Bachelor Happy HourToday on “Happy Hour,” we are here with our Hometowns analyst Jared Freid to recap last night’s episode of “The Golden Bachelorette”! It’s that time of year again, and Jared has a lot of thoughts on this season’s Hometowns. We kick off part one with his thoughts on the season thus far. Then, we dive into all things Hometowns. From Reno’s vibes to Pascal's family of characters, Jared is giving us all his thoughts. Tune in now to hear all this and more, and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Hey, everyone, welcome back to Betcher Happy Art.
I'm John and I'm Serena, and we are here.
With our hometown, our hometown favorites, our hometown analyst, our favorite hometown analyst. Jared Freed is with us today. Jared, Welcome to Becher Happy Hour.
Thank you for being here.
It is one of my greatest pleasures to be your hometown analyst.
It is my favorite episode of the show.
It is always just ripe with these little tiny details that we can look into and make fun of and enjoy.
So thank you, Thank you for having me.
Yeah, we'll talk.
We'll do we'll break down Hometown's first part and then next part we'll kind of just break down the whole season and get your thoughts. But I do like calling you hometown analyst this. I actually thought this was I'm usually with Serena where I'm like, hometowns are so boring.
I thought this was the best episode.
Usually I'm a hometown hater, but I actually liked this episode and I think it can we did to the fact that this season's been really sad and the hometowns were kind of fun.
Yeah, right, it could have gotten I was expecting to see divorced dad apartment, that's gonna make us even sadder and stay in any mediocre relationship that we're in.
And never get divorced ever in our.
Lives because that is like the dad thing where you're like, how are these guys living? You know, Like and it was really nice to see that they had like friends and family and like their kids were like excited for them, Like there was a there was a an optimism that has been missing from this show.
On this season, like the Golden bouch or the women were giving off a totally different vibe. The men have really been giving off like I don't know how to do life without.
Well, but that's that is a male thing.
Like I don't know how much empathy men get like on the internet generally, Like it's really kind of like not a space for like sad dudes to have, like people like pumping them up in the way that maybe women get on TikTok especially, But like this has been a season to show Like I remember growing up, I'm like, my dad didn't have a friend in the world.
He didn't talk to anybody, Like this is like how men are.
Men age out of their friends and they kind of are like at the whim of like their wives' plans and now they have to be friends with like someone's husband just because they're their wife's husband.
And it's like, yeah, I don't want to talk to that loser.
I want to make my own friends, you know, and like these guys, I mean even last episode when Pascal says that Mark is his best friend, like I was like, is he eight years old?
Exactly?
Birthday party? Yeah?
Like Mark has the best goodie bags, Like what are we talking about?
But jo he's one of the men that's not giving that energy, Like he's one of the few men that's giving like I'm living my best life.
Pascal's young. Pascal is giving like he's living a young man. Well he's fourteen.
It does feel like Joan that's what she's looking for. She's looking for seemingly a life that's set up and one that's gonna be fun like and she says that a lot, but like she's she's going, you know, her words are she's playing by her own words, like she's backing that up by who she's choosing, because like you know, she's not like like you can even see like in past episodes, she's like, oh so your kids are like still kids, and you're like, yeah, you can just see Joan like looking past that guy, like it's like over for him.
You know.
Like these the four men that she goes to visit, these are men who.
Are active, who have a life, who have like the ability to like do the next phase, it seems.
Yeah, she wants someone that is either flexible in their career or fully retired, has adult children that they're no longer caring for or supporting, and is financially stable enough to like go and do crazy, exciting fun things like basically like a parallel life to what it seems like she's living, which is totally fair.
You know, the girl's sixty here.
Yeah, I think it's good that she came in and was like, this is what I'm looking for.
I think it sets her up for success.
I mean, I don't think she's looking for someone that's still like struggling to find their career.
Yes, she's she's not going to be selling T shirts for someone's merch after this is over. Like, she's not moving in with me in my studio apartment to come to the comedy seller and do shows tonight. You know, like that's not gonna happen, which is just respect. Like I like, anyone who would speak ill of that is like out of their minds and just looking to have a moral authority over someone else, like.
