Speaker 1: Welcome back Happy our listeners, and I want to first
Speaker 1: start by saying this is probably going to be the
Speaker 1: last time we call you guys that, because today is
Speaker 1: the day where we will be voting on a name
Speaker 1: for all of our listeners out there. We've been asking
Speaker 1: you guys to send in your suggestions for names, so
Speaker 1: our inbox has thankfully been flooded. We've narrowed it down
Speaker 1: to some amazing options, and so just in a little bit, Rachel,
Speaker 1: we're going to be narrowing it down for the final
Speaker 1: two and then let you guys, all of our listeners decide,
Speaker 1: because of course you need to have to say you've
Speaker 1: had to say since the beginning. Then we need your
Speaker 1: voices to be heard. So we will be going on
Speaker 1: the Instagram account later today to vote after this episode air,
Speaker 1: So don't forget to check us out and give us
Speaker 1: your input. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest with y'all. I
Speaker 1: don't like calling y'all Bachelor Happy Hour listeners. If too long,
Speaker 1: it's a mouthful. We need something cute, fun, We need
Speaker 1: to create our own community. So this honestly has been
Speaker 1: a long time coming, and that's our fault. We probably
Speaker 1: should have started this a lot sooner, but don't worry
Speaker 1: about that. Let's let bygones be bygones. We're here now
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to pull up. You better vote. I
Speaker 1: think that we got some really good suggestions for names.
Speaker 1: You know, well, we'll narrow it down to the two best.
Speaker 1: And you know you guys do your part and vote.
Speaker 1: And speaking of voting, while I while I have your attention,
Speaker 1: let's make sure we voted our local and our local,
Speaker 1: regional state whatever local cash, regional, state, national elections. Let's
Speaker 1: just make sure we vote period. Okay, just always vote. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're in scary times, worry about okay. And now that
Speaker 1: I'm off that soapbox, I want to get to you
Speaker 1: guys about who we are having on the podcast today,
Speaker 1: because who we're having on today is she's just one
Speaker 1: of a kind. You have been riding into us for months.
Speaker 1: You guys are always requesting certain people on the podcast,
Speaker 1: but this is probably one of our biggest requests, and
Speaker 1: I understand why. Becca understands why. But I'm happy that
Speaker 1: you guys get to really see how great she is.
Speaker 1: She's an og, she is bachelor royalty. Some may call
Speaker 1: her the Queen and she's honestly, no, you should be
Speaker 1: calling her the Queen if you're not already. But she's
Speaker 1: living proof that this process and this show they work
Speaker 1: it really, they really do. And she's an amazing example
Speaker 1: as a woman, a mother, a friend, and a bachelorette.
Speaker 1: And we'll be having none other than Trista sutter On
Speaker 1: to talk about everything related to The Bachelor, the Bachelorette,
Speaker 1: just to check in with her, talk to her about
Speaker 1: life after the Bachelorette, what she's been doing, what she learned,
Speaker 1: and what advice she has for us for future people
Speaker 1: coming on this franchise, and just life advice in general.
Speaker 1: Rachel I cannot wait to have her because we kind
Speaker 1: of know her. We got to know her at the
Speaker 1: bachelotte reunion last year, and I feel like the world
Speaker 1: hasn't seen enough of her, and she just has this
Speaker 1: amazing spirit. You know, when you think of the Bachelor
Speaker 1: and Bachelor, you think of obviously Chris Harrison, that's the
Speaker 1: first name I think that pops into everyone's head. But
Speaker 1: let's be honest, no one really remembers the first couple bachelors,
Speaker 1: and maybe there's a reason for that, but everybody remembers
Speaker 1: Trista because she did pave the way and she had
Speaker 1: the I think, the first love story that is still
Speaker 1: lasting to this day because of the show. And so
Speaker 1: we're gonna get her on. We're going to pick her
Speaker 1: brain on what she went through because it was so
Speaker 1: different than probably what we experienced on her season. And
Speaker 1: so I cannot wait to chat with her. I can't either.
Speaker 1: And I'll just say too that I think coming because
Speaker 1: I was so anti the franchise before coming on. You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't watch it, I didn't relate to it and
Speaker 1: connect to it, and it's just in open to something
Speaker 1: new and in what it could bring in life and
Speaker 1: love and even coming off the Bachelor and in the Bachelrette,
Speaker 1: I wasn't in a mindset of connecting to other Bachelor
Speaker 1: and I mean I had talked to the ones kind
Speaker 1: of right before me, but I just wasn't in that
Speaker 1: mindset because I was just thinking about the show, the
Speaker 1: people that I was on the show with. And so
Speaker 1: that's what I'm really excited to talk to Trista about
Speaker 1: because I have to give her credit for being the
Speaker 1: one to reach out to connect us and to make
Speaker 1: sure that we hold strong to being women and Bacherettes
Speaker 1: and going through this experience together. So anyways, enough from us,
Speaker 1: because Trista can say it's so much better because you
Speaker 1: know she started this. Shits my one curse heard for
Speaker 1: the podcasts. All right, So before we get trist on,
Speaker 1: we have to get back to business, Rachel, because we've
Speaker 1: rounded up twenty of our favorite names, and so we're
Speaker 1: gonna We're gonna start out, we're gonna narrow it down
Speaker 1: and make it a little bit easier, and then from
Speaker 1: there we're gonna pick our top two favorites and then,
Speaker 1: like I said before, we're going to have an Instagram poll,
Speaker 1: So don't forget to check out our page today. It's
Speaker 1: gonna air right after this episode, so check it out because,
Speaker 1: as Rachel said earlier, you gotta vote. You can't have
Speaker 1: an opinion unless you vote. People. Let's start now. These
Speaker 1: are baby sticks. Okay, after you do this, then you register.
Speaker 1: If you're not already, you go vote. Please pay all right, Becky, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm excited and nervous because we have a lot of options.
Speaker 1: So thank you for everyone who submitted options when we
Speaker 1: ask you to. But we have to narrow it down
Speaker 1: to just one and honestly, we have to like it
Speaker 1: because this is what we're going to be calling them.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go ahead and read the list, and
Speaker 1: then after that we'll narrow it down to the two
Speaker 1: like you said, Becca, and put the pull up. Do
Speaker 1: you think that I'm not even gonna say this is
Speaker 1: gonna be fair because if y'all we don't like Do
Speaker 1: you think this is our parents feel when they're picking
Speaker 1: out a name for their children. Absolutely not, because I
Speaker 1: have a feeling there's it's not really as much of
Speaker 1: a joint effort as you think, I think, because it's
Speaker 1: gonna come down to what I like, because I'm if
Speaker 1: you like, I have to push this baby out. It
Speaker 1: affects my body, my health, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, I have to be okay,
Speaker 1: what I'm calling this baby for the rest of it's life.
Speaker 1: It's true, um, But but yes, yes, this is this
Speaker 1: is kind of what it's like. This is our baby.
Speaker 1: You're right back, Okay, this is our baby. But I
Speaker 1: guess yeah, it's it's hard because we don't have a
Speaker 1: face for the name. We have many faces, and so
Speaker 1: we just yeah, it's gonna you know, Rachel and I
Speaker 1: will narrow it down, but also too, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: what we like because we gotta call you guys. Okay,
Speaker 1: to start it off, We're just gonna make it easy simple.
Speaker 1: We got batches b A h E s what batches
Speaker 1: does have a ring to it? Right? It's does have
Speaker 1: a ring to it. Okay, So I'll read, I'll read
Speaker 1: the ten and then you read ten. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So Two we've got bach chers. It's a mouthful, it's
Speaker 1: a little time. It looks great on paper. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's great coming out of our mouth. We've
Speaker 1: got Hapchlers, hapchlerschler hal. I don't know if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be able to say that. Yeah, it's a lot rosebuds,
Speaker 1: which I feel like it is another podcast acute name.
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure. Five we've got bat cheese U
Speaker 1: six pedal pushers, which you know is a fashion trend
Speaker 1: as well, play on words, if you will. Seven batched teenies.
