Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Bachelor Happy Hour.
Speaker 2: I'm Rachel and I'm Cheerity, and today we have Bachelor
Speaker 2: and a Bachelor in Paradise Season ten alum Jess Edwards Welcome,
Speaker 2: Hey guys. Hello, We're so happy to have you. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I feel like I haven't seen you in person since
Speaker 2: Miami's my week and that was truly a nightmare for me.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a lot.
Speaker 4: It was my first Miami Swim Week and I have
Speaker 4: never felt so chaotic in my life.
Speaker 3: But that's fine. Actually, I definitely have felt more chaotic.
Speaker 3: But you get the gist.
Speaker 1: I'll get into that. We will get into that. Jess,
Speaker 1: we first met you on Joey's season in The Bachelor
Speaker 1: and then saw you fall in love on season ten
Speaker 1: of Bachelor in Paradise. Walk us through how it's been
Speaker 1: being engaged in the real world.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it has been a whirl win.
Speaker 4: It honestly feels like a live time ago and it
Speaker 4: was only like a little over a year ago, which
Speaker 4: is crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it means when started doing great. I am in
Speaker 3: Dallas now.
Speaker 4: It's been definitely, you know, a learning curve, moving to
Speaker 4: a New City where I don't really have anyone. He
Speaker 4: has a great community here, so yeah, just figuring out,
Speaker 4: you know, how we can support each other through that.
Speaker 4: We were long distance for a little bit, as you
Speaker 4: guys know. I was in San Diego before I came
Speaker 4: out here. But it's been great. It's been great. I
Speaker 4: feel like, you know, bachelor is this bubble of almost
Speaker 4: like perfection, Like you're in this amazing scenario with wonderful
Speaker 4: people and you're in the perfect scenario to fall in
Speaker 4: love and you know, learn a lot, but then you
Speaker 4: get thrown out in the real world and you're like,
Speaker 4: oh shit, here we go.
Speaker 2: Okay, how did you guys decide on Dallas apart from
Speaker 2: San Diego?
Speaker 3: Lived here. Yeah, he's lived here for like thirteen years.
Speaker 4: He went to college out here, and then eventually like
Speaker 4: some of his family moved out here, and yeah, so
Speaker 4: we just decided that.
Speaker 3: It was better. I don't really know.
Speaker 4: Cineco is expensive, honestly, and I have family out there,
Speaker 4: but my parents are in Tennessee. So I was like,
Speaker 4: I'll be closer to my parents. It's kind of in
Speaker 4: the middle, so I can go boom to Tennessee, Boom
Speaker 4: to California, and yeah, that's kind of how we decided.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I love that.
Speaker 1: I love Bachelor really is such a perfect bubble. And
Speaker 1: you said you guys have had some learning curves. What
Speaker 1: has that been in the real world?
Speaker 4: You know, I think that anytime you are moving in
Speaker 4: with someone, like obviously when you're a long distance we
Speaker 4: would be together for you know, weeks at a time,
Speaker 4: but until you're really combining your lives and fully like
Speaker 4: e meshing into each other's day to day, it really
Speaker 4: just like yeah, you know, like you know, it just
Speaker 4: is different, and it's a good different. You know, we
Speaker 4: always we have our ups and down through lives, but
Speaker 4: he really is such a great partner when it comes
Speaker 4: to those stressful things. And like there's been so many
Speaker 4: times where I've been like, Babe, I'm just I'm feeling
Speaker 4: a little alone out here, like this is a lot,
Speaker 4: and he's been like, well, baby, do you need to
Speaker 4: go to Tennessee? Do you need to go to San Diego?
Speaker 4: How can I support you?
Speaker 3: He's very good at like just communicating.
Speaker 4: And making me feel like it's okay to feel that way,
Speaker 4: Like you we're in this together, You're not alone.
Speaker 3: Even if you're feeling lonely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I one hundred percent relate to that so much.
Speaker 2: I tell everyone, I'm like, it is like great, Like
Speaker 2: it's great obviously being with your your partner and living together,
Speaker 2: but there is a big learning curve and people don't
Speaker 2: really always realize that. And I think sometimes to how
Speaker 2: they see us from our shows, it doesn't really translate
Speaker 2: to like, you know, like the real life. They still
Speaker 2: think of us, Oh okay, like everything's happy, go lucky,
Speaker 2: and it is, but there's real life problems to that too.
Speaker 2: So what would you say was like probably the biggest
Speaker 2: challenge for you guys since like combining lives and living
Speaker 2: with each other versus like maybe something that was like
Speaker 2: seamless and floats so effortlessly for you guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think one thing would definitely be I would
Speaker 4: say because we lived together and we both worked from home.
Speaker 4: He runs his own business and then I saw have
Speaker 4: a nine to five work from home job as well,
Speaker 4: So we're at home together like all day every day,
Speaker 4: and we have really had to work on differentiating like, hey,
Speaker 4: just because we're in each other's space doesn't.
Speaker 3: Mean we're like spending quality time.
