Speaker 1: Welcome back to Golden Hour. I'm Kathy.
Speaker 2: And I'm Susan.
Speaker 1: How are you doing, sweet woman? How are you doing?
Speaker 2: Pretty good. A little better than last week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to check in on you. So
Speaker 3: better than last week?
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: On a scale of one to ten, where are you?
Speaker 5: Five. Okay.
Speaker 3: For those of you who didn't tune in last week,
Speaker 3: Susan broke up with Fred and she's been really struggling,
Speaker 3: but I, for one, just want to say, Bachelor Nation,
Speaker 3: you people are the best. You have been so supportive
Speaker 3: of what she's going through.
Speaker 2: And you took the words out of my mouth.
Speaker 6: I wanted to send out a special, special thank you
Speaker 6: for all the DMs, all the beautiful messages, sharing their
Speaker 6: stories with me.
Speaker 2: There's so many similar ones, Kathy. I was quite surprised.
Speaker 2: giving me their phone number. I could call them.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, God.
Speaker 3: We both got an email. I don't know, that woman,
Speaker 3: she's coming on the cruise, and she's sending me. We're
Speaker 3: like best friends. We have a date for a drink
Speaker 3: on the boat in November.
Speaker 1: I know, I know.
Speaker 5: Anyway.
Speaker 2: Thank you all for all your support. It's never easy
Speaker 2: doing what I did.
Speaker 6: But with that being said, we're going to move on
Speaker 6: because we have two very special guests this week. Please
Speaker 6: help me welcome Golden Ash. Bachelorette alum, Jordan, and his
Speaker 6: beautiful girlfriend, Emily.
Speaker 2: Man, are you pretty.
Speaker 1: Hi, guys.
Speaker 4: Hi, thanks.
Speaker 5: Hey, thank you for having us. And she is so pretty, right?
Speaker 2: She is, Jordan. Yeah, you lucked out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but Susan, I would.
Speaker 7: Like to echo, you know, my sentiments with you and
Speaker 7: I chatted a little bit how, you know, how heartbreak
Speaker 7: is the worst thing.
Speaker 5: Nobody, none of us escape it.
Speaker 7: So you just have to kind of fight through it,
Speaker 7: and I know you're a champion anyway, you're a fighter,
Speaker 7: and the sun will shine again, for sure.
Speaker 6: I know it will. I'm going to have my happy
Speaker 6: once again. So I have so many questions. First of all,
Speaker 6: I need all the details. How did you meet? How
Speaker 6: long has it been?
Speaker 5: Okay, so I could start with that.
Speaker 7: So when the show was going on, so this is
Speaker 7: 2024 in the fall, I was invited to a bear game,
Speaker 7: and we got to go on the field, field passes,
Speaker 7: and As the show was still on, we were getting
Speaker 7: a little bit of attention. You know, people were like
Speaker 7: waving to the crowd and we went and sat on
Speaker 7: the sideline or stood on the sideline.
Speaker 5: And there was kind of a.
Speaker 7: Make a wish family there that was on the sideline
Speaker 7: and was getting some attention. And I kind of spoke
Speaker 7: with them a little bit and we were getting pictures
Speaker 7: with other people.
Speaker 5: And then she talked to Emily. Well, okay.
Speaker 6: I'll tell my, I'll tell my, you were on the
Speaker 6: sidelines too, Emily.
Speaker 4: So, um, I was kind of hosting, I was escorting this.
Speaker 4: It was the champion of the game family. It's like
Speaker 4: kind of like a make a wish family. And the gal,
Speaker 4: her name is Heather. She was like, who is those
Speaker 4: guys that people are taking pictures with? And I looked
Speaker 4: and I was like, Oh my gosh, I think those
Speaker 4: guys are on the golden bachelor, the golden bachelorette. And, um,
Speaker 4: I honestly, I was like, I couldn't remember their names necessarily,
Speaker 4: but I had been watching. I was a few episodes behind.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, I know those guys are on it.
Speaker 4: And so Heather was like, let's go, like, let's go
Speaker 4: over there and like take pictures with them. And I
Speaker 4: was like, okay. So we went over there and my
Speaker 4: parents were also watching the show. And so Heather was like,
Speaker 4: you should take a picture with them. Cause she was
Speaker 4: on this mission that she was going to like set
Speaker 4: me up with someone. And so she's like, take a
Speaker 4: picture with them. And so I'm like, can I take
Speaker 4: a picture with you guys? Which is so funny because
Speaker 4: I like don't do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, it's crazy. Cause now that I know her,
Speaker 5: you know, she's been with the bears and I know
Speaker 5: the role. Like, she never takes.
