WEBVTT - Engagement Ready 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:03.800 This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:04.680 with on our radio. 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:09.840 Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. We have 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:12.080 g and Nina Ja Belli. 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.760 And did you say right right? 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:16.720 Yeah? 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:24.160 And Blake Hornsman on the podcast. They're here celebrating their engagement. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.040 They got engaged it last week. Is that true time? 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.560 No, it was thirty so a couple of weeks ago. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:32.960 Yeah, October thirties. You kept it secret for a little 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:34.720 while and you just announced it last week. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.440 Yeah, we got engaged in the election happened. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.519 Yeah, we were like what You're like, Yeah, I'm just 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.240 gonna be quiet for a couple of weeks. 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.040 We actually probably could have used some refreshers to the 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.879 timeline actually during that I want to dive in right 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.040 away with this because it is such a special moment 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.720 for the two of you. Blake, I texted you this 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:56.680 and I mean it how I mean you guys have 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:58.480 been together now for how many years? 0:00:58.960 --> 0:00:59.560 Almost three? 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:00.560 Three next month? 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.720 Yeah, okay, and you obviously have a beautiful child together 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:09.200 who is such a joy to watch, and so you 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.720 were like, very your your lives are very intimately entwined 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:13.760 at this point. 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:14.600 To say the least. 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:19.679 Yeah, and you are you know, you haven't proposed yet, 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.280 so you're planning this proposal for a year. 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.119 Yeah, for a year. Yeah, he was planning it. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:31.080 Or I was pregnant. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.280 That's a good little tidbit throw in there. 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:38.319 Yeah, yeah, Ben. So like basically, yeah, I was. I 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:43.479 had first started August of twenty twenty two, is that right? 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:43.800 No? 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.840 No, three, August of twenty two three is my first visit. 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:52.120 It's a brilliant earth And like I knew at that point, 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:53.600 I was like, oh, this is a good start, you know. 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.280 I was like, let's just like get I had no 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.040 idea what to expect because I mean picking out I 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.000 mean I've always I've always picked out a ring before, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.320 but it's nothing like in real life, you know what 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.160 I mean, Like they just had the rings there and 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:06.680 you just kind of pick one. So this was like 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:08.959 I get to customize it. I knew I had asked 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.440 her long before, like what she wanted as far as 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.400 like an oval cut, all that fancy stuff. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:14.640 You know. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:16.160 He literally just. 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.760 Like randomly texted me when I was like at the 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:22.079 nail salon one y, he goes, so what you want? 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.960 And I was like, nail salon of all places. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:28.960 He's like, so, what kind of ring you want? 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.000 I'm just sitting there, you know, like scrolling like when 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:32.639 you're you know, at the nails chilling. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:34.280 And then I was like. 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.840 What I called my cousin. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:39.600 I was like, what kind of ring do I want? 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:39.679 Like? 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.040 You want this cut, you want the prongs, you want this, 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:44.640 you want that? 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.760 And I was like, you know, like something like this, 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.000 a little like a. 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.279 Little oval, something little little. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:54.520 And I was like nonchalant. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:55.560 I was like, this will do. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:56.760 And then that's it. 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.600 That's literally all we ever talked about it. He did 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.160 not want to go ring shopping with me. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:04.959 I wanted to be a surprise. So I like, yeah, 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.280 I wanted to be like a surprise. Yeah, so I 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:09.200 didn't I that was it. 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.200 And then I didn't ask her again. I'd asked her. 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:12.760 I asked her ring size at that point, but I 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.840 didn't ask again, like I just I was like, Okay, 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:16.400 I got what she wants, and now I'm going to 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:17.840 see if I can pick out the ring that she 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:18.480 really loves. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.239 And for a whole year I was like, oh my god, 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.680 this man has like a random picture that I took 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.960 off Pinterest, like like is this even I mean, I 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:27.880 guess it is what it is. And then for a 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.400 year I was just like, I don't know when this 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:35.640 is going to happen. So yeah, engagement nails for like 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:36.440 a year straight. 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:38.240 It was so stressful. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.120 Friend tip white chrome for like a yek. 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:45.720 Sweat it out, sweat it out. 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:50.000 Oh my god, I can't wait to be Oh my goodness, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.200 you guys, I have so many questions from this now, 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.160 all right, So, Blake, when she found out she was pregnant, 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.400 were you like ever thinking, oh, I got to get 0:03:58.440 --> 0:03:59.960 the rate, like let's hurry up and get the ring 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.920 the finger before we had come out with the pregnancy, 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.680 or you like, let's wait until after the baby. Then 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:06.880 did this change your timeline of proposal. 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.440 Yeah, that's a good question. I basically kind of like 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.400 told her. I was like, listen, we can get engaged tomorrow, 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.000 we can get married tomorrow if. 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:14.880 That's something you want. 