The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast - That's My Husband

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

Ashley and Ben are recapping the second episode of Grant's season and they're in awe of the amount of husband talk they're already hearing. Ben expresses why he's so concerned for the future of the show as Ashley reveals the only reason she's still vowing to watch this season. 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.

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This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is the Ben and Ashley I, Almost Famous Podcasts with IHartRadio. Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Today, Ben and I are here to recap episode two of Grant Season. Hi, Ben. What's up? It's a big episode.

Obviously, every season. It's where we start to get to know the contestants involved. And we start to see maybe some themes that we'll understand from the Bachelor or whoever the lead is throughout the season. I remember Joey's season. Episode two is where we really started to go. This guy's got what it takes to be a really good lead. He was listening.

He was responding. And the season kind of picked up from episode two. This episode, we were just talking, have a lot of high hopes for this season in front of us. There is some shocking moments that we're going to talk about. One of the most shocking moments I've had in recent history when it comes to eliminations. The other mark, and I don't know, listeners argue with us on this.

I don't want this to sound like a bashing of the show. We're obviously still into the show when we have a lot of high hopes for the rest of the season. But one of the words I would use to describe this episode specifically was a little cringy. It had a lot of like dead, awkward moments for me. There was so many unimportant moments for me. You know, I always say like the moments that make me want to grab my phone and start scrolling. I had a number of those where I was just listening and I was like, this is so inconsequential.

It felt like, you know, we watched the Bachelor franchise because it is that upper level reality show where, you know, you can fantasize, you can romanticize, you can get hooked into the storylines. And it feels like in a lot of ways, it's not reality. And it isn't, right? You're not going to go on helicopter rides. You're not going to go to these fancy dates. You're not going to have this person show up to a random. place and play a private concert for you a lot of this is all overblown this episode i think almost to me felt like watching a home video like yeah okay wow i was going to say we tv but you

just beat it there with the home video it felt really low budget it did okay so let's dive in and talk about this episode the good the bads the uglies and why we maybe felt like it missed the mark when it comes to the standard that's been placed for over 25 seasons on The Bachelor. So, start at the very beginning. The ladies are in the house, they're excited, and we've had enough grant puns so far to fulfill the quota for the rest of the season.

And we're still continuing with the, that's my husband, that's my husband talk. I still think it's way more this season than ever before. Oh, my God. Reza gets through this week and Alicia didn't. I'm just discovering this, reading out that group list. We're going to talk about that in a bit, Ashley. That's obviously one of the most shocking moments for us this season.

This is a group date where they're going to play basketball. It makes sense. It's what Grant loves. It's what he did professionally. We knew this was coming. They weren't going to miss the opportunity to do a basketball date. They had the kids involved. which is always a good added touch.

However, I felt the kids were underutilized when it comes to their comedic relief, their energy levels, the ways they could almost put pressure on these women a little bit because they ask good questions. It felt like the kids this episode or this date were underutilized.

I agree. And almost made it not make sense on why they were there. Yeah, you know, that was a point that I didn't think about, but now that you mentioned it, I agreed because they were really cute when they were there. The shining moment with them

was definitely with Natalie where she sat with that girl. And what did they even... I don't remember what they talked about. That girl was like out of breath. And Natalie just talked to her kind of like calm back down, which is very sweet.

It was very much show of comfort that she knows what she's doing. She's fine in those situations. This date really is marked by the fact that they played basketball. Nobody there as a contestant is extremely good at basketball. But the whole point of this date, I think, leads up to the most climatic moment, which is where Zoe steals Grant away from really their only group activity during this date, which is a dunk contest, which could have been funny to watch.

I could have seen where it made, like, decent television to see these women trying some fancy dunks and doing some funny stuff. How were they going to dunk? Is that why it never happened? No, the room was lower. Oh, okay. Yeah, they weren't, like, actually dunking. Okay. Not on 10 foot.

