Bachelor Happy Hour - Lea's Here, You're Welcome

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

Today on Happy Hour, we're sitting down with Lea from this season of Paradise! From her journey with Jonathon to the explosive drama this week, there's lots to cover and Lea is not holding back! We kick things off with her first moments on the beach; what was it like navigating dating when most of the couples felt locked in? Then, we get into the highs and lows of her partnership with Jonathon. Could there be a romantic spark down the line? We also get her thoughts on the money aspect coming into play, the Jeremy/Bailey situation, and the season thus far overall. Tune in now to hear all this and more and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, luckily, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend's been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone.

Hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That seems inappropriate. Maybe find out how it ends by listening to the OK Storytime Podcasts and the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, West West, Prop here from Hood Politics with Prop Podcasts. You know I get down. You come from the urban areas. You understand politics more than you giving credit for it. Between Jerry out here, Mandarin all over the place, hop-out boys snatching up family members

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Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Badger Happy Hour. I'm Joe. And I'm Serena. And we are here. today with Leia Leia. Welcome back to Vatra Happy Hour. Hi, guys. Thanks. It's so good to be here. How are you doing? I'm so good. So good. Doing good. You are in L.A.? Yes, correct. Okay. What do you do? What do you do again? What do you do for a living?

I do my best, but right now I... That's all I'm doing, too. I do content creation and modeling and some acting. Nice. How did it feel getting the call hearing you're going to Paradise? It was definitely very exciting. I was a little nervous. And, you know, it had been a little while coming off of Joey season. Paradise didn't come back that one summer. So I was like, oh, I don't know.

So it was really exciting. Yeah. Were you prior to Paradise in between Joey's season and Paradise, have you dated? it. Oh, yeah. Anyone, like any serious relationships besides like whatever? Um, no, I wouldn't say serious now. Okay.

Okay. I'm solid contenders, but not really. No one crossed the finish line. No. So you're going on Paradise. You're single. Mm-hmm. Who are you interested in?

Anyone on your list that you want to meet, anyone that you've already met that maybe you want to explore a romantic connection with? yeah i i don't know i didn't really have a list i was just like you know what i'm just going to be open and i'm a big personality girl so we need to see if the energy that is there the banter's there you know what i mean okay and you get down what when do you come down you're with nancy right yeah are you are you are you're third week right is this third week four four four's four's you're getting to the point where it's hard four's tough it is tough it is it is because it's kind of the like well this cast everyone coupled up

fucking really early but four is usually the week where it's you're coming in and if like something isn't doesn't stick like it's hard yeah yeah I really feel that yeah I feel like everyone was super closed off the second I got even like two weeks before that or two episodes before that it was damn what yeah I know decided was there any like you get down there is there any conversation like anyone that's closed off that's like willing to like not be no everyone was so locked in which i love and i think that speaks to the chemistry and connection that all of these couples were experiencing which i think is a beautiful thing and that's okay because i'll get that it just wasn't there

group. We see you chat with Sean and Jonathan. Tell us about those conversations and how you made your decision about who to ask on a date. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sean, don't come me for saying this. But Sean, I had met before and I was so nervous getting there. And I was like, you know what? I just need a warm up chat. I pulled Sean. Nice. Okay, I love him. He's just not typically my type. Damn, Sean, if you're listening, she's really just dogging on you. I love him as a person. Yeah. Well, that's fair.

I mean, you guys met already and there was nothing, you know, there was nothing romantic there. I was like, I don't even know how to form a coherent sentence. Let me practice speaking to a human. So I pull it, Sean. So Sean's the punching bag, okay? And how does that? No, that's a punching bag. He is, but how does that conversation go?

Is it fine and whatever? Yeah, it was good. Yeah, warmed you up. Warm, yeah, warm, up, chill by. Super chill guy. Yeah. And he was kind of like, I'm open to going on a date and I was like, I'm not going to take you on one. There was no, like, there was no chance.

