Speaker 1: Hey, well, welcome back to bench your happy Hour.
Speaker 2: I'm Joe and I'm Serena.
Speaker 3: And we are here today with Gary. Gary, welcome to
Speaker 3: Bechler Happy Hour.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. Thank you of course.
Speaker 1: How you doing? What's new?
Speaker 4: Things are fabulous? Just looking forward to, uh, the amazing
Speaker 4: journey that I've been on and it's it's it's been
Speaker 4: a lot of fun. So what am I up to?
Speaker 4: Enjoy the ride?
Speaker 1: Nice? I love that. Where where do you live?
Speaker 4: I'm in Palm Desert?
Speaker 1: Okay? Where is that? California?
Speaker 4: Okay? So Palm Springs, Yes, the Coachella Valley, Yes, court
Speaker 4: Shalla everyone turned. Coachella Y Desert is one of the
Speaker 4: municipalities here in the Coachella Valley. Indian Wells Lakinita, so
Speaker 4: where Gary and Teresa were married over in at the resort.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm where are you from? Are you from California?
Speaker 4: I'm from Los Angeles, the big city.
Speaker 1: Gott are you? Who?
Speaker 4: Are you? Like? You?
Speaker 1: A Rams? Are a Chargers fan?
Speaker 4: I was a Rams fan until they moved, and once
Speaker 4: they moved, I became a Raider fan when they came
Speaker 4: to Los Angeles. But more importantly pro football. It's USC Trojans.
Speaker 4: We fight on USC.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I heard, I heard you're a USC fan. I
Speaker 3: mean you guys. Well, it's been rough, right.
Speaker 4: Don't remind me. I'm reminded constantly over the past couple
Speaker 4: of weeks about the new division. We're in the Big Ten,
Speaker 4: and yeah, it's it's been an interesting run so far.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm from Chicago and we have your guys our
Speaker 3: quarterback now, so.
Speaker 4: All of my guys in the NFL. So that's my
Speaker 4: new team is the du Bears.
Speaker 3: Now, we'll see, we'll see how that works out. It
Speaker 3: hasn't worked out good for anyone in a long time.
Speaker 1: But hopefully you're on the men.
Speaker 4: You're on the men.
Speaker 3: So yeah, we'll probably have to stop talking about football
Speaker 3: because our listeners don't want to hear about football, and
Speaker 3: I know I shouldn't be talking about football. What How
Speaker 3: did you get on to the Golden Bachelor.
Speaker 4: It's it's an interesting journey. In the beginning, I thought
Speaker 4: it like the Dickens. Someone came into my church and said,
Speaker 4: I think you should fill this out, and I go, no,
Speaker 4: I'm too private a person. I'm nah. And we befriend
Speaker 4: each other and I went to support one of the
Speaker 4: events that they were putting on, and lo and behold
Speaker 4: it was an event for the Golden Bacheorette, and I said, sure,
Speaker 4: let me fill this out and the rest is history,
Speaker 4: and here I am.
Speaker 1: Did you watch did you watch the Golden Bats?
Speaker 4: I watched some episodes of The Golden Bachelor, and then
Speaker 4: once I started, I couldn't stop, So I did. I did,
Speaker 4: I have to admit, and I don't watch much television,
Speaker 4: so it was it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Watching while watching that show. Did you think that you
Speaker 3: could do something like this?
Speaker 4: It never crossed my mind, to be honest with you,
Speaker 4: although since being on this show, I can't see why
Speaker 4: I didn't cross my mind, because what a fun experience
Speaker 4: it's been. And but yeah, it never crossed my mind
Speaker 4: at the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like you you were one of the
Speaker 1: guys that really.
Speaker 3: You genuinely seem to have most of the guys on
Speaker 3: your season really a good time, don't you think? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think so. Was it what you expected it to be?
Speaker 4: It was so much more. It was so much more. Uh, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was so much more than I could have ever
Speaker 4: expected or anticipated. But it's been a great run, and
Speaker 4: the the fun continues, I mean, this is this is amazing,
Speaker 4: and I'm I'm humbled by the entire process.
