Welcome back happy hour listeners. It's good to be back again this week because it's a special one. We are

finally able to recap a season again, Michelle. And I'm so happy to be doing this one with you.

It is so nice to be back with you, Becca. I'm incredibly excited because this is like my first time hosting a podcast about the actual show.

It's when I came on. We weren't, you know, we weren't in season yet. So I'm really excited.

We're going to be talking to Gabby's first impression rose winner, Mario. So I feel like we have a lot of questions to ask him.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm so excited. It feels like it's been a while. I mean, we were off from a season for 14 weeks.

And I have to say that's the longest we've gone in Boucher Happy Hour history over the past several years that we haven't actually been recapping a season.

And so I'm so excited to be here with you to get going. And I don't know about you, but night one is always one of my favorites.

There's so much excitement around it. There's obviously your meeting so many faces and getting to know these men and these leads to.

But I'm excited to pick Mario's brain because this is like the first insides scoop from any of the men that will have from the season.

So it'll be a good episode. It really will. And like the first night is so it really is so magical. And I will say that I was really surprised when I was even in Gabby and Rachel's position because, you know, you watch the show at home and you think about, okay, what would that actually feel like you kind of do feel it through the screen.

And that's exactly what I was feeling up there. So it's really cool to just see like Gabby and Rachel, they get to experience this first night as Boucher ads with all these guys approaching and like how they enter and their nerves and everything.

I don't even remember. I think I blacked out when I when I walked out of the limo. Do you remember what you did or said?

I will. Yes, because it became my tagline for now years to come. But um, but yeah, that first night, I definitely blacked out. I did not expect to say half the shit that came out of my mouth.

But it happened. But I will say, though, and I want to ask you this because, you know, we've talked at length now about our feelings on having two Boucher ads.

And, you know, it's kind of hit or missed for me. It's like I wanted to see how it played out to get a vibe. And I actually love it. And I was kind of nervous at first. And I didn't love the idea of having two Boucher ads because I was like, it's kind of stealing the thunder where

there is so much that goes into being a lead. And it's such a special moment for these women. And at first to do together, I was like, oh, it kind of takes away a little bit. But I'm changing my tune now because after seeing Gabby and Rachel together.

I kind of wish I would have had somebody else by my side because there's nothing like having a good girlfriend that you can go to to gossip with, to talk shit with, to like just bounce off each other's energies. And we saw that throughout this entire first episode, night one. And I love them together.

I do too, honestly, because they're so similar and they play off each other so well. And you can tell that they're comfortable with each other. But then their personalities are incredibly different. Like Rachel, Rachel super sweet, you know, suit like I would say not even more on the quiet side. But then you have Gabby who's like incredibly witty and just blunt and says, you know, what everybody wants to say or what everybody's thinking.

It is pretty cool. Yeah, throw the Minnesota girls up there. Let's go run it back. But Becca's engaged so I can't do that.

Just have time to say a little bit of a limo. But no, yeah, I totally understand what you mean with that. And I think also it's going to be really interesting to kind of talk about how the guys handle it because it is a bit of an uncomfortable situation because you're approaching two women, right?

And so I think it's easier to I don't even know the correct words.

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