And I feel way less guilty if I want to go have a wine night with my with my girls my girls 

Oh, yeah wine Wednesdays Wine and weed Wednesdays Are we allowed to say weed on this podcast? Yeah, we can I already know that, I produce it. Um, another, can I tell you a story about something that happened to me last night?

Please. I was going to bed early, which is a rarity for me. Video viewers can see that I'm extremely well rested. By the way that my eyes are set very far back into my head, you know. Uh, this is, there's a reason for that. I... Was lying there and I'm like kind of about to fall asleep And I had that sort of like if I just keep on going I'm about to fall asleep early, and I'm gonna wake up Super early and it's gonna be awesome, but having that thought alone You know like kind of makes now I'm thinking about falling asleep, and so I'm like damn it.

I'm just gonna check my phone And I reach over and I grab my phone and I feel like this tickling on my, on my arm. And I'm like, and I like move my phone light around to see what it, what it was. And I saw like something moving and I was like, Oh, it's just like a moth or something. It's because I grabbed my phone.

He was like attracted to the light or whatever. So I didn't think too much of it. I was fairly certain. I knew it was a moth and I went over and I turned on my like nightstand light. And I like, lied back down, and I'm like, looking around and the sheets around me are like, around me, I was like, where's that big moth?

Laid. 

You laid back down. 

What did I say? Lied. I lied back down, so as I was saying. I laid down. Sorry. And I, uh, look over and I'm like, you know, running my hands over the sheets and I look over to my left and there's like, a straight spider leg. Right there. And I was just like, what the fuck? And so I sat up, and under my back, in, you know, in that little space like along my spine that creates like a little pocket, there was a spider there, and it had bit me on the back.

No, no, I'm a, I'm a friend of spiders, but I killed this one and then I spent the next hour freaking out reading about brown recluse bites and it turns out they don't really live in California and, but I still stayed up for another two hours and, uh, I don't think I actually fell asleep until like two or three in the morning and, a spider.

Last night. Oh, no, I was actually surprised at how that's like my worst nightmare. Like, I used to have, did you ever have dreams when you were a kid about freaky bugs under in your bed with you? Oh, yeah. Like, wake up, like, half asleep, like, like, 

there's me most mostly like rats running across my face. I have a very vivid imagination.

Oh, I never had that. Um, but yeah, it happened to me. Oh, that's horrible. I'm okay. I was actually surprised I didn't care. I don't think I care about anything anymore. 

What's the use these days? You know, what's the use? How did you murder? Uh, what, what was your weapon of choice or? 

I, he was already a little bit like, can we curse on this podcast or no?

I am the producer. I can't remember if you had or not. Anyway, I don't need to. I. I 

killed him I Mom would be so proud of you. He 

I placed like a little like square toilet paper he was already pretty messed up for me lying on him. I placed a little square piece of toilet paper on him, and I brushed him out of the floor and just gave him a little like, tap with a shoe and then tossed him in the toilet and gave him a little flush.

That's a polite way to murder. A little burial at sea after that, yeah. Um, so, that's what's going on with me. Have you 

heard That so currently fashion week is going on in Paris. It's Paris fashion week and they have like I think a literal whatever their version of like emergency or state of of panic but in legal governmental terms Of bed bugs.

They have bed bug infest infestations everywhere and they have all like All these prim, proper, like, the who's who's of the world, like, there for a fashion week in every hotel, everywhere, there's just a shitload of bedbugs, and like, we told everyone to check their shit. 

I thought you were gonna say that.

There was a list of the who's who and of famous people who currently have bedbugs. I had bedbugs once, or I thought I did. I definitely did. It was, it's a horrible experience because you feel dirty and you have these like bites all over your arm. And you're like, you don't, you want to wear like long sleeves and you feel like people will judge you for having bedbugs because like.

You must be like, I've heard that a dirty person. Yeah, it's uh, it lasted the whole thing lasted for like three weeks and then just disappeared on its own. And it was like, it was a mental disease. I mean, it was like a physical reality too. But the mental part was way harder. It's like three weeks. Yeah, some PTSD from the bedbugs, uh, but no, I didn't know that actually, I guess it was related to this, but I read some, excuse me, article of like 59 style for men things on GQ or something.

And I don't know. It was interesting. I try to keep up. And, uh, I just don't take it fully seriously because, like, I'm pretty sure one or two of the things, like, directly conflicted, like, advice that had been given earlier in the article, and then, like, the last one was, like, just be yourself. Trust yourself.

It's just, 

okay. Thanks, guys. It's like having a, like, glamour and Cosmo and GQ have all just, like, they've been phased out of the culture, so their way of, of staying in touch is with, like, these, Disclaimers of like, love yourself, everybody is perfect the way they are, but here are the top sex positions to really make them 

cry.

Who is taking its place though? Is it like by committee on TikTok?

