Vanderpump, Oscars Snubs, Bachelor Recap & Most Common Jobs in Bach Nation

In this week's episode, host Maddy McClain discusses an array of pop culture topics including the new season of The Bachelor, Oscar nominations & snubs, an upcoming Vanderpump Rules spinoff, and Kim Kardashian's controversial Balenciaga ambassadorship. 

We'll chat one of TikTok's favorite new phrases, the Burnt Toast Theory, coupled with a an example of her own burnt toast. From most common Bachelor jobs to those most likely to make it to the end (a la The Hustle, Hubspot's newsletter)...we're covering it all! 

Cheers & enjoy homies! 🤠 Follow on IG @easilyentertainedpod & TikTok @maddyiseasilyentertained

09:48 Pop Culture Updates: Oscar Nominations, The Valley, Vanderpump Rules, Kim K

25:34 The Bachelor Contestant Analysis

38:04 Job Statistics of Bachelor Contestants

Sources mentioned / used:
- Bachelor / Bachelorette jobs & profession stats (The Hustle)
- Oscars Nominations 2024 (The New York Times)
- The Valley, a Vanderpump Rules Spinoff (People)
- Ryan Gosling's Oscars Statement (CNN)

Transcript

Hello homies! Hello friends! Hello amigos! Welcome to another episode of your trusted, not dusty, easily entertained podcast. I am your pop culture Sherpa. I'm your host, Maddy McClain. It's so good to be sitting down here again, as always. Thank you for the feedback I've been getting. It's been super helpful and I love that you guys are enjoying it and continues to truly make me so very happy to entertain you in any capacity at all.

I am the youngest of four, so what I have learned as a babe is to do just that, entertain, you know what I mean? I don't stray too far from that stereotype, but it's okay, don't worry, I'm not oppressed by that stereotype, I'm very much not, so  don't feel bad for me for too long,  or at all, and y'all are like, Nah, I was never feeling bad for you, bitch, um, that's okay too. 

I am in a mood today, but you know what? That usually makes for a better episode anyways. There's lots to talk about. We are backity back back back with another brand new season of The Bachelor.  And I love it! Cause I finally actually, and I think America, actually is excited about, and um,  agrees with ABC's choice of a Bachelor this season. 

I feel like in the past it's usually been like no one asked for this and then they give you that Bachelor or Bachelorette. I  think people tend to come around and are like, okay, it's actually a better season than I thought. But I mean, pretty much every lead I feel like gets eviscerated in some way, shape, or form.

But  I'm sorry, these, like, to get the best sound possible, and that's, like, very important, right, for your podcast, um,  that's why you have to wear these silly looking headphones. Like, you can do it without them, and trust me, I've tried, but just for what I'm working with right now, the sound is so much better, but it's really difficult to, like, style one's hair, or,  that's a little bit giving me too much credit.

Uh, it's just difficult to try and look your best with giant fuckin headphones on. You know, it's not really my look,  right? But, there are plenty of great looking gamers out there that could rock it. Rock it, stop it, don't you knock it. Um.  Again, sometimes I don't know where these little, like, songs come from, but they just come from the heart.

So, if you're ever questioning me and wondering what I'm referencing, I'm usually not. I'm usually just singing from the heart. So,  I digress. Earlier this week, I experienced something kind of crazy, and there's a theory for it. It's called Burt Toast Theory. Now, before I tell you what that is, Theory is I will tell you about my experience So  I have you know as many people do multiple choices when you leave your house and you go on a walk Usually, you know and  I typically go one way  to walk my dog my dog Mac  He was frequently in the background of these video podcasts, um, but that's not really the point.

So I'm taking my dog on a walk, right, and I usually let him, this is probably like why I need to take him back to training, but I let him choose, you know, I let him choose the adventure of our walk. I'm like, you know what?  They only have so much to look forward to, right? Like, I am his whole life, so I don't want to disappoint him.

And um, so I let him choose which way we go for our walks, and  he decided, he just chose a way I wasn't down for. It was a little rainy, it was a little, I don't know. I don't remember exactly why I didn't want to go this way, but there was a distinct random thought. I had like, no, no, no, let's go the opposite way.

