The Golden Bachelor Recap: Dead Spouse Rises
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Join Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth and Laura Stassi, host of the Dating While Gray podcast as they unpack Gerry Turner’s journey to find love. It’s episode two and the remaining women are moving into the mansion…complete with bunk beds. Cheyna and Laura talk about Gerry’s bland one-on-one date, the cringe-inducing group date, whether Gerry could get serious with a divorcee, and much more.
Podcast production by Vic Whitley-Berry and Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the waves. This is our Golden Bachelor podcast episode 2, The Dead Spouse Rises. Every week we're |
| 0:15.9 | talking about the latest episode of the newest installment of the Bachelor franchise |
| 0:19.7 | and 72-year-old Gary's quest for love. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm Shayna Roth, senior producer at Slate. |
| 0:25.2 | And I'm Laura Stasi, host of the podcast |
| 0:27.3 | Dating While Gray. |
| 0:28.5 | Laura, before we dig into the episode, |
| 0:31.2 | you alerted me to something that I totally missed which is that |
| 0:35.2 | Marina has gone missing. Marina's missing so I didn't notice it at first because you |
| 0:42.2 | know everybody's going into the |
| 0:43.8 | bachelorette pad and giggling about things and then I think Gary mentioned |
| 0:49.2 | something about 15 and I was like 15 because I remember now I'm not great at math but I do know that |
| 0:55.8 | 22 minus 6 is 16. So I was going through all my pictures and I noticed Marina is gone and who knows what happened. |
| 1:06.7 | I have my theories. I know you have a theory. |
| 1:09.2 | I do. My theory is that Marina got COVID and and so they just sort of quietly secreted her off the show. |
| 1:16.7 | I've seen this happen on a few different shows where somebody will test positive for COVID and as a viewer you'll just be like |
| 1:26.4 | wait so-and-so is just gone and then you have to and then you Google and it turns out |
| 1:30.5 | oh that person we found out later, got COVID |
| 1:33.1 | and was just kicked off the show. |
| 1:35.2 | Now, we are watching screeners that were provided by ABC. |
| 1:39.7 | So it's possible that when the show airs for the masses that they will address the |
| 1:45.3 | hashtag where's marina issue but as far as you and I know she's just gone yes and |
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