Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome back to Bachler Happy Hour.
Speaker 2: I'm Joe and I'm Serena and.
Speaker 1: We are here today with our lovely guest, Lettia. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Bachelor Happy Hour.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me. I'm doing well. I'm at work.
Speaker 3: I'm in my office, so that's why there's such a
Speaker 3: gorgeous tropical landscape behind me.
Speaker 1: And what do you do?
Speaker 3: I We're going to venture capital firm in Salt Lake City.
Speaker 3: We invest in tech startup companies, so mostly software.
Speaker 1: Can you give us any good investments? Is that allowed?
Speaker 3: We invest in the private markets, so unless you are
Speaker 3: an accredited investor, not really Robin Hood. Really that's what
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: Okay, wait, you're in Salt Lake City?
Speaker 4: Are you all up in with the Mormon wives and
Speaker 4: the housewives and Hake?
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, I just finished it this weekend.
Speaker 3: I'm gobsmacked. I'm floored. I'm like eating up every single
Speaker 3: second of it, and they like just keep giving us
Speaker 3: more because they're all so online and they're all doing
Speaker 3: their press tour right now, so I'm like gobbling it up.
Speaker 2: I love it. I know, I'm so entertaining. It is.
Speaker 2: It's really good it's really it's.
Speaker 3: The best show. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: I went to Park City in March for like two
Speaker 4: nights for a brand trip and hey, it's beautiful. Like
Speaker 4: I'm dying to go back, but I really wanted to
Speaker 4: go to Swig, which for those listening is like they're
Speaker 4: iconic soda shops.
Speaker 2: And I didn't make it. I didn't have time, but
Speaker 2: I had to come back. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are yeah, like like soda that they like,
Speaker 1: they like make soda, right, we put more sugar in it,
Speaker 1: more sugar. Yeah, but it's like it's like natural sugar, right,
Speaker 1: sugarcane or is it?
Speaker 2: They have the fun flavor. It's like you know, cumps
Speaker 2: of stuff.
Speaker 4: It's like making like a mocktail, but with only like soda,
Speaker 4: and you had coconut cream and it's like all this
Speaker 4: cool stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, because if you're Mormon, you you're not supposed to
Speaker 1: drink alcohol, correct, alcohol, no caffeine either, right, anything that can.
Speaker 3: Be addictive we're supposed to stay away from. So it's
Speaker 3: like even like lifestyle like gambling or like, you know,
Speaker 3: anything that is habit forming and kind of inhibits your
Speaker 3: freedom to choose and like your you know, agency we're
Speaker 3: encouraged to stay away from. I have for sure dabbled
Speaker 3: and some of the you know, things we're not supposed
Speaker 3: to do. I have caffeine, I have my uptimes every morning,
Speaker 3: but I try to, you know, do my best. I
Speaker 3: think it's not even a religious thing as much as
Speaker 3: it's like a wellbeing thing. Like I don't think that
Speaker 3: anyone can argue that. I don't think there's any religion
Speaker 3: that encourages drinking copious amounts of alcohol, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean, Like it's just kind of self care, looking
Speaker 3: after yourself. There's science that backs it up.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean there's so much now that's coming.
Speaker 1: I feel like the especially like the younger generation, is
Speaker 1: drinking so much less because there's just so much more
Speaker 1: on social media that we're exposed to that's showing that,
Speaker 1: like drinking is like even like two drinks a week
Speaker 1: will mess up your sleep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I have the or ring now and just
Speaker 4: seeing if I have like two glasses of wine, even
Speaker 4: if it's at like five six pm, the amount of
Speaker 4: time it takes from my heart rate to drop to
Speaker 4: its lowest point, which is what you want when you're sleeping,
Speaker 4: Like you want that to happen in the first half
Speaker 4: of your sleep, and if you have like two drinks,
Speaker 4: that usually doesn't happen until like six am.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, wow, this.
