Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and I heart
Speaker 1: radio podcast. Welcome to the most dramatic podcast ever. I'm
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison joining me from the home office here in Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: el Z. We are celebrating the Kansas City Chiefs as
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Champions of the World, the big championship, the
Speaker 1: biggest thing in sports. Everybody the big headline obviously the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, but really the big headline was the halftime show.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Well, you know, the only reason I'll
Speaker 1: get involved in sports is two do the non sporty
Speaker 1: thing about the supporting event, whether it's wine or snacks
Speaker 1: or in the case of the Super Bowl, the halftime show.
Speaker 1: And we got to talk about it. I mean, we
Speaker 1: get to the dramatic headlines and Rihanna or big reveal.
Speaker 1: I don't know if everybody knows this not our pregnancy.
Speaker 1: Her real name pronunciation is Rihanna, so I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it correctly. Rihanna for real reveals she is pregnant with
Speaker 1: baby number two during the halftime show. We were watching it,
Speaker 1: and I will say, we're watching it live. We're loving
Speaker 1: the performance. You said spectacular. I thought it was incredible,
Speaker 1: but we're watching along with hundreds and hundreds of millions
Speaker 1: of people, and I promise you every Super Bowl party
Speaker 1: around the world was having the same debate, is she pregnant?
Speaker 1: We're all watching going okay, wait, well, because it's sort
Speaker 1: of this. I mean, for a second I was. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to say anything because you don't want to judge,
Speaker 1: you don't want to speculate about that. The worst debate
Speaker 1: any of us can have, The worst thing you can
Speaker 1: say publicly is that person pregnant. Every man in the
Speaker 1: world knows and should know, and you can attest to this.
Speaker 1: I did not speak up at our party when everybody,
Speaker 1: all of the women, all of them with children, were saying,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, she's pregnant. You know you even said,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything. You believe the moms, these are
Speaker 1: friends who have kids, were like, no, that looks like
Speaker 1: a baby bump. That doesn't look like a postpartum body,
Speaker 1: because she did just have a baby last year. They
Speaker 1: were saying, that looks like a baby bump. And I
Speaker 1: will say, the outfit was really built like the belt
Speaker 1: kind was under the bump. And then towards the end,
Speaker 1: when she started rubbing the bump. Even then I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: but I need the confirmation from her. But we were
Speaker 1: all wondering, and I'm looking on Twitter, and I was
Speaker 1: feeling a bit better that everyone was saying, wait, is
Speaker 1: she pregnant? The only time I gave in during the debate,
Speaker 1: and now obviously it has been confirmed she is pregnant
Speaker 1: with baby number two. Yes, her rep has confirmed it.
Speaker 1: When she was singing Diamonds and they hoisted her basically
Speaker 1: to the top of that arena, she said the line
Speaker 1: from the song the lyric at first sight, I felt
Speaker 1: the energy of sun rays. I saw the life inside
Speaker 1: your eyes when she sang those lyrics. She rubbed her belly.
Speaker 1: It was beautiful and that was and that's when I knew.
Speaker 1: But that's the only time I felt safe when she
Speaker 1: was she sang that she kind of rubbed her belly,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was a really beautiful moment and
Speaker 1: by the way, scary as hell, pregnant or not. That
Speaker 1: shot when they hoisted her to the top, the stage,
Speaker 1: the choreography, the the art direction, the way they covered
Speaker 1: it spectacular. The camera work. You and I both being
Speaker 1: in TV, we were watching it going these cameras, the
Speaker 1: quality was amazing when they were walking with her and
Speaker 1: her face was right up close and she was kind
Speaker 1: of giving a subtle smile as she walked the field.
Speaker 1: The way that they shot the choreography, the dancers, those
Speaker 1: moving stages. At one point the camera flipped upside down.
Speaker 1: I thought, the way they filmed this show and those stages,
Speaker 1: the moving stages were unforgettable. That was so different and cool.
Speaker 1: And having been a sportscaster and covered many Super Bowls
Speaker 1: and been there and have seen these halftime shows take
Speaker 1: place live and on television. The whole show was made
Speaker 1: for TV. But when you stop a football game and
Speaker 1: you have nothing set up, and you have about ten
Speaker 1: minutes between the commercials and they kill a little time
Speaker 1: with the on field commentary to set up a production
Speaker 1: the size of at with all the dancers, all the stage,
Speaker 1: the lifts in and up from the top of the stadium,
Speaker 1: two be able to produce because the whole thing is
Speaker 1: set up to shoot a football game, not a concert.
Speaker 1: And they made it look spectacular. And you go back
Speaker 1: to what last year's in l A. It was like
Speaker 1: the concept didn't quite work, it didn't come off as well.
Speaker 1: And sometimes it doesn't sound as good. I just thought
Speaker 1: everything came together with this performance. I agree. And I
Speaker 1: was sitting there thinking, because you always think this with
Speaker 1: the super Bowl halftime show, who's she going to bring out?
Speaker 1: Like we saw that jay Z was there, and you
Speaker 1: know they have such a history of working together. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he discovered Rihanna. I could be wrong,
Speaker 1: but so I thought, maybe jay is gonna come out. Um.
Speaker 1: But then the fact that the surprise guest was her
Speaker 1: new little one. I mean, she's the only person to
Speaker 1: ever do that. She just did the super Bowl halftime
Speaker 1: show pregnant. I thought that was so freaking cool. But
Speaker 1: it is interesting how like you and I are watching,
Speaker 1: going we love this, Oh my god, she sounds amazing,
Speaker 1: the dancing, the production value, and yet still I had
Speaker 1: people deeming me or people online going and I didn't
Speaker 1: love it. It's just interesting to me how polarizing these
Speaker 1: dramatic headlines can be here. It really, it really was interesting,
Speaker 1: and guys, it is I always will give the nod
Speaker 1: to the performer. It is an impossible place to perform.
Speaker 1: You're jumping into a football game. This is not set
Speaker 1: up for you, and for her to pull it off
Speaker 1: and do that well, pregnant or not. But again, she
Speaker 1: was pregnant. So if you even remotely thought she was
Speaker 1: a badass, now there is no question what a badass
Speaker 1: she is. That was incredible. The first pregnant performer ever
Speaker 1: at the halftime of the super Bowl. That was ridiculous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and even if she hadn't, I mean, she's singing live.
Speaker 1: The choreography was so cool. Like we said, the staging
Speaker 1: was so cool. I think that doing the super Bowl
Speaker 1: halftime show is similar to hosting an awards show like
Speaker 1: the Oscars or whatever. No matter what, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: your critics. You're going into knowing some people are gonna
Speaker 1: hate on this. It's like you just said, it's kind
Speaker 1: of one of those impossible things to do. You're never
Speaker 1: going to get in a hunt. Party goes, oh, there's
Speaker 1: a there's a track of course as a track. By
Speaker 1: the way, again, this is not set up for her
Speaker 1: to do a concert. It's a super Bowl and so
Speaker 1: yes there's a track behind her because the audio usually
Speaker 1: sucks in those arenas and in that environment. So they
Speaker 1: always covered their back like that. But she obviously they
Speaker 1: were live vocals going on along with the track. So
Speaker 1: it was an incredible perform I'm going to defend her
Speaker 1: to the end. I did. I did. And the only issue, honestly,
Speaker 1: was because we started debating the pregnancy thing, as did
Speaker 1: the rest of the world. I kind of missed the
Speaker 1: first minute and a half of that performance because we
Speaker 1: were all shouting, Oh my gosh, is she brightny? Is
Speaker 1: she not? Is she Yeah? I know I And as
Speaker 1: I think back, I can't even remember all the songs
Speaker 1: she did. But also she has such a catalog of
Speaker 1: hit songs. I do love when a performer comes out
Speaker 1: and you kind of you're like, oh, I forgot about
Speaker 1: that song and that song. I mean, she's had such
Speaker 1: an incredible career. This is going to go as down
Speaker 1: as one of my favorite and certainly one of my
Speaker 1: favorite shows of recent years. One bang or after another,
Speaker 1: she crushed it. She crushed it. So I will fight
Speaker 1: for you, Brianna. I will fight for you. And that performance,
Speaker 1: and and I love that she gave a little shout
Speaker 1: out to uh she stopped and checked her makeup. I'm like, yes,
Speaker 1: and get that fenty beauty moment. I like not to
Speaker 1: mention that someone else I saw that online was like,
Speaker 1: what a boss. She got her fanty line. Well, by
Speaker 1: the way, because you don't get paid for the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you get I mean, of course you're getting. I think
Speaker 1: they cover production costs, right, and you're getting this incredible
Speaker 1: stage where your music is you know, doesn't that suppose
Speaker 1: she doesn't, but still your your Spotify, your music gets
Speaker 1: this huge boost and it's an honor. But I thought, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not getting paid for this. Get get a little
Speaker 1: ad for your ma. I'm gonna get into some uncharted
Speaker 1: waters because I'm not the entertainment reporter here asap Rocky. Yes,
Speaker 1: So he was there. He was there. He was cheering
Speaker 1: her on. I saw video of him sharing her on
Speaker 1: so sweetly. He was like he he just looked like
Speaker 1: the proud partner cheering her on and obsessing over her
Speaker 1: the way we all were. So it was very cute.
Speaker 1: So we agree a plus home run. Incredible, incredible And
Speaker 1: by the way, I got to give a little shout
Speaker 1: out because this was too funny. Several people sent me
Speaker 1: she had that big red poofy coda and several people
Speaker 1: sent it to me because of when you and I
Speaker 1: were trying to put our duvet cover on on Instagram.
