Speaker 1: This is the almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Almost Famous to OG's Bob Guinea. Here without my lovely
Speaker 2: co host Trista Sutter nay Wren. However, I have another
Speaker 2: beautiful person with me today, Natasha. Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2: Natasha Parker, how are you.
Speaker 3: I'm so good. Thank you for having me, Thank you
Speaker 3: for being here.
Speaker 2: And you have your golf chicon for today's almost famous, Yes,
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Speaker 2: this thing is, but the almost famous what is it called?
Speaker 3: The famous Beverage very average, almost average.
Speaker 4: Famously almost average golf day.
Speaker 2: So that's what we're doing today. So Natasha, our viewers
Speaker 2: and listeners will know you from, of course, from Peter
Speaker 2: Webers season of The Bachelor, and then you went on
Speaker 2: The Bachelor in Paradise not too long after that, So
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about a little bit
Speaker 2: of that, and then I want to get into what
Speaker 2: you're up to right now, which I know the Hidden
Speaker 2: Gems and watched a couple episodes the other day and
Speaker 2: so I got myself, you know, into zone, so I
Speaker 2: knew who you were last night and you're like, Hi,
Speaker 2: I'm Thesasha. Yeah, yeah, no. But so you went on
Speaker 2: Peter's season and this this was several years ago for you,
Speaker 2: now right, I mean how many years ago was that? Five?
Speaker 3: Pre pandemic? Twenty nineteen?
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, five years yep. So you go on
Speaker 2: it's twenty nineteen. Do you know that Peter's going to
Speaker 2: be the Bachelor before you go? Now, what has you
Speaker 2: even motivated to submit your information for a show like guess?
Speaker 1: Well, a friend of mine, Julie Lapaca, who was a
Speaker 1: producer on the show. It's the whole reason why I
Speaker 1: went on that show, Okay, and we love her for
Speaker 1: it and we hate.
Speaker 3: Her for it. Yeah, a love hate thing that right,
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: She actually was like, she's she really wanted me to
Speaker 1: go on the season before that, which was Colton's season,
Speaker 1: and she really was trying to push. But I was
Speaker 1: working in my corporate job. I was like, girl, I
Speaker 1: can't quit my job to go on this show. But
Speaker 1: I just so happen. Life happened. I quit my job
Speaker 1: to go freelance anyway. And she was like, well, you're
Speaker 1: between gigs right now, you should really just I've spent
Speaker 1: a she said, She's spent three months with the bachelor
Speaker 1: and you'd really like him.
Speaker 3: This is one of my best friends.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, She's like, the best thing that could
Speaker 1: happen is you'll never have to date again. The worst
Speaker 1: thing that will happen is you have an experience. And
Speaker 1: I was like, never having to date again, great sign.
Speaker 2: Experience, Yeah yeah, at least an.
Speaker 1: Experience, and exactly and experience, yeah yeah, And so I
Speaker 1: was like sure, So she sent an email I sent.
Speaker 1: I had to send her like thousands of pictures in
Speaker 1: like a bio that took me forever to write myself,
Speaker 1: and then I didn't hear anything for months, and then
Speaker 1: one person called from casting, then another person, another person.
Speaker 1: I don't know if someone just like if they backed
Speaker 1: out or what happened, but apparently there was supposed to
Speaker 1: be thirty six people for our season and ended up
Speaker 1: being thirty three. And I was like a very last edition,
Speaker 1: just so much so they started calling Labor Day and
Speaker 1: we left like on the sixteenth or something, so it
Speaker 1: was like two weeks.
Speaker 4: My experience was pretty similar for trist this season when
Speaker 4: I was on her season with The Bachelorette.
Speaker 2: I was a last minute person. But it was so
Speaker 2: funny because I didn't send in anything.
Speaker 3: You didn't say, so how did they get in contact
Speaker 3: with you?
Speaker 2: They went through my assistance at my office and they
Speaker 2: just flew me outside unseen to meet them. That's a
Speaker 2: different story, I'll tell you later. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this
Speaker 2: is this is about you, yea. But yeah, I think
Speaker 2: it's so exciting because you know, sometimes that last minute thing,
Speaker 2: you don't really have time to second guess it. You're
Speaker 2: just like, oh, what the hell, here we go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's honestly, that's so me.
Speaker 1: And there's so many times in my life where I
Speaker 1: was just like, let's go or let's do it, and
Speaker 1: I've had like the best nights or the best trips,
Speaker 1: just like booking it on a whim.
Speaker 3: So I was like, why not?
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes I think when you put too much into
Speaker 2: it in your head, you might even have to ruin it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you talked yourself out of it for sure.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I read something the other day that said, at the time,
Speaker 2: you were an event planner, but you also had a
Speaker 2: bunch of production experience too. So did you feel like,
Speaker 2: you know, that kind of production experience helped you going
Speaker 2: into the situation where you're like, Okay, I'm clearly being
Speaker 2: produced in this moment.
Speaker 1: No, no, I Well, the thing is is, I didn't
Speaker 1: watch the show. And it's funny that a lot of
Speaker 1: people say that all the time, and the producers even
Speaker 1: said that. There's a clip in the very first episode
Speaker 1: where the first impression Rose comes out and everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: and I'm like the what, Like, I literally did not
Speaker 1: I did not watch this show. I watched Limo Entrances
Speaker 1: the very first night, like like while I was packing
Speaker 1: to go. That was the only thing that I did.
