Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and Lauren Zema back in the home office
Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas, but just barely off of our Kentucky
Speaker 1: Derby debut.
Speaker 2: The Kentucky Derby Drama is really it talk about a
Speaker 2: dramatic event, in.
Speaker 3: Some ways good drama, in some ways bad good drama.
Speaker 3: Am I hungover? Am I tired? I feel like my
Speaker 3: whole body is like Oh, after that weekend.
Speaker 1: Lauren and I wanted to do this, this spectacle that
Speaker 1: is the Kentucky Derby, So we went to Louisville.
Speaker 3: This this was on your bucket list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's something I wanted. You know. A little known
Speaker 1: fact I worked for a horse racing network back at
Speaker 1: early two thousand ninety nine into like two thousand and two.
Speaker 1: When I started The Bachelor, I was still working at
Speaker 1: a place called TVG, a horse racing network. It's what
Speaker 1: I did every day.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but it's not a great name for a
Speaker 3: horse racing network.
Speaker 1: It sounds like TV was called like television games something,
Speaker 1: as I think was.
Speaker 3: The we called HRN horse racing.
Speaker 1: I think that's taken. Oh good, good call, though, But
Speaker 1: we I got a lot of ideas that I was
Speaker 1: a sportscaster back in the day in Oklahoma City, and
Speaker 1: that's what actually prompted me to move to LA was
Speaker 1: to continue sports casting. And then I started doing Home
Speaker 1: and Garden and a game show and all the way
Speaker 1: into The Bachelor, and then once the Bacheler kind of exploded,
Speaker 1: I left tvg and was obviously full time.
Speaker 3: I note. It always blows my mind how when we go,
Speaker 3: especially when we travel in Middle America, how many people
Speaker 3: recognize you from being a sportscaster in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: That happened on Sunday at the airport. This guy's like,
Speaker 2: weren't you on Channel nine?
Speaker 1: Yeah? He was. He was an elder, he was older,
Speaker 1: And I think that's the problem is that that is
Speaker 1: the elder Oklahomans now who remember me from my days
Speaker 1: in at kW TV News nine.
Speaker 3: Give it to me again. In the broadcast, it was
Speaker 3: full broadcast.
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison Sports Line nine.
Speaker 2: Okay, you had a very good, chill broadcast voice. Mine
Speaker 2: was way to over the top. When I look back
Speaker 2: at all eclips of myself coming out next.
Speaker 1: You know what that is? That's your et voice.
Speaker 3: That's very much fun.
Speaker 1: When you do when you used to do entertainment tonight voiceovers,
Speaker 1: I'm like, who is that human?
Speaker 2: I know, well, I think you got to up the
Speaker 2: energy on a voiceover. You know, I would always tell
Speaker 2: people it's all your and we were news and it's
Speaker 2: fast paced. There is a different cadence you have to
Speaker 2: bring because your voice is telling the whole story.
Speaker 3: But I definitely have an et voice.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, it's fun when every now and every
Speaker 1: now and then someone says you used to work at
Speaker 1: Channel nine. But anyway, so we digressed. We went to Louisville,
Speaker 1: went to the Kentucky Derby together. The pomp and circumstance,
Speaker 1: the clothes, the pageantry, the cocktails, we did it all.
Speaker 1: We came in hot. We went in. So there is
Speaker 1: the Lady, the Equine Ladies race on Fridays. There's a
Speaker 1: thing called the Kentucky Oaks.
Speaker 3: And that is basically, let me clain what he did wrong.
Speaker 2: He's telling me. I'm like, I'm kind of expecting. Actually,
Speaker 2: here's a mistake I made. I thought, because of your
Speaker 2: HRN background that you knew all about the Kentucky Derby,
Speaker 2: but neither of us had been and you kind of
Speaker 2: have to be there on the ground to get what
Speaker 2: each event is specifically. But I'm asking Chris, well, what's
Speaker 2: the deal on Friday and he goes, okay, well Friday
Speaker 2: is this thing called the Oaks, So that's for the girls,
Speaker 2: and so you know that's the girls event, and then.
Speaker 1: We're going to go to this gall derby for the girls.
Speaker 2: Okay, And he says, then we're going to go to
Speaker 2: this gala on Friday night, the Unbridled Eve Charity Gala.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, where are you going to be
Speaker 2: on Friday during the day then? And he's like with you,
Speaker 2: what are you talking about. I'm like, well, you said
Speaker 2: it's for the girls, like it's a girl's event, Like
Speaker 2: so are you going to go golfing?
Speaker 3: What do the boys do? And he goes, I meant
Speaker 3: girl horses female horses.
Speaker 1: So for those that don't know, the Kentucky Oaks is
Speaker 1: the female version of the Kentucky Derby because the Kentucky
Speaker 1: Derby is predominantly for three year old male horses. Now
Speaker 1: female horses Philly can run in the Derby and has
Speaker 1: and has done very well historically. It's tough for them.
Speaker 1: They just don't kind of hang in with the boys
Speaker 1: in that division. So typically the Kentucky Derby is all male.
Speaker 3: God, we're learning so much here at HR.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we were together.
Speaker 2: We were together at the Oaks, and another thing I
Speaker 2: learned kind of just being on the ground the Oaks
Speaker 2: people borderline dress up just as much as they do
Speaker 2: for the actual derby.
Speaker 1: That wasn't a thing Like the last time I was
Speaker 1: at the Derby was twenty years ago. When I was there,
Speaker 1: I covered it for a week and then I actually
Speaker 1: left on Friday night, so I didn't technically attend the derby, but.
Speaker 3: I was there to tell the story.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, everything was fine, but he had a family medical
Speaker 2: there was.
Speaker 1: A medical emergency that I flew out of Louisville on
Speaker 1: Friday night, on the eve of the Kentucky Derby. If
Speaker 1: you want to see a lonely, sad place on Friday,
Speaker 1: the night before the derby, fly out of Louisville. If
Speaker 1: you ever want to Robin air If you ever want
Speaker 1: to Robin Airport, do it on Friday night before the
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby. There's not a human It was me and
Speaker 1: one Gate agent and she didn't even want to be there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm the only human being that's ever flown
Speaker 1: out of Kentucky on Friday night before the Derby. But
Speaker 1: the Oaks wasn't such a big deal. It was pretty
Speaker 1: lightly attended. It was well under one hundred thousand, probably
Speaker 1: well under fifty thousand. No one really got that dressed up.
Speaker 1: You and I showed up Friday. Luckily I had a
Speaker 1: coat on and you were pretty dressed up. But it
Speaker 1: was it's Derby day again. I mean, everybody is dressed
Speaker 1: to the nine.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean luckily we kind of live by the
Speaker 2: rule of it's better to overdress than underdress. We were
Speaker 2: still underdressed, and we were still a little underdressed, but
Speaker 2: we brought what we thought was just sort of kind
Speaker 2: of like daytime cocktail attire. I had like a little
Speaker 2: leather shorts on and I threw on a blazer. And
Speaker 2: what is amazing is the everybody's encouraged to wear pink
Speaker 2: at the event and support of breast cancer awareness, and
Speaker 2: they bring survivors out onto the field and it's really awesome.
Speaker 3: But luckily we were able to I always throw on
Speaker 3: a blazer, and that's going to dress up and outfit.
Speaker 3: We both did that. I think I was the only
Speaker 3: woman there in a blazer, but it works.