Speaker 7: There's real people that she should take a picture with,
Speaker 7: not me.
Speaker 5: So the fact that she took a picture with me was...
Speaker 5: It was meant to be. It was some sort of
Speaker 5: meant to be.
Speaker 2: Everything happened for a reason, right?
Speaker 5: Exactly.
Speaker 4: Because then Heather... Well, you tell this part now.
Speaker 5: But that she.
Speaker 4: So Heather was like... Which part? She's single.
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 5: She's like, she's single.
Speaker 7: I just said to Emily, I go, if you, you know,
Speaker 7: tag me in that post if you put something up
Speaker 7: or send me the picture.
Speaker 5: So that, you know, later that night, she sent me
Speaker 5: the picture.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Right? And then.
Speaker 7: We had a little back and forth chat. And then
Speaker 7: a week later, there was another football game. The Bears
Speaker 7: had another home game. And Emily had a friend in town.
Speaker 7: And after the game, it just turns out, by coincidence,
Speaker 7: we live like a block away from each other.
Speaker 2: Yes. How convenient.
Speaker 5: It was a huge factor in actually getting together a lot.
Speaker 5: So she's like, hey, my friend's in town. Why don't
Speaker 5: you meet us for a drink after the game?
Speaker 6: And I did.
Speaker 5: And as soon as we met like that, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of off the field, like in person, it was
Speaker 5: Immediately we had a connection.
Speaker 7: We had some energy. We were laughing. And if you
Speaker 7: know me, you guys know me a little bit. I'm
Speaker 7: a bit of a goof. So it was just a fun, low-key,
Speaker 7: really first-time encounter.
Speaker 4: And then we hung out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then that week was crazy because then we
Speaker 5: hung out like four different times.
Speaker 4: Four out of five days.
Speaker 2: Because you couldn't help it. You just had to be
Speaker 2: near him, right? I know that feeling.
Speaker 3: Wait, so much for the three-day rule, I just want
Speaker 3: to say.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no three-day rule.
Speaker 6: So you, you kind of answered this question already. You
Speaker 6: did watch his season.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So I started, you know, I'm sure this happens
Speaker 4: to you as you start and then you get behind
Speaker 4: and you're like, I can't catch up now. I'm too
Speaker 4: far behind. So I was, I was behind a few episodes.
Speaker 4: I had known, I remember watching the show and I
Speaker 4: remember thinking, and I feel like other people have said
Speaker 4: this since we met too, I felt like, He doesn't
Speaker 4: belong on the show. And how I felt, I remember
Speaker 4: thinking like, that's too young for the show. So I
Speaker 4: remember thinking, of course, that he was quite handsome from
Speaker 4: watching it. But then when we had our first date,
Speaker 4: I was like, okay, I better watch and see what happens.
Speaker 4: So I fast forwarded and watched his like five minutes.
Speaker 2: Just in case he was taken.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's funny.
Speaker 4: That way I could at least say.
Speaker 5: We can, we can, we can, she can catch up
Speaker 5: then to what's actually happening in my, in my life
Speaker 5: and my daughter. Cause that first week actually was Thanksgiving.
Speaker 7: And my daughter, my oldest daughter was in town and
Speaker 7: my youngest daughter, we all go out for like drinks
Speaker 7: around Thanksgiving. And I invited Emily to go. And it
Speaker 7: was a little crazy because like, who's bringing, you know, the, Yeah.
Speaker 5: First week. And she's like, you're writing all your dates,
Speaker 5: meeting your kids in the first week? And I'm like, no,
Speaker 5: it's just, you know, easy. It's loose. It's fun. It's not,
Speaker 5: you know, nothing too serious.
Speaker 2: No, he's good that way.
Speaker 5: But it's funny.
Speaker 7: So a funny story on our actual first date, we
Speaker 7: went to play ping pong.
Speaker 5: So Emily is a very confident girl.
Speaker 4: I'm competitive.
Speaker 5: Competitive, confident.
Speaker 7: So she was talking, I don't know how it came up,
Speaker 7: but she was talking shit about... that she can beat
Speaker 7: me in pretty much anything. I'm like, well, let's go
Speaker 7: play ping pong.