So we take a different route and this is about 1030 ish in the morning. We take this walk  and, um,  a few hours later, really, whenever I check my phone later in the afternoon, I see that there was a psychopath in the city of Austin, Texas, who. Ran around with a machete  and attacked this guy out of the blue randomly does not know this guy just came at him with a machete and viciously attacked him.

The guy survived. He's okay. He was an 18 year old kid that was attacked and, um, but obviously got some pretty severe serious injuries. Terrible. Crazy. Crazy. And, like, Austin, Texas, I mean, it's getting more so this way, but  it's not really, like, a place that you, like, see that kind of thing a lot. Like, I've lived in L.

A., okay? I've seen some crazy shit. But,  yeah. So, that was scary. Well, turns out he was in the exact same place, we end up in the same area of this park, um, on our walk, that we would have walked by. And this went down at 10 35 a. m. that same day.  And like, it could have been me and my little, my little doggie there instead, and I don't know.

I just,  I've been punched by strangers twice in the head. Um,  I'm not making that up. Uh, yeah, once in LA, who would have thought? And then the second time. Somebody thought that I was  a different person,  and I was on 6th Street in Austin, Texas, like, in college, and somebody just,  like, really pussy punched me in the back of the head, like, who does that?

And I turned around, they're like, oh, sorry, wrong person, and ran away.  Yeah. So, all to say, I have a very punchable face, I guess. I, I, I, at least in the past, because we're now manifesting that shit to never happen again. So, I just feel like I would have been an open target, and that was really scary and crazy to learn, like, the man upstairs was looking out for me that day.

And we're probably looking out for Mac, because he's so much more innocent than me, but I was scrolling along on TikTok and found a theory called burnt toast theory. Burnt toast theory is essentially based around the idea of you're getting ready, you're rushing, you're trying to rush out the door to go to work one morning and you're making toast to take with you, but the toast burns and so you have to take another extra 5 minutes to But you're five minutes late and that five minutes late puts you in traffic and you hit more traffic.

Then you make your way to work, but it did cause you this delay in the rest of your work day or whatever.  But in those five minutes, you miss a tragic car accident that could have been you. You know? So that's, that's burnt toast theory. Just reframing  things in a more positive light of what's meant to be will be, and everything happens for a reason is really all of that.

So not a new idea at all. It's just annoying, okay, that everything is being repackaged on TikTok with a different name. That's, but Gen Z, I'm sorry, likes to think that they came up with it. And look, I'm a zillennial, okay, we've talked about this, I'm very much, I'm a cusp, a younger millennial. Okay, um, who relates to Gen Z a lot.

Gen Z isn't the only generation that thinks that they've come up with a lot of things themselves that have already existed. Like, we definitely, as millennials, have done that, for sure. You know, I think it's just the cycle of life, baby. The odds are pretty high that when you grow up and you are the age of what the boomers are now, that Gen Z or whoever, Gen Alpha or whatever, younger generations will look at us and be like, What quacks?

Like, what old hags? You know? That's definitely not the point of today's episode, but thank you for humoring me. Um, thanks for sticking around if you did. We have so much more to talk about this episode. We are, of course, going to cover all things Bachelor, the first episode, which is my personal favorite episode.

This and the next one, you know, when there's a lot of bitches, there's still a lot of bitches in competition on The Bachelor and vice versa for Bachelorette, obviously, because there's just so much more drama, so much more  little nuggets to find throughout the way these people interact, you know what I'm saying?

It's just more interesting, and that's what we're here for. We're here for  Interesting. So we'll talk all about that and the jobs that are most likely to land you a role on The Bachelor or Bachelorette, and what jobs are most likely to have you win The Bachelorette. We'll talk about some more pop culture updates and news, things that you might be interested to know.

The Oscar nominations have come out very recently as of Tuesday, January 23rd, and then we'll talk about the Vanderpump Rules spinoff that was announced, uh, a few, I think a few weeks ago, but recently, talk about that, and the upcoming season, and where the cast is at now, as you prepare your mind, your body, your soul for the next season. 

Vanderpump Rules. Season 12, which is just the latest season post scandal, all is coming out next Tuesday, January 30th. So right around the corner. I remember that sounding like  far, far, far away after the whole scandal last year in 2023, um, but.  Like, like life tends to do came at you fast. Right? Um, so during the press tour for the upcoming new season, Bravo announced a new spinoff show coming this spring with a few familiar faces.

