A Hometown Ending We Didn’t See Coming

00:00:01
Speaker 1: What's up Vatchination.

00:00:03
Speaker 2: I'm Joe and I'm Serena, and we.

00:00:05
Speaker 1: Are back with another episode of Bacheler Happy Hour.

00:00:08
Speaker 2: Welcome back.

00:00:09
Speaker 1: How are you feeling?

00:00:10
Speaker 2: To be honest, I'm feeling at a little tired and a little sick today, but happy to be here recapping hometowns.

00:00:16
Speaker 1: You've been feeling that way all day?

00:00:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not I'm not my best today. I'm not at my best.

00:00:22
Speaker 1: You're struggling at the gym.

00:00:24
Speaker 2: I was. I did a good twenty minutes on the stairs, and then I laid in the steam room of the sauna for about another twenty minutes, which I was trying to sweat out all the toxins. I don't know if it worked or not.

00:00:35
Speaker 1: I've been in a bad mood all day. I was in a bad mood at the gym. I've been like in a pouty mood.

00:00:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've been grumpy today.

00:00:41
Speaker 1: But I did a cold punge before this podcast.

00:00:44
Speaker 2: I thought you were just hungry, which is why I ordered us Chipotle. But no, didn't solve the issue.

00:00:49
Speaker 1: I'm still mad for no reason.

00:00:52
Speaker 2: What are you so mad about?

00:00:53
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. It's just one of those days.

00:00:55
Speaker 2: It's just off in this household today.

00:00:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, something up in the air in this in this apartment. I was feeling it last night when we were watching The Great and I was like, disapartment.

00:01:06
Speaker 2: The function by Maybe we just need to do a little clean up, organization.

00:01:10
Speaker 1: Or sage save age.

00:01:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Wow. We're starting this podcast often kind of a depressed no.

00:01:15
Speaker 1: But we're not because the episode was fun, we enjoyed it, we watched it together, and it's probably better that we're gonna recap it angry, like Joey's uncle. Joey's uncle was a little angry.

00:01:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got some Joey's Uncle energy in this house today.

00:01:30
Speaker 1: Okay, let's anything else new before we get into the episode. I did find the Talks.

00:01:35
Speaker 2: Joe found a tux to the webbit. If you've been listening to us on this podcast or on any other podcast we've done recently, it has been a struggle, but we went out this weekend and found one, and.

00:01:47
Speaker 1: It took forever. They had to keep going down to the basement to get sizes, and I don't know why they didn't bring up multiple sizes at once to get fitted for a Talks and I'm not talking about like this crazy you know set up here. We're pants in a.

00:02:04
Speaker 2: Jacket, not even a shirt.

00:02:06
Speaker 1: It took an hour and twenty minutes.

00:02:09
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're being generous. I'm going to go an hour forty five.

00:02:12
Speaker 1: That was it. It was totally insane.

00:02:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, we won't say the name of the brand because we really like this brand, but it was one of the most insane service experience I've ever had in a retail store.

00:02:22
Speaker 1: He just kept saying, we're under staff. I'm like, I know you're under staff, but just bring three sizes up.

00:02:26
Speaker 2: Yeah. It was just incredibly inefficient and so frustrating, to the point I did have to walk out for the last ten minutes so I can't be in her anymore. I cannot be in this store anymore. But it was all worth it. But at the end of the day, the tuxa is going to look gorgeous on you, and I'm very excited that we can check that off our list.

00:02:42
Speaker 1: All right, so let's recap the episode. We have hometown episodes Serena's least favorite episode. I actually really enjoyed it. I like hometowns. I never really watch them, but I don't know.

00:02:56
Speaker 2: Yeah. Usually I do say every time I go on a podcast recap hometown, I always disclosed with hometowns or my least favorite episode. But I didn't. I didn't mind this hometown episode. It actually felt like it went by pretty quickly, which I find ray for a hometown episode. I think it's just because I really liked all the families, you know what.

00:03:11
Speaker 1: It also, the families were all different, had different energies, and I feel like they were broken up like appropriately, Like it was like one family was, you know, like after Joey's family, then you got Xavier's family.

00:03:27
Speaker 2: And it was just Yes, for some reason, it didn't feel as like repetitive as it usually does. Usually just feels like I'm watching the same thing four times, and it didn't feel that way.

