I'm Claire Fallon and I'm Emma Gray and this is Love to See It, an obsessively detailed

recap podcast about reality dating shows like The Bachelor and other pop culture that makes us laugh, cry, and curse the patriarchy.

We can't live with these shows and we can't live without them, but we can break down every juicy moment and unpack all the weird messages these shows send us about love, sex, and dating.

Welcome to Love to See It, a podcast that today is about one of our favorite Bachelor contestants, I would say, in recent memory.

Ever since Jill Chin exited the limo this January and presented Clayton Eckerd with an urn, we have been dying to talk to her and it is finally happening.

Yes, her commentary on the season was so important to cat parents like myself, it was one of the highlights of Shrimpgate and we're so excited that she's here with us now to talk about her bachelor journey.

Jill, thanks so much for joining us.

Thank you so much for having me. That was quite the intro.

I'm blushing, you know, we had to do you right. It was a treat for us to prepare for this because we got to really properly revisit all of the Jill highlights. I know.

Clayton season.

Yeah, I had some key moments and then they swiftly exited me out. Yeah, as they do.

Yeah, the bachelor memory is brutal and short, but we remember and we're so excited to revisit. So let's go way back actually.

Okay.

How did you end up on the bachelor?

Yeah, so I applied like a crazy person. I, yeah, so I was doing field work in, I was like on a work trip in North Carolina in Asheville and I was feeling really sorry for myself in the hotel room afterwards after a long day.

And I was just like, I'd broken up with my boyfriend of like two years, like a couple months ago. And then I was just like, you know what? I, and I became obsessed with the bachelor during like quarantine phase.

And so I'd never seen it before.

So I just finished watching a couple seasons. And I was like, let me just throw it out there. And then I told my coworker the next morning.

I sent in like a picture of myself in like one little sentence and just like fired it off.

And then my coworker was like, are you serious? Like that's, it's like never going to happen. I was like, I don't know. We'll see.

I just kept getting phone calls back. It was crazy. Now I'm here.

Wow.

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