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Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. Ladies and gentlemen, we're so... The I'm good. Thank you so much for having me. I'm genuinely so excited.

Oh, how nice. Well, I loved your recent article called The Bachelor Election, how the reality TV show

became the pivotal demographic in the 2024 election.

I love when we combine the Bachelor talk with real life. So tell me, are you a Bachelor fan?

Is that why you put two and two together?

uh yes unfortunately I'm actually wearing my pit dweller shirt today

um for my game of roses friends but yes I am a long-time reality TV

watcher much to I think my parents chagrin and anyone who has to talk to me. But I am a huge Bachelor Nation fan.

I think I started watching in high school, early college,

so right around the Nick Fial era. So yes, and I've been there ever since.

You know and I love what you mentioned in your article that there are so many small niches in the world.

You can have a content creator who just covers

K-pop or Netflix or Hulu.

But The Bachelor is one of the last fully

like known water cooler conversations so that that it's kind of like

withstood the the world of streaming TV it's like old school like old school TV that people still talk about. That's pretty rare in today's world.

Yeah, 100%. I feel like for me, I remember a very distinct moment like when I first started watching The Bachelor. I was also and continued to be a pretty big like fan of RuPaul's Drag Race and at the time that was I think obviously like a much more segmented fan of Rupal's drag race.

That was I think obviously like a much more segmented fan base in terms of what you were seeing with The Bachelor.

And I remember half of the fun of watching The Bachelor is like you go on Twitter, you read all of the

recaps, you read Allies, recaps, like over at Volch or whatever.

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