Hi, I'm Laura Stasi, host of Dating While Gray.

Here's something extra for you to listen to.

It's the Golden Bachelor Recap podcast from Slates, The Waves.

I'm the co-host, and here's how it works.

Every week I watch The Golden Bachelor.

Then I share my hot takes on the recap podcast.

It drops every Friday in the Ways Feed and also every Saturday, right here in the Dating

While Gray podcast queue.

Please take a listen and get in touch to let me know what you think at dating whilegray.com.

Here's the latest episode.

Welcome to The Waves.

This is our Golden Bachelor Recap podcast.

Every week we're talking about the latest episode of the newest installment of the Bachelor franchise and 72-year-old Gary's Quest for Love.

I'm Daisy Rosario, senior supervising producer of audio here at Slate.

And I'm Laura Stasi, host of the podcast, Dating While Gray.

All right, Laura, here we are, episode four.

I mean, I feel like we should be like further number along in the episodes based on how few women there are. Maybe that's just me.

It does seem to be going very fast. And again, I'm not a regular bachelor viewer, but we have whittled, man, totally whittled. We have whittled, and by the end of this episode, we'll be down to six women.

But let's talk about the episode itself and how we got there. So this week starts with kind of this immediate awareness that there's going to be a group date.

Yes. But do you want to be chosen for the group date? Because if you're not chosen for the group date, it means you probably get the one-on-one date. So like, what? I did not know that. So thank goodness,

they're telling, well, first of all, when Trista comes in, thank you very much for someone saying,

hey, this is Trista. I thought she looked vaguely familiar, but I thought it was the woman from last week.

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