you shocked that they pulled it with such short notice?

I was shocked in the fact that this has never happened in the history of reality TV that I know of.

Whereas a network show and the bachelor has been on longer, way longer than any other dating show in reality TV history.

I mean, The next Bachelor season will be season 30.

She is the 22nd Bachelorette.

I mean, 51 seasons have aired of this franchise since the early 2000s.

It's been on the air almost 25 years for it to film a season and then just not air it.

And she's just hoping to keep as much secret as she can, just letting out a little bit here and there so that everyone's tempted, but everyone will be watching that video when it comes out.

Right.

Because, I mean, I, I'll give away the spoiler.

If people don't wanna hear the spoiler, you can tune out right now for the next 20 seconds.

But basically, when they filmed this show, it filmed October to December of 2025.

She got engaged at the end of the show, and she got engaged to a guy named Doug.

And according to Dakota, he has told this story, it has been corroborated by other people, the day after she got back from filming, she jumped right back into bed with Dakota and had sex with him, and did not tell him she had gotten engaged on the show.

So why are we gonna invest our time in 11 weeks to watch this farce of a season for a woman who, oh, yeah, it's gonna look great, and oh, my God, they probably said all these flowery things when they were with each other, her and Doug, at the very last episode, and they got engaged.

Mm

He said no, neither him nor Dave Neal have.

For two people like Dave and myself, who were coming at her hard as we were, to never get one thing sent to us, even if someone said, "I don't wanna reveal my identity, but just know I went to sixth grade with Laura.

She was a great girl.

I went to high school with Laura.

I was a high school boyfriend of Laura's.

I knew Laura two years ago." Somebody, you would think, would come to Dave and I at some point and say something.

And I never got one email.

Here's Reality Steve.

So first your reaction to the video.

The crazy thing is about it is we've obviously known about this.

The police report has been out there since 2023.

It's like now we've got the visual behind it.

Like this was all documented in the police report of what happened.

But to actually see it now with our own two eyes, horrible to witness.

And just...

She claimed that he threw her down before that video.

Can you run, can you run down for us what is the, like, sort of updates on our upcoming Bachelorette? She's set to premiere days away, and it's probably the biggest scandal to ever hit a Bachelorette.

Especially before the season started, yeah.

So Sunday night, uh, was Taylor Frankie Paul's first episode of The Bachelorette.

They moved the show from Monday nights to Sunday nights for the first time in, I think, 15 years.

And we find out this week that, uh...

Let's see.

Well, I released the spoilers, which we'll get to later.

I just, I just exist in the whole, like, the worst part about this is that it's on a reality TV show, so whoever she ends up with is gonna look at that going, "Wow," [laughs] you know?