Hello and welcome to the Bachelor podcast. I'm Kay. And I'm Derek. And we're finally back together again.

The gang is back together. We started a gang, the Bachelor gang. The Bachelor gang. It's been a while.

There's been a lot of traveling, holidays, stuff like that. So we haven't been in the same place to record together. So it's nice to have you back. Oh my god.

Though I have seen you, we saw each other. What did we do? We went to a one award show. Oh yeah. That was great.

We dressed up. We do one of those every winter. And yeah, we do some sort of and then we usually wear the same outfit.

The same outfit. Outfit repeaters unite. It'll be a tradition. So I just wanted to say I met so many of you guys at the U-up tour.

A U-up live tour. We were on the West Coast. It was awesome getting to know all of you guys. I'm also doing a Cincinnati

Bachelor meetup this Saturday, which I am like super excited about. I was dressed trying to plan it because I'm planning from, you know, New York.

But I think there's going to be 11 or 12 of us and we're going to go to dinner and. Oh my god. You're like getting real with people.

We're getting it for free to. When the bet you're stopped being online. It starts being weird. I know exactly. So I'm very excited for that. So, um, wait, you were with Mike last night.

Yeah, Mike and I hung out. He's one of the only people that comes to New York. Like a lot of people are always on the West Coast because they're trying to film stuff and be somebody.

And Mike is, you know, like the thing I love about Mike is he's always just been in my opinion the most real contestant from that season. So, yeah, we went to the Brooklyn Nets to Barclays Center where the Brooklyn Nets play.

But we got to go like through their locker room and see play on the court. That's so cool. Yeah. Where does he live?

Everywhere basically. Yeah, he lives in San Antonio still. Okay.

Travels around a lot. So Mike is kind of a vagabond right now. I truly could not think of where his home basis because I see him everywhere, but I don't know.

Yeah, that's exactly it. He, you know what? I mean, that's a part of what happens after I did that the after the bachelor at right away the first time.

But like again, he's so grounded. I think there's so many people that have like these high hopes and dreams of what the show is going to do for them. Like they're going to become famous actors and actresses.

No, it's wild. I don't get like, you know how you see somebody in a TV show for like seasons usually. And they get like typecasts like, you know, it's.

And that's just who they are. That's who they are every time they're in something else so they don't they don't cast you in things.

Right. That's what a reality TV show does for you. You're not going to end up on some. No.

You're not going to be a famous movie actor or actress afterwards. Yeah. No, I mean, you are the person you were so and so from the bachelor. That is your name. Yeah.

I mean, that's just it. So do you hear that girls from this season? That's your future. Here's your future. Get ready. Before we get into the girls this season, I have to say they are hot.

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