Speaker 1: I'm like- I like your style, Emily. I like your style.
Speaker 7: I'll play you a ping pong, because ping pong's one
Speaker 7: of my games. So we went on a ping pong date,
Speaker 7: and we got a table. I mean, needless to say that,
Speaker 7: you know, we were the champion there.
Speaker 4: He also didn't tell me that he was, like, an
Speaker 4: actual ping pong player.
Speaker 5: I'm not. I'm just a good ping pong player.
Speaker 4: She over-talked her game in ping pong.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 3: I want to know, did you smear her? Like, did
Speaker 3: you get a letter, get a one point at least?
Speaker 5: No, she can get a few points, but I wasn't
Speaker 5: going to play. Oh, oh, you're so good. Kind of routine.
Speaker 5: That's not my, not my game. What made it interesting
Speaker 5: was our first, it's our first official date. We're sitting
Speaker 5: at a table. Uh, you get a little table and
Speaker 5: you drink some food and then you play ping pong.
Speaker 5: And this couple next to us came over and made
Speaker 5: friends with us. Like, you know, what are you guys doing? Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah,
Speaker 5: back and forth banter.
Speaker 7: Uh, they leave and then, you know, the bill comes
Speaker 7: for us and I, you know, it's our first date.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to be cool. And I look at the bill.
Speaker 5: I'm like, this doesn't seem right. This seems like a
Speaker 5: little high for our wages over. And I'm like, are
Speaker 5: you sure this is okay? Which is embarrassing to do
Speaker 5: on a first date. Like I'm already questioning the money. Yeah.
Speaker 7: And the table next to us put all their stuff,
Speaker 7: food and drinks on our bill and skedaddled.
Speaker 1: No, they didn't make you pay. Did they?
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 7: But it was a little bit of a, you know,
Speaker 7: they came over and, I don't know, they eventually didn't
Speaker 7: make us pay, but it took a little while.
Speaker 6: I wonder if that's like a scam that those people do, like, regularly.
Speaker 3: No, Susan, they just figured, they just targeted them. Of
Speaker 3: course it's a scam.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Those two look like they don't know what they're doing,
Speaker 5: so let's scam them. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: That's wild.
Speaker 6: So when you saw him on TV, Emily, did you
Speaker 6: ever imagine I'm going to date this man?
Speaker 4: I'm going to fall in love with this man. 0.0.0% chance.
Speaker 4: Like no way. And the fact that like Jordan mentioned,
Speaker 4: we live so close to each other and like I
Speaker 4: run on the Lake shore and like he walks the
Speaker 4: dog on the Lake shore. I play volleyball at North app.
Speaker 4: He plays volleyball at North app. So we're like, The
Speaker 4: fact that, like, we hadn't crossed paths.
Speaker 1: I know, right?
Speaker 5: Yeah. Bizarre.
Speaker 7: Even though it's, yeah, I mean, now that you, if
Speaker 7: you had seen me, maybe you would have been like,
Speaker 7: you know, somehow we would have connected, but probably not.
Speaker 2: She had to see you on TV.
Speaker 5: I was out of the demographic of the age demographic
Speaker 5: that she probably was looking for.
Speaker 2: That's true. And we'll definitely get into that.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're definitely going to get into that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: What has been the best part of your relationship so far?
Speaker 4: Oh, wow. It's either me or you answer.
Speaker 5: I mean, I just think that the fact that we...
Speaker 5: we have this this commonality of you know now that
Speaker 5: we're our friends are friends together and our families and
Speaker 5: like we the activities that we now can do that
Speaker 5: I was doing by myself that we now do together
Speaker 5: and it's just you know you know one and two
Speaker 5: you know, one plus one makes two, but it really
Speaker 5: makes five. You know, it's just really, it really expanded
Speaker 5: both of our lives so much, you know, more than,
Speaker 5: you know, more than you can put a number on it.
Speaker 5: It just was, it's been really, really fun.
Speaker 7: I've brought her into things that I do and she's
Speaker 7: bringing me into her world and you combine those two worlds.
Speaker 5: And it's just, it's just been fantastic. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think too, to jump off of that, like sometimes
Speaker 4: you're in a relationship and it feels like okay, I
Speaker 4: got to like make time for this person. We have
Speaker 4: to make sure that we like schedule dates. Otherwise, when
Speaker 4: are we going to see each other? But I feel
Speaker 4: like he's been so like additive to my life versus
Speaker 4: like adding something else to my plate. It's like, he
Speaker 4: makes my life happier and better and easier. And just
Speaker 4: like in general.
