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Welcome to the Waves. This is our Golden Bachelor podcast episode two, The Dead, Spouse,

Rises. 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 Shayna Roth, senior producer at

Sleep, and I'm Laura Stasi, host of the podcast, Dating Wall Gray. Laura, before we dig into the

episode, you alerted me to something that I totally missed, which is that Marina has gone missing.

Marina's missing. So I didn't notice it at first because, you know, everybody's going into the

Bachelor at Pat and giggling about things, and then I think Gary mentioned something about 15,

and I was like 15 because I remember, no, I'm not great at math, but I do know that 22 minus 6

is 16. So I was going through all my pictures, and I noticed Marina is gone. And who knows what

happened. I have my theories. I know you have a theory. I do. My theory is that Marina got COVID,

and so they just sort of quietly secreted her off the show. I've seen this happen on a few

different shows where somebody will test positive for COVID. And as a viewer, you'll just be like,

wait, so and so is just gone. And then you have to, and then you Google, and it turns out, oh,

that person we found out later got COVID and was just kicked off the show. Now we are watching

screeners that were provided by ABC. So it's possible that when the show airs for the masses,

that they will address the hashtag where's Marina issue. But as far as you and I know,

she's just gone. Yes. And would you like me to tell you my theory? What is your theory? Well,

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