You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality Steve Podcast. I am your host, Reality Steve. Thank you all for tuning in on this Monday. Boy, has Caitlin Bristow stepped in it. She is taking some major, major heat for what she said on the Betches podcast. Jared Freed, one of the co hosts.
We’re going to get into that. I’ll play you the clip and give you my thoughts on it. We’re also going to talk about the Instagram followings for the final four men of Gen season, which is at an all time low. And then talk a little bit about Big Brother from last night and what’s been going on this week.
We will get to all that momentarily. So if you haven’t heard it, Caitlyn Bristow went on the Betches podcast with Jared Freed and Jordana Abraham. It’s part of the Betches podcast network. The actual podcast itself is called You Up with Jared Freed and Jordana Abraham. And Caitlyn went on it and they were talking about, Well, I’m going to play you the clip because there’s a, there’s a lot of things that we have to get to with this.
So let me play you the clip here and then we’ll discuss.
On a date with somebody from the franchise and I reach out to the girl that he used to be with because again, I wanted to see,
are you friends with his ex? Not really.
No, not in, we hadn’t talked in months and like, No, we’re not.
So you were like, okay, we probably
look like friends on the outside.
Sure. But we’re not. So you’re about how, how did the text go? Said I said, Hey, so and so dmd me.
Your ex DMed me. Yeah. Okay.
And we’ve been chatting, wanted to see, I said, I know you’re really happy in a relationship. So I actually, actually, so I said, I don’t actually know if this would bother you or not. I don’t know if it like.
Was enough to give a phone call like it clearly just seemed like a text thing to me and Yes, she called and was very upset
and said do not go near this guy.
No, she said I always knew you were a bad person No And you’ve confirmed it. So your true colors are showing. And then I hung up and I went, No, I just want to send her a picture of me sucking his dick.
Laughing
She’s definitely not as happy as you thought she was. I was like, you should have seen my face on the call. I was like, Oh my God. She called you to tell you that? Yeah. And she, and I was just like, I am so sorry. Like I, I actually did not think you were going to respond. I am actually really sorry. I went on a date with someone.
Okay. So there’s a few things there to discuss. Number one, she’s clearly talking about dating Zach. Zach was the one that hit her up in her DMs and she’s talking about Tayshia. This is, I think the first issue, which is Caitlin has made it very clear that she’s never going to talk about whoever she’s dating and she’s never going to post pictures with them until literally the wedding.
Now, I don’t believe her when she says that, but I’m just saying this is what she has said publicly. So we can only take her at her word for what she says publicly. She’s basically saying like, look, I’m not going to do what I did with Sean. I’m not going to do what I did with Jason, anybody. I’m keeping my private life off the internet.
I, I under, and she did make it known that, look, I understand pictures have gotten out. People have seen stuff out there. I’m not going to ever hide from it. I’m just not going to openly post about it. Okay. That’s fine. Bye. The problem is by discussing this now on this podcast, the you up podcast, she’s almost to say, I’m not going to talk about my private life and then tell a story like that is very contradictory because now people are going to have questions and people are going to be like, I thought you weren’t talking about your relationship and now you just not only told a story about someone that you were seeing in the franchise.
And look, we all know who she’s talking about. I know she didn’t name names, but we know she’s talking about Zach, the guy that she is seeing on occasion. And she’s talking about how Zach was once engaged to Taysha. Zach hit her up in her DMs and she decided to tell Taysha in a text that they were chatting and Taysha called her the next day and said, shows me what a horrible person you are, whatever the language that she used, you’re a bad person.
So. There’s so many things at play here But again, that first one, it’s just very contradictory of Caitlin to say, I’m not going to talk about my public life, my personal life in the public forum, and then not even tell this story on her own podcast. Tell it on somebody else’s like she had to have known that this was going to have traction and legs.