Speaker 4: Is crazy because I feel like I'll be like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm stressed, like I'm gonna have a glass of wine
Speaker 4: try to like relax, but it's not actually helping. I
Speaker 4: don't know the size. There's just so much more science
Speaker 4: now than their aver hasmen. I feel like round alcohol,
Speaker 4: Oh totally. And those glucose monitors. I want to do
Speaker 4: one of those this summer.
Speaker 3: To those that they just it's like I think they're
Speaker 3: similar to what people with diabetes. Square at the monitor
Speaker 3: your gluecoast and just see what foods your blood sugar
Speaker 3: spikes too, and like how long it takes your body
Speaker 3: to kind of regulate your glucose levels.
Speaker 2: Oh so interesting.
Speaker 3: I'm scared because after you learn that info, then you
Speaker 3: have to eat when you're like conscious of it. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: So Like I have a friend who her doctors like
Speaker 4: you might be gluten intolerant, like you might be have
Speaker 4: an issue with gluten.
Speaker 2: She's like, I won't be getting tested for that, Like
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't want to know. Yeah, She's like,
Speaker 2: I'll just suffer if that's.
Speaker 1: The well, I never eat like I never eat like
Speaker 1: sub sandwiches anymore because I know I don't want to
Speaker 1: ever eat lunch eat anymore.
Speaker 4: I know you're a little extreme sometimes, but I mean, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's hard once you learn the information to forget it
Speaker 4: and look past it. Sometimes when you know something's not
Speaker 4: good for you that you've like thought is good for you.
Speaker 1: Should we talk about some Bachelor stuff. How did you
Speaker 1: You had a great time, lovely ending to the season. Now,
Speaker 1: how how did you get.
Speaker 3: So? I had a friend I don't know if you
Speaker 3: guys know Kiki worked on the show. She was a handler, yes,
Speaker 3: so much in college?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no way, that's crazy. She was a handler on
Speaker 4: my season of The Bachelor.
Speaker 2: And then when we're on Paradise.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, she's the best. So I was reminked with
Speaker 3: her in college when she was working on the Bachelor.
Speaker 3: She's like, you got to do it like you would,
Speaker 3: you know, And at the time I was dating someone
Speaker 3: or was scared, and so just last summer I was
Speaker 3: talking to her and she was like, I mean, you
Speaker 3: should still do it, like you should try because I
Speaker 3: was complaining about dating, and so I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: we'll just send it see how it goes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then that was that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were like at the end of the casting process.
Speaker 3: I think it was like later in the summer, and
Speaker 3: so I feel lucky because I didn't have to wait
Speaker 3: like I think some people applied in like February and
Speaker 3: it's like a long waiting game and you guys know,
Speaker 3: like you don't know that you're going till you know.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I was in the same boat as you.
Speaker 4: I literally applied and was cast like a month later
Speaker 4: and then was like flying out, which was kind of
Speaker 4: a blessing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly What did you think when Grant was announced?
Speaker 1: He was he your type?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I love like tall, goofy bros. Like tall, goofy,
Speaker 3: sporty bros. That's my type.
Speaker 1: Well you think Grant gives off goofy.
Speaker 2: A little bit?
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's interesting. See he comes across very serious.
Speaker 4: To me when he comes on the podcast. He's definitely
Speaker 4: more serious, but I feel like he's in.
Speaker 2: Like bachelor pr mode.
Speaker 1: Okay, totally.
Speaker 4: He's not giving off that like playful side. He's like
Speaker 4: more cautious of what he says.
Speaker 3: I think he's like goofy. I don't even mean goofy
Speaker 3: like like he's like funny with his jokes. I mean
Speaker 3: like he's just kind of like goofy, like like his
Speaker 3: feet are too big or like like he's just kind
Speaker 3: of like harmless. I guess, like non threatening is like
Speaker 3: like Teddy yeah yeah, yeah, like just like approachable and
Speaker 3: like a normal guy, like he's not trying to like
Speaker 3: right uptight.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't don't like I think
Speaker 1: I think, yeah.
