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Hello, and welcome to the rose. Rehash Hometowns is my favorite episode. I just think it has the most unintentional comedy. It has family members that never wanted to be on TV that are now kind of dragged in, and some don't show up. There are some seasons where the family's like, no, no, no, we're. We're out. This isn't for us. And I always, like, appreciate that. And also, it tells the story. I want reality in my reality TV smoothie. It's going to have production. That's what you sign up for. That's why it's so annoying when someone's like, oh, it's not real. Yeah, it's as real as it's going to get when. When you take a picture and you put it above your head, that's not real. That's from an angle that makes you look better. There's angles. And then we're going to be able to, like, make our own, you know, judgments based on the angles we get to see. And that's the fun of the show. That's why I do this show. The recap to. To give you some perspective. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right. That's okay. So tonight, easy show to recap. We go to the three hometowns. We start with Peg in Vegas at the firehouse. The firehouse was very fun. Very Peg, Very different. It looked like an FHM catalog shoot. Peg looks amazing. It was interesting that the men never came over. None of the firehouse people wanted to be on tv. They looked very much like, you do your thing. Like, listen, I believe that Peg works at the firehouse, but it felt like she's at a random firehouse that they just found for them to have this date. And she didn't really know the people at this one. Maybe her job in the bomb section of things happens more in an office capacity because it did feel like she was comfortable there, but it didn't feel like anyone there knew her. And, you know, Mel is being Mel. Mel is giving nothing. Mel wants to have fun and a couple drinks and sit by a beach and maybe be a little active and break a sweat. But he wants no problems here. And Peg and him have this fun day at the firehouse, and then they go back to her house, and it's really going Mel's way. Peg does mention, you know, I want a fireplace, not a firework. She's like, more living in the, like, the hint, hint, this is serious to me world, because it does feel like she's trying to get into Mel, like, hey, this is a real thing for me. I'm not looking to have a breakup after this. I'm not looking to, like, do this just to do this because of the show, so. And it does feel like she's, like, kind of beating her head against the wall. So they go back to her family's house. It's her family. It's her mom who's like a bachelor superfan. The mom was great. The brother and her daughter and the daughter and the boyfriend. She starts with her mom, and the brother sits with Mel, and that's a nothing. There is nothing more fun than seeing the difference between the male conversations and. And the conversations they have with the women, because he goes with the brother. And it's like, yeah, we're just gonna sit and chill and what are you looking for? And it's a lot of nothing. Then Mel sits with Peg's daughter. And I think Peg's daughter should honestly start a business where she interviews the fiances of women who are brought home to the family. This. This woman. It was chess versus checkers. She had every question a daughter who has a single mother should and would ask. She was appropriate and classy. She was like. She was thorough without being disrespectful. All the questions she had were just totally on the nose. And she was just. I thought she was so great. And the way she was, like, straight up with Mel, but also not mean. Like, she was like, he's a nice man. I can tell. But this is my mom who I've watched date go through heartbreak. I see it from, like, a parent on the Bachelor doesn't really get the angle that a child does. The child has seen the highs and lows, has witnessed it, knows where their mom makes their mistakes in their love life and is really, like, more of a protector than a parent could be on the Bachelor because she's watched it, and you could see it. And Mel had nothing. Mel was in AP Bio when he should really be in the remedial class. This was. This was just not. And he's a guy with two sons. I don't blame him. I don't think him and the two sons are ever talking about relationships and what they want from it. And, you know, what they're looking for in the future. It is not that they are Michigan football and how's the team doing? And that's it. So he wasn't ready. This was, hey, we have a pop quiz. And Mel going, I guess I'm going to fail. Because he had nothing he had no answers, couldn't get through to him. And I, I, I don't know if I thought he would have more. I don't even think he's lying. I just think he wasn't prepped for such a real conversation. So we end the date, we end the hometown with just like the daughter being like, I'm not getting much here. And Peg, who's hopeful because she's got one. A good looking guy with a job like he in the land of older woman looking to settle down with someone later in life. He's got a lot to work with. Whether you want to talk crap about Mel, if he's not your cup of tea, but you'd be wrong to say generally that Mel's not a catch to someone of a certain age. Like he's got a lot to work with. Whether he can do it, I don't know. I think that's a more respectable feedback to Mel. Like can he be in a relationship that is deeper than let's have some beers by the bay. So then he goes to Debbie, Debbie's hometown, Denver, Colorado. They're gonna do the hike, they're gonna be at Red Rocks. It all makes sense. Debbie then sits down with Mel and tells him a very tragic story. It is the that she was dating someone