Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Ben is
Speaker 2: not with me today, but we are catching up with
Speaker 2: some of our favorite favorite married couples from Bachelor Nation,
Speaker 2: and today we have Mari and Kenny.
Speaker 3: Hello guys.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 2: So last time we spoke, it was soon after your
Speaker 2: first wedding, the one. Well wait, did you have three weddings?
Speaker 2: One televised one in Puerto Rico, which is Mara's home,
Speaker 2: family extended home, and then you also had another more
Speaker 2: party in Chicago which did not have a ceremony. It
Speaker 2: was just a party, That's right.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So well, I guess if you want to count
Speaker 5: the courthouse, there were technically four weddings.
Speaker 2: Wow, that is awesome. So of all the weddings, do
Speaker 2: you guys have a favorite in mind?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, well, obviously the one we did at
Speaker 6: Paradise was it was like was special.
Speaker 3: Obviously we and we we came home and made.
Speaker 6: That official at the courthouse because we couldn't make it
Speaker 6: official in Mexico.
Speaker 3: So I mean for special for family and everything was
Speaker 3: Puerto Rico.
Speaker 6: Obviously that was where like most of our money was
Speaker 6: spent on was that wedding. But I love the Paradise
Speaker 6: One just because it's where we met all that stuff.
Speaker 2: The Paradise One interesting. I didn't think you were going
Speaker 2: to say that. So why is that that that holds
Speaker 2: a special place?
Speaker 6: Well, it's I mean we met there for the first time,
Speaker 6: we got engaged there, and I just thought it was
Speaker 6: it was special to be able to go back and
Speaker 6: do that, and not a lot of people get the
Speaker 6: opportunity to do that to begin with. So it was
Speaker 6: just I don't know, it's like out It's like our
Speaker 6: kids can go back.
Speaker 3: And watch that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, who well unless they delete it by them, But
Speaker 6: isn't that.
Speaker 2: What's kind of stressful is that like back of the day,
Speaker 2: we had the tape on VHS, right, and now we
Speaker 2: have I feel like Apple is probably the most reliant
Speaker 2: place for us to go back and watch the seasons.
Speaker 2: They're all on there, but like now, we don't do
Speaker 2: and I don't think that The Bachelor would give us
Speaker 2: the tape. We'd have to really go through lots of
Speaker 2: hoops in order to get our footage.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think our season is also gone from Hulu too,
Speaker 5: like season seven, isn't there anymore.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, they switch it up.
Speaker 5: It's crazy. Yeah, those are memories.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mari. As far as dresses, which one was your favorite?
Speaker 2: You had so many?
Speaker 5: Oh gosh, yeah, you know, it's funny. People kind of
Speaker 5: made fun of us for having so many weddings. They're like,
Speaker 5: this is so unnecessary, Like no one does this quote
Speaker 5: unquote in real life. And I'm like, I know plenty
Speaker 5: of people who had several ceremonies or several parties or whatever.
Speaker 5: But anyway, one of the reasons I'm very indecisive, like
Speaker 5: I want to be able to wear all of the
Speaker 5: different styles, and I feel like I pushed that, you know.
Speaker 5: So in Puerto Rico, I had like the ball gown style,
Speaker 5: and then for Chicago, I had like a Mermaid fitted style.
Speaker 5: I will say I think the Mermaid for Chicago was
Speaker 5: probably my favorite, just because it was like really sleek
Speaker 5: and elegant. So yeah, I just it helps with my
Speaker 5: indecision to be able to do all of the things.
Speaker 2: I understand. I love my two wedding dresses, but man,
Speaker 2: I think a third would have been great. That third
Speaker 2: may have really completed it, you know, satisfied every fashion
Speaker 2: sense that I have.
Speaker 5: You can always do a vow renewal.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I believe in vow renewals, because
Speaker 2: my mom has instilled in me She's like, if you
Speaker 2: have to renew year vows, they must have been broken
Speaker 2: at some point.
Speaker 5: Well, I guess I didn't think about it that way.
Speaker 2: No, right, all right, guys, So it's been a almost
Speaker 2: it's been a year since you've been official. What has
Speaker 2: there been any sort of change in your relationship? Do
Speaker 2: you feel different now that you have a piece of paper?
