Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to I Do Part two.
Speaker 2: This is the podcast where we get to talk to
Speaker 2: people about their relationships, what they got wrong, what they're
Speaker 2: getting right, bottom line, if you got it wrong the
Speaker 2: first time.
Speaker 1: This is the podcast for you. And we love talking
Speaker 1: about hope and second chances and third chances, and that's
Speaker 1: what this is all about. And today some of your
Speaker 1: hosts are here, Amy Roeboch and my partner, my love TJ. Holmes,
Speaker 1: and look, we do get to talk to a lot
Speaker 1: of people, but man, we have a very special person
Speaker 1: to talk to today.
Speaker 3: I had to said when they first came to us
Speaker 3: about I Do Part two, and we said, okay, it
Speaker 3: sounds fun. They gave us a couple of names, and
Speaker 3: then they told us about Kelly bin Simone. I was like, okay, cool, fine,
Speaker 3: and went back and watched her season, yes, our seasons
Speaker 3: as a real housewife yep, and got one impression. But
Speaker 3: then when we met her, she is absolutely one of
Speaker 3: the highlights of agreeing to do I Do Part two.
Speaker 3: She is just this is a compliment, Kelly, You're a hoot.
Speaker 3: That's a compliment. Okay, she's a hoot.
Speaker 1: She's full of life and enthusiasm, and I would just
Speaker 1: go with this. You're passionate, Kelly, and I appreciate someone
Speaker 1: who's invested, and that means sometimes when things are good
Speaker 1: and sometimes when things aren't so good, but you know
Speaker 1: exactly where you stand. And I appreciate people like that.
Speaker 1: You don't mince words, you don't pretend, you say what
Speaker 1: you think, and you mean what you say. And so
Speaker 1: we like people like you.
Speaker 4: Kelly, oh Amy, you guys are the best. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, I started this with you, and so I'm
Speaker 4: actually really excited to talk to you because I've changed.
Speaker 4: I know people are like I've changed, No, but I
Speaker 4: genuinely and inherently feel a fundamental change, not only in
Speaker 4: the way that I see myself, the way that I
Speaker 4: talk about myself, but the way that I uh handle
Speaker 4: myself with other people, and how I and the expectations
Speaker 4: I have for myself and the expectations I have for
Speaker 4: other people.
Speaker 3: What prompted the change, Kelly, Uh.
Speaker 5: It was a very cathartic moment. We've seen some very
Speaker 5: strange things. We've seen some like Alison wonderfully, I'm like.
Speaker 1: Ah, I cannot say that, No, but you've been really open,
Speaker 1: You've been really open about your love journey, and we
Speaker 1: actually are coming to you for this podcast because we
Speaker 1: want an update. You actually had a first date in
Speaker 1: real life. You were set up by one of our
Speaker 1: producers here on I do Part two, and we cannot
Speaker 1: wait to hear the details because this was weeks in
Speaker 1: the making. Correct.
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean we've had a lot of fun. You know,
Speaker 4: Jenna Kramer and I have had so much fun. She
Speaker 4: I like literally was dming movie stars with her and
Speaker 4: new friends that we've been Cheryl Brooke has been a
Speaker 4: really good, good new friend of mine.
Speaker 5: I've made some other new friends on the podcast.
Speaker 4: We've been doing all these fun and wild like antics
Speaker 4: to meet new guys. But actually, my executive producer, she's like,
Speaker 4: I have this great guy for you, and there's a
Speaker 4: reason I want you to meet him, and you're gonna
Speaker 4: tell me.
Speaker 5: Why after you met him.
Speaker 4: So we start talking and texting first, and then I'm
Speaker 4: chatting on the phone for the past like two weeks.
Speaker 4: I'm stellar human, highly educated, beautiful family, respectful to his
Speaker 4: ex wife, really good genuine father. You guys are you
Speaker 4: guys are great parents. You can really appreciate that. Just
Speaker 4: a very stellar human and you know, it's interesting because
Speaker 4: she's like, how was the date? And I was, you know,
Speaker 4: saying we were kind of I'm gonna talk about that.
Speaker 4: But before we even talk about the date, the thing
Speaker 4: that for me is just so wildly important is that I,
Speaker 4: Kelly Calaurin Ben Simone, can finally date.
Speaker 5: A stellar human.
Speaker 4: I have confidence to actually date someone who I respect,
Speaker 4: and I think that is.
Speaker 5: Something that is so new for me.
Speaker 4: And I'm just you know, very very happy that I
Speaker 4: got to meet mister Tennis.
Speaker 3: You know it also Kelly called me crazy. This doesn't
Speaker 3: sound like a transition. What you're explaining here is something
Speaker 3: that would happen overnight. How long have you been going
Speaker 3: through this thing? I mean, has your and tired, tired
Speaker 3: dating life been that other Kelly who was maybe dating
Speaker 3: someone that you shouldn't have been dating and now here
Speaker 3: you are? But how that has to be a year's
Speaker 3: long process to get to this point.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean it's been really full on since I
Speaker 4: met you guys last fall.
Speaker 3: No, seriously, so you prompted it, you are, you know,
Speaker 3: this is why we're here. We're here to do good work.
Speaker 4: Seriously, and you know, it was really interesting because, like
Speaker 4: you know, talked about how you know you met me
Speaker 4: and you know you you know you watch my shows
Speaker 4: and then you then you met me in real life,
Speaker 4: and you know when I sat down with you, with
Speaker 4: you guys for the first and I've been interviewed by
Speaker 4: a lot of people, and I just felt immediately very
Speaker 4: drawn to you guys, and I my my executive producer.