Speaker 1: People were like, it looks like someone trying to wrestle
Speaker 1: their duve out of the Dubai cover. So I also
Speaker 1: love the fun memes that come out of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: There were other big headlines at the super Bowl. That
Speaker 1: was not the only great performance. Um Chris Stapleton saying
Speaker 1: the national anthem. I thought did a great job. You know,
Speaker 1: he has such a great voice. It just drips of
Speaker 1: whiskey and honey. And she's so effortless he is, and
Speaker 1: so he's saying the national anthem. The over under I
Speaker 1: think was like two minutes two seconds, I did. I
Speaker 1: never got the official time time, so but I think
Speaker 1: it went over. It felt like it went over. But
Speaker 1: what was a real standout during that performance was how
Speaker 1: many people were brought to tears, including the head coach
Speaker 1: of the Philadelphia Eagles, Nick Sirianni, who was bawling. I mean,
Speaker 1: really boo hoo ng. I know I'm usually not. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, I'll be honest, I'm half watching half
Speaker 1: pouring wine until the halftime show. And after the halftime show,
Speaker 1: we're at our friend's house, and I turned to Chris
Speaker 1: and said, can we go home now? Um, but I
Speaker 1: was I had my eyes glued to the TV because
Speaker 1: of the emotion Like that is one thing as non
Speaker 1: sports as I might be. The emotion of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: The fact that all of these people I do of
Speaker 1: course have incredible respect that they've worked so hard. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's when I was looking at that coach crying. Granted
Speaker 1: you had to tell me that that's the coach. I
Speaker 1: didn't know who it was. But when I'm looking at
Speaker 1: that man, I'm thinking he is crying because of this moment,
Speaker 1: because of the culmination that this is the overwhelming joy
Speaker 1: an emotion at that moment that a lifetime of working, grinding,
Speaker 1: missing birthdays and weddings. I'm sure all the things led
Speaker 1: to that moment, and that was incredible. And one of
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs players was crying as well. So
Speaker 1: just this moment is so huge to get on that
Speaker 1: stage and to see And by the way, what I
Speaker 1: was thinking is as a player, you're looking over and
Speaker 1: you're like, hey, coach, like pull it together. Man liked
Speaker 1: it well, And I love that we have. Gosh, I'm
Speaker 1: really giving sports some credit today, but I also love
Speaker 1: that things like the super Bowl. I actually love the
Speaker 1: Olympics when it's Olympics time, because we do have so
Speaker 1: few things now as a society that bring people together
Speaker 1: to experience something together. You know, you binge watch your
Speaker 1: shows and like, is your friend on the same episode
Speaker 1: as you were? Even you and I were really into
Speaker 1: a poker face on Peacock right now, But I watched
Speaker 1: ahead of you. I watched. I watched for three episodes
Speaker 1: without um. But like you know, at night like the
Speaker 1: super Bowl, everybody watches together and feels that emotion together
Speaker 1: and it's really connective tissue and we all really need that. Well,
Speaker 1: the whole show started off the Super Bowl with maybe
Speaker 1: one of the more emotional moments to mar Hamlin, who
Speaker 1: was the player that went down several weeks ago and
Speaker 1: had to be revived on the field. I mean, it
Speaker 1: just shook the country. Um, the fact that this guy
Speaker 1: is alive. He's a walking miracle and for all for
Speaker 1: he and all the first responders, the trainers, everybody who
Speaker 1: saved this guy's life. For him to be there at
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. That's how things kicked off tonight. So
Speaker 1: it was emotional night all the way through. Chris Stapleton
Speaker 1: the national anthem, and then we got to maybe the
Speaker 1: most anticipated thing outside of halftime the commercials, of course,
Speaker 1: which I said I hate. One thing I hate about
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, like I said, connective tissue, like we
Speaker 1: all experienced something together, is that they release a lot
Speaker 1: of the commercials online beforehand. Now so I purposely avoid
Speaker 1: watching any of them. It used to be like, what
Speaker 1: are the commer? She was going to be? So I
Speaker 1: I didn't watch any of them until tonight. Okay, as
Speaker 1: did I. So we watched them together, and you and
Speaker 1: I were making notes separate from each other, tell me
Speaker 1: tell me your your hit list? Well, okay, so sorry,
Speaker 1: I was going to say, first of all, I was
Speaker 1: overall kind of disappointed. Yeah, there wasn't like a I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's that one that we'll be talking
Speaker 1: about for days or weeks. Are definitely not years to come.
Speaker 1: Like remember that Rihanna super There wasn't a I mean
Speaker 1: remember back in the day though was up and ads
Speaker 1: I think was bud Light, and there wasn't. There was
Speaker 1: a lot of star power. I was watching ads going
Speaker 1: to wow, how many people did they how much money
Speaker 1: did they throw at this ad? Of all these people?
Speaker 1: But there weren't a lot of ads where I laughed
Speaker 1: out loud or I felt, you know, yeah, like we'll
Speaker 1: we'll all be this is going to create a cultural moment.
Speaker 1: There's there's nothing I want to go google right now,
Speaker 1: right but we did have a few wels, so my hits. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right off the bat. Ben Affleck in
Speaker 1: the Duncan commercial, that's where this star power made sense.
Speaker 1: I actually felt fulfilled. I felt like as if some
Speaker 1: tension had released because we have spent years looking at
Speaker 1: photos of Ben Affleck getting snapped by the paparazzi picking
Speaker 1: up his dunkin Donuts, which he usually and you can't
Speaker 1: blame him. It's probably not easy for the guy to
Speaker 1: walk into a Duncan, but he usually gets the dunkin
Speaker 1: Donuts like postmated to his house and he's got like
Speaker 1: four big iced coffees or whatever his order is. And
Speaker 1: to see him in the Duncan commercial, I love the
Speaker 1: way they did at him in the drive through with people.
Speaker 1: And then we know pictures have come out of him
Speaker 1: filming this, so we knew he was doing it, but
Speaker 1: it was a little reveal at the end that Jennifer
Speaker 1: Lopez popped in and I loved it. It It was so funny. Well,
Speaker 1: and it kind of is a throwback to a week
Speaker 1: ago with the Grammys, well, when j Lo and Ben
Speaker 1: Affleck made news for not really having a great moment
Speaker 1: on camera. I felt again another sense of fulfillment. I
Speaker 1: liked that we had a little fun with Ben and
Speaker 1: Jen after a week ago at the Grammys where Ben
Speaker 1: became a meme for his sad Ben face. Looking are
Speaker 1: both the Grammys and you know what, let's talk about
Speaker 1: that because we didn't discuss it last week, and you
Speaker 1: and I did. We got into that from that relationship
Speaker 1: aspect a little bit because I think we were watching
Speaker 1: them going, like my reaction was bent. I think whoever
Speaker 1: you are, wherever you are, if you're at an event
Speaker 1: with your partner, even if you're in a bad mood,
Speaker 1: you gotta put a good face up, especially your front
Speaker 1: and center. I mean they were front and center, sitting
Speaker 1: with the rock and right Trevor No, the host, was
Speaker 1: stating next to him at one point. But and that
Speaker 1: was when the camera's kind of got caught showing j
Speaker 1: Lo maybe um scolding him a little bit, but like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is it's a very possible, real situation. Actually, you
Speaker 1: and I have had this moment before. I remember one
Speaker 1: time we got in an argument before we were going
Speaker 1: into somebody's book signing party, and I'm like, I actually
Speaker 1: stayed in the car for a minute after, and then
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I gotta put on a good face
Speaker 1: and go in there because you can't. All it does
Speaker 1: is make other people question your really and ship thinks
Speaker 1: something might even be bigger wrong than it is. You
Speaker 1: got to just put on a good face, and I think,
Speaker 1: deal with it later. We're gonna be fine in an hour,
Speaker 1: but now you're gonna be dealing with this because that
Speaker 1: look and that if it spills over and so you look.
Speaker 1: I also give Ben a little bit of a break here.
Speaker 1: Those things are a grind. It wasn't his award show.
Speaker 1: I know he was there supporting j Lo, which is cool.
Speaker 1: But I gotta tell you guys, if, yes, if you're
Speaker 1: ever in l A and it's like, do you want
Speaker 1: to go to a taping of this or whatever? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, yes, the Grammys are alive, but it's
Speaker 1: so many hours. But if you're ever going to do
Speaker 1: a taping, at least do a live taping of something
Speaker 1: because tapings are so much longer than you think they're
Speaker 1: going to be. And they're so arduous. I mean when
Speaker 1: I used to cover bachelor tapings, like the tapings of
Speaker 1: the Tewells, and they're like nine ten hours. Yeah they
Speaker 1: they yeah, they take all day, all day. I felt
Speaker 1: so bad for the audience because after our twelve you're
Speaker 1: just everybody spent. I would bring snacks. I would bring
Speaker 1: advil because all the screaming would give me a headache.
Speaker 1: I would literally pass out. Advult to the other reporters,
Speaker 1: especially the new bees who didn't know how headache it
Speaker 1: was going to get. Some of us were in a
Speaker 1: freezing cold warehouse. We'd bring blankets like it was. It
Speaker 1: was a commitment. So Duncan, by the way, that was
Speaker 1: the first in game commercial, so that was a huge spot.
Speaker 1: There was a couple of commercials, the movie commercials that
Speaker 1: were after the coin flip and all that, but the
Speaker 1: first in game commercial was that j lobinf Fleck commercial.
Speaker 1: That's a big spot. That was huge money that Duncan
Speaker 1: spent to get that. Well, I thought it was worth it,
Speaker 1: Yeah I did too. That was it was memorable. It
Speaker 1: was good. It hit the mark. Any were there any
Speaker 1: other commercials that really stood out to you. I did
Speaker 1: like them. I think I have to say I don't
Speaker 1: know how well a commercial works because I don't really
Speaker 1: know what it is. But Uber one with Diddy and
Speaker 1: UM it was like a revolving door of him bringing
Speaker 1: in old viral songs to maybe make a new a
Speaker 1: new song, and I think they ended up with UM
Speaker 1: had away. Maybe what is love spoofing? Matt? I thought
Speaker 1: Diddy was really funny. His comedic timing is always good.