Speaker 1: And who did we immediately see upon entering the Kentucky
Speaker 1: Oaks Our dear friend Bob Guiney, Bob former bat By
Speaker 1: Robert Eugene Guiney, who is going to join me? Just
Speaker 1: a little bit later, Bob and I did a oh
Speaker 1: post Derby hangover Sunday morning edition of the most dramatic
Speaker 1: podcast ever. He came over and was nice enough to
Speaker 1: join me before he took off and headed home. So
Speaker 1: the interview with Bob Guiney, which got really deep for
Speaker 1: a Sunday morning that's coming up in just a few
Speaker 1: So we enjoyed our Friday at the races. Then we
Speaker 1: immediately went home got dressed for the big gal.
Speaker 3: Oh non, I got to settle in on meeting Bob Guinney, Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. You guys had never met I.
Speaker 2: Had never met Bob Guiney and I he is one
Speaker 2: of those people that I connected with him instantly.
Speaker 3: We were at the gala on Friday evening and I
Speaker 3: had my hand in the air and I was singing
Speaker 3: along to this song cheap Trick.
Speaker 2: No, it was actually too amaze by you A room
Speaker 2: stars that's a jam around and Bob was doing the
Speaker 2: same and we locked eyes and we just both went,
Speaker 2: I get you, you get me. I really love Bob Guiney,
Speaker 2: and I finally am seeing why you for years have
Speaker 2: been sighting with no shade to anybody else but your
Speaker 2: two favorite the bachelors you've remained closest with as Andrew
Speaker 2: Firestone and Bob Guiney.
Speaker 1: And Bob's someone I've loved in a door, but he
Speaker 1: obviously lives in the Pacific Northwest. We just don't see
Speaker 1: each other very often. And it's funny. He's always said
Speaker 1: to me, I can't believe I haven't met Elzi. I
Speaker 1: feel like I've known her my whole life. I feel
Speaker 1: like we're best friends and I've never met her. So
Speaker 1: he was equally excited to meet you, and that was
Speaker 1: it was awesome. We had an absolute blast.
Speaker 3: Bob is a blast in glass and I learned didn't
Speaker 3: know this Bob guinea a little older than you. Yes,
Speaker 3: I didn't really realize any bachelor it'd ever been.
Speaker 1: A lit a rare early bachelor before Byron Velvick when
Speaker 1: we specifically went older, Bob, is it? What is it?
Speaker 1: How many months? A few months. Yeah, he's about to
Speaker 1: turn fifty two. Actually, oh, today is actually officially his birthday.
Speaker 3: Robbing it on Bobby's birthday.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh it today is actually his fifty second birthday.
Speaker 3: Happy birthday. Bomb.
Speaker 1: The eighth is his birthday, Mate. And then I turned
Speaker 1: fifty two in July, so he's a little bit older
Speaker 1: than mate, which is which was very rare at the time. Again,
Speaker 1: one of the reasons we are so close is we
Speaker 1: have so many things in commons.
Speaker 3: You've gone through life together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have the same musical taste, we have the
Speaker 1: same you know, just vibe.
Speaker 2: Well, Bobby's got babies. You got kids in college. Bob
Speaker 2: is a one year old.
Speaker 1: Well, and we talk about that coming up in the interview.
Speaker 1: We talk about the juxtaposition of our lives of I'm
Speaker 1: going to pick up our kids at college tomorrow and
Speaker 1: he has a fan.
Speaker 3: He's going to pick them up at daycare a two
Speaker 3: year old and he but he's so awesome.
Speaker 2: And one thing I loved about the whole weekend was,
Speaker 2: and this is a huge reason that I fell in
Speaker 2: love with you from the start, was I loved your friends.
Speaker 2: I think of friends are such a reflection of who
Speaker 2: a person is, and Bob is a person who he
Speaker 2: immediately brought us into his crew. He's been going to
Speaker 2: the Derby for a long time and he is a
Speaker 2: crew he hangs with their and he brought us in
Speaker 2: and they were all super fun, and so it was
Speaker 2: just like a really quick easy I felt like we
Speaker 2: had a group and a Derby family right away. And
Speaker 2: I love people like that who are the more, the
Speaker 2: merrier and welcoming. And they were so much fun, maybe
Speaker 2: too much fun. When it was the last time, we
Speaker 2: were out till three.
Speaker 1: Am dancing to a Bob Guiney song.
Speaker 2: What was the song called again, Girlfriend, Girlfriend. I also
Speaker 2: learned Bob Guiney was in a band.
Speaker 1: He was in a band called We talk about all
Speaker 1: this in the interview fat Amy and all that, but
Speaker 1: he was and by the way, very damn good. One
Speaker 1: thing I didn't mention in the interview, and I should
Speaker 1: mention Bob performed at a charity event that I hosted
Speaker 1: in Dallas. Like early days, I hosted this charity event
Speaker 1: a friend of ours from school high school had passed
Speaker 1: away from cancer, a guy I went to high school with,
Speaker 1: and so I wanted to host kind of a big
Speaker 1: charity benefit for him and his family and cancer. And
Speaker 1: Bob's band came in and played.
Speaker 3: He showed up.
Speaker 1: Greg Grunberg was there Slash Alias Slash Star Wars and
Speaker 1: everything else. Greig Grunberg has been in and Bob played
Speaker 1: and it was incredible. The guy lights the place on fire.
Speaker 2: He's so here you can with him. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: I see why this guy was the Bachelor for sure.
Speaker 2: So Friday night we go to the Unbridled Eve Gala
Speaker 2: and thank you to Unbridled Eve for having us an
Speaker 2: incredible charity.
Speaker 3: And an amazing event. I mean, we walked in the
Speaker 3: room is stunning. We got to get dressed up. But
Speaker 3: the night did not come out come without debate.
Speaker 2: Chris Harrison and I, well everybody, we got in an argument.
Speaker 2: An argument that tour at the very fabric literally of
Speaker 2: our relationship.
Speaker 1: It really shook up social media as well, if you
Speaker 1: were following our stories this weekend. It had to do
Speaker 1: with Elzi's dress. She had the beautiful dress and.
Speaker 2: From my favorite boutique here in Austin, Estilo. They also
Speaker 2: have an online website shop there. They have the best
Speaker 2: curated stuff.
Speaker 1: For all your other one thing I like to do
Speaker 1: for my lady. I want to know what she's wearing.
Speaker 1: I look at her dress. I was wearing a black tux,
Speaker 1: but I like to have a little accent to match
Speaker 1: your dress.
Speaker 2: It's very sweet and I love that about you. And also,
Speaker 2: you were great at giving opinions. You really help weigh
Speaker 2: in on the style of the evening. And in this case,
Speaker 2: you waiting.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a pocket square, maybe it's my bow tie,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. But in this case, you were gone,
Speaker 1: you were out of town. So I was packing and
Speaker 1: I went into your closet and I pulled out your
Speaker 1: dress and I had this amazing dark midnight blue bow
Speaker 1: tie and this other blue bow tie, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: this will be great for your blue dress. And I
Speaker 1: pulled your dress out and I held up the blue
Speaker 1: bow tie, and I'm like, this is clashing. This is
Speaker 1: not This dress looks blue, but it's not blue. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's so weird. So I went back in my clock
Speaker 1: and I had this other bow tie that has like
Speaker 1: some really dark emeralds and almost like teals not the
Speaker 1: right word, but had these really dark kind of midnight
Speaker 1: green dark emerald whatever it is. I held that up
Speaker 1: to the dress. I'm like, oh, that's identical. That looks
Speaker 1: really good with this. It was kind of this emerald
Speaker 1: green leads into blue bow tie. It was really cool
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, great, I'm glad I looked because
Speaker 1: this dress is not you're feeling.
