Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and I'm Candace Lemme, and you're listening to ICYMI.

In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture, and Oof, there has been

a lot of culture this week. And by that, I mean, reality TV culture.

I mean, that's the only culture that matters if you're a true savant, like we are. But where

do we begin?

Okay, let's start with like the most recent news, breaking breaking. It looks like two

summer house people, Lindsay Hubbard and Karl Radke canceled their wedding.

Okay, so this is not my ministry, but is this another scandable situation? Because I did

tap in for that one.

I'm not sure, because I don't know if there was like a Raquel slash Rachel in this situation,

but it looks like they were supposed to get married in November, and he Carl said he

couldn't move forward with the wedding. And let me guess, were the cameras up?

Oh, the cameras were up. They were rolling. And we are going to find out more on the

next season of summer house. But let's talk about a season of a show that has actually

aired, which was the latest season of the bachelor. Okay, Rachel, behind the scenes,

you have been hard at work revitalizing this dying franchise. And I have to say, you've

actually done some really good work because is it true that you think this is the best

season of the bachelor at ever?

It is definitely the best season of the bachelor at in recent memory. I will say that the

franchise was dying. She was on her last legs. She was a dinosaur looking up at that asteroid

thinking, you know what, take me out. But she really came back. And I think it's largely

for a few reasons. One, Mike Fleiss, the creator, and I guess God of the bachelor franchise

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