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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Guys, do you ever have one of those days where just everything makes you angry? Like my mom and I call it the I hate everyone days. It's like every single little thing that goes wrong could go wrong. You're just in a bad mood. You open up X and you see everybody fighting and yelling at each other. You're like, oh, this is just making everything worse. That was me today.
and I had an idea of what I wanted to talk about, and I was like, okay, I mean, I get it, it's fine, but I wasn't bought into it yet until I found the thread of hypocrisy.
There's always something hypocritical with these pop culture stories, but I mean, this one, it just really started to grind my gears, and I might be able to chalk it up to the fact that I was just having one of those moods, but I also think it's just so indicative to so many parts of our culture.
It's just so disgusting and ridiculous, and so that, my friends, is why we need to talk about the latest season of The Bachelor, what we are needing to talk about today. are the absolutely insane lengths that these networks, these reality TV shows, the reality TV show stars are going to to keep their shows relevant.
It is just getting out of hand, and like I said before we did the little transition there, it is the perfect analogy for how ridiculously hypocritical and just completely out of whack our society has gotten. And yes, that means that we are talking about Taylor Frankie Paul and the latest season of The Bachelorette.
Now, if you do not know, Taylor Frankie Paul, she is a social media famous woman with multiple baby daddies, a history of swinging multiple domestic violence disputes, including one from just 48 hours ago, which we are gonna talk about. And yet this week, she is premiering
as the lead in The Bachelorette, which is just so ironic because a few years ago, after a series of racial transgressions, the Bachelor franchise at large, ABC, they committed to making this franchise the upstanding reality TV show. They were holding themselves to high standards when it came to their contestants and who they cast on the show. They wanted to be the better reality television.
And obviously, considering she is the new star of the show, they changed their mind. Because here is where we are as a society. Allegations, just fake allegations of past racism are apparently more problematic than somebody with a history of domestic abuse. That, well guys, obviously in 2026, that's just good news. content. All right, so let's just dive into this here.
So if you are not plugged in to the world of The Bachelor, Bachelorette, reality TV, this is what you need to know about this woman, Taylor Frankie Paul. So in order to understand her, we need to take it back to 2021. This was like TikTok heyday when all the big stars of today were first blowing up on TikTok. It was pandemic BLM time. Everybody was doing the renegade.
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Chapter 2: What makes the latest casting choice in The Bachelorette controversial?
And while that could just be another day in Hollywood with all of these celebrities in Mormon, Utah, this was a big deal. Now, with all of this came the obvious breakdown and divorce of two of the marriages involved, including Taylor's and her husband's. And there were so many rumors about who was involved in the swinging and who wasn't, and who they'd crossed boundaries with.
Like, the whole thing was like, they had agreed to swing, but they were people that were off limits. And then they crossed those boundaries and then they sort of had an affair, but it was like messy because it was swinging. The whole thing was just like ridiculous and absurd and so toxic, so unhealthy, but it did result in two different divorces.
And so at this point in 2022, and I promise we're getting to The Bachelor, but this is important context. But by 2022, Taylor Freaky Paul, she is at the height of her fame. Thanks to mom talking the scandal, she's getting a divorce. And then she announces that she has started dating a new man named James.
Dakota and Hulu, around the same time, announces that they are turning MomTalk into a reality show, which you may know, you might have heard of, called The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. And this is really where things get crazy, because in that first season is when we learn that Taylor and this new boyfriend, Dakota, were involved in a domestic violence dispute.
Now, Taylor, at the time, she was arrested. She was charged with domestic violence and child abuse after allegedly throwing a chair that hit her boyfriend, Dakota, and then hit her daughter from her previous marriage. Insane. Insane, insane, insane. You would think that this would be the end of this woman.
That her relationship would fall apart, her show would fall apart, she would have no career after that. But that is not how the modern world works. And obviously, bad behavior is rewarded. And apparently, in the case of Taylor and Dakota, love conquers all. Because just a couple of months later, she announced that they were having a baby together.
And so now, years later, we're in season five of The Secret Live Show. She and Dakota's toxic relationship has been the main storyline of the show for the last three seasons. So now, that's all the backstory you need to know.
Jump forward to present day, and while she and Dakota have apparently split, they've moved on from this toxic relationship, she is announced as the next Bachelorette back in September, which will be now premiering next week. And my first thought when I saw that was obviously trash.
Like, I have not watched the Bachelor franchise in years, but this just grossed me out for all of the reasons that I just laid out. They want to mooch off of the TikTok audience and the Secret Lives audience that, you know, Hulu has dominated. ABC wants to pull that over. They want to use her.
