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Welcome to bachelor party. I'm Juliet Littman. I am here with my colleague Jody Walker to talk about the ladies of the Golden Bachelor

Jody. Welcome. How are you? Thank you, Juliet. I'm so excited. I'm kind of trying to manage my excitement because I'm so excited

I'm like Juliet's listeners don't need to hear me absolutely screaming, but I would say that I'm the most excited person for Golden

Bachelor, but I know that that's not true. Everyone is really excited. Who do you think it is Matt James? Is he the most excited? No, definitely not. I assume you

mean because Matt James's mom is just been finalized as one of the contestants. And I can't imagine that's a great feeling to like have

to have your mom on a show that was not totally great for you. I mean, I guess like something good came out of it, but well, it's

interesting. We'll come back to her. Sure. I'm just I'm surprised to hear you say you're not the most excited. Like who do you

think is the most excited? Literally everyone, Juliet, like when these when these bios in conjunction with like

absolutely the best teaser promo video that the bachelor's put out in ages, all of the Golden Bachelor

marketing content has been really good and great songs, great filming. Everyone's in this kind of strange

golden hue. People were just coming out of the woodwork to text me and be like, I haven't watched in ages, but I think

I'm going to tune into this one. So we're going to go over the women. We each pick five favorites and three honorable

mentions, but I want to talk about this teaser trailer that you're referring to first. It's like a two and a half minute

video. And you referenced a couple things that I want to dig in on because it is a great video. And I think for a few

reasons, one, it has a very cohesive aesthetic. All the women are in black. They're holding like roses that look like they've

been drenched in like the gold plating or something. I assume it's not just spray painted. It seemed they seem to be

plated. And most crucially, the song that is playing is believe by share, which I think is I believe to be at the

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