Ever wondered what it's like to find love as a senior? We explore the first-of-its-kind series where mature love and companionship replace young drama and rivalry. In our latest episode, we discuss The Golden Bachelor, a refreshing twist on the typical Bachelor/Bachelorette show. This unique series brings back a sense of class to the genre by focusing on genuine relationships and heartwarming connections amongst senior contestants. We're also taking a deep dive into some of the show's standout moments and its impact on viewers.
As we venture further into the world of the Golden Bachelor, we'll shed light on the recent finale, where we saw the charming winner, Gerry, break away from the traditional norms of the show. Gerry's journey was an exploration of love, loss, and navigating the complexities of potential remarriage after the death of a spouse. We'll discuss these poignant themes and how the show has beautifully showcased the differences between young and mature love. And of course, we're eagerly looking forward to the upcoming season of the Golden Bachelorette. Join us as we share our excitement and express our support for potential candidates and season standouts. It's an episode that promises to stir emotions, provoke thought, and provide a unique perspective on love and relationships. Tune in!
Ever wondered what it's like to find love as a senior? We explore the first-of-its-kind series where mature love and companionship replace young drama and rivalry. In our latest episode, we discuss The Golden Bachelor, a refreshing twist on the typical Bachelor/Bachelorette show. This unique series brings back a sense of class to the genre by focusing on genuine relationships and heartwarming connections amongst senior contestants. We're also taking a deep dive into some of the show's standout moments and its impact on viewers.
As we venture further into the world of the Golden Bachelor, we'll shed light on the recent finale, where we saw the charming winner, Gerry, break away from the traditional norms of the show. Gerry's journey was an exploration of love, loss, and navigating the complexities of potential remarriage after the death of a spouse. We'll discuss these poignant themes and how the show has beautifully showcased the differences between young and mature love. And of course, we're eagerly looking forward to the upcoming season of the Golden Bachelorette. Join us as we share our excitement and express our support for potential candidates and season standouts. It's an episode that promises to stir emotions, provoke thought, and provide a unique perspective on love and relationships. Tune in!
Alright, this podcast episode is all about the Golden Bachelor. If you have not watched the Golden Bachelor, go and watch it now. The series finale, or the season finale, actually just wrapped up a couple days ago and we've had a couple days to kind of marinate on what happened. But for those who don't know what the Golden Bachelor is, chance.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it is essentially the Bachelor right, but for an older person. So you don't know what the Bachelor is. A lot of women are competing for one guy and at the end of it, that couple is supposed to get engaged. So you're taking that same exact storyline, but doing it with 70 year olds.
Speaker 1:
Seniors right.
Speaker 2:
And that was a definite twist of events, for sure, but in the best way possible. So, basically, you've got one older guy, a senior, and all of these older women are competing to take him home to get married to him, and it was just very, I feel like it was actually pretty meaningful and thoughtful, whereas I really enjoyed watching that experience.
Speaker 1:
Like watching that journey unfold. So the first Golden Bachelor, essentially a senior Bachelor, a Bachelor right. I really hope they do this for the Bachelor at.
Speaker 2:
Golden.
Speaker 1:
His name is Gary Turner and he quickly won over America's Heart. He's this really very handsome 70 year old man, and he was looking for love he was. He recently lost his wife not too recently, I think it was a few years.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it was a few years.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, and he has opened himself up to find love again and he met these. I feel like it was a lot smaller of a number than the Bachelor Bachelor series when it comes to men and women, I think just to like speed up the journey, but there are only like 22.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, there wasn't.
Speaker 1:
There wasn't as many I felt like it went by really quick.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
And I honestly just want a petition that we don't go back to normal Bachelor. Bachelor anymore, because just the Bachelor, bachelor right has gotten so tacky.
Speaker 2:
I feel like.
Speaker 1:
Repetitive. I want to say it's just you. It's like you see the same thing every season. And I know every season is supposed to be like the most dramatic.