The second thing is the story that she told was so specific and it was graphic because once Tayshia told her that she wasn’t happy, Caitlin made a joke. And the reason why I said she made a joke is because she did comment about this, I believe, on her Facebook, off the Vine page, after the fact, when she’s been taking a lot of heat for this, because it’s making the rounds, it’s all over any, it’s all over my TikTok feed, it’s all over Instagram pages, everybody’s covering this.
She made a joke about, well, geesh, and I’m going to just repeat what Caitlin said. Well, geesh, after she said that, I wanted to send her a picture of me sucking his dick. I don’t know in what world Caitlyn thought that that would be an appropriate response to say, even if she was joking, which she says she was because this was sent to me and it was put out on Caitlyn’s Facebook group.
She responded to somebody in her off the vine Facebook group that said, It was a joke. Jared is a comedian, we have banter. It was a joke, and of course I wouldn’t want to do that. I’m laying in bed, bawling my eyes out because I feel so much shame watching it back when I was just trying to make Jared laugh.
Now I feel like the world hates me. I was truly trying to do the right thing and I added a bad joke in there, because it’s me and I don’t have a damn filter. The bullying comments coming in are so awful now, so I guess I deserve that. Here’s the problem. The joke, while she was trying to get a laugh out of Jared, it’s not like I took offense to the joke.
I just didn’t find it remotely funny, and I didn’t even understand what the point of that joke was, and now she’s getting heat. The difference is the heat coming from me is just, Caitlin, you probably should have kept your mouth shut on this one. I understand she has no filter. The problem is, how many times have we heard Caitlin say, I have no filter, and end up having to do something like this?
It seems to happen continually to where Caitlyn, we know struggles with mental health. She struggles with trolls coming at her because people jump down her throat a lot. Sometimes it’s justified, sometimes it’s a little bit exaggerated why trolls go after her. But she seemingly keeps doing stuff that gives them fodder to come after her.
This just wasn’t a good interview for her. I’m not saying anything about Jordana and Jared. I’m saying, This doesn’t make her look good at all, because nothing, by telling that story, nothing positive could have come from that. Caitlyn wants people to be kind on the internet, right? She tells people all the time, like, hey, let’s just be nice.
Because she struggles with it when she gets hate from internet trolls. She struggles with it. We know this. Yet here she is on a podcast making a joke that’s at the expense of Tayshia. Saying, yeah, just so, I should have just said, even if she was joking and she wasn’t serious. The point being the response sounded petty and it sounded very mean girl, which is exactly what Caitlin portrays to other people that she doesn’t want.
She wants people to be kind, she wants people to spread positivity, and then she goes on a podcast and tells that story. There’s the contradiction. And I know that pump, I know that people that are defending Kate and look, I’m not team, I’m not team Jason over team Kaitlin. I like Kaitlin. I’ve got nothing against Kaitlin.
I don’t have any sort of relationship with her, but I don’t have an issue with Kaitlin. And I’m not choosing a side here. I’m just laying out the facts and giving my opinion of this story because it’s a major story in Bachelor Nation right now. It’s all anybody’s talking about. Every content creator is talking about it and people are having differing opinions.
Dave has a different opinion than me. She’s all batch has the same opinion as me. We’re kind of on the same side of this and I’m just like, look, it doesn’t mean that I don’t like Dave or anything like this. Look, we’re allowed to have different opinions. My point being is I just didn’t think overall Caitlin needed to tell this story.
She could have just, she wasn’t, it’s not like Taysha said something and Caitlin felt the need to respond. It’s not like Taysha dissed her publicly and Caitlin’s like, Oh, here’s, here’s a way I can get back at her. I’m going to tell this story. Taysha doesn’t talk about anything. We haven’t heard Taysha reference Caitlin in probably two years.
Now, what Caitlin said in that podcast might’ve been the first time that she publicly addressed the fact that her and Taysha were never close friends. People thought they were because they co hosted The Bachelorette with Katie Thurston and they co hosted The Bachelorette with Michelle Young and everybody thought because they were co hosts and they’re not.