Like, I, watching Sean, I think he's, he's very entertaining. Like, he seems great. There was no chance you were going to take him. No shot. Would you just went home? Would you have, if it was only Sean, you would have just went home? Yeah. Damn.

Fucked. Sean. No, no, no, not about Sean. I love you. No, I'm saying, Sean, I hope you listen to this. At least half a conversation with her. You need to have a conversation with Leah. He's going to kill me. No, I just, oh, like, for example, for example, just to give you context. Like, Joey was the first Caucasian man that I've ever smooch. So there's just never was that for me. You know what I mean? And I'm Sean, he's so cute for like someone else. Okay. Okay. We see you then, pull Jonathan. and seems to be like you guys have maybe met before, maybe there's a little interest. Tell us about that relationship. Yeah, so I had met Jonathan like maybe like three or four times just at like events and stuff like that. Super cool guy was always like a good buddy. We're not like super, super close friends, but we were friends.

And so I think there was this automatic like comfortability there. We've joked around together. We like done TikToks together. like yeah he's super cool okay are you friends or are you friendly like do you guys text do you grab coffee or is it like you'll see each other at events and it's like oh my god jonathan good to see you yes friendly is a better word okay anything ever happened between you guys no no okay so you come down do you think you would have always taken jonathan on the date or do you think it's between him and your punching bag and you're not taking the punching bag so so don't call

Sean a punching bag I know I like I'm a Sean fan I like Sean he was like a of a buddy that I just needed a little like I just needed a buddy in the moment you know he was my buddy Jonathan or Sean I was yeah it was going to be Jonathan yeah okay yeah And, like, Donald's a cutie. He's a cutie. Do you go into this date hoping that there will be a romantic connection? I mean, I went to Paradise so hopeful for love. And, like, I romanticized it for the longest time.

Yeah. The assignment was to fall in love. And so I was trying to do my homework. Like, I think that's just, like, what it was. But the date is giving, like, flirty friend vibes. It's given maybe a little bit more romantic on your side than his side. It's a little bit of a theme that we've seen this season with Jonathan. How do you feel coming back from the date?

I felt really good. I thought it was a good date. I think we had a great time. But then like we get back from the date and it's like so overstimating. We come back to Birds of Paradise. And then also like he like gets swept into all this drama with Kat and Dale. So then I like don't hear. from him the whole rest of the night i'm like oh okay period like whatever oh my god i actually almost

forgot about that god there's been a lot to go down in the last three episodes um okay so the next day after birds of paradise happens do you think that you are just friends or do you think that there is potential for romance and you guys are both kind of exploring that and if so what does that look like in your interactions yeah so the whole thing with me and him was that totally we know we're friends that's super great no pressure but we are open like to it becoming more and I think it was more of like let's keep exploring each other and like getting to know each other more intimately and see if there's that spark or if there's that interest romantically so I think that's like where we were at like yes we acknowledge fully that we're friends but we're

open yeah okay you're open to it potentially being something more but you're also if other people come down, you're going to explore. Yes, yeah. Okay. Okay, so then is anything happening where you're like, oh, this is becoming something more? Are we still staying on that, like, we're friends? Yeah, so there was this one point, and I've talked to him about this multiple times. I was like, Jonathan, I was confused because he was like, what else can I do for you?

Like, da-da-da. And I was like, something that's very important for me is being intentional. and I didn't appreciate how, like, after we got back from our date, you didn't hang out with me, you didn't talk to me. And he was like, okay, like, I totally hear you. I can fix that. I can work on that. The next morning we sat, we had breakfast with each other. He spent time with me one-on-one. So I'm like, in my head, I'm like, okay, he's like pursuing a little. He's putting an effort. He's executing when I bring something up to him. So in my head, I'm like, this is my friend, but he's trying. right the work is being put in

actions are being taken and that maybe would have been a great opportunity for him to say hey Leah like I can do these things but I want to be super clear it's just going to be as your friend yes and he didn't do that what are the girls saying to you about Jonathan because we see them be pretty vocal

in this episode about their perceived concerns yes so I think at first everyone was like really excited they're like oh my God yeah you guys of the best banter. And it was Spencer. He was like, yeah, that's literally my best friend.