They're just a loser.
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, like you should just be with you should just have what go for what you want, especially when you're older in life, because like you know.
She's also probably thinking, like I thought I was going to spend my whole life with this one person, and they, it seems, had a very clear vision of what the next twenty.
Thirty years were going to be for them.
Yeah, and she's it just feels like she's like I don't want to sacrifice that plan, like that was our ideal plan. It was my ideal plan, and I want to find someone who also wants those things.
Yeah, well that's why like Guy, Like she doesn't really have a lot with Guy to go to his hometown, but you can see he checks all those boxes. Yeah, so that's where I was gonna go. Let's we'll go to Guy first, because he's the first hometown.
Have you been to Lake Tahoe, I was That's.
What I was going to ask.
Well, it was very I've never been to Lake Tahoe. But this is the problem. I have been to Reno, so I was like very nervous. I'm like, is this gonna be a Reno hometown or is this gonna be a Lake Tahoe hometown?
And where's Reno?
Sorry, I think it's in the seventh layer of Hell. Yeah, because that Reno. Listen, I'm sure there's nice neighborhoods. I wish Reno upon nobody.
I have been there.
The casinos look like they're from like an alternate timeline where everything's gone wrong.
It is, it is.
It can make you really look inside your own soul to wonder what you've done to end up in Reno. Now, Lake Tahoe one of the most beautiful places on earth. All you hear about is how amazing. And it's some place you do a bachelor bachelrette party. So it is like a fifty to fifty shot, and I was happy that it. Joan got Tahoe.
Reno and not Rena Rena.
Well, The Godfather Part two kicks off with.
Them in Lake Tahoe, right, Yeah, that is that not positive?
Okay, it's just a beautiful scene.
I remember watching anything and that that's where I want to end up like al Pacino.
What's the name of this podcast, Joe's Dreams? Uh so so yeah, he just looked at the sky. What's going on?
Are you okay?
We didn't travel lots off, just like.
Where were you recently?
We were so we were in Tulsa and then from Tulsa we went to l Ah.
You were in Tulsa for Noah and Abigail's wedding. I watched your stories. I enjoyed them.
And there's Aaron. There was the brother pearls on.
Yeah you did not wear any no pearls.
I actually really like him.
I really got along with him, golfed with him. Cool guy, Yeah, yeah, good guy.
I'll trust I'll trust you. He's a big clapbacker on the internet. He really cannot take the internet.
The thing.
The thing about me is I don't really when I meet people, I don't really talk about you know, like I'm not I'm not like, let's let's let's go through everything that you went through in your journey on the show.
I'm just like sna this is why men don't have friends as they get older.
He's like, I don't have any questions about themselves or their experiences.
Right, Why would I get personal with this man that I spent eighteen holes with?
Why would I ask about his friends and family and how.
His relationships are going. No, no, no, no, I'm gonna talk to him about the Bears. And that's it.
It is so true. She was upset about something I forgot. He's like, uh, and she's like, I'll fine, I'll ask your opinion and that I give her an answer and she goes, this is exactly why I didn't ask your opinion.
This is why it was like something going on and like and he was like, yeah, just be like, hey, what's up to the person? I was like, I don't know what you think this situation is, but your advice is not aligned, Like.
So you were looking for advice on that situation is a level eight.
Joe's response is constantly a level two. No matter anything above a two, you're still getting a two response.
This is why I like Joe. I I easy, breezey. There is nothing more that we're gonna have to go. Like I could sit with Joe for six hours and we'd talk about the.
Bears and you learn nothing about each other.
I would know nothing about him, and I would enjoy every minute of.
It would come.
We would both look at how a woman.
Walk by with like a big ass, and he'd be like, yeah, we both agree it was a nice ass.
And that would be it. Like that be all we talked.
The best is yeah. I would get home and be like any tea, like, what's up with chair? I'd be like, yeah, he touring.
And ask specific questions and he would be like, I don't know, I didn't like looking at me like that's why would I ask him those things?
Right?
And that's why what you Serena.
