Casting Director Dianne Young is a guest host.

• Pete Ferriero is sad that the Mets season is over.
• Jeffrey White produced the first 6 episodes.
• Paul Waigner then came in after that.
• Dianne Young was Rosin’s 2nd hire.
• She came from Growing Pains.
• Joanna Ray casted the initial cast.
• Joanna Ray left to go do Twin Peaks.
• Rosin says the first 6 episodes of Twin Peaks was great. They didn’t know how to end it after that.
• By the end of season 1 of Beverly Hills, 90210, the ratings were better than that of Twin Peaks.
• They love the Pacific Northwest shots in Twin Peaks.
• Young had known most of the cast of this show before, except for Ian Ziering and Gabrielle Carteris.
• Young: Tori Spelling worked hard at being an actress.
• Young thinks Bob (Robert) Harbin recommended her to Rosin.
• They needed to replace the father on this show.
• When Rosin started talking to Young about the character of Dylan, she knew exactly who they should cast: Luke Perry.
• Rosin had heard 12 others audition for Dylan. Luke Perry was the first one he thought could not only be cast, but could elevate the show.
• Young had been working on a pilot for Paramount. Another casting director had recommended Perry. When another casting director recommends someone, then one takes notice. Perry came in to read for the part. He said himself to Young that he wasn’t right for the part. She agreed, and told him she would remember him for something else.
• Kurt Geiger also read for Dylan.
• Perry was overwhelmingly Rosin and Young’s choice for Dylan.
• Others that read for Dylan: Matt LeBlanc, Trevor Edmond, Sean Patrick Flannery, David Gray, Carl Evans, Keith Pugan.
• Trevor Edmond would go on to play Evan Potter.
• Carl Evans would play Jonathan Casten in season 6.
• If they liked someone during their audition, they would write OTW by their name – Onto Wardrobe.
• Perry was nervous for his FOX audition.
• The network was lukewarm on him. Aaron Spelling liked him, and had their own production company pay for him.

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• Phases during the audition process: 1) Casting director sends out breakdown for a role.

2) Agents and managers submit actors.
3) Casting director goes through the actors. Well known actors go straight to producers.
4) Casting sessions are set up.
5) Producers are then present for callbacks. They look to make sure they’re right for the role, and can have consistent performances.
6) Another callback, this time with the production company.
7) Another callback, this time for the network. Bob Harbin and Wendy Matthews were in charge for FOX.

• Young would constantly talk with Tony Shepherd throughout this process.
• Early in the series, they would have appointments for actors to come in, and they wouldn’t show up. 40% of them would not show up.
• Young would have to tell the producers, “they’re not here, let me find out what’s going on”, while sweating bullets.
• Aaron Spelling built a really beautiful casting room.
• Darren Starr would be there.
• David Stenn (writeproducers) would also be involved.
• Because they were a bottom feeder, they worked with what they had.
• Young had gotten a quote from Luke Perry’s agent and manager, about his salary. However, quotes are not always accurate, so she has to verify the quote.
• The quote was actually lower than what she had first heard.
• The production company, not FOX, paid for Perry’s contract. Usually FOX pays for the contracts.

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• Luke Perry gave Young a Christmas present. It was a magnifying glass, and a horseshoe. The magnifying glass, was to help Young look for people like him.
• He also signed a poster of “8 seconds” for her.

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James Eckhouse interview:
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• Lyman Ward was initially cast as Jim Walsh.
• Carol Potter read with James Eckhouse in front of Aaron Spelling.
• Eckhouse didn’t think he was going to get the part. No way, he thought.
• After Eckhouse left, Aaron Spelling said “there’s something about that Eckhosue.”
• Potter said “Yeah, he’s Jewish.”
• Barry Diller was the head of FOX. He almost always recast someone. For example, the original lead of 21 Jump Street was not Johnny Depp. Depp was recast into that role.
• So, the same thing happened with Beverly Hills, 90210. Ward was recast with Eckhouse.
• Eckhouse looked like someone who would have been against the Vietnam War. They would not have done such a plot, in season 3, if Lyman Ward were Jim Walsh. He didn’t have that same look.
• Rosin had seen Eckhouse on TV, on 30 Something.
• Eckhouse had another audition on the same day as Beverly Hills, 90210. He had a snooty attitude about Beverly Hills, 90210. He didn’t think he was going to do that show. He didn’t even know why he was there.
• His wife, said to get his ass to the Beverly Hills, 90210 audition.
• His other audition was afterwards.
• He doesn’t remember what the other audition was for.
• Eckhouse went straight to the Producers’ audition. He didn’t have to do a round before.
• Young had really liked Eckhouse as a person, as well as his credits. She also liked how “easy” he was. She was comfortable with him. That’s an important quality for her.
• Eckhouse teaches acting now.
• Eckhouse tells a story of how he went to New York to audition for a movie. He would prepare for his scenes. When he’d get there, he’s ask if they wanted him to read for him. They’d say no, they just wanted to get a feel for how he was as a person. So he would get cast, just based off of his personality, at a certain point. They would already know his credits and know he could act.

