WEBVTT - Thomas N. Makes a Big Splash with Jenn 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:03.920 Hey, everyone, welcome back to Battery Happy Hour. 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:05.720 I'm Joe and I'm Saringa and we. 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:09.600 Are here today with none other than Thomas and from 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:14.400 Gen season. Thomas just here because they had a great 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.799 connection and you're a very likable guy and someone that 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.360 really stood out night one. So Thomas, welcome to Batchery 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:21.919 Happy Hour. 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.239 Thanks for having me. Guys, I appreciate you all of course. 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:27.080 Okay, so why don't you just tell us a little 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.040 bit about where you're from and what you do for 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:30.480 a living. 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.320 So I'm from Atlanta, just outside the city. I'm a 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:38.559 retirement advisor. It's kind of like a broad title, but 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.120 I help people figure out how they can get to 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.199 retirement and have their money go for the rest of 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.080 their lives. So, whether it's people in their twenties starting 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.320 their roth iras or Nancy Sue that's sixty seven and 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.360 working with Social Security and her pension, I. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:52.640 Do a little bit of everything in between. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.120 So wait, is that more of like, are you more 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:59.920 of like a finance guy or is it like more 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:01.480 like what do you want to do with the rest 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:02.520 of your life type of thing? 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:04.679 More so finance, we do like a lot of wealth 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.679 management and financial sales stuff, so I get to work 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.000 with people all over the country. That's why you see 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.720 this awesome background is because I work from home, so 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.559 I can bounce around from time zones to time zones 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:14.240 to help people out. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:15.240 Nice. 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:15.720 Nice. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.240 And where you're from Atlanta? 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.800 You said, Yeah, I'm from Atlanta, just outside of the city. 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.040 And where do you live? Do you live like in 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.640 the d Tucker, Yeah, I live. 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.840 So where I'm from where I grew up is in 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.480 Gwinnett's and Snowville, a little city a little like thirty 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:32.319 minutes away from the city. And then you got the 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.920 main city where everyone knows, like the airport in Atlanta. 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.360 I live like right in between, like Shambley, Tucker. It's 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:38.560 like northeast Atlanta. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.400 You know where where do? Where do we? Uh? Where's 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.080 like the cool like the the newer spot with some 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:46.440 of the restaurants and stuff. 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:48.800 I have not a single clue. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.120 If you say it, I'll know it. Buford Highway No, No, 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:58.560 Brookhaven No. You're probably like, it's just going to drive 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:02.240 me nuts. There's a lot of restaurants popping up over there. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:03.560 And why did you know this? 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:04.160 Yes? 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:06.720 Yes, I mean that's what it was gonna be. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:08.480 Yeah, like where do you hang out? 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:08.639 Is that? 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:09.960 Where where do you hang out when you go? 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.280 Yeah, it's like so that that area is like old 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.680 fourth Ward, Virginia Highlands and Men Park. That's like a 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.040 pretty like hip and up and coming place right now. Yeah, 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:17.959 so definitely that spot. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:18.680 Cool. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.320 Wow, look at you, Joe with your Atlanta knowledge. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:22.560 Yeah, I like it. 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.400 I like Atlanta. I've been there. I've I've filmed the 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.240 show there for a month and we couldn't leave the house, 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.640 but I I was in. I've been to Atlanta. I 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.359 want to say I've been to Atlanta five times. 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:33.720 Oh really, Yeah, I've been. 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.600 There's always like a short period, but I've I've made 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.120 I've made my time worth it. I've gone out a 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:40.600 lot there. 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:41.959 I've only been there twice. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:43.799 I went with let me know next time you guys 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:44.280 come in. 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:45.359 Yeah we will. 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.160 Last time we were there actually was with Zach Shallcross, 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.840 who was one of the last Bachelors. We filmed a 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:52.600 podcast with him there, so that was fine. We spent 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:53.400 like two days there. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.160 So Thomas, how uh, how did you get on The Bachelor? 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.040 Why did you want to do this? Always call on 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:01.800 the show The Bachelor. 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.840 By the way, yeah. 