2024 Grammy Noms, Americans are Cognitively Declining lol, Golden Bachelor & T Pain is for the Millennials

In this episode of Easily Entertained, host Maddy McClain takes on a wide range of topics, from 2024 Grammy nominations to Panera's Charged Lemonade leading to a lawsuit, cognitive decline in young adults to Bach Nation news and T Pain & Snoop's new single.

New music releases & movies to stream including Priscilla, Sofia Coppolla's latest film & Quiz Lady  with Awkwafina and Sandra Oh. Pop culture updates to keep you on top of the latest including 2024 Grammy nominations, America's favorite sweetheart couple Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce (briefly, don't worry) and Love is Blind/Bachelor crossover couple is having a baby.

Maddy McClain recaps the Women Tell All from the Golden Bachelor, who deals with his difficult decision between three remaining ladies. Sprinking in a few cheeky anecdotes and consider this one an ADHD pop culture aficionado's dream.

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Sources / articles mentioned:
- Can't Think, Can't Remember: Americans in Cognitive Fog (New York Times)
- Panera Bread's Charged Lemonade Lawsuit (NBC News)
- 2024 Grammy Nominess List (Variety)
- Giannina Gibelli & Blake Horstmann Expecting a Baby (Us Magazine)

Transcript

Hello homies, and welcome to another episode of Easily Entertained. I am your host, Maddy McClain. It's so good to be back here with you guys again.  Another week, another classically unhinged train wreck unfolding before our very eyes.  And thank goodness though, because like, what else would we bitch about?

What else would we talk about? You know, like a, like a good old reality TV show. There's gotta be some drums, you know, there's gotta be some.  There's got to be some zhuzh, as we say in the game, but, you know,  that's one thing about this world. The, this content is king, saturated, overstimulated world that we live in.

Always something to talk about. And, or, my personal favorite, distract yourself from ever feeling your feelings. It's great. Simply by choosing to watch something like Friends or... Gilmore Girls or  some series like The Simpsons that has just an endless number of seasons available for your binging pleasure.

Um, if we watch that from start to finish, you could probably shave off a good decade of your life if you really wanted to. Um, I am not endorsing that. That is not something that would be good for you. But you know what? It's just, it's just a thought. And if I watch The Simpsons though, for... Longer than, honestly, an hour.

Um,  I think I'd probably end up needing to be committed. So,  definitely don't suggest that, nor will I attempt to do that. I've, you know, found other ways to do so. I personally am quite talented at ignoring my own emotions in exchange for those of the Real Housewives, for example. You know, they're dishing out emotions left and right for my feasted pleasure.

You bet your booty I'm gonna do it.  Um, yeah, because Lord knows they've got plenty to share with the rest of the class. Um,  but don't worry, this whole ignoring my feelings, uh, I'll talk about that with my therapist, um, next time we chat. Um, shout out Kim, love you girl. Anyways, speaking of the real life chaos that not even Shonda Rhimes herself could write or come up with, um, doctors and scientists have recently put out a study. 

Um, in this case, an article for I was not going to read the study. I'm so sorry. I will not do that. That's where I draw the line. Um, but I did read this New York Times article where apparently researchers and scientists have discovered that long COVID is potentially responsible for cumulative cognitive decline in the global population.

Now they, in particular, in this case, looked at the United States, um, and this is coming off the heels of the latest Census Bureau report that came out. Also something I will not read in full. No, no, no, no. I have more respect for myself than that, but it's still really interesting.  In September of 2023, that's where they studied up until, we have seen the highest levels of cognitive decline than in the last 15 years.

So, the Census Bureau started adding these questions on to the Bureau report or whatever to a sample of Americans, um, and that's where they're getting all of these kinds of  the information afterwards in terms of mental state and all of this. So, when it comes to cognitive decline, they're defining this as having difficulty, well, serious difficulty remembering, um, let's see, concentrating or making decisions.