Speaker 1: Do you like martinis? I love a good dirty martini,
Speaker 1: really cheese stuff, dollives. I feel like you have to
Speaker 1: like olives like to really appreciate martinis, And I don't
Speaker 1: so and I like an extra dirty so it's basically
Speaker 1: olive juice. But that's it. But I don't do like
Speaker 1: I can't do a gene one. So yeah, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: not my thing. Um, Bachelor Besties and drinking buddies. Okay,
Speaker 1: these are good. We've got right, so we still have
Speaker 1: have to go. So adding on, we got Happies. I
Speaker 1: don't know why that one's so funny to me. It's like,
Speaker 1: does it make you happy? I think so. I don't know,
Speaker 1: like not everyone's gonna be happy when they're listening to it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's just very true. All right. We
Speaker 1: got the pod Squad, just kind of cute. I feel
Speaker 1: like that can apply to any podcast. We have Bachelor
Speaker 1: Warriors sounds like a basketball team. M hm yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'm guessing be like that one. No, no, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying yeah, I'm not saying okay, okay. We
Speaker 1: got clinkers, which is kind of cute if you're like
Speaker 1: clinking your glasses. Bachelor bays rosies. Now this one rage.
Speaker 1: I feel like you already coined this term. But we
Speaker 1: got the R and b's. It's I know it's cute,
Speaker 1: but it's been dead. But it's been Brian. It's very
Speaker 1: ran right, yeah yeah, Okay, couple more. We got the Shakers,
Speaker 1: the Bachelor babies or the drunken Roses. But I have
Speaker 1: to add one because somebody actually did DM me and
Speaker 1: I liked it. Okay, if you hate it, okay, this
Speaker 1: is well. I kind of want to vote for two,
Speaker 1: but I know I can't. Okay, but I kind of
Speaker 1: liked this and it was bachelholics. That's actually really cute.
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna just say it like it's
Speaker 1: I said no, because I said it in my head
Speaker 1: three times. No, that's why not, because I was has
Speaker 1: if you know, if I didn't like it, I would
Speaker 1: have told you, and I'm spelling it out. I think
Speaker 1: it's super cute, actually makes sense, and it makes sense
Speaker 1: for Happy Hour. I read it and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm actually low key really into it the more I
Speaker 1: said it, and I wish I'm sorry whoever dmned me
Speaker 1: DM me again because I probably lost it, but I did.
Speaker 1: Actually I think I screenshotted it. I'll go through my pictures,
Speaker 1: but a very good one. So I mean, I think
Speaker 1: I have to say that's one of my top choices.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's gotta be one of my two. So
Speaker 1: we're narrowing it down to two. Okay, Bachelholics for sure.
Speaker 1: The more I keep saying it and I'm thinking about it,
Speaker 1: and I'm just I'm seeing it on t shirts, I'm
Speaker 1: seeing it written, I'm seeing what up our little Bachelholics
Speaker 1: like it's it's it encompasses the happy Hour and I'm
Speaker 1: so into it. My other choice, I like it, it's
Speaker 1: got it all. Yeah, this kind of has my vote. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of selling it. That was a good one, um,
Speaker 1: and they were all good choices. Everybody who's sent in choice,
Speaker 1: thank you, because that's what we asked and they're all
Speaker 1: good and it is hard to choose from. But we
Speaker 1: can only choose too. So we both agree on Batchelholics.
Speaker 1: My next choice would be Batches. I actually agree with
Speaker 1: that too when we because that was the first one
Speaker 1: we said, and it kind of reminds me of like, hey, benches, right,
Speaker 1: but saying it, Yeah, so I think they're both kind
Speaker 1: of cheeky a little bit. I like exactly. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, m my third choice, which I don't love
Speaker 1: as much as the first two. I kind of liked
Speaker 1: the Clinkers, but not as much. It's not as ketchy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Clinkers. It's so this is what's hard about
Speaker 1: picking the name, because it's not just what we're calling it.
Speaker 1: We're thinking bigger than this. We're thinking posters, t shirts, mugs, drinks,
Speaker 1: drinking glasses. Um, I'm just thinking of how it looks
Speaker 1: so like Clinkers. I like in theory, but I can't
Speaker 1: see it all the way around. I like the leak
Speaker 1: narrowed down to my other one was gonna be I
Speaker 1: like pod squad. But then when you said that could
Speaker 1: go for any podcast, I thought she's correct. So that's
Speaker 1: that she was going to take it for her other podcast.
Speaker 1: Now we're the Thought Warriors. That's what we call our listeners,
Speaker 1: Thought Warriors. So are you like the Bachelor Warriors? No,
Speaker 1: that didn't not like that's where's actually sorry, whoever. I
Speaker 1: think my honorary mention would be I have such my
Speaker 1: mother's daughter, because this is probably one that she would pick.
Speaker 1: I really kind of liked the pedal pushers, like a
Speaker 1: rose pedal. Yes, but then again, yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: it fits us quite No, we're not quite there. If
Speaker 1: I had a top five pedal pushers would be in it.
Speaker 1: Other close ones were Batched teenies. For me, I like
Speaker 1: drunken roses, but I don't want to call our listeners drunken,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, So I think this was easier than
Speaker 1: I said. Like Becca, I thought we were gonna have
Speaker 1: to debate this, go at it, which means we're really
Speaker 1: on the same page. And I could go with either
Speaker 1: one Batches or Batch Waits almost set it wrong, which
Speaker 1: is scaring me. Now, No, no, no no, Batchelholics. You gotta
Speaker 1: go with your gut first instinct Batches and Batchelholics. I
Speaker 1: think that's it. We'll row you down. Well, that was easy,
Speaker 1: that was fun. I don't know about you, Beck, I
Speaker 1: feel good about both of those names. I do too.
Speaker 1: I want to get to this poll for you all
Speaker 1: because I want to see if it's a pretty even
Speaker 1: split or if it's like going to be one blows
Speaker 1: the other out of the ballpark. It'll be interesting to
Speaker 1: see what you guys have to say. Absolutely so, we've
Speaker 1: narrowed it down to two You're welcome out of twenty
Speaker 1: one option or twenty options. We've noted down to two
Speaker 1: out of twenty options. But you guys have to make
Speaker 1: the final decision. Of course, we want to include you
Speaker 1: were all a part of this family, so Beca already
Speaker 1: stated it before, but just in case you forgot, if
Speaker 1: you want to be a part of this, make sure
Speaker 1: you stalk our Instagram account today at Bachelor Happy Hour.
Speaker 1: You can find the poll there. It's going to be
Speaker 1: live for twenty four hours. Make sure you vote, and
Speaker 1: then after that, I guess we'll find out the winner
Speaker 1: next week of what our new name is going to be.
Speaker 1: And that's it, Bachelor Happy Hour listeners, that's the last
Speaker 1: time we'll say that. Thank good riddance, all right, everybody.
Speaker 1: Now that we've finally got that out of the way,
Speaker 1: it's time for our incredible guests. And I'm so excited
Speaker 1: to have her on because she's not only the oge
Speaker 1: bachelorette as well as our fairy bachelotte godmother, but most importantly,
Speaker 1: she is our friend, our confidante, someone who's been there
Speaker 1: since the beginning, and so we are so excited to
Speaker 1: catch up with her. So, without further ado, Rachel, let's
Speaker 1: give a warm welcome to Tristata. So be happy to
Speaker 1: have you, so thank you. I'm so excited. I've been waiting.
Speaker 1: I've been waiting. I actually apologies. We are long overdoing
Speaker 1: for this. Yeah, I'll go well, so I want to
Speaker 1: get into how you're doing with everything and just catch
Speaker 1: up on life. But first I have to ask for myself.
Speaker 1: But I think all of our listeners out there want
Speaker 1: to know what is your secret because Trista, you not
Speaker 1: aged a day since you were on your season, and like,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you doing? You need to share
Speaker 1: your secrets? Oh my god, I love you. So I've
Speaker 1: gotten a couple people saying that, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: how much do I owe you? Because that's definitely not true.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's really funny. I think that I
Speaker 1: over the years have learned that good lighting is a
Speaker 1: girl's best friend. So um, when they saw me on
Speaker 1: the show the other day, I had really good lighting. Um,
Speaker 1: I've learned a little bit better makeup techniques. So there
Speaker 1: you go there, and I think moisturized, moisturized, moisturize, you
Speaker 1: know you Like, it's just it's like you were glowing.
