October 24, 2025 • 28 mins
Today on “Happy Hour,” we are back for part two with Jared Freid! We pick up where we left off, diving into the ins and outs of the roast date and how Mel came to choosing Nicolle as the winner. Then, we get into this week’s Hometowns episode and all of Jared’s takes. From the daughters putting Mel in the hot seat to Debbie’s heartbreaking goodbye, there is so much for us to discuss. Plus, Jared gives us his predictions on what’s to come; what will the end of Mel's journey look like? Tune in now to hear all this and have some laughs along the way; be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Better Happy Hour. I'm
Joe and we are here with part two with Jared Free. Jared,
welcome back to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I don't know if you were paying attention when you
were there, but like that that date in particular, were
there any women that you were like, oh, this meling her.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Making Monica let me just say Monica be Her stand
up was like awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
She was good. She was the first one, was the
first one, and she was composed. It was like she
was by far the best.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
She was good by far by everyone knew that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Right, but she was just like a little better, right,
this is she had.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It was personal.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
It was about being an airline attendant, and you know,
like all of it was like like I have a
lot of respect, Like just like when you told me
about the best Man speech, like I when you're like
setting up, like I got the thing about my dad first,
Like there is an art. It's an art, you know,
so so like we got done. This is where like
(01:10):
I always believe that the show was like gentle nudging
and it wasn't this like conspiracy that everyone thinks that
like they're telling you what to do and I was
proven right because that we get done and Mel's like,
I'm not choosing to call and we're like okay, and
we're like, well what about Monica be like she was
the best.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
He's like I gonna choose to call and like and
we're like I'm okay, Well, how are we gonna how
we gonna do that? Like and and again, this is
a dating show first. This isn't like a stand up
comedy show. Like you, he doesn't care, he.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Doesn't care who stand up is right.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And I have respect for that.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Like, no one wants to go on a date with
someone that they're not having a connection with. So I
so like it was fun for me to see because
like literally it's Jesse mel Me. I had a moment
like what the fuck am I doing here? Like it's
Jesse mel Me and like production and they're like, so
(02:09):
what do you think, Like we're debating the date.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You were in that chat. Yes, they said, Jared get over.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Here, Jared get over We're gotta discuss the date.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I'm like, oh my god, I'm like on the team,
Like I'm like one of the guys. Like I was
like again, the best day ever.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And I'm like and I'm.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Like, that's so funny to me image.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Right, And I'm like what am I here? Like do
they know him here?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
And I'm and like literally, I'm like there was a
point where they're like, Jared, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I know? Monica B was the best.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I don't know, mel Man like, I'm like trying to
like fight for Monica be.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I'm like, just go out with her.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
And but they had this makeout that happened I think
fairly recently.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Yeah, Nicole and him, yeah, yeah, yeah, And they're like
making the pool right.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
So like with that in mind, you go, yeah, I
want to see if this chick I made out with
in the pool and I are like a thing, you know,
like and to me, that's respect for the show like that,
like to me, like, you know, if he's really seeing
this out.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You know, there's so many people and you guys hear
this too. They have their theories or there's.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
If you hate reality TV, you can you can sound
like you're smart, Like if you don't like a show,
you can make yourself sound like you're a Harvard educated
you know person. You go, oh, well, of course the
producers forced you this and force yeah, And I'm like, no,
this was like a real deal.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I'm not like just being a shill for the show.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm like, yeah, this guy wanted to go out with Nicole,
and he did. And I got to say, on that
date when I watched it afterwards, Nicole like in him,
like got whisked away. They go right on their date
and she questioned him in the way we wanted him
to be questioned, like she did actually a good I
thought she was a great date.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, he commended her.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
I was like she was totally relentless in her line
of questioning and like the best way, because he's not
a naturally open person, Like you needed Nicole in there.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You needed to set that girl in.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
What are your thoughts on Nicole after Like for the
rest of the season.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I will say I think Nicole is she's first of all,
she's the most openly here for the wrong reasons person
I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Fun I mean wild like talk about just like like
like not hiding it at all, Like it almost felt
like she was. It felt like it felt like she
was like, oh, we're all like on the same page.
This is this is bullshit.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I'll actually give her the same empathy I gave to
mel which is I think she's never really watched a
dating show. I think she is like Kelly Rippa, where
like Kelly Rippa like seemingly has never watched a dating
show and then thinks less of people on a dating show.
I think Nicole is probably from that world where she
(04:58):
watches a ton of bra but no dating shows. So
she thinks she knows reality TV, but she doesn't know
this version of reality TV like for her right, it's
totally different. And she thought, like when she said I
want to be the Golden Bachelorette, like I want to
be the next one, she thought drama and screen time
will get her that.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And it's like, that's not the key. We have to
cheer for you.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
We have to want you to find love, and we
have to like, we have to see ourselves in you
and people.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I think she didn't see.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I think the game she was playing was get camera time,
and I think that is very That's a tight wire
act that she didn't understand. Like I mean for her
to hug and kiss everyone about how much they love
them as she's getting kicked off the show and then
look at the camera and go, yeah, if you want
(05:54):
to go fucking Miami.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You can meet me because it's not gonna work out
with these other chicks.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Why, you know what, she is a shameless opportunist, and
I actually do like that about her, Like I find
that characteristic interesting, Like I find her an interesting watch
because she is so shameless about her intentions and her
goals and like.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
That's unique to me.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean when she said that, I was like,
oh wow, she just said yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Well, but the problem with like, you know, I guess
like she comes from this like never apologize part of
society that I don't really relate to a lot where
it's like if you ever apologize, or for you ever
come back from where you went, you will you lose.
