The Golden Bachelor Recap: The Women Tell All and Mince No Words
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, we get the first Women Tell All episode of The Golden Bachelor. Waves recap co-hosts Cheyna Roth and Laura Stassi have some thoughts for Gerry.
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 Recap Podcast, episode 7, |
| 0:13.9 | The Women Strike Back. |
| 0:15.9 | Every week we're talking about the latest episode |
| 0:18.2 | of the newest installment of The Bachelor franchise |
| 0:20.9 | and 72-year-old Gary's Quest for Love. I'm Shayna Roth. franchise and |
| 0:23.7 | I'm Shaina Roth senior producer at Slate and I'm Laura Stasi host of the |
| 0:28.2 | podcast dating while gray. |
| 0:29.7 | We ended last week's episode on a cliffhanger. Would Gary choose Teresa or Faith? |
| 0:36.5 | He'd already given a rose to Leslie, but he was clearly struggling. There was a lot of tears. |
| 0:42.2 | And we opened this episode with Gary just an utter |
| 0:45.9 | turmoil over his decision and then they make us wait for like over a half hour and this was cruel both to viewers and the women and the women tell all because I think a lot of people would be like me which is I'm just waiting to find out what happened. |
| 1:02.6 | Okay, so this is what I have to say about that. |
| 1:05.2 | At first I was like, wait a minute, what's going on? |
| 1:08.0 | Because they sort of promised us in the preview |
| 1:11.1 | that the second rows would be given out at the top of the show. |
| 1:15.0 | But I have to say, I think it worked in that I was reminded how wonderful all these women are and all of them talking about renewed hope and it |
| 1:27.3 | okay pardon me it made me all tingly it made me realize why I was excited about the Golden Bachelor in the first place |
| 1:35.2 | that I was willing to suspend belief about how much reality is in this reality TV. |
| 1:42.1 | So it was nice to be reminded of that, |
| 1:45.5 | even though I have been skeptical that the producers |
| 1:48.7 | are doing the viewers or the cast justice when it comes to older adult dating. |
| 1:54.4 | Well you are far less cynical than I am because to me it felt like just a game by the producers |
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