The Waves, The Golden Bachelor Recap: Here’s Gerry!
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
It’s our first Golden Bachelor recap episode! Join Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth and Laura Stassi, host of the Dating While Grey podcast as they unpack Gerry Turner’s journey to find love. They discuss who had the cringiest entrance, whether Gerry is really ready for love (and the drama), and just how ageist some parts of the show are.
Podcast production by 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 podcast, episode one. Here's Gary. |
| 0:11.8 | And now it is finally time to meet the mysterious golden bachelor. |
| 0:16.8 | You essentially are going to be the representation for what it looks like to date in your 70s. |
| 0:21.8 | It feels amazing and it's still sinking in. Of all the men in the United States of America, |
| 0:28.8 | for a certain age of the guy. |
| 0:32.7 | Every week we're talking about the latest episode of the newest installment of the bachelor |
| 0:36.9 | franchise and 72-year-old Gary's Quest for Love. I'm Shayna Roth, senior producer here |
| 0:42.9 | at Slate and I'm Laura Stassi, host of the podcast, Dating Wal-Grey. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm so excited to talk to you Laura about this because your show Dating Wal-Grey is all |
| 0:54.3 | about finding love while gray as in older. You've talked to so many people looking for love |
| 1:00.7 | after a divorce or being widowed and now we get to watch the bachelor together, a widower |
| 1:07.9 | edition, no less. But before we start, I want to know about your particular relationship to |
| 1:14.4 | the bachelor. I have no history. I have never watched it before the golden bachelor because |
| 1:22.5 | it seemed to me just kind of silly, like who wants to watch a bunch of younger people running |
| 1:28.1 | around. I was intrigued when I heard that ABC was going to do a golden bachelor, but I was concerned |
| 1:35.1 | that they were going to, when the promo came out, I thought, oh, I think they're going to be |
| 1:39.3 | making fun of older people. I mean, do you remember that promo? It was terrible. He gets his |
| 1:44.7 | DMs via a carrier pigeon or something like that. He posts his thirst traps in a leather-bound album. |
| 1:54.3 | His DMs have postage. He gets the early bird special anytime he wants. |
| 2:03.0 | If you call him, it was really kind of condescending. Just I get what they were going for to try and |
| 2:10.0 | make it like, oh, hey, you're used to 20-somethings getting drunk and trying to find love, but what |
| 2:15.6 | do we have some 60 and 70-year-olds trying to find love? What was your take on the promos leading up |
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