Speaker 4: We definitely have had to be like all right, we
Speaker 4: need to make a plan to do this, or like
Speaker 4: let's put the phones up, or even like maybe let's
Speaker 4: I'm sure you guys have noticed. We haven't been on
Speaker 4: social media as a couple as much together because I
Speaker 4: feel like we were doing it so much it was
Speaker 4: like it felt a little performative. We're like, all right,
Speaker 4: this is not realistic, like we're forcing ourselves to do
Speaker 4: these things, yeah, when we just want to be normal.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I'm like, dotton is the same way. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I'm not forcing your hand, you come in the motor
Speaker 2: or not. Like we're good exactly.
Speaker 3: That's exactly how we are at first.
Speaker 4: I feel like we were really trying to like be
Speaker 4: like no, no, no, we've got to do it because yeah,
Speaker 4: fans like whatever, but we're like, you know what, No,
Speaker 4: we just need to do what feels natural. And he's
Speaker 4: wanted to take a little break from social media, and
Speaker 4: I'm not going to be like no, you need to
Speaker 4: be in this. So if he wants to, he wants to,
Speaker 4: and yeah, I think just like trying to be as
Speaker 4: normal as possible because yeah, we just handed this platform
Speaker 4: and we're like, what.
Speaker 2: Do we do it's a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot. I wanted to ask you that
Speaker 1: question because fans have been speculating that you guys are
Speaker 1: breaking up because he's not on your content. What like
Speaker 1: do you feel when you see those comments? You know it.
Speaker 4: I have a really bad problem at like seeing stuff
Speaker 4: and getting immediately infuriated, Like it really does and this
Speaker 4: is probably exactly what they want to hear or two,
Speaker 4: But I will see it and I'm like, oh, I'm
Speaker 4: so mad, like we need to post together, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: you know what, it literally does not matter what they think,
Speaker 4: Like I know, nine times out of ten, it's because
Speaker 4: they care and they're like invested in us.
Speaker 3: And then it's just the people that you know, want
Speaker 3: to start drama.
Speaker 4: Like I will have people literally comment on videos where
Speaker 4: you can clearly see my ring in like every clip,
Speaker 4: and they're like, she's not been wearing her ring recently,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, girl, just have.
Speaker 1: This is when it happens when we're off season and
Speaker 1: there's no going on.
Speaker 2: I always say, it really isn't like I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 2: a disease, but it's also something that I feel like
Speaker 2: couples have to do. And I'm so like, proud of
Speaker 2: you guys for doing that establishing like cause it's rare.
Speaker 2: It's rare where you can see a couple what you
Speaker 2: just explain, like Okay, we're gonna take a break from
Speaker 2: social media. Some people just get so intertwined in that
Speaker 2: cycle and it becomes like, Okay, this is all they know.
Speaker 2: And I made that like my responsibility. Even Dwton he's
Speaker 2: far more like in tune with that than I am
Speaker 2: at times where he's like, no, this is a hard
Speaker 2: boundary that we don't have to post everything. We don't
Speaker 2: need to share everything. And again it's hard sometimes for
Speaker 2: fans or the fan base to understand that. But again
Speaker 2: it's like this is our real lives. Like there's a
Speaker 2: lot going on. It is a lot of like emotional investment,
Speaker 2: mental exhaustion. So I'm proud of you guys for setting
Speaker 2: that boundary. I think it's really important.
Speaker 4: We also have life stuff going on, Like there's things
Speaker 4: that pop up and like I don't know, I'm just
Speaker 4: not I don't.
Speaker 3: Ever want to be fraudulent or fake on there.
Speaker 4: So I don't want to have all these things going
Speaker 4: on and then be like, Okay, we gotta make a
Speaker 4: couple's video really quick, like come on, let's fit it in,
Speaker 4: Like it just feels like too much, and then it
Speaker 4: gets to be an annoyance and it's not fun anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you both, because both obviously are in
Speaker 1: bachelor couples, what do you guys think of the people
Speaker 1: who go on reality shows? It doesn't even have to
Speaker 1: be the bachelor, and then they make that their whole personality,
Speaker 1: the couple's content. I see it a lot on Love Island.
Speaker 1: What's your take?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I truly can't. You know what, I get it.
Speaker 2: There's a part of me that I'm like, I get it,
Speaker 2: and especially following immediately after a season, you're kind of
Speaker 2: in this like peak zone. However, the longevity and the
Speaker 2: sustainability of that, I don't Again, I agree with Jess.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm not sure how authentic it is. And
Speaker 2: it can put such a strain on your relationship. Again,
Speaker 2: we're only seeing highlights of people's lives, Like, we're not
Speaker 2: gonna see them having an argument. They're not posting that
Speaker 2: on social media, you know exactly. It puts a strain
Speaker 2: on your relationship, and that's again something I had to
Speaker 2: like kind of realize, Okay, this is a little bit taxing,
Speaker 2: is it worth it? And I think people again don't
Speaker 2: have really the capability to come to terms with that
Speaker 2: because they're like, oh, I've already done it. Now I
Speaker 2: have to like I have to keep it up or
Speaker 2: keep with it, and that can be the hardest part
Speaker 2: of the journey. So I do think that it, you know,
Speaker 2: requires some level of self awareness and authenticity to that
Speaker 2: that a lot of people will not really acknowledge. So
Speaker 2: I'm like fifty to fifty on it. I'm like, I
Speaker 2: get it, but then awesome, I don't know, it's.
