I'm not the villain of the season honey. I'm not concerned about that, but you are shut up

I just can't deal with you anymore. I can't don't need with your emotions. Don't leave with your aim

You're nothing to me girl. Nothing. McKenna says you're nothing to me girl. Nothing. I'm

Everything no

It is so dumb. It's a telenovela. They say nothing. They're saying nothing

Welcome to Here to Make Friends, a Huffpost podcast about the Bachelor franchise where we lovingly snark on the Bachelor and Bachelor

adjacent shows whether you love the Bachelor or love to hate it we're here to break down every delicious moment with you. I'm Emma Gray and I'm

Leaply. Emma enough is enough really Peter and the remaining women have had enough dammit and

frankly so have I. Enough is enough. Should we just bow out? Are we just done with this season? Is that is that like the point that this show has pushed us to?

You know, maybe there's like a glimmer of hope. Maybe. Honestly, I am glad that women are just dropping like flies and might make it a little bit less tense

They'll they'll all be separated soon. So I guess for you the listeners will persevere

But before we get into the meat of this episode the meat sweats the meat sweats of this episode I do want to take a minute to kind of run through all of the craziness surrounding the Victoria F Cosmo white lives matter modeling situation that has kind of played out over the last few days. I want to give a shout out to Lee who is the

first journalist when she had Peter on build series on Tuesday to actually ask him directly about the Cosmo statement which has created this whole media cycle and I'm just I am thrilled that you did not back down from asking him.

You know Emma the podcast gave me that courage to go out there because this thing is yeah I met Peter at build series he's a super nice guy.

Super cute. Very kind so tall much taller than I thought very tall. I was struck by that as well. I need to a

responsibility for some of the stuff that's happened this season be it his bad decisions. Maybe he hasn't been asking the right

questions to these women. He acknowledged he fed into the drama exactly. Yeah, we did get into Victoria F's situation with her

Marlon preservation campaign where she wore some attire that said white lives matter that W she was wearing a half that said WLM

and there were this was a WM clothing was the name of the company and there were other photos right next to it with

Confederate flags with marlins in it and the phrase white lives matter. Yeah, and so Cosmo after she won the

challenge where she got a digital cover Cosmo released their own statement which we read last podcast about how they

weren't going to run the cover because of all this that's going on. So I you know I felt it necessary that this is out in the

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