Bachelor in Paradise 

Episode 4

1. Welcome to Bachademia, the smartest Bachelor podcast on the internet. Today Bill and I are coming at you with some amazing BIP recaps, reflections, and real important insights. lol
2. Question: You are kidnapped. You can only call on one person from BIP to come and rescue you. Who do you call and why?
3. The episode begins with a reminder of where we left off last week: With Maurissa and Riley in the boom boom room. 
4. Chris and Chasen arrive. They perform some sort of bro welcoming ritual before descending on the beach. They have a date card. Chasen invites Deandra on a date and Chris invites Jessenia. Chasen’s appearance stirs something in Mari that sets in motion all sorts of disaster. 
5. So, Chris and Jessenia and Chasen and Deandra go on their double date-- which begins with an intimacy guru. Near as I can tell this date includes them breathing on each other and partner stretches. Both activities should not be performed with an audience, imo. 
6. Meanwhile, Mari tells Kenny that she wants the ability to go on dates with other guys who come onto the show. Kenny, reasonably, is a bit miffed by this. I love this quotation from Entertainment Weekly: "You cannot have your cake and eat it too," he [Kenny] grouses in his confessional. "And that's what a lot of people want to do — especially when they have the rose." Kenny may be 40, but he's not wrong. 
7. Sooooo Mari goes to Demi to process her exchange with Kenny. Demi says, “proposals aren’t tomorrow, we should all be dating each other.” (I would like to note how this is a shift in attitude given her recent tiff with Brenden). So, Demi makes out with Kenny. And by makeout I mean she eats his face off. 
8. In another corner of the beach, Connor is sporting his finest attire. Let’s take a moment to acknowledge how fantastic that outfit was. (best descriptions enter here: kimono convict--first time I thought Aaron was funny)r. Poor Connor has no idea what went down with Maurissa and Riley. 
9. Night 2 begins with Thomas and Aaron fighting. It is boring. Tammy cries because she didn’t mean to hurt anyone. I’m not buying it.
10. There’s the bracelet vs. necklace competition between Chasen and Karl. It is all dumb, so I won’t talk about it much.
11.  Tre and Tahz break up. Both end up going home.
12.  We head to a rose ceremony. Lance says bye bye bye, but before he does SURPRISE Becca is a contestant. Thoughts on Becca joining the beach?
    1. The big shake up of the rose ceremony is that Deandre gives her rose to Ivan instead of Karl or Chasen. Becca gives her rose to Aaron. 
13.  Enter Tia. She has a date card. She asks Kenny on a date. Mari is smug. Demi is slighted. Their date is topless/naked volleyball. 
14.  After little screen time, we finally get to see what’s going on with Abigail and Noah and its not what I expected. Abigail is worried that things and too easy for them and wonders if they are just friends. This obviously is not what Noah wanted to hear but he does talk about it like an adult. It ends with Abigail crying and Noah walking alone on the beach.
15.  Enter Kendall, Joe’s ex-- and she’s here with a purpose. She walks right up to Joe and says, What’s up, butthead. OMG. What do you think will happen?
16.  Key takeaways/lessons?