Speaker 1: The authenticity comment. Yeah, Jess, Yeah, you're not getting out
Speaker 1: of this question.
Speaker 4: No, I totally agree because I think like, of course,
Speaker 4: especially when we first got off a Paradise and we
Speaker 4: were allowed to post each other, we had so much
Speaker 4: content like on the back burner, just like ready to
Speaker 4: post it, and then we were doing a lot of
Speaker 4: fun things and we were going back and forth, and like,
Speaker 4: I think people were really interested in seeing that, and
Speaker 4: so again it's kind of like back to the like
Speaker 4: reality of our day to day is not that interesting,
Speaker 4: So then it feels forced. So it's like when we
Speaker 4: were first off the show where he's going back and
Speaker 4: forth from Dallas to San Diego.
Speaker 3: I'm going back and forth from Dallas and San Diego.
Speaker 4: We're getting invited to a lot more things, Like we're
Speaker 4: doing a lot more so now that a lot of
Speaker 4: that has calmed down. It's just kind of like, you know,
Speaker 4: if it comes up and we're doing something cool, let's
Speaker 4: film it.
Speaker 3: But we don't have to we also, I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm honestly, I agree so much with charity. Like when
Speaker 4: you're first out.
Speaker 3: It's like you want to pop off. I mean, let's
Speaker 3: be honest, you want people to be invested even more.
Speaker 4: And I think that it's just it's not realistic to
Speaker 4: post that much. Unless that's what your life revolves around,
Speaker 4: then that's understandable.
Speaker 3: But like we got other stuff going on.
Speaker 1: Yeh, I ask, because again I'm single. What what would
Speaker 1: be like the engagement when you post with Spencer or
Speaker 1: with Dotten versus by yourself? Is it better or does
Speaker 1: it do worse?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: When I post with Spencer it gets like triple the amount.
Speaker 4: It's we like make jokes about.
Speaker 2: People are so fake and that's what they're gonna answer.
Speaker 2: I was like, it really is like my couples always
Speaker 2: it's better, and it's because again, your fan base is
Speaker 2: invested in your relationship. That's what they know you off of.
Speaker 2: So it's like, Okay, we don't really care that you
Speaker 2: watered your plant today and you have like four new succulents,
Speaker 2: Like they don't care. It's like cool, but like we
Speaker 2: want to see dot and I get it. But that's
Speaker 2: where like it can become a little parasocial and it's
Speaker 2: like everyone next no, I.
Speaker 4: Like, I juststed something silly on TikTok like two days ago,
Speaker 4: and it was like right after I had gotten out
Speaker 4: of a hot yoga class or something, and someone's like
Speaker 4: Werry Spencer and I'm like, well, he doesn't go to
Speaker 4: so he's like a wily, insane like where I'm like
Speaker 4: drinking a coffee.
Speaker 2: They're like, Wherry Spencer, that is crazy. I'm so sorry,
Speaker 2: Like I don't know, probably running that's what he does working. Okay,
Speaker 2: so wait, but I actually saw that you have started
Speaker 2: to do that. Is that because spin to encourage you?
Speaker 2: Because I love that. I'm like, you're running, You're a runner.
Speaker 4: I'm trying And I took like three weeks off and
Speaker 4: I just started running again this week, like literally two
Speaker 4: days ago.
Speaker 3: I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 4: Oh. I picked it up because that's what he spends
Speaker 4: like seventy five percent of his time doing. And I
Speaker 4: was like, you know what, I'm tired of being left out,
Speaker 4: Like I want to be able to run a.
Speaker 3: Little bit with you.
Speaker 2: That is so cute. Wait, okay, how hard has it been?
Speaker 2: Because I'm like, I'm not a runner, and that's like
Speaker 2: my one thing I want to become good at. But
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's in the car. It's truly so, you.
Speaker 3: Know what, I'm really slow, Like I'm not good. I'm
Speaker 3: not good at all, but I'm trying. And I think
Speaker 3: that I thought I.
Speaker 4: Hated it for years because I would just run in
Speaker 4: like whatever tennis shoes that I had, and he's like, no, babe,
Speaker 4: he takes me to this like runner store. I don't
Speaker 4: know there's a runner store store.
Speaker 1: I've never been in that store. I will never.
Speaker 3: Of course, you would a tennis shoe store.
Speaker 4: And so I got my feet fitted and like I
Speaker 4: recommended all these shoes and so I got a pair,
Speaker 4: and you know, he went with me and stuff and
Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, you should definitely get these ones, and
Speaker 4: it changed everything, Like I actually it's it still is.
Speaker 3: It hurts, but not as bad.
Speaker 1: Maybe one day I'll get in a gym. This could
Speaker 1: convince me.
Speaker 3: But we can do it together.
Speaker 1: Truly. I do have to bring it back to paradise
Speaker 1: because I have so many questions as a viewer. You
Speaker 1: came in and obviously you had a connection with Spencer,
Speaker 1: but you also had a connection with Sam. What were
Speaker 1: you looking for and what qualities did Spencer have that
Speaker 1: made you ultimately choose him?
Speaker 4: You know this, This question always comes up on these
Speaker 4: little podcast.
Speaker 3: Honestly, this is like no shade at all.