You guys were giggling and laughing. You know him. He's like such a hype king. So I'm also like, oh, we don't, but, okay. Well, we had him on. Like, he gives off that energy. Yeah, but I mean, we don't know, you know, I don't know Spencer to be a hype king. Really?

But are you surprised to hear that he's a hype king? I'm not surprised at all. I probably shouldn't even have interjected. Keep going. No worries. No, he's like literally like the biggest hype king. So I'm just getting a lot of like positive. like hopeful

Yeah Re assurance Yeah And yeah And I'm like You're feeling good And all your friends And his friends

Are like Yes you should feel good This looks good We all are with you Yeah My boyfriend's professor Is way too friendly And now I'm seriously suspicious

Oh wait a minute Sam maybe her boyfriend's Just looking for extra credit Well Dakota It's back to school week On the okay story time podcast So we'll find out soon This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot.

He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor and they're the same age. And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them.

I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend's... friend really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. All right, West West,

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and that's been part of the challenge. But we continue to say to them, you were elected to defend your constituents, to stand up for your constituents. and there's life after Congress. And you should be willing to actually want to be able to look back on your time in the House of Representatives knowing that you can keep your head held high because you did the right thing. Donald Trump is gone in three and a half years.

But their legacy or their failure to stand up to the extremism and the unprecedented assault on America as we know it will be with them forever. Make sure to listen to Spolitics on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. Spencer maybe should have had a chat with Jonathan. Yeah, Hype King should stop hyping when he's not supposed to hype. Yeah. Hype King overstaffed his boundaries with the hype.

It's okay. I think we were all just excited. And that's his best friend and I'm just his best friend. I think they were like couples trips. Definitely. Yeah. But. Okay.

So then we kind of see. like Jonathan which like here's the thing like Jonathan like if he's not into people like he's just not into him like it's just what it is yeah it's like it's just like more I think I think the the I don't it's a strong word but I guess like the hate for Jonathan right now is kind of like just more communication like just just more communication so more direct communication maybe he kind of tells well he he he doesn't kind of tell he tells cat like I'm not I'm not into lay Like I'm not into her romantically. Just to shove it back in your face.

Just to remind you. In case you forgot, he said he didn't like you. And like this was I, this was one of my favorite parts of the season. I very seldomly react to the show. But I remember being like, nice Leah. You just go over there and you straight up call them out. And like you really don't, you really don't even give them an opportunity to be like, no, but I still want to see you're like, either you're feeling it or you're not. And if you're not, I'm done.

he's like, okay, fine, I'm not. And then you're like, all right, I'm done. I will never beg a man to like me. That is the most embarrassing thing you could do for yourself. Because I know my husband will see me, get to know me, and snatch me right up. No shot. You know what I mean? And that's the type, like, that's what I look for. I'm not going to question my word. And like, oh my God, he doesn't like me. No, that has nothing to do with me and everything to do with you and your preferences. That's great. But like, I was like, Jonathan, yes or no? And he said, well, there's this gray area.

I was like, there's no gray area. It's a yes or no. Just tell me. Like, it's all good. Why do you think he was nervous to say yes or no? You want to stay on the show, obviously. He doesn't want to go home. Well, do you think, because I think there's two,

there's a lot of time two types of people in dating, right? There's people that know right away, yes or no. And then there's the more slow burn, a lot of my friendships turn into relationships kind of person, like feelings and romantic feelings take longer. for them to develop. On the podcast, I would say I would have expected Jonathan to be like a yes or no person. He seemed pretty like, I knew right away I was into this person. I knew right away I was not into this person.

But then on the show, I'm confused on if he's maybe like a, oh, but like I don't know, Leah. Maybe if we hang out for three, four weeks, these feelings might develop. I don't know. I feel like and here's. See what's on your mind, Leah. Say what's on your mind. Well, I think that when you meet someone, you can automatically be like, yeah, I could see this being something or no.

