A Very Extra Halloween, Bach Nation & Why We Grieve Celebrities' Passing

It's Halloween week and we're talking about the most notable celeb costumes and WHY everyone went above and beyond this year. It's a fact. Which leads us down the Kardashian wormhole, breaking down the latest in the family dynasty businesses including Kylie Jenner's clothing line & SKIMS partnering with the NBA. Lots of money in that deal.

We dive into Bachelor Nation with Maddy McClain catching us up on the latest in Golden Bachelor as we approach hometown week for the final 3 ladies. And we're not quite ready to let Gerry go... followed by the polar opposite vibe, Bachelor in Paradise! SKIP TO 33:56 to miss any Bachelor spoilers. From there, we talk Dancing with the Stars and Bravo's busy, busy week.

Finally, we take a moment for Matthew Perry and the legacy he's left behind. For our psychology lesson of the day, we learn WHY we grieve the death of celebrities despite never knowing them personally. And turns out, there's a lot behind it! How spooky.

Enjoy homies! Follow on IG @easilyentertainedpod

Sources used/mentioned:
- Costume Obsession Fuels Halloween Spending (Axios)
- Celebrity Halloween Costumes (Complex)
- Kim Kardashian's SKIMS partners with the NBA (Wash Post)
- Matthew Perry: An Obituary, History + More (New York Times)
- Why Do People Mourn Celebrities? (Society for Personality and Social Psychology)

Transcript

 Hello, homies, and welcome to Easily Entertained with Maddie McClain. You guessed it, I'm Maddy McClain. It is somehow still Halloween week. It just feels like it's been a month or, or it's just, it's been a long road. But, I don't intend to be a Grinch, it's just, it's, it's stretched on, you know what I'm saying?

I know that Halloween will re get its sparkle, like when you have little, little ones, little kiddos, and they're all excited and dressed up. Um, turns out also, I was all prepped and ready to dish out my candy, and nobody, Nobody came. Mind you, my doorbell's also broken. That could be a factor. But I set out my bowl of candy, and I don't think anybody took it.

So, I really had a lot of candy to myself. And it's very sad. I learned, though, that this is common. Because now what the kids are doing these days is trunk or treating, which I guess came out of necessity during COVID times, but has stuck. And it's just where cars line up, you know, maybe from the same school or the kids play class, I don't know, and people line up and they trick or treat out of the trunk of their cars and hand out candy to little kiddos.

It just doesn't have the same, doesn't have the same effect. I mean, I suppose that works out better for parents, but I don't know. It seems to me like a very sad, sad tradition that is just kind of being wilted down, but you know what? That's fine. My season for, for those, it sounds like I hate Halloween. I don't.

I, I do enjoy Halloween. Um, don't get me wrong, but my season, my Roman empire, my Superbowl, my, uh, Quest for Purpose, I don't know, is Christmas, so as this Halloween season comes to an end, it simply means that mine is coming. It's on its way. But we're not there yet, we're not there yet, so we'll, we'll spend a quick, hot little minute.

About Halloween, seeing as we're still here. Um, but I'm not the only one in thinking that Halloween has lasted forever. It just seems a little bit extra this year, because according to Axios, I hope I'm saying That right? I've always said Axios in my, in my mind anyway. They did a study that, it is true that this year, quote, what, what they say is costume obsession fuels record Halloween spending.

And what they say here is America's love of costumes is driving Halloween spending to new highs according to the National Retail Federation's annual holiday survey. So, according to said survey, Woo! Total Halloween spending, so that's costumes, home decor, and candy itself, and all that good shit, is projected to reach a 12.

2 billion dollars, up from last year's 10. 6 billion. Mind you, 12. 2 and 10. 6. Don't seem crazy different, but we're talking billions, you know, big dogs, big bees, baby. Um, yeah, and a record number or percentage, which is 73%, will participate in Halloween related activities this year. From that said survey, there was 8, 084 consumers that were surveyed.

Um, and this year, 73 is up from last year's 69 and 72 percent in 2017. So the last highest was 2017. I mean, I think this can be explained in a numerous. in a numerous in quite a few ways. Um, oh, by the way, costumes account for the largest increase. That's where we're seeing it the most. Outside of the, the economical, um, you know, just fact that inflation is at an all time high, I'm pretty sure.

And, um, everything just costs a lot more, like, breathing in air, uh, existing as a human being is just, the rent is too damn high, you know what I'm saying? Um, Yeah, but honestly, I will say I think everybody showed up and showed out this year that it showed itself the facts and figures That makes sense to me because I feel like everybody decided and I we were talking about this at a Halloween party Everybody collectively decided that this is the year we go all out.

