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2 Black Girls, 1 Rose

The Michelle Young Interview

2 Black Girls, 1 Rose

Justine Kay and Natasha Scott-Reichel & Studio71

Comedy, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We finally welcome the one and only Michelle Young to the podcast! We dive deep into being Black in Bachelor Nation, Michelle's fight for change within the franchise, her transition from fifth-grade-teacher to mission-driven influencer, and what's going on in her dating life. Want BONUS CONTENT from our interview with Michelle + so much more? Join the Rose Garden on Patreon. CONNECT WITH US: Instagram | Twitter | TikTok | Merch EMAIL: 2blackgirls1rose@gmail.com CONNECT WITH JODIE THE EDITOR: @jodiegordonmedia Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We're recording, recording everybody. Hello, hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Two Black

0:21.2

Girls One Rose. We're together. We'll uncover what we can learn about modern dating, love

0:26.8

and relationships from popular television. I'm Natasha and I'm Justine and we have an extra, extra

0:35.5

special guest on the pod today. Former Bachelorette Michelle Young is joining us. So excited to talk to her.

0:43.3

She we had a great conversation with her earlier today. But before we get you guys into that

0:50.7

interview, shout out to our new tagline. Shout out to our new tagline. So for those of you who are

0:58.6

new here or those of you who only know us as a bachelor recap podcast, we want to take a second

1:05.3

to get a little personal with you guys and reintroduce ourselves to you. We started this podcast

1:11.9

in December of 2017 and for five years we were two black ass girls invading the whitish show on

1:19.1

earth, The Bachelor. And we've spent the past five years known as a bachelor podcast that sometimes

1:27.0

talks about other reality shows. Well, The Bachelor was our main source of content. What we were really

1:34.5

doing at the core of all of our recaps was having nuanced conversations about dating, love,

1:40.9

relationship, sex, marriage. And we just happened to be doing it through the lens of a TV show.

1:47.2

When we found other TV shows that allowed us to continue to have these conversations,

1:52.8

shows like Meredith Versite, Love It's Blind, Perfect Match. And we've even done scripted shows

1:59.0

like insecure. It's allowed us to expand a little more. Yeah. So since our decision this year to not

2:07.2

cover Zack's season of the bachelor and to break free of this very narrow perception of being

2:14.2

a bachelor podcast, we have finally been able to really stick back and envision a new outlook

2:22.0

for this podcast. It has allowed us to dream bigger for what we really want this podcast to provide

2:27.3

and what we really want to stand for. While our relationships, our relationship status as women

2:36.3

have drastically changed. Shout out to Natasha's getting married the series. Check it out on Patreon.

2:42.8

What has remained the same is our love for TV, our love for dissecting TV. Our love for making

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