Speaker 2: Do you have kids?
Speaker 4: I have two adult children and I have one grandson
Speaker 4: who's all of five years old, So I have two
Speaker 4: adult children.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I think in the in the first episode
Speaker 5: we saw was it your grandson that we saw in
Speaker 5: the video clip?
Speaker 4: That was my grandson? He is really my daughter Kelsey. Oh.
Speaker 4: I wasn't expecting that. I don't know how the producers
Speaker 4: pulled that off, but that was a very touching moment
Speaker 4: because we talked my daughter and I about twice a
Speaker 4: day on our way to work, on our way home
Speaker 4: from work, and for that to be pulled was was
Speaker 4: just another adjustment I had to make. So when they
Speaker 4: showed it, it really hit home. And especially seeing my grandson.
Speaker 1: What what did your daughter think of you going on
Speaker 1: the show? Was she excited? Was she like what are you?
Speaker 1: Why are you doing this?
Speaker 4: She was? And both my son and daughter they're like, Dad,
Speaker 4: we just want you to be happy. We want you
Speaker 4: to to find someone that you can continue to walk
Speaker 4: through life with. And my daughter says, Dad, you know
Speaker 4: the show is national. You know you're going to be
Speaker 4: seeing all over the world. I just thought, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: You know, you don't think about that, but reality sets
Speaker 4: in once you're there, and that's what I'm experiencing now.
Speaker 4: So she warned me. She let me know.
Speaker 5: I know, I feel like it can feel like almost
Speaker 5: a disconnect. When you're filming the show. It's like, you
Speaker 5: know it's going to be on TV and people are
Speaker 5: going to see it. But the scale of how I
Speaker 5: need people are going to see these moments. I just
Speaker 5: feel like, never, even to this day, has never really
Speaker 5: hit me like it is.
Speaker 2: There's so many viewers.
Speaker 1: It's even people listening to this podcast. I forget anyone
Speaker 1: listens to this.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Joe and I when we were recording our apartment, we
Speaker 5: always say like, oh, I forget the people listen to
Speaker 5: what we're saying when we're just chatting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, right, exactly. Yeah. The magnitude is the scale
Speaker 4: is You're right, it's just a thousand times greater than
Speaker 4: you could have ever imagined.
Speaker 1: Well wait, how how are you related to Tina Turner.
Speaker 4: My godmother, her son and I Craig Turner and the
Speaker 4: other boys, I, Ronnie and Michael. We all grew up
Speaker 4: together from like fifth grade. And Craig was the best
Speaker 4: man at my wedding, and we were even roommates after
Speaker 4: I came home from college. And then when my mom
Speaker 4: passed back some time ago, and we would travel over
Speaker 4: to Europe to see her. Once she moved, she said
Speaker 4: she would take on the reins as my godmother and
Speaker 4: not to worry and I could. I can always call.
Speaker 4: So that's how that played out. Wo.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a really unique story. But that's so beautiful.
Speaker 4: And I hold on to every word that she's that
Speaker 4: she's ever shared with me, the books that she would
Speaker 4: give me to read some pretty powerful moments.
Speaker 1: Nice. That's awesome. What do you still work or you retired?
Speaker 4: I am retired, thank goodness, and I I what did
Speaker 4: you do? Every minute? I was in corporate finance. I
Speaker 4: worked for Fortune one hundred companies. One in particular was
Speaker 4: Southern California Edison and I was there for fifteen years.
Speaker 4: And then I worked at an arrow defense arrow commercial
Speaker 4: company Northrop Grumming Corporation.
Speaker 2: Okay, wow, in and now you're loving retired life.
Speaker 4: And now well.
Speaker 3: And watching your watch and watching yourself back on the television.
Speaker 4: That is it's the most insane thing when you you know,
Speaker 4: you're sitting and I'm watching a sporting event and you
Speaker 4: see yourself go across the screen.