Speaker 1: You were glowing back when you were the bachelorette, but
Speaker 1: you still are. And so I was gonna say, like,
Speaker 1: if you were doing, like olive oil on your face.
Speaker 1: I'm going to start doing that. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it would be, but I love you. I gotta do no.
Speaker 1: But I do use um Cediful like heavy cream. It's
Speaker 1: the cream. It's not lotion on my face. I used
Speaker 1: to use just lotion, and because I live in Colorado
Speaker 1: and it's super super dry, I had to resort to cream.
Speaker 1: So there you go. No olive oil, but Setiful cream
Speaker 1: is my secret. I feel like you're being extremely humble
Speaker 1: because Becca and I have both been around you in person,
Speaker 1: so there's no lighting. That's not about makeup, you guys.
Speaker 1: She just looks phenomenal. It's like, don't thank you for
Speaker 1: That's that's part of the beauty of you, is your humility.
Speaker 1: But you know, let's just take a moment, you know,
Speaker 1: to praise you a bit. She really that stunning in person.
Speaker 1: I have to say, Tristo, and this is I say
Speaker 1: this all the time. I've never watched the show before
Speaker 1: being on it, so the Greatest Seasons has been really
Speaker 1: nice to go back and watch because I'm learning things
Speaker 1: in a different way. So, you know, I met you
Speaker 1: and I hadn't senior season, but I know people are like, she,
Speaker 1: you know, she's the og. She paved the way, And
Speaker 1: then I see the season and I'm like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: she really is. I did pave the way. And it
Speaker 1: was so much fun to watch your season and could
Speaker 1: I another confession. I had no idea that Alex is
Speaker 1: it Michelle Michael. Michelle didn't know he was the first Bachelor.
Speaker 1: I thought it was the Firestone guy. So I'm watching it, like,
Speaker 1: who is this man? I thought it was a Firestone guy.
Speaker 1: Had no idea. I really need to update, Like there
Speaker 1: needs to be a Bachelor history book or something that
Speaker 1: you're so right there does I'll write it. Hey, that's
Speaker 1: that's a money maker, so honestly, don't give it to
Speaker 1: the franchise. And he's family all of our bachelorettes, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it together. Yeah, I love it. I
Speaker 1: love it. We already have the group chat going. We
Speaker 1: might as well. It's so hard to even know where
Speaker 1: to start in this interview because it's like I want
Speaker 1: to start, you know, from where you are now, but
Speaker 1: then it's like I want to go back to the season,
Speaker 1: but then I want to talk about your season. I
Speaker 1: remember coming into the the reunion and I was so
Speaker 1: excited to meet you. I wanted to talk to you.
Speaker 1: I wanted to pick your brain because you knew the
Speaker 1: show different from when we did. And I'm not just
Speaker 1: talking about the fashion or even talking about you know,
Speaker 1: the setup was a little different. It's that there was
Speaker 1: no social media and all of that. So I guess
Speaker 1: I'll just start and saying, you know, you've watched all
Speaker 1: the seasons since you you experienced your own, How has
Speaker 1: it changed from you for you from then to now?
Speaker 1: Like watching the show? Yeah, so many ways. There's so
Speaker 1: many little nuances that are different, and logistics and the
Speaker 1: way that they do things. Obviously, social media is probably
Speaker 1: the biggest change since my season. But I do have
Speaker 1: to say that there were message boards, so on ABC
Speaker 1: dot Com they would put you know, there was internet
Speaker 1: back then, so they would put links to these message
Speaker 1: boards and message boards. Back then. We're kind of like Reddit,
Speaker 1: where people would start a thread and then comment, comment, comment, comment, comment,
Speaker 1: So you couldn't directly message the person that you were
Speaker 1: speaking about, but you could go off on whatever you thought.
Speaker 1: And so I was I was definitely criticized, as you
Speaker 1: guys heard on the show on Monday. There were. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of press criticism for like, even before
Speaker 1: the show started, flut shaming me and telling me that
Speaker 1: how are you gonna, you know, be able to hold
Speaker 1: your character and not look like a slut, And so
Speaker 1: there was a lot of that rhetoric, and the message
Speaker 1: boards were definitely not time. So I dealt with hatred
Speaker 1: in a different way, but in a similar way, you know.
Speaker 1: But yes, social media has totally changed the game in
Speaker 1: terms of and I say the game just it's not
Speaker 1: a game to me for people out there who are
Speaker 1: going to say, oh, she's the word game. It is
Speaker 1: different in that people I feel like nowadays come on
Speaker 1: the show, not all the time, because there are people
Speaker 1: who are still in it for the right reasons, but
Speaker 1: they come in it because they think that they're going
Speaker 1: to get Instagram famous and they know that they're going
Speaker 1: to get tons of followers just by being on the ship.
Speaker 1: So I think that that dilutes a little bit of
Speaker 1: the reason that we all did the show, and that's
Speaker 1: to find love, you know. So that's a sad occurrence
Speaker 1: to me, but I think that is just the way
Speaker 1: that are called sure is now um and we just
Speaker 1: have to hope that there are people who are going
Speaker 1: to apply for the show who truly do want to
Speaker 1: find love and not just fame. But you know, there's
Speaker 1: little things like like high definition. It definitely wasn't I
Speaker 1: don't know, we did like phenomenal, so I, oh, you
Speaker 1: need high death. Well actually maybe not as these crows,
Speaker 1: but so, um, like we had date boxes we had
Speaker 1: I would give um, they would give VCR tapes to
Speaker 1: the guys to find out or VHS tapes to the
Speaker 1: guys to find out what their dates were going to be. Um.
Speaker 1: They all did a video message to me before the
Speaker 1: rose ceremony. So I would go into I can't remember
Speaker 1: that what they called the room, but it was like
Speaker 1: a you had all the guys pictures and picture frames
Speaker 1: against this wall. It was like the contemplation room or
Speaker 1: something like that. And I would stand there and like
Speaker 1: look longing to longingly into their eyes and their photos
Speaker 1: and then listen to their video messages and and that
Speaker 1: was a fun little thing that they used to do,
Speaker 1: which I actually wish that they still did. Um. I
Speaker 1: had friends of mine come on the show and stay
Speaker 1: in the house with the guys. Yeah, they were like, yes,
Speaker 1: isn't that crazy? So they stayed with the guys for
Speaker 1: a week and then they reported back to me. I
Speaker 1: think it wasn't me a week, it might have been
Speaker 1: a few days. They reported back to me on who
Speaker 1: they liked, who they didn't like, and they set up
Speaker 1: dates based on who they chose. So that was a
Speaker 1: really fun expect away from the show. I know that,
Speaker 1: like they need to do that again. Well, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like I think it was Hannah Brown season. They
Speaker 1: had Demi and Katie I think the first night in
Speaker 1: the van watching the guys, and then they chatted with
Speaker 1: Hannah and reported back. But it's like, can you imagine
Speaker 1: if you could get some of your friends nowadays to
Speaker 1: go and keep an eye on those guys? Oh god,
Speaker 1: I think cuts like I would have maybe four guys
Speaker 1: left at the like at the very beginning, just to
Speaker 1: get to know because like stories about you already isn't
Speaker 1: that fun. So that was a big change too, I
Speaker 1: have to ask you, because when I was watching it,
Speaker 1: I thought, wow, this is it was. The quality was better,
Speaker 1: and by that I mean the reasons people would come
Speaker 1: onto the show. The guys had actual jobs, that's right.
Speaker 1: I honestly didn't think that I would find someone because
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, people aren't going to have real
Speaker 1: jobs or real you know, goals. That's that was my thinking.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at the men that are on your show.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're going to people's houses. They I mean,
Speaker 1: they really are established in their own right prior to
Speaker 1: coming on the show, which I thought was so great.
