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I'm joined today by Dave Meal. Hi, Dave. Hi, how are you? You're a fellow bachelor recap. It's great to meet my colleagues.

Yes, peers. We're just doing the Lord's work as we say.

You do a YouTube recap. What's the official title? I call it Bachelor of Nation News. It's a little bit of all the stories that fall in between the stories no one else is covering.

So I'm just picking up the scraps is what I'm doing.

We're going to talk about your recap of this week's show in which you take notes and then you share your notes with a lovely green screen, screen shots.

I've got some notes on your notes and I want to talk about it. But first I couldn't bring myself to listen to Chris Harrison and Caitlin Bristow.

No shots at either of them, but like there's just only so much bachelor content one can take in, you know.

But I noticed you had some recap video. So I was wondering if you could fill us in on what happened on Chris Harrison's podcast with Caitlin Bristow this week.

Well, you know, they accused Chris of ghosting them and then once she got the job hosting Katie season.

Yeah. And then Chris's only response was like, well, you texted me a bunch of just random things and I didn't get around to responding yet.

But they cleared the air as you do. But it's funny watching him getting to the podcast world because he still brings like traditional media bravado.

He does have a real presence and gravity to him that I frankly required to be the host of the bachelor.

So I can't, can't hold it against him. Oh, no, not at all. He's just like a dad, you know, it's like he's a dad podcast, you know, because when he did his first apology on Good Morning America, everyone was like, oh, we sounded so fake.

I was like, I think that's just how Chris Harrison sounds. I think he sounds like that's how he talks now.

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