You know, I think it's the shout out to Victoria Hey girl, she said You know, it's every third year that you go hard. Well, for me, it was not this year. I usually, you know, I want to be that person, but that requires planning ahead. And sometimes planning ahead and me, a toxic kind of tumultuous relationship, me and planning ahead, um, have.

I went as a cat, a black cat, no less. I, I did have a, you know, cat suit, a jumpsuit, but it was just black. You know, a little flirty kitty, if you will, um, and I did wear black cowboy boots, so that was my really weak attempt at puss in boots, too, maybe? I don't know. It could be what you want it to be, but I digress.

So, of course, We can't talk about Halloween without talking about the queen of Halloween herself, and that is Miss Heidi Klum. So for years, she has really done the most, and I mean that literally, when it comes to Halloween. Most memorably, or rather, it also was the most recent, besides this year, she was a worm.

Like a, I guess a lake worm or something and you cannot, all you see are her little eyes poking out of this huge Looks like a booger, like a giant booger The number or amount I guess of prosthetics that are used in all of her collective costumes has got to be Has got to be a wild number. But this year, in her annual Halloween party, she dressed up as a big, giant peacock.

She had the help of Cirque du Soleil dancers who acted as her wings and stuff. So there are probably eight or so other and did this human pyramid and a huge performance and she has like the prosthetic kind of peacock. Head face and beak and stuff. Um, I wouldn't say it's her best, but it's pretty sick And she probably got somewhat of a break from all the prosthetics.

Looks pretty cool Honorable mention, let's talk about some some good celeb costumes this year. Why don't we? So we have to give a major up To Alex Earl, she really, everyone was saying this in the comments of her TikToks because that is, of course, where I witnessed this is she was the ice queen from Narnia and she's a giant gown and huge like trailing fur coat and she went all out with the hair like hair looks like it must weigh 50 pounds and the icicle, um, Crown.

She did a great job. I have to say she looks really good And it's not like you kind of expect which I guess she did do and she's growing up I mean, she's she's in her early 20s and you know typically most in their early 20s go for the sexy like vampire or Like lingerie fit really but and I kind of would have picked her for that.

Honestly, no hate but um No, she didn't do that. She went all out and I respect her for that. There are a few other ones that I took note of. We got Jerry O'Connell, who, he was on The View, I think. He dressed up as Post Malone. And it was quite good. Look, you should look it up. I do feel like Post Malone. is probably one of those lasting costumes.

You know, he's just got that iconic, unique look, to say the least, that I think will, will still work. Like, our kids might dress up as Post Malone. Do you ever think about that? Of like, the ones that will stay, the costumes that won't, like, from, from previous years? You know, like Marilyn Monroe, she's staying, all this.

But anyways, people are getting more creative, so who's to say? TikTok really showed up and showed out too. A lot of memes or like cultural moments that I personally liked. Paris Hilton dressed up as Britney Spears in her Toxic Music video. Looked great, does great. Historically, Paris Hilton has actually been a good friend of Britney's throughout the whole, the breakdown in the public sphere of the, of her obvious conservatorship and all of that, and I think she's one of the good ones.

Um, at least in her memoir, I didn't see anything come out that shit talks her, so I think she's safe. What else? Ed Sheeran dressed up as Chucky, um, which was eerily not far, not far off. Love the man, but it's almost, I guess he's self aware, not that he always looks like Chucky, but like That's a good one to do for the sake of not having to use prosthetics and stuff to look like the character.

Uh, yeah. And then, of course, I feel like the celebs this year dressed up maybe three or four times. So there's just so many renditions and iterations. And, of course, when I see MGK, Machine Gun Kelly, and Megan Fox. If they could wear fake blood all over themselves and stuff and dress all spooky like that every single day, um, I think that would be their vibe.

I think they would do it. Um, if they wouldn't be committed by loved ones for doing so, I think they would. I mean, they like Share or have a vial of each other's blood. Like, yeah, maybe Jennifer's body wasn't too far off, huh? Anyways, um, I enjoy seeing the creativity that I did not share this year. My, my best was probably being Billie Eilish in her music video.

Maybe I'll post that on the Instagram for your, your viewing pleasure, but that's about as good as it got. One year, This was early on when Blue Ivy was born. I was Blue Ivy. Nobody knew who I was. I was trying to be two with it. You know what I mean? I like, wore a blue outfit basically and had Ivy wrapped around me and then like a fake sucker.