Speaker 4: She was like, when you first did that interview with them,
Speaker 4: She's like, I could tell you really want wanted to
Speaker 4: tell you know the two of you more. But I
Speaker 4: was just so like wound up and so guarded that
Speaker 4: I was afraid. I mean I was even like I
Speaker 4: wasn't even looking up the entire the entire podcast.
Speaker 5: I'm looking down like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know what. You know what it is, though, Kelly.
Speaker 1: I think when you've lived a lot of your life,
Speaker 1: or at least the life that people know of you
Speaker 1: in front of a camera and you know you're viewed
Speaker 1: through that lens only you know people are looking at
Speaker 1: perhaps maybe your weakest or your least proud of moments
Speaker 1: and defining you by that, you start defining yourself by that.
Speaker 1: You don't feel like you're worthy, you don't feel you
Speaker 1: can look up because people have seen you not just
Speaker 1: at your best shining amazing self, but maybe at your
Speaker 1: at your not your worst moment, but at your less
Speaker 1: than best moments. And that's tough to know that they
Speaker 1: live on and people can watch them and then form
Speaker 1: opinions of you before they even meet you. That's that's
Speaker 1: not a fun space to be in.
Speaker 5: Right, And I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: I think you never hear the good because you're not
Speaker 4: really focusing on the good.
Speaker 5: All you do is hear that. You know, people are like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, you're awful, You're this, you're that.
Speaker 4: And so I was just wildly insecure for so long
Speaker 4: for obvious reasons.
Speaker 5: When you spend a lot of time.
Speaker 4: By yourself, it's not like you're like, great work, You're awesome,
Speaker 4: good job, you know, it's like you're just like, you know,
Speaker 4: a one man band. And you know, my ex husband
Speaker 4: was significantly older, and we weren't, you know, we didn't
Speaker 4: have that kind of virgin River love where you know,
Speaker 4: you see people and they're.
Speaker 5: Like, how is your day? I just really care about
Speaker 5: how you feel. My exis was French. He never he
Speaker 5: didn't even know what was he gonna say? Oh, your feelings,
Speaker 5: how are your feelings? We never asked that.
Speaker 1: I love that you made a Virgin River reference. I'm
Speaker 1: obsessed with that. Also, just such a false narrative of
Speaker 1: what life is or love is. But anyway, still get
Speaker 1: sucked into the narrative of it all. That's hilarious.
Speaker 4: So anyway, my point is, and then from that on,
Speaker 4: from that and you know, moving on to different dating
Speaker 4: different people, like you know, being a television and dating
Speaker 4: people that were not the right people for me. But
Speaker 4: you know how in the housewives world, you know, you
Speaker 4: guys are in the news. We're in the funny business.
Speaker 4: So it's like, you know, people treat you because they
Speaker 4: respect you, and they they can't wait to hear what's
Speaker 4: coming out of your mouth. For us, it's like it's
Speaker 4: a show, what's happening, you know whatever.
Speaker 1: We became both Kelly just so you know, true.
Speaker 4: And yet I thought it true true, But I mean
Speaker 4: just for the birth, like you know, the ninety percent
Speaker 4: is like the good news, and so I guess just
Speaker 4: from being a part of that narrative, which was very
Speaker 4: difficult for me to navigate and also be raising two
Speaker 4: kids alone, I became I was around people that were
Speaker 4: like if they liked me.
Speaker 5: I was like, oh, they like me, of course, you know.
Speaker 4: I wasn't like, I'm going to wait, I'm going to
Speaker 4: kind of figure out what, you know, what are the
Speaker 4: things that I I am looking for in my life?
Speaker 4: And so I kind of gravitated towards those love bombers,
Speaker 4: you know, the super fast we're going to get married tomorrow,
Speaker 4: all of that kind of nonsense. And you know, now
Speaker 4: we know of them as red flags, but like I
Speaker 4: am focused on the green flags. I am focused on
Speaker 4: all of the good news, the slow and steady wins,
Speaker 4: the race, the stellar humans, the the.
Speaker 5: Good the good news, like the good Bears.
Speaker 4: I don't you know, I'm not interested in anyone who
Speaker 4: wants to like, there's no song and dance.
Speaker 5: I don't want you know, that's that's the past.
Speaker 3: All right. So let's talk about mister mister green Flag.
Speaker 3: I guess we call him mister Tennis, but he's going
Speaker 3: to be mister green Flag as well. Only how long
Speaker 3: were you all talking and you just met, But how
Speaker 3: long before the meeting had you all been going back
Speaker 3: and forth on text and film?
Speaker 5: So two weeks?
Speaker 4: We've been talking for about two two and a half
Speaker 4: weeks do.
Speaker 1: Ingen have we texting? Facetiming, no FaceTime, noaill how long
Speaker 1: of the phone FaceTime?
Speaker 4: I didn't want to FaceTime because I didn't want to.
Speaker 4: I didn't want to, you know, be like, oh, I'm
Speaker 4: going to look at him and I'm going to feel
Speaker 4: a certain way. I just want to eat human real life,
Speaker 4: because when you meet people in real life, it's like
Speaker 4: the way they smell, they're the way they look, you know,
Speaker 4: on a FaceTime it's like people's got the people on
Speaker 4: their phones right up in their face.
Speaker 5: You don't know what they're looking like. They're like driving
Speaker 5: a car.
Speaker 4: Sorry people, you know, people are doing things that are
Speaker 4: like you're like, wait, just.
Speaker 5: Is that his nose? What is that like?