Speaker 2: Better, um, which that's beautiful. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, it's so true. And so like, we just have
Speaker 4: so much fun and like, we'll be like, so I
Speaker 4: had to stay, um, at a hotel a lot the
Speaker 4: last couple of weeks for Bears training camp. And so
Speaker 4: we'll only get to see each other once a week
Speaker 4: or so. And it's like, I get so excited. Like,
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, we get to see each other tonight.
Speaker 4: And it's been almost two years. And to still feel
Speaker 4: those like butterflies and like excitement to be with each other,
Speaker 4: I think like is very special. Something I've never had before.
Speaker 6: And you mentioned that your parents have met.
Speaker 5: Yes. Well, not my parents.
Speaker 7: My parents are gone, but I've met her parents several
Speaker 7: times now.
Speaker 5: There probably was a little.
Speaker 7: Hesitancy or maybe some questioning on their side at first.
Speaker 2: Because of the age difference?
Speaker 5: It makes sense.
Speaker 3: Emily, did they actually ask you? I mean, what did
Speaker 3: they actually say? When you say hesitancy, what happened?
Speaker 7: Well, I know that they were questioning Emily on, you know,
Speaker 7: is she going to have to take care of me,
Speaker 7: you know, when I'm an old man? Or, you know, like,
Speaker 7: is this really what you want? I mean, you could
Speaker 7: speak to that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I think, like, at first, so one of the
Speaker 4: reasons why I took the picture with Jordan is because, like,
Speaker 4: my dad and stepmom were watching the show, and they
Speaker 4: watched the You Ladies on New Year's season as well.
Speaker 4: And so I called my dad, and I'm like, I
Speaker 4: think I'm going to go on a date with Jordan.
Speaker 4: And he's like, and my stepmom was on, they're like, oh.
Speaker 4: what like we love Tim that's gonna be so much
Speaker 4: fun and so then after they're like how'd it go
Speaker 4: like tell us and I'm like you guys it was
Speaker 4: actually great like we're gonna hang out again and I
Speaker 4: and then like again and again and so I think
Speaker 4: after like a couple weeks they were like wait this
Speaker 4: is not just like one date like this is pretty serious.
Speaker 2: There's something happening yeah like.
Speaker 4: They're like this isn't um this isn't just like you're
Speaker 4: doing this just to like do this one time um
Speaker 4: And so I think like at first they were just like, okay,
Speaker 4: like there's, this is a big age difference. Is this, yeah.
Speaker 4: Is this what you want? We know like this is
Speaker 4: what you've wanted. And are you going to be able
Speaker 4: to have what you want if this is the person
Speaker 4: you're with? And I'm like, we're, we're having, we love
Speaker 4: each one. We didn't love each other yet, but I'm like,
Speaker 4: we're having so much fun together. Like I don't need
Speaker 4: to think about 10 years from now, right now, like
Speaker 4: right now it's just, we're just having fun. And then,
Speaker 4: as we got more and more serious and my parents
Speaker 4: spent more and more time with him and my sister
Speaker 4: and my niece and my friends, and they're all like, like,
Speaker 4: don't let him go. Like you, like, he's great. And
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, just want him over.
Speaker 2: We want everybody.
Speaker 3: I'm curious, Emily, or one of you said that, um,
Speaker 3: I think you said, Emily, you said he was too
Speaker 3: young to be on The Golden Bachelorette. When did you
Speaker 3: actually find out how old Jordan is?
Speaker 4: I think I Googled him right before our date.
Speaker 5: Does she even know now? I'm not sure.
Speaker 7: I've been hiding a few things from her.
Speaker 3: Oh, spill, Jordan. Don't hang that in front of me, Jordan.
Speaker 3: You know I'll go down that road.
Speaker 7: I can understand, certainly from her dad's side. I'm a
Speaker 7: father of three daughters, so If one of my daughters
Speaker 7: was dating a man quite a bit older than her,
Speaker 7: it would give me some cause for concern.
Speaker 5: And then I'd obviously have to meet him and spend
Speaker 5: time with him to make sure those were taken seriously.
Speaker 5: And we can quell that and make sure he's the
Speaker 5: kind of person I want for my daughter. So hopefully
Speaker 5: I've done that job with her dad.
Speaker 4: They talk all the time.
