Hello and welcome to the Bachelor podcast. I'm Kay York City. I am Jared Fried. It is so good to be back here with UK. How are you?

How you feeling post bachelor? We were taping this on a Tuesday. You had the night off. It's weird when it goes away.

Listen, it's so weird because then I'm like, well, what the fuck am I going to watch? Because that's the thing that, that, you know, I go through every night.

Me and my roommate are like, all right, what's on TV? And we're like clicking through. But Mondays, it's a solid. We know what we're watching. We know what time it comes on. We know when we need to like get things together. It, it's a strange feeling, but it's also freeing because

I have the same, I have the same feeling with football season ending or, you know, the NCAA championship was last night. So that's over like, it's almost like it's how the year passes. You can. They're the new chance.

Oh, an LSU for the women. So yeah, it's kind of, you know, it's like, you know, sometimes the bachelor kind of feels like, you know, the school year, you know, like, just got done with finals. No more studying. I don't know. School's out for summer. But, yeah, how do we feel post Zach and Katie interview. And if you're listening right now, and you have to listen, go back, check it out. We had the bachelor, Zach, Shell, Cross and Katie on the show.

Which was so much fun. It was so much fun. And honestly, I was very nervous at first. I was very nervous. Okay. A little. Yeah, just because like, you know, you, these people see the stuff that you say online, see, you know, the memes and the tweets and the opinions and stuff. So, you know, it can be a little nerve wracking at first. I mean, there's a lot of people. I remember I met Thomas.

Becca's fiance in person for the first time. And he was like, yeah, you talked a lot of shit about me.

And we're obviously we're cool. But it was, it's a little weird at first. But I surprisingly like him a lot.

Yeah, you're not sure how they take the whole thing. You know, you're not sure. And also, you're not sure what they look at and what they don't. It'd be like a little.

You know, when they walk in, you're like, okay, I don't know if they know this podcast at all. We're just another show. You know, I or we're the one they know the most. You don't know. And it was funny. She walked in.

Zach walked in. We shook hands. And then Katie walk in and he goes, and she goes, you're the guy. And I was like, oh, what guy? You know, like I'm not sure. Yeah, depends what.

You know, this is behind the scenes of the interview a little bit. But she and I was like, well, what are you? I'm the guy that says a lot of things. You know, like, and she was like, you're the guy. And I knew exactly what what she saw at that point because she goes, you're the guy that said, I looked like an actress in a constipation commercial. And I was like, oh, you saw the video of me.

You know, the face on the screen going through each contest and saying what they look like. And she's like, and so now I have an idea of like, and she was like that, you know, she's laughing with that. And you're like, immediately it's like, okay, you guys are cool. It's going to be fine. It'll be good.

How was it me like just initially meeting them and like, I wasn't in the office. So I didn't get to like, you know, check the vibe in person. But it's see, they seemed just so fun.

Well, I mean, we're going to do the bachies right now. That is one of the awards because I had the bet or the batch, the bachies, the bachies.

We are going to go through this is this is like the superlatives. This is the end, you know, related to the school year.

We're going to give out some awards for the whole season. And I mean, if we want to, you know, jump ahead.

That was my biggest, I think for both of us, the biggest plot, you know, if we let's start with an award to get this going, the biggest plot twist of the season.

Was for for both of us was really like really liking Zach. I said, yes, the second I got to feel like, wow, he's so much more likable off off.

Not on TV. He he swept the bachies offices off their feet.

Everyone we talked to all the people working in the office. Oh, we like him. Oh, he's great. Oh, I didn't expect to like him like I did. Oh my god.

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