This week on Matt James’s journey to find love, we took one step forward and two giant steps back. We actually ended this episode with, somehow, more women than we started with -- and they even managed to jack up the already high level of unple

'Bachelor' S25e3 with Arielle Duhaime-Ross

Jan 19th, 2021 1h 25m

This week, much like Chris Harrison and Matt’s women, we tried out our own Bachelor-centric erotica, full of turtleneck-clad abs and girthy arms. And then, of course, we couldn’t avoid addressing the girl-on-girl crimes that filled this episode

'Bachelor' S25e2 with Erin Evans

Jan 12th, 2021 1h 29m

This week, honestly, we have a lot of questions about what we’re all doing here in Bachelor Nation. Like, is this a sorority? Are we here to make friends? We need more clarity on this! Maybe next week Victoria can shed a little light on whether

‘Bachelor’ S25e1 with Sharleen Joynt

Jan 5th, 2021 1h 15m

Let our lead Matt James be clothed in earth-tone turtlenecks and let his roses be given in wisdom. Amen, and a-women. And now, let’s get to some heavy drinking and light making out! The 25th Bachelor season kicked off last night, and things are

'Bachelorette' S16 Finale Part 2 with Vella Lovell

Dec 23rd, 2020 1h 21m

Welcome to our recap of what will go down in history as one of the greatest love stories of our time. We can’t remember the last time this show gave us a proposal as romantic as the one we got last night. This very unusual season of The Bachelo

‘Bachelorette’ S16 Finale Part 1 - The Fantasy Suite Dates

Dec 22nd, 2020 1h 15m

It’s finale week, and on today’s episode, the fantasy suites! We’re down to three potential partners for Tayshia, and sorry – we can’t choose. She’s going to have to marry all of them.In a just world, these sweet gentle boys would get to hang o

‘Bachelorette’ S16 Men Tell All + Hometown Dates with Erin Darke

Dec 16th, 2020 1h 36m

We get right into it this week because we have to cover four hours of The Bachelorette! We have to go from 8 guys down to 3. We have to talk about a Men Tell All held in a hermetically sealed chamber and a hometown episode held not in anyone’s

'Bachelorette' S16e9 with Natasha Parker

Dec 9th, 2020 1h 26m

We will be discussing depression and suicide during this episode from around 39:00 to 58:00.If you or someone you know needs help, call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. You can also text HOME to 741-741 for free, 24-

'Bachelorette' S16e8 with Brett Vergara

Dec 2nd, 2020 1h 40m

This episode contains a discussion on eating disorders from 58:20 to 1:10:00. If you're struggling with an eating disorder, call the National Eating Disorder Association hotline at 1-800-931-2237 or visit https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org

'Bachelorette' S16e7 with Allison Williams

Nov 25th, 2020 1h 30m

It’s Thanksgiving week and for many of us, it may feel like there’s less to be thankful for than ever. This has been a year filled with loneliness and loss for so many Americans. But we do want to take a leaf from Bachelor Nation sweetheart --

'Bachelorette' S16e6 with Arielle Duhaime-Ross

Nov 18th, 2020 1h 23m

Welcome to our grown-ass podcast. It’s a grown-ass show, where we discuss grown-ass men and grown-ass women and their grown-ass adventures on a grown-ass show called “The Bachelorette.”And last night, we closed the door on grown-ass woman Clare

'Bachelorette' S16e5 with Liz Plank

Nov 11th, 2020 1h 8m

Sometimes, you just need your reality TV to be more boring than reality. A peaceful transition, new Bachelorette leadership installed without incident -- it feels good. Tayshia’s season began in earnest last night, and despite a couple of twist

'Bachelorette' S16e4 with Ashley Spivey

Nov 6th, 2020 1h 4m

Well, at least we got to witness one peaceful transfer of power in this nation last night.It’s not the one we hoped for, personally, but hey. It’s something.We took a brief break from watching the votes trickle in in Georgia and Pennsylvania to