00:03:35
Speaker 1: Yeah. So first hometown we are in Houston, Texas. It is Aaron. Aaron is the man who got the first one on one date. Charity had mentioned that she thought she was going to marry him. Yeah right away.

00:03:48
Speaker 2: That's the first time we've heard her say that. I think I think I.

00:03:51
Speaker 1: Think she is physically attracted to Aaron. I think Aaron's her type, and I just feel like they had a good friend state and then it really seems like nothing happened from there.

00:04:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I do think I remember after the first date being like, oh wow, she's really into him, and then I just feel like we haven't really seen that since. And after a conversation with her on last week's Happy Hour episode, if you haven't listened to it, go check out our interview with Charity, she did talk about how she wasn't a fan of him bringing the brad and drama to her, and I do think that killed their connection a little bit. If anything, it just like killed the amount of time they had to further their connection.

00:04:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, which always happens, Always happens. We're never going to have somebody that goes tells on someone else that the lead chooses. Maybe we will eventually if the show keeps going. Okay, So at the house, a spread of food the mom's cook in. We have catfish, fried lobster frog legs. It looks delicious, you know, and what more can you ask for? When you walk into a house, you get a home cooked meal. They all welcome Charity. I think the first conversation we see is Aaron and his brother, and Aaron's actually trying to hold it together.

00:05:06
Speaker 2: He's really emotional this episode. You can tell his family really welcomes him and Charity and with like warm positive energy. And then like right from the Gecko's conversation with his brother, he's like kind of holding back tears, and that theme kind of just continued the entire conversations with his family, which makes me think that maybe, I mean, they seem to be a very close family, but I mean it doesn't mean they talk about their love and their feelings for each other all the time. And you could tell how touched he was when his mom and daw were saying, like how proud they were of him. It was a really nice moment. Like I felt like his relationship with his family kind of stole the show of that hometown versus Charity getting to know his family.

00:05:44
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, Yeah, that makes that's well said. I don't think him, yeah, Charity in him just didn't really I guess on the football field, we see it. But we'll get into that. So his mom and Charity talk and his mom asks would you be ready if he proposed? And she said no, but like what is she supposed to say? And that she can't say yes. There's three other guys there, and Aaron's the first guy.

00:06:12
Speaker 2: No is the right answer in my opinion, Like, I do believe there's the right answer to that question, and it's no, because she sits there and says, yes, I would accept his proposal. Shows over, then shows over. What are you doing with these other three guys? And I think at this point, like she can't. If she's certain on one dude, then no one else is there. So she's if any parent asked that question, you've got to say no. I wouldn't accept it. It'd be disrespectful to him and be disrespectful to the other guys. And I still have time left in this journey to get to know them. So I thought her answer was perfect.

00:06:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the answer she basically had to give. Yeah. Charity talks to Aaron's dad. He mentions, like we do Christmas. He's trying to lock her down for Christmas.

00:06:52
Speaker 2: I know that's a very my dad move. Man.

00:06:54
Speaker 1: Hey, And I heard you say like, oh, she's got a family.

00:06:57
Speaker 2: Too, Yeah, because my parents would be the ones to be like, all right, like we're celebrating holidays together and like it's that thing when you get into a serious relationship of like who gets Christmas? Who gets Thanksgiving? Like, who's getting the holidays? So I was just laughing at his dad already trying to lock her in for Christmas.

00:07:13
Speaker 1: He's like, just so you know, we do Christmas. Yeah, so does everyone else.

00:07:18
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm sure she does Christmas as well. But no, I liked it. I thought it was cute.

00:07:22
Speaker 1: But it was nice seeing Aaron like he was. You could tell he was really touched when his dad said he's proud of him, and that's kind of Yeah, it was. It was a nice I agree that the nicest moment was Aaron and his family.

00:07:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really nice. This film was lovely. And then they go to the football field they wear matching.

00:07:40
Speaker 1: Varsity jackets and which looked really nice. I like the red.

00:07:44
Speaker 2: It was a great look. It looked really nice.

00:07:46
Speaker 1: And then they do a throwback to the Laura and Elena performance which she I met her when I did Dancer with the Stars. I believe she was the season prior to me, or she performed on my season. But yeah, she's she's all over this season right now.

00:08:01
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they love her and it was a nice little throwback for Aaron b and Charity to like their first one on one day, and Aaron B takes that moment to tell Charity that he's falling in love with her, which feels a little like late to the game.