Speaker 2: It's like, those are all I actually forgot.
Speaker 5: The promos are jarring when you're not expecting them, and
Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, it's like your face and
Speaker 5: you're like, oh my gosh, what am I doing there?
Speaker 4: Totally?
Speaker 2: What did you do for the premiere? Do you do
Speaker 2: anything fun? To celebrate?
Speaker 4: Some friends and some folks from our church put together
Speaker 4: an event at one of their homes and it was
Speaker 4: pretty special. You know, that's my family here in the
Speaker 4: desert where I'm at, my family, my immediate families in
Speaker 4: Los Angeles. So they put this thing on and it
Speaker 4: was it was pretty special that they even wanted to
Speaker 4: host the event, and yeah, it was great.
Speaker 3: Can you can you take us back to night one
Speaker 3: and just what was that experience like for you and
Speaker 3: stepping out in the limo and finally getting into the mansion.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so night one it was. It was pretty amazing.
Speaker 4: As we're on the limo and I'm with three or
Speaker 4: four of the guys, and as we pull up the
Speaker 4: driveway to the mansion, the nerves start setting in and
Speaker 4: then we see Joan and it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: there she is, and she looked like she was on
Speaker 4: a pedestal with the lights and just bigger than life.
Speaker 4: So you know, you get out of the car. I
Speaker 4: saw Jordan and I kind of remember what I'm supposed
Speaker 4: to say? What am I doing? Oh my? And I
Speaker 4: danced my way up so I got rid of some
Speaker 4: nervous energy there. That was kind of fun, smart, And
Speaker 4: then she had to turn me where I was supposed
Speaker 4: to go because I was just I was in awe.
Speaker 4: I was lost. I was lost in a moment and
Speaker 4: it was It was pretty cool. It was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: How was it living with a bunch of guys?
Speaker 4: I had kind of prepared myself for, not knowing what
Speaker 4: to expect or what to anticipate. It was okay, It
Speaker 4: was cool outside of the little bunk beds that we
Speaker 4: had sleep.
Speaker 2: Are you a top bunk or a bottom bunk?
Speaker 4: I was a bottom bunker.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 4: Charles was above me. Charles was above me? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: So we were roommates. It was Charles, myself, Guy Chalk,
Speaker 4: and Michael, which Charles, Charles Wayne.
Speaker 3: Okay, and who who would you say would be your
Speaker 3: closest friends?
Speaker 1: In the house.
Speaker 4: My closest friends were were Guy and Christopher. I connected
Speaker 4: very well with with Chalk, and yeah, quite a few
Speaker 4: of the guys we we It was like a brotherhood.
Speaker 4: It was like a little fraternity Yeah, like fraternity house.
Speaker 4: It was. It was. It was pretty special in that way.
Speaker 3: And then before before you go on the show and
Speaker 3: and you start dating Joan with twenty other guys, what
Speaker 3: was what was dating life for you before going on?
Speaker 4: It was? It was an interesting experience trying to find
Speaker 4: someone that was equally yoked in in my faith and
Speaker 4: my belief and some very long, continuous relationships, even proposing
Speaker 4: to someone that didn't happen or come to fruition, which
Speaker 4: was a little painful, but you know, we continue to
Speaker 4: move forward and I think that she potentially is closer
Speaker 4: than I could ever imagine. And they say, sometimes she's
Speaker 4: the person is right in front of you. You just
Speaker 4: have to let go and let God.
Speaker 2: Did it feel crazy?
Speaker 5: The idea of proposing to someone in such a short
Speaker 5: amount of time.
Speaker 4: That was insane crazy, And like, you know, yes, just
Speaker 4: it's crazy to think that someone could actually connect in
Speaker 4: that short period of time and make it a lifetime.
Speaker 1: Going forward, Yeah, yeah, true. Is that so.