What's it called? What are the little kids? Pacifiers. Yeah, I had a pacifier. I ended up having to write Blue Ivy and Sharpie across my chest. So, it's kind of like having to explain a joke to somebody, you know. It's no longer a joke. It's just poorly worded. Um, but you know what? We all have our years and maybe next year will be my, my third year.

You know what I'm saying? We did also though, Kendall Jenner was Marilyn Monroe. She rocked it. Kendall Jenner, pretty much Hailey Bieber, Kendall Jenner, all of them. I guess, you know what I'm talking about, the Nepo babies, they're usually quite good. At Halloween this year, I will say Kendall's Marilyn Monroe was great.

But I have to say, right now, currently, as per usual, but extra, so, currently, the Kardashian Jenners are putting on some sort of, I don't know, public relations onslaught, because there is simply so much going on with them this week. First off, Their business is, business is booming, as they say. Kylie Jenner just launched her new clothing line called Kai, K H Y, her nickname, today, to this now, November 1st, and if it weren't for her captions on her video, I have to say, it's a beautifully shot video, her ad campaign, but I would have zero clue what it was that she was selling if it weren't for her caption.

But yeah, so it is a clothing line that is dropping basics, beautiful basics is kind of what they said or simple. I don't know. So they're calling them drops. So I guess that means they'll have multiple drops because they're only currently 12 pieces total. I think they look to be all leather, faux leather pieces.

It looks cute. And What the Kardashian Jenners do really well is inclusivity in terms of sizing, in makeup, shades, um, for all kind of shades of skin. Um, they do really well with that. And, you know, it's just... Yeah, and we'll get to, we'll get to that too because there's more with Skims and such, but I don't know.

I think that that really helps them. That really works on their favor and they've got a great business team because their dynasty just keeps going and going and going and going and going. But I checked it out. They're pretty cute. There is a good range of sizes in Kai. And people are saying though that I did a little deep dive, you know, as one does looking up Kai, and Kylie Jenner has been touched by what people are calling the Timothee Chalamet effect.

And that is, you know, he's a sensitive soul. He's a Pisces, Timothee Chalamet. He's played a lot of these roles too in the movies, specifically Call Me By Your Name, for instance, or, I mean, now he's in Dune and stuff, but regardless, you know, he's not like, he's not the buff jock. You know, if we're gonna, we're gonna go ahead and shrink everything down to these kind of digestible, um, stereotypes here for the purpose of this, of said Timothee Chalamet effect, but you know, he's the sensitive artist, he's the, the edgy, artsy indie boy, and you can kind of see that in Kylo Jenner Alright.

I think all of the Kardashian Jenners do this, like, take on the personalities of their boyfriends or their partners and, like, become that, like, how Kourtney Kardashian is turned into, like, a motorcycle biker, like, edgy chick, you know, now that she's married to Travis Barker. Anyways, but for Kylie, she's like a lot more natural aesthetic going on.

And I'm never one to hate on anybody who wears a lot of makeup. I, I do. I find it fun. I think that there's an art to it. You know, I think that for, there's a time and a place and yada yada. All that to say, she's just wearing less makeup, maybe getting less. filler or something. I don't know, but she just seems chiller.

Like all of her posts on her Instagram have seemed more chill, relaxed, Kylie. So people are saying that she's, she's doing that with Timothy. And you can kind of see it in the, in the ad campaign. But another lady in the fam. That has big things going on is it was just announced that Kim Kardashian skims just entered into official partnership with the NBA the WNBA and the USA basketball as the Official underwear partner if you didn't know that that was a position waiting to be filled now you do but that had to have been a very very Expensive, valuable transaction that just went down because as of this, as of October 26th, Skims launched their men's line, so that's kind of following in line with that, and um, after, I guess, in the same time frame as Skims did launch their men's line, they're, they're valued at an estimated four billion dollars.

with a B. So that's pretty wild. Um, and just for an idea of how much money is floating around in the NBA, if you're not as familiar, like myself, don't worry, I looked into it for you. So the number one, all of the teams are owned by separate owners, right? And the NBA is formed by all of those owners of the team.

So like not one person necessarily owns the NBA, if that makes sense. So the most, the richest owner is Steve Ballmer, who owns the Los Angeles Clippers at 100 billion. He was also the former Microsoft CEO. So that's probably also something major to do with it, but just to give you a sense of all the money.

That's, that's just being whipped around. I'm not sure why I used that, uh, phrasing there. But, yeah, so, historically Nike has been the biggest kind of advertiser, had the most, the longest standing relationship with the NBA. We'll see if that changes anything. It's yet to be seen. I mean, I think Nike went, has gone through some things.