00:08:13
Speaker 1: No, yeah, And I almost feel like he felt that way because he got approval from his parents and he was just feeling good on a high, and he was just like, I'm falling in love with you. I don't even know if he truly I think he thinks it. I don't think he.

00:08:31
Speaker 2: You think he got swept up in the moment. You think he's someone that's going to look back and be like, I don't know if I was actually falling in love with her.

00:08:36
Speaker 1: I think it was all a moment for him because that day was such a high for him. Yeah, it really seemed like.

00:08:41
Speaker 2: And I think that's not uncommon. I think there's definitely people that come off the show and say like, hmm, I thought I was falling in love. I thought I was in love and I wasn't. And then there's people that were like, no, I totally felt that way. She doesn't say it back, which is normal, which is not really a shock at all at this point, because this is the third person to say I'm falling in love with you, and she didn't say it back to any of them, but she.

00:09:02
Speaker 1: Leaves the date feeling good. Ended well great, Okay, so Aaron at this point, he's still in the running. He's probably the furthest behind, but he's still in the running. All right, Let's go to College Hill, Pennsylvania.

00:09:24
Speaker 2: Date number two.

00:09:24
Speaker 1: Date number two. We are at Joey's family's house.

00:09:28
Speaker 2: Yes, which is a beautiful home.

00:09:30
Speaker 1: Beautiful home. We meet his dad, we meet his mom, but we truly meet his uncle uncle.

00:09:38
Speaker 2: Wait, so we're not at his home.

00:09:40
Speaker 1: Yet, No, we are at let's see.

00:09:42
Speaker 2: We got to start off at the tennis court, which Charity walked in in like an incredible yellow dress, and I was like, I swear to God if they put her in this beautiful yellow outfit to get sweaty and run arounded on a tennis court. But then she changed into like a purple tennis.

00:09:56
Speaker 1: Fit, which makes you want to become a tennis player. Yeah. So they're at the tennis court with Charity. Joey's uncle comes in surprises Joey and he seems pretty shocked to see him.

00:10:11
Speaker 2: I'm genuinely shocked to see him. Really, what are you doing here?

00:10:16
Speaker 1: I know.

00:10:17
Speaker 2: So Joey's uncle shows up. Joey is literally shocked to see him. He definitely didn't know he was coming. I don't know if it was like full blown happiness, like if I'm Joey, I'm kind of like uncle, like, let me have this one on one time with Charity, I'll see you later sight at dinner. But they had a cute little like tennis match moment they were all playing tennis together.

00:10:36
Speaker 1: I thought it was all fine up until the point where Joey's uncle kept insinuating like do you have the real Joey here? Yeah? And that nothing really to back it up with.

00:10:49
Speaker 2: But you know what, even their conversation on the tennis court, before we even knew what direction the date was heading, you and I were kind of like, why does this conversation feel so awkward? Like it did? There The conversation between Joey, Charity and Uncle joe felt a little awkward, and then it immediately followed with him making that statement of like I don't know if this is the real Joey that Charity is getting to see.

00:11:15
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think Joey himself was just like worried about what my uncle could.

00:11:20
Speaker 2: Say I want to know more about his relationship with his uncle. I know we talked a little bit about it when he was on the podcast, but I want to know, like, how close to him his uncle. How well does his uncle know him, because his uncle had some pretty strong claims on this date that very well could have impacted his relationship with Charity.

00:11:37
Speaker 1: Well, I think he knows. I mean, he definitely knows him pretty well. I mean Joey said he's basically my mentor. Yeah, he said that on the show, so he knows very well. I just think I it just came across the me that Joey's uncle was worried that Joey is too nice of a guy and not outspoken enough in a relationship, and I felt like that was the point he wanted to get across, and it just seemed unnecessary.

00:12:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I more read it as Joey's uncle saying like, and maybe this has been an issue with Joey and relationships in the past, of like being a people pleaser and acting in a way that that person wants them to act and saying the things that that person wants him to say. But maybe that's not really how he truly feels or how he is. But I mean, I don't know if the uncle knows this, but like that's like the worst doubt you can put in Charity's mind is that this is not really who Joey is, and like you might not find that out on this show. You might leave the show and find out he's a totally different person. And I think we really saw how much that impacted her because when they were saying goodbye, it was like not a happy moment, like she was saying, you know, I'm gonna miss Hi'm gonna miss you, But her tears felt like they were coming from a place of like fear and anxiety.