And like, that's what I asked. Like you was Sean? Yeah. Oh, sorry, Sean. Sean, I really, I love that guy. I'm sorry. But I think that you could easily be like, yeah, we're friends right now, but I'm open to it. Or yeah, we're friends right now, but I'm not.

I don't really see this ever because of something. I think you at least know that part. you know what I mean like in the openness you can say yes or no to the openness and like if you are a slow burn you could have been like yeah I'm a slow burn I could I'm willing to see like where this goes you know what I like I see the potential there I'm a slow burn but I am really going to invest my time into you to see if it can get somewhere and it didn't it didn't seem like he was romantically interested in you it seemed like he really liked you as a friend yeah I think the the the question that I asked him was like are you open yes or no yeah what he said and he said no so I was like

okay peace out yeah yeah so then so then you give him your rose because you don't really have any other option like there's nobody else there's nobody else there and it's like cares your rose that you know you're welcome it was funny he said it hurt his feelings kind of like what was that conversation like after I do in hindsight feel bad for how that might have affected his feelings. Do I regret it? NER. Because I think someone needed to tell him.

Like, dude, that is fine if you feel that way. But like, just know that like I see you, you see me. Here you go. You're welcome. I'm keeping you here. We can do this for the money. But like, like you're welcome. Yeah.

But I will say, I also thought it was clear as that you did that. And I think one of Jonathan's. best moments of the season and almost like a little bit of a redemption moment for him was when he did it back to you. I thought that was hilarious. I thought that was a great moment for the both of you to be like, look, we're making light of this. I can take a joke. Yeah, it hurt my feelings, but like it's not that deep. It's not that deep. And like I loved that he got to that point. And I've actually really enjoyed the fact that you guys are this like BFF partnership. now that like kind of didn't like each other for a minute but like you've gotten over that and

like out of everyone's coupled up and you're like the only couple that's like we're just friends well let's talk about okay so let's talk about like the fact that the show does switch after like that rose ceremony how how are you guys going about this now because you you guys have openly like we are not together there's nothing romantic here but now we're partners which could potentially be beneficial totally yeah I think once we were able to hash out like the communication and put our feelings aside. I think we turn the page, start new, start fresh. Let's like go in here as a unit now.

Like we're partners. We need to tell each other. Everything have really open communication. Like in here, we are a team. We are like a unit. And I feel like that's how we approach things going forward. And like being good friends is so beneficial because truthfully, he's like the boy version of me.

I think that's like why we just. don't gel like that. Like we are so similar and we like get along. We kind of kill it at the challenges because I think we have this dynamic. So I think that ultimately everything happened exactly how it needed to. Yeah. Yeah, it is interesting because I mean, you've got Brian and Parisa. They are kind of in and out of Rocky Waters. Yeah. Jeremy and Bailey are in and out of Rocky Waters. But you guys in these challenges, it's like you're not going to have that potential drama in your relationship, hopefully moving forward. Yeah. It could potentially impact your ability to be like a team. Like you're truly teammates in this. So I'm intrigued by the

dynamic. Yeah, for sure. And I think we like kind of nitpicked our communication styles. And like, okay, this is how we need to start working together. And I feel like once we got on the same page about our communication, we were solid. Was there, like, because now the whole show is essentially different, and it's a challenge show. Were you guys worried about the stronger couples wanting to get you out of there because you are kind of a threat? Oh, we had a target on our back like the second it turned into competition. Also, mostly because these people are so wonderful.

God bless their hearts. They were like, we want to keep the love here. the end we the second they said that me and july like oh like the love is not here so we had a target on our back just because they wanted to keep couples there and so we were fighting for our lives that did you guys think about like i would have i would have game plan let's like let's fake it let's let's really well you guys are trying i mean it's not paradise anymore no i i'm not shaving you that just never even crossed my mind i would Yeah, I would have said like, okay, Jonathan, let's actually pretend we're falling in love.