Speaker 1: It was a pretty good actor, a little bit of
Speaker 1: that and what in the uh what and get him
Speaker 1: to the Greek he was He's pretty good. Like you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much range he has, but like
Speaker 1: he hits. I thought it was funny. And then I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was a highlight, but the You
Speaker 1: two commercial really yes, I mean, first of all, I
Speaker 1: am a huge YouTube fan, the biggest. But do they
Speaker 1: know we were watching it going because first you're seeing
Speaker 1: the balloons and it looked like a big balloon and
Speaker 1: Chris turned to me and you you joked like, oh well,
Speaker 1: aliens are coming here. It is All week we've been
Speaker 1: dealing about shooting down either Chinese spy balloons or these
Speaker 1: UFOs across the country. Now I think we've shot down
Speaker 1: four of them. And then YouTube comes out with a
Speaker 1: balloon slash UFO type apparatus in the ad for their
Speaker 1: residency in was this whole thing kind of like remember
Speaker 1: when the Red album came out when they it automatically
Speaker 1: just dropped on everybody's iTunes. Yeah, rather infamously. People weren't
Speaker 1: happy about that. Is this the same thing this? Did
Speaker 1: you two accidentally do this again? Where they're releasing promotional
Speaker 1: balloons and they're like, oh crap, We're just we're getting
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl ad? This is we feel So
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's been shooting down our advertisement balloons. How does
Speaker 1: Bonno know? Um? Yeah, that commercial was just that was
Speaker 1: interesting timing and it was a little weird and I
Speaker 1: didn't totally get it. But I will try to get
Speaker 1: you you two residency tickets. I will be going to Vegas.
Speaker 1: I will be going to the You two residency. But
Speaker 1: if anybody would know, it would be all right, Well,
Speaker 1: what were your hits today? Did we have the same
Speaker 1: And I would just say there were a couple more.
Speaker 1: It was cool to see some of the movies coming
Speaker 1: out because I I we love movies, and it's good
Speaker 1: to see there are real movies coming out. I'm so
Speaker 1: glad you said that. I wanted to add I was
Speaker 1: just so happy to see big trailers for big movies.
Speaker 1: The new Indiana Jones movie, Um, the new Fast and
Speaker 1: Furious movie. To see those the bit affleck Matt Damon,
Speaker 1: Nike air, Jordan's Yes, that movie looks so good. Take
Speaker 1: all my money. Now it's I will go. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go see that ten times. I promise you that looks spectacular.
Speaker 1: I just want movies to be back in theaters. You
Speaker 1: and I say all the time. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a pre pandemic. But you know, in our own relationship,
Speaker 1: we used to love going to the movies together. And
Speaker 1: this is going to the movies on the weekend, and
Speaker 1: it was there was some big movie stars. By the way,
Speaker 1: I got to go back to the Nike one because
Speaker 1: what we should have mentioned two is j Lo did
Speaker 1: kind of kill it when that Nike movie trailer dropped.
Speaker 1: She posted on her Instagram making some kind of joke
Speaker 1: because Ben also makes a face in the commercial, and
Speaker 1: she made a joke about that. So then pardon me
Speaker 1: was wondering, is Jennifer Lopez so pr brilliant that she
Speaker 1: that they made the moment for the trailer. It wouldn't
Speaker 1: shock me at all. I mean I would commence. Yes.
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell's commercial was good. You can never go wrong
Speaker 1: with the talking babies at the trade, and they were
Speaker 1: the fake kind of roast of Mr Peanut. Who is it?
Speaker 1: But again, none of them, like you said, the Pepsi commercials,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure they hit the mark. That one with
Speaker 1: Ben Stiller. They well, the whole thing is is this
Speaker 1: person acting about whether our products good? I love seeing
Speaker 1: zoo Lander almost it wasn't quite brought back enough. And
Speaker 1: then Steve Martin's genius. I'll watch him read the phone book.
Speaker 1: But but in the end of You're Wondering, they're they're
Speaker 1: asking you was this person acting or not about whether
Speaker 1: they like I don't know about the product. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know who drinks pepsi, But yeah, it was
Speaker 1: just none of none of them are going to be
Speaker 1: memorable home runs that we're going to talk about for
Speaker 1: you know, there's no Apple commercial from back in the day.
Speaker 1: There's none of the big ones that I think are
Speaker 1: going to move the needle, and it's so hard these days,
Speaker 1: it is so hard to do that. You're so right,
Speaker 1: Who does drink pepsi? I'm trying. I'm trying to rack
Speaker 1: my brain if I know anyone who drinks pepsi. We're
Speaker 1: not going to be getting pepsi out of this podcast.
Speaker 1: What we are going to do, though, is take a
Speaker 1: quick break. So congratulations to the Kansas City Ves World Champions,
Speaker 1: super Bowl Champs as they will celebrate and um in
Speaker 1: congratulations to Rihanna and more importantly, congratulations to Rihanna for
Speaker 1: not only performance but expecting baby number two. What we're
Speaker 1: gonna do, We're gonna take quick break because when we
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna open the phone lines. That's right,
Speaker 1: the hot line is open and we're going to talk
Speaker 1: to you. We're gonna do that right after this. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the most dramatic podcast ever. Chris Harrison, Lauren
Speaker 1: Zema with you here in Austin, Texas, and we are
Speaker 1: all about taking your calls today, your comments, your questions.
Speaker 1: The phone lines are open and our first call coming
Speaker 1: in from Wisconsin. Heather, how are you doing tonight? Hi?
Speaker 1: How are you doing great? We're in Wisconsin. UM, outside
Speaker 1: of Milwaukee suburbs of Milwaukee. Got a great town. By
Speaker 1: the way, Milwaukee, did you ever take the show there?
Speaker 1: It's underrated. We did go because it was it. Nick
Speaker 1: file right, he's Milwaukee guy and uh and I also
Speaker 1: back in the day, I was in c double a
Speaker 1: tournament spot for the University of Oklahomwarming basketball and we
Speaker 1: were in Milwaukee. Anyway, Heather, we digress. This is about you.
Speaker 1: What's your question? That's okay? UM, My question was I
Speaker 1: was wondering if you had any thoughts or comments or
Speaker 1: suggestions based on your years on the franchise of The Bachelor,
Speaker 1: if there's any changes that could be done, either small
Speaker 1: or big, that could potentially result in more relationships lasting
Speaker 1: or even if it's not forever, that they last for
Speaker 1: a more significant a more significant relationship. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: the last few seasons, you know, the last I think
Speaker 1: at least three bachelorettes and a couple of bachelor's, um,
Speaker 1: you know, haven't had very good success rates, whereas if
Speaker 1: you look at Bachelor in Paradise, you do have a
Speaker 1: lot more relationships that come out as that. Obviously it's
Speaker 1: a different format, but thinking about the traditional show, if
Speaker 1: you had any thoughts like, perhaps not you know, obviously
Speaker 1: it makes great television to have really over the top dates,
Speaker 1: but it's also not like real life, so perhaps dates
Speaker 1: that are a little bit more normal, or spending time
Speaker 1: with each other's friends more when you get to the end,
Speaker 1: UM just kind of was wondering your thoughts because it
Speaker 1: just kind of feels like, you know, not a lot
Speaker 1: of relationships have actually lasted too long. I mean not
Speaker 1: everyone falls in love in a hot air balloon or
Speaker 1: naked on a beach. And uh, you know that's funny.
Speaker 1: I heard that all throughout my years of hosting the
Speaker 1: show of people like come, this isn't unrealistic, And I said,
Speaker 1: you know what's not fun is seeing our normal lives,
Speaker 1: Like you're right, l Z and I were not jetting
Speaker 1: off every day. That's not our everyday date. We go
Speaker 1: to movies, we go to dinners. Um. But obviously that
Speaker 1: doesn't make for great soap opera TV. And this is entertainment.
Speaker 1: It's escapism. It's as much about taking you away from
Speaker 1: that life as it is trying to represent it. But
Speaker 1: that was always an issue for us, Heather all along,
Speaker 1: and it was from day one. We probably didn't do
Speaker 1: a great job of facilitating those relationships, and then we
Speaker 1: realized how we could better facilitate and we did a
Speaker 1: decent job along the way. Um, but the show. One
Speaker 1: of the things I loved about it. It It was never
Speaker 1: predicated on the fact that it worked. It is wonderful
Speaker 1: when you get lightning in a bottle and you see
Speaker 1: Tristan Ryan or Seauan and Catherine and you have those moments.
Speaker 1: But the great thing about the show is it's so
Speaker 1: relatable because I don't know if you're married or dating
Speaker 1: or what have you, but um, it's relatable in that
Speaker 1: we all go through breakups. We all make those mistakes
Speaker 1: on night one, even if you're into heati or you know,
Speaker 1: it's on a grander scale, what's happening there is real,
Speaker 1: and that's what I thought was always so relatable. I also,
Speaker 1: you know who always gives good advice about this is
Speaker 1: Shan Low, the the one bachelor who is with the person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean, how the you're so right right, because
Speaker 1: you've got to meet people's friends, you have to integrate
Speaker 1: yourselves into their real lives. And every time I interviewed
Speaker 1: Sean and Catherine, you know the sometimes this would come up,
Speaker 1: and Sean would always say and Catherine would always say,
Speaker 1: we started living in normal life after the show. Like
Speaker 1: I think Sean did Dancing with the Stars and they
Speaker 1: talked about how that was kind of hard, but they
Speaker 1: said they made sure to be together, that they were
Speaker 1: together as much as they could be, because you know,
Speaker 1: also right after the show they're pressed things and and
Speaker 1: you know, then as you're watching the show, all this
Speaker 1: other stuff's coming out. I think a lot of from
Speaker 1: what I remember when I interviewed people, a lot of
Speaker 1: the couples would say they struggled with rewatching the show.