So, this sharp increase was. By over 1 million people and seeing most of that change in younger Americans and where this huge spike started from was, you guessed it,  right at the start of the pandemic in early 2020. And there's like, just like most of anything in science, you know, we can't necessarily pinpoint one exact cause and if there's anything I remember, causation does not equal correlation. 

Fuck, I even messed that up. Okay, let's try it again.  Correlation does not necessarily equal causation. There we go. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. Um, I went to the school of journalism after, okay? Alright. Anyways, so I, let's read this from the New York Times article just for the sake of getting everything right, you feel me? 

So in its monthly current population survey, the census asked a sample of Americans, whether they have serious problems with their memory and concentration, it defines them as disabled. If they answer yes to that question, or 1 of 5 others about limitations on their daily activities.  The questions are unrelated to disability applications, so the respondents don't have a financial incentive to answer 1 way or another. 

At the start of 2020, the survey estimated there were fewer than 15 million Americans ages, 18 to 64 with any kind of disability that rose to about 16. 5 million by September, 2023.  So, uh, scientists are saying sharp increases like that. Just don't come out of nowhere. Just don't pop out of nowhere. There's a general kind of.

Up and down, like most things in life, you know, going with the flow, the motion of the ocean, honey, but, um.  There's quite a few different reasons that we could  conjecture to or point to as to the reason behind this. One being that, obviously, our time spent in lockdowns and in quarantine and All of the stress of the pandemic that everybody experienced kind of led to well, mental deterioration in terms of depression and anxiety that also obviously increased just from the time spent alone in isolation,  which can also have an effect on your cognitive. 

However, they're also kind of relating this to the brain fog. That is a common symptom of COVID that it actually changes your brain chemistry, even after. You have recovered physically and are no longer experiencing  at least the obvious symptoms of COVID that, that, that  can stick with you. So  that's not great, but it's, it is, it paints a picture that we were all kind of not excited to see, but we're  just kind of taking guesses on how this might affect us.

But the point that I would like to draw from this.  is that it's literal science that people are more unhinged than ever before. So, um, if that makes me a shitty human to, uh, feel vindicated and low key validated by the fact that it's backed in a scientific research study, that people are just off the rails. 

More so than ever, and it's not just Millennials and Gen Z complaining all the time about life being harder. Okay, boomers, relax.  Um,  Then again, Gen Z, like,  maybe,  I don't know, not, relax a little less.  Yeah, who knows? Whatever. Um, Millennials, we've been taking a whippin for many years. For many years, but I digress.

The Supreme Court of the United States of America, right?  Justices, has just now released an official code of ethics.  Like, in this past week. Um, yeah, so that's right. The literal judges... The highest form of judges of ethics did not have their own code of ethics to abide by until literally a few days ago.

Like, you simply, you cannot make this up. You really can't. I was honestly flabbergasted. When I read this in the skim, love the skim. If you do not subscribe to them, they do a daily newsletter. They've got lots of shit now, whole media empire. Um, I subscribe, but you know, it's okay. You don't need to subscribe cause you can listen to my podcast instead.

I mean, we don't cover everything there, but it's. Where you can stay stay informed if you'd like. This comes, this new code of conduct comes off the heels of quite a few, uh, let's say, nefarious, naughty little players, um, on the little cute Supreme Court justices like Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, basically taking bribes for luxury vacays.

Um, and then Sonia Sotomayor used her clout to like secure book sales.  Yeah, unclear who will be enforcing this code of conduct within the ultimate enforcers of codes of conduct, so to speak. But it's a nine pager. It's a nine pager code of conduct that the people in serving roles, like, below them or whatever, like that corporate ladder, um, yeah, that they already abide by, but they do not themselves.

And  nine pages, you know, I'm pretty sure, like, Google's. You know, cookie acceptance disclaimer on any website is way longer than that. So,  we'll see. Um, if that isn't America,  what is? Hot dogs, probably. Hot dogs, yeah. But that's about as political as we get here on Easily Entertained, because we're not easily  manipulated, nor are we easily triggered, right?

