This week on “Bachelor Happy Hour,” seasoned Bachelor Nation fan and comedian Jared Freid joins Joe and Serena to chat all about Hometowns and share his thoughts on Charity’s season so far. After Jared’s neighbor tells the crew to keep it down, Jared reveals why he gets upset when people claim “The Bachelor” is fake, what he originally thought of Joe and Serena after they were announced for their seasons, and who belongs on his Bachelor Mount Rushmore.
Plus, Jared talks about his upcoming Netflix special, “37 and Single,” and explains why the Bachelor franchise is really the comedic gift that keeps on giving.
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What's up at your nation? Welcome back to another episode of Bachelor Happy Hour. We have a very special day comedian Jared Freed. You may know him from The Bachelor. He has a Netflix special at thirty seven and single, Am I right?
That's right? Thirty seven singles on Netflix August fifteenth.
Thank you guys for having me.
I'm so happy to be here, both with you, both the Bachelorrick couple here.
We're happy to have you.
So what happens if you get into a relationship before the special drops?
He's only got I only got two weeks?
Well yeah, well, yeah, that's right.
I mean, if I would say this is a snapshot of my life on December of twenty twenty two, and that's when we shot it, and it's all jokes about if you're single and just annoyed at being single and single life and dating apps and your friend's trying to help and your parents trying to help it, I would say relatability is high. There's some And as you guys know, I've been making I've been the troll of the Bachelor Nation for.
All these years. I've been yelling at the TV.
I have Bachelor material in the special and kind of relating it to my life because as you guys know of people who've been on the show, you know, before you go on, someone's like, you should go on, you should go on. Like if you're a single person who knows The Bachelor has been around The Bachelor, it's always something that said to you if you're a fan of the show, and people know that, you should submit.
So I talk about that type of.
Stuff and why I could never go on the show, but I you know, and then to talk about gender reveal parties and you know, body issues and late night eating and it's really meant to be something that everyone can enjoy, you know, friends, family, make a date night, watch it with your parents, watch it with someone you know, your friends on a you know, with a glass of wine, and it's just super exciting, like you know, it's it's it's why I like watching The Bachelor.
I love watching The Bachelor because it's relatable every bat.
You know, when people say, oh, it's fair, I get really annoyed because I love. To me, the Bachelor's professional wrestling. It's like WWE. Yeah, maybe the maybe all the surroundings are fake and the characters are maybe a little heightened, but You're still gotta jump off the top rope.
You're still gonna take the bumps.
You're still gonna get first kiss and get dumped and say I love you, and say and and ask someone to you know, meet their parents, and meet the parents and get dumped after me and the parents. So it's all like a vessel to be able to relate to your own life, because that's what we all do. What would I do in charity shoes? What would I do in you know, Aaron B's shoes? All these things? And what would I do when you know, grocery Joe's shoes? He goes on the show for one minute the grocery store Joe, excuse me, sorry, I forgot your middle name. I like, what would I do if I went on this show for fifteen minutes and all of a sudden became this mega star? How would I deal with this? So I think it's all like this is why I love the show and I'm happy to be here with you guys, So thank you for having me.
If you're if you're still single, you should go on.
I can't no, no, no, no, I'm joking.
I'm too I'm too chubby.
I the camera adds twenty pounds for me fifty pounds.
I next to the batchea.
Because the one thing you realize very quickly when I meet you guys, when I meet the you know, the the Greek gods and goddesses that go on this show, is you guys are TV ready? Like there's like I had six martinis last night, Like I am, there's no TV ready over here. I'm happy to be watching for my apartment alone, yelling at the TV like a loser. I'm okay with that, Dared.
Before we get into all the bacheloration questions, I just remembered this, and now that I have you in friend me, I have to bringest to you.
So what am I?
One of my girlfriends is a fan of Bachelor, is a fan of you, listens to like all your podcasts, and she listens to them before she goes to bed. And you do, like a question, submit your questions dating podcasts?
I guess right, the U.
A podcast we take emails fromsters and give advice.
Yeah, yes, that podcast. And she's like, I'm listening. I'm listening.
I'm falling asleep.
I'm almost in my freakin' rem and I hear someone has sent a question about me, about my data?
Do you know what she saw?
You know? So you got So we play a game on U podcast, which is a dating and relaysia podcast, and if anyone usually the UF podcast gets sent to people during a breakup. It's in like the basket of goodies that someone gets to like, you know, be you know, rocked like a baby back to health. You know. So what We play a game called red Flag deal Breaker, and a man from Toronto sent in a red Flag deal Breaker asking and red flag means I notice it, but I'll still date them.
Deal Breaker means I'm out.
And you know, red flags have kind of trended on on TikTok. We've been doing this game for six years now, like it's it's crazy. We had a hard game we made, so you have this one thing happened? Do you keep going or do you say I'm out? And the one thing they sent in for us to discuss was that Serena Pitt was I don't know if I hear this, so that they they went on a date with Serena and she was engaged with some guy from the show. No, No, that wasn't.
