I'm Claire Fallon and I'm Emma Gray and this is Love to See It, an obsessively detailed

recap podcast about reality dating shows like The Bachelor and other pop culture that makes us laugh, cry, and curse the patriarchy.

We can't live with these shows and we can't live without them, but we can break down every juicy moment and unpack all the weird messages these shows send us about love, sex, and dating.

Welcome to Love to See It, a podcast about trekking across the United States to hunt down the perfect best friend to marry.

We can't go back because Fallon in love across Europe and the Bahamas and our fair bachelor is headed back to the state side for the all important hometowns.

He'll be sampling local delicacies from maple syrup to cow tongue, he'll be trying to convince four moderately protective families that it's fine that he's still dating three other women, just experiencing this fair country the way that it was meant to be experienced.

The authentic American, the American dream, if you will, I don't know where I've heard that phrase before it sounds familiar.

I mean, yeah, he's headed out to find a wife to take back to his homestead.

That's I think that is what's going on here, right? Sorry, I also just recently watched the first episode of Farmer wants a wife.

So we're getting some on-end-is-a-pated crossover content here.

This is Manifest Destiny, bachelor's title. Really dark.

Okay, so it's just going to be the two of us today.

Our guests unfortunately had to bow out, but honestly, we have enough to say about these hometowns for four guests.

No one ever need fear that we won't be able to fill an episode without a guest.

You might wish that there were different content, perhaps from a guest, but we can fill it.

So let's dive in.

Home Towns is always, I mean, we just want to do justice to each hometown.

So we want to really dig into each section.

We open with Zach showering off, showering off the season.

We haven't seen a shower recently.

So I guess he's been abstaining, but he's finally getting clean again to meet the ladies' families, which is a good idea.

I didn't, didn't shower for all of Europe, including during when I had COVID.

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