Speaker 3: Proud of yourself. Well, guess what you're wrong.
Speaker 2: Apparently the dress is blue. The dress is not green.
Speaker 2: Although I have seen a few people taking your side
Speaker 2: on Instagram, but everyone, thank you for weighing in, and
Speaker 2: I feel that overwhelmingly. I'm announcing the results of the
Speaker 2: Instagram commentary here on the podcast.
Speaker 3: The dress is blue. Blue for the wind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and some people really buried me on this.
Speaker 1: People I didn't expect beca Tilly. I'm talking about you,
Speaker 1: Caitlin Bristow, Taylor Harrison daughter. A lot of people really
Speaker 1: stabbed me in the back on this one.
Speaker 3: That's your definition of stabbing in the back.
Speaker 1: I just look, there was one picture. I will say
Speaker 1: that I appreciate you doing that where when you went
Speaker 1: to that kind of one picture from the mirror, everyone said, oh,
Speaker 1: I see it is a weird kind of light to that.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna win. I want to win fair. It's like
Speaker 3: from bringing on the movie, we're going to be the best.
Speaker 3: We have to beat the best. So I included all
Speaker 3: the most stress.
Speaker 1: It's important thing. You look spectacular.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You were the star of that red carpet. And then
Speaker 1: we went in and danced star butts off. One thing, Elsie,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate about you because obviously a child of
Speaker 1: the eighties, I love to dance.
Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
Speaker 2: Too, and I actually have always felt a little out
Speaker 2: of place because my millennial y two k two thousands
Speaker 2: of years and high the dancing was what we called grinding.
Speaker 2: I mean it was just literally rubbing your butt up
Speaker 2: against each other. And I like the eighties dance. I
Speaker 2: like the footloose dancing kick those speed out the dances
Speaker 2: I would see in John Hughes high school proms and movies,
Speaker 2: and so I actually love eighties music, even though we're
Speaker 2: sixteen years apart. I grew up like in middle school,
Speaker 2: I was using lime wire and Napster to download eighties
Speaker 2: music very legally, and so we have all the same
Speaker 2: musical references, which really works well for us.
Speaker 1: It works very well because it's important us. Music is
Speaker 1: important to us.
Speaker 2: Yes, but now look what I loved about this weekend
Speaker 2: is the only things we were quote unquote fighting about
Speaker 2: were really dumb, minor things. And that always makes me
Speaker 2: feel like we have a great relationship because anything we
Speaker 2: even remotely laughably butt heads about is so minuscule.
Speaker 1: And we really weren't fighting.
Speaker 2: No, no, we really were, but we were a little
Speaker 2: on the same or not on the same page. At
Speaker 2: the end of the night of the night, and this was
Speaker 2: on me. We were were dancing for like two hours.
Speaker 2: We had a great night, and then everybody else, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's hit in midnight, and I guess some people were
Speaker 2: going to stay at the gala and then maybe go out,
Speaker 2: but they still didn't know where they were going yet.
Speaker 2: And I was so tired, And this was my fault.
Speaker 2: I had stayed up too late packing.
Speaker 3: The night before, and so we weren't on the same
Speaker 3: page about going out. You were more energized than me.
Speaker 1: Well, Jack Harlowe hosted a big party that was not
Speaker 1: that nice. Yeah he did. No, that was his night.
Speaker 1: He was his party as well. And there was a
Speaker 1: Jack Harlow party where I know Patrick Mahomes, the quarterback
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs, was there. Aaron Rodgers was there several
Speaker 1: other football players.
Speaker 3: So I made you miss all these apples, so.
Speaker 1: All these I knew all the athletes were there, and
Speaker 1: so I knew some other people were showing up. So
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, this, this party is going to
Speaker 1: be pretty good. And we had never been before. I'm like,
Speaker 1: let's do this, but we chose not to.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're too good of a person. You did not
Speaker 2: tell me that that was what you were just like,
Speaker 2: there's a party. I didn't realize you'd be missing meeting
Speaker 2: these athletes that even as a grown man you idolized.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I don't idolize any of them, but okay, Meyer,
Speaker 1: it's fun to hay, it's a good hang.
Speaker 3: And so you're that good of a person that you
Speaker 3: didn't even tell me.
Speaker 1: Well, it's not that big of a deal to be
Speaker 1: to go see them, but it would have been fun.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, It's okay. It was probably better because then
Speaker 1: we woke up Derby day and we weren't completely wrecked.
Speaker 3: Well, right, everybody else has been out till four in
Speaker 3: the morning, and then we had to do the whole
Speaker 3: Derby day and I was like, I got nine hours
Speaker 3: of sleep. I'm energized. Good to go.
Speaker 1: The last text I got from Bob Guiney was at
Speaker 1: three point thirty in the morning. They had just wrapped
Speaker 1: up in his room.
Speaker 3: I just felt on Friday, I danced, I drank, I'd
Speaker 3: had fun. Let's call it a day.
Speaker 1: One thing. You and I agree, and on a high note,
Speaker 1: and on a high note, and ride the wave you're
Speaker 1: on and then end on a high note. And you
Speaker 1: usually don't regret that because then we got up Derby
Speaker 1: Day and we were ready. And Derby Day is a
Speaker 1: long day. You got to hit the red carpet and
Speaker 1: do all the stuff around noon one o'clock.
Speaker 3: You know, the more and more we're together, this is
Speaker 3: just a big thing to say. But the simpleness that
Speaker 3: I love about our relationship is we just like to
Speaker 3: live life the same way. Like we are all always
Speaker 3: on the same page about oh, let's go out to
Speaker 3: you tonight. Now, let's stay tonight.
Speaker 2: We're tired, we want to rest, or let's let's stay
Speaker 2: out until this time, or let's do this this way.
Speaker 3: We're very it's very easy in that way.
Speaker 1: And the Derby for you know, when you're there in
Speaker 1: Louisville doesn't start till seven o'clock at night that I did.
Speaker 1: The race doesn't seven o'clock at night, and so you
Speaker 1: get there at noon one o'clock, so you're a six
Speaker 1: seven hour day and plus getting ready and all that,
Speaker 1: it's an eight to ten hour day, which boo hoo,
Speaker 1: but you just got to pace yourself. It is. It
Speaker 1: is a marathon, not a sprint.
Speaker 3: Even though it is literally a sprint of a race,
Speaker 3: a two minute.
Speaker 1: Race, a mile and a quarter. And yeah, Lauren was
Speaker 1: not the sportiest sports person in the world. But when
Speaker 1: I explained to her, they call it, you know, the
Speaker 1: fastest two minutes in sports, the greatest two minutes in sports.
Speaker 1: She's like, what does that mean? I said, this whole
Speaker 1: thing is going to be over in two minutes.
Speaker 3: She say, run around the track one time.
Speaker 1: She's like, all of this is for twenty horses to
Speaker 1: run around the track one time and two minutes. I said,
Speaker 1: that's it.
Speaker 2: I guess I can't complain. I complain football's too long,
Speaker 2: and now I'm saying that the Kentucky Derby's too short.
Speaker 2: But I will say I am walking away from this
Speaker 2: week in a changed person in that I will no
Speaker 2: longer I will never again not read the itinerary. We
Speaker 2: were given an itinerary, and I kind of knew you'd
Speaker 2: read it, so I didn't worry about reading it myself.