Speaker 1: And then there wasn't that much drama. Not granted I
Speaker 1: saw you know, the short version. I'm sure there was,
Speaker 1: but the show wasn't focused on the drama, and it
Speaker 1: really seemed to be focused on the conversations that you
Speaker 1: guys had, like you and your number two I don't
Speaker 1: even remember his name, Charlie, but Charlie, but sitting in
Speaker 1: the vehicle talking, You're talking about the fantasy suit, you're
Speaker 1: talking about sex, you're talking about the I just I
Speaker 1: thought it was so good. So my question, my question
Speaker 1: is do you get frustrated watching the show now seeing
Speaker 1: the sharp turn that it has taken from the time
Speaker 1: that you were on it. Yeah, for sure. I have
Speaker 1: always said, but I kind of want them to go
Speaker 1: back to how it used to be in terms of
Speaker 1: like plucking someone out of obscurity, you know, And I
Speaker 1: think that Matt James is perfect for that because he
Speaker 1: hasn't been on a prior show, you know. Obviously, not
Speaker 1: only for the diversity element, because I'm sure it was necessary,
Speaker 1: but I think that because no one knows him, we
Speaker 1: can all fall in love with him together, you know,
Speaker 1: and and there's no preconceived notions. So it is frustrating
Speaker 1: to me. It was very innocent back in the day.
Speaker 1: And and to your point, there was no drama with
Speaker 1: the guys. They had so much fun on my show,
Speaker 1: um and even on the First Bachelor, it was not
Speaker 1: caddy at all, like we all truly got along. And
Speaker 1: I think that because production knows that they if they
Speaker 1: want the viewers to you know, when you learn the
Speaker 1: elements of a story, like just the basics when you're
Speaker 1: in elementary school, you learn that there has to be
Speaker 1: a villain or some kind of controversy, some some element
Speaker 1: that will draw you in and and it can't just
Speaker 1: be all rainbows and unicorns all the time, you know.
Speaker 1: So I think that they, you know, they learned that
Speaker 1: they need to they need to kind of encourage that
Speaker 1: in a way, and so I think through casting they
Speaker 1: realize that we need a villain, so who's going to
Speaker 1: be the villain, and then they go on to maybe
Speaker 1: encourage a little more drama than you know by by
Speaker 1: your itms and the questions that they ask you and
Speaker 1: kind of leading you down a certain path. So, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is. It's it is unfortunate. But as a viewer
Speaker 1: and someone who lives in the real world and is
Speaker 1: realistic about this stuff, um, I think that they need
Speaker 1: that drama in order to hold our attention as viewers.
Speaker 1: But it is. It is frustrating because I truly, knowing
Speaker 1: that Ryan and I have the success with story that
Speaker 1: we do and that we were there just to find love,
Speaker 1: I wish that it still was all about that. You know.
Speaker 1: I want to ask speaking of Ryan, because you know
Speaker 1: when you guys did meet, you met in like I
Speaker 1: like to say, the show was like down to the basics,
Speaker 1: like you were truly their hope and you you said
Speaker 1: it best. I think in your last day, they're like,
Speaker 1: you're hoping to find somebody your compati with, that you
Speaker 1: fell in love with that works not only in the
Speaker 1: show world but in the real world. And so I think,
Speaker 1: especially in the first season of The Bachelorette, you had
Speaker 1: the ability because you didn't have social media coming from it.
Speaker 1: You didn't. You didn't leave the show expecting I'm going
Speaker 1: to be able to travel to all these cool places
Speaker 1: and these parties are going to invite me all over
Speaker 1: the world, and there's all this like hype. I think
Speaker 1: when people get off the show, they think they're going
Speaker 1: to get all these brand endorsements. There's a lot now
Speaker 1: that comes from the show, where back then it probably
Speaker 1: wasn't as much. What would you say to now people
Speaker 1: who who are going on the show? You know, we
Speaker 1: know that Claire is now going to be soon filming
Speaker 1: with her guys. They're in quarantine now, but they're they're
Speaker 1: in this weird position now where they don't get to
Speaker 1: travel around the world on the show like people in
Speaker 1: the past have They they but it's kind of going
Speaker 1: back to the basics with her season. So what would
Speaker 1: you tell not only the guys an unclear season and
Speaker 1: coming out of it, but also heading into Matt James
Speaker 1: this season, because that's going to look a little bit
Speaker 1: different too, like going into it, what to expect and
Speaker 1: what to focus on when they're filming in this quote
Speaker 1: unquote new sort of filming environment. Yeah, well, I think
Speaker 1: that you know, they're still going to have It's The Bachelor,
Speaker 1: so they're gonna have once in a lifetime opportunities no
Speaker 1: matter where they are. You know, they'll have I'm sure
Speaker 1: recording artists, actors, comedians, whatever, I'm sure they'll have them
Speaker 1: on the show that sort of thing. Um. So I
Speaker 1: am really looking forward to that. Like I have to say,
Speaker 1: I definitely have had a jealous bone in my body
Speaker 1: every single time one of you all comes on and
Speaker 1: is like in Switzerland or New Zealand, and I like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. So I'm happy to see yes, right.
Speaker 1: I love Seattle and it's where I fell in love
Speaker 1: truly with my husband. But you know, I do love
Speaker 1: to travel in borbor It would have been nice. Um. So,
Speaker 1: I you know, I think that they can still have
Speaker 1: an incredible experience, and they still will if they fully
Speaker 1: give to the experience and are there and are vulnerable
Speaker 1: and are willing to to to really dig deep and
Speaker 1: get into that emotional part of what they need to
Speaker 1: do in order to find out if they're truly meant
Speaker 1: to be with Claire for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 1: You know. Um, sorry, So I don't know, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I think that because it's reality TV and it's The Bachelor,
Speaker 1: They're going to still make it pretty fantastic. You know,
Speaker 1: the dates are going to be pretty cool. Um, But
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to getting back down why the
Speaker 1: show is created. This is something that I actually talked
Speaker 1: about it with Rachel and some of the other bachelottes
Speaker 1: yesterday because we did a little virtual brunch with some
Speaker 1: fans and oh one thing, and it was so fun
Speaker 1: to because they have been watching the show since the beginning.
Speaker 1: And one thing that stuck out to me during that
Speaker 1: conversation is they brought up your season and how your dates.
Speaker 1: They loved watching them because they felt like they were
Speaker 1: dates that they could do with their partner. You know,
Speaker 1: you were on the beach having a picnic. It wasn't
Speaker 1: all of this. I think it's fun for people to
Speaker 1: see the extravagant dates and it kind of takes them
Speaker 1: out of their world for a little bit. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, like that's not accessible to
Speaker 1: most people, and so to be able to watch your
Speaker 1: love story with Bryan but some of the other guys too,
Speaker 1: to just have more like a date that is accessible
Speaker 1: where somebody can go out and take a walk and
Speaker 1: talk and sit on the beach or have a picnic
Speaker 1: and just drink champagne. That's something that stuck out to
Speaker 1: them that I think was really special and I'm hoping
Speaker 1: maybe it's not going to make for as great of TV,
Speaker 1: but I really am. I'm excited for Claar season to
Speaker 1: see something like that where it's more about the conversation
Speaker 1: and that interaction and the connection as opposed to, Oh,
Speaker 1: we're going to go in a hot air balloon with
Speaker 1: a world famous violin player. You know that's that's us.
Speaker 1: You're so right. I haven't thought about it like that.
Speaker 1: But um, I feel like a lot of people enjoyed
Speaker 1: watching Ryan and I and My season because it was relatable,
Speaker 1: like they just like you said, it was accessible, it
Speaker 1: was relatable and I love that too. Now now you've
Speaker 1: got me even more excited for Claar season because I'm
Speaker 1: I think that we can focus as viewers on the
Speaker 1: development of the relationship, and to me, that's why I
Speaker 1: watched the show. I don't want to watch it necessarily
Speaker 1: for the fantastical elements, you know, I think that's fun,
Speaker 1: But I watch it because I love love. I am
Speaker 1: a hopeless romantic. I love watching people fall in love,
Speaker 1: be in love, you know everything about love. So I
Speaker 1: think that it's really truly getting down to why they
Speaker 1: created the show. And I love that. I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: Even more so, we are super excited for Claire's season two.