But Zoe steals Grant away. So my first question to you, Ashley, as we break this episode down, is Zoe in the wrong for stealing Grant away in this moment? maybe she did it when she did it when she was told to do it I can't get around that but she did it but the she did actually she did it and so it doesn't matter if she was go erst or told hey this is a good idea she did it she made the choice to do it and so was it a good decision no no it's never a good decision it's it's a good decision sometimes if you actually isn't really ever a good decision is it really ever i don't think it's a good decision no i don't think so i thought that she also seemed so i don't know up when she took up

to the roof i didn't like the way she was talking to him i can't really describe how she was talking to him but like it was just like yeah no a yeah and i was just like oh god this is why you stole him to have this kind of conversation. Yeah. I think it always shows a little desperation when somebody does something like this. I don't know if it's a bad decision in two or three weeks. When you're on a group date and you're like, hey, we haven't had any one-on-one time.

I want to make the effort to get someone on one-on-one time with you because it doesn't seem to be happening any other time. And so I'm going to ask you to spend some time with me. This on the first group date, when the women are still trying to figure out what and the heck they're doing here and how these things even work, it feels. It felt like there's only one way this could go, and it would be controversial with the women involved. Now, controversy is going to happen. Issues are going to happen in the house.

It's how the show set up. But I think a philosophy for most people, as they come on this show, Kelsey on Joey's season, would be a great example of this is, hey, try not to force controversy or try not to allow controversy to slip in. And this interruption feels like it would only go one way with everybody else in the house. And honestly, I don't know if Grant's far enough into it yet, but at some point he'll get there where he should have said no. The reason is it distracts him from the date. It makes everybody stand around for as long as they were away from each other. So it does make the woman a little bit upset with him or just not having a good time. and the best thing he has on his side right now, Ashley,

is that the women could at least have a good time during these dates. Like, that's the one thing he has to his advantage is these dates are going to be set up for everybody to enjoy themselves. And if he loses that, he just has a bunch of bored, angry, confused people. Yeah. Well, the steel that I thought was interesting was later at the cocktail party, Ali Joe Did she interrupt?

I feel like she was the one that she was like totally done with Zoe and because Zoe interrupted Juliana. We like Juliana. But Ali Joe is like, hey, can I steal you?

And then she was like he hesitated and he was like I'm going to come back to you. Like he's still into Zoe doesn't care about any of these interruptions. He said I want to give you the two minutes.

You're right. I want to give you your last two minutes or something. I think Grant's going to be a great bachelor. I think he's a very handsome. I think he's kind. I think he cares. I'd say if we're at all picking apart his strategy or how he's looking at things right now,

I would say his mistake is that he might be too easily swayed by some of these interruptions. And that he should have said no to both of these. They're not helpful, right? you've already had your time. What's going to be said in the next five-minute conversation that you have that wouldn't be said already when she stole you? And so he needs to, in a sense, manage this thing before it blows up on him

and that every woman in the house is mad at each other or they're mad at Zoe. If he likes her, one of the ways to show that he likes her is to protect her and say, hey, this isn't a good look. This is like, hey, we're good. you're going to be here next week. We'll get another week together. It's going to be fine. Yeah.

But I'm going to go move on and talk to some of other ladies. He also has some, this is the wrong word, but I think it'll make sense. Fighters in the house, meaning they aren't afraid to stand up for what they believe in and what they think is right. And I think we're already seeing that, which is a great quality in a human. It's not a bad quality. But what it does do when you have enough of those and they have a common enemy, it can get very chaotic

Yeah In the house and on these dates Yes so we know that Zoe is a fighter We know that Allie Joe is a fighter Anyone else who's like really sticking out to you I'm even thinking that Chloe could be Yeah I mean I think Chloe could be I do think Juliana has a little bit of it in her

And I think we're going to see like some of the Bailies of the world stand up at some point. But I think so far what we're seeing is at least we've got a few on this date specifically. Now, honestly, it doesn't matter which team won. One team blew out the other. Wasn't even a game,

which I don't think really mattered when it came to this date at all. It almost, I wish it would have because it would have made this date a little more important. But honestly, it felt like the basketball, basketball date for all they could have done with it was just a, uh, a filler in a lot of ways. Like, was there anything really that came from that date of importance other than Chloe getting a little bit of time with him? Not really. I could, it would be nice if he did

one-on-one with both the girls. Yeah. I could have also been like kind of intimate. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious. Oh, wait a minute. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school 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 to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not?

