WEBVTT - Brian: From Corvettes to Feathers! 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:03.880 Hey, everyone, welcome back to bet your Happy Hour. I'm 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.080 Joe and I'm Serena and we are here today with 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.560 our guest Brian. Brian, welcome to the podcast. 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:10.680 How are you good Will? 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.880 Thank you good good. We're this first time we're having you. 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:18.239 So you were on GEN season. You kind of went 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:22.120 home like the middle of the package, maybe a little 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.560 at the beginning, right early early. 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.560 Yeah. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:31.920 Were you shocked to get the call for Paradise? 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:34.280 I was surprised. I was. 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.680 It was debating on doing it, like I do, I 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.640 want to do it, didn't really expect the call to 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.680 be honest, and I was excited to get it. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:46.879 Let's do it. 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.159 I feel like you were most notable on GEN season 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:57.360 for your Night one tension with Jeremy over the car situation. 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.000 Do you want to break that down a little bit for. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.880 Yeah, Listen, I didn't know we had these kind of resources. 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.839 When I first came out of a limo, I had 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:12.120 two syringes because I'm in medical aesthetics. Also on a restaurant, 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.560 but I'm in medical aesthetics, and I had shots in 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.280 syringes and we're doing these shots and the things that 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.800 I brought with me, and then I see Jeremy pull 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:21.720 up in like a sports car. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.400 Yeah, we got resources like this. 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.000 Yeah, And I'm like, I'm taking that car. And I'm 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:28.520 like I'm joking around, and all the guys in the 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.080 house like you should do it, Like you should do it. Yeah, 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.319 take a car, and everybody's everybody in the house is 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:33.000 on board with it. 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:38.200 And as the night's going on, there's like no time. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:42.319 To talk to jan Thirty two guys eighteen of them 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:43.440 may have spoken to her. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.520 I'm like, where's my opportunity. That's the opportunity. 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:53.160 So I go ahead and and you know, is that 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.320 the best first impression. I would look back and say no. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.520 It was an iconic moment. I would look back and say. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:04.040 Yes, okay, okay, okay. And you you you mentioned you 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.120 own a restaurant. What a restaurant is that? 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:07.960 Yeah, it's the Whales Tail. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.360 We actually just opened up in the Hampton's on Long Island, 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:17.519 very exciting. I literally left Paradise. We opened the doors 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.079 three days later. I was like in the middle of 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.520 the build out. During the filming of Paradise, it was 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:29.240 Hampton Bays, so it's it's like literally a minute from 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:33.960 the beach. Punk Wuad Beach. It's a good spot Tacos, 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.240 Margarita's and. 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.639 You is there? Is this the second one of these restaurants. 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:40.840 Do you have another one in Florida? 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.720 We have one in Northport actually Northport, Long Island, Huntington area, 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:45.560 north Shore. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:47.919 This is our first one on the south Shore. 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.800 We always wanted to break like the out East area, 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.120 get into the out East area. 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.079 Was it gonna be? Man talk? Was it gonna be? 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.520 East Hampton Hampton Bays is like kind of buzzing now, 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.799 like it's it's gonna become like the next like East 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:03.200 hamp the kind of thing like got in I think early. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:07.560 It's an area that's being very well built up. It 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.560 was a great opportunity to do it. Did it with 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:13.880 my brother in law. It has been great. 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.800 It's a lot of work. I'm exhausted, but. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.880 Yeah, I was gonna say that's that's an interesting jump 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.960 from medical sales to restaurants. Where have you been in 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.959 like the restaurant industry at all before opening one? 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.160 So yeah, since I was nineteen years old, I started 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.280 the first restaurant with my brother in law. We opened 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.680 the doors together, like I was like the dishwasher, the 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.760 fry guy, the painter, the exit out of the way 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.560 to the bartender. And then I ended up actually running 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.480 his business for four or five years straight out of college, 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.480 so I knew the business in and out, okay, And 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.160 that was his first phone call in terms of han, 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:48.880 I need a partner. 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:50.000 Are you interested? 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.760 And I'm still doing medical aesthetics today, like I'm in 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:57.560 Florida today and still in medical aesthetics sales as well. 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:01.560 So it's a lot to juggle him, but it's worth it. 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:02.960 Is that where you live Florida? 