She's like and you're like, oh, she's just out there
and never coming back, Like she's never going to you know,
(06:46):
say like oh, like when she starts like saying like, well,
I'm the one that like you know, made it so
everyone else could I walk so they could run, it's
like get out of here. But it's like she's now
doubling down that, and I think, like especially when she
got in the car and she was like, maybe I'll
be the next Golden bats Arette, Like you're like, no,
(07:07):
you're not, Like it's not gonna have Like I think
you're gonna have to like argue with people in the
comments for the rest of your life, like you know,
one of them being Susan and Kathy, who are like
literally like you know, foaming at the mouth to like,
you know, talk to you about how you said you
were hotter than last season.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Oh yeah, I said, right when she said that, I said,
Kathy is gonna not like that. Yeah, let's jump to hometowns.
Go to the first hometown, which was Peg Firehouse Bomb Squad.
Her daughter was great. Uh, all your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Here's my thoughts.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Peg looked like she was out of a Maxim magazine
shoot from the early two thousands. We're at the you know,
the firehouse, and she's on the pole and she's doing
like Peg is just like fun and awesome and unrelatable
to me.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Like it's like, you know, she's having a beer.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
She doesn't care about calories, She goes to fun Jim classes,
she dances at every every time a song comes on.
The daughter was protective in a way that like it
was fun to watch Mel spar with a daughter because
he's a guy with two sons. So you watched him
in the conversations showed he had nothing, and it's like
(08:29):
Mel is talking. You know, mel Is thinks he's twenty
seven forever, and Mel thinks he's young. And Mel doesn't
have a clock, and mel is gonna work until he's
one hundred and three and you're gonna go, Mel, do
you really think you'll work till hundred and three and
he's gonna go. I haven't really thought of I guess
I would be old at the hundred and three. Like,
so Mel isn't sitting there being like the stakes are high,
(08:53):
and the stakes are high for PEG's daughter. The stakes
are high for Peg, and PEG's trying to be fun
and affable the whole thing. But like the daughter was like, hey,
like yo, she's looking to like chill with someone, Like
she's looking to like, you know, like are you doing this?
And like Mel's reaction to that was just like it was.
(09:13):
It was just Mel as a guy.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I guess we'll see. I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Like he is, so he's the least committal bachelor I've
seen in a while. Like everything about him screams casual
and non committal to both being The Bachelor and anything
post show. Right also liked when the daughter was like,
tell me what you know and have learned about my mom?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Like what do you like about her?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
And it was just one word answers after no, you
could tell the daughter was like, what is going on?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, well, we were watching it.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
We were watching I was like, bring back, bring back Clayton,
like we need we need a Clayton back, because he was.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
We need an overshare after a season of Mel.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I think Mel's never used a semicolon in his entire life, Like,
he's never had a sentence go longer than three words,
like it is.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
And And I don't think he's a.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Manipulative I think he's just like this is what you get, Like, yeah,
we're gonna hang out, We're gonna have fun.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
He doesn't strike me as manipulative, right. I think he
genuinely means what he's saying.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I mean he more he's just like, yeah, like how
do you feel He's like I feel good?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I wrote down he a quote of his was I
liked being married.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
That's his response to the woman. It's like okay to
the daughter of the woman.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Honestly though, my god, I could see myself kind of.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Right, like I guess like I, yeah, I wouldn't know
how to deal with the daughter. Also, like I I
felt for him if anything else.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
At the same time, I'm like, he's on a TV show,
like he's he's getting prepped or he's having time to
prep himself, but he was never.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
He was never you know. It's also he was never
on the show, like he just became the lead. So
it does make it. It is kind of like his
first goal.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Round you you are a little bit trained by the audience.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You know, the comments of the audience.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
You're trained on what not to say, so you don't
have to hear from that loser anymore, you know, so
like he doesn't even know that, like and you can
see like he he just didn't have the tools in
the tool belt. Like it was like and and you're
dealing and even like PEG's mom she made a comment
where she was like it was like weirdly sad.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
She's like, do you think this is gonna work?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I was just like, oho, Nos, it hasn't worked out before,
Like she had like a weird quote.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Do you like him and Peg together? Though?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Do you see I do, but Peg, you know, to me,
he'd be buying into.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Like Peg does more for him than she does, or
does more for him than he does for her.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Okay, Like I think Peg is gonna be like get
you know.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I can see them in a wedding and he's talking
with five other guys about Michigan football and she comes over.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Him and grabs him and goes, get up.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
We're dancing, and he probably needs that more than he
knows he needs that.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
So because he thinks, no, I'm gonna live until the
one hundred and fifty two, I can sit her and
talk Michigan football.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I got time.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Well, the most comfortable I saw him was I think
it was Dab's hometown when he was throwing the football
with the two brothers. Right, that was when he was
like having a conversation where he felt like he was
like in his.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Element element Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I I like Peg.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'm like, you know, like she's a likable, fun person
like yeah, I and the daughter was like her like
security guard.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I love her and I love her daughter.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Okay, So then we let's go to Deb's hometown, which
we see at the end of the episode.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
If Deb hasn't isn't the next Bachelor, Golden Bachelor.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I thought he was going to pick her. I really
thought he was going to pick her.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I thought so too. I mean her, it's a tough
hill to climb over. Deb reminds everyone that she's never
been married, has no kids, fourteen years since she brought.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
A guy home.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, every time she's on camera, so there's a point
where you're like, I don't want to devastate this person.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Like if I were in mel shoes, I'd be like.