Speaker 1: I do have a question. Does Ryan still have the
Speaker 1: bucket hat? Oh my god, you guys so after the show,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's here. So after the show we were
Speaker 1: talking about it, and actually a couple of people have
Speaker 1: sent him screenshots of him on to you with the
Speaker 1: bucket hat, and so like, you need to change your
Speaker 1: profile picture. So we went into his closet, Pete and
Speaker 1: blake's Ley and I and we got the bucket hat
Speaker 1: and she took it to the beach the next day.
Speaker 1: We have a little we have a little lake with
Speaker 1: the beach. She shook it, took the beach to the
Speaker 1: next day and I did like a little photo shoot.
Speaker 1: I haven't posted a picture right yet, but oh my god,
Speaker 1: she's so cute and the buckett to host. It's between
Speaker 1: the bucket hat and the poetry. Ryan. What happened me too?
Speaker 1: I loved it. All is making a comeback? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it. I think Kevin one asterisk fiance who was
Speaker 1: wearing one mate. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure he was wearing one the other day. The way
Speaker 1: it's it's funny that you bring up Kevin, and it's
Speaker 1: not just the firefighter thing. There's something very when I
Speaker 1: was watching it, they they're very haven't I haven't been
Speaker 1: around Ryan, but I've been around Kevin, and there's something
Speaker 1: very similar to them. I don't know what. I don't
Speaker 1: know why, not in the parents, but just the way
Speaker 1: that they are. And Kevin's great and I can tell
Speaker 1: Ryan is too. But there's something though that we were
Speaker 1: talking about before that I want to ask you. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can be deemed as a tab negative at times
Speaker 1: when it comes to talking about the franchise, but it's
Speaker 1: something that you said that I think is why when
Speaker 1: I speak about these numerous seasons, it comes off that way.
Speaker 1: And we can all say this, but I feel because
Speaker 1: it worked for me. I feel extremely protective over this
Speaker 1: process because I know it can work, and I know
Speaker 1: it is very real, even if it is a TV show.
Speaker 1: And so I think when I'm critiquing some of the
Speaker 1: newer things that I see, it's because i'm defensive because
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is real. Stop making a joke of it.
Speaker 1: Stop playing around with this. This is a real thing.
Speaker 1: Do you feel that way when you watch the show
Speaker 1: sometimes in these in these later seasons, because I'm just
Speaker 1: like you, guys, stop it's a It's a real thing.
Speaker 1: And I know I get criticized for it so much,
Speaker 1: but coming from you know, the person who set the
Speaker 1: bar so high for all of us and paved the
Speaker 1: way and set an example. Do you feel that sometimes,
Speaker 1: like like this process is your baby? Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: The show is part of me. It's my history. It's
Speaker 1: the reason that I have my family. So I am
Speaker 1: that's a perfect word, Rachel as protective. I definitely get offended.
Speaker 1: And I feel like a lot of the times I
Speaker 1: try to be real and and speak my mind, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, I feel like all of you
Speaker 1: are my little babies, and and so I'm protective not
Speaker 1: only over the show and then like kind of treating
Speaker 1: the show right and being invested in it as I was,
Speaker 1: and being there for the truly for the right reasons,
Speaker 1: for the love um, but I'm also really protective over
Speaker 1: everybody who's been on the show, and because I feel
Speaker 1: like we are all a family, and I know that
Speaker 1: people have joked and said very godmother, and I've even
Speaker 1: been called grandmother by grandmother. Oh I won't say your name,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I apologize on behalf of that was you
Speaker 1: don't let me, don't let me find out. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: you are if you're a grandmother es, so I was
Speaker 1: like grandmother, know, but I'll be called very godmother any day. Um,
Speaker 1: I love that. So you know I have been called
Speaker 1: those things and I really do take those to heart,
Speaker 1: Like I yes, I was there in the beginning and
Speaker 1: know the plan wasn't for me to like be you know,
Speaker 1: around for this long the show for be around this
Speaker 1: long and for me to be called the very godmother
Speaker 1: like there was never an intention back then, but because
Speaker 1: that's kind of how things have happened. Um, I definitely
Speaker 1: I take ownership of it. I love it. I love
Speaker 1: this part of my story of who I am. And
Speaker 1: I maybe don't like everyone in the French guys and
Speaker 1: I haven't shared like of them probably, but but I
Speaker 1: love them all because we are all connected and this
Speaker 1: crazy discombobulated family. So yeah, I definitely am very protective
Speaker 1: over the show the way that people talk about it
Speaker 1: and everyone involved trust I will say you have not
Speaker 1: only have you paved the way for us other bachelorettes,
Speaker 1: but you have been one of the most consistent, kind,
Speaker 1: caring people within the franchise and within like all of
Speaker 1: the contestants and leads group together, you have been one
Speaker 1: of the most standout people, especially to me and especially
Speaker 1: during this crazy year of twenty twenty with everything going on,
Speaker 1: to always check in on all of the bachelorettes to
Speaker 1: see how we're doing, to reach out and call us,
Speaker 1: and that's something that I definitely cannot say for a
Speaker 1: lot of people that come from the show. That's something really,
Speaker 1: really special. And it's interesting because I feel so lucky
Speaker 1: to have been you know, I was the fourteenth bachelorette,
Speaker 1: and so I had thirteen of you reaching out beforehand
Speaker 1: and reaching out after or to check in on me
Speaker 1: and to give me advice and to be someone that
Speaker 1: I can lean on through all of this. And now, luckily,
Speaker 1: you know, we've been able to do that with Claire
Speaker 1: as well before she went off on her journey. So
Speaker 1: do you feel like, in a way, since you were
Speaker 1: the very first, like if you could have had somebody
Speaker 1: be where you are. To me and to Rachel, what
Speaker 1: would what advice would you have wanted? But before you
Speaker 1: became the lead, before you were put into that position,
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I would have wanted to know everything, all
Speaker 1: the details. Um. And we knew nothing, you know, going in.
Speaker 1: It was a totally new show. There were there were
Speaker 1: no for the right reasons, there was no there were
Speaker 1: none of the god, I'm having bad word day right now. Um,
Speaker 1: it always happened to me. So UM, I feel like
Speaker 1: there was nothing for us to base our behavior on.
Speaker 1: And now people come in and they're like, I think
Speaker 1: they think of themselves like, I'm going to be the
Speaker 1: next Bachelor, I'm going to be the villain. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be I'm gonna be Trista. They pattered themselves after
Speaker 1: Bacherettes too. Yeah, oh yeah, it's true. Yeah, So they
Speaker 1: had we had nothing to go off of. So I
Speaker 1: would have loved, just honestly, any information. I crave information.
Speaker 1: I think knowledge is power, and I would have really
Speaker 1: really been thankful to have anything, any information. Um. Although
Speaker 1: you know, looking back, I guess hindsights twenty twenty and
Speaker 1: not having anything maybe it was a good thing because
Speaker 1: I went into it completely myself and genuine and I
Speaker 1: and and that was important to me to be who
Speaker 1: I was and not act like someone else. And maybe
Speaker 1: that happens nowadays. Do you guys think that like They've
Speaker 1: probably come in and think I have this person like
Speaker 1: like whomever that they are trying to act like. And
Speaker 1: especially with social media and comparing ourselves to everyone, you know,
Speaker 1: so important because so many people ask, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: our audience who listens to this, they ask, I want
Speaker 1: to apply for the Bachelor? What what did you do?
Speaker 1: What can I do? And what you said is so
Speaker 1: important because you're you were just yourself. That's the only
Speaker 1: person you knew how to be, and you weren't trying
Speaker 1: to be anyone else. I felt that same way. I
Speaker 1: hadn't watched it before, so I think the best advice
Speaker 1: you can give anyone coming in. And unfortunate Cleare's not
Speaker 1: listening to this, but she knows because she's talked to
Speaker 1: all about she knows that girl knows exactly who she is,
Speaker 1: what she wants, what she's going after. But I would
Speaker 1: say to people, and this isn't just in regard to Bachelor,
Speaker 1: but just life in general. Yeah, maybe have a role model,
Speaker 1: maybe have somebody you look to because you value what
Speaker 1: they value, or you look up to them for certain
Speaker 1: things that they've done. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we're all uniquely and beautifully made. You have a story
Speaker 1: to tell that's different from anyone else's, and if you
Speaker 1: lead with that, that's gonna be your best chance into
Speaker 1: getting on this show and then into succeeding on the
Speaker 1: show period. That's that's really the case. Um oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you something about your season.
