tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31208924592672082852024-03-19T01:48:29.015-07:0015 Minutes, Gosselin StyleA blog chronicling every move Jon, Kate, and TLC make post-divorce on their quest to further their fame and fortune off the backs of eight children. If you want to hold their feet to the fire too, come and join the conversation.
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You heard it here first, before any other Gosselin blog.Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.comBlogger1117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-3252158453523124132023-07-29T11:09:00.002-07:002023-07-29T11:09:12.378-07:00JON & KATE PLUS 8: FAMILY CIRCUS on Vice TV<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: right; color: #777777; float: right; font-family: HelveticaNeueArabic, NeueHelveticaW01, Helvetica, HelveticaWorld, Arial, TazuganeGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); clear: right; color: #777777; float: right; font-family: HelveticaNeueArabic, NeueHelveticaW01, Helvetica, HelveticaWorld, Arial, TazuganeGothic, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img class=" " height="179" priority="5" src="https://video-images.vice.com/videos/64836ad4ecec907cff1aa10b/lede/1689713643114-dsot00sjonkateplus8107.jpeg?crop=1xw%3A1xh%3Bcenter%2Ccenter&resize=650%3A*&output-quality=50" width="320" /></span>The Gosselin’s marriage dissolves on TV. When the couple weaponize their fame in a messy divorce, they fracture the image of the perfect American family. <a href="https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/video/jon-and-kate-plus-8-family-circus/64836ad4ecec907cff1aa10b" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Watch the full episode here on Vice. </a></span></p>Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com199tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-28672389607792153302022-09-14T12:17:00.015-07:002023-07-29T11:10:22.196-07:00Kate Gosselin cast in survival skills reality show 'Special Forces: The Ultimate Test' on FOX<div class="separator"><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Kate Gosselin Blasts 'Celebrity Apprentice' Firing: 'It Should Have Been Kenya'" class="n3VNCb KAlRDb" data-noaft="1" height="183" jsaction="load:XAeZkd;" jsname="HiaYvf" src="https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/The-Celebrity-Apprentice.jpg" style="height: 270.3333333333333px; margin: 0px; width: 400px;" width="270" /></p></div><p></p><div>With a slated air date January 2023, Kate will be reunited with one of our favorite Kate haters from <i>Celebrity Apprentice, </i>Kenya.</div><p></p><p><a href="goog_1713324893"><br /></a></p><p><a href="https://people.com/tv/special-forces-reality-series-tests-survival-skills-of-jamie-lynn-spears-kate-gosselin-more-celebrities/?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_content=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=6318cb414a6cc40001b7cadf">https://people.com/tv/special-forces-reality-series-tests-survival-skills-of-jamie-lynn-spears-kate-gosselin-more-celebrities/?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&utm_content=new&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=6318cb414a6cc40001b7cadf</a></p><p><br /></p>Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com512tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-75985723679757384142021-12-09T14:59:00.002-08:002022-09-14T12:22:56.652-07:00GUILTY: Josh Duggar convicted, could face 20 years in upcoming sentencing hearing<p> It was a good day for justice.</p><p>People has a pretty thorough article on how it happened.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4Y9GxPCKyzsHAgmpwl-lbVgIXvy2N9HxQXFr0BhwkA4b519eQ6cvvpfz3s0ZWcw-ggdOU_tmq3rbzPFh5pndAYF5U9uRMtMKob65sOhipaKHZnQA1xkL1hZyRfQiW1PlbjyRSV1qSsMa3yazuBLKRb0HdamFDh8ZJspDv4svcc2zsyz22QvB3TeQBYg=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="1500" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4Y9GxPCKyzsHAgmpwl-lbVgIXvy2N9HxQXFr0BhwkA4b519eQ6cvvpfz3s0ZWcw-ggdOU_tmq3rbzPFh5pndAYF5U9uRMtMKob65sOhipaKHZnQA1xkL1hZyRfQiW1PlbjyRSV1qSsMa3yazuBLKRb0HdamFDh8ZJspDv4svcc2zsyz22QvB3TeQBYg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><a href="https://people.com/tv/what-it-was-like-in-court-when-josh-duggar-verdict-was-read/">https://people.com/tv/what-it-was-like-in-court-when-josh-duggar-verdict-was-read/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com326tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-58843198229271983392021-04-30T10:52:00.005-07:002021-12-09T15:01:45.825-08:00Josh Duggar arrested for child pornography, could face up to 20 years in prison<p><span style="font-size: large;">An over two-year investigation finally led to Duggar's arrest by Homeland Security yesterday.</span></p><p><br /></p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">A Springdale man was arrested yesterday for receiving and possessing material depicting the sexual abuse of children.</p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">According to court documents, Joshua James Duggar, 33, allegedly used the internet to download child sexual abuse material. Duggar allegedly possessed this material, some of which depicts the sexual abuse of children under the age of 12, in May 2019.</p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Duggar is charged by indictment with receiving and possessing child pornography. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years of imprisonment and fines up to $250,000.00 on each count.. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.</p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">This case is being prosecuted as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.justice.gov/psc&source=gmail&ust=1619886781756000&usg=AFQjCNGiO5LEDVRR0EyB02AgvI8CAHgyCw" href="http://www.justice.gov/psc" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #336699; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">www.justice.gov/psc</a>.</p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Acting U.S. Attorney David Clay Fowlkes of the Western District of Arkansas; and Acting Special Agent in Charge Jack Staton of Homeland Security Investigations New Orleans made the announcement.</p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">This case is being investigated by Homeland Security Investigations Fayetteville and the Northwest Arkansas Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force.</p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Carly Marshall and Dustin Roberts, and Trial Attorney William G. Clayman of the Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.</p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Local news is usually the best source: <a href="https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2021/04/30/josh-duggar-arraigned-charges-still-not-known">https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2021/04/30/josh-duggar-arraigned-charges-still-not-known</a></p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Reddit has a great thread on it, more snark than substance but still excellent: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/FundieSnarkUncensored/comments/n1dn8p/josh_duggar_arrested_megathread/">https://www.reddit.com/r/FundieSnarkUncensored/comments/n1dn8p/josh_duggar_arrested_megathread/</a></p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: #fbfaf8; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.75; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></p>Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com527tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-36265246135543557672021-01-13T18:57:00.004-08:002021-04-30T10:53:20.189-07:00Jon recovering from COVID that put him in the hospital <p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy1RKPRlg-q0HBDnEumUZs7ksYHUNeEUFKeKUMZeXJzqfACTYWFLrTlI5ZqiJBrfr4MuijNfZCjBsf5yQYh8dJJcFXkv7SI6e06bjJojyJW_Rf0DxpNk7TLwyC8LxqgbxLK5orb-Cmpp0F/s1867/Jon-Gosselin-Hospitalized-With-COVID-19-Amid-Pandemic.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1867" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy1RKPRlg-q0HBDnEumUZs7ksYHUNeEUFKeKUMZeXJzqfACTYWFLrTlI5ZqiJBrfr4MuijNfZCjBsf5yQYh8dJJcFXkv7SI6e06bjJojyJW_Rf0DxpNk7TLwyC8LxqgbxLK5orb-Cmpp0F/s320/Jon-Gosselin-Hospitalized-With-COVID-19-Amid-Pandemic.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table>Jon revealed today he is recovering from a bad case of COVID which put him in the hospital. Jon almost had to be put on a ventilator, and says he was out of it for a solid three days.<p></p><p>Jon and his girlfriend have both been working in health care during the panemic, Jon in IT and Colleen as a nurse practitioner.</p><p>We wish you a speedy recovery, Jon, and thank you for all the work you have done for others during this pandemic. </p><p>Jon will be on Dr. Oz to discuss his experience January 14.</p><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="goog_267431641"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://people.com/tv/jon-gosselin-reveals-he-was-hospitalized-covid-19/">https://people.com/tv/jon-gosselin-reveals-he-was-hospitalized-covid-19/</a></div><p><a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/jon-gosselin-i-was-hospitalized-with-covid-19-amid-pandemic/">https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/jon-gosselin-i-was-hospitalized-with-covid-19-amid-pandemic/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.etonline.com/jon-gosselin-is-now-working-at-a-healthcare-facility-amid-covid-19-pandemic-exclusive-146795">https://www.etonline.com/jon-gosselin-is-now-working-at-a-healthcare-facility-amid-covid-19-pandemic-exclusive-146795</a></p><p><br /></p>Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com340tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-47058783711270845722020-10-16T13:03:00.003-07:002021-01-13T18:58:24.818-08:00Kate puts her million-dollar house on the market in the coming days<p><span style="font-size: large;">Jon and Kate bought the property in 2008 for $1.2 million amid much criticism for buying an overpriced property they likely couldn't afford long-term. Kate is trying to sell it for the same price, $1.2</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUN3t6Ap4RQhfBFAhi6lYHJU_D2w4BbsfnkXfq_EYKPjg7T049UN5k1SaeIJsAfhKAm-Tc8aRMDvcGbX7hHHYzB8dcMbLRN8n2Rj7gqTrFIOcM7Par8gRVT0tC2xrYjOrf7l5_BW6Xv4II/s794/house1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUN3t6Ap4RQhfBFAhi6lYHJU_D2w4BbsfnkXfq_EYKPjg7T049UN5k1SaeIJsAfhKAm-Tc8aRMDvcGbX7hHHYzB8dcMbLRN8n2Rj7gqTrFIOcM7Par8gRVT0tC2xrYjOrf7l5_BW6Xv4II/s320/house1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcB-647H8b2E8OMHoHOCuHrM_m8GuRzwGj7lk4idMczK-mpzzXTNEZm7tcR-PcsUdCuJnOfvjfLRQd03Hc19JZ_3HAsbQGSlzfHoQxJbl3Gv8kwN47RE0pxNIQ-nLHfBHh1pOfhNBl5j4F/s750/house2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="562" height="451" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcB-647H8b2E8OMHoHOCuHrM_m8GuRzwGj7lk4idMczK-mpzzXTNEZm7tcR-PcsUdCuJnOfvjfLRQd03Hc19JZ_3HAsbQGSlzfHoQxJbl3Gv8kwN47RE0pxNIQ-nLHfBHh1pOfhNBl5j4F/w338-h451/house2.png" width="338" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy24YvoJh6kWKZz2OU6chOv4rPunr9TQnOfK7uTU1Axqi_UKC5-9QapYirIs0W-lzp_krr1ajh3yLnZFdeXQ_-9wBqf5aus7DvSzranKn3XMgWaE4-q6SSOFveQSsdzOR0_h3QWO-26Ryr/s730/house3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="551" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy24YvoJh6kWKZz2OU6chOv4rPunr9TQnOfK7uTU1Axqi_UKC5-9QapYirIs0W-lzp_krr1ajh3yLnZFdeXQ_-9wBqf5aus7DvSzranKn3XMgWaE4-q6SSOFveQSsdzOR0_h3QWO-26Ryr/w318-h420/house3.png" width="318" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>10/20/2020 298 Heffner Rd, Wernersville, PA 19565 - MLS PABK365360 - Coldwell Banker</p><p></p><p>https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/pa/wernersville/298-heffner-rd/pid_38550255/ 4/7</p><p>Interior</p><p>Number of Rooms:</p><p>14</p><p>Interior Features:</p><p>Breakfast Area, Built-Ins, Ceiling Fan(s), CentralVacuum, Crown Moldings, Dining Area, Entry Level Bedroom, FamilyRoom Off Kitchen, Floor Plan - Open, Formal/Separate Dining Room,Kitchen - Gourmet, Kitchen - Island, Kitchen - Table Space, Pantry,Recessed Lighting, Skylight(s), Soaking Tub, Walk-in Closet(s),Upgraded Countertops</p><p>Fireplace:</p><p>Yes</p><p>Number of Fireplaces:</p><p>3</p><p>Fireplace(s):</p><p>Brick, Gas/Propane, Mantel(s), Wood, Brick,Gas/Propane, Mantel(s), Wood</p><p>Appliances:</p><p>Commercial Range, Built-In Range, Built-In Microwave,Dishwasher, Exhaust Fan, Oven - Self Cleaning, Oven - Double, Oven- Wall, Range Hood, Stainless Steel Appliances, Washer, Dryer</p><p>Flooring:</p><p>Hardwood, Carpet, Ceramic Tile</p><p>Rooms</p><p></p><p>Total Bathrooms:</p><p>7</p><p>Full Bathrooms:</p><p>5</p><p>Half Bathrooms:</p><p>2</p><p>Upper Floor Baths:</p><p>3</p><p>Upper - Full Baths:</p><p>3</p><p>Main Floor Baths:</p><p>3</p><p>Utilities</p><p>Sewer:</p><p>On Site Septic</p><p>Water:</p><p>Well</p><p>Structural Information</p><p>Architectural Info:</p><p>Traditional</p><p>Architectural Style:</p><p>Traditional</p><p>Structure Type:</p><p>Detached</p><p>Construction:</p><p>Frame, Masonry</p><p>Basement:</p><p>Yes</p><p>Basement Desc.:</p><p>Full</p><p>Roof:</p><p>Shingle</p><p>Stories/Levels:</p><p>0</p><p>Stories Description:</p><p>Lower 1, Main, Upper 1</p><p>Square Feet:</p><p>7,591</p><p>Sq. Ft. Source:</p><p>Estimated</p><p>Living Area:</p><p>7,591 Sq. Ft.</p><p>Finished Above Grnd:</p><p>6,295 Sq. Ft.</p><p>Year Built:</p><p>1997</p><p>Year Built Source:</p><p>Assessor</p><p>Unit Information</p><p>Looking for privacy plus luxury and charm? You've found it! This charming 23 Acre privateEstate is loaded with Custom Amenities inside and out! This warm and gracious home isfabulous for entertaining. Unsurpassed quality, from the flagstone walkway leading to the front door, oak and cherry hardwood floors throughout, expansive gourmet chef's kitchen with largekitchen island and stainless appliances including three ovens, six burner gas stove top and twodishwashers, large formal dining room with gas fireplace, tray ceiling and crown molding andample built in storage and display cabinetry, breathtaking 850 square foot maintenance freeTimberTech composite deck with outdoor kitchen and inlaid slate tiles for fire pit and spiralstaircase overlooking the beautiful salt water pool and spa combination with twisty waterslide,the super-sized first floor master with huge tiled bath, four recently remodeled junior suites,with ensuite baths with pencil tile accents and granite floor tiles, family room with separateentrance and large built in entertainment storage center, lower level game and family roomthat opens to the covered patio and pool, with large custom shelved storage room, and lowerlevel man-cave nearby. Laundry room with built in organizational system includes two washersand two dryers. Six bedrooms in the main house, separate living quarters with private entranceover the three car detached garage. Large three stall horse barn with barnyard and 10 acrefenced paddock. 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As for Kate? Well, Jon is wondering as much as us why she doesn't using her nursing license, which is still current, to help. "There's people dying in need," Jon told The Sun.<br />
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As for their ongoing custody battle, he says the judge has now left it up to the children where they want to live, given their ages. Their next court date (like court dates for most of the country with pending court cases) has been set very far out.<br />
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<a href="https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/734984/jon-gosselin-kate-registered-nurse-slams-not-working-pandemic/">https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/734984/jon-gosselin-kate-registered-nurse-slams-not-working-pandemic/</a>Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com902tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-85580952697819547522020-02-03T04:26:00.000-08:002020-04-29T12:12:42.004-07:00Jon on "First Class Fatherhood" podcastJon's 20-minute episode on the podcast about fathers is set to air today. It can be found on a <a href="https://linktr.ee/alec_lace" target="_blank">variety of platforms</a>, but one of the easiest ways to find it is on Google:<br />
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More about the podcast:<i> </i><span style="color: #3c4043; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.19999994337558746px;">We are not Babysitters, we are fathers, and not just fathers, we are First Class Fathers! Welcome to First Class Fatherhood, a Podcast with a vision to change the narrative of Fatherhood and Family Life. I have interviewed over 250 high profile Dads such as NFL Legends (Deion Sanders, Kurt Warner, Tom Brady) Navy SEALs (Rob O’Neill, Marcus Luttrell) Entrepreneurs (Grant Cardone, Jordan Belfort) Actors (Dean Cain, Matt Roloff) Skateboarding Icon Tony Hawk and more. I’m a 39 year old father of 4 and married to a beautiful woman for 15 years. Everyday is Fathers Day on First Class Fatherhood!</span><span style="color: #3c4043; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.19999994337558746px;"> </span><br />
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<script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script>Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com807tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-25051180883185823242019-12-18T14:09:00.003-08:002020-02-03T12:16:44.145-08:00BREAKING NEWS: Kate found in contempt of court and fined for filming the childrenThe punishment was a $1500 fine. She also owes $25,000 in other attorney's fees to Jon (oh sweet irony). Kate must obtain Jon's consent for any future filming and provide a production schedule. The dispute stems from the "lost" <i><a href="http://www.realitytvkids.com/2019/11/recap-kate-plus-date-college-bound-lost.html" target="_blank">College Bound</a> </i>episode that aired last October. The deadline for the 25k is looming quickly, it is due Dec 31.<br />
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What could happen if she doesn't pay up or follow the orders in the future? Additional fines are on the table. A judge also has authority to put her in jail.<br />
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A big thank you to Daily Mail for discovering this story earlier this year and pursuing it to its conclusion.<br />
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<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7805741/Kate-Gosselin-contempt-filming-underage-kids-WITHOUT-work-permits.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7805741/Kate-Gosselin-contempt-filming-underage-kids-WITHOUT-work-permits.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i><i>"Based on the limited information available - and in large part because of Mother's and her counsel's repeated failure to provide further information to Father, the guardian ad litem, and the Court - the Court concluded that involvement of the children in filming is not in their best interests....<span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">Though several of the children indicate they enjoy filming, one does not and is experiencing physiological symptoms apparently brought on by the general stress of the custodial disputes, and another is in a facility undergoing treatment for mental and emotional issues tied in part to the filming and fame. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">It is reasonable to be concerned that one or more of the children who currently claim to enjoy filming may at some point suffer negative consequences they cannot foresee now as young teenagers. </span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">"As the guardian points out, even those children who do not participate in the filming may be negatively affected by the show continuing without them. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">Indeed, the statements of several of the children to the effect that they need filming to survive, that it is their normal way of life, and that it feels weird not to film, although apparently intended to make filming seem innocuous or positive, raise concerns in the Court's mind as to whether continued filming is healthy for these children. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">Having a staged second birthday is hardly the normal activity that would occur absent filming....</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">Taken altogether, the Court was faced with limited information, failures by Mother and her counsel to provide more information, real concerns about the mental and emotional effects of filming, and no way to determine whether those concerns are offset by the financial 'benefits of filming. The Court, therefore, concluded filming was not in the children's best interests.</span></span></i><br />
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In short order after that, the swiffering began. Like Area 51-level swiffering. The episode disappeared from a variety of its usual platforms, including TLCgo and various on demand services, even though all other episodes of Kate Plus 8 can easily be found. It was a true cover-up. And so hilarious, because once an episo<span style="font-family: inherit;">de airs, it<span style="font-family: inherit;"> exists forever. No amount of swiffering can undue the violation of court orders. And they couldn't keep it from me to recap. Thanks to our lovely poster here Ingrid who still had her itunes copy, I was easily able to view it and recap it and document its existence here for when the courts come knocking to throw everybody in jail for this. Much</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> like V<span style="font-family: inherit;">irginia and her Santa Claus, this episode exists! No <i>College Bound </i>episode?! Thank God! it lives, and it lives forever. A thousand years from now, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And so we begin! Coming up on </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Kate Plus Four</i><span style="font-family: inherit;">, a boring college tour, a boring summer vacation, and Kate plays victim about Collin and Hannah living with their dad and not her anymore, and burdens all the other children with this dysfunctional emotional </span>baggage best addressed with therapists and other mental health professionals and perhaps a lobotomist<span style="font-family: inherit;">. We're in for a narcissistic, parentified treat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We start off immediately in North Carolina to begin the college tour, and I'm grateful. Remember in the olden days we would have to watch them pack and scream at each other for the first ten minutes? I certainly complained about it enough. The little kids are "obviously" going with them on the college tour trip, Kate says. I don't find that obvious at all. It's obvious to me they <i>wouldn't </i>go. Why do they need to go again? Mady and Cara have always been resentful of the younger kids, and their sentiments are mostly unjustified. But I think it's nice to let a college bound kid enjoy this whole process, and that includes leaving younger siblings who don't want to be there anyway at home, if you can. Kids </span>occasionally<span style="font-family: inherit;"> need things just for them, and I'm not entirely convinced Kate has made as much of an effort as she should have to give each child in this family individual attention. It's things like this that only serve to deepen the twin's resentment, and I've thought for a long time that Kate creates divisions like this on purpose. Why? Because the more they all hate each other, the less likely they are to unite and gang up against their mother. The sextuplets will have their own college tours later where they will be the stars of the show, they aren't missing anything. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">They could stay home with family, friends, or Jon.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> On the several college tours I went to around the East Coast, I never once saw younger siblings there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course what probably truly happened was the Tups are only along for the filming and drama and Kate wouldn't really have taken them on such a trip under any other </span>scenario<span style="font-family: inherit;">. Prove me wrong, Kate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In typical lazy Kate fashion, she finally got around to organizing a few college tours after Mady and Cara complained that all their friends are touring schools. I'm not surprised their friends are visiting upwards of 20 colleges</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">. That private school is full of rich ambitious kids with rich </span>ambitious<span style="font-family: inherit;"> parents who can afford trips to visit and application fees to 20 colleges, and it's all hopelessly out of Kate's league and always has been. Like what is this family even doing at that school? Such a waste. <a href="https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2019/11/jon-gosselin-colin-wants-nothing-to-do-with-abusive-kate/" target="_blank">Per Jon, Collin is thriving at <i>public</i> school</a>. You're a fool, Kate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I like how the producers force Kate to address all the nonsense going on here </span>especially<span style="font-family: inherit;"> with Hannah and Collin missing. Kate practically chokes out, her eyes flickering with scorn, that Hannah chose to not go on the trip and stay back with her dad and she is supportive of this decision. There is so much contempt, </span>insincerity<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and scorn in her voice and in those narrow eyes I cannot imagine even the dumbest of kids would not pick up on that and feel terrible. Poor Hannah. Sorry, Hannah. Sorry your mother is such a supreme and selfish bitch.</span><br />
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I refuse to recap old clips, you all know this. Moving on.<br />
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All the kids young and old seem to agree the twins won't miss their siblings once they're in school. That's sad. I missed my family when I was at college and so did my friends. We all had photos of mom and dad and siblings in our dorms while still enjoying college life and not wallowing in it. They're not ten anymore and just the irritating kid brothers and sisters, and the twins are not 14 anymore but 18 and adults, and should start behaving with some respect towards others even siblings. Their contemptuous sibling relationships are a failure. On Kate's part.<br />
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Kate announces that the twins are underestimating how much they will miss the great Kate, their bless-ed mother and soulmate. Eh, I don't think so. If anything they're overestimating it.<br />
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When asked what's most exciting about all this Mady doesn't say I'm excited to meet all new friends, take challenging and interesting classes, obtain a valuable degree that will springboard me into a rewarding career. Nope, rather she says, she is excited about not living at home. Sad.<br />
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For some reason they don't show us the first big college they visit. What, UNC didn't want to be part of a reality show? Heh! We skip right to the shitty college we knew they had visited when it happened, Belmont Abbey. We knew this because there was a posting on twitter about it, and nobody here had heard of the place but when we looked it up we discovered, <a href="https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/north-carolina/belmont-abbey-college/admission/" target="_blank">yowser, what a shitty, shitty schoo</a>l. They might as well just say "We're a really good choice for a 'safety school'" in their college application materials. Thankfully neither twin ended up going there, but what a waste of everyone's time to bother. It also makes me think they only visited because somebody knew somebody and they could get clearance to film and it was something to move the plot along, which is pathetic. Indeed this tour seems super VIP. Private, lengthy, with gift bags at the end. That's not usually how tours work. On my college tours, which were all big groups, I remember feeling a bit like I was walking around campus with a used car salesman. They were all nice schools I visited (four, in total. Not 20), but something about trying to sell something always seems to ring too good to be true. I distinctly remember too on my Ithaca College tour, a great school in its own right with too many steps, an upperclassman walked casually by us on his way somewhere and loudly whispered "Don't go here!" Personally I thought that was hilarious. The parents, not so much. Anyway, not so VIP.<br />
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The twins have got to develop much better handshakes to be taken seriously. The limp little insecure thing they got going on is embarrassing. This is the sort of real world stuff a kid serious about making it in the working world needs to learn sooner rather than later, and things a real mother, and father, could help with.<br />
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Cara's tentative plan is to do a pre-med track, but she emphasizes this could change and this is just the plan for now. Generally people who give themselves a ton of outs are insecure and will take those outs sooner rather than later. She won't make it because, much like a law track, or engineering, or anything particularly rigorous, you're either all in with medicine or you'll fail. There is no "This is the plan for now." Mady doesn't know what she wants to do, which is code for she wants a degree in Olivia Jade.<br />
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An upperclassman gives them a boring tour of the campus, which looks like a really nice high school to me. Heh, even Kate remarks it's like an extension of high school. Ouch! Dude, I wrote that in this recap, but I'd never say that on national T.V. after the school so generously gave you a private tour, one-on-one attention from the staff and permitted you to film. Kate, you're an asshat.<br />
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I never understood what people mean by "professors have an open door policy." Like, everyone has meetings and commitments they have to attend and most professors have a home life they want to get back to at the end of the day, so your door isn't <i>always</i> going to be open. And what professor would say I don't see students and don't do office hours and won't help you? (Within reason). In sum, bragging about your open-door professors is dumb, that's like bragging that your professors are good at teaching. One would think that good teaching and open doors should come with the territory.<br />
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Mady would like to blend in and not have everyone in her business, thus would like a big school. Can I ask a question? Why on earth aren't they looking at Admin's alma mater, Penn State? It's far enough away to not run home every weekend, it has a rigorous and highly regarded academic program in a variety of majors, it gets confused for UPenn on a regular basis giving future employers for all time to come the impression you're an ivy leaguer (I still get this, score) and it's far cheaper than any of these hoity-toity stupid private schools. Also, ain't nobody ever in your business. Nobody will care who Mady is and most won't even know who she is in the first place, if that's what Mady is implying. Leave it to this group to not pursue something so obvious and well-suited.<br />
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Mady is predictably not impressed with the dorms, which look pretty typical to me. Mady announces she's not doing the roommate thing and will apply for a single room. Ooo, does the girl realize that single rooms are extraordinarily more expensive than doubling up, and there can be long waitlists for them? Also this is where a parent needs to step in and, absent a medical condition, insist their kid double up for all the life lessons having to share everything with a roommate provides an 18-year-old including an instant friend. Do singles when you're a junior and have already had the whole roommate experience and have your group of friends set and your parents or you can justify the extra expense if it's only for a year or two. Trust us older and wiser adults, Mady, it's not a good idea freshman year. Plus, unlike when we all went to school and they mostly matched you randomly, I've heard most colleges these days do extensive roommate surveys and personality tests and match you as if matching a marriage, trying to partner you with someone you're likely to be BFFs with. I would have loved that. I liked my freshman year roommate as a person and we never fought or anything, but we just never did anything together or became friends outside of living together because we had no common interests. It's hard when one person is a night owl and one an early bird and one a study rat and the other more into the social scene and one constantly homesick and the other loving the new freedom away from home. She was from Jersey, and only befriended other girls from Jersey, which came across as a bit stuck up. I think I would have loved to be matched with some great girls I met that year Anne and Lindsay from the start. We ended up rooming junior year with another girl we liked and had so much ridiculous fun and good times it seems impossible that was really my life. College was really good freshman year, but amazing the last two years, and I wish for four amazing years for Mady and Cara.<br />
