Caleb Reynolds: The Metrosexual Cowboy

[Kris117]

It's odd talking about the idea of him "growing up" in terms of his attitude towards color and sexuality, while in the same breath dealing with a guy who's clearly immature at the least (and possibly mentally ill at most) in terms of how he deals with women.

 

Baby steps, Kromm, baby steps. Why, by the time he's forty he may have graduated from Bunny Boiler to Obsessive!

[bbjunkee]

Caleb has some reality issues he wants to be famous and comes off as a hick and not bright or educated. Have to admit hes HOT and he uses that to no advantage. [snip]

Edited August 11, 2014 by Stinger97
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[PinkSprinkles]

With the way Caleb prowls around the house they really need to dub over the Pink Panther music for the feeders when he's on a mission. 

[Nashville]

With the way Caleb prowls around the house they really need to dub over the Pink Panther music for the feeders when he's on a mission.

Well, his detecting skills are about on a par with those of Inspector Clouseau. To use a line I'm sure Caleb will understand, even a blind hog will find an acorn every once in a while.

[Lady Calypso]

You know, Caleb has many faults, I can't deny that. His crazy stalker-ness with Amber is definitely horrible. But, he kind of is growing on me. He's entertaining, at the very least, with his sneaking around and random Donny guesses and this is the second time he's helped out someone who was sick without batting an eye. Better than Frankie, at least, who literally didn't care that Victoria was not feeling well. Also, Caleb does seem naturally stupid but he doesn't even realize it, which is hilarious. Sadly, now that Zach's gone, Caleb is our only hope left for a semi-entertaining season! C'mon Caleb, don't disappoint us! 

Edited August 28, 2014 by jessied112

[Nashville]

To me, Caleb is the GM of this season:

1. Right off the bat, he does something foolish.

2. He then spends a huge chunk of time trying to build back some credit in the bank.

3. And JUST when you start thinking, "Well, maybe he isn't THAT bad....", he finds yet another way to augur it in, in some suitably spectacular fashion.

Swap a hat for some bunny slippers, and they could be siblings.

[Cosmocrush]

I have been so fascinated by the disaster that is Caleb that I'm starting to fear that I might be becoming obsessed with him myself.  I saw someone tweeted this video of him singing a cover of a Brad Paisley song, and what absolutely kills me, and by kills me I mean delights me and makes me giggle SO HARD, is that he admits he doesn't know how to play the song on the GEETAR, but he holds on to it and stares at it anyway, while he sings.  Maybe I am just getting loopy because it's late and I am waiting for BBAD to start, but I cannot stop laughing at him using the guitar as a prop, and occasionally tapping on it.  On top of all the other incredible things that he thinks he is, he also fancies himself a musician, and not just a guy who can sort of carry a tune okay like half of the population.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRJmEKQkbkA&feature=youtu.be

Caleb tells alot of tall tales for sure but it seems he actually did get pretty far in the Nashville auditions for The Voice.    Here is an interview with a local radio show - who seems to actually know him and his family.    Oh, and he mentions his brother works for Continental Mills (the company that makes the Red Lobster biscuit mix, lol) 

 

http://www.wkdzradio.com/Cadiz-Resident--Caleb-Reynolds--Tries-Out-For-The-VOICE/15349759?pid=381053

[dolphincorn]

I wrote a long post claiming that Caleb is suffering from arrested development emotionally and I still believe that.  I also still believe that he's ultimately a nice guy.  I'm rooting for him now, though, and that wasn't the case a month ago.  He's the only reason I'm still into the show.  Guys like him make reality TV worth watching.

Edited September 3, 2014 by dolphincorn

[Wings]

I am warming to Caleb, too.  He is tough to figure out and I like that.  

[JerseyGirl]

Caleb's instagram/twitter is

 

instagram.com/insane_physique

 

twitter.com/BBTEAMCALEB 

[ShaNaeNae]

That Twitter (above) is probably just a family member doing a fan page.  It's not his personal Twitter because a) he's been in the house and b) it's labeled Beast Mode and he started that name about half way through.

 

Anyway, I found a list of every "story" Caleb has told, courtesy of a poster on Reddit:

List of Caleb's "Achievements":
•Won a state-wide poetry contest by writing a poem about the Holocaust. He got to read it in front of a senator.
•Has been offered roles in pornography, and has turned it down.
•Has been offered a job as a Chippendale's dancer, but turned it down.
•He was almost a finalist on NBC's The Voice.
•He did 3 or 4 (it varies on who he's telling) years of active combat duty.
•At community college, he studied "law" but decided to switch to "medicine".
•He crashed a party with his friend, and were allowed to stay because they were mistaken for male strippers.
•He's a professional dog groomer.
•He's a personal trainer with dozens of under-the-table clients.
•He's a dietician and a nutritionist.
•He's a fully trained scuba diver.
•He speaks Spanish fluently.
•He was the only white guy on his high school basketball team.
•He lived in the largest house in his county, which included 9 bedrooms, multiple horse stables and movie theaters.
•His family was so poor after his parent's divorced, he had to sing and play guitar on the street corner to collect change for food.
•Posed for Sports Illustrated, with nothing but a fireman's helmet covering his "junk".
•Dances the salsa so hot that "you'll have to call the fire department".
•Killed a pig by hitting it repeatedly with a stick, and posted the video to YouTube.
•Posed for Wilhelmina Models.
•DIDN'T pose for Wilhelmina Models, because he'd rather go into acting.
•His dad was in Special Forces in the army.
•Rescued baby squirrels "from their nest", but later killed a "garbage bag filled with squirrels" all at once.
•Record holding football player at his high school, getting five interception in one game.
•Former professional bodybuilder who had 225 pounds of bulk.
•He's a professional juggler.
•He's a skilled gymnast who can do a one handed cartwheel.
•All of his jeans cost $200 per pair.
•He and his group of friends are so scary, they clear out a bar when they enter.
•He dated a "billboard model".
•He's never been arrested, because he's always outran the cops.
•He's never been bitten by a mosquito.
•He's a professional horse whisperer.
•He was a paramedic.
•He was a medic in the army.
•He made the finals for casting for both Survivor and The Amazing Race.
•He was supposed to record a country album but "decided not to".
•He can drink 30 Bud Lights without getting drunk.
•He "popped a wheelie" on a motorcycle going faster than 100mph.
•His brother is YouTube famous for delivering inspirational sermons.
•He broke both his legs/ankles when he was 4 years old and the doctor's said he would be paralyzed for life, but a mysterious African man walked into the hospital without a visitor's pass while his parents were at McDonalds. The African man grabbed Caleb by the ankles and left without a word, completely healing Caleb.
•Works at Lowe's because he got "bored" being a personal trainer.
•His father had a construction company so large, he had 1000 employees and built 30 houses a day, made $50,000 an hour, and built a 20 acre home for himself.
•He has psychic precognition, that has allowed him to accurately predict which players would be participating in the Veto Competition before they were picked.
•Can complete the cinnamon challenge without flinching or wincing.
•Went to the mall with his mom, and got in a fight with a man because the man's "pants were sagging so low, it was indecent exposure".
•Creator of the "Not Of This World" clothing line.
•Fasted for 21 days eating only crackers and water.
•He's a professional hair stylist who knows all the necessary "formulas and volumes".
•Tore his hamstring, and couldn't walk for 5 months.
•He was a prison guard for 6 months and tazered an inmate who was incarcerated for "not paying his child support".
•He was a professional bull rider "in high school".
•He can roll a dollar bill so tightly, he can push it through a potato.
•Was offered a walk-on role in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie, where he would be paid more than $1,000,000 to say one line in a scene with Johnny Depp.
•His family was hired by the TruTV network for a hunting/bounty hunting-related reality show, but they dropped it. It was picked up by the Discovery Channel, who bought 5 seasons, but they also dropped it.
•"Almost" did The Bachelor.
•He has never died in a dream.
•He has never been punched in the face.
•He will always win a wrestling match if he listens to Eye of the Tiger beforehand.
•He's a great breakdancer.
•He's such a good snowboarder that he was already "grinding the rails" after his 4th day of snowboarding.
•He's never played soccer before, but knows he'd be good at it.
•He went to West Point Military Academy for 2 years, and then dropped out.

•Famous tattoo artist Oliver Peck is doing his next tattoo.
•Claims to have written a song actually written by a contestant on The Voice.
•The Indianapolis Colts were "looking at him" before he entered the house.
•"Almost went pro" at swing dancing and now gives lessons.

 

 

[AndreaK1041]

Plus the one we saw for the first time last night, that he could "write a best selling novel".  (Derrick: why don't you? Caleb: *shrug* "Dunno").  He also once said something about how it doesn't matter if he cuts his hands because it'll "heal in a minute".  

[methodwriter85]

I want GinaMarie and Caleb to star in a reality show together where they try out different jobs throughout the country. With special guest appearances by Tonya Harding, who serves as their boss when they work at her landscape company.

Edited September 19, 2014 by methodwriter85

[Nashville]

I want GinaMarie and Caleb to star in a reality show together where they try out different jobs throughout the country. With special guest appearances by Tonya Harding, who serves as their boss when they work at her landscape company.

 

Which one gets to be Paris?  I see GM as more Nicole (Richie, not Franzel).

[methodwriter85]

I think we'd have to add in Frankie for Paris, but I really don't want to.

 

I'm torn. Part of me wants Caleb to go home, go into intensive therapy, and become a better person because I think there's a good person buried there, like GinaMarie. But I really, really like Crazy Creative History Caleb, so long as he doesn't turn into Stalker Caleb.

[Nashville]

He also once said something about how it doesn't matter if he cuts his hands because it'll "heal in a minute".

Actually, that's not as much of a stretch as you might initially think. Much of the north-middle TN/western KY area was originally settled by Scotch-Irish immigrants in the mid-to-late 1700s. If this is were Caleb's stock comes from... well, it's not really "healing" per se, but one hereditary trait of this group is really fast blood clotting. As in about any kind of minor cut or puncture will clot up and stop bleeding in quite literally a minute, maybe two.

I only mention this because I come from the same stock. :) Extremely thick blood is a hereditary trait of this group. I've driven nurses nuts on occasion because of it; had a nurse once who had to stick me 15 times before she could get enough of a pipet for a blood test, because I kept clotting up before she could get a blood drop out for the pipet. It's a great survival trait when you're young and slicing / scratching yourself up on a regular basis. The trade off, though, is WAY high blood pressure; males with this tend to heart attack or stroke out early. My grandfather was the first male in the family's recorded history to make it to age 65. :)

I mention this solely because - like, I suspect, many of Caleb's stories - in this pearl of a tall tale, there may be a tiny sand-grain of truth at its core. :)

Edited October 7, 2014 by Nashville

[Wings]

Whoa!  Very interesting, Nashville.