Speaker 4: So I just wanted to meet him in a real
Speaker 4: way and you know, just to get take again.
Speaker 5: I'm like all focused on.
Speaker 4: Like taking my time, like being like I'm being very
Speaker 4: like cool.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, Kelly, we know we saw the you saw
Speaker 3: his picture. At least you knew what he looked like.
Speaker 3: How did that compare to what showed up?
Speaker 4: Very very similar, you know, very that is it's very
Speaker 4: good like the cold packfish. Some you know, things like
Speaker 4: you know, it's like the new narrative. So he looked
Speaker 4: exactly like he did in the photos and handsome, very athletic.
Speaker 4: He really is like a really really good tennis player,
Speaker 4: like very very good. And I love that too, like
Speaker 4: I love that he has like a sport that he
Speaker 4: really loves and that's not just about like what restaurant
Speaker 4: he went to, but more like what he's doing to
Speaker 4: better himself, Like I love that.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you didn't FaceTime, You just talked on the
Speaker 1: phone and you texted and he shows up. Did you
Speaker 1: where did you first meet? Did you meet in a
Speaker 1: public place? Did you pick him up in the airport?
Speaker 1: How did that all go down?
Speaker 4: So he came to my building to meet me to
Speaker 4: go to go to dinner, and the doorman just let
Speaker 4: him into the hall, which they never do, and they
Speaker 4: let him come down the hallway. I think that they
Speaker 4: were thinking he was somebody else. I don't think that
Speaker 4: they were thinking that he was like a date. They
Speaker 4: were they were like, he's like, I'm here to see
Speaker 4: Calay and they're like, oh yeah, wow, he got.
Speaker 3: Some security concerns.
Speaker 1: He looks so, you know, impressive that people just assumed
Speaker 1: that he belonged there.
Speaker 3: I'm going to try that, Kelly. As you're building, they're
Speaker 3: going to be paparazzi shot to me in handcuffs.
Speaker 5: Was like at my.
Speaker 4: Door at the doorbell rang, and I'm like, no one
Speaker 4: ever rings my doorbell.
Speaker 5: So I was like, okay, So I opened the door
Speaker 5: and it.
Speaker 3: Was hit, Okay, that's awkward and awesome. What happened? What'd
Speaker 3: you do?
Speaker 5: I hugged him.
Speaker 3: Oh that's awesome, that's good.
Speaker 4: I hugged him because I was so happy to see.
Speaker 1: Him, all right, And then what's not gonna lie?
Speaker 5: I was taken back. I was not.
Speaker 4: I was expecting like for me to like walk down
Speaker 4: the hallway, give myself a little moment like and then
Speaker 4: you know, have him like see me.
Speaker 5: Like the big reveal. But no, he came and like
Speaker 5: ding dong.
Speaker 3: I was like, what wait, Kelly, wasn't that better? I
Speaker 3: love that you were caught off the art. You didn't
Speaker 3: have a chance to try to get yourself together and
Speaker 3: you just answered as the big old, beautiful, bouncy, lovely Kelly.
Speaker 3: Here I am.
Speaker 5: That's awesome, totally totally that is me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, bouncy, very bouncy Yes, and that was
Speaker 4: and I had come. You know, I was in work clothes,
Speaker 4: so like, I mean, normally I would be like my
Speaker 4: one of my really good friends, she was like dressed
Speaker 4: super casual, like wear a T shirt and jeans. I'd
Speaker 4: have time and change, and so I was like, you know,
Speaker 4: just to work clothes.
Speaker 5: And so we went.
Speaker 4: We went to go have dinner at this restaurant called
Speaker 4: the Corner Bar, and he was very polite and very
Speaker 4: interesting to learn about, soho and you know where I
Speaker 4: live and what I like to do, and you know,
Speaker 4: very chatty. And on this other podcast, this woman told
Speaker 4: me she was.
Speaker 5: Like, I like to ask a lot of questions. And
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm not really like a question.
Speaker 4: Person, Like I like to have a conversation, you know,
Speaker 4: like you guys are asking me questions today, but normally
Speaker 4: you just you're like how are you? And then you
Speaker 4: just kind of organically speak. You don't sit, there's no
Speaker 4: like waiting for the follow up question like normal life.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not like that.
Speaker 1: You don't want to do feel like a job interview.
Speaker 5: That's what she said.
Speaker 4: That's what she does, she says, she does that, and
Speaker 4: I'm just like, I'm I'm like, oh, you like red shoes?
Speaker 4: What kind of red shoes?
Speaker 5: Like You're like, how was your law agree? Like you
Speaker 5: know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Were you attracted to him at first sight? How did
Speaker 1: he smell? How did he look?
Speaker 5: He doesn't have a smell? I was, I was. I
Speaker 5: thought that was like. I was like, la is probably.
Speaker 4: Going to be like wearing some kind of like tom
Speaker 4: Ford scent of the day.
Speaker 1: No, like I was.
Speaker 4: I was like, we are like ivory soap, like nothing,
Speaker 4: like just very clean, simple like nothing. I was like, okay,
Speaker 4: and then dressed like very you know, got like a
Speaker 4: pool peat coat on and sneakers and like Converse sneakers
Speaker 4: and jeans and very casual.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean his date. You know, he's a day job,
Speaker 5: he's a lawyer.
Speaker 4: So I think that he was coming to New York
Speaker 4: and he wanted to be like casual and coold.
Speaker 5: Meanwhile, I'm all dressed.
