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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. We are getting started
Speaker 2: with one of the most anticipated and one of the
Speaker 2: most excited seasons that Ashley and I have ever entered into.
Speaker 2: It's now the time for the Golden Bachelorette. This is
Speaker 2: something that we've waited for that first a part of
Speaker 2: our life. It was just a dream and now we're
Speaker 2: actually in it. The season is airing and we're here
Speaker 2: to break down episode one of this season. It's Jones
Speaker 2: season of the Golden Bachelorette. Ashley is with me. Ashley, Hello,
Speaker 2: your thoughts, feelings, emotions. As you enter in and you
Speaker 2: turned on your television to watch this beautiful episode.
Speaker 3: I was really excited to watch it. It was just
Speaker 3: as captivating as I hoped it would be. And I
Speaker 3: was really sad that there was a rose ceremony at
Speaker 3: the end of it, because I thought that they really
Speaker 3: made us so am I was connected to these guys
Speaker 3: so quickly. After we watch the video of their families
Speaker 3: doing shout outs, I was like, Oh, there's no way
Speaker 3: that they're going to eliminate any of these guys. They're
Speaker 3: gonna have Jesse come in and be like, guess what
Speaker 3: there was ceremony tonight.
Speaker 4: But there was.
Speaker 3: And I will say they did a good job of
Speaker 3: not really eliminating anyone. They didn't highlight anyone who was eliminated.
Speaker 3: So the guys that did leave, I didn't really have
Speaker 3: any impressions of you.
Speaker 2: Could have said it better. Let's start from the beginning.
Speaker 2: Joan as our Golden Bachelorette. Fantastic choice. Now it just
Speaker 2: feels like the obvious choice. There are so many incredible
Speaker 2: women on the last season of The Golden Bachelor, but
Speaker 2: it just feels now with everything that Joan has beauty
Speaker 2: and grace.
Speaker 3: It's grace.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say that she has wisdom. You can
Speaker 2: tell even in her time with her family and her interview.
Speaker 2: She's slow to speak, quick to listen seriously, she has
Speaker 2: a story to back her up. She's gorgeous. I think
Speaker 2: it was like the obvious choice. Now it feels that
Speaker 2: way now again, I want to preface it with say,
Speaker 2: there was some amazing women, and there's some other obvious
Speaker 2: choices that she could think could have picked, but Joan
Speaker 2: in this role fits. Yes, She's It's like when she
Speaker 2: enters into camera, especially in the moments where she is
Speaker 2: the bachelorette. It's captivating at some level, right, Like it's
Speaker 2: like almost a show stopping Like it feels like she glows.
Speaker 3: Somebody said it was like royalty, and it does feel
Speaker 3: like that. She has this composure and it's the elegance
Speaker 3: and grace. It's like a it's like a Grace Kelly thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: she's very calming and she just seems like no drama.
Speaker 3: She seems truly like there for you, being.
Speaker 4: Like, oh the top. No.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think there's enough that we could say
Speaker 2: about Joan that would even fit who she is. I
Speaker 2: think if you met Joan in person, which you and
Speaker 2: I have gotten to do, you would be as captivated
Speaker 2: and you would sit there and be like I could
Speaker 2: talk to you for two hours because you have a
Speaker 2: lot of wisdom. Yeah, and she is slow to speak,
Speaker 2: quick to listen. So Joan is a great choice. She shines.
Speaker 2: I think she is a in a sense, like she
Speaker 2: almost looks like the savior of the show. Not that
Speaker 2: the show needs saving right now. I think it's in
Speaker 2: a fine place, but it just feels like she's going
Speaker 2: to thrive in this role. It's incredible that they found
Speaker 2: somebody like her to lead this, And then with that
Speaker 2: same breath, I'll say it's incredible they found so many
Speaker 2: incredible men to do it as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I love the way that the guys are
Speaker 3: very much the way that the women were at first.
Speaker 3: It's there's a camaraderie. They want to be friends, They're
Speaker 3: to have fun together. There's not going to be any
Speaker 3: sort of and I don't feel like there's gonna be
Speaker 3: any sort of animosity. They go in there and they're
Speaker 3: like bros. And there's just so much less tension. And
Speaker 3: I really think that has to do with perspective and
Speaker 3: talked about it on Garious season. It's just like these people,
Speaker 3: they just they've lived more life. They know what's important
Speaker 3: and they know like, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it's a good lesson learned for all of
Speaker 2: us as we watch it is as you get older,
Speaker 2: what do you trend towards? And it's not the drama
Speaker 2: and the fighting and the competitiveness. It's the camaraderie. It's
Speaker 2: the community, it's the shared respect, it's the mutual support.