Speaker 2: I should have read it, because then I would have
Speaker 2: known this two minute thing that had started at seven
Speaker 2: pm that was on me.
Speaker 3: And I am also definitely saying.
Speaker 2: This out loud because I am going to become that
Speaker 2: bride who wants everybody to have read our wedding itinerary,
Speaker 2: so it can't be an Inpacrit anymore.
Speaker 3: I should have read this schedule.
Speaker 1: And the other great thing, Bob Guiney's with us. Were
Speaker 1: having a blast, and there were other great people. We
Speaker 1: were with Lisa Leslie, who I love and adore. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, you got to know her her and her husband.
Speaker 3: Basketball icon and stunningly beautiful and so kind and just wonderful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she made one short joke that kind of cut
Speaker 1: but she she's awesome and we had a great time time.
Speaker 1: And you know who else showed up to the derby,
Speaker 1: which we didn't know they were coming. It was kind
Speaker 1: of a last minute deal. Jason and Caitlin. Jason starred
Speaker 1: at Kaylin Bristow. We were able to We didn't see
Speaker 1: him derby day, but we were able to meet and
Speaker 1: have breakfast and hang out as well, and so it
Speaker 1: is great to see Jason and Caitlin.
Speaker 3: Very hard to find people the derby. I also didn't
Speaker 3: realize one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: Fifty thousand people it was the you know, the most
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty ninth. It just gets bigger and
Speaker 1: bigger every year. They keep adding more grand stands at
Speaker 1: Churchill Downs. It is just massive.
Speaker 2: So we're at the derby, We're trying to find people,
Speaker 2: but also being realistic in that situation, you have to
Speaker 2: sometimes text your friend and.
Speaker 3: Say I love you, I can't get to you, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'll see you when I see you.
Speaker 2: But because we were trying to meet up with too
Speaker 2: many people, but we're we're drinking and we're having fun.
Speaker 2: The race happens, and you guys, there are other races
Speaker 2: before the derby, and I had spent all day picking losers.
Speaker 2: Chris Harrison had spent all day picking winners, and then
Speaker 2: it comes down to the actual derby, and his first
Speaker 2: time ever at the derby, this man picks the winner.
Speaker 1: It was awesome and I felt now in hindsight like
Speaker 1: I might be a jerk because I lost my mind.
Speaker 1: If you saw the video on the stories, I was
Speaker 1: not cool, calm collected, which typically I am. I was
Speaker 1: in it, may have had a few cocktails, having a blast,
Speaker 1: and when I was screaming. You ever had of that
Speaker 1: moment when you're like, you're at a sporting event, so
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people are cheering, but I
Speaker 1: turn around, I realize I'm the only one really yelling,
Speaker 1: meaning I'm the one that really picked this horse. Everybody
Speaker 1: else lost money, which makes you a real a hole
Speaker 1: and a bad winner. And so I felt like I
Speaker 1: was doing a touchdown dance at you know, at someone's funeral.
Speaker 1: But it was so damn fun And I love this horse,
Speaker 1: and I had loved everything about it and had picked it.
Speaker 3: You done a lot of research.
Speaker 2: You were going down the red carpet, and at the
Speaker 2: red carpet at the derby, everyone asked you, well, who
Speaker 2: do you have?
Speaker 1: And you said I had two horses, kings Range and
Speaker 1: then Match or Mage. We're really still not sure how
Speaker 1: to even pronounce the horse. It's m age.
Speaker 3: If it's mage, it rhymes with a word. It shouldn't rhyme.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sad, but so I don't know. But anyway, hindsight,
Speaker 1: I may should have maybe used a little bit more
Speaker 1: of my inside voice, but I couldn't help it. And
Speaker 1: it was awesome.
Speaker 2: Well, I was so happy for you because this was
Speaker 2: such a bucket list moment for you to be at
Speaker 2: the Derby and you had picked the winner, and you've
Speaker 2: done all your research and you're so good at what
Speaker 2: you do. But so I, I mean, I'm like a
Speaker 2: and I was just proud and excited for you. So
Speaker 2: I said, give me your phone. I'm in a film
Speaker 2: while you just watch the race and enjoy.
Speaker 3: And so I.
Speaker 2: Got the moment of you and then I stopped rolling
Speaker 2: and he turns to me and he goes, okay, I
Speaker 2: kind of blacked out for a second.
Speaker 3: Did I swear.
Speaker 1: Speaking of of you know, all the research in the world,
Speaker 1: because usually all the research in the world means nothing
Speaker 1: and you end up losing to you know, whoever picked
Speaker 1: it by the cute name or the color of the
Speaker 1: horse which had that felt was earlier on the card,
Speaker 1: which is the races. We get there, we sit down,
Speaker 1: it was like the sixth or seventh race, and we
Speaker 1: we had this nice little cocktail table. There's a cocktail
Speaker 1: table next to us. There was like eight women and
Speaker 1: like two or three guys at this table, and we
Speaker 1: got to be friends because you're sitting there for quite
Speaker 1: some time. And there was this race and they decided
Speaker 1: the ladies thought it was funny because there was a
Speaker 1: horse called No Balls.
Speaker 3: That can't have been the name.
Speaker 1: The horse was called no Balls.
Speaker 3: I think it was spelled with one L, and we
Speaker 3: were saying it wrong.
Speaker 1: No this horse, I will look it back up. And
Speaker 1: so this horse is not so the ladies, who have
Speaker 1: also had a few cocktails, start giggling and they're like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna bet on this horse No Balls. The guy's like, guy, ladies,
Speaker 1: don't do this. Don't do this. This horse is no good.
Speaker 1: It's a long shot. The ladies don't listen. They go
Speaker 1: put all their money on No Balls. They won six
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. This horse crushed it.
Speaker 3: And this is why gambling becomes a problem.
Speaker 1: So these girls come back and they're screaming, I'm like,
Speaker 1: what happened. They're like, we put all of her money
Speaker 1: on No Balls and they have hundreds and hundreds of
Speaker 1: dollar bills or just like what a great sense?
Speaker 3: Chapter ten of the memoir, all of my money on
Speaker 3: no ball.
Speaker 1: All my money. So then that that became the running
Speaker 1: joke the rest of the Kentucky Derby day.
Speaker 2: Well you picked the winner. You crushed it. And now
Speaker 2: I will say we had an incredible weekend. I mean
Speaker 2: I've seen news headlines in the past years about how
Speaker 2: the whole derby's.
Speaker 3: Been rained out. We had great weather, great people. We
Speaker 3: were just so lucky. We did have some travel and
Speaker 3: commute snaffoos, the first one getting out of there. Now
Speaker 3: I didn't know at the time.
Speaker 2: I later found out this is more people than I've
Speaker 2: ever attended the Derby before. Yeah, and it started pouring
Speaker 2: rain right as the derby letout, So we got it
Speaker 2: great weather all day, and then at the end it
Speaker 2: was so sad.
Speaker 1: It was bizarre. Sure, everyone steps out, so.
Speaker 2: The feathers on the hats are wilding, the mescaras running
Speaker 2: down our faces. Women are taking off their heels and
Speaker 2: just walking through the mud. I didn't blame them. And
Speaker 2: the traffic. We were in a car. The traffic. I
Speaker 2: think it took us an hour and a half to
Speaker 2: get out of the Derby.
Speaker 1: To go about five or six miles back to the hotel.