Speaker 4: I think Sam is super nice, like he was really
Speaker 4: easy to get along with. I just think that he
Speaker 4: definitely held back a little bit more. Spencer is very
Speaker 4: much like do do do and that's how I am too,
Speaker 4: And I don't know, he just matched my energy and
Speaker 4: also we have like a couple more days together and
Speaker 4: it was just an immediate spark, whereas like, definitely going
Speaker 4: along with Sam, I thought he was attractive, but there
Speaker 4: was just not that initial like spark that I felt
Speaker 4: with Spencer. And when you know both of them are
Speaker 4: right there in your face. It's very apparent that I
Speaker 4: just yeah, it's just honestly, it's not even comparable, Like
Speaker 4: I don't know that it come off mean, but it just.
Speaker 3: Wasn't at all.
Speaker 2: I'm like, that's the right answer that show man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like no shade at all.
Speaker 4: It just yeah, it was I've never felt that way
Speaker 4: with anyone before.
Speaker 3: Obviously, That's why I got engaged.
Speaker 4: I actually just found my journal like a week ago
Speaker 4: that I wrote in the entire time in Perarodise, and
Speaker 4: I had not reread it in a year, and I
Speaker 4: was like, you know what, I want to feel some butterflies,
Speaker 4: like I'm gonna read this, And I literally wrote it
Speaker 4: out in my journal.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: It was a good date. But I couldn't stop thinking
Speaker 4: about Spencer.
Speaker 3: The whole time.
Speaker 2: That's so sweet.
Speaker 3: And I was like, it was really cute to read
Speaker 3: all of that.
Speaker 2: Again, That's that's literally how you know I'm not I'm like,
Speaker 2: my journal is probably the exact same way. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I like everybody, but I love one person. I'm curious,
Speaker 2: did you have like any relationship or not, like like friendship.
Speaker 2: Were you and Sam close before Paradise, Like have you
Speaker 2: guys met or was that the first time y'all met
Speaker 2: was on parl That was.
Speaker 3: The first time that we had met or I had
Speaker 3: talked to him.
Speaker 4: He was pretty close with Lean and Sidney from my
Speaker 4: season and I have like said, popped on FaceTime once
Speaker 4: or twice when they had been facetiming him.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that was it.
Speaker 1: Did you go in with Sam or Spencer in mind?
Speaker 1: Or who was on your list?
Speaker 3: Actually both? Actually both of them.
Speaker 4: Yes, they were like the only two guys that I
Speaker 4: even had on my radar.
Speaker 3: And it's so funny. I'll tell you guys a little secret.
Speaker 4: So I would say my best friend manifested Spencer and
Speaker 4: I because right before I was going I'll never forget,
Speaker 4: We're sitting on our couch and I'm like, oh, I'm
Speaker 4: like starting to.
Speaker 3: Get cold feet just a little bit because I went through.
Speaker 4: Some trauma after Joey's season, like everyone was so mean
Speaker 4: to me online. It was terrible, and I was like,
Speaker 4: I just don't know, like I'm finally better mentally, like
Speaker 4: I feel really good. I just don't know if I
Speaker 4: want to put myself in this situation to be in
Speaker 4: the public I again. And I was feeling really overwhelmed,
Speaker 4: and she's like, Jess, you are going and you're going
Speaker 4: to show them the real you, and you're gonna fall
Speaker 4: in love and you're gonna come back and you're gonna
Speaker 4: be engaged to Spencer.
Speaker 3: And I was like whoa what She's.
Speaker 2: Like name yeah, And I.
Speaker 4: Was like okay, why and she's like, well, because he's
Speaker 4: like the only one that you really like could click with.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, how do you go?
Speaker 3: Like have you secretly met this man? But it's like,
Speaker 3: what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: And she's like no, I mean I just have been
Speaker 4: thinking about it, and I just really I just have
Speaker 4: this weird feeling, like I have this gut feeling.
Speaker 3: And I was like, okay, you're you're a little crazy.
Speaker 3: I think that he's a little older than me.
Speaker 4: I think I probably am not his vibe, Like I
Speaker 4: just know him from social media and he's big fitness
Speaker 4: guy and I'm like heated classes three times a girl,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like yeah, Like I don't let's not get too far
Speaker 3: ahead here. That is and she called it somehow, she
Speaker 3: called it.
Speaker 1: So I have her number and so pretty future for me.
Speaker 3: She she can do it.
Speaker 4: She's done it multiple times for me, it's actually a
Speaker 4: little terrifying.
Speaker 2: Okay, so she has some little superpowers okay.
Speaker 1: Or something.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Wait, I'm I'm very curious because obviously you guys got
Speaker 2: engaged on Paradise. How was it with like meeting your parents?
Speaker 2: Did they did Spencer have a conversation before you guys
Speaker 2: got engaged, Like, how was that process?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: That was actually one of his major things that he
Speaker 4: was like, I'm not proposing until i can talk to
Speaker 4: both of her parents because I'm an only child, I
Speaker 4: have divorced parents and I'm really close with both of them.