Speaker 2: But you're a different kind of goofy.
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, Like I think like
Speaker 1: Grant just doesn't give me that. But I don't know.
Speaker 4: But like if I'm at a bar and I'm looking
Speaker 4: at Grant and I'm looking at you the as a woman,
Speaker 4: there's a different approachableness, there's a different energy that's being
Speaker 4: put out there.
Speaker 3: I don't know, and I don't know if this really
Speaker 3: came through, but like you, we would be walking somewhere
Speaker 3: and we would have to like stop and like this
Speaker 3: is what we're doing today, or you know that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff. He would blow past his mark every time
Speaker 3: and just kind of like all shut like and I
Speaker 3: was I would have to like I'm like, where are
Speaker 3: we supposed to stop? Like okay, and then I would
Speaker 3: just do it so we don't have to do it
Speaker 3: a bunch of times or like during my whole little
Speaker 3: space like move and right exactly. Yeah, just like kind
Speaker 3: of so I don't know if goofy is the right word,
Speaker 3: but just kind of like a yeah, a little bit,
Speaker 3: yeah totally.
Speaker 4: What was your dating in life like before you went
Speaker 4: on the Bachelor, what was your relationship history.
Speaker 3: I had had a couple long term relationships. I am
Speaker 3: a relationship girl, So I hate dating. I don't like
Speaker 3: meeting people like in a dating sense, just it's a
Speaker 3: lot of pressure and anxiety and so and it takes
Speaker 3: me like a long time to really like be interested
Speaker 3: in someone. And so it's I'm typically a slow burn
Speaker 3: type of a girl. Not on the show, but that's
Speaker 3: like how I am typically.
Speaker 4: Okay, So you kind of like you like to invest
Speaker 4: in one person if you think it's gonna go somewhere,
Speaker 4: really like focus on that relationship.
Speaker 3: Be friends first, and like get to know each other's
Speaker 3: friends and spend time together getting to know each other.
Speaker 1: So, like most of us, you kind of like step
Speaker 1: out of your comfort zone and you go on this
Speaker 1: dating show. What were your biggest reservations before going on
Speaker 1: or did you have any?
Speaker 3: I mean probably all the usual suspects, like getting canceled
Speaker 3: or looking stupid that I was gonna cry, or like
Speaker 3: I would have to be in a dramatic situation and
Speaker 3: you know, put in an unflattering light, like I think
Speaker 3: just being observed is. I was just scared of that
Speaker 3: because you know, I like I watch reality shows. I
Speaker 3: see the comment sections, and you know, people are people
Speaker 3: are harsh, and you don't really have control over other
Speaker 3: people obviously, but then also you know how it's portrayed,
Speaker 3: and even that is different than how people perceive it,
Speaker 3: you know, So I think that was a new thing.
Speaker 3: Like specifically on TikTok this season, it's been a lot
Speaker 3: of people like commentating of like this is what producers
Speaker 3: want us to think, but I know that this is
Speaker 3: what was really going on and stuff, and it's like
Speaker 3: you're wrong, Like that's not true at all.
Speaker 4: Like how could you you were never a producer on
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 2: You never also were on the show.
Speaker 3: We're a producer on the show last season? You weren't there,
Speaker 3: Like you weren't there. You don't know what was going on,
Speaker 3: you know, Yeah, it's like they're condensing like everything that happened,
Speaker 3: you know, hundreds of hours of footage into like two hours.
Speaker 4: Of like see speculation where you're like, oh, that's actually
Speaker 4: I was different.
Speaker 3: I don't know everything that happened.
Speaker 2: Yes, totally, just fear of the unknown.
Speaker 3: I'm a planner. I like knowing how things are going
Speaker 3: to turn out, and I can, you know, typically anticipate
Speaker 3: how things are generally going to go, and so that
Speaker 3: was definitely a leap of faith.
