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Episode Date: May 15, 2025

Today on “Happy Hour,” we’re recapping Episode 1 of “Bachelor Pad” Season 3! Bachelor Nation is officially dropping Season 3 of the iconic series, and we’re covering everything that went down in Episode 1! We’re giving you the breakdown on the “Bachelor Pad” gameplay, the tea on all the contestants, and so much more. There’s scheming, explosive drama, and so much mess to discuss. Tune in now to hear all our thoughts on Episode 1 and be sure to stay tuned for the rest of Season 3, dropping every Monday on the Bachelor Nation YouTube channel. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. 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. Between Jerry out here, Mandarin all over the place, hop-out boys snatching up family members

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that are holding back over 70 million stars workers skilled through alternative routes rather than a bachelor's degree it's time for skills to speak for themselves find resources for breaking through barriers at tailorpaper sealing.org brought to you by opportunity at work and the ad council Hey everyone. Welcome back to Bachelor Happy Hour. I'm Joe. And I'm Serena. And we are here to recap a different episode, something we've really never talked about on this podcast, which is Bachelor Pad, which came out before Bachelor in Paradise. And we're kind of doing this because we're getting ready for Bachelor in Paradise. But Bachelor Pad season three, episode one was just released on Bachelor Nation's YouTube channel. So we watched it. And we're going to recap.

That shit show right now. If you are not familiar with Bachelor Pad because it's been what like 15 years since Bachelor Pad was a thing. There was a couple seasons of it. It took place in the Bachelor Mansion similar style to Paradise where it was like co-ed guys and girls, but it was a mix of dating and a competition show. So there's different pairs. There's competitions like physical challenges that you have to.

to win and compete for it to get different advantages. And then the goal at the end was to both hopefully find a relationship, but even more so to win the cash prize, which was, I believe, $250,000 this season. Correct. So one thing that, so obviously Bachelor Pat evolved into Bachelor in Paradise, which watching Bachelor Pat, the first thing that was kind of like I didn't love was that they were in the mansion still. I like the aesthetic of like a beach in paradise.

Yeah, well, I love the mansion. I think it's so iconic. But I think what people forget is on the regular seasons of The Bachelor and the Bachelorette, you only see so much of the mansion. It's really just like where the girls and guys are hanging out and sleeping and getting date cards and then you're out and about. Like you're on dates with the lead. And then after week four, you're traveling.

So like it's not as much as it's an iconic symbol, it's really just like a big part of night one. And then after that, you're not seeing that much of it. Seeing a whole season in the mansion, I think that a setting like a beach in paradise, like Cabo, Costa Rica is a way better fit for like a full-time show. I agree. The flow of the house.

It's also like it's a little dark. Like it's got like that like Spanish influence to it. Yeah. It's just a little like it's just it's a little small. Yeah. You know, and it's not small. Obviously for like a family to live there. But it's like small.

No, but to have like a cast of 30 people filming their 24-7, I would actually be curious to know if they were like having challenges with that a little bit. I mean, I'm sure. Yeah. So we, the first thing we're kind of introduced to is you get the cast that are, they're all coming back and you have people like who we know like Chris Bukowski is kind of the only one that we personally know. Yeah. Chris Bukowski, who's been on, like, the most Bachelor shows ever. You're probably familiar with him. He was on Paradise a few times.

He came from Emily Maynard season, and he's now with Anna Redmond. Yeah. But everyone else, I was not as familiar with. I mean, we know Chris personally. I don't know any of the other cast members. But all from seasons, just to give you a little context, Deanna, Gillian Harris, Ashley, and Emily Maynard season. of The Bachelorette and then Ben Flanagan, Brad, and Lorenzo's seasons of The Bachelor is what we're

pulling from. So we're going like very old school, but like kind of like the height of Bachelor still. Yeah. I would say those the people that were, big seasons. I would assume that the people that were on this season were the most, were the fan favorites of their season of the Bachelor Bachelorette. Definitely. I mean, like, you know, Ed was engaged to Gillian Harris and it didn't work out and he's like a main character in this first episode. And he's clearly good for TV because the guy's just getting wasted running around naked. Yeah. We don't, we don't get to see that stuff anymore. Totally. And then we have Kalin who was on Emily Maynard season. He was kind of the villain. He called her daughter baggage. And he's like, Sandtonto's down on that comment.