Speaker 5: He's become a good friend, yeah.
Speaker 1: They're buddies.
Speaker 3: So I have a couple of questions here. The age
Speaker 3: difference is what, 23? How many years are you apart?
Speaker 1: 23.
Speaker 3: And you have children, you just said, Jordan. I don't
Speaker 3: know the ages of your kids, but I'm guessing they're
Speaker 3: close in age to Emily?
Speaker 5: Well, six years is the year.
Speaker 1: My daughter is 34 and Emily is 40.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: So what did your kids say? Because I also have
Speaker 3: three children, and I'm just curious, what did your kids
Speaker 3: say when you started dating, and especially now that it's
Speaker 3: so serious?
Speaker 5: Sure. If it was ever going to get serious, my
Speaker 5: kids would have to buy in. There's no question about it.
Speaker 5: I'm really involved with my girls.
Speaker 7: And like I said, my oldest daughter, Allie, and Jamie,
Speaker 7: they met Emily a few days into our relationship. We
Speaker 7: were at a bar for Thanksgiving together. And we were
Speaker 7: all just having a good time. And then it was
Speaker 7: just kind of loose. And like, here's this, here's this
Speaker 7: woman I met, she's going to hang out with us.
Speaker 7: And then it more evolved into, you know, you know, who,
Speaker 7: you know, is she going to be part of our family?
Speaker 5: I said, we don't know. We're just dating. We're having
Speaker 5: a good time.
Speaker 7: But my girls are either kind of, they're almost like
Speaker 7: either they love you, they hate you kind of thing.
Speaker 5: And they're very protective of me.
Speaker 1: That sounds like my kids.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: If they, if they smelled anything nefarious in Emily, they
Speaker 7: would have sniffed it out and And they would not
Speaker 7: have been shy about telling me they're not into her.
Speaker 5: Dad, this is not going to work. But it's been great.
Speaker 3: So are you saying, in short, they have totally bought
Speaker 3: into your relationship?
Speaker 5: Absolutely. They've totally bought into it. And I would say
Speaker 5: you're close with the girls.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I could cry thinking about it because I'm so
Speaker 4: thankful for the relationship I have with them. They're so
Speaker 4: great and wonderful. I really might cry thinking about it
Speaker 4: because it wouldn't work out if I didn't get along
Speaker 4: with them. But we have our own relationships and Jamie's
Speaker 4: getting married in a little over a month and she's
Speaker 4: let me be part of a lot of things for
Speaker 4: the wedding that's just been really special. And same with
Speaker 4: my family buying in with him. So I feel like
Speaker 4: there's a lot of things that could have prevented us
Speaker 4: from being with each other with our families not approving,
Speaker 4: but like they do. And so I feel really thankful
Speaker 4: for that.
Speaker 6: So let's let everybody know a little bit more about you, Emily.
Speaker 6: Where did you, did you grow up in Chicago?
Speaker 2: Are you?
Speaker 4: I grew up in Minnesota.
Speaker 2: In Minnesota.
Speaker 4: So that's where my family is. I moved to Chicago
Speaker 4: in 2023. So fairly new when we met, I'd only been,
Speaker 4: or no, 2022.
Speaker 3: 2022.
Speaker 4: Um, I'd only been here, I hadn't been here very long.
Speaker 4: And so, um, I don't, I didn't have like a
Speaker 4: really established like friend group and family. I don't have
Speaker 4: any family here. Um, so that's been another piece. It's
Speaker 4: been wonderful to have his family now be my family. Yes.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 2: Were you dating at all?
Speaker 6: Not yet.
Speaker 1: Probably.
Speaker 4: I was on the apps. Yeah, I was. I mean,
Speaker 4: of course everyone says, Oh, it happens when you're least
Speaker 4: expecting it. It happens when you're not looking for it.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, Oh, it's true.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's not true.
Speaker 6: But, but in your case, she was hosting a family
Speaker 6: and there he was.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go hang out at a ballpark.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: Well, you're welcome to come to a game.
Speaker 3: I'd love to come to Chicago. Let me ask both
Speaker 3: of you. what would you say is the biggest difference
Speaker 3: you've found between dating someone older or younger versus dating
Speaker 3: some year old, your own age?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Emily, obviously Jordan, you were married. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: Emily, if you've had other serious relationships with, when the,
Speaker 3: when they were closer to your age, but what, what
Speaker 3: would you guys say is the biggest difference?
