The Sad Passing of James Van Der Beek, the Go Fund Me Set Up for His Family, Early Thoughts on Love is Blind, Krispy Kreme for VDay, & a Reader Email
Reality Steve Podcast
Reality Steve
4.3 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
(SPOILER) Your Daily Roundup covers the sad passing of James Van Der Beek, the Go Fund Me set up for his family, early thoughts on Love is Blind, Krispy Kreme shelling out for Valentine’s Day, & a Reader Email.
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| 0:00.0 | You are my good thing to say to be sloid. |
| 0:13.9 | You are listening to the Daily Roundup here as part of the Reality Steve podcast. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm your host, Reality Steve. |
| 0:22.5 | Thank you all for tuning in on this Thursday. |
| 0:25.5 | Unfortunately, we start off with sad news. |
| 0:28.1 | The passing of James Vanderbeek, Dawson from Dawson's Creek, Mocks, Johnny Mawkson from Varsity Blues. |
| 0:38.6 | It's a tough one one to say the least. |
| 0:41.2 | I'll give you my thoughts on it. |
| 0:44.0 | Love is Blind kicked off with their first six episodes yesterday. |
| 0:50.1 | I'll give a brief discussion because you know I'm going live today at 3 p.m. |
| 0:53.8 | Eastern time on my YouTube channel to give all my thoughts on Love is Blind. |
| 0:58.0 | Krispy Cream is in the news, and I'm going to get to a reader email. |
| 1:04.8 | So let's get started. |
| 1:08.3 | If you've listened to me long enough, you should be aware that Dawson's Creek is one of my all-time favorite shows. |
| 1:21.2 | I graduated college in May of 1997. |
| 1:26.3 | I moved in to a studio apartment off Santa Monica Boulevard that I actually talked about within the last couple weeks, remember? |
| 1:34.6 | And I said, I can't believe I live there. |
| 1:36.4 | And then when I looked it up on Zillow, it's like 325 square feet. |
| 1:40.5 | It was like 550 bucks. |
| 1:42.4 | And it was just the closet, the sink, the stove, and the bathroom were all literally within one area. |
| 1:53.2 | But I bring that up because I moved there into that apartment, I think the day after I graduated. |
| 2:02.6 | And then I had no furniture in that place. |
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