I look at you're in So no, the the basically someone that's friends with Serena.
All their pictures on Hinge were of the girl and Serena, So it was like red flag or deal breaker. All of their pictures on the dating app are with a celebrity and are with someone that's recognizable. Are they trying to attain clout of.
A certain nature?
They were basically asking, is this person trying to suck the Hollywood out of Serena to try and you know, glamorize themselves to get a date?
And and and we had a we actually had a lengthy.
Conversation where we were like you could have one picture with Serena.
And then like Jordana was like, not a you know, wasn't watching that season.
She's like, I don't know Serena, So to me, this is just you know, and we were kind of talking about like having the same person in your profile multiple times is just kind of weird in general, not you know, like do you know who this was? Serena?
This is one of my best friends.
So yeah, and I will say it was only like two or three out of her like six photos, right.
Right, tell the former finance guy knows what I'm talking about.
Fifty percent that's a big percentage.
I would not be surprised if she's redone her profile since you said that, but I would also have be surprised if it looks exactly the same.
So I'm gonna have radio check.
And it's hard to have this conversation because we were like, you know, there becomes the discussion of like, how big a celebrity is Serena. And I've met you before, Serena, you don't come off as like I'm the biggest celebrity in.
The world, like you You're a very normal person.
Like right, that was the wish.
I did, the biggest celebrity in the world.
Behavior. So then it became this like weird discussion of like, is Serena like a big enough celebrity to be a big brag? Is it? Like? And I was like, listen, if it was three pictures in the profile, it would take me the first three to wonder who is this person?
Because that's the problem.
Generally, the problem on a dating profile is if you know it's like this where's Waldo game? Some people's just them with friends and you're like, oh my god, who am I trying to make love to here?
You know, like one of my you know, like and so it.
Was a fun discussion, but it happened to you know, embroil bring you into the fray of the UF podcast.
Yeah yeah, and her as one of your listeners, which was an extraordinarily she's a listener.
She's just a listener. She was just listening.
And then then then all of a sudden you're talking about her, which is got to be crazy. But you do talk about the cast and you write profiles for everyone.
So the cool thing about having a special on Netflix is like, I've never really been plucked from obscurity. Everything I've done has been this like I'll put stuff on the Internet that I think are funny and hopefully people come my way. So one of my ideas early on was that The Bachelor puts out all these profiles of every contestant.
So I was like, I'll take and they used to only.
Put out a picture and their name and their age, and their profession and where they were from, and I would just make fun of those facts. And honestly, it could be anyone from Baltimore, San Diego, whatever it was, or anyone that had a job in finance. I would just make it was a forum for me to be funny and make jokes. Then The Bachelor started writing full on profiles, question and answers with the contestants, so it made my job like a thousand times easier because there's like now a million things to make fun of. So it's weird because now I'm going on all these podcasts and I've written about you guys before even meeting you on camera.
So I took your profile and I'm going to read you both the.
Profile ask I'm sweating. I don't know, okay, I'm so nervous to hear that.
I'm going to read Joe's first, because it was long ago.
I don't even have like this might have been before they did, so, yeah, you're ready, I don't think.
Yeah, I don't. I'm pretty sure they didn't. I think I don't know if they wrote anything for us. I feel like they said our name, where we were from, and our age. But yeah, let's see, well you did have more information because I did have.
Okay, ready, So this was Joe's in twenty eighteen. I wrote this like, thank God for Google, Like you know, I can I have it all. I was like I searched this and it's like crazy. So and again I get like weird because it's like my writing. I'm like, I hope I've gotten better. Okay, ready, let's go. Joe left the stock exchange to own a grocery store. Some women will get nostalgia and be like, that's what Corey Matthews dad did on the show. Then imagine a life living next to mister Feenie and having a girlfriend who's too hot for him. Others will think didn't Amazon just get into the grocery business and think that Joe isn't the type of decision maker that will win this show. Becca will be like, hey, boys, meet me at the restaurant for our date night. And everyone will be like. Becca will be like, hey, boys, meet me at the restaurant for our date night. And everyone will be at the restaurant and Becca will be like, where's Joe. And someone will be like, oh, Joe decided to take his horse and buggy, and I think there was a line at the toll booth, so he's gonna be a minute. So that was my Joe. Oh my god, center.
Well I read yours first because I think Soriena's is a little tougher.
Oh god, I'm scared on my bio.
I remember reading my bio for the show and being like, oh god, like this is this is what people pulled from every piece of information they have about me to write, Oh my god.
Okay, wait wait wait In Boy Meets World that his is that what we're talking about? That his dad own autore Yeah yeah, and he lived next to mister Feenie.
And I always thought the Pango was too hot for Corey. So these let you into my thoughts and feelings.
Okay, I like I like the Boy World reference. Yeah, I'm ready.