Speaker 5: Okay. I'll go first. Okay.
Speaker 4: Um, I have had, yeah, so I was married, um, prior, um,
Speaker 4: and I've dated men, my age, I've never dated, I've
Speaker 4: never had an age gap relationship before. This is my
Speaker 4: first one. So it wasn't something that I have, like,
Speaker 4: I'm a habitual, like older men. Um, but I think
Speaker 4: for me, the biggest difference is just like, and I
Speaker 4: don't know, I always say this to Jordan, like, I
Speaker 4: don't know if this is Jordan or if this is
Speaker 4: the age difference. He's just like, doesn't play any games.
Speaker 4: He's very just like straightforward and honest. And like, he's
Speaker 4: also doesn't, not only doesn't he play games, but he's not,
Speaker 4: he's not going to like get into like a game
Speaker 4: match of like, oh, you're going to do this. Well,
Speaker 4: I'm going to do this. Or you're going to, you're
Speaker 4: going to have a bad attitude. I'm going to have
Speaker 4: a bad attitude. Like he, he's just like very even
Speaker 4: keeled and like keeps me like grounded. Like if I,
Speaker 4: like if I'm crabby, he'll, he'll be like, I think
Speaker 4: you're hungry. And he'll like, give me food versus like,
Speaker 4: I'm going to give you attitude back. So again, I
Speaker 4: don't know if that is the age difference, Kathy, or
Speaker 4: if it's just Jordan.
Speaker 3: But, Well, also I think, um, I didn't know that
Speaker 3: you had been married Emily before. Um, and obviously you learn,
Speaker 3: you know, we learn a lot from prior relationships, whether
Speaker 3: they're marriage or just other relationships.
Speaker 1: Um, what about you, Jordan?
Speaker 7: Well, I would just speak, you know, kind of going
Speaker 7: on that, like I have learned that when I was
Speaker 7: dating to try and be, there's a lot of game
Speaker 7: playing out.
Speaker 5: There with everybody. And I just wanted to be straight
Speaker 5: up all the time, even on the apps and you're
Speaker 5: trying to get answers. And I'm like, I'm not, you know,
Speaker 5: you just want to get cut through.
Speaker 7: All that nonsense, but people have all these walls up
Speaker 7: and they keep, you know, make it difficult for you
Speaker 7: to get to know them or they're being shady. So
Speaker 7: I just always wanted to try to be straight up.
Speaker 7: This is, this is kind of how I feel. This
Speaker 7: is what I'm thinking and not play into any insecurities
Speaker 7: you might have or not trying to, make myself bigger
Speaker 7: by these people are into me, this girl, anything like that.
Speaker 3: So you're saying dating younger women you had, because I
Speaker 3: hope men are listening to you, Jordan.
Speaker 1: Stop playing the games.
Speaker 3: But you're saying when you had dated younger women, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: are you saying that when you dated women your own age,
Speaker 3: there was these games?
Speaker 7: I never really dated younger women. Like I said, I
Speaker 7: didn't know how old Emily was when I saw her
Speaker 7: on the sideline.
Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 5: Active, tall girl. And tall. Yeah, she's a tall girl.
Speaker 1: How tall are you, Emily?
Speaker 4: I'm almost six feet.
Speaker 2: Oh my God, bless.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I, you know, I never dated a tall
Speaker 5: girl either. So there.
Speaker 1: Are you taller than Jordan?
Speaker 4: No, thankfully.
Speaker 5: I'm six. I was six three. I think Donna's six
Speaker 5: two now.
Speaker 6: It just goes to show you that it wasn't an
Speaker 6: age thing right away. They had chemistry. It doesn't matter
Speaker 6: how old, how much difference there is. Until you get
Speaker 6: to the part, which I'm sure we're going to cover,
Speaker 6: whether she wants children or, you know, that's when it
Speaker 6: becomes something to talk about. And to act juvenile, like
Speaker 6: you were saying, Emily, he does it because he is mature.
Speaker 6: He's been there and done that. What you see is
Speaker 6: what you get, and that's what I love about it.
Speaker 7: Like maturity can be you know, thought of in different ways.
Speaker 7: In that respect, I am mature. But, like, I also
Speaker 7: like to be, you know, easy and not, don't take
Speaker 7: myself so seriously or don't take things so seriously, which
Speaker 7: might be construed as less mature than, I don't know,
Speaker 7: than someone.