Speaker 1: I think it's so important after the show for them
Speaker 1: to spend time together and to try to live a
Speaker 1: normal life together. And that's really a telltale marker. And
Speaker 1: that's a good point because you know, Tristan Ryan went
Speaker 1: back to vail Um, you know, I know Molly and
Speaker 1: Jason there was the big switch, but they actually came
Speaker 1: from the show as well, but they went off to
Speaker 1: Seattle to live their life. Jaden Tanner, I know that's paradise,
Speaker 1: but again they went to live their life in southern California.
Speaker 1: And so Elz brings up a good point. Those that
Speaker 1: can not remove yourself. I don't think that's ever a
Speaker 1: fair thing to say, oh, we're done with the show. Um,
Speaker 1: although god, I feel bad they keep just pulling poor
Speaker 1: Shawn Low out of the closet and making him be
Speaker 1: on every season. It's like, you're all we got, man,
Speaker 1: You're the only thing that you have left on this show.
Speaker 1: Please come back. Um. So, but there are other couples,
Speaker 1: and I agree with l Z. In life and in television,
Speaker 1: it's important to go back to normal as much as
Speaker 1: you can and try not to live this y know
Speaker 1: each other that well when you come off the show,
Speaker 1: you still have a lot to learn. I mean, Arian
Speaker 1: Lauren too, even though their season was a little obviously
Speaker 1: crazy at the end and yeah, yeah exactly. But it's
Speaker 1: just interesting because I think it is what makes the
Speaker 1: show so fun to watch are especially now that the
Speaker 1: show is back to traveling. Um makes it wonderful to watch.
Speaker 1: But then you also get like, you know, invested in
Speaker 1: these relationships a little bit and rooting for them, and
Speaker 1: then it's you know, kind of sad when you know
Speaker 1: when it doesn't work out. But it's also fun as
Speaker 1: a viewer of course to watch it not be like
Speaker 1: you said not, it's not as exciting if it's just
Speaker 1: totally normal life. However, you look at shows like Love
Speaker 1: Is Blind and Like and it's very popular, but that's
Speaker 1: very boring if you think about it. They're just sitting
Speaker 1: in these times talking to each other and there's not
Speaker 1: these fantasy days. However, it's a Heather tearing the Heather.
Speaker 1: I think you're ready to produce TV exactly. There's network
Speaker 1: executives going, oh my gosh, this is killing us. Um,
Speaker 1: you're right, it's it's Look, all the different formats are interesting.
Speaker 1: I find it compelling. I try to watch, um, a
Speaker 1: little bit of each of them, just to see what
Speaker 1: everybody's doing. There's you know, there's obviously the Bachelor Bachelrette version.
Speaker 1: Then there's so many twists and concepts out there. Um.
Speaker 1: But Heather, I appreciate you, uh listening to the most
Speaker 1: dramatic podcast ever. I hope you've enjoyed that. I hope
Speaker 1: you find this genuine and very normal. Absolutely now, it's
Speaker 1: been great. Thanks and Lauren to you. Take care. Heather
Speaker 1: from Wisconsin. We're gonna head just a little north of Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and I want to give a quick shout out because
Speaker 1: of all all the fans. When we went to Canada,
Speaker 1: it was absolutely massive up there. And we're going to Toronto.
Speaker 1: Tommy is joining us on the line. Hey Tommy, how's
Speaker 1: it going? Chris Harris and how are you, buddy? I'm
Speaker 1: good man. I was just giving a shout out to
Speaker 1: all the Canadians. And I'm telling from the East coast
Speaker 1: and West coast, from Toronto all the way over to Whistler, Vancouver.
Speaker 1: You guys were Calgary in between. Were so great to us.
Speaker 1: We're just such huge support. You know what it's it's
Speaker 1: it's the feeling is mutual. Um. You know, I found
Speaker 1: that I didn't watch it on the original network. I
Speaker 1: always watched it through ABC, so I never really knew
Speaker 1: how Canada watched it, but I watched it through the
Speaker 1: American lens instead. Um. And I know that every every
Speaker 1: single person they like, they like to edit up there
Speaker 1: in Canada guidelines and stuff. Um. But you know I
Speaker 1: I dude, and and Lauren Hello, nice to meet you
Speaker 1: as well too. Um. I met you and Alberto when
Speaker 1: you co hosted with Kelly. But oh my god, so
Speaker 1: many many many many many years ago. Yes in banf
Speaker 1: at Banff, Yes, at the at the hotel, they're at
Speaker 1: the conference center, very nice and it was it was
Speaker 1: one of those experienced Chris is where I have to
Speaker 1: point out that this is what made me really mad
Speaker 1: about the media, about the spin about the tabloids, is
Speaker 1: what happened to you. I found, Um, even though you
Speaker 1: are a professional, you also are human being and I
Speaker 1: felt that when I met you, I thought, Oh, don't
Speaker 1: meet the people you like. It's one of those scary
Speaker 1: things you do in life where you meet the people
Speaker 1: on TV and they could be absolute, um terrible people.
Speaker 1: And when I met you, you were touch a nice guy.
Speaker 1: You you were you were actually talkative. You gave me
Speaker 1: a minute of your time, and it was just you
Speaker 1: guys were taping a lot, and you guys were doing
Speaker 1: a lot, and you just were very genuine, very nice
Speaker 1: and very humble. And I was wondering during the experience
Speaker 1: of what you went through, what you went through as
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and Lauren yourself as well too. I know
Speaker 1: you struggled through it as well, Um, how did you
Speaker 1: get through that? Mental health wise? Everybody is talking about
Speaker 1: mental health right now. It's really important that we talked
Speaker 1: about it and keep that discussion going, because I think
Speaker 1: the more people that talk about, including high profiles people
Speaker 1: like you UM talk about what they felt and how
Speaker 1: and their feelings and if they had anxiety, or if
Speaker 1: they had this or that or obviously you're doing this
Speaker 1: right now, which I'm so proud of you for doing
Speaker 1: because I find that you're talking your truth, UM, and
Speaker 1: I think that's amazing. You shouldn't be shut off, you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be canceled, you shouldn't be anything. You're You're more
Speaker 1: than just anything. You're You're Chris Harrison, You're don Chris Harrison.
Speaker 1: I felt for you a lot to those moments because
Speaker 1: I thought you were very genuine and when g m
Speaker 1: A and all them slammed you, I just I just wondered,
Speaker 1: how did you get through all that? How was how
Speaker 1: was that? Did you did you use yoga? Did you
Speaker 1: um use meditation? Obviously you had your family's support, UM,
Speaker 1: but can you can you expand on that a little bit? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, thanks for for the kind words, Tommy.
Speaker 1: I truly appreciate it, and I vividly remember that was
Speaker 1: the first time I ever got to host Live with Kelly.
Speaker 1: At the time, they were looking for the new host
Speaker 1: and so I had flown out too. I think it
Speaker 1: was somewhere in vamp and when we shot that, it
Speaker 1: was awesome. It was a great experience. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: you mentioned mental health. It's something that's very important to
Speaker 1: Lauren and I. We are huge backers of the Grant
Speaker 1: Haliburton Foundation, which is a teen suicide prevention UM big
Speaker 1: charity and organization in Dallas. We support and hosted the
Speaker 1: AIM Gala up in Monterey Peninsula, which is also suicide
Speaker 1: prevention mental health, but it's also kind of coming at
Speaker 1: it from a little bit of a different medical perspective,
Speaker 1: but those were were huge and believe in mental health
Speaker 1: and talking about it, not shying away from it. Suicide
Speaker 1: is such a huge issue in our country and Canada
Speaker 1: as well. Sorry, I don't mean to uh negate Canada
Speaker 1: there because that's where this call is coming from. But um,
Speaker 1: that's huge for us, and so I appreciate the question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we I felt like as far as my mental health,
Speaker 1: and there were there were good days and bad days,
Speaker 1: and we definitely had our low points. UM, but just
Speaker 1: having that background and that foundation of my friends, my family,
Speaker 1: knowing where my worth is, my faith not to talk
Speaker 1: a lot about religion, but it's important to me. And
Speaker 1: that's what I knew was always going to be there.
Speaker 1: And knowing l Z was real, knowing my kids were real,
Speaker 1: my friends who aren't in the business were real, and
Speaker 1: they didn't they're not They're not fair weather fans that
Speaker 1: came and went with the success of the show. And
Speaker 1: so those people I always knew were going to be there.
Speaker 1: And when you have that, you still have your bad
Speaker 1: days and you question everything and you cry and you
Speaker 1: have those low points, but you have people to support
Speaker 1: you and to fall back on. And what are you
Speaker 1: saying that? Chris Harrison cries as well. To Chris Harrison,
Speaker 1: I'm you see all you see all the contestants get emotional,
Speaker 1: but you'd ever see you, dude, I'm a ball bag. Um.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I could probably count on one hand how
Speaker 1: many times I cried before the day my daughter was born.
Speaker 1: Something about when my daughter was born, I lost it.
Speaker 1: And I mean commercials uh, watching a movie anything, you know,
Speaker 1: Father of the Bride, forget about it. It just ruined you.
Speaker 1: And and my daughter started singing. She was a performer
Speaker 1: in theater. Anytime she's on stage, I'm crying it's over. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I've turned into a big ball bag in my old age, Tommy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what about you, Lauren? Well, yeah, such a good question.
Speaker 1: And it's funny. I was just reading the other day
Speaker 1: this um this study, and it was the longest study
Speaker 1: ever done on people's happiness, on what makes us happy.