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.320 Yeah, don't right, Okay, cool? 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.640 Cool, all right, let's get into uh, let's get into 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.920 the show a little bit. So you're on this new show, 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.440 Bachelor in Paradise. It's different than anything they've ever done before. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.440 Were you Did you ever watch Paradise prior. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.719 I did when I received the phone call. Yeah, me 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:29.599 and my brother had some late nights watching the last 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:30.480 two episodes. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.680 Andrew was like my favorite character. That's why it was 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:35.839 like crazy when he showed up. I was like, listen, I'm. 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.720 Like like a fan of you, like I feel it's 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:39.360 like it's weird to see you and like a really 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.560 like a person because I'm like a fan of like 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.440 your character of like who you are on the show. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:46.479 So yeah, it was awesome. 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:47.760 Yeah, it was just me and my mother would just 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.160 watch all the seasons back to back to back because 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:51.240 like what are you gonna wear? 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.560 So you know a little strategy behind it. 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:54.720 That's a good move. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:56.919 We always say, like people that are like, oh, I 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.000 watched like one episode and then I went on it's stressed? 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:01.839 Is me out for them? You know, like you should 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.320 have something, you should have prepare. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:08.839 You should have somewhat of a plan or a reason 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:10.360 to go. 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.240 Just an understanding of what you're walking. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:13.720 Yeah. 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.040 Yeah, you don't need it, but it helps. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.440 And I think that was my problem on Gen season 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:24.200 was I walked in completely blind. I don't get me wrong, 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.599 but I walked in pretty blind because like talking to 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.200 the other guys like, oh, this is what's gonna happen next, 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:29.880 this is what's gonna. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:31.000 Happen next, like talking in our rooms. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:41.200 Okay, so you get you get down there and you 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.120 kind of like hit it off with Zoe. You want 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.240 to just like kind of give us a little breakdown 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.520 of that relationship and. 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:49.240 And how was your day one? 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.600 And finding kind of that connection because you were other 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.760 than Kyle. I would say, you were one of the 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.800 guys that was less known probably to some of the 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:01.680 way men because you did go home so early on 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:02.440 Jen season. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.000 Yes, so there's a lot to unpack there. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.480 So I didn't speak to any of the guys when 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.000 I got the phone call, so I wanted it to 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:14.880 be a surprise. And we had Jonathan, Ricky, Jeremy Spencer 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.360 all day one people, myself being one of them as well, 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.760 So I was nervous going into it one because I'm like, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.960 I hope they don't the girls don't know me for 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.640 the guy that's still Jeremy's car, Like, yeah, I hope 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.480 they don't remember me for that person. So our little 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.000 nerves going into it from that aspect. And then when 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:34.920 I walked in, there was like a lot of comfort around, 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.440 like at least the guys. I was like, Oh, we've 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.840 done this together a year ago, so that was kind 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:42.040 of like what was going on in my mind, and 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.200 they were super like surprise and excited to see me. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.480 So it was definitely like a fun intro and like 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.880 this is gonna be an amazing experience, and then like 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.400 leading into like the Zoey situation, you know, we're all 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:55.760 sitting down have a conversation. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.400 Everyone's getting to know each other. No one knows me 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:02.440 as the guy that took car from Genes. Okay, I'm 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:03.159 in the clear here. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.080 And then all the guys are like, yeah, no, he 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.000 was on the show with us, so they're like, okay, 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.960 he's valid, he's good. So I'm like okay, now I'm 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.800 comfortable and we're just having conversations. 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:14.840 And Zoe stands out. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:18.320 As like someone who starts like pressing me in a 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:22.400 good way, like asking me like tough questions and like argumentative. 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.920 But it's like attractive because like she wants to get 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.040 to know who I am and like just asking me 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.280 difficult questions, and I'm like super engaged, and I'm like okay, 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.280 like this is attractive, and like that's like really where 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.600 we hit it off because like just that situation and 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.200 you know her her interests and like her just hting 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.480 me with tough questions and it was kind of like 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.160 a fun, like friendly, like argumentative conversations. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.640 That's like the way it started off, Like the first 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:49.200 half the day. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:55.040 Yeascha, were you worried about any potential tension between you 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:56.000 and Jeremy at all? 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:02.920 Yes and no, and I have gotten past it, you know, 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.160 i'd like to think so I later find out that 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.040 we did, But I don't know what kind of resentment 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:10.760 he may hold from it, you know what I mean. 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.440 Like it's not really the best look for him, not 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:14.400 really the best look for me. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.400 But it was a funny I. 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:20.240 Mean, but like like like overall, out of all the 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.320 like beefs and and things that have happened on this show, 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:24.360 this is very minuscule. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.920 I just like, you know, it wasn't like this happened, 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.840 and then you were on the show for five six 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.240 more weeks to where you kind of like can get 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.960 past it and like develop that friendship. So you never 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.840 really know where people stand where he's just like made 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:38.920 a judgment on you. 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.880 And is walking around being like that guy's a douche. 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:46.040 Don't talk to him, Like took the car Grant's beatboxing. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.600 Then I freestyled to Grant's beatbox about stealing the car 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:51.720 from him, and like everyone of the room's laughing except 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.640 for him, And I'm like, is there gonna be resent 0:08:54.920 --> 0:09:01.480 because yeah, we we had conversations post show and I 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.080 thought we were good, and honestly, we weren't like the way, Yeah, 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:06.640 when I came in the way he spoke to was like, 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.520 I'm super surprised to see you, Like it's great to 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:12.560 see you, and it seemed seemed good. And later on 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.559 when we have conversations, we realize that we're on the 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:16.080 same page. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:20.800 Sokay, Yeah, well, well something's going on consations between you 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:21.760 and Jeremy later. 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:24.319 A couple of weeks. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.920 Well, yeah, we'll get into that in a little In 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.840 a little bit, I would say to like kind of 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.520 just like talk a little bit more about the Zoe situation. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.120 You know, Presa comes in, obviously you're not at this point, 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.320 no one's going to be closed off. You go on 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:46.960 the date with Prisa. Zoe really does not like the 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.839 way you handled the situation. I guess, like, what's your 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:52.640 take on that? Do you regret anything? 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:57.760 It's tough to say. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.640 I mean, we're in the first week compared to and 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.720 everyone needs to be op. Everyone's kind of on the 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.880 same page as being open, except for Spencer and Jess. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.240 They love at first sight and like that's it, yeah, 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.920 and it just goes on. But everyone else like our 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.560 options are open, Like it's the first week. 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.679 We have ten more weeks to you know, to go 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.320 through meeting connections, meeting other people, seeing if you have 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.720 a connection with someone else, have conversations with other people. And 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.280 I was always open to that, and I felt as 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.760 though I. 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.360 Had had the conversation, had you know, iterated that to her. 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:37.280 And it was like when the power shift of the rose, 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.280 Like there's a very serious power shift of the rose. 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.160 It's like when the girls have it, you know, the 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.240 guys want the rose, and when the guys have the rose, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.319 the girls start to change up and people's mentalities start 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.800 to change. It's like I woke up that morning and 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.240 she was very uneasy immediately. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.480 Like I said hi to her in the morning. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:05.080 We had breakfast, but she was very tense and kind 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.600 of closed off, and it was like it was it 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.319 was tough to really have a conversation with her, and 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.280 I was kind of like tiptoeing around her. I felt 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.400 like I was walking on eggshells a little bit, and 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.520 it was uncomfortable. Like I clearly look uncomfortable. And it's 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.760 not because I'm trying to be like sleazy er. I 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.920 have some sort of you know, alternate agenda. It's I 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.320 legitially feel uncomfortable. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.400 Yeah, And like feel as though. 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.319 And I've also heard from some other girls like how 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.480 she reacts to things from Grand Season. 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.360 Yeah, how she reacts to things. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.920 So I'm like a little nervous to be completely upfront 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.880 about everything, but I am saying to her, like, let's 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:41.920 keep our options open. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.760 Yeah, she said she felt like you switched up that morning, 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.000 But you feel that she switched up that morning in 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.160 terms of where you guys are at, we're. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.280 Talking about the morning after your date with police. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.760 No, I'm talking about the morning after the road ceremony. 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.960 I think is the morning you're referring to as well. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.679 Yeah, there was just intense energy okay, okay that I 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.520 was feeling from her, Like I mean we're sitting down 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:08.120 eating breakfast. 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:09.840 I'm like eating the fruit. You could hear like the 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.440 crunches of the fruit. This is nine in the morning. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:13.240 Like I will get to. 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.920 Like be a little enthusiastic, like, hey babe, what's going on? 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:19.719 Like you know what I mean? 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.160 Like it it was almost like she woke up and 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.480 felt like it was over before it was over, and 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.960 like that, I felt that energy and I was like, 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:28.520 do I need to look elsewhere? 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.760 Like what is going on? And I know another way, 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:33.800 But that's how I felt. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:35.040 Was there any. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.680 Like feeling of we should have a conversation or were 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.640 you thinking of more taking like a backseat approach of 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.559 our Right, Let's see how the day unfolds, let's see 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:47.760 where this is coming from. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.360 And at the end of the day, you now have 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.200 the rows. So it's kind of like you know you 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.640 do have the power. Yeah, well but he does. I mean, 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.800 like like if he does. 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.400 Statement, it's it's it's a very true statement. It's the 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:05.200 power shift is incredible, it really is. So it's true 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:05.640 what he's saying. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:06.360 It's very valid. 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.439 But I'm just kind of feeling things out and I'm yeah, 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.040 let's se who else comes here, let's have conversations. But 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.520 the energy immediately I'm being completely like the energy she 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.760 was giving it wasn't like like I'm eating. You can 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:21.800 put your arm around me and say like hey, good morning, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.640 and like give me a hug and a kiss too, 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.000 Like not all the attention has to come from me immediately. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.400 That's kind of like what was happening. 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.199 And it's not that I didn't feel wanted, but it's 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:38.079 almost that like she I'm telling you, like she was 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.320 came out that morning as if like it was over 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.480 before it was over, and the game was literally didn't 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:51.000 even start. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:55.760 Okay, So then we see Parisa come in, you and Zoe, 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.880 it sounds like on both sides you're both feeling like 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:02.320 you're not in a good place that morning. Freeza comes in, 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.480 you have a conversation with her. Definitely seems like there's 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.960 kind of an immediate attraction interest. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:10.640 Walk us through that. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.920 Yeah, I mean me and Spencer and Jonathan are just 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:15.240 throwing the football around on the beach. 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:16.760 It's one of my favorite things to do. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:21.600 And then two girls just rip jet skis beach them 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.240 and just baywatch their life jackets off and I'm. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.160 Like, whoa Like it was it was a scene and 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:29.600 I was like, who is this? Like I don't know, 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:30.440 don't know who they are. 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.440 And then I didn't know who they are, you know 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:36.160 previously from Grant season. And you know, we lock eyes 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.960 and we're having good, you know, good conversation, good communication, 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:43.200 and immediately, yes, I'm interested, Like I could. 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:44.840 Tell if she's Italian. I'm Italian. 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.280 There's some attraction to it, but like energy is the 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.680 most important thing, So like I'm willing to just open 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.600 to having a conversation, like it's not like love at 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.880 first sight, but excited to like have conversations with people, 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.320 Like there're still conversations I wanted to have with Alex, 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.680 conversations I wanted to have with Lexi, which we can 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.760 get into later as well that I may or may 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:05.720 not have been able to have. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.680 But that's like where my head was at at the time. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.960 So then after you, guys, you clearly hit it off 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.440 on the date with Parisa. After that date, are you 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:20.160 at all like torn of like, oh should I should 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.640 I get my roast Zoe? You know? Or you just 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.720 kind of like, okay, right for the time being, I'm 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.160 gonna stick with Parisa now. 