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They head to driving school. In the middle of this college tour? That's hodgepodge. The twins are 18 and need a driving lesson? Shouldn't they have been driving for near three years now? Maybe not, and I'm fascinated by millennials when it comes to driving and how they drag their feet to learn and it's become almost uncool. When I was 15 it was the end of the world if your birthday fell on a weekday and nobody could take you to the DMV until the following Saturday to get your permit. It was like you would <i>never drive</i>, four days to wait! Some kids whined so hard about this parents would really pull them out of school just to get it done on their birthday. No such luck for me. I think this strange resistance to getting behind the wheel is a combination of kids being guilt-tripped into thinking any car they get into is killing the planet, and uber and other rideshares just being "in" right now. It was once cool for NYC kids to have others drive them, now it's cool for everyone. The twins explain however in their case it's because Kate won't teach them to drive, and they've only gotten behind the wheel twice. That is extremely selfish and misguided of Kate. Kate didn't teach them because the twins not having some independence benefits Kate, not the twins. Of course she has some other convoluted and not credible excuse why she never taught that that I don't care to follow. On the other hand, the twins could also take some initiative here and solicit friends and family to help them learn if Kate won't or sign up for driver's ed at school. I'm betting it was a combination of the two that resulted in this. In any case, it's no hyperbole to say Kate may very well have indirectly killed them with this little stunt of hers if God forbid they ever cause a car accident due to inexperience. Now that they are 18 and out of the home, they won't have nearly as much time to practice driving with an experience driver or the opportunity. There's nobody going to drive with you at college! They lost out on a crucial learning period. You need those hours behind the wheel to learn all the ropes, get comfortable, and encounter different and challenging driving situations. Practice and classes really do benefit kids' safety, as statistics show it dramatically reduces accident rates.<br />
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Kate launches into some weird diatribe about how she can't explain road signs to other people. So like if she sees a stop sign she couldn't explain to her passenger learning to drive that stop sign means stop? She's an idiot.<br />
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The twins say something extremely interesting, in that once a week Kate drives them to the grocery store, they get out, do the shopping, and return to the car. What does Kate do while she waits, play on her phone? Wtf! Mady justifies this as they need to learn the skill of shopping to live on their own. Um, shopping is a <i>skill? </i>That's a stretch. I never was made to do the shopping for my family (my parents were of the belief I should be studying and they should be raising the children) and I managed to pick it up on my first try away from home. Bread. Bread aisle. Milk. Milk aisle. Cookies. Bakery aisle. Coke and gum, check! Approach cash register and swipe card. Seriously? So Kate thinks they need life lessons in doing one of the simplest of adult chores, grocery shopping (by the time Mady and Cara have to grocery shop on a regular basis it will all be online anyway), but doesn't think they need to bother to learn one of the most complex and dangerous, driving? I could slap her silly.<br />
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The quadruplets would not dare to get into a car with the twins. Well right, why would they, with the twins only driving all of twice? They're smarter than you think.<br />
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Is this really a "driving school" or is this just somebody someone on the show knew to give them a few lessons? He looks super unofficial (he's wearing a zip-up sweatshirt) and the "school" looks more like a church parking lot on a Monday. No signs or other students around or anything. This viewer is skeptical. <br />
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Mady by the way is wearing a UNC sweatshirt. I bet this is the big school they visited earlier that wouldn't allow filming. Heh! Hint to parents. Don't buy school crap for the kid before they've signed on the dotted line. You're wasting your money, because they won't go there, and won't want to wear some other school's gear once they're at their real school. $59 bucks down the drain. This family has a weird obsession with North Carolina that I think has been unduly influenced by their ties to TLC in North Carolina. It's a nice place and all but it's awfully far from PA to be dating somebody from there or going to school there or considering buying a home there as Jon and Kate once were. Impractical is the word that comes to mind.<br />
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Mady is "over" learning how to drive, she just wants to drive. What? She has driven three times! Is she really as smart and academically successful as this episode keeps saying, good enough to apply to all these great schools? Typically smart and motivated kids don't throw in the towel after three lessons of something. Not even joking, that is a sure way to land yourself in a catastrophic car accident before you hit your 20's. I hope to God they and everyone else on the road around them stay safe.<br />
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Next up, Kate bribes the younger kids to film with Go Karts, which is usually an extremely expensive activity that most kids don't get to do much if at all. But for them, they've cleared out the place. I do like how the instructor keeps calling Kate "Katie," which tells me he has no idea who she is. Heh! Almost as good as if he were to snap his fingers and say remind me your name again, ma'am?<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0MBL-DyXaE" target="_blank">Mommy Dearest spends all of this entire exercise trying to beat her own children</a>, but thankfully, she sucks at this and can't do it. Why is she even on the track in the first place? Go away and let the kids enjoy this.<br />
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Kate says she thought Aaden was clueless (aw just like his dad) but then realized the boys are teaming up against her to stop her from passing. Why does she act so offended by this? She's the one being the asshat here, not them. Stay in your lane and leave them the F alone. Now something awesome happens. Kate, who was so focused on passing Aaden for some god damn reason, crashes <i>hard </i>into the wall trying to do it! Yes! And tweaks her back. KARMA.<br />
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They have to turn off all the cars to tend to the narcissist who caused all this in the first place. Sadly most of the kids are concerned and feel bad for Kate, because they are nice people, when Kate doesn't deserve their empathy for the accident she caused and would probably just make some snide comment at them if the same thing happened to them and not bother to stop racing to check on them.<br />
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Mady correctly says while she felt bad for TFW, "maybe she shouldn't be trying to beat her kids." There is something very profound and metaphoric about that statement. Kate is too old to beat the younger generation now but can't accept it. She is also an ass for wanting to beat them, but doesn't see it. And can't "control" them anymore by beating them, which was going to happen eventually, but she refuses to believe it. That little wall gave her the big giant slap she finally deserved and shut her down, at last.<br />
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My favorite part is the sextuplets on the couch laughing hysterically over all this, high-fiving each other about how they hurt Kate on purpose. I picture a similar scenario thirty years from now when they high five each other after dropping Kate off at the shittiest nursing home in town, declaring they picked that one on purpose. Carry on, kids.<br />
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Joel "wins" the go kart race and predictably, Leah says he must have cheated. Because Kate has taught the children that anyone who excels at something must have cheated somehow, disregarding that most people who excel at the things excel because they are focused, diligent, calm, and most importantly work hard. Qualities Kate has never had. Projection at its finest.<br />
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I thought Kate was just whining when she called herself broken and was hobbling around everywhere, but she stops by Urgent Care and actually has a cracked rib. Ha! The problem with constantly griping and exaggerating is that when it actually is serious, nobody believes you. She's lucky she got production to stop for this, since apparently Urgent Care didn't allow filming inside so there was nothing to do.<br />
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Because the expensive Go Karts weren't enough of a bribe to make up the college tour to the younger kids, they next head to the U.S. National Whitewater Center for more. It's pouring rain and cold, so a normal family would have cancelled or rescheduled this. But they're filming, so the show must go on.<br />
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They're going to do some kind of jump from a 100 foot tower, in a harness. I have no idea what this has to do with whitewater or for that matter what value this adds to one's life and well-being, but whatever.<br />
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I'm not sure why Kate is even acting like she's thinking about trying this, since no reputable organization would allow you to harness up with a cracked rib. Don't be stupid. We get to re-live Kate's pathetic jump/push off in New Zealand with the Patron Saint of Haters, Brad, and this is the one clip I'm happy to watch again.<br />
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Is this safe in the pouring rain? Doesn't seem like it. Leah and Aaden admit they're as afraid of heights as Kate. "Mother's gene," Aaden quips. I love how they all call her Mother, it's so disrespectful! And anyone who disrespects Kate is a friend of mine. Poor Aaden, let's hope that's the only gene you got from Mother.<br />
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Mady seems really scared to jump and would appreciate to just free fall backwards. The instructor explains he can't physically push her off, he can only talk her through it. Aw darn, the stupid US of A and all our no-touchy grabby liability policies (that have worked oh so well for us, or not). I like New Zealand, where Brad got to just push a bitch off a platform no questions asked. There's a whole lot of boring drama about all this, but when the first jump actually happens with Cara, I realize this is not a free fall at all but rather being lowered at a good clip by a wire. Well, that's lame. But lame as it is, none of the other kids will go, as they are too scared. And that's where a mother like Kate really does affect her kids, because she's imposed all her hang ups on them at their young ages when they should be carefree. It's not important they jump off a stupid ledge at a dumb park. But it is important they take risks in life, take initiative, and be brave. And she's shaken those values out of them with her own mental health issues. Good job.<br />
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While I appreciate that Kate doesn't give the kids who didn't jump a hard time about it, she is misguided in how proud she is of them to make their own choices about what they would like to do. She has absolutely no understanding of how 18 years of her parenting has messed them up. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Smarter-Faster-Better-Transformative-Productivity-ebook/dp/B00Z3FRYB0" target="_blank">There is a parenting theory that suggests that one should only praise kids for things that were hard or challenging for that kid</a>, even if the activity isn't challenging to another kid. That is because scientific studies actually show that children and even adults who are praised for things they are naturally good at don't try as hard. It wasn't hard to say no to jumping when you're scared. Nor is it wrong not to jump, but the one who did something hard and challenging and stepped out of their comfort zone was Cara.<br />
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They are suddenly walking out of the back of an absolute mansion right on a beautiful dock. Yowser, where did this come from and <i>are they staying here</i>? Good grief, what a VIP, unrealistic college trip. I was lucky to spend a couple nights in a Red Roof Inn on the side of the interstate when I had my great four-college tour. It was clean and provided a continental breakfast. Also, what happened to the whitewater place? Was that it? They just had Cara jump off the ledge and did nothing else there? Strange!<br />
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I think Kate shouts at Aaden no football, but I don't see Aaden or a football so I'm not sure what she's talking about. In any case, "Aaden, don't forget, no fun," quips Mady. They have Kate's number.<br />
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They ride a boat to lunch, and the kids whine that Kate is obsessed with boats. Of course she is, because boats have historically made her kids uncomfortable and made them vomit, so she likes them. She is sick like that, and someday the remaining six of them will see it.<br />
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Kate is still harping about her stupid Go Kart accident. "You tried to overtake me when you weren't ready and I was too good for you," Aaden explains to her, accurately. Exactly. This is Kate's fault for trying to do something she wasn't ready for and wasn't good enough to do. Aaden and Joel had every right to try to prevent her from passing. That's the game! I'm glad these kids don't take no shit from this woman, because they shouldn't. <br />
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Mady says all Kate has talked about is her ribs, and instead of laughing and taking the teasing in stride, Kate snaps back that they will have to do all her unpacking and chores. I half expect a kid to say that's what we always do anyway. Also, how come this family can't just joke and tease without it always taking such a sinister turn? Because Kate wasn't joking when she says they're coming home to be her personal slaves. Also, <a href="https://lifehacker.com/when-youre-sick-bravery-is-the-best-medicine-1821603691" target="_blank">people that constantly complain about minor injuries and ailments are weak and irritating</a>. I once broke up with somebody because they were like that. Seriously.<br />
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Mercifully, we flash forward about a year to one week before the twins depart to college. Glad we didn't have to sit through a whole year of this drivel.<br />
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Kate plans a special send-off dinner in which the family will eat crab legs at the dining room table. They have never eaten there, the kids explain, as it's the adults table. What adults? It's just Kate! I totally get that back in the day it was common to have certain areas of the house the kids just didn't use, often dining rooms and places like libraries and studies. All rooms that are fading from existence in most modern homes. But this is 2019, and I think we've evolved a bit as humans to realize that there is no point in spending all this money on a house if your family doesn't enjoy it. We had a kitchen table growing up and a dining room table because that's just how houses were, and I realize now how stupid that was, as we could have saved an inordinate amount of space by just using one table at all times.<br />
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Oh, Kate's absurd! She's making Leah shrink wrap the dining room table and chairs with industrial grade nursing home plastic. Good, the bitch should practice for when she's old and the kids hate her and she has to eat her dinner through a straw. Again, don't have anything in your house you don't really use or are afraid to mess up as that's not really living.<br />
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Also, just pointing out, this table and the chairs are garbage. Wayfair at best. <i>Maybe </i>Pottery Barn. If it were Restoration Hardware stuff or something, I sort of get trying so hard to keep them nice, but they're not, so Kate is merely a white trash poser pretending she knows how the rich really live. And for the record, I was a nanny for a family worth in the tens of millions, and we sat at their nice dining room table every night with just placemats. They still have that table to this day, and it's fine.<br />
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The younger kids think Kate's shrine to the twins over the mantle is creepy, like the twins are dead. Yep, it's definitely creepy. But kids, this is tough for Kate, because the four left of the younger kids are not nearly as loyal as Mady and Cara are, and are probably at high risk of defecting to Jon before high school is over. If Hannah can go, so can the rest. The twins are all Kate really has for sure, so I get it.<br />
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Leah gets in a stupid fight with Mother over icing a cake. I detest grown adults who pick stupid fights with their children, they are immature and selfish. I swear I heard Leah say, "Mother, oh God, Mother! Blood, blood!" No?<br />
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Question, does Kate ever talk to the twins about anything other than how much the family will miss them when they leave? Like what classes they are interested in taking, what clubs they think they might join, their ideas for how they will manage their time on their own? My God, all she yammers about is her own selfish wants and desires, it must be exhausting for any of these kids.</div>
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Kate says she will miss Cara's high-pitched screeching over how cute the dogs are. I can picture that, I've been told my voice enters a whole other octave when I speak to my dog <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sea.gordon/" target="_blank">Sea Gordon</a>. I mean, look at him, you would too!</div>
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Hey, where are the dogs anyway? Wouldn't it be nice at this last supper to see three big fluffy dogs sitting in front of the fireplace?</div>
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After dinner they dive into cake and get cards. Thankfully the twins express gratitude for all this and avoid most snide remarks, saying that the family made them feel special. Well, that's good. Special, peaceful moments like this in this family seem sadly quite rare from what we've seen. The sextuplets got them a gift card, which is about as impersonal as it gets. As was suggested on the blog, how about a nice framed photo of the quadruplets to put on their desk in the dorm room? </div>
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Kate robotically starts reading from her phone a speech she wrote, because someone who does not have a heart could never just speak from their heart. She reads it way too fast, like a junior in high school doing their first oral presentation in AP English class. Pathetic. Is this a eulogy or a college send-off? It's so weird! Of course Kate throws in a lightly veiled jab at Jon, choking up as she describes how difficult and painful childhood has been for the twins. I'm sure it is particularly painful to lose your entire relationship with your father when you're only 12 years old, and Kate is dreaming if she thinks the twins won't figure out how that happened sooner rather than later. Hannah and Collin did.</div>
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What's really sad about this is what could have been. If Kate would just co-parent with Jon, she could have said hey we're gonna have a send-off for the twins at the house, why don't you swing by with Hannah and Collin so we can all have dinner together? You don't have to do everything with your ex or even most things, but there's no reason you can't share an important meal like this occasionally for the sake of the kids not always have to be reminded how fractured the family is.<br />
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I finally notice the dogs, relegated to the kitchen behind a baby gate. That's stupid, they want to be with their family.<br />
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Kate then burdens the children with her emotional baggage and unresolved issues and says the reason she's been in denial about the twins leaving is because they keep having family members leave. Woman needs a dictionary because kicking your kid out of the home to go live with their father is not the same thing as "family members leaving." Kate then says, well, you're not leaving. As in leaving-leaving, she means. And Mady goes, "Well, I mean, I am leaving."<br />
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Baw! Sometimes, I really like the twins, faults and all.<br />
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On the couch, Kate talks about all the pain this has all caused her. Now imagine what it's like for a 13-year-old boy to have to live in an institution, you heifer. Or for a 14-year-old girl having to beg the judge to let her live with her father because it's hell at home. She really is <i>the </i>worst.<br />
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Also can Kate stop calling the children "family members who left"? They have names. Collin and Hannah. Use them, you bitch. I like how there's a glimpse of Aaden whispering to somebody and cracking up. Who knows what the kids are saying, but this is a joke to them, as it should be. The quadruplets say later on the couch all the crying was ridiculous. Yes it was.<br />
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"You're leaving for the right reasons," Kate praises the twins. Right, because children that prefer to live with their father have left for all the wrong reasons. Unbelievable. Is she for real?<br />
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And why in the world is she bringing up all this family drama crap when the twins are just trying to have a healthy transition to a very exciting time in their lives. What is wrong with her?<br />
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Glaringly missing from all this? So where the hell did the kids decide to go to college anyway? I'm not asking for specifics. Just, a college in upstate New York would be fine. But this is such weak editing, given the entire episode was about choosing colleges, they don't end up telling you what the result was at the end. We know from social media that Mady chose Syracuse and Cara chose Fordham, both in New York and both decently far away from Kate. Both good schools. I truly wish them the best and definitely wonder how some serious time away from Kate may spark some reflection.<br />
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Kate wraps up the episode with how great the twins are in various ways (they're not that great in reality), throwing in there how much she has Mother-ed them, and you can tell Kate is implying that how good they turned out (they aren't <i>that</i> good) is because of her Mother-ing. She's annoying at best.<br />
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Kate? The twins turned out just okay in spite of you, not because of you, and it was nearly pure chance they didn't go the way of Hannah and Collin too during all those years.<br />
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Who knows what the future holds for more episodes about this family, but I think in light of the fiasco in the courts over this episode, there's a good chance TLC has finally decided not to ever film them again. If they do, it's not going to be for a long time, like when everyone is no longer minors. This could be my last recap! Until next time, if there is a next time.</div>
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Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com169tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-29519895735725235312019-10-10T13:42:00.001-07:002019-11-08T16:34:47.972-08:00A judge ruled in 2018 that 'involvement of the children in filming is not in their best interests'<span style="font-size: large;">Jon says Kate and TLC violated Judge Rowley's order by allowing the children to be filmed for the <i>College Bound </i>episode last week. Documents from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry from June 2018 show they denied TLC's requested permits as a direct result of Judge Rowley's order. The children's guardian at litem also did not support filming and worried Kate may have squandered the children's money.</span><br />
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"Based on the limited information available - and in large part because of Mother's and her counsel's repeated failure to provide further information to Father, the guardian ad litem, and the Court - the Court concluded that involvement of the children in filming is not in their best interests....<span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">Though several of the children indicate they enjoy filming, one does not and is experiencing physiological symptoms apparently brought on by the general stress of the custodial disputes, and another is in a facility undergoing treatment for mental and emotional issues tied in part to the filming and fame. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">It is reasonable to be concerned that one or more of the children who currently claim to enjoy filming may at some point suffer negative consequences they cannot foresee now as young teenagers. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">"As the guardian points out, even those children who do not participate in the filming may be negatively affected by the show continuing without them. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">Indeed, the statements of several of the children to the effect that they need filming to survive, that it is their normal way of life, and that it feels weird not to film, although apparently intended to make filming seem innocuous or positive, raise concerns in the Court's mind as to whether continued filming is healthy for these children. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">Having a staged second birthday is hardly the normal activity that would occur absent filming....</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.16px;">Taken altogether, the Court was faced with limited information, failures by Mother and her counsel to provide more information, real concerns about the mental and emotional effects of filming, and no way to determine whether those concerns are offset by the financial 'benefits of filming. The Court, therefore, concluded filming was not in the children's best interests.</span></div>
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The <i>Kate Plus 8 </i>(um, six? Collin and Hannah are nowhere to be found in the episode) special 'College Bound' is set to air October 1 on TLC.</div>
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Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com206tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-32052714092922307972019-09-18T20:22:00.000-07:002019-09-25T11:46:27.589-07:00Collin's desperate pleas for help in 2017<span style="font-size: large;">DailyMail has published a photo of a letter Collin wrote to Jon begging Jon to rescue him from Fairmount, where he was institutionalized</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">John also told the </span>publication<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Hannah was mentally tortured by Kate, child protective services </span>received<span style="font-family: inherit;"> over 50 reports of abuse in Kate's</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> home they investigated, and that all of the children have poor social skills he attributes to the isolation of their childhoods. Collin and Hannah now live full time with Jon. <i><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7470303/Jon-Gosselin-says-Kate-mentally-tortured-son-Collin.html" target="_blank">Read more here.</a></i></span></div>
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This month marks ten years since the first full month this blog was in business. I started the blog to be a one-stop resource to chronicle the barrage of news coming out at the time about the Gosselin divorce, and to discuss the implications of that very public split on the children as well as the filming during that time. It grew into a daily gathering of ladies and even a few gentlemen who became a community, a household even, as we gathered around what came to be known as "the porch."<br />
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There have been some wild rides over that ten years. From <a href="http://www.realitytvkids.com/2010/04/watch-aunt-jodi-live-at-child-labor.html" target="_blank">Aunt Jodi testifying about child labor laws in the Pennsylvania House</a>, to my hilarious, and live-on-the-blog, encounter with Kate at her book signing in Santa Monica, where <a href="http://www.realitytvkids.com/2010/04/steve-pulls-admin-by-arm-away-from-kate.html" target="_blank">I damn near got assaulted by Steve the boobyguard</a>....to enough lawsuits to build a small town with. We watched a little boy banished to the lowest of lows, and watched Jon lose, then gain back two of his children, <a href="http://www.realitytvkids.com/2018/12/breaking-news-jon-awarded-custody-of.html" target="_blank">including that lost little boy</a>. There have been births, both human and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sea.gordon/" target="_blank">furry</a>, marriages, and at times, deaths. There have been people who suddenly departed we still worry about. There have been people who have been here since the beginning, and those that came later we welcomed.<br />
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Special thanks to the blog girls and pool boys. You know who you are, and how much time this blog takes up and the stress it sometimes causes. Your dedication has made it possible for me to have much more time for my own life, career and family, allowing me to feel fulfilled and flourishing both on the interwebs and in real life.<br />
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Now that the children are nearing adulthood and the opportunities to exploit them appear to be dwindling at last, you may be wondering where that leaves this blog. Well, we'll stay up and running as long as you want to hang out here. And if there ever comes a time that we feel it's best to lock up the screen doors and move on from our little porch, know how special this place has been to me over the past ten years, how grateful I am that you wanted to hang out here whether it was for a short time or a long time, and how appreciative I am of the incredible discussion, both intellectually stimulating and side-splitting, that has gone on here over the years.<br />
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1,123 posts. <i>roughly</i> 700,000 comments (a big guess based on average comments on each post--too many to count!), and hundreds of people who stopped by here over the years. Thank you to all!<br />
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Last time on Kate Plus 8, the twins were pretty head over heels for Joey Bats, which, ew! Coming up, Rachel's baaaack, and uh-oh, she and Adam are going to compare notes. Rachel's got that look on her face all like, notes? We were supposed to be taking notes? Let me guess, Rachel was that chick in law school who was always like, <i>hey, can I see your notes? I had to miss class today due to *insert lame reason*, can I copy your notes? Can I check my notes against yours?</i> How about not, law school chick? How about you take your notes and I'll take my notes and I'll see you at the final exam?<br />
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I think I've made it clear which of these two matchmakers are any good, didn't half-ass it and instead did their job. They both want to be on T.V., but Adam is the only one here actually trying to earn his spot on the tube. Naturally I'm disappointed that Rachel, a former lawyer, was so terrible. Oh, well.<br />
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Kate is soooo changed since she started the process, blah blah. The editors make a really hard cut to her rambling about meeting some really nice guys, which tells me she carried on for quite awhile about how changed she is and it was boring and pointless to anything so it got cut. She's nothing if not predictable, and her "after such-and-such experience I'm a whole new Kate" thing is a dumb talking point she's been trying to sell for years now, and poorly.<br />
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Adam is a pretty cool guy, happily inviting Rachel to sit down with him and talk about the process. He lays out what we already know, that Rachel started the process and then he took over.<br />
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"Bless you," Rachel quips. Baw! I just snorted my coke.<br />
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Rachel says Kate was difficult because she would really resist attempts to help her, but Rachel excuses this immature and unacceptable behavior as "so many times she's gotten hurt." Rachel, STFU!!!<br />
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So wait a second, Kate has spent all six of these episodes pretty much insisting that Jon and maybe a college boyfriend are her only two relationships in her lifetime. She practically denies even knowing Jeff Prescott. So we've got a grand total of two relationships that in actuality failed because of her, the last one of which was over a whopping ten years ago, and that's scarred her permanently from ever finding love again? This is really not the reason Kate resists relationships at all, but Rachel is either too dense or too polite to dive any deeper than this cliche.<br />
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Adam, who has a much better grasp of the situation here, says he has been trying to understand what is the problem here. Although unfortunately Adam disappoints me in not really getting to the real problem (she's mentally ill, a narcissist, Adam!) I think he's right in trying to get Kate to just put aside this "thing," which I think Adam has been persuaded relates to some divorce from ages ago (it's not), and just relax and flirt on dates. That's as good advice as any I guess.<br />
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Inexplicably, Mady says it actually doesn't matter if they like Kate's new man or not because she'll only be seeing him on Thanksgiving and Christmas anyway. Heh. That's what I've been saying all along here. What is the point of the twins all up in her business about who she dates when they're about to go off to college and see Kate as little as possible.<br />
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It's so terribly awkward to watch Rachel have to sit down with Kate and Adam and get filled in on how things went with Adam. Kate suddenly tries to claim she actually wanted two matchmakers all along because she wanted a male and female perspective. Eh, no, that's not how that went down, how it went down was Rachel was fired. She re-writes history when she doesn't even need to, it's fascinating. I mean we all saw Rachel get her ass fired two episodes ago so what is she trying to do here?<br />