Say it with me, guys. Anyways.  Let's move right the fuck on, why don't we, into that new new,  honey.  New new, that new new, um, I again had a, uh, nitro cold brew, which,  I went with the large this time, but I think they,  they gave me a medium because I think it's Panera Bread's charged lemonade. Okay. Okay,  we're pausing everything to talk about Panera Bread's charged lemonade debacle.

Buckle up. So Panera Bread, earlier last month in late October of this year, came under fire because sadly a 21 year old named Sarah Katz from University of Pennsylvania died after drinking a large 30 ounce of their charged lemonade.  So,  their Charged Lemonade was advertised on their menu, on their website, all, what have you, as a clean, plant based lemonade with about as much caffeine as their Dark Roast.

Well, it's semi true, because if you got a 20 ounce of their Dark Roast, it was about similar to  268 milligrams of caffeine.  Take the charged lemonade that had 390 in the large 30 ounce drink.  Wasn't really advertised as something that's super dangerous, but, and also people don't walk around knowing how many milligrams of caffeine is in anything, like, I know, sure as fuck I don't.

Which is probably not great, so now we're going to. But!  Now the family is suing Panera Bread. Panera Bread still has their charged lemonade out and the reason that it hasn't really gone much further is because Sarah Katz did have an underlying heart condition that they were, that she was diagnosed with at age five.

But still, it's absolutely bonkers. It's as much caffeine as a large Red Bull and a large, um, I think they're like 16 ounce monster energy drink combined. So it is actually lethal and they're still serving it. You can get it, a charged lemonade, like,  and you can't really put that kind of,  that kind of caffeine in front of really anyone under the age of like 30, maybe, or predisposed to making bad decisions.

Like, I feel like I would try that, you know, I got the, the nitro cold brew, but I know for sure that there is a limit. Luckily, you got to know your limits, but it also was giving me the, the pre, the OG recipe of Four Loko. Yeah. And when it, before it was banned and it had like caffeine and guarana, which is another stimulant and that also charged lemonade also had guarana in it and taurine.

So all bad shit for you. I mean, the FDA. At this point, after learning all of, like, the lackluster essential code of conducts, they need to do, like, the Supreme Court, honey, and get themselves a co a better code of conduct. Better code of ethics, you know what I'm saying?  Um,  yeah. I had a horrible experience with 4LoCo back in high school.

Um.  Which,  yeah, yeah, you know who you are, friends, um, that experienced that Four Loko experience with us, we went and saw Pretty Lights and it was horrifying and never had any of that ever again.  Well, I hope not, I probably have, but I, I, in my college days or something, um.  I'm not that much of a crazy, crazy bitch.

Yeah. Horrible. Scary.  Don't recommend. Yeah. Already. And apparently it's because caffeine delays the effects of alcohol. So you won't necessarily feel as drunk as you're about to get until you do. And back in college or whenever you would drink that, you would keep drinking. And then it would all hit you.

And that is. Bad news bears. Bad news bears. Don't do it at home, kids. And when I was looking this up too, they literally, I mean, it's easy. They have some guy put on his blog, like the recipe to the OG, um, for loco if you want to torture yourself. Okay. And drinks of gasoline. Um, you can, don't recommend it.  10 out of 10 doctors don't.

Anywho,  I'm no doc. I'm no Docupoc. But let's, let's jump back into what we were gonna talk about, which is that new new. What new shit is going on? So in terms of music, millennials rejoice.  There is a new T Pain song, and it's with Snoop D O double G as well. I sounded so white saying that. Incredibly white.

Pasty white. Pillsbury Doughboy white.  Um,  I know, but anyways, so exciting! It's very catchy. It's very, very catchy. You know how T Pain's Buy You a Drink elicits like a metaphysical kind of experience? You know what I'm saying? We're wearing like, just picture it, it's on, okay? We're wearing layered tees.

We're wearing a tee with a, with a tank top over it from Limited Too. We're sipping on our vanilla cream frappuccinos from Starbucks at the mall. We're taking selfies on the Macbooks. The MacBooks at the Apple Store on Photo Booth with all of our friends with those crazy filters that were just absurd and obnoxious.