She keeps bringing it up that like like I I
don't want to be the next person.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
And she tells like an amazing story of tragic story
about her ex, and it's really sad. That's not even
part of it for me, like to me, like she
holds that with her and she you know, it seems
as though she like you know, that's part of her
I know it's part of her story, but like as
far as like to like dig in with her, that's
not really part of the story to me. But she
(14:09):
brings up fourteen like fourteen years never bring someone home,
Like how about you just say.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's been a while? Like like I like, you know,
like how.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
About you say, like, and I just think deb she
represents the audience way more than you know. I'm dead,
I'm forty, never married, you know, you know, grocery Joe,
you're deb you know, like we're you know, we're older
people who have have have kind of like gone a
different way. So like, I think the audience seasoned dead man,
(14:38):
I've been married for you guys are married. Oh okay, okay,
a little defensive about being called a.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Sense to your offense.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Category, Jared, I'm.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Sitting right here his wife.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I'm sorry. I couldn't see the ring. I mean, time
to get a bigger one, Joe. No ring on what's
going on?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
No visual cues?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I feel like what's interesting is if Debbie does become
the Golden bachel Rat, which I could totally see because
I agree. I feel like they've really beat this story
to death with her and like playoff ofissed. But it's
interesting if they go in that direction because that really
aligns with the stories of the regular seasons of The Battery.
And I feel like this season has melded into the
(15:28):
regular season more than Gary season. So like we had
Gary and Jones season, which was very focused on like
the Golden Years, and this season feels so much more
aligned with the regular season. It's I keep saying, like
it's giving, just like my hot aunts, you know, like
doing and then we're gonna go someone that's never been married,
has never had children. It's like, well, what really differentiates
(15:50):
these two.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
My aunt and uncle? And Gary was like, that's my
that's my great grandfather. Jo.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I just I think she's the reason the show is successful.
Like I think, like theyre need a third bachelor, they
need forty year old woman with older men like that,
because I do think a lot of the.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Difference between these women and like forty year old women
is not going to be substantially different.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Do you think That's My point?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Is like that's why Debbie, Like she's easy to like,
and you know, she's the reason that like a lot
of people are watching her going I you know, because
a lot of women and I hear from women a lot,
just because I do dating podcasts, Like a lot of
them say they're old at twenty one, Like a woman
turns twenty one and then all of a sudden, she's
the grandma and she's old forever, like and it's like,
(16:47):
that's not how we see it how I see it.
But if you're watching Debbie saying I've never been married,
I don't have kids. If you're thirty six at home
and you've never been married you don't have kids, you're
feeling the same way as her, right, you know, she's
very relatable. So I don't know if they made her
the Golden bachel would almost being an insult to her
because like to call her golden is like only the
(17:08):
only issue because you're like, I mean, she's she's there's
no gold.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
In there, you know, like it doesn't you know. So
I don't know. I like Debbie.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I she comes home with the family. The family is
like so excited for her. Like again, this is all
stuff that would scare the shit at me. I'm like, oh,
this family, like they are.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Really a lot of pressure.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Well yeah, I like this family.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Like the brothers are here, they're like that, you know,
like you know, the sisters and they're all like, we
really like you. And it's like like like if i'm Mel,
there's a good thing where like you'd be the you know,
knight in shining armor. Yeah, but also don't fuck with
these people, Mel, Like like I think that was like
kind ofly the takeaway.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
You know what we thought about Debbie is I think
it's like up in the air about Mel's interest in
willingness to compromise relationship. I just like don't know where
he stands on that. And Debbie is childless and seems
like she is like flexible in terms of where she
could live, Like you don't think so like it's he's
(18:12):
gonna move with me, and like like, lean, I have
a bet.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I agree with everything you're saying, But I don't think
that makes Debbie the best option for him. I think
that's why Cindy's like the best option for him.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I think Sidney's the best option for him too. After
watching her, we'll go jump to her hometown now. But
after watching that hometown, I was like, oh yeah, like right,
she well likes what he's seeing here Cindy.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
When I was at.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
The the taping, Cindy was like in him, like yeah,
she was already like smitten.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And oh on the roads date, well, she was from
night from day one.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
So she was like we actually we didn't know if
she would be able to handle the process because she
was so smitten so fast. We were like, oh no,
I wonder if she's gonna like get jealous and like
up her spot.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But she she cooled.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah she's she's also you know, smarter than the average bear.
She she's like a.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Chemical medical engineer.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah, yeah she and and yeah, like.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
He definitely likes like the intellectual women. I feel like
all of them have really been super sharp.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yeah, everyone's a catch for him. Like I mean, did
you see his house? It had seven pots and pans
in the in the sink that haven't been washed. Like
he's like, remember do you remember when they went home
with him with the boys?
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Yeah, seeing that his kitchen was a mess, like this guy,
like it was like crazy, can you imagine, Like, yeah,
they're coming over to tape today and there was six
pans just in the sink.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Like what I can't believe. I'm telling you. It was
like disgusting. Like it's like, dude, get a housekeeper, you know.
Like so it's like I think, and I'm not saying
these women are going to clean his house.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I'm saying they're going to be more on the ball
than him, Like yeah, you know, so yeah, so Debbie,
I don't know, Like Debbie is flexible, but like her
life is flexible. But I don't know, I think Debbie's
kind of like a stronger willed person. M like it
(20:25):
would and I don't. I hope that doesn't sound bad
towards Cindy. But Cindy feels like she's like, I mean
her hometown. She's like, I'm just in, Like she's got gosh,
she's moving La. She already said I'd moved to La.