He'll be on a show where he's looking at a hummingbird and going, maybe the honey, maybe the humming bird can tell me what I should wear tonight.
Okay, So whose homeout are we at? What's the name guy God?
Yes?
Okay, so I will say the beautiful part insanely beautiful and his boat is a really nice boat.
Beauty.
I watching this hometown and you know, I want both of your opinions because this is a conversation.
But I don't like like where this is going.
I just don't know how I feel about like everything that is guy and what's around.
Like, I just like you don't like him as a person.
Oh, I have no problem with him. I like him. He was in my body, he was in my top four.
But I'm not sure how I feel about like like he's been hurt and like his relationships and I'm just.
Like, what what's happening here?
I feel like I feel like I would get I would be getting this response from siblings if he was like twenty seven, But hmmm, I don't know, Like what's what happened in his past relationships were missing? I just feel like we're missing something big.
I'm with you, Joe.
It just seems like the divorce is like really traumatic, but they're not getting into what happened.
It does feel like we're missing something for for all the family to be like caring for him when this guy is a good looking, well spoken er doctor.
You know, like you're like, why do we feel so bad for him? And where? And it's like.
Jordan's story is pretty much out there. Jordan's story is pretty you know, sounds pretty sad like and Jordan's kids are there for him, and like it sounded like he got cheated on, like he said as much. So like guy's story, I understand it's a divorce. Later in life, you kind of have to restart. But I just don't know. I'm with you, It's it seems that we don't know the whole story. I what did you think of Guy and his whole family having g names.
Yeah, it's one of those families.
It's definitely a thing I don't like. But you know what I will say, I guess.
My brother and I are both jo Your family is Joe, Gina, Joe, Johnny, so you're basically the same.
But there's only four of you, and I think that makes a difference when there's like six.
It's like you took it to an extreme level that you didn't need.
Guy Gale, Gufton, g Off.
It was weird.
It was very it was very like western family, Like I don't know, it's very Nevada to me.
I just I I was off put. Do we think do we think Joan is into Guy?
I actually I do not think she's into him. I don't know.
I don't I don't think she was into him when they had that date, when they did the cooking date.
Here's the thing.
You can't marry a guy in his sixties with abs because.
You definitely care and.
What you're going for a guy in his sixties with Abs. How do you hug how do the grandkids hug him? Well, what's going on?
I think they'll figure it out.
It's about second to Abs. This guy cares about you know.
Get Pascal is absolutely shedded.
Pascal to me softer than if I'm to pick a body that I would be with.
It's got Okay, I can't picture him right, but got out.
Of all the body.
Of all you like in your sixties.
Oh so the body that I was, You have to of all the four men remaining, whose body do you want?
I think I want Chok's body.
They actually all have very yea chocol looks like very like proportion and healthy, like it's pretty natural.
Yeah, he's as great and he looks like he's got a body for golfing. Yeah, you know he's loose. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. Chalk is definitely the body you.
Know whose teeth is. Guys, they're like the whitest teeth.
I've ever seen, guys, absolute glowing on camera.
Guys teeth are as real as my you know, I don't know, I those those those Veneers, guys, Veneers are those teeth are as real as a person on Canal Street. You I cannot his teeth are a lesson to men and veneer shopping is that you wouldever if you say I want white teeth, you just have to say go one less Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I don't. I don't disagree with that.
It's ten years older than than than all these people. And he looks Pascal looks great, and he I like the way he acts.
But but I.
Was the thing for me on this hometown where I was like, I really don't think these two have a lot to go off of.
I actually really like I didn't realize how into Joan he was.
But the one thing that I remember, they're talking to the family on the couches and they're recounting the Charles L situation where Charles L confided and guy about the passing of his wife and that was like a whole thing, and I was like, that was a beautiful moment. But like, if this is the main event in your relationship and it wasn't even between you two outs all, like it's kind of flagging that, like you guys don't have anything going on here.
I thought, couldn't agree the same thing, could not agree more. You're talking like.
This is the story that you're going to take twenty minutes to tell the family out of everything you guys have done together this season.
It was that story where I was like, Okay, I'm glad they put that. I understand why this hometown is the first one we're seeing because nothing.