Like that's the thing about like now everyone is so meeting. train and social media train that you will never see that yeah but like it it's a reminder of how like funny and raw reality TV was it could be because people were just fucking talking crazy shit oh yeah like even this first episode I couldn't believe I could believe what they were saying but I couldn't believe they were saying it on bachelor pad a show that has like millions of viewers the attacks on like people's just looks Oh, constant, just the physical appearance coming for one another. And I mean, you know, they're referencing, like, you guys have to remember that are listening.

Like, they're referencing the tabloids. Like, that was where things were happening. There was no social media. So it's like nowadays, you say something on the show that people don't like. You're getting attacked in your DMs. They have this direct access to you. They're picking apart your character. They're picking apart everything that you have said, whether they like it or don't like it.

There was no direct access unless you, like, ran into these people on the street. Yeah. So, like, you have these people that are villains, you know, like, Blakely talks about, like, how she wasn't very light. Like, Kalen, he's like, yeah, like, I called her daughter baggage and, like, I'm standing ten toes down on what I said. And, like, I'm down to be controversial and not liked because, like, it was just way less of a risk back then. I really think, like, social media has elevated and, like, decreased the entertainment of reality television. Like, watching this, I was like, wow. Like you would just like Serafina called Zoe's dress super short and like we all were up in arms.

The stuff people are saying about each other on this show doesn't even come close to that. Like it is way more below the bell. But this is this is the shit talking that contestants get in their DMs from people that watch the show. They will get this kind of shit said to them. Yeah, but it's different from like, you know, someone in the house versus like hundreds of strangers who are. were like taking it way too far yeah I just think it's funny because like yeah like like that comment from seraphina and I was like how could you say that it's like fucking a ton of people watching this at home we're saying shit like that oh yeah people are saying it on the comfort

of their couch but then we've got we've got this bachelor podcast being like you're ugly and I hate you and you're stupid and your dress is hideous how could she wear that it's disgusting like she's ugly and like just like direct comments on like these people it's crazy Jacqueline walked up to um blakley or yeah like David Jackson walked up to David by the pool is like you're going to vote me out I just want to let you know you're a loser and you're ugly it's like whoa it's so crazy and I love it then the second thing they introduced to us is they are bringing fans of bachelor onto bachelor pad to compete um which is interesting also the show has to remind us a million

times that like the fans love watching the bachelor and that they're on the bachelor it's like there i don't know why the show feels the need to plug their own show during their show on a consistent fucking basis everybody is on watching the bachelor you don't have to remind us that there's fans of the fucking show but anyway and they call them the fans like that like we're not saying that like they call them the fans they call themselves like we are the fans like it's like the contestants and then the fans even though the fans are competing but it's kind of funny because they've cast people that are obviously like good looking like they look like they look like they could be on the show but they're casting people that they know specifically these girls are that are going

not keep their cool like they're not going to come in and like act like they've been here before Like they're coming in and they're like fanning out over Chris Harrison. They're asking for selfies. Like they are not acting like, oh, we're all here as contestants. Like we're all here together. Like they're coming in being like, oh my God, this is my dream. I can't believe I'm here. Like it's a very distinct line between like who the fans and who the contestants are.

Definitely. But I also think that was pushed. Oh, yeah. I'm sure it was encouraged. Like this is so exciting. You know, we want to see that. You're a fan of this show. like don't be afraid to like show that whereas like if a girl on night one did that like you're gone

you're home you're going home immediately if you walk up to the bachelor and you like start fanning out yeah so yeah interesting interesting element to bring fans on and it's pretty much an immediate like okay there are people from the show the contestants from prior seasons and then there's the fans that we are going to ex out the fans. Like immediately you're on like, I think it's like Chris Bukowski's like you're on our show. Yeah, it's us against them. This girl, Rachel, is like enough.

I don't want them here. And I mean, they've made it so like there's way more. Like there's triple the amount of contestants than there are fans. There's only five of the fans. So like they've made it very easy if the contestants want to pick them off. They can. And I think even, I think it was Rachel who said like, you didn't get your heartbroken on national television.

Like, you didn't have to go through what we had to go through to be here. Like, almost the sense of, like, there's an initiation process that you got to skip. And, like, that's not fair. Yeah. 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 comforted struggle, you understand politics much more than you giving credit for. Fans taking over American cities.

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Make sure to listen to Spolitics on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. My name is Ed. Everyone say hello, Ed. Hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer, and my mom is a cousin. So, like, it's not like...