You know, age is Joe, You and I you know, you know we're out of the mix for some of these jokes. You know, I gotta go. I gotta go young. I gotta make sure the kids get these.
Okay, you ready, I'm ready.
Serena p Is a twenty two year old publicist from Toronto who says she is chronically angry. That's just a coded way of saying I'm an asshole who doesn't take responsibility for my behavior. I put describing yourself as angry in the same category as saying I'm just sarcastic and nobody gets my sense of humor and everyone's so sensitive. These are all assholes who who, instead of making any changes or looking in the mirror at all, give themselves a character description and we all have to just accept it.
It's always sorry, I was just angry.
This is what happens when you don't feed me, as if they're a four year old who has the who has the ability to pay rent, but no strength to open the fridge for an apple. I'm gonna start calling myself horn gree anytime I get mad and then go masturbate and come out of the bathroom and be like, sorry, I was just horn gree. That's what happens when you don't lick my nuts.
That was way better than yeah you get better, Yeah you've gotten better.
I've gotten better. This is horn gree. Is pretty funny, and I might do that bit on stage tonight at the Comedy Seller.
But now it's given me some inspiration. So thank you for going back into you.
Know, uh, you know whatever and into the memories of my past. But it is the archives that was that was a lot of fun. But yeah, so this is a true thrill for me, enre me, getting to come on with the Greek gods and goddesses of our time. The Bachelor and Bachelorette contestants of Joe and Serena.
Oh that was good, thank you for that. That was that was a lot of fun. Brought me back to I remember I remember my profile pick with my short hair in that green jacket.
I hated it. Okay, I just remember the grocery store thing. I don't know who, what God you prayed to Joe. I don't know what you did in charity work, because nobody has gotten so much from one description in the entirety of the show.
And I wish you were the best and I love you for it.
The grocery yeah, how the grocery thing just just caught fire.
Was was insane.
And I was only part of that grocery store, like I was in the wholesale so I used to sell produce.
I was only part of the grocery store for like.
Eight months, and it was just like it was my identity all of a sudden, I was like, this is insane.
It's such a Hallmark movie thing. It's like I can totally and it's the audience. I mean, who doesn't like a Hallmark movie trope?
But it is uh yeah, it is something that you'd find on like a TV movie, like the guy that used to work on wall streets moved back to his hometown to run a grocery store, and then his high school sweetheart moves back as well.
It's like, say, the inn.
You uh, and you gotta look and you got you know, the Italian as shocks. You're mister shocks. Yeah no, it's uh, it is. It hits you right in the fields.
Light lightning in a bottle. Okay, So let's go to hometown's Hometowns. Do you watch Hometowns?
I love Hometowns. It's my favorite episode of the season always. I think it's great. Really, it's Serena's it's Serena's least favorite. I enjoy it too. Why do you not like it? Serena?
So I actually I didn't mind this one. I find it feels like the same thing four times in a row. Sure, And it's the least like drama. It's the least relationship based because you're bringing in all these people that the audience has never seen before and they know they're never going to see again. So it just feels hard to get like, really invested in the episode. But I will say these four hometowns did feel different, and I loved all for the families, so that did help for sure.
I just love the idea, Like you know, when someone applies to go on the Bachelor or Bachelorette, they are very much there's somewhat camera ready. I just love that these families go on They have no want or need to go on TV. They don't want to be on TV. They're they're probably like told like I don't know, I guess we have to do this now, and then they have.
To be on TV.
And like, to me, there's nothing more real than someone who doesn't want to be on TV being on TV. So I do enjoy the weirdness of it, like seeing the sister who's just like whide eyed, you know, like why am I here? And then seeing you know, the internet, like from the Internet view of it.
I'm always like just fascinated, Like I guess there.
Was one, you know, Joey's uncle to me is the most fabulous because he Joey's uncle. I was like, this guy must be a piece of work, like to come on the CHEF and then just be like I don't know and like kind of create conspiracy theories out of nowhere of.
His own nephew and of his own nephew. He's literally going like, ah, I just I don't know if you know the real Joey.
It's like, what are you saying? Why are you? Why are you doing this to your nephew? You're root right like my uncle. I'd be like I would look at my uncle before going on this. I'd be like, you just shut the fuck up, and you don't ruin this for me?
What do you say? Like I would pull if I'm Joey, I'm pulling aside my uncle and be like, what the hell did you say to her? Did you say did she knock at.
The real meat?
You know what this show is all about. There's literally podcasting things called here for the right reasons. You're gonna implant in her head that there might be a chance that I've been this like sleeper cell. You're getting me.
The best is you're not even You're not even my dad, you're.
My You're some random guy.
And he shows up to tennis, like he says, and tennis.
Coaches are kind of like notoriously like characters if you know anything about tennis, Like there's this like kind of trope that goes along with like tennis coach. That's too hard on the on the on the pupil, and it's like he shows up and he's like kind of a dick, kind of actually showing charity. He's like, you might be he says to charity, you might have a little bit of a tennis.