Speaker 2: We've seen it with both seasons now and I'm sure
Speaker 2: there's gonna be some animosity. There's a bunch of people
Speaker 2: living in the same house together for the next few months.
Speaker 2: Things will pop up that annoy you about somebody else,
Speaker 2: and maybe we'll hear about that. But the level of
Speaker 2: drama compared to other seasons like The Bachelor or Bachelorette,
Speaker 2: will be a lot more minimal. It won't be a highlight.
Speaker 2: They can't make it a highlight. We've been There's been
Speaker 2: some bad moments here for production. I think over the
Speaker 2: last few weeks when it comes to Gin's ending, and
Speaker 2: then obviously with the missed opportunity to tell Devin not
Speaker 2: to even come on the show. You know those things
Speaker 2: you know, we've talked about that we've been critical. I
Speaker 2: will say this episode specifically, and I'm hoping it continues
Speaker 2: for the rest of the season, was so well done.
Speaker 2: It was an incredible episode to watch. We got to
Speaker 2: learn so much about these contestants and such a short
Speaker 2: amount of time. And as you said, the reason that
Speaker 2: we were so captivated, so intrigued, and so into these
Speaker 2: people was due to how they set up the show,
Speaker 2: and it was absolutely incredible. I didn't want to roast
Speaker 2: ceremony either. In fact, I don't know how she's going
Speaker 2: to have rost ceremonies because it feels like they should
Speaker 2: all just hang out together and just continue on their
Speaker 2: merry way for the rest of time. And I have
Speaker 2: to give credit there and say, this is just a
Speaker 2: really good episode. This is a good, well done episode,
Speaker 2: from the storytelling perspective, to the arc of the episode
Speaker 2: to helping us get to know these contestants a little
Speaker 2: bit better.
Speaker 4: It felt so good to watch.
Speaker 3: I do have to say that maybe it's just easier
Speaker 3: to create this closeness that we feel towards them because
Speaker 3: they have these pasts, you know, like they're telling the
Speaker 3: story of their decea spouse, they're telling the story about
Speaker 3: their kids. And when we watch packages and stuff with
Speaker 3: the Bachelor Bachelorette, it's kind of like, Hi, I'm so
Speaker 3: and so I'm looking for love. You know. Well, there's,
Speaker 3: of course, there's like a lot of depth and stuff,
Speaker 3: But I just think that there's something about people already
Speaker 3: having these families formed that probably make you feel like
Speaker 3: they're just a mushier. They don't come across ever as
Speaker 3: like victim stories or like, oh, here's my sap story,
Speaker 3: which of course, I you know, I feel for all
Speaker 3: of the ones that we've seen in the past, it's
Speaker 3: a discredit them. It's just that like for uh, like
Speaker 3: the cast as a whole, because they all have like
Speaker 3: they just they just seem like they have like more
Speaker 3: depth at this age, which is perhaps, Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 3: do you know what I'm saying, Well.
Speaker 4: I'd hope they have more depth they have.
Speaker 3: Some more years, Okay, So like I just think that
Speaker 3: it's maybe it's where I am in life. Seeing packages
Speaker 3: about like these dads and their kids just makes me
Speaker 3: feel really oh yeah.
Speaker 2: I think part of it too, actually is just a change. Again,
Speaker 2: I'll go back to how the show is made, and
Speaker 2: I think it's a change in how they storytell and
Speaker 2: what used to happen on the show is kind of
Speaker 2: through those entry packages, we get a taste at a
Speaker 2: piece of the bigger story from these contestants. And now
Speaker 2: what we're doing is we're waiting until those one on
Speaker 2: one dates kind of as they sit at the cocktail
Speaker 2: part or they sit at a one on one like
Speaker 2: dinner for the contestant to actually open up and tell
Speaker 2: their story. And a lot of contestants do have a
Speaker 2: story and they do have depth, but the show, for
Speaker 2: whatever reason, on the Bachelor and Bachelorette wait until those
Speaker 2: one on one moments to tell the audience, and they
Speaker 2: used to in the entry packages give us a taste
Speaker 2: of that story, and so we go into it being like, Hey,
Speaker 2: I want to learn more about that person because I
Speaker 2: know they have a story to tell and we kind
Speaker 2: of anticipated when they would expand on it more with
Speaker 2: the lead. And I think that's what they're doing with
Speaker 2: the Golden Bachelorette.