Speaker 3: That I'm assuming that's really important Having someone that has
Speaker 3: same faith and beliefs as you. Is that like a
Speaker 3: must in a relationship?
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's important because you know, when when
Speaker 4: you when you discuss faithful things and uh and you
Speaker 4: have a belief it isn't a deal killer, but I
Speaker 4: think it's important that it helps exponentially having someone walk
Speaker 4: in the same faith as you do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what are some other things that you're looking for
Speaker 5: when you're when you're dating?
Speaker 4: Character? I think is important and someone that is is
Speaker 4: true and honest with themselves and is not afraid to
Speaker 4: be themselves. You know, as we get older, the more
Speaker 4: comfortable in our skin we're supposed to be, the more
Speaker 4: comfortable we're supposed to be with exhibiting who and what
Speaker 4: we are. So I think those are some of the
Speaker 4: import aspects I looked for in my partner. So what
Speaker 4: I can travel with and walk on sandy beaches, looking
Speaker 4: at global sunsets from time to time, and or just
Speaker 4: sitting on the couch and grabbing some popcorn and watching
Speaker 4: a film. So so yeah, those are some of the
Speaker 4: qualities I think are are important to me.
Speaker 1: How how would you describe your relationship with Joan, your
Speaker 1: connection with her while on the show.
Speaker 4: You know, it was pretty special and every opportunity I
Speaker 4: got to spend with her and the time was it
Speaker 4: was amazing getting to know her. From that first nostalgic
Speaker 4: phone call that we made the first night with each other,
Speaker 4: finding out that she was a straight A student was like,
Speaker 4: you know, that's amazing. She wasn't involved in sports or athletics,
Speaker 4: which is something that I did. But and and our
Speaker 4: connection continued to grow in such a special way that
Speaker 4: we are now and uh and have become very very
Speaker 4: good friends.
Speaker 3: Do you remember the moment and we see you you
Speaker 3: tear up a little bit when she gave you the
Speaker 3: picture of each other during was that the prom problem?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why why was that moment so special for you?
Speaker 4: I think it was special because it it hit me
Speaker 4: emotionally with her doing something for me, and we were
Speaker 4: all doing stuff for her to get her attention, and
Speaker 4: the fact that I was the only guy that she
Speaker 4: gave something to at that point it really touched me.
Speaker 4: I thought, how awesome of you two to think of
Speaker 4: me in that way. And as my daughter says, Dad,
Speaker 4: she cried too much. And and I'm an emotional guy
Speaker 4: and I don't mind, but you know, it was it
Speaker 4: was pretty special. I mean it really really was, and
Speaker 4: so it resonated with with me in that emotional kind
Speaker 4: of play.
Speaker 3: Yeah that that I mean, that makes that makes sense
Speaker 3: and that okay, So what what was your face? Did
Speaker 3: you have a favorite group date during your time?
Speaker 4: My favorite group date was when we played kick Blow?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah that was actually that was that was fun.
Speaker 3: Who are the who are the who are the NFL
Speaker 3: guys that were there?
Speaker 4: That was Eric Dickerson.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Andrew Reid. Yeah, that's right. What was it
Speaker 1: like seeing though? What was like? Like Eric Dickerson? He
Speaker 1: was he was in l a guy, right was he?
Speaker 4: He he went to Southern Methodists University, Yes, if I'm
Speaker 4: not mistaken, but he was. Yeah, he did play the
Speaker 4: Rams for a while, but that was after they moved
Speaker 4: to Anaheim Angels. Yeah that was That was pretty awesome
Speaker 4: because those guys were from my era growing up, uh
Speaker 4: and watching football back in the old days, if you will. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so it was great seeing those guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's cool. And then how was it Yeah? How
Speaker 3: was it playing competitive kickball? How how into it was
Speaker 3: everyone and at it.
Speaker 4: Well. I like to say I was the best. I
Speaker 4: made a few pretty amazing, pretty good catches and amazing
Speaker 4: catches out there. So Jordan, who was our pitcher, was
Speaker 4: he was pretty amazing, very athletically inclined and was our
Speaker 4: spiritual leader you know the picture, and he was great.