Like she's already said.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
She she's she's ready, she's been ready.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
To her single daughter on the Bachelor. Her daughter are
so every single one, every single all three of them
are so hot.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Wild and they are I mean, Cindy's beautiful too.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
They are like and the one is on TikTok like
she's like the social media manner for now she is,
she's popping up on my algorithm.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
The two daughters, well the third one wasn't there. Is
she younger?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, there was, there was three, but.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
The one on married ones engaged and then one they
didn't say so it could be a boyfriend. But like
if she's single.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Like they're all like she was young.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
The dancer one is single. We're getting from from production.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
The dancer one is single, and Cndy is trying.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
To set Jonathan Johnson up with her. Okay, so the.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Page for me to for me to say hot, she's
trying to set her up.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
With john and I can say she's hot. They are
and she's on TikTok.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Like running the show here for her, like she's doing
some you know, like they they're getting to find her.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Like it when the kids hell vote yeah, they.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Are on the ball.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
They were definitely less like on him. That I mean
when Mel talked to the two son.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
In laws, I was like, what a gift from the gods.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I would have been like I would have ripped them
out of the room, get out of here, scat well
talk about college football.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
After PEG's daughter, They're like, gosh, do this again.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Well, he also only sat he sat down with two
of the daughters, which I'm assuming are the youngest in
the middle, and then he sat down with what she
was very much giving like eldest daughter energy who she
was kind of giving similar vibes to PEG's daughter, where
she was like I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Right, she got harder on him, But it was when
he sat with the son in laws talking about, oh,
she loves football, like, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I would have I would have.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Like if I was like, Pegs, I'm like, they must
have like, he must have made that happen.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I'll go talk with the guys. Yeah, yeah, we can
go talk so funny.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, So overall, overall, what is your takeaway from hometown?
So we got we got two women left? Who do
you who do you think he's gonna choose?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I think he goes with Sydney, just because I think he,
you know, Mel, even when question gives nothing up. I
think Peg is gonna ask harder questions than Cindy.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
And I think Mel Mel who I know, it took
us an hour to get to this point. He's a
nice guy. I like Mel. It's just Mel gonna do Mel.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Like Mel is like, like Mel's whole story about his divorce,
which he hasn't gone into beyond the papers were on
the kitchen table and I just signed, like, dude, what's
the story there?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
He never gives anything. And I think.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
He's a private person, so.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
To his body like they're going nowhere.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
He's a private person who just so happened to stumble
into being the Bachelor.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It's so interesting to me because it's like I feel like,
on one hand, he he.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Clearly values the experience and wanted to be the bachelor,
and he signed up willingly. There's something about this experience
that he wanted, wanted to gain from. But on the
other hand, he's like the most reluctant bachelor I've ever seen,
where he's like, like you said, Mel's gonna do Mel,
Like he's not gonna talk about things doesn't want to
talk about like openness and vulnerability earn on the table,
(24:20):
Like I don't know how he feels about any of
these women, Like I can tell from like body language
and interactions that he likes Cindy and peg and he's
excited about them, Like I haven't been surprised by any eliminations,
but verbally there's been like no reassurance happening.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Yeah, it's it's absolutely wild. It's you're absolutely right, I
I And and that's why Cindy like she's gonna like
I think she's gonna allow for it more than peg Wood.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Yeah, and I think she's just very like hard eyed
for Mel, like I really think and I do think
they have a connection.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
No, no, no, this isn't like Listen, I've seen couples with
less connection and become married and have kids and do
the whole thing, like and the beauty of this show
is like there is like they're going off to date,
Like I think like it would the Bachelor would be
better off if it was in that you know world
of like, well, what's next, kids, and like like I'm
(25:17):
sure you guys get this. You've been married four years.
You know everyone's probably on you. What's next, what's next?
What's next?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You know?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
For Mellon, whoever he chooses, what's next is, I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
We got to figure out how we're gonna do this
whole thing, and they're just gonna like, you know, do.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You think he'll get engaged?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
No?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
I don't think so either. I don't think he's good.
I don't think I do you think he'll get engaged.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I think he won't because he's like.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I don't even tell them. He likes them right, like, and.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I think he's got the backbone to say the production.
I mean in the same way when he's like I'm
going with Nicole, We're going on a date, like he
has the backbone and be like, no, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Doing that, Like I think that would be like very
mell to.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Be like I'm out there, but I'm willing to like
they can move into my house. I think there's like
a few pots and pans in the kitchen sink, but
I think we could.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Yeah for them, right.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I think he's gonna I think I think he gets engaged.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
I am looking forward to seeing his interaction with his
sons and pagans because I'm assuming we'll get sons.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
They're gonna be like, you know, like it's gonna his
two idiots sons, Lars and Mars or whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Wars. Okay, that's it for today, Jared, anything anything you
want to plug? I know you said you are going
on tour.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Table for one tour.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
It's on right now, jaredfree dot com. Assemble the group chat,
bring your friends and family. It's all about going to
Europe alone and having dinner with my parents and what
it's like to have dinner with my parents, which I'm
sure it keeps changing.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I just did it in Richmond and I'm doing it
on the road.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
But I think it's gonna be about having dinner with
my parents, because that's like it's been like I moved
to Delray Beach.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I live in Delray Beach. If you guys come down here.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
No, I was like, I wanted to change.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
My parents live like twenty five minutes away, so we
hang out a lot, and they're out of their minds,
which I'm sure your parents are out of their minds too,
and like I'm trying to date and I'm trying to
like I kind of needed a separation of like work
