Welcome to The Waves, this is our Golden Bachelor recap podcast. 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 Daisy Rosario, senior supervising producer of Audio Here at Sleight.

And I'm Laura Stasi, host of the podcast Dating Wall Gray.

Alright Laura, here we are, episode 4. I mean, I feel like we should be, like, further

number along in the episodes based on how few women there are. Maybe that's just me.

It does seem to be going very fast, and again, I'm not a regular bachelor viewer, but we

have whittled, man. Totally whittled.

We have whittled and by the end of this episode will be down to six women. But let's talk

about the episode itself and how we got there. So this week starts with, kind of, this

immediate awareness that there's going to be a group date.

Yes. But do you want to be chosen for the group date? Because if you're not chosen for

the group date, it means you probably get the one on one date. So like, what? I did not

know that. So thank goodness they're telling, well, first of all, when Trista comes in,

thank you very much for someone saying, hey, this is Trista. I thought she looked vaguely

familiar, but I thought it was the woman from last week. There's kind of a look about

these bachelors and bachelor ads. But, but yes, and thankfully, Leslie did say, hey,

if your name is not on the card, that means you get the one on one because these women,

they were all like, yes, yes. And I'm like, okay, do they not know that it's kind of maybe

a bad thing to be part of this group date? Or is it just kind of an automatic response?

You hear your name. You're going to cheer for yourself. I don't know.

Yeah. I know. I mean, that's the thing you can't, you can't get a sense of real time,

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