Hello and welcome to the Bachelor podcast. I'm Kay York City and I'm Jared Fried.

Kay, the big premiere, how do we feel? Did you enjoy overall thoughts? What do you think

is it good to be back? All the feelings? Give it to me, Kay.

You know, I was really skeptical about this season just because I'm not a huge Zach

fan, but you know, I turned it on and I'm like, man, this feels good. I genuinely was

like excited to be watching the show again. And it's a weird feeling because we even got

tagged in someone's real last night just being like, I told myself I wasn't going to watch

this season, but here I am watching again. I don't think it matters who it is. I'm excited

about you. I totally agree. It doesn't matter who it is. You know, once you get into, listen,

there's the preamble, there's the, who's this guy and whatever, but it's like a comfy

cozy couch. It's you get back in. It's junk food. That's why it's called trash TV. It's

junk food. Like the idea, you know, and in recent years, there are people who have kind

to like wandered into the Bachelor universe and like tried to like, right, think pieces

on it and you go, and then you get to episode one and you see a woman walk up with a pig

and you go, ah, all is right in the world. Like, you know, like, you, you know, you go,

you go, oh, I love French fries. I love McDonald's. You know, like, no one wants to go to McDonald's.

No one wants to, like, you know, you just, but once you're in the parking lot eating those

fries out of the bag and they're hot and you go, I don't want to be anywhere but here.

I felt that way last night about the firm, you know, in the first episode is always like

the fun one and you just keeps going. It's, it's quick. It's, it's, you know, at the minute

it slows down, new person, minute slows down, Zach, you know, like, and he's, listen, I'm

not a him fan, but I'm making fun of him fan. Yes, huge. He is a fun, you know, like

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