Right? Okay. That's where I'm taking you guys. There's also this great store, um, it sold like those, remember the, the plastic furniture, like blow up furniture? Come in like neon colors?  Yeah. Those were the days. Those were the days, you know?  Gen Z of today and younger, they don't know. They don't know pain, like being that uncomfortably awkward at that age, right?

You know,  just braces, big ol mouth, just  putting on, like, choreographed dances to Avril Lavigne on the,  on the internet. Well, I don't know, would we email it to each other? Like, I'm a Zillennial, you know? Shout out Zillennials.  But that's, that's a Gen Z and a Millennial cuspy peeps. Anyways, that's for another topic.

That's for another day, too. I'd find that...  Increasingly interesting this kind of generation characteristics, but then again, if you're in marketing at all, like that is.  That's like 80 percent of your job. Not really, but it's just talked about all the fucking time. So, do you want to know the name of that song?

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. It is called, That's How We Ballin  and highly recommend. So, That's How We Ballin by T Pain featuring Snoop Dogg,  who also, T Pain,  Despite him being like the poster boy for Auto Tune,  great voice, great singing voice.  In season one of The Masked Singer, there's a YouTube video of him singing.

He's got an incredible voice. Like, he's super, super talented, and nobody could guess. All the judges had no idea who it was. And, um, I just thought it's comical that it ended up being a musician or rapper that was on The Masked Singer. And yeah, pretty funny. So, highly recommend. It's catchy. It's catchy.

Booty Work, T Pain's, that's my very favorite.  I remember blasting that song when I got kicked out of camp. I got kicked out of Christian camp, um,  once upon a time. When I was, I was not a camper. I was like an intern, basically. You weren't paid, it was called work crew. The Garrelly's were in workroom. We worked in the kitchen.

The boys were on program crew and they built things and set up shit and all that good stuff. Yeah, and we like, we ended up, we had a day off and we went to float the river as Texans do. And...  Um, they got beer, and we drank some beer while floating the river, and somebody was a snitch, somebody was a narc,  and told on us, and uh, we all got sent home, and it was like half of the program crew and half the work crew. 

That was, that was an experience, but. All from the song Bootywork. Maybe I did need to go home and pray and  think about my choices, but no regrets, honey. That's a fun little story time for you. What else is new? Jack Harlow released his latest single called Lovin on Me that we have all likely heard if you've been on TikTok.

He has kind of been the king of TikTok. That's where he got his start up  with What's Poppin back in 2020. He's teased the song Lovin on Me for a while, which is super catchy. It's always nerve wracking because sometimes these artists, and he's done it before, With his song, First Class, sometimes they put out like the catchiest bit of their song on TikTok and then people use it and use it and use it and it goes viral because it's great because it's good.

People love it. But then  you get this, you listen to the full song when it's finally released and if they wait too long and it's like, oh, that was the best part of the song. And now I'm let down. It's like how Netflix Will sometimes just,  in the trailer, play the entire movie before you. You're like, well, I don't feel like we can watch this now, because we just did when we watched the trailer.

You know what I'm saying? It always gets me. So I don't really watch, no, I still watch trailers, but I'm careful about it. You know what I'm saying? Once you notice it, you won't stop. Um,  but, I'm also Harlow. Just real quick, because I was reading up on him on his bio, according to. Wikipedia, so I mean, whatever, sue me.

I use Wikipedia. I think it should be trusted. Whatever. Teachers at any school will tell you not to. So, just a disclaimer here, but he's 25 years old. He's from Louisville. That's how you're supposed to say it apparently, I think? Louisville? Louisville,  Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.  And he blew up in 2020 back when the pandemic started,  but he, I, he was a hustler from the get go when he was 12 years old.