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Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So we're through the first part of the date, and we move on to a really beautiful date with Alex. It's a one-on-one date. Alex did receive the first impression rose, which promised her the first one-on-one date of the season. I love that idea. I love that the first impression rose also gets the first one-on-one. However, I do think it really catapults them to the top

and far beyond for a few weeks everybody else. But I do like what the show did this season, where it added a little bit more to that first impression rose. Alex and Grant have a tremendous first day. I think. It was again odd for the show they did it in like a mall that was empty. I was like

this is the Beverly Center like I used to just go shop there. It's just like the most average honestly it's a really average mall these days. I mean it looks like any other mall that like isn't really in business anymore and they had it to themselves which is cool

and I love the smell of a mall I love the smell of a mall. The fountain in the middle that Makes the mall smell like chlorine, and then, you know, everybody's like germs everywhere and the pretzels. Like, a mall is a cool place. I wish the mall would make its resurgence, even though I don't know how it would. But to have a date at the mall feels again like it missed the mark because it wasn't, I don't know what it was. Like, I don't know the point of going to the mall other than they.

like had some stores open to them and they got to do that but i don't even know if i mean these people are so young did they even ever go to them all growing up i mean grant said he did but did he really yeah he did uh yeah you're right there is a there's a four-year age gap with us isn't he 32 oh he's 30 so he's six years younger then the malls were still around i understand what they were doing the purpose was to make them feel like kids again it was silly though it's like the big wow factor is like there's a big rose on the screen and she's supposed to be like holy cow there's a rose on the screen and then they go around and do these silly bachelor things where it's like they bump each other with these moving stuffed animal horses and they jump on a bed as if like in life we ever effing jump on a bed

I've never jumped on a bed in my life and they broke that bed so the show really backfired on it they're doing a low budget day they're like now now we have to buy a bed I can see how this played out though um for whatever reason this is what the show chose to do these are my least favorite dates actually when i was the bachelor because there was so many activities that the show wanted you to do you can't like get in a rhythm and you're like bouncing around from thing to thing now the show's like how fun would it be if you got on those things and hit each other and you're like wasn't really thinking about that but yeah let's do it that's just like it's stupid giggles to me like i think i'd be doing this and just feeling like really dumb and like i would never do this

with somebody. And like, this isn't that much fun. I can't pretend like it's fun. It's too planned is what I would say is it's too formulaic to make it fun. There's too many things that were asked that if they just said, hey, let's go to the mall. We're going to open up a few stores. You guys like have your pick and have a little fun with them. Great.

But they had all this set up. And so it was like almost like they were moving station to station to station instead of just like kind of letting loose. So as a result, I don't know how much of their personality we actually got to see because I think it was also planned and it felt planned to me. I do, though, think their date together, they have the chemistry, they have the comfort. It feels like the two of them are very attracted to each other. And so I am leaving this date going a great first date.

Again, it solidifies our idea that Alex is going to probably be here a while. Great first date, you forgot to mention the most important part to the date to me, and that was when he played the piano for her. That could have been the only step. It was good. It was really good.

I had so much respect for him ad-lipping that song, coming up with that from the top of his head. Like, there is a hook there. It was a romantic. That was a good bachelor moment. Shout out to Grant for coming out with his first single on Spotify last week. I would download it.