Yeah, but like do it strategically. That's why I think that he is such a good person too. He is like, I will not like be fake for a show or a camera. So like, and I really appreciate that about him. And I think we were just like, look, this is what it is. We're not going to lie to our friends. Like these are our friends too, you know. I mean, maybe we're like.

Well, they're going to kick you off the show. so they're not that kind of friend. Only two people can win. Like, you have to be somewhat ruthless in these games. You know what? That would have been actually hilarious, though, if you guys in your ITMs were like, we don't like each other,

but everyone thinks we do. Like, I would have loved to watch that. But I respect the authenticity from you both. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Well, wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to screen.

week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now, he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate. Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same age.

And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both the meets. So do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast

on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. All right, West West, Prop here from Hood Politics with Prop Podcasts. You already know our get-down. If you grew up in our urban areas of comfort of struggle, you understand politics much more than you giving credit for. Fans taking over American

cities, government hop-out boys, hopping out the van, snatching up your Theo and them. Two wars that were supposed to be solved in 24 hours. Jerry just out here mandarin all over the place. The turfs. And of course, the Epstein of it all. Well, this week, we decided

to shoot our shot, and boy, did we pull up from the logo, to see if we could get somebody to come tap in with us. And the one and only Jamil Hill pulled up from this politics podcast to keep it a whole century. The American public is used to being entertained. We're a consumption society.

So what Trump figured out is entertain them. And they'll never question you listen to the hood politics with prop podcasts on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast hi my name is enya umanzor and i'm drew phillips and we run a podcast called emergency intercom if you're a crime junkie and you love crimes we're not the podcast for you but if you have unmedicated ADHD oh my god perfect and want to hear people with mental illness Psychobabble Yes, yes

Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you Open your free IHeartRadio app Search Emergency Intercom And listen now Imagine that you're on an airplane And all of a sudden you hear this Attention passengers The pilot is having an emergency

And we need someone Anyone to land this plane Think you could do it? It turns out that nearly 50% of men Think that they could land the plane With the help of air traffic control And they're saying like, okay, pull this. Do this, pull that, turn this.

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And then, as we try the whole thing out for real. Wait, what? Oh, that's the run right. I'm looking at this thing. Listen to No Such Thing on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jemail Hill, host of the Sports and Politics Podcasts Politics. And on the latest episode of Politics, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joins me for a candid conversation about the state of the Democratic Party. What do Republicans say to you privately that they won't say publicly?

Many of them are in fear of their political lives, and that's been part of the challenge. but we continue to say to them, you were elected to defend your constituents, to stand up for your constituents. And there's life after Congress. And you should be willing to actually want to be able to look back on your time in the House of Representatives knowing that you can keep your head held high because you did the right thing.

Donald Trump is gone in three and a half years. But their legacy or their failure to stand up to the extremism and the unprecedented assault on America, as we know it, we'll be with them forever. Make sure to listen to Spolitics on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I mean, sometimes we would like poke it on a little. Yeah, poke out it a little, but yeah.

I think you guys are going to end up together the way this conversation sounds. Okay, so what is your opinion? So like the big drama for like the past couple weeks. have has been this Jeremy Bailey situation of it all what is you you came in late so there's a lot you may not have known and did you know did you even know Bailey before the show I'm assuming not right not not in person but we were like good internet besties okay yeah what would yeah what was your opinion on when once Brian had told Bailey everything and like not knowing and did you ever think of telling her and all that yeah I

don't think I found out till quite later and then by the time I like fully got the full story like it was already kind of unraveling. I do wish that it came from Jeremy because I think that would have prevented a lot of the heartache. I honestly, I just feel for her that can't be an easy thing to go through the first time around and now on national TV. So I just really feel for her. I think that these are very human moments that are happening on a big public scale, and that's never easy to deal with, especially like when people are like in love and trying to work things out. So yeah, I just feel for the whole situation. I think it's really tough.