Speaker 2:
It just feels tacky to me, like it kind of felt tacky before, but now that we've seen the Golden Bachelor, it's like bring back class to dating.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, because it was so neat like the whole entire show, like the first one on one date. So if you're not familiar with the Bachelor, there's one on one dates and there's group dates, right? So the first one on one date that Gary went on, it was literally in a vintage car at a diner and all they did was talk the whole time and they danced and it was just so meaningful, whereas on the Bachelor it's like skydiving or rock climbing or skiing or you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:
It's not as intimate, so you don't get to really know the person. It's more like let's do something cool together, but we're not really gonna have the chance to have these deep, meaningful conversations and a lot of the times things happen on the Bachelor and Bachelorette Just very drama filled, very like immature, like the fights and the yeah, I know, like on the Bachelor not the Golden Bachelor, but the regular Bachelor like the women are so dramatic, like so, like you're sleeping with my dude, you're kissing my guy and it's like no shit.
Speaker 2:
Like y'all all signed up. What do you think you signed up for? Yeah, you signed up to share dude, whereas on the Golden Bachelor, these women are all like okay, so we're all competing for the same guy and you know.
Speaker 1:
I wish all you ladies luck. Like it's just so you know the sense of like womanhood, yeah they're like all we want is for Gary to be happy.
Speaker 2:
Like whatever makes Gary and it's like that would never fly in the Bachelor. Like the Bachelor is all about he's mine. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:
This was just a really big sense of almost sisterhood in the house. For those who don't know, they put all of the contestants either all female or all male, depending on if it's the Bachelor or Bachelorette. They put them up in the Bachelor mansion in Southern California where they have to live together, basically, and every week or so a couple of women will leave the house as they get eliminated. But you essentially develop the sense of sisterhood with people within the house, or you're supposed to, but normally when you see the Bachelor or Bachelorette it's a lot of drama, a lot of tension, a lot of fakeness. But the thing that was so refreshing about the Golden Bachelor was it was just so real and raw and we saw some drama, but it was senior drama.
Speaker 1:
The first is oh, you're sleeping with my man, whereas do you remember who started the drama in the house for the Golden Bachelor?
Speaker 2:
I'm not good with names. I know it was with Teresa and that other lady's name that didn't last long. Sorry for spoiler alerts, but yeah, it's Teresa. What was her name? It was Kathy, Kathy, Teresa and Kathy.
Speaker 1:
Teresa and Kathy. So Kathy was very straight to the point. She's like I don't wanna hear about anybody's dates in the house. It's just I don't wanna hear about it, just zip it. That was her thing, was just zip it. And Teresa was very open in the house like, oh, gary was so great, he came up and we had this wonderful date and we talked all night and Kathy's there, zip it. I don't wanna hear from her.
Speaker 2:
So, yeah, it was, it was very. That was the only drama, though Like. The rest of it was like there was no other drama. Them cooking for each other in the house, like who was the better cook, like they were talking about that.
Speaker 1:
They were talking about flatulence. At one point, like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:
It was really cool. The episode that I think was the coolest, that probably captured a lot of hearts, was the pickleball episode, right when they specifically when they all went to go play pickleball. So all the women competed right to go win over Gary at this thing, and that's very typical of the group dates.
Speaker 2:
The group dates are definitely more activity driven, whereas the one on ones are more intimate driven and it was just so cool to see like those 60 to 80 year old women like getting out there and cussing on the court and yelling and screaming and trying to beat each other so badly.
Speaker 1:
But the kitchen kitchens.
Speaker 2:
The bitching kitchens was one of the names, it was just so, it was so cool to see it. But then at the same time, like once again, there was no like drama, like one team didn't get pissed off at the other team and say you're cheating, because I feel like that's what would happen in the back Right, like that was in, that was out, or like all this stuff, whereas with them it was just like oh, the winner, yay, good job.
Speaker 2:
That person won. Even with the activities that were very competitively driven, it was like no, they still just had a good time. And what was it? That one girl that, like accidentally rolled her ankle.
Speaker 1:
I accidentally fell on the court and then she's like I'm perfectly fine.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, winkling, she just wanted the attention from Gary.