Isn't like the most... Unproblematic company, you know, so maybe this is helping. And I think there is thorough line or whatever through through line, that's it of diversity and inclusion lines up with skims and NBA. And I mean, get that bag, bitch, get that bag. I think it's a good move. It's kind of pop culture relevant, I don't know.

The NBA and the Kardashians also historically don't have a great relationship. You know, we've got the Kardashian curse, i. e. Tristan Thompson, Khloe's ex, you know. It's, it's interesting that after all that, knowing that there's, quote, the Kardashian curse, that they still do it. Then you've got like Chris Humphries, you know, all those, all those peeps.

And of course, Lamar Odom. Cannot forget Lamar Odom. Um, we'll see. And maybe, maybe Kim's gonna be dating an NBA player again. We're, who's to say? That's just another, another business under their belt. And you would think that with the sheer volume of brands and businesses and enterprises that the Kardashian Jenner family enters into, that they're all bound to have some sort of like chain restaurant type vibe or energy to them, but they're not.

The thing is, like, Skims is great. Some of the best, um, undergarment. Whatever, some of the best shit in the, in the game, like Spanx, Spanx and Skims, you know, Spanx was kind of out there on its own Running the show for a while until Skims came through, so kudos, good American is good, one of my favorite jeans I wear all the time.

Anyway, however, I must say one thing you must run to the internet and look up is the nipple bra I thought this was a joke. I thought there's no way. But April Fool's isn't for a while. So I looked it up. They are indeed selling a bra. They, Skims, are selling a bra with, like, nipples. Like it, in, in the bra, like it pokes out like a nipple does, um, in the bra, so that you can have that look without, like, while still wearing a bra.

And, as a, as a member of the Big Titty Committee, grass is always greener, honey. Grass is always greener. It makes me laugh that people still want to do that push it up and have a nipple show. It's like, most of the time, I'm just trying to like, Not flaunt, you know, but you can wear the most Conservative looking thing and still somehow look a little risque when you have big titties.

Anyways, that's a real thing So if you want to have that nipple look you can. The reasoning was some climate change thing Like it's harder to get your nipples hard. I don't know. I mean I don't, I don't seem to have a problem with that. But anyways, we're going to quit talking about my nipples. And now for a little bit of reality catch up.

Let's talk about what's been going on in Bachelor Nation. So if you have not yet made it up to right up until Hometowns, because that is the upcoming or the latest episode that I have not yet watched. So If you have watched up until then, you're good. If not, you might want to skip through because spoiler alert, spoiler alert, we're going to talk about it, this and Bachelor in Paradise.

So I'll put in the show notes where you can skip through to and um, so you won't get spoiled. Or, rather, you're allowed to be as spoiled as you want, but the show won't be spoiled. That's what I mean. Okay, somehow, we have already made it to hometowns in Golden Bachelor, and that is crazy that we're down to the final three ladies.

I think Bachelor producers, or whatever, Kind of played it a little bit safe, which makes sense I suppose, but seeing that Golden Bachelor is only, only, it's normal, an hour versus the regular two hours that The Bachelor will put us through. Um, and it seems like there are, I have not Triple checked on this, but it just seems to be a lot less episodes this season.

Um, there were less women to begin with, but I have a strong feeling that it might not be the same way, because it's definitely, I feel like it has not, it has yet to be confirmed, but I feel like the Golden Bachelor franchise is gonna keep going, and I think that this is just the beginning. I do still want there to be a Golden Bachelor in Paradise, so let's make it happen, right?

Like April, who was left a few, few episodes ago, or the previous one. She's hilarious. She was the most, for sure, big personality, big, um, I don't know. Just hilarious, entertainer, a showman, if you will. That's a play on Real Housewives. But, anywho, so I digress. So before we watch the latest episode from last week, there were six ladies.

Teresa, Ellen, Susan, Sandra. So, Theresa is the small little, little gal who has a strong connection with Gary and, um, Kathy, the Golden Bachelors, just decided to make her the villain because they're really, she, and I say that lightly because she really wasn't, Zip It was like the biggest thing she said, but they had to have something, you know, um, and kudos, she's an Austin family, so hey, what's up girl, she's not a villain, but anyways, she is in the show.

This was her nemesis. So Teresa Ellen is a sweet older lady. We're all sweet older ladies. It's the worst. She has bright blonde white hair. And she's really sweet. She's the big, huge about pickleball. Um, if you watch the show, that will separate her. You know, contrary to popular belief. Susan, who looks just like Kris Jenner.