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Mady and Cara after having been through what they've been through know how important this decision is, Kate explains. BITCH! Also, it's a <i>second date </i>for God sakes. You're not deciding who to spend the rest of your life with. It's who you will spend the next three hours with. Good grief, the dramatics. Even Adam and Rachel say they need to take the pressure off Kate to find a forever man and just have her focus on having a good date. They're absolutely right, Kate is acting like a 21 year old Mormon who feels like a spinster and must get married now -clap RIGHT NOW -clap clap-. She can't even get through one date without things falling apart, I have no idea why she's talking about forever right now as if she is in any way capable of getting someone to marry her in the mental state she's in right now.<br />
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There's so much to say about all of Kate's dumb comments throughout these episodes there's just not much room to recap much else but I should mention the amateur low budget production here. They do a cutsey montage of "NYC" with sped up shots of the subway and people walking. I guess this is to establish we are in NYC. It's so college level and looks like they pulled shots from somebody else's shoot for some other show at TLC and spliced them into theirs.<br />
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We have one of those incredibly long conversations about what everyone acts like is a <i>huge</i> coincidence that Mady and Cara picked the same top two guys as Kate. The twins only met three guys, so it's not a big shock that they might pick the same two Kate wants. There's only three to pick from in the first place! And I like the long drawn out reveal Kate does of her top two to Adam and Rachel, leading off with she picked one top from each of them. Since Joey Bats was the only guy of Adam's the twins' met, Adam surely must know immediately she picked Joey. But Kate is acting like this is a big reveal when Adam already knows by process of elimination. It would be more interesting to watch this woman narrow down her order at Starbucks. Let's see, flat white or iced coffee? Or maybe I'll get a croissant!<br />
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So her top two are, no big surprise, Tax Shelter Jeff and Joey Bats. As far as I'm concerned, Tax Shelter Jeff is the only guy in this entire pool worth going out with again. While I liked Refined Jeff, he was a little bit too cagey for my tastes, asked certain questions that in my experience are red flags, and I was getting a strong vibe this was a phone-it-in favor to a friend and not a sincere attempt to get to know someone. Tax shelter Jeff was sincerely giving this a real go with Kate, cameras and all. As for Joey Bats, he acts all of 22 years old and his lifestyle, running a restaurant and spending the rest of his time in bars, is in no way compatible with Kate's, spending 18 hours a day in front of the T.V. in rural Pennsylvania with her wine. Great guy, but not right for Kate. It's a waste of time to go out with him again.</div>
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Mercifully for us all, Adam and Rachel say they're just going to watch these dates and not intervene. Thank God, because if I have to again watch Rachel prematurely shut down a date in a crowded restaurant with lies about the place closing down for the night time to go, I'm going to lose it. They are taking off the training wheels, they say. Yeah I've heard that one before, from my dad, and I ended up with a bloody nose and two skinned knees.<br />
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Kate actually takes a moment to look them both in the eyes and say thank you "again." Again? I didn't hear a thank you the first time. I heard a whole bunch of entitlement and no gratitude at all. She practically left Rachel standing on a busy street corner by herself in NYC when she fired her ass. But good for her pausing to say thank you at last. People in general do not get enough thank you's for the hard work they do and a whole lot of people have worked hard on Kate's behalf over the years and never gotten one.<br />
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We launch right into her second date with Joey, who apparently decided not to shower or shave this morning. He's not one of those guys that looks rugged and handsome with a five-clock shadow. Rather he looks like a grad student who just pulled an all nighter.<br />
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Proving he's more hipster than I originally bargained for, Joey leads Kate through some really sketch basements and fire escapes to a "speakeasy". I would feel embarrassed to be over 40 and at a speakeasy. Actually over 30. I'm just being honest. I don't understand the point of speakeasies in the first place. They were very trendy in L.A. about five years back, and to me it was just another place with a bunch of people lined up who aren't being let in. That is a waste of time and humiliating. Plus hiding your business when you don't really have to almost feels disrespectful to history. During prohibition completely appropriate bars and restaurants had to go underground and blood was shed in various ways over something as stupid as being able to sell and consume a simple drink. I don't know, it's not funny to me, it was a dark time in our history, with some estimates <a href="https://www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/deaths-during-prohibition/" target="_blank">attributing 10,000 deaths to that one little decision about alcohol.</a> And if ever someone wants to know why one's heart and good intentions never should be the basis of political decisions rather than facts, figures, sociology, psychology, logic and reason, prohibition was it. It's not okay 10,000 people were killed just because your intentions were good, that your heart was in the right place, that you were trying to do "what's right" without thinking about the unintended consequences of what just felt so "right." People should read more history when they spout off what they think is so morally right these days and consider factoring in facts, figures, sociology, psychology, logic and reason because unintended consequences are a thing.<br />
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Joey is one of those people who really wants to be and gets a lot of joy from immersing himself in something eclectic like this with their low ceilings and bad chandeliers and dowdy furniture and wine in coffee cups, and then finds himself shocked and confused when other people are like, the hell? Kate can't get past drinking wine out of coffee cups or the smell. Ew, it does look like it smells. Rachel says the smell was like they just cleaned up a murder scene. Ugh, I've smelled exactly that in various places before and it's terribly unappetizing. Like if you have to bleach your establishment from top to bottom before bringing out some jello, what exactly are you trying to wash away?<br />
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Joey mentions seeing quite some rowdy bar fights in this place, and note to men, women don't care about all the bar fights you've seen. I hate sharing the same views as Kate, but she said when Joey mentioned those bar fights she paused. Yeah, I'm pausing too. I'm not being judgmental about the bar thing because whatever, as long as you're not an alcoholic I don't care if you want to hang out at the bar all night every night. In Ireland bars are like community centers and people do go every night and they drink and they eat and mostly they socialize and even bring their kids; many American bars are like this too. And it's fine. I just don't see a person like Joey Bats compatible with someone who is not as into the bar scene or not at all into it. When I was doing the dating thing I made a point to be upfront about how little desire I had to spend a moment of time in bars, even cool speakeasies, as I had quickly learned it's really important to some people and that it's really best to find somebody on the same page about the bar thing. This is a big reason Kate should not waste a moment more of Joey's time because unless Joey is feeling like he's at the end of feeling like he wants to be in a bar all the time, they simply aren't compatible. This one reason is enough, but of course there are other reasons she's not right for Joey/Joey's not right for her that are obvious, like he's fun and has a personality and she's a waste of space.<br />
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Joey admits he's pretty not-OCD, go with the flow wing it kind of guy and uh-oh, I fear Kate will think this nice, chill guy to be too much like another nice, chill guy she used to be married to and inexplicably discarded. And then Kate makes a comment that made the rounds on this blog as one of the most outrageous out of her mouth, in that she dealt with a man having no plans in life before and she's done with that. Gaaa, she's such an asshole! Hey, Kate, just because someone disagrees with your plan to exploit your children on T.V. forever and ever doesn't mean they have "no plan." Not the same thing. And what on earth gives her the idea that Joey Bats might not have a plan in life just because he's laid back? For f sake, you don't develop your own successful restaurant from scratch that has locations in two different states without a life plan. The truth is, incompatible as they are, that doesn't mean Joey isn't a great guy for somebody, a real catch who is successful, kind, funny and personable, and she should recognize Joey as a great guy for somebody and stop being so damn judgmental of him just because he's not right for <i>her.</i><br />
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This is one of the rare times I've ever heard Kate talk specifically about the children in a positive way. She mentions that Cara and Leah like to cook, and that Leah is really, really good and wants her own bakery. See, this is the shit she should put on instagram and tell her fans about. It's decently interesting and really not a violation of anyone's privacy. It shows the children are individuals, with interests, and interesting in their own right. She would find herself with far more likes, if that's what she's after. She wouldn't even have to pay for them.<br />
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Kate mentions baking her fuckety-billion sweet rolls as if Joey Bats cares at all about any of this and says something about she thought of Joey Bats. Adam and Rachel are deliriously happy over this revelation, like practically clapping like seals. Like, they're excited that Kate thought of another person? Truly, that is quite a milestone, folks, they're not wrong. Heh, Adam even says I've asked her if she's thought of any of her dates afterward and she's like ewww, nope! Lol.<br />
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And while we're on the subject of Kate being an asshole, would it kill her after two entire dates to ask Joey a little bit about himself and his restaurant? Like, what made you want to open a restaurant? How did you do it? What was the most difficult part? Tell me more about Portuguese cuisine and how proud you are to bring more of it to the U.S. What do you see for its future? I don't care if you don't want to sleep with the guy, but show him a little bit of appreciation for accomplishing something meaningful with his life. He actually deserves it.<br />
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Postmortem date, Rachel is thrilled that Kate had to sit close to Joey in the speakeasy and were "almost" touching. Sounds silly to be excited about <i>almost </i>touching, like Almanzo Wilder practically getting a hard on over driving Laura Ingalls to her teaching job every morning and almost touching. But this is Kate, and almost touching is more progress than recoiling in horror like she usually does.<br />
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Now they're going to sculpt blindfolded, which actually makes sense to me as you can really focus, but of course Kate has to make all her typical disgusted and appalled faces.<br />
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Adam and Rachel get all seal clap excited again when Joey Bats puts his arm around the back of Kate's chair. He hasn't even touched her for heaven sake, but I guess someone even coming into Kate's galaxy without getting a scoff is progress. It's like <i>Birdbox</i>, Joey says. Joey, it's not <i>Birdbox</i> because unfortunately when Kate cheats and peeks there are no monsters to make this show kill itself. Don't we wish this were <i>Birdbox</i>!<br />
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Somebody from production pours Joey Bats and Schmoopy here <i>huge</i> glasses of wine. I don't know why the editors felt it was so important we see that. They're zooming in on the wine glasses even. Get 'em good and drunk, it's better TV. Shortly thereafter Joey flat out says he kept requesting more and more wine to get Kate to loosen up. Well, that's one way to do it, but kind of an ick way.<br />
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I guess more wine makes Kate want to shove clay into Joey's face but that's about all it does.<br />
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Does anyone care what the twins think about the two of them touching? Didn't think so. Mady doesn't like touching other people or being touched by other people. Well, that might happen when your mother never holds and hugs you growing up.<br />
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They finally reveal the sculptures, and Kate's looks like the elephant man and Joey's looks like the Night King and Prince Charles got together. This is the only thing about the whole date that is mildly amusing to me.<br />
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The date finally ends and Joey sounds genuinely disappointed he couldn't really get intimate with Kate when they said goodbye, and Adam gives good advice that you shouldn't wait until the end of the date to suddenly make a move. It creates too much pressure and build up. And gets awkward, might I add. So this was part Joey's fault for really timing this all wrong and the rest is Kate's fault for being a stone cold block of ice toward a really nice guy who would just like to kiss her on the lips for all his trouble. Instead he has to settle for kissing both her cheeks like he's a <i>Real Housewife. </i>You know that stupid kissing they're always doing as if we live in Paris, when all they really want to do is slug the bitch in front of them for whatever latest interview they gave trashing them. Any advice or thoughts of any relevance from Rachel? Nope, didn't think so.<br />
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Kate, who is so clearly on the spectrum I would stake my life on it at this point, didn't notice Joey was going in for a kiss and didn't feel a single tad emotion resembling romantic feelings at all. Kate says she's "probably not opposed" to seeing Joey again. Probably not opposed?? Gentleman, and ladies, too, if anybody ever acts like they are probably not opposed to seeing you again, you need to put your foot down and YOU <i>not see them again.</i> You don't deserve somebody "not opposed." You deserve much, much better. You deserve somebody interested, excited, thrilled to get to know you, can't wait to find out what happens next. Forget Kate, she's a piece of trash.<br />
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I've always said Tax Shelter Jeff was too good for Kate but guess what Joey Bats, you've also joined the upper echelon here of TOO GOOD FOR KATE! Now move yourself along from this poor choice you made to get involved with a reality show and get somebody worthy of yourself, your talents, your kindness, and the way you've done something so meaningful with your life.<br />
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We launch immediately into Tax Shelter Jeff's date, in which he's invited Kate over to his nice condo for dinner in the most adorable little town in North Carolina called Davison. Geez, even this town is too good for Kate. <a href="http://www.huntersvillerealty.com/communities/community-3/davidson-public-library-nc-north-carolina-downtown-michele-veloso-real-estate-huntersville-realty/" target="_blank">Their public library</a> looks straight out of <i>The Waltons</i>. It's so cute. Too bad Kate don't read. I always think dinner at his or her place for a second date is a great choice. It's best to figure out if they have a giant boil on their nose in a public setting, but it's also good to see their living quarters as early in the relationship as possible, because a lot of red flags can be discovered by how somebody lives at home. It's also a chance to have a more private conversation without waiters, or some obnoxious ex-lawyer like Rachel, interrupting you. <br />
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Well I've speculated Jeff could be just a gay actor because he's so perfect. Even his house is so freaking homey and inviting, with flowers on the windowsill and some historical document framed on the wall. But turns out he's not gay after all, as we here on the blog discovered via Facebook he now is very happy with a wonderful girlfriend who is 45 and has a set of twins. Suck it, Kate. I'm also pretty sure he's not an actor; I think this was a favor to a friend in production or a dare for charity or something.<br />
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Jeff immediately pulls out the wine, which is probably wise, and Kate's already mugging for the cameras with some stupid water into wine joke that makes no sense. She's literally swinging her whole body around to look at the cameras and make this "joke." It's incredible how obnoxious she is.<br />
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Jeff owns cookbooks? Be still my heart. Between that, his love of board games, and <i>The Princess Bride </i>being his favorite movie, that Facebook girlfriend of his is one lucky woman. Like straight out of a romance novel lucky. They're going to cook salmon, chickpea salad and roasted cauliflower, which as far as I'm concerned is the only way to cook cauliflower worth eating. Yum.<br />
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Proving how beyond-beyond socially awkward she is, Kate in the middle of them talking about wine and pouring wine suddenly blurts out, "You were so good with my girls!" Good Lord, Kate. Good Lord! I mean try to lead into something like that at least a little. It's like it was a line she knew she wanted to say, but didn't know how or when to bring it up so she just inserted it wherever. She's so painful to watch, and I almost....<i>almost....</i>feel bad for her.<br />
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Blech, Mady peddles that old party line about how the new changed Kate is much more relaxed and would be just fine with a guy like Jeff taking over her domain in the kitchen. What changed Mady? Explain. Otherwise I don't believe it and I think you're brainwashed and just regurgitating whatever Kate has told you, and at your age, it's sad to be such a mouthpiece for your own mother.<br />
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Oh, I'm dying here, I love Jeff so much. He schools Kate like a boss about how little she knows about wine, calling her alleged favorite wine Malbec from Argentina "boring." Bawww! I don't know anything about wine but I'll take Jeff's word for it that's a boring wine that people who don't know anything about wine like, and guess what else is boring, Jeff? KATE! It makes me so happy you're with somebody else now because you deserve some spice in your very nice life. Jeff prefers French red wine from Bordeaux and Clos de la Roche. I think that's what he's saying, and this is without the help of the closed captioned which apparently the Roku TLCgo app doesn't have. My French is terrible but I trust him that whatever that is, that's good wine.</div>
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"When you're single and don't have kids you can just build a wine cellar," Kate remarks on the couch. The hell? Why is she being such a grade A jerk? As if a wine cellar or something similar is something only people with nothing on their plates have time to putter around with aimlessly. I mean, Jeff has been running his own company and traveling the world, it's not like he has nothing going on, nor are people without kids by default not busy or don't understand what it means to be busy. Hey, Kate, lots of people with kids, or without kids, are very busy yet still carve out time to have full and interesting lives. Just because you haven't done so yourself doesn't mean you have to make nasty comments about other people who are accomplishing things of meaning with their limited time on this earth, kids or not. For the first time it occurs to me she is jealous and resentful of anyone who has a full and interesting life, Jeff and Jon included. It doesn't matter if you have kids or don't have kids, anyone who has managed to carve out a real life for themselves, she resents. I don't know why Kate has been unable to hone in on hobbies and interests of her own. I don't know why she has nothing going on. Perhaps she is simply incapable of finding and developing interests. I get the impression the vast majority of things bore her for some reason, which is abnormal and could be a red flag there's some true depression going on here. For the few things that capture her attention, like cooking and wine, the true work involved with fleshing out that interest into anything substantial, as Jeff has, is just too overwhelming and too much work for somebody so darn lazy. Thus, we're left with a 44-year-old woman with absolutely nothing going on but eight I mean six kids and some dogs. </div>
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Jeff actually has very similar core interests to Kate in that he likes traveling, cooking, and wine. Except Jeff really made something of those interests and Kate did not. I'm getting a pretty keen sense that this very fact is dawning on Jeff on this date, and although he seemed quite interested in Kate on the first date, this second one is rapidly going downhill as he's realizing somebody like Kate just isn't for him. I'd feel sorry for him except we know he found a great girlfriend, so this is fine. It would only be depressing if he were still looking!</div>
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And another thing, she should have been not so lazy and developed her interests <i>for </i>her kids and stop blaming her kids for her sad boring life. It is good for children to see their parents' lives not completely revolving around the children. And oftentimes just by virtue of the fact that kids are so exposed to their parents' interests they develop a love for such things too as they get older. In my family that was camping and fishing. We all grew up with the adults going off on camping trips two or three times a summer up to the various beautiful lakes in Canada and when we got old enough we tagged along. It instilled in me a love of nature and the outdoors and camping, the pure unadulterated quiet of the wilderness, that has continued well into my own adulthood and that I fully intend to pass down to my own family, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/By1kkuplLXk/" target="_blank">and dog</a>! </div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">sandyfen</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">You have the best smile , personality ever, you need your own show❤️👏👏😬</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">racheldealto</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica";">@sandyfen aw thank you! From your lips to @tlc’s ears 😂</span><br />
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Jeff naturally says he had a good childhood, had great parents, but did want to get out of his small town. Jeff, who continues to have a lot of things in common with Kate, is too good for Kate. I suspect that's what it was with Kate too. It's not that her parents or childhood were necessarily bad, she was just one of those yearning to see what else was out there beyond the little town. I went through that too, but most people are able to recognize the difference between having a great family but just wanting out to see what else is out there, versus wrongly equating a very natural and common desire to want out with something defective or not good enough about her childhood. I suspect Kate is the later, and it's really disrespectful to her family who, with the exception of <i>maybe </i>her father, did nothing wrong in the raising of her. Based on her own words I believe she felt she deserved more trips and more money to spend in her childhood, her family did nothing wrong in not being able to afford such luxuries, and instead of understanding that and accepting it, she resents it to this day. </div>
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Why are you still single, Kate asks. Is it just me but I think this question is flipping <i>rude. </i>Why is he still single? Why are <i>you </i>still single, Kate? Geez! What are you supposed to say to that, I'm a great catch except for the fact that I pick my toenails in front of the T.V. every night and no woman can stand that? And I feel like he already adequately explained why he's single, because the nature of his job mostly abroad and all the traveling he did made relationships difficult (and likely unfair to the woman) but now that he has decided to recently relocate to North Carolina to be near his nephews, he is able to have a stable relationship now. That is a perfectly reasonable reason why a great guy like this is single, though he won't be for long. </div>
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Jeff politely explains, not that this is anyone's business on a <i>second date</i>, that he didn't want to get married in his 20's, and in his 30's he was in a three-year relationship that ended in heartbreak and so hasn't met the right one since then. That really was none of your business, Kate, but whatever.</div>
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Jeff corrals her to the couch, sitting close to her with his arm around her. He's about to kiss her, and I feel like someone is asking me to do a polar bear swim and I'm cringing and hugging myself. I am panicking as much as Kate. Jeff moves her hair from her eyes and she acts like she just got electrocuted. This is a bit sad to watch. This is the behavior of a rape victim for goodness sake. Get some therapy, Kate, because you're a mess. </div>
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Kate abruptly ends the date and bolts toward the door, and Jeff asks to see her again and she says sure yes. We take forever to build up to it and then Jeff suddenly grabs her face and kisses her. Ew, ew, ew. It looks like a vacuum cleaner grabbing up Kate Gosselin. I'm horrified. At least Kate doesn't pull away and even puts her doughy hands around him.<br />
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And now folks we're to the end of this hot mess of a show and guess what, it just ends! Kate says she has stayed in contact with one of the two finalist guys, but she doesn't feel we really need to know right now. Oh, come on! I have never in the history of T.V. seen someone trolling so shamelessly for a second season. Also, Kate, you tool, you don't need to tease and play games with viewers about who or if you ended up with somebody to get a second season. It's so unnecessary, obnoxious, and frankly disrespectful to the handful of viewers who stuck this one out. "So what else is out there?" Kate remarks. Not much, Schmoopy. Now drink your lame wine and peek out from your blindfold so this show can just die <i>Birdbox </i>style and the whole world would be better off.Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com327tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-33203107323922194272019-07-08T06:30:00.000-07:002019-07-15T06:49:59.380-07:00Discussion Thread: Kate Plus Date "Under Pressure" 7/8/2019 AND Recap: Kate Plus Date "Under Pressure": "Head-tilt Mady makes sure no milk drinker will pass for her step-father"Last time on Kate Plus Date, Kate's new matchmaker Adam is awesome, correctly identifying Kate's tiny little bitter heart as near beyond hope. So much better than doofus Rachel who thought she could somehow yoga-swing Kate into normalcy. And Joey Batista was using his date to audition his pilot idea, Joey and Mama Batting a Thousand. Coming up, Kate's new date looks just like an extra in that excellent prison movie classic <i>Midnight Express.</i> Her second date of the night is too good for her. He does contract work in the Middle East but that's about all he can say. Likely he just oversees installing power grids or something but it's still dangerous and important work and hats off to him.<br />
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This is going to be another episode where everybody yammers on forever just making one point. Did the episodes come up super short in the editing bay and they had to go back in and keep adding in more drivel until they hit 43 minutes? Kate is starting to hone in on who will be her second dates. It takes her forever to say this. Forever!<br />
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Even though there are plenty of signs this was filmed all out of order as most series are, even much of reality shows, Kate is reflecting back on how much she learned over the progression of these dates and claims now she is having fun. If fun looks like a colonoscopy, sure she is having fun.<br />
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Kate also seems to think she is just so much better equipped at her age to know what she wants in a man as opposed to when she was in her 20s. This is a subtle knock at Jon, as she only ended up with a husband as horrid as Jon because she was just too young to know any better. I don't know what she is talking about, because I have barely heard her ask these dates anything of any relevance or importance that a mature woman of her age should want to know. She still mostly cares about the superficial. Whether you are tall, if she doesn't have to diaper your kids, making sure you're not Jon or reminds her of Jon. As I've said many times in these recaps, nobody seems to be curious are you a <i>good man</i>, would you be good for and with my children? Twenty-year-old kids are more capable of thinking deeply about these important questions and making a wise decision in a mate.<br />
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Adam is right that Kate struggles to talk about herself on dates. I know that sounds like an odd problem for a narcissist to have, but it's true for Kate. Really a better way to say it is Kate can't make good conversation. I mean, she can talk about herself, she wouldn't shut up about the marathon she did eight years ago when she was telling Joey. The question is is her yammering good conversation. It's not. The reason I think she can't make good conversation is, as I have said, she actually has nothing to talk about because she's wasted the better part of the past decade doing nothing. She also doesn't much care to get to know the other person and can't fake it in a conversation as normal people do every day. Adam's doing a decent job of trying to crack this nutjob, so good for him, but he just doesn't know nearly enough about her to realize this as he hasn't been following her rise and fall over the past ten years as we here at this blog have and Kate sure isn't going to tell him anything honest.<br />
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Kate is still claiming having no time is why dating is a struggle for her, finally at long last answering the question <i>what </i>exactly she does all day, and here it is in its entirety: cooking three meals a day, homework, cleaning, and doing laundry. If she has time she showers. Where to begin with this drivel! By this time you would think she has the cooking thing down to military procession and should be able to whip up any one meal for eight kids actually six in 20 minutes flat with maybe 30 minutes of oven time where you can do other things. It's her choice to make things harder on herself and everybody else by "cooking" breakfast and lunches. At their ages, kids are perfectly capable of and should grab breakfast themselves. It'll probably be cold which is fine, the important thing is the balance of protein and carbs, not the heat. Hotcakes and steaming bacon served up every morning to kids just trying to get themselves to school doesn't make you a better mother than the one who on weekdays only has ingredients for protein shakes on hand or cereal and fruit and kids can help themselves. And for God sakes they can pack their lunches themselves or just buy a hot lunch at school! I can't even imagine what it would have been like to have my mom still packing up my lunchbox at that age. I would have felt like such a baby. All Kate has to do is keep the fridge and pantry well stocked with healthy lunch items or money on their hot lunch accounts and the rest these teenagers can do themselves.<br />
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I can believe she probably has to run a few loads of laundry a day, tops, but that's also a set it and forget it thing where once you have it all going, it's not like you need to sit there and watch the water boil. You can go do something else. Kids at this age also should be tasked with keeping their own clothes sorted and at least bringing them down to the laundry room themselves if not even running their own loads and they certainly could do their own folding and putting away, which cuts the work for Kate in half.<br />
