S30E18: The Bachelorette's Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo
Trashy Divorces
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🗓️ 21 September 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The promise of ABC's The Bachelor is the dream of happily ever after, but as we all know, well-lit reality TV filmed in romantic locations doesn't reflect the reality most of us live in. And so it was for Rachel Lindsay, lawyer and the season 13 lead of The Bachelorette, who chose chiropractor Bryan Abasolo for her final rose, and married him a couple of years later. Unsurprisingly, it didn't last long.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:06.8 | My name is Alicia and Stacey. |
| 0:08.8 | Today you are taking us into a reality TV zone we haven't spent a lot of time in. |
| 0:15.8 | True. And hello, everyone. Stacey here. |
| 0:18.7 | Today we are diving into a reality franchise built on the |
| 0:22.4 | idea, the dream, the fantasy of a happily ever after, but which in truth rarely delivers one. |
| 0:29.9 | Case in point, today's subject, Rachel Lindsay. After placing third on season 21 of The Bachelor, |
| 0:36.3 | where podcaster Nick Vile, now podcaster, |
| 0:39.6 | was the Bachelor. She was chosen to be season 13's Bachelorette in that spin-off within the |
| 0:46.0 | franchise. She was the first black lead in the franchise's history, and you will never guess, |
| 0:52.1 | Rachel struck gold as the Bachelorette, choosing chiropractor Brian Abasolo, |
| 0:58.1 | and the rest is fairy tale history. |
| 1:00.9 | I love this. It all worked out for everyone. |
| 1:03.1 | It all worked. No, I'm kidding. And that is why we're here. |
| 1:06.8 | Wait a minute. So you're saying those roses don't mean forever love? |
| 1:10.7 | I'm very sorry, Alicia. They do not. But if we're going to get into this one, we're going to need to go, go, go. |
| 1:27.0 | All right, Stacey, let's dive in. |
| 1:30.4 | Let's dive in. We'll do a little background here. So ABC has a reality show called The Bachelor. |
| 1:36.2 | Maybe you haven't heard of it. What are the odds, though? This debuted in 2002, and as you do know, |
| 1:42.8 | it has become a staple in American reality television. |
| 1:46.5 | Since it began, multiple spinoffs and variations of the franchise have been created. |
| 1:51.7 | These include The Bachelorette, Bachelor Pad, Bachelor in Paradise, Bachelor in Paradise, |
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