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Speaker 2: Hello everyone, welcome back to the Almost Famous Podcast. I'm
Speaker 2: Calin Bell here joined with Rachel, Mercedes and Genevieve and
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Speaker 5: We are having a great time.
Speaker 2: And we are going to start off this podcast with
Speaker 2: a great game, a lot of questions, a lot of
Speaker 2: fun questions, a lot of uncomfortable questions, and we're going
Speaker 2: to start off with if you weren't on your season
Speaker 2: of The Bachelor, whose would you want to be on?
Speaker 6: Anyway, I'll start I would be on Peter Webber season. Okay,
Speaker 6: oh tell us why? Because he's sexy and we're both pilots.
Speaker 5: I love that, so I think I.
Speaker 4: Would do well or maybe he would send me home.
Speaker 4: I don't think if you heard it, but that's no.
Speaker 5: I think that's who for sure would pick. I like it, Mercedes.
Speaker 7: What do I want to say, Chelsea Palmer the most
Speaker 7: of your season? I'm just kidding, though, I don't know.
Speaker 7: Why do I want to say Joey's I like that answer?
Speaker 3: Good one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like I would.
Speaker 6: Choose also sexy.
Speaker 3: I feel.
Speaker 2: Good answer good answer, family feud.
Speaker 4: Oh, I love it.
Speaker 5: I love that show.
Speaker 8: I feel like I would be on one of the
Speaker 8: older seasons, like because maybe this is just like my perception,
Speaker 8: but it feels like it was more real before and
Speaker 8: it's just becoming more games.
Speaker 1: Give us a name, uh Shanlow.
Speaker 3: She was a sweetheart.
Speaker 8: I love that him and Catherine are just like happy
Speaker 8: they have their family.
Speaker 9: I love that, so he seems normal and like a
Speaker 9: good person.
Speaker 3: I'll choose that, I guess.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 2: Says everyone. I'm married, so I can't answer, unfortunately, but
Speaker 2: on to the next I answer, Okay. I do want
Speaker 2: to know has anyone from the Bachelor and not on
Speaker 2: your season, Rachel, not on your seasons the paradise slid
Speaker 2: into your dms.
Speaker 5: Ooh spicy.
Speaker 3: I feel like.
Speaker 6: Mine is just like my seasonal guys that like, no
Speaker 6: one outside of it. I don't like not that like
Speaker 6: not in a way of like trying to like, yeah,
Speaker 6: just like I think if we're friends, if we met
Speaker 6: in person, I want to be like, oh yeah, No,
Speaker 6: I just feel like it's like me and my seasonal
Speaker 6: guys just chatting in the dms, and.
Speaker 4: Then people that are my friends.
Speaker 8: I feel like, no, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 5: Wait really.
Speaker 2: Wait, there's one you don't have to say who but
Speaker 2: you told me about one?
Speaker 3: Oh that was before the show.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but still, oh you have to tell he will No,
Speaker 6: he won't.
Speaker 4: He's very open about it.
Speaker 3: No, he's not.
Speaker 8: He is.
Speaker 3: We're not talking about this. Oh no, no, no, but
Speaker 3: one did. Yes, Yes, someone slid in before I thought.
Speaker 4: You guys like talked about how you had before.
Speaker 9: No, but not before before I was on the show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it happens to the best of us.
Speaker 2: I slid into my husband's dams before I met him,
Speaker 2: before I was on the show.
Speaker 5: She was manifestation queen. I actually love that. I love
Speaker 5: so cute.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. We also talked
Speaker 2: about this earlier who here auditioned for the show. I'm
Speaker 2: very open eye auditioned. I was I loved the shows,
Speaker 2: a big fan in college. So yeah, I put myself
Speaker 2: out there and I auditioned. And I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people are not honest, at least back in the day.
Speaker 2: We're not honest about I'll just and I think there's
Speaker 2: a taboo around it. But if you want something, then
Speaker 2: you have to go after it. And I wanted to
Speaker 2: be on the show. I love that auditioned.
Speaker 5: No, I agree too.
Speaker 6: I think it's the popular answer to be like, oh
Speaker 6: my god, like my my coworker, I.
Speaker 3: Heard of it.
Speaker 1: I just I just all of a sudden one day
Speaker 1: I was on the show.