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 6: Yeah, actually no, Obviously. Now when I see people, they're like, oh,
Speaker 6: how's married life? All that nonsense, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 6: it's the same as it was because we lived together
Speaker 6: for like a year prior and literally, I mean I
Speaker 6: didn't feel like anything really changed after just all the
Speaker 6: money we spent on the wedding.
Speaker 5: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 3: But like day to day life is I mean, I
Speaker 3: feel like it's the same.
Speaker 5: Yeah. We've been in the same apartment since we got together,
Speaker 5: like before getting married, So yeah, I mean, although I
Speaker 5: do change up the dickcor in here all the time
Speaker 5: and it might feel like a different apartment, it's the same.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I feel like it was the same with us. However,
Speaker 2: when you have kids, that's when it changes. And if
Speaker 2: you don't live together beforehand, of course that's when it
Speaker 2: changes as well.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I mean we're we've got our dog kits
Speaker 5: for now, but I'm sure once like a human child
Speaker 5: or two come along, then yeah, that would definitely probably
Speaker 5: change things up.
Speaker 2: Is that what you want? To human children?
Speaker 5: Two?
Speaker 2: Human children?
Speaker 5: You know? I go back and forth. I will say,
Speaker 5: like I've changed my mind over the years. When I
Speaker 5: first met Kenny, like on the beach, this was one
Speaker 5: of my first questions to him. I was like, do
Speaker 5: you want kids? And I told him at the time,
Speaker 5: I think I told you I wanted like four something. Yeah,
Speaker 5: But as time goes on and you know, you have
Speaker 5: to like worry about, you know, how you're going to
Speaker 5: pay for four children, especially when you live downtown in
Speaker 5: the middle of a city, it's like, yeah, maybe maybe
Speaker 5: we're thinking one or two?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right? Do you plan on living in the
Speaker 2: city for quite some time?
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Is there a different here?
Speaker 3: We're for sure.
Speaker 6: I think we're going to switch apartments in uh next
Speaker 6: year and then do one more year in the city,
Speaker 6: probably for sure, and then I'm not sure after that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you ask us like our biggest point of
Speaker 5: contention in our marriage, this is probably it. I would
Speaker 5: love to buy a house with like a lot of
Speaker 5: space and land for the dogs. I want to get
Speaker 5: like three or four chickens, like that's my goal. And Kenny,
Speaker 5: if you let him, he would stay in downtown high
Speaker 5: rise apartment for the rest of his life.
Speaker 2: Well, it'd still be in the Chicago area.
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll definitely stay in Chicago for now until we
Speaker 6: can leave. It's more work connection that I would have
Speaker 6: to stay in Chicago for now.
Speaker 2: But Ma, you're okay, you've assimilated into the Chicago life.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think so. I mean, I still don't love
Speaker 5: the winter. I don't think that's going to change to me.
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine, because I hate the winter. When
Speaker 2: it's you know, thirty degrees and there gets what wind
Speaker 2: chill like five.
Speaker 5: Degrees, it's so bad. I will say this year has
Speaker 5: been amazing. It was just like fifty degrees a couple
Speaker 5: of days ago, which is kind of unheard of here,
Speaker 5: so I can't complain too much. But yeah, it's not
Speaker 5: it hasn't been terrible. But yeah, that's the only thing
Speaker 5: I really don't love about Chicago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand that. What do you guys do on
Speaker 2: a typical weekend or a day off together?
Speaker 6: It's it revolves around what food we're going to eat
Speaker 6: and what movie we're going to pick on Netflix or whatnot.
Speaker 6: Most of it, I'd say that's like ninety five percent
Speaker 6: of the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Other than that, I would say, well, football season is,
Speaker 5: you know, happening right now. So it also revolves around
Speaker 5: like what day the Bears are playing for me, like
Speaker 5: when the Ravens are playing, and then we'll choose like, Okay,
Speaker 5: this is what we're going to have like during the game,
Speaker 5: and then this is what I'm making for dinner or whatever. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we don't get out unless there's like an event
Speaker 6: that we're going to go to, uh, you know, for
Speaker 6: for something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're a pretty homebody couple.
Speaker 3: We both work all day.