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• Young auditioned Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Affleck came in a few times. Eventually, he stopped.
• Damon would keep coming back, every single time. Young told Damon she’s sorry to keep dragging him in, only to tell him they went with somebody else. Damon told her never worry about him not coming in. He’s always going to come in.
• Eckhouse says there’s one show where he went in 17 times to audition. He’s not going to name the show. He eventually got a part on his 17th audition.
• Eckhouse did not think he did a good audition for Beverly Hills, 90210. It wasn’t his finest hour. He didn’t think he’d get called back.
• He did better during the callback.
• When Eckhouse went to the network audition, he was intimidated by another actor who looked Christian and Scottish.
• Then there was someone else who had tall, dark hair.
• Ken Campbell was also in the audition.
• Eckhouse and Luke Perry were in the bathroom together. Perry almost threw up, from the nerves.
• That’s where Perry and Eckhouse met for the first time, in the bathroom. They loved each other right away.
• Eckhouse really thought Campbell was going to get the part.
• When Eckhouse came back for the network audition, Eckhouse was broke and poor, with two kids. He called his agent. Eckhouse told the agent he didn’t do that well. The agent went to find out what happened. The agent then called Eckhouse back and said, “you were right, you did suck. But you got the part.”
• Rosin said Eckhouse’ previous credits were a huge positive factor.
• Eckhouse was the 2nd highest paid actor during most of the Rosin era.
• During that same network audition, Rosin was confused about something himself. He didn’t know if he worked for Aaron Spelling or someone else. Rosin got confirmation that it was Aaron Spelling.
• Aaron Spelling was always nice to Young.
• When Young’s grandmother passed away, Spelling said how sorry he was, and gave her a big hug.
• When Eckhouse was a director and cast people on another show, it was terrifying. If he said “so and so was pretty good”, someone else in the room would say that person was terrible.
• If Eckhouse saw someone didn’t give their best audition, he’d ask them to do another take, because he could tell they were nervous.
• People from the network would tell Eckhouse, “how dare you waste my time like that. You knew we weren’t going to cast them.”
• Eckhouse would think “give me a break, I just wanted to give them a chance.”
• Eckhouse liked working with the directors on this show, Beverly Hills, 90210. He liked observing them.
• When it was Eckhouse’s first time directing, certain cast members were late. Eckhouse kept looking at his watch. DP Rick Gunter came over and said “let me see your watch”. Eckhouse gave him his watch. Gunter said you’ll get it back at the end of the episode. “That’s not your job.” Let the AD take care of that. You do your job.