Speaker 3: More upfront story, more.
Speaker 2: Upfront storytelling it. They don't wait until the end. They
Speaker 2: get us at the beginning, and so the whole time,
Speaker 2: now we're going to be captivated by each one of
Speaker 2: these contestants and go, you have such a story. And yes,
Speaker 2: not all of them got to tell Jen on night
Speaker 2: or Joan on night one. Not all of them got
Speaker 2: to expand on that story on night one, But what
Speaker 2: our hope is that they get to at some point throughout.
Speaker 4: The season and we get to learn a little bit more.
Speaker 3: But like, okay, so what I was really trying to
Speaker 3: say is like, look at you and me going into
Speaker 3: The Bachelor and the Bachelorette. We had nothing really. I mean, yes,
Speaker 3: you had some things, you had some traumas, but like
Speaker 3: you didn't have anything that you were like, you know,
Speaker 3: you where you're like, oh, you know, like my wife
Speaker 3: passed away or like, you know, everything was just kind
Speaker 3: of like, oh, I am looking for a spouse, like
Speaker 3: you're just like Fresher. Yeah, And I will say I'm
Speaker 3: not describing this well, No, you're doing fine.
Speaker 2: I will say that when we're on the show, though,
Speaker 2: there were some stories that like other men on The
Speaker 2: Bachelorette that had and they would share that with us,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of as we sat in the hotel
Speaker 2: or sat in the house and it was just us.
Speaker 2: The lead wasn't there, and they'd be like, yeah, you
Speaker 2: know what, like my mom passed away like two months
Speaker 2: ago and it's been really hard for me, but she
Speaker 2: always wanted me to go on the show. And Caitlyn
Speaker 2: wouldn't know that story yet. And so when they had
Speaker 2: their one on one date, I will say one of
Speaker 2: the cooler moments was when they would have their one
Speaker 2: on one date and the guys would you know, be
Speaker 2: kind of sitting around. We'd be like, hey, you're you
Speaker 2: gonna have to share that with her tonight and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I am, it's going to be hard because you know,
Speaker 2: I don't really want to cry on national television. We're like, hey,
Speaker 2: you just got to go through it, like just do it,
Speaker 2: Like she needs to know this, you need to like
Speaker 2: talk about this. And it was this cool moment of support.
Speaker 2: So the stories have always been known way before the
Speaker 2: lead maybe even know Zone. And I think that's such
Speaker 2: a fun part of this Golden Show so far is
Speaker 2: we know these contestants better already than most of the
Speaker 2: contestants on gen season because we've heard a lot of
Speaker 2: their stories.
Speaker 3: I just want to clarify it doesn't mean that you
Speaker 3: have to have a sad story to be a great guy.
Speaker 4: No, but we all have a story. You all have
Speaker 4: a story.
Speaker 2: Everybody has a story of some level at some capacity.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't have to have a sad, sappy background.
Speaker 4: Just knowing their stories, like I just want to know
Speaker 4: their stories.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: The show did a great job at that. These men
Speaker 2: are as incredible as we thought they were through their pictures.
Speaker 2: There is depth, there is a handsomeness, There is you
Speaker 2: know this like suaveness to so many of them, and
Speaker 2: then there's the big personalities, there's the fun personalities. There's
Speaker 2: the personalities that you just love to have on these
Speaker 2: seasons because they make everything a little bit better and
Speaker 2: just having them there makes it a little more fun
Speaker 2: to watch. So there is a great group I think
Speaker 2: of men on Jones season at every you know, at
Speaker 2: every level.
Speaker 3: And before we get into the guys that really stood
Speaker 3: out to us, let's talk about well, just let me
Speaker 3: just make my own little comment. You know what this
Speaker 3: show has been missing for so many years, the soft rock,
Speaker 3: those soft rog hits like the one that we got
Speaker 3: from Phil Collins slash I'm not sure it was Genis
Speaker 3: sister Phil Collins in.
Speaker 4: The beginning of the episode.