Speaker 6: But like, even if you do get nominated, you still
Speaker 6: do actually have to like do the interviews in the videos,
Speaker 6: and so don't be fooled. Like people don't just get
Speaker 6: nominated and they stumbled on it. Is actually like I
Speaker 6: felt like it was like my job to be interviewing.
Speaker 6: Like I would go to my job and then I
Speaker 6: would come home and have to do like a million
Speaker 6: things for the interview process. But I nominated myself because
Speaker 6: I was like breaking up with my ex boyfriend and
Speaker 6: I was like, you know what, and I'm going to
Speaker 6: go on The Bachelor, and I did, but I I'll
Speaker 6: I truly know, but I really feel like the one
Speaker 6: thing I was like, I need to do this, and
Speaker 6: like I just kept having feeling that I need to
Speaker 6: do this, and then it ended up being like one
Speaker 6: of the best decisions I ever made.
Speaker 5: So I'm happy that I.
Speaker 8: And my feeling and it was I got feeling, yeah,
Speaker 8: and I don't get those often, So yeah, I'm happy.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I my cousin nominated me.
Speaker 4: Like four years before that.
Speaker 7: They like came to Nashville for like an open casting
Speaker 7: call and I went. I was like twenty, there was
Speaker 7: no way I was getting on the show, but I
Speaker 7: went and I was hungover, and the guy that interviewed
Speaker 7: me was from des Moines, Iowa, which I'm from Iowa.
Speaker 4: So I was like, oh my gosh, it's.
Speaker 3: Literally is meant to be. No, she had got feeling too, Oh.
Speaker 4: I really actually because you knew you would.
Speaker 3: Be on it, and you want to know, what's so crazy?
Speaker 7: Okay, So the guy when I was twenty years old
Speaker 7: that interviewed me was from des Moines, Iowa. Okay, didn't
Speaker 7: get on obviously. So then when you when you go
Speaker 7: to LA feel like your final interview outside of the
Speaker 7: window in LA there was a sign and said Iowa.
Speaker 3: It literally said Iowa.
Speaker 7: And then the girl that took me to the final
Speaker 7: interview room was from Iowa because you were.
Speaker 1: Meant to be on the show.
Speaker 3: Crazy, that is really weird.
Speaker 7: No, I told my mom when I got back, I'm like,
Speaker 7: I like don't know how this is happening to me,
Speaker 7: but like I literally think I got it because why
Speaker 7: would like God put so many people like right in
Speaker 7: front of me just telling me, yes, that's crazy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it wasn't your time the first time, but they
Speaker 6: were saying, like just trying basically, yeah, that's.
Speaker 4: Exactly what it was.
Speaker 6: And you were on the season you were it's nice
Speaker 6: to be Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 8: They DMed me, and I hate, like, yeah, I hate
Speaker 8: saying it, but they Jennevieve was like an like on
Speaker 8: our season, one of our.
Speaker 6: Producers like went up Chess and like, Jennevie, you've saidn
Speaker 6: influencer and.
Speaker 3: We're like, Jenery, are you an influencer?
Speaker 2: Like guy we will not name, slid into your dms
Speaker 2: before you were ever on the show.
Speaker 1: So we were like I remember looking at like Jennery
Speaker 1: like she was like.
Speaker 9: I remember someone being like, do you have a lot
Speaker 9: of fun followers?
Speaker 8: Yeah, because the producers they were like, yeah, Jenny, that's crazy,
Speaker 8: that's which ovius.
Speaker 6: You've seen Genevieve, Like if I just saw the girl
Speaker 6: and follower two, like literally, there sure beype woman ever
Speaker 6: ever the.
Speaker 2: Best you are, you don't need hype women when you're you.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So then I went through the pross though, like I
Speaker 8: did everything everyone else did all the So you're saying
Speaker 8: you were nominated, they they reached I don't know if
Speaker 8: someone nominated me actually as yeah.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 2: I was like I don't know, but you you technically were,
Speaker 2: but weren't I guess, so yeah, you're plucked.
Speaker 8: Said like, hey, I'm casting for a show if you
Speaker 8: want to check, like my bio says more information if
Speaker 8: you're interested.
Speaker 5: And I was like, okay, why not, like let's try it.
Speaker 2: And I'm honestly shocked that those were because like you
Speaker 2: see that A Lot with Love is Blind and like
Speaker 2: all these other reality shows where they're like, come like
Speaker 2: audition whatever, and I'm shocked at work.