What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. Well, 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club?

A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage available now listen to wisecrack on the iHeart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts yeah very funny i so i kind of i guess like my my like issue with it if i were to say i had an issue is i kind of like if i want to watch a competition show I want to watch a competition show. And if I want to watch a show about people falling in love, I want to watch a show about people falling in love. The hybrid of both of those, as of now, just watching episode one is like a little confusing

because I'm like still like, what are we? What are we? What is the question? Like, what is this? Yeah. And it's kind of hard. Like, I don't even know. I yet to know like how do you even win the 200, like I get that there's competitions.

well like for those listening the structure from episode one that's presented is you pair up you just pick your partner like it doesn't even have to be on like if you're interested in them romantically you pick a partner i think it's you know girls and guys obviously and then there's this competition that happens where they have like these hanging big hearts so we're like still on the theme of love and you and your partner have to fit into the heart and they like tilt them and make it difficult for you to stay in it and the person that stays in the longest wins and you're saying safe from elimination so very like traditional competition structure like similar to like a survivor a big brother i think that they needed to i don't know i think they're having like in episode one like it's hard to dictate like is this like the challenge where like it's a competition show but like you also know that people are going to end up hooking up and getting together just like naturally by having you know a bunch of heterosexual men and women in the house together yeah i think that's what they're going for. Yeah. So like we're not so it's not so like I would say it's competition show first dating show second. Yeah. But they're filtering in this kind of like dating theme by making like the guys

and girls partner up and pick their partner and doing like the love themed competition. Yeah, but we're not we're not showcasing on this show. I don't believe that they're going to be focusing or showcasing a love story. If anything, they want to see, like, people hooking up and arguments from that, I'm assuming from like, like, we're already seeing it with Chris Wukowski and his partner and he's talking to another girl and his partner is upset. Yeah. Chris Wikowski ends up with Blakely as a partner. And then like that night, like very soon after he is chatting with this girl, Jamie, they're making out Blakely's piss. Like, we're in an immediate love triangle. Yeah. And it's like, why is Blakely pissed? well she's saying she's pissed because she wants to win the money but I would assume she's pissed because maybe she thought her and Chris were going to get together but like that's the thing you

don't you can't like some of it like you can't really tell at least from episode one and I think that's my gripe you're gripe with it yeah well I think like let's say okay so we look at like the challenge which is a competition reality show that has like a lot of romantic side plots And then we look at something like Love Island, which is a romantic dating reality show with competition side plots. And I think that Bachelor Pat in this first episode hasn't exactly figured out which one it is yet. Like what is the focus, the competition or the dating. Yeah. Or maybe there is, because there was seasons prior to this.

So maybe like people do know, we're just, we just don't. Probably just, yeah, we're just dummies. Yeah. But also we should add that, you know, these two. fans who partnered up David and then there's twins on this who are acting as one person which I just can't with twins and everyone in the house seems to be really annoyed by the twins they don't like the twins Eric and Brittany which makes sense because watching episode one they come across a little well they're already at a disadvantage because they're fans not contestants and then they're saying like

hey we're one person like no you're not you're two adult grown women like well but that's but that's also they're being counted in the competition they've been cast as one person but yeah They're not coming across great. David, Eric, and Brittany win that first competition. And their reward, other than being safe, is they get to go on a date. So I guess if you're like, if you're partnered with someone and it's starting to turn into a romance, it's like that additional incentive like, oh, we'd love to win because we want to be safe. But also then we get to leave the house and go on a date together. So what's going to happen when you and your partner win, but you're talking up with somebody else so that you go on a romantic date with your partner?

Yeah. I don't know. That's, that's kind of like another element to it. Yeah. I mean, I think you just keep it friendly and you just talk game strategy instead of getting romantic. But yeah, no, there's definitely like a lot of potential jealousy that could occur here. I mean, we're already seeing it with Chris and Blakely. Did you find anyone or did you see anyone on this first episode that like you were rooting for?