00:12:58
Speaker 1: Joey was was maybe not in the lead. Maybe maybe I felt a little little behind Dotton in their relationships. I felt like after this hometown it dropped his chances significantly.

00:13:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm curious to see if they have a conversation about it next week during Fantasy Suits, which I'm sure they will because they obviously. She was going into that day being like, if this goes great, I'm going to tell Joey I'm falling in love with him. And she left balling her eyes out. So I feel like that conversation is going to have to happen. Like it's just so hard though, because like for him to say, like, yes, this is me, this is the real me, but like you can't prove it, you know what I mean, Like you can't really really know that, no matter how hard he says it. And for his uncle who knows him really well to say that to her and say like, this isn't the real Joey, Like, who do you believe? I feel for Charity, She's in a real hard spot with Joey. I'm curious to see how this affects the relationship because it's definitely not just going to go away.

00:14:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree, And that's yeah, that's kind of how that ended. So it was the first It was the first time all season we saw her relationship with Joey kind of like, oh, this is this, this is on the rocks now.

00:14:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's been smooth sailing this whole time. He's definitely been in like a front runner, one of the strongest relationships the whole time. I just wanted to shake Joey before she left and be like Joey, ask her why she's crying, Like, well.

00:14:30
Speaker 1: I also feel like they may have had that conversation because I feel like he kind of hinted at it a little bit. Also, before we do get off this topic, Charity didn't Charity tell Joey's sister that she was falling in love with him? Yes?

00:14:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, because she went into the day being like, I'm going to say it, and she did say to the sister who asked, also, his sister is beautiful.

00:14:52
Speaker 1: They kept, they kept. I actually wrote that down that they kept, like we kept seeing little clips, little shots of Joey's sister like, oh, she's getting cast it on the show.

00:15:01
Speaker 2: I was going to say, she's she looks like a contestant on the Bachelor. But yeah, so she said it to his sister, but she didn't end up saying it to him. But we know she is falling in love with him. We know that her feelings for him are really strong.

00:15:15
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she I think she went into that hometown the most optimistic and left like I mean, she left crying.

00:15:25
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:15:26
Speaker 1: And it was weird too because it was like is she and it was like it was kind of played off like she was She tried to play it off like she was crying because she's going to miss him, but there's no way that's it didn't feel like that's why she was crying.

00:15:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I feel like we're going to see like part two of that situation at Fantasy Suites.

00:15:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, because he does he does make it through. Yeah, but we'll talk about that at the end. Then let's go right now, We're going to go to Cleveland, Ohio. We have Xavier's hometown, which Xavier is. I really like Xavier to me, he is like genuinely himself. I think he's funny, like he's got a lot of uh like he knits, and he's he's a scientist, like he's it's great. Like I like, Xavier is somebody that like, every single week, I find him more and more interesting, don't you. Yeah, not really.

00:16:25
Speaker 2: I don't know. What do you mean by more and more interesting?

00:16:28
Speaker 1: I just I just I don't know. I just find I just he's growing on me every week. I guess. Okay, yeah, maybe not more interesting, but yes, he grows on me. His personality is growing on me every week.

00:16:39
Speaker 2: I agree, because he does have kind of a more like chill, laid back personality. So it took a while to really see who he is and see his personality come out. Yeah, I like him too. I think that he is someone that is like authentically himself. He just seems like a very easy going guy. He's an interesting person. But I just I don't know, I don't know about their connection. I just feel like, well.

00:17:03
Speaker 1: Every time Charity is going into a date or anything one on one with Xavier, it seems like she's like ready to call it quits. And at the end, it's always like she's just like she's like.

00:17:14
Speaker 2: Never mind, this has gone great. Yeah. I feel like he's always surprising her.

00:17:18
Speaker 1: And we meet We meet Xavier's family, his mom, who was so sweet and she has MS, which is just such a terrible, a terrible disease, you know, and you know, I really feel for them. But they were just a lovely family and they the sister, the dad, and the mom were kind of like, yeah, Xavier is he's ready for Marierica.

00:17:39
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's so funny because the biggest concerned Charity had was that he was not ready, that he reminded her of her ex boyfriend and just like not sure if he was in that place. And he is, like, I think he's one of the younger guys in the group. He definitely gives off kind of like chill like I'm not taking anything too seriously energy, Like obviously he does. He's serious of his family, he's serious for his work all these things, but like he does give off that kind of like playboy energy, Like I don't know what it is. I think maybe he's just like a flirt. But his family is like, oh no, he is ready, like he's ready for marriage. He said serious girlfriends. He's ready to be a dad. He's excited to be a dad, like his family were the ultimate hype grew his sister amazing wing woman like they I feel like really eased all of Charity's fears at least for this date. And I like Xavier too.