Speaker 2: Did you watch the show before you went on it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh, I had seen seasons before. I wasn't like
Speaker 3: a religious watcher. If I liked the lead or liked
Speaker 3: any of the contestants, particularly like I would always you know,
Speaker 3: the first episode is so fun to watch, just like
Speaker 3: what everyone wears and their engineces and kind of get
Speaker 3: a sense of everything and the message, and I keep watching.
Speaker 3: But I dabbled a little bit before.
Speaker 1: What was your favorite parts or what were you pleasantly
Speaker 1: surprised about once you got on the show, The experience
Speaker 1: and like going through it.
Speaker 3: I think the girls I hit it off with almost
Speaker 3: everyone on Night one and I feel like I got
Speaker 3: closer to a lot of the girls pretty early on
Speaker 3: and so and there who you spend most of your
Speaker 3: time with. So it was like if I didn't feel
Speaker 3: close to them, or if I didn't have them to
Speaker 3: kind of like rely on and commiserate a little bit with,
Speaker 3: I don't know that I could have done it. I
Speaker 3: feel like we really looked out. I really lucked out.
Speaker 3: I really liked everyone.
Speaker 2: Who are you closest with? Would you say?
Speaker 3: I'm probably closest with Dina, Serafina, Alex and Natalie.
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, we saw you. Dina and Sarafina were in
Speaker 4: Chicago together, right.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, with Karsa we went like right after AFR,
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, yeah, it seems like forever going out.
Speaker 3: But that was so fun. Yeah, oh that was the best.
Speaker 3: Chicago was so fun.
Speaker 1: I love it that.
Speaker 2: It's a good city. Yeah, his hometown.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, my friend Oh that's right. Yeah, my cousin's
Speaker 1: actually friends with Dinah, that's right.
Speaker 3: I listened to her episode and yeah, I heard you
Speaker 3: guys put that together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what has so like? Everybody listening to this
Speaker 1: definitely watched your finale and knows what happened what's been
Speaker 1: going on post show? Have you step back in the
Speaker 1: dating world at all?
Speaker 3: A little bit, not a ton. I've been traveling a bunch,
Speaker 3: and I feel like I am up against my same
Speaker 3: issues that I had before coming of just meeting people.
Speaker 3: It's tough.
Speaker 4: You know, are you something that would be open to
Speaker 4: moving for love or are you really hoping to find
Speaker 4: someone in Salt Lake City or would be willing to
Speaker 4: move to Salt Lake City.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm definitely open to moving. I think, especially early
Speaker 3: on in our relationship. I just thought that with Grant too.
Speaker 3: I think it's like very helpful for like a relationship
Speaker 3: or like a marriage to be kind of a satellite
Speaker 3: and kind of you don't have like it's not lopsided
Speaker 3: in terms of support. I guess that you just have
Speaker 3: each other to rely on. It like brings you closer.
Speaker 3: That's what my parents had. My dad was in the
Speaker 3: Air Force, and it brought us closer as a family too.
Speaker 3: So I think eventually I'd always want to have like
Speaker 3: a home base in Utah for which if that's my
Speaker 3: you know, family's house or whatever, that we always are
Speaker 3: coming and visiting. That's great. I love Utah. It's amazing.
Speaker 3: I like and I have a good network of support here,
Speaker 3: but I'm definitely open to moving.
Speaker 1: Are you Are you in Grant on good terms now
Speaker 1: or is it just like kind of a relationship that's
Speaker 1: non existent?
Speaker 2: Yeah, where do you Standwich Grand Juliana today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't have a relationship with Grant. I don't.
Speaker 3: I think we kind of hashed it all out. I
Speaker 3: don't think there's anything else to really chat about, but
Speaker 3: like I don't have I'm I'm on good terms with him,
Speaker 3: Like I don't have any ill Will like I you know,
Speaker 3: want him to be happy, wish him the best, and yeah,
Speaker 3: same with Juliana.
