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Hello, and welcome to the Rose Rehash. I'm Jared Freed. Every episode of the Bachelor, I show the live stream that I do, and then we end with a recap of the episode. Tonight we have the season finale of the Golden Bachelor. So enjoy the live stream. I'll be back with a recap after it's done. Okay. Welcome to the Rose Rehash Recap. I Now I'm gonna give my feelings on the season. I. Let me. Let me start with the part that's the toughest about being a fan of the Bachelor and commentating on it is that you constantly have to deal with bad actors. What do I mean by that? Well, there's people that just don't like this show. There's people that want to see this show fail. There's people that think it's a personality to say it's. They think it's an interesting personality to say, hasn't it gone downhill? I used to watch. It's bad now because if you're not in on a show, that's okay. Just because I like something doesn't mean that I think everyone has to. And. And people say, does anyone watch it anymore? So I really. It does get annoying because I don't understand what the end game is for these people. This brings me to my point about this season. Mel goes on a podcast and says, I don't want to date anyone over the age of 60. I'll cut them if they're above a certain age. I'm looking for a younger woman. When that happened, I thought, that is utter stupidity to say into a microphone. I thought, how does he not know what this show is? How does he not know the audience? Does he care? And tonight, and then you go into the season and you have all those people that now have ammo to. To shoot at you as far as making you feel bad for liking a thing, liking this show, the Bachelor, and you kind of have to sit there and quietly take it because it's not wrong to say that this is maybe a bad casting. It's not wrong to say, why would a guy who doesn't want to date women below the age of 60 go on a show that's inviting women over the age of 60 to date? You can't deny that. But I'm going to watch the show no matter what, and I want to have fun with it in the way I do. So for me, before the season to talk negatively about the casting, it would be stupid. It doesn't make sense. I'm going to watch let's see how this plays out is my motto with most things. I think there's a side door, there's a shortcut to a personality, there's a shortcut to interesting that comes with having negative opinions before you even get to see how it plays out again. So we go through the season, I was entertained. I think it's interesting and I think when you get to the finale now you can put together your thoughts. Now you can say, was this season a success? Was this casting a mistake? Was this the show that we wanted? I'm going to say it wasn't. And I was on this season. I'm. I'm literally someone who was on the show. All I want is the show's success. But this final episode was Mel taking off the mask, revealing who he has been the whole time. It was Scooby Doo. He basically says this episode he was never thinking of this as an engagement. Engagement doesn't seem to be an option on his list of options, which it has to be. You can't come on the show where the premise is one man dates 23 women and looks to be engaged by the end of this crazy adventure. As crazy as that might be, it has to be on the list. If you find someone that you fall for, you have to let go enough. And I'm saying that as someone who has a very similar trait to Mel is it's hard for me personally in my own dating life to get over the logical, to sip on the romantic. So I'm like one of these people. But that's why me going on this show might be a mistake. If I can't get over that, if I can't even say yes, that is something that could happen. Or you have to say at the end, no spark here is big enough. I have to opt out of everyone. Because what Mel ended up doing is. And this is something that when I went and did the show and you could kind of feel, no one said this to me but I felt I was dealing with a stubborn guy, which 66 year old men tend to be. So that shouldn't be a surprise. But Mel stonewalled the show. Mel said, it's my bat, my ball, I'm going home. Goodbye, everybody. It's going to be all about me and Mel and I don't care that this might ruin this fun show that you guys love because he came on based on tonight. It seems as though Mel came on this show to say, I don't know. This wasn't always about an engagement. Who would want to get engaged a Few of them don't want to get engaged. It was actually crazy. And I felt that Jesse Palmer. Jesse Palmer should get an Emmy for what he did tonight. Jesse Palmer became, you know how they sometimes are. Like, tonight was the night they became president. Tonight was the night that Jesse Palmer became the host of the Bachelor. This was an impeccable performance by him. He asked the question, said the things that needed to be said. You could kind of feel, in my opinion, Jesse seemed fed up. He seemed annoyed. You have. And I would be, too. You have a ratings juggernaut. You have found. You have found a version of a show that was maybe getting a little stale, that you can, that could reinvigorate it. People trusted it. Wow, this was fun. We saw these people of a certain age get to date, and we saw they're not that old. They look great, they're fun. We can watch them kiss. It's not weird. And then you get, you have you. Whoever's in casting, I don't know, they gotta have a meeting with the boss, because then you cast this guy who seemingly, I don't know what that casting producer was saying to him. Yeah, just go on the show. You'll have fun. You'll meet a couple chicks, you'll bang. Is that what, is that what was said to him? Did he even know what this world was? Because he comes on the show, he says that on the podcast, which I could defend at the time, but then as the show goes on, you see, he is not open. He is not here for the romance of it. And now we sit here with a kind of a weird finale that, again, I'm going on and on about it because it is interesting to me. It's interesting that he would do the show. Why? What did he think? I'm just gonna find someone cool to hang with? It's not called, you know, the hang. It's not. So we start the episode with Mel and Cindy and the end of their breakup date. And Cindy asks all the right questions, says all the right things. And it does seem like Mel, like, is, like, in shock. Cindy's like, I gotta go. It's time for me. I, I, I think I've gotten my answers. Mel says something about, you know, we could do two years, and then, you know, I could be engaged after two. He doesn't even say engaged. He just says two years. And you could see Cindy's like, this is crazy. And she starts to wonder, would you ever get engaged to anyone? And he's basically going full