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.400 So it's actually a really funny story. So two years 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.760 ago I went through like a pretty bad breakup. I know, 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.120 I did like a year to kind of work on 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.079 myself and really kind of get my feet under me, 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.799 both with my finances. I had just bought in the house, 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.160 so I wanted to kind of get my life in order. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.800 When you say that, when you say a bad breakup 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:27.560 bad bad because of you or bad because of her 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.160 or bad, I'm both ends. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.160 I'd probably say it was more so both ends. I 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.520 wanted to get married and she didn't. So that's the 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.320 part that was the hardest part was being like, hey, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.560 I'm here and her being like, hey, I'm not there. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.360 So that was that was hard for for for both 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:43.680 of us. 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:45.200 I took that. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.960 Time to kind of really just do my own thing, 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.040 you know. And my sister she lives, she goes to Emory, 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.160 so when she's home for holidays in the summer, she 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:00.200 stays with me. So twenty one year old sister her, 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.080 she's like, hey, Thomas, we got to get you back 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.520 out there. So what better way than to apply you. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.120 So one night we popped open a bottle of rose 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.440 and we just started going after it was that was 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:10.080 last summer. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.120 So yeah, shout out to my little sister Lily. 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.400 Wow, Lily, that's so good. 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.760 Did you watch any of Joey's season hoping that it 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:21.479 was going to be one of these girls. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.400 I did watch Joey's season. I did all of the 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.120 bits coming into it. I think I came into it 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:35.960 pretty open minded. I don't think anyone really had. Everyone 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.000 kept telling me what you think is going to happen 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:39.479 is not going to happen. So that's kind of like 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.960 the idea that I came into the house thinking. So 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:44.960 I was pretty open minded when I came into it. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:46.320 That's good. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.600 I feel like that's the best mentality to go into 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.520 the show with, is just being open minded, because I 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:52.359 feel like so many people go into it with a 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.960 very clear set of expectations or feeling like they know 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:00.960 exactly how filming goes or how the show works, and 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.839 it just it's never you just don't know until you know. 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.080 Yeah, and I felt like I kind of had a 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.640 like a leg up, if you will. My brother swam 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.920 with Robbie Hayes. They went to college together. I think 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.160 he was Jojoe. 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.240 I was like Robbie Hayes was like that's a throwback name. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.120 Yeah, And so they swam together. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.520 I swam with Robbie's younger brothers, and so when this 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.520 came up, I called Robbie and I was like, hey, 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.280 what can I expect if he was like nothing, you 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:33.320 don't expect anything to have No, don't go into it 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.200 like thinking that you know something, because you're not going 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:35.560 to know it. 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.920 And so that was probably like the most useful a 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:39.320 bit of advice that I got. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.080 Well, that's that's interesting. That is actually very that's good advice. 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.720 That is good advice. Nice job, well, Robbie, so correct 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:47.240 me if I'm wrong. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.400 Robbie, I believe went really far on JoJo's season of 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.840 The Bouchtera and then was on he was yeah his 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:56.640 runner up, right yeah, and then he was on Paradise 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.640 I believe as well. So he's done two shows. He's 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.960 a good part. And a call and say like, hey, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.280 what should I expect? So the fact that someone who's 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:05.840 done two shows is like, don't expect anything. 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.200 But I don't know how he came across on Paradise. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.560 Oh really, yeah, it might have went a little got 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:12.039 a little. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:13.440 Went a little sideways for Robbie. 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:14.839 Yeah, I think so in Paradise. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.840 Yeah. Yeah, So let's talk about you're a competitive swimmer 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.120 or you were a competitive swimmer. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.160 Yeah, I was a competitive swimmer. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:26.359 I so all through college I swam, and then I 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.120 had the opportunity to get dual citizenship. Both my parents 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.360 are from Vietnam, and so the opportunity came up. And 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.440 United States swimming is elite, it's very very good. So 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.640 where in one event I was fortieth in the country 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.719 in the US, I was the second in the country 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:42.239 in Vietnam. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.120 So we had the opportunity to get dual citizenship. 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.680 I tried to make the Olympics in twenty sixteen and 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:50.960 then I had a partial tear in my left rotator 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.640 cuff that I couldn't lift my arm and so I 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.600 had to get a couple of quarter zone shots back 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.839 to back to back to like try and make it 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.480 through and then just barely miss. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:06.480 So when you swim for Vietnam, how how long are 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:07.120 you over there for? 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:07.359 Like? 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.279 What does what does it? What does that look like? 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:10.560 Several months? 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.320 So yeah, it's the travel day is is more than 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.920 a day itself. So when I went over there, it 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.920 was like eighteen hours to soul A long layover and 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.520 then from Soeul to Hochi Min city was nine hours, 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.920 so it was just a brutal travel day. And then 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.800 they recommend that you get over there a month before 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.280 you compete, so they're thirty days early. The meet's usually 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.760 five to seven days, and then whether or not you 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.760 travel to different countries to compete or race or whatever 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.920 you have to do in terms of obligations for the federation, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.160 they keep you there longer. So I was there for 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.080 three stints for over three months each time. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:47.320 How beautiful is Vietnam? 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:48.320 Stunning? 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.840 Stunning, It's so awesome, that's what I've heard. Yeah, if 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:53.280 your each cities are the best. 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:58.440 Okay, So my brother's actually going, he's going on vacation. 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.560 I think. I think like in the sound, Yeah, where 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.880 would you for a tourist, where do you recommend? Like 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.280 if you have you're going to be a Vietnam for 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.120 seven days? Uh? 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.840 Danang is a beach city. It's d A n A 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.480 n g. It's a beach city. It is stunning. 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.560 It's it's also pretty touristy as well, so you could 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.280 get a by speaking English there pretty pretty comfortably. But 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.240 the restaurants are awesome, it's like seafood. That's a big 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.280 place to go because we went to a restaurant where 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.920 you watch the boats bring the seafood to the restaurant 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:29.200 and they would cook it right in front of you. 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.000 So it's it's a it's a super cool spot. 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.840 Ho Chi Min City is always a classic to go 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.200 into like the big city spots, but if you want 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.440 good food, go to the vendors just as much as 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.040 the four star and five star restaurants. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:41.160 They're they're they're awesome. 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.360 I want to go so bad, but we have an 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:45.960 issue with you. 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.760 I know, I have a net allergy, a really severe 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:52.839 net allergy, So I'm okay with peanuts and almonds, but 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:57.360 I'm like deathly allergic to like cashews, stashios, pinets, all those, 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.079 And it just gets challenging, not all with going places 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.160 that use a lot of meds language, but then the 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.280 language bear on top of it. Like I would love 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.319 to just go and eat all the food of the 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.440 different vendors, but it just gets a little nerve racking. 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.320 I I would risk. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:17.040 It, but then get nervous. Yeah, two epy beds on 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.040 stand by a lot of gunna drill, but even and 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.400 then like if something happens in a different country anyway. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.360 There's just a lot of elements that but who knows. 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.480 But that's why we'll make it the avention, and that's why, 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.720 you know, as much as you want to kind of 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:34.840 have the most authentic experience, sometimes the truer spots are 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:36.079 a little bit more comfortable. 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.200 Definitely, definitely find that balance of both exactly. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.360 Okay, so let's cut to night one. You step out 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.080 of the limo. What's going through your head? How is 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.000 the conversation with Jen? 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.840 First I could like feel my heartbeat like in my throat, 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.840 and I'm thinking, I'm thinking, don't trip the first thing 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.960 my first step because I'm putting my jacket together, I'm 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:12.160 looking at her and I'm like big deep breath. 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.280 Walk up to her. And then she made it pretty easy. 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:14.560 You know. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:19.240 She I'm a huge dad joke guy and puns all day. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.560 So the fact that she was like picking up what 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.080 I was putting down it felt good. So it started 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:25.800 to get easier after play, like the first fifteen or 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:26.719 thirty seconds. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.760 Yeah, she is very like warm and open energy, but 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.800 you can tell she's just kind of like embracing the conversation. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:35.920 So I feel like that makes it a lot easier. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.640 Would you say jan is your type? 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.679 Yeah? I think so. She's, like you said, bubbly, warm, outgoing. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:48.960 I think I would consider myself an introvert, So I 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.480 think that that balance is needed a lot of times 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.679 in a relationship, one more outgoing than the other. And 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.160 I think that that's probably more My type is someone 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.560 that's a little bit more free flowing of a spirit 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:00.880 than I am. 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:02.240 You're not really given introvert. 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:07.080 I believe you say that about every introvert, Yes, because 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.280 I feel like you have a perception that introverts are 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.960 like very very quiet and very very shy. But you know, 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.480 like I am, I have a great personality, but you 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.400 probably feel more comfortable like and enjoy your lone time. 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.040 Right if I had my choice of going out to 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.280 the club or sitting at home cuddling with my dog, 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.400 watching through a network and at home all day? 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.720 Okay, all right, so you you get into the house, 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.720 who are you vibing with? As far as the guys 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.800 and anyone rubbing you the wrong way? What's that? How's 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:37.079 that going? 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:38.720 Were you you were early out of the you were 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.000 pretty early out of the limma. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.640 Right, I think I was the fifth or sixth guy 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.960 into the house, so I was early. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:45.120 That was me too. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.200 I think I was like the sixth person in, and 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.960 I was so happy about it because it's absolutely a 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.640 positive being the first one and I feel like it's 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.560 a little jarring, but going in it's like a small 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:55.240 group of people. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.720 You get to kind of meet people as are coming. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:11:59.240 Do you agree? 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:00.520 One thousand percent? 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.920 And another thing that I thought of was as well 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.520 is when everyone comes into the room and they sit down, 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.520 and then there obviously aren't enough seats for twenty five 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.400 guys to be there, so the next group, like twenty one, 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.400 twenty three, there's everyone sitting down, they're just sitting there, 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:14.960 and the like. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:20.480 Yeah there's like two people standings comes in. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:21.240 Yeah. 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.440 Yeah, but it was it was good. The first group 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.480 of guys that were in there. I clicked it right 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.680 away with Thomas. We both you know, like that Spider 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.680 Man meme where you're like pointing at each other. We're 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.160 like Thomas Thomas and so him and I we we 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:37.040 connected pretty quickly. Sam m and I connected pretty quickly. 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.520 He's from South Carolina, so we both kind of hit 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.120 off on that that southern roots a little bit and 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.600 then Aaron herb him. He was probably be another guy. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.360 My little brother serves in the military, and so I 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.160 know Aaron does it as well. So that's kind of 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:51.640 something that we kind of touched on as well. 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.200 There's another Marcus was a military guy as well, right. 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:56.960 Yeah, he was an army ranger. Yeah, he does the 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:58.679 exact same thing my my little brother went to school. 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.240 For any of the guys kind of like rubbing you 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.599 the wrong way or or any of the guys like 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.880 kind of making waves within the house, not really. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.160 I kind of kept to myself, like, like I said, 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.520 kind of an introvert. So the conversations, it was interesting, 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.520 started off as like several groups of two or three, 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.040 everyone off to their side, and then slowly as the 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.839 night progressed, there was conversations with ten people, eleven people, 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.360 twelve people, like the whole house having those conversations. There 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.880 are definitely some big personalities, like Hakeem walking in with 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.679 forty balloons attached to him. That's that's something you know, 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.439 that's not my style. But to each their own. But 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.200 there were definitely some big personalities in the house. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.839 For sure. Did the guy really streak completely naked or 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:41.400 did he about the. 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.560 War on I someone someone said that I wasn't I 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:45.280 wasn't there for that. 