Speaker 1: It's something they've studied people for something like seventy to
Speaker 1: eighty years, and the most important factor to happiness was relationships,
Speaker 1: was having solid friends and family in people's lives. And
Speaker 1: I thought, gosh, that's so true, right, because you know,
Speaker 1: you can have all the money in the world, but
Speaker 1: if you don't have people you love to share your
Speaker 1: life with what you have, so um and I think
Speaker 1: this Chris just said, it was those relationships. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it was important bablic for me watching you
Speaker 1: even if your friendship would just say, hey, let's let's
Speaker 1: just go like do a bike ride right now, you
Speaker 1: know it's kind of get away and you guys could
Speaker 1: escape a little bit and talk. And you mentioned talking, Tommy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's something that has been a
Speaker 1: little hard for us because in with what we went through,
Speaker 1: people are telling you shut up, go away. We don't
Speaker 1: want to hear from you, we want you to not
Speaker 1: exist and so yeah, yeah, and we talked about like
Speaker 1: I know who I am. Yeah, so they you know,
Speaker 1: there are some people who become very loud about wanting
Speaker 1: you to be very silent UM. And I do think
Speaker 1: talking about what you're doing, is talking about what you're
Speaker 1: struggling with is so important UM. But I also think
Speaker 1: Chris talked a lot about like time we really it's
Speaker 1: that combination of taking time to reflect and then talking
Speaker 1: about what you need help with UM, which I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm doing. This podcast really has helped me a lot now.
Speaker 1: But I don't think I would have been ready to
Speaker 1: talk about it so much a year ago. And I
Speaker 1: would just add one more group that was always there
Speaker 1: and Tommy that you you and so many more fans
Speaker 1: who reached out to me, d M S, Twitter or
Speaker 1: whatever it was and supported Lauren and I NonStop and
Speaker 1: sent the people did. I think a lot of people were.
Speaker 1: They did, and it was scared to they even and
Speaker 1: I'm glad that people did. And the other thing I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you really quickly is that you're really
Speaker 1: close to people who are still part of UM. The
Speaker 1: Bachelor franchise, and of course wells Um and I see
Speaker 1: you guys at your golf tournaments become of the fun
Speaker 1: Instagram stuff he does. And also on the show here
Speaker 1: on the podcast, did you have any advice for Sarah
Speaker 1: when she was gonna google violence? Did you asked for peacock?
Speaker 1: Did you did you give her? I know it's a
Speaker 1: totally different show. I know it's not The Bachelor. I
Speaker 1: know it's not. Did you ever say to her like, hey,
Speaker 1: like you know, like this is how you do the
Speaker 1: dramatic pause, or I'm the king of that, like I
Speaker 1: can I can give you a few hints? Or do
Speaker 1: you think that she she? She? She because she she
Speaker 1: did a great job. She she handled it well. And
Speaker 1: um you know she's kind of in the franchise a
Speaker 1: little bit too, because of the fact that you know
Speaker 1: she she Wells is in the franchise and in paradise.
Speaker 1: So I was just wondering if you ever because you're
Speaker 1: still friends with the people who stayed with you through everything,
Speaker 1: which you have to say, that's so it's a very
Speaker 1: important part of your mental health is having your friends,
Speaker 1: and um, so is being friends with Sarah and wells
Speaker 1: Um and and being part of their life, did you
Speaker 1: ever give them advice like, for example, what you experienced
Speaker 1: and what some good things like what she's doing with
Speaker 1: with love, violence and over our peacock. Great question. Actually no,
Speaker 1: we we never talked about it, and I didn't know before.
Speaker 1: I didn't know before. I would be interested to ask her,
Speaker 1: And someday, now that you brought this up, I'll have
Speaker 1: to ask her if being a fan of the show,
Speaker 1: because her and Wells watched the episodes, they watched The
Speaker 1: Bachelor and Bacherette all the time, I wonder if that
Speaker 1: helped her at all, if she she got any But
Speaker 1: the thing about Sarah is a she's a world class actor,
Speaker 1: but also she's a phenomenal stage actor and comes from
Speaker 1: that background. So live that ad lib, that charisma, that charm.
Speaker 1: It's not surprising to me that she took to it
Speaker 1: so quickly and was so good at it, because she
Speaker 1: is an amazing actress. I was always thinking when I
Speaker 1: was watching it, I was just like, I wonder if
Speaker 1: Chris has you know, told told some stuff from that
Speaker 1: and gave some points that's really interesting. Well, I gotta say, you, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm really impressed with how everything's going and I'm right
Speaker 1: now traveling. I'm in Seattle as we stand. But you know,
Speaker 1: as somebody from Toronto and Canada, you know, there's so
Speaker 1: much Bachelor love. There's so much love, and I wish
Speaker 1: you nothing but the best. I hope that we see
Speaker 1: you on our TV screen sometime soon or in some
Speaker 1: sort of media. But this is the best way and
Speaker 1: the way that you get to tell your truth and
Speaker 1: you don't have anybody censoring you, and the way that
Speaker 1: you show your love with Lauren, I think is just
Speaker 1: it's fantastic. We need we need this, We need we
Speaker 1: need people talking positive. We need people talking about how
Speaker 1: we get through our stuff, and people like you who
Speaker 1: have gone through who I don't think did that. UM,
Speaker 1: but you you are, you are, You are a great guy,
Speaker 1: and you you were my childhood basically because we have
Speaker 1: a Bachelor on UM every single every single week. My
Speaker 1: mom would watch it more than anything. And I know
Speaker 1: people that just praise you, so thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thanks Tommy. I appreciate it, and uh, good luck with everything.
Speaker 1: God bless him. I loved everyone up in Canada. Thanks Tommy.
Speaker 1: What a doll Tommy. Oh my gosh, his voice made
Speaker 1: me happy and I love this. I love truly taking calls,
Speaker 1: having the hotline open um. I appreciate everybody reaching out,
Speaker 1: and it is true. Canada was always so huge their support.
Speaker 1: It was just amazing every time we went up there.
Speaker 1: And I remember when they started The Canadian Bachelor, they
Speaker 1: did their own version, they used ours as well, and
Speaker 1: then they started their own version and they flew me
Speaker 1: up to Toronto to promote it. And this is years ago,
Speaker 1: and I just it was wild how many people were
Speaker 1: into the show up there. I truly appreciated it. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Kristen in Baltimore, Maryland. Who elz she has
Speaker 1: a wedding question. I don't know if it's about ours
Speaker 1: or hers. Kristen, Hi, Laren, Hi, Chris, how are you guys?
Speaker 1: We are having the best time. You have a wedding question?
Speaker 1: Is it about hours or yours? It is I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you guys a little more fun, easy going
Speaker 1: hypothetical questions. I wanted to know first before I get
Speaker 1: to the question. I want to kind of go off
Speaker 1: of it. Tommy said, let's just submit. Chris Harrison is
Speaker 1: the vote of hosting of all time. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: just you've made, You've said the standards for everyone, and
Speaker 1: I've really enjoyed watching your career or I don't know,
Speaker 1: ten plus years that i've watched The Bachelor, UM, and
Speaker 1: I've really enjoyed hearing from Lauren and getting to know
Speaker 1: you a little bit more through this podcast. And I
Speaker 1: really appreciate seeing and hearing a different facet of you, Chris. UM.
Speaker 1: I know you you don't want to harp on the religion,
Speaker 1: but I enjoy hearing that that viewpoint from you. I
Speaker 1: enjoy having this freedom of a platform where you can
Speaker 1: express those views, um, which I also hold. So it's
Speaker 1: really nice to hear that. Thank you, Christian thought light
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, So onto the question. I was just wondering,
Speaker 1: if you hypothetically were to have anybody from Bachelor Nation
Speaker 1: officiates your wedding, who would it be. If it's someone
Speaker 1: special to you and Lauren, that you're close with, someone
Speaker 1: julive enough the event, who would that be? Kristen? What
Speaker 1: a great question I'm gonna saw for a minute. Well
Speaker 1: Chris thinks about that, I can see his mind spinning.
Speaker 1: I know who you know what? I know who My
Speaker 1: answer is, So let's say it to get do you
Speaker 1: have yours? Well, I was going to say we should
Speaker 1: say it together a little bit of I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a little bit of a cheat, like I think I
Speaker 1: would cheat a little bit. You're gonna cheat, and I
Speaker 1: would probably multiple performers. Oh my gosh, he's producing our wedding, Kristen.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have multiple officiants. He's producing it. Okay, give
Speaker 1: me your first choice. We'll say it together on three
Speaker 1: and see what's the same one to three. Andrew Firestone
Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, he's our dear friend. Um, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that dates everybody. Um, Andrew was gosh, maybe five, maybe
Speaker 1: our fifth batch or somewhere around there. Um, he was
Speaker 1: a dear friend. He's a very very good friend of
Speaker 1: ours now he was a good friend of mine for
Speaker 1: many years. And then obviously el Z's got to meet
Speaker 1: her and his beautiful wife, Ivanna and the kids. Another
Speaker 1: one though, that's right there. Um would be Bob Guinney,
Speaker 1: because Bob is hilarious and also a very good friend.
Speaker 1: But he's a showman. And if there is a guy,
Speaker 1: they're they're very similar. If you have Bob Guiney and
Speaker 1: Andrew Firestone in a bar, in a restaurant wherever. Everybody.
Speaker 1: They just to have this gravitational pull. It's like they
Speaker 1: are the pie piper. Everybody will just go to them.
Speaker 1: It is this amazing thing that I've always envied so much.