Speaker 3: Wait, so you didn't dress, you didn't change into the
Speaker 3: jeans and the teacherts time what wait a minute? And
Speaker 3: when he came to the door, did you invite him
Speaker 3: in or he had to stand outside the in the hall?
Speaker 4: Well, my oldest, my youngest daughter was in the apartment,
Speaker 4: so I was like.
Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness, I wish I had I could have
Speaker 3: seen this scene. But you're at the dinner. What what
Speaker 3: if you didn't interview him kind of what was the
Speaker 3: back and forth, the conversation, a lot of laughter, where
Speaker 3: the drink's flowing. It was an eye of how that went.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so we went to the corner bar. We're
Speaker 4: at the bar. This was one thing that he did
Speaker 4: and I thought was very sweet. They the bar at
Speaker 4: the corner bar is like this highly coveted bar, and
Speaker 4: they were going to give us two seats as you
Speaker 4: walk in, and it was a very it's very, very
Speaker 4: very cold in New York, and so he was like, oh, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: I don't like those seats.
Speaker 5: I want seats that are over there.
Speaker 4: And so I just thought that was like he was
Speaker 4: making an effort to create an environment that was, you know,
Speaker 4: calm for him, but also like I wasn't sitting in
Speaker 4: the cold, which I thought that was really sweet, because
Speaker 4: most guys just be like, we'll sit there, those are
Speaker 4: those are two were available, We'll.
Speaker 5: Sit there bad complaining obviously.
Speaker 3: Well not a good play. That's okay, but.
Speaker 5: We are in the world right now.
Speaker 3: But but once you got to uh, chatting it up.
Speaker 3: What was that conversation was? Again? Was it? Could you
Speaker 3: tell we have chemistry? You laughed? It was easy, not
Speaker 3: an effort, Yes.
Speaker 5: Very easy, a lot of chemistry. You know.
Speaker 4: I could tell that he really liked me. We just
Speaker 4: get along really well. We were talking and we're having
Speaker 4: fun talking and I and he even said he was
Speaker 4: like he has two children, younger children, and he said
Speaker 4: the one thing about me that he was he was
Speaker 4: nervous that I wasn't going to show up, that he
Speaker 4: was going to fly to New York and that I
Speaker 4: was going to you know, that he was gonna like
Speaker 4: I wasn't gonna I wasn't gonna be available.
Speaker 1: Wow, And did he come just to meet you? He
Speaker 1: didn't have business in New York?
Speaker 4: Well, he had a meeting on Friday morning that he arranged.
Speaker 1: Okay, but he made the meeting because he wanted to
Speaker 1: meet you. The trip was to go and meet you.
Speaker 1: And he was there all weekend. Yes, all right, So
Speaker 1: what did you do? Like, that's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1: It's your hometown. So what did you guys do for
Speaker 1: the weekend? And yes, it is really cold in New York.
Speaker 1: We can attest to that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so really cold in New York. We just walked around,
Speaker 4: you know, we went to a really fun mart. We
Speaker 4: had the rest, you know, we were at the restaurant.
Speaker 4: It was really fun. And then he's also very chatty
Speaker 4: with other people, which I liked. Like there was someone
Speaker 4: that was talking to like, hey, Kellen, he was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: we take your picture. He wasn't like, you know, a
Speaker 4: jerk and was like why is he taking your photo?
Speaker 4: Like that's so awkward, or like saying things like don't
Speaker 4: you hate that? I when guys say don't you hate that,
Speaker 4: I'm like, that's part of my job. I thought that
Speaker 4: was very like easy cool. So the things that normally
Speaker 4: guys would do he did not do.
Speaker 5: He was very easy going. And just the conversation that
Speaker 5: he was having.
Speaker 4: He's like, he's like, well, when I when I'm dropping
Speaker 4: my daughter off, but you know, lessons you know I
Speaker 4: can talk to you about like oh my god, you know,
Speaker 4: the traffic was crazy and you know she was upset
Speaker 4: and she was doing this and this was happening, and.
Speaker 5: He's like, you just didn't you were you were never like.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, call me back in thirty two seconds
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, you know, call me back when
Speaker 4: you're done. And you know, sometimes if I say I'm
Speaker 4: going to call you back, it could be five minutes,
Speaker 4: it could be four hours. And he was just is
Speaker 4: very cool about that, and he was very he liked
Speaker 4: that I was easy going about that as well. He
Speaker 4: said that he said that being a single dad is
Speaker 4: difficult because a lot of women take that, you know,
Speaker 4: time away as being you know, like inconsiderate towards them.
Speaker 4: And I just think, like, people are busy, and I
Speaker 4: know he'll be like, hey, I'll text you or.
Speaker 5: So there was that, there was that, there was there
Speaker 5: was that kind of bond.
Speaker 4: That we like had as well about just being easy
Speaker 4: going with each other and.
Speaker 3: Not be.
Speaker 5: So demanding.
Speaker 1: All right, so when you said goodbye for the evening,
Speaker 1: if you said goodbye for the evening, I don't want
Speaker 1: to assume or presume anything, but was there a kiss. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's like soft.
Speaker 5: Lips, yeah, very very like sweet.
Speaker 4: Also like I'm not the kind of person like listen,
Speaker 4: different people are different people do different things.
Speaker 5: Like again, like I heard the river.
Speaker 4: I was watching the scene last night with this girl
Speaker 4: like hops on top of the bar and like like
Speaker 4: jumps on top of Preacher and like starts making out
Speaker 4: with him.
Speaker 5: Like I am not that kind of person. I'm very like, I'm.
Speaker 4: Like, if you want to you touched my hand, I'm like,
Speaker 4: oh that was nice.