Well, why don't you have a compliment, Uncle Joe. You can't give a fucking compliment.
I hated Uncle Joe in a way that like, and he's named after him, this is his namesake, so like, what's he gonna say to Uncle Joe?
This was my I'm laughing so hard because this was my reaction when I was watching it.
I'm just like, what is happening?
He was like, why is Uncle Joe throwing Joey under the bus. And it made it worse because all the other families, like the siblings were like such wingmen, like just building up their siblings, being like they're ready, they would never cheat on you, they're loyal, they're faithful, they're genuine, like the best way man family members ever. And then you've got Uncle Joe just being like I don't know about Joey for you, I don't know on his own.
I don't know him at all.
Right, It was so bizarre. It was so weird, like even him showing up to the tennis court and like unannounced.
You're like, whoa, do you have a family of your own?
Like if you ever dealt with like a child bringing home a significant other?
Like what are you saying to charity? I yeah, it was.
And I'm sorry to skip ahead because I know we're skipping, you know, but I guess like we're going over Joey's thing now. But like that was the that jumped out of me in a way because like, and again, that's like the fun of hometowns is like this family member, who's you know, we all have that, the eccentric family member, the wild card. We don't, you know, I'm sure. I'm sure Joey off cameras. Like I got this uncle Joe and he's like a character and he's my tennis coach and I'm really close with him and he's at every event. But I don't know what he's gonna say. You can't be obviously, yeah he will say anything, and you're like, yeah, what are you out of your mind?
Though, filter uncle Joe?
I mean I had so many family members like that too, So I just watched it.
I'm just like I'm sitting there like, oh my god, how did you? How did you allow this?
Okay?
And I actually I'm gonna I'm gonna go way back because there's something I want to bring up that I thought was extremely funny that you did for our listeners.
Jared, you'll recap episodes, You'll scream.
I know what Joe's gonna bring up because I thought it was this is even about this season, like.
We're just jump back and we're gonna jump back into this season.
But it was because it was hometowns on Zach season with Ariel and she she goes to the Jewish deli and gets like filter fish and pastrami.
And you're going, who are you dating?
This is a ding I would watch?
You should be Yeah, I was.
I was crying well when Ariel was on the show.
It's like, I you know, you get word of like who the Jews are, and as a Jewish guy, I'm like, oh my god, like I'm again I put myself in the shoes of the people like I always think like And she brings him to Sarge's Deli and You're like, who would order these things for lunch? Like are you trying to like fuck with Zach. They're like, you're gonna have some tongue, Like my dad eats tongue. I don't order a tongue sandwich.
She's like here, you.
Know how what did she give him? Like, uh, like a cafilterficial Like cafil division is like something you have like at the high holidays and like you would never be like, yeah, I'll have a Maza wall soup. The caffild official is like what are you doing to us as Jews area, Like why are you trying? Like this felt like they were on Fear Factor and they did like the food section of Fear Factory.
This show was definitely like, look, you could order a pastrami sandwich or you could order something else, and let's go something totally shocking that Zach and be like you're gonna really make me tongue right now?
Funny?
Okay, So back to hometowns. We just covered Joey's Aaron's hometown. I don't I don't really think there's much to cover on it. I think it was just classic and just like your nice hometown.
I will say about Aaron's hometown is that and I have to quiet down my neighbor below just hit the bottom of my floor. I got too excited about Fish. I know. I'm sorry. Aaron to me has been kind of like Aaron rings to me, very unnatural the whole season. I don't know how you guys feel. It feels like he's reading a script. But there was one part a couple episodes where he's giving a massage to charity and you're like, and you're like, and he he gave off the energy of like my girlfriend's best friend who actually likes her. Like he's like a little uncomfortable. He never like it always feels performative. It feels like he's saying what he thinks he's supposed to say. And then you get to his house and his family is so nice in a way that my family would never open up to each other. Like, I don't know about you guys, Like, were you prepared to like tell your parents how much they you love them if they were to be on the show.
Like I I, it doesn't it.
I don't know if you guys felt the same.
We're on yeah.
Show, and I definitely did not.
Actually, I thought I thought his hometown was lovely, but I agree, I wasn't prepared for his hometown to be like that. Based on what we've seen of him on this show, I find him not like super super warm necessarily. And his family was like the warmest family ever. And I was saying to Joe in our recap like it was like it was like a moment for his family versus like a moment for Charity and his family, Like I felt like him telling his family he loves them and them saying we're proud of you with like that was the hometown.
I couldn't agree more. And honestly, like I kind of came away from that being like this is kind of unfair to Charity because it was like, look how much we love each other. How could you say no to this family? You know, like, you know, the dad's talking about, well, we do Christmas here. It's like, yeah, who the fuck doesn't do Christmas at their house?
He was talking about it.