Speaker 3: Those old jams really give you some feelings. And they
Speaker 3: used to do that all the time, and now they've
Speaker 3: a limited eliminated it, but they bring it back for
Speaker 3: the golden part of the franchise, and I think we
Speaker 3: need to infiltrate more of that music.
Speaker 4: Into the show, into the main show.
Speaker 3: I love it so much. Okay, guys, the first guy
Speaker 3: out of the limo, he's he's quite the character. It's
Speaker 3: Pascual Pascal Pascal. He's the Frenchman and normally I'm not
Speaker 3: like swooned by a French accent, but he has it
Speaker 3: like he's totally got it. And he owns a salon
Speaker 3: slash medspa, which just tracks so perfectly for him. Look,
Speaker 3: they're not gonna get married, he's not going to get
Speaker 3: super duper far. I don't see them having a deep,
Speaker 3: deep connection. But he's a really fun character for us.
Speaker 4: I also will say some of the people that stood
Speaker 4: out to me, I'll just name him.
Speaker 2: Some of the names here, obviously Keith, who ends up
Speaker 2: with the first impression, Rose Mark who obviously you probably
Speaker 2: just Mark.
Speaker 3: He gets better and better the more we see him.
Speaker 3: Goodness Ashley just really is the fact that you don't
Speaker 3: understand this is like, I understand it.
Speaker 4: I understand it.
Speaker 2: I go back to though, my comment weeks ago that
Speaker 2: says this show is going to be a problem because
Speaker 2: all these handsome older men are going to come out
Speaker 2: there and all these eighteen to forty five years yeah,
Speaker 2: and all these girls are gonna be like, goodness, gracious,
Speaker 2: their dms are about to get dangerous.
Speaker 4: I mean it, I'm worried for these guys.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be like, I don't even know what a
Speaker 2: thirst trap is and now of a sudden, I'm getting
Speaker 2: pictures I never I don't want to see.
Speaker 3: Listen, can we just talk Do you want to talk
Speaker 3: about Mark an hour later?
Speaker 2: We'll talk about Mark later. I really like Michael just
Speaker 2: because he was nervous and I understand that.
Speaker 3: Michael Michael nervous. Uh yeah, that was cute. I'm trying
Speaker 3: to put a plate a face to the name because
Speaker 3: a couple of them said they were nervous. I know
Speaker 3: Jordan was super. Jordan was very subconscious about his nervous entrance,
Speaker 3: which I saw him stumble, but it was like, no
Speaker 3: big deal, No, it's fine.
Speaker 4: The final person that I'll bring up just after.
Speaker 2: Night one that stood out to me that I just
Speaker 2: love and I want to hang out with, and it
Speaker 2: just feels like so many of my best friends because
Speaker 2: they just seem to make life a little bit more
Speaker 2: fun is Jack. Jack has to get some credit here.
Speaker 2: Jack is an amazing commentator. He has huge, just awesome energy,
Speaker 2: he has confidence, he has swagger, and he is hilarious.
Speaker 2: I want to know more about Jack. I want to
Speaker 2: see more about Jack, and I hope Jack's around a while,
Speaker 2: just because it does I feel like what I like
Speaker 2: in Jack is He's not the type of guy that
Speaker 2: would just say yes to going on this, Like he
Speaker 2: took a little convincing and then he got there and
Speaker 2: he's going to make the most of it. Like you know,
Speaker 2: when we talk about on this show, I think it
Speaker 2: took this.
Speaker 3: Man a little convincing. I think he was like TV
Speaker 3: is for me.
Speaker 2: Sure, maybe that's true, dude, But you know when we
Speaker 2: give the life Advice segment and we talked about be
Speaker 2: where your feet are, it's such a good piece of advice.
Speaker 2: Just be where your feet are at all times. It
Speaker 2: helps you stay present. I feel like Jack's saying would
Speaker 2: be be where my feet are and then make it
Speaker 2: the best. And I think he's just gonna make this
Speaker 2: so much fun. It might be annoying to some people
Speaker 2: because he probably is having such a good time just
Speaker 2: being there, but I don't care.