Speaker 1: I keep going back to your season because it's just sorry,
Speaker 1: it's just the season, the type of season I want
Speaker 1: to see it. Well, I want to know asker because
Speaker 1: I'm thinking because you didn't have, like, there wasn't a
Speaker 1: rule book for you. You just went in saying like
Speaker 1: I want to find the person who I fall in
Speaker 1: love with, who I'm compatible with like and watching that back,
Speaker 1: you know, even though it was several years ago, like,
Speaker 1: it was so refreshing to be able to rewatch you
Speaker 1: and to just see you. You were just you. As
Speaker 1: Rachel was saying, you didn't go off of anything. You
Speaker 1: had no one you could compare it to, so you
Speaker 1: just did what you thought in your heart and in
Speaker 1: your gut was best. So knowing that you did, you
Speaker 1: couldn't really play off of anyone and didn't have any
Speaker 1: bachelords before you. Is there anything watching your season back
Speaker 1: that you wished you would not have done that you
Speaker 1: maybe regret. There is something that I regret, and I've
Speaker 1: talked about it a lot over the years. So this
Speaker 1: is the same answer if people have heard it before.
Speaker 1: But on the very first Bachelor, I was a point
Speaker 1: blank asked Alex who he would choose if he had
Speaker 1: to choose then, and it was like two nights before
Speaker 1: the final rose ceremony, and of course he's gonna say me.
Speaker 1: Of course, I mean, what guy in their right mind
Speaker 1: is not going to say the girl that he's looking at,
Speaker 1: You know that in that moment, So he said me.
Speaker 1: So I went into the final rose ceremony thinking I'm
Speaker 1: getting engaged. This is like the biggest moment of my life.
Speaker 1: This is crazy. And I didn't and I was heartbroken
Speaker 1: and all the things. So when I was the bachelorette,
Speaker 1: I went into it thinking Alex had all this time
Speaker 1: with us. Yes, it was only six weeks back in
Speaker 1: the day, but it was six weeks of solely focusing
Speaker 1: on our relationship. And so we had all this time
Speaker 1: and at the very end he thought he was going
Speaker 1: to choose me, and then he didn't choose me. So
Speaker 1: that tells me, oh my gosh, like I need to
Speaker 1: hold my cards close to my chest, even more more
Speaker 1: so than before, because I don't know what kind of
Speaker 1: deal breaker I will hear about, or if something will
Speaker 1: happen and my mind will be changed. Right. So I'm
Speaker 1: in the bachelorette and Ryan is professing his love to
Speaker 1: me through notes, through yes, through poems. But he handed
Speaker 1: me a note when the cameras weren't around. We were
Speaker 1: in the car. He was saying goodbye in veil at
Speaker 1: his hometown, and he handed me this note and I
Speaker 1: literal early went into the bathroom in my hotel room
Speaker 1: because I thought that my hotel room was bugged with cameras.
Speaker 1: I so I was like, I was so paranoid, you guys,
Speaker 1: so paranoid. So I went into the bathroom and I'm
Speaker 1: reading this note and he tells me that he's falling
Speaker 1: in love with me, and he continued to after that.
Speaker 1: You know, he needed As you probably know, this show
Speaker 1: is definitely way out of his comfort zone still is
Speaker 1: to this day. He didn't watch the other night, he
Speaker 1: won't watch in the future, just because it is an
Speaker 1: uncomfortable thing for him, and I fully respect that. But
Speaker 1: he was telling me that he was falling in love
Speaker 1: with me, and I didn't give him any inclination. I mean,
Speaker 1: with my body language. I felt like, I did you know,
Speaker 1: I was very like, very affectionate in public, in person, whatever,
Speaker 1: And I thought that he could gander from that that
Speaker 1: I was falling in love with him too. But I
Speaker 1: never said the words. I never gave him what's the
Speaker 1: word reassurance, thank you, the reassurance that I was in
Speaker 1: it and it was him. But I just, even up
Speaker 1: to the last minute, I wanted to be sure that
Speaker 1: I was making the right decision, and so I didn't
Speaker 1: want to do kind of what Ben Higgins did and
Speaker 1: tell to people that I was falling in love with them.
Speaker 1: I didn't even want to tell one person I was
Speaker 1: falling in love with them because I didn't want my
Speaker 1: mind to be changed in some way, shape or form
Speaker 1: and then have to backjack and hurt his feelings like
Speaker 1: I had been hurt on The Bachelor. So that's a
Speaker 1: big regret of mine. I feel like he deserved to
Speaker 1: know where my head was at. And with the advice
Speaker 1: that I give anyone who asks me to date, I say,
Speaker 1: just be true to yourself, really really listened to your gut,
Speaker 1: and go with whatever your gut is telling you. But
Speaker 1: give in to your emotions, give in to expressing those
Speaker 1: emotions and being vulnerable and sharing. Maybe not to the
Speaker 1: point of telling two people that you love them. Something
Speaker 1: that you said made me think of what I was
Speaker 1: watching you on Alex's season is the way he described you.
Speaker 1: It was like Trista's the cool girl that I could
Speaker 1: never get, and and he had the He said he
Speaker 1: had a big crush on you. You made him nervous.
Speaker 1: He was so infatuated with you because in real life
Speaker 1: he probably was like, I'll never get a Trista, which
Speaker 1: I laughed because fast forward to nowadays. I always say
Speaker 1: the guys, now, the reason a lot of these relationships
Speaker 1: don't work is because they picked the girl they could
Speaker 1: never get in real life. They picked the girl who's
Speaker 1: their dream girl, not who makes sense and who works
Speaker 1: in real life. That's the real question that I was
Speaker 1: going to ask you, though I remember it now Okay,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm learning Bachelor history as we go.
Speaker 1: But I thought about this when I was watching, So
Speaker 1: how many one how many bachelors were before your season?
Speaker 1: Because at the time you left Alex this season, were
Speaker 1: they ever talking to you about a bachelorette? And then
Speaker 1: when you did find out, were you just completely shocked?
Speaker 1: Because I'm very curious as to how much time passed.
Speaker 1: So there were two bachelors, Um, just Alex and Aaron
Speaker 1: Bergie was the second they asked, what you okay, He's
Speaker 1: kind of disappeared too, He m, I believe he lives
Speaker 1: in Missouri or Kansas. Um, he's a pilot. Yeah, anyway, Um,
Speaker 1: so there were two bachelors and I found out, Um,
Speaker 1: I was watching the finale in New York with a
Speaker 1: bunch of my friends of The Bachelor and uh and
Speaker 1: Slice called me and during the finale, like I remember
Speaker 1: having to kind of go away for you know, where
Speaker 1: everyone was sitting and take a call, and he said, UM,
Speaker 1: are you liking watching the show? And then he was like,
Speaker 1: what do you think about being the bachelorette? And I
Speaker 1: was like, really, this hadn't been talked about, Like this
Speaker 1: was no, no, no, no, I don't. I don't believe so.
Speaker 1: I don't think they talked about it during during the Bachelor.
Speaker 1: It was never I feel like a lot of people
Speaker 1: these days go on the show thinking, oh, if it
Speaker 1: doesn't work out with them, then maybe I'll be a Bachelor,
Speaker 1: or maybe I'll be the bachelorette, And back then that
Speaker 1: was definitely not not a thought in any of our minds.
Speaker 1: Um And and I don't remember ever it being a
Speaker 1: conversation with the with the producers about the possibility. It
Speaker 1: was just in that moment, and that's why I had
Speaker 1: the reaction that I did, because it was like such
Speaker 1: a surprise um And for him to be thinking about
Speaker 1: me as the bachelorette, Like I just felt like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this is so this is crazy. Why would you want me?