Been hearing that for years. They’ve never been close friends and Caitlin admitted it in that podcast. So that’s factually correct. They were never close friends, but it’s not like Caitlin told the story in retaliation to something Taysha said. Taysha has been in a relationship with that Luke guy for over a year now.
Doesn’t even post about him. Doesn’t talk about the franchise anymore. She’s basically removed herself from everything. Bachelor nation. So why would Caitlin? Over a year later, tell this story. That’s what I don’t understand. It doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t come across as positive. It comes across as mean girl.
It comes across as petty and that’s it. It’s just do better. Don’t tell the story. So I don’t hate Caitlin. And for those that, you know, want to cancel Caitlin, this isn’t cancelable offense, Caitlin. This isn’t the first time. And it probably won’t be the last time. Caitlin puts her foot in her mouth because she doesn’t have a filter.
And that’s all this was. Now, if you’re tired of Caitlin putting in her foot in the mouth. And then getting sad and realizing that people are coming down on her for something, then I suggest the best thing to do, and this is everybody’s own choice is just to unfollow, but don’t send her a message. Don’t write a caption on her Instagram page, telling her how much, how awful you think she was.
She made a bad joke on a podcast. That’s the way I look at it. It’s a bad joke on a podcast. She never should have made. And just be better next time. That’s all I can ask of her. I don’t know her. If I was a friend of hers and I could talk to her, that’s exactly what I would tell her and be like, Caitlin, you shouldn’t have said that it looks really bad.
So I think the whole thing there’s a, there’s just the joke itself fell flat. And the joke ended up being at the expense of somebody else, because you and I both know if Kat Stickler, Jason Tardik’s new girlfriend told a joke on a podcast about. I was thinking of sending Caitlyn a picture of me sucking Jason’s dick.
You think Caitlyn would have handled that well? That’s what I’m saying. Even if Kat said, Oh, I was just joking. I was just playing, I was just making a joke. Because she was his ex, and That’s what Caitlyn is basically saying here. I made a, I made a bad joke. She even said that in that Facebook post that I read you.
She’s admitting I made a bad joke. And some people are taking it to the level of, Oh my God, I hate her. I can’t stand her. And it’s like, look, I, did I like the joke? No. Did I think it made her make her look bad? Yes. Did I think it made her look petty? Yes. Did I think it make her look mean girl? Yes. But it doesn’t mean I’m never going to compliment Caitlin for something she does in the future.
And it doesn’t mean I would never talk to her again. I mean, that’s, that’s where people get carried away in bachelor nation is their reactions to something like this. This, she didn’t do something illegal. She didn’t break the law. She said something dumb on a podcast. She shouldn’t have said, doesn’t mean I’m going to cancel her.
I know other people will, but I’m not, it’s just for this particular incident. And yes, this has been the first, this isn’t the first and it won’t be the last. She admits I don’t have a filter and sometimes she puts her foot in her mouth. And she did on this case in this instance, she did it again, but I think that.
It was, and I think the worst part was it wasn’t in response to anything. She didn’t need to tell this story and sitting here looking at it. It’s just like, yeah, man, it’s just, it doesn’t look good. It really doesn’t. So unfortunately she said it. She wrote that on her Facebook post. I don’t know if she’s going to address it on her Instagram.
I don’t know if she’s going to do a video. I don’t know if she’s going to take a picture of herself or do a video of herself or post anything about this, because she has said, like we talked about in the beginning, she has said, I’m not talking about my private life publicly. Well, to address this story, she almost has to talk about the fact that she’s dating Zach, who is Tasha’s ex boyfriend, and she almost has to use names and she didn’t in the podcast.
I don’t expect her to do it now. So, I don’t know. I don’t even know if she’ll address this. But, if anything, she wants to publicly say something, she should say, she should say what she wrote on her Facebook. If she’s gonna address it publicly, just whatever you wrote in your Facebook group, that I read to you, say it publicly.