Speaker 8: I was, no, it kind of was odd that I
Speaker 8: checked the bio and I used to watch bachelor in
Speaker 8: high school, like with my mom and sister, and I
Speaker 8: remember like sitting there being like, if I'm thirty and single,
Speaker 8: I'm going on this. I mean, granted I went on
Speaker 8: it when I was twenty six, but now I'm thirty
Speaker 8: and single and still talking about it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so it.
Speaker 5: Was I think, no regrets. Everything happens for a reason. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we all ended up here.
Speaker 2: I was in love with Dean Unglert now Bell and
Speaker 2: would love to have been on his season, but he
Speaker 2: was never the bachelor and then ended up on Colton season,
Speaker 2: but still ended up marrying my husband.
Speaker 3: So it worked out that we have a question.
Speaker 7: How did you slide into his dms?
Speaker 4: Like do you remember what you said?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: What'd you say?
Speaker 2: Okay, So one of my best friends DMed Ben Higgins
Speaker 2: around the same time.
Speaker 3: They're not married.
Speaker 2: He's married to Jessica and who was one of my
Speaker 2: favorite people in the world. But she would always DM
Speaker 2: not always like she damned like a couple of people
Speaker 2: she thought were cute, and she.
Speaker 3: Said, hey, I have a question.
Speaker 2: So I like thought about that approach because it's like intriguing,
Speaker 2: you know, It's like, well, what's the question? Like I
Speaker 2: need to know. Yeah, I think I like went with
Speaker 2: something lame. I almost did that and then I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say, hayim in La, do you want to.
Speaker 3: Get caught like something stupid?
Speaker 2: And so we're gonna get coffee and then like ended
Speaker 2: up bailing a couple days early, but whatever, it ended
Speaker 2: up working out.
Speaker 7: That is so crazy though, that you literally DMed him
Speaker 7: and then now you're like.
Speaker 3: It's weird.
Speaker 2: It's weird that it was like before I was ever
Speaker 2: on the show, but I've like always thought Dane is
Speaker 2: the most handsome guy ever.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I asked her at dinner. I'm like, will
Speaker 4: you teach me how to manifest like that?
Speaker 6: Because Caylin is mastermind by Taylor Swift, like she knows even.
Speaker 2: Like Bachelor, Like I just loved that show so much
Speaker 2: and I had I just wanted to travel and I
Speaker 2: had no money to travel, and I was like I
Speaker 2: want to get on the show. I would love to
Speaker 2: find love, but it doesn't seem realistic, you know, Like
Speaker 2: I think people go on the show and they're like
Speaker 2: want to put on a good face, and like.
Speaker 6: No, I was, I was like I am getting no,
Speaker 6: but I'm delusional, like I'm.
Speaker 2: A pissy, but like, realistically, there's thirty girls. What are
Speaker 2: the chances that he's gonna pick me? The chances of
Speaker 2: me getting to go on fun trips are like a
Speaker 2: lot higher, So that's gonna It's not my priority, but
Speaker 2: in a sense, I think like now I'm pastorate enough
Speaker 2: to be like, yeah, that was my priority. I just
Speaker 2: wanted to travel. It does bring me to my one
Speaker 2: of my last questions, which is would you ever go
Speaker 2: on another dating show or a reality show? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think I might, Like I would think about it.
Speaker 6: It would have to be the right one, but I
Speaker 6: think I would definitely be open to it.
Speaker 9: I would love to see you on another show, Rechie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, You're just You're made for it. I love dating
Speaker 3: on TV. I feel like I would.
Speaker 4: I don't know which one I know.
Speaker 1: I don't know which one which one to a one
Speaker 1: two three farm?
Speaker 2: I didn't know the name, but farmer, farmer, farmer has
Speaker 2: a is the actual name is farmer wants to want
Speaker 2: to farmer? Yeah.
Speaker 8: Producers reached out to Mercedes see her on there season two.
Speaker 2: She lives in Iowa on a farm. She's got the
Speaker 2: life she shows very well on Instagram.
Speaker 3: Would be a good show for me.
Speaker 1: She needs her real life Yellowstone love story like this is.
Speaker 7: And I was like, I'm gonna find my husband. I
Speaker 7: literally went to Montana two days early before all the
Speaker 7: girls because I was the bar.
Speaker 4: Yes, martinis are in joyed find anywhere?
Speaker 5: No, no, I didn't.