Speaker 1: Another Virgin River reference.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't get any of these reverences.
Speaker 1: I know Preacher, Yeah, I know, I know that scene.
Speaker 3: He would never Preacher Preacher creature.
Speaker 1: Preacher is one of the characters. He's the bar, he's
Speaker 1: he's the guy who runs the bar in the kitchen. Yes,
Speaker 1: Jack's restaurant.
Speaker 4: But anyway, right, so, and he's you know, I am
Speaker 4: not an assertive person like that.
Speaker 5: I will not. You know, my friend Luanne, she's like
Speaker 5: she was giving me tips on.
Speaker 4: Dating, and she's like, put your napkin on fire, send
Speaker 4: a note to the bar, to the to your waiter
Speaker 4: that you think that guy's hot.
Speaker 5: Like these are things I would not.
Speaker 1: I would never do that either.
Speaker 5: First, anything on fire now.
Speaker 4: But she's like, yeah, I just make a little sea
Speaker 4: and I'm like, I'm five ten, Like you cannot miss
Speaker 4: me in a restaurant.
Speaker 3: You are the scene, Gilly, Yes you are.
Speaker 5: No, No, I mean that I didn't feel like that.
Speaker 5: I'm water if you miss me.
Speaker 3: You're like, you know, you know what is but you
Speaker 3: you had the date that night, but was there any
Speaker 3: other date time? Did you have a second date? He
Speaker 3: was there for the weekend, right, So what else did
Speaker 3: you do besides the dinner that night? Did you take
Speaker 3: him somewhere in the morning?
Speaker 4: Okay, So we went after the After the restaurant, we
Speaker 4: went to this really fun bar for Las, which is
Speaker 4: like the best bar, cool scene, like everyone's having a
Speaker 4: great time.
Speaker 5: Like the bartender who I know, She's like, he's the
Speaker 5: answ on, He's so cute.
Speaker 4: And she was asking all about La, and everyone in
Speaker 4: the whole bar was talking to him about La, and
Speaker 4: it was just he was having a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: He was having a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: And then uh, he walked me home and he gave
Speaker 4: me another little kiss and then but it was polite.
Speaker 4: It was like very like polite and like well done.
Speaker 4: Like if he had stuck his tongue down my throat,
Speaker 4: I probably would have.
Speaker 5: Been like, ew, what are you doing?
Speaker 6: Ew?
Speaker 4: Yeah, total like I would have been like what are
Speaker 4: you doing? And then the next morning he texted me
Speaker 4: He's like what are you doing. I'm like, I'm going
Speaker 4: to dance bodie. He's like, okay, I'm going to pick
Speaker 4: you up and I'm going to walk you there. And
Speaker 4: he walked me to my exercise class and then went
Speaker 4: to have a He went to have brunch at Square
Speaker 4: Diner and then met me and then we walked home
Speaker 4: and I had to work again, and then he met
Speaker 4: me later on and we had like a little lunch
Speaker 4: like a salad at sant Ambrose and we just walked around.
Speaker 4: And then he wanted to get tennis sneakers because I
Speaker 4: told him when he came, because he's a tennis player,
Speaker 4: I said, you should definitely play tennis at Vanderbilt. You
Speaker 4: have to play tennis there. It's the coolest, coolest court.
Speaker 4: So he got tent He was like, I need to
Speaker 4: get tennis shoes. So we went to the Wilson store
Speaker 4: on Broadway and he's like, what are you telling you about?
Speaker 5: What is going on here?
Speaker 4: They have a tennis court in the back of the store,
Speaker 4: which we discovered, so we're like literally playing tennis.
Speaker 5: He taught me how to throw football.
Speaker 4: We were like, you know, shooting basketball. It was really
Speaker 4: like fun. I felt like I was on the Bachelor.
Speaker 4: I was like, wait a minute.
Speaker 3: This is like, Kelly, this is cool. We've gotten to
Speaker 3: know you a little bit. And yes, as you described
Speaker 3: our first meeting in that first episode we taped, we agree.
Speaker 3: But you are on fire right now looking at you,
Speaker 3: and the folks can hear it in your voice. I'm sure,
Speaker 3: but you are excited as well. You should look at her.
Speaker 3: She looks smitten. That's the word. You look smitten. And
Speaker 3: you should stay there until further notice.
Speaker 1: That's nice because it could have been awkward. It could
Speaker 1: have gone sideways. You could have realized there was no chemistry.
Speaker 1: So this is like, it sounds like best case scenario.
Speaker 1: Do you what I've got a question in here again?
Speaker 5: Not that night?
Speaker 1: You went out again that night? Oh that's awesome. Whoa Okay, continue.
Speaker 4: We were not up that night and we went to
Speaker 4: this really great restaurant, was a big restaurant, so fun.
Speaker 4: Then we went to this this bar that was next door.
Speaker 4: My daughter was like, Mom, you took him to this place.
Speaker 4: He's gonna love it, and it like makes you look
Speaker 4: really cool.
Speaker 3: Hey, what place is this? Can we ask?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 5: Kyu? And then went to temple bar afterwards.
Speaker 3: We're not cool? I know k I've heard a Temple Bar.
Speaker 1: Yes, Temple Bar, yes, but.
Speaker 4: Kyu is like it's like Korean fried chicken, it's a cauliflower.
Speaker 5: It's amazing and a very cool vibe.