and life.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Delray Beach is like the best place in the country.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Like I can't say enough good things, like if you
want to do a weekend from New York, Like that's
like to me, such a win of a weekend.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
But I should be on the tourism board. But I
got shows all over the country. Yeah, listen, if you
connect with Debbie, you'll love my show.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
You know show is Amy.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Don't get me started.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
My mom has been sending her messages and commenting on
everything she does on.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Facebook, so I have a feeling she'll be there that And.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
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Speaker 6 (28:17):
We will have new and excisive interviews and recaps for
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Speaker 1 (28:21):
Hi
Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Better Happy Hour. I'm
Joe and we are here with part two with Jared Free. Jared,
welcome back to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Let's get into it.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I don't know if you were paying attention when you
were there, but like that that date in particular, were
there any women that you were like, oh, this meling her.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Making Monica let me just say Monica be Her stand
up was like awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
She was good. She was the first one, was the
first one, and she was composed. It was like she
was by far the best.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
She was good by far by everyone knew that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Right, but she was just like a little better, right,
this is she had.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It was personal.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
It was about being an airline attendant, and you know,
like all of it was like like I have a
lot of respect, Like just like when you told me
about the best Man speech, like I when you're like
setting up, like I got the thing about my dad first,
Like there is an art. It's an art, you know,
so so like we got done. This is where like
(01:10):
I always believe that the show was like gentle nudging
and it wasn't this like conspiracy that everyone thinks that
like they're telling you what to do and I was
proven right because that we get done and Mel's like,
I'm not choosing to call and we're like okay, and
we're like, well what about Monica be like she was
the best.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
He's like I gonna choose to call and like and
we're like I'm okay, Well, how are we gonna how
we gonna do that? Like and and again, this is
a dating show first. This isn't like a stand up
comedy show. Like you, he doesn't care, he.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Doesn't care who stand up is right.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
And I have respect for that.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Like, no one wants to go on a date with
someone that they're not having a connection with. So I
so like it was fun for me to see because
like literally it's Jesse mel Me. I had a moment
like what the fuck am I doing here? Like it's
Jesse mel Me and like production and they're like, so
(02:09):
what do you think, Like we're debating the date.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You were in that chat. Yes, they said, Jared get over.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Here, Jared get over We're gotta discuss the date.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
I'm like, oh my god, I'm like on the team,
Like I'm like one of the guys. Like I was
like again, the best day ever.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And I'm like and I'm.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Like, that's so funny to me image.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Right, And I'm like what am I here? Like do
they know him here?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
And I'm and like literally, I'm like there was a
point where they're like, Jared, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I know? Monica B was the best.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I don't know, mel Man like, I'm like trying to
like fight for Monica be.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I'm like, just go out with her.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
And but they had this makeout that happened I think
fairly recently.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Yeah, Nicole and him, yeah, yeah, yeah, And they're like
making the pool right.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
So like with that in mind, you go, yeah, I
want to see if this chick I made out with
in the pool and I are like a thing, you know,
like and to me, that's respect for the show like that,
like to me, like, you know, if he's really seeing
this out.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You know, there's so many people and you guys hear
this too. They have their theories or there's.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
If you hate reality TV, you can you can sound
like you're smart, Like if you don't like a show,
you can make yourself sound like you're a Harvard educated
you know person. You go, oh, well, of course the
producers forced you this and force yeah, And I'm like, no,
this was like a real deal.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I'm not like just being a shill for the show.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I'm like, yeah, this guy wanted to go out with Nicole,
and he did. And I got to say, on that
date when I watched it afterwards, Nicole like in him,
like got whisked away. They go right on their date
and she questioned him in the way we wanted him
to be questioned, like she did actually a good I
thought she was a great date.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, he commended her.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
I was like she was totally relentless in her line
of questioning and like the best way, because he's not
a naturally open person, Like you needed Nicole in there.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You needed to set that girl in.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
What are you?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
What are your thoughts on Nicole after Like for the
rest of the season.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
I will say I think Nicole is she's first of all,
she's the most openly here for the wrong reasons person
I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Fun I mean wild like talk about just like like
like not hiding it at all, Like it almost felt
like she was. It felt like it felt like she
was like, oh, we're all like on the same page.
This is this is bullshit.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I'll actually give her the same empathy I gave to
mel which is I think she's never really watched a
dating show. I think she is like Kelly Rippa, where
like Kelly Rippa like seemingly has never watched a dating
show and then thinks less of people on a dating show.
I think Nicole is probably from that world where she
(04:58):
watches a ton of bra but no dating shows. So
she thinks she knows reality TV, but she doesn't know
this version of reality TV like for her right, it's
totally different. And she thought, like when she said I
want to be the Golden Bachelorette, like I want to
be the next one, she thought drama and screen time
will get her that.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
And it's like, that's not the key. We have to
cheer for you.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
We have to want you to find love, and we
have to like, we have to see ourselves in you
and people.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I think she didn't see.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I think the game she was playing was get camera time,
and I think that is very That's a tight wire
act that she didn't understand. Like I mean for her
to hug and kiss everyone about how much they love
them as she's getting kicked off the show and then
look at the camera and go, yeah, if you want
(05:54):
to go fucking Miami.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
You can meet me because it's not gonna work out
with these other chicks.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
Why, you know what, she is a shameless opportunist, and
I actually do like that about her, Like I find
that characteristic interesting, Like I find her an interesting watch
because she is so shameless about her intentions and her
goals and like.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
That's unique to me.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean when she said that, I was like,
oh wow, she just said yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Well, but the problem with like, you know, I guess
like she comes from this like never apologize part of
society that I don't really relate to a lot where
it's like if you ever apologize, or for you ever
come back from where you went, you will you lose.