Speaker 6: You know, usually by time that's done, you know, and
Speaker 6: it's cold out, nobody wants to go outside or anything. Yeah, dinner,
Speaker 6: order food, and we've seen everything on Netflix.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Well, you know, keep sucking in the
Speaker 2: Netflix because when you do have kids, you will never
Speaker 2: be able to watch TV together again. I'm sorry, but
Speaker 2: that's just because we have our kids on a pretty
Speaker 2: weird schedule because I'm the one who likes to sleep
Speaker 2: late and go to bed late. But guys, you you
Speaker 2: Kenny are still working in you know, the band scene
Speaker 2: night life, Mari, how does how does how is that?
Speaker 2: How many nights a week is he?
Speaker 1: Owt?
Speaker 2: And do you like care?
Speaker 5: Well, actually, he doesn't go out. He doesn't go to
Speaker 5: a lot of the shows. Okay, I would have won
Speaker 5: most of the time. I'll go with so it's fine.
Speaker 5: But even if he was like, understandably, you know, that's
Speaker 5: his job and he's been doing that for twenty plus years,
Speaker 5: so it's like, you know, you got to do what
Speaker 5: you got to do.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm very behind the scenes with that.
Speaker 6: So I actually work during the day from home, like
Speaker 6: you know, I set up the kitchen table as my
Speaker 6: desk and it's more of a nine to five actually
Speaker 6: type of situation.
Speaker 2: That's nice, that's really nice. And mar are you working
Speaker 2: mostly on influencer stuff?
Speaker 5: No, So I actually do have a full time so
Speaker 5: I have my own like social media consulting agency, So
Speaker 5: I have a good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I have a few different clients that I run their
Speaker 5: business social media pages. My biggest is a METS in
Speaker 5: Chicago right now. They have like several locations and it's huge.
Speaker 5: So that's actually where most of my time goes. And
Speaker 5: that influencing is more kind of like a side gig.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I like it that way.
Speaker 2: Have you guys run into Pascal at all from the
Speaker 2: Golden Bachelorette, considering that he runs some medspas in the area. No,
Speaker 2: we haven't, but.
Speaker 5: We were invited to a couple of watch parties with
Speaker 5: a couple of the other because they had a few
Speaker 5: Chicago guys.
Speaker 2: On that site.
Speaker 3: Yes, uh, what's now? I came drown a blank.
Speaker 2: I know, you know how sometimes when you like or
Speaker 2: like I got to think of somebody's name, and then
Speaker 2: it escapes you because you're stressed out about the key
Speaker 2: mumpy name.
Speaker 6: So when they filmed in Chicago for Jordan's hometown, I
Speaker 6: popped in because they were like a block away, and
Speaker 6: so I met Joan and Jordan for the first time.
Speaker 6: But then once the show it aired, I I stay
Speaker 6: in touch with Jordan.
Speaker 3: We text talking in PA and whatnot.
Speaker 6: And I feel bad because even before their season started,
Speaker 6: I'm like, hey, you know, if you guys want to
Speaker 6: get together and watch the show one day whatever, And
Speaker 6: then like the whole season went by, and every week
Speaker 6: we would talk and he'd be like, Hey, we're going
Speaker 6: to Pascals to watch the show if you guys want
Speaker 6: to come by, and like we always had some bullshit
Speaker 6: going on. So I was like, so then I figured
Speaker 6: at some point we would get together, and then that
Speaker 6: the whole season went by and we never we never went,
Speaker 6: we never made it.
Speaker 2: It's a short season, and I need to know how
Speaker 2: Jordan is in real life because he just seems so youthful,
Speaker 2: Like he does not seem like a Golden contestant to me.
Speaker 3: No, he yeah, he was. He's like I would hang
Speaker 3: out with him.
Speaker 6: I mean he's he's what twenty years older than me,
Speaker 6: probably maybe more, but yeah, he had like you know,
Speaker 6: the tight jeans on and the whole deal. On the date,
Speaker 6: he was nervous because you know how it is that
Speaker 6: they're on a hometown date. I'm like, oh, you know,
Speaker 6: I'm like trying to talk to these guys, but in
Speaker 6: his mind he's still thinking about like he's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this date with her.