Speaker 4: So we were there, We're having so much fun, and
Speaker 4: like we both were like we'd like we like like
Speaker 4: to you know, he likes to listen to like different
Speaker 4: conversations that people are having, and I'm like that too,
Speaker 4: and I'm like it's like chatting. We're like talking to
Speaker 4: each other, but we're talking about the people next to us.
Speaker 4: And it was really He's very fun. He's a really
Speaker 4: fun guy. And then we went to Temple Bar and
Speaker 4: he walked me home again and we had little kids
Speaker 4: and then he was like, I you know, I wish
Speaker 4: you would come over and hang out and watch TV.
Speaker 1: And I was like, nope, not yet.
Speaker 3: And he was at a hotel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was staying in a really nice hotel.
Speaker 4: But I'm like, I'm not that's not like again, like
Speaker 4: I'm not that kind of I'm just not like that.
Speaker 5: I just i mean, even.
Speaker 4: If I'm like super super super, you know, this guy's
Speaker 4: a really you know spect I said, he's a stellar human.
Speaker 4: So it's like I'm not going to screw it up
Speaker 4: by being like, oh my god, let me go hang
Speaker 4: out in here, you know, kiss you and be like weird,
Speaker 4: and then like have it be weird and like I'm
Speaker 4: taking my time, like's god, I love that on my timeline.
Speaker 5: I'm not on anyone else.
Speaker 1: Are there plans for a second date? Are you going
Speaker 1: to come out to California? What? How did you guys
Speaker 1: leave it?
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, that would be great.
Speaker 4: I would love to come out to California and say
Speaker 4: hi to him and see how he is and see
Speaker 4: his real life. And it's interesting because my friends were
Speaker 4: because they were they were like, have you ever done,
Speaker 4: you know, had a long distance relationship? And I've never
Speaker 4: dated anyone long distance and never dated anyone that wasn't
Speaker 4: that was so far that was far away period or
Speaker 4: like out of the same city.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 4: It was just interesting to hear him, to hear him
Speaker 4: kind of like try to figure out like how we
Speaker 4: were going to date, how we were going to meet up,
Speaker 4: where we're going to meet up. And then all the
Speaker 4: advice for my friends are like, well, you guys could
Speaker 4: meet you know, in Chicago, and I'm like, I don't
Speaker 4: want to be in a relationship where we're constantly on vacation,
Speaker 4: like I want to be in real life. I want
Speaker 4: to see like I want to walk around like Century
Speaker 4: City and like I want to I don't.
Speaker 3: Know, and it's winter. We don't want to meet anybody
Speaker 3: in Chicago right now. It's no good, Kelly.
Speaker 1: I was thinking more like Miami, New Orleans.
Speaker 3: Kelly is you can't let me.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: He just just left, so you just saw him, but
Speaker 3: there's not a plan yet. Do you'll have a tentative plan,
Speaker 3: like for sure the next time you see each other
Speaker 3: will be you.
Speaker 5: In La right, That's what he said.
Speaker 4: He wants to do that, and you know I and
Speaker 4: he was like I want to you know, He's like
Speaker 4: I want to do things that we can like have
Speaker 4: things to talk about. So I was like, let's read
Speaker 4: the same book and we can chat about it and
Speaker 4: just try to like have like just a different narrative
Speaker 4: versus like, how is your day?
Speaker 5: I have no idea what you're talking about? Oh, how
Speaker 5: is your day?
Speaker 4: I have no idea talking about? Like I just wanted
Speaker 4: to have like some kind of conversations that were like
Speaker 4: about things that we're doing versus what everyone else is doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kelly says, have you seen that last episode of
Speaker 3: Virgin River? He says, no, I haven't.
Speaker 1: He should want, Kelly, you and I could do a
Speaker 1: Virgin River club. I would love to dissect that. It's
Speaker 1: funny though it's such a girl I'm sure guys out
Speaker 1: there like it too, but it's such a girl thing.
Speaker 6: It's very funny.
Speaker 1: I have here. Do you already have pet names for
Speaker 1: one another?
Speaker 5: I told I told him that he was Trouble.
Speaker 1: Wow, his name's Trouble.
Speaker 3: That's not a good name.
Speaker 5: And he called me Malibu.
Speaker 1: Malibu is cute. I like that.
Speaker 3: Why Trouble like.
Speaker 5: Malibu Barbie, even though I'm Burnette. Okay, you're more Malabo
Speaker 5: than I have.
Speaker 1: I'm Robes. TJ gave me a pet name or a nickname,
Speaker 1: like it's Robes. My name is Amy Roboch. But he's
Speaker 1: the only one who called me Robes. He called me
Speaker 1: Robes on the air when we were at ABC News together.
Speaker 1: He just he never called me by my first name ever.
Speaker 1: I cannot remember.
Speaker 3: I never saw you as a Barbie. She's she's tall,
Speaker 3: that's right.
Speaker 1: I'm only five to five, Kelly.
Speaker 3: What do we Oh my goodness, this sounds so exciting
Speaker 3: about the guy if you were giving you came on,
Speaker 3: You've been a celebrity mentor to a lot of people
Speaker 3: that that we've had on and who are trying to
Speaker 3: find love. What have you now learned through your ex
Speaker 3: experience that you're really ready to pass on because you
Speaker 3: were giving advice earlier on before you kind of came around,
Speaker 3: before you became the whole, new, full, new Kelly. So
Speaker 3: what advice now are you able to give given the
Speaker 3: new Kelly and the new experience that you're going through.