Because that was one thing also that I kind of noticed is. Yeah. I would say the Bachelor and the Bachelorette and even Bachelor in Paradise, they kind of like, they kind of like showcase like a hero on episode one or somebody that like the fans are going to like. Well, they're telling you like, they're giving you clues of like these are the one or two people that are safe. Like you can like them. Like they're good. And then, you know, you've got like the chaotic evil. of like these are maybe the villains

but maybe we like them a little bit like we've got the Kalin of it all who's like kind of a little out of the control but like he's entertaining or Erica Rose like Erica Rose and Kalin are in this feud because Erica Rose went to the tabloids about Kalin and like spoke badly about him

they're both great like they're both immediately great to me like you cannot kick one of those two people off. No Erica Rose almost got sent home and it was like no You cannot lose her. She's doing so much. She's so entertaining. I would say Michael, Michael got the edit of like.

Yeah, Michael Stagliano. Yeah, of like everyone's going to like this guy. Well, and he had been on Bachelor Pad before. He's the only like returner. He won it. So he's kind of like, you're following him through episode one is like, okay, he knows what he's doing. He's done this before.

And also like everyone seems to really like him. Yeah. So they should kick him off. How do we feel about, okay, so something we got to talk about. Like Chris Harrison comes in and, you know, he talks to everyone in the room and like this guy ad from Chicago can't even sit and listen. He's so fucked up. He's jumping in and out of the pool. Yeah.

He's in like little white tidy witties. Which like there's a girl like we don't care how big your dick is like put some pants on and sober up. That was funny. I think that was Jamie. that that was a wild time for reality tv i forget like like i was like all right like like i feel socially awkward this is intense and intimidating i need a drink to you know calm down yeah yeah get rid of the edge but like i'm probably gonna like and then everyone's gonna be kind of doing the same thing it is it's everyone i mean ed's gone above and beyond like everyone is clearly

in their interviews by the end of the night like they're drunk. They are doing interviews absolutely drunk. They are sloppy. They're slurring their words. But Ed is like on another level. Like he's so hammered. He's literally out in the pool. Well, Chris Harrison's like, man, we're trying to film a scene. Like I'm trying to explain to you literally what show you're on.

And like he's just not even there. I don't know. It's just a different time. But I also think like social media plays a role into it too. I don't know if you would see as many people because like look, it's all young, attractive single people that are like, I've got an open. and bar and a gorgeous mansion. I'm just here to have a good time.

Like, I'm young and I'm just, like, look in a party. Yeah. I think social media makes people, like, just more conscious. I don't think, I don't know if we'd see as many people getting as drunk as we used to. Well, I, I also, it also has to do with, like, the show, right? Like, it's kind of been proven over the history of The Bachelor with social media that the contestants that do well after the show and what i mean by do well is like you know get a lot of like love and in gross social media following those people are characterized on the show as

very nice either heartbroken or end up in love yeah anyone that's like going on the show like for a good time to get fucked up which is what all these people people are doing. Yeah. And like shamelessly. Yeah. Like, like, and that's, that's like the biggest difference. Yeah. And it's kind of fun. Like it's so, it's like refreshing after watching so many seasons of, of kind of the same thing. Yeah. Well, it's also like as viewers, we watch reality because it's not that serious. You know, it's fun. And I mean, I think Bachelor and Bachelor I definitely have more of a serious tone to them. And that's to be expected. But like, Paradise, I feel like there's been a bit of a struggle of it's like,

Paradise is not that serious. Like, yeah, you want to find love. You want to find a relationship. But it's meant to be this like fun, young, beachy show. And I think that we've kind of lost that tone of like, guys, like stop taking yourself so serious. Like this is meant to be fun. And it like translates as a viewer watching Paradise versus watching Bachelor Pad.

Like Bachelor Pad, they're like, yeah, it is meant to be fun. like we're literally just here to have a good time yeah and it was also a different time like like i would say drinking culture was was totally that this was still a time where you would go to bars in chicago and be able to smoke cigarettes in there what's crazy too is like nowadays obviously it's no secret like a lot of people from the show have other opportunities become influencers become entrepreneurs these are people that had like full corporate jobs that were gonna act this way on national television like just hammered swimming in the pool getting yelled at by chris harrison and then go back to work yeah like that is a whole other thing i even think about

i would say there was a lot of people that probably got fired weren't able to go back to work after this like ad was a chicago fireman so it was probably he was probably like celebrated like you have like go like i guess it depends on like what jobs you had to yeah but if you're in like banking and like finance like you're getting fired yeah you're not going back to that if you're in you know cosmetic cosmetic surgery or you know you're doing that i think you're fine i like your examples firemen and cosmetics like you're good i don't think anyone's going to fire you for that 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 a comfort of struggle you understand politics

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I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer and my mom is a cousin. So, like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear.

