This is the most dramatic podcast ever.

An Iheart radio podcast.

Chris Harrison and Lauren Zma coming to you from the home office in Austin, Texas.

LZ, one of my favorite shows that we do is what we're doing today.

We're taking the listeners questions.

I don't know why we've gotten away from this other than we've had great guests and we've been just knee-deep and so many other things to talk about on the podcast.

But we thought, man, we haven't taken a look at the mailbag in a while. We have a bunch of

questions from viewers. So that's what we're going to do today. Thank you all for sending them in

through the show's Instagram at the most dramatic pod ever. And we're

going to dive right in. Babe, I'm going to start with a question for you. Okay, go. Just a couple

bachelor questions right off the bat. This one, after your interview with Michael, Chris, I went

back and I watched Bachelor Pad. It's so good. Why did they get rid of the franchise?

Interesting, because so Bachelor Pad evolved into Bachelor in Paradise. Bachelor Pad was a good show.

It was fun. It was really done on the cheap. I mean, ABC, as I said on the podcast, if you missed it, ABC really just wanted something in that August, September time slot that is the death of TV.

It's like a wasteland of TV.

Kids aren't in school.

You haven't got to the fall yet.

You're in the late summer.

So it's always reruns and stuff.

And so ABC said, we need something to launch the fall shows, come up with something.

That's what Bachelor Pad was.

Turns out it was just a huge success.

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