Speaker 2: That's what are you like in Bozman or where were you?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 3: She wants to be on there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't, you know, like Beth Dutton goes to
Speaker 2: Bozeman just to do business like they're living out on
Speaker 2: the farm.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Boseman is like, I need to do that.
Speaker 5: Go the farms.
Speaker 4: Can't do it, just pop around.
Speaker 3: Knock on doors.
Speaker 1: She knocks on the bunk house door, ranch hands.
Speaker 3: I can't picture it, so I'd be like, yeah, that'd
Speaker 3: be crazy.
Speaker 7: I do need a I do need a farmer though,
Speaker 7: so maybe I'll do a farmer's wife.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Also again, come to asp and there's a lot
Speaker 2: of farms, a lot of ranches.
Speaker 5: And you come busit you and we'll find someone. Surely
Speaker 5: somewhere has to I've seen her.
Speaker 1: Seriously, all the farmers would be fighting over it.
Speaker 4: Would they really would be so serious about that.
Speaker 2: I would love to wait, did you guys watch this season.
Speaker 1: No, but I like, you know the highlights told me
Speaker 1: about this today.
Speaker 2: I just saw the one clip on TikTok about like
Speaker 2: the girl who wouldn't kiss him on camera.
Speaker 3: That's what I saw too.
Speaker 4: She was kind of like the highlight of the season.
Speaker 6: And if like Mercedes would be that, but like it
Speaker 6: would be because all the guys are like fighting over her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, over who.
Speaker 7: Gets to like to ask her to manifest and manifest.
Speaker 1: Whatever witchcraft Caitlin is doing please.
Speaker 7: Me.
Speaker 3: And Hailey Byber they went to the same witch in
Speaker 3: the mouths.
Speaker 2: I'll hook you up with my witch.
Speaker 3: Okay, Genevie, what's the question?
Speaker 2: Will you go on reality TV dating?
Speaker 3: I think dating shows.
Speaker 9: I'm like, I'm I'm done with that. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 9: I'm not against it, but.
Speaker 5: There's nothing in the works. I guess I'll say that.
Speaker 4: I like Love Island anything you could be in a
Speaker 4: bikini and bee.
Speaker 2: I think people can just go from bachelor to like
Speaker 2: one hun you can do anything you want these days, Netflix,
Speaker 2: whatever you want.
Speaker 4: I heard you can do anything you want.
Speaker 8: Also, I don't think I want to date anyone from
Speaker 8: reality TV anymore. I think I'm honestly, I think I'm
Speaker 8: past that, Like, I okay, it's it's I don't think
Speaker 8: it's for me.
Speaker 2: What about like an amazing race or Survivor.
Speaker 3: I would, okay, we want to go on river.
Speaker 6: Like a game show in like ten seconds and do
Speaker 6: the puzzle in five like she is that kind of
Speaker 6: you're so good at puzzles.
Speaker 8: Oh, I was gonna say, honestly, I would love to do,
Speaker 8: but I think i'd be like voted off immediately.
Speaker 1: But you have a good you know, social you do
Speaker 1: math social game.
Speaker 9: I don't like to even you could totally have a
Speaker 9: good social thing.
Speaker 2: You fly under the radar. Survivor, you know you're.
Speaker 3: Like maybe yeah, yeah, like find the make a strong.
Speaker 4: Man and like, yeah, you can open the coconut. I've
Speaker 4: seen her do it.
Speaker 5: I think you can open the coconut.
Speaker 9: That's true, And that's like a skill. Like I'm set
Speaker 9: the fire, I can fish.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 9: I could fish and get everyone fish.
Speaker 5: I couldn't cut her cook it.
Speaker 1: But Survivor, you're so good they're gonna love it.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 2: So there's just so many to choose from the challenge.
Speaker 2: What about it would you go on that MTV.
Speaker 3: Is no, Oh, I don't think I would be good
Speaker 3: at that.
Speaker 2: That's pretty similar.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's like all actual challenges.
Speaker 9: I'm not like, I'm not what's the word, I'm not.
Speaker 9: I can't like run, but you work out.
Speaker 1: She is saying she can't do all these things, and
Speaker 1: I know her and I know she can do that.
Speaker 8: She's literally saying she can. I'm gonna call you the athletic.
Speaker 8: But I just don't have like stamina like I can't.
Speaker 8: I can't run for a long time.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, I know you.
Speaker 6: Jennifer would be great on a dating show, on any
Speaker 6: sort of a challenge show.