Like, there's that Doon, do you come up with that on the spot? That's just a lot about somebody's brain. No, he did actually come out with a song on Spotify last week. Oh, really? Not that song, but a different song. Oh, yeah. Party Girl or something.

Really? You didn't hear this. No. You got to look it up. It's not the song you heard. Wouldn't it make sense if it was this song? Because I would actually want to listen to this song again. Yeah, no, it did.

He did, I mean, he's great. He's very swoony in these moments. And you can see why people or why the girls are like, hey, I like this guy. Again, I go back to thinking, I think he's going to be a great lead if he doesn't get in trouble in the house, meaning that this chaos becomes such a focus point that he can't actually invest in these relationships because he's going to have four or five dates and the women are going to go, I got to tell you what's going on in the house. And that's always the most annoying moment of the season.

And I think it's going to happen a lot this season. I just expect it. And then it's going to take away from who he is and what the relationships could be. But I think you and I both agree, Ashley. We walk away from this one-on-one outside of everything else going this is a, they have a legitimate shot, right? Oh, yeah. And they have a lot of commonality in their background with having issues with parents.

parents and feeling like they come from sort of a broken home, especially with her. Definitely. They talk about it. And I think there is a comfort. And I think she says it, there's a comfort knowing that, like, Grant can relate with me and that he understands the situation I'm in. I think that obviously is a huge point. And here's the interesting part, Ashley. Some seasons, we see this being told second, third, one-on-one in, right? later in the season like hey i just want to let you know hometowns is going to be rough for me because here's my family dynamic it's interesting to me that this was brought up right away and that they both could be shared you know similar experiences and that that's already on the table so both of them

know uh when they talk about family this is what the response is going to be or maybe hey i'd rather not talk about family i do think it showed a level of comfort with the two of them that isn't always shown so early on. I also think that it's nice that the two of them know that they want to raise families knowing that they want to do the opposite of how they're raised. That's, yeah, and that's such a, I mean, here's, maybe I'm just picky. I would love in those moments for either of them to be like, can you tell me more about what you mean by that?

And, you know, maybe they did and we just didn't see it. because obviously they had a long time there. And I actually think that they may have been there until the sun rose because I feel like I was seeing glimmers of sunlight in there. And you know that they didn't start until it got dark. So that's a really late time to start a one-on-one. That sounds terrible. Think about how bad your breath would be by the time the date's over.

I know. Goodness. Especially after talking all that time, then having champagne and who the heck knows. Dry mouth gross. Just disgusting. So next day We actually probably have a good amount to talk about here This is the singing and dancing group date

Where they have to basically be a girl band It was led by Robin Anton And she created the pussycat dolls So you know it's going to be sexy And I was just thinking how I would fail this day Because I can't sexy dance I was thinking about my wife And I was like Jess

Just would hate this so much Like she doesn't Imagine Jess and I on a date like this like overtly sexual no like they couldn't like she wouldn't do it like i don't know what she would do it'd be hilarious oh my gosh so i feel bad for them uh the girls do a great job the the thing to talk about on this date is carolina and the fact that she gets she gets picked as like you know the winner of the date and then she goes ahead and straddles him and makes out with him in front of the other girls like i don't think i've ever seen anyone do before it was like

sex make out it was like it was whoa it was whoa i you know i've talked about it uh one of my philosophies i think uh another safety mechanism uh for being the lead girl or guy is to try your best not to kiss any contestant in front of other contestants uh i think that i mean it doesn't always work, right? And it doesn't always happen, especially when you're in the mansion. There's so many viewing points that people can see you from if they want. But to be blatantly in front of everybody and do this, I do think causes some damage to these relationships. And it makes everybody question where they actually stand in these relationships. And it heightens, I think, everybody's thought process. And I need to do that

at some point. So then there's a world in which he's kissed every girl in front of every other girl, and then things get really weird. Because I think one of the benefits, and Caitlin Bristow, I think, did a great job at this after a certain important time, was there's a mystery to where the other relationships stand in everybody's mind. So you're like, I really, I think they like each other a lot, but I don't really know because I've never really seen them together. But it feels like, you know, their eyes light up a little bit when they come in the room, but maybe I'm reading too far into it. I think if you get too physical with anybody in front of anybody else,

it eliminates that mystery in that other person's mind. And I think that's a dangerous path to go down, especially this early haunt. I feel like he's kissed everyone thus far. He's even eliminated people he's kissed with two. Yeah. That is nuts. That is nuts.

