The Golden Bachelor Recap: Fantasy Suite Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Gerry’s down to two women and two potential fantasy suites. How sweet do things actually get?
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 bachelor podcast episode 8 by myself or with |
| 0:15.7 | someone every week we're talking about the latest episode of the newest |
| 0:20.0 | installment of the bachelor franchise and 72 year old Gary's Quest for Love. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Shaina Roth, senior producer at Slate. |
| 0:28.0 | And I'm Laura Stasi, host of the podcast Dating While Gray. |
| 0:31.0 | Fantasy sweets are here. |
| 0:33.0 | These. |
| 0:34.0 | Fantasy! |
| 0:35.0 | These are a major part of the Bachelor franchise. |
| 0:39.7 | And honestly, every season this continues, it reminds me of just how immature our culture still is when it comes to sex. |
| 0:48.0 | I mean, in this iteration of The Bachelor is no different. I mean, you could feel host Jesse Palmer's cringe |
| 0:55.0 | when Gary is talking about sex. |
| 0:57.7 | This is easily your biggest week yet. |
| 0:59.3 | By far. |
| 0:59.9 | Because there's overnight dates. |
| 1:02.2 | Right. |
| 1:03.2 | Fantasy sweets. |
| 1:03.6 | I mean, when you hear that, what comes the mind? |
| 1:07.8 | Many people will be looking at that as, |
| 1:10.7 | do people my age still knock boots and have a good time behind closed doors? I mean, |
| 1:18.7 | your parents, are you still feeling like mom and dad come down the stairs with a |
| 1:24.7 | little extra spring in their step? TMI. TMI. I may be having that |
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