Speaker 2: Mhm. Has anything that they've said since the show ended
Speaker 2: surprised you?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, of course, yeah yeah again. Yeah, but I
Speaker 3: but that's fair, you know, on their part. And I
Speaker 3: think I never said anything intentionally with like ill Will
Speaker 3: towards either of them. I just was sharing my experience
Speaker 3: and they're, you know, they can share their experience. I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think it has been surprising. I think just
Speaker 3: mostly because it's only been publicly, like there was never
Speaker 3: any attempt to kind of like clear the air privately.
Speaker 3: But that was just like a good indicator, you know,
Speaker 3: to me what our friendship meant, you know, which is
Speaker 3: totally fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's always like yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's something that people should do, is
Speaker 1: like talk privately before air and everything out publicly. But
Speaker 1: you know, everybody moves differently.
Speaker 3: I think too, Like, you know, you can't control the
Speaker 3: questions that you're asked, and I think a lot of
Speaker 3: the surprising things came as a response to a question,
Speaker 3: and I do want to give them a little bit
Speaker 3: of grace because it's their first time navigating it, and
Speaker 3: you know, you don't always know the effect or the
Speaker 3: impact that your words will have in a group of
Speaker 3: people until you know you're in the middle of it.
Speaker 3: And so I definitely regret anything that I said or
Speaker 3: did that fueled negativity towards anyone, because I think that's
Speaker 3: not that was never my intention, And it's hard. It's
Speaker 3: a blurry line, I think now I'm learning this. It's
Speaker 3: a blurry line between sharing your experience and then kind
Speaker 3: of you have to filter it a little bit because
Speaker 3: there are people who will take your words and use
Speaker 3: it as fuel to like spread hate against someone.
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, that's That's that's a good point because
Speaker 1: like even like thinking back to like when I got
Speaker 1: off the show, and like you do these podcasts and
Speaker 1: these interviews and you're so new to it and you're
Speaker 1: and you're also nervous. Like I remember going into so
Speaker 1: many interviews just being nervous and like almost like half
Speaker 1: blacking out, where I could literally have said anything and
Speaker 1: my intentions were never to hurt anyone, but it's just
Speaker 1: like more.
Speaker 4: Like something said with like snark or sarcasm, and like
Speaker 4: that ends up getting taken out of context is always
Speaker 4: possible to but speaking of you know, saying things that
Speaker 4: end up blowing up, did you expect your breakup? I
Speaker 4: mean your like tone switch and everything in the common now,
Speaker 4: Like I have friends that like didn't even watch the
Speaker 4: season that are like out here like quoting you, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, you don't watch the show, and they're like, yeah, no,
Speaker 4: it's all over my TikTok.
Speaker 2: It's like icoic that.
Speaker 3: Is no, it's so bizarred. You know, I don't remember
Speaker 3: saying it. Like I remember talking to producers after the
Speaker 3: show after we had stopped filming. It was probably like
Speaker 3: a month after filming, and they called me and were
Speaker 3: just talking to it and like they had they were
Speaker 3: obviously in the minutia of like editing the finale and
Speaker 3: all of that, and they kept saying it to me,
Speaker 3: and I was like, what are they talking about. They're like,
Speaker 3: that's such a Latia thing that you could sing that,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I don't remember ever saying that, Like
Speaker 3: I don't remember, but I think the as far as
Speaker 3: the tone switch up, that was like something that I
Speaker 3: did not expect, because anyone that knows me very well
Speaker 3: was not surprised at all by my reaction. Like everyone
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, that's how that was going to go, Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: if she is faced with, you know, that situation and
Speaker 3: like those circumstances, like that's exactly how that was going
Speaker 3: to go. No one was surprised then, knows me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I guess that just speaks to like, you know, we
Speaker 4: watch reality TV and you really only get to see
Speaker 4: such a small part of people because like, had that
Speaker 4: breakup not happen, like no one would have access to
Speaker 4: like seeing that side of you, and like totally you know,
Speaker 4: it's just that reminder that like you're really only seeing
Speaker 4: how people respond to the situations that they're put in,
Speaker 4: and if they're not putting certain situations, you're not going
Speaker 4: to see the sides of them.