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As for homework, these kids are 15 and 17, well old enough to complete the vast majority of their homework without her help, and she's kidding herself dumb as she is if she thinks she can "help" with the kind of assignments they're getting at this stage in their schooling. Cara is going to be a math major, no doubt she took AP Calculus or something similar, trigonometry, geometry, advanced algebra courses. Kate is a woman who thinks <a href="http://www.realitytvkids.com/2011/04/recap-new-zealand-library-card-will-get.html" target="_blank">a kiwi is a bird with no arms</a> and <a href="http://www.realitytvkids.com/2019/06/discussion-thread-kate-plus-date-i-want.html?showComment=1562511865774#c8719724348977456685" target="_blank">that Pollyanna kid wore glasses</a>, bullshit Kate helps with this stuff. And a school as nice as that should have plenty of tutoring available or at least teachers that are willing to stay late to help you. At that age, my parents stopped checking my homework or even much asking about it anyway. It wasn't because they didn't care or were being lazy. They were in their wise way preparing me to take responsibility for my own homework and tasks, budgeting my time, letting them know if I really shouldn't be going out because I had a book essay due soon, deciding for myself what classes I would take and how much I wanted to push myself (they didn't caution me when I signed on to three AP classes in one year) suffering the consequences on my own at school when an assignment wasn't complete or up to my best work or I had over-scheduled myself. I think we had a better relationship for it because I never felt like my parents were nags about school or didn't trust me to take care of my business, and I did learn how to handle my business such that the transition to freshman year of college was pretty simple for me while I watched some of my other more coddled classmates struggle. I managed to be a straight A student in high school and high 3 point-something throughout college without my mother ever once saying, let me see your homework and help you with it. Point being, Kate doesn't <i>have </i>to sit there and oversee all the homework like an overbearing schoolmarm. It's not a good use of her time and isn't good for kids anyway especially ones who will soon be in college without mom to pick up their messes.<br />
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As for the cleaning, it's hard to believe she doesn't have a housekeeper and if she doesn't, well, she chose to buy a mansion, now she has to clean it. She's not doing a very good job of it anyway, it always looks dusty and cluttered to me. So I don't believe she's devoting hours each day to cleaning or it wouldn't look as sad as it does.<br />
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Of note, she curiously doesn't mention she might waste a whole lot of time each day just driving kids around. Bet she doesn't. Bet the kids drive themselves, take the bus, or find some other way to and from school.<br />
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Another thought I had, let's say she is on the spectrum as I think she is. Another signal of that is struggles with organizing, sequencing, and prioritizing. If all these simple tasks really are taking her <i>all</i> day instead of the few hours that they should, that could be because she is unable to organize her daily tasks in a manner that is efficient and productive. It must be so frustrating to those on the spectrum to watch others around them easily tackle a few hours of work and knock it out while they struggle to do the same all day long. People who work all day still manage to cook, check in on homework, do a little laundry and tidying up, in a quarter of the time she claims it takes her.<br />
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All in all I clock these tasks she has named <i>should</i> take up no more than five to six hours a day tops, and that's being generous to her. For someone who doesn't work, that leaves a good ten other hours left in the day to do something with her life. It irritates me Adam doesn't call her out on this, question why those few tasks she listed are taking her all damn day in the first place, question her on why she's filling so much of her time breathing down her children's necks, and ask for someone who is living so high on the hog why don't you just hire help, order out more, sign up for a meal service like Freshly, etc. She's going to push these kids away with all this nonsense and likely already has, not make them feel closer to her. I have very little sympathy for people who intentionally make their lives harder with their own choices, then spend the rest of their time bitching about how hard things are.<br />
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Mady says something extremely revealing on the couch, in that Kate bitches a lot about never getting time to herself, and so the kids will take a cue and say okay fine, and leave her alone. That's sweet, sounds like the kids make a grade A effort to make sure she has plenty of time for herself when she demands it, so Kate is lying when she says otherwise. Of course Kate has drilled into these kids how much of a hardship they are on her, making them feel guilty about it all when really their only focus right now should be academics, sports, college prep, and a healthy social life. Not on being their mother's emotional crutch. Is anyone at all surprised two have left her likely for this reason and many other similar issues? Who wants to feel like one big fat burden on their mentally ill and manipulative mother? More are going to leave, I'm calling it right now.<br />
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Mady and Cara meet some of Kate's top contenders for a second date because for no good reason other than to kill time, but they spend about three minutes explaining the reasons, which is three minutes down the editors don't need to worry about. They're up in the living room of some kind of penthouse suite I think, and I guess they're just going to be meeting Todd and Jeff, which is funny for a couple reasons, one is that Rachel, the one Kate hates and got fired, "found" both those guys and now they're in her top two. The other is, she only has a top two? Heh, but she's only supposed to go on two second dates in the first place, so how will the girls narrow two down to....two? Also, shouldn't this grilling take place <i>after </i>all the dates are finished? Kate has two dates left still! The girls have a ridiculously long conversation about whether Kate should stay and listen to all this. Of course Kate badly wants to stay and keep her mug on camera and make her dumb faces, but Mady kicks her out, which is hilarious. This is never ever how meeting kids should ever go, but at least Mady admits this is all kinds of bizarre.<br />
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Mady does that famous "head-tilt" when she meets Jeff, and that's her unofficial signature nickname here, Head-tilt Mady. Ew, it looks flirtatious. I half expect her to stick an open hand under her chin as she does so. The hell?<br />
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Mady also makes snide remarks about no stepfather of hers will wear cargo pants. Well, I agree with her there, but still, the "I'm so cute and funny" thing is terribly unattractive.<br />
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Mady acts skeptical of this, calling his answer too smooth. I don't think he's trying to be smooth at all, I think he's absolutely telling the truth. Looking at Jeff's background, how could he do all that he's done while still squeezing in six to ten hours of the T.V. Kate watches a day? He's been busy buying and running a company, traveling all over the place for it, and doing charitable work. Also he's spent the better part of his career abroad where they usually just don't have the good selection of programming we have in the U.S., so there's no point in turning on the T.V. The few times I've bothered to switch the T.V. on when I've been abroad I rarely can find anything to watch. Except in England, where they have really, really decent T.V., like I don't want to leave the AirB&B T.V.!. For longer trips where there might be the odd rainy day where we can't do much (we had two straight days of rain so hard and cold in Iceland it felt unsafe to drive), I've just downloaded stuff from home to my laptop to watch, which was wise.<br />
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The rest of the questions are mostly boring, though Mady reveals she and Cara are vegetarians. I couldn't tell if she was joking about that. And we get it, it's all about the twins, who will be out of the house within months at this point, and they do not want a man with kids. Couldn't they make an unselfish exception for an amazing man for their mom? Rhetorical question.<br />
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Todd thought his date was a disaster, heh, though he explains it was because of wind and nature out of their control. True, that was out of their control, but Kate's freak outs over it weren't.<br />
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Cool, Jeff asks questions of the twins, and Jeff asks a great one, where would THEY like to travel to? I wonder if Kate has ever asked this of them, or if she just tells them where they will go. Mady says Iceland and Cara says Spain. Iceland is a great choice, I think she'd love it. I've never been to Spain but everyone I know who has says it's great though they got very hungry not having dinner until 10 p.m. It's unclear whose idea it was to ask questions but I really like Jeff, he looks like he was sincerely interested in the twins and addressed them individually. He's too good for Kate.<br />
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Kate's first date will be T.J. Adam assures us he's handsome, her age, and a successful entrepreneur. I think successful entrepreneur might be code for rich or at least Kate thinks this, because she lights up like a Christmas tree when this guy comes around the corner in his business on the bottom, homeless on the top outfit.<br />
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Everyone seems to describe these guys as so handsome but they look mostly ordinary to me. Nobody was ugly, but nobody knocked my socks off either. Jeff and Todd both have very friendly faces and warm smiles but neither is really classically handsome. Jeremiah looked like a poor man's version of <a href="http://lasvegas.informermg.com/images/lasvegas/stories/Arts/Gigolos/Sapphire_011E.jpg" target="_blank">Vin from Gigolos on Showtime</a>, who never was handsome to me in the first place, though a nice guy. T.J. has that sad little spiky hair thing going on where when you're 45 and your hair is thinning, the spikes end up more like wilting daisies and if he had a girlfriend she would have made him cut those off by now.<br />
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T.J. strolls up and I'm not sure who his stylist is but boy is he a mess, and that's the first thing Kate notices. I don't fault her for noticing. The pants and shoes actually aren't that bad, but the weird fitting hoodie that looks almost spandex material he had the bright idea to tuck in really does make him look straight out of <i>Midnight Express</i>. Why is the neck so loose and ill fitting? I also think his haircut is just bad. It's way too short in the back and on the sides. It looks like he did it himself. Still doesn't beat Jeremiah's holey shirt though. That thing was an abomination. There's a <a href="https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Ig10/ultra-downy-half-washed-the-u-neck-shirt" target="_blank">pretty clever commercial out now for Downy</a> where a guy is on a first date and ends up in a sad shirt pretty similar to T.J.'s with a stretched out neck and the girl greets him and says, "You look amazingly....comfortable!" Lol, Downy and it's done!<br />
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While Kate is right that T.J. is frumpy, I wish she wouldn't let these superficial things hold her back the way they do. I really think if she sees one little thing she doesn't like, it closes her off from even considering the guy. Even things that could easily be changed deeper into the relationship, like she could buy T.J. a new shirt that fits him better and fake pretend you somehow lost his other stupid one in the laundry room somehow. Problem is there will be something superficially wrong with near every man a woman meets. For some it might be too frumpy, others make dumb dad jokes, others are bald, others aren't as tall as you'd prefer, others are too tall. Yet it never seems to occur to her men are sizing up their dates too and a man may be thinking, she looks a little old for 44, or her skin isn't the best, or she could stand to shed a few pounds. But hopefully those things don't hold back well-adjusted people from meeting a great person.<br />
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T.J.'s outfit on the couch (er, chair) is way, way better. Just a nice white collared shirt and khaki pants. That looks like someone from wardrobe dressed him. Much better.<br />
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They sit down to eat and T.J. thanks her for coming. Why is he thanking her for coming? She should be thanking him for coming, this is her show. Weird.<br />
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This date is awkward already. They spend a long awkward time deciding whether to drink at lunch, and Kate suddenly announces she is not an alcoholic. Nobody asked about or implied you were an alcoholic Kate, but I think Step Three is recognizing that if you have to announce you're not an alcoholic unsolicited, you're an alcoholic.<br />
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Kate proposes they blindfold each other and point to a drink on the menu for the other to drink. Perhaps that might be as good a way as any for her to pick out which guys she wants a second date with, just blindfold her and have her point. They're having so much fun with this silly game they're losing sight of the task at hand, getting to know each other. The date feels more comfortable now, but all this banter makes it look like date ten I think I might be in love stuff, not first date territory I have no idea who you are.<br />
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Kate has said like two legitimately funny things in five episodes and here comes another one, she bursts out laughing and remarks that both their hand-crafted mixed drinks taste the same. Heh, yep! Yep, they tend to, and that's why I don't drink this overpriced nonsense and nobody else should either. A solid red/white wine and good imported beer always stocked in the fridge is all one needs to have a happy alcohol life. And a good whisky for camping.<br />
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So what do you do with yourself every day? T.J. asks.<br />
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"She hates that question!" Adam says from his secret hiding spot at a nearby booth. I wasn't getting the impression she <i>hated</i> that question, so that's an interesting comment from Adam. Could it be she hates it because what she really does with herself all day is watch T.V., post anonymously on this blog, and drink? But she knows she can't say that because that sounds sad, so she gets annoyed having to spend time thinking up other shit she does like laundry and for some reason making hot lunches for kids who are an hour's drive away at school all day.<br />
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Kate manages to answer T.J.'s question without sounding completely obnoxious when she says her kids and dogs fill her time. That's an okay somewhat honest answer but it's too bad she couldn't have a third thing to say on the date, like she also fills her time with cycling, woodworking, watercolor painting, developing fresh takes on the family's favorite recipes, or writing a book. Anything that is of at least mild interest to somebody else and could keep the conversation going.<br />
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There's something about T.J. that is really off. He's traveling too much now but will get "one or two goldens" soon, or maybe an "animal farm." He wants unlimited kids. How many kids does he mean exactly by unlimited kids? He then says he wants to build a little army and maybe coach some football. Build a little army?! For what?! Don't tell me he's one of those weird doomsday prepper folks.<br />
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I like how Kate can barely even respond to these bizarre comments. She's mostly just a gaping maw. Heh. A tiny part of me thinks T.J. may be punking Kate, and us, which would be pretty great. I wish we had seen the ad for the casting call for this sooner because we could have sent somebody in stealth to respond to it and pull off an epic punk. Too bad.<br />
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T.J. is normal enough to still try to press her to tell him more about <i>her </i>and what she is up to, and Kate's first response is not a whole lot, lol. Adam is like oh COME ON what did we just talk about Kate?! Heh. Kate finally manages to mention she likes horseback riding in Wyoming where she has been a ton. Since when does she love horses and does she <i>really</i> go to Wyoming a ton? <a href="http://www.realitytvkids.com/2018/08/recap-kate-plus-8-decade-of-kate-and.html" target="_blank">Last time she was on a horse she screamed like a banshee.</a> She's something else. But whatever at least it's conversation. And if she goes to Wyoming a ton why don't they look for a date for her there instead of North Carolina?<br />
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Their second part of the date is at batting cage. I have no idea why anyone would set up a date at a batting cage for someone like Kate who hates sports. That really makes no sense. That's like Rachel-level nonsensical, Adam, come now.<br />
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Adam pulls T.J. aside as they head over. T.J. inexplicably thinks the date is going fantastic but Adam thinks T.J.'s personality disappeared on the date maybe due to nerves. I guess he must have spent enough time with T.J. before the date to know that he has a personality. The format of this show is all over the place. This whole segment was Adam coaching T.J. and giving him feedback to try to bring the energy level up, they never show Adam talking to Kate, you know the person who actually needs the help.<br />
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Mady and Kate both insist Kate really can't date an athlete or someone into sports. I'm seeing a systematic problem here. Kate wants to date Kate. Except Kate will not be able to find Kate. If she wants to date for real, she has to have a little bit of an open mind about someone who may be interested in things she's not. Tons of couples are not on the same page about sports or many other things, but there are ways to make it work if you have common ground in other areas. It's also okay as a couple to not be exactly alike or like all of the same things. If you like all the same things and end up always doing those same things together, you're going to run out of stories about things you've done independent of each other, and that's boring. That's why it's so hard for couples to work the same job together, because when you spend all your time together you run out of stories you both don't know. I'm afraid at Kate's age if you want to put on your "must" list things like "doesn't like sports" you are again narrowing the pool down to near impossible levels. She doesn't need a drunk shirtless fanatic who spray paints his hair team colors, I'll allow her that, but is it that big of a deal if he has a couple games a week he'd really like to see and that he likes hitting up batting cages now and again? You can find something else productive to do when he's doing that. She freely admits she doesn't want to spend a bunch of time with her man anyway, so she should be glad he has something else he likes to occupy his time and get out of her hair.<br />
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At least they show the instructor this time instead of that weird squash game where they just puttered around by themselves without any help. The instructor shows them how to use the batting cage. T.J. is implying the instructor is somebody important but I have no idea who he is and neither does Kate.<br />
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Predictably, Kate doesn't like this. She's actually not terrible at this. She's making contact. She doesn't like how T.J. is over the top praising her, high-fiving her, and so on. I think T.J. wants to coach little league, not find a woman.<br />
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T.J. says he has "trained" himself to get funnier and funnier. He has unlimited levels, if you stay positive. Serious question, is he high? T.J. is a hard no for me. Something is off. Kate agrees. He's a nice guy and great for someone just not me, Kate says. God strike me down, but that rejection was flat out justified, and finally she did it in a kind and mature way. T.J. has a daughter by the way, and Kate passed on that child's father without having to insult him or mention what a freak he is. His daughter could be watching, you know. Now if only she could turn on this respectful and mature Kate more than the once a year it comes out, she might have found her life unfolded in a very different way.<br />
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Her next date is another guy named Jeff. Adam describes him as refined so I guess that's how I'll distinguish him from Dominican Republic tax shelter Jeff from before.<br />
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Refined Jeff is probably the most handsome of all her dates so far, and I like that he wore a blazer for the date. He is well groomed, a great dresser, and has kind brown eyes. Some famous celebrity could have said this is my producer husband Refined Jeff and I would believe them.<br />
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Jeff is a private investigator and security consultant. He's divorced and has a son. And a cute southern accent. They sit at a bar at a restaurant and some woman they never even introduce is suddenly talking to them about some food tour. Who is this gal?<br />
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Kate's definitely had a ton of eye work done. She looks like near all female celebs over the age of 40, that look where it's like sort of a drooping eyelid, but it's a defined droop. Kind of sad.<br />
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Kate is 12 years old and refuses to eat oysters and now she's ten and is going to make immature grossed out faces as Refined Jeff eats them like a grown up. I don't know, I get not liking stuff, but on a food tour can't you just suck it up and try it? Out of respect for the chef at least, who is steps away from them. I hate lima beans, but I'd eat them on a food tour and just deal with it. <br />
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Refined Jeff wants to know what Kate is looking for in a man. Adam is all excited as this means men want to know if they fit in her box. I don't know, in my experience many flakier men are really quick to ask this question, and I'm not really sure that's the reason they're asking that. And men will ask it on online dating sites a lot, even though everything was laid out very clearly in my profile exactly who I would be interested in. Like, can you read? My theory is many may be asking that to make sure you're not somebody who is really looking to get you to put a ring on it and pop out a few kids and pronto. But if you say I'm just looking to meet new people and have a good time, that's what they'd like to hear. The question is almost always in regards to what kind of <i>commitment </i>are you looking for, and that's it. In my experience, men who really want this question answered are almost always best left on the cutting room floor. This is one of the few times I think Adam is way off the mark about something, here the true meaning behind that ever so popular "what are you looking for" question. And by the way <a href="https://captainawkward.com/2018/04/02/1094-how-do-i-answer-the-what-are-you-looking-for-in-a-relationship-question-when-im-not-sure-i-know/" target="_blank">only guys ever ask this,</a> women just don't because most women are dating to find their forever guy not to screw around because they have until their 60s and 70s before fertility ever becomes a factor in anything at all.<br />
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The extent of what Kate can say to this question is she wants a man to take care of but not mother. And of course she just has to throw in there, "I did that once and it didn't work out so well."<br />
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Ugh, such a vile woman. And she doesn't listen either. Adam just explained to her last episode on your dates stop talking about your divorce and all your petty problems, it's annoying and makes you look negative. Does she not understand a snide comment like that is annoying and makes her look negative? Refined Jeff looks smart, and if he is as smart as I imagine him to be, he's going to get a clue that if she makes smart ass comments like that about about her first ex, she'll do it to Refined Jeff too someday and he seems way too classy and discreet to appreciate somebody who would behave that way.<br />
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They are whisked off to a new restaurant by the unidentified lady, and Kate takes forever to say something correct, that being interrupted like this to shift gears and go somewhere else made it difficult to relax and get to know Refined Jeff. Agree, first dates should rarely if ever be at more than one location. You need a chance to settle in with some food and beverages and be left alone by the wait staff to just sink into a conversation. Again this is like date ten level activities, not one.<br />
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Jeff came back from the Middle East yesterday working as a security consultant. Maybe that's why he seems to be almost interrogating Kate here though she seems totally comfortable with it. Now he wants to know what qualities she's looking for. As much as I think these questions are a little much, I like that Kate is being put on the spot to describe the man she is looking for whom she is not <i>really </i>looking for, and Jeff is going to be onto her in two seconds flat when she flounders under all this probing.<br />
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Kate continues to <i>not listen </i>to Adam and is droning on and on about not being trusting, being burned multiple times, being gun shy. Honesty is important to her. What's Jeff supposed to say, oh well I'll leave right now then because I'm not honest and trustworthy? Oy.<br />
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I'm sorry but no man wants to go on a date and hear all about how the woman has trust issues. No man wants a project or to have to prove himself to her. He can find another woman who won't be putting him to the test.<br />
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Adam kindly says that Kate is opening up more but then says but yeeesh I sure would have liked her to ask <i>him </i>what is <i>he</i> looking for? Adam, she's never going to ask that because 1. women don't ask the question that way 2. she doesn't care and 3. <i>she isn't really looking</i> for a man. Do you get it yet or are you going to act as dense as Rachel about this?<br />
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Ha, Kate flat out says it didn't occur to her to ask that question as she's only interested in what Kate is looking for why would Kate be interested in what some other person wants? Maybe, after a time, if she gets interested, she might be interested in what they're all about. Maybe. Any lingering doubts she's a narcissist? Didn't think so.<br />
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Kate does ask more about Jeff's investigation work to which refined Jeff talks about investigating a lot of cheating spouses. Wait, does he do this in the Middle East? Yipe, I heard you get stoned there for such things.<br />
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Refined Jeff quickly gets back to Kate, which she doesn't like, now asking about her last relationship. Oh, Jeff, that question is hard for Kate for some reason, because is her last relationship Jon or is it really Jeff Prescott, the guy she keeps lying about not even knowing? I don't like that question anyway and especially not on a first date. I see no need to ask about past relationships unless it somehow affects things currently like you have a kid from it or lingering financial issues. We have never talked about our past in my relationship and likely never will nor is there any need for it.<br />
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Kate has a moment of insight when Jeff gives her rather short answers not elaborating much on himself, which is clearly really frustrating her. That this must be what it's like for her date when she does that to them! Right, Kate! Although in Jeff's case, I'm getting a very strong feeling he has absolutely no interest in dating someone on a reality show, is only doing this as a favor to some long-time friend in production because they were short on actors, and doesn't want to reveal too much of himself on T.V. because he actually quite enjoys being a private citizen. By the way, the two Jeffs are the only guys is the whole pool who I believe aren't really just actors. They were the only guys who were specific enough about their jobs to believe that they actually do that job for real as their career. Dollars to doughnuts tax shelter Jeff was also a friend of somebody in production, maybe somebody who went on one of his trips to South America and remembered him and got in touch.<br />
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Jeff says something wise about relationships, if you want to find the keys you've gotta look for them. Isn't that true of a lot of life, Kate? Listen to that advice, because it applies to near everything. Whining and sitting around don't find keys to anything.<br />
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The unnamed woman interrupts their nice dessert Rachel-style to abruptly end the date. I can't imagine being on a date and having some stranger come up to me in the middle of it and announce okay show's over, now get outta here! Heh. Kate remains frustrated she didn't get a whole lot of information out of Refined Jeff but from what she saw she likes. Jeff thought the date started slow but otherwise was good and he would do a second. I don't think he likes her, he's just being polite.<br />
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You know for this second date thing, nobody seems to have contemplated what if Kate picks a second date but <i>he </i>doesn't want a second? Second dates have to be consensual, or should. Again I say, if Kate were a man, people would be calling this show the most sexist and antiquated reality show in modern times.<br />
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Suddenly we're in a coffee shop and Cara and Mady are going to meet Joey Bats. They never mentioned they were going to meet more dates later, which is probably something they should have explained because this viewer was confused.<br />
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Kate again tries to sit in so she can mug for the cameras but Mady insists Kate must leave. Mady has two reasons for this. One she doesn't want the guy to answer the way he thinks Kate wants him to. I think the guys might answer the way Kate wants them to whether Kate is there, so I don't know about that. The second reason is Mady doesn't want Kate making those obnoxious stupid faces she makes all the time. Now that's a good reason.<br />
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Called it, Head-tilt Mady <i>likes </i>Joey Bats. She's being coy and flirtatious. Mady, this guy is for your <i>mother</i>. Mady even admits she thinks he's cute. Ew! Joey has never thought much about kids, which to me is a red flag if he's going to be taking on eight, er six kids, of Kate's. If he's never thought about it that means he's never thought about what it would do to his lifestyle to put a kid first, even an older child. Joey is apparently 22 years old and visits bars 3-4 times a week and more. Even Mady thinks that's a lot. It's a lot. Joey justifies this as New York City, whatever that's supposed to mean. He's not right for this family cute and sweet as he is. He's still stuck in his 20's, and I foresee him resenting it when he can't go meet his buddy at the bar when he's in town because they have to drive a child to a soccer tournament across the state all weekend. Joey asks to ask the twins questions and they get talking about how annoying the younger kids are. What do they care the younger kids don't clean up and do their chores? That's none of their business, that's on Kate to deal with. It's disappointing even at 18 years old the twins still view their lovely younger siblings with such immature scorn and trash them to complete strangers to boot. Uncouth.<br />
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At the end of the interview Mady announces she just loved Joey Bats, thinks he's great. Joey Bats seems like the sort of guy who knows exactly how to get girls of all ages chasing after him even though he would never actually end up with most of them. Kind of like how I bet that Ronnie guy was the twins were enamored with. He'd never dare do anything inappropriate, but that's not going to stop him from letting two very young girls crush all over him. Mady, who has proved herself to be as selfish as Kate can be, wants Joey for Kate anyway even though she admits Joey is probably not right for Kate. Sigh.<br />
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Kate sits down with the twins, and this conversation sounds much more like she is agonizing over who to hire as a personal assistant or house manager or nanny rather than what man to go on a simple second date with. It's so intense and serious. Apparently the twins have a top two, Joey and somebody else, and Kate has a top two, which she implies maybe might be different. Why aren't we being told who the dueling top two are? That's the whole fun of this. The hide the ball thing here was a poor editing choice and just annoying. And wait a second, how could they each have a different top two when the twins only met three guys? Therefore unless Kate's top two includes somebody the twins never met, by default they have to have at least one guy in common they want in the top two. I am hurting my head thinking so hard about this.<br />
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Also, it all just seems so stupid. If Kate has her top two and the twins have a different top two, why not give them all a second chance and go out again with all four? Based on what rule book is she not allowed to go on four dates and must only go on two dates? What contrived nonsense!<br />
