ReeseDixon

Is the podcast now going to be the sole coverage of the Bachelorette? No crazy faces? No text watch/skip? I can't listen as easily as I can read and I want to have my cake and eat it too.

I'm surprised by the take on Vanck because I have hated him from the very first second when he said that if he got to pick a partner he was going to pick a pretty girl. I don't remember the exact words he used to justify this, but it was basically so that he could have someTHING pretty to look at while HE ran the race. And then he proceeded to belittle and ignore Ashton's suggestions throughout the race. I thought he was so blatantly sexist that people would pull out torches and pitchforks for him! Ashton's not a real prize either, I think, with her grudge holding and ridiculous standards of what constitutes fair play. She was so bent out of shape that Redmond and Matt didn't WAIT FOR HER AND FLIP A COIN FOR FIRST, which is the most ludicrous thing I ever heard. The person that gets there first is first. Why would you introduce a coin flip and then gripe about them being so unethical for not obeying your rule?

I totally see how you intended the Phil collins thing, but you might want to listen back to how it actually came out. The words you used in the off the cuff description gave a different impression. How has punching down lost all meaning when you are laughing at a double amputee as a croquet hoop and not the rich assholes or terrible writers who would put him in that position? The joke was literally that he was a "stump of a man." Please take this as someone who actually *does* have a sense of humor and *is* extending you the benefit of the doubt, I'm not trying to get aggressive or shaming, I'm just trying to say, "Hey, maybe this joke didn't land the way you meant. And the risk/reward for disability jokes are pretty high, so it would bum people out less if you gave this kind of thing a little more thought."

You guys. I love you all and have since the way back of the TWOP days, so I know you're good funny people who punch up. So I can only ask: "Dave, are you OK? What's going on?" It's not like any of you to make a joke at the expense of an oppressed group and yet in back to back mini's Dave called a double amputee "a stump of a man" and then said about Phil Collins believing in past lives, "he struggles with depression so you never know what's up with him." while the rest of the room laughed in support. I'm sure you meant to make fun of the respective targets - Bates and Phil Collins - but by invoking disabilities to do it you are punching straight down and I know you know better. Depression does not make your testimony suspect. And having lost two legs, especially since that happens so often to veterans in war, does not render you so invaluable or emasculated that you are a stump or, I mean, come on, a croquet hoop? We've got a president leading the way on this kind of mockery, please don't break my heart by following suit.

Britt is the worst. She kept pressing for specific examples, talked over Carly giving them, and then when Carly was actually able to make a list just hung her head back exasperated and said, "So many stories about me!" It's hard work keeping track of all the stories, isn't it Britt! <br /><br />I think she's one of those girls who has little sense of self and conforms to whoever she's dating. It's ridiculous that a non-showering Venice beach hanging free hug giving hippie would want to be an Iowa farmer's wife. It's obvious to everyone but her.

I love that Nia can stand there and call Nany a dirty whore when she's the one who drank a cup of human sweat for $70.