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

And I am Jared Fried. It is so good to be back here with you, Kay. How are you? What's happening?

What's going on? Nothing. I'm loving the two episodes or two different shows in a week,

I think. Is that bad? Yeah, I don't think it's bad. I think there's not a lot on TV right now

because of the strike. And they are different enough. They're not the same thing at all.

It does feel like a little bit of this episode compared to Golden Bachelor. It feels like I'm

hanging at a bar that I'm too old for. Yeah. It's like you start off at the nice dinner,

and then you go to the dive for post drinks, and it's a different vibe. It's a totally different vibe.

And especially the listeners in behind the curtains we've been watching screeners,

and we're watching right. We have already watched the Bachelor in Paradise. We haven't

watched Golden Bachelor yet. But you know, I just kept thinking if I was to watch this episode

after the Golden Bachelor, where as we saw in the first episode, it was like enthusiasm,

you know, wide-eyed enthusiasm, very like innocent. You know, this feels a little seedy and

a little, you know, I guess I don't know what the best way to put it, like try hard, like it's almost

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