Speaker 3: You're only seeing like I mean, imagine you're on a
Speaker 3: first date with someone like for a lot of this season,
Speaker 3: that's about as much time as you have spent with him,
Speaker 3: you know, and so you want to put your best
Speaker 3: foot forward, but you also want to be intentional and
Speaker 3: make the most of your time. And I think, like
Speaker 3: I mean, to be honest, like at the beginning, it
Speaker 3: really is just like rainbows and butterflies because you're so
Speaker 3: like you said, like you black out a little bit
Speaker 3: from like the cameras and the lights in the situation
Speaker 3: and making them out like the you know, the pressure,
Speaker 3: but and just getting to know that person and also
Speaker 3: putting your best foot forward and worrying about being observed.
Speaker 3: There's like all those things that go into it. And
Speaker 3: so that's, yeah, that's a lot of it I think was.
Speaker 3: And then of course I had feelings and so you know,
Speaker 3: and I like I felt so much like compassion for
Speaker 3: him and like the things that he opened up about,
Speaker 3: and so it definitely brought out like a very soft,
Speaker 3: like nurturing side of me because of like the nature
Speaker 3: of the conversations that we were having.
Speaker 2: Do you have any regrets from your time on the show?
Speaker 1: Know that's good? Was was Paradise uh an easier or
Speaker 1: hard no for you? Because a lot of people, a
Speaker 1: lot of people definitely wanted to see more of you
Speaker 1: and wanted to wanted to see you, I'm assuming have
Speaker 1: a successful love story. What was that decision?
Speaker 3: Like, I want to see it too, I'm right there
Speaker 3: with them, But I think given the timing of it,
Speaker 3: I didn't know, honestly, Like the way that everything happened
Speaker 3: after everything aired is really what was the most off
Speaker 3: putting thing for me was like I can come into
Speaker 3: this and have good intentions and I can do my
Speaker 3: best and be vulnerable and open up and all the
Speaker 3: rest of it, and I can, you know, get tricked.
Speaker 3: And then the other part of it is I think
Speaker 3: the most hurtful part for me about all of it
Speaker 3: was the stuff that was said afterwards, and that was
Speaker 3: very fresh in my mind when we were talking about Paradise,
Speaker 3: and so I was just like, I'm still getting like,
Speaker 3: you know, hateful messages because of the things that have
Speaker 3: been said, and so I just wasn't really like eager
Speaker 3: or anxious to get back into and there were people
Speaker 3: that got so much more than I did. And I
Speaker 3: feel very blessed because I have felt very supported. But
Speaker 3: I think just at that time, there was a spike
Speaker 3: in like negative comments, and I was like, you know,
Speaker 3: experiencing it for the first time, I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm ready to, you know, sign
Speaker 3: back up for this again. And I didn't know how
Speaker 3: open I would be able to be, do you know
Speaker 3: what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's like, you know, and that's something
Speaker 1: I've I had like a like you know, friends and relatives.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh, I want to go on the show,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, there is a part of you
Speaker 1: that has to be okay, like you are going to
Speaker 1: like it doesn't make like you. So many people loved you.
Speaker 1: I would say ninety eight percent of the people that
Speaker 1: watch the show loved you. But there's that two percent
Speaker 1: that you are going to get hate from and it's
Speaker 1: going to be hard to read. Like it's it's tough.
Speaker 1: Never really, I think everybody experiences something in their life
Speaker 1: but like not really knowing, like never getting online hate
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden You're like, flood, what
Speaker 1: did this person just say about me? Like what is
Speaker 1: this really happening right now? So, yeah, it's it's it's tough,
Speaker 1: so I get it.
Speaker 4: For I feel like timing is everything, and I feel
Speaker 4: like it's you know, Paradise is always so enticing and
Speaker 4: tempting and it can be such an amazing time.