This episode, we kind of watch at the end, like the whole house is very like anti-Bryan. Like Brian, you shouldn't have done that. Where was your stance on that and who did you vote for? well i think it should have been brought to bailey's attention at like regardless otherwise she would watch it on tv like that sucks even worse um so i think it was like okay here's a thing i was like me and jonathan we vote so like wherever he's voting i got to vote wherever i'm voting he got a vote so we were kind of listening to what everyone was saying and secretly we were just happy the target wasn't on our place.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very selfishly, very, so we were kind of just playing. Because honestly, you guys might have gone home had this not all blown up. 100%. So we were kind of just listening to what everyone else wanted to say. We didn't want to be on the offense. We were more on the like, let's just listen and like see like where things are going and then like make our vote count by kind of majority way.

Yeah, you got to go with the numbers. Yeah, unfortunately. But I don't know. I think the whole thing's so messy. This time around, y'all saw it the first time around. I was very much in the drama. This time I was like, I am so good. Like, I'm going to sit back here and sip my mimosa.

Like, who did you guys vote for? Brian. I vote for it. Was it Brian? Did you vote for Brian or did you vote for Kim and Faith? I think I voted for Kim and Faith. Oh, okay. To stay or leave?

To leave. Oh, okay. Because Kim was having heart problems. and we just, like, were really worried. Were they, they were they, they were really like hot and heavy, right? Oh, yeah. I was like, they were like making out the whole time, right? Yeah, I was like, oh, period, beta.

And then like, who is, I think everyone says the same answer, but I'm just curious in your opinion. Who's the strongest couple right now? Oh, for sure. Justin Spencer. Yeah, huh? They were just tied together. They were like love at first sight, eh?

Yeah. pretty much and she it was so funny too it was like the sweetest thing i remember before we got cast we were like let's make her lists and she was like i think i have i really like spencer from jens and da-da-da and i was like to see it like and then we were sitting on our couch after paradise and and we were just like reminiscing like remember when you said that who was on your list i didn't have a list are you lying yes that's what i figured that's what i figured okay i i had like uh these people are hot yeah but i don't know if i'll like them yeah yeah but i was like were any of them there or no did that how was there's still potential for your list she's lying i think you're i think you're

no no they weren't there they weren't there were you did that how did you feel when they did say when Jesse said the show has now changed and no new people are coming in where you kind of like damn like yes yeah oh my god I remember being in my ITMs and I was like where is the casting where is the person that does casting like get get one or two more in here please like yeah god is slim pickings yeah that sucks because it's like the old the whole reason you went on the show has now just been like ripped away yeah like But you can win $500,000. $500,000 is better than like a six-month relationship, like for sure.

Oh, okay, Joe. Leah, six-month relationship or $500,000? What are you choosing? No, he's just so real. Like the way he's like, yeah, it's just a six-month relationship. Well, I'm just saying, like, most of the relationships on the show don't last. And your husband isn't down there and you leave and it doesn't work out. That's not as good as winning money.

I mean, Serena looked at me during the show and said, like, if $500,000 was on the table at that time in my, life. I don't know if we would be together because I would have probably chosen to 500,000. And I was like, yeah. I was 23. I broke. I was like, I'll split it with you once we leave. There's a lot of people down there being like 500,000 is nothing. Like, I don't know. Yeah. It's a lot of money. Yeah. It did add a good incentive to still like be there and be present and try your best. Otherwise, I would have just gone home for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Leah, Thank you so much for coming on Bachelor Happy Hour and talking to us. Yeah.

Oh my God. Thanks for having me. I appreciate you guys so much. Of course. Okay. That is both interviews for the week, the end. Real quick, though, we usually, sometimes we do recaps at the end. Sometimes we do them at the beginning.

Today we're doing it at the end. Sometimes not at all. Yeah, sometimes not at all. But I would say, like, what is your take on the way this episode? episode really went down and mainly the Brian, Jeremy, and Bailey of it all. Yeah, I think the big takeaways from this episode are everything is kind of coming to a head. I thought it was a really good episode. I think that as a viewer, it has become challenging to watch without Bailey knowing what's going on.