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• Leslie Bega (Marianne) reminded Rosin of girls from his high school. Anti materialistic.
• He was surprised the company didn’t try to bring her back.
• Young says she was terrific in the pilot.
• Young would always meet anyone agents and managers recommended her to.
• Young: You can also find good young actors in local theater. The tiniest theater in San Fernando Valley will still have someone that Young would want to bring in.
• Rosin agrees with Young about local theater.
• For the character of Nat, Young brought in Frank Gorshin. Joe E. Tata was a friend of Tony Shepherd’s. So that’s how Tata was brought in. Young says their auditions were similar but different.
• In a previous podcast, Rosin had said that Gorshin had an arrogant vibe. He had played The Riddler on Batman.
• Rosin says Joe E. Tata brought in warmth. Whereas Gorshin played it as someone who didn’t want to be there, but would offer sage advice.
• Rosin says Joe E. Tata was introduced to him as a friend of E. Duke Vincent’s.
• The Spelling company paid for overages with Luke Perry’s contract.
• E. Duke Vincent told Rosin that anytime the network asked someone to change something, ask them who is paying for it.
• Rosin says Beverly Hills, 90210 had the lowest license fee in all of network television.
• They haven’t been able to find Lisa Dean Ryan, who played Bonnie on “The Gentle Art Of Listening”.
• Young says maybe she’s moved on to other interests.
• Rosin says Lisa Dean Ryan, and Noelle Parker, had a range of talent.
• Young had hired Ann Gillespie elsewhere before Beverly Hills, 90210.
• Young liked Tico Wells right away. Her advice to him for the next callback was “don’t do too much”.
• Young met Luisa Leschin (Anna Rodriguez) earlier.
• Rosin used to teach an extension class at UCLA. He used to use the pilot for Hill Street Blues as an example. He would even bring in Bob Butler to come in and watch the episode with the class. The pilot had changed his life. But now, he says the pilot does not hold up. It’s too racist and sexist.
• Beverly Hills was run by the nannies and housekeepers. So Rosin wanted to have a maid character, to represent that. And show the diversity of Los Angeles.
• Aaron Spelling did not like the elitism that was shown in the culture of Beverly Hills. So he asked for her character to be removed.
• Young did hear the criticism about people of color not being on the show. Young said it was disappointing to hear, because she did try to bring in different people.
• There was an author that thought Mark Damon Espinoza didn’t have a big enough role. That author went on FOX News to talk about it. Young had that author meet with producer Paul Waigner. Things did not get resolved, and that author remained angry.
• Rosin repeats what he said earlier, about the show having the lowest license fee in television. They didn’t have the budget for new cast members. That’s why they kept having focused episodes about race like “One On One” or “East Side Story”.
• They were eventually able to cast Denise Dowse and Henry Pickens in recurring roles.
• They made sure the extras reflected the racial diversity of Los Angeles.
• Rosin repeats what he said on previous episodes, that he won an Imagen Award for East Side Story. That’s an award that celebrates Latino actors and their positive portrayal.
• Young: Denise Dowse was a delight to sit and talk to. She’s likable.
• There’s a story about Denise Dowse on Seinfeld, but Young says she’s not going to share that story.
• Ok, she ended up telling the story. Young gave Dowse a message to give to Jerry Seinfeld, during the time Seinfeld was working on Seinfeld. Dowse gave Jerry Seinfeld the message, and he doubled over in laughter.
• Kristin Dattilo was on “One Man And A Baby”. She also read for Brenda Walsh.
• Here’s the actors that read for either of Kelly, Brenda, or Andrea: Kirstin Dattilo (Melissa in this series), Robin Lively, Tamara Glen, Kelly Williams, Sarah Buxton, Patricia Arquette, Brooke Mills, Julie Condra, Jaycee Brownlee, Heather McAdam (Surf Betty / Sarah on this series), Cheryl Pollock, Sydney Penny, Heather Grimes, Portia Dawson, Kendra Booth, Patricia Jennings, Megan Ward, Lisa Wilcox, Nicole Egbert, Tiffani Amber-Thiessen, Lisa Ann Capps, Deborah Levin, Jennifer Guthrie, Juliet Lewis, Tiffany (the mononymous singer), Karla Montana, Tracey Needham, Tracy Wells, Rebecca Cross, Kristy Swanson.
• Pete Ferriero can’t find Michelle Abrahms (Amanda Peyser).
• Julie McCulloh (Trina on “Slumber Party”) used to be on Growing Pains. She was removed from Growing Pains because she was in Playboy, and Kirk Cameron didn’t like that.
• Young was on Growing Pains at that time.
• “Slumber Party” is Rosin’s favorite episode among ones he didn’t work on.
• Rosin bought Playboy because of the interviews with Huey Newton and Tom Hayden. Those guys were not going to be on the LA Times.
• Ferriero says his first Playboy was the one with Julie McCulloh, because of her.
• Rosin likes Joshua Karton (Driver’s Ed instructor). He was one of Rosin’s friends.
• Aaron Spelling did not like that character.
• Jessica Klein’s first episode was “April Is The Cruelest Month”, the episode with Matthew Perry. Rosin says maybe Shira Wasserman (Klein’s daughter) will help do a podcast for that episode.
• Young knew Matthew Perry from before. It was a great reading.
• Michael Cudlitz (Tony Miller, later in the series) also read for that same part as Matthew Perry. Cudlitz did a great job too.
• Rosin liked how Matthew Perry was a youth champion Canadian tennis player. Rosin liked casting people that could play the sport. So he also liked Tico Wells from One On One.
• Ian Ziering and Jason Priestley could also really play basketball.
• Years later, Rosin saw Matthew Perry playing tennis at Beverly Hills High School. Rosin was too shy to go up to him and say “remember when you did my episode”. Rosin regrets that shyness now.
• Young had also worked with Matt LeBlanc elsewhere, on Just The 10 Of Us.
• Young had hired Jennifer Anniston on a pilot before.
• Young also cast Marcy Kaplan (Lydia Leeds).
• Melissa Rivers is in “Fame Is Where You Find It”.
• Young had tried to get Tori Spelling cast before. It was for another 1 hour show. The producer said she was terrific but she doesn’t need the job. Young said Tori Spelling shouldn’t be penalized for who her father is. She’s trying to build a resume.
• Young has said she’s always tried to give people who are 2nd generation people in the entertainment industry, a fair chance.
• Melissa Rivers is another example of this.
• Carrie Hamilton from the “Stand And Deliver” episode is another example.