Speaker 1:
That's smart. The other girls applauded her. They were like, ok yeah, that wouldn't have happened on the Bachelor Bachelorette.
Speaker 2:
No.
Speaker 1:
Did you have any season favorites? Did you have like a specific person that you were rooting for every week?
Speaker 2:
I will say I'm very glad who he went home with. But it's funny because I was so like hot and cold on that topic, like on that person, on that woman. Yeah, honestly didn't really like, and I don't want to say the name, just in case somebody hasn't seen it and maybe we can at this point because I can we?
Speaker 1:
I think the episode is expire on who OK? Ok, so just with the Bachelor, teresa.
Speaker 2:
Teresa is spoiler alert Is who he gets engaged to and at first I really didn't like her. Like she looks so fake to me, like she just looked fake, but it's so weird because by the end of it, she doesn't look, she wasn't. Yeah, she doesn't look, it's also like you got to know her personality more and obviously that's why Gary chose her, Whereas on the Bachelor, like that wouldn't have probably been the person to be chosen because she wasn't the absolute prettiest. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:
And not what we would say like conventionally pretty. Right, right, right, because I think the most like, conventionally, like, met, all the like, checked off all the boxes, would have been Leslie or Faith Faith, which are the ones that were that it boiled down to yeah, and I mean, who knows, maybe one of those who who didn't win Gary's heart will be the Golden Bachelorette, but I'm still holding on hope for the two ladies who oh, yeah, Kathy and Susan. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Kathy and Susan.
Speaker 1:
Kathy and Susan.
Speaker 2:
Susan looks exactly like Christian, or like it is creepily like Christian.
Speaker 1:
I really hope she's the next Golden Bachelorette. I loved Susan.
Speaker 2:
I was rooting for Susan.
Speaker 1:
She was so much fun, she was so real and that is a girl's girl Like she was rooting for everybody. She was clapping for them If they had great dates. She was crying for them If things went wrong. And she was just so genuine.
Speaker 2:
Faith never really seemed like she showed a lot of emotion.
Speaker 1:
Hmm, no, yeah, you're probably right. Right, yeah, she, she cried. I do remember her crying yeah.
Speaker 2:
I'd liked all of them, though that's what was. That's what's weird, like usually on.
Speaker 1:
that's what was great, that's why we should have more Golden Bachelorette on the bachelor.
Speaker 2:
On the Bachelor, I can immediately be like I don't like half of those girls.
Speaker 1:
Yeah.
Speaker 2:
Not because they're looks, just because I'm like bitch bitch, bitch, bitch, like y'all. I don't like y'all, like y'all give bad vibes and on this one you just didn't get a lot of bad vibes Like they chose such a good. What do you call it cast?
Speaker 1:
It's not a cast. I know we're doing a lot of comparisons between the Golden Bachelor and Bachelor, right, but there was just such a breath of fresh air with this new series and I really hope that it continues to go on.
Speaker 2:
And it makes sense because, like if you think about the people that were watching the Bachelor, that are growing up like it kind of makes sense to start doing the Golden Bachelor because we're getting, I would say, more mature. So maybe they realize, like I'm curious to see, like how they came about that thought process, like was their audience, you know, starting to tank off? Were they losing views?
Speaker 1:
or client after Chris Harrison left and they were trying to find a way to revamp things and get the viewers' attention back, and I thought that was the perfect way to do so, because it's so entertaining to watch older people do anything.
Speaker 2:
And then it was cool. So they went on all the dates, right, he started narrowing it down. And then they got to what's called hometowns, right, that's where all the girls come to meet Gary's oh no, gary goes to meet all the women's families. And then it started getting, I feel, like way more serious, right. Like obviously it gets way more serious then. And it was wild, like because remember we were like, oh, he's going to choose Faith and Leslie, like we knew it. And then he was like Leslie, teresa, and we're like what?
Speaker 1:
And like like Kerbalz and on.