Well, 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

So getting back into the competition element, they are essentially going to be voting each other out, is the structure. Yes. So this is now based on like the contestants against the fans. They're kind of like, hey we have more of right to be here than you guys coming in as a fan like you just have an easy target on your back let's pick them off but then we've also got david who is one of the fans

who's safe because he want the competition is aggressively trying to vote out erika rose i'm not really sure why was there like a specific reason well i think it's reason so if you if you win the competition if you you're on the team that wins the competition you are safe yes if you are if you come if you're out first you automatically have a vote against you so i think he saw that and instantly ran his mouth which on any competition show at the beginning of the show you need to be under the radar especially if you're coming in you know as an outcast yeah well because so erika rose and her partner nick were the first out of the competition so they automatically had a vote against them. And I think that's where David was like, well, let's just vote them out.

They already have a vote against them. The thing is, it didn't work as much as, you know, we had David petitioning for it. And then we had Reid and Kaelin just straight up lying to Eric Rosa's face and scheming behind her back being like, we're sending her home. So now, unfortunately, Eric Rose is still in the house and she hates David. Now she's coming for him next week, which is the fun of a competition show. Yeah, I also feel like there was, um, There was there had to be an element amongst producers and even castmates of like we still want like to make good television and Erica Rose right now is is our top gun like she is the TV maker out of this group yeah she can the girls she can a lot more low key girls yeah she can not not go home yeah like well it's also like like we don't really think this more this way that much on our show but like I'm assuming at this. time it was like if erika rose goes home we have to start doing shit and we have to step it up and we have to start making tv why wouldn't we keep her around when she's doing so much but i do think a lot

of these people i think it's pretty easy for them to make tv because a they're drunk and b everyone really like doesn't seem to care that much which is great yeah i do i do really like the element the one thing i do like is i enjoy joy watching like the scheming and like okay we got this person's vote, this person's vote. We see Reed and... Kaelin. No, her name was... Reed and Paige trying to figure out

to keep her on the show. Yes, because they were partners for the challenge. And honestly, Paige is a fan. She ended up going home. And Chris was the other fan. He ended up going home. But Paige was really nice.

And I thought it was sweet that Reed was like, hey, I like her. We were in this challenge together. Like, I'm going to fight for her to stay. Well, that's the part that I love. Because now what you're going to get, as you're going to get people falling for each other. And then you're going to get somebody that may have fallen for you who's jealous of

the situation. They're going to vote that person. So now the stakes are even higher because not only do you want to win the money, you also want your connection to stay. And then when people start like fucking with you that way. Well, for example, we've got the love triangle with Chris, Blakely and Jamie going on. Blakely, if I'm her, I'm gunning for Jamie now because not only is the love. Blakely like you're distracting my partner, it seems like she kind of has a crush on Chris and is like, well, maybe if I get Jamie out of the way, I can shoot my shot here.

Do you, do you think they should do, like, should you have to go home as a team? Like, I kind of think. well I'm wondering if the partners switch up oh maybe you know what I mean like I'm wondering if they want the partners to switch up because if you go home as a team then it's never going to change where I think the hope is probably like there's an opportunity for like oh I'm with this person but I'm crushing on this person so like

I'm going to ditch them because they're pissing me off and go like team up with them there's a lot of moving pieces there's a lot of moving pieces there's a lot of potential messiness which I think is good yeah I would like we need to watch like another episode or two I feel like to like really get lost in on the format yeah or give me at the beginning of the show give me like a a grid or like a

bracket system of how this tournament works like give me a I want that in all competition shows like I'm maybe not on the show but like yeah like on their website there needs to be like a a rules tab yeah I can just go and be like okay like what but then at the same time you know that there's going to be like twists and turns and things that they throw at that that's fine but If the first time I ever play Monopoly, I need to read the rules. Yeah. Okay? Yeah.