Speaker 4: So he knew like just talking to my dad was
Speaker 4: not gonna be good enough. He's like, I need to
Speaker 4: talk to her mom too. So he got to talk
Speaker 4: to both of them, and then I was like, well
Speaker 4: that works for you, So I'm gonna ask that. I
Speaker 4: walked to both of my parents and I talked to
Speaker 4: them too, and it literally was a weightlift it off
Speaker 4: my shoulders, like hearing them both they both separately said
Speaker 4: the exact same thing, because I called them separately and
Speaker 4: they both were like, just like, we trust your judgment
Speaker 4: and your intuition and if you feel like this is
Speaker 4: right then, this is what you.
Speaker 3: Need to do.
Speaker 4: And my mom ended the conversation with Yolo, and I
Speaker 4: was like, okay, oh all right, go on it.
Speaker 1: Okay, I already does no, I'm all for the yollow.
Speaker 1: I think that would have sent me. I would have
Speaker 1: been like, let's get in stage right now. Did your
Speaker 1: mom have any other questions for Spencer or did your dad?
Speaker 1: Because my dad had so many.
Speaker 3: You know, my dad is a super chill guy. He's
Speaker 3: just like, well, are you a hard worker? Like, tell
Speaker 3: me about this, yeah, tell me about my daughter?
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, he was pretty easy, but I think my
Speaker 4: mom had had a few more for Spencer that were
Speaker 4: a little more intense.
Speaker 3: But he was like, I mean, they asked all the
Speaker 3: right things. So and after the you.
Speaker 4: Know, I don't even know how long the conversation was.
Speaker 4: It couldn't have been super long. I'm sure they didn't
Speaker 4: let him have too too much time, but whatever it was,
Speaker 4: by the time I called them, they both were confident
Speaker 4: in the answers they got from him and talking to me, So.
Speaker 1: Did he ever tell you what those questions were? You guys?
Speaker 4: You but he's like, it's men's stuff and it's between
Speaker 4: me and your mom.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, so obviously you guys
Speaker 2: one or a place in one of the winning couples.
Speaker 2: I'm very curious, and I'm sure the rest of the
Speaker 2: audience is, what did you spend your money on?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Girl, we paid some bills.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 1: I was like, fine, okay, yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 3: Used some of it to move out here to Dallas.
Speaker 2: And smart yeah, which is really awesome.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was the first car that I've been able
Speaker 4: to buy for myself fully, so that was like I
Speaker 4: felt really big girl, shout out ABC, what.
Speaker 1: Kind of card?
Speaker 3: And then we still have some savings too for our future.
Speaker 2: So good.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yes, you guys spent it in the best way, in
Speaker 1: the way that you should. What kind of car did
Speaker 1: you buy?
Speaker 4: I got a Alexis g X five fifty or four fifty.
Speaker 3: I don't even know that one of those numbers.
Speaker 2: It's like the truck or like the suv.
Speaker 3: It's like the big suv. Yeah, and it's very the
Speaker 3: third row. So I'm like, I can grow into it
Speaker 3: when hopefully i'm a mom one day, I'll still be
Speaker 3: living this thing around. Yeah, it's really exciting. I was.
Speaker 3: I felt really like adult for that.
Speaker 2: I love that. Okay, So what essentially is the timeline
Speaker 2: for you and Spencer? Like, obviously you guys are enjoying
Speaker 2: engagement era, Like, is there any big plans that you
Speaker 2: guys have talked about or anything that's we can look
Speaker 2: forward to.
Speaker 3: We haven't.
Speaker 4: Initially we were like, Okay, once it's been a year
Speaker 4: of us living together, let's revisit. So that will be
Speaker 4: in January or like end of December. We just wanted
Speaker 4: to like experience a whole year of real life together. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and also I think we want to he wants to
Speaker 4: do a few more things entrepreneurial, entrepreneur.
Speaker 2: I think that's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard, we'd to say, y'all. So he has
Speaker 3: a few things that he wants to do in that world.
Speaker 3: And then I also like, I'm like, what am I
Speaker 3: going to do with my life?
Speaker 4: Like I have a nine to five right now, which
Speaker 4: I love, but I would love to start something of
Speaker 4: my own. So I think we want to focus on
Speaker 4: those things before we're spending a ton of money on
Speaker 4: a wedding and things.
Speaker 2: Just yet.
Speaker 1: Literally forget it's been not even a year so long ago.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad you guys are enjoying each other and
Speaker 1: in the spirit of Spencer, where is Spencer?
Speaker 3: Spence?
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, Spencer, are you? Are you actually there?
Speaker 3: He is?
Speaker 2: He's coming down like I'm waiting to see a figurine.
Speaker 1: Move can we have He's a whole.
Speaker 2: Hurry, hurry, hurry.
Speaker 1: Well, there's check on Spencer.
Speaker 2: Dogs.
Speaker 5: It hasn't blurred out. He's like a perpetrator.
Speaker 2: Wait, okay, wait, what's the dog's name? I didn't even
Speaker 2: know you guys had on screen?
Speaker 1: So cute.
Speaker 3: We broke we both.
Speaker 5: To pick up.
Speaker 4: That's okay, Yeah, she's.
Speaker 1: Welcome to happy hour. We needed a wellness jack. Everyone's
Speaker 1: been wondering where are you upstairs?
Speaker 5: Working on my computers?
Speaker 2: Should be We.