Um, I would say, yeah, it's just, it's just influencers. I hate that word influencers, content creators. That's who people like go to more. I think 

it listed a bunch of trends that I had never heard of that came from TikTok. Like. I'm curious if you're familiar. What is tomato girl? Is that a thing? Oh, 

I think this is where some bitch used a tomato for like her blush and her like lipstick and just like rubbing a tomato on her face instead.

All natural, but not. Like I think I could be totally 

wrong like leaving like tomato juice. Yeah, you got it, right? 

How do you think the fucking cave women does she have a job? 

I'd make up But she goes into work and they're like, excuse me. You have tomato 

You smell like you're missing some 

spaghetti for breakfast again,

wait now Regardless, I'm looking up tomato girl 

I hope all of this gets left in.

What is tomato girl summer? Oh yeah, and everything is something girl summer. 

Yeah, I think it was tomato girl summer. I can't really remember. Yeah, you're 

right. Uh, oh, I'm just completely incorrect. It must have been another, uh, vegetable, fruit, fruit that someone else was rubbing on their face, but says tomato girl aesthetic is largely inspired by the Mediterranean coast or anywhere where tomato based dishes are popular.

Think Amalfi Gardens, Santorini beaches and Barcelona streets. So it's just the color red. That's it. Oh, 

that's pretty good branding. 

The next key colors are neutrals, especially white, tan, and da da da da 

da da. Especially if it keys you to make up a story without rubbing tomatoes on your face. 

Like I said, vivid imagination.

Well, nothing's new under the sun, but you heard it here first on the Easily Entertained Podcast. Tomatoes. Tomatoes are the new to may bleem. Wow, I hope you can read that. Boo. 

Throwing tomato. Tomato, tomato, 

tomato. Sorry, let's get out of this segment. This sucks. Alright. Yeah.

Tupac. Good ol Tupac. A actual iconic. I'm using this in the... True sense of the word, not that I don't myself use the word iconic, ironically, either, and follow everybody else on TikTok, but Tupac, an absolute icon of hip hop, of the music world, of Inspired many shows and movies and after his death, he died by drive by shooting and it was, has been speculated upon years since this is 27 years ago as to who was involved, what went down, who did it and for the most part.

We were actually told who did it, uh, by said person, slightly, that will make more sense as I explain it, I suppose, instead of being so cryptic, but there's a huge where the whole West Coast, East Coast rivalry, and I was birthed was back when Tupac and Biggie. And Dre and Shug and Easy E, all of those people during their, like, their heyday, if you will, um, and Tupac was West Coast and Biggie, notorious B I G, was East Coast.

So, think of it like a flag football team, okay? Am I right, Matthew, so far? This 

is so much fun hearing you explain this. It's like, does your listener base not know who Tupac is? I hope 

to God they do, but I don't know. 

I'm sure they do. 

Yeah, and if you don't, fuckin read a book, okay? 

Yeah. Abraham Lincoln, Tupac, George Washington, Biggie.

Those are the four Americans you need to know about. 

Those are the the faces in the mountains. Oh, what's that called?

Mount Rushmore

This is where I got an education Anyways, so 27 years ago Tupac as he was leaving he and his crew were leaving a big

Wrestling match? Show? 

I don't know what it was. You're looking at me like I'm gonna help you. Oh, but I am. But it's so much more fun to not help you. 

I'm sure

it is. Let me pull up my notes. Doo doo 

doo doo. In the meantime, I, uh, will fill some dead air by distracting Maddie and making her take longer to look up whatever it is she's looking up about whatever Tupac was leaving. Before he was killed in a drive by shooting. 

Oh, I got it. Okay, go ahead So Tupac and his crew were leaving a big Mike Tyson, how could I forgot versus I don't know who the hell this is, Bruce Selden, uh, match, yeah, who cares, in Vegas.

Uh, so following the match, beforehand, uh, Tupac and his crew actually got in a fight with this guy, Orlando Babylane Anderson. Beat the shit out of him, and then he goes and tells his crew, which is Notorious B. I. G. 's side, that, hey, Tupac and his homies just beat the shit out of me, look at my face. I don't know if you said, look at my face, you probably didn't have to his face was probably speaking for him.

Um, 

anyways, said, Hey, all eyes on me. Oh, my God. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on. 

Anyways. So as retaliation, basically. It said that somebody in their crew is pretty known that this was a, this was the Courtney versus Kim Kardashian of the time in the hip hop world. Okay. There you 

go. Make it relatable.

Love it. 

So they're beefing. So it's like, you kind of know who's probably involved, but not who particularly, um, as he was leaving a car, a white Cadillac drove by and bang, bang, bang. Shot Tupac and they took him to hospital. He, unfortunately that he died from those sustained injuries a week later, and he was only 25 years old, which to me, I don't know, just, I didn't think he was that young.