for a long time and a therapist told her that you, you know, empowered her to leave that relationship. And then that person committed suicide. And it's like, it's a sad story. I feel for her. It's like, you know, you want to cry for her. You understand kind of how she ended up on our TVs tonight. Like you, you understand how hard that would be to get back in the dating game and not feel guilt and regret and all those things. And how much could you have done? This all makes sense. Mel is a listener. Mel takes it in, he says the right things. I don't think Mel knows these people enough to really have. I'm not trying to trash Mel on this because I don't think anyone even like talking about it here. Like I didn't do any live stream stuff with it because there was nothing, there's nothing to do, there's nothing fun there. And so I, I don't know how anyone, you know, you, how anyone would be able to react better than melded. I don't know what even to say, but maybe just knowing them more would, it would be more, you know, who knows? I don't know. I, I, I'm thinking out loud. So we move on from that. We know Debbie A little bit more. And then we go to her family. Her family is so family of woman. They are cheering for woman that hasn't been married. And maybe we got one. They're all Judy, the sister. She has two brothers, a twin sister and Judy. Judy's the rock of the family. You can tell Judy just is a professional sister of a single woman. It is. She never asks questions. She doesn't get deep, too, too deep. She's just there, she's receiving, she's you know, squeezing a hand. The twin sister Donna, I could tell would probably be annoying. Donna going on and on about, you know, I just wish Debbie would find someone that's a little self serving in my opinion. Like she's just saying how much she cares about her sister. Like, we get it. Sister Donna, we get it. You want you cheer for Debbie. We get it. Judy was a saint. The two brothers playing catch with, with, with Mel was hilarious. The two brothers who like any two brothers of that age, who here's the thing Mel with has with any man around his age. He has personal relationships with professional athletes that they know and love. So Mel's going to be able to tell you about the big game and what, you know, what that quarterback is up to. Now Mel can have any man his age wrapped around his finger in five seconds. That's why it's so fun to see him with the daughters of the women he's trying to date. Because these daughters, it's like seeing Superman with, around kryptonite. Because him with Peg's daughter, you're like, oh, you got nothing. There's no football stories. There's no, oh yeah, you know, I played in the LA Coliseum. Like what you can see the brothers these, throwing a football with one of the brothers. The guy's like, I better catch this. I, I, I can't miss it. So he ends the Debbie date at this like all American barbecue type of date. And it goes well, it goes great. You can tell if he married Debbie, no questions asked, he could be Mel. No one's gonna like disagree with him about anything at the dinner table. He's gonna be King Mel with Debbie, which is interesting because he ends up losing, you know, ends up giving up on, on the Debbie relationship. And you know, I do think part of that is I think Cindy, well, we'll get to Cindy's hometown day before we get to the ending. But s so Cindy, then we go to Austin, Texas. I would say this was a three Bears situation as far as the show is concerned. You had Peg's Family was tough. You had. Debbie's family was easy, and Cindy's was somewhere in between. She's got her three daughters. The daughter does kind of take Mel and question him a little bit softer than Peg's daughter. He gets to hang out with the two son in laws who are like, she loves football. Like, he gets the easy conversation with the son in laws. And then Cindy puts a hard push on Mel to open up. And Mel is a steel box. Like, he ain't gonna do it. She even brings him to the roof. She's like, I want the L bomb. I'm looking to get the L word. Like. And you could see on Mel's face, like, I'm not giving this up. But, like, also, like, it's. It felt like a preview of what's to come. It felt like we are getting like, yeah, at some point on this show, the cameras turn on Mel and go, what do you got? Open up. Let's see it. And we're starting to see how he's going to refuse that, how he is refusing that. We go to the rose ceremony. Debbie goes home. It's very heartbreaking. She's, you know, she keeps it together. She does her plea to be the next golden bachelorette. I think she would be great. I think she'd be relatable to, you know, the power of the golden show is that it's not just relatable to people in their 60s. It's relatable to me in my 40s. It's relatable to anyone. And. And that is still dating way more so than the regular bachelor or bachelorette. And if you're never married, no kids, at 35, you see yourself in Debbie, never married, no kid, 65. So I think she would be a fantastic golden bachelorette. She's also fun. She's beautiful. She's aspirational. She's a businesswoman. I think she would be fabulous. It is interesting that he'd be king of the family, but he chose to be king of the relationship. I think Debbie would challenge him, and I don't think Mel wants to be challenged. I think, you know, with Peg and Cindy, they kind of, like, are in awe of Mel, and I think he likes that. I think he likes to be number one. The family doesn't really matter as much as the one on one thing. So that's the recap. It's, you know, short because hometowns is pretty easy. And, you know, subscribe, comment, let me know what you think, feedback, whatever you want. So. And share this with a friend who likes the bachelor. Boom. Bye.