Speaker 2:
The Bachelor. You don't get that really Usually. It's pretty like he's going to go with those two.
Speaker 1:
We know that yeah.
Speaker 2:
So that was also cool, Like it shows you that, like when you're older, I feel like you have a different, like mindset, wisdom. It's not just about looks, it's about so much more yeah.
Speaker 1:
Because Bachelor Bachelorette they're all very good-looking people, so you probably don't take as much time to get to know the person underneath Right. One of the biggest differences between the Golden Bachelor and the Bachelor Bachelorette franchise is on the Bachelor Bachelorette you're looking for your forever love and with the Golden Bachelor it's finding love after you're significant other. Like your true love passes away. Yeah, which was another very interesting thing to watch on, like unfold on TV, because Gary had lost his wife to a disease and he had been with her for 30, 40-something years and he was like it's nerve-wracking getting back into this, because the last time I said I love you to someone was with my wife of 40-something years. Tony, tony, yeah, shout out, tony. So a lot of the women too were also widows who had lost their partners before them and that just really makes you think like would you ever want to fall in love again?
Speaker 2:
I hate this topic.
Speaker 1:
I know, but it just, it makes you think let's say I passed.
Speaker 2:
I would want you to be happy.
Speaker 1:
You don't want me to be happy. But what have you told me the entire time watching? That You're not allowed to get married.
Speaker 2:
You're not allowed to you, slut, you can't just keep it in your pants for another 10, 20 years. If I'm dead, you're going to be miserable. I will haunt you. I will haunt you. I feel like you kind of agreed, in a way.
Speaker 1:
I mean but it's just after a certain point it's like I'd rather just wait.
Speaker 2:
Here's the dilemma who do you get buried next to? Yes, yes, that's the part that's so depressing to me is like if we spend 50 years together, we're 20, we spend 50 years together and one of us passes at 70. And then you spend like five or 10 years with somebody else. Are you going to marry or are you going to? You're going to choose to be with them, next to them. I know.
Speaker 1:
I was actually talking with my mom about this over lunch yesterday. I was like Chance and I are just like we just keep wondering like what happens? And if any of you are in that position, are in that unfortunate position, how have you navigated that? We have a tick talk at no nation needed pod. Please leave your answers there. I'd love to know, because that's that was my biggest question is like OK, you were with your wife, Tony, for 40 something years. You loved her. You say she was your everything. You guys have kids together, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you're marrying Teresa, who you also love, and one is your wife buried or is she cremated? I don't. I don't think that detail was maybe if you're cremated it's easier.
Speaker 2:
Maybe it's maybe if you're cremated, you just like have her and then when you get to heaven they're just both your wives, Then I'd remarry Shut up.
Speaker 1:
I don't even know what I would do in that situation.
Speaker 2:
I really don't, until death, do us part.
Speaker 1:
Oh yeah, oh wait, hold on you. You had said watching that too.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
I don't want to say that in my vows. I genuinely don't we're getting married in less than a month and part of the traditional vows are till death, do us part.
Speaker 2:
Till death do us part.
Speaker 1:
And you're like no, even after. Then what are you talking about? Yeah this is an eternity thing. If I were to go first, I guess it would just really depend on, like the age that it happened.
Speaker 2:
Seventy and plus.
Speaker 1:
If it was 70 plus, you could date as much as you want. Date around. No, no, but you're still coming home to me.
Speaker 2:
You will be very near to me. Fulfill your needs, yeah you can.
Speaker 1:
You know, knock boots, as Gary said, as much as you want past 70. Yeah but still you come home to me, capiche.
Speaker 2:
Capiche. Ok, I feel like I can get on. I can get on that train.
Speaker 1:
OK, you have like a similar thought?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1:
But if it was anything younger than 70. No, no, if I died 40, I could die tomorrow.
Speaker 2:
You're. You're dating the rest of your life.
Speaker 1:
I'm just dating, dating. That's actually fine with me.
Speaker 2:
I just really love you.
Speaker 1:
Yeah. I just, I don't know so anyways, I don't want you to be happy regardless, but just not married.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, same Okay.