You might recognize Jax Taylor. Brittany Cartwright and Kristen Dowdy, along with new additions, like Luke Broderick, who is Kristen Dowdy's boyfriend. Danny and Nia Bucco, Jesse and Michelle Lally, and Jason and Janet Caperna. Basically  The valley, this is from their official press release on people, the valley, like, its predecessor will follow a group of friends in Los Angeles, but the group will quote trade bottle service in West Hollywood for baby bottles and the valley all while they navigate bustling businesses, rocky relationships and feisty friendships per the official synopsis. 

Now, for me, it's funny, because they're at least acknowledging something that I totally found to be true. The Valley. It's essentially where the Peter Pans of L. A., you know, the won't grow up, I'm a Peter Pan, throw in their fuckboy hats and settle down. With their girlfriends or wives who have been begging for them to do that for the last five years or so, planting little seeds, like the valley, let's go have kids in the valley with a house because you just simply you can't, unless you're  filthy rich, you know, you can't really have a good size house with a yard.

Like what I've heard of in LA, you know, so that's why people go outside of the city. Limits, although technically I think it's part of LA,  I mean, it is part of LA, but anyways,  who cares about the technicalities, because Bravo rather unknowingly or knowingly is bringing this into the mainstream sphere, the mainstream topic of conversation.

Um, but I find it interesting. I find it fascinating. Jax, Brittany and Kristen, who are all going to be on the valley. I've previously been on Vanderpump, but they all got fired along with a few others. They did basically shook up the whole cast, um, in 2020 from Vanderpump Rules. There was, there was word of allegedly some sort of racist  comments, or old tweets resurfaced, or you know, one of those things.

And now they're back. My theory, you know, with all of this is that  These days cancel. Culture isn't dead for sure. No, it's for sure still alive, but it's like it has a much quicker half-life, you know? And that's about as chemical, scientific as I'll get. Bravo hasn't yet announced an official date outside of the vague spring, spring 2024 for the Valley, which, you know, sounds like really like any construction. 

Project, right? They give you a vague  time frame that usually falls later than, but have no fear, because in the meantime, Vanderpump Rules Season 11 premieres on Tuesday, January 30th, and I'm so excited. So excited. If you're not a Bravo fan, if you don't watch Vanderpump, I guarantee you probably heard about Scandalball that went down and pretty much wouldn't be stopped talking about for all of the year of 2023.

But, and that's including myself,  it's because if you're a Vanderpump fan or, you know, been watching this shit go down, it will, it's like the real life Ross and Rachel debacle controversy except way more salacious, way more scandalous, and way more like, you know, modern day reality TV, I suppose. But it gets people hyped like that kind of question does, like were they on a break question.

This next season, we'll pick up off from where we were left with Scandal All. Too long, didn't read it. TLDR of it all is a very public cheating scandal between two long time partners and O. G. Vanderpump rules.  Ariana Maddox and Tom Sandoval, who have lived together, they've been dating for 10 years, and Tom Sandoval, being the little scum da da dum that he is,  cheated on Ariana with a fellow castmate.

Raquel Levis, who was also besties with Tom's girlfriend, Ariana. So they cheated together, and like, that's reality TV, you see that stuff. Like, cheating and infidelity is not anything new, but I think what also made it just  multiply the magnitude of the scandal is the fact that, uh, we watched it play out, like, right in front of our eyes. 

We find out, I think it was like mid ish season, towards the end of the season was when we find out in real time as the season is airing. And mind you, you know, they record this months and months ago, so we're watching the past. And then in real time we hear that Tom Sandoval  was cheating based on, you know,  Ariana finding out while she's watching Tom perform in his bullshit cover band. 

Uh, so that was what was so extra wild about this, is we're truly seeing We're seeing it go down in front of us and just how,  just the audacity, the brazenness of their behavior when you look back and you're watching the show and they're like smirking kind of at each other here and there and you can see it once you know, but you know, it's just, they're doing it right in front of Ariana's face too and, uh, pretty crazy.

They hooked up at the home that Tom and Ariana shared. That was their first kiss, um.  You know, they hooked up while Ariana was out of town for her, like, grandma's funeral, and her dog died, and her boyfriend and best friend are off doing what they're doing with each other, and then you see that they have Raquel and Tom.