Speaker 5: Love a working man trying to pay these bills.
Speaker 1: Good you guys look amazing. And before you go, we
Speaker 1: would love to hear the three things you love most
Speaker 1: about Jess.
Speaker 5: That's very sweet, okay. Number one would be the fact
Speaker 5: that when she's in a room, she makes everyone feel seen.
Speaker 5: She lights up a room. She's extremely supportive of things
Speaker 5: I like to do, even if it includes running way
Speaker 5: too much every day and waking up way too early and.
Speaker 3: Way too early.
Speaker 5: Even waking up. We actually so, me and my friends
Speaker 5: had this run that took us three hours last Saturday,
Speaker 5: and all the ladies set up a scavenger hunt and
Speaker 5: woke up to drop us off. So we were like
Speaker 5: scavenger hunting as we were running. Yeah, six am. And
Speaker 5: then I'm just communication with things, you know, it makes
Speaker 5: everything so much easier. Those would be my my top three,
Speaker 5: but I feel like there's more that I could toss
Speaker 5: in too. But yeah, those are those are the easy
Speaker 5: ones that come to mind.
Speaker 2: This is very sweet. Those are great answers, y'all.
Speaker 5: This is my first time seeing the podcast, well being
Speaker 5: on it since the new facelift, and y'all have been
Speaker 5: doing amazing well. I actually opened Instagram.
Speaker 1: Opening Instagram and commenting aggressively.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's posted go com I know. I'm like, okay, no, I'm.
Speaker 2: Like just literally music draft, we are one in the same.
Speaker 2: I'm like Spencer has done I'm like, have you done
Speaker 2: on Instagram? He has not been on like in the
Speaker 2: past two weeks unless it's something he has to do.
Speaker 2: I'm like openness now, yeah.
Speaker 5: Like, and I trouble with the ideas and ideas all
Speaker 5: sound good, editing. I'm I feel like my grandparents when
Speaker 5: they were just introduced to a new technology. When I'm
Speaker 5: having to edit everything on cat cutting, it takes me
Speaker 5: four hours to edit a forty five second reel. I'm like,
Speaker 5: you know, my time's probably better utilized in an.
Speaker 3: Entire makeup video. While standing in line at the post
Speaker 3: office yesterday, I.
Speaker 5: Could never I know.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, our brains get so used to boys
Speaker 2: are still like they're like almost perfectionists. It's so funny
Speaker 2: because I'm like, you guys take so long.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you do, sitting on the couch like watching
Speaker 5: our show, and she's like, oh, just finish another reel.
Speaker 5: I'm like, there's my attention span is far too limited
Speaker 5: to be allocating it towards editing or reel and watching something.
Speaker 5: And I don't know, y'all are so much better and
Speaker 5: multitasking the men.
Speaker 6: Hey, Spencer, did you like that photo? We posted a
Speaker 6: view and Bailey's I was going to say the past
Speaker 6: aggressive comment.
Speaker 5: I've commented on it. I was promised by Katie and
Speaker 5: ABC that that photo would never see the light of day.
Speaker 3: Don't work at ABC.
Speaker 1: If you haven't noticed off at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing is promised.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, it you know when in Rome you toss
Speaker 5: and see if you can rock it. I can't, but
Speaker 5: I tried, actually got it like Charity, but I tried.
Speaker 2: Hello, but I think you did I when we interviewed Bailey,
Speaker 2: I said, why does Spencer look better than I'm so sorry?
Speaker 3: No, you guys want to know a fun fact.
Speaker 4: I sent that photo to my mom when we first
Speaker 4: got sent all those pictures.
Speaker 5: I think the first photo she sent from the show
Speaker 5: of just being not like us together.
Speaker 4: Literally made it into a sticker and we'll just like
Speaker 4: randomly send sticker of.
Speaker 2: Your mom is iconico.
Speaker 5: I mean, I couldn't do anything next to Bailey was
Speaker 5: rocking the bent she was.
Speaker 1: It didn't photo shopped onto your head.
Speaker 5: That's what we're gonna ai y'all these days is crazy.
Speaker 5: They're just me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wait, you guys in the chat we have another Bobby
Speaker 1: on a picture and it is just.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah that see it looks a lot, but she
Speaker 5: is the bottle.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I actually do like short hair, your face.
Speaker 2: You have a good face structure for like a little
Speaker 2: medium short.
Speaker 3: I could do it.
Speaker 5: Loved maybe the opposite she went lighter, need to go darker,
Speaker 5: but maybe it's time for the Brenette ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see something.
Speaker 4: I am going to San Diego on Friday.
Speaker 3: I can just pop in my hair dress again.
Speaker 5: She has her hair girl in San Diego, so that
Speaker 5: requires the San Diego trip.
Speaker 6: That is.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 5: She's like, oh no, san Diego.
Speaker 1: Spencer, before you go. Yes, there will be another season
Speaker 1: of Bachelor in Paradise next year. What advice do you
Speaker 1: have for the couples that get engaged on Paradise and
Speaker 1: making it in the real world.