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Next time, Rachel's baaaaaack. Haha. And she's acting like this is not awkward at all that she got fired, which it completely is. Like hashtag awkward levels, Rachel. Something about Kate making out, blech. And Tax Shelter Jeff's hand, which I recognize by the distinctive <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/484476552/meghan-markle-prince-harry-and-baby" target="_blank">Prince Harry bracelets</a>, brushes Kate's hair from her face as she recoils. Just one episode left of this abomination, praise be.Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com208tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-76189396254746592362019-06-30T08:30:00.000-07:002019-07-08T10:08:35.305-07:00Discussion Thread: Kate Plus Date "I Want to Break Free" 7/1/2019 AND Recap: Kate Plus Date "I Want to Break Free": "See you Tonight! :) ..... ???? R u Ok? .... Hello?"Last time on Kate Plus 8, RACHEL FINALLY GOT FIRED. You can read all about it in <a href="http://www.realitytvkids.com/2019/06/discussion-thread-kate-plus-date_24.html" target="_blank">my recap,</a> though there wasn't much to tell as, inexplicably, the most dramatic and interesting thing to happen so far on this show never even happened on camera. In addition, Kate had a fantastic date with a successful family oriented guy named Jeff who was so perfect he even liked <i>The Princess Bride</i>, to which she was basically like, yeah, he was okay I guess. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhXjcZdk5QQ" target="_blank">Inconceivable</a>!<br />
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Kate's hired a new matchmaker this week, which is surely something the magic of T.V. can whip right up for you just like that, and his assessment of the situation already is infinitely better than Rachel's. You see, Kate's heart is two sizes too small, for starters. Correct!<br />
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Now is the point in the script where Mady and Cara act curious about how Kate's dates are going, so in the family room, which looks a bit dusty and drab (why on earth wouldn't you deep clean before filming?) the three sit down together to watch old clips. No matter what, no matter how, I can never get away from a damn clip show. Long-time readers of my recaps know if there is one thing I just loathe recapping, it's clips I've already recapped! My recapping pet peeve!</div>
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The girls scrutinize Stephen's clips (that's the guy Kate went on a boat ride with and then mushed together some pizza dough) and Mady points out, what's up with the white shorts? I didn't notice that before but yeah, what is up with those? The twins assess that although he has all his hair he's too hyper for Kate. Next.<br />
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Next up, Jeremiah, the "retired police officer" who saved some guy's life in the coffee shop, and is really just an actor and has five kids from basically like the span of two decades. He was weirdly enamored with Kate more than any of these other guys and God knows if I could tell you why because to quote Liz of Kentucky from Facebook again, she could freeze the nuts off a polar bear. Predictably the twins reject him for being too young and having too many kids.<br />
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Todd's up, who was a really nice guy, but pretty short. Mady says he looks like an 11th grader. Aw, poor Todd! He can't help that he looks like a cabbage patch doll and only comes up to Kate's chin. That's not his fault! Mady admits he was nice and funny, but too short says Cara. At least Mady says "Sorry, Todd." Don't be sorry, Todd's unfortunate height is the best thing that ever happened to him because he won't be going on a second date with Schmoopy here. God knew the plans he had for him.<br />
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Next, Jeff. Mady says Kate actually spoke highly of him after the date. The twins like him because he has no kids. I get that they don't want anymore kids, but if anyone was being wise here, it would behoove them to ask <i>why </i>a guy doesn't have kids. Because if there's any chance it's because they don't <i>like </i>kids, one would want to know that.<br />
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"He's too good for you," Mady says. Wait, did she just say that? Ouch! I mean, that's exactly what I said, but this is her mother! Seriously, why would Mady say something that nasty to her own mother? Kate says "I know I think so too," as if that's a totally appropriate comment for a daughter to say about their mother. I'm so confused. Are they being facetious, or do Kate and Mady honestly think Jeff is too good for Kate? Because if so, that's kind of sad. Although Jeff actually is way too good for her, so beyond out of her league I have no idea why he even gave her a second look, it is sad that anyone who wants to date him would think they're not worthy of him. I guess to all this I would say: if you are having thoughts about not being good enough for a great guy, you need to ask yourself why you think that, and work on addressing it. Whether that's therapy to improve your self-esteem, or changing how you act or the things you are doing with your life that perhaps aren't suited to a good guy, but no woman should not feel "good enough" to date a good guy.<br />
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Mady gets it right again and says she thinks Kate's into Jeff and if she's not, there's something wrong with her. Correct. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP5-qJSzDUg" target="_blank">Anybody want a peanut? </a><br />
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Finally Andrew, the absolute dud. Ha, Mady points out another thing I did in my last recap, about what's with the full on Nike track suit Andrew was wearing just to play a casual game of squash. Heh! Perhaps Mady could take over writing the recaps here and give me a break! We love a mute man, Mady deadpans. Heh, and that's why she's my Annie Sullivan!<br />
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Mady does have a few witty remarks up her sleeve, enough for her to consider trying a creative writing class when she starts college in the fall as an undecided major. She says she would have walked out on Andrew too and said "this looks like my parent-teacher conference, bye!" Ha.<br />
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Mady ranks Jeff first, then Todd, Jeremiah, Stephan and Andrew. That's exactly how I would rank them.<br />
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Mady suggests for future dates not doctors or guys who look like gym teachers. Nobody in that pool was a doctor I don't think so not sure I get that comment. Medical sales is not a "doctor," Mady. The no gym teacher lookalikes requirement would be way too difficult for a doofus like Rachel to understand so it's a good thing that one got fired last episode.<br />
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Wait a second, what happened to Rosario? The actor, opera singer, and my Italian amor? How come he was completely left out of the conversation and not even ranked? <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/italian-english/inconcepibile" target="_blank">Inconcepibile</a>! When unexplained stuff like this happens on this show, which seems to happen a lot, I like to imagine what really happened behind the scenes. Sort of a Kate Plus Date fan fiction. And in my fan fiction Rosario was so disgusted with the whole fake process he ripped up his contract and said if they dare mention his name or show his face on this show again he'll sue them into the ground. A woman can fantasize.<br />
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Adam LoDolce is Kate's new coach, and he's mostly out there to just get famous. <a href="https://sexyconfidence.com/dating-expert/" target="_blank">According to his web site</a> he was in management consulting, whatever that is, and then in a convoluted way that reads like rather a boring story, ended up giving dating advice. Still, I have to say that I like his approach to dating, in that the secret to dating isn't to play games but rather to be confident in you and what you want and deserve. I more or less agree, as I believe you cannot have a truly successful healthy relationship until you feel successful yourself as a person independent of a man or woman. Rachel's advice seems much more shallow and usually vague, like flirt, and honor nervousness. Yeah, I don't know what that means. On his web site Adam says decidedly that he is not the coach for you if you <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 700;">Want an easy way to manipulate men so that you have the upper hand…</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 700;">Want an “easy fix” to finding Mr. Right…</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 700;">Are unwilling to change…</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 700;">Think </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 700;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">men</i></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: 700;"> are the problem...</span><br />
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Ha, he's so not going to work for Kate. She's going to regret firing Rachel after this!<br />
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Adam doesn't even seem to offer personal consulting like Rachel does. He just offers himself up to be quoted in the media. He even calls himself a <a href="https://adamlodolce.com/media/" target="_blank"><i>media</i> consultant</a>! I expected to find this guy to be a grade A douche, but I find I kind of like his brutal honesty about it all. I'm just here to tell you the truth about why you all suck at life and get a quote in the New Yorker, anybody got a problem with that? Heh.<br />
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And I think it's important to not confuse the issues. Adam may be a media whore, that's clear, but that doesn't mean his advice is incorrect.<br />
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No man wants a life with you unless you have an amazing life without him, Adam says. Wow, I could not agree more! It wasn't until I stopped focusing so much on finding the one and focused on just developing a full and interesting life on my own that a relationship worked out for me.<br />
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In the meantime I traveled to Europe, including Iceland, and chaperoned a school group in Australia for two weeks.<br />
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I developed a serious interest in photography and took workshops and got up before dawn to take photos. I began fostering dogs, I took up hiking and backcountry backpacking and hiked a 30 mile portion of the John Muir trail, solo. Yep, solo.<br />
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I played piano in the church band.<br />
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I even seriously considered fostering a child, though haven't done it just yet. All without a man. Doing all this gave me some tremendously fun hobbies but I also noticed it gave me plenty to talk about on a date and stories to tell, such that dead air couldn't possibly be a problem. And invariably dates would have something in common with one of those things and that would set him going on something. So, surprisingly, Adam is dead right about all this. Of course many dates don't work out but they would often say things like you seem really cool and even though you/I/we've decided not to pursue this further I had a really good time. I think I gave off a vibe that I was worth respecting enough to at least do me the courtesy of not ghosting me, and to this day that's never happened to me.<br />
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One thing we have all noticed over the years is that Kate seems to struggle with filling her time with similar fun and interesting things. She dabbles in this and that but never seriously commits. She's dropped some decent and productive hobbies and replaced them with cliche excuses like being too busy. Do you think a lawyer is not busy, Kate? But<a href="https://www.babble.com/parenting/being-busy-is-not-a-badge-of-honor/" target="_blank"> says RN Chaunie Brusie</a> "If we are busy to the point of exhaustion or to a point that it’s hurting our health or we can’t find time to do anything that fulfills us, then “busyness” is a problem." Kate seems to be putting off a lot of traveling as if hoping someone else will pay for it first. She has focused a lot on hating Jon and filing lawsuits, and not on finding productive things to do with her life that don't involve inflicting turmoil on others. For someone so "busy" the evidence is she seems to do a whole lot of TV watching, wine drinking, and lounging in bed. Those things are nice and relaxing don't get me wrong, but when they start consuming the majority of your time, it's a problem. As a result, she's not a catch. She's not good enough for Jeff for this very reason. She doesn't have the same good stories to tell others do. She is not an interesting person and is wasting her life. She will be ghosted by men and repeatedly. Adam's work is cut out for him. In fact if I didn't know any better, I'd say she's depressed, and if she got help for it, she might be able to get her life back on the rails.<br />
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For some reason tonight Kate is doing that thing where it takes her a million years to make one point, and that makes recapping soooo tedious. Basically she is interested in hearing Adam's perspective as a guy in his mid-30's. Took her like three paragraphs to say just that.<br />
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Adam was scared of Kate before he met her? Heh! Better put on a jockstrap before you enter the room because she's a ballbuster, Adam.<br />
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Adam wants to know what he can do differently to help Kate, and Kate pulls out her best Heir Kate and goes into a litany tirade about how much Rachel sucks. It doesn't work for Kate to just go in and say let's have fun. She will tell <i>you </i>when she's having fun. She sounds like Viggo Mortensen from <i>GI Jane. </i>If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you. Kate does a funny malaprop calling this Pollyanna glasses. I immediately picture cute little Hayley Mills wearing Harry Potter glasses. WTF are Pollyanna glasses? The expression is rose-colored glasses, heifer. Or just, Rachel is a Pollyanna. You don't combine them both.<br />
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As much as I have questioned Rachel's competence just as much as Kate has, I find Kate's explanation of the Rachel situation to be unnecessary, rude and not very classy. Rachel is not a bad person, just bad at her job, and there is no reason to insult her so publicly like this or paint a picture that she should never work in this field again. She's something else for previously complaining about people preventing her from getting work, because one nasty review like that on such a public forum by a quasi-famous reality T.V. person could ruin a small-time career like Rachel's, so. Why can't she just say Rachel had a certain style that wasn't for me and I wish her the best? Be a grown-up.<br />
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Kate also thinks she and her situation is the most unique precious snowflake. Oh STFU.<br />
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Adam seems frightened.<br />
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I hate when the kids repeat a narrative you know Kate drilled into them. Mady explains this is hard because of everything Kate has been through. What has she been through exactly? She had a divorce like millions of other people, and it was ten years ago. Some people don't like her, and it's not like the <a href="https://madaboutmeghan.blogspot.com/2019/06/we-need-to-talk-about-sussexes-global.html" target="_blank">people who don't like Meghan Markle just because.</a> There are real concrete reasons people don't like her that are well documented and include child abuse and an incredible amount of child exploitation so bad the state of Pennsylvania had to get involved. She discarded two of her own children, that was on her, too. But to her credit Mady does say if she wants to be happy and do this dating thing she needs to suck it up. Exactly, suck it up for once and STFU. For once!<br />
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Kate explains to Adam that a lot of babysitters, family, and so on have walked away because her life is too much pressure. Oh is that why you think folks walked away, Kate?<br />
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Kate plays a whole big game about how she can't talk about this or that about the divorce but doesn't explain much why. Some of it seems to be because she won't talk about it to protect the kids (oh yeah sure), but is she implying confidentiality too? Why not just say there's a gag order still in place, and stop talking in circles? Speak plainly, anything else is annoying as F! Adam points out that while he gets it, this makes building rapport with her a lot harder. Exactly. People who song and dance around issues, whatever their reasons, are annoying to try to help. By the way I deal with gag orders all the time in court since our cases are almost always confidential, and there is no such thing as a gag order preventing someone from talking about their feelings. What they don't want you to say is Jon has custody on these days and our assets were divided this or that way. But it's unlikely anyone will have a problem with you saying "I'm frustrated with the way our custodial time was divided" or "I'm angry about the asset divisions." That's all Adam wants to know is what is bothering her so much, he doesn't need to know the boring specifics. And just my suspicion, but I bet Kate herself can't pin down what's really bothering her in any way that sounds rational. Because the real reason she won't ever say is that she hates Jon for stopping the filming. That's all it is. She doesn't care about custody, that much is clear, finances aren't bothering her, nothing else bothers her. She's just stuck in a vortex of resentment over filming that she will never, ever get over. I have always felt that had Jon not said anything about having an issue with filming and just sucked it up and gone along, Kate would to this day be going on about how much she still loves and cares for him.<br />
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Adam explains she is closed off on dates, creating a barrier where she is unwilling to share anything not perfect. Adam needs her to open up and be vulnerable.<br />
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I personally find it very obnoxious when people try to say you will never understand this or that about me. It sounds arrogant to me. As if your life and problems are so much more unique or harder than everyone else's. Kate, you don't own personal problems, and lots of people are quite capable of having plenty of empathy and understanding about your dumb and mostly stale problems without having personally experienced them.<br />
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Adam wants to know if she's been burned since Jon (he is kind enough not to point out that was <i>ten years ago</i>). Kate averts her eyes, again refusing to discuss her very real and lengthy relationship with Jeff Prescott. She denies ever having been in love since, and then adds, "at all." Is she implying she wasn't in love with Jon either? Oh my god she's such a tool!<br />
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Kate claims to have trust issues and her view of people changed after Jon. I firmly believe that trust issues have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with her relationship issues. As @FlimsyFlamsy said commenting on last week's episode, "<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I think TFW's failure at dating can be boiled down to one specific trait: she honestly doesn't care about other people, and sees them only through the lens of how they can help her."</span><br />
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Exactly, Kate doesn't care! It worked okay with Jon because at that age a lot of young people are inherently selfish and so you don't notice if the other person is just selfish too, and they were both sort of just acting their ages. Except Kate never grew out of being so self-absorbed as most young people will, and when Jon did grow out of it like everyone else normal, he realized, holy shit this woman actually isn't putting me or my kids first or even second or third, so I'm out.<br />
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But Kate now trying to date at 44 and the vast majority of guys are going to be well onto her and quick. She's only going to make it past a few dates with anyone before they realize she's bad news all around. It's just so extremely hard to have any kind of successful relationship, even friendships, if you only see people as a means to an end. That's why Kate has no husband, that's why she's lost two of her children, that's why things ended so badly with Jon and many other family members and friends. This entire series I have questioned whether Kate really has any desire to be with a man at all, and I think if Adam is any good, he will soon see that too and question her on it.<br />
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Adam is doing research, like watching old clips of the show, which seems to me far more research than Rachel ever bothered with. He believes Kate carries around a backpack of baggage. More like a Mack truck, but close enough. He says she has "black heart syndrome" and to change that to red she needs to be open to finding love. Kate keeps cutting Adam off when he's in the middle of saying something good, and it's annoying and very rude.<br />
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Adam's first selection for Kate is Nick, and before they can explain who Nick is, some chick from production swoops in and claims Nick has been in a car accident.<br />
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Is Nick okay? is Adam's first reaction.<br />
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Is Nick okay? is my first reaction.<br />
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Seriously, I hope Nick is okay. However, anyone who has dated for a long time knows that the "car accident" excuse is the oldest excuse in the book. You can't question it, because you'll look like an asshole if it's actually true. So it works to get the guy out of the date every time.<br />
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By Kate's own admission, her first reaction is not is Nick okay? like normal people. Her first reaction is welcome to my life. Her second reaction is, is Nick okay. Classic Kate.<br />
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Adam suggests maybe the two of them could go miniature golfing, and Kate is reluctant to do that because it feels weird to do that knowing someone just got in a car accident. I mean, I kind of agree with that one. It feels like you should just go home and maybe call Nick tomorrow to make sure he's all right and only even consider thinking of rescheduling if Nick brings it up.<br />
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Adam says this could be like a practice mock date, which is something I suggested when Rachel was in charge. Kate isn't even close to being ready for a real date, she's got to practice first. It's like Kate has gone into the Supreme Court to argue a case without first doing a whole bunch of mock arguments with your peers first to get comfortable. Not wise.<br />
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Now that they've decided to play golf Kate just wants to play golf and not talk about anything serious. Adam tries to ask her probing stuff like what she's looking for in a date and Kate gets all mad that someone is asking her to do two things at once. Adam's never seen anything like this. You clearly haven't watched much of Kate, have you Adam?<br />
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In all seriousness though, the inability to focus on more than one subject at a time is pretty common for those on the spectrum. I know we've had that conversation here many times, with some of us believing Kate is on the spectrum, others believing she is a narcissist that just happens to have some traits that look like autism, others thinking she's probably a combination of both. And after seeing these episodes so far and learning more about Kate than I ever asked to know, I'm pretty much on board with her being both. To be sure, she's a narcissist, but she's on the spectrum too even if high functioning. The aversion to touching, the inability to multitask, her extreme struggles with empathy, the difficulty with small talk that comes so easily to most of us. It's really classic autism spectrum and doesn't fit as neatly into just narcissism. It's unfortunate to have to say this though, because I always get worried perhaps those who don't know much about autism will assume this means autistic people are mean, or uncaring, or discard their children. That's not what it is. Many if not most autistic people care very deeply about people, and are able to have successful relationships and families, they just express themselves differently.<br />
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Kate, a 44-year-old woman, says she is very competitive and had to win this stupid miniature golf game. I wonder if she has any idea how nuts she sounds. Incidentally, <a href="https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=170807" target="_blank">a lot of people with autism </a>report feelings of extreme competitiveness, and intense anger and disappointment in themselves if they lose.<br />
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With a straight face, Kate says the reason it's hard to her to describe what she wants is it's the non-tangible stuff that she wants. Well, right, Kate, most single people are looking for mostly non-tangible stuff in a partner, and like, it would be nice if you weren't an absolute toad to look at, but for most people that's just one small part of it. She says she wants integrity, honesty, tenacity and perseverance, and that height, eye color, hair color. doesn't so much matter. She's only kidding herself, as she was absolutely obsessed with Todd's short height.<br />
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Does Kate think when Rachel or Adam were asking her what she is looking for, they meant what she is physically looking for? I realize now this doofus didn't understand the question in the first place, and actually thinks they want her to describe what a date should <i>look </i>like as opposed to <i>who he is as a person.</i> Oy! Because otherwise why doesn't she just tell them I'm looking for a man with integrity, honesty, tenacity and perseverance. That way a matchmaker can seek out more people who, say, started a charity in the Dominican, for starters. She's so difficult.<br />
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Mady says well she, Mady, mostly just cares if the guys are cute. Ew, she wants her stepdad to be cute? I mean, I kind of think she's saying she does. That's a little unhealthy. She is only 17 so I remember "cute" being really important at that age. However you learn years later via Facebook the cutest guys are always the ones that got bald and fat and still live with their mothers. Isn't that funny?<br />
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Kate is 60-70 percent hopeful she will find love, and Adam snarks that that's higher than he feels, hehe. And then she hits the golf ball into the hole to which Adam says that means she'll find love. Kate reports looking forward to what's next and enjoying this process. Well I'm glad someone is.<br />
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So what happened to Nick, is he okay? They never say. But the next day, Adam takes Kate into some tiny little cleared out restaurant, sits her down and says she'll be going on two dates in a row, first with Nick. The same Nick from yesterday, I assume?<br />
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Nick is late, heh, and it's either because he is hobbling to the restaurant in a body cast from yesterday, or is full of shit. I'm gonna go with he's full of shit. Mady reports that Kate is 20 minutes late everywhere and Cara says try an hour. Since Cara is the math major, I'm going to go with her answer. Also, doesn't surprise me Kate is one of those late people because <a href="https://coexistingwithanarcissist.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/traits-are-narcissists-always-late/" target="_blank">when it comes to narcissism only their time matters</a>, not everybody else's. Hey, Kate, <a href="https://vitamintalent.com/blog/no-you-are-not-running-late-you-are-rude-and-selfish" target="_blank">being late all the time is flipping rude</a> and doesn't make you a catch or worthy of guys like Jeff Boyd or worthy of not being ghosted. And this is where I'm clear she's a narcissistic too, because she's doing the late thing because it's all about her. Most autistic people are very good about watching time, obsessing over it, and many are militant about punctuality down to the second because it appeals to their meticulous nature and comfort in routine. It's one reason why they actually can make really good employees in a lot of fields.<br />
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After 20 minutes Adam calls it, Nick has ghosted Kate. Haha, yes! Someone finally felt themselves too important to give a flying fig about Kate Gosselin. Nick is marriage material. And in my Kate Plus Date fantasy, I imagine Nick googling Kate just before the date, being horrified by what he saw, and quick whipping up a terrible story about a car accident before he ran for the hills.<br />
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Also, we all know now, the "car accident" yesterday was a big fat lie, calling it.<br />
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It's okay though because Adam has a second date lined up now, <a href="https://www.joeybatscafe.com/about/" target="_blank">Joey Batista</a>. He's 39, warm and handsome, and owns a restaurant in NYC called Joey Bats Cafe. I looked it up on <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/joey-bats-caf%C3%A9-new-york" target="_blank">Yelp</a>, and it has an impressive five star rating. Looks like they specialize in Portuguese egg tarts, which look just delicious. But anyone who knows what it's like in the restaurant business knows right out of the gate dating someone in Pennsylvania is not realistic. You work too long and too hard. Joey reminds me a little of Kate's old friend Tony.<br />
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Joey actually knows of Kate, and I'm in shock, but then he qualifies it as well he knows the "bare minimum." Heh, bare minimum doesn't count, so I'm still gonna put him in the "don't have a clue who she is" pile. I'm guessing bare minimum basically means he was checking out in the grocery store with his pineapple kumbucha and his cheesy popcorn and saw her on a tabloid cover that said "Monster Mom" but never actually opened the magazine to read the article, so yeah, he knows <i>of</i> her.<br />
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Kate says this younger thing could be a dealbreaker, claiming that she doesn't want to look older. No, heifer, that's not what you said before. You explained before quite clearly you don't want someone younger because <i>you don't want Jon.</i> So I'm not going to allow you to change the story on us now.<br />
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Joey thinks Kate looks like she needs a drink so they start getting some alcohol in them. Kate demands to know why everyone is shoving drinks down her throat. Heh, just as I suspected, production is intentionally encouraging everyone to drink because that's <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xpjxb/the-truth-behind-drinking-and-consent-on-reality-tv" target="_blank">the oldest trick in the book</a> to encourage better reality T.V. Pathetic.<br />
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I'm near falling asleep from Kate rambling on and on to this poor guy about <a href="http://www.realitytvkids.com/2011/12/kate-completes-las-vegas-marathon-in.html" target="_blank">the marathon she ran/cheated at</a> and all the other running she allegedly does. Or did. She admits she don't run anymore, which we all knew that. Joey is doing a great job of pretending to care. By the way, the marathon was <i>eight </i>years ago, so knowing that, it seems kind of silly to talk so much about it as if you just did it last fall. Folks, she's on the spectrum. She talks just like someone on the spectrum, going on and on about one topic, not letting the other person get a breath in, and way overstaying her welcome with the topic even when the other person is asleep with their eyes open. Just as I'm nodding off Adam pops in off site where he's spying on them to laugh at Kate and say this is so boring. Ha! All right, he's <i>so</i> much better than Rachel, it's official.<br />
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It's like whiplash following a conversation when Kate tries to lead it. First she's talking about the creepy cat wallpaper in the restaurant, and next we're hearing about Joey's restaurant. Joey suggests they walk on over to the restaurant since it's only a few blocks away, as if he just thought of this idea and it wasn't completely planned by production in advance. Well, I guess he gets points for playing along.<br />
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Everyone is horrified when who should be there at the restaurant waiting for them but Joey's mother, but Kate is the only sensible one of all people to point out that it's the family's restaurant and his mother works there, so it's not a shock she would actually be there when they visit. Joey says he's never taken a date to his restaurant before. Is that supposed to mean that Kate is so special to him? Heh. Joey's mom is going to show Kate how to make a traditional Portuguese "cookie cake." This is starting to look more like some episode of <i>Diners, Drive-ins and Dives</i> on The Food Network than a dating show about Kate, weird.<br />