Speaker 1: And um it was. It was very humbling but super
Speaker 1: fundant exciting too. Yeah. I just I just I was
Speaker 1: thinking about that as I was watching it. I just
Speaker 1: think it's so cool. I can't imagine they're not even
Speaker 1: being a show and we're like, guess what, We're gonna
Speaker 1: launch an entire show off of you. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just it just goes to say what the franchise the
Speaker 1: creator of the show, everyone thought about you as a person,
Speaker 1: which we're now very lucky to get to know as well.
Speaker 1: It all makes it. I get it. Thanks. I want
Speaker 1: to show off you too. You were honestly probably the
Speaker 1: best woman to kick start the bachelotte journey. Honestly like
Speaker 1: you held your own you were and like who you
Speaker 1: are in real life. And when we talk to you
Speaker 1: and I've gotten to know you, throw up this past
Speaker 1: here like that is still you when we watched you
Speaker 1: back on the screen. We do have a game that
Speaker 1: I want to get into, but before that, I need
Speaker 1: to ask you because I ask all of the bachelorttes
Speaker 1: this question, and I ask Clear this even though she
Speaker 1: hasn't started for journey yet, but she's about to. And
Speaker 1: do you still wake up or like pinch yourself in
Speaker 1: moments and say like I cannot believe I was the Bachelorette.
Speaker 1: So even talking to you guys today, it like humbles me.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm a dinosaur. I feel like I'm ancient.
Speaker 1: I feel like and maybe it's because there are a
Speaker 1: lot of times when I'm not necessarily included in stuff,
Speaker 1: which you know, kind of reinforces my insecurities about being
Speaker 1: super old and they'll have you know, more recent people,
Speaker 1: because those people are the people who everyone watching knows.
Speaker 1: You know, most of our the demograph that can watch
Speaker 1: the show now are way younger, and and I feel like, um,
Speaker 1: maybe a lot of people can't relate to me just
Speaker 1: because I'm at a different part point in my life,
Speaker 1: you know. So um, oh gosh, what was the question, Becca,
Speaker 1: I don't believe for sure. I do all the time
Speaker 1: in talking to you guys and doing Good Morning America,
Speaker 1: like they still want to talk to me like that
Speaker 1: is shocking to me. I. Um, being part of the
Speaker 1: reunion was Oh. I just loved that that day, that
Speaker 1: weekend with everyone because, as I've said, I feel super
Speaker 1: connected to everyone who has been on the show. We've
Speaker 1: all been through this rare opportunity and and life to
Speaker 1: me is all about human connection. It is all about
Speaker 1: the relationships that I've hold the people in my life.
Speaker 1: And the fact that I get to call you guys
Speaker 1: friends who I've watched on my televisions, you know, like
Speaker 1: it it's really fun for me. So yes, I pinched
Speaker 1: myself all the time, and I'm just incredibly grateful for
Speaker 1: the experience, not only because I've met my husband and
Speaker 1: created a family from the show. But because I get
Speaker 1: to connect with all of you very well said, because
Speaker 1: the experience is so much more than you think it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, I never knew i'd make friends. I never
Speaker 1: knew I would you know, fall in love, and I
Speaker 1: never knew that I would have this community with the bachelorettes,
Speaker 1: you know, and I, oh, go ahead, no, no, keep going. Sorry, Well,
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, and I give that honestly
Speaker 1: trusted to you because I was. I was uncomfortable and
Speaker 1: I've talked to this before coming into the reunion just
Speaker 1: because I felt uncomfortable being the only person of color.
Speaker 1: But by the end of it, I was like, just
Speaker 1: felt so welcomed and I wasn't even thinking about that
Speaker 1: and then like you jump starting the group chat and
Speaker 1: the community that we have there, Like Becca said, you're
Speaker 1: reaching out in twenty twenty, You've reached out reach out
Speaker 1: to me multiple times about like what's going on to
Speaker 1: black people in the country, and it's really really meant
Speaker 1: a lot. So I mean, it's just this sisterhood is
Speaker 1: one of the most beautiful things out of all of this,
Speaker 1: and I think that's why I hate when I see
Speaker 1: seasons where there's just so much cattiness shown between the women,
Speaker 1: because it really is the key to survival. Beck and
Speaker 1: I've talked about this to the show, to finding your
Speaker 1: husband even at the end or wife, is that having
Speaker 1: the sisterhood, brotherhood within the community and the house because
Speaker 1: they will uplift you and support you and push you forward.
Speaker 1: If you don't have that, you will not succeed on
Speaker 1: the show. Okay, I could keep talking. You want to
Speaker 1: say something, you want to say something. I want you
Speaker 1: to have your point. Sorry, I know you guys are
Speaker 1: giving me full body chills because the like we season one,
Speaker 1: thirteen and fourteen, the fact that we're having this conversation,
Speaker 1: that we have this bond is so special and I
Speaker 1: feel kind of bad for our listeners out there who
Speaker 1: can't be part of like within this conversation, I just
Speaker 1: want to wrap you girls up and hug you because
Speaker 1: it is a sisterhood. And like when you go on
Speaker 1: the show, you think, Okay, I'm gonna live with thirty
Speaker 1: some girls and I'll hopefully make friends with some of them.
Speaker 1: But the fact that like we all came from different
Speaker 1: seasons at different times and can form these friendships and
Speaker 1: these bonds is something so special and so yeah, devoloped
Speaker 1: what you just said, Rachel. You know, the key to
Speaker 1: not surviving the show, but to really embrace it for
Speaker 1: all that it is and soak it all in is
Speaker 1: to form those friendships. And you never know who you're
Speaker 1: gonna meet coming from, never know, you never know. Okay,
Speaker 1: we gotta let your kids get back to Fortnite. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna wrap this up really quickly with a but
Speaker 1: um okay, so the game that we're gonna play doesn't
Speaker 1: have a name. Yeah, we're gonna call it OG or neubi.
Speaker 1: So the way this is going to work is you
Speaker 1: are known to everybody as the ultimate OG. And by
Speaker 1: the way, when we say OG, we are not talking
Speaker 1: about original Grandma, because I am still mad at whoever
Speaker 1: freaking had the nerve to say that to you. OG
Speaker 1: as an original gangster of the Bachelor world. And while
Speaker 1: most of us will agree that OG's are always better,
Speaker 1: you know, some people might argue that newbies can hold
Speaker 1: their own as well. So we're gonna play a game
Speaker 1: OG or Newbie. So here are the roles. When we
Speaker 1: name an OG or, we will name an OG and
Speaker 1: a newbie across various categories, and you have to choose
Speaker 1: whether you'd prefer the classic or the newer version. Are
Speaker 1: I'm nervous? Don't you go with your gut first thing
Speaker 1: that comes to your mind? Okay, becca, Becca can kick
Speaker 1: it off. Okay, So to kick it off, we have
Speaker 1: to they start with the bachelor. So we are giving
Speaker 1: you Alex Michelle or Peter Webber. Oh god, okay, So
Speaker 1: am I choosing these people as like I think that
Speaker 1: they were a better bachelor or a better person or
Speaker 1: what better bachelor? We will have you. We won't have
Speaker 1: you get all into the weeds of it. Just a
Speaker 1: better bachelor? Who was a better bach? Better bachelor? Um,
Speaker 1: I'm Peter. Sorry, sorry, interesting but it So that's a
Speaker 1: tough one to start with. Yeah, I mean he was
Speaker 1: the first, and he'd like like any of us on
Speaker 1: the first Bachelor, we didn't know what we were doing.