It's actually worth discussing. It might be the first time that anyone who has kissed night one is eliminated week two. And that would be Alicia. Yeah. It is shocking. We're going to talk about Alicia a lot here as this episode continues because it is a shocker to us all. But to end this kind of dancing date, Carolina obviously won. I do think it was great.

It was a fun date. It had a lot of, it was aesthetically. fun like a bachelor day would be right they're all out there doing their thing they're trying to get creative they're putting themselves in a little bit of an embarrassing moment and they all step up to the challenge i didn't know if they all would but they all stepped up and i think that's always something to applaud as we uh break down each episode is it takes a lot of courage for them to get up and do this even if you were uncomfortable doing it it doesn't matter you just did it and so kudos all the contestants for doing it bravo bravo it would be hard

And hey, he voluntarily sing as well. Maybe that was the single that he put out. Or does he just want to be a rapper or like an R&B artist? With his release on Spotify, I think we're seeing where Grant's passions lie. You know, maybe if somebody asked him, what would you love, if you had a dream, where would the Bachelor go for you? And he would say maybe music at this point is probably our best guess because it is what he's focused on so much. think it's going away. I think he's going to continue to play and sing and write and do those things throughout the season. And that would be fun to watch because he is an entertainer and he

crushed it on stage during this date. But this date ends no shocking moments for me during the dancing part. Like everybody did great, I think, right? Right. Everybody did great. I mean, Carolina, obviously straddling him and making out with him was the, you know, the only takeaway. was my biggest takeaway. Well, between Alicia getting eliminated and this travel was the two most memorable. Okay. Those are the two most memorable moments. Like, I just can't believe the type of makeout. That was not only in front of all the girls, but in front of the audience. And it was just so strange. I would feel very uncomfortable. I would feel very uncomfortable watching that if I wasn't supposedly dating him

either. Yeah, I'd be uncomfortable if I was in, I closed my eyes during people making out on tv so like if i was an audience member i'd be like definitely feeling uncomfortable so weird okay so after party cocktail party um he he pulls rebecca aside to see if that there was any like energy off because he was sensing that and she was like oh you know we we all just feel feel like weird you know when you're out with other people like yeah okay well he i definitely think he pulled her aside because he this sounds bad i think he wasn't that into her hence why she doesn't get a rose and he pulled her aside because he was like oh if i'm going to talk about the vibe with someone maybe i'll talk to her to talk to the talk to a woman who i'm not really into she's another shocker oh yeah she was really high for

you well she's high for me and she was a big character during this whole episode it's weird i know to have characters that have been focused on be eliminated so quickly it almost makes me feel like the show didn't know or expect any some of these women to be going home when they did she was a big character of this episode she was highlighted almost a whole time during the writing part of this date

and there wasn't any controversy with her other than the fact that he did feel like her vibes you know were off they even had like a character building scene with her when she was talking about makeup with Dina so why would they even throw that in there

either there's two options of this from my opinion. One, they don't have enough content yet to really fill an episode and they have to find whatever they can get, which is never a good sign. Or they didn't expect her to go home, but they had so much content on her because they thought she was going to be a frontrunner that they had to show it. Yeah. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious. Sam, maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school 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 to meet. 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. Hi, my name is Enya Umanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom.