He used a Guitar Hero microphone and his laptop, put together a little mixtape, and then went to his middle school and sold his mixtape around. Yeah. And also, highly recommend you look up, uh, Jack Harlow 2020. Look at his images from then and look at them now. That man went through a glow up.  Yeah, so I just found that interesting.

I don't know if you do, but  potato patates, right?  And I mean, I really just wanted to, while this isn't like hot off the press,  we simply could not Ignore the sparkly, billion dollar, gorgeous, beautiful, perfect pair of elephants in the room. That is  Taylor, Mother Swift, and Travis, Father Kelsey. Um,  that makes it sound like he's a priest, or a  pastor, or something.

Father Kelsey? Doesn't really have the same effect as calling someone mother.  Anyways, really my segue was just to remind you, in case you've been living under a rock, or not, just how incredible and how deliciously cute their PDA has been. Taylor Swift changed up her lyrics in her Buenos Aires.  Argentina concert in the song karma instead of saying  karma is my boyfriend Karma is a guy on the screen running back home to me  I hope I don't know we may not put that in here because it's so horrible and it's gonna hurt your ears but  Instead she said karma is my boyfriend karma is the guy on the chiefs Running home to me and there's video from like every angle of Travis Kelsey at the concert like freaking out and Papa Swift is like Tapping him on the shoulder like did you hear that?

It's adorable. Taylor Swift giggles and Why did it make me emotional? Unsure, but it was just so cute And I'm so sorry because I think everybody is probably like,  okay, quit spoon feeding me Travis,  you know, quit spoon feeding me Taylor and Travis content. But I just  can't have a pop culture podcast and not talk about it. 

It's um, Oh, and then of course the video of her running, like she has a cute little run up to him to kiss him after her show. And it's.  It's so cute. And Travis Kelce is just waving at her fans and smiling and like,  I just love to see Taylor Swift happy. You know,  we've all grown, well, not we've all, but growing up with her and all this shit that she gets. 

Wow, it's her year. We're just living in it. Right?  So anyways, we're not gonna, we're not going to dwell too hard in that. But now for a little bit of new new in terms of movies or TV for you to continue to ignore your own emotions and feelings and instead watch these. If you have not yet seen Priscilla, this is Sofia Coppola's latest movie starring the beautiful,  beautiful. 

Beautiful specimen, Jacob Elordi, who you will know from Euphoria on HBO. This is all about the POV of Priscilla Presley and the beginning of their relationship to the end of it. And we all, even if you know the story, Which I think a lot of people do know, and I won't, like, spoil the whole thing, so I'm not going to go into too much detail so that it's not ruined. 

It's very interesting. There are some things I didn't know, like how young Priscilla Presley was when she... Was like, sought out by Elvis, basically. I mean, and don't get me wrong. I love, I love me an older man. It's kind of like my thing. Like, I just prefer that. Um,  but this one was a little questionable. I think it was like. 

Twice her age or something. So that probably had a little something to do with the demise of it. But it's very interesting and you learn plenty of other things about it. It kind of drags on. I won't lie to you. I really liked it. Some of my friends did not like it. We're not such a huge fan, but It's, it's like a slow burn, but it's a good burn.

Then, there is also Quiz Lady, which is on Hulu. And it's starring Sandra Oh and Awkwafina.  And I have yet to see this, but I will be watching this soon. Has great ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and Google Reviews and all that good shit. And according to IMDb, It's about a tightly wound, game show obsessed Anne must team up with her chaotic sister Jenny to help pay off their mother's gambling debts.

When Anne's beloved dog is kidnapped, they set off on a cross country journey to get the money they need. To do so, they must tap into Anne's skill set by turning her into the game show champion she was always meant to be. And it is a comedy. Looks great. Looks wonderful. So I highly recommend  another TV.

This one is a series is Lessons in Chemistry on Apple TV  I recently started watching this with my mama. I'll give you that little synopsis too. In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott's dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of housewives way more than recipes. 