Speaker 2: Now, granted, I'm happy because I'm like, I'm blessed. I'm
Speaker 2: in a car right now. I am thank you because
Speaker 2: I'm not walking in the pouring rain. But and we
Speaker 2: also just saw people who'd given up. I mean someone
Speaker 2: had grabbed a tarp. They were under a tarp. One
Speaker 2: man was standing on his phone in the rain, just
Speaker 2: not even moving, just like whatever.
Speaker 1: Some people had just given up.
Speaker 3: It is what it is. We get back to the hotel,
Speaker 3: We sit down to dinner with Bob and friends Bob
Speaker 3: and Co. At about ten pm.
Speaker 1: The winter is the amazing place. And by the way,
Speaker 1: shout out to not only the city of Louisville, but
Speaker 1: Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse, Yes, which is where we ate dinner.
Speaker 1: And we didn't know it was just attached to our hotel.
Speaker 1: And it turns out this Jeff Ruby, the gentleman who
Speaker 1: owns it and his family. They sponsor all the jockeys
Speaker 1: and it's kind of a tradition that the winner comes
Speaker 1: to Jeff Ruby's.
Speaker 3: So it was so much fun and all the people
Speaker 3: were so kind, and we're just drinking and having a blast.
Speaker 3: And then I kind of broke my own rule, which
Speaker 3: is don't stay out late. We had a late dinner
Speaker 3: and then we went to the after party, which was
Speaker 3: like almost shutting down. At that point.
Speaker 2: I'm getting everybody tequila shots. People were maybe mad at
Speaker 2: me about that the next morning. What was going through
Speaker 2: your mind? Because you were a lot more you were
Speaker 2: you were not taking the shots with me about.
Speaker 1: When I see you going a certain direction at a
Speaker 1: certain hour, I go the other direction because I know
Speaker 1: one of us is going to have to pick up
Speaker 1: the pieces at some point.
Speaker 3: Wow, I mean you were making it sound like I'm
Speaker 3: pulling me out of the gutter or something.
Speaker 1: You were going. No, I just saw you going to you.
Speaker 1: We were at twenty thousand feet. I saw you taking
Speaker 1: it up to fifty thousand. They fly with me, and
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I can't. I can't fly that high.
Speaker 1: There's only enough oxygen for one of us. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let you go. I'm gonna stay safe down.
Speaker 2: Making me feel even worse about the fact that we
Speaker 2: didn't go to the NFL party.
Speaker 1: But then then we all decided this will be a
Speaker 1: great idea. Let's go back to the hospitality suite, which
Speaker 1: is attached to Bob Guinea's room. And let's turn on
Speaker 1: some music and let's we had a little dance party.
Speaker 1: There was about twelve or fifteen of us.
Speaker 3: Also, essentially it was like we were I kind of
Speaker 3: feel like I was in college again the whole weekend
Speaker 3: because we were doing the thing where you're like pre gaming,
Speaker 3: having a drink in at somebody's hotel room before you
Speaker 3: go out, and then we went back afterwards. It was
Speaker 3: like I was twenty two on a trip to Vegas
Speaker 3: with my friends again.
Speaker 1: And then we wake up Sunday morning. We woke up
Speaker 1: a little early because again Bob Guinny was nice enough
Speaker 1: to come in and do an interview, which you will
Speaker 1: what you'll hear in our bonus episode, so listen to that.
Speaker 1: But then we decided to have breakfast with Jason Tartick.
Speaker 1: Caitlin we saw her after she didn't quite make breakfast.
Speaker 3: Hey fly high baby.
Speaker 1: Our girl had to sleep in a little bit. But
Speaker 1: Caitlyn finally woke up at their moms.
Speaker 3: We did wonderful mom.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, missus Tartic and it was so sweet because.
Speaker 2: I didn't expect this, but Jason's like, well, the moms
Speaker 2: really want to meet you, Like, oh, okay, well, great,
Speaker 2: love them and I was so happy to meet them
Speaker 2: because I think we follow each other on Instagram and
Speaker 2: Dale and Lester are just two beautiful ladies.
Speaker 1: So it's wonderful to meet them. Good to see Caitlyn
Speaker 1: and Jason. And we're like, okay, everything's gone so swimmingly. Well,
Speaker 1: this is awesome. Yea. Our flight wasn't until a little
Speaker 1: later in the day and a thunderstorm had blown through
Speaker 1: and it was gone, and we're like, okay, this is
Speaker 1: going to be good.
Speaker 2: Well, let's just take this moment in because we should
Speaker 2: have known, I mean, we were This is the mistake
Speaker 2: you make.
Speaker 3: You're flying too high, too close to the sun.
Speaker 2: There had been a thunderstorm earlier in the day and
Speaker 2: our friends had gotten stuck in it.
Speaker 3: They'd had a horrible travel day. But we're heading to
Speaker 3: the airport, you guys thinking we're immune to this. We've
Speaker 3: got this because everybody else left this morning and we've
Speaker 3: missed the big airport traffic. The thunderstorm is blown through,
Speaker 3: everything's going swimmingly, and then the airport and then the
Speaker 3: horseshoe dropped.
Speaker 1: We walked into the airport and could barely get in
Speaker 1: the airport. When the automatic doors opened up, we were
Speaker 1: faced with this massive humanity and I was like, dear God.
Speaker 1: I was like, thank God, I don't have to get
Speaker 1: in that line. And I don't know what these people
Speaker 1: are doing. I'm going to slide right through. We have
Speaker 1: no bags to check. We are cruising. And then the
Speaker 1: security guy says, this is the security line. Just start
Speaker 1: walking back and so.
Speaker 2: But it's almost hard to describe. There are like the
Speaker 2: amount of people you guys. As we step in, the
Speaker 2: line is wrapped around the side of the airport. But
Speaker 2: we actually for once got to the airport like with
Speaker 2: an hour and a half and a half. We usually
Speaker 2: get there much closer. We were like, could be a
Speaker 2: busy day. We got there with an hour and a half.
Speaker 2: So we see this line wrapping around the airport. But
Speaker 2: we're thinking, well, we've cut time.
Speaker 3: We're good. OK.
Speaker 1: It was the It turned out it was the busiest
Speaker 1: day in the history of Muhammad Ali Airport there Louisville,
Speaker 1: which is insane because.
Speaker 3: We get in there, but we see the line and
Speaker 3: I'm saying to Chris, I don't know, like, is this
Speaker 3: the right line? We do have tsa PreCheck. Is this
Speaker 3: the correct line. A guy tells me no, no, no,
Speaker 3: tsa pre check and not PreCheck. It's all one line.
Speaker 3: We're like, okay, cool. So we start walking and the
Speaker 3: line keeps going. It is around the perimeter of the
Speaker 3: airport twice. Yeah, it just kept going.
Speaker 1: It was laughable.
Speaker 2: I mean so, but what I love is in this situation,
Speaker 2: you and I are both like, well, what can we do.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know. If we're making this flight,
Speaker 3: it happens, we don't get stressed about it. We're like,
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: It's out of our hands. There's nothing you can do.
Speaker 1: And by the way, it wasn't anybody's fault per se.
Speaker 1: It's just it was a comedy of airs of on
Speaker 1: the busiest day in the history of this airport, weather
Speaker 1: delays and other issues, and there's fifty thousand private jets
Speaker 1: trying to get out.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was a mess.
Speaker 3: Yes, so we are we jump in the line, and
Speaker 3: I think because I traveled so much for work with
Speaker 3: ET and you obviously traveled so much for work with
Speaker 3: The Bachelor, we're just both of the attitude of like,
Speaker 3: there's nothing we can do here.