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:16.839 And she was just kind of like and I was 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.680 like no, No, She's like, oh, we don't need to 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:20.520 rush it, like you know, we're in it for the 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.120 long haul, like we know, you know. So she was 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.000 basically like I want to be well, obviously you were incredible, 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.080 Like she ended up being having an incredible pregnancy and 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:30.800 like felt like she was glowing, but she was. 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:32.040 We didn't think it was going to be like that. 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:33.279 So she was like, I want to be hot. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.040 Again, so then you can get you when you get Oh, 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:37.480 I want to feel good. I want to feel like myself, 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.120 I mean for me and it. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:41.839 I didn't. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:44.440 I don't know how to work this, so I'm not 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.559 like traumatized to the sense where from love is blind 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.320 where I think he's going to tell me not the altar. 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.880 But because of that experience, I did want some things 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.280 to just kind of be like this is how I've 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.120 always wanted it to be, you know, instead of having 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.120 that experience of like knowing when I was getting get 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.400 engaged seeing you know, no, not seeing that person through 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.800 the fucking wall, like having this super generic ring be 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:09.640 picked up for me. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.000 Like I wanted. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.840 Something to feel like you know how I always envisioned it. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:16.360 So that's why I was like, you know what, there's 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.359 no rush, Let's just take it one step out a 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.280 time again, Like I didn't know if I was going. 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:23.800 To feel good during my pregnancy. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:25.080 It was one of those things where I was like, 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:26.920 I've always envisioned myself just. 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:32.479 Being in a happy mood. Let's let's just kind of 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:33.239 keep that. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:38.760 Moment sacred and between us and I mean literally we 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.760 met what October no December twenty twenty one, and one 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.960 of the first conversations we had, I was like, I 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.360 want to get married in Croatia, and like we already 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.080 knew that we were going to get married because we 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.520 knew that this was going to happen. So again it 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.640 was just like a let's just let's just keep this. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.400 Yeah, we're gonna do it all our timeline. We didn't 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:58.840 want to rush anything. We just want to do it 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.520 on our timeline. And so yeah, it worked out perfect, It. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.520 Worked out great. Heath was there. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:03.920 Yeah. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:05.920 That was really special too, is to have Heath there 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.760 for the photos and for the moment and everything. 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.200 It was really special. And he'll be you know, we 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:12.480 able to look back and be like, look, you were 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:13.200 there when you're. 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.600 Yeah, yeah, he'll be. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.360 At the wedding. Yeah, the ring bearer and all that 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:18.960 fun stuff. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.560 I want to flash back and then get back to 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.760 the timeline we're on right now. I want to flash 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.080 back to the two of you, and this question is 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:40.000 for both of you to answer individually. Obviously, you were 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.760 thinking about a proposal and getting married before you knew 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.080 that Heath was going to be entering into this world 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:51.000 with the two of you. What was the moment or 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.880 is there a moment where you remember going, I'm going 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:56.280 I want to marry this person. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.840 Hmm, that's a good question I'll answer for this is 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:01.520 about you. 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:06.440 So i'll give you Yeah. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.320 For me, there wasn't like an exact moment. I was like, oh, 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:10.960 there wasn't that for me. I think it was just 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.360 when she moved in, because like in my past relayships, 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.200 I've had some long relationships where like they moved in 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.200 and it was like whoa, like we can together, we 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.440 can not cohabitate. So I think it was I already 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:22.960 know I loved her, you know, all that kind of stuff, 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:24.680 and then she moved in, and then it was it 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:26.920 was smooth and it was like she did you know 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.240 she Like it wasn't like oh, like I'm. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.520 Like, I don't know how to explain it. Like it 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:33.160 wasn't like she. 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.240 Was like, oh my house now, you know. I was 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:36.720 like not in that sense. It was like she made 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:38.720 the house better for in my life better. She made 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.040 like I could see a future with her after it 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:41.880 was like, okay, we can go. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.080 Have it in the house better. I was jared but 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:45.640 acknowledged this. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.040 It was now give me a great care. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.040 I only lived here for like a month before she 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:51.760 moved in, so I hadn't made. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.560 It mine yet really, but no, she did. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.040 She turned the house into a home, right, and that's 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.360 what that's what Yeah, that's what you did for sure. 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.680 So yeah in that sense, and then I was like, okay, 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.400 like we could live together like this. 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.559 I can see this like future because in the past 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.600 that was like that was kind of a hard thing 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:07.640 for me to co have dates. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.840 So so yeah, that was kind of like me while 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:10.600 I was like trama. 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.440 Yeah, yeah, my past strama and relationships were like once 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:14.920 I lived with a girl, it was like, oh god, 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:15.640 I can't do this. 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.960 So yeah, we clicked in that sense. So that was 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:19.600 that was kind of like what it was for me 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:19.920 for sure? 