Dun dun dun. It's really good  so far. I am only on episode three, I believe, but it's really good. It has, uh, Brie Larson is kind of the biggest star. And Apple TV Plus. Yes, I may have like worked for them, but still, I haven't watched a really crappy show on there. I've watched like an okay one before, but you can't go that wrong, honestly.

Um, also not sponsored, just a recko. And now for a few pop culture updates for you, including the 2024  Grammy nominations were released this week. It is the 67th Grammy Awards. I swear to you, we just had 2023,  but that's showbiz, baby, okay? We just keep it rocking. So to no one's surprise, I think, women absolutely owned the noms, just like they did to the charts this last year with SZA.

She is leading the charge, which is kind of You know, you'd think with all this Taylor talking to Taylor, but don't worry, she's definitely involved. SZA is leading the charge with nine total nominations for her album S. O. S. and some of the songs on there. Followed by Phoebe Bridgers, Victoria Monet, all with nine, and mixing engineer Serban.

Ganea  Industry Plant, perhaps. Just kidding, it's just, we don't know. With seven noms. Um, and then after that, we got key players, of course, like Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish.  Men, knock knock. Where you at?  Look alert.  While it doesn't make like a huge difference to people like you and I  that listen to these artists, like all of the nominations and who wins and all of this, definitely makes a huge difference and is a huge deal obviously for those in the industry and the actual artists and musicians.

Still, it's interesting to me how big of a deal it is and people will pay attention and obviously it's something that we talk about as I am doing now in the pop culture discourse, but like, how little ultimately it means, you know, to us, like,  it's just an interesting kind of dynamic there, but back to the nominations of this year, Taylor Swift already with her nominations and wins,  She's already in the leagues of, in about the same level of wins and noms as Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, and Paul Simon.

So, obviously, major players, but if she does take any, take home any more wins with Midnight's... Which, let's be real, she probably will. She will have surpassed those. So, a little education for you, because this confused me. There will be, um, Song of the Year and Record of the Year. It's like, okay, because then there's song, record, and album.

Kind of confusing, but what this really means is, simply put, and this is from the Grammys website,  Record of the Year deals with a specific recording of a song, and that recognized the kind of... The team worked behind it, so the artists, the producers, the engineers who contribute to that recording. Whereas the song of the year deals with the composition of a song and recognizes the songwriters who wrote the song.

Anyways, so, let's talk about a few of the big nominations. Record of the year, we have Worship by Jon Batiste, Not Strong Enough, Boy Genius.  Flowers by Miley Cyrus, What Was I Made For from Barbie by Billie Eilish, On My Mama by Victoria Monet, Vampire by Olivia Rodrigo, Antihero by Taylor Swift, and Kill Bill by SZA.

That's, uh, that's  some domination right there, honey. John Batiste really took home a ton of awards last year.  Album of the year, we've got World Music Radio, John Batiste, The Record by Boy Genius, Endless Summer Vacation by Miley Cyrus, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard by Lana Del Rey, The Age of Pleasure by Janelle Monae, Guts by Olivia Rodrigo, Midnights by Taylor Swift, and SOS by SZA. 

SZA!  Um, and Song of the Year is pretty much the same, the only difference being Dance the Night from Barbie the album by Dua Lipa and the songwriters and producers and all that good stuff. And A& W by Jack Antonoff and Lana Del Rey. As for brand new artists, This was interesting to me.  We've got Gracie Abrams, Fred again, which,  that's my personal choice, Ice Spice, Jelly Roll, Coco Jones, Noah Kahn, and Victoria Monet.

Kind of interesting this year, there were a few snubs, like Morgan Wallen, who was snubbed last year too.  Kind of for his behavior more than his music, apparently, like he was uninvited to perform. This was with his whole  Tons of TikToks went around and Morgan Wallen was like making out with a ton of 18 year olds at colleges where he was playing  and He's was married.

Was he married?  Let's see real quick. We're all quick. Oh No Girlfriend, I mean still obviously horrible. But  anyway, we didn't see any of the Latin artists, which is kind of crazy No, Peso Pluma. No  Bad bunny,  nobody's up there, I don't know. In other news, from a little bit of a collide of reality TV universes, Giannina and Blake Horstman are expecting their first child together.

