I'm Claire Fallon and I'm Emma Gray.

And this is Love to See It, an obsessively detailed recap podcast about 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.

Well it's that time of year, 82% humidity and the 90 degree air hordes of shrieking cicadas

roaming the Eastern seaboard, the donning realization that you waited a little too long

to reinstall your window AC unit, and of course, the return of the Bachelor at.

But this time with 100% less chrysherasin and 100% more forced references to sex toys,

that's right, it's Katie Thurston's season premiere baby and we cannot wait to dig into

this beautiful episode with our wonderful guest who we will introduce in just a minute.

Because we got some news to go over first.

Yeah, we're going to do a little quick news break here at the top.

And the big news that simply cannot be ignored is that chrysherasin is apparently officially

out deadline is reporting it as a pretty final thing.

They're negotiating his exit, the deadline headline must be called out here.

Chrysherasin exits Bachelor franchise rose withers on 19 year run as host after racism

controversy.

I mean, that is our look.

And people make fun of digital journalism headlines, but this one, that editor put in

their work and I appreciate it.

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