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What's up everyone? It's chicks in the office with Rianne Fran giving you that Friday energy on a Wednesday.

We are joined by Trent just Trent today because listen, I want to give you the hype. I want to say all your nicknames, but I just don't have it in me today because this is the second week that you have not been here for cutting stems, but for good reason.

Yes, you got the bid.

I do. Yeah, I have COVID. It's unfortunate. I've been in my room now for, I don't know, when did I test positive? I test positive on Friday and I've just been in my room since then. So yeah, it's not great, but I have it. I feel all right.

It comes and goes. Sometimes I have a really bad headache. I'm mostly just tired. It just takes a lot out of you.

My symptoms have been mild relative to other people. So I'm grateful for that. But yeah, I have it. It's unfortunate, but I'm still here to recap the batch, but I'm very excited to do that.

We appreciate that. We are rooting for you. We're happy that you feel good. I did do some checkups on you because I didn't want to lose you. Of course, that would be, you know, if we lost you, people would stop listening to this podcast. They would stop listening to the recap, cutting stems.

Quite frankly, Trent, I don't think I can do another cutting stems without you. I don't think I can. I need you in my life in cutting stems. And I think everybody feels the same way, but your energy is greatly missed.

And we are happy to hear that you're feeling okay. We're happy that you are alive and well to do the bachelor recap.

Yeah, I will. I appreciate that. I think you're wrong about pretty much everything that you said. But I know it is just like solely based off of how I feel. Like when I say I need you on cutting stems, like I'm being selfish, I need you.

Like I need to feed off your energy, you know, your laughter, your lovable self. Now I'm just hyping Trent's up again. People are going to think I'm flirting again. But I will be back. No doubt about it.

Great. Great to hear. We're ready to recap the episode then. All right. I mean, not much happened besides Victoria, but let's get to it.

Yeah, I got to say talking about this episode, I feel like it's pretty quick to get through a lot of it because the, you know, one on one dates were lovely.

The update was not really anything like everybody was so hyper focused on Victoria that's I think everything else I was going on fell into the background. I will start.

We'll start from the beginning as always. But just want to say, you know, last week, we talked a lot about foliage how foliage was going to be fantastic. We were hyping up foliage couldn't wait.

We already did not disappoint like we thought I thought maybe we'd have to wait a couple weeks for really to get that that orange the deep colors we were looking for, but right off the bat Trent when they I'm skipping ahead, but when they were doing the group date and they were it was like rainy and the women were probably freezing their asses off.

I just looked so peaceful was like the fog over the trees. I would like them to go into every commercial break with foliage like ease this out of every scene.

I knew it. I could feel it. I'm not really about a lot, but I was very right about the foliage. I knew I could just feel it. I knew that was going to be a big part of the season.

And they sort of did after every commercial break during every day, every opportunity that they had to show foliage, they did it. And they had already showed a lot, but I knew as soon as they got into that airplane that we were really going to get a lot of foliage. It's just it's beautiful. It would have been.

It would have been a travesty if they didn't highlight the foliage, so I'm glad that they did it. I hope they continue to do it because I just like talking about it. I got a couple people reach out to me last week after the episode. People being like, I wasn't fully appreciative of foliage until I listen to the show.

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