If you have no idea who I'm talking about, that's fine, I'll tell you. Um, so Giannina,  you might know her from Love is Blind season one. And the iconic scene of Giannina fleeing the scene of the altar and falling on her ass in mud in her wedding dress. Both  probably a tough moment to live out and live through, but great TV.

She met Blake Horseman, who was from Becca Kufrin's season of The Bachelorette, and was the runner up for Becca's final rose. He then went on to Bachelor in Paradise season 6. After having hooked up with two of the girls that would come on Bachelor in Paradise.  Um, so obviously that went over really well.

Um, not at all. People hated him. He kind of got the villain edit.  Probably because he kind of, like, was acting a little bit like a villain, but... This is where we had the birth of Stagecoachgate, where all of Bachelor Nation, I guess, congregates after their seasons, and in between is Stagecoach. Um, it's where it all goes down.

So, you know, Bachelor in Paradise has kind of lost its, like, uh, finding love with... Whoever you end up falling in love with versus going there to meet someone specifically. Which used to be like a no no on the show, like they almost kicked somebody out for doing that in past seasons, but  now I guess they just don't care, you know, they all meet up afterwards at Stagecoach or in their Instagram DMs and  you know, that's how modern love begins these days.

Anyways, so Giannina and Blake from two different reality shows met up at some spinoff show. Sorry, I did not do my research on this show because no one's heard of it, so don't really have that much interest, but that's apparently where they met and they started dating. And this is back in 2022, early 2022 when they were filming, and now they are pregnant and expecting their first baby.

They're not engaged yet, but apparently that's something that's on the table. But we must move on to the Golden Bachelor and our boy Gary, and all the lovely ladies of the Golden Bachelor.  So where we ended it last week was...  The, the cliffhanger of cliffhangers, where he was at the rose ceremony with three ladies, Leslie,  who had already gotten the rose, Teresa, and Faith, who were on the chopping block to receive the last rose until there would be just two.

And move on to the finale. They did have the women tell all, which usually is one of my favorite episodes because it's the messiest. Um, I love, I mean, that's why I'm watching a really out of TV show. You know what I'm saying?  And it definitely wasn't messy, but it was really sweet and it was really heartfelt.

And I actually cried during one of the scenes. Um, okay, again, those emotions.  They're buried deep in there, but they are there. I'll tell you what. I'm a Pisces moon, honey. Lots of emotions. So all of the ladies come back, or at least majority of them come back for the show, and we still didn't figure out who he chooses.

So we'll get to that later on.  Spoiler alert. And they spend a good amount of time talking about flatulence and they cook for themselves. So was it Susan's meatballs or was it the guacamole?  Um, I don't personally see how guacamole can cause that. So I'm team meatballs.  As you can see, they didn't have that much drama to focus on.

The only drama being that of Kathy and her famous zip it line that she gave to Teresa  and um, who then became the quote villain. Of the Golden Bachelor because that was the best they could get out of that. Um, but it was very, it was a very sweet episode. Kathy kind of makes up for it and sort of apologizes.

Like, I don't think she ever says sorry. And also Teresa, who she had her beef with, was not there because she is in the final three. Chris Jenner calls in because her lookalike, Susan, is there. And they do this kind of quasi, supposed to be like a personal video message that she sent on Jesse Palmer's phone.

So we watch it from like Jesse Palmer's iPhone, which is kind of  a weird call.  But I think they're trying to make it seem like.  Up close and intimate and personal, and how sweet, even though they're also just probably  promoting ABC's show, The Kardashians. Because ABC owns  Hulu, or Disney owns ABC and Hulu.

Whatever, Disney owns everything is what I mean. So, they're in the same fan band, thank you ma'am. We catch up with some of our favorites, like Joan. who was not there that long, but she's getting the, she's getting the bachelorette edit. She wasn't there very long, but she's beautiful. She ended up leaving kind of early on in Gary's season when her daughter, it was revealed, we didn't know exactly why then, but she left to go be with her daughter who had recently given birth.