Like it was a special holiday literally right right, Like it was weird, and it's like you kind of put these people, you know, put Charity into a position of guilt where it's like, what you don't want to do Christmas the way we It's like, yeah, everyone goes home for Christmas. I don't know what you're even me a Jew, I go home and have Chinese food on Christmas, like the idea that like, oh, we do things differently here, and you're like one, you know, like I don't know. It was he tried the locker.
He tried the locker in for Christmas just in case they got married. He wanted to get the first Christmas.
Yeah, He's like, you're feel we could have Thanksgiving, but like just letting you know we do Christmas, which honestly is something my dad would do.
So I kind of related to that.
It was, which is hilarious and also unfair, like you're putting you know in I agree. It felt like this whole thing was about this family being like, you know what the cameras are here, let's open up to one another and say what we've been holding in our whole lives. Cause like, but I.
Don't think they're the first family to do that. I know there's a lot of families, and I don't know what it is, if it's like the preparation or like you've been away from each other for so long or what. But I do find for whatever reason, like hometowns like opens family up to Like this discussion of like how much they love each other, especially for these families that like it seems like don't do it a lot. Like I remember Nate on Michelle season, Like I think we saw that with his family too, Like him and his dad had this convo where like they basically said I love you to each other for the first time ever. It's like putting like a mic in a camera in front of someone does but like it's bringing families together.
I still you know, if I had to film my family for for when I went on Paradise the second time, and all my dad said was.
I don't care what you do, just don't cry on TV.
Missed out on your hometown?
Oh yeah, I mean I would have loved to have seen Joe's hometown just based on that one little interaction alone, because you know what it is.
I think, Serena, I don't know if you guys have been sponsored by this is gonna be a free plug, but like you've been sponsored by story Worth. They've sponsored our podcast and story Worth basically will email your parents and then ask them questions that you'd be too uncomfortable to ask, Like it'd be like, how did you know tell us how you write to us? An emails how you met, and they put it together in a book for your parents. It's a free plug for story worth. But I would say I always say during the ad, I'm like, yeah, I would never ask my parents these questions, and you might open a door that you would never open. So I do think what happens on these hometowns is there's a producer who's like, I got to get the goods. And you know how producers are. I've been on sets where the producer's like asking a question, you go, I guess I've never thought of it that way, and they have you answer it certain ways. I think this is something that's happening here where the producer is next to the kid and he goes, tell, how do you feel about you? You know, Aaron B. Making you know, finding a woman? And then the dad's like, well, I've never been asked this question before. Yes, it is funny that some parents buy it, buy into it more than others. And Aaron B's definitely like the example of like I was like, should I be here right now? That was kind of my takeaway.
Yes, you know what's so funny. I don't know if you know this.
Aaron B.
Is really close with Aaron Clancy. Really, Yeah, don't you surprise you?
It does because Aaron Clancy's the San Diego bro.
Yeah, and they couldn't be any more different.
Yeah, I find them incredibly different. I'd like to see them in person interacting together.
Right. I compared Aaron and James to two bouncers at a night club in San Diego. That's their their energy was you know, we dragged people out of bars energy.
Yeah, they're there.
They definitely have that night at the Roxbury kind of Okay, let's talk a little bit about let's just move off the episode. Just talk about the franchise in a hole. You've been covering it for how long?
What do we want to say? Years? It's been years, not ten years.
What happened was I remember I was with my brother and I lived together.
He's four years younger than me. I'm doing stand up in New York, and you know, I think I was sick one night, so I did, like, stayed home and didn't do stand up. You know, it, didn't do any shows, and I started just like watching them. I always have loved reality TV, no matter what. I've watched every reality TV show, and I always loved what was your.
First reality show because we're around the same age. I know mine.
I know mine too.