Speaker 2: Everybody is trying their best. It's different if you feel
Speaker 2: like someone's screwing you over something, but everybody's doing their best.
Speaker 2: Everyone's kind, We're doing we can. Everybody's in the same situation.
Speaker 1: If you can't control the situation, just go with it
Speaker 1: and deal with it.
Speaker 2: And I don't get why people freak out in those moments,
Speaker 2: because I'm like, who do you think you are?
Speaker 3: Like? You see everyone.
Speaker 2: Around you, right, yeah, right, everybody around you is suffering
Speaker 2: and trying to make a flight.
Speaker 1: To two things I noticed. One, everybody was really cool,
Speaker 1: like everybody around us everybody. Nobody was fighting, nobody was
Speaker 1: yelling like, everybody was chill. Nobody was saying, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: about to miss my flight, because everybody was about to
Speaker 1: miss their flight because nobody expected this delay. We finally,
Speaker 1: after about thirty minutes, we got back to where we
Speaker 1: entered the airport. This is back to the beginning, Back
Speaker 1: to the beginning where we had just walked through the
Speaker 1: electric doors to get into the airport. We to thirty
Speaker 1: minutes to get back to that point, and we see
Speaker 1: a big a list star walk yet yes, I mean what.
Speaker 2: Was Also I felt like the Louisville Airport was like
Speaker 2: the Golden Globes on Sunday. I mean, there were some
Speaker 2: famous faces of people catching flights after the derby.
Speaker 1: I'm going to out this person. It was John Ham. Yes,
Speaker 1: John Ham walks.
Speaker 3: In the airport mad Men star John Ham.
Speaker 1: And I will say this, everybody who walked in the
Speaker 1: airport had the exact same look on their face. It
Speaker 1: was you, you just got out of your car everything
Speaker 1: and the outside of the airport was not indicative of
Speaker 1: the inside. So you walked in thinking everything's cool, and
Speaker 1: you walked into Mayhem and everybody just was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god.
Speaker 3: It was an ocean.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And so John Ham, like everybody else, had this
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, and he had a hat on and
Speaker 1: kind of was trying to keep his head down so
Speaker 1: no one saw him. But he asked this this security
Speaker 1: guard who was right there at the door of like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's the deal, kind of like we did. And to
Speaker 1: his credit, John Ham just said cool, took a left,
Speaker 1: walked all the way to the back of the line
Speaker 1: like we all did. I was like, he took it
Speaker 1: like a chance and no one noticed him. You and
Speaker 1: I just I think you actually noticed a mis entertainment
Speaker 1: tonight and you're like, that was John hamm and so
Speaker 1: we heard the conversation.
Speaker 2: Well, I kind of had a moment where I thought,
Speaker 2: you know, I've interviewed him once or twice.
Speaker 3: I think you've run into him. I had a moment
Speaker 3: where I thought, like if we just if we yelled John,
Speaker 3: I actually would be like, come jump in line with us,
Speaker 3: Like this is chaotic. You know, like anybody when you
Speaker 3: see a friend you were like, hey, come jump in
Speaker 3: the line. Etiquette can be a little iffy on that.
Speaker 2: I think in this case, I actually don't think anybody
Speaker 2: would have cared because the line was so nuts that
Speaker 2: it's like whatever, Yeah, sure if you see your friend,
Speaker 2: but I didn't want to yell to him and like
Speaker 2: make anybody realize who he was. And then he's got to,
Speaker 2: you know, spend the rest of the day taking.
Speaker 1: So John Ham number one, good on you for just
Speaker 1: being a dude and going to the back of the line.
Speaker 1: Number two, sorry, we didn't let.
Speaker 3: You in the line.
Speaker 1: So we finally make it through security. I started a clock,
Speaker 1: so it took us a little over an hour hour
Speaker 1: and a half to get through security.
Speaker 3: And at this point we think we're probably missing our flight.
Speaker 1: But the right the door closes ten minutes before a flight.
Speaker 1: We went through security twelve minutes before our flight.
Speaker 3: It was that closed. We were twelve minutes going through
Speaker 3: the machines.
Speaker 1: We sprint. We Elsie and I had a plan and
Speaker 1: I said, you start running. I will catch you because
Speaker 1: my bags are second. My bag goes through. LZ is
Speaker 1: already running. I'm pretty quick. I did lap you. And
Speaker 1: we make it to gatebe throw that. We make it
Speaker 1: to gate B two and I'm just you know, I'm
Speaker 1: we're gassed.
Speaker 3: Well, we're very good, like, we're very airport aware.
Speaker 2: So we were thinking we could make it because we're
Speaker 2: like okay, I mean, and the airport staff was so nice.
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, can we go in this security line?
Speaker 2: Please startch a little short. He's like, sure, pop in.
Speaker 3: We're going through, and the American Airlines is app was
Speaker 3: still telling us at that point that our flight was
Speaker 3: on time. So we're trying to make it. We run
Speaker 3: to gaate B two. You run up to the gate
Speaker 3: and they tell.
Speaker 1: You, no, this isn't even your flight. Your flight hasn't
Speaker 1: even landed. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: They say, our flight hadn't even the plane wasn't even
Speaker 2: there yet.
Speaker 3: And there it wasn't boarding. The app is wrong. Nothing's
Speaker 3: happening for us.
Speaker 2: And this became the most delightfully dramatic plane You know what.
Speaker 3: I can't say it. You say it. That's your line.
Speaker 1: It became the most dramatic travel day ever.
Speaker 3: But okay, delightful, delightful.
Speaker 1: Delightfully dramatic travel day ever because it wasn't horrible and
Speaker 1: it was actually fun somehow, because the Kentucky Derby is
Speaker 1: so awesome and Louisville and the people. It wasn't bad
Speaker 1: that we spent eight hours in the airport.
Speaker 3: We were never in a bad mood. Everybody around us.
Speaker 2: I mean there were one or two people we were
Speaker 2: getting tense, but I think part of it is the
Speaker 2: spirit of the derby continued. And by that I mean
Speaker 2: most people were drinking. My favorite part maybe was I
Speaker 2: would advise a couple things when you're stuck in the airport.
Speaker 2: One one thing Chris and I always do a you're
Speaker 2: gonna be with each other all day, so you can
Speaker 2: take a break or two from each other and be like,
Speaker 2: get up, stretch your legs, walk around, so we take turns.
Speaker 3: I'll sit, yes, I'll sit with the stuff.
Speaker 2: While he goes and like get snacks, and you know,
Speaker 2: I'm charging the phones and he's off walking around and
Speaker 2: then we'll switch and maybe I go get whatever a
Speaker 2: dinner is gonna be. And I walk around and I
Speaker 2: like to see what else is going on at the airport,
Speaker 2: Like there's great people watching at the airport, and I
Speaker 2: kind of wanted to see is it as crazy everywhere
Speaker 2: in the airport as it is at our gate? And
Speaker 2: the answer was yes. I go for a little walk.
Speaker 2: There are lines of people everywhere.
Speaker 3: It is packed.
Speaker 2: And there is maybe two restaurants the Louisville Airport and
Speaker 2: one of them is a Chili's. And outside of this Chilis,
Speaker 2: I have never seen resourceful like it. They had found
Speaker 2: those tables, those folding tables that you get like Walmart,
Speaker 2: and set them up outside the Chilies for an additional bar.