Speaker 3: But I definitely have bomo, like I know the tea,
Speaker 3: and I like want to I like I miss you know,
Speaker 3: my friends and all that, but like that's not why
Speaker 3: you go to Paradise, you know, to hang out with
Speaker 3: your friends to know the tea. It's you know, you
Speaker 3: need to be more intentional, and yeah, you'd.
Speaker 1: Be surprised er I would say, that's why about seventy
Speaker 1: five send the people down there are there.
Speaker 3: And maybe they share It's like I don't want to
Speaker 3: go through that either, like trying to figure out who's
Speaker 3: here for to be on TV again and who's here
Speaker 3: to meet me and all the rest of it.
Speaker 4: And so are there any of your friends that you're
Speaker 4: hoping like ooh I could see her with the sky
Speaker 4: or any predictions.
Speaker 3: I think it's hard because I just know online personas
Speaker 3: of all the guys. Right, I've never met any of them,
Speaker 3: but Andrew seems really funny and fun like a good
Speaker 3: time and so not to like pit my friends against
Speaker 3: each other, but Alex and Bailey specifically, I think would
Speaker 3: both be like I would love to see their dynamic
Speaker 3: with him because it'd be like funny and fun to
Speaker 3: watch because they're both just like silly, goofy, and I
Speaker 3: think that's what I've seen from him, So I'm like,
Speaker 3: I hope that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I actually we've heard Alex Alex's name thrown out,
Speaker 4: but Bailey and Andrew.
Speaker 2: I think that's a fun prediction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've made some friendships through people in Bachtoration, like
Speaker 1: Katie who was on your season and Charity.
Speaker 2: Well Katie who came down and you did my chat?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah did your chat. Have you been hanging out
Speaker 1: with them lately?
Speaker 3: I haven't lately. I talked to them pretty frequently, like
Speaker 3: I talked to probably Katie and Charity the most, Very Mercedes,
Speaker 3: all of them, Jess, Gabby, they're all great, Like we
Speaker 3: have some group chats that pop up every once in
Speaker 3: a while. But I Bachelor is good at casting soul
Speaker 3: of girls. I will say that, like all like pretty
Speaker 3: much all of them that I've met I love and
Speaker 3: want to be friends with genuinely. So I feel really lucky.
Speaker 3: That's like such a huge win that I was not expecting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely have you. We saw you. You hung out
Speaker 1: with Kendall Jenner at Coachella. How did that happen?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that was so random. I how did
Speaker 3: that happen? She watches the show, She watches.
Speaker 2: Bachelor Bachelor fans, all the Kardashians, and.
Speaker 3: So we I got invited to like her brand did
Speaker 3: a did a party at Coachella, and I got invited
Speaker 3: and so did Alex and so we were like, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, like we're gonna go. This is so cool.
Speaker 3: We got invited, you know. And then right yeah, and
Speaker 3: then when we were like, I think we were just
Speaker 3: like standing there and Kendall came up to us and
Speaker 3: was like, oh my gosh. And that was the most
Speaker 3: surreal thing totally. I was like, why this is a dream.
Speaker 3: This is like not, this is not real. But yeah,
Speaker 3: she like, you know, had just watched the finale and
Speaker 3: that was insane, and like Hayley was there and she
Speaker 3: had watched and that was so surreal. But it was
Speaker 3: also at the time when there was this spike in negativity.
Speaker 3: It was like when everyone was doing podcasts, and so
Speaker 3: I got to ask them about like I was like,
Speaker 3: how do you guys deal with this? This is like insane?
Speaker 3: And they gave me great advice and that was surreal,
Speaker 3: and they are then like nicest, most normal people. I can't, like,
Speaker 3: I can't fathom. It didn't feel real because they were
Speaker 3: so normal, Like I felt like they were just like
Speaker 3: a girl that I met, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: yeah they gave you or no, oh yeah, they just
Speaker 3: I mean, it's pretty. It's funny. They both said it separately,
Speaker 3: like it was in different conversations, but they both said
Speaker 3: don't look at it. But obviously we still see it,
Speaker 3: but don't look at it. So it's just like.