Speaker 5: Else my age. So I think it comes off a
Speaker 5: different way, but I am.
Speaker 4: You're young at heart.
Speaker 5: I'm young at heart, and I'm young in actions, and
Speaker 5: I'm not, like, trying to pretend. I'm just, like, I'm
Speaker 5: not going to.
Speaker 7: Take things too seriously and, you know, and act all crazy.
Speaker 5: I'm just, it is what it is. We take it
Speaker 5: and we move on, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: So okay you mentioned quickly before we get into this
Speaker 3: you know family stuff um you mentioned that your friends
Speaker 3: are friends i'm curious um what your friends like is
Speaker 3: there when i think of dating someone who's a lot younger.
Speaker 3: I think about just cultural things like music or movies,
Speaker 3: things that are generational. And I'm curious how that all
Speaker 3: has affected your relationship and your friends. I mean, is
Speaker 3: it all just one big happy family with the friends
Speaker 3: as well?
Speaker 4: I think your first question about the generational differences, that's definitely...
Speaker 4: where we see it the most is like music and
Speaker 4: movies like cause and I think not only is it
Speaker 4: generational but like I like country music and he doesn't.
Speaker 4: So like, I don't think that's necessarily generational, but like
Speaker 4: music for sure. And then movies for sure.
Speaker 7: So like every guy I, or most guys, I, you know,
Speaker 7: I remember a lot of movie quotes and I drop
Speaker 7: them in certain situations and she doesn't necessarily know a
Speaker 7: lot of.
Speaker 4: Those, but she's.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I feel like we have a lot together.
Speaker 4: We do have a lot of funny ones that we share,
Speaker 4: but like, even when we were with, um, the bachelor
Speaker 4: guys this weekend, they were like doing quotes from blues brothers.
Speaker 4: And I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: But I got news, Emily. I barely know what that is.
Speaker 3: And my kids, my, my particular, my middle son is
Speaker 3: a movie quote guy. And my, my two boys are,
Speaker 3: and they would say things. I was like, where does
Speaker 3: that come from? And, you know, again, just generation. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I know I didn't watch it, but you know, they,
Speaker 3: So I get that.
Speaker 1: I get that.
Speaker 5: As far as music, like I said, I don't think
Speaker 5: it's so much generational.
Speaker 7: It's more that she's more a country music, and I
Speaker 7: love every type of music except country.
Speaker 2: Well, Emily, I love country.
Speaker 1: Even country pop.
Speaker 2: The new stuff is pretty good, Jordan.
Speaker 5: I know. It's growing on me.
Speaker 2: You'll come around.
Speaker 1: You'll come around. I love country, Emily. If you ever
Speaker 1: need a partner to go to, I love it. I
Speaker 1: love country music.
Speaker 4: I'm very interested in it.
Speaker 5: I'm very interested. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, I grew up in Massachusetts where no one
Speaker 3: listened to country music, but I live in Texas and
Speaker 3: I've just grown to love it. Jordan, Susan and I
Speaker 3: talk about this all the time. I'm 73. I don't
Speaker 3: feel it.
Speaker 1: I'm very active. I get it. Obviously, you guys had children.
Speaker 3: Susan and I talk a lot on our podcast about
Speaker 3: dating and being in a relationship obviously at your age
Speaker 3: is different because you guys we touched on this a
Speaker 3: little bit you're both at different stages.
Speaker 1: In your life so I want to know.
Speaker 3: What life looks like when you're individually in different stages
Speaker 3: give me a flavor of what a day in your
Speaker 3: life looks like.
Speaker 5: Me, personally?
Speaker 1: Both of you.
Speaker 5: Oh, so what is a day? A day in the life?
Speaker 5: For me, I get up and the first thing I do,
Speaker 5: I walk the dog, take a nice long walk with
Speaker 5: my dog down by the lakefront.
Speaker 4: And I drive an hour plus to work.
Speaker 2: It's an hour? Where do you guys live?
Speaker 1: Why do you live an hour from work?
Speaker 4: Well, we live down in the city and I work
Speaker 4: in Lake Forest, which is another.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know where that is.
Speaker 4: So I drive an hour to work.
Speaker 3: So, Emily, I'm not exactly sure what your title is,
Speaker 3: but tell us what you do.
Speaker 4: My title is Vice President of Events and Hospitality for
Speaker 4: the Chicago.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: And I get what that is because my daughter runs
Speaker 3: the foundation for Austin FC, the soccer team here. So
Speaker 3: I get what you do. It's a lot of responsibility.