Is gonically stunning and guy's great, but there's not a between the two of them, and his family.
Was great too. Yeah it was very nice.
Yeah they were really nice.
But yeah, if that's what Joan is explaining to the family of of like how I know guys a great guy? For the information that he gave to Charles L. Like what the fuck?
Like he has great bedside manner, Like it's like, yeah, he's good at his job. And I was like, oh my god, didn't Charles L's show end already?
Like you know what we already did?
Like, right, you know who Joan is? Jones me, That's what I would have Saidcau. I would have had not I would have been like, what did he do? What did he do?
Yeah? How did guy know that you loved each other? Well, he's good at golf.
Yeah, he drinks coffee every morning. Okay, that movie. Who's the next one, Pascal? Right, So we're in glen Cole. We're in glen Coe, uh, Illinois. Very nice.
Are you familiar with his area where you like? His guy is is past? You know you're a Chicago guy. Is Pascal doing as well as he says he is.
Well, he's in glen Coe, which is probably like one of the wealthiest North Shore neighborhoods of all of Illinois, so he's in a great area there. I will say Jordan will get to Jordan. But I know Jordan. I've been looking at him this whole season. And I used to work so I used to be a trader at the Murk and I used to but when I was like sixteen, I clerked for my cousins that traded in the euro dollars and Jordan was a trader across from them, And when I saw their hometown, I was like, oh, I know I know his brother because his brother is in the nasag Pitt So yeah, I actually I have interacted with Jordan's But it's.
Crazy because all season Joe has been like, God, I know this guy. I know this guy, and we've kind of just been chalking it up to like you must go to the same gym as him, Like I don't know, like you must just have passed his face because he's really like good with faces. I never thought we would get the answer to like how you actually know him? The fact that you legitimately know.
Crazy like on a trading card, I've I've circled Jordan's name before, like I I actually know him, So that's I can't actually wait to talk to him.
Pascal.
Pascal is doing well for sure, Like he's got a he looks like he's got a good shop salon in glen Coe, which is a very wealthy.
I loved watching Pascal with the salon I do. It was fun.
It was fun.
I want right, I want Pascal to be his own reality show where it's just a docuseriies of him and the ladies and the day to day troubles and concerns that come up at Pascal's shop, like I would watch that job.
I'm resenting too.
I mean, I love it so much because it's Pascal.
To me has really been the only person on this season that gives me hope to get Oh, Like I watched past He's like I'm seventy, but I feel like I'm twenty eight. I live like I'm twenty eight. Everybody around me is happy and we're having a good time. Yeah, And I enjoy my job and we're working and it's fun.
There's been a lot of like looking in the past this season, and he's one of the few people that's like, I.
Am having the time of my life right now, and.
That means there's a lot to come. Well.
That means there's a lot of women out there who hate Ascal for him to be just like easy breezy, I go on dates, I live my life.
There's like some woman out there being like.
I was texting with Pascal and then we hooked up, and I don't know where this guy went, you know, Like, I think this guy's living. He's a great life to watch on screen, and not a great life to like try and date.
It seems.
I know why he gets away with it. You know why he gets away with it because they accent he's French. Yeah, And I think he's just like yeah, And then I think most women, especially in Chicago, are going to be like, he's French.
French.
French guys have affairs. They're very blunt. They don't really care, you know, even Joan doesn't.
Joan says it in the beginning She's like, I don't know if he wants me, but maybe it's a French thing.
And you're like, this guy's hanging at tow I have a.
He's probably always smiling having a good time.
Is happier than this guy? This guy I like, No, it's like, why is this guy so happy? He never got married, he never he never had like well, he also at the PTA meetings.
He grew up extremely poor.
Yeah, and now.
He's like entrepreneur, highly successful. Like it doesn't make it that much better?
Would you think of the kids? I like the kids.
I like the kids too.
I mean the son used his house as like.
I've watched it knowing that you were gonna comment about. But the soun's like I didn't use it for parties, wake wake.
Yeah, the son went full Pascal in that apartment.
Yeah, definitely his son in the house.