She's like and you're like, oh, she's just out there
and never coming back, Like she's never going to you know,
(06:46):
say like oh, like when she starts like saying like, well,
I'm the one that like you know, made it so
everyone else could I walk so they could run, it's
like get out of here. But it's like she's now
doubling down that, and I think, like especially when she
got in the car and she was like, maybe I'll
be the next Golden bats Arette, Like you're like, no,
(07:07):
you're not, Like it's not gonna have Like I think
you're gonna have to like argue with people in the
comments for the rest of your life, like you know,
one of them being Susan and Kathy, who are like
literally like you know, foaming at the mouth to like,
you know, talk to you about how you said you
were hotter than last season.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Oh yeah, I said, right when she said that, I said,
Kathy is gonna not like that. Yeah, let's jump to hometowns.
Go to the first hometown, which was Peg Firehouse Bomb Squad.
Her daughter was great. Uh, all your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Here's my thoughts.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Peg looked like she was out of a Maxim magazine
shoot from the early two thousands. We're at the you know,
the firehouse, and she's on the pole and she's doing
like Peg is just like fun and awesome and unrelatable
to me.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Like it's like, you know, she's having a beer.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
She doesn't care about calories, She goes to fun Jim classes,
she dances at every every time a song comes on.
The daughter was protective in a way that like it
was fun to watch Mel spar with a daughter because
he's a guy with two sons. So you watched him
in the conversations showed he had nothing, and it's like
(08:29):
Mel is talking. You know, mel Is thinks he's twenty
seven forever, and Mel thinks he's young. And Mel doesn't
have a clock, and mel is gonna work until he's
one hundred and three and you're gonna go, Mel, do
you really think you'll work till hundred and three and
he's gonna go. I haven't really thought of I guess
I would be old at the hundred and three. Like,
so Mel isn't sitting there being like the stakes are high,
(08:53):
and the stakes are high for PEG's daughter. The stakes
are high for Peg, and PEG's trying to be fun
and affable the whole thing. But like the daughter was like, hey,
like yo, she's looking to like chill with someone, Like
she's looking to like, you know, like are you doing this?
And like Mel's reaction to that was just like it was.
(09:13):
It was just Mel as a guy.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I guess we'll see. I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Like he is, so he's the least committal bachelor I've
seen in a while. Like everything about him screams casual
and non committal to both being The Bachelor and anything
post show. Right also liked when the daughter was like,
tell me what you know and have learned about my mom?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Like what do you like about her?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
And it was just one word answers after no, you
could tell the daughter was like, what is going on?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, well, we were watching it.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
We were watching I was like, bring back, bring back Clayton,
like we need we need a Clayton back, because he was.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
We need an overshare after a season of Mel.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
I think Mel's never used a semicolon in his entire life, Like,
he's never had a sentence go longer than three words,
like it is.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
And And I don't think he's a.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Manipulative I think he's just like this is what you get, Like, yeah,
we're gonna hang out, We're gonna have fun.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
He doesn't strike me as manipulative, right. I think he
genuinely means what he's saying.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I mean he more he's just like, yeah, like how
do you feel He's like I feel good?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I wrote down he a quote of his was I
liked being married.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
That's his response to the woman. It's like okay to
the daughter of the woman.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Honestly though, my god, I could see myself kind of.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Right, like I guess like I, yeah, I wouldn't know
how to deal with the daughter. Also, like I I
felt for him if anything else.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
At the same time, I'm like, he's on a TV show,
like he's he's getting prepped or he's having time to
prep himself, but he was never.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
He was never you know. It's also he was never
on the show, like he just became the lead. So
it does make it. It is kind of like his
first goal.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Round you you are a little bit trained by the audience.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
You know, the comments of the audience.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
You're trained on what not to say, so you don't
have to hear from that loser anymore, you know, so
like he doesn't even know that, like and you can
see like he he just didn't have the tools in
the tool belt. Like it was like and and you're
dealing and even like PEG's mom she made a comment
where she was like it was like weirdly sad.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
She's like, do you think this is gonna work?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I was just like, oho, Nos, it hasn't worked out before,
Like she had like a weird quote.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Do you like him and Peg together? Though?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Do you see I do, but Peg, you know, to me,
he'd be buying into.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Like Peg does more for him than she does, or
does more for him than he does for her.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Okay, Like I think Peg is gonna be like get
you know.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I can see them in a wedding and he's talking
with five other guys about Michigan football and she comes over.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Him and grabs him and goes, get up.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
We're dancing, and he probably needs that more than he
knows he needs that.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
So because he thinks, no, I'm gonna live until the
one hundred and fifty two, I can sit her and
talk Michigan football.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I got time.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Well, the most comfortable I saw him was I think
it was Dab's hometown when he was throwing the football
with the two brothers. Right, that was when he was
like having a conversation where he felt like he was
like in his.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Element element Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I I like Peg.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I'm like, you know, like she's a likable, fun person
like yeah, I and the daughter was like her like
security guard.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I love her and I love her daughter.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Okay, So then we let's go to Deb's hometown, which
we see at the end of the episode.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
If Deb hasn't isn't the next Bachelor, Golden Bachelor.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I thought he was going to pick her. I really
thought he was going to pick her.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I thought so too. I mean her, it's a tough
hill to climb over. Deb reminds everyone that she's never
been married, has no kids, fourteen years since she brought.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
A guy home.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, every time she's on camera, so there's a point
where you're like, I don't want to devastate this person.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Like if I were in mel shoes, I'd be like.
She keeps bringing it up that like like I I
don't want to be the next person.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
And she tells like an amazing story of tragic story
about her ex, and it's really sad. That's not even
part of it for me, like to me, like she
holds that with her and she you know, it seems
as though she like you know, that's part of her
I know it's part of her story, but like as
far as like to like dig in with her, that's
not really part of the story to me. But she
(14:09):
brings up fourteen like fourteen years never bring someone home,
Like how about you just say.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's been a while? Like like I like, you know,
like how.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
About you say, like, and I just think deb she
represents the audience way more than you know. I'm dead,
I'm forty, never married, you know, you know, grocery Joe,
you're deb you know, like we're you know, we're older
people who have have have kind of like gone a
different way. So like, I think the audience seasoned dead man,
(14:38):
I've been married for you guys are married. Oh okay, okay,
a little defensive about being called a.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Sense to your offense.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Category, Jared, I'm.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Sitting right here his wife.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I'm sorry. I couldn't see the ring. I mean, time
to get a bigger one, Joe. No ring on what's
going on?