00:18:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. And I think she leaves the date with Xavier and is like, yeah, like I'm into the sky again. He got me every time.

00:18:39
Speaker 2: He gets her every time. He's still like the ultimate underdog of this season.

00:18:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep. And then and it was like kind of opposite opposite with Joey this week.

00:18:50
Speaker 2: Yes, I feel like the date for Xavier like made him have a stronger connection with Charity and like eased her worries, whereas the date with Joey almost like brought on worries that weren't there before.

00:19:03
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Okay. So then we go to Fresno, California to meet Doughton's family, which it starts off with Charity saying like she's disappointed that Doughton's parents couldn't make it.

00:19:25
Speaker 2: I totally understand them not coming for it, and I totally understand her being like these could be my future in laws. It's kind of important, like I meet them and they meet me. So it was such a nice surprise that they showed up. Yeah.

00:19:35
Speaker 1: Well, first she meets she meets the rest of the family, and she meets the grandma who just had this.

00:19:40
Speaker 2: Grandma great person, is an angel. I love her.

00:19:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you could just see like how tight knit his whole family was, and like they like welcome cher Like Charity had to feel so comfortable, like just in that space because they were so much like, oh you're you're with us now.

00:19:59
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, embraced her like with open arms. Yeah, it was. It was great. I mean I feel like I'm trying to think, Oh, so they did a little bit of a different format. They did their family time during the day and then they did their like intimate one on one time at night, which I thought was very cute in the way that he did like the drive in movie and the movie with like baby photos of them. It was just so cute. It was very thoughtful.

00:20:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, well let's uh, I agree, but let's talk about Thoughton's parents real quick, because they we just like kind of skimmed over that. But they end up showing up and he I wrote down, He's like, he's so happy my parents showed up. But it does come with his challenges.

00:20:45
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he dis it.

00:20:46
Speaker 1: My mom is My mom is very critical and his mom she she couldn't she was wasn't critical at all of charity.

00:20:55
Speaker 2: At least we saw no. But she like loved her, which is great.

00:20:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she's like, I'm gonna throw don't worry, I'm gonna throw a massive wedding for you, and we're gonna have a great time.

00:21:05
Speaker 2: Yeah it was awesome.

00:21:07
Speaker 1: But yeah, then we jumped to the end portion of the hometown and yeah, it's the cute date and Dotton and her take a thunderbird up to the drive in Movies and watch a movie and see baby pictures of themselves, which I find always so weird.

00:21:23
Speaker 2: Why.

00:21:23
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just kind of wish. I'm like, I wish you were just watching a regular movie.

00:21:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was like something special for them to like experience together, I guess. And like he obviously put more time and effort into that than he would have if he just thrown like Titanic.

00:21:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree, I agree, And that kind of that wraps up the hometowns and then we see we go to this like hangar where we do the rose ceremony and all four guys are there.

00:21:53
Speaker 2: Oh my god, wait, why did they so before that happened, they did a chat with Charity and Jesse. Why did they keep putting Jesse's age? Yeah, putting his bio as if he's contested. I'm like, showing this man some respect. It literally is like Jesse Palmer age forty whatever, host as like occupation.

00:22:14
Speaker 1: Just in case you forgot, Jesse is in his mid forties. Yeah, it's it is. It's it's weird.

00:22:21
Speaker 2: It's just so funny to be like, I'm like, did they used to do? Have they done this before? Is this new?

00:22:26
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:22:26
Speaker 2: I don't think they have.

00:22:27
Speaker 1: They've been They've been. Jesse's age has been there the whole time, because I think I said something like episode one, No.

00:22:34
Speaker 2: This season, I know, but like over the years.

00:22:36
Speaker 1: I feel like they did it for Zach season two. Yeah, but I don't know. I mean, we'd have to we'd have to go back and uh, we'd have to go back and check. But let's uh.

00:22:45
Speaker 2: Also, I have to comment on Charity's outfit. This is the outfit she was most excited about, and she said this was her favorite outfit, and I agree. This outfit was so good. Oh my god, this dress was amazing.