Speaker 4: It's usually our advice too, Yeah, just like just don't look,
Speaker 4: don't go don't like you it's gonna cross your desk,
Speaker 4: and like, but don't go searching it out because you
Speaker 4: will always find something you don't want to see.
Speaker 3: And I think another one is just like, as much
Speaker 3: as you can, don't engage with it, like because it
Speaker 3: just kind of like fans the flames and like breathes
Speaker 3: new life into it, and so obviously when it grows
Speaker 3: legs of its own and it like there's a point
Speaker 3: where it needs to be addressed. But I think like
Speaker 3: as much as you can, don't look at it and
Speaker 3: try not to engage with it.
Speaker 1: Definitely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great advice.
Speaker 1: So you're you're you're moved on living your life. You
Speaker 1: don't go to paradise. You said you've been dating a
Speaker 1: little bit. What has that been like.
Speaker 3: A lot?
Speaker 2: Like, you know, it's just any d ms, any hobbies
Speaker 2: and the d ms.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably, yeah, some.
Speaker 1: What does a DM look like?
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: What if you messages?
Speaker 1: What's a guy? What?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: Why are you When are you engaging in that conversation?
Speaker 3: When it's funny?
Speaker 4: Okay, when it's clever, Yeah, like you can tell them
Speaker 4: you give it a little like thought to it.
Speaker 3: It's not just like hey, yeah there was one. My
Speaker 3: favorite one was like I heard that you're into immature guys,
Speaker 3: So that's fun I'm shooting my shot. That was funny.
Speaker 3: Another one like knew my taco bell order from an
Speaker 3: Instagram story that I had posted and he like sent
Speaker 3: it to me and like a few months later, after it,
Speaker 3: and I was like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, something personalized. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1: That can also come across a little stockersh.
Speaker 4: But we just finished there's a line you know yeah,
Speaker 4: and it was like intense.
Speaker 3: To me that. Yeah, the stockersh is like when it's incessant, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, or there's like multiple messages that's like if it's
Speaker 4: like they keep going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I'm just repeating what you said. But yeah.
Speaker 4: On this podcast where I'll just like repeat something he
Speaker 4: said or like repeat something someone else said and like
Speaker 4: reward it.
Speaker 2: So that's my homework to not do that.
Speaker 3: And by the way, like that only goes for men,
Speaker 3: Like I love it when I hear from like those
Speaker 3: are my girls. Yeah, like oh my gosh, I'm sorry
Speaker 3: I didn't see your other messages like let's chat.
Speaker 2: But yeah it's tally.
Speaker 3: I feel fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah I agree.
Speaker 1: And then going into the summer, any any trips planned
Speaker 1: anything upcoming?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's next?
Speaker 3: I'm going to Europe in August and September, so I
Speaker 3: or yeah, I think that's probably when I'll end up going. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't have it. I think you're gonna go to Croatia.
Speaker 2: Okay, So exciting.
Speaker 4: I always wanted to go there my sister and said
Speaker 4: it was like incredible.
Speaker 2: That's what I think. I think it's fully shut down
Speaker 2: in August, so keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: What do you mean they like close, Well, it's like
Speaker 1: that's all Europe, that's like season. I thought, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: like Europe, Like it's definitely no. I think that's incorrect information.
Speaker 3: I can see like I could see like October like
Speaker 3: a shoulder season season. It's not like coastal for sure,
Speaker 3: but it's.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that doesn't like why would they shut down? I
Speaker 4: could be super wrong, and I hope I am.
Speaker 3: You're dealing with surge pricing and August surge pricing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nice, Yeah, all right, well, Letia, thank you so
Speaker 4: much for coming on, thanks for having me of.
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