Bonus: Golden Bachelor Recap: Hometowns Will Always Be Cringey

Dating While Gray™

Laura Stassi

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.4 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of The Waves, Gerry visits the hometowns of the last 3 women standing on The Golden Bachelor. Unlike hometown dates in the past, Gerry isn’t meeting the parents. Instead, he’s getting to know the women’s kids and their grandkids. But it doesn’t make the hometown dates any less cringe. Slate Senior Producer Cheyna Roth and Dating While Gray host Laura Stassi recap the episode. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth and Vic Whitley-Berry with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to [email protected]. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on The Waves. Sign up now at slate.com/thewavesplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Laura Stasi, host of Dating While Gray.
0:05.4	Here's something extra for you to listen to.
0:08.1	It's the Golden Bachelor Recap podcast from Slates, The Waves.
0:13.6	I'm the co-host, and here's how it works.
0:16.6	Every week I watch The Golden Bachelor.
0:19.1	Then I share my hot takes on the recap podcast.
0:22.9	It drops every Friday in the Ways Feed and also every Saturday, right here in the Dating
0:28.3	While Gray podcast queue.
0:30.2	Please take a listen and get in touch to let me know what you think at dating whilegray.com.
0:35.7	Here's the latest episode.
0:51.9	Welcome to the Waves. This is our Golden Bachelor podcast. Bring out the kids. 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 Shana Roth, senior producer at Slate. And I'm Laura Stasi, host of the podcast Dating While Gray. Laura, it's hometowns week.
1:14.3	Honestly, I usually check out for hometowns when I'm watching any of the Bachelor iterations.
1:20.7	I hate hometowns.
1:21.8	I find them so cringe.
1:24.3	The typical idea of like getting a father's permission to marry someone that you
1:29.5	aren't even sure if you want to marry and making the meeting of the family into this big
1:34.7	thing. I mean, I just, I don't like it traditionally. And honestly, I didn't like this.
1:41.2	I kind of hated it. But for different reasons in this episode, like the cringe factor is still very much there,
1:48.2	but it has shifted because now we're talking about grown adults, although in the other
1:54.5	bachelor iterations, they were also grown adults.
1:56.6	But like, we're talking about, like, more mature adults who have been through some stuff.
2:01.0	Maybe they've been divorced or their former love has died adding a crazy element to all of this that we're getting grandkids involved and children involved.
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