And if I'm watching people play Monopoly, which would be boring, but if I decided that I want to sit there for my entertainment and watch people play Monopoly, I still need to know the rules of the game. It's going to be interesting for, like, comparing this now to what we are about to watch with Bachelor of Paradise. Well, our, like, theory is it's not a coincidence that Bachelor is releasing this episode. and highlighting Bachelor Pad on the, you know, we said you can watch this episode of Bachelor Pat on the Bachelor Nation YouTube, which we encourage you to do. It was a fun watch. I don't know if it's like timing is a coincidence that they're releasing this and they're encouraging people to watch it kind of a month or two before Paradise comes out. I'm wondering if they're going to be bringing some of these elements back. Because like my question's like,

why now? Like why are we circling back to Bachelor Pad now? Yeah. I mean, I think I think we are. That's exactly what's happening. I think we're right. Who, watching this episode one, do you have your favorites? Like, who is your favorite? Well, it's kind of, I mean, like, taking Chris out of it, because obviously we know him personally, so we're a little biased there. I mean, I like Kalin and I like Erica Rose. I just think they're both, like, very chaotic.

They're going to stir things up. They're like, you know, people that you like love to hate, hate to love. I also like Reed because he's not scared to get it done. Like he's going out there. He's making more. He's confident. Yeah, he's making moves. I like Reed too.

He's showing confidence. He's making moves, which is exactly what you just said. And I'm just repeating it, but I agree with you. I did like that girl Paige, who was the fan. Yeah. Yeah, she was sweet. And they made her look really nice. It was, I thought she was actually going to make it.

I like this Jacqueline Blakely. dynamic I think that's fun I like Ed as much as he's kind of a mess Ed's someone that like he'll either get it together and you'll end up being like this guy's fun and I like him or he won't and you'll be like okay it's time for him to go home well I'm assuming ad was a was the biggest fan favorite

on the show well he ended up with Jillian Harris but I don't think he was a fan favorite because I believe in his package he said that there was a bunch of rumors that he was caught out with like other girls oh that's what he said he's like there was cheating rumors which like not denying that did you hear no I missed that I mean I heard the like yeah like the cheating rumors and stuff I didn't hear him say that yeah at the beginning he's like yeah I know oh no oh no yeah at the beginning he's like yeah I know a lot of you read the tabloids and I the tabloids when just the word tabloid

just sounds so old I know but you know what's crazy is like it wasn't that long ago like it really was it like 15 20 years ago like think about how much things have evolved in such a short period of time when it comes to like media entertainment news you want to know what's even you want to know what's even crazier is when this show came out I don't know what year it was but there is a really good chance that the iPhone wasn't out yet like or it might have been like early stages it might have been like iPhone one you might be right let's see what year this came out. Bachelor PAD season three. 2010.

Okay. What year was the iPhone released? 2007. Okay. So the iPhone was out. But yeah, still early. Yeah. Pretty crazy.

But entertaining episode overall, I enjoyed it. Would you watch episode two? Yeah, I would watch episode two. More joke because I feel like they, like, do a good job of, like, lighting a few fires in episode one. You kind of have a general idea of the plot, the competition, but also there's, like, room to learn more. Like, you leave with questions and curiosity. I feel like it was good. I feel like Bachelor Pad was maybe, like, ahead of its time.

Like, I feel like if they'd stuck with it and maybe just, like, pivoted a few things. I'm actually watching it. I'm actually surprised that they ever, they ever made the change from. Bachelor pad to paradise well I can see them changing locations obviously like we talked about at the beginning I don't know if the the mansion is like a fit for this style but I am surprised that they cut the competition element format and I feel like you know Bachelor universe is based on finding love right like that's the core value and I can understand maybe why they wanted to circle back to that but we've always said like there's so much opportunity for like spinoff

shows within the franchise with alumni with potential competition shows and I feel like Bachelor pad like there's a place for that still to this day well but i also think like bachelor in paradise was a way for the franchise to gain successful couples right have successful numbers because i think well and i guess that's what it went back to is like this franchise is based off having successful long lasting love stories yeah and they weren't going to get that from bachelor pad like they needed a paradise which honestly has produced so many couples so if that was their goal like they've achieved it definitely But then maybe we have like another show that's a competition show with people that have like are already in relationships.

Well, I said that. I've pitched that before where you do a couple's competition show. Yeah. But, you know, no one listens to me. Not that I know. I don't know what I'm talking about. Okay. So I think that basically that's basically it.

I'm assuming Veteranation is going to release the entire season on YouTube. So check that out. We will be watching and make. sure you stay tuned to bachelor happy hour because we have new episodes new recaps every week yeah thank you so much for listening bye 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 between jerry out here mandarin all over the place hop-out boys snatching up family members and two wars that was supposed to be done in 24 hours not to mention

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