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Welcome to Here to Make Friends, a half-post podcast about the Bachelor franchise,

where we lovingly snark on the Bachelor and Bachelor adjacent shows.

Whether you love the Bachelor or love to hate it, we're here to break down every single

delicious moment with you. I'm Emma Gray and I'm Claire Fallon.

Hey friends, it's Claire. No Emma. She is enjoying a well-deserved vacation right now.

And in her absence, Nick and I have gone rogue. We're doing a little bonus pod for you today

because we care so much. So you may remember Jake Anyard, who got sent home before the

Rose ceremony because, dun dun dun, he already knew Becca. We wanted to get a little more insight

on their confusing shared history. So we called him up and we talked him about it. And we also

hit on some other topics. He shared his thoughts on the controversy surrounding the current

front runner Garrett. And as most of you probably know, Ashley Spivey shared some screenshots of

Garrett's likes on offensive Instagram posts last week. Emma and I reported on that

Instagram history for Huff Post on Monday. Some of the posts that he liked, you know, were pretty

offensive. They joked about violence towards undocumented children and immigrants. They mocked

trans and gender queer people. Garrett has issued recently an apology on Instagram, but we are going

to keep following that going forward. And on a much lighter note, Jake also shared a poem he wrote

for Becca as we speculated he would. But it never made it to air. It's making its debut on here to

make friends. So here's my chat with Jake. Hope you guys enjoy.

Thank you so much for having me. This is a lot of fun to meet you, Claire.

Great. Well, we're really excited to talk with you about one of the best premieres in Bachelor

at History, I think. But let's start. Yeah. I mean, you are a big part of it.

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