She's sweet. She's there. Um, she seems to be like the mama, but like everybody likes her, like the glue of the season, at least the girls in the mansion. Sandra, woman from Atlanta who missed her daughter's wedding to, uh, be on The Bachelor. I, I think everybody has talked about this, but I, I have to, I just, I have to chime in on this because You bet your ass that my mother is required to be at my wedding.

She's also married to my dad, so like, this wouldn't be a problem, but, I'm just playing hypotheticals here, okay? Yeah, no. We're the type of people that it's, it's birthday month, so if you apply that energy to most holidays or outings, um, especially things that have to do with ourselves, like a wedding, that would...

No, no, not be chill. And I don't think that, I don't think that Gary... loved it either. They Facetimed, um, her daughter during the date and whatnot, but it was still weird. So I kind of feel like he had to keep her. Sorry, we're still going. And then lastly, number six that's left on this, the most recent episode is Leslie, who is the quote, sexy dancer.

She's the one who has at least said that Prince wrote a song about her. I, she's my personal favorite. I don't know if they'll end up, she and Gary are necessarily the most. I don't know. I don't know. I, I like her a lot. They have a good connection and Gary seems the most like, woo, excited about her. But he also seems to be picking off the big personalities throughout the season.

So we shall see. But I love her. She's sweet. So we get into the episode. And we start off with a one on one with Faith, who actually had the very first one on one beginning of the season. She was kind of feeling a little bit neglected, or just wondering, and apparently so did Gary. So, he took her on the one on one, as he said that she's actually a big question mark, at least at that time.

And it was a great day. They took a helicopter ride, got to do it, on The Bachelor, and landed that helicopter on a yacht, and had a date on a yacht, and looked glamorous and lovely. And of course they flew over the mansion to make everybody jealous, and people are having a hard time with that, understandably, but whatever.

And, you know, the spark ends up being right there, still, with Faith. We learn a little bit more about Faith and that she was actually homeless as a teen. Which is just totally bonkers to learn about, you know? You make so many judgments and assumptions based off your experience is or imagined to be with somebody that may look that way, you know?

And how we're, I feel like, nine times out of ten just so wrong. But, I mean, that's a human thing to do. That's what we do. That's how we survive. I digress. Gary gives her the rose, and she makes it, so she is now officially, Faith is one of three places to go to hometowns. And three is one less than four, which is usually the amount that go to hometowns, or go on that episode at least, in other Bachelor seasons.

Competition is on and we move on to the group date and around this time something that is similar and seen on every season is the tensions are reaching in high as things are getting a little bit serious and they all kind of do seem for the most part to have strong, um, connections with Gary. But. We shall see, right?

We go to the group date, which is at the Santa Monica Pier. That's a lot lamer than the date that Faith got, but they all had their moments with Gary, and just a reminder of who's on this group date now. The ladies that are on this one on one date are Um, Teresa, Ellen, Susan, Sandra, and Leslie, and actually quite a few amount of these women really let Gary know that their feelings are developing into love, including Ellen who lets him know this, Teresa kind of so much as says this.

I think that Leslie kind of has this moment too, she lets him know how hard it was, um, He actually does not end up giving out a rose on the group date because it's too hard of a decision and seeing Gary Struggle with it. I actually like, you know, you want to protect this man's So it's sad. It's hard to see him like that, but he doesn't give out a rose and so we cut to the rose ceremony and The kind of shocking sent home was Ellen I thought that Ellen was going to end up definitely in hometowns, if not be, maybe, the, the final two, but Ellen got sent home and Gary did say that this was the hardest goodbye to her.

Walks her out, Susan, Kris Jenner, and Sandra, woman who missed her daughter's wedding. They also are sent home. So, that means that Teresa, Faith, and Leslie are the final three ladies. So, we shall see what goes down. Curious to see if they'll have, like, a women tell all. If they'll come before the finale or what's gonna happen.

But, we will find out soon enough. So, let's jump on over to the other side of the coin of Bachelor Nation these days, which is Bachelor in Paradise. And another week, and lo and behold, Relationship Musical Chairs ensues and is being played left and right. Most surprisingly and notably, as we are now rooting for Brayden, the earring donning, very San Diego villain from Charity's Season, and Rachel, the former Bachelorette.

These two have a great relationship. They go on a date. the previous episode, and at least from all the filming that Rachel has been on with The Bachelor, never seen her laugh and be so happy and like smiley the whole time. Kind of. I'm here for it, so I hope they last. And I also feel like just in general, the public is very hard on Rachel, and I don't know why.

I think she's great. Team Rachel. Okay. Um, And let's also, like, why are we hating on her? Let's remember why Rachel and Gabi became co bachelorettes, because of the way that Clayton dumped them. Um, and for those that don't know, Rachel and Gabi, and there was a third girl, were the final of Clayton's season, The Bachelor.