That was when I, when I read this whole story, like, years ago, like, looking back on this, like, 25, that's insane, you know. He's a babies. He was famous since he was a child and then was killed when he was yet still a child. Very sad. We're having fun on this podcast, but this is that's very sad. Anyway, uh, what happened next?

So what happened next is apparently a ton of Well, it gets sadder, kind of, uh, is that a lot of the people that were involved and that the police were interviewing died themselves not much longer later, not much later than when Tupac died, uh, notorious B. I. G., Biggie was, was shot and murdered too, himself, like a month later, and people in his crew, like, Dropping like flies, like it's horrible.

A lot of what Tupac would rap about is about violence among gangs, amongst, amongst other rappers. And yet, he did also participate in it himself, but it's also just. Eerie too, because in a few interviews before his death, he did mention he thought he would die young, like he didn't think he would make it, um, that far in his life, which apparently is a thing that a lot of musicians, or Matthew, you sure as hell better have not thought this.

I feel like a lot of this stuff is... Kind of like hindsight looking for Nostradamus stuff. I mean, there's like talk about like Kurt Cobain died and one of the last concerts or maybe the last concert, I'm not a historian, that Nirvana ever did was their, uh, uh, unplugged MTV unplugged performance and they did this on all apologies and there's just like candles everywhere, very funeral type vibes and people will like cite that as like, Oh, this is like some sort of.

Kind of like premonition prophecy kind of thing and I just I think that like Tupac living the life that he did probably said stuff like that all the time already because he's surrounded by his members of his crew and his friends and family or whatever like people are dying and It's not insane for him to say that too So I don't think it's just...

Anyway, it is spooky month. It is a little spooky, but I don't find it as spooky as it probably is in reality, as with a lot of these kind of things. 

Yeah, I could totally see that. I think everyone wants to make meaning out of something, especially in hindsight. It's like of any true crime case or, or, or 

something like that.

Because he's like such a, an icon and, you know, people, people are already like trying to, trying to create that reality of where like, he's not, he's more than human. He, like, knew that he 

was that about Mac Miller, too, when he died. It was like, yeah, he knew he was going to die young. He wasn't going to make it, even though we know now that it was an accidental overdose.

Anyways, we're not talking about Mac, although. I named my dog after Mac Miller, slash macaroni and cheese, slash Matthew McConaughey, but 

who asked? We should do a Mac Miller episode one of these days. Yeah, 

we should. I got a Mac Miller t shirt and uh, it's one of my favorites. Anyways, yeah, very nice. I'm so glad I shared that with everybody today.

They are too. Great. I love my viewers, listeners. Anyways, so I'll go back to it. So that's how Tupac died. Well, part of the, I guess, part of Notorious B. I. G. 's crew. I guess I should just say Biggie. That's a lot easier. Yeah. Part of Biggie's crew. Yeah. This guy, Keefy D, Biggie. Dwayne Keefe D. Shit, what's his last name?

I 

bet it starts with a D. Davis. 

Yeah. Dwayne Keefe D. Davis. He was part of Biggie's crew and Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, who Tupac and his crew had just beaten the shit out of. That is Keefe D. 's nephew. It's a lot of, like, relations to keep track of, but, so they're related. And, um, he had actually already kind of hinted at it in a memoir, but it wasn't until 2018.

The book was released later on the next year, but he wrote a memoir in a book called Compton street legend and, um, he told his side of what went down that night and what. All but admitted to murdering Tupac. I mean, he just said he was the passenger in the car when that happened. So he didn't, he said he was not the shooter.

But police had already, they were already on to him before then, which is good news, you know, given 30 years had gone down in between then, but that was kind of the ammunition they need, they needed to reignite the case and they were able to get a search warrant. And he even did an interview, like, a few years ago where he talks about it.

And essentially, what ended up happening is he handed the gun to Orlando baby lane Anderson, and he was the 1 who shot the gun, but Orlando. Is also passed away. Dwayne Keefe D. Davis is the only survivor. He was the driver? No, he was in the passenger side. So we don't know who was driving, but they're dead.

Yeah. 

So, 

anyway, I guess I could have said that in a little bit more of a cushiony way. But yeah, so he's arrested. I think, I mean, I don't know how he's going to get out of all but admitting to it. Like, it's pretty much feels sealed. Um. But what was cool is that Tupac's, I, I found this kind of cool, I guess, was that one of Tupac's homies, or whatever, on his quote side, or whatever, just decided and told policemen he would not testify against Keefy D because of quote, street law.

So, 

yeah.

My brain just stopped working. It 

got so serious. I think you were hung up on whether you're allowed to say homies or whatever. I 

know, because I used to say it a lot and now I'm like, 

oof. You're like, hi homies. So anyway, one of uh, TBD's homies. Gangster rap.

Um, that's uh. That's a pretty crazy story told in a very strange way. That's why we love this podcast. 

Thank you.

Thank you. Oh, so do I have what? 