Speaker 1: And they both have so much energy. I think Bob
Speaker 1: Andrew was number three. I looked it up. I think
Speaker 1: Bob was too. See you are going old school. But
Speaker 1: Bob was right after Trista because he Bob was on
Speaker 1: Trista season um and he but it was funny because
Speaker 1: he had a broken leg. He had played football at
Speaker 1: Michigan State or something like that, had broken his leg,
Speaker 1: and so everyone kind of thought he and again, Bob's
Speaker 1: gonna kill me. But he was a little bit chubby
Speaker 1: at the time because he was in a cast. And
Speaker 1: then he came back for The Bachelor and he was
Speaker 1: like all fit. Everybody was like, who's this guy? Whoa Bob?
Speaker 1: He was ready for the shirtless scenes? What about Bob?
Speaker 1: I also think Ben Higgins would be a great just
Speaker 1: because he is He's such a faithful person. He's very
Speaker 1: faith driven. He would take it very serious and he
Speaker 1: would do a very good job. I agree, But and
Speaker 1: Ben has kind of a what's the word, like a
Speaker 1: calmness to him. He has that gravitas, which would be
Speaker 1: nice for appreciating a wedding. Now bachelorette's Oh yes, good call, baby,
Speaker 1: can't leave the bachelorettes out, you know, I can't forget that.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I love my love my ladies. I love
Speaker 1: all my bachelorettes. Um. I was like trying. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously you know the goat Trista Um, but I would
Speaker 1: rather her just sit front and center, you know, just
Speaker 1: like in a in her chair and like a you know,
Speaker 1: like a queen's chair. That's how I always see Chris Trista. Um,
Speaker 1: let's see Jojo. I think, yeah, she would be really fun.
Speaker 1: If I wanted it really irreverent, I could go back
Speaker 1: to Jillian Harris. Um. That's a great question. I love this.
Speaker 1: I love what a phenomenal question, Kristin. Who would you
Speaker 1: pick for us? Thank? Yeah? Who would you like to
Speaker 1: see that? Yeah? Ben would be great or Sean. I
Speaker 1: think Sean would also kind of give that reverence irreverence.
Speaker 1: You are you smiling? Because Sean was just going to
Speaker 1: have fifty dad jokes. Oh no, Sean would be great too,
Speaker 1: I was thinking, and he's so funny. I was thinking,
Speaker 1: that's nice because you were at Seawan and Catherine's wedding
Speaker 1: and then we could have Sean do ours. And Ben
Speaker 1: holds a special place in our heart too, because Ben
Speaker 1: was my introduction to the Bachelor franchise. He was the
Speaker 1: first season that I ever covered the show. So Ben's
Speaker 1: like my O g so gosh, we might be calling
Speaker 1: Ben Higgins fishy. Kristin, thank you, you just planned our wedding.
Speaker 1: Oh you're welcome. I also want to say, Lauren, I
Speaker 1: really appreciate your non sporty side because I also feel
Speaker 1: that way with my husband constantly watching sports. We're having
Speaker 1: the one the Pinnacle this weekend with the Eagles, Go Birds,
Speaker 1: but after that, hopefully a little less on this side.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Chris, and I gotta tell you, for
Speaker 1: a minute, I stopped to think. I was like the Pinnacle,
Speaker 1: you're talking about super Bowls this weekend? Got it? Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Kristen Kristin, thank you so much. Thanks for well,
Speaker 1: thanks for calling, thank you for your kind words, and
Speaker 1: most importantly, thanks for listening to the most dramatic podcast
Speaker 1: ever it is. You mentioned that it's about having this forum,
Speaker 1: and that has been wonderful to have this platform to
Speaker 1: talk to you and to talk to everybody, so truly
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks so Muchee from Baltimore. Let's go West
Speaker 1: Coast No, cal Stockton, California. Gracie is on the line. Hey, Gracie,
Speaker 1: Hi Chris. Oh my god, she's so bubbly. I love
Speaker 1: everybody's like, just vibe. Oh my god, you guys just
Speaker 1: devay story last night. Oh my god, made my entire
Speaker 1: freaking week. Love that glad. Luckily Chris is there to
Speaker 1: save me with household tasks. Gracie, When I tell you this,
Speaker 1: this is not performative. This was happening. So what what
Speaker 1: Gracie is alluding to is, uh, Lauren did this whole
Speaker 1: string of stories about trying to put the dove on
Speaker 1: our bed back in the duve a cover. It was
Speaker 1: the night of the State of the Union. So I'm
Speaker 1: in there watching the State of Union and all that
Speaker 1: stuff going on. I didn't know where Lauren was. I
Speaker 1: had no idea. Gracie and I walk in and I
Speaker 1: found her, like you saw in the video, just lying there,
Speaker 1: deflated and defeated on the ground. I had no idea
Speaker 1: what was going on. Back in our room. Well that
Speaker 1: you had to do everything last night. You had to.
Speaker 1: He had to fill me in on the state of
Speaker 1: the Union, and he had to finish the task. But
Speaker 1: thank you, grazie. It's so good to hear from you.
Speaker 1: So what's on your mind. Well, I just wanted to
Speaker 1: say thank you guys for putting yourself out there, UM
Speaker 1: and Chris I have supported you and Lawrence in day one,
Speaker 1: and thank you guys for doing the show and um
Speaker 1: speaking your truth and letting people speak their truth. Thank
Speaker 1: you from all of us. UM, it just really wanted
Speaker 1: to hear it, you know well and likewise by away,
Speaker 1: thank you. UM, just thank you because we felt your support,
Speaker 1: we felt your love, and you have been amazing, as
Speaker 1: has everybody who has reached out to us. So just
Speaker 1: know that it has been equally impressive and important for
Speaker 1: Lauren and I to feel that love coming from you guys. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you that what you guys fill us with, the
Speaker 1: last the tears, the joy, It's amazing. There's tons of
Speaker 1: choices of podcast out there, but if people have not
Speaker 1: tuned into yours, they need to. It just is a
Speaker 1: breath of truth and um chiness of the world. NEETs.
Speaker 1: So thank you guys, both of you. We can promise
Speaker 1: one thing. You're going to get the truth, the good,
Speaker 1: the bad, the ugly, the duvets, all of it. Do
Speaker 1: you a question for us? How can we what can
Speaker 1: we do for you? No? I just wanted to say,
Speaker 1: that's it. Oh my god, I love it. Gracie just
Speaker 1: called in to spread some love, Greasy. Thank you. That's it.
Speaker 1: Thank you for calling. And I hope you'll and I
Speaker 1: hope you'll keep listening. Absolutely all right, take take care
Speaker 1: of Gracie. I love that. Wow, what a sweetheart, Gracie
Speaker 1: with the grace, just being kind. I just called to say,
Speaker 1: I love you. Dad joke, dad joke, dad song quote,
Speaker 1: dad song quote. At least I didn't misquote it. Brittany.
Speaker 1: We're going to go from west coast back to the
Speaker 1: east coast in Greenville, South Carolina. Brittany has a question
Speaker 1: that involves the podcast. All right, what's on your mind? Brittany?
Speaker 1: Hi there? How are you guys who doing the n
Speaker 1: I am we are having the best time. This has
Speaker 1: been amazing. Oh my gosh, this is so exciting. I
Speaker 1: can't tell you how exciting it is to have just
Speaker 1: even just your voice back on radio. I guess if
Speaker 1: if I close my eyes, it feels like I'm watching Bachelor.
Speaker 1: It feels like I'm watching Bachelor again. It's nice to
Speaker 1: have a familiar, familiar voice again. But I had a
Speaker 1: question UM as far as Bachelor Nation UM cast members.
Speaker 1: I did not know, UM, if you had if you
Speaker 1: could divulge, if you had anyone lined up so far
Speaker 1: from Bachelor Nation that you were UM plan on having
Speaker 1: on the show, Any contestants you were excited to catch
Speaker 1: up with, or any contestants you were curious to have
Speaker 1: back to maybe have a difficult conversation or close the air,
Speaker 1: clear the air rather UM, or maybe Jesse Palmer on this,
Speaker 1: you know, have that conversation with the two of you.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if there was a relationship there, what
Speaker 1: that conversation would look like. You know, there's I think
Speaker 1: what we would do is the way this is kind
Speaker 1: of manifested itself, UM Brittany is when something topical, something
Speaker 1: relatable comes up, like Caitlin Bristow did that interview and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden the headlines hit and it really
Speaker 1: made sense to have her on the show. UH subsequently
Speaker 1: been in Welles when we were at the golf tournament
Speaker 1: and Chris Lane had his locker right next to Ben,
Speaker 1: I said, guys, we have to do a podcast. This
Speaker 1: is amazing. So it made sense. Um, I will divulge
Speaker 1: that Ari and Lauren are definitely going to be coming
Speaker 1: on soon because they have something exciting that we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about that LZ and I took part in that. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'll just leave it there. And I can also tell
Speaker 1: you breaking news. Hannah Brown and I are going to
Speaker 1: be talking very very soon about something that she took
Speaker 1: part in and something that we're promoting. But also just
Speaker 1: catching up with Hannah that I haven't talked to her.
Speaker 1: We've texted back and forth a little bit, but haven't
Speaker 1: talked to her in a little while. And so it
Speaker 1: is nice to get some of the old friends and
Speaker 1: cast members on and and we can talk because there
Speaker 1: is so much to talk about because we had these
Speaker 1: inside stories and inside relationships, and those relationships have grown
Speaker 1: and continued far beyond the show, and so I love
Speaker 1: reaching back and continuing that. So those are a couple
Speaker 1: more and then I think, look as time goes on,
Speaker 1: if it makes sense, if it's something topical and newsworthy
Speaker 1: and I think you guys would find it interesting. Then yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll do it right. That's so exciting. I think it's
Speaker 1: going to be so um. I hate to use the
Speaker 1: word eclectic. I don't know quite the right word to use,
Speaker 1: but I feel almost like comforting to in a sense
Speaker 1: for everyone, not only having you back and having your voice,
Speaker 1: you know, on a podcast, um, but also being able
Speaker 1: to hear you interact with Bachelor Nation again, the cast members,
Speaker 1: because I know that's something that you know people are
Speaker 1: missing and just kind of a comfort to so many
Speaker 1: of us. So I really look forward to hearing who
Speaker 1: you have on the show and kind of having a
Speaker 1: little little throwback time of Chris Harrison. I love that.