Speaker 4: Well, it's just it's interesting because I've been doing so
Speaker 4: much talking about relationships and so with him, I talked
Speaker 4: a lot about relationships, and he really liked that. He
Speaker 4: liked hearing He likes talking about his relationships. I think
Speaker 4: that he appreciated that I was open to hearing about
Speaker 4: whatever he wanted to share with what he was doing
Speaker 4: and what he was going on with him. Like, I
Speaker 4: think that that is something that's new to me. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm not I've never been the person that's like, tell
Speaker 4: him about your ex, can't wait to hear all about her.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't care. Like I literally was like
Speaker 5: I did not care.
Speaker 4: And I just been a dated you know, men who
Speaker 4: have had such wild exes that like, I really have
Speaker 4: zero interest in hearing about people's exes.
Speaker 5: But I I asked him.
Speaker 4: Because I just was like, you know what, I'm not
Speaker 4: going to be that person. I'm not going to be
Speaker 4: closed off. I'm not going to be judgmental. You know,
Speaker 4: everybody has everybody has people in their in their orbit.
Speaker 4: And I also, just like I said at the beginning,
Speaker 4: you know, the top of this just about how like
Speaker 4: I just have more self respect, and so it's easy
Speaker 4: to say to somebody, oh, you have an ex, I'm
Speaker 4: sure she's so stupid and ugly. Like I used to say, like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, your ex wife, she's so skinny, she
Speaker 4: hasn't eaten since the ice age. I think those are
Speaker 4: the things that I used to say, which are awful,
Speaker 4: and I don't want to say those anymore.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 5: I just don't want to have that narrative.
Speaker 1: Well, it's about you. It's not about their past. It's
Speaker 1: not about comparing. It's not about the comparison or the
Speaker 1: contrast of what he had versus where he is now
Speaker 1: and all of that, and that's incredible growth I'm curious.
Speaker 5: I was interesting.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to interrupt you, and I apologize to you,
Speaker 4: but it's interesting that because I didn't come to when
Speaker 4: we were talking about his exes or what he was
Speaker 4: doing with his life, because I didn't come with like
Speaker 4: defensiveness or negativity. There was just like a conversation, Yeah,
Speaker 4: like you and I having a conversation versus like, you know,
Speaker 4: me being like competing with someone I don't even know.
Speaker 5: Does that make sense? Yeah, I feel like that's what happens.
Speaker 1: Or feeling threatened by someone who seems like they have
Speaker 1: it all together. Stranger right, A stranger.
Speaker 5: Right correct, and we don't know anything.
Speaker 4: Like they have their relationship, but their relationship is their relationship,
Speaker 4: and my relationship with him is my relationship, and I
Speaker 4: just want to keep that.
Speaker 5: However, you know how it is.
Speaker 1: I have a question for you, Kelly, for people who
Speaker 1: are listening, for folks who are listening and they are
Speaker 1: just starting off, maybe they're they're in your boat, they're
Speaker 1: they've just started to date someone new and they really
Speaker 1: like them. How often do you text them? How often
Speaker 1: do you call them? How often do you like do
Speaker 1: you wait before you return the text? Are you still
Speaker 1: playing little games or are you just being vulnerable and
Speaker 1: open and sharing your feelings or are you withhold Like
Speaker 1: I'm just curious. So that's always the dance. People don't
Speaker 1: know what to do and what the right thing is
Speaker 1: and what what would be a turn off, what would
Speaker 1: be a turn on? Are is that all in your
Speaker 1: head or are you just going with your well?
Speaker 4: I mean, of course it is like, like, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm a single female. I've been single, you know, for
Speaker 4: fifteen years, so I and you know, it's interesting because
Speaker 4: most people are like, oh my god, you've been single
Speaker 4: so long, You're just a player.
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, no, no, no, not a player. That's one
Speaker 5: thing I'm not.
Speaker 4: I'm just very like whatever I feel like if I
Speaker 4: feel like calling you, I feel like texting you. I
Speaker 4: mean I was like thinking I was just because it
Speaker 4: was so nice. I wanted to write him like a
Speaker 4: little thank you note, just thanking him for you know,
Speaker 4: I'm just a very open and like, I'm very like loving,
Speaker 4: but that does not mean that I'm in love, do
Speaker 4: you know what I mean? Like I'm just a jet
Speaker 4: I'm just a very love loving person. So I just,
Speaker 4: you know, I text him things but I'm also, you know,
Speaker 4: dating other people, so it's not like he's the only
Speaker 4: person that I'm dating, and I just want to be
Speaker 4: open to myself and to my new journey.
Speaker 3: Why he's not the only one you're dating? But why
Speaker 3: is he the only one we're talking about? Kelly?
Speaker 4: You know why you know what we're talking about him
Speaker 4: because my executive producer set me up with her best
Speaker 4: friend's brother.
Speaker 3: Okay, but is this guy? Is he the Is he
Speaker 3: a front runner? Though? Kelly? Is he a front runner
Speaker 3: and all the guy?
Speaker 4: That's my point, that's my point, Like he is someone
Speaker 4: that I'm being introduced to by someone that I respect,
Speaker 4: and so I am definitely giving this person, you know,
Speaker 4: like open eyes, like you know, let's see what happens.
Speaker 5: You know, It's not like I don't feel need to be.
Speaker 4: Guarded because I am interested in him and I and
Speaker 4: he's already been vetted, so there's a trust. Whereas everybody
Speaker 4: else at I'm meeting, I don't necessarily know them or
Speaker 4: I know them kind of through someone.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: The last guy that I was dating was younger, and
Speaker 4: he was very sweet, but he was like love bombing
Speaker 4: me and saying like after like the first date, he
Speaker 4: was like, we're getting married.