Honestly, it might have been real world, no real world, real world, and then there's real real world world rules. And then there was like also the you know what's the singer that all Ozzy Osbourne? Ozzy Osbourne. I watched the Osbourne's and the Jess Simpson one, and then I watched you know, I would watch The Bachelor here and there, and I loved a dating show. I loved rock a Love and I love like the Flavor Flave one, and like I just like anything the surreal life, Like I just watched all of that stuff. I ate it up, and especially as I started dating, I would watch it with like the women I was dating, and you know, I always kind of saw them like I kind of could be my funniest in that venue. Like I would always like make them laugh because I would be like noticing things that maybe from a different angle I'm just looking at through my own personal and they're obviously looking through theirs, and I'm like, and the fun part about The Bachelor to me is that lets me talk about things. It gives me a reason to talk about things. So it's like, you know, you talk about bringing the you know, I'll never forget Pilot Pete when he brought when his mom was freaking out about wanting one girl over another. I'm like, it gave me kind of the avenue to talk about, like, my mom is the mom of two sons. You know, Pilot Pete is the son is his mom has two sons. I and he got crushed when he was listening to his mom and what she had to say. And I was sitting there defending him, being like, well, I can say none of you are giving you know, the son of a mother any empathy, like and it was like a kind of a different take at the time, you know. And then you know, so I started way back when I would take nights off a stand up to like live tweet it. And then I started doing this thing called Dudes Watching rom Coms where I'd watch rom comms and like commentate on them, and that was on my Instagram stories. I was like, well, why don't I combine these two and I'll live scream the show. So every week I've taken nights off a stand up to watch the show and yell let it on my Instagram and you know what it's become is my own show. Like you know, for stand up, everything's about doing stand up to me, like I've been doing stand up for thirteen years. I've been getting on stage every single night except for Bachelor nights. And I remember I'd go to the comedy song and they would make fun of me, like the other comments like what are you doing? Like and I go. I was like, this is the equivalent of me having my own show. Like no one ever cast me anything. I didn't get hired to write for anything. No one anytime i'd submit, I tried, I was auditioned, but it just wasn't happening. And I started so instead I started podcasts and I started yelling at the batch and I was like, wow, this is like something people are tuning in to see me, you know, which is fun. And as you see, like if you go to my Instagram, like I dress up as the characters, I put my face, you know. As the technology got better, I could do things on TikTok, so it was like this. It kind of evolved into my own kind of variety show, which has been the most fun. And then I get to meet you guys like, which has been like you know it's funny because like I talk a lot of shit. I've talked shit about both of you. I just read you heard it, but right, and it is a joke and it's meant to be ball busty, and I'm not looking to like ruin anyone's day or night. And it's cool when people get it, you know, like when you guys laugh along with it, Like I think it's cool and it's not meant to like, you know, sometimes I get sent these things that are like, you know, I can see people try try to like send me the jokes they have, and I'm like, you should probably stay on the sidelines. You should probably be a fewer as opposed to a commentator. But and I'm sure you guys get these messages that are heinous and also really nice too because people, you know, it's nice that you get to give people an opportunity to like put their brain on the shelf and you know, stop thinking about their own issues.
Yeah, it's usually always it's always more good than bad. Oh, what is one thing?
Is there anything that you wish the franchise did differently?
Oh my god, I have so many ideas. I mean, the Golden Bachelor, I've been talking about for years. The Golden Bachelor's going to be fantastic. I can't wait. I am so excited in a weird way because the Bachelor works, and you know, the Bachelor is good because you have to have some reality to your reality TV. So I think the Bachelor's great because it is realistic for twenty seven year old women to want to marry a guy who's in his thirties or younger whatever. I think when you flip it, it was always less realistic to have like these twenty four year old dudes be like fighting to get married. It just never rang true, especially from the type of guy who wanted to go on the show. I always thought they should have made the Bachelorette like this woman who's killing it in whatever industry she's in off of a divorce of some kind and just like a boss ass like thirty eight year old woman. And then you make the men on the show in their forties and fifties, and I always thought that was like a more fun angle, because men in their forties or the fifties are a little bit embarrassing in the way like they they've they've made it in some sort of career. They're a little bit too cocky. They're only surrounded by a French you know, friends of their own making. They don't really go outside of their own bubbles, so they would be hilarious. And then you'd have this like boss ass chick who's like, you know, turning down these overconfident dudes in shirts with Paisley collars and cuffs. Like I just thought that would be like the evolution of this show. So I always thought where this is going where Like I thought The Bachelor is a better version of this, But I do think it's gonna be great with about Golden Batcheler. That was all. And then the other thing I always wanted was no more fantasy suite. We act we had the reality suite, which is which they ended up doing last season. Katie and I was like, you send the couple to Ikea and they put a bed together and then they see if they want to fuck, so you have like instead of you know, and then Katie and Zach kind of did that. They like went and built a bed. I'm like, that's more of whatever. Yeah, they went they Zach, you don't remember that, you're probably I mean that was her date was like, help me move into Austin. So I was for her hometown, right, it was her hometown, yes, So I those were always things that I wanted. I also, like, you know, I've always thought the show needed to evolve to include phones, Like I thought that like, hey, we're going to go through your dms like that should have been you know, an event and go you know, like I just think, like this connection to what it's really like to date in twenty twenty four, I thought we should have been moving towards that in a certain way. And I think The Golden Bachelor is a little bit of that because again, like we all want to watch our dad date if he has you know, if maybe you know, he doesn't have someone and he's looking to find someone, Like, wouldn't that be fun? So that's cool?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're excited to watch it. I know, we were on Chicks in the Office the other week and Rio was like, I'm.
Here for the granny drama. I'm ready to watch them fight each other.
Yeah, and you don't get any of the bullshit of like hair for the wrong reasons, like everyone on that well, I mean, but everyone on that show.
And at the same time, if there's like a seventy five year old. That's like there for instant followers like I just don't that's much.
That's even better, right, yeah, right right?
And and also just like you know, listen, we all have parents and we all watch them like kind of move through this twenty twenty three world that they're not really you know, aird for in a certain sense, like once they get outside of their kind of comfy bubbles, and it's like, that's what we want to see. We want to see someone who's you know, it kind of feels like twenty people in their twenties, thirties, whatever. We all know what's acceptable on camera. It's gonna be fun to see someone kind of just be a normal person on camera. And I hope that's what the.