Speaker 4: She's met for TV.
Speaker 3: She's so great.
Speaker 6: She is cutting herself down right now and I'm gonna
Speaker 6: call her out because she's amazing.
Speaker 2: I think I think you would thrive outside of dating.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm like, the dating is not like watch also
Speaker 9: watching myself day.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, no, it's not bad, but.
Speaker 2: I think like you would thrive, and you know, you're
Speaker 2: a Gemini and your intensity would be utilized better elsewhere.
Speaker 5: I think so too. Yeah, way better than a dating show.
Speaker 2: Okay, before we wrap, I do want to know outside
Speaker 2: of dating, what where would you guys? Thrive like what
Speaker 2: reality show? Oh, non dating?
Speaker 5: I feel like.
Speaker 4: Boucher was, like I'm good in that because I'm so emotional.
Speaker 6: And when I think about a show that's like thrives
Speaker 6: on being emotionally like vulnerable, it would be a dating show,
Speaker 6: which I never thought I could be like that.
Speaker 4: So it's like so cliche, but I think Boucher.
Speaker 5: Was like the perfect place for me. I think so too.
Speaker 2: But there's other ones like Traders against Survivors emotional.
Speaker 5: I know, but I'm not like traders.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm not good with conflict, and I feel like
Speaker 6: every show, even other reality shows, it's like you have
Speaker 6: to be good with conflict and I avoid.
Speaker 5: I'm kind of like that too.
Speaker 7: Is the challenge, the one that like JoJo's seawall was
Speaker 7: on What's Big Brother Brother or No Special for Okay,
Speaker 7: I don't think I would be good at it.
Speaker 10: But I would love to go on it, like I
Speaker 10: would love to watch Oh wow, I feel like I
Speaker 10: would because I like, I don't know if daredevil's the
Speaker 10: right word, but like I like like adrenaline, stuff like adrenaline,
Speaker 10: and I feel like I'm I wouldn't be good, but like.
Speaker 3: I would drive you probably would be. I can see
Speaker 3: you being like all the good at that or something.
Speaker 4: Yes, I wouldn't be good, but yes I would be good.
Speaker 4: Like she could like stand on that bridge and walk
Speaker 4: across the stuff like.
Speaker 3: That, I wouldn't bother me.
Speaker 7: But I don't know. I feel like that one would
Speaker 7: be fun.
Speaker 8: That would be a good traders When you said traders,
Speaker 8: like I just I love watching that show. I think
Speaker 8: it's so interesting. I think I can pick up like
Speaker 8: a little. I think I would be able to tell,
Speaker 8: but also it's easier said than done. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 8: i'd be able to tell when someone's lying, but who knows.
Speaker 8: But I just think it's interesting and it's just like
Speaker 8: a fun show.
Speaker 3: It's so good.
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite shows ever. I in my mind,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I would be so good, but I'm also
Speaker 2: like such a bad liar, and I.
Speaker 3: Don't think it would be a manipulator. I think, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: but like bad Way, it's like, yeah, bad baseful, faithful,
Speaker 3: I'm too.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm like trying to convince them that I'm a
Speaker 2: faithful It's like, no, she's a trader.
Speaker 3: You're getting defensive. No, I'm just like, really, this is me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't show what you do we okay, so
Speaker 2: you said parapet and you know how they did squid Games,
Speaker 2: like a reality version of it.
Speaker 3: They need to do that a Fourth Wing.
Speaker 2: I would thrive, Like Netflix need to pick up a
Speaker 2: Fourth Wing where we like are going through the quadrant
Speaker 2: like the obstacle.
Speaker 1: Course, Like there is like a full game show that
Speaker 1: they could take advantage of.
Speaker 2: And I would lose immediately, but it would be so
Speaker 2: sick because I would love to be a background character
Speaker 2: in Fourth Wring the show, but I think that's impossible
Speaker 2: to achieve. So I think my next step is like
Speaker 2: a Netflix show of Fourth Wing, like pick up.
Speaker 4: That's such a good idea. I love that book and
Speaker 4: that is where I would thrive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I potential love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you would do good.
Speaker 2: We're just people meant to be on reality TV, I
Speaker 2: think so. And with that, I'm going to wrap it
Speaker 2: up and thank you so much for listening to the
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Speaker 5: We have so much fun so far. Yeah, thanks for listening.
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