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This is Behind the Rose, where Bachelor Nation needs country music and everything in between.

Here's your host, Blake Horsman.

All right, Tuesday night in the books, Bachelorette finale. We just finished the episode. You

were listening to Behind the Rose podcast. I'm your host, Blake Correspond, here with my buddy, as usual, Eric

Bradley. And tonight, we have country star, Carly Pierce. Thanks for joining us, Carly.

Oh, my gosh. Thank you for having me. This is a big night. I think you're our first repeat. Is that true? Is she our first repeat? Second. Second. Who did we have before? Sharna. Oh, you're right. We just had Sharna last week. Damn it. I'll be second. It's totally. No, but thanks for joining us. Yeah. Thank you again. Yeah. Of course. What an episode. I love those finale so much. I do too. And this one, I kind of felt like there was

going to be another. I thought like her ex-husband was going to come back at some point.

So I kept waiting for that and that didn't happen. But it was wild. Yeah, some kind of like

speed bump. One more speed bump. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like she's been through enough though i mean well i guess

ben coming back was uh quite the speed bump i mean we just get started there because that's where

this episode picks up like what did you think of that so in the beginning i like back at the the

like initial couple of episodes i loved ben and i thought ben was like just such a good guy and just seemed really genuine

and just a good person.

And it's not that I don't still think that.

I actually think he still is super genuine.

But I just felt like his, when he was with her dad and his, her dad was like asking him these big questions

of like, why my daughter, I feel like all he could do was give like super surface level answers.

Like he just kept saying, she's incredible and like she's going to be the mother of my children.

Like I didn't feel like there was any substance and it kind of made me wonder if possibly he's just really into the idea of love.

And I've never been on the show, but I live in like a world where, you know, things like it can feel fairy taleish for a minute.

And I felt like he was kind of more wrapped up in that.

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