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Slack.com slash DHQ. Hello and welcome to the Bachelor podcast. I'm K. Eric City.

Thank you, Bradshaw. And I'm Jared Freed. And we are back with another season of the Bachelor

Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. I have to say, I wasn't really ready

for this season. You know what it felt like last night? It's like when you wake up hung

over and then you just like, and you have to get the day started and then you just like,

jump in the shower and you have a cough and you're like, wow, I'm doing this. I have energy.

And then you feel picked up by it like the day happens and you're like, wow, I can't

believe I'm enjoying this day. I actually, I don't want to speak for anyone else here,

but I was like fully so happy to have it felt like I felt like it was just simpler times.

I don't know. I also felt like a reset. Like we haven't had a bachelor. It's happening

at the time. It's supposed to be happening like nothing's delayed. It's starting like,

you know, January travel. Mm-hmm. They're going to travel. We're back at Bachelor

Mansion. Like it really felt like, okay, we're doing this. Like let's refresh 2022.

Like let's go. I was, yeah, it was, it was totally like maybe 2022's when it all kind

of comes back together to be a okay. You know what I mean? There's only I love it.

You guys took last night's episode of the bachelor as a promising sign for an amazing year

to come. Women are fighting again. Men are stupid. It's a great world. Yeah. What a

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