‘Golden Bachelor’ S2 Hometowns: 3 Women, 0 Reassurances w/Lisa Belkin

Love to See It with Emma and Claire

Claire Fallon, Emma Gray

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4.4 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Mel has three “great” women left, and it’s time to jet off to their hometowns: Las Vegas with Peg, Denver with Debbie, and Austin with Cindy. This tour of the metropolises of the American West may be exciting, but Mel remains stolidly underwhelmed. He meets the women’s families, and offers their daughters and siblings lukewarm reassurances about how he “likes” their loved one, specifically her “personality” or “energy.” But, he insists, he’s not ready to say he’s falling for any of them. Are we running out of time for Mel to level up? And how badly does he wish he’d never come to this cursed show? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Thanks, I don't need help
0:07.0	Just watch me love myself
0:11.0	That's all I want, got what I want,
0:15.0	That's all I want, I'm not sorry
0:20.0	I'm Claire Fallon.
0:21.6	And I'm Emma Gray.
0:23.6	And this is Love to See It, an obsessively detailed podcast about the romance we see on screen,
0:28.6	from reality dating shows like The Bachelor to classic rom-coms and other pop culture that makes us laugh, cry, and curse the patriarchy.
0:44.0	We can't live with these stories and we can't live without them, but we can break down every juicy detail and unpack all the weird messages on-screen romance sends us about love, sex, and dating.
0:52.1	Stop, drop, roll.
1:00.8	Love it, fire. Can you keep up? sex and dating. Welcome to Love to See It, a podcast about daughters and siblings who are just desperately trying to pull words and emotions out of Mel Owens. And mostly failing at it because, unfortunately, our dear Mel is incapable.
1:17.4	It's just not what he's bringing to the table.
1:20.0	So here to discuss Mel's hometown episode with us is friend of the pod, journalist and author, Lisa Belkin. Lisa, welcome back to love to see it.
1:29.9	Great to be here. Wish there was something better to talk about. Wish it was under different
1:36.2	circumstances. Can we just discuss the weather or paint drying or something? I think Mel would prefer any of those conversations to having to, like, share his emotions with the family members of these women.
1:51.8	It was stunning, but let's break it down.
1:55.9	Let's see if we can articulate Mel's emotions more clearly than Mel articulated them to the families. Well, I do have thought. Yes. So let's see if we can articulate. So before we get started, a little bit of housekeeping. Yesterday, we released our recap of the Love is Blind season nine finale. We also got into some of the news and gossip that's been floating around
2:20.4	this season. So if you miss that, scroll back in the feed. It's right there. Over on Rich Text,
2:25.3	we put out an episode last week exploring our love of Diane Keaton and the 1987 classic Baby Boom.
2:32.2	And a pod about Nobody Wants This Season season two is coming soon so you can find
2:38.1	those episodes and more at clarenemma.substack.com let's get into it we start off with a cold open
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