Yeah, so he goes, it would just be unfair if I left here today holding your hand.

Because I want to leave here holding your heart.

Yeah, you can do both.

You have two hands, Chris.

Welcome to Here to Make Friends, a half-post podcast about the Bachelor franchise,

where we lovingly snark on the Bachelor and Bachelor adjacent shows.

Whether you love the Bachelor or love to hate it,

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Wow, what a finale.

I feel like I was watching an M Night Shyamalan movie,

the twist just kept coming, and then there would be like a twist on the twist.

I don't even know how to process what we saw over the last two nights,

including all of the various news stories that have come up in Bachelor Nation

over the past few days.

This podcast might have to be like seven hours long, I'm sorry Nick.

Yeah, we like to tell him on tape so that he can't complain.

You can't cut us off now.

Great for our working relationship.

So up top, we have some housekeeping.

Because so much happened this week,

let's just get some of the Bachelor and Nation news out of the way quickly.

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