Speaker 3: Outside of the restaurant. They were serving drinks. I'm calling
Speaker 3: it folding table Chilis.
Speaker 1: They were tailgating inside the airport. There was a tailgate
Speaker 1: party at Chili's. They had moved outside. There were so
Speaker 1: many people. They moved outside, set up a bar and
Speaker 1: were just like someone selling beer or handing out beer
Speaker 1: out of a trough on the corner.
Speaker 3: I mean, I got a double margarita. The bar donder
Speaker 3: was also named Lauren. She had a bottle opener with
Speaker 3: her name on it, and she is pregnant. So thank
Speaker 3: you Lauren for working pregnant and giving the people the drinks.
Speaker 3: I said, can I have a margarita? She said, I
Speaker 3: gotta go get the sweet and sour mix, but I'll
Speaker 3: do it for you. I mean the kindest people. There
Speaker 3: was one airport staff member walking around with palettes of
Speaker 3: water to give everybody water. I was it was a party.
Speaker 3: It was the Derby round four.
Speaker 1: And everybody was also a bit of a humanitary aid situation,
Speaker 1: meming with the palette of water, handing out water. Just everybody,
Speaker 1: make it sure already was okay? You know, everybody's exchanging
Speaker 1: like phone chargers because the guy next to us needed
Speaker 1: a charge. And it was just you know, people taking
Speaker 1: care of people, neighbor taking care of neighbor.
Speaker 2: And they're also always on a crazy travel day becomes
Speaker 2: that part where like the flight of people start to
Speaker 2: band together, we become a team. Yeah, and it's like
Speaker 2: what info do you have about you know the game
Speaker 2: that we're in, meaning, oh, hey, I heard the gate
Speaker 2: agent said this, and you know, rumors starts spreading the
Speaker 2: game of telephone one hundred percent and it becomes okay, well,
Speaker 2: I heard that we just need a crew, and if
Speaker 2: we can just get a crew, like basically, what was
Speaker 2: happening was the weather and all the private planes at
Speaker 2: the airport had majorly backed up travels, so planes were
Speaker 2: sitting on the tarmac for hours, unable to take off.
Speaker 2: At one point, the airport started running out of fuel.
Speaker 2: Fuel trucks came in.
Speaker 3: Then crews were timing out because they can only work
Speaker 3: so many hours, so eventually our plane needed a crew.
Speaker 1: We were actually we felt lucky that we weren't on
Speaker 1: a plane, because those we had friends on planes, and
Speaker 1: they were thirty forty deep on the runway and they
Speaker 1: sat there, as you said, for hours, so they were
Speaker 1: at least stuck on planes. We felt pretty lucky to be.
Speaker 3: In the terminal. I was. I was at the folding
Speaker 3: table chilies. I'd rather be there.
Speaker 1: Than with a guy from Yellowstone.
Speaker 3: I found there.
Speaker 1: I found out you had a little date. We did
Speaker 1: not say you were at Chili's having cocktails with the
Speaker 1: guy from yellow Stone.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't even say hello to him. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: you're so was it Kevin Costner or Kevin Costner? He
Speaker 3: needs a drink right now.
Speaker 2: Gosh, for all the Yellowstone fans out there, that is drama,
Speaker 2: by the way, I'm totally divulging, but into a dramatic headline.
Speaker 2: But Kevin Costner, the show is ending after season five
Speaker 2: and he still hasn't signed his new contract. And apparently
Speaker 2: the rumor is that the hold up is he's not
Speaker 2: going to sign on for the show until he finds
Speaker 2: out what John Dutton's fate will be. He does not
Speaker 2: want to be in a situation where like John Dutton,
Speaker 2: I don't know, goes down for I'm choking on a
Speaker 2: rib And that's the way he sees his end.
Speaker 1: I love the power and the leverage that Kevin Costner
Speaker 1: has here, like, well.
Speaker 3: You very much helped make that show. I mean, it's a.
Speaker 1: Great is the show? I mean without Kevin Costner and
Speaker 1: without the pandemic? Have we ever heard of Yellowstone? I'm
Speaker 1: not sure Kevin Costner really put that thing on the map.
Speaker 1: It legitimized it, for sure, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Because it wasn't around for a few years and then
Speaker 2: in the pandemic. I mean that's when you and I
Speaker 2: started watching because we binged. But yeah, it's Kevin Costner.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's an icon.
Speaker 1: And that's not taking away from all the other people
Speaker 1: we've gotten to know and love on that show who
Speaker 1: are wonderful, but it just helped to have that name
Speaker 1: to launch it. And obviously, being confined to our homes,
Speaker 1: we became desperate for content and started watching things that
Speaker 1: we admit. It's a great show, yeah, and it turns
Speaker 1: out now, but the fate of John Dutton is now
Speaker 1: in the hands of this negotiation, and it'd be interesting
Speaker 1: to know if Tyler shared and the Creatorlor shared Taylor. Sorry,
Speaker 1: if Taylor shared, and I have too many Taylors and
Speaker 1: Tyler's in my life, If Taylor Shardan has an idea
Speaker 1: of what he wanted, and if that changes because of
Speaker 1: this leverage that Kevin Costner has, we digress. It was
Speaker 1: not Kevin Costner, but you did see someone from yes, and.
Speaker 2: Again I did not say hi because I didn't want
Speaker 2: to draw attention, but he was. He was over at
Speaker 2: the Chilies as well. The Chilies became the Carbone in
Speaker 2: New York. It became the Beverly Hills Polo Lounge. The
Speaker 2: Chili's was the spot to be. At the Louisville Airport.
Speaker 1: You couldn't get a reservation.
Speaker 3: There was a line outside.
Speaker 1: You had to know people, You had to call it
Speaker 1: months in advance.
Speaker 3: There was there were the ropes, the velvet ropes. Could
Speaker 3: you get around or not?
Speaker 2: If you couldn't, you were at the folding table bar,
Speaker 2: which is where I was. But I was okay with it.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, we started drinking with the people around
Speaker 3: us at our gate, and uh, now there was a
Speaker 3: bit of a test of our relationship. You you're very good.
Speaker 2: At travel and thinking outside the box, and you thought,
Speaker 2: can we get on another flight on standby in case
Speaker 2: this flight doesn't go because they were telling us we
Speaker 2: don't know if ultimately now we have a crew for
Speaker 2: your plane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because our first crew timed out they went home,
Speaker 1: so our plane was just kind of sitting there. We
Speaker 1: had no crew. Four hours four and a half hours later,
Speaker 1: there was another flight to Austin and we thought, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to go put us on standby, and
Speaker 1: we got on standby and we were number one and
Speaker 1: number two on standby.
Speaker 2: We have a lot of airline points from all our
Speaker 2: work travels. So we're high on status now.
Speaker 1: But Lauren Zima is a little bit higher now than
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 3: Smashing the patriarchy with airline points.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how this happened. So there is at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, one seat remaining on this
Speaker 1: flight to Austin that we know is going to leave.
Speaker 2: And this became a bigger test of our relationship than
Speaker 2: whether the dress was blue or green.
Speaker 1: And this became very public because everybody from our flight
Speaker 1: is now who we know because we've been hanging out
Speaker 1: for six hours, is now standing around and they call
Speaker 1: Lauren Zema Lauren Zema and she goes up there and
Speaker 1: Lauren says, hey, you know, how many seats do you have?