Did you listen to Tupac much? Or were you into hip hop growing up? I 

mean, you know that you grew up with me. I'm not a big hip hop guy, but, but, uh, I do know Tupac because he's pretty ubiquitous and, um, same with, with Biggie. Uh, yeah, so I remember getting a Rolling Stone magazine, it was like one of the first times I ever got it and like reading it and it made me so depressed because I don't know why but to this day like just people like in magazines are just like from on high telling me that this is cool and this is not and this is cool.

Some people love that. I've always hated it. And the most interesting part in there was this like 15 page long, like, history of, like, Death Row records and, like, Tupac and Biggie's murders. So I read that, that part, and... I thought it was super, super interesting. So I think it's, I think it's, I think it's cool that this is like coming up now, so many years later.

Because you know there's all these like conspiracy theories about like, Tupac is alive, he lives in Cuba, like, there's like Tupac sightings and stuff, and, um, I don't really think it's that sad that that's gonna die, but, uh, they were fun while they lasted. It 

was, gave us a lot to work with. 

I mean, people will probably come up with conspiracy theories about this, like, Kifidi thing, too.

So, uh... Yeah, that's true. Yeah, people are just... I gotta... I gotta, you know, just make up, make up more interesting versions of reality. . 

Yeah. There's a lot of creativity that is already needed. I would say it's, particularly in the film industry, there's a lot of sequels, a lot of remakes. 

Yeah. I don't know.

That's from on high because they don't want to fund like a new. Thing. Unless it's already been successful. 

Yeah. Money. Money moves, baby. Money moves. That's not what they say, right? No. Actually. 

Money moves. Money talks. Money does also move. 

Money moves. Money shakes. Anyways. You know, I will say there is one industry, group of people in the industry that really is shaken up the way they're doing things and that is good old Bachelor Nation, baby.

Yeah. What do they do? How'd you guys like that segue? That 

was great. I'll tell you what they do, Matthew. Okay. We have the Golden Bachelor. No longer are we seeing 20 somethings strutting their tight little tushies. To meet the bachelor, a bachelorette, we have the most adorable, sweet man, Jerry. I say this wrong every time, even though I've watched the show.

Gary Turner. Gary. It's spelled G E R R Y, and my brain just like, TUNK! Like, kerplunks each time I read it. 

Wait, his spell his name 

again? G E R R Y. Gary. What? Yeah. It's Scottish, apparently. 

Oh. I mean, still. 

Thank you. Yeah. That's kind of like the answer he gave in this interview, too, and I wasn't really fully satisfied by it, either, but...

Maybe he just decided on a later in life rebrand. Funny, I just thought about this. Do you ever get a... Do you know what a silver alert is? You know what an amber alert is? Do you know what a silver alert is? Well, for listeners who don't, it's, it's like a old person, probably with dementia, who is like missing because they, you know, are like off and just took the car and started like.

You know, they're out and we need to get them because they're not, like, well, and so I was wondering if they pitched around the idea of calling it the Silver Bachelor because of, like, the gray hairs, but it's the Golden Bachelor for the golden years, which is cool, too. 

Oh, I don't know what I, oh, I hadn't thought about that.

And I think I kind of like the Silver Bachelor better, but maybe that's too tongue in cheek. 

I think it probably is. It's a little insulting. They could have called it the Platinum Bachelor.

Both laugh. Or just like, have a different bachelor for all the different like, tiers of airline, uh, delta stuff. Both laugh. The 

Aged Barrel Bachelor. Both laugh. That's 

good too. Rum barrel aged bachelor? Yeah. Which is like a drunk version of the The vintage bachelor. That's actually, well, no, that's a little weird too.

Vintage. Um. Yeah. All of this is weird. That's why we love it. I've, uh, so, have you seen the first episode of The Golden 

Bachelor? I have. I have indeed. And I gotta say, I didn't really, I actually kinda had low expectations, to be honest, going into it. And they were, they were exceeded. I actually really enjoyed it.

Did you have the chance to watch it? I 

have not yet. Which is why I'm excited to talk about this with you, because you can educate me a little bit. And spoil it. Allow me. What, uh, what caused you to have low expectations for it? Because I personally watched the Bachelor, Bachelorette franchise. most of the time.

It's, it's kind of, I think the thing that really, uh, made me truly like it after watching the first season or two with like, ex girlfriends who was dating at the time, or just like, I'm watching The Bachelor and I'd watch it with them. And I started to get it later because it's kind of like a, uh, like a live concert.

In that like you can go see your favorite band and they can do really poorly and it's still kind of endearing because you're like oh man they had a really bad show and it makes you feel closer to them to be able to know the difference that there's several there's several seasons of the bachelor bachelorette that you're just like wow they just We're like, alright, let's just get through this and get on to the next one.

A hundred percent, where they actually literally got so bad, where they, the Bachelorette just left Claire Crawley and they brought in a new Bachelorette, like, a few weeks later, which was Tayshia. 