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 3: I also like, I loved how he cooked for her,
Speaker 3: so he's a caterer. He cooked for her for their
Speaker 3: one on one time. That would have won me over
Speaker 3: for sure. And then he's sang Sinatra coming out of
Speaker 3: the limo and he's like, well, there are my two
Speaker 3: talents singing and cooking. Yeah, he's really fun. I again
Speaker 3: don't think that they're like gonna be endgame, but he's
Speaker 3: a great character for us to watch. Love it And Okay,
Speaker 3: so for me, I liked Chalk, who has the weirdest name,
Speaker 3: but brought her chok noodle soup chicken noodle soup because
Speaker 3: she's known for her chicken noodle soup. And he just
Speaker 3: had a really nice comming demeanor.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Sure.
Speaker 3: I also of course loved Jonathan, who is a hottie.
Speaker 3: He is the one who's divorced. He has two kids.
Speaker 3: His kids look on the younger side. He's sixty one
Speaker 3: at the same age he he just seems like full package.
Speaker 4: He what about God Like, he's a pretty handsome man.
Speaker 3: Guy's kind of weird to me. Guy is he he's
Speaker 3: the the ear doctor, right, Yeah, he's a little he's
Speaker 3: a little u. Yes, they're all handsome. He's very good looking,
Speaker 3: but he's a little he's a little awkward. Right now,
Speaker 3: we'll see it. Keith, Okay, we'll talk about Keith. He
Speaker 3: comes in with the station waggage with the luggage dropped
Speaker 3: on top. He is from Jose, California. He's been a
Speaker 3: single dad for twelve years. You were talking earlier about
Speaker 3: how his wife had problems with addiction, so let him
Speaker 3: be like just the primary parent for the past twelve years,
Speaker 3: has three girls, and again liked his demeanor, and obviously
Speaker 3: so did Joan as he got the first impression Rose
Speaker 3: there is a warmth to him. I see him getting
Speaker 3: pretty far. There's a lot of girl dads in this bunch.
Speaker 3: There was the guy from Florida was another girl dad
Speaker 3: that I really felt connected to. His name is slipping
Speaker 3: me right now.
Speaker 4: But oh Dan.
Speaker 3: Dan loved Dan and he adopted his first child and
Speaker 3: was a single dad for fourteen years. Really I really
Speaker 3: liked him. But yeah, let's see anybody else before I
Speaker 3: can move on to you know, my fave Mark who actually,
Speaker 3: to be honest, Dan and Jonathan are up there with
Speaker 3: Mark for me, but I think.
Speaker 4: That Mark is just hold up, hold up, let me
Speaker 4: pause here this.
Speaker 2: I just want to take a second for all the
Speaker 2: listeners and highlight my just the best co host possible
Speaker 2: for the last eight years. Did you do you hear
Speaker 2: what she just did? She goes, is there anybody else
Speaker 2: been before we talk about Mark? And then she just
Speaker 2: starts talking about Mark. She just it's going she cannot
Speaker 2: help herself. Literally, she brings it up, like, Hey, is
Speaker 2: there anybody else that really stands out to you, Ben,
Speaker 2: because I really have this person I want to talk about,
Speaker 2: and then she just goes by the way. Mark's amazing
Speaker 2: and he's awesome, but there are some people that shocked
Speaker 2: me that kind of got to it's just absolutely incredible
Speaker 2: when Ashley, she's just so easy to read. I know
Speaker 2: you want to talk about Mark so bad, and I
Speaker 2: just want to pause you on that because I think
Speaker 2: Gary and Charles k also are like would stand out
Speaker 2: to me from this episode. I think they'll be around
Speaker 2: a while. I think they're gonna be big characters this
Speaker 2: season and I really like them. Now, Ashley, the floor
Speaker 2: is yours. You can take your next twenty minutes and
Speaker 2: talk about Mark.
Speaker 3: Well, Ben, I want to mention that Gary is the
Speaker 3: life of the party. I enjoy watching him as well.
Speaker 3: He's going to be so fun And when his daughter
Speaker 3: came on screen with his grandchild, adorable. That whole segment
Speaker 3: is so so sweet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't do that to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know this is rude, it's so evil.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't make me cry watching this show. Like
Speaker 2: that's it's so stupid for me to still be crying
Speaker 2: watching a bachelor show at this point in my life.
Speaker 2: Yet somehow they got me again. And when like that
Speaker 2: came up, that little segment happened, like there's just tears
Speaker 2: of joy coming down my face and like tears of
Speaker 2: sentiment and love, and it's like this is I literally
Speaker 2: sat here and they're like, this is the stupidest thing,
Speaker 2: Like the show can't keep doing this to me.