I write a lot about how the Biden-Harris administration is working to restore the principles of the period between 1933 and 1981, when members of both political parties widely shared the belief that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. And I write about how that so-called liberal consensus broke down as extremists used the Reconstruction-era image of the American cowboy—who, according to myth, wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone—to stand against what they insisted was creeping socialism that stole tax dollars from hardworking white men in order to give handouts to lazy minorities and women.
But five major stories over the past several days made me realize that I’ve never written about how Trump and his loyalists have distorted the cowboy image until it has become a poisonous caricature of the values its recent defenders have claimed to champion.
The cowboy myth originated during the Reconstruction era as a response to the idea that a government that defended Black rights was “socialist” and that the tax dollars required to pay bureaucrats and army officers would break hardworking white men.
This weekend, on Saturday, May 11, Paul Kiel of ProPublica and Russ Buettner of the New York Times teamed up to deliver a deep investigation into what Trump was talking about when he insisted that he must break tradition and refuse to release his tax returns when he ran for office in 2016 and 2020, citing an audit.
The New York Times had already reported that one of the reasons the Internal Revenue Service was auditing Trump’s taxes was that, beginning in 2010, he began to claim a $72.9 million tax refund because of huge losses from his failing casinos.
Kiel and Buettner followed the convoluted web of Trump’s finances to find another issue with his tax history. They concluded that Trump’s Chicago skyscraper, his last major construction project, was “a vast money loser.” He claimed losses as high as $651 million on it in 2008. But then he appears to have moved ownership of the building in 2010 from one entity to a new one—the authors describe it as “like moving coins from one pocket to another”—and used that move to claim another $168 million in losses, thereby double-dipping.
The experts the authors consulted said that if he loses the audit battle, Trump could owe the IRS more than $100 million. University of Baltimore law professor Walter Schwidetzky, who is an expert on partnership taxation, told the authors: “I think he ripped off the tax system.”
The cowboy myth emphasized dominance over the Indigenous Americans and Mexicans allegedly attacking white settlers from the East. On Friday an impressive piece of reporting from Jude Joffe-Block at NPR untangled the origins of a story pushed by Republicans that Democrats were encouraging asylum seekers to vote illegally for President Joe Biden in 2024, revealing that the story was entirely made up.
The story broke on X, formerly Twitter, on April 15, when the investigative arm of the right-wing Heritage Foundation, which promises to provide “aggressive oversight” of the Biden administration, posted photos of what it claimed were flyers from inside portable toilets at a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, that said in broken Spanish: “Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States. We need another four years of his term to stay open.” The tweet thread got more than 9 million views and was boosted by Elon Musk, X’s owner.
But the story was fabricated. The flyer used the name of a small organization that helps asylum seekers, along with the name of the woman who runs the organization. She is a U.S. citizen and told Joffe-Block that her organization has “never encouraged people to vote for anyone.” Indeed, it has never come up because everyone knows noncitizens are not eligible to vote. The flyer had outdated phone numbers and addresses, and its Spanish was full of errors. Migrants who are staying at the encampment as they wait for their appointments to enter the U.S. say they have never seen such flyers, and no one has urged them to vote for Biden.
Digging showed that the flyer was “discovered” by the right-wing video site Muckraker, which specializes in “undercover” escapades. The founder of Muckraker, Anthony Rubin, and his brother, Joshua Rubin, had shown up at the organization’s headquarters in Matamoros asking to become volunteers for the organization; they and their conversation were captured on video, and signs point to the conclusion that they planted the flyers.
Nonetheless, Republicans ran with the story. Within 12 hours after the fake flyer appeared on X, Republican representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Dan Bishop (R-NC) brought posters of it to Congress, and Republicans made it a centerpiece of their insistence that Congress must pass a new law against noncitizen voting. Rather than being protected by modern-day cowboys, the woman who ran the organization that helps asylum seekers got death threats.
The cowboy image emphasized the masculinity of the independent men it championed, but the testimony of Stephanie Clifford, the adult film actress also known as Stormy Daniels, in Trump’s criminal trial for falsifying business records to cover up his payments to Clifford to keep her story of their sexual encounter secret before the 2016 election, turns Trump’s aggressive dominance into sad weakness. Covering Clifford’s testimony, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times yesterday wrote that “Trump came across as a loser in her account—a narcissist, cheater, sad Hugh Hefner wannabe, trading his satin pajamas for a dress shirt and trousers (and, later, boxers) as soon as Stormy mocked him.”
In the literature of the cowboy myth, the young champion of the underdog is eventually supposed to settle down and take care of his family, who adore him. But the news of the past week has caricatured that shift, too. On Wednesday, May 8, the Republican Party of Florida announced that it had picked Trump’s youngest son, 18-year-old Barron, as one of the state’s at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention, along with Trump’s other sons, Eric and Donald Jr.; Don Jr.’s fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle; and Trump’s second daughter, Tiffany, and her husband.
On Friday, May 10, Trump’s current wife and Barron’s mother, former first lady Melania Trump, issued a statement saying: “While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments.” It is hard not to interpret this extraordinary snub from his own wife and son as a chilly response to the past month of testimony about his extramarital escapades while Barron was an infant.
Finally, there was the eye-popping story broken by Josh Dawsey and Maxine Joselow in the Washington Post on Thursday, revealing that last month, at a private meeting with about two dozen top oil executives at Mar-a-Lago, Trump offered to reverse President Joe Biden’s environmental rules designed to combat climate change and to stop any new ones from being enacted in exchange for a $1 billion donation.
Trump has promised his supporters that he would be an outsider, using his knowledge of business to defend ordinary Americans against those elites who don’t care about them. Now he has been revealed as being willing to sell us out—to sell humanity out—for the bargain basement price of $1 billion (with about 8 billion people in the world, this would make us each worth about 12 and a half cents).
Chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration Richard Painter wrote: “This is called bribery. It’s a felony.” He followed up with “Even a candidate who loses can be prosecuted for bribery. That includes the former guy asking for a billion dollars in campaign cash from oil companies in exchange for rolling back environmental laws.”
The cowboy myth was always a political image, designed to undermine the idea of a government that worked for ordinary Americans. It was powerful after the Civil War but faded into the past in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s as Americans realized that their lives depended on government regulation and a basic social safety net. The American cowboy burst back into prominence with the advent of the Marlboro Man in 1954, the year of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, and the idea of an individual white man who worked hard, wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone, was a sex symbol, and protected his women became a central myth in the rise of politicians determined to overturn the liberal consensus.
Now it seems the myth has come full circle, with the party led by a man whose wife rejects him and whose lovers ridicule him, who makes up stories about dangerous “others,” cheats on his taxes, solicits bribes, and tries to sell out his followers for cash—the very caricature the mythological cowboy was invented to fight.
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Notes:
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10
/1248599505/migrants-vote-biden-conspiracy-theory-social-media
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1250585392/takeaways-migration-biden-flyer-matamoros
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/opinion/trump-stormy-daniels-trial.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/barron-trump-florida-delegate-republican-national-convention-rcna151388
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/barron-trump-declines-invitation-delegate-republican-convention-rcna151761
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Vault Number: 222