He Tells them in a group that he's in love with the girl who already had left. Even though he told them both he loves them and convinced them to stay after Susie. It was a mess, okay? So, not a huge fan of Clayton, who also found himself a center of this baby daddy drama. Where some girl who stayed anonymous Claimed that she was having his baby and that she and that he wouldn't pay for anything or was, you know, leaked text between the two Of them where he's like, there's no way we didn't We didn't hook up, but she's like, we did.

This is all becoming public. And she like, I think, like may have started to sue him or something. But he told her to get a, a paternity test. Which already feels like, uh, it felt like we shouldn't be watching this. It was very Maori. That, you know, TV show esque. Anyways, I digress. Enough about Clayton. Back to Bachelor in Paradise.

The other notable things that are going, that's going down for you to get caught up, if you would like, up until this next episode is that Jess and the Glitter Girl, she's a petite little blonde girl who loves Taylor Swift and is known for wearing body glitter. Um, and Blake Moynes, who is the Batch Nation three timer, who's been on just a lot of seasons.

Um, that we ended up really liking, though, even though that's, you know, a little bit of a red flag moment there. But Jess and Blake were hitting it off, and we're kind of a couple the last, well really since the show began. But it's looking like they're probably not together anymore. Jess wanted to explore the relationships, but she was crying because she didn't want to hurt him.

But Blake was a really good dude about it. He made me like him even more, but also just sad, like I want him to find his, his gal, you know? And uh, looks like Jess is really interested in Tyler. Tyler, who was on Rachel's season. It's all, you know, how it is. Bachelor Nation, a little incest y without being incest y.

Just a lot of... Anyways, alright. We also, later in the most previous episode, most recent episode, sorry. Received a little bit of a rando from Bachelor Nation. Which is Sam from Bachelor in Paradise Canada. To shake things up. Things were getting a little too peaceful in Paradise, you know what I mean?

Outside of Kat's crazy, either if it's crazy editing, I don't know. She seems like she might just be this crazy. It was her birthday, and birthdays don't go well on The Bachelor in Paradise. Um, I would hate it, it sounds like. Because on her, on her birthday, the guy she was coupled up with... Ends up going on a date with somebody else and basically does exactly what she did to Brayden earlier in the season So, you know, you don't feel that bad for her It was coordinated beautifully excellent work producers excellent work

And then I did I have to add this part in I had a little blast from the past Because for whatever reason this is a nostalgic show for me, even though it's like not that old Dancing with the stars, you know, I forgot how engrossing it is. I put it on the background, the latest episode, watching live TV.

Weird. Found myself just stopped, just stopped working on my laptop. Just mouth kind of like sort of open, staring at the TV. The engrossed face was happening, but it was good. I saw Ariana Madix just eating up. The dance floor, she's great, and the judges think so too. And speaking of Bachelor Nation, Charity Lawson is also doing really well on the show.

And then you've got Harry Jowsey from Too Hot to Handle and his partner. Riley Arnold, who's the professional dancer. And, they're not great, but it was sad to see he seemed like they'd both been like crying or like upset because people on social media are talking about how terrible of dancers, or a dancer that he is, and that she's dancing around him or whatever.

Which was endearing, so good job on his PR team for having him do this show. Very interesting. Another maybe cast of characters that you might know and recognize is Mauricio Umansky, who is, was, sort of, uh, Kyle Richards from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, um, husband. He's been on the show with her for nine years, for pretty much since Beverly Hills of Real Housewives had launched.

And they were always, had always been, the strong, Married couple, the relationship you got to see over the period of years is, it's a lot. It's a long span of time. They have lots of kids together. I think something like four together. And then Kyle has two other kids from a previous marriage. But Kyle and Mauricio, they are separated.

And this all kind of came out leading up until the latest Real Housewives of Beverly Hills premiere. Of the latest season, this past week, actually. So, some people have speculated that this is just to drum up drama and get people to tune in. But it seems pretty real to me. The part that's not so real was that for a while, all of these photos were coming out in paparazzi and stuff of Kyle Richards with musician Morgan Wade, who's like this hot lesbian singer, and Hmm, are they a thing?

Are they an item? And they kind of played into it and did this music video together that Kyle Richards was in of Morgan's. So this had all gone down over the summer. Like, that part is probably not true. Who knows? Because they did, at least in a sneak peek, we see that they get tattoos. No, Morgan Wade got a tattoo.