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and there was a misunderstanding, and the two of them, you know, reconciling or coming to some type of understanding shows a big step in their relationship this early on, right? If this was your first date with somebody or second date, let's say, second conversation, and you brought up, hey, you said something and it kind of hurt me last time we talked, but I'm still into this enough to still be here, and I want to hear you out on what you meant by that for him to own it and say, I'm sorry, I said something stupid,

didn't really mean it, jumped to some conclusions there, I think shows that they have some strength. I also just think that he's obviously very interested. into her think she's beautiful, which she is. But I think he very quickly, when he said, you're so pretty, I bet you don't get said no to very often. I think that was a sign that he is kind of infatuated with her. Like he's like, I want you around. So yes, she would definitely be in my top three at this point.

Well, you're going to have to fill in your top three after the Alicia and Rebecca I'm really messed over right now. All right, well, I guess it is, oh, we'll talk about Bailey before we talk about those eliminations. So Bailey, I really, I wasn't feeling her last week because I was like, this girl's embarrassing with her, like, Emily and Paris schick where everything's on camera and she's like, influencer girl. Well, she was, like, really expressing how insecure she was, and I felt her in this moment because

she was like just you could tell that she was like oh wow i thought i was going to rock this process but this is not as easy as i thought it was going to be and everything that comes out of my mouth seems awkward so i i really appreciated her just being like being open about that and i'm glad that she got through and and yeah i want to see more from her now because i think that she thinks she came across so surface level the first episode and now she's like oh okay um so this is me and I'm not as confident as I was putting out there yeah I mean last I think last week when we broke this down I made it pretty clear I thought Bailey was going to cause some issues in the house I would backtrack on that statement now and say I think I might be wrong and that there was a

huge jump in my mind for her this episode saying yeah you know what she had a weird first week that's okay it happens everybody's nervous everybody's awkward they're trying to figure out how they fit in this house. And I'm glad she's around long enough so that we do get to see it. I don't have the same opinion of Bailey after two weeks that I did after last week. We're on the same page. All right. Now for the eliminations.

Alicia's gone. Ella is gone. And Ella didn't really, you know, we didn't really see too much of her except for during this cocktail hour where she was all concerned that she was going to leave. And then Rebecca. So Alicia's got to be one of the weirdest eliminations we've ever seen because we thought that she was possibly going to get the first impression rose last week. She was the first serious conversation that he had during the first night.

The first kiss so far as we saw, it was the first kiss. And this week we had no screen time from her and she went home. I need to know. Like actually, guys, instead of showing us some of the one-on-one situations that we had or even fun makeup moments, we would have loved to see if his interaction with her was awkward enough to send her home.

Like, they, that, that, how did they go from having a great connection conversation that first night to this? Like, did something happen? Was there the most awkward conversation that just stalled out? Here's my, Ashley, I'm concerned.

Wait, hold on. I love it. do things like that I'm concerned because I thought we took huge strides with Joey's season when it came to character development and storylines

and making sense of things so that we were you know we had a great season with a big following because people were in the know right they could watch an episode and kind of see and predict and understand why things were happening

the way they were happening seasons previous to that you and I sat on this podcast and we continued to say I don't know how this happened what did we miss yeah stories don't seem to be completed why are we not getting better storytelling why are we so lost each episode on how things are going to happen Joey season fixed that for us and people watched and they invested into it and they celebrated it and it made sense I'm afraid we're going back to what we had, we thought we had gotten through. Yeah.

Where we're going to be sitting here week after week going, I don't understand. Like, the story isn't complete. Like, how did Rebecca and him all of a sudden have a conversation and she was such a main character? And now she's just gone. And we don't know why she's gone. We have no explanation for why she's gone.