I think this was kind of a turning point in the season. It needed to happen. I would say that the way it unfolded from her reaction to Jeremy's reaction to the cast's reaction was all a little bit unexpected. Yeah. Maybe not how I would have predicted it to play out. And I know that the cast is not happy with Brian and maybe some viewers won't be as well. But I personally am happy that someone told Bailey, especially considering everyone knew. except for her yeah i'm surprised the way everyone reacted towards brian like i said i said in the bailey interview i get jeremy being upset because he told brian and like probably didn't want

brian to say anything yeah he definitely told those things to brian thinking he weren't going to go anywhere yeah yeah um but like everyone else kind of really doesn't have any any like to stand on to be upset with him i don't think at least not from what we've been shown um i know there's still a game element. So Brian not fessing up right away that he was the one that told Bailey make sense for the game. I do kind of wish he just like out and out said like, it was me. Yeah. I said it. I think it needed to be out there. Like if you guys have a problem with it too bad. Yeah. I think watching it back, I would be curious about Brian's takes, but I agree with you. I would have loved to see him be like, yeah I did this

hi I'm Brian I went and told Bailey there's a lot of you guys that probably should have done it you didn't that's fine but I couldn't sit here and not tell her anymore and I took action and I don't regret it like Stan ten toes down a little bit more on the decision because I feel like he was confident in the decision to tell Bailey but then he lied about it and then Bailey covered it up for him and that created a confusing

situation. Yeah, but there's also like, there was a, I mean, that is a little strategic because. Well, he didn't want to get voted out. There's a game element to the show now. And honestly, when he was like, I was like, why is he lying about this? What's the problem? But then seeing how everyone reacted, I was like, oh, I totally understand why he felt inclined to lie about this now because everyone's like, we're voting you out.

We can't trust you. I'm truly shocked, truly shocked. I if just the guys knew I would understand Bailey not knowing this but the fact that all the women in the house knew and it didn't come from a woman and two told Bailey I'm shocked

like I actually can't believe it got this far I'm surprised too I'm also trying to put myself back in the position of being on paradise and this isn't to say I would or wouldn't have told her but I do think there's a bit of a mentality

of like I don't want to be involved in drama and I think that everyone that's considering telling Bailey is like I'm putting myself in the center of an of a explosive situation and I don't want to be involved that would be my guess so like I do have a little bit of empathy for people being like oh like I

think she should know but I don't want to tell her And yes, it should come from Jeremy, but he's not telling her. But, yeah, I think it was hard to watch the person step up be Brian when I know that there's people there that are much closer to Bailey than Brian probably is. Yeah, I don't, I mean, I'm just saying, like, I just can't believe it went that long. I just think it's, I think it's pretty shocking. Like, yeah, I don't know. What do you think of the Jonathan Leia drama? What do you think of Kim and Faith being eliminated?

Um, yeah, like, I mean, it does seem like, it's like, okay, let's get the Golden's out. It does. Like, if I will be shocked if Kathy and Keith aren't next on the chopping block based on the pattern that's going on here. But it also seems like all the Golden's are just in friend situation chips. Yeah. The voting, I don't know. Like, they're like, it's hard because everyone that comes on this show has no experience in reality TV. Then you do the one love show and then you have a little experience.

But it's not a competition show. Like that is a totally different mindset. Yes. And like no one in this cast, I think, had it was prepared for that or has that in them yet. Because there has to be like you should truly like there's 500,000 on the line. You should be keeping whoever you think you can beat on that show. I would be like listen serena like I don't care how much these people are in love like they got to go because they could beat us at the end and then we're going to lose yeah and this is a different game now I think if paradise keeps coming back season after season in this format we will definitely see an evolution of strategy but it is really fun to see it be like this raw chaos of like watching these people from a dating show navigate being on a competition show that they didn't sign up for yeah this will be the first this

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