Case is well because and I think of because of social media, everyone's so self aware now that it's hard to get people to just really be themselves and just be like fuck it like there used to Reality TV used to go on and people like The Bachelor back in the day. I'm assuming people were just like, yeah, I'm going on TV.
Yeah, because I'm gonna go on TV, I'm gonna do and say whatever I want, and then I'm gonna go home, and I'm only gonna have to hear feedback about it from my family and friends.
I move on with my life and maybe my co workers.
Whereas now there's so much self awareness going on these shows because you know that you're gonna hear feedback from all these people on social media.
This is why I was a Braiden fan. I thought Braiden, you know, I like it was.
I liked him.
He was. I think he was. Ultimately he was proven to be himself, Like it didn't seem like, you know, he was wild.
He was a little bit fun. He was, but that's why he was fun to watch.
Like I don't think we're gonna see him without ear rings ever again, Like he's gonna have dangly earrings. He and he even said a very honest thing. He's like, who could get married after this much time getting to know someone like he was being open and honest, like and generally people know not to say that on the on The Bachelor, and he came out and said it, so I I that's why I kind of liked him.
I liked I thought he was. I thought he was fun to watch.
Uh, if if you had a best friend, let's say your best friend was going on the show, is there a season you would suggest for that person to watch, to watch like in preparation, in preparation, Yeah, I talking.
About this the other week, like if you're going on The Bachelor, the batchel At, like just watch at least one season, like don't go in blind, like don't show up and be like, oh, I've never seen an episode, like I don't know what I'm getting myself into. And then we were like, what season would be like the season for Bachelor and Bachelorette to like prep yourself to go on this show.
Probably Hannah G or not Hannah g Hannah Hannah Brown. Hannah Brown season. I think I'm gonna do a rewatch of that season.
It has it all.
It has like Hannah Brown season has like first of all, like the way Tyler conducted himself, like you just see like he you go okay, you know, like I don't know Tyler to me, like Tyler Cameron, Like basically she's like I don't want to fuck you because I know I want to fuck you. And then he's like okay, and then he's considered like a feminist icon. But like just to see how that kind of unfolded and to see that guy what was his name, Luke p Luke P and the way he acted and kind of just seemed like he was like out of his mind, you know, like and and to see the Peter stuff that happened with the you know, the windmill, Like I think that kind of had everything in it, like where it had like the you know, it had drama with the fantasy suites. It kind of showed you, like how to be a mench on the show. It showed you how to stand out. It showed you what stands out and what people don't like and what people like. So I think that would be a good season for someone to watch.
I like that.
And then last question before we get into a game, you're Mount Rushmore.
See I.
And then here's the other thing it's been it's been a while, I guess my Mount Rushmore.
I was a.
Huge Jojo fan. I was just a huge like, couldn't have been a bigger fan of her. And the comfy, cozy sweaters she used to wear. That was like a big thing. Wait what she used to always wear these sweaters that I'd be like, she just looked like she was like she is commercial.
Like yeah, she likes. She likes a good knit sweater.
Loved a good knit I would say, who that guy, Chad? I mean like he was just such a wild kid from her season.
He was a wild child, that he was wild great nowadays too, right.
I loved Claire just because you know Claire, you know, on her own season. You're like, oh, I can tell like why dating has been kind of difficult, like you know, like you kind of watch the way she goes through these things and it's like, you know, and we're all in our own way and dating again, like I'm thirty seven and single on the special I talk about it. It's like, you know, I mentioned the special like I'm the issue when you get to it. And you know, also Claire was it wasn't really fair that and I the audience didn't like Claire because because they made her like oh, it's the elder bachelorette and it's like she's thirty five, Like fuck off, Like it was like almost like this like shitty, like oh here's what we think of the audience thing too? Yeah, yeah, gradually right, and you're like, I'm older than this person. Can can am I going to pass away? Soon?
Like you know, like the way it was talked about. But so I really liked.
Watching Claire and I will say Ari is one of those like underrated bachelors because his season, the way it ended with Becca and Lauren I think her name was Yeah, that's one of the more wild endings to any season, like the idea that they all signed that he signed up for that Like, well.
I was, I was following that season like I was. I was, I was going on the next season. I remember getting the call like a week before and watching that and thinking, Oh, this is.
Fake, like this is all fake, Like this has right and be real.
And that's how I went into the show, thinking like, oh this ship, this has got to be fake.
And then I get there, I'm like, oh no, it's it's not right.
It's it's just such a that ending, like and I'm giving a mount rushmore of just like memorable people at this point, you know, from.
When I neither of us made the fucking list, but he talked about us. How do you feel about that?
True?
That's okay.
I got paired with horn gree So I'll take that instead of about rushmore.
