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.

Welcome to Love to See It, a show about four plucky fifth graders who just want their

teacher to find a nice man with lots of muscles and really good forebuilding skills.

This week on Michelle's, sorry, I mean miss Young's journey to find love, the kids are

in charge, as it should be. Yeah, and Ms. Young is taking her dudes on a final whirlwind

tour of her own hometown before making the final cuts to visit their hometowns next

week. It's the blood bath episode. Here to share her wonderful insights with us, writer

Esme Wang, author of the collected schizophrenia's. She also offers writing classes on the foundations

of memoir writing, which are currently available in a really fun little bundle right now and

you can find those at memoirbundle.com. Thanks so much for joining us. Thanks so much for

having me. This is a dream come true. We are really excited to have you. We've had you

on our other newsletter podcast, rich text, but this is your first appearance on Love

to See It. Cannot believe it took us this long because you just have some really wonderful

insights on on this franchise. I feel like it's the kids this episode who really had

the true insights that will get to that. I agree. Yeah, I mean, it's a lot of trust to put

in the kids. Clearly, Michelle really, really does trust them to put so much control in

their hands during this extremely pivotal week. She knows their wise. She knows that fifth

graders are smarter than any of us. So let's dive in. It's our second week in Minnesota

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