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The cake is pretty good though, it's like this yummy yellow pudding that Joey won't tell Kate the recipe of or he'll have to kill her, then cookies, then more pudding, then cookies again. I think it's no bake but that's not really explained. I think Joey's mom could probably move on along now, but no, she's bringing out wine and instead of just pouring them some and then leaving, she pours herself a glass, too. Heh! I mean, she's cute.<br />
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Adam's like, okay Mom needs to leave now, Kate is too focused on making the cake, and they need to touch. Yes, yes, yes.<br />
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Joey's mom finally excuses herself and then she goes to talk to the cameras and claims that they should go on a second date, ha. Hey, I think I get now how Joey has heard of Kate. Mom had the TV on in the back while they were doing payroll and some show about a monster mom and her eight now six kids was on and he glanced at the TV before politely asking her if they could just turn on the game. That explains it.<br />
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Joey and Kate are awkwardly standing there in the restaurant and just chatting, but soon are running out of things to say. Before Joey gets a chance to drum his hands on the counter and ask what else is there, Adam finally interrupts this odd date. At least he apologies about it as opposed to Rachel who just appeared in front of them and claimed restaurants with plenty of people still eating in them needed to shut down.<br />
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Adam says he's glad Kate listened to him about not bringing up her baggage and negativity on this date and just kept it positive and charming. Agreed. If my recaps don't make it clear, it seems to me Kate has yammered about her divorce and other issues on near every date so far. It's so boring and you can tell the guys find it unattractive. There's no reason to delve into that stuff when you're on a first date. It just makes you seem depressing and preoccupied, and it's not classy to divulge that sort of thing to someone you actually don't know at all. Save it for when the stranger in front of you is someone you can trust your heart with.<br />
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Adam and Kate confer and Adam is like, so my feedback is you did great with being positive, but I'd suggest maybe showing that you're interested in him once in awhile. Kate makes a hilariously confused face, like, why would I do that?? Because as Flimsy said, she's not interested in any people at all, so why should she be interested?<br />
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Adam would suggest Kate think about maybe hugging the dates, and Kate explains she doesn't touch and doesn't even hug her kids. Mady tries to excuse this as well Kate cares a lot for them but doesn't hug and kiss them, but it's okay because she would do anything for them (Mady, she actually wouldn't do anything for you, and someday you'll see that). Nope, sorry, Mady, there's no excuse for not hugging your children. Even if you don't like it, you hug them. Because it's good for their brains, their development, their self-esteem and self worth, so you f-ing do it, Kate. Did you like changing diapers? Did you like cleaning up throw up and spit up and diarrhea and other bodily fluids? Did you like trying to put a screaming baby back to sleep at 4am? But you did it, didn't you? You did it because it's best for them. So, you need to hug too, because it's best for them.<br />
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Maybe Hannah and Collin just needed a damn bear hug once in awhile, so that's why they went to go live with Jon. Tool.<br />
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Kate says Joey is a maybe to a yes for a next date. I find it inconsistent and confusing that Kate is all impressed with Adam for finding somebody like Joey for her, and apparently doesn't blame him at all for the dud that was Nick who didn't even show up. Yet when Rachel had one amazing date for her and one dud (Jeff, followed by gym teacher Andrew), it was all like she's the most terrible matchmaker ever. How come Kate refuses to give Rachel any credit for Jeff? It's weird. I mean, she does suck and I think Jeff was more of a fluke than her doing, but I'm just asking Kate to be consistent here.<br />
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Next on Kate Plus I Hate this Show, a mildly interesting episode where the twins meet the guys and interrogate them <i>Meet the Parents </i>style. This show is such a poor man's concept of an overall halfway decent idea I just have to laugh. It appears perhaps the twins have a different idea of who Kate should go on a second date with, which has me ever so curious about that one. Could I guess that maybe they thought Jeff was a bit too much of a "dad joke" type, and perhaps liked the younger, cute and personable Joey? I can't believe I'm actually wondering what happens next, I hate myself and deserve to be ghosted. Until next time.<br />
<br />Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com260tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-16208167734932386612019-06-24T18:49:00.000-07:002019-06-30T08:30:11.374-07:00Discussion Thread: Kate Plus Date "Another One Bites the Dust" 6/24/2019 AND Recap: Kate Plus Date "Another One Bites the Dust": God love her, but her personality could freeze the nuts off a polar bear!We're back with our next <i>Kate Plus Date </i>recap and this time we're up to Episode Three, Another One Bites the Dust. No, don't tell me this heifer rejects her next two dates, too. You're kidding!<br />
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This is another episode TLC pushed to their app days early, so the recap is again ready in time for the episode. Jury is still out on why they are doing this, but my speculation remains it's a test run for some idea they have and Kate's show was the random guinea pig, luck of the draw.<br />
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And hey I know we can be a little slow on the uptake sometimes but a couple of us on the blog finally realized that every episode is stealing a song from Queen. I got a kick out of you bloggers suggesting more appropriate Queen songs for this hot mess and I would pick "I Want It All." About how you bulldoze your way to getting everything you want. That's our Kate!<br />
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Check out the <a href="http://www.realitytvkids.com/2019/06/discussion-thread-kate-plus-date-crazy.html" target="_blank">recap</a> to find out what happened last time. One thing that's always been good fun about following this saga over many years now is all the hilarious snark. This blog started in 2009, folks, our ten year anniversary is August 2019, yeesh! There's been both great snark here and from around the inter webs reposted here, and Gigi Be was kind enough to bring over some of the best from the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/TV-Show/Kate-Plus-Date-875906629264708/" target="_blank">Kate Plus Date Facebook page</a>. Says Liz from Kentucky: <span style="font-family: inherit;">“I do hope she watches it back and maybe learns something about herself, like the fact that she frowns ALL THE TIME!!! Her wrinkles between her eyes are deep enough for a 70 yr old!! </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">And God love her, there is not an ounce of warmth to her!! Her personality could freeze the nuts off a polar bear!! I will not be watching the 2nd time😐” </span><br />
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Heh, I love the half frowning emoji at the end, nice touch. Yep, that's pretty much the sum of the first two episodes of this mess. You got it, Liz.<br />
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Coming up, Rachel still sucks at her job.<br />
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The episode kicks off with an awkwardly staged but very Kardashian-like scene where Kate and the girls are in some random mall talking about how her dating life is going. Aren't high school girls supposed to be spilling the tea to their moms about <i>their </i>dating lives? Who cares about their mother's dating life? Weird.<br />
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In a graphic they line up the four dates Kate has already had in a way that feels really insensitive to the men, as if they are dresses Kate is trying on and not real people with feelings. I'm pretty convinced if this were like, Matt Roloff's show about picking his next girlfriend, their would be outrage. But women get away with a lot, way more than they appreciate, including a whole lot of hypocritical behavior. Man, those French tip nails are near blinding me when I'm just trying to do a recap here. Sheesh they're whiter than <i>Dawson's Creek.</i><br />
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The mall setup gets awkwarder still as Mady recites a litany of lines about how she wants to meet Kate's dates, and it's embarrassing how badly she's trying to be Kim Kardashian 2.0 here.<br />
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Why does Mady keep talking about approving dates for marriage and how they need to get to know Mady first? Mady, your mother here can barely get through a peck on the cheek after one encounter with a nice guy, you may be putting the cart before the horse.<br />
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Rachel's baaaaack with another stupid idea to have Kate do improv comedy. Which will somehow translate to a better dating life. You got me, too, folks. Kate says these little excursions with dumb Rachel are more stressful than even the dates themselves, heh! For us viewers, too, schmoopy.<br />
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Rachel claims Kate says she lacks confidence. That is literally the last quality about Kate I would think she is lacking. In fact it's her over-confidence that has landed her in so much trouble. She's delusional and over-confident to her detriment, still to this day thinking she's actually living such a rockstar public life on her television show that she can't even leave the house without getting mobbed. Word down the pike is that in this episode Rachel gets fired, and I know I'm going to really hate having to agree with Kate, but get rid of this doofus. Rachel has absolutely no understanding of who Kate is and the inquiry should stop there but even if it didn't, she sucks at so much else, too, I don't know why she's not fired already.<br />
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And in typical jack of all trades master of none, Rachel is going on about how funny Kate is. Well if you mean hilariously awful at cooking, speaking, raising children, marriage, dating.... yes, she's funny. What does funny have to do with anything? Anyone with a lick of knowledge about comedy knows that <a href="http://jimmycarrane.com/its-not-about-being-funnny/" target="_blank">improv really isn't about trying to be "funny"</a> at all and if you go in "trying to be funny" any improv you do will likely fall flat.<br />
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But hey at least this time Rachel isn't insisting they do some dumb activity in the <i>middle </i>of the date and rudely leave the date standing around waiting for them to get back. And I also wouldn't at <i>all </i>be surprised if this episode was re-edited to move the traditional "mid-date" activity with Rachel to before the date, since it was pointed out by viewers how rude it was. The magic of editing bays.<br />
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Mady says Kate flirts with construction workers to get through roadblocks. Of course she does because no roadblock could hold back a good entitled narcissist. And that's probably going to be the most interesting and telling comment we will hear about Kate tonight. I can't even imagine how exactly Kate flirts with construction workers to get through a roadblock and I'm weirded out thinking about it. Is it like, "Hey there Mr. Construction Man, I'd sure love for you to raise <i>my </i>roof! Now let me and my Audi on through your roadblock, what do you say?" Just, eww. And why does Kate want to get through a roadblock so bad anyway? Is she sure about that? Hasn't she ever seen <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9S0l-ExuCc" target="_blank">Speed</a>?<br />
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One of the improv guys already hates this, sharply correcting Kate when she calls whatever it is they do "skits" and not the correct word "scenes." Heh, this could be good.<br />
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They do a quick <i>scene</i>, and I guess it's about a kid asking his mom why she's dating Kent now and not with dad. Who is Kent and how did he figure out how to get past the first date with stone cold Kate and does he have money? But when Kate tells her "son" they'll talk about it later she violated the very first rule of improv in that you don't contradict your partner and you <i>always </i>go with the flow. In other words when he asked about Kent, Kate's answer should have been <i>anything</i> but we're not going to talk about it. Not that I expect Kate to know any of the rules of improv because why should she? To her credit, Kate was willing to try it and actually genuinely enjoyed herself.<br />
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Rachel is over the top proud of herself for how well the improv went and it was okay but Rachel, this doesn't do a thing to get to the heart of why Kate is such a basket case on a simple thing such as a date.<br />
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Kate launches into some tirade about how people have this impression of her that she is a horrible strict mother but she actually loves to laugh and has an amazing sense of humor. What does that have to do with being a horrible child abuser? Some horrible child abusers have a sense of humor, so what? Kate, you discarded two of your children in the dumpster. Next?<br />
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"I hope you learned something," snarks the snarky improv guy who hates her. Hehe.<br />
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Rachel somehow surmises that due to Kate coming up with a few half decent things to say during her improv class she is now an incredible conversationalist and there will never be dead air again. Well that's optimistic. Nobody listen to Rachel. Here's a much better suggestion for how to be a good conversationalist that has nothing to do with wasting your time and everyone else's in an improv class you have no business being in: Ask questions. Just keep asking questions. Most people like to talk about themselves, and asking questions is good for two reasons, because it gets the other person talking so you don't have to think of things to say, and it makes the other person feel good because they assume if someone is asking questions they are interested. And second tip is read. Read at least four to five interesting things every day (not just news but non-fiction, fiction, topics like travel, music, sports or hobbies, whatever) and when you're out of questions bring up something you read and ask what they think of it. Your conversation will usually be able to go for hours just doing that.<br />
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If Rachel did what is actually a classic improv game with Kate where Kate could <i>only </i>ask questions of anyone else, that might actually work in teaching this sorry mess how to talk like normal humans. Sigh, what a mess these two women are.<br />
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Stay tuned for fun Kate, Kate says. No, she actually says this.<br />
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Heh, coming up, another guy who doesn't know who the F Kate is. I just love when that happens. It just throws such a damper on Kate's ridiculous narrative that she can't online date or do this or do that because she's just so well known. In fact near every guy she's been set up with hasn't the foggiest idea who she is.<br />
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Kate's first date is Jeff Boyd, who creepily has the exact same name as one of my old friends from school. Rachel nonsensically explains that Jeff, who is from North Carolina, and Kate, who is from PA, will be brought up to NYC to have their date. And this relationship will work how?<br />
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Is it just me or do any single women (or women who remember being single) just want to punch a guy in the face when he says he realized as he hit about 43 he better start sort of stop traveling all the time and partying and drinking and maybe put down some roots and find a wife and have some kids. Isn't that nice you can just ignore the ovary clock and can work and travel and do whatever the F you want for as long as you want and then round about when it gets a little old to be hungover half the morning all the time you find yourself to be 43 years old and finally get your shit together and grab a pretty wife (who is usually ten or more years younger) and have your kids and perfect family with a snap of your fingers? Sorry, just a little rant on behalf of women everywhere, but biology is really unfair sometimes.<br />
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Jeff owns his own business and seems to be the first date here who hasn't been married before. He does seem nice.<br />
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All Kate can say about what she wants at this point is a guy with a sense of humor and then names two completely shallow requirements, older than her (WHY?) and tall.<br />
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In addition to Jeff having the same name as my friend, his voice and intonations sound exactly like another friend of mine. Like exactly. I feel like God is making fun of me.<br />
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Oh lordy, Jeff looks immediately pretty enamored with Kate (GREAT, another guy's gonna get hurt for no god damn good reason) as they meet up at a private bowling lane. We actually did this once for an old work Christmas party, rented our own private lane. I thought it was silly waste of money at first but turns out it was incredible fun to have our own little space to bowl.<br />
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The only thing Kate can much say about Jeff on the couch is he has long hair but it was neat. Um, I mean, it wasn't that long. I don't like that style myself where the man's hair is all the same length and swept back, I think it looks juvenile on most men, but his cut is neat and clean and he can always get a different haircut if someone won't marry him over something like that, or just dump her.<br />
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They have a mostly shallow conversation about whatever and Jeff mentions that although he is competitive he's a good loser. Jeff, I know you haven't heard of Kate but have you heard of Jon? Kate is not a good loser too.<br />
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I like Jeff a ton and immediately. He says he doesn't have kids but has three nephews. Any guy who when asked about having kids brings up other kids who are special to them in their life is likely a good egg. He also points out that he would be way more concerned about the eight kids if they were toddlers (right?!) but since they're so much older now it seems it's near a non-issue for him. I know he doesn't know he's doing it but twice in a row he's made Kate's narrative look stupid. He's proven not everyone knows who the F she is, and that her kids aren't the reason she can't go out there and get herself a man especially given how old they are now.<br />
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Jeff is funny and personable. When he bowls a strike right out of the gate, he jokes about practicing before the date. That's the sort of thing that should put your date at ease. He's a guy that likes doing those little touches as he speaks to you, like touching your shoulder as he points to something. We spend an extremely long time explaining that Kate doesn't like to be touched and Mady says she's passed that down to the kids as none of them like to be touched either. I'm not sure this is so much a genetic thing as a nurture thing. Don't touch or hug your kids much at all and they grow up not ever wanting to be touched either. (Or, they will crave touching so much they'll put themselves in unhealthy relationships or situations just to get it.) Greattttt parenting.<br />
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Kate the martyr says she doesn't know what it's like to have no responsibilities and a free day to do whatever she likes, so she couldn't tell Jeff what she would do with that day. "I'll get back to you," she says. She's such a tool. Such.a.tool. I wish this guy would say, um, aren't your kids like 15 and 17? Aren't you just a glorified uber pool driver at this point in their childhoods? I also wish he knew about all the times she's jetted off to New York and L.A. and done whatever the F she wanted. She also doesn't realize that Jeff is asking in a somewhat complicated way, <i>what are your hobbies? What do you like to do? </i>He's trying to make conversation, and she's violating the improv rule again by refusing to answer the question and not going with the flow. Sigh.<br />
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Kate says one of the few true funny things I've ever heard from her. Just as Jeff is about to let go of his bowling ball she blurts out really fast "What do you think it would be like to have eight kids?" (Six kids, Kate. Six.) Jeff bowls a gutter ball. Heh, just kidding.<br />
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Wow, Kate actually admits that due to Jon, she vowed (vowed Kate, really? What is this <i>Game of Thrones?</i>) that she would never date anyone younger than her.<br />
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She's certifiable. Does she honestly think Jon's age had anything to do with anything? He is all of <i>two year </i>younger than her! Unless you're in certain states and 18 and he's 16, that's nothing. Around about past age 30, which was near the beginning of their relationship anyway, there should be little to no difference in maturity if there ever even was. Does she honestly think if Jon were two years older than her rather than two years younger than her, he magically would have found the maturity that age brings to love filming and continue to go along with it and the marriage could have gone on? What she will never understand is it's actually impressive that Jon at his relatively young age was able to recognize the long-term damage he was doing to his children and put a stop to it before it was too late, and that it was because of <i>Jon</i>, and Jon only, that these children mercifully got a very significant break in the near constant barrage of cameras in their lives and got to be a little bit normal for some time especially during the most painful periods of the divorce. And it's because of <i>Jon </i>leaving this all behind that ratings never really were the same and that filming mostly petered out in the following years. Keep in mind, the sextuplets haven't been filmed in over two years and rumor is Jon won't let them film this dating show, which means they can live these important teenage years in relative and deserved peace. This disruption Jon caused to filming could be the difference for many of them between a childhood they could process and move on from, versus one they'll just never get over. Kate will never, ever see this or admit it, but the kids are damn lucky Jon is their father and not some other older schmuck who may have gone along with all this filming until they were filmed into the ground, not even joking.<br />
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Kate is 18 days older than Jeff and she hates that. 18 days, Kate, good Lord. Why is this even an issue they are even talking about? Shouldn't you be asking things like, so who is special to you in your life, how important or unimportant is faith to you, how do you feel about alcohol/smoking/drugs, what are you looking for in a relationship and a woman, what values are important to you, how do you feel about children and what is your parenting style, where do you see yourself in five years, ten? Does any of this matter to Kate except for her damn obsession with finding somebody who is <i>not Jon?</i><br />
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Do you play board games, Jeff asks. He likes board games? Sold!<br />
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All this "flirting" I guess I'll call it during this bowling is kind of like watching your favorite second grade teacher go on a date. You just don't want to see it, know about it, hear about it.<br />
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Rachel claims that Jeff picked out the restaurant for them and then menu. Jeff and not production? Sure, Rachel. And what does that mean he picked out the menu? How come Kate can't just look at the restaurant's menu and pick what she wants to order herself? Odd.<br />
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"If I had spare time," Kate begins as they start dinner and I virtually slap her silly. She says in her spare time she would travel. Why can't she travel now? The kids have spring breaks, winter breaks, summer breaks off and <i>she doesn't work. </i>This dating show is the first project of any significance she has done in two years! It such an insult to working mothers and fathers who need every penny and often times actually can't take time off over spring breaks or summer breaks or winter breaks and even if they could don't have the money to travel their kids all over the place. She's so insensitive and pathetic.<br />
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Jeff loves traveling, has been to 75 countries and owns an adventure travel company which explains why he has been to 75 countries. Jeff has a well rounded and interesting life but just as he starts explaining something interesting about doing philanthropy in the Dominican Republic Kate cuts him off to make some dumb joke.<br />
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What takes you to the Dominican over 100 times? Kate demands. Kate, I'm guessing it has something to do with taxes, banks and payroll.<br />
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Oh you can see the stars in Kate's eyes about this being able to tag along on all these business trips to the Dominican Republic and lay at the beach. I guess she didn't hear Jeff's earlier commentary about himself where he explained he's actually feeling like all of that is getting old and he'd like to scale it back now and settle down. Heh!<br />
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Kate says on the couch that this guy would be great because she loves when guys have to go off somewhere and get out of her hair. Heh, I imagine that's how she stayed with the other Jeff in her life, Jeff Millionaire, <a href="https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2019/06/kate-gosselin-ex-jeff-prescott-slams-claims-they-never-dated/" target="_blank">the one she keeps lying about (and libeling and slandering)</a>, for two whole years.<br />
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Instead of listening to all this and realizing Jeff is the first of any of her dates who is a complete catch that one should reel in right now and do everything they can to make him their husband and hang onto forever, Kate instead makes a smug and annoying comment about why in the world would he live in North Carolina. He just told you, Kate. His extended family lives there and mean a lot to him, which is something I'm sure you don't understand. I'm also sure he enjoys the good food, kind people, excellent educational and cultural opportunities, the fact that @JoyinVirginia is your neighbor and knows all the best places to go, the beautiful beaches, and perhaps he likes scenery like this:<br />
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Jeff's first date questions are so cute, like what's your favorite movie. His is <i>Princess Bride</i>???? Oh size a girl's finger right now and let's skip all the in between dating stuff.<br />
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Does anyone care what Kate's favorite movie is? Didn't think so. But it's <i>The Sound of Music, </i>and I have no idea why she thinks anyone would laugh at that because it's an absolutely fantastic and perfect movie, from the structure and story to the music to the actors to the pacing to the cinematography. Everyone admits that even if they don't personally like it.<br />
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Did I miss something or when did Kate suddenly start going to Charlotte all the time? I get that there's some kind of TLC connection there but I highly doubt a woman who has not filmed in two entire years constantly needs to jet down there. Aren't most things done by conference call these days anyway? She mentions meeting up with Jeff again the couple times he will be in Charlotte a year. A couple times a year?? If I were Jeff I would absolutely take that as she's not interested. If you are interested, you shouldn't say something like that. Rather mention something much more concrete, like, "I'd love to touch base later this week, give me a call." She's such a piece of work.<br />
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I don't understand when guys say they are mostly dating just to meet new friends. I have never in my life heard a woman say they're just looking to meet a "friend" when going on a date. You can find friends any time and anywhere. It's like they are sort of using it as a peremptory excuse to get out of a relationship quick and dirty without guilt. Oh, well, I'm just looking for friends I said that from the beginning, so, let's be friends! So unfair and wastes the woman's time. </div>
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I will say that this show has caused me to reflect a lot on the subject of dating, which has been mostly fun to think about. My own ups and downs with the process, what works and what doesn't, the various hypocrisies among men and women, the absurdities, the code words and phrases that men and women tend to repeat that I've figured out the true meaning of over the years. The highs and lows. Dating sure is quite the emotional ride but one hopes it is worth it in the end for both. </div>
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Wait, neither of them know the rules of squash. Then how does Andrew know so much about it being so different from racketball? And there's no teacher anywhere, so how will this work? They hit the ball a bit then get some water, then hit the ball again. They manage to talk about how Kate has enjoyed running in Central Park and then things peter out. </div>
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Kate doesn't get why Rachel isn't learning what she wants from these dates and why after a date as decent as Jeff she gives her Andrew. Putting aside the fact that both are at fault, Rachel for not understanding how to help Kate despite the wealth of information about her out there, and Kate for not communicating her wants and needs well, is it really all that likely how this show is working behind the scenes? Is there a giant pool of men all lined up to date Kate and as each date goes by Rachel refines her picks and narrowly tailors it all and swaps out Peter for Paul seconds before the next date after realizing Kate actually really hates this or that? Or is it really more likely ten men were pre-approved and lined up to go and that Kate's dates were always going to be those ten men no matter what she said about the dates she'd already had? I can't see how it can be anything but the latter, shows just wouldn't work logistically or financially otherwise. Which make none of this Rachel's fault really because once the men are "cast," there's nothing she can do about it. Like if all the men had a cute little freckle on their chin and Kate said she hates cute freckles on chins, there would be nothing Rachel could do about it to swap in new men, right?</div>
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For some reason neither Andrew or Kate can talk to each other. Every question is answered shortly and then deflates into silence. Ugh, sometimes that just happens even if you otherwise can carry on a conversation with near anyone, you just cannot with that particular person. And Andrew unfortunately has a number of things about him that just aren't all that interesting or good conversation starters to someone who isn't particularly good at conversation. He's in medical sales, has no kids so nothing to talk about there, loves dogs but doesn't <i>have one</i> so what more can you say there? Plays golf <i>but doesn't anymore.</i> Kate doesn't like sports so it ends there, too. Andrew is answering questions as if he is being interrogated by a detective in front of a mirrored window. Keep it short and simple, be noncommittal about everything, don't offer a thing that's not completely benign and generic. Forget dating, if you're like this in real life I can't much imagine this guy has much of anyone who even wants to be around him much less date him.</div>
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Rachel briefly responds to all this and looks deliriously happy about it all. Heh. Like, those chipmunk teeth have never popped that much. Oddly she says "it's safer that way." What's safer? You not being around Kate? It was unsafe working for Kate? Oh, folks, there is such a big story here we're not being told and may never know. Damn it! I want someone on instagram to ask Rachel what she meant by it's "safer" to not work for Kate anymore, she seems keen to answer a lot of questions lately and maybe she'll take the bait. Maybe I can talk my dog <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sea.gordon/">@sea.gordon</a> into doing it. </div>
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Can I ask a question? Why was Rachel fired when Jeff was a really, really good date? What does it matter that Andrew was a bad date when Jeff was so good? All it takes is one good guy. As much as Rachel grates, I really don't understand why Kate isn't over the moon happy with her she finally dug out Jeff from the pile of turds. She should be telling her I love you, Rachel, forget the rest of the dates, let's just do date two with Jeff right now because he's great! And I kind of wish Rachel would stand up for herself a little and say wait a second wasn't Jeff good, were you not happy with Jeff, was I not doing my job correctly with Jeff? He was handsome, funny, the date went well, no kids, no divorces, had all your qualifications except for the age thing but I should at least get a pass for that for coming within 19 days of him being older than you. Come on, Rachel, show some spirit! </div>
