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Here's your host, Blake Horstman.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Behind the Rose podcast.

It is Monday nights right after the premiere of The Bachelor.

I'm your host, Blake Corseman, and with my buddy here as usual, Eric Bradley.

And today we have a good friend of ours, and you guys might know him as Bachelor Season 20.

Ben Higgins, thanks to join us, Ben.

Hey, I am so pumped to be here.

Yeah, man, I actually am excited that we had you for the premier dude because I want to pick

your mind of what it's like on that first night, you know, like standing there waiting for the limo.

Yeah, like the nerves and everything.

So I'm excited to get into it.

Hey, I have a lot to share and a lot of mistakes that were made. I, uh, I will share everything

I remember, which is not a lot. It was a little bit ago. We were just saying this is season

25. It's been five seasons, man. That's wild. Yeah, those five dudes since me. Um, and in fact,

I just was thinking about this last night. I need to think through this. Other than Colton and Matt, I think I'm still the, I would be like I'm younger than all of those guys that came after me. So I'm feeling pretty good. Yeah. So true. I mean, how old is Matt actually? I don't know. I think it was 28. Yeah, he's 28, which is a good age to do it.

I was young.

You were young, man. 26. 25. 25, I turned 26 in the show. So, yeah, I was young, man. That's kind of a cool little stat, though. You're still younger than two of the other three of the other bachelor. I still feel pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty wild.

But speaking of the difference in, let's say, your season and that season,

can we talk about the freaking mansion there in this time around? Like, I audibly gasped when it opened up with Chris standing there in front of that place. That was incredible. That place is wild. Like, and if you look at it online, you know, it has like a championship golf course. Actually, it has two of them. It has a zoo. It has two museums on site. I mean, wow. Yeah, like it is, it is special. And like, it does. Like, it takes your breath away on that night one. Like, that shot is more iconic than anything we've seen at the mansion. Seriously, I literally gas.

I was like, oh my God, where are they? Like, and it's just gorgeous too. Like the fall, you could tell that like it was during the fall and the leaves were changing. And yeah, it looks amazing. It looks like something right out of like England. Yeah, yeah. And it's in Pennsylvania. Like who knew? And we've seen it before, right? We saw it during Jojo season, which is why they went back.

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