'Bachelorette' S16e3 with Kate Stayman-London

Oct 28th, 2020 1h 33m

We are so excited to be here today to recap a dramatic episode of the hit game show “What Did Dale Say About Me, Exactly?” Truly action-packed, and this week we did learn a lot about what Dale said about Clare, and what Clare said about Dale.We

'Bachelorette' S16e2 with Jessica Goodman

Oct 21st, 2020 1h 30m

Every week we tune into a new episode of The Bachelorette, and we simply don’t know what we’re going to get. Some episodes are really rich texts, with so much to unpack and examine… others are maybe more like pamphlets. This week, though, we go

‘Bachelorette’ S16e1 With Alyssa Mastromonaco

Oct 14th, 2020 1h 16m

We’ve waited so long for this and it’s finally here! Seven years after she first appeared on The Bachelor, Clare Crawley is our Bachelorette. We’re diving into a Bachelorette season that looks a lot different than we expected. Quarantines! Face

'Greatest Seasons Ever: Juan Pablo Galavis' with Sharleen Joynt

Sep 9th, 2020 1h 59m

We’ve come to the end of this pandemic summer and this seat-of-the-pants pandemic Bachelor show. So long, The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons -- Ever!And for once the show has made a decision we can really get behind: ending with the best worst

‘Greatest Season Ever: Nick Viall’ with Taylor Nolan

Sep 2nd, 2020 1h 43m

This week, we took a trip all the way back to the dark days of early 2017 to revisit Nick Viall’s season of The Bachelor. And after suffering through Peter’s season with us, our colleague Leigh Blickley is back this week to fill in for Claire a

'Greatest Seasons Ever: Jason Mesnick' with Jason Mesnick

Aug 12th, 2020 1h 30m

Time to take a virtual trip back to 2009. We were still youthful college students who hadn’t been swept up into Bachelor Nation’s inescapable pull though we did have the same ill-advised layers and flat-ironed side bangs as some of the contesta

'Greatest Seasons Ever: Ali Fedotowsky'

Aug 5th, 2020 1h 9m

It’s been two weeks since our last episode And we can’t believe how much has happened since then. Like… the whole Bachelorette season might be different?But before we get to that, we need to take a trip down memory lane to 2010. Obama was still

'Greatest Seasons Ever: Brad Womack' with Ashley Spivey

Jul 22nd, 2020 1h 25m

It’s 2007. The era of sweetheart necklines, poorly-structured empire waists, and, of course, the most hated man in America. No, not George W. Bush. Brad Womack, the slow-talking, monotone, chiseled Texan who walked onto our TV screens and away

Bonus

Introducing D Is For Desire

Jul 14th, 2020 31m 20s

There was no new episode this week, so instead, we’re here to introduce you to a new member of the HuffPost podcast family.D Is For Desire is hosted by our colleague Noah Michelson and explores sex, sexuality, relationships and love from angles

'Greatest Seasons Ever: Alex Michel and Trista Rehn' with LaNease Adams

Jul 8th, 2020 1h 33m

The year was 2002. We had it all: Dark neutral lipsticks, blurry camera phones, and, of course, The Bachelor! We’re not saying that The Bachelor *took* our live show ideas, but we’re just saying, that if you liked Monday’s recap of Alex Michel’

'Greatest Seasons Ever: JoJo Fletcher' with Grant Kemp

Jul 1st, 2020 1h 16m

This week on The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons -- Ever!, ABC is keeping us in the purgatory of 2016 with JoJo’s brutal season of The Bachelorette (aka the Trumpiest season of “The Bachelorette” ever.)We covered some highlights -- and lowlights

'Greatest Seasons Ever: Ben Higgins' with Amber James and Jami Letain

Jun 24th, 2020 1h 8m

This week, we took a trip back to 2016 to revisit the last pre-Trump season of “The Bachelor.”Though we got to relive some of the good, bad and cringeworthy times of Ben’s season on Monday’s Bachelor special, we wanted to continue speaking to c