I feel like what he's really saying is like remember that time that I said I was falling in love with you

That's the whole thing and then we kissed and you seemed really into it

Remember when you gave me the first impression Rose like remember that still happened like that was a thing

I mean it's just I get it kind of works the first impression Rose is being weaponized. Yeah

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

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While we had half an episode last night so I think it's only fitting that we give you all half a recap today

But we're gonna try to do a little bit more than that to recap the recap

I mean we can make something work. It's very meta. It's sort of I like to think of it as as like a sort of meta textual

Like novel where there's actually more to say because of the nesting dynamics that are going on

I know I think as cultural critics we could really give ABC some feedback on the way that they recap the season that we've literally just watched

I mean they should pay attention. This is how recapping is supposed to be it's not Chris Harrison saying weren't you frustrated at that moment and Hannah saying

Chris I was it's what it's what we're about to do

We are going to show Chris Harrison and Hannah how to recap an episode of the bachelor at

And to do all of that with us we are joined by Maddie Khan Senior Editor at Glamour magazine

Thanks for having me guys. Thanks for coming here

Um we're sorry that it's for this episode which was barely an episode

But we will also be getting into the newly announced bachelor in paradise cast so all is not lost

Yeah, and there was like a high density of drama for the episode that we did get

We even got a rose ceremony

So I just concluded that maybe every episode should be one hour long. It was very pleasant amount of time

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