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Next up on <i>Kate Plus Date, </i>Kate's replacement matchmaker aka social media influencer finally calls it right, Kate has "Black Heart Syndrome." Oh, help me help me I can't breathe! Yes, matchmaker guy, yes! Now please make it your life's work to add this disease to the DSM-V and make the whole world a better place.</div>
Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com167tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-87708596364867518932019-06-17T16:00:00.000-07:002019-06-30T21:33:58.702-07:00Discussion Thread: Kate Plus Date "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" 6/17/2019 AND Recap: Kate Plus Date "Crazy Little Thing Called Love": Rachel is not a 'date mom' she is a repugnant doofusHi everyone. Strangely, TLC decided to push this episode early to their online platforms as an "early premiere," so for the first time in my history of writing recaps, the recap is ready to go the moment the episode airs. It's just like we got an advanced screener copy! Heh. Enjoy.<br />
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I won't recap the show's recap of what happened last time, you can just read my recap <a href="http://www.realitytvkids.com/2019/06/recap-kate-plus-date-somebody-to-love.html" target="_blank">here</a>. The sum of it is Kate's matchmaker Rachel is pretty darn obtuse, and Kate rejected two potentially decent guys one because he had something called a personality and the other because he was an amazing guy who was like 5'7, maybe 5'8 on a good day. They don't play the Queen song this episode, oddly. Good because Queen was asking themselves "can we sue???"<br />
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Rachel starts off the episode with more dumb comments, this time talking about how she has to just cast the net wide because Kate can't articulate what she's looking for in a man. Rachel, she never did tell you what she wants because <i>she's not really looking. </i>It's so painful to watch Rachel continue to not get it.<br />
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I guess they're implying Kate will do two dates a week, and then regroup with Rachel to start up the next two the next week. It's unlikely this is how this was filmed, which would put it on a pretty lengthy five-week schedule, longer than some low-budget movies. It costs more money to film things in couple day spurts week after week. Usually you would film all at once or as much at once as possible, though perhaps with weekends off. They also probably filmed all of the North Carolina stuff at once and all of the New York City stuff at once and all of the PA stuff at once, to the extent possible. It makes no sense to be jetting off back and forth back and forth to all these places a dozen times as the show implies. So I'm not really sure I believe out of the gate this is "next week." It's more than likely just the next day or even out of order somewhere.<br />
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Kate says well this week her nerves are a bit better, and then proceeds to talk not about the men but being nervous about meeting Rachel last week. Why in the world was she nervous meeting Rachel? Is she supposed to be dating her? Well, I hope Kate quickly realized there's <i>nothing</i> to be nervous about meeting a blown bag, and that that was silly of her.<br />
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Rachel advises Kate to get out of her head and into her heart. That might be good advice if anyone actually knew what she meant by that. Self-help people who talk in mumbo-jumbo terms like that are generally just that, full of mumbo-jump crap. "Intentional" is one of my favorite stupid mumbo-jumbo buzzwords common among all the gurus these days. Do this intentionally, do that intentionally, be intentional, yada yada. Since almost everything I do except maybe pee a little when I laugh really hard is intentional, I haven't the foggiest clue what they mean by that and mostly find people who spew out stuff like "intentional" and "get out of your head" to be money-grabbing frauds.<br />
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Kate is interpreting all this as just don't "think" on a date. Um, so like, be a zombie? Normally I would say good heavens don't stop thinking all together, that could be scary, like what happens if you approach a crosswalk and aren't allowing yourself any thinking? But in Kate's case, she might be better off with taking the thinking out of this completely.<br />
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Can I put this questionable advice into simpler and hopefully better terms? I think what Kate needs to work on is being in the moment. In other words, advice from Realitytvkids, on a date try to stop yourself from running through a bunch of questions in your head, or fears, or what if's. Try to focus on one or two simple thoughts, like how can I get to know this man in front of me better right now, what can I say and do to help me do that? Don't worry if he's not for you, don't worry if you will be asked out on a second date, don't worry if he likes you too or if the date is going well for him or if you will marry. Consciously reassure yourself you will be able to think up and down about all those nagging questions later, once the date has ended and you've left.<br />
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When Rachel says "unknowwwwwn" I hear Syracuse. She went there, and I wonder if she's from the area. There's some upstate New York in this girl, whether born and raised or just a transplant!<br />
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Her first victim is up already, Jeremiah, from Jersey (Jersey!!), 39 and a retired police officer. Divorced of course. Police officer eh? This might work. Kate once said a police officer would be great for her kids.<br />
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Wait, he's a <i>retired </i>police officer. He's only 39, so what does he do now? Just not work? Let me guess, he's an <i>actor </i>and really only ever did the police thing maybe 6 months. Unless maybe the pension was so good it made sense to hang up the hat at 39, which is possible!<br />
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Jeremiah is looking for someone who can help him become a man. The what becoming what man? Jeremiah, you are 39 years old! There's not much more "becoming" left to go! Rachel is <i>the worst </i>matchmaker.<i> </i>He's all wrong for Kate. He says he'd like to help the woman do the same. Help Kate become a man? That could be an interesting relationship.<br />
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Huh, Jeremiah's shirt sure has a bunch of holes in it, which is a comment I can totally hear my grandmother saying if she were to watch this show, bless her departed soul.<br />
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Was the budget slashed on this show already between episode one and two? Because Kate pulls up to an escape room in a taxi this time. A taxi, baw! How mediocre! What happened to the limo, the champagne, the crowd of tourists wondering when the sidewalks will open up again? What, they couldn't even spring for an UberX? Pitiful.<br />
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Kate likes escape rooms because she's competitive to the death. Eh, another dating tip, try not to come across as psycho competitive, most people see that as a huge red flag. In general, first dates that involve a competition of some sort are not a good idea but if you must, try to just stay relaxed and don't be more concerned with winning than getting to know your date.<br />
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Jeremiah arrives at the escape room a bit out of breath and legitimately sweating. Kate noticed how tall Jeremiah was, but didn't notice his huge muscles that apparently production noticed, because he keeps talking about it out of the frame and questioning Kate on it. Maybe Jeremiah should be set up with him, he seems to appreciate him! Jeremiah thought Kate has pretty eyes. She does, they're a pretty color, sure. But still dead.<br />
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Sorry I'm late, Jeremiah says, but I was busy giving CPR to some guy in the coffee shop who collapsed. Kate says twice he's lying. At least later in the interview she seems to acknowledge that was kind of bitchy of her to just assume he's lying. Lol. The reason I don't think Jeremiah is lying is because it doesn't seem to bother him that Kate doesn't believe him. He's kind of like, whatever, I did what I did, I don't need you to validate me. A producer speaks up out of the frame and says this story is actually completely true. Sounds like the same voice who really was admiring the muscles earlier, hehe. After getting through the preliminaries accusing the date of lying to you within seconds of meeting him, at least Kate finally asks is the guy all right. Heh.<br />
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So can we hear more about how Jeremiah saved some guy with his mad CPR skillz? Sounds way more interesting than watching a date with Kate. Kate should be able to relate to this anyway, as she's been on life support for years.<br />
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The holey shirt is just really bad. It doesn't look fashionable, it looks like it needs a box full of moth balls to store it in.<br />
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The escape room they're going to do looks good, it's a "runaway train" and they put them in a car. They start opening drawers and reading numbers and trying to piece it together. They realize looking at various clues they have to hold hands to get to the next step, which Kate is happy to do because it will help them win the game.<br />
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Did Rachel just hop on a radio to give them a hint? I hear her voice in the train! That would have annoyed the shit out of me! They're doing really well in this room, and nobody was asking for hints, Rachel. Good Lord, she is the worst. I know I'm ridiculous, but I would not feel like I really completed this room if I did so with the help of even the tiniest of hints.<br />
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This honestly looks like a good escape room. I would do this one. Jeremiah tells Kate he loves her if this works as she tries to open a door with the provided glove. It works! He loves her! They solve the puzzle with 5 minutes to spare. That's pretty good.<br />
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Jeremiah couldn't really detect any sparks from Kate. She was really into the train, he remarks. What, did it have gravy on it?<br />
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After the escape room Rachel takes Kate to aerial yoga, which Kate pretty accurately describes as cirque du soleil. Wait, where's Jeremiah? I thought Kate was supposed to be dating him, not Rachel. What a weird interruption. And what's poor Jeremiah going to do while they do yoga? Maybe he could go check in on how that guy he gave CPR to is doing. Did anyone else notice that nobody said when Jeremiah arrived all sweaty, so hey, Jeremiah, do you need a minute or two to regroup and process that you just gave CPR to a half-dead man? Not Kate and not even dumb Rachel, who looked pretty nervous during all that that this might throw off her schedule to great fame and fortune.<br />
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The TLCgo app is playing a little nicer for me since I last used it, not cycling back to the beginning of the show every time I pause it, which was a giant pain when recapping because I need to pause the thing dozens of times. It still freezes at times, but not frequently.<br />
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"We're going to have fun!" Rachel says in a really bossy tone. I never expected to find Rachel even more annoying than Kate, but man alive, she grates. I can't stand when people tell grown adults how to feel or what to enjoy. We're not three and need to be told go try that slide Daddy will catch you you'll love it! Geez, let people decide for themselves! It wouldn't be a strange thing to not like swinging from some hammock doing yoga. Many people don't like hammocks, still more hate yoga. So you're combining two things together that many people hate even independent of each other. And some people who may love yoga may not like hammocks, and some people who are fine with hammocks might not like yoga. So that's a whole lot of people who legitimately wouldn't like this activity. This is turning into an LSAT problem. Anyway, I can't see myself liking this yoga thing in a million years, and for all Kate's faults, there is nothing wrong with her for not liking this either.<br />
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Mady says they're old enough to take care of themselves now so Kate can afford to break some legs during this exercise. I think Mady thinks everything she says is funny and clever. Helen Keller says something! And it was something to make fun of Kate. She laughs and says Kate would be one foot off the ground during this swinging yoga thing. Heh.<br />
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The millennial yoga instructor talks like she has a giant jawbreaker in her mouth. Weird.<br />
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They're mostly swinging stupidly in the stupid aerial fabrics and Kate's right again, which I hate, she was afraid to look stupid and her fears were realized, because they look just stupid.<br />
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Kate acknowledges she has a hard time following instructions. That's true, we've seen that. She doesn't listen, or questions the instructions, or listens but then does her own thing. That's the narcissism I think, thinking that you know better than someone who took the time to lay out instructions for you and probably knows far more about the subject than you ever will, and also probably is pretty knowledgable about your safety and what you should do and not do to remain safe. Also, just saying, <a href="https://themighty.com/2016/12/autism-why-i-cant-follow-verbal-instructions/" target="_blank">a lot of people on the spectrum report that verbal instructions are very difficult for them,</a> unless you give them the instructions one at a time and wait for them to fully complete one instruction before ever going on to the next instruction. I mean, if the shoe fits.<br />
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A producer asks Rachel if Kate was jealous the instructor was spending so much time with her. Rachel makes a so cute, so innocent, so funny face, teehee! You're so cute Rachel! Actually just kidding you're not cute at all you're repugnant.<br />
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Mady says Kate never relaxes. Yes, we're aware. The instructor finally gets Kate into a nice cocoon in the fabric and she softly swings and closes her eyes and seems to enjoy it. That's nice I guess, but I still prefer my tempur-pedic. No maneuvering or yoga required at all, you just plop onto it and you're done.<br />
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Rachel offers Kate some lame affirmations like she's going to relax now, and come out of her cocoon as a butterfly ready and able to try new things. Does Rachel think we are in kindergarten here? Sounds like something Miss Ryan said to us in my class when I was five. And I thought it was stupid even then. This is a grown ass woman, Rachel, who is swinging from a fabric hammock, she is not a cocoon and she is not a butterfly. Grow up.<br />
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Mady explains that if Kate wants to relax at home she'll make her bed or lay with the dogs, but she doesn't relax much because she's so busy. This is the second time in two episodes Mady has insisted Kate is busy. What is she so darn busy with? Nobody ever offers any specifics, and I guess the producer is too occupied with Jeremiah's muscles to probe any deeper into this lie.<br />
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Rachel surmises that because she got Kate to open up to this yoga activity, she hopes Kate can be open to a relationship. At least this dumb Rachel chick is finally starting to understand how closed off Kate is to human emotion and that this is the crux of most of her issues, but I really don't think one overpriced trendy yoga class is going to have any impact. Now a psychologist and some medication might.<br />
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I guess now Jeremiah and Kate will have dinner, and I still want to know what all he did with himself when he was so rudely ditched for the yoga class. <br />
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Something feels a little bit ick to me about Rachel now treating this date as if it's a chance for Kate to just "practice" dating, like flirting and opening up. Excuse me, but Jeremiah is a real person. Sure he's probably an actor, but from what I can tell, he's making a sincere effort to be open to Kate as a real possible dating prospect. Same for the two others guys before her, who really seemed game to give this a go for <i>real</i>. If you want to just "practice" dating, then have a true actor come in and help Kate role play, everyone knowing they're not really having a date. Don't do it on real people!<br />
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Kate pulls up in her mediocre taxi again, baw-haha. She's wearing a purple leopard print cocktail dress. Rachel calls her a hot mama.<br />
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It's kind of sad that Rachel's pep talk before the date consists of reminding Kate to ask questions, smile and enjoy herself. Well, Rachel's not wrong, Kate really does need help with the basics, like just be a <i>normal person</i> on a date for starters. Good grief.<br />
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Kate has come up with a nickname for Rachel, "date mom" because she is acting like a mom giving advice. That's an overtly kind name. My less than nice name for Rachel is "repugnant doofus."<br />
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Jeremiah meets Kate at dinner and genuinely seems to think she's stunning. Men really do think with their ... eyes .... don't they? I think those of us who have been following Kate for all these years and know what a nasty heart she has are so disenchanted with Kate we could never see her as beautiful again even if she were to morph into Ursula Andress.<br />
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Kate tells Rachel she can leave now and she'll call her if she needs her to open her juice box. Was that snark I detected from Kate? I kind of resent the fact that I'm cheering for Kate against dumb Rachel. There should be no scenario allowed where anyone roots for Kate, but here we are.<br />
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Jeremiah really seems blown away at how breathtaking Kate is. I mean, she looks pretty I guess, but good heavens you would think the guy just happened upon the Dolomites during a misty pink sunrise, dew clinging to his holey shirt. Calm down, buddy. Kate didn't like these compliments, they were excessive. Kate is right, it's excessive.<br />
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Jeremiah is pretty vague about working odd jobs in the city from time to time. He's totally an actor, why won't they just say it? He has five kids ages two to 18. With how many mothers, Jeremiah? I think that's a fair question. No way in hell Kate wants to take on a kid in diapers, and sure enough, she doesn't.<br />
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By the way it's no secret Cara is getting a lot of attention for being so quiet on her couch interviews with various speculation why, but in case you're worried if all the remarks about this bothers her, don't be. Cara says blankly that five kids is a lot of kids. She then looks at Mady with a giggle and says "You like my input on that one?" Heh. Mady chuckles and says she's really stepping it up here. They both smile and laugh. For whatever Cara's reasons for being a woman of little words, she's clearly comfortable with it, and takes any teasing even from her own sister in stride. And hey, Cara, if you happen to mosey on over here anytime, <a href="https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/7-reasons-why-its-smart-to-listen-more-than-you-talk.html" target="_blank">talking less and listening more is a virtue.</a><br />
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Rachel, why on God's green earth would you pick this guy for Kate? Nice doesn't cut it! (Okay I get that Rachel didn't really pick him and she's just an actor herself, but since the show is acting like she found these guys for Kate, I'm just rolling with it.)<br />
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The twins jump in to say NO KIDS. So, if the girls said no kids, and Kate doesn't really seem to want someone with kids either at least not young ones, how come her first three dates <i>have kids? </i>Are they trying to waste everyone's time, or does it just come naturally?<br />
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Mady has quite a convoluted explanation for not wanting kids, because she doesn't want an older kid to reach a milestone before she does. That sounds selfish and spoiled, I'm just saying. She wants her mom to find love but only on her strict and unreasonable terms. That is selfish and spoiled and if it were anyone other than Kate I would want that girl to shape up and stop making her mother's happiness for the rest of her life all about her.<br />
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Is Jeremiah straight from the pages of a romance novel? He loves that Kate has kids because if they blend their two big beautiful families together, they'll have one thing in common: Kate. Geez, I'd hate for that to be the one thing anyone has in common.<br />
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I think Kate is proud of the fact that the kids (allegedly) fight about who will take care of her when she is old. Jeremiah, who is normal, looks confused and says um, wouldn't that be where a partner comes in? Correct Jeremiah. While it's wonderful when kids are willing and able to help out an aging parent, one should not burden them at this age with the responsibility of thinking it all falls to them when a parent gets old. Kate should be reassuring her kids if they even say such things that they need not worry about her, she will figure things out, and she will be sure she is well taken care of as she ages so that the time they spend together can be mostly just nice family time and not solely focused on "taking care of her." Parentification. It's not cool, and Jeremiah to his credit spotted it right off.<br />
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Kate lets her guard down ever so slightly to talk about the incredible love she witnessed between her grandparents, and it's the reason she believes in love. Jeremiah had a similar experience with his grandparents. While I feel the same about my grandparents, this seems a little mean to her own parents to imply on camera the only real love she ever saw certainly wasn't her parents. Sheesh. She also loves to rewrite the narrative about Jon as if it was a hot mess from the start, when it actuality she has made it clear many times before the divorce she was deeply in love with Jon when they married and perhaps for years afterward. Just because she fell out of love with him years later doesn't erase what happened before, as much as she loves to use her little swiffer there.<br />
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The date ends with a kiss on the cheek Kate mercifully doesn't try to dodge, and Jeremiah over there is still swooning over Kate.<br />
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Kate, however, is stuck on the diapers. No way, no how, is basically her comment.<br />
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This almost makes me legitimately mad, because poor sweet Jeremiah here actually thinks he has a chance with Kate, and even though it was just one date, he seems so sensitive that it's probably going to hurt him at least a little when Kate never calls again. This is just wrong. Look, Kate doesn't want a guy with kids, as hypocritical as that is, that's her stance and she's entitled to it. Therefore, none of these dates of hers <i>should have kids</i>, Rachel<i>. </i>Or at most perhaps they could have one or two adult kids, that I think Kate would be okay with. You shouldn't conduct a social experiment like this on real people, it's not right. There's a reason when you go on a dating site that they ask you basic questions like your religion, do you want kids, your age parameters, etc., and then they ask you how important all of these parameters are to you. Because if it's a deal breaker for you, say so, and they won't set you up with someone not suitable to begin with and then everyone just ends up hurt.<br />
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Dense Rachel says she needs to figure out is this kids thing a deal breaker for Kate? She claims Kate goes back and forth. Oh my God, it's so blatantly obvious she doesn't want a guy with kids, Rachel, I don't care how much she vacillates, she doesn't want it. Wake up. The only remote possibility I can think of why Kate might be a little indecisive about this is she'll take five kids if you have like 5 million dollars to back it up. Then she could just hire a full time live in nanny for everyone and be done with it. But I still think she would prefer you just don't have kids in the first place.<br />
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And for her second date of the episode, Rosario, the Italian Aleksandr Petrovsky. That was one of Carrie Bradshaw's worst relationships. He beat her, and she left everyone who cared about her most to go live with him in Paris, but man alive, he could be so sexy.<br />
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Wait a second, what happened to Rachel trying to figure out if Kate wants to date a guy with kids? That dumb Rachel needs to finish her thought, especially ones so important!<br />
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They woosh down from New York to Rosario in what feels like a supersonic jet. He's 50, an opera singer, divorced <i>of course! </i>And super sexy! He has striking Caribbean blue eyes. Uh oh uh oh uh oh. He looks <i>short. </i>Shorter than Kate! Shit, he's done.<br />
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Rosario gives her a tour of some stage. They don't really explain where this is or what is going on, but it doesn't matter, because Rosario and his accent are just hot.<br />
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I do highly recommend everyone hear an opera singer in person at some point in your life, even if you think it's going to be boring. I saw Renee Fleming do a solo performance in Los Angeles with just her and a piano, and it was stunning. There is no sound system in the world that can do justice to the power and richness of her voice. Renee Fleming and I are many years apart in age but shared the same music teacher at one point, she when he was just starting out, and me a few years shy of his retirement. It was a special night to be in the presence of one of his most successful students.<br />
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I quickly found a lot about Rosario by googling, and he's a legit opera singer. But check this out, <a href="https://rosariomonettiopera.com/biography/" target="_blank">according to his own web site he resides in </a><i><a href="https://rosariomonettiopera.com/biography/" target="_blank">San Diego</a>, </i>people. Oh yeah, this relationship could work. Eye roll. The internet also says he does the occasional acting job including reality shows. Heh, sounds like he's another guy doing a day job but really wants to be an actor. Yeesh.<br />
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Rosario takes her around the orchestra pit where she proceeds to tap on drums and things like a freaking eight-year-old. Rosario is chill about this when he has every right to tell her to not do that, but oh my god, I hope none of the musicians are watching because I'm sure they'd be having a meltdown.<br />
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Kate asks Rosario what operas he has done. Oh, does she know operas? Lol, her blank expression is actually a bit funny when he starts rattling off a bunch of Italian names most people wouldn't know. I mean, good for her asking questions, but it's silly to ask a question where you know you won't understand the answer. How about, what was your favorite opera you've done and what was it about?<br />
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You know I had an idea, if Rachel were a competent coach, this all might work so much better if there were a little earpiece in Kate's ear for Rachel to give her tips and instruction in real time as the date goes on. Regrouping with her afterward to say a few useless things that are probably too late to fix anyway doesn't seem to be helpful to Kate.<br />
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The girls crack up talking about how Kate can't sing. Is there something kind of strange about teens made to sit there and talk incessantly about their mother? I mean who at that age even pays attention to their mother?<br />
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Rosario touches Kate's back as her leads her to the stage and Kate seems fine with it. Rachel is creepily spying on all this and I feel like she's giving herself all the credit for Kate not recoiling when Rosario touches her, I can see it on her face. Touching makes people more comfortable and he does it because that's the Italian way, Rosario explains. Uh-oh, I don't think poor Rosario paid much attention to the MeToo movement. Eek!<br />
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/rosariomonetti/?hl=en" target="_blank">Here's his instagram by the way.</a> A whole lot of muscular selfies, not a whole lot of substance. But hey at least the guy seems to be living a reasonably full life. Lots of traveling and working, doesn't look like a whole lot of friends or significant others. Such can be life in the entertainment business.<br />
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Rosario starts singing a short version of O sole mio to her, and he's amazing. Love it. Kate to her credit seems to genuinely enjoy it. She's got a big smile on her face and is hanging on every note, clapping enthusiastically at the end. Good for her, I'm glad something broke through to her. O sole mio's lyrics are really nice, it's about a man who is admiring the beauty of nature but realizes it can't compare to the one he loves. She'll find a reason this guy is not suitable soon enough, I'm just patiently waiting for it.<br />
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There's some weird editing in this episode. Rosario is rudely ditched just like Jeremiah was before, and suddenly Kate is with Cara and Mady on some random couch that doesn't look like home showing them the video of Rosario singing. The girls are not impressed because who would be impressed at their age with their mother's dating life? And all of a sudden Kate's back on the street dressed for dinner. What the heck was that little interlude and how did it fit right there?<br />
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Does Kate like this guy? There's something different about her answers this time when Rachel asks her boring questions about part one of the date. And how come she hasn't said anything about his very obvious short stature? That was such a big honking problem for her last time dating Todd, now it's a non-issue? She's certifiable.<br />
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Rachel says it's hard to help Kate because she's so guarded. No Rachel, it's hard to help Kate at all because you stink at your job and were too lazy to even do some preliminary research on this woman that would give you a little bit of context here.<br />
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They sit down to dinner and Rosario talks about how he had his own restaurant for years. Oh this guy seems like quite the do-er. That's what I call people who don't really talk about the things they want to do and instead just do them. This isn't going to work with someone more like Kate who mostly just is a talker, a person who rarely or never does the things they talk about. I just love an Italian accent, I think because it reminds me of growing up, when great aunts and uncles, their significant others, and even some cousins visiting would speak in broken English just like Rosario. When I hear the accent, I picture my Uncle Nino stirring a big pot of tomato sauce on the stove over New Year's, asking us kids to go sit down it was almost ready how many meatballs would we like? And Aunt Agnes would be putting out more plates and cutlery for the friends and family that just walked in, muttering this or that word in Italian as she worked. Thanks, Rosario for the nostalgia.<br />
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Rosario says he moved here to the USA a few years ago to San Diego. Kate doesn't say anything rational like <i>San Diego</i>? How the heck would this ever work? Also it wasn't a few years ago, it was ten years ago, 2009, according to his own web site. But it's okay because Rosario is a guy and they tend to overgeneralize like that, and he's really cute, so it's even more okay.<br />
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Rosario said he was visiting the USA for two weeks and then decided to just stay. Heh, how did he work that out? You usually can't just keep staying after your vacation is over, certainly not for ten years. That's called overextending your visa, lol. Maybe Kate could turn him in to her old friend Trump for ransom!<br />
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Kate bemoans that she and the kids have never been to Italy or even Europe, and you can see it in her eyes she still blames Jon for the trips getting cut off. And she's so damn stubborn she's still waiting for the show, or someone like Rosario, to pay for the trip. She won't go otherwise, I guarantee you.<br />