Speaker 4: It was great with being on the same team with
Speaker 4: Jordan's nice.
Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, I could. Uh do you do
Speaker 1: you do you hit the gym at all? Now?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 6: But the ironic thing, you know, it's like one of
Speaker 6: those where something's not really working like it used to work.
Speaker 6: I can go to gym and you know, you start
Speaker 6: seeing the muscles and you say, okay, I can eat
Speaker 6: whatever I want and I can take it off. It's
Speaker 6: getting a lot harder to keep it off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I do go on a regular basis every
Speaker 4: uh what is it? Three four, five times a week?
Speaker 4: It just depends. It depends.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you do you stretch? That's something I have.
Speaker 3: I really try to focus on stretching because I hate
Speaker 3: doing it, but I like I do and now I
Speaker 3: think I've gotten much better.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I forced you when we got together, I
Speaker 5: was like, you can't keep not stretching, you're gonna hurt yourself.
Speaker 4: You can almost get in a full workout stretching. It's
Speaker 4: really good for you, very lomber. Stretching is something I
Speaker 4: think I need to work more on. Everyone going to
Speaker 4: the gym should probably do that, but probably don't stretch
Speaker 4: as much as I should.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we unfortunately saw your time on the show came
Speaker 5: to an end and you were sent home by Joan.
Speaker 2: How did that feel? Were you surprised? Were you expecting it?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, you want to stay on as long
Speaker 4: as you can, and I don't want to say I
Speaker 4: was surprised as much as I was just tired. I
Speaker 4: was exhausted. You know, it's a very exhausting process. I
Speaker 4: was disappointed, of course, but at that point I was
Speaker 4: I was just ready to come in and see my
Speaker 4: family into and to do that moving forward. You know,
Speaker 4: I I I missed the guys. We did have a
Speaker 4: special bond, but I miss spending time with Joan as well,
Speaker 4: and I wish it could have been more.
Speaker 3: Are you now that we know we now know who
Speaker 3: the final four men are and that is.
Speaker 5: Chuck, Jordan's Guy, and Pascal.
Speaker 3: Are you are you surprised by any of those guys
Speaker 3: being there, and are you Is there anyone that you're
Speaker 3: shocked that isn't there?
Speaker 4: No, I think that's pretty much who I would have anticipated. Uh,
Speaker 4: and all of them are are a great fit. I
Speaker 4: still don't know who the final guy is. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: who are it is? I just pray that they take
Speaker 4: good care of her and and give her all the
Speaker 4: love that she is still deserving of.
Speaker 3: Was there anyone that felt like had a just as stronger,
Speaker 3: like maybe the strongest connection with Joan that you kind
Speaker 3: of like watch your.
Speaker 5: Life or was it kind of hard to tell like
Speaker 5: who she had strongest connections with?
Speaker 4: You know, that's a good question because we were all speculated. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I kept telling everyone, guys, just today is all
Speaker 4: we got. You can't we don't know if you just
Speaker 4: didn't know, even though Chalk was on the first day
Speaker 4: the Disneyland that was like, wow, my god. And yeah,
Speaker 4: so you don't know.
Speaker 5: You will get to see a lot of the men
Speaker 5: at the mental coming up. How are you feeling about that?
Speaker 4: I'm so looking for that, and I I think it's
Speaker 4: gonna be pretty fabulous getting us back together and reminding
Speaker 4: each other about those things that I'd forgotten that they've
Speaker 4: forgotten about and the little subtleties that you know that
Speaker 4: made the trip just amazing, truly, So I'm looking forward
Speaker 4: to that.
Speaker 3: If you mentioned Chalk had the one on one date
Speaker 3: in Disneyland for you, if you would have gotten a
Speaker 3: one on one, what would you have wanted your date
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 4: I would have wanted my date to be that Disneyland date.