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Chapter 3: Who is Taylor Frankie Paul and why is she relevant to the discussion?
And I have not watched the Bachelor franchise in years, and you're going to see why. But the whole thing, it just grossed me out. Also, I saw this tweet this morning, and it cracked me up because it is so true. Harrison Crank posted this, and he said, If you want to get a glimpse into how bad modern dating culture has gotten...
22 men are about to compete on national television for the chance to marry a single mom of three who cheated on her previous husband and has an open domestic assault case against her. That's where we're at. And all these men are lining up, hoping for a chance. But also we know because of how The Bachelor works in the modern era, it's not actually about trying to find love.
That is so 2008 whenever it launched. Like now you go on The Bachelor, The Bachelorette to try to become a social media influencer. So it makes sense that they are hiring a social media influencer to be the star. Anyway, that is a rant for another day. Anyway, moving on. Well, I guess this is kind of jumping off of that point, but obviously The Bachelor did this for a reason.
Their viewership has been dwindling for years as it has with basically all network television. They needed the help of social media to boost them. And to be fair, Secret Lives has a major following. And when this was first announced, you know, that fan base and Taylor Frankie Paul's fan base was so excited. They were like, oh my gosh, I haven't watched The Bachelor in years. I'm so excited.
I'm diving back in. You've got me. And coming off of the last season of Secret Lives, Taylor was the fan favorite. People thought that she was done with Dakota. She had turned a new leaf. She had this amazing story arc. So people were ready to rally behind her.
Until, guys, until things turned south, until this week, when season four of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives came out, which showed people that actually, even though she had turned a new leaf, even though she had broken up with him and she was going on The Bachelorette to find true love, actually, Taylor Frankie Paul was sleeping with her toxic ex Dakota until the night before she left for The Bachelorette to find true love, to find the man that she was going to marry.
Throughout that season four, Taylor also continued to lose her mind over Dakota sleeping with other women and dating around, including some of her friends, which had happened previously. She also continuously told everyone around her that she needed help and that she was not mentally okay.
And you can love her or hate her, but I don't think you can dispute this statement, but clearly this is not a woman that is doing okay. We have watched her break down on social media, on reality TV time and time again. She's been in these toxic situations. She's dealt with substance abuse. She's always, you know, getting way too drunk. She's breaking down in front of the entire world.
And despite all of that, she went on to film The Bachelorette. They were like, this is the perfect person to put on even more reality TV. She's in the best spot of her life to be the Bachelorette. Like, this woman is not well. She is certainly not well done. Like, I like my Good Rancher steaks. Now, I will say, since giving birth, I am less interested in well-done steak.
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Chapter 4: What scandals surrounded Taylor Frankie Paul before becoming the Bachelorette?
Like that was such an era of mass psychosis. It was truly insane that these two photos resulted in the breakdown of an entire reality TV show franchise. And it threatened to ruin this girl's life. Like this will follow her forever. because of a party that she and hundreds of other people went to while she was in college.
And anyway, moving on from my little rant there, because of this obvious crime against the black community and white saviors at large, the Bachelor franchise decided to reform. And they took this opportunity to apologize to their audience and they said, you know, moving forward, we are going to work diligently, we're gonna work
It's so hard to vet all of the contestants, everybody on the show, and we're going to hold them to such high standards. We're never gonna let this happen again. We only want the best of the best on our show. We are going to vet everyone.
And they even had an article in the Hollywood Reporter which said that the franchise had evolved its vetting process by improving the show's background checks and more closely monitoring the contestants' social media.
In the past few cycles, and this involved Rachel O'Connell, the franchise has even released the names of the contestants early in hopes of bringing any offensive or questionable candidates to light early on. Which also, as a side note, is just crazy to me.
Like, what they are saying here is that they are releasing everybody's name online for the express purpose of letting internet trolls and an angry mob tear these innocent people apart before they even get onto television to let the internet do its dirty work for them. It's like, here, figure out what you're gonna be mad about and we will adjust accordingly.
Instead of actually casting based on good values and any kind of set standards, they just want to be careful about what the internet is going to pick Now do you see where I'm going with this? Do you see how ridiculous and hypocritical this is?
Because you could be a woman, a nice, sweet, great woman in her early 20s who went to a party with 100 other people four years ago and have a major network publicly back your cancellation. ABC and Disney all stand behind the angry woke mob. They will turn the show upside down. They will fire the beloved host for being empathetic to you.
They will then get the black fiance that you met on the show to distance himself from you because of racism. They will do all of that and yet they're now telling us that it is totally fine to be a woman on the show when you have previous domestic assault charges against you? To be a woman who broke up her marriage because she broke boundaries in her soft swinging arrangement?
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