Wow, I did not see that season, but that sounds juicy. I remember watching, uh, uh, Katie's season and, um, Like, just dropping out like a few episodes and even though I was living in Albuquerque at the time and that's where it was filmed.

Oh my god, 

that's 

right. Bernalillo. The whole season, right? Just north. The whole season. Yeah, and uh, you could even tell in like the promo materials. We're very, like, just kind of half assed and just sort of like, just standing there with like a rose and then like, That's pretty much 

it. I'm pretty sure they did not like Katie Thurston.

She was, uh, she, yeah, she got the shit into the stick for, for 

real. Yeah, they went in real hard on branding her, it's like, she's the sex positive bachelorette, which is just like something she said one time, and it's like, I'm sure she's just as sex positive as any other like, normal young person, but okay, cool, that's her cause now.

It was because her entrance when she was on The Bachelor, and she was like running Oh, I remember. She came in with like a vibrator, it was like Yeah, here's my best friend or something. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, they really leaned into that hard. And I think, which is 

weird, though, before we before we move on from that, like, what if they made every season of anyone who won, like centered around whatever their shtick was for like, walking in?

Yeah, well, they tend to do that. It's like low hanging fruit. I feel like we have there was a shark girl who came in in a shark suit, like a shark. Yeah, I remember her. Yeah. What else we got? I will say that's something else that was still true is even in the golden bachelor. These ladies. They came out, they came out with the schticky gimmicky entrances like every other season.

Yeah, and honestly some of their one liners were a lot better than I've seen on other like regular Bachelor Bachelorettes. I'm sure they were. They're some badass 

bitches. There's been a big problem with The Bachelor lately of women or men getting far down the, like, the road in, like, the top ten or something.

And then you know they're going to be eliminated because they're, they're fucking 22. You know? Yeah, that's the only reason why that's happened in I think every season like for the past several of like, well, I mean this 23 year old has no business getting married right now and then on the show They're like, I just don't think you're ready for marriage and they're like, well Then they cry and then they leave and then they end up in bachelor in paradise, which we'll talk about later.

Sure, but 100 

percent 

here Like, uh, the more mature members of society do not mess around when it comes to marriage. They'll go on three dates and be like, Alright, cool. Uh, wanna marry me? Alright, cool. Awesome. Uh, the wedding is in two weeks. Uh, have everybody, uh, pop on down to the, uh, the Hilton and we'll just rent a ballroom and get it over with.

For real?

Bring whoever, we don't care. 

Guaranteed to have an open bar because they've had their whole lives to, uh, to, uh, you know, accumulate a little bit of wealth. Have you ever been to a wedding that, uh, doesn't have an open bar and you have to buy drinks? No, 

I'm not friends with losers. 

I've been to a wedding that didn't have a bar.

Just go out to your car, grab like three of your friends, pass around a bottle of whiskey, and walk back in, sit back down at the dinner table. 

And act like everything's fine, the food's just really good. And you're having a really good time. Oh, were they Mormon or something? 

Cheers. No, they knew. They just didn't have, like, barely any money and they got the Oh, now I feel like an asshole.

Yeah, you big asshole. And the wedding, I think, was at, like, a church where they were, like, there's no alcohol allowed. And so I think they were, like, encouraging us to do that. But, um. Uh, anyway. I like that. Yeah. If you're gonna have a wedding, I think you gotta, like, spring for the, for the open bar. Like, that's maybe the most important thing.

You could have the wedding in your, your backyard as long as there's an open bar. 

True. The fun times will be had. I was just at a wedding, actually, and it was so much fun. I love weddings. I, je ne sais quoi, I live for weddings. I don't know. Everybody's in a good mood. You make the girl's bathroom is even more lit than usual.

People are so nice. They'd offer the dress off their back if you needed it. And, uh, yeah, I'm a big fan of weddings. 

Big fan. Tell me, okay, so everybody's getting off the, uh, their respective escalators or whatever the hell they drive people to the mansion in. And, uh, I have a follow up question, actually.

Were you aware that our family friend is a contestant? 

Yes. Yes, only until mom told me not too long ago. We were in, um, National Charity League in CL together in Austin, but I think she's a little bit, her daughter's a little bit older than me, 

but... Yeah, she's my year. Yeah, I won't, I won't like, speak her name out into the public here, but...

Did she get some screen 

time? Oh, she got some good screen time. Yeah. She made it. She's gonna go far. She's on to the next episode. They had Let's go. They do the same thing every time. How many Instagram followers do you have now? Great question, I don't know that. Alright, TBD. She's probably poppin But there are a few, like, giveaways that the producers just continually do every year, and I feel like if I recognize it, like, so do other people.

I'm not necessarily the most observant viewer all the time. But they do this giveaway thing where they'll have one person, like, towards the end of the rose ceremony that's, like, concerned, and they're kind of narrating it. They're like, they call the next person, they call the next person, and they still haven't called my name.