Of matching, like, thunderbolt necklaces that they'd had during filming and shit. It's just that kind of thing. Crazy. Just straight in front of your face. So,  Owen Raquel wants to go by Rachel again, because that's the name she was born with. She's also now started her own podcast called  Rachel Goes Rogue. 

And well,  yeah, she really opened herself up to this one just for all of us to step right through. She already went rogue, right? Like she  had an affair with her best friend's boyfriend. So I think, anyways, I think she's been pretty rogue. All to say, doesn't sound like she's learned too much. She says she wants to stay out of the limelight and yet starts this podcast and went on Bethany Frankel's podcast. 

And despite all that, she's not going to be on this next season that we'll watch. I'm sure she was, I'm sure she was offered a hefty chunk of cash, but, um,  Yep, she will not be there, but regardless. You know, I will most definitely be watching all of it as of today. Now Ariana is suing Tom, I think, to get out of their shared house.

It's a mess. It just sounds terrible. But Ariana's doing fine. She was on Dancing with the Stars recently. Made it pretty far to the finals. And now she is playing a role in Chicago the Musical on Broadway. And that's like Tom's dream, so, um. Even better, you know, even better. 

The awards season continues with the Oscars 2024 nominations being released not too long ago this Tuesday, January 23rd.  And while many of the nominations pretty much resemble that of the previous few from the Emmys, and the Screen Actors Guild, and what else we got, Critics Choice Awards.  The, the real talk of the, the talk of the town, if you will, is the snub category, aka the people that were left off of the nominations,  namely being that of Barbie.

Despite Barbie being the top grossing movie of the year, bringing in  over a billion dollars to the box office,  Greta Gerwig, the director, and Margot Robbie were not nominated in the  Best director and best actress categories respectively,  but you know who was nominated? in true mojo dojo casa house  Fashion Ryan Gosling was nominated though  Ken was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

Um, there was some more representation in, Margot Robbie got a shout out in a producing category, as she did also produce. And, um, Greta Gerwig was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.  But not like the, the big, the big dogs of, of the Oscars. Which is crazy to me. Also,  adapted?  What was Barbie adapted from, right?

Like, the physical doll?  Because that story, we hadn't had the full story before. So,  that's also suspicious, but um, you know, we love, we stan a supportive king who totally saw the irony in the fact that The kin of the movie got the, you know, biggest nod of the entire movie. Which, I mean, do I need to spell it out, right?

Like, I think we can all  see the irony in that.  Ryan Gosling following, kind of, the public losing their shit over it. And, you  know, they got plenty of reason to. He released a full statement and said,  I am extremely honored to be nominated by my colleagues alongside such remarkable artists in a year of so many great films.

And I never thought I'd be saying this, but I'm also incredibly honored and proud that it's for portraying a plastic doll named Ken. But there is no Kin without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history making, globally celebrated film.

No recognition would be possible for anyone on the film without their talent, grit, and genius. To say that I am disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement. Against all odds, with nothing but a couple of soulless, scantily clad, and thankfully crotchless dolls, they made us laugh, they broke our hearts, they pushed the culture, and they made history.

Their work should be recognized along with the other very deserving nominees. Having said that, I am so happy for America Ferreira and the other incredible artists who contributed their talents to making this such a groundbreaking film. Ryan Gosling, Barbie.  He is, talk about media trained, that's an incredible response to it all, but, um, also Love that he pointed out that the dolls are in fact crotchless.

I did find that funny too. Um  Yeah, that's just some shit right there. Really? Like the other movies. Yeah, they're all deserving I'm sure and there's reasons that I do not have  As to why they chose The nominees as they did, but Oppenheimer, to nobody's surprise, led the, in terms of the sheer quantity of nominations that the movie received at 13, followed by Poor Things, um, with, I believe, 8 or 9, no, 11, I'm wrong, 11 nominations.

I have yet to see Poor Things, but this is the movie that is about a feminist fantasy set in a steampunk world of mutants and male chauvinist pigs.  That tells us so much without telling us anything, but I'm sure it's good. We got our girl Emma Stone and we also have Mark Ruffalo. That is something that is on my list to go see, so I will, I can do us all the favor.