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I guess Rosario is another one that doesn't know who the F Kate is, because when she brings up the eight kids thing he's basically like, I'm sorry? Heh! And apparently Rosario doesn't understand the concept of multiples, because he can't work out how the kids' ages are just 14 and 18.<br />
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He follows Kate on instagram, by the way, but she can't be bothered to follow him back.<br />
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Oh, he doesn't have kids! He's looking better and better! Hey, shouldn't Kate say I gave birth to eight kids instead of I <i>have </i>eight kids? Because she really only "has" six kids right now.<br />
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If Kate doesn't want Rosario could I have him? He suggests they have a limoncello after dinner. I've been to Italy three times now because of my family's close roots there, and I'm headed back a fourth time next year, and the meals there are the most beautiful way to eat in the world in so many ways. But at the end of meals in many parts of Italy, they usually finish it off with a small glass of limoncello, which is like alcoholic lemonade. It's wonderfully refreshing and a great pallet cleanser. But it's not just for meals! One time we were on the last leg of a pretty long hike between two towns and around the corner who should appear but a farmer and his limoncello stand for one euro a glass. I never thought I would want a shot after a long hike, but that was the most delicious little glass of liquor I've ever had. The Italians are some of the most wonderful people in the world and if anyone ever gets a chance to date one, do it!<br />
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"I don't want to interrupt," Rachel says. Well then why did you Rachel? Geez.<br />
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Yep here we go, Kate says yes he was interesting but there was no connection or attraction. Of course there wasn't, because she's in love with Steve and. doesn't. really. want. to. date. See ya, Rosario. <br />
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Rosario makes polite comments that he had fun, but I'm not getting the feeling at all he had any kind of connection with Kate either. This is good, because the three guys before her I think did feel a little something even if superficial, and they're going to be hurt when they never hear from her again.<br />
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Rosario goes off into the moonlight I guess to find his phone and friend Kate on instagram and never get a friend request back.<br />
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Haha, Kate makes fun of Rachel for saying "feeling all the feels." As she should!<br />
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Oh, man, if Kate and Rachel were friends before they won't be after Rachel sees this episode. Kate basically says she really wonders if Rachel is picking up on any of the clues Kate is leaving for her. Basically, Rachel sucks at her job is what she's saying. I concur!<br />
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Rachel says Kate needs to want to make out with someone. Ew, that's so uncouth, Rachel! And why must she anyhow? Has Rachel really been honest with herself and asked herself why are we trying to pair up Kate anyway? Kate doesn't want a boyfriend, clearly, and any boyfriend who thinks they want her won't soon enough. Just let her be her little asexual self and drink her wine in bed and wallow in her delusions of reality shows the rest of her life, what's it hurting? Except for the repugnant doofus's checkbook.<br />
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With the caveat that yes I understand this is all fake and just a money-grab Kate pushed for, I'm starting to realize there is something deeply, deeply sexist about this show. Here's Kate who actually doesn't want a man, if she's being honest with herself and others. Maybe it's because she already has Steve, maybe it's because she has Steve in her head and that's enough, or maybe it's because she's asexual. Who knows, who cares. Point is, she has made the choice she would like to do life solo, without a partner. Now sure there are times when she gets lonely, just like most people in relationships have times where they kind of would like a break from their partner if only for a day. But overall, she's content being alone.<br />
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So, if we are to believe in today's society women should be in control of their own destiny, who they are with, what gender they are with, how many kids they should have if any, what they would like to do for work, shouldn't that also include whether they are in a relationship at all? And if a modern woman makes a conscious decision to go solo, as some actually do albeit a minority, then aren't we as a society acting completely contrary to woman's lib by pushing against that with the idea they must pair up with a man?<br />
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Rachel is ramming men down Kate's throat when all the signs have shown Rachel she doesn't want it, which is deeply disrespectful of Kate's wishes as a woman for her life. (Again with the caveat, I understand Kate seems to want to do this show and is asking for it). And that's what is so incredibly sexist about this show, the deep disrespect of a woman's obvious feelings about relationships, and the antiquated idea that Kate can't really be happy, or have someone to care for her, or not be lonely, without a suitable man.<br />
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A realer show would involve Rachel after four dates right now sitting down with Kate and saying level with me, let's talk about the fact that you don't want to date or want a man. And it's okay, Kate. That decision is <i>fine. </i>What's not fine is myself and others not acknowledging it or respecting it.<br />
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And if by chance Kate insists no no you're wrong I do want to be with someone, then they need to stop all this dating and send her to therapy so she can at least try to get herself in a mental state even close to being ready to being open to a partner.<br />
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Yes, I get it, that would end the show right now. Which I'm okay with.<br />
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Meanwhile, Kate says she would pick Rosario over Jeremiah (but really she would prefer neither, people). Likely that's only because Rosario is her best bet for a free trip to Europe, however remote. On the next <i>Kate Plus Date</i>, Rachel scrounges up a childless 40-something for Kate, and for her second date, a deaf mute, which I actually think would be perfect for Kate and Mady since they like to talk so much, they could have the whole floor with that guy. And the show doesn't say yet but we all know, neither guy will be suitable to Kate.Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com271tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-44628323712414690452019-06-13T06:00:00.000-07:002019-06-17T15:58:17.611-07:00Recap: Kate Plus Date "Somebody to Love": Stalagmite pizzas and falling beetles as we begin 10 first datesHi everyone. After a blessedly long two-year hiatus and two-year break from recapping new episodes for me, the bitch is baaaack. Kate, that is, in a form of a dating show nobody but her always wanted. TLC paid for the rights to play that great Queen song "Can Anybody Find me Somebody to Love"? Goodness, perhaps the budget on this show is slightly bigger than I thought.<br />
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Whoa, the set for Kate's interviews is some new studio, and obviously not her house. The carpet is a dizzying busy dark green with white swirly design with faux brick all throughout the back. Looks like a really janky basement coffee house in a snowy college town.<br />
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The sum of Kate's reasons for doing this show are money and fame. Just kidding, she is not honest about her real motivations of course, and claims she is dating now because she's lonely and doesn't want to be alone as kids go off <strike>one by one to live with Jon.</strike> to college. She texted Jamie once who couldn't talk because she was doing something with her husband and all her other unnamed friends were also doing things with their husbands that day, and felt that fear of missing out thing nagging at her. And I find some strange satisfaction in all of Kate's friends, which in actuality is probably just Jamie, blowing BFF Kate off for their husbands. As they should. On another note though, Jamie's husband DIED suddenly and recently. Perhaps it might have been a little bit sensitive of the editors to cut out the part about him and Jamie? Geez!<br />
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Since TLC hired their own dating "expert" who has absolutely no credentials in this line of work and should really be more properly labeled "wants to be a media personality in whichever subject comes up to hire me" I figured we at Realitytvkids have about as much expertise on relationships as they do. So here we go, my first rule of dating, <i>do not date because you don't want to be alone.</i> Bad idea. You are just looking for a man because you don't want to watch <i>Game of Thrones</i> and munch on popcorn by yourself, and are therefore nowhere near emotionally ready for the very real commitment a relationship brings, the unselfishness that will be expected of you to make it work, and the true desire to give of yourself and your life to someone else and find true meaning and rewards from that endeavor. <i>First</i>, be comfortable and confident with being alone, and be able to find happiness on your own. Only then can you be successful in a real relationship.<br />
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Why oh why are they showing us old clips of <i>Kate Plus 8?</i>! I can guarantee nobody watching this show hasn't seen enough of that other show, and I can also guarantee nobody wants to revisit it all again. I refuse to recap this. Refuse!<br />
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I'm not surprised Kate is taking this opportunity to subtly and not so subtly knock Jon. While she acknowledges she was a pain at times in her relationship with Jon, she explains that's because she had to be the person in charge. Basically implying Jon was just some big kid running around unchecked and if someone didn't take the reins things would fall apart. What complete and utter nonsense. While certainly Jon is a million times more laid back than her, there are numerous times documented right on film when she wasn't around that he was perfectly capable of running the household on his own and caring for the kids on his own. The truth is it was Kate's way or the highway and she wasn't happy unless she was in charge so when she was around, Jon <i>let </i>her be in charge to make her happy, which is what mature people are supposed to do in relationships, keep the other person happy. If Kate didn't like or want to be in charge, then Jon would have taken charge, it's as simple as that. And his full time custody today of Collin and Hannah, who are thriving in his care, is proof that Kate's perception of what was going on in that marriage is just that, her delusional perception.<br />
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Jon did not bring out her best self. Oh Lord, I think her best self got left on the side of the road somewhere in rural PA squished up as bloody roadkill around about the age of 16.<br />
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As I remarked in one of my comments, Kate says that dating is vulnerable (this is true) and she avoids being vulnerable in all aspects of her life. You know I think this is the most honest Kate has ever been? If you're avoiding things that make you feel vulnerable, you are avoiding life itself.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She banished Jon. She would have had to be vulnerable and face up to her shortcomings as a wife to make that work. </span>She washed her hands of Collin and Hannah. She would have to be vulnerable and face up to her shortcomings as a mother. Various friends are long gone. She would have to be vulnerable and face up to her shortcomings as a friend. Family members are gone. She would have to be vulnerable and face up to her shortcomings as a sister, daughter, in-law, cousin. In ten years she has no dating life. She would have to be vulnerable and face up to her shortcomings socially. She doesn't work a real job. She would have to be vulnerable and face up to her shortcomings as a "career" reality star. Kate, get help. Because you're squeaking by now, but you can't squeak by forever with this mindset.<br />
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The teens awkwardly sit on Kate's bed, which is a place I stopped hanging out after about age 6 (not Kate's bed, my mother's), but okay. They are charged with filling out a questionnaire about Kate. Which in light of the Casting Call, is so stupid, because clearly they were just looking for some actors with money, maybe their own company, and more or less in her age range. (Apparently being pretty unrealistic about the fact that most actors don't have money or their own company, but they scrounged up ten suitable candidates somehow.)</div>
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Mady wants to put down Kate "watches T.V." in her free time, which is hilarious because it's probably true. Kate protests vehemently. And it's not that she is disputing that's what she does with her free time, but rather, she just doesn't want to sound boring. Heh. By all means, don't be honest on a dating questionnaire about yourself and what you honestly do with your time, just let the guy find out who you really are six months in. Good plan.</div>
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Kate says in her natural life she won't meet someone. What's natural life? Does she mean outside of a TV show? Goodness, how did all the rest of us manage to meet our partners in natural life? She won't try online dating but won't say why, but I think it's because she's a judgmental little snot who I guess thinks such a famous person as her couldn't possibly be able to date online (False. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2016/08/18/amy-schumer-ryan-lochte-and-other-celebrities-who-use-dating-apps/?utm_term=.1675e2c002ea" target="_blank">Famous celebs have met very nice boyfriends and girlfriends online</a>, including Amy Schumer.)</div>
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Has she tried church, socializing with other parents at school, meeting people at work (she'd have to get a job), or meeting through hobbies you enjoy like a running club or if she likes TV so much join a film society or something. She's so stupid and helpless and an insult to women.</div>
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They seem to settle on her requested age range being 47-53. Hey, that's very different than the Casting Call, which requested 35-55. Heh! Of course she's an old fashioned snob who can't possibly envision her knight in shining armor being younger than her. Also Jon was marginally younger than her, an age difference not even enough worth noting, but that's her subtle dig at Jon that she doesn't want another boy toy. </div>
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Kate's got a diet coke <i>and </i>a huge glass of red wine <i>and </i>a cup of coffee. Um, I don't think it's a good idea to mix those three. Also her bedroom as per the usual<i> </i>is cluttered with junk, open books, a jar of pens, remotes, a hairbrush, some other random pieces of junk I can't identify. Can't be bothered to even straighten up a bit for filming, hilariously lazy. </div>
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Mady says Kate is a four out of ten on the affectionate scale. And Helen Keller signs she's a "two." Well, we knew that. Still, that's sad. Even people that don't really like to be all mushy mushy with their romantic partner all the time are at least still capable of smothering their kids. As we know, Kate isn't. And <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infant-touch/" target="_blank">studies have shown kids actually suffer serious emotional harm and even cognitive difficulties</a> from that lack of consistent physical touch.</div>
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We next get introduced to Rachel DeAlto, an intimacy coach and relationship expert. Intimacy coach?! I can't even imagine. How does that work, does she stand in the corner of your bedroom and say okay now move your hand down a little lower, now kiss him, you got it, go, go, go! </div>
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And in case you're wondering exactly what degrees one gets to become such an expert, Rachel went to Syracuse University and got a degree in "communications" which is code for undecided. Am I right or am I right? Syracuse is Mady's future alma mater, interesting, wonder if Rachel suggested she give it a look. Which if true, is probably the only thing of true real value Rachel brought to the table in this entire endeavor. Rachel then got her J.D. from Seton Hall, another respectable school. See, I told you we were just as qualified here at Realitytvkids! Also a J.D. was smart of Rachel, for when her snake oil business gets sued eventually. Rachel is also a hypnotherapist of all things. Cool, maybe she can hypnotize us into thinking she has the first clue what she's talking about.</div>
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Finally, Rachel does have some sort of "coaching" training, which, wait for it, <a href="https://www.ipeccoaching.com/coaching-schedule-and-locations" target="_blank">was all of a nine day program</a>, assuming she did both module one, two and three. Haha, so great. </div>
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So far I don't like Rachel, but the jury's out (hehe!) once I hear her dating advice. Her comment about the law is that she is much better at putting people together than breaking him apart. Is that what she boils the law down to? Maybe she should have gone into a different area of law then before leaving a great career behind for nonsense like this on TLC, because only a tiny subset of law involves "breaking people apart." In fact, many of us lawyers here actually work at bringing people together, whether it's helping a nice old couple make sure all their money is left to the grandkids, helping a family start up a business, mediating a custody dispute so that everyone is happy with a fair outcome and doesn't have to go to trial, working in legislation to craft laws that make our lives better, or lawyers who are involved with family reunification in the foster care system or doing adoptions. Of course there are many more examples of what lawyers do that generally are all positive. It's sad when people have one slice of an experience with something (let me guess, Rachel, you did family law) and then write off all the whole rest of it for all time, and it shows great ignorance.</div>
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Kate lies and says her last relationship was her marriage. Wow, she really has quite the ego there, saying there's no need to go any further on that topic as "everyone knows." Yes, Kate, like the pope, or Brad Pitt, your marriage needs no introduction. How does she know what this Rachel woman does or doesn't know about her history? I'm going to take a wild guess that not everyone is a Gosselin historian like some of the fine folks here! And Rachel never said she was some big fan of Kate or something. Sure enough, I <i>don't </i>think Rachel knows much about the divorce as she even has to ask how long ago it was. I'll answer Rachel: A long ass time ago. So long ago it's ridiculous to still even be talking about it. My second rule of dating: do not, under any circumstances, date anyone until you have completely processed and moved on from past relationships, including divorces and any other relationship you had that maybe wasn't necessarily marriage. It's not fair to you, but it's equally unfair to the person you are dating.</div>
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How come Kate continues to insist she didn't date Jeff Prescott? From Prescott's mouth himself, <a href="https://radaronline.com/exclusives/2016/09/kate-gosselin-ex-tells-all-millionaire-jeff-prescott-exposes-fakery/" target="_blank">they dated <i>nine entire months </i>in 2015,</a> and not surprisingly he ran for the hills after Kate started orchestrating filming it all. It's so weird the way she insists that relationship never happened, as if that will erase nine whole months of something that sounded somewhat real? How cruel and disrespectful to Jeff.</div>
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Rachel insists Kate needs to show she has interests beyond her children, as if she is criticizing the two of them for launching into the kid talk right away. While that's probably true, I see this as a bad idea to not tackle this subject head on and early. So I'll call that one bad dating advice to act like whatever about the kids. I also think any man that doesn't appreciate that a single mom may be wrapped up in her kids isn't the right man for her. Plus Rachel clearly doesn't watch the show or she would realize that any outside interests Kate has are fickle and superficial, she has never stuck to one hobby or interest for very long before getting bored and dropping it. You got me how you play matchmaker with a person like that.</div>
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They have a mostly superficial conversation about their divorces, but it's clear from their talk that Stephen is in a much better emotional place about his divorce, as he seems to appreciate the time that he was in love with the woman and is understanding that they simply grew apart as they grew up. He has a healthy "it is what it is nobody is at fault" attitude about that relationship that will serve him well going forward. Stephen is ready to date again. Kate is not.</div>
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I spend a lot of time with various podcasts on my commute, which I really enjoy, and I recently listened to a bonus episode of Dirty John, episode 7 Live at the Ace Hotel, if you're interested. In it Patricia Giggins from Peace Over Violence, a domestic violence prevention charity, talks about educating young people on what a healthy relationship is and what you are looking for. What kind of relationship do you really want to have? Giggins thinks this is just as important as any other skill growing up, yet isn't taught in schools, and then people get out in the real world and end up in bad situations. Anyway, it made me think that if Kate genuinely doesn't know or understand what she wants in a man, which I don't think she does, then it's no wonder she has a string of failed relationships under her belt. I think Kate knows she does want somebody to be a huge contributor to funding her lifestyle, but beyond that she's pretty lost about what her own needs are in a relationship. Like I said, she should have gotten ten sessions of therapy first before even thinking about ten dates.</div>
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Rachel is creepily spying on the date using a small production screen while they pick grapes at a winery. Todd has a 16-year-old beagle (16! What do you feed this beagle?!) and an 11-year-old daughter. Aw. Todd wants more kids. Does he mean biological or is he okay taking on step-kids? Eek.</div>
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They crush grapes with their feet I Love Lucy style and Kate is very proud of herself for coming up with the, Is this on your "bucket" list? pun. Hardy har har.</div>
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Next they do wine tasting, and Kate can stop swirling that stuff around as if she cares and just gulp it down like we know she wants to. She and Todd make some cute jokes about the flavor profiles in the wine, both poking fun at how they actually have no idea what they are talking about, and for the first time since Jon I see Kate relaxing in the presence a man. See Kate, it can actually be kind of fun to share life things with a guy. That reminds me of the last giggle fest I had with some family and friends, the kind of giggles where you just can't stop them. We were wine tasting with all our significant others and our dogs and we kept describing the wines as if the dogs were tasting it. Things like pot roast notes, aged in bacon, you get the picture. It was silly and goofy and we had a blast. It's fun to hang out with people you enjoy, Kate, and it's fun to pair up and do things with other couples. It's fun to be silly and make each other laugh. I'm sorry all your little hang ups have caused you to miss out.</div>
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Rachel awkwardly interrupts the wine tasting, of which it appeared they weren't even finished yet, to drag them to dinner across the vineyard. Why does Rachel need to do this kind of militant ordering about? Why can't they just finish up the wine tasting at their own pace and then wander over to dinner when they're hungry? Yeesh, this useless Rachel woman! Even Kate rolls her eyes at her, and for once Kate's right. I'm going to take a guess Rachel really doesn't have much on camera experience, because it feels like every time she wanders into the frame when nobody asked for her and interrupts things or tries to add her useless two cents, she only ends up drastically breaking up the flow of whatever was going on and embarrassing herself. You know what would be <i>much </i>more effective? Since these dates seem to be broken up into two or three parts, Rachel should meet with Kate in between the segments and go over with her aspects of the date that are working and aspects that are not. Offer tips to improve things in the next segment. For instance, he mentioned he has a child about the same age as your sextuplets, ask him more about her. Or, you were interrupting him when he was trying to explain something, so try to be aware of doing that and hold back on jumping in and talking over him. You were sarcastic with him there, watch that, too. Frankly, this is the format of almost every other "expert" show, from <i>The Dog Whisperer </i>to <i>Supernanny</i>. There's a reason that's the format. Because it actually works. TLC tried to get cute here and deviated from the standard format, and it's crashing.</div>
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Kate's commentary about all this so far is, oh good they're not all like Stephen. Yowser, what an unnecessary pot shot! She does realize Stephen might watch this episode right? And his family, his three kids? There was nothing <i>wrong </i>about Stephen, he was just too much personality for a sack of potatoes like Kate. So stop, it's just mean now. </div>
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Todd's great, he worries he's being all dull and boring. Goodness, not at all, Todd! You're fun, engaging, and have a great smile. The problem is you are short, which unfortunately, you can't do anything about. Indeed as Kate and Rachel are conferring alone before dinner while hair and make-up touches up Kate, Kate can only talk about how Todd is just too short. </div>
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This date's activities are like honeymoon material, which seems a little much for just a first date. They have dinner in a treetop restaurant. That's pretty epic. I think Todd actually thinks he might like her or could like her, which is unfortunate because Todd doesn't stand a chance on account of being too short and on account of Kate not really wanting to date.</div>
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Kate is blathering on about something or other and mentions that she spends all her life on TV. She really does live in a fantasy where everything about her is filmed even when it's not. Her level of delusion is getting creepy now, in a Ready for My Closeup kind of way. Another excuse to dig out an old graphic! </div>
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Note, the last episode of Kate Plus 8 was filmed over two years ago, <a href="http://www.realitytvkids.com/2017/07/recap-kate-plus-8-six-teenagers-glitter.html" target="_blank">for the sextuplets' thirteenth birthday</a>. Two years, people. She is certainly not living her life on a TV show. In fact we know next to nothing about what's been going on with her over the past couple years other than I guess she lost a couple of kids to Jon, because up until last week she barely posted on social media either. Now I'm really wishing these guys knew something about her so that Todd could say, but you haven't been filming in two years. </div>
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Todd is also freaked out about online dating. That's too bad, because online dating would be perfect for someone like him. He would get a lot of responses due to his good looks and that there's actually a lot of substance underneath that. And he's <i>nice</i>. Yeah, the guy would get a hundred people a day wanting a date. He would have his real pick of who to actually meet up with, which means he could be really discerning, which is ideal for online dating. Online dating doesn't work when there's no one suitable even interested in the first place.</div>
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Mady poo-poos online dating because it would be creepy if they are just going out with her if they recognize her. I can virtually promise her that won't happen. Men Kate's age do not watch this show and even if they had an old ex that made them watch, trust me, they weren't really "watching." This is too bad, because online dating could open up a world of possibilities for a shrew like her.</div>
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Todd's smart too. Astrophysics degree from Michigan State? Yowser! He left it behind and became a dancer instead, his true passion. And went to NYC and did musical theater, and traveled all over the world. And he's short. And now responds to a casting call, apparently. And has really, really white teeth. Um, is Todd gay and just doing this to make a quick buck? Sorry, but I have to ask because it doesn't look like the obvious has occurred to ole dummy ex-litigator turned matchmaker over there. Marcia Clark she is not. Kate interrupts this rather interesting story about Todd to scream over a beetle that fell on the table. Just brush it off and grow up, good Lord. It's not like it's an indoor restaurant and it's an OSHA violation. </div>
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Kate's screaming over more bugs and a little wind. No, seriously, a little wind. Even nice Todd has to admit these constant freak outs Kate is doing are actually ruining the dinner. Yep, they actually are. It suddenly starts raining like crazy, but nobody packs up to leave because I guess you can't just stop filming something without finishing or your story would have no ending.</div>
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Todd's just too nice to be straight, sorry. He remarks what an absolute wonderful time he's having and gives her a sweet hug goodbye. They sure are making sure these guys are liquored up, which is probably wise, Todd is still drinking during his exit interview. Kate ranks these guys Todd first, Stephen second. Is there much point to ranking just two guys? Heh. And ranking them? She sounds like a college boy. Why not just say something mature, like Stephen was very nice but not for me. Todd was also nice, but I'm afraid I've got some terribly unfair personal hangups about his height that are not his fault but make me question whether I'd like to see him again. I know, I know, way too adult for TFW. You know for as far as so many smug women think we've come in the women's movement, no longer being intimidated by men, standing up for ourselves, sharing our stories of past abuse, finding equality in relationships, no longer needing marriage or if we do get married keeping our names, switching roles so that we work and they stay home with the kids. Well, pull aside the tall ones, like 5'7 and up. Ask them if they would date a guy who is only 5'7 and they have to answer honestly. I'd love to see how that conversation would turn out. I'm guessing pretty darn hypocritically. We may have progressed in so many ways, but at the end of the day these women's lib zealots can't get rid of that inherent biological need to be protected by a protector, a big and strong man. And it makes no sense to our ancient brains that a protector can be smaller than you (after all, our ancestors didn't have big advantages that make a small person powerful regardless of height, like guns), so we reject that short person as a suitable mate. Yea science!</div>
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It's over at last. Only eight more dates. Which at the moment sounds endless. I listened carefully to this whole episode and I heard Cara say one thing. I'm not even kidding, one thing. About Kate being a 2 on the affectionate scale. Man, is she ever passive aggressive about this all.</div>
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Next time is the escape room we heard about months ago. I kind of do want to see her date with the rather interesting Rosario, the Italian opera singer who totally reminds me of a throwback to Carrie Bradshaw's Russian boyfriend Aleksandr Petrovsky. A guy that I thought was so terribly ugly and way too old for her, yet so terribly handsome because of the absolute sex appeal he exuded. Those suits. That apartment. The accent. He was so romantic, whimsical, artistic. And then he beat her, so nevermind. See you next time.</div>
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Realitytvkids.com ~ Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10335679785349098585noreply@blogger.com177tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3120892459267208285.post-16605278883482056082019-06-12T12:00:00.001-07:002019-06-13T06:04:56.603-07:00Ratings for Kate Plus Date sputter at 773,000<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">Total viewers for the premiere were 773,000 or .773M viewers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">The ratings were less than the ratings for the 3 episodes aired in July 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">7/10/2017 .918 - A Haunting at the Gosselins</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">7/17/2017 .781 - Kate goes skiing...sort of...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">7/24/2017 .801 - Six Teenagers </span><br />
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