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:20.120 For you? 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:21.960 What was it for you? 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:30.800 I So he invited me for Christmas two weeks like 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.160 after the show, so we'd already been like dating for 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:39.000 three weeks, and it was like it was January where 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.400 I was in here, I was in this house and 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.040 everything just felt so like like I was meant to 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:44.480 be here. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.920 I was just like whoa. And I got on a 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.120 call with my manager and they're like, so, like, how's 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.360 it going. And I was like, I'm going to marry him? 0:08:55.240 --> 0:09:00.960 Was January me too? Yeah? 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.640 And then I had to tell Netflix no for Perfect 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:06.240 Match like a month later. 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:11.520 And at that point I had to marry it. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:14.200 Like this solidifies it for me, you know, it's not 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.160 just like a thing that I'm saying like this kind 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.680 of this just tells me like I don't want to 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.240 look anywhere else, even though I have this like amazing 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:25.240 opportunity to do it. And so yeah, it was like 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.760 that time frame and then after that I was just like, yeah, 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:29.520 I guess I'm in Colorado. 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:34.560 Know if I remember correctly though, and I could be 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:38.200 thinking about this all wrong. When you first came out 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.520 to Colorado, this was not a you're moving, but then 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.319 you just never left. Like I remember this, there's like 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.280 a plan of like, hey, she's going to come spend 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.520 like a month and it's going to be great, but 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:50.600 you know, she lives in Miami. And then it was 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.480 like five months and then all of a sudden, it 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.160 was a year. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.160 The first year I went home a week here, a 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:00.360 week there, and then I. 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.640 Went home twice to repack and then I just gave back. 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.800 But you were so sweet like you always. I remember, 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:10.320 like on the show, you were just like, yeah, I 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.439 can't wait for you to like come and see my house, 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.880 and you know, I can just like envision you cooking 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:20.720 like in the kitchen. And then I remember your roommate 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.439 was like leaving and You're like, yeah, like we can 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.280 play house now, like you said those words, and I 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.000 was just like, oh my god, like we're on. 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:30.680 The same page. 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.840 It was so sweet because like you know, like you 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.120 can tell like a guy like wants to or not. 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.480 And he never told me like, oh hey I got 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.240 a gig, like you should leave, like he was yeah, 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:42.800 like do you want to come or do you want 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:44.400 to stay? Like he was never like this is a 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.560 good time for you to go home, Like never never 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.840 said anything like that. So I was like, all right, cool, like, yeah, 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.600 I'm here, I'm on the same page. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.720 Not to go further back in time, but when you 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.319 guys first met on All Stars Shore, did you feel 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:02.960 like a love at first sight feeling? 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:03.280 Though? 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.800 Is there any moment during the filming where you were 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.400 like I could marry this person. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:15.280 So I had like this I was all in because 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.560 you know I was. I made sure to like be 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:22.080 in the moment, and he made me feel fantastic, like 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.880 I'd never clicked with somebody like that, where it was 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.000 like so genuine. I had like butterflies every single time 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.520 I saw you. But in my head, I was like, 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.080 I have this dating show coming up, so like this 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:39.240 is just gonna be the sweetest, shortest relationship ever, and 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.600 and I just I just made sure to be like, 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.200 you know, like savor every second of it. And then 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.160 I told him about it while we were still there, 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:47.640 and the way she told. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.120 Me, filming had just wrapped and we were like in 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.720 the like hotel, you know, after it wraps, and they're 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.400 doing like itms like passing, and. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.880 She told me, I was like, I had this dating show, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:01.080 and the way that you reacted, I knew that I 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:01.880 wasn't going to do it. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:06.160 How like, how did he how did he react so sweet? 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.840 Like you expect someone to be like, oh, like you 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.680 used me, but why didn't you tell me like you 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.760 just led me on and I'm going to break my heart? 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.800 And all this shit? He was so he was he 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.600 was sad. He was just so sad. He just went, oh, 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.640 like I really thought this was something. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.520 It is. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:28.480 I'm not gonna do it. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.360 I promise, but it was just the way and he 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.400 was so and I left for like a couple of hours, 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.280 you know, to like really think about it, and I 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:36.920 just come back in the room and he was just 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:40.360 like laying down like so fucking depressed, and I was like, 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:40.920 this man. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:41.559 Loves me, like. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.160 It's kind of and I kind of surprised myself the 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:47.440 way I react. I think, as I had been in 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.559 the industry, you know, in this world for a few 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.280 years at that point, like I understood the opportunity. So 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.719 I wasn't gonna be like you are me, you know 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.480 what I mean. I wasn't gonna be like, you know, 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.520 like that's it, we're breaking out. It was just kind 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:00.960 of on the things, was like, listen, if you go 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.040 on the show, we're not together. Like I'm not going 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.920 to be the boyfriend back home. But I did say 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:09.679 it like a month later, but I was like, if 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.920 this is something you feel like, you know, maybe I'll 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.760 still be here when you get back. Because I was 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.880 like that one, like we do have such a strong connection, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:17.840 but yeah, I was super sad. I remember being like 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.319 super sad and disappointed, but at the same time, like 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:24.000 when we were filming, I remember thinking like like this 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.400 is great, Like she were clicking. Like I I remember 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.240 waking up every morning and sitting at the breakfast table 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:29.800 and like she'd always come out like a runway and 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:31.319 she come out and here like you know, how her 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.120 her clothes, you know her style, she come out her style. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:35.600 I was like, oh my gosh, you know, every day, 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.360 every morning. But I also do remember thinking like that 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.360 she was like not necessarily holding back, but there was 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.360 you were going in with the therapist a lot. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:48.520 I remember like, oh, just live in the moment, like 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.120 whatever you know it was in the future hasn't happened yet. 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:52.560 And I was like, yeah, you're right, you're right. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.760 But I remember like as soon as I met you, 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.160 and I've said the story before, but when you're saying 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.240 like love at first sight, I look back at it 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.640 now and I'm like, that's what it was, because like 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.679 you walk down to the beach and it was just 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:06.559 like me and like three other people there. 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.480 And I remember and I was like, why do you 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:09.360 look so familiar? 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.640 And he's wearing like this like white shirt with like 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.280 blue flowers on it, like twenty eighteen, Blake, you. 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:19.480 Know what I mean, it's like a little tight. 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:21.840 Yeah, you know. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.360 He's like walking on blah blah blah. Do you look 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:24.920 so familiar? 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:28.440 He goes, I'm from the Bachelorette and like the biggest 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:33.600 Blake smile. And I was just like off, like I 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:35.880 like this, like feeling my stomach and I was like. 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:41.160 Not the bachelor guy, red flag, Like. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.440 I fell for it, like literally like that moment, I 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:44.760 was like. 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:46.720 Yeah, you're in h. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:52.720 The It's always interesting to me too, though, because we've 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.880 established that you guys, you know, only have this this 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.600 past on the show, but then you've worked through stuff 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.560 and you've came together, and you've been li together, and 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.560 you have a son together and all these crazy things 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:03.840 that have brought your life together. 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:04.640 Blake. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.000 I want to hear from you though, as you got 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:12.840 ready to propose, the feelings and the emotions that came 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:17.000 about in you to propose to somebody that you knew 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:19.040 I would assume was gonna. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.440 Say yes, that's pretty sure. 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.800 Just give us a perspective of still just how hard 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.480 that is to propose? 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.240 Oh my god, man, you asked the question that I've 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.640 been dying to ask the entire episode because I watched 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:35.840 your guy's YouTube video about how nervous you were. I'm like, Blake, 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.040 you have a child together. To me, to me, that 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.560 is the ultimate game, you know. 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.240 And I just have to say this because Blake and 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:50.480 I texted about this, and I don't want to put 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.320 words in his mouth, so I'm going to it's just different, 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.320 Like I don't know, like, it's just different. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:56.840 So I want to hear Blake. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.560 Knowing that you have a child together, knowing that she 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.920 was going to say yes, what still did it feel like? 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:03.680 So? 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:04.840 Yeah? I mean I was. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:06.920 I was shocked and out nervous. So was I wasn't 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.960 nervous Like picking out the ring. I was super excited 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.520 when I got the ring, which was like probably about 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.760 six weeks I think before the prosal it was like 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.680 burning a hole in my pocket, Like I just wanted 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:17.920 to show her cause I knew she would love it 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:18.280 so much. 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:19.040 I was so excited. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.280 But then when I fully started a plan plan it all, 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.160 which was probably about three weeks out, four weeks out 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.600 something like that, I started to get so nervous. I 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.920 was like, you're right, like I knew she was gonna say, yes, 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.360 we have a child together, like we'd already you know, 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:33.480 planned this future together. 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:35.360 But I don't know what it was. I think some 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:36.680 of it was kind of she spoke to it a 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:37.080 little bit. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.960 She had been you know, engaged, she had been more 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.160 or less proposed to that you did the proposing too, 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.480 But I knew that that wasn't how she envisioned it, 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.600 you know, I knew that it was like I felt 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.520 a lot of pressure, Like I felt a lot of pressure. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.000 I want I wanted it to be perfect for her, 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.280 So the building up to it was like a lot 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.280 and I couldn't believe when I the two days leading 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.880 up to we were in I was like shaking, like I. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.400 Was like freaking out. My heart was founding. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:08.480