Life’s a Bach

Pretend like that title rhymes better and is clever. Pretend like we made/talked about snacks and that Mal was here. Pretend like these show notes are helpful at all. There, that's better. Behind the facade I just had you create lies the truth, which is that Hillary and Jill sleepily ran through episode one of Katie's season of the Bachelorette and her remaining 23 suitors and then made no kind of promises about how, when or if the...

Wow, Matt James’ season is over. Somehow both nothing and everything happened during it? The ladies spend a few minutes reminiscing about the start of Quarantine this time last year - they were but young and oh so naive. They spend a little time clearing up some snack adjacent confusion and then honestly just kinda jump right in to talking about The Bachelor of all things! 

Jill did a very good job edi...

As usual Hillary is the only person worth a dang on this production team and manages to walk Mal and Jill through the important pieces of the Women Tell All as well as the Semi-Finals aka the Fantasy Suites. Just to get this out of the way, Hillary snacked on leftover asparagus, mushroom and artichoke risotto. Mal had a blueberry muffin, Indica Nut-Balls (lol nut-balls amirite?) and coffee with a lil Baileys. Jill had the wrong bra...

Just a quick check in to let all everyone know we're taking the week off from recording. Everyone is healthy and doing fine, just busy and the Women Tell All seemed like a great episode to skip. We'll be back March 14th with Fantasy Suite coverage and intend to do the Finale on March 21st. In the mean time, we can recommend some other stuff to listen to and some other ways to get your Life's a Bach adjacent content:

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First order of business, we will be recording on Saturdays for the duration of Matt's season so new episodes will be coming out on Sundays (probably). This means you get to listen to us yell about stuff you watched 6 days ago just in time for none of it to be relevant anymore. Or! It's like a good opportunity to freshen up on what happened last week so you're mentally and emotionally prepared for the new episode. You're welcome? Al...

The ladies start to give MJ a hard time about being “afraid” of chickens but pretty quickly realize they are all maybe afraid of all birds? This conversation also reveals that Jill doesn’t believe that any geese are white and she thinks all Geese are Canada Geese. Watching more of Matt’s season is making everyone even more aware of how shitty and low budget Clare & Tayshia’s season was. And honestly all the Bacheloret...

Mal is back this week! Then ladies maybe set a record for how long it takes them to start talking about The Bachelor, but they make up for it with tales of accidental booze brownies, customer service voices and very compelling arguments for and against turtlenecks. This episode was recorded at 12:30pm but Jill sounds like she just woke up (she did) and keeps talking about breakfast like it's not lunch time. Some tea regarding a his...

Jill and Hill gave Mal the week off, and as always her presence was sorely missed. To make up for it, there is a clicking noise that Jill doesn't notice until about 20 minutes in and then doesn't address for another 5. After editing the episode she realizes it was happening for.... pretty much the whole show up to that point. Believe it or not, about half of the clicks were successfully removed, so you're welcome! They also throw i...

This week your gals take full advantage of a lag-free zoom experience and talk about The Bachelor but mostly whatever they want for almost two full hours! The Bachelor this week was one erotica story writing group date slash brand promotion for Chris Harrison and a one on one with Sierra P - no second group date and no rose ceremony (AGAIN) because Sarah is sad and it's important to her that everyone knows about it. Major takeaways...

It's week 2 and the ladies still like Matt James! They forget to talk about the totally unnecessary shirtless wood chopping scene but still manage to work in erotic topics like charcuterie facebook groups and enemas. As far as actual Bach content goes basically nobody likes a mid rose ceremony cliff hanger and nobody likes Queen V (but that's what she's going for, right?) The episode wraps with snack talk, but only enough to make t...

In celebration of the 2nd episode of Matt James' (S25) season of The Bachelor, we are finally releasing our podcast about the 1st episode! Last week was a super fucked up time in America, or maybe rather the culmination of a super fucked up last several centuries. Two days after the first Black bachelor graced our screens, a mob of white supremacists stormed the Capital Building during the electoral vote certification at the behest...

On this not very dramatic (in a good way) and very romantic (in an also good way) Finale episode the ladies talk about Clarky and the Queen, though they never call them that, the real real about religious differences AND Christmas cookies. Jill made chocolate orange Macarons and they were dope and fancy but the ganache was a strug, Hill made the world's most lovely almond shortbread thumbprint cookies with raspberry jam and Mal mad...

Daggum it's a busy time of year to be also watching and podcasting about The Bachelorette! That's Jill's way of saying "sorry it took 3 days to edit and upload again this week." Somehow we end this week down to the final three dudes. Tayshia somehow manages to look flawless despite the 120 degree heat and her suitors dumping buckets of sweat out of every pore even inside of doors! Inside. Indoors. You know what we mean. Ivan's fami...

After taking a week off, the ladies record this episode on schedule but release it MANY days late because the lag was intense on the zoom call and it took our unpaid editor (Jill) a little extra time and finesse to make it make sense. With so few things making sense in this world, it seems worth the effort. Mal snacks on what she calls "grown up Gushers," Jill complains about cookies that seem to sound delicious to everyone else an...

Tayshia sends home several great dudes (and Chasen) including our very fav Dr Joe but KEEPS ED. She also has what feels like a pretty real and emotion conversation with Ivan about being mixed race, growing up around mostly white people, and how the Black Lives Matter movement has impacted them this year. It was refreshing. The ladies talk a lot about snacks this week as well as their thanksgiving plans which, let's be honest, is ju...

Tayshia sends home 3 dudes we barely recognize and Bennett makes Harvard look worse that ASU in a rousing game of very easy rose math. Ed is mad at Chasen for only knowing one adjective and Noah makes Tayshia shave off his mustache on a bench outside even though he knows how and he has a bathroom. Your fave gals discuss awkward parenting moments, what's in store for Christmas gifts and how best to get out of participating in PE (an...

Week 5 of Season 16 of the Bachelorette is night one for Tayshia and the remaining 16 dudes plus 4 new ones. She visits with and smooches on several, and ultimately gives the First Impression Rose to a newcomer who the ladies would rather bonk on the head as they reveal in their less violent version of Marry, F***, Kill which is now called, "Date Exclusively, Bang, Send 'em to the moon!" or something like that. Audio issues ABOUND ...

On this windy Saturday in the Pacific Northwest the ladies gather remotely to mostly discuss the Bachelorette, but get a little distracted covering the outcome of ye ole Presidential Election since the winner was announced only hours prior to recording. Mal and Jill snack on coffee because they're not real grown ups and Hill tells tale of some delicious ass waffles that maybe weren't as crisp as she'd like but definitely were not s...