Just say that. I made a bad joke at the expense of somebody who it was uncalled for, they didn’t deserve it. I mean, she’s now put it out there into the public. Her and I were never friends. Caitlin and Tayshia were never friends. I’ve heard that for, I’ve heard that for years, but I didn’t know the insides or, you know, the inside to it or why, you know, I don’t know why they weren’t friends.
Just because they hosted a show together didn’t mean they have to be friends. They were coworkers, but because they were two women for the first time hosting the Bachelorette franchise, people just thought they must be BFFs and they weren’t. They never were. So we can sit here and debate girl code. Did she break girl code or anything like that?
I think the last thing about that particular conversation on the podcast was Caitlin said she was basically contacting Taysha to give her a heads up. Again, it didn’t sound like much of a heads up because she said she wasn’t expecting Taysha to react that way, which means she went in with an agenda of, well, I’m going to do whatever I’m going to do.
I’m just giving Taysha a heads up. Well, then it seems like things are kind of backwards. Because you weren’t giving her a heads up, you were telling her what you were doing. You weren’t asking for her reaction. And she was almost answering for how Tayshia She thought Tayshia should have responded when she said, I didn’t expect her to react that way.
Well, why not? Just because Tayshia’s in a new relationship You know, we, we have no idea when everything started with Zach, when everything started with Caitlin and Zach and, you know, the timelines of all that stuff. I’m not going to sit here and debate it because I have no idea what the true answer is.
I’m just looking at facts here. But if I’m Tayshia, who had to sit on a couch and have Caitlin hold her hand during a Men Tell All episode and announce publicly that her and Zach had broken up, And Caitlyn has been on podcasts after that, closer to when that happened, saying that she felt that Tayshia was very strong for that.
She felt awful for Tayshia having to go on stage. And Tayshia sat on that stage and told everybody that she was broken. She had to break up with Zach and they were no longer together and she was hurting. And Caitlyn was the cohost of that and held her hand during all that. And then find out whatever it was a year later, two years later that Caitlyn was dating Zach.
If you’re Tayshia, you have to think in your head, Hey, when I was telling you all this about my relationship with Zach. Were you listening? Did you have eyes for him then? Did you have it in your head? You know, it’s just, and I’m not saying, I’m not accusing anybody of anything cause I don’t know the timeline, but I’m just saying if I’m Tayshia, I look at it as like, how do I know that when I was going through this with Zach, Tayshia, you know, Caitlin was being honest with me.
Maybe she had a little flutter in her eye for him back then. That’s all I’m saying. I’m not against Caitlin dating Zach. They were both single people. They could date whoever they want. But you also have to know if you date the ex fiance of somebody in the franchise, yeah, it might not sit well with them.
And then to go online and go on a podcast and tell that story and say, God, when she got, when she got, when she said that to me and she said that, you know, you’re a bad person. You were what I always thought. I’m going to send her a picture of me sucking Zach’s dick. It’s like, okay, that wasn’t a great response.
Just not good. However, not choosing sides here. I’m not team Jason versus team Caitlin. All I’m saying is bad joke on a podcast. She never should have said it. I’m not canceling her. She’s not going to lose her podcast popularity because of this just means I think she just needs to be more careful. I understand she loves being the girl that doesn’t have a filter, but she has to understand sometimes that filter is going to draw a strong reaction out of the audience.
Should it involve death threats? No. Should it involve calling her names? No. If you don’t like how the way Caitlin conducts her business and with some of the things she says, and some of the things that are off the cuff and no filter, then I would suggest just don’t follow her, but don’t write her a message on her captions and don’t DM her.
That’s all. I’m not going to DM her. I’m not going to message her. I’m not going to send her an email. I’m not going to write anything on her page. I’m still going to follow her. It’s just whatever we move on. But Caitlin, just She wants to say something publicly. I would think she should just say what she wrote on that Facebook post.
That’s all.