With Kyle Richard's either name or initials. So, interesting. All to say, we shall find out. Beverly Hills, if you are not or are looking to start a season of Real Housewives, Beverly Hills is one of my very, very favorites. I also love Orange County. It's great. A classic is New York. I would start in the early ones, though, because New York Is the OG Real Housewives, but they just started over with a completely new cast, cast, a completely new cast of characters, or really, they're not characters, I suppose, but, um, this last year, so, I don't know so much about this new one, but, and Salt Lake City has been great, that one I dragged my, my heels on, but, it's a good one too.

Really, Bravo is having a big, big, big week this week. There's a lot of premieres, Southern Charm is going on, and there's a lot of controversy, or kind of a big dramatic moment there that resembles that of Scandaval from Vanderpump Rules. There's, you know, we're still in a dead season for that, but I went home, Scandaval has started his own podcast, and I just, I'm curious, but I don't want to give him that listen.

You know? I'm conflicted. Do I do it for research purposes? For this podcast? Or, no. You let me know. If you feel strongly. Strongly, tell me. I mean, politely, but you know what I mean. So, whew. And it's also BravoCon, which I will go to one of these days. And that's essentially, like it sounds, a convention for Bravo.

Bravo Universe. Has become a power to be reckoned with really and I'm I've always been into Bravo. Honestly, that's like Mostly the reason that I had live TV was to just like put on Bravo if I'm being honest But if somebody else asked me and I was trying to be cool, I'd say like, life's words too, you know, but yeah, um that's what it's really for and a big expose has come out that I will be doing a full episode on called the Real Housewives Reckoning, which has basically been Bethany Frankel of OG Real Housewives of New York.

Her kind of, her soapbox if you will. It's basically the The most surface level TLDR of it is that she's wanting to form a union for reality show casts, um, and to better protect them for being, you know, manipulated and coerced and all this, you know, all this shit that We've seen especially recently come out in reality shows like love is blind and all those lawsuits and such.

So I it's a it's a read. It's a full editorial kind of vanity fair article. So that's definitely going to be covered because That's big. And, uh, curious to see what goes down there. But that's just something to look forward to. And lastly, I don't mean to leave it on this note, but, you know, a big, big central icon of American, and really global now, pop culture.

Matthew Perry has passed away at the age of 54, and the whole world collectively felt that one. It's, it's really sad, especially because of his very recently released memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing that he released last year in 2022, that really, he opened up about his struggles with addiction.

He's addicted to alcohol as well as opiates. It all kind of began, let's see, I pulled up a, New York Times has kind of, whenever something big happens, they collect all these articles that relate to it. So it's helpful to kind of get an overview of an issue, not issue, you know what I mean. So this is where I'm getting this from, um, as we know, or at least the latest that we know about the cause of death is that he passed away in this hot tub.

And he was found by his assistant who had left to go run a few errands for him. She came back and found him drowned in the hot tub, which is awful and particularly spooky and just sad because his most recent, his last Instagram post was of him sitting in the very spot that he died in his jacuzzi.

Saying how much, you know, Oh, this makes you happy. And it's just really weird. It's bizarre. It's always crazy to me. Like, why does that happen in life? You know, it's especially tough to swallow because he had just released this memoir and had just really found a place in his life that he could open up and talk about how big of a struggle.

And you know, when you're an addict and you're dealing with something like that, it's something you deal with for the rest of your life. The way that he opened up and talked about his troubles and his struggles. is something to be admired and I think that what he really wanted to was to hopefully help somebody else that if they're dealing with this that if he comes out here and and is just raw and real about what it looks like and how easily you can be you can fall into that.

On the background of the struggles that he faced, and I'm reading this from New York Times, is a jet ski accident in 1997 is what helped set in motion Mr. Perry's addiction to painkillers. A year and a half later, he was taking 55 pills a day. He checked into a rehab facility weighing 128 pounds. Of course, Matthew Perry is in rehab became a huge news story, he wrote.

In the years to come, his addiction would lead to, quote, a medical odyssey. The New York Times wrote in a profile last year, including an exploded colon, a stint on life support, two weeks in a coma, nine months with a colostomy bag, and more than a dozen stomach surgeries, among other travails. Woof. It's just, it's really sad to see, you know, he made it through all of that.

He still survived, and um, and that this is the way he passed, but you know, I, I gotta believe that that's because he still needed, he wasn't done, he wasn't done here, and he survived through that, all of that, and you know, I, I just wish nothing but, but my deepest condolences to his family, to his loved ones, and you know.

It's one of those deaths that I think a lot of people are taking hard. It's, it's similar to, you know, when Kobe Bryant passed away. That was something visceral that you could feel when we lost him, you know? So I was curious, you know, psychologically, why do we mourn celebrities deaths, you know? Like, what, what is it?