Speaker 2: Okay, you need to It looked so fun, I.
Speaker 4: Know, and then how wonderful those fireworks going off after.
Speaker 4: It's like the most magical place in the world. It's
Speaker 4: just just absolutely fabulous. So I would have wanted that day.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: Growing up, my dad used to always say to us,
Speaker 5: have a magical day, because they say that at disney World. Yeah,
Speaker 5: They'll say, do you like have a magical day?
Speaker 1: He still checks out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you had disney World in Florida. We had Disneyland
Speaker 4: here in southern California.
Speaker 2: Right, yes, Disneyland. I'm been to Disneyland.
Speaker 5: But so, now that your journeys come to an end,
Speaker 5: you're single, are you ready to mingle?
Speaker 2: What are you looking for? Are you dating? What's the plan?
Speaker 4: You know? It's it's interesting because being the private and
Speaker 4: personal guy that I am. I kind of pulled back
Speaker 4: and said, I need to I need to be very careful,
Speaker 4: but I'm still looking forward to connecting with uh, the
Speaker 4: right person. And like I said, I think she's closer
Speaker 4: than I think. I just hm hmm.
Speaker 3: How about how about any of any of the women
Speaker 3: from Gary season of The Bachelor?
Speaker 2: Yes, there was a Golden Bachelor.
Speaker 5: In Paradise hypothetically, Hypothetically are there some women that you
Speaker 5: would maybe be interested in?
Speaker 4: Maybe? Maybe?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: As a have you have you spoken to anyone from
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean we're just you know, we're just
Speaker 3: asking is there.
Speaker 5: Someone you're maybe chatting with already?
Speaker 2: I get oh my god?
Speaker 1: Or you have to Okay, can you can you at
Speaker 1: least can you give us a hint?
Speaker 4: Wait what, let's.
Speaker 1: Can you give us a hint on who this woman
Speaker 1: may be.
Speaker 4: Let's just put it like this, Okay, Golden Bachelor and
Speaker 4: Paradise would be off the chain, that would be off
Speaker 4: the hook, just in terms of that experience. You know,
Speaker 4: I've really learned a lot about myself on this journey
Speaker 4: and it's been pretty special. And the professionalism from not
Speaker 4: just the team in the entire production and crew is
Speaker 4: something that I really really am proud to say I
Speaker 4: was part of that, and I'm part of that. I'm
Speaker 4: part of that. So you noticed that I tried to.
Speaker 1: That is a political answer.
Speaker 3: I asked for a hint, like hair color, give me,
Speaker 3: give me something where they live?
Speaker 2: How do you go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Let's just say, let's just say I'm staying in prayer
Speaker 4: about it, so I'm gonna leave.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, Well, let's up your privacy for now, for now.
Speaker 2: How do you stay close?
Speaker 4: Stay close? Stay close?
Speaker 1: Oh, we will and we will.
Speaker 5: How do you hope to have inspired other single men
Speaker 5: that are in their golden years who are maybe hoping
Speaker 5: to find love.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I pray that, you know, looking at me
Speaker 4: as an example, especially as a faith based kind of guy,
Speaker 4: knowing that there is still the possibility of getting with someone,
Speaker 4: inspiring others in the way of just letting them know,
Speaker 4: you know, keep hope alive because it is possible. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and love is still on the horizon even though you're
Speaker 4: not in your twenties, thirties, forties. It's sometimes better when
Speaker 4: you're in your fifties or sixties. And I'm finding that
Speaker 4: to be the case, because I can be me and
Speaker 4: you can be you. And that's what I hope has
Speaker 4: come out in this process is you you don't have
Speaker 4: to be afraid of who you are and you can
Speaker 4: really be true to yourself and your mate or partner
Speaker 4: you know, has to be true to herself. So in
Speaker 4: that way, I hope I I've brought some inspiration to
Speaker 4: others that are that are in their sixties.