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Purpose of Vault: See how well couples adapt and live in an enclosed environment, when said couples are exact opposites, or terrible matches

Experiment parameters:

All residents must be single when applying for this Vault. Potential residents will be told that they will be partnered with someone who will be their ideal partner, in order to make healthy, happy families meant for the rebuilding of America. As such, all details about themselves will be needed; likes, dislikes, loved and hated foods, entertainment, political ideologies, as well as what their dream partner might be like. After data is gathered, Vault Tec specialists will carefully go through everything, and find a partner for them with the exact OPPOSITE of their ideal partner. All residents will be required to stay with their predetermined partner, and fraternization with other residents that isn’t their chosen partner is strictly forbidden, with harsh punishments for breaking said rule. Residents will be informed of different levels of punishments for different levels of fraternization upon entry after meeting their partner in order to discourage fraternization. Vault Tec will have multiple couples councilors in the vault, but their instructions will be to give very generic, unhelpful advice, and not actually help couples.

Notable "couples":

• Jeffery Telltall and Valerie Flywind: Jeffery Telltall was born to a poor family and joined the military as soon as he could to get out of poverty. He is a six year combat engineer of the United States Army, personally fought in anchorage, earned several achievements and awards for his bravery. Highly patriotic to America. Worked in law enforcement afterward, deployed and helped disperse and quell riots in the Atlanta area. Loves Cooper Howard movies and YumYum Deviled eggs. Valerie Flywind was born to an affluent family in the Manhattan area, and has not had a job her entire life. Self-described as a communist despite her wealthy family, has constantly attended protests against the war, but had her wealthy parents sue the local law enforcement any time she was arrested. Entirely vegan, was lied to about vegan options Vault 222 to get her in. Prefers foreign films, and likes to wear expensive makeup. It will be interesting to see a proud patriotic capitalist and a self-described communist forced to live together as a couple.
  
