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Hello and welcome to the Bachelor podcast. I'm Kay Yerke City.

I'm Jared Fried, so good to back here with you Kay. How are you? What'd you think?

Golden Bachelor. We are home stretch here. I know. It feels like it came out of nowhere.

When they second, the second they mentioned, oh yeah, hometowns is next week. I was like, what?

Right. I mean, this is like, um, it was, and it also is like, I don't know if you felt this from

this episode. It was heavy. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we came from an episode last week where it was

we had the drama. We had the, you know, normal bachelor's stuff. And then this week, yeah,

felt very heavy. And I mean, considering the climate of like, what's going on in the world

and all the talk. And I know that like, this isn't the place for talk of the Middle East,

but they start with the women doing the horror in, in the water. And I mean, I was like,

John the ground. I mean, like, and again, as, as a Jew, and as, you know, someone who makes a

lot of jokes about it on this show, I've talked about, you know, Jewish contestants on the show.

And, and knowing, and I've seen, like, Leslie has the star David and Ellen kind of has that vibe.

You know, she lives in Del Rey. I kind of, she had that vibe. Yeah. She had a vibe to

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