Speaker 1: So that's maybe that's a new show throwback time with
Speaker 1: c h Thank you, Brittany, I appreciate it. Thanks for
Speaker 1: calling in you too. Um. Yeah, you know when it
Speaker 1: makes sense, uh, I think you know, we'll always bring
Speaker 1: people on when it's um interesting, when when we got
Speaker 1: something to talk about, when it's dramatic, when it's dramatic,
Speaker 1: and Caitlin definitely made it dramatic for us, and so
Speaker 1: did Chris Lane and Ben Higgins. I by the way
Speaker 1: I saw that Chris Lane had had kind of done
Speaker 1: he did his own interview or he said, Look, I
Speaker 1: would have loved to have played with Ben. I like that.
Speaker 1: They they it's mutual admiration society. They really got along
Speaker 1: um behind the scenes. When we were at the bar
Speaker 1: that night, that very first night, it could have been awkward,
Speaker 1: and everyone got along so well and has moved on
Speaker 1: because look, timing everything was meant to happen the way
Speaker 1: it did. They've they, Chris and Lauren have Now there's
Speaker 1: so many Lauren's in our life. Ari and Lauren, Chris
Speaker 1: and Lauren, Chris, Chris and Lauren. Yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of there's a lot of us. Okay, we have someone
Speaker 1: very excited. We're going back up to Canada, this time
Speaker 1: to Ottawa, Ontario. Um, a very very excited. Well, we
Speaker 1: have a Lauren on the lawn. Oh my gosh, Hi Lauren,
Speaker 1: it's Lauren. How are you Lauren? When I was talking
Speaker 1: about all Lauren's, I didn't see that we have a Lauren.
Speaker 1: You know what? Lauren? Before we get to your question,
Speaker 1: can I ask you, as a watcher of the show,
Speaker 1: which I would, I would guess you watch Bachelor yes, okay,
Speaker 1: So was it hard for you. There were a couple
Speaker 1: of seasons there where there were I think it was
Speaker 1: in the Lauren at the time Bushnell years. There were
Speaker 1: a couple of seasons where it would be like five
Speaker 1: Lauren's in one season, and then I'm covering the show
Speaker 1: and I as Lauren, I'm interviewing all these Lauren's and
Speaker 1: saying my own name. It was so weird and confusing.
Speaker 1: Did you find that where there's some seasons you were
Speaker 1: watching You're like, oh my god, everyone's name Lauren. Oh god,
Speaker 1: it was more like the story of my life. My
Speaker 1: last name is also, Oh your last name is Smith,
Speaker 1: like a billy and Lauren Smith's in the world, doesn't
Speaker 1: It is just another day. Well, you're going to be
Speaker 1: Lauren s Lauren. Nice to meet Lauren. What's going on?
Speaker 1: What's your question? Nice to me? You too? Well, I uh, Chris,
Speaker 1: You're wonderful. But I have to say, Lauren, I'm a
Speaker 1: huge Lauren's Ema fan. Oh my gosh. I think you
Speaker 1: were fantastic and I got to know you through your
Speaker 1: Roses and Rose Show and it was my favorite part
Speaker 1: of watching The Bachelor, Bachelorette or whatever. We were watching. Um,
Speaker 1: it was just the biggest treat to come watch in
Speaker 1: your take on what's going on, nobody else's take on
Speaker 1: what's going on is as funny or clever as yours,
Speaker 1: and you and I happened to be I think about
Speaker 1: the same age. UM, so all of your reference points
Speaker 1: are my absolute favorite from Harry Potter weird nineties shows.
Speaker 1: YEA question is, well, do you think you would ever
Speaker 1: do anything like that again? I really you're maybe not
Speaker 1: so much in the bachelor world anymore, and that's totally understandable. UM,
Speaker 1: but do we get to see joy who you are
Speaker 1: and how your take on things beyond just like Instagram
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Oh my gosh. Well, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. And yes we are right there in the
Speaker 1: same age. Happy early birthday. UM. And you know, us millennials,
Speaker 1: we've been through enough, haven't we. Chris is rolling his eyes, UM, Lauren,
Speaker 1: thank you. Yes, UM, I will absolutely love to do
Speaker 1: something like that again. UM. I think I I've really
Speaker 1: taken uh you know, this time to um kind of rebound.
Speaker 1: I guess I've been working a lot lately on getting
Speaker 1: back on Instagram a lot more. I I do think
Speaker 1: I shut down for a little bit with um, everything
Speaker 1: that Chris and I went through. Honestly, um wow, I'm
Speaker 1: really just I'm unloading on you, Lauren. But I've been
Speaker 1: working on opening back up again and I would love
Speaker 1: to do that again. It was truly the joy of
Speaker 1: my day every day at work. Um and yeah, so
Speaker 1: you know, I think Chris and I have some stuff
Speaker 1: in the works and I absolutely want to do something
Speaker 1: along those lines again. Yes, yeah, Well that's really exciting
Speaker 1: and absolutely understandable that you would need time and space
Speaker 1: to regroup because of course, like I know, you're you're coming,
Speaker 1: You're obviously coming from an authentic place when you do
Speaker 1: what you do, and you have to be a human
Speaker 1: and and heal anyway in order to regroup and be
Speaker 1: able to do something like that again. So Lauren, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for your support. I really appreciate it. I'll
Speaker 1: get weird again. We're gonna get weird again, I promise. Awesome.
Speaker 1: I look forward to it. Lauren. What Harry Potter House
Speaker 1: are you? Yes? Strong huff energy from Laurende It I
Speaker 1: could feel. Yeah, every time I take the quiz, It's
Speaker 1: like hufflepuff every time. I love it. Lauren, Thank you
Speaker 1: it's so good to talk to you. Thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks for jotting nice. I appreciate it, all right, take
Speaker 1: care of and you know, it's funny your Roses and Rose.
Speaker 1: You've been doing it for a while and I hadn't
Speaker 1: really watched that much. And it was really when we
Speaker 1: started dating that I got into it and then got
Speaker 1: obsessed with it. And I really it was almost like
Speaker 1: I wanted an advanced copy because I wanted to know,
Speaker 1: like what you were going to find funny, what you
Speaker 1: were going to dive into. It was always interesting to me,
Speaker 1: like what I would watch the show and here's what
Speaker 1: I would think, But it was always fascinating to see
Speaker 1: what you would find comedy in We would take away
Speaker 1: different things. Yeah, yeah, I mean it was it was
Speaker 1: fun to see to like play that game with each
Speaker 1: other and analyze everything. And people would ask me if
Speaker 1: you watched it, and I'm like, yess, he watches that
Speaker 1: every ligiously. I got so into it. I loved my
Speaker 1: my weekly Rose and Rose update, and it was an
Speaker 1: honor and this is not a joke, when I got
Speaker 1: to come on and play a part for you, because
Speaker 1: it was you know, we always do some sort of
Speaker 1: a bizarre acting. And I'm not as good as an
Speaker 1: actor as you are. But it was fun when I
Speaker 1: got to come on the show and do it, and
Speaker 1: it was because you and I were dating, and it
Speaker 1: was fun when I got to go in and just
Speaker 1: be on set with you. Well, it sounds like we
Speaker 1: should do something together in television again. Interesting. That's Oh,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. One of my favorite lines from Friends. It's
Speaker 1: very obscure. Here's a question. You didn't watch Roses and
Speaker 1: Rose until after we started dating. I knew about it,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't an avid watcher. Okay, so what you had,
Speaker 1: had you seen it at all? Be honest? Yes, you know,
Speaker 1: I knew. I knew of it. I know about just
Speaker 1: I know about everything that's kind of going on, especially
Speaker 1: something that was that popular. Is on entertainment tonight, and
Speaker 1: I mean that's a huge part of pop culture of
Speaker 1: what you were doing, and it was really popular. But
Speaker 1: I wouldn't sit down and watch it religiously every week.
Speaker 1: I would catch bits of it. Know that. Well, your
Speaker 1: answer makes me happy because I was wondering. I was
Speaker 1: going to ask you if you had watched it before
Speaker 1: we started dating, would you still have dated me? Well?
Speaker 1: You didn't lean in kind of a Guilfy show. You
Speaker 1: didn't do as many Voldemort impersonations when we first started dating,
Speaker 1: lean fully into them. Now now Baltimore is here on
Speaker 1: the rig and what what? What was funny? Is your take?
Speaker 1: And I vividly remember this because it was about the
Speaker 1: time when I really started to notice you and the
Speaker 1: show and Roses was the Colton season. Can you remember
Speaker 1: how much you and I forget your producer's name? J
Speaker 1: C made fun of me running after Colton, running after
Speaker 1: set it too, like I want to run to you
Speaker 1: by Whitney Houston. Yeah, well it was a great moment
Speaker 1: in TV. Can I tell you honestly, I think to me, Okay,
Speaker 1: Hannah came after Colton? And who was after Hannah? Who's
Speaker 1: the bachelor out of Hannah's season? I'm blinking. Does that
Speaker 1: say something I was gonna to me? Was it? Peter Webber?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yes, Oh my gosh, How did I
Speaker 1: forget that? But I don't. That was like, that was
Speaker 1: a real crescendo of amazing nous of the show where
Speaker 1: those Colton and Hannah back to backs. Peter was great.
