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Hello, everyone.

It's another Tuesday night right after the Bachelorette.

This is Behind the Rose Podcast.

I'm your host, Blake Corstman here with my buddy, Eric Bradley.

And tonight, we have special guest, Taylor Nolan.

Thanks for joining us, Taylor.

Hey, hey, thanks for having me.

Excited to be here.

Yeah, absolutely. As are we. Yes, yes. This is, uh, I'll tell you what, this is, I was just talking

with, um, our producer Eddie here. Like, it seems like this is a completely different season from what

we just saw with Claire and Dale. Like, that was so wild and so different. And now this seems so much more traditional.

And, like, I guess it's kind of like what the bachelor's almost supposed to be, almost in a way.

Yeah. It feels like it's embodying, like, all the things that make me dislike watching the show again.

But I'm like, oh, it's so problematic. Why am I here again?

There was a lot of toxic masculinity in this episode.

So much toxic masculinity.

We'll get into that for sure.

But we'll start off.

So basically the episode starts off and we do the grown-ass man challenge, which there's like half the guys are there.

And basically, well, and Ashley and Jared are there and basically well and um Ashley and

Jared are there got his name sorry Jared Ashley and Jared are there and they're like

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