You know, I just can't go home the first night, da da da da da, and sure enough, they're the last name called. You know? Yeah. That was her on this episode. 

Oh, okay. That is a classic Bachelor Bachelorette trope. Yeah. 

They had quite a few different tropes that still played out. And those people 

finish in 7th or 8th place and are a shoe in for Golden Bachelor in Paradise.

Oh. My god. If they don't have Golden Bachelor in Paradise.

No, they should just put them on Bachelor in Paradise. 

They're, yes, there's, there's somebody for everybody. Have what's 

his face from the last season with all the earrings and stuff be like, Yo, it's pretty hot though. Damn. 

She's so she knows what she's doing. 

Yeah, got bunda still.

Yeah, that where I feel like if they were to have their own spinoff, it would be in like West Palm Beach or something. For Bachelor. Golden Bachelor in Paradise. 

Golden Bachelor in Paradise. Where else? Florida! On 

Epstein's Island! And you whoa. 

Golden Bachelor in Paradise, uh, ABC buys Epstein's Island so they can For the show.

And then We are getting Yeah. Okay, we're getting so off topic. Yeah, we need to 

Um, the tropes, the bachelor tropes for sure still happened, still went down in this season, which I was happy to see. Um, but there are some key differences too that I love, like, all of the women, at least when they first come together, are a whole lot nicer than normal to each other.

Um, both a disappointment and like, aw, sweet to see, like, they're not perpetuating the mean girls. Stereotype? I guess. 

The Bachelor is far superior to The Bachelorette because women are infinitely more, like, entertaining to watch. Fight each other than dudes in my I would agree. 

I would agree. Honestly. So I really wanted.

That's why I came in there with like, low expectations is I wanted some jobs. You know, I want the drama, like, I loved pilot Pete's season because that was dramatic where you like, took back his proposal and propose to someone else. Like, I like that shit. I think that's, you know, entertain me place. 

Hot shit.

Yeah, 

so but they're all like they all the women all know who the fuck they are, you know They're all confident and nice to each other. We've got one woman who dated Prince and was like, oh, yeah That song sexy dancers about me what and she casually says this in a confessionals. We got her. She'll probably make it far Sure entrance when she came in as a grandma like with a Walker and then Like ripped off her like old lady, Moo Moo pajamas and like wig and whatever.

And she like revealed, she's very hot. That's cute. Yeah. Then we've got Sandra, who was a personal favorite of mine from Atlanta, who came up to, to Gary. I almost, I have to like purposefully say Gary, not Jerry, um, came up to Gary and impression of 

Gary. Here we go.

These women, I, the, the women are just so wonderful women. They're just, I don't know, they're really . 

That's pretty good. It's like very, a Midwest. Yeah. I feel, I, I feel like we talked about this off pod, but they picked such a, uh, Like a goober. Like, He They did. Every word he says is like, round. Right? That's 

really good.

Oh my god. Put me to shame. Wait, keep talking. Say something else. Well, 

I plucked in my computer this morning, and, I couldn't find the mouse. I couldn't find the mouse, so I looked around to find my mousetraps so maybe I could catch him overnight. Oh my god.

That is, especially for somebody who didn't watch the first episode either, 

that's Oh, I mean, I watched the, the finale where they brought him on and did his whole, uh, like I mean, make me sound so heartless, but like his sob story about like his wife dying and stuff. Well, they gotta have one. Yeah, inevitable.

Yeah. So I was just there feeling very jaded. I was Peloton ing at the time, like, 

Ugh. Not again. We've had so much more dramatic. 

Yeah. No, it's very sad. I feel bad for him, but yeah. I also thought at that time, I was like, wow, they picked like the most... Just like goober of a guy. Um, I'm sure he's a sweetie, but I feel like it would have happened regardless in comparison to the Bachelor or the Bachelorette, to just pick a person in a different age range, rather than intentionally pick someone who like, well, if I knew what trending on Twitter was, then, you know, like, come on.

Yeah, yeah. They really leaned heavy into 

that. They had to, yeah, they had to go hard, I guess. It's a 

little difficult because. I feel like nearly every season, I won't say each one, but I end up disliking, or, you know, like, the shit talking comes relatively easy to most leads of any of the series shows, but.

Find it a little bit harder with Gary, because he's an angel. He's so sweet, and he does, he does have a makeout in the first, uh, the first night. A few makeouts. Yeah, go Gary, go. Go Gary. Um, Faith, who is 60 years old, they're all between 60 and 75. And I swear, some of these women, a lot of these women, I would not believe it.

Some I would, but mostly I wouldn't believe it. Faith comes in on a motorcycle as her entrance and says, hi. Well, I guess they all say hi, but that was her schtick. And then she came in with a double whammy and sang a song and played it on the guitar to Gary. And normally on any other season. It's usually horribly cringeworthy.

But she didn't really get the same reaction. So she got the first impression, Rose. She's made it on. 