And a few other quick pop culture updates for you. Kim Kardashian is yet again in the hot seat. I say yet again just because.  I feel like the Kardashians are always in the proverbial hot seat, you know what I mean? Kim Kardashian recently announced on Instagram that she is now the face of Balenciaga as a, a  Balenciaga ambassador. 

As if we're all supposed to forget about that crazy, messed up ad campaign that Balenciaga ran and everybody was up in arms, as they should be. They had, it was gross. It was like some. They had a bunch of little kids holding up bears that were like, like teddy bears that were wearing BDSM stuff. Like chains and whips, you know, Rihanna whips and chains excite me.

Yeah, so that's messed up. I guess they were hoping that  Everyone had short term memory loss and forgot about that.  But, I mean, I guess that's also a valid thought given that we all have no attention span and the news cycle moves faster than, uh, anybody can keep up with. But,  that one, that one's a little hard to forget.

So, if you're confused or wondering why people are mad at her now, the latest reason, that's why. So,  I got your back, got your back. Don't ever say I don't look out for you.  Uh, and the other little piece of news that we found out recently is Trevor Noah's replacement. So Trevor Noah had announced earlier in.

The, you know, late 2023, that he would no longer be hosting The Daily Show. And no one was really sure who would take his slot. We have Taylor Tomlinson, who is an incredible female comic, who is taking the slot after that for a late, late show. But it was just announced that Jon Stewart will be returning.

So The Daily Show and Jon Stewart are back together again. And, you know, I think that's what he's best at. So, uh, take that as you will, but that's the latest. Ha ha! 

The new season of The Bachelor with Joey Graziede, which I think is how you say it. Joey Graziede.  is so very cute. He was on Charity Lawson's season of The Bachelorette, and he was the runner up. Yeah, for the first time in a while, Bachelor fans are excited about who they've chosen, and um, that's It's just exciting in and of itself, right?

But he is a tennis coach, I suppose, or plays tennis himself. And so that is what they've chosen as the shtick, right? Like every leading person has, has a shtick that they really lean into for like the promo or for. Just throughout the season. Yeah, he's looking for his doubles partner. So, we're excited for this.

Apparently, there are more contestants this year than there have been in the past, which is 32. So, first of all, the drama in this opening scene, the first episode.  It's a close up of Joey, presumably at the end of the show at the waiting to propose and he's crying  and there's one rose left that's sitting there and he's walking away from it and this is all while Billie Eilish's When the Party is Over is playing. 

Wow, I think they're aiming for the Emmys here. Um, tricky of the producers. They're kind of Usually when they tease that kind of thing, it usually doesn't happen, but  people have been wrong before. Reality Steve has been somewhat wrong before, but very rarely. So don't look up Reality Steve anything if you don't want it to be spoiled.

And I usually don't. I'm not a big spoiler gal. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it at all. So don't worry, I will never spoil it for you, but  Unless you haven't watched this episode.  I think the spoiler was pretty clear. So  spoiler alert was clear. Yeah,  that's what I meant So anyways, we know him as the tennis player from Hawaii, but really he's from Philadelphia and lived in Hawaii for a while But they also lean real hard into the Hawaii so  we start with  all of the entrances that come out of the limo and You know, we've got everything from a voodoo doll from a girl who is from New Orleans, which actually ends up kind of piquing his interest.

We have somebody comes up with a save the date for their quote wedding. We have somebody who opens a box and, like, fake butterflies fly out. We have somebody who came up with, like, a suitcase full of bananas that were, like, chopped in different sizes and lengths and then asked him what resonated with him more.

That was fun. Uh, there was somebody who was fake moaning in the limo before coming out and saying they were practicing their tennis grunts.  It's funny. Maybe not for this context, but  I see the humor. I see you.  Um, somebody comes out in an umpire chair, like, that stands up there, and tennis, like, love! I don't play tennis, if you can't tell.

Uh, Joey, though, thought it was a life, a lifeguard seat, so.  That one didn't really get to him, but I will say there are quite a few there were lots of puns Of course, and I'm a I'm a girl. I mean imagine imagine I love puns, but some of these were just it was just like pun after pun after pun  and Some I think went over his head, but we still love him.