Speaker 2 (15:03):
No visual cues?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I feel like what's interesting is if Debbie does become
the Golden bachel Rat, which I could totally see because
I agree. I feel like they've really beat this story
to death with her and like playoff ofissed. But it's
interesting if they go in that direction because that really
aligns with the stories of the regular seasons of The Battery.
And I feel like this season has melded into the
(15:28):
regular season more than Gary season. So like we had
Gary and Jones season, which was very focused on like
the Golden Years, and this season feels so much more
aligned with the regular season. It's I keep saying, like
it's giving, just like my hot aunts, you know, like
doing and then we're gonna go someone that's never been married,
has never had children. It's like, well, what really differentiates
(15:50):
these two.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
My aunt and uncle? And Gary was like, that's my
that's my great grandfather. Jo.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
I just I think she's the reason the show is successful.
Like I think, like theyre need a third bachelor, they
need forty year old woman with older men like that,
because I do think a lot of the.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Difference between these women and like forty year old women
is not going to be substantially different.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Do you think That's My point?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Is like that's why Debbie, Like she's easy to like,
and you know, she's the reason that like a lot
of people are watching her going I you know, because
a lot of women and I hear from women a lot,
just because I do dating podcasts, Like a lot of
them say they're old at twenty one, Like a woman
turns twenty one and then all of a sudden, she's
the grandma and she's old forever, like and it's like,
(16:47):
that's not how we see it how I see it.
But if you're watching Debbie saying I've never been married,
I don't have kids. If you're thirty six at home
and you've never been married you don't have kids, you're
feeling the same way as her, right, you know, she's
very relatable. So I don't know if they made her
the Golden bachel would almost being an insult to her
because like to call her golden is like only the
(17:08):
only issue because you're like, I mean, she's she's there's
no gold.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
In there, you know, like it doesn't you know. So
I don't know. I like Debbie.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I she comes home with the family. The family is
like so excited for her. Like again, this is all
stuff that would scare the shit at me. I'm like, oh,
this family, like they are.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Really a lot of pressure.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Well yeah, I like this family.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Like the brothers are here, they're like that, you know,
like you know, the sisters and they're all like, we
really like you. And it's like like like if i'm Mel,
there's a good thing where like you'd be the you know,
knight in shining armor. Yeah, but also don't fuck with
these people, Mel, Like like I think that was like
kind ofly the takeaway.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
You know what we thought about Debbie is I think
it's like up in the air about Mel's interest in
willingness to compromise relationship. I just like don't know where
he stands on that. And Debbie is childless and seems
like she is like flexible in terms of where she
could live, Like you don't think so like it's he's
(18:12):
gonna move with me, and like like, lean, I have
a bet.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I agree with everything you're saying, But I don't think
that makes Debbie the best option for him. I think
that's why Cindy's like the best option for him.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I think Sidney's the best option for him too. After
watching her, we'll go jump to her hometown now. But
after watching that hometown, I was like, oh yeah, like right,
she well likes what he's seeing here Cindy.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
When I was at.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
The the taping, Cindy was like in him, like yeah,
she was already like smitten.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And oh on the roads date, well, she was from
night from day one.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
So she was like we actually we didn't know if
she would be able to handle the process because she
was so smitten so fast. We were like, oh no,
I wonder if she's gonna like get jealous and like
up her spot.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But she she cooled.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah she's she's also you know, smarter than the average bear.
She she's like a.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Chemical medical engineer.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah, yeah she and and yeah, like.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
He definitely likes like the intellectual women. I feel like
all of them have really been super sharp.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yeah, everyone's a catch for him. Like I mean, did
you see his house? It had seven pots and pans
in the in the sink that haven't been washed. Like
he's like, remember do you remember when they went home
with him with the boys?
Speaker 7 (19:32):
Yeah, seeing that his kitchen was a mess, like this guy,
like it was like crazy, can you imagine, Like, yeah,
they're coming over to tape today and there was six
pans just in the sink.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Like what I can't believe. I'm telling you. It was
like disgusting. Like it's like, dude, get a housekeeper, you know.
Like so it's like I think, and I'm not saying
these women are going to clean his house.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I'm saying they're going to be more on the ball
than him, Like yeah, you know, so yeah, so Debbie,
I don't know, Like Debbie is flexible, but like her
life is flexible. But I don't know, I think Debbie's
kind of like a stronger willed person. M like it
(20:25):
would and I don't. I hope that doesn't sound bad
towards Cindy. But Cindy feels like she's like, I mean
her hometown. She's like, I'm just in, Like she's got gosh,
she's moving La. She already said I'd moved to La.