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.080 The date so this is like the other thing I 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:32.880 could say is like the date went like so. 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.440 Well, like yeah, way, yeah. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:37.400 We're at We're on the date. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:41.080 It's like the conversation is so organic and enthusiastic and 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.920 fun and exciting, and I'm like smiling involuntarily ear to ear, 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:50.000 And some things with Zoe felt like very forced on 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.360 both ends, like Hey, you want to go for a 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:53.840 walk on the beach. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:55.760 I'm like, do you want to go for a walk? 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:57.400 Is it a question like or do you like Let's 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:58.720 just go for a walk. Tell me like, let's go 0:15:58.760 --> 0:15:59.240 for a walk. 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.760 And and like with Parisa things, we're just so natural organically, 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.600 we're just yapping to each other without thinking about it. 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.240 Yeah, Like as soon as I saw that, I'm. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.440 Like, Okay, there's a spark. There's a connection. Don't get 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:12.880 me wrong. There was a spark in a connection with 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.000 Zoe as well, but like this one is the flames 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:21.160 are much higher, right, And I don't have my mind 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.680 made up at all because I'm still getting to know her. 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.360 I'm like, you know, if I give her a rose, 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:26.960 is she gonna give me a rose next week? Or 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.480 some guy's gonna come in and she's attracted to somebody else, 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.320 because I'm sure she has a list of people that 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.840 she's attracted to and wants to see comeing to Paradise 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.920 as well, because everyone's options are still open. It's paradise, 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.000 Like we can't forget that it's paradise. It's week one, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.040 there's ten weeks. There's a lot and a lot of 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.880 arrivals and a lot of people to have conversations with. 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.880 So not immediately, but I'm definitely hot on Parisa, without 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:55.040 a doubt, for sure, in this mood. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:17:00.480 Okay, So then we jump to the next you know, 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.480 you come back from your date. We see you and 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.760 Freees are still kind of sharing someone on one time, 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:08.800 you're going swimming together, and then we see a conversation 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.560 between you and Zoe where she expresses her frustrations with 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:17.800 how you handled that situation. Do you see where she's 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.080 coming from? Do you have any regrets? Is there anything 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.440 you want to add that maybe we didn't see. 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:27.520 That conversation was much longer than we showed, obviously for 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.840 you know, reasons. But television can only go on for 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:32.920 so long. This week, that season could be a year 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:33.800 long if you wanted to watch it. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:35.720 Well, that's what I tell people. A lot of people 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.080 that come on, they're like, well, they didn't see everything. 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.080 It's like, well, well, no shit, Like you know, you 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.240 guys are filming fourteen hours a day. If we saw 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:42.560 it all, it. 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.520 Would take a long time, actually twenty four to seven 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.639 because we have the audio and cameras in our room. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.640 So yeah, at all times. And it was a much 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:51.600 longer conversation. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:57.960 That was obviously for trade because whatever restrictions. 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.679 And there's a lot of things that I didn't like 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:01.119 that I. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.880 Heard and a lot of things that she was completely 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:07.280 you know, validated and saying, but the way she approached it. 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:13.679 I was completely I'm like, you're completely turned off by. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:19.680 Like again, she came in with like knowing the game 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.480 was over before the game was over, and that's how 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:26.359 she handled the situation. Like she attacked my character, my integrity, 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.800 called me names, said a bunch of things to me. 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.320 I completely bit my lip. I'm like, I'm not gonna 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:34.800 I'm not gonna get involved with calling people names and 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.280 describing people, giving you attack people's character. 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:39.240 I'm not gonna do that. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.280 So she did that, and I was like, okay, Like 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.199 at that point my decision was made up based on 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:45.960 that conversation. 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:47.040 Yes, yeah it was. 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:52.040 Was she valid in a lot of things that she said, absolutely, 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:59.240 the way she handled it, absolutely not. And after that conversation, 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:03.240 my mind was ninety five percent made up. She does 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:07.080 approach me later on at the Rose ceremony, does have 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.159 a nice conversation with me, does apologize, and she's like, listen, 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:12.800 I think I came on to you like really hot 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:13.639 and really strong. 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:18.119