Speaker 2: He probably He's like, this is fun for you, but
Speaker 2: this is very dark rocking for me. Were you on tape?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: No, no, no, it was they were like on the
Speaker 6: river walk and we're like two blocks down. So I
Speaker 6: walked over hung out with Bradford and some of them
Speaker 6: for a little nice Yeah. I was there for like
Speaker 6: fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I figured it may have been just like a producer
Speaker 2: pop in say heck, yeah, guys. You are kind of
Speaker 2: known to me on social media as the starters of
Speaker 2: the whole watch me rate my outfit for my soule.
Speaker 2: You guys created that and then Jared stole it a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago for a Macy Dad. So thank
Speaker 2: you for the idea.
Speaker 5: You welcome, Mari.
Speaker 2: Do you like order dresses for the content or are
Speaker 2: you just like you're ordering dresses and like, hey, babe,
Speaker 2: come and rate what you want me to wear on
Speaker 2: next date night or next next event night.
Speaker 5: So it's a mix of both. I don't even remember
Speaker 5: like why I started it. I think I don't remember.
Speaker 5: I think I had just like stocked up on a
Speaker 5: bunch of new like dresses or something because it was
Speaker 5: like summertime and I was like, let me order some
Speaker 5: new dresses, and I was like, hmm, instead of because
Speaker 5: normally I would just post it like me trying them
Speaker 5: on and then I like it.
Speaker 2: Right, like, guys, which one do you like the most?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And then I had the idea, like, you know, it
Speaker 5: would be like cool if Kenny did it and it
Speaker 5: had like an actual scorecard and everything. So that's how
Speaker 5: it started. And so now I try not to, like,
Speaker 5: you know, be wasteful, So like if it's something that
Speaker 5: I'm already purchasing, like a few pairs of jeans, then
Speaker 5: you know that fits in. Or I'll even do it
Speaker 5: with like clothes that I've owned for years, like I
Speaker 5: had to go body suit in like different colors. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'll do it with that. And then I actually we
Speaker 5: just did it for the first time as an ad also,
Speaker 5: so that was cool, you know, getting an AD for
Speaker 5: something that I would have already done on my own.
Speaker 2: Anyway, Yeah, I love it. We love it. So I
Speaker 2: want to ask you guys some fun questions first, just
Speaker 2: like kind of you know, I wouldn't say rapid fire,
Speaker 2: but sort of like that. Who's the better cook.
Speaker 3: Mari?
Speaker 2: What's she the best at cooking.
Speaker 3: Any food? Any food I could cook. I cook eggs,
Speaker 3: I got you know what, I cooked steak better than
Speaker 3: she does. I think that's about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, meat is more, in my opinion, a guy's territory,
Speaker 2: because I'm not really down for that either. It's very hard.
Speaker 2: I also don't choose to make chicken. That scares me.
Speaker 2: I don't know when it's going to be right, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know. It could be pank, I don't know
Speaker 2: it's gonna be no thanks? What is well? Who is
Speaker 2: the one to most likely resolve a say sorry first?
Speaker 3: Probably Mari.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she also starts most of them as well.
Speaker 2: No, I don't Besides, where you're gonna live, what kind
Speaker 2: of sparks a fight?
Speaker 3: Usually I have a lot of stuff.
Speaker 5: Okay, there's a lot of stuff in a lot of places,
Speaker 5: And when you have a lot of stuff in a
Speaker 5: small apartment, there's not like necessarily a place for all
Speaker 5: the stuff to go. So he doesn't like that, you know.
Speaker 5: Sometimes there's like, well, yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm like a minimalist.
Speaker 6: I don't have anything like but it's just there's like
Speaker 6: piles of clothes everywhere.
Speaker 2: See, I don't mind when things are out, like if
Speaker 2: I have laundry them and put away like that. Of course,
Speaker 2: like is something that I want to get to. But
Speaker 2: for me, what annoys me the most is is Jared's
Speaker 2: little tendency of like leaving something that he has to
Speaker 2: get to on the counter. And why is it different
Speaker 2: to me? It's because like if he has like miscellaneous
Speaker 2: parts of something on the counter, like this doesn't have
Speaker 2: a home in our house spot. See, if I knew
Speaker 2: it had a spot, then I could just go put
Speaker 2: it there. And if I put his stuff away, then
Speaker 2: he gets to know. But I'm like, okay, But but
Speaker 2: it'll sit there on the counter for like a week,
Speaker 2: and it annoyed the crap out of me. So I
Speaker 2: really just need to make a home for it.