If you show me that scene and asked which which son is this, Like who's who's the father of the four.
Dude, it just doesn't it doesn't work as well. Like if his son had a French accent, I feel like this is hilarious, but because he does it, I'm like, you can't do it right.
It's not as fun.
It's like this is some snot nosed kid who he and at one point he even seems to be hitting on Joan like this like it's like crazy, You're like, I'm watching his son. I'm like, can he turn this down for two seconds? This might be your step mom, dude.
He did wink at her.
I think, like put it.
Away, Pascal, his family, the salon, just the clients.
Everything.
I loved.
His daughter was such like girl daughter, like she like immediately.
Is like you're awesome, we love you. You're in like I'm.
Like off though she was.
They walked and I was like, oh my god, that's the hottest couple ever.
Yeah, and he had another daughter who didn't say two words like they it was like the one daughter with the kid. And then there was the other daughter that like just seemed to not exist after a minute.
Well, she's she was young, she was young younger probably yeah, she was young, and I think she's probably just a little timid of the I would assume a little timid of the camera is probably yeah, sure, pably.
I mean it was a fun hometown.
It's probably like I can't I can't.
Believe I loved his kids. I love Pascal so much personality.
It was great.
Yeah, it was great.
Yeah, I do want that reality show, just you know Pascal's pals, just like.
A over over that we're gonna be there for. We'll be in Chicago for for most likely for Thanksgiving and definitely for Christmas. I think I'm going into a salon.
Oh my gosh, we should go do that. Yeah, I got to make sure he's there.
Yeah, I'm gonna go get I'm gonna go get a blowout or something.
Yeah, I'm gonna go too.
You could see that Joan was like intoxicated by the life, Like she just liked everything that was going on. Even if they're like I, I don't really know how much they're like, especially considering Chalk and how hard he's fallen, Like it's hard to like keep everyone else like I agree in view because he seems to be such a front runner, But like it did seem like Joan like really enjoys hanging around this scene.
Yeah, I mean, who wouldn't.
I would like, like I like if Serena, if Serena is like, yes, I just let you know. I come from a family of luxurious spas and salons.
I'd be like all right, I'm in. I'm in every day.
I love that life.
You're gonna sit down a really well done like lobby and it just yes.
My god, if you Joe loves a lobby.
If I've learned anything about Joe loves a lobby, a cappuccino lobby.
Oh my god, he hasn't shut up about the hotel in Copenhagen. You told us to go to it.
We went how the Sandors Hotel was closed. They were filming a Netflix movie.
That's where I want to die.
I stayed there.
It was gorgeous.
And that's the thing about Copenhagen is like everything is just so well done, like the furniture, the food.
Yeah, it's cool.
We we we make similar observations.
I will say, just so you know who I am. I don't The Sanders Hotel is very much like embodies like me. Like that's that like I love, like that's when I feel my most comfortable and place moody colors.
Very We were leaving the next day and we just I I'll send you my whole Europe by itinerary. I'll show the hotels I stayed at, because if you like that hotel, I when I went to Europe.
I did.
I did a tour, I did shows, and I was like, I only want to stay in boutique hotels.
Like it was like that was like my my thing.
And it's like every single one was like somewhat of that that I and I feel you.
Yeah, I love that. It's really makes.
If you ask Joe about Jared, he'll know one thing he likes a boutique hotel.
We're boutique hotel guys. Yeah, okay, yeah to me. I don't know if Joan is gonna choose Pascal.
I think if she does, like.
That's I think that if you combined like Guy and Pascal into one person, because I think Guy has like the emotional commitment and love for Joan that Pascal doesn't quite have, and I think she senses that, but I think she's more into Pascal. Like if you combine them into one person, I think they could give chalcol run for their money.
Well, I mean, you can't morph contest.
It's sounds like your home life. There's a lot of explaining things.
To each other.
And I would love to watch you guys on the realcitas.
Okay, you know what, this is a good time to wrap this episode.
We'll hope you guys really enjoyed it.
If you want to hear us breakdown Jordan and Chalk's hometowns with Jared, make sure you tune into our next episode.
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