Hor I'm doing that on stage night. I'm gonna give it a show. I don't know if horn gree is a good enough word for it, but we'll see. But yeah, no, no, no, there's there's nothing against you, just I guess like I love the messiness of the When the show gets messy is when I'm like and it's just when I'm just like again Pilot, Pete's mom might be on that Mount Rushmore for me, like she was just such an intricate part of that season, like in a way that was like Chef's Kiss, Like there was nothing like Pilot.
People you'll never be able to recreate it.
No, it's really when they get they almost get lucky with people like Barb or Chat or even like Claire Crawley is like amazing TV. They just got an amazing personality for TV where it's things that like you can't plan some of this, Like you could not have planned for Ari picking Becca and then being like never mind, I'm gonna go back and choose Lauren. Like you can have some help orchestrating all of that, but like you have to kind of just get lucky with something someone doing something kind of.
Crazy and yes, I'll do it on camera after we're done with the show. Like what.
You're out of your mind.
Yeah, you have to be though. That's what's great about to show you got to cast people.
That are out of your mind. All right, you want to you want to do the game? Sure, rapid questions.
What you got a quick game here? We do this with all of our guests. Are you ready, let's do it.
So we've got some rapid fire questions to help our listeners get to know you better, starting with what is the first thing you do when you wake up.
In the morning.
I lean over and check my Instagram notifications.
And I'm not proud of that, you know, Thank god, that's your answer. Every guy from Charity Season has been like, I write in my journal, I smile, I take deres, I do my gratitude. I'm like, this is the healthiest group of people I've ever met. Like I'm immediately scrolling on social media when I wake up.
Those biggest thought of But that's the truth.
Those are the biggest liars I've ever met. I wake up, I roll over, I look at Instagram, I look at texting, I look at Facebook, I look at at Twitter, and then I look at a water that's been on my you know, my bedside table for eight years.
Okay, how do you like your pizza?
I love a well done mushroom and onion pizza.
Love love that all right. What is the best dating advice you have ever received?
Ooh, the best dating advice I have ever received is Oh, I'm trying to think, you know, make I think it's you know, rapid fire, Jared, rapid fire here, I know this is.
I think it's more you're root of the game here, this is a deep question.
I think it's to make sure you're happy, you're excited for the next step. You know, if you're not excited for the next step, then don't do the next step at all. Got it? I like that.
What is your go to cocktail?
Ooh, I've been really deep in the dirty martini game lately. I've been drinking dirty Martini's a lot. This is I'm what they call an alcoholic, so I really will drink everything and anything, and I've I've moved on, you know, Vauka soda and have a tequila on the rocks. But right now, a cold cold, even with ice chips in it, dirty dirty martini.
It's nice when you get on a new kick.
Right I'm really kicking with a dirty martini right now, and I like it cold and in a Martini glass that's way too big.
I started drinking dirty martiniz when I went on The Bachelor because they're not high in sugar and they're not carbonated dangerous. Oh yeah, yeah, well I think got me when I first started drinking about the show. I definitely had a few moments where they were like, okay, straight to that's enough. Who is one person living or not that you would like to have dinner with?
Oh, I would love to have dinner with Adam Sandler. I would just like it.
Answer.
He seems like a nice guy.
I feel like you guys would get along. I feel like that would be a funny dinner to be out.
Yeah, I would really like to just meet him, you know. And like I've heard that he sent messages to some people I know of like liking their stuff, and like, you know, I'd love to hear what he I have a whole bit about Jewish women on this special, and I would love to hear what he thought.
Yeah, what is one word or phrase that your friends used to describe you?
I don't know. I hope it's nice things. They probably say. He one word or phrase? Uh long shitter. Okay, nice, always on the toilet.
Wow, your friends are way different.
We have to end, but we're going to leave you one more.
What is the current screensaver on your phone? We'll end it on that.
Oh, it's a picture of New York. It's a picture like the skyline, which is you know, at my core. I'm a basic, uh, a basic, basic bitch. That's me at my core, just you know, having you know, what are they called pumpkin spice lattes all day? You know, dancing around the city and you know, the West Village all night.
So that's that's nothing wrong with that, Jack Lizen.
I'm proud of it.
I'm slat season.
It's coming sooner than you think it's coming. All right, Jared, thank you so much for being here. Let our listeners know where they can find you in about your upcoming special.
Can't thank you guys enough for having me on and being so gracious. I'm going to have a Netflix special which is like the Dream come true. It's called thirty seven and Single. It's premiering on August fifteenth. Is relatability is what I do? You know if you go have ever read my stuff or seen my tweets or seeing my stand up. That's what I do. It's about dating, it's about breakups, it's about my parents trying to fix me up. It's about the Bachelor, It's about eating and body issues and all that stuff. So if any of those and Jews, so, if any of those subjects speak to you, I think you're gonna love it. So August fifteenth, Netflix, it's called thirty seven and Single, and I'm at Jared Freed on Instagram. So thank you guys so much.
I really do appreciate it, of course, and thank you to our listeners for tuning in.
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