Speaker 5: You're my person, which was very.
Speaker 4: Kind and I appreciate that. But you know, his actions,
Speaker 4: you know, actions speak louder than words, and so you
Speaker 4: can just say how much you love me, but if
Speaker 4: you're not like making plans, making you know, trying to
Speaker 4: make situations, doing stuff that does not that does not
Speaker 4: make me feel like you're in love with me and
Speaker 4: you want to get married to me. So I'm like
Speaker 4: learning my lessons slowly, but surely I'm going to make
Speaker 4: a lot of mistakes. You guys, I'm going to fall
Speaker 4: through a lot of holes, so you might have to
Speaker 4: pull me out.
Speaker 3: Sounds like you're doing great. I sounds like you're doing great, Kelly.
Speaker 3: My only my last thing is how does he feel
Speaker 3: about dating you? With you telling your entire dating story
Speaker 3: essentially to the public.
Speaker 5: So I asked him that, I said, what is it?
Speaker 4: How do you feel about He was like that, He
Speaker 4: was like, that's.
Speaker 5: I think that's amazing.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 4: And he there's a lot of confidence too, And that's
Speaker 4: another thing, Like he has a lot of confidence.
Speaker 5: You know, he's not intimidated by what I'm doing. He
Speaker 5: just is happy for me. And excited for me to you.
Speaker 4: Know, he just said to he said to me, it's like,
Speaker 4: I'm just so happy to have met you, which is
Speaker 4: so nice.
Speaker 1: That's a very sweet thing to say. And it sounds
Speaker 1: like he followed up with actions exactly.
Speaker 4: And actions speak louder than words. So to answer Amy,
Speaker 4: what you're what your your question? Actions speak louder than words.
Speaker 4: And I feel like if you like someone, you know,
Speaker 4: I mean, I wouldn't be sending like heart emojis every
Speaker 4: two seconds, but you know, thinking of you or you know,
Speaker 4: hope you meeting went well or but not like what
Speaker 4: we do tomorrow? Gun your coffee, I can pick you
Speaker 4: up Like that would make me. I mean that would
Speaker 4: scare anyone, you know, like, oh my god, what if
Speaker 4: it hasn't been made clear?
Speaker 3: Fellas do not love bomb Kelly Ben Simo, Okay, right.
Speaker 4: You know when you're like in school and you're like
Speaker 4: writing down.
Speaker 5: And you're like, Kelly, love this is like I'm in
Speaker 5: my fifties.
Speaker 4: I can't be doing you know, It's like you have
Speaker 4: to be like, like be open to like everything.
Speaker 3: Kelly. I suspect that when you were a kid in
Speaker 3: school you didn't do that either. You weren't writing little notes,
Speaker 3: Kelly love it just studn't.
Speaker 1: See she watches Virgin Rivers.
Speaker 5: That's my bad die Hard romance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we love love. I well, when you told me
Speaker 1: you watch Virgin River, I know, well, Kelly, we are
Speaker 1: so happy for you, and I know everyone listening is
Speaker 1: excited too, because it's one of those when you hear
Speaker 1: something good happen for someone else, someone who's been searching,
Speaker 1: someone who's been single deliberately for fifteen years, finding something
Speaker 1: that could lead to something, that there's that little spark,
Speaker 1: that little excite. It's it's hope for everyone else too.
Speaker 1: That yes, it's never too late.
Speaker 4: It's and I totally agree with that, Amy, and I
Speaker 4: appreciate that. And it's also like you know, I always
Speaker 4: talk about like there's like two kinds of energy. There's
Speaker 4: kinetic and there's frenetic. And when like something good happens,
Speaker 4: more good things aren't going to happen.
Speaker 5: And so whether it's mister Tennis.
Speaker 4: Or mister soccer or whomever, I just feel like he
Speaker 4: is such a He's really he's such a I will
Speaker 4: I will if whether we end up together or we
Speaker 4: don't end up together. I'm just very grateful for what
Speaker 4: happened over the weekend because it's really been good for
Speaker 4: me and just so healthy and I've never felt like
Speaker 4: healthy in an emotional romantic space before.
Speaker 3: Oh Kelly. That really we are huge fans of yours,
Speaker 3: not because of anything you did on TV, but when
Speaker 3: you walked into that iHeart studio in Manhattan, we just
Speaker 3: fell in love with you. From the GEU were vulnerable
Speaker 3: with us and we did dode. I think you got
Speaker 3: comfortable with us and we were comfortable with you and
Speaker 3: it all worked out. But we just adore you and
Speaker 3: appreciate any time we get to spend So congrats to
Speaker 3: you and mister Tennis. And it sounds like there's a
Speaker 3: mister soccer, mister golf, of mister Badminton. It may be
Speaker 3: a mister basketball. But whatever, whatever you're doing, enjoy your
Speaker 3: dating time, Kelly.
Speaker 5: Oh, oh Kelly, thank you.
Speaker 3: We will talk to you very very soon. And folks,
Speaker 3: if you're out there and you want to be dating
Speaker 3: like Kelly and you want some dating advice, you can
Speaker 3: call or email us. You can follow us on the socials.
Speaker 3: All the information will be in the show notes. Make
Speaker 3: sure to rate and review the podcast as well that's right.
Speaker 1: So that's going to wrap it up for this edition
Speaker 1: of I Do Part two, an iHeart podcast where falling
Speaker 1: in love is the main objective. Have a great day everyone,
Speaker 1: I'm Amy.
Speaker 3: Roboch oh day home.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I figured we should say our names.
Speaker 3: We'll see y'all