it's the game of roses, welcome to the game of roses. This is the game of roses, welcome to the game of roses. Welcome to Game of roses. This is pace case.

This is bachelor clues in its Thursday. So you know what this episode is going to be? It's this week in bachelor nation.

AKA the nation. And before we get to our screens from the pit, our parasocial plays of the week, our bachelor nation news. And even before we get to our state of the world, we have to issue a correction in our show from Tuesday.

We said that Chris Watson was the first black player to win a ring. And we accidentally overlooked Katie Morton who won a ring from journeyman player Chris Bukowski on season six of bachelor in paradise.

That of course led to a moment of incredible producer manipulation when they sequestered Morton from the other players at the reunion show and then denied her request to be given her own ring back so she could wear it on stage when she saw Bukowski again.

Instead, the producers denied Morton purposely to agitate Bukowski and further strain their relationship. But our correction is that she was technically the first black player to win a ring in any of the bachelor or bachelor adjacent games.

Deepest apologies to Katie Moe. I also I can't believe that we missed something that had to do with your Hall of Fame greatest of all time. Chris Bukowski.

I never said you not needed in our first whatever.

Maybe for the first hall of fame, it was a bad choice. Okay. I admit that. But in other sports, eventually like people start creeping into the hall of fame who just did things that nobody else did start creeping in later.

I think eventually Bukowski makes it to the Hall of Fame creep is way in. Yes, he appeared in more shows than anyone. That is a feat unto itself.

I think we have a lot an increasing amount of highly skilled players. So I think it might be some time for Bukowski.

He'll have to get kind of the weight of history. We'll have to get behind him and we'll have to look back at his exploits as something that was incredible.

Because I don't think we're going to see a player achieve six appearances again.

Probably not. Unless we get, you know, bachelor summer games, etc. fall games.

Maybe if the bachelor twilight years, maybe if that show lasts for like another 10 or 20 years, we'll start to see some current players showing up on that show in their 50s and 60s.

Or Amanda stand and comes back to bib producers. If you're listening, get Amanda stand on VIP. Please.

But that doesn't we just had that correction to issue. And now we are going to move on with the meat of this week in Bukowski.

And of course that always begins with us talking about some larger issue in the news, some global event that is affecting all of us.

And then we zero in on exactly how that event is related to the nation because as we know, all things are this is game of roses.

State of the world.

Bill and Melinda Gates, two of the richest people in the world are getting divorced. They met at Microsoft, the company Gates co-founded and have been married for 27 years, siring three children in that time.

No reason was given for the split, but they have been trying to work through some issues for the past few years. Gates is estimated to be worth $130 billion.

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