• Michael Bant and Ileia Penter: Michael Bant is both asexual and aromantic. Completely uninterested in romance or sexual activities. Ileia Penter is gay, and sex-repulsive, as in she finds the act of sex disgusting, to the point of a phobia. Both of them are to be constantly pestered by vault tec employees to copulate in order to try and get Ms. Penter pregnant. No aphrodisiacs or stimulants are to be given to either of them, but Vault Tec couples councilors are encouraged to try and make them copulate in front of them.
  
• Jeromy Teller and Tiffany Goldhelm: This couple is to be used as a “control” couple. Jeromy likes sports, enjoys barbeques on the weekend, and is an extrovert. Tiffany is an introvert, enjoys Hubris comics, holotape games, and prefers quiet weekends. Despite these differences, their personality profiles are a perfect match for each other to make a happy couple. They are to be ensured they have a perfect relationship by all Vault Tec personnel, as well as the couples councilors are to genuinely help them with any and all relationship troubles, in order to be the “poster couple” that the matchmaking of Vault 222 is good, and the other residents just aren’t trying enough to make their relationships work.
  
• Frank Miller and Ruby Feathern: Frank Miller is gay. Ruby Feathern is a nymphomaniac. Let’s just see what happens.
  
• ”Strongbeam” Taylor and Taylor Lightsee: “Strongbeam” is not Mr. Taylors real name, but he insisted it be his name on record. Mr. Taylor is a conspiracy theorist, who lived in his parents basement. None of his theories had to do with the US government or Vault Tec, so his risk to the vault is minimal. However, he is convinced that “the reds” are responsible for vaccines to control the population, that autodocs “communistically lobotomize” patients, and that any pants made of anything else besides denim are a “communist plot”. He would not elaborate. Ms. Lightsee is a scientist, who worked in medical research and development, more specifically in general vaccines, before transferring herself to autodoc development. She has made it a point in her life to have rigorous documentation for all of her work, and was encouraged to bring it to the vault so she may continue her work in autodoc development. We very much doubt Mr. Taylor will accept the literal piles of evidence Ms. Lightsee has about her work.
  

Hello! I've got a milestone birthday coming up at the end of May and I'd like to treat myself some nice genuine pearl (or maybe small diamond) earrings-- nothing insane, but maybe a step or two up from Kate Spade.
I don't know a whole lot about jewelry brands other than knowing the *big* names from pop culture. Like any millennial who had that one Aubrey Hepburn poster on my dorm room wall, my first instinct is Tiffany's, but from what I've read online, it seems that they are losing their quality recently.
Does anyone have any suggestions for good places to shop for a nice pair of earrings under $500-750 USD?
Thanks!

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TLDR: my ex is a sone and gatekeeped Tiffany from me when we were dating (I was tryna get into snsd again after 3 years as I was only their casual listener) but after we broke up (the reason why has nothing to do w this tho) I felt more free to be a sone. He said ‘gatekeeping Tiffany is part of the sone inside joke lol’
Ik SOME carats like to gatekeep mingyu as a joke, but honestly I hate being gatekeeped from stuff so much.
For context: my ex is a sone and when I was trying to become a sone too (we were still dating at the time), he would never tell me who Tiffany is (Tiffany’s his bias) and so my biases became Yuri, Hyoyeon and Sunny. (The rest are bias wreckers)
Whenever I would identify Tiffany on a poster or photo, he’d say ‘oh no that’s their backup dance[another member]’ so I’d end up confusing her w taeyeon or Sooyoung (during their <2010 days they would get the same parts, eg gee and itnw)
After we broke up (has nothing to do w the Tiffany gatekeeping) I finally got to know more abt Tiffany and felt so much more relieved that I had stopped being gatekeeped from her. (It’s up to the point that I was telling yuri’s voice better than Tiffany)
Sones, is gatekeeping Tiffany really part of a fandom joke?