What song did she sing? Oh, 

I have no idea. Yeah. I have no idea. Did you 

ever see the movie Clueless? Yes! I mean, you know that scene where the guy like, sings her a song in his car before kicking her out at like, the gas station where she gets mugged?

And he sings in like, the Eddie Vedder voice, it's like, Oh, yeah, you know, that's how I feel about every time somebody sings a song on The Bachelor from like the younger generation. I'm just like, Oh, no, make it stop. Yeah, 

yeah, it's never good. Like, Jed, whoever, Hannah, uh, Hannah Brown ended up choosing. They clearly didn't work out.

She's newly engaged. We, um, he ended up making it, but every time he would sing and that was his whole, like, I'm a musician. I'm cool stick. But every time he sang, it was not good. So, but it worked to this go around. I will say what I'm disappointed in. I think probably the rest of bachelor nation is disappointed in as Matt James, who was a former bachelor lead.

He's. He's still with the girl he chose, Rachel Kirkconnell. But anyway, this is Matt James's mom was on this season, but 

Him and Rachel are still together. They are. She's the one who got in trouble for the, like, antebellum party. Yes. Yeah. Yes. 

Yeah, which I'm pretty sure the UT Austin, like, still does to this day.

Thanks. Well, um, shout out Omicron, but...

You're on the clock, Omicron. You know ante bellum is Latin and it means ante, before, bellum, the war? Like... Antebellum literally means, like, before the war. That's why. Yeah. My god. Oh. So like, before the Civil War, like, back when slaves and plantations and stuff. That's literally what that word means. Holy shit.

Yes. That is 

no bueno. That is no bueno. They did have like a public like shaming of her and that's where they like broke up and Matt was like, so disappointed and Rachel's like, I'm gonna go learn about it. That's why I'm shocked. 

And then they were just like, okay, nobody's 

paying attention. Let's just.

Yeah, yeah, they did. They actually both of them have like, a lot more personality nowadays. It's like been long enough, I guess. But Matt James had probably zero personality. He was like, kind of like a craft, like string cheese, like nothing really there of substance, but I also love string cheese, 

but yeah.

He was like a string cheese that you just bite into like an apple. Ooh, like a 

monster. 

An apple string cheese? This really is a hot topic with people. People have strong opinions about this. 

About how you eat 

a string cheese? Yeah. And whether you string it, or you just eat it like a cheese stick. 

You obviously string it.

I guess I do feel 

strongly about it. I do. I do string it. Then what's the point? It's fun. I don't know. That'd be like somebody like, Oh, I just got a bag of Cheetos and just smashing it up into a powder and like pouring it down my throat is how I feel about it. It's like it's a fast food. It's so rude.

It'll never have the flavor and nutrients. 

Get all that dust. 

Yeah. Uh, yeah. 

Directly following the Golden Bachelor. Got another guest co host here, Mac. Got a 

Golden Bachelor right behind you. Ooh, yeah, no, nice. 

Is Bachelor in Paradise, and it has all of the ingredients that we love out of a good, dramatic, juicy, scandalous Bachelor or Bachelorette season, that is.

This year, so far, seems pretty good. We've got Rachel, who was a past Bachelorette, who's on the show. And I don't really understand why she gets so much hate. She's got a pretty strong hater club. Um, I think she's pretty funny and she does narrate a lot of the first episode at least, um, so she'll probably be around for a hot minute, but, um, there are, I think, to begin with, about 20 people and the, the arrivals on the beach are all very interesting, you know, you've got the, everyone's from San Diego, like, in Bachelor Nation, San Diego is churning out these Bachelor contestants like nobody's business.

I don't understand what's in the water over there. Do you know what's in the water? 

Let's just go to, like, bars and PB and grab people because everybody's, like, beautiful and drunk and wants to fight.

That sums it up, really. It sounds like a 

perfect San Diego's such a wonderful place. 

I love their burritos. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think I am hungry. So anyways, um, and a complete just juxtaposition. I didn't realize exactly how young all of these contestants really were, um, when they were on their show, like, Brayden earring guy, he's on this this season.

And, um, don't worry. He was wearing some big, chunky ass, Forever 21 earrings and like a kimono and swim trunks. Um, probably a hat. I think he was wearing a hat at some point. Um, and honestly from the get go, there are a lot of girls that are interested in him and he's already a hot commodity, but I kind of expected that for him.

I don't know. He's like decent looking. And I think a lot of people are always, you know, historically attracted to the bad boy because well, I don't know. It's a trope we all like to fall into as women. If you're too nice, you better get the f out, you know what I'm saying? Another hot commodity on the beach is the girl named Kylie.

She was on Zach's season, and her, I guess, gimmick, or at least what we remember her from, is she was the only person in Bachelor Nation history to be broken up with via Zoom, um, and not in person. This is when I think, like, Zach had a, had a COVID scare or something, and so he was, like, separated. She's, like, 23 from Houston.