00:23:00
Speaker 1: Which dress my.

00:23:01
Speaker 2: Wedding dresses that I've got for our wedding and just wear that dress in white? I absolutely would for the whole weekend, for all of our events. It was so good.

00:23:11
Speaker 1: Geez, that's that's that's a that's a bold statement right now.

00:23:15
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I can make it because I know it's not going to happen.

00:23:18
Speaker 1: You just dumped all your wedding dresses.

00:23:19
Speaker 2: That would be crazy. But I really love this dress. It looked amazing on her.

00:23:24
Speaker 1: Okay, So then we are we're at the Rose ceremony and we have four guys and she ends up. We're not sure it's really between Donton gets a rose, Xavier gets a rose, and it's really between Joey and Aaron, and I honestly this is usually I'm like, I know who she's giving a rose to. I really didn't know. And she ended up not giving it to Aaron, giving the rose to Joey, and she's really upset. She when he leaves, She's like, I think I made a huge mistake. I can't tell I think like Aaron's upset. I just I don't know. I just I felt like it never their relationship, in my opinion, never really like got there.

00:24:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, Just like I definitely saw a really strong connection with them on their first day at the beginning of the season. I just felt like, at least as a viewer, it did look like it kind of tapered off. And I do think the brain drama had a little bit to do with that, but I also just think she had stronger connections with other people. I was really surprised by how this breakup went. I'm always shocked when the lead doesn't have like something prepared at like almost like a little breakup paragraph of like this is what I want to say to you know, they're going into a breakup, like when the person that's getting dumped doesn't know what to say, like I get it, they're in shock. But when Charity was like bawling her eyes out understandably, like she clearly has a really hard time breaking up with people, and makes sense like she cares about them, she just want to hurt their feelings. But she couldn't give him an explanation of why she was doing it, and that really threw me off because I was like, but you've got to have a reason, and I think she was falling in love with him. I don't know even if the reason was just like I have stronger feelings with other people.

00:25:19
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe she went in there though truly.

00:25:21
Speaker 2: Not not knowing what she was going to do in the moment, made the decision on the spot. Yeah, yeah, maybe because that would kind of make a little more sense to me. Yeah, And she did give kind of a speech at the beginning, basically say I've been going back and forth on this. I really didn't know what to do here.

00:25:35
Speaker 1: I mean, if I had I if I were to take just a while, guess I would say there was a good chance she was probably like, I'm going to send Joey home and then saw Joey and probably felt like, no, maybe it's too.

00:25:47
Speaker 2: Soon, and really flipped to wow.

00:25:51
Speaker 1: The end portion of Aaron's state, the only one that ended rough was Joey's state.

00:25:56
Speaker 2: Yes, Aaron's went really well, and so did Xaviers and so did Dawton's. So if she's going based on that week, like Joey had the worst date, But I just think it's so hard, like they've had such a steady connection this whole time. I would have been really surprised if she sent him home.

00:26:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree, I agree, just after that, especially because it wasn't like it really was it was the whole Uncle's situation. It wasn't like it was anything that Joey actually did.

00:26:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what, we see the promo for next week, and we've seen in the super teaser midway through the season that someone comes back and you and I both thought it was an ex Yeah, but now after watching the breakup between Aaron B and Charity and seeing I feel like she left him with no closure, And I feel like if I'm sitting there and someone's crying saying like I don't know if I'm making the right decision, Like I don't know if I should be doing this, and I'm like in love with that person, Like maybe I'll go back and try to see if they've made a mistake, you know, if they have any regrets. I feel like it could be Aaron or am I I wouldn't I wouldn't be mad to see him again either.

00:27:03
Speaker 1: I completely agree. I think I they get me every year. I think with this because it probably is Nea Mayah and it's probably not a big thing, but I think, Yeah, at first, I was like, oh, is that an acts? But I think it might be Aaron because it does make sense because if Aaron is now being told like hey, like she might be pondering this, like she she may have made a mistake, like he is, probably like Okay, I'll take one more last shot. Yeah, so we'll see. That's that's coming up next week. But I think that wraps this episode. And later in the week we have Jared Freed coming from The Bachelor, So yeah, that wraps everything. Make sure to subscribe if you're not already, because we are dropping our exclusive interview with Jared and hearing more about his story later this week.

00:27:54
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. Be sure to tune in later this week and next week were more exclusive interviews like hey

00:28:04
Speaker 1: HM,