THERE IS NO SPOILER IN THIS THREAD.
On a tangent, I heard someone invoke the excel guy in one of the thread. Though there is the other excel guy who keep linking to instagram. I am not that guy. I like my numbers and presentation to tell some sort of a story. Though, my thread ain't got much attention anyway, despite I do put quite a bit of effort in them. And recently with the spoiler rule or something, and people were ranting about how they got spoiled or whatever. I don't know if any of that vitriol is directly at me or not. Who know. I find it really funny too with people complaining about getting spoil on the live thread. Of course, I don't even watch things live to even have the knowledge to spoil to others. I am on the live thread on the purpose of getting spoiled myself before watching the episode. I know the nuance of people watching with or without commercial. But goddam, have some agency. 2 hours without reddit is not the end of the WORLD. IF YOU CARE SO SO SO SO MUCH about not getting spoil on the live thread. Turn off your phone for 2 hours. Can you even know what going on your screen, as your direct your attention to typing on reddit? At the end of the day, you cannot control other people (even if you are right or wrong). It isn't all that easy to control others. All you can do is have some agency, and watch your favorite show without going on some forum knowing the possibility that you gonna get spoiled.
But I do notice, what posts do got a ton of thumb up. And just so people know when their posts got a ton of thumb up. It is mostly because your thoughts ain't all that original, and it ain't all that unique (hence all the thumb up of people agreeing with you). You are the thousandth person who bring up X or X is stuck up, or that you don't like them. And then, you are probably the other thousandth who defend X or X. And usually it got nowhere. Because everyone has an opinion, and everyone ain't gonna change their that easily. They will repeat their opinion every year, as if they didn't have a debate about those very points over and over again.
Speaking of very unoriginal commentary. Yes, you, whoever you are out there, I get it. You hate Guy Fieri. And one of you will remind the rest of the forum about 2 or 3 times a week. About some personality observation. Or that him and Bobby Flay are taking over. If you want to blame someone. Don't blame Guy. Things don't just randomly happened that way. People don't just burn their money for nothing. His shows must have great rating aka people watching them. So Guy is but a scapegoat, what you are really upset at. Is at your fellow Food Network audience. And what you really upset at, is nothing to do with Guy. It is merely you have a different opinions than others. That is all.
Speaking of Guy, I don't know anything about him prior to TOC. But I have now hating GGG too, and had some idea about the guy. Anthony Bourdain used to have some beef with Guy. And although I love Bourdain and his shows, and maybe there are something valid about his criticism. But I have grown to appreciate Guy also. If you gonna have a friend, you would want somebody like Guy in your corner. The varying amount of personalities that he able to get along with. The way he made people feel comfortable.
Even the premise of his show, which is sometimes people hate about him. Like TOC, the bombasted, loud, sport like. Chefs are an invisible profession. You don't usually even have a physical interaction and or know who cook your food. It is a professions that is underappreciated, and not glamorous. So for these chefs to get that feel of competitive athletes (a much more beloved profession). The cheering of the audience, the belt, the ring. The visibility. And unlike other reality shows that often come with negativity due to the edit (the villain edit come to mind). Guy assured them that he isn't there to F up people's career. Something that was revealed in Casey Thompson's interview. It is almost like, interacting with him is mostly a net positive. Even if you go out early in the competition. Yes, this show is not a genuine reflection like say A Cook Tour, No Reservation, or even Top Chef. But it is a different type of show. If you don't like it. DON"T WATCH IT. And maybe food network is like, hey people don't like this show. Let's do less competitive show (if that what you want food network to do). I don't know why people keep tuning it, and then complain about it.
Also do know what show you are watching. The randomizer is part of the brand. They ain't gonna cut out something that is so integral to the show. The numerous of comments about the randomizer being gimmicky. But in someway, it is a level playing field due to also the chance component to it. The structure of the show is more relax to have chef's creativity shone through, in my humble opinion, than said Chopped (which is way more restrictive). But it is more restricted than said Top Chef. Where people can cook whatever, and come up with some bs story to fit with the challenge. And Top Chef had never really been clear about the criteria of how they judge things. You can only follow the trend and make an assumption that they favored Taste over the adhering to the challenge (especially when it come to elimination). In TOC, you can see very clearly through the point break down.
Media literacy had been throwing out as an insult as of late about stuffs. But part of the media literacy is to understand the edit of the show. You are watching a sport like competition. Guy probably had told all contestants to thrash talk. And almost all of them TRASH TALK. The different is that if you like a contestant, the trash talk didn't really stand out to you. BUT IF YOU ALREADY HATE SOME ONE FOR WHATEVER REASON. Then boy or boy, you then start to label them as arrogant, stuck up. And you repeated that to yourself over and over. Until there is no charitability to be given in an interpretation of an event on screen. I hope people start to realize that when they had such a strong emotional about a chef. It is a manifestation of something about the poster, more so than it is the chef.
