Will You Accept This Podcast

Matt's journey came to a conclusion this week, with him making his big choice between Michelle and Rachael. I'm joined by guest co-host Diane Taha to discuss how it all went down, where we think the show let Matt (and us) down this season and how much we loved both his family and Emmanuel Acho. We also dig into the Bachelorette selection in addition to the announcement of the upcoming season(s) co-hosts!

My friend Kat O'Leary joins me to discuss Fantasy Suite week, which includes milk baths, tent pitching and Ghost pottery. We meet Matt's dad for a very personal moment that probably should have been off-camera. We end with what we dub a "Sexy Funeral" moment and us wondering what's to come in next week's big finale.

Leslie is back on the podcast to co-host as we take a look back at this season's Women Tell All. This week there was one glaring absence (Sarah), one surprise quasi-appearance (Heather) and several ladies given the possible Bachelorette edit -- but there was no resolution on who, if anyone, would be getting the role. We took some time to go through all this week's news in Bachelor Nation, specifically the controversy around Taylor Nolan's tweets, Rachel Lindsay's Instagram account suspension and what we're looking forward to with the guest host of the upcoming After the Final Rose.

This week, I'm joined by my friend Natasha, a Bachelor Nation newbie, to discuss this season's "Hometowns." We discuss family member standouts (Michelle's dad and Bri's mom), our current fave for Bachelorette and the surprise exit by one of the ladies. We also talk about some of the Bachelor News, including one of our leads who is back in the news from a possible reunion.

This week was a hard week to summarize. We started with a summary of all of what's currently going on with the controversy regarding and subsequent statements from both Rachael Kirkconnell and Chris Harrison. Below are the different things mentioned in the episode if you have not already seen or listened to them:

- Rachel Lindsay and Van Lathan's Reddit AMA: https://bit.ly/3dvoDlI;

- Rachel and Van's episode on the Higher Learning podcast that goes behind the interview with Chris Harrison: https://apple.co/3k9ab3V;

- The Blckchelorette's Instagram video in response to both the situation with Rachael Kirkconnell and Chris Harrison: https://bit.ly/37uW584;

- Bachelor Data's analysis on the racial composition and screen time split for the women of Season 25: https://bit.ly/3k2AusJ

It's a hard shift from the important topics in Bachelor news to go on to the episode, which made me think about skipping a recap at all. The second part of the podcast goes into this week's show mainly because we're finally getting to hear from so many of the women we haven't had enough time with thus far and I wanted to get the chance to talk about them and their stories.

I'm joined by mental health advocate and blogger (https://preppyrunner.com) Theodora Blanchfield to discuss who goes home this week - some Matt's doing some self-selecting out, some of the questionable things they chose for these 1:1 dates and what we have in store for the rest of the season.

This week, Lara is joined by Cleveland lifestyle blogger Kate Kaput of Greastest Escapist (https://www.greatestescapist.com/) to discuss our lame excuse for a 2:1, one cute carnival date, the bowling date winner's evening that wasn't and the exit of our fan favorite peacemaker. We share our picks for this season's final four and a rundown on the latest batch of Bachelor news!

Lara's joined by guest co-host Gillian Clow as we discuss this week's big purge, Matt's big proclamation to Rachael, the looming 2:1 and who we think are our frontrunners for The Bachelorette.

This week stirs it up as 5 new ladies arrive, 4 of which remain following the rose ceremony. Victoria sets her sights on some new targets and Anna starts some unfounded rumors on one of the ladies. We get to know more about Michelle and Chelsea and end with Katie calling Matt to step it up and take charge, as she continues her role of house MVP.

Inspired by "A Perfect Letter" (let's say we had NO idea), the ladies get dirty with storytime with Matt - and it becomes a bleepin' competition. Sarah starts to have doubts and battles being pulled home to her family. She also battles the others in the house, as she crashes the evening portion of the group date. Serena P gets her 1:1 time with Matt and we end with the exit of one of Matt's clear faves on her own terms.

This week, Matt went on his first one-on-one dates and the hot tub made an equal number of appearances. We have the largest group date possibly in the history of the show.