Speaker 3: Sentiment is a word that I should use more often
Speaker 3: on this podcast. It makes a lot of sense. Okay,
Speaker 3: But ben that video segment, it would have been great
Speaker 3: for the opening of episode two, like, hey, guys, you
Speaker 3: made it through the row ceremony. Now let's see who's
Speaker 3: missing you back at home. You've been gone for a
Speaker 3: few more days. But it was like, hey, guys, you
Speaker 3: just saw everybody like five days ago, you know, because
Speaker 3: I'm in the hotel for like four or five days.
Speaker 3: Let's show this video right before I eliminate like five
Speaker 3: of you. Yeah, that was tough, but it was all
Speaker 3: for the storytelling.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So so Mark is it? Okay? I can talk
Speaker 3: about Mark right now. Yes, Yeah, So he's fifty seven,
Speaker 3: so they really made an exception for him because he
Speaker 3: was Kelsey's dad. They also totally made that exception because
Speaker 3: they want him to be the next Golden Bachelor if
Speaker 3: he is not the winner of this. And we see
Speaker 3: from the scenes in the next episode that at some
Speaker 3: point Jones says I love you Mark. But my theory
Speaker 3: is that, I mean, she could say this as like
Speaker 3: an endearing thing in her top three or whatnot, saying
Speaker 3: like I love you because I love you as a person.
Speaker 3: I love you, but you're not the one. I don't
Speaker 3: know that they would really put that in there if
Speaker 3: he really was the final one. So I'm actually going
Speaker 3: to say that he might not be the final one,
Speaker 3: but he's definitely going far and he's definitely going to
Speaker 3: be the next Golden Bachelor if he's not the winner.
Speaker 4: Actually, do you find him handsome?
Speaker 3: Of course, he is so handsome, But it's his demeanor, Ben,
Speaker 3: I know I keep using that word. There's something about
Speaker 3: his presence, but there was a couple guys that had
Speaker 3: very similar presences. But it's the combination. And I also
Speaker 3: just trust him because he's Kelsey's dad too. You know.
Speaker 2: We feel like when you see Mark on television. Do
Speaker 2: you just get a little like tingly.
Speaker 3: No, you mean Tinkley in the heart, just like giddy? Yeah, warm, warm,
Speaker 3: he's warm. Yeah, he sounds a little dirty. Oh is
Speaker 3: that what you're referring to? No, so okay, I thought
Speaker 3: you were trying to get dirty for a second.
Speaker 2: Goodness, Ashley, we've done this for eight years. When it
Speaker 2: was the last time I tried to get dirty, When
Speaker 2: it was the last time I tried to say, you
Speaker 2: have to say something that weird, I was like giddy.
Speaker 3: Good No, no, no, he's no. I just I just
Speaker 3: you find he is a true diamond in the rough.
Speaker 3: Not that this is a rough batch. It's definitely not
Speaker 3: that they're all golden diamonds in the rough or whatever.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but he is. He's a TV star, guys,
Speaker 3: he's a little He's a Nicholas Sparks character in like
Speaker 3: an older Oh, it's like Knights of Rodanthe If you
Speaker 3: guys remember the one with Diane Lane and Richard Gear.
Speaker 3: It was like the Nicholas Sparks older version, and it's
Speaker 3: it is pretty much better than a lot of the
Speaker 3: other younger versions of his mind stories.
Speaker 2: But yeah, okay, bye, before you say something weird, Let's
Speaker 2: continue on. It is an incredible group of men. I'm
Speaker 2: so excited for this season. I don't I don't just
Speaker 2: say that to say, like, I think this is going
Speaker 2: to be an incredible season of emotion. It's going to
Speaker 2: be an incredible season of story. It's going to be
Speaker 2: incredible to see the arc of Joan's journey. And I'm
Speaker 2: really excited is the wrong word here. I'm very happy
Speaker 2: that Joan is given the space to be honest about
Speaker 2: her emotions along this journey. That she's struggling now and
Speaker 2: she feels guilty. I think that's probably going to be
Speaker 2: very relatable to many, and I also think it's just
Speaker 2: a very real feeling. And I'm really excited that she
Speaker 2: is taking the space to say it, you know, because
Speaker 2: I think it gives these men whoever are left at
Speaker 2: that point a chance to step in and not console her,
Speaker 2: but speak with her about it, ask her questions about it,
Speaker 2: give her confidence within it. I think that's going to
Speaker 2: be a really powerful time. Whenever that episode airs or
Speaker 2: however long that kind of feeling exists for her. But
Speaker 2: it's a real feeling, and what you and I I
Speaker 2: always talk about on this show is we want authenticity
Speaker 2: and we want genuineness. I think we got it from Jin.
