Mel Was the Wrong Choice as the "Golden Bachelor," and He Told Us in Last Night's 2-Part Finale
How Men Think
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The "Bachelor" franchise has faced its struggles with ratings and controversy over the years. "The Golden Bachelor" added a new wrinkle to this season: boredom.
Mel Owens is down to the final two women on "The Golden Bachelor," in a season plagued by low ratings that critics and viewers attribute to Mel's lack of on-screen charisma, i.e. he's boring. But in part one of the season finale last night, Mel explained for himself why he was the wrong choice to be Season 2's Golden Bachelor. But you had to be listening closely to catch it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, November the 6th, and we only have one more episode to go of The Golden Bachelor. |
| 0:15.1 | And after last night's episode, we might finally know why. |
| 0:26.5 | Mel Owens was the exact wrong choice to be this year's Golden Bachelor and it has nothing to do with how boring everybody says he is. And with that, |
| 0:34.2 | welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs. This seems like a show that ABC maybe just wants to get done with this year. |
| 0:41.0 | It's been down in the dumps. |
| 0:42.4 | The franchise has been struggling, but Golden Bachelor in particular is having a really bad year. |
| 0:48.1 | Yeah, I think initially the idea was to appeal to who is still watching TV, like broadcast TV, and it is older folks. |
| 0:56.7 | But turns out no one wants to see older folks making out. |
| 1:01.4 | But they wanted to see it last year. |
| 1:03.9 | Gary Turner's season was a successful one. |
| 1:05.6 | It's the reason they got a second season. |
| 1:07.7 | That show was seen as somewhat, not somewhat of, it was a hit. It was fun. It was different. |
| 1:14.8 | And I think I applaud the idea. Showing love at different stages of life. It looks a little |
| 1:20.5 | different. I applaud the idea. I love the idea. In fact, we've been watching. We actually had the |
| 1:26.7 | pleasure of meeting and interviewing |
| 1:29.5 | Gary, and that will be later on Ido Part 2. We'll get you that date and time in just a bit. |
| 1:34.9 | But we kind of got excited about watching the franchise. And I was into it and really into seeing |
| 1:44.1 | how older folks, we're all the same. At the end of the day, we're all the same. We're all looking for love. We all want a partner. We're all afraid of being hurt. No one wants to be rejected. I thought it was cool to watch, you know, I've watched Bachelor in different iterations to see that we're all the same. It doesn't matter how old you are. We all |
| 2:02.1 | want the same things. I think it was fresh. It was diverse. It was different. And yes, it expanded what our |
| 2:07.3 | idea of love relationships is supposed to look like. Look, we do a whole podcast called I Do Part 2 about |
| 2:14.3 | the idea of people finding love later or the second or third or fourth time around. |
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