Speaker 5: Well, I don't understand what it's about either, but I'm
Speaker 5: the exact same way, like I would much rather like
Speaker 5: the room or like my side of the room be
Speaker 5: a mess than like have stuff on the counter or
Speaker 5: like in the living room area like.
Speaker 2: That it's the common space area, even though like for
Speaker 2: you guys, it's all common it's all common space, I suppose.
Speaker 2: But the bedroom is more of like I guess it's
Speaker 2: like a dressing room to me. And yeah, but like
Speaker 2: if the kitchen counter on the coffee table.
Speaker 5: You get.
Speaker 2: Okay, who is more likely to like plan a vacation,
Speaker 2: do something spontaneous.
Speaker 3: I don't know. We kind of both do that now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well we because we did our We did our
Speaker 6: first like europe trip to Ireland last year, this year,
Speaker 6: this year, and then we kind of got like addicted
Speaker 6: to trying to go to Europe all the time now
Speaker 6: instead of like besides Europe, so.
Speaker 2: I get that it's really the only place I would
Speaker 2: care to go to.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well yeah, and then like it's almost like it
Speaker 6: was more affordable. We went to Denmark and it was
Speaker 6: like more affordable to fly into like La and and
Speaker 6: and it was like all across the board, hotel, airfare,
Speaker 6: everything was like half the price of go in LA.
Speaker 2: Basically, Wow, that's why so many people went over there
Speaker 2: for Taylor Swift concerts.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, he's much more like so, for example, Christmas
Speaker 5: is coming up, and like instead of doing gifts, he's like, oh,
Speaker 5: let's just plan a trip instead. So like in that aspect,
Speaker 5: I would say it's him when it comes to actually
Speaker 5: planning it though, and like looking for the flights that
Speaker 5: I do that.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, actually leads me to a question for
Speaker 2: married couples and Christmas gifts, Like I would rather Jared
Speaker 2: and I just like plan something an experienced thing, or
Speaker 2: I'd rather honestly just be like, hey, like what charity
Speaker 2: do you want to give to?
Speaker 5: Because like we don't.
Speaker 2: Need any more stuff, and we want to give stuff
Speaker 2: to the kids. You know, that's once you have kids,
Speaker 2: You're just like, oh, we want to shop for them.
Speaker 2: That's fun, but like we do not need anything anything else.
Speaker 2: So what do you guys, what do you typically do?
Speaker 2: Are you doing like vacations and experiences? And if that
Speaker 2: is what you know? You just kind of mentioned do
Speaker 2: you still get little things to unwrap on Christmas? You
Speaker 2: just need to get a couple of little things? Right?
Speaker 6: Yes, that was found out yesterday that she bought something.
Speaker 2: Yeah. See I have like two three things for him
Speaker 2: to unwrap, and I'm like, is that enough? Is he
Speaker 2: going to get me more than three things to unwrap?
Speaker 5: Exactly? We still need something under the tree, like the
Speaker 5: experience when wrapping it. It's like something small. It doesn't
Speaker 5: got to be anything huge, but like just just a
Speaker 5: little something and then we also do the experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: It's tricky when it's like, omel, it's my money too,
Speaker 2: So like, let's have a don't mind me anything. I
Speaker 2: don't really stuff like that. Okay, let's do a little
Speaker 2: flip situation, Kenny, what do you think Mari's favorite memory
Speaker 2: from Bachelor and Paradise.
Speaker 3: Was probably throwing my birthday cake in the fire?
Speaker 2: Yep, that's exactly what came to mind. Really, the bad
Speaker 2: memory has turned into a good memory.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's funny now to look back on it.
Speaker 5: And you know, it's funny because I was getting my
Speaker 5: makeup done the other day. This is in aside here,
Speaker 5: but they were asking me about that moment and they
Speaker 5: were like, oh, you know, we didn't. You know, you're
Speaker 5: so nice, like you're so sweet and kind, like I
Speaker 5: never would have thought like you would do something like that.