Alicia, they make out last week. We thought she was a front runner on this show. And we shouldn't be that far off. we shouldn't be predicting like hey our top three and one of our top three goes home in week two after week one that shouldn't be a thing we watch this show for long enough we've been on the show ourselves we should know enough to make accurate predictions for at least who we think could be there at the end and that could change a week over week I have a stupid suggestion do you think that any part of them was like oh

This will really throw people off. It'll be shocking and shocking is good. Kind of like back in the day when like somebody was eliminated from American Idol and nobody ever would assume that they would be. And then like it got headlines the next day and everybody was like, can you believe that so and so is limited? Do you think they can any way? They're like, let's eliminate that scene so that people can wonder more. I hope not. I think this is.

I hope not. I actually don't even think so. I'm just trying to come up with a reason. Maybe later on in the season, right? But right now, I don't think anybody's that invested into any of these characters yet. Like, I don't think anybody is causing that much controversy from their elimination. Right. Nobody's going to make a real headline. Like, even as we, we are Bachelor podcasters.

Of course, we're going to be shocked at this Alicia elimination. But I don't think Us Weekly is covering it tomorrow. Yeah. I mean, maybe they're trying to create the next grocery store Joe where, you know, somebody's eliminating people freak out and it gets like great headlines and then they go on the thing but it's we're not there yet yeah yeah we don't know that yet like it's impossible that happened almost organically because people freaked out there wasn't a show cultivating that yeah they probably didn't even know that was going to happen with joe how would joe amoblae is an anomaly he is but

it's it is just confusing to me and i and i and i would love to know even more from him him like they didn't do a lot of in the moments with him or interviews with him where maybe they would have asked him what do you think about alicia like this is going to be a little bit shocking what do you think about rebecca and he could explain hey it just feels like we're off like it feels like every time we sit down and have a conversation we're not on the same page or i'm just not into it as much i was hoping or thought i would be after week one and then it would give us that kind of that would bridge the gap between us just being completely confused uh and being in the no. And they're not giving us enough yet for us to understand why he's making the decisions

he's making. Now, is it that important? No. So early. But if this continues throughout this season where we're just always confused and we feel like we haven't really watched the season even though we have, then it becomes a problem because people just check out. Why would they watch if they're not going to get any, like they're not invested into it? I don't know, but that's how I felt leaving this episode. This episode made me think, if I wasn't on the show, like, and I didn't have this podcast, I wouldn't be watching a show anymore. Like, you would stop this season. Yeah, like, I would be watching these two episodes, especially this episode, and been like, eh, I don't think I'm going to skip this one. Yeah. I could see where you would think that, because one,

is there anything gripping leading us into next week? There's not yet. And that's another, I mean, something I want. I want to be gripped to where I'm like, I cannot wait to see what happens next week. And they have the cliffhangers and they have the storylines to do that. Also, we could pick out some women that we think he's into, right? Alex would definitely be above everybody right now. However, we don't really have much relationship buildup yet. Which is fine. We are, and we are in episode two. We always say it takes like four weeks. I know. So maybe it's just us being like in episode two. Yeah.

But that's what I mean. You know how like with shows a lot of the times people are like, you've got to give it three episodes. I do think that applies to The Bachelor. But when the episodes are two hours long, that's a lot of time dedicated to get it. That's like honestly, that's like watching an HBO show and giving it six episodes. Yeah. Saying, oh no, you just got to wait six episodes. And I'm like, I'm not going to do that.

Yeah. I don't got, I don't have that time in me. Yeah. We will be watching here, though, and we are excited to see things progress forward. I'm not out on this show yet this season. However, I am concerned that we aren't going to get much from this season for many weeks, because so far we're off to what I would say, an odd start. Yeah, and I would love to say that we had so much momentum last year.

like Gary's season did so well and then Joey's season did so well and then with Jen's I feel like a lot of people fell off again and I'm just like oh we're in like the wheels are falling off territory again which sucks sucks because we were like had so much

potential I'm still holding out hope I believe in the producers of the show I believe that they want a good story I believe they want to make a good show and so my hope is that that will start Start next week, and we'll be here breaking down the next episode of The

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