Hello and welcome to the Bachelor of Podcasts. I'm K. Eric City.

And I'm Jared Fried. It is so good to be back here with UK. What an episode. What did

you think? Um, I feel like I'm not ready for hometowns. I watched this whole episode

and I was like, I kept trying to add up all of the different ways that we got to this

place and not of it equals hometowns next week. I feel like the only person actually

know is Jesse. Right. I do feel like this episode was supposed to make us feel more connected

to everybody. But even, you know, even Gabby, I feel like Gabby said it. She's like, um,

I don't, what's this going to be? You know, I don't know. I don't feel like I, I, I,

for Rachel, I guess I see kind of what's going to go down. But for Gabby, I don't see

what's going to go down. I'm like, I don't know if that's, I don't feel comfortable

meeting their parents. Do you know what I mean? I am still, I was still fumbling over

their names while I was watching the episode talking to like my friends at Rover. I'm like,

Oh, yeah, that's, uh, and I'm like, I can't believe that we're usually by this point

when we get to hometowns. I know everything about them. I can like, you know, I know to

not care. I care about people in a way that I don't really care about these guys now.

Like, I don't even know. There's also been like, you know, the, the lack of drama, like

it just feels like we're going through the motions a little bit like even this episode

was like, it had all the beats of a bachelor at episode. But I don't know way, you know,

I didn't feel like I knew anyone better or felt excited about. Mm-hmm. Any, you know,

any relationship. Yeah. I think I, this goes into the, our titles or whatever, uh, which

we'll get into later. But I just feel like there's so much, so much, um, we're supposed

to get so much more from all of this because there's two bachelor's, but it feels like we

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