Speaker 5: And I was like, hmm, this leads me to believe
Speaker 5: that there are a fraction of people out there who
Speaker 5: believe that I am like that in like actual real life,
Speaker 5: which is far from the truth.
Speaker 2: I'm obsessed that you said this.
Speaker 5: Like that was a very specific like we're on camera
Speaker 5: right now, like I'm angry, we're gonna play this up
Speaker 5: like I would not ever actually throw food or any
Speaker 5: object at anybody in like a normal real life situation.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So I was talking about this on my other podcast
Speaker 2: called I Don't Get It, and we were my my
Speaker 2: friend nass Like Ashley, you like are not confrontational and
Speaker 2: you always say that you won't speak up in this
Speaker 2: situation or that, But you are the girl who literally
Speaker 2: had one of like the most memorable experiences on two
Speaker 2: on one. How can you say that? And I go,
Speaker 2: I think there's something called like camera courage, Like just
Speaker 2: the environment of being on a TV show, even though
Speaker 2: like it is so much our real lives what we're experiencing,
Speaker 2: it does make you do slightly sassier things than you
Speaker 2: would do in the quote real world.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, And like for me personally, it definitely flashed
Speaker 5: my head. I'm like, Okay, this is gonna be good TV.
Speaker 5: Like people are going to talk about this like I'm
Speaker 5: going for it.
Speaker 2: Yep. Okay. So then, Mari, what do you think is
Speaker 2: Kenny's most memorable or favorite moment for Paradise.
Speaker 5: M probably something to do with being naked, like the
Speaker 5: taco date.
Speaker 2: You guys were naked all the time, or I guess
Speaker 2: like Kenny was more so naked. Why do I have
Speaker 2: more like memories of Kenny, have you had like a
Speaker 2: leaf when you walk down.
Speaker 5: That I wasn't you.
Speaker 3: Was Jacob blackbox? Now? Okay here two years ago?
Speaker 2: Why did you get black boxed?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 6: They I actually so initially I was gonna calm down naked, okay,
Speaker 6: and then we switched to like a very small speedo
Speaker 6: basically okay, and that's what I came down, and then
Speaker 6: they black box that.
Speaker 5: To make it look like he was actually naked.
Speaker 2: All right, So I knew I had a memory of
Speaker 2: you not having.
Speaker 6: I mean, they talked about it doing doing it legitimately naked,
Speaker 6: which I said, f I, I don't care, and then they
Speaker 6: got like they're like, oh okay, we better.
Speaker 3: Not do that. So I don't know.
Speaker 6: I just I don't even know where that all came from.
Speaker 6: I think, I mean, there was some stuff on my
Speaker 6: season with Claire that we were like naked stuff Dodgebable
Speaker 6: and all that stuff, so I think they were just
Speaker 6: it was kind of just a playoff of like where
Speaker 6: I had come from before Paradise, and then it just
Speaker 6: turned into a thing. Basically every date I went on
Speaker 6: in Paradise, there was it was new to be involved.
Speaker 2: This is a little bit of a t M. I
Speaker 2: rated our question, and I'm sorry if I'm being too personal,
Speaker 2: but when you guys had that date where you basically
Speaker 2: were like naked and like putting like food on your back,
Speaker 2: was it the sushi tacos tacos? Okay, sorry thinking about
Speaker 2: sex and the city taco ingredients taco ingredients? Was that
Speaker 2: the first time you guys saw each other naked? And
Speaker 2: did you even see each other naked on that day
Speaker 2: or were they trying for they being a little bit
Speaker 2: more coy.
Speaker 5: So we were covered. They put like fake leaves on
Speaker 5: us for that, so we didn't see each other like
Speaker 5: fully naked at that point. I don't remember if we
Speaker 5: already had gone to the boom boomer.
Speaker 3: Before No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, My last fun question is just what
Speaker 2: has been your favorite memory as a married couple besides
Speaker 2: the weddings?
Speaker 3: Hmmm?
Speaker 5: For each of you, I would say probably our trip
Speaker 5: to Ireland.
Speaker 3: I was actually gonna say that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it was our first like big international trip.
Speaker 5: I mean, we've gone to like other countries in North America.