Speaker 5: I would go in with zero expectations and I would
Speaker 5: not try to. I think the atmosphere when you get there,
Speaker 5: you want to really put forward a certain version of
Speaker 5: yourself and maybe go outside your comfort zone to be
Speaker 5: more talkative and have more conversations all that, which I
Speaker 5: think is great to an extent, but also just leaning
Speaker 5: into being comfortable with everything that you're doing on the show,
Speaker 5: so you're kind of leading with your actual self and
Speaker 5: you know, just making sure that you're true to yourself
Speaker 5: through the process, because I think it's easy to get
Speaker 5: lost in and if you do that, it'll all work out,
Speaker 5: hopefully as well as it worked out for us. But
Speaker 5: you know, if it doesn't then I know people shout
Speaker 5: out to Jonathan that was on the season and didn't
Speaker 5: leave with anyone, but now he's in an awesome relationship.
Speaker 5: I think that everything works out for a reason. Things
Speaker 5: are meant to be in happy in the way that
Speaker 5: they happen, and just go in, be yourself, have fun.
Speaker 5: It's a once in a lifetime experience. It's such an
Speaker 5: awesome experience you'll never have another time where people are
Speaker 5: making your food and waking you up and you don't
Speaker 5: have a phone, and yeah, and just enjoy it. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And guys, I think guys on the show they think
Speaker 5: they need to be making out with everyone all the time,
Speaker 5: and you don't have to.
Speaker 3: You don't have to.
Speaker 5: Maybe don't screw over a ton of women just because
Speaker 5: you feel like you gotta run around, shut your tongue
Speaker 5: down people's throats. You don't have to.
Speaker 1: I do love a beach makeout. I was on the
Speaker 1: opposite end. But the fact that you guys are happily engaged.
Speaker 1: I love that for Jess and it makes you great TV.
Speaker 1: I love it. And congratulations, you guys look.
Speaker 2: So beautiful and you guys, Lily so good. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: good to see you. I'm like, we'll have to have
Speaker 2: you on and then we'll bring just downstairs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Switch, I would love to be honored.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna transition into our little game for the week.
Speaker 2: Oh so sweet. Okay, we're gonna do something behind the
Speaker 2: scene photos that the audience has never seen, and you're
Speaker 2: gonna have to give us the backstory. So I don't
Speaker 2: think you've seen these photos either, but we're gonna find out.
Speaker 3: Oh god, I'm scared. I'm actually scared.
Speaker 2: They're gonna be cute.
Speaker 6: All right, Jess, here comes photo number one.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you guys were gonna be showing me
Speaker 2: pictures only from Paradise.
Speaker 4: We have a picture of me from Joey's season when
Speaker 4: I am on the boat, like probably ten seconds away
Speaker 4: from pulling out going to meet him, and I look
Speaker 4: actually insane.
Speaker 2: I was so scared, and you look stunning in the
Speaker 2: I'm like sunning.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that is hilarious.
Speaker 1: So I have to ask how many champagnes were had
Speaker 1: before many pulled up? Too many night one, because I
Speaker 1: had to have multiple just to get the courage.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, too many, too many, too many. I think
Speaker 4: that you can see that as the night keeps going on.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I just I wasn't eating enough
Speaker 3: and I was going back.
Speaker 2: To the bar.
Speaker 1: I was also doing that to me, and you are
Speaker 1: the same person.
Speaker 3: No, HAP was so nervous.
Speaker 4: I remember, like I feel like I don't really get
Speaker 4: nervous that often. Like I'll play a couple like conversations
Speaker 4: up in my head like okay, okay, I got this
Speaker 4: my back pocket, I got this my back pocket. But
Speaker 4: in this scenario, I feel like I'd like literally blacked out.
Speaker 3: I forgot words. And I also was like, holy shit,
Speaker 3: I'm about to be like on TV. This is weird.
Speaker 2: This is so firty that you say that, because I'm like,
Speaker 2: I feel like you were like pretty confident. I was
Speaker 2: like Jack tonight, I was like, you were pers but
Speaker 2: I was like, this is.
Speaker 3: Actually goes are.
Speaker 2: Here for me.
Speaker 3: No, that is a very that is so funny.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think you're ready for the next one. Oh cute.
Speaker 3: Okay. So we have a picture of me and the
Speaker 3: Queen Hannah be so I this is actually my first.
Speaker 4: Time meeting her was on periodise and for years, you know,
Speaker 4: we've been told y'all look alike, y'all could be sisters.
Speaker 4: Y'all could be cousins and yeah, after meeting her in person,
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 3: Like, whoa, this is a little weird. This is a
Speaker 3: little strange.
Speaker 4: We we're very similar, just our mannerisms and I think
Speaker 4: both being from the South to we have like a
Speaker 4: little twang.
Speaker 3: It's funny, it's funny. She's super sweet. I love that.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, it's this southern, it's this seven bells,
Speaker 2: like you guys have the accent. But I'm like, also,
Speaker 2: y'all's features are so similar.
Speaker 4: Looks exactly the same, Like we smile like really wide.
Speaker 1: We're like, you both have great white teeth, you have
Speaker 1: the same, like great brows, just phenomenal and normally I
Speaker 1: hate when people are like you look like so and so.
Speaker 1: You genuinely are her twin and the that's impossible way
Speaker 1: you guys look fantastic.
