Welcome to the waves. This is our Golden Bachelor Recap podcast. Every week we're talking

about the latest episode of the newest installment of the Bachelor franchise and 72-year-old Gary's

quest for love. I'm Daisy Rosario, senior supervising producer of audio here

at Slate. And I'm Laura Stasi, host of the podcast Dating Well Gray.

All right Laura here we are episode four I mean who I feel like we should be like further number along in the

episodes based on how few women there are maybe that's just me.

It does seem to be going very fast and again I'm not a regular bachelor

viewer but we have whittled man totally whittled we have whittled and by the end of this episode will be down to six women

but let's talk about the episode itself and how we got there. So this week starts with kind of this immediate awareness that

there's going to be a group date. Yes. But do you want to be chosen for the group date

because if you're not chosen for the group date it means you probably

get the one-on-one date so like what I did not know that so thank goodness they're

telling well first of all when Trista comes in thank you very much for someone

saying hey this is Trista.

I thought she looked vaguely familiar, but I thought it was the woman from last week.

Oh, right.

There's kind of a look about these bachelors and bachelorette's but but yes and

thankfully Leslie did say hey if your name is not on the card that means you get the one on

one because these women they were all like, yes, yes.

And I'm like, okay, do they not know that it's kind of maybe a bad thing to be part of this group

date or is it just kind of an automatic response you hear your name you're going to

cheer for yourself I don't know yeah I know I mean that's the thing you can't you

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