I think overall  Joey is a golden retriever Man, you know, of a man, of a man, he really is, but I think it's endearing and I think it's cute and who doesn't love a golden retriever guy, right? The way he looks at people  when they're talking or while he's talking to them is  Oh,  oh my gosh, I get it. One girl even said it herself, she's like, wow, you were staring into my soul.

And it looked like that from the, you know, from the angle of the television that I was  at. It truly it does, you know, you just wanna like, give him a treat, right? You just wanna give him a treat. But, but I'll give you kind of the gist. There was a girl, Rachel, who's a nurse from Hawaii, and um.  She's like actually Hawaiian and Joey is like not, uh,  but. 

They still, she seems really sweet, and they kind of bond over that. Um, another girl, Lexi from Atlanta, who is a Canadian.  There are lots of Canadians this season, I swear. I think I saw like,  I need to go back and count, but there were  more than usual. A lot of, a lot of Canada representation this season, which we love.

Ain't no thang with that. Um.  And so Lexi from Atlanta is someone to look out for. There is Maria, another Canadian. They blurred out the flag, which is thought was funny.  Um, from her promo, they spent some time on her usually means they'll be around for a while. Um, she is a bit of a firecracker. Actually, Joey called her a quote firecracker with swagger. 

Joey, never say that again. Um, but they seem to have,  they have a flirty little banter, so I think she'll be around for a while, although she's probably good villain material for the season. We'll see. He even says himself he's kind of scared of her, which I think men like that a little bit, but, um, and they made out, so I think, you know what I mean. 

They like that, but will they end up together for good? I don't know.  I don't think so. I think he's too much of a Golden Retriever man, that he probably needs more of a Golden Retriever gal, but with a little bit more of a bite. Let's go with a,  maybe? No, like a Pomeranian. Really pretty to look at, but can also be like,  meh.

Anyways,  there is Erica, who is Dominican and Cuban. And she brought a speaker with her, they start dancing together, he liked that. He kept saying like, I'll take dance lessons from you, so. He said that probably three times throughout the episode, so I think that he's into her.  Um, and then we have two sisters. 

Yeah, two sisters who are coming on the same show to date the same man. There is Allison and Lauren. Allison is 26 28.  I mean, they're both gorgeous and they both look  very similar. And they come on saying that they are gonna try and They're not going to tell Joey for a little bit, at least that they're sisters or that they're related,  but then  they proceed to have a back, like conversations back to back and they both say, like, nearly the same thing of like, yeah, I have 2 brothers and a sister and, um, I live and they said some neighborhood of Philly.

I think Philly people are kind of like Texas people and that they have a lot of.  My brain just turned off. Like, they have a lot of pride. There we go. A lot of pride for their, their hometown. Like, just constantly talk about it. Um, and I'm saying that's just like us here in Texas. So don't worry. They, one of the sisters gets a kiss.

The other does not. The younger sister, Allison, who they call Allie here and there, I guess. But, and she was also ends up being the first called and then her older sister is the last to be called for a rose. So we will still have the sisters in the next episode.  Um, we had a gal, a Cal, Caitlin from Santa Fe, who looked very Santa Fe.

Like a very eclectic outfit and, um, she's a chemist and she makes it to, all of the people I've mentioned before have made it to the second episode. Most people did that they spent time on, you know, like either with their backstory or,  or just on their conversation or whatever. The girl who got the first kiss, her name is Jess.

Now, she will be the villain. She kind of already is, so she was the first one to kiss Joey. And she then proceeds to go immediately back to all of the girls and announce to everyone that they just had a kiss. And it's like, I know I have the target on my back now, but she's like 23. She, she's a youngin.

She's one of the younger ones. And everyone's like, why'd you have to tell everybody about that? So we know there's going to be something there. And she totally thinks that she's going to get the first impression, Rose. So we know we're set up for some good TV with her. You know, so she'll definitely stick around for some good TV and some drama that we.

We expect and we need. But, um, she's, she's a piece of work, I tell you what. We have Jen, who I think is also gonna be a frontrunner. She came riding in on a go kart.  Wasn't clear what it was from the start. I thought it was like a bumper car, but I think it's a go kart. Um, and they have a kiss too. He, Joey, Joey did have fun.

