I'm Claire Fallon and I'm Emma Gray and this is Love to See It, an obsessively detailed

recap podcast about reality dating shows like 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 podcast about men who wear oversized fashion scarves and have way too much fun in The Bachelor Mansion.

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No. This is about solemnity. It's something very serious and I would never take away from that.

Because of the holiday weekend, it's just going to be the two of us today playing little catch up. We have a lot to get into from episode two of charity's journey.

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Okay, let's get into this week's episode. It's finally time for charity to go on some dates. I'm ready.

Let's go. So we open charity is in a Kelly green leather jacket. She looks great. I mean, she looks good in everything but jewel tones. I mean, really, really excellent.

She's surveying the docs and I'm thinking about her new reality, which is that she's dating 19 men who are all hollering her name off a balcony already. It's only.

It's like they know. Oh my God. They're men. They're just true romantic. Yeah, they're not even traveling yet. And they're still like I want to hollered charity's name off the balcony.

Aaron is playing with his lucky coin to which I say lucky my ass Aaron. We knew what you were to know this coin was a lie.

Jesse Palmer comes in and greets all the men who are just full of good high animal spirits. And he asked Braden about getting the first impression rose.

Braden says it was surreal. And he adds she definitely made me sweat for it when I heard concerning. And then my name following it, I was like, oh God, he's like, sometimes I just say things without thinking. And I was like, oh, what did I say?

Like you, Braden, you say things without thinking. Wow, I would have never got. Jesse of course has to comment on Braden's outfit, which is striking. He's wearing a white tea with a bold statement scarf.

It's like black and white with a paisley design. And he's wearing some some real like feathery dangly earrings.

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