Speaker 2: I don't think we got it from anybody else on
Speaker 2: her season. I think those two things were very much missing.
Speaker 2: But I think when it comes to this journey with Joan,
Speaker 2: authenticity and genuineness are going to be there the whole time,
Speaker 2: which I think the Golden Show needs because obviously the
Speaker 2: last season of The Golden did not end well, did
Speaker 2: not go well, and I think Jen feeling like she
Speaker 2: can or Joan feeling like she can admit this and
Speaker 2: talk about this publicly with these this group of men,
Speaker 2: will build even a deeper connection with whoever she ends
Speaker 2: up with at the end, if she ends up with somebody.
Speaker 2: So I'm very excited Ashley here in the final minutes,
Speaker 2: let's talk about the scenes for the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts, your predictions, your feelings.
Speaker 3: Okay, So besides the I Love You mark, what stood
Speaker 3: out was well, Gary makes an appearance, which I wasn't
Speaker 3: sure we're going to say, just because his story did
Speaker 3: end kind of odd. I also thought that it was
Speaker 3: interesting the way that there's somewhere in the season where
Speaker 3: she's like, eh, maybe I'm not ready for this. Maybe
Speaker 3: my person isn't here. I'm always going to feel like
Speaker 3: this angling of guilt about dating anyone after my husband.
Speaker 3: Totally relatable phase that she seems to go through. But
Speaker 3: it does seem that she ends up with somebody because
Speaker 3: she goes. Up until this point in life, I'd only
Speaker 3: loved one person, and now I love too. So I
Speaker 3: think that she does end up with somebody in the end,
Speaker 3: but I'm sure they're going to try to make it
Speaker 3: seem like she doesn't. We don't see any like engagement.
Speaker 2: Preview because I ruined it for him. They can't keep
Speaker 2: showing it because I know who it is. Remember with Devin,
Speaker 2: I said, Oh, that's definitely Devin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, you're arking at that. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: say I would really love her not to get engaged.
Speaker 3: I just think that it's like after the passing of
Speaker 3: a spouse of thirty three years, to get engaged to
Speaker 3: somebody after six weeks, four to six weeks of knowing them.
Speaker 3: I just think it's nice to actually not and especially
Speaker 3: after we saw what happened with Gary and Teresa, let's
Speaker 3: just make them a really happy couple.
Speaker 2: You would be okay, with that, so you would still celebrate. Yeah, okay, cool.
Speaker 2: Final comment I have agreed with everything you said is
Speaker 2: where in the world are they at at the end
Speaker 2: of this season?
Speaker 4: Because where the clouds are in the clouds? The pool
Speaker 4: is above the clouds. Yeah, where is that? That's cool?
Speaker 3: That was the coolest they could Why haven't they done this?
Speaker 3: They just found this place? Now they should always have
Speaker 3: a finale in the clouds.
Speaker 2: It's amazing, Heaven. It's going to be such a fun season.
Speaker 2: I cannot wait to keep talking about it with Ashley.
Speaker 2: It's I think just the excitement towards this Golden Show
Speaker 2: has not at all gone away from me, and I
Speaker 2: know it hasn't gone away from Ashley, and this is
Speaker 2: gonna be just an incredible season again, so happy for
Speaker 2: Joan an incredible choice. I will say this with confidence.
Speaker 2: We should all just one hundred percent get behind Joan.
Speaker 2: Like I know that maybe some people were jaded after
Speaker 2: the last season, knowing Joan being around Joan, It's going
Speaker 2: to be incredible and it's going to be something special
Speaker 2: and we should just celebrate the fact that all these
Speaker 2: men showed up and that she showed up for our entertainment.
Speaker 2: And also for their love story. So until next week
Speaker 2: when we break down the second episode of The Golden Bachelorette,
Speaker 2: which were so pumped for.
Speaker 4: I've Been Ben, I have Been Ashley Bye.
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