And, um, I mean, I would too. So, I  can't blame the guy, right? And then there is a girl, Daisy, who I think is another big frontrunner. If not,  maybe even the winner. I don't know.  I don't know.  She is one of the few blogs, actually. And she grew up on a Christmas tree farm. And I think in Michi Minnesota.  They just gave her a solid amount of screen time from her backstory.

To her time with Joey, she lost a significant amount of her hearing, so then she ended up getting an implant, and, um, This is her first time dating since getting that, she's a teacher.  And I did pick up that she was, like, one of the few, at least, that was recorded, Where Joey complimented her first, you know, when she came out of the limo.

That's what sent my little Spidey senses tingling, but  They could either, you know, the producers do this, they either set him up to be the winners, I feel like, in the beginning, or set him up to be maybe, like, uh, the next Bachelorette contender. And then, another, I guess, character of note is Leia. So there was one girl  that Joey had already met, and it was when he was announced as the next Bachelor.

And she's also from Hawaii, and they gave her a card back when he was announced months and months ago  and said that she couldn't open it until she was at the mansion. So,  you know, the girl's like, oh, they already know her, like, she's gonna win. Not really win, but you know what I'm saying. They're not loving that, right?

And, um, Turns out that the card says that she has the power to steal a one on one date from somebody anytime before the hometowns, which is like a huge deal, right? Like, it's all about time here. I mean, we're already working with what, two, three weeks of getting to know each other and then engaged. So timeline's already a bit shortened, right? 

That's important, but she was, I can't decide if this was so sweet or manipulative. I can't decide, but  she started crying and was just torn up about it and said she didn't want to play God, which I, yeah, and didn't want to steal from somebody else or put somebody else to detriment. She either is for Joey or she's not.

So, she goes back in, tells Joey, and he loves that she's saying this because it shows she's really quote there for the right reasons, of course. And, um, then she proceeds to go tell all of the girls, and they're like, What the?  And then she throws it in the fire and burns it, so.  But that leads her to end up getting the first impression rose for doing that.

I bet the producers were a little peeved that, um, Monster plan was foiled by her throwing it into the into the fire because it would have been really interesting to see for us. Right? It's a little bit of a Love Island kind of games element, but they're already like, none of these relationships are really working out.

So,  I guess you might as well make it a little juicier. I came across an article from The Hustle, which is a HubSpot kind of news and stuff,  that only four, and now three, couples are still together that have made it since the end, so.  That's sad. Bachelor in Paradise, apparently has more than that. I'm pretty sure that are still together of couples, but the article also talked about and studied based on the data of previous contestants across all of the last seasons of, for this, this is the bachelorette in particular.

So the men have these jobs of, um, what typically, It will lead you to either be cast on The Bachelor or to, and or to win the show.  So the most common jobs or industries that we see is sales by far.  Apparently it's at 16 percent of all contestants work in some form of sales. And like, you know, I'm in, I'm in advertising and digital media.

And as we all say, we're all in sales. Right, so it's a little broad, but I guess they're talking about like pharmaceutical sales, software sales, all that kind of shit.  Followed by banking and finance, finance, so we got the finance bros.  Then followed by athlete, real estate, and then entrepreneur, biz owner, law.

Those are the top one, two, three, top six jobs.  The bottom six that they've had, farmer, motivational speaker, CEO, consultant, misc, yeah, who knows what a consultant is? Computer programmer, and then entertainment. They took this data and then. Compared it to just the average to the United States as a whole and what was over and underrepresented on the Bachelorette.

What's highly over represented by 25 percent is arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media category. They put that all as one category though. Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media. That kind of makes sense, right? It's like what we talked about here. Followed by sales and related occupations, 17 percent overrepresented. 

And the most underrepresented is office and administrative support and transportation and material moving occupations. Kind of interesting, right?  The ones in terms of those that win.  Is athlete and athlete is also one of the most overrepresented. So, I mean, yeah, we love, we love a former athlete. They're usually all former, but I don't know, maybe some of them.

Yeah. Athlete sales have been three winners in sales followed by two in real estate, two in medicine and healthcare, two in construction.  And those least likely to win are in law, marketing, and CEOs.  That is what we got today for you. I hope you enjoyed, and I'll be covering The Bachelor this season, but it will not be the full episode, so don't worry if you're not a Bachelor fan, if you don't watch that.

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