Like she's already said.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
She she's she's ready, she's been ready.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
To her single daughter on the Bachelor. Her daughter are
so every single one, every single all three of them
are so hot.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Wild and they are I mean, Cindy's beautiful too.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
They are like and the one is on TikTok like
she's like the social media manner for now she is,
she's popping up on my algorithm.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
The two daughters, well the third one wasn't there. Is
she younger?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, there was, there was three, but.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
The one on married ones engaged and then one they
didn't say so it could be a boyfriend. But like
if she's single.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Like they're all like she was young.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
The dancer one is single. We're getting from from production.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
The dancer one is single, and Cndy is trying.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
To set Jonathan Johnson up with her. Okay, so the.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Page for me to for me to say hot, she's
trying to set her up.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
With john and I can say she's hot. They are
and she's on TikTok.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Like running the show here for her, like she's doing
some you know, like they they're getting to find her.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Like it when the kids hell vote yeah, they.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Are on the ball.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
They were definitely less like on him. That I mean
when Mel talked to the two son.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
In laws, I was like, what a gift from the gods.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I would have been like I would have ripped them
out of the room, get out of here, scat well
talk about college football.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
After PEG's daughter, They're like, gosh, do this again.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Well, he also only sat he sat down with two
of the daughters, which I'm assuming are the youngest in
the middle, and then he sat down with what she
was very much giving like eldest daughter energy who she
was kind of giving similar vibes to PEG's daughter, where
she was like I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Right, she got harder on him, But it was when
he sat with the son in laws talking about, oh,
she loves football, like, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I would have I would have.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Like if I was like, Pegs, I'm like, they must
have like, he must have made that happen.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I'll go talk with the guys. Yeah, yeah, we can
go talk so funny.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, So overall, overall, what is your takeaway from hometown?
So we got we got two women left? Who do
you who do you think he's gonna choose?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I think he goes with Sydney, just because I think he,
you know, Mel, even when question gives nothing up. I
think Peg is gonna ask harder questions than Cindy.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
And I think Mel Mel who I know, it took
us an hour to get to this point. He's a
nice guy. I like Mel. It's just Mel gonna do Mel.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Like Mel is like, like Mel's whole story about his divorce,
which he hasn't gone into beyond the papers were on
the kitchen table and I just signed, like, dude, what's
the story there?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
He never gives anything. And I think.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
He's a private person, so.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
To his body like they're going nowhere.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
He's a private person who just so happened to stumble
into being the Bachelor.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It's so interesting to me because it's like I feel like,
on one hand, he he.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Clearly values the experience and wanted to be the bachelor,
and he signed up willingly. There's something about this experience
that he wanted, wanted to gain from. But on the
other hand, he's like the most reluctant bachelor I've ever seen,
where he's like, like you said, Mel's gonna do Mel,
Like he's not gonna talk about things doesn't want to
talk about like openness and vulnerability earn on the table,
(24:20):
Like I don't know how he feels about any of
these women, Like I can tell from like body language
and interactions that he likes Cindy and peg and he's
excited about them, Like I haven't been surprised by any eliminations,
but verbally there's been like no reassurance happening.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Yeah, it's it's absolutely wild. It's you're absolutely right, I
I And and that's why Cindy like she's gonna like
I think she's gonna allow for it more than peg Wood.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Yeah, and I think she's just very like hard eyed
for Mel, like I really think and I do think
they have a connection.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
No, no, no, this isn't like Listen, I've seen couples with
less connection and become married and have kids and do
the whole thing, like and the beauty of this show
is like there is like they're going off to date,
Like I think like it would the Bachelor would be
better off if it was in that you know world
of like, well, what's next, kids, and like like I'm
(25:17):
sure you guys get this. You've been married four years.
You know everyone's probably on you. What's next, what's next?
What's next?
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You know?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
For Mellon, whoever he chooses, what's next is, I mean.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
We got to figure out how we're gonna do this
whole thing, and they're just gonna like, you know, do.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
You think he'll get engaged?
Speaker 4 (25:35):
No?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
I don't think so either. I don't think he's good.
I don't think I do you think he'll get engaged.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I think he won't because he's like.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I don't even tell them. He likes them right, like, and.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I think he's got the backbone to say the production.
I mean in the same way when he's like I'm
going with Nicole, We're going on a date, like he
has the backbone and be like, no, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Doing that, Like I think that would be like very
mell to.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Be like I'm out there, but I'm willing to like
they can move into my house. I think there's like
a few pots and pans in the kitchen sink, but
I think we could.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Yeah for them, right.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I think he's gonna I think I think he gets engaged.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
I am looking forward to seeing his interaction with his
sons and pagans because I'm assuming we'll get sons.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
They're gonna be like, you know, like it's gonna his
two idiots sons, Lars and Mars or whatever.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Wars. Okay, that's it for today, Jared, anything anything you
want to plug? I know you said you are going
on tour.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Table for one tour.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
It's on right now, jaredfree dot com. Assemble the group chat,
bring your friends and family. It's all about going to
Europe alone and having dinner with my parents and what
it's like to have dinner with my parents, which I'm
sure it keeps changing.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I just did it in Richmond and I'm doing it
on the road.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
But I think it's gonna be about having dinner with
my parents, because that's like it's been like I moved
to Delray Beach.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I live in Delray Beach. If you guys come down here.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
No, I was like, I wanted to change.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
My parents live like twenty five minutes away, so we
hang out a lot, and they're out of their minds,
which I'm sure your parents are out of their minds too,
and like I'm trying to date and I'm trying to
like I kind of needed a separation of like work
and life.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Delray Beach is like the best place in the country.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Like I can't say enough good things, like if you
want to do a weekend from New York, Like that's
like to me, such a win of a weekend.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
But I should be on the tourism board. But I
got shows all over the country. Yeah, listen, if you
connect with Debbie, you'll love my show.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
You know show is Amy.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Don't get me started.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
My mom has been sending her messages and commenting on
everything she does on.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Facebook, so I have a feeling she'll be there that And.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
To all our listeners, thank you guys so much for
tuning into Bachelor Happy Hour. Thank you make sure you
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Speaker 6 (28:17):
We will have new and excisive interviews and recaps for
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Speaker 1 (28:21):
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