Speaker 1: But still it was the oversized suit coats, right, that's
Speaker 1: why you went with Peter Good? So funny, I die
Speaker 1: am watching Chris Sarrison. Um, okay, Batman's Michael Keaton or
Speaker 1: a Christian Bale. Oh my gosh, my okay. Christian Bale
Speaker 1: was the newer one. Yeah, yes, okay, I gotta go
Speaker 1: with Michael Keaton. Sorry oge um, Yeah, I hate how
Speaker 1: he changed. Like every single time a new movie comes out,
Speaker 1: there's a new Batman. Like, just stick with the originals.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a really good one for you
Speaker 1: because we're playing off of that. We're gonna give you
Speaker 1: three choices here. But for a Star is Born, we
Speaker 1: have Judy Garland, Barbra Streisan or Lady Gaga. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I have not seen the original Star is borns um,
Speaker 1: so I have to go with Lady Gaga just because
Speaker 1: it's the only one I've seen. And holy cow, was
Speaker 1: she not phenomenal in that movie? Yes, I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone could beat her. I cried. I haven't cried like
Speaker 1: that since Titanic in a movie theater like publicly it
Speaker 1: was it was bad. It was bad. It was bad. Okay,
Speaker 1: James bad. We got Sean Connery or Daniel Craig. You
Speaker 1: didn't even need to say Daniel Craig. Sean Connery is
Speaker 1: my end all be all James Bond, Yeah, we love him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't beat that. Okay, we'll switch it up from movies.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go to social media. I already know how
Speaker 1: Rachel would answer this. But we have Facebook or TikTok. Oh,
Speaker 1: I can't do TikTok. So I just took my daughter
Speaker 1: off of TikTok. Good. It's a whole long story that
Speaker 1: you guys definitely don't want to listen to. But it's
Speaker 1: just a touch mature for an eleven year old. And originally,
Speaker 1: when she came to me and said she wanted it,
Speaker 1: I didn't even want her to be on it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of TikTok right now as a mom. Trista,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm thirty, and it's a tad bit old for me.
Speaker 1: Like it's too much for me seeing those dance moves.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I think I should be with your daughter
Speaker 1: and just delete my account. I get Anne into it.
Speaker 1: We deleted her account. We had a big discussion about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a talk for another another time. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you not to be too political, but they're saying
Speaker 1: they're getting information from this app, like it's a big
Speaker 1: deal that US is talking about banning it. So I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, I know, do you know what we were
Speaker 1: I was sitting in Blakesley's room with her the other
Speaker 1: day and I think she was watching YouTube and there
Speaker 1: was a YouTube like Little Box that was talking about
Speaker 1: how TikTok maybe banned, and she was like a good thing.
Speaker 1: We deleted it. We deleted it before it that a girl,
Speaker 1: that's right, I know for all of our listeners. Blakesley
Speaker 1: actually came to the Bachelorette reunion last year and she
Speaker 1: was like our fifteenth bachelrette because Hannah Braun wasn't there
Speaker 1: because she was filming, and it was so she is
Speaker 1: the sweetest, Like, yeah, and I just love the bond
Speaker 1: that you guys have. She loves you guys, and honestly,
Speaker 1: what I love now it's like kind of a full
Speaker 1: circle thing, is like she I love of that. You
Speaker 1: guys are these great role models for my daughter, you know,
Speaker 1: not even taking me out of it. I love that
Speaker 1: people that I adore she adores too. So oh she's
Speaker 1: great honorary bachelorette with us. Yeah for sure. Oh it's
Speaker 1: my start. Okay, um, lets skip that one late night
Speaker 1: host Johnny Carson Jimmy Kimmel. Oh my god, that's hard
Speaker 1: because Johnny Carson, Holy caw. I used to love watching
Speaker 1: him when my parents would let me when I was little.
Speaker 1: But I do. I love Jimmy Kimmel's a funny story.
Speaker 1: Before we got married. We went on his show and
Speaker 1: he hands us an envelope as his like wedding present,
Speaker 1: and it was full of cash. Stop, are you serious? What?
Speaker 1: At this end, it was like, I like your uncle Jimmy,
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna hand you an envelope full of cash.
Speaker 1: So did you keep all of it? He gave us
Speaker 1: all like it wasn't a joke, Like he was just like,
Speaker 1: here you go. I would have I would have been
Speaker 1: stuffing in my purse, say Uncle Jimmy, thanks preciate. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Uncle Jimmy. I love that. Actually
Speaker 1: I made a bet with him, and uh, I won
Speaker 1: ten dollars and so to this day it's hanging out
Speaker 1: my fridge. I will never spend the ten dollars. That's
Speaker 1: so funny. You've never spent it. It's like, yeah, he
Speaker 1: has like the fun uncle that like snakes you money
Speaker 1: under the table. All right, Okay, I want to get
Speaker 1: to this one because we love our singers. So Country Diva,
Speaker 1: the Og Dolly Parton or Taylor Swift Dolly for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean nine to five. I could sing that whole
Speaker 1: song to you, right. I just love her. She's amazing.
Speaker 1: Nothing bad against Taylor Swift. I I mean she's She's
Speaker 1: t Swift, um, and I love her too, But I
Speaker 1: gotta go with the og the legend. Yeah, Dolly's still
Speaker 1: doing it. Okay, this is gonna be the last one.
Speaker 1: And before I ask you, um, do you watch American
Speaker 1: Idol or Real Housewife Housewives either? Okay, so this question
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. Fine, I'll just go with burgers, wood Burgers,
Speaker 1: in and out or shake Shack. Oh, if only we
Speaker 1: had an in and out. But in and Out is
Speaker 1: not in Colorado, and please, I live in a tiny
Speaker 1: resort town. We don't have anything besides Walmart and Wendy's.
Speaker 1: So um, when we go to Denver, it's all about
Speaker 1: shake Shack. It's right down the street from my in
Speaker 1: lost house. So gotta go with shake Shack until in
Speaker 1: and Out comes to Colorado. I agree with you on
Speaker 1: that one. I agree more options though they do well
Speaker 1: because you know, they just have the burgers, right. I
Speaker 1: have always said that my last meal if I was
Speaker 1: on death row and I had to pick a last meal,
Speaker 1: it would be it would be a burger and fries
Speaker 1: and a and a milkshake. So I'm so glad we
Speaker 1: ask you that question. Then forget American Idol and Real
Speaker 1: Housewives now we know where they're wrong. Going to go
Speaker 1: on our Bachelorrette dates to say, you know, oh, Trista,
Speaker 1: this has been so great, long overdue, as we said
Speaker 1: at the beginning, but thank you so much for doing this,
Speaker 1: thank you for all that you continue to do for
Speaker 1: the franchise, and thank you so much for being an
Speaker 1: example for us, for young women, for future bachelorettes. I mean,
Speaker 1: the list goes on and on. Yes, you are the og.
Speaker 1: We love you. You are not only a Batchelrette in
Speaker 1: our eyes, but such a good friend. So thank you, Trista.
Speaker 1: We love you. I just thought about something. There's a reason,
Speaker 1: there's a reason that the women have been more successful
Speaker 1: at this at the men, not just because women do
Speaker 1: it better. That is true, but we had you to
Speaker 1: set an example and paved the way they had Alex period.
Speaker 1: That's it, but very true. Thank you. You guys are
Speaker 1: the best. I absolutely love this And anytime you want
Speaker 1: to talk, you know, my phone is always open for you.
Speaker 1: How much do you freaking love Trista. I love her
Speaker 1: and I and we and we know what's up because
Speaker 1: we have our own personal and bachelorette relationships with her.
Speaker 1: But what I love is that everybody's getting to know her.
Speaker 1: You know that this new audience. It's funny, these new audience,
Speaker 1: they don't know me. I feel like maybe they started
Speaker 1: on your season or not even you if they came
Speaker 1: in with Peter and Hannah or Colton because of the fence.
Speaker 1: So it's it's fun I think, And I just think
Speaker 1: it's beautiful that people can see where all of this started,
Speaker 1: with all this greatest seasons ever. It's Tristas that we
Speaker 1: needed to see from you. Yes, one thousand percent. She
Speaker 1: like just listening to her and talking to her. That
Speaker 1: is who she is. We saw it on the big screen.
Speaker 1: America's finally getting to re see it. But she is
Speaker 1: just honestly one of the kindest, most vibrant souls, and
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that she was the one to pave
Speaker 1: the way for us all. Absolutely. Now, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Claire still filming, so we still have her season, but
Speaker 1: there's only fifteen of us people, So go back if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen some of the first seasons, go back
Speaker 1: and watch these badass women. Yeah, absolutely well, said all
Speaker 1: right well Rachel. As always, that was such a fun episode.
Speaker 1: And thanks to you all for hanging out because we
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