Speaker 5: We did Guatemala, but it was our first time going
Speaker 5: like overseas together, and I think traveling with a partner
Speaker 5: is always like a good indicator of like how your
Speaker 5: relationship is going to work out, which for us, you know,
Speaker 5: it was fine, but it really sparked that, like, hey,
Speaker 5: let's do more of this together, you know. So it's
Speaker 5: kind of like it was the set up the foundation
Speaker 5: for us to continue doing that.
Speaker 4: So I love it. I think, God, Okay, I well,
Speaker 4: it's kind of like extended.
Speaker 6: But like so we when she moved to Chicago, like
Speaker 6: me and my dad drove in a moving truck from Chicago,
Speaker 6: like what is it thirteen hours straight and then my
Speaker 6: it was me, her and my dad and then like
Speaker 6: we slept, my dad like slept on the floor because
Speaker 6: all our stuff was and then we drove back home
Speaker 6: the next day.
Speaker 3: So it's like thirteen.
Speaker 6: Hours to Maryland to Maryland, we slept, woke up, packed
Speaker 6: the moving truck, and then drove back straight like thirteen
Speaker 6: hours straight.
Speaker 2: Holy most.
Speaker 3: And yeah, so it was like.
Speaker 6: Which I don't think like some people like on the show,
Speaker 6: don't get like if there's not that kind of effort
Speaker 6: post show, it's it's really not probably gonna work out.
Speaker 6: But like for me, it was like it was like, hey,
Speaker 6: we're this is a legit thing. Like my family was involved,
Speaker 6: Like we're driving out there, packing her shit, bringing her back,
Speaker 6: all the whole thing. So like that whole thing, you know.
Speaker 6: I always that always kind of you know, comes up
Speaker 6: in my mind.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so sweet. That really is It was the beginning.
Speaker 2: It was like the real life beginning of it all.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well all this has to do with travel really,
Speaker 2: And that makes me think that if you guys were
Speaker 2: to do any reality show that wasn't The Bachelor, what
Speaker 2: would it be together as a couple. I the audience
Speaker 2: is gonna be tired of me saying this, but I've
Speaker 2: been saying it for time, and maybe The Bachelor will
Speaker 2: catch on one time. But I think that there should
Speaker 2: be an amazing race or survivor like show where the
Speaker 2: married couples from the franchise go and compete against each other. Right,
Speaker 2: Everybody is always like I want to see the married
Speaker 2: couples again because they get to see the singles be
Speaker 2: in paradise and you know married couples you know that
Speaker 2: you follow on social media and.
Speaker 1: We love it.
Speaker 2: But I think it would just be really really fun
Speaker 2: to have a new spin off show. So you guys
Speaker 2: had to do if we if you were if we
Speaker 2: were to create something like that, what format would you
Speaker 2: want it to be in.
Speaker 6: Well, I would say, like, I think more of Amazing
Speaker 6: Race over Survivor type.
Speaker 2: Thing, but not naked and afraid. Kenny, No, absolutely.
Speaker 6: No, Yeah, it was crazy though they were like in
Speaker 6: the they're like in the jungle, like literally nothing.
Speaker 5: I'm tough. I don't think I could do that. I agree,
Speaker 5: I think Amazing Race style would be really good. And
Speaker 5: I love the idea of bringing back like former couples
Speaker 5: or like you know, still couples but from former seasons
Speaker 5: of the show. That would be so much fun.
Speaker 3: Any kind of competition, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm socially in a high stress situation, like to
Speaker 2: see how the dynamic is when it's not a romantic setting.
Speaker 5: Such a good idea, and I'm like such a competitive
Speaker 5: person I would yeah, I'd do whatever it takes to
Speaker 5: win whatever the prize is.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, guys, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 2: This was really fun and we love catching up with you.
Speaker 2: So come back next time you have anything to promote
Speaker 2: or you just want to catch Upvoting your second year
Speaker 2: of marriage sounds good.
Speaker 5: Thanks for having it, to see.
Speaker 2: Good to see you too. Bye. Well that is Mari
Speaker 2: and Kenny and they are so cute, So glad to
Speaker 2: call them a bachelor in Paradise fellow couple success story.
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