Speaker 6: Good Okay, So producer Katie here, so Jess. I remember
Speaker 6: the day we took this picture and thinking to myself
Speaker 6: and I can't remember if we talked about it, but
Speaker 6: being like god, I wish Susie Evans was here right
Speaker 6: now because the soap was always Hannah be Susie equals
Speaker 6: Jess Edwards.
Speaker 3: I was like their love child or something. Yes, that
Speaker 3: is so funny. I don't remember that.
Speaker 6: The social like the social producer of me was like, God,
Speaker 6: what do I have to do to make sure I
Speaker 6: get a picture three of them together?
Speaker 2: Because I just need it?
Speaker 3: And yes, I don't think we ended up getting a
Speaker 3: photo all three of us.
Speaker 6: It is one of my biggest missed opportunity because.
Speaker 2: Susie was there. I just like, Susie was there, so
Speaker 2: you forget a fumbled bag right there?
Speaker 1: He did?
Speaker 3: That was messed up. What's wrong with us?
Speaker 6: I blame justin Blaze.
Speaker 2: Let's put it truly, Let's put it on.
Speaker 1: Susie stays getting the short end of the stick every
Speaker 1: single time. Oh wait, so cute.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this one better be framed in y'all's house.
Speaker 3: Okay, so this one is so cute.
Speaker 4: And shout out to Katie because she made this happen.
Speaker 4: We were Spinster and I had been in the ocean
Speaker 4: or something and it started raining, so we were walking
Speaker 4: back and we were just being.
Speaker 3: Silly, being so cute in the rain.
Speaker 4: And Katie was like, perfect opportunity for a run and
Speaker 4: hug jump and I'm like and so we did their
Speaker 4: run and jump hug whatever what do they call it? Like,
Speaker 4: what's the whood you? Yes, didn't even know what that
Speaker 4: meant until that.
Speaker 1: I didn't know either till my bachelerette season.
Speaker 2: They're like goo you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is a hooge?
Speaker 2: You mean?
Speaker 4: I'm not great with the acronyms. But no, it was
Speaker 4: a super special moment. It was raining, and that man
Speaker 4: is strong, but it is so strong. He lifted me
Speaker 4: up to having him back.
Speaker 2: I love that, Jess, I have seen it.
Speaker 1: I have to ask, because if I was this in love,
Speaker 1: how did you not go ask Jesse Palmer to not
Speaker 1: marry you on the spot? Because I think, no, literally,
Speaker 1: that love I possessed me, I would have done that.
Speaker 1: You guys look like out of a music video.
Speaker 3: That is so funny, you know what.
Speaker 4: Honestly I think that for a lot of the time
Speaker 4: that I was on periodise, I have this like little
Speaker 4: like double on my shoulder kind of being like, this
Speaker 4: is too good to be real, This is too good
Speaker 4: to be real. And when I finally just like flicked
Speaker 4: him off my shoulder, I felt like a weight lifted
Speaker 4: off and I was like, no, girl, you deserve this
Speaker 4: and this is real.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's so sweet, you guys are this is like
Speaker 2: the perfect photo.
Speaker 4: And literally right after we got engaged and we were
Speaker 4: screaming and jumping in my dress was really short that
Speaker 4: like my cheeks were kind of popping out a little bit.
Speaker 2: And since I kept having to like as they should
Speaker 2: be as I went a gentleman though, like so sweet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's like these donna need be in our engagement photos.
Speaker 2: Oh no.
Speaker 4: We were so happy and some of our favorite producers
Speaker 4: were like right there off to the side, and so
Speaker 4: this was like right after we had like ran and
Speaker 4: hugged them and.
Speaker 3: We were just like freaking out. Like I remember, I
Speaker 3: was like shaking, you know.
Speaker 2: I'm like, your face in this photo is like pure joy.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, I can tell seconds. It is so sweet.
Speaker 1: Have you guys had professional engagement photos or do you
Speaker 1: plan to?
Speaker 3: We haven't. We actually have been meaning to do that.
Speaker 4: We were gonna do some for like our one year
Speaker 4: up to the date of actually getting engaged, but we
Speaker 4: missed that. That was in May, so maybe we'll do
Speaker 4: it in September when the it's like the finale air
Speaker 4: date anniversary.
Speaker 2: Okay, cute, I need to get absolutely, it's beautiful time. No, honestly,
Speaker 2: that sounds like I did all mine literally right after,
Speaker 2: because I was like, if I was to try and
Speaker 2: do it, like you know, I get.
Speaker 4: Time and then now it's like, also, it's so freaking
Speaker 4: hot in Texas. I'm like, I could you could not
Speaker 4: pay me to go out and do a photo shoot
Speaker 4: outside here?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not, Like no, I'm like, you have to bring
Speaker 2: Spencer to San Diego, you guys. Yeah, it's a little
Speaker 2: bit of a like somewhat of a breeze there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because I could not do textas heat. That's no joke.
Speaker 2: So okay, thank you, jess This was so great, Like
Speaker 2: you were an angel. We adore you and this was
Speaker 2: like such a fun interview, Like I mean, you just
Speaker 2: shared so much and I just feel like a lot
Speaker 2: of the people are gonna like love this. So thank you.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it was so nice chatting with y'all.
Speaker 4: It's always just the best time with my bacheloration PEPs.
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