Is that her? Oh, he also likes Kylie. 

No, she was exactly who I was talking about before. I was like, well, yeah, she's not gonna make it, like, through this show because she's 23. 

I think she's that age. Yeah. You could be also thinking about Jess, who's also on the show. Who's like 22 now. Like, she was young as fuck.

She's blonde and small and wore like body glitter. Nope. Okay, he was talking about Kylie. But she's also on there. These people are too young. Like, had they ever tried hinge? I don't understand. It's the same with, there's a young ass contestant on Love is Blind who's 24. He's like, I've tried everything, you know, I just, I want this to work.

It's like, no, tell me you've tried everything when you are down to 0 percent hope you are waiting for the next wave of divorcees to come through before you, you know, find your mans or womans. 

He's had a long, hard life. 24 years. Poor guy. 

He's wanted this forever, since he was 

two. Between his internship and dating, there's not much left for him in life.

And um, there's plenty of characters they've got. I think they did a good job of casting. Um, they have not coupled up. I believe as of when the episode ended, either that or I did not watch that far yet. , but I will 

As of when you passed out on the couch. . , 

yeah. Two hours is a long 

time. Especially after, I mean, plus the Golden Bachelor Hour.

Yeah. I couldn't, I couldn't handle that. In one Go I watch, I watched The Bachelor and little, like little bursts, spurts. Yeah. It's, it's too much to go through. Yeah, it 

does. It kind of hurts a little bit if you do it for too long, for sure. Um, but overall, so far, it seems like a good season. They'll keep us entertained.

Um, and that's what I'm here to do. 

Nice. Yeah, that was a great recap. And I guess we'll find out what happens next in paradise and in. Golden Land. 

Golden Land. I wonder where they'll go for all of their 

trips. In which show? Or both? 

Well, they stay in Paradise in Paradise, but on the Golden Bachelor, like where, you know, towards the middle of the season.

Yeah. That'll be funny too, because they'll be like, Oh, we're going to like, Dubai and like, all be like, I mean, like, yeah, I've been here like four times and we stayed at this other hotel.

Yeah, they're like, nobody's going to be impressed with like going to Estonia. It'd be like, yeah,

we're going to Michigan or something. And everybody was like,

yeah, I've always wanted to go to 

Michigan. It's just like the state tourism board or something. That's got to be paying for these, right? Like they went to Washington on the last season. It's like, we're in Waukehami something, Washington or whatever. And like. We got a witch, and then we're also gonna run through the forest and gather edible items, or something.

Like, I'm pretty sure that was the segment. Anyway. Oh my 

god. Gather berries. Yeah. The gatherer. Yeah, I wonder how much Albuquerque paid for Katie Thurston's season. 

Yeah. 

Yeah, be curious to know. But, you know, I think, I think my brain is, uh, fried on Bachelor Nation, and I'm sure you all are feeling that way.

So I think that's gonna cover it today. 

But. Beautiful. My camera's gotten so pixelated because the sun is setting over here in Los Angeles. I didn't turn on a light because it was daytime when we started. Los Angeles. Yeah. Yeah. 

It was a pleasure to have you on the show, producer brother, Matt Blankenship, Jr.

Thank 

you for having me. It was really fun. It was fun hearing about the Golden Bachelor and the history of the gang violence and hip hop and, uh, Also bachelor in paradise and what else we talk about spiders spiders. Yes. Happy October. 

Spooky. Yeah, it's been it's been a time. We've got lots more ahead of us to talk about.

I'll be covering love is blind on On either we'll, we'll cover we'll cover love is blind. We have to there's a lot to talk about. Um, but I will let you guys know when that is out. But in the meantime, we got, we got bachelor nation Thursday coming up. So, I hope you guys are celebrating and, um, we'll definitely have you back on the show.

Matt. This has been fun. I never call you Matt. That was 

the first time you've ever called me Matt ever. Which is funny, because this is a professional capacity. This is a professional podcast. Yes, very. I really enjoyed being here. I hope everybody's enjoyed listening. And I hope to be back on sometime.

Maybe having watched The Golden Bachelor already. 

Yeah, that would be, you know what, you don't have to, but uh, let me know what you think once you do, for 

sure. I do lots of stuff that it didn't have to do. 

True.

Well, he's also, Matt Blankenship has also, um, put together the intro and outro music that we have, so. Check out the Sometimes Island. They're pretty fucking dope. So, 

uh. One way ticket to Plug City. Plug City, bow bow bow. 

Absolutely, he didn't ask me to do that. I did it on my own because I'm sweet. Thank you.

You're welcome. Anyways, thanks for listening, you guys. I hope you enjoyed, and I hope if you didn't watch The Bachelor, Golden Bachelor, Those in Paradise, that you got a kick out of it, too. And, um, we'll see you next week for more shenanigans. In the meantime, follow at Easily Entertained Pod on Instagram and share with a friend.

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