Speaker 1:
Glad we covered that.
Speaker 2:
Um, the other thing was the end of the show. I thought it was very unique how the show ended, because usually that would never happen on the Bachelor. So if you haven't seen it, spoiler alert again. But Gary, basically on the last rose ceremony you're supposed to have two women standing up there and then you give one the golden rose, right?
Speaker 1:
Just the rose in general. No, the way that it's worked in Bachelor and Bachelor at past is at the end you guys are both in this beautiful island, or whatever.
Speaker 2:
Mm, hmm.
Speaker 1:
And they both walk down that path to where they both think they're going to be proposed to. But they walk one at a time, but one gets dumped at the altar.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, and then the other gets proposed to. And but uh, and the golden Bachelor. He's such a genuine nice guy that he literally couldn't do that, like he told Leslie the night before, because she was like I can tell something's off, and that's the difference between, I would say, young love and mature love is like Leslie knew, like this, isn't it?
Speaker 1:
It's not going to work Like it's not it.
Speaker 2:
I'm just waiting for him to tell me yeah, and she's like just tell me, like, just tell me, like, do you have anything to say?
Speaker 1:
And he walked out and she straight up said thank you. Thank you for doing this now, because you have saved me the trouble of going down there in my what $60,000 dress and earrings and getting my heart broken on national, on national TV. And but she still got her heart broken on national TV.
Speaker 2:
Right, but at least it wasn't like she said on stage, right, right. And to me that just once again shows you like the, the tackiness of the bachelor is like that's right, that's how it should be done, is like shouldn't want to humiliate, no, don't humiliate the other part.
Speaker 2:
Now all the other rose ceremonies, I get like those 30 women you need to eliminate two or three of them, like let's get on with the process. But when you get down to like I feel like under five, maybe you don't have to have the rose ceremony, maybe it's just like at that point it's more sentimental and you're just kind of you know, I think the one thing that I took from the entire golden bachelor series, or this this season I keep calling it a series, but this season it's still the first- yeah first season of hopefully a series is.
Speaker 1:
I hope it shows women out there like the qualities that you'll want in a man, because a lot of the bachelor bachelor relationships don't work. They'll get engaged, They'll ride that high for a bit and then they'll realize they don't know enough about each other and then it ends horribly or just ends. But the thing with Gary is like you already know what you're looking for and he showed so many amazing qualities throughout that show. He was just so kind and warm, I will say he did lead a couple women on, but at the same time that's what I mean. What else do you do?
Speaker 2:
in that situation. That's the show.
Speaker 1:
It's what you're signing up for and I think everybody knows subconsciously. If you're chosen to be the lead of that show, you're going to fall in love with more than one woman and you're going to break a lot of hearts. So my takeaway I just hope women out there watch the Golden Bachelor, look at the qualities in men like Gary the fun goofy. Just I want a woman who can be herself and make me feel warm.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
Like it's not even surface level.
Speaker 2:
I don't think he ever talks about their appearance. Yeah, like he loved Teresa so much because she put his hand, or she put her hand on his shoulder and it made him feel like a piece.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, Because it's all about that feeling. Yeah, it's great when you feel like these sparks and these butterflies at the beginning, but there was a quote that was like the butterflies are like the warning signs. If you have them for so long is like you don't always want to feel on edge with your partner. You want them to be your safe place to where you feel calm and warm and at peace, and I think that's why he chose Teresa, because he said that from the get go is she just made me feel so safe and calm by putting her hand on my shoulder during that drive? So just little things like that.
Speaker 2:
Yeah.
Speaker 1:
You don't get that from the bachelor bachelorette.
Speaker 2:
No, it was an amazing show, I loved it.
Speaker 1:
Me too. I am so excited to see who they choose for the golden bachelorette, and I'm so team Susan or team Sandra.
Speaker 2:
Sandra.
Speaker 1:
So they were both amazing. Go watch the golden bachelorette if you have not already. It is streaming on Hulu.