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.640 I Oh, someone told me no, I didn't get to 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:47.920 see that. 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:53.840 No, okay, it was a good thing. Yeah, probably. Okay, 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.920 So then you get you get someone on one time 0:13:55.960 --> 0:14:00.480 with Jen, like where was that? Where was that within 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.400 the night and how did that conversation go? 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.640 It was kind of how I wanted to go, you know, 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.240 I wanted to kind of hit that seventy five percent mark. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.520 So but most people will hit get early. 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.160 I wanted to be one of three quarters to the 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:14.800 end spot. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:16.760 So I was kind of towards the end, I got 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.880 to have a pretty intimate conversation. It kind of got 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.000 a little bit deeper than either of us I think 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.880 wanted it to get to. We both can just kind 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.840 of hit on our family traditions, our family history. Both 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.400 of our mothers are immigrants. Both of our mothers basically 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.160 gave up their life so that we could have a 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.560 shot at one and that was something that both of 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.640 us kind of we we got to that point in 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:47.040 the conversation, We're like, Wow, this is this is more 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.160 an intense first date, right, So I think that's kind 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.400 of where we got to on the conversation just kind 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:56.320 of led so effortlessly there do you think do. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:15:00.280 You think if if it was a first date, you 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:01.200 would have gotten there? 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.880 Probably not. I think that there are things that. 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:10.760 I think that are things that are important to me 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.120 that I value so so much, and my mom is 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.280 definitely one of them. But I think sometimes you know, 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.000 when you're getting to know someone you know, you start 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.320 off as like the surface level stuff of like you know, 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:23.680 what do you like to do? What are some of 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.880 your hobbies? But I think that coming into it, I 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.160 know I knew Jen's story, you know, watching Joey's season 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:31.520 and watching how that's. 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:32.240 Really important to her. 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:35.520 It's important to me too, so I felt like it 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.680 was easy for us to kind of get there that quickly. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:42.200 I would imagine too, because you are the only person 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:46.600 that shares that experience with her, she probably gravitated towards 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.400 you know, what you have in common? And because you 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.000 guys have similar backgrounds and upbringings, it was probably just 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.520 a natural direction for the conversation to go of like 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:58.680 she's talking all these guys like trying to figure out, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:15:59.720 you know, what do I have in common? 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.960 Where was a very easy one for you guys to 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:02.920 connect on. 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.520 Yeah, definitely, And it helps being the only other Vietnamese 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.600 person in the house, so we both kind of I 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.160 hit her with a little Vietnamese pickup line and she 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:12.920 did a little giggle at it. I just told her 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:14.960 that she looked very beautiful in Vietnamese, and she was, oh, yeah, 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.640 yeh yeah, was impressed with Hopefully she was impressed on 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:18.240 my Vietnamese. 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:23.840 Yeah. So after that conversation in your head, where do 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.880 you are you like get like seventy five percent chance 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:27.760 I'm going to get a rose. 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.440 I wish it was seventy five percent. I was still 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.840 I was still fifty to fifty. You know that that feeling, 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.760 that feeling that I that I get to, you know 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.160 when when you're standing there and like you can feel 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:41.040 your heart pounding. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.280 Yeah, I was. I was probably fifty fifty. 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.160 There's just so many guys in that in the house, 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.640 you know, so many good looking guys. Everyone's successful, everyone's 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.880 peacocking uh in the house. So you know, I wanted 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.200 to kind of keep it fifty to fifty. 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.720 Did you think though, that you maybe had a chance 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.280 at the first impression Rose. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:02.440 Yes, I did think I had a chance with the 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.840 first impression Rose just because of how intense the conversation was. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:07.800 But at the same time, I was like, maybe it 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.159 was too intense that she was like, whoa, this is 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:11.880 something that I didn't want to happen. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:15.680 Yeah, well that's. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:16.960 Kind of where my head was with bof of that. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:22.600 Was there a guy in the house that was overly 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.199 confident that he thought maybe he was going to get 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:26.320