Speaker 1: Gary, I just want to let you know, I think
Speaker 1: I know who it is, but I'm not going to
Speaker 1: say anything. Gary. Want to play. We're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: play a quick game with you.
Speaker 4: Gary.
Speaker 3: We're gonna quick gay with you, rapid fire. Get to
Speaker 3: know me? What Gary, first that comes to your head?
Speaker 1: Okay, ready, yes, right? What is your favorite food or.
Speaker 3: Cuisine Mexican food? What's your go to comfort movie or show?
Speaker 4: One flow over the two because nest.
Speaker 1: What's one thing you would tell your younger self.
Speaker 4: Stay positive, don't be afraid, go for it.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite way to spend a day.
Speaker 4: Off laying in the pool, getting sun.
Speaker 1: What's a deal breaker for you?
Speaker 4: A deal breaker for me is someone that doesn't like
Speaker 4: to have fun.
Speaker 1: If you can have any superpower, what would.
Speaker 6: It be.
Speaker 4: Running road faster?
Speaker 1: What is your go to drink at a bar?
Speaker 4: A martini dry with two olives like that.
Speaker 1: What's the best concert you've ever been to?
Speaker 4: Tina Turner by far, I was.
Speaker 3: Gonna say, you kind of have to say, what's your
Speaker 3: go to? What's your go to karaoke song?
Speaker 4: Let's stay together?
Speaker 1: What's the most adventurous thing you've ever done?
Speaker 4: Climbed Mount Whitney, the highest continental point in the US.
Speaker 1: Wow? Where's that right? Where is that?
Speaker 4: It's just below Mammoth just above Bishop here in California?
Speaker 1: How long does that? How long did that take?
Speaker 4: We left at three in the morning, got up there
Speaker 4: at twelve noon. We did it one day, stayed for
Speaker 4: about twenty minutes. I cried the whole time, speaking, and
Speaker 4: then I came. I came back down and was off
Speaker 4: the mountain at eleven at.
Speaker 2: Night, So it was like nine hours ish, wow.
Speaker 4: Nine hours. And then for the next week I had
Speaker 4: such bad verdigo. The car would stop. I felt like
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 2: Still moving no way, just from the elevation.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, And I think I came down too quick.
Speaker 4: The other two guys I went up with they didn't
Speaker 4: get back until one in the morning.
Speaker 3: So but you went down by yourself.
Speaker 4: There were two people that were in front of me
Speaker 4: that I kind of hooked up with and I stayed
Speaker 4: with them all the way going down.
Speaker 3: God, uh, what's an accomplishment. You're very proud of.
Speaker 4: My two children and watching them come into the world,
Speaker 4: in particular my son that we thought was going to
Speaker 4: be a little girl, and it was a boy. And
Speaker 4: I'm it's a boy. It's a boy. It's a boy.
Speaker 4: So just amazing. That was an amazing experience.
Speaker 1: What is your love language?
Speaker 4: My love language is touch. I like the feel and
Speaker 4: touch of Yes, that's my love.
Speaker 3: You can just leave it at that. And if you
Speaker 3: could describe Joe's season of The Golden Bachelorette in one word,
Speaker 3: what would it be?
Speaker 4: One word, the Golden bast word sensational love.
Speaker 3: That well, Gary, thank you so much for taking the
Speaker 3: time out of your day to speak with us.
Speaker 1: We loved him and you on betch our happy hour.
Speaker 2: This was fantastic. Thanks for coming.
Speaker 4: Thank you both for everything you do and keep doing
Speaker 4: what you guys do because there's lots and lots of
Speaker 4: people that need you. I need you to but more importantly,
Speaker 4: you matter, never forget how much you met.
Speaker 1: Thank you that was that was really nice. Thank you Gary,
Speaker 1: that was lovely to hear and to all our.
Speaker 2: Listeners all day. I don't forget it.
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Speaker 1: We really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: And next episode maybe I'll tell you who I think
Speaker 3: Gary's into from Golden Batch. No, thank you guys so
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Speaker 1: Bye bye