And it turns out that her daughter had severe postpartum depression, and that's why she left to go be with her.  And I mean, kudos. You've got to be there for your family. Unlike our girl Sandra, who didn't, who missed her daughter's wedding, um, I still clearly have not gotten over that, but apparently neither has America, because they did talk about that too, but they talked with Joan a little bit, and she felt, you know, The sense of there wasn't real closure there when she left and she felt like things could have worked out.

So that was tough. But Gary, Gary is such a smooth talker, man. Like,  I mean, I guess that comes with age too. Maybe that's why I like older men. Not Gary's age, but,  um. They all kind of tell Gary, thank you for opening our eyes to love, and it's sweet.  Now, we move back to where we left off from the rose ceremony.

And Leslie has her rose, and now it is down to Faith and Teresa. Gary had left the scene of the crime, had left the rose ceremony, and broke down and was crying. And already putting my, myself in the feels, like, Come on, hold on, the Bachelor cannot break this poor man. Comes back and... To everyone's surprise, he gives this rose  to Teresa in Sin's Home, Faith.

I was absolutely shocked. I thought for sure Faith would make it. Um, based on the reactions of everybody at the Women Tell All, where they're watching it live.  Shocking to them as well, so probably to you too. Um, Gary had said I love you to Faith and Leslie. And he has not said that, as far as we know yet, to Teresa.

He definitely hasn't said it to her face yet, but that was one of the  saddest Women Tell All reunions, seeing Faith and Gary  meet again. It was so charged, so emotional, so raw.  And you could just tell, like, you know that feeling  when a heartbreak physically hurts, and it feels like,  like you're ill? Like, you can feel, like...

Your heart has like this weight to it, you know, not to get you guys really depressed and sad, but  you felt it. And I think everybody did. And, um,  when he sent her home, she was kind of in a state of shock and. They have this really emotional reunion, and they're like bawling, crying into each other's, well, more like Faith is crying, Gary's crying too, you can kind of see, but, and just whispering things to each other, unclear, they did that like all season, but,  Um, and it was just really sad, and you could tell Faith was still hurting.

Faith, like, put Gary's leg when she's talking to him, and was like, oh, sorry, I, I, I'm so sorry, I don't know how to,  Interact with you without touching you, and I feel like that's honestly kind of, that's,  that is a representation of kind of what the regular seasons of The Bachelor and Bachelorette, I think, are missing, is those, is those,  that like raw moments.

They're almost like too aware that cameras are on them. It's a little bit impossible to like ignore the camera crew and giant video cameras following you around and you're hooked up to a mic and all that, but  There's this kind of genuine, more real...  Aspects that these ladies brought to the show that was missing for so long since I think, you know, the early seasons of the franchise.

We're definitely not done with the Golden Bachelor, and people are now speculating on who the Golden Bachelorette will be. People have speculated pretty much across the board. Susan was kind of set up to be a favorite. And then of course there's Joan. Um, and now could be Teresa or Leslie depending on who Gary ends up choosing.

Uh, Faith could be one. It could be,  who else do we think?  Ellen was a favorite too. From there on, um, now we are gearing up for the finale this week, and we'll see who Gary chooses. They're flying to Costa Rica, so we'll look forward to that this week, and of course another episode of Bachelor in Paradise, which, you know, it's a great show to like do things while you watch for me this season.

I'm just not so much into it. I don't know, I have to admit. If you guys want more in depth or frequent kind of coverage or reviews of Bachelor in Paradise, let me know. I'll be happy to do it. Um, just a lot of people, a lot of moving parts, but it was an interesting week and a lot of curveballs were thrown.

So it was a good episode if you are thinking about watching it. But that will be it for today's episode. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you so much for listening. As always, love you, love you, love you. And next week we'll cover all things Selling Sunset, so get excited for that. And the live reunion, they're now doing a live reunion this season.

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