Speaker 3: In fact, Caitlin got to march around with Matthew McConaughey
Speaker 3: last night at the stadium. Really?
Speaker 1: He's a part owner, so that's her job.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 7: Anyway, when you bring up Matthew McConaughey, I just saw
Speaker 7: a quote from him that we said about children are
Speaker 7: like immortality for you.
Speaker 5: I just saw that. He just said that.
Speaker 1: Oh, I like that.
Speaker 5: I really liked it. He's like, I have these children.
Speaker 5: They're like my legacy. They're my immortality.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great. I love that. So, Emily, you're, I
Speaker 1: would say, fairly early in your career, would you say?
Speaker 4: And my 15th season.
Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
Speaker 3: So you started right out of school.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yep.
Speaker 4: I did my first year out of college. I was
Speaker 4: with the Seattle Seahawks. And then I spent 10 seasons
Speaker 4: with the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: Um, and then so, wow.
Speaker 3: So, so sports is your world, Jordan, you're obviously much
Speaker 3: closer to retirement. Um, so I, I take it that
Speaker 3: you're doing a lot of the household things.
Speaker 5: I do do the cooking. So also I have like,
Speaker 5: I run a pickleball league.
Speaker 7: I have, I've done some consulting and some modeling and,
Speaker 7: and different things like that, along with let's say running
Speaker 7: the house for now. Um, and then like Emily works
Speaker 7: long hours. So she would come home and just eat
Speaker 7: two scoops of peanut butter for dinner. So I.
Speaker 3: That's my girl. I'm right there with you, Emily. That's
Speaker 3: what I had last night with some rice.
Speaker 7: But, you know, after my kids are gone, I did
Speaker 7: most of the cooking for my family. And then still,
Speaker 7: I would still make an occasional really fun, good meal
Speaker 7: for myself.
Speaker 5: But... Now that I have someone to cook for, I've
Speaker 5: got my cooking game back on.
Speaker 7: So I love that she loves my food on top
Speaker 7: of it.
Speaker 4: He's literally the best chef.
Speaker 5: It's really fun. Maybe Susan and I can have like
Speaker 5: a cook-off. Like a chopped.
Speaker 1: Version of chopped.
Speaker 3: Only if Emily and I can try the food.
Speaker 1: That's her cook-off.
Speaker 5: Cooking show.
Speaker 2: So where about, are you near Wrigley Field where you live?
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: Um, we're not too, well, we're not too far from
Speaker 4: Wrigley field, but we're really closer than Navy pier.
Speaker 5: Yeah. We live downtown, right? It's like by the river
Speaker 5: in the, in the lake.
Speaker 2: My ex used to play for the Cubs. So I
Speaker 2: know Chicago a little bit. It's been years, but yes.
Speaker 5: Yeah. That's really cool. Yeah. We went, we, I went
Speaker 5: with the bachelors to the cub game the other day.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We, yes, I saw.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So did they win?
Speaker 7: No, but what's interesting is the, uh, The Cardinals brought
Speaker 7: up a rookie that day, first day in the majors,
Speaker 7: and he had three home runs, which is the first
Speaker 7: time it's ever been done in baseball history.
Speaker 2: Good for him. Good for him.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I want to skip back. So obviously you
Speaker 3: guys have a good rhythm. It sounds like you have
Speaker 3: a good rhythm. You're doing a lot of the house things.
Speaker 1: You're cooking.
Speaker 3: Emily, you go off to work, hour drive.
Speaker 1: God love you. Every day. Do you guys... finances.
Speaker 3: Like these are the things that when, when Susan and
Speaker 3: I were young or Jordan, maybe your first marriage, you know,
Speaker 3: we were, we were young. We were saving to buy
Speaker 3: our first house. We, you know, those things we were
Speaker 3: saving to buy a house. We were figuring out how
Speaker 3: to have kids and raise them and all those kinds
Speaker 3: of things. When you're in a young marriage and you're
Speaker 3: both young, obviously it looks a lot different for you guys. Um, so, um,
Speaker 3: Are finances an issue for you guys? Do you talk.
Speaker 1: About that a lot? Do you talk about... buying a home?
Speaker 1: How does that look for your relationship?
Speaker 2: Okay, everyone. That's all for part one. Stay tuned for
Speaker 2: part two dropping tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Bye-bye.