Speaker 1: And they say one, and she says, well, we're traveling together. Sorry,
Speaker 1: we're going to pass. And so you walk back to
Speaker 1: me and they said they only had one seat. Well,
Speaker 1: the next person on the list, Chris Harrison. Please come
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison.
Speaker 3: So now it's being announced around the whole airport obviously.
Speaker 1: And everybody from our flight, we've all gotten to know
Speaker 1: each other, so now they know. And I walk up
Speaker 1: there and I said, I don't know. Everybody should I
Speaker 1: take it? Is this going to be the end of
Speaker 1: our relationship?
Speaker 3: I can't believe you're saying this is such a laugh
Speaker 3: right now? We are. Really it was.
Speaker 1: A good moment. Everybody really enjoyed the moment.
Speaker 3: Were you performing for the crowd or were you really
Speaker 3: thinking about taking that seat and leaving me at the
Speaker 3: Louisville Airport.
Speaker 1: A little bit of both. No, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, fly together. At the end of the day.
Speaker 1: It all worked out the good karma. And then the
Speaker 1: third girl who was in.
Speaker 3: Line behind us, she's blowing past this.
Speaker 1: I would not have taken this seat, but it made
Speaker 1: for a really fun public moment.
Speaker 3: You were entertaining.
Speaker 1: The people was thinking would this guy take? I mean,
Speaker 1: think about how public that would have gone. Chris Harrison
Speaker 1: leaves or Zona headline in the lurch.
Speaker 3: Although I will tell you I had friends and family
Speaker 3: at the airport at this point. I would have been fine.
Speaker 3: My girl at the Chili's, she would have gotten another margarita.
Speaker 3: I'm good to go.
Speaker 1: So we all take the Walk of Shane back to
Speaker 1: our gate, back to our original plane, which still doesn't
Speaker 1: have a crew. But then it happened. Two flight attendants
Speaker 1: show up then, and the crowd goes wild. The airport,
Speaker 1: our little gate erupts into standing ovation. These two gentlemen,
Speaker 1: our flight attendants, have no idea what's going on. They
Speaker 1: just got to work. They're like, what in the hell.
Speaker 2: They don't know that we've been waiting there for seven
Speaker 2: hours that we The flight attendant literally goes, what happened
Speaker 2: to you?
Speaker 1: Then one pilot, the main guy, shows up.
Speaker 3: Applause, applau clause.
Speaker 1: The people go crazy. He has no idea what everybody's
Speaker 1: applauding about, but he takes it in.
Speaker 3: Then the co pilot, whoo, you always need a co pilot.
Speaker 3: That's a lesson, don't leave a person behind.
Speaker 1: This guy apparently he's used to applause because he leaned
Speaker 1: into it and starts waving to the people and really
Speaker 1: enjoyed the moment of getting a standing ovation, doing a.
Speaker 3: Royal the Queen in the utter coronation wave.
Speaker 1: And I love that everybody had this vibe of we
Speaker 1: were just happy, even after eight hours. We were happy
Speaker 1: to have the crew. They showed up and they flew
Speaker 1: us to Austin. The flight was fun because everybody was
Speaker 1: in this mood of we had just made it through
Speaker 1: something together and we made it home.
Speaker 3: We made it home. I have to be honest, I
Speaker 3: didn't think it was going to happen.
Speaker 2: I mean, we'd kind of resigned ourselves to like, look,
Speaker 2: we might be going back to Jeff Rubies and Louisville,
Speaker 2: having another great dinner and just leaving in the morning.
Speaker 3: But it took off. It happened, and I actually, looking
Speaker 3: back on it now reflecting the next morning, I love
Speaker 3: that it happened.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I don't know, it's weird. I've probably
Speaker 2: never felt so good about being stuck at an airport.
Speaker 2: I always say airports bring out the best in people
Speaker 2: and the worst in people.
Speaker 3: But in this case, it was the best. Everybody was happy.
Speaker 3: Answer for me, no, and now we've actually got a
Speaker 3: story and it was great.
Speaker 1: And kudos to everyone at the Louisville Airport, all of you.
Speaker 1: We feel your pain from yesterday. Hopefully everyone got to
Speaker 1: where they needed to be either today or tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: it was awesome.
Speaker 3: What was a lesson you're taking away from the weekend.
Speaker 1: People in the Midwest are amazing. People are good. Louisville's amazing.
Speaker 1: The people of Louisville. The Kentucky Derby was an incredible experience.
Speaker 1: And people are good. Most people are good. Yes, they
Speaker 1: help each other. Everybody was doing their best. Everyone at
Speaker 1: the restaurants were doing their best. Everybody was really kind
Speaker 1: and if everybody can keep that attitude, it made everything okay.
Speaker 1: I saw everybody was feeding off that vibe.
Speaker 2: I saw something. It's almost like as your phone listening,
Speaker 2: but I saw something on my phone yesterday that it
Speaker 2: was just a quote that said something like negativity is contagious,
Speaker 2: but so is joy.
Speaker 3: And I was thinking.
Speaker 2: There was one guy at our gate who was I
Speaker 2: mean literally at one point he was kind of punching
Speaker 2: his bag and talking to himself. He was really freaking
Speaker 2: out about the fact that this flight was late. And
Speaker 2: I noticed on the plane towards the end he actually
Speaker 2: was smiling. And I think what happened was just he
Speaker 2: kind of saw like when you see that everyone else
Speaker 2: around you is helping each other out, is laughing, you
Speaker 2: start to think, wait, you start to look at yourself
Speaker 2: and go, hold on, why am I not in this place?
Speaker 2: Or maybe you just get in a better mood from
Speaker 2: what you're seeing around you. And he had adjusted and
Speaker 2: so that made me really happy. And like you said,
Speaker 2: it was just people are generally good everybody. We had
Speaker 2: no bad moments yesterday, even though we were in what
Speaker 2: could have been a bad situation.
Speaker 1: Smile, it's contagious.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: It was the most sorry for taking your line, delightfully
Speaker 2: dramatic day and weekend ever, the most delightfully dramatic Derby.
Speaker 1: From the Derby winner to the Emerald Green dress, to
Speaker 1: the travel to the John Hamm of it all. It
Speaker 1: was an amazing weekend and again a shout out to
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby. You delivered. Very rarely will a bucket list
Speaker 1: moment exceed expectations. It did, and I hope you had
Speaker 1: a good time too it.
Speaker 2: You know, I really, looking back, this weekend could have
Speaker 2: been kind of a big make or break weekend, I guess.
Speaker 2: But turns out we love each other and I enjoy
Speaker 2: spending time.
Speaker 1: I thank you for your sense of adventure, thank you
Speaker 1: for just going along with things that you're not even
Speaker 1: sure what you're getting into. I love that about you,
Speaker 1: and I love that about us, and I love that
Speaker 1: we met so many people also in Louisville that came
Speaker 1: up and said, hey, love the podcast. Love what you
Speaker 1: guys are doing. Please keep doing this and that meant
Speaker 1: the world to Lauren and I love you guys so much.
Speaker 3: And now don't miss the next episode this week, which
Speaker 3: is you and Bob Guiney, who he might be even
Speaker 3: a bigger love in your life than me.
Speaker 1: And that's okay, bonus episode of Bob Guiney. If there
Speaker 1: was anybody who got more love than the winner of
Speaker 1: the Kentucky Derby, it was Bob Guiney there in Louisville.
Speaker 1: That bonus episode. Check it out and until then, we'll
Speaker 1: talk to you next time because we have a lot
Speaker 1: more to talk about. Thanks for listening. Follow us on
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