Speaker 1: I mean we had barbed and and clarentatious. I mean,
Speaker 1: Claire's ending with Dale was incredible, and Tastia was just
Speaker 1: so watchable and lovable. It was pandemic times and were
Speaker 1: it was interesting in that way. But you're right, there
Speaker 1: was that huge crescendo of the Colton Hannah back to
Speaker 1: back was a strong time for the show. It was
Speaker 1: maybe the well and then Peters of many things on
Speaker 1: the show. I will never forget that night in Portugal
Speaker 1: with Colton. I will never forget at that night. How
Speaker 1: real was that? Unbelievably yeah, really ran after him. I
Speaker 1: will tell all of you now, because I'm not bound
Speaker 1: by anything, I don't have to lie about any of it.
Speaker 1: It was real. He legitimately jumped that fence and took off.
Speaker 1: And here's why. When I came to work that night
Speaker 1: and I was on property for this, it was not
Speaker 1: where we were staying. We were at a different location
Speaker 1: for the date. I drove past a security guard who
Speaker 1: was controlling the gate. Obviously we didn't want just regular
Speaker 1: folks walking into the into the date, so there was
Speaker 1: a security guard. So when Colton jumped the fence, I
Speaker 1: assumed said security guard would still be there, so not
Speaker 1: a big deal. He's going to be right there by
Speaker 1: the security. Well, we're in Portugal and this guy is
Speaker 1: not going to work all hours of the night. And
Speaker 1: it was very late, so the security guy had taken off.
Speaker 1: He was gone. This is like, I don't know, one
Speaker 1: or two in the morning maybe. And so when we
Speaker 1: opened the gate and I saw it was pitch black
Speaker 1: and there was nobody out there, and Colton was long gone,
Speaker 1: That's when I had at ocean moment. And it was
Speaker 1: a true ocean moment. He jumped up ging fence. That's
Speaker 1: what you said. People love when you swear because it
Speaker 1: was so rare, the power of an occasional customer. You
Speaker 1: know what this podcast has made me realize. I don't
Speaker 1: cuss a lot, but I use the words ship from
Speaker 1: time to time. And my heart edits out the word ship. Well,
Speaker 1: ship is a cuss word. I get that, but kind of.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not the most egregious offense. But you're right.
Speaker 1: My grandmother would still slap me upside the head if
Speaker 1: I said it. But that night definitely was a legit,
Speaker 1: real runaway. We lost him and I and I actually
Speaker 1: got on the phone with everyone back in l A
Speaker 1: and said, guys, We've lost this human being. You're like,
Speaker 1: do we have insurance? You had one job keep track
Speaker 1: of this human being, and we lost him. I gotta
Speaker 1: be honest with the security guard of being there made
Speaker 1: a difference. Colton is a big guy, by the way,
Speaker 1: going to athletic as they come. He was like a
Speaker 1: gazelle hopping over that fence and was gone. He is.
Speaker 1: You know, we would work out from time to time
Speaker 1: together and would run on the beaches wherever we were,
Speaker 1: and we would be jogging in on do know, Thailand
Speaker 1: or wherever we went on his season, and we'd be
Speaker 1: jogging along for a couple of miles and I'm kind
Speaker 1: of huffing and puffing, and Colton would just kind of
Speaker 1: be talking the entire time, and he'd be like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna stretch it out a little bit. I'll
Speaker 1: be like, okay, yeah, we can pick it up within
Speaker 1: a breath. He was a half mile ahead of you.
Speaker 1: He just he was just like running against a deer.
Speaker 1: It was just a joke. He is an absolute freak
Speaker 1: of nature. But yes, I will admit that was a
Speaker 1: very real moment, as is this call coming in from
Speaker 1: Portland's Oregon Jessica says she has a juicy question, Jessica
Speaker 1: with the juice. Hi, jess Hi, Hi guys, how are
Speaker 1: you doing good? Bring this juice to the show? What
Speaker 1: is it? So? I've always think everyone talks about the
Speaker 1: contracts that everyone's under while being on the show. I
Speaker 1: just was curious, like, what are those things you're not
Speaker 1: allowed to talk about? And how long you can't talk
Speaker 1: about those certain things and that kind of tea. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know it's I honestly don't know the ins and
Speaker 1: outs because I've never signed one. Yeah, contestant contract. I
Speaker 1: have a very different contract, um, you know, an employment
Speaker 1: contract that I was under, um, But as a contestant,
Speaker 1: whether it's American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, you name it.
Speaker 1: The main name of the game is to control the information. Obviously,
Speaker 1: don't give away an ending. You don't want to know
Speaker 1: who wins Dancing, You don't want to know who wins
Speaker 1: the Bachelor ahead of time, spoilers. And then it is
Speaker 1: mostly behind the scenes stuff. Obviously they probably don't want
Speaker 1: you talking about production, how the sausage is made, so
Speaker 1: to speak. Those are the main points. And then controlling
Speaker 1: your and this is the difficult part, especially with exposure
Speaker 1: and now with influencers and Instagram, because that changed. Obviously,
Speaker 1: when we started the show back in two thousand two,
Speaker 1: none of this stuff was an issue. We didn't have
Speaker 1: to worry about Instagram and Twitter and TikTok and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. But with the advent of all this, it
Speaker 1: had to get a little bit more strict of the content.
Speaker 1: What you're promoting and who and what what shows you're
Speaker 1: you're appearing on, and you know, probably podcasts as well,
Speaker 1: had to be run through production that can that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. Nothing that crazy? Oh okay, wow, Why did
Speaker 1: I feel like it was so much more than that? Like, oh,
Speaker 1: when you see someone post oh I can't talk about
Speaker 1: him under contract and they have like the emoji with
Speaker 1: their finger up to their mouth or something. It depends
Speaker 1: on It really depends on the show. It depends on
Speaker 1: the show. And it might be now honestly, having been gone,
Speaker 1: I don't know, and that they may have gotten a
Speaker 1: lot more strict, but you have to ask one of
Speaker 1: the contestants. I really don't know. But I did know
Speaker 1: that on other os, you know, like Idol and some
Speaker 1: of these other shows where they want to lock you
Speaker 1: up for the year for production purposes and releasing an album.
Speaker 1: And you know, the same thing kind of went for
Speaker 1: The Bachelor, especially when people started getting so popular. Is
Speaker 1: being able to control them and use them for profit themselves,
Speaker 1: like having, you know, use if if Caitlin is gonna
Speaker 1: come back and host a show, we want to use
Speaker 1: her as host of the show. And so I definitely
Speaker 1: had no say in that, and that was well above
Speaker 1: my pay grade. And so I don't know, I'd have
Speaker 1: to I'd have to get a copy of one of
Speaker 1: the contestants contracts to honestly see what's in there. I
Speaker 1: really truly don't know. Z being the investigative reporter, would
Speaker 1: probably know more than me. Well yeah, just totally. I
Speaker 1: mean this was even before we were dating, so it
Speaker 1: was a couple of years ago. But I've seen a contract.
Speaker 1: I've had contestants share their contracts with me before. Um,
Speaker 1: I haven't I read it years ago, so I couldn't
Speaker 1: tell you that super speci civic details. But I will
Speaker 1: say that I had a lawyer tell me that they
Speaker 1: thought the contract was quote nuts, Okay. They the contracts
Speaker 1: are apparently pretty over the top in terms of what
Speaker 1: they try to cover about the person's life. Yes, where
Speaker 1: lawyers are involved, I'm sure right, they're gonna try and
Speaker 1: just cover every angle and you know, overdo it. Um.
Speaker 1: But I appreciate, uh, I appreciate the question, and more importantly,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you listening to the most dramatic podcast ever.
Speaker 1: Have you enjoyed it so far? Yes? Absolutely. Yeah. I'm
Speaker 1: a big and a big Bachelor franchise fan, a big
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison fan for a long time. So I just
Speaker 1: was scrolling through Instagram and said call now. I was like, heck, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call now. So anyway, that's why I'm here
Speaker 1: and I love that. And Jessica can now clear it
Speaker 1: up if anybody thinks these calls aren't legit. I mean
Speaker 1: I I put the number up on Instagram and we
Speaker 1: are truly taking calls from all over North America apparently
Speaker 1: because we've been up to Canada a few times. And
Speaker 1: I love that We've kind of criss crossed the country,
Speaker 1: gone up to Canada and been across there as well.
Speaker 1: So it's been a great night. I love taking your
Speaker 1: calls and love talking to you. Jessica. Appreciate Thanks guys,
Speaker 1: Thanks Elsie, thank you Elze, I hate to do this,
Speaker 1: but we we got to put a rap on this. Wow. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I can't believe that I have seen a bachelor contract
Speaker 1: and you haven't. I don't even know. Yeah, I haven't
Speaker 1: even thought about it. I never even thought to look
Speaker 1: at somebody's contract or ask about it. I don't, so,
Speaker 1: you know, honestly, there was so it was so far
Speaker 1: above my pay grade, and there were so many other
Speaker 1: issues and things that I would deal with and had
Speaker 1: to worry about that, you know. Getting into that minutia
Speaker 1: was never I've heard people talk about it and how
Speaker 1: tough it is and all that, but I've never really
Speaker 1: gotten into the nuts and bolts of it all. But
Speaker 1: you have. I love that. I want to say thank
Speaker 1: you to all of the callers, everybody who up on
Speaker 1: the line to talk to us here tonight, Elz. This
Speaker 1: has been great. Oh my gosh, everybody made me feel
Speaker 1: so happy. Thank you guys. Um And we had a
Speaker 1: couple of juicy questions. But now next time we do this,
Speaker 1: I want to be put to the test. I want
Speaker 1: people calling in with some really intense Please be careful
Speaker 1: what you wish for. I don't know if you want
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