out, cards on the table. This you know, I didn't really think an engagement could ever happen for me. And you go again. You start to go, what. What are we doing with this guy? And I like the show. I don't not like Mel. I just don't like the way it went down. He. He shouldn't have been here at this point. So Cindy and Mel break up. They come back to the studio audience, and Mel is. His party line. Is that, well, you. You. You gave up on it. And it's like, Mel, it's an even playing field. You might be the bachelor, but you both get an opportunity to go, I'm ending this. He. She dumped you. She said no. I'm turned off by your waffling and I do deserve better. You're a great catch. Cindy was unbelievable. Said the right things, did the right things. Classy. And even Jesse, when they sit on the couch, classy. Classy is the word he's used, and he was totally right. And so we have their meeting, and there's a little bit flirty. And Cindy calls them out as much as she can and says, kind of defends the other women who came here to be engaged. And she says it right. She's not crazy. She's not out of her. You know, she's. And. And Mel. Because then we go to the Mel and Peggy date. Mel goes to Peggy and is like, telling her that Cindy left. He tells her in a way that is like, actually batshit cuckoo bananas. He's like, I gotta tell you something. It's crazy. And he puts it up on this pedestal. And then he's like, cindy's gone. And she's like, oh, oh, okay. And he's like, let's go to the end. Go to the end. That's all Mel says. We're gonna finish this out. This is like. He's like Clark Griswold on, you know, on vacation with his family. We're gonna get there. We gotta get there. And it's like, what's it all for, Mel? Then she meets the boys. She meets his. His sons. The sons were never gonna say anything. They were gonna be cool no matter who it was. Dad likes her. We like her. Then Mel has a random friend show up, a random female friend he went to college with. And you're like, who's this woman? No questions are asked. No history. No, there has to be a reveal. What was her life? Who does she date? How do they come together? Does she not get along with his ex? What happened with them? So many questions. We then go to. He's like, okay, now let's, you know, let's propose. And it's like, what are we proposing here? What. What's the end of this? And he gives her a commitment ring, and they kiss. And it's like the weirdest act of non romance that I've ever seen on this show. She says, I agree. Like, she's telling the stewardess that she can do the emergency row. She said, I agree. So you're watching this. The end is already given away. It's my bat, my ball. I'm going home. Mel put up a stone wall. He got what he wanted and made everyone else unhappy in the process. And again, I was entertained. I like the show. I like the Golden. I think is a special opportunity that was kind of squandered. Like, I. Because he looks at. He looks at, you know, I just. I just don't understand. And I get it. You're in deep. You get halfway through and you go, damn it. I guess these people. People want an engagement. I'm not going to do that. That could happen. But this ending with Peg, and now they're just going to, like, hang. And there was no stakes. There was no. We still don't feel like we know Mel. We still don't know if we've even cracked him. He was unpenetrable, penetrable, impenetrable. That's not the way you said it, but we're doing a live podcast. He. He couldn't be cracked. They come back, they show them working out together. They're a happy couple, but there's no stakes. I had other notes. We got to Melon Peg, Cindy in the dome. Cindy just did a great job. The proposal was weird. We don't even know what he's proposing. We don't even know if they're moving to the same neighborhood. These are two people agreeing to date is what we got. Which if that was the premise of the show, we wouldn't be have our. Our expectations would be met. It's not the premise of the show. It's the Golden Bachelor. Even as Cindy said, there's a ring in the artwork. And then at the end, we get this weird interview with Taylor, Frankie, Paul, Taylor Thomas, and she's from Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. It seems as though the premise of that show, you know, Jesse has this interview with her. I'm excited because it's going to bring new life, going to bring an audience to the show, which I always enjoy. My issue is you're kind of bailing on the idea that marriage or something could be in the cards because he talks with Taylor, Frankie Paul, Louise Dreyfus and she's like talking about this, like she's kind of an on site producer. Oh, the boy. You know, the guys on this season, they were like, scared of me. They have this weird interview. And the weirdest part is she never mentions her kids. She has three children. That is question one from the host of the Bachelor. What's our plan with the kids? Do we have sitters on set? Are you. Is that important to you, them being a good dad or what type of partner are you looking for at this point in life? You're still young, but you got these three kids and you have two men that are dads to these kids. Never mentioned all about her being like, I don't know if I'm going to be able to handle pda. You're on a show about swinging. Wasn't that the whole reason it popped off is that there was all this swinging going on with these Mormon couples and you're like, I don't know if I can kiss on tv. So a very interesting interview with Taylor, Frankie Paul. I don't have any more hyphenated names to use. I wish I did. And then we come back and it's Mel and Peg and, you know, Chalk and Joan and Gary and his new fiance. Wish them luck. And that's our episode. It was a great season here. I enjoy doing this show. I get fired up, but I love doing this. I love that you're watching on YouTube. Thank you. Subscribe. Share with a friend. If you know anyone that is into the Bachelor universe or just likes reality TV and like seeing a guy, you know, rant in his, you know, in his kitchen, would love to have them involved. Comment with the parts that you enjoyed here. Let me know that you enjoyed this show and I will be back for the goal or for the I will be back for the regular Bachelorette boom. Oh, also, I'm putting up stand up clips. Go check out my stand up stuff. We're putting up behind the scenes. I'm on the road. I'm on the road. I'm in. I'm going to Charlotte and Durham this weekend. I got Fort Lauderdale, Miami after that, Orlando, San Diego, Philly, Tampa, all these great cities. Jaredfree.com for tickets and go check out my other videos where I have behind the scenes from the tour as well as from podcasts and stand up and all the crowd work clips. Go, go. Thank you. 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