And immediately my first thought, Well, we have what I think a lot of you will have heard about, or maybe, maybe not, is the idea of parasocial bonds. So, that's kind of just come out. Because of the, with the birth of social media. Um, parasocial bonds, and I'm linking this, um, SPSP. org. This is from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, which is the world's largest organization of Personality and social psychologists, which I find this whole, this whole science very intriguing, but, um, So there are six big reasons, or at least kind of schools of thought, and, and it can be mourning or grieving a celebrity, or somebody in the, in the public eye, it can be a mixture of any and all of these, or something else, but kind of the biggest reasons, one, parasocial bonds, is that we feel like we know We personally build a relationship or connection with somebody we've never met because through social media we feel like we watch this, we know them because they're one way relationships, right?

Like Will Smith doesn't know Me, but I feel like I know Will Smith, for example, then there's also the role of nostalgia You don't necessarily have to have a parasocial bond or connection with a celebrity to feel sad when they pass away But we also might grieve because of the nostalgia, you know for instance friends an iconic and central to pop culture TV series for decades We connect in our brain certain memories, or certain parts of our childhood, and they can be anything small, like say you watched Friends while you had breakfast before you went to school, you know, those kinds of things, so we feel like we lose that, and it's kind of grieving that part of our lives, or our memories, um.

So, it's kind of like losing a younger self, essentially, when it comes to nostalgia. And then, another kind of idea is that celebrities dying, and this is quote, celebrities dying reminds us of our own mortality. The role of what they call terror management. So, I'm going to read this directly because scientists say it better than myself, go figure.

We may also be upset by the deaths of celebrities because their deaths remind us of our own mortality. Terror Management Theory. Argues that we all have a fear of dying that we mostly deal with by not thinking about it. But when something pushes our own mortality into our minds, it can be unpleasant. Dr.

Eric Questelman of Illinois State University points out that when celebrities die or are diagnosed with life threatening illnesses, it is a scary reminder of aging and death. Dr. Samantha Casace, C A C A C E, Cacace. I don't know. Dr. Samantha of North Carolina State University suggests that seeing an idol die can make death seem even more likely for us.

Yeah, I can totally see that. I can totally see that. You know, especially when it's someone as famous and well known as Matthew Perry where you see it everywhere. The reminders are kind of hard to ignore. And then another one is that is the role of self serving bias. So, that we are learning that even special people...

Um, quote, special people can die and are mortal too. Self serving bias is seeking out things in your environment to confirm whatever belief or opinion that you hold. You know, for example, social media channels, the algorithms feed you what you interact with or are most likely to stay focused on. than anything else, right?

So you are just constantly, it's geared so that you're reading things that you know, you usually, it ends this way, I would say 99 percent of the time, you end up feeding your brain exactly what you already believe. And so I feel like that's how these divisive kind of arguments and, and controversial topics really get fired up even more is that we're in these silos.

So we exist in these information silos that we're only reading what we agree with, you know, just a thought. But so that's self serving biases, but the way it relates to celebrities dying and our grief with that is that we always want to believe that our world is safe and predictable. And so we then develop kind of Illogical views like, oh, that will never happen to me.

Celebrities dying makes us feel like everyone is dying. Interesting. The role of the availability heuristic. So, and I'm going to read from this too. Celebrity deaths are also distressing because just a couple of celebrity deaths can make it seem like everyone from our youth is dying. This is due to the availability heuristic.

The more easily we can think of examples of something, the more we assume that it happens a lot. For example, the more easily I can think of Beatles songs, the more I will assume that they wrote lots of songs. Okay, so, thinks that the same thing can happen when celebrities die. We can easily think of stars from the 90s who have died because their deaths were in the news.

But we haven't been thinking about stars from the 90s who haven't died. Thus, dying stars from the 90s are more available in memory than the living stars, which makes us feel like almost everyone we loved in the 90s is dying, which is distressing. That makes sense. Kind of like confirmation bias almost.

Similar. Similar, same, same, but different. So there's just tons of Of psychological reasons, so you're not totally crazy if you actually are grieving or sad by the loss of a celebrity. You know, I see some people writing out there in, in social medias that it's stupid. Um, but it's not. And there's science to it, so you can hit them with this article, baby.

And of course, this will be linked in the show notes. I just found this super interesting. So not to inch things on a real fun and perky topic as this, but I found it very interesting, and I hope you guys did too. And, you know, spooky, talking about death. But spooky season is closing out, honey. I'm so glad that you joined me today.

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