Then there is the judging. The edit does play quite a nice trick. The point of the tv show is to make it engaging. Even if someone won by 5 point or 1 point. The edit will try it best to make it as close as possible. It meant that it will include as much negative comments (that are available in the shoot) to the winning dish, and positive comments to the losing dish. Also it will left out comments. When you see a 1 point different, on a panel of 5. That is not a 1 point dif at all. Because it is an avg out of 5. So the dish that earn 1 more point in a category. They must have 3 to 7 points more. 3/5 = 0.6 round up to 1 and 7/5 = 1.4 round down to 1. If the judges are more in consensus, then AT LEAST, 3 judges favored one dish in that category. If the judges are more polarized, that meant there are judges that love the dish way way way way more than the judge dislike a dish. So if you see, an edit of one judge saying something about that one category as a ding. That meant there are many other judges disagree with that ding. That one comment is but 1 out of 5.
The other unoriginal comments, so and so should win because there should be a insert gender winner. I love Top Chef and now TOC and I will defend the integrity of the show regardless of outcome (especially if there are no abundant evidence of bias). People should win because they did the BEST. That is all. No one want to win because of an asterix. These people put their heart and soul out there.
On the unoriginal comments in regard to bias in term of cuisine. There are rotating panel of judges, at different round. So they don't even know 1) that the chef that they would be bias toward is even competing or 2) had already been eliminated. Some judges, especially in the final are not judges across all 5 seasons. Nor are they even judges of the entire season. So how what is the chance of the person they want to win, even make it to the finale to begin with? There was 44 chefs competing in this season. 12 eliminated in the preliminary, and 32 competing in the main competition. Some judges are not even frequent Food Network Judges. And I don't even see clear link between them and contestant.
One thing very unique about this show that people want to do away with and make it like any other shows out there. Is the regular cast, and former winners competing. I do love a mix new and old cast. And I hope they doing that going forward more. But the regulars that competing, make it easier to rank them on this format (different show have different format- Top Chef France challenges are multiple hours). It isn't even a debate of who is better than who, when the evidences are clearer cut. The old winners had been very good injection of narratives and shocking twist. With Tiffani early exit in season 4 and Brooke in season 5. They also served as wonderful final bosses. Brooke Williamson's role in season 2 and season 3. Maneet in season 4 competing against newcomer Mei Lin. When Maneet win against Brooke, Tiffani win against Brooke, and Mei win against Maneet. It felt like a wonderful narrative. However, real life is not a feel good story. Brooke Williamson doesn't exist just to be a final boss for Maneet or Tiffani. It feel good because Brooke played to win, and she only beaten because she outcooked. This passion from Brooke is what make the show compelling when others beat her. But had she win instead, there is no different. The same passion that make it a compelling story could be easily the other way. Life is not a control structured story. The person with the most potential narrative story may or may not win.
The newest crop of comments is about crying (though maybe just the same person who complain about it, i don't quite keep track). Guess what, these are not actors and performative monkeys to your amusement. They are real people (they are closer to you and me than actual celebrities, some are barely be call celebrities, or like D lister). Sometimes they can't control their physical reaction regardless of the edit or whatever narrative you have of them. And people on the planet are diverse in personality and temperament. Feelings ARE NOT LOGICAL. People can have imposter syndrome. People complained about Brit crying. Guess what Guy and the show is what spun that Cinderella story. Suddenly in a second season, and she supposed to able to adjust her mindset. I know people that can't even change their mindset at they hit rock bottom. Brit in particular tend to cook food from her grandma, from her dad. Some of your earliest memory had to do with taste. Had to do with food. To see those food appreciate. Obviously she gonna be emotional. Especially after the 30-40 adrenaline running around.
And that goes with everyone. These are like athlete and other competitions. The stakes are high. They put their hearts and souls, and put themselves in a vulnerable position to be judge. They care so much, and have so much pride. The closer and closer to victory, the most emotionally devastating it is. Which is why it makes the show so compelling. If you can't empathize with it. Maybe because you don't have something you deeply care as much as these chefs had for this competition and for their profession. And by the way, the show is great because they don't just phone in their performance.
So after 5 seasons, and you have deep problems with the randomizer, the bombasted nature of it, the emotions, etc. Maybe it isn't the show for you, change the channel. It is after all only 2 hours per week for some 7 to 9 weeks per year. You can do it, switch the channel.
I debate for couple of days, if I should even post this rant. I gonna took my own advice and log off Reddit. My opinion is no more or less valid than others. I am but a loud mouth. I had a lot on my excel stuffs. Maybe some other day, I will share them.