Speaker 1: Because my friends were like, you have to watch that
Speaker 1: at least and know what you're gonna do.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But so I literally didn't watch. And you know,
Speaker 1: I come from a film and like scripted television background,
Speaker 1: so it's actors.
Speaker 3: It's like sitting and interviewing Robert de Niro, you know, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So it's very much a different thing when it's like
Speaker 1: your actual real life. So it was funny because that
Speaker 1: was a theme on our season. They were like afterwards,
Speaker 1: I read it, and Natasha's a producer plant she worked
Speaker 1: in production. I was like, I wish I knew what
Speaker 1: was going on, honey, I wish I did not My
Speaker 1: head was on a swivel. Let me tell you, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sure.
Speaker 4: Well, then you go on and you meet, you know
Speaker 4: a bunch of people who I know you have really
Speaker 4: great friendships with still to this day, a lot of
Speaker 4: the girls on the show, and then you know you
Speaker 4: you were you were in here earlier when we were
Speaker 4: talking about something else, which was of course at the
Speaker 4: end of Peter's season.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there was a lot of drama, right, drama
Speaker 2: from his MoMA drama. Were you like so happy that
Speaker 2: you weren't involved in that at that moment? It was
Speaker 2: kind of dicey.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, but I mean I it was.
Speaker 1: It was very clear that watching it, like watching it
Speaker 1: back and then also remembering the conversations that we had,
Speaker 1: but then also watching how the end happened.
Speaker 3: It was like, Peter does.
Speaker 1: Not know what he wants and you know, as a mom,
Speaker 1: how do you think that about your kid?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: So I was it's a hard situation because obviously she's like,
Speaker 1: he can do no wrong in her.
Speaker 3: Eyes, which I get.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have any kids, but I feel
Speaker 1: like I probably feel the same way your mom. Yes,
Speaker 1: but does but does your but does your your why
Speaker 1: feel that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's pretty much realized.
Speaker 4: But but I will say this, at that once we're
Speaker 4: at that stage, I'm hopeful we.
Speaker 2: Could both see through the clouds. Yeah. No, I think
Speaker 2: you're right too.
Speaker 3: You know, I think a lot I'm glad I wasn't
Speaker 3: in that, I know, and.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of times those bachelors get to
Speaker 2: that point and it's like, if you've already, if you're
Speaker 2: dead set on one person, then that's one version, right,
Speaker 2: But if you're still not knowing which direction you're gonna go,
Speaker 2: you can be kind of pulled in a bunch of
Speaker 2: different directions.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: And that's obviously I think where Peter was right to
Speaker 2: a few of those things. So I mean, in that way,
Speaker 2: I think you probably dodged a bullet. I'm sure he's
Speaker 2: a very nice guy, but right, you kind of got
Speaker 2: out of the.
Speaker 3: Way with Peter. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so funny how many people say that, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, poor Peter. I mean he is a
Speaker 1: really really nice person, but not someone that I should
Speaker 1: have dated.
Speaker 2: Right there you go, right, and so you did get
Speaker 2: to learn from your experience. Oh yeah, and you did that?
Speaker 2: Did that kind of fine tune you for what you
Speaker 2: were looking for out relationship wise after the show.
Speaker 1: Well, I definitely think this experience and going on the show,
Speaker 1: and I've talked about this on my podcast too. It's
Speaker 1: such a social experiment and like you learn so much
Speaker 1: about yourself because you're talking about your feelings all day
Speaker 1: and like why you can express this, but you can
Speaker 1: express this. And actually Serena Pitt was on my podcast
Speaker 1: not too long ago and we were talking about how
Speaker 1: like someone like her is very kind of closed in
Speaker 1: real life, but she really thrives on the show, and
Speaker 1: how I am someone who's very open in real life,
Speaker 1: but then I like close down in the show, you know,
Speaker 1: So it definitely you know, I wouldn't think that I
Speaker 1: would be like that, and she was like, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: think that you would be like that either. So you
Speaker 1: definitely learned so much about yourself going on the show.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and dating, Like I also was like a
Speaker 1: lot of the guys that I've dated in real life
Speaker 1: would not go on this show or it would be
Speaker 1: one of those situations where you know they're plucked out
Speaker 1: of you know, there's certain exactly exactly exactly, So it's
Speaker 1: definitely an eye opening experience for sure, and you and
Speaker 1: you do and there's I mean, I've become so much
Speaker 1: more vocal and relationships. You know, I feel like I
Speaker 1: had such an anxious attachment style before going on the show,
Speaker 1: and I really had to work on that after in
Speaker 1: like my there of his and yeah, yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I had to. But yeah, so the reflection is like invaluable.
Speaker 2: You know, what was it like for you two, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, you go into a circumstance like that. Your
Speaker 2: previous experience had been behind the camera, right, and so
Speaker 2: now you go on that show and all of a
Speaker 2: sudden you have all these people armchair quarterbacking how you act, right,
Speaker 2: so they're they're chiming in on social media and things.
Speaker 2: Was that tough for you? Yea, even though you had
Speaker 2: a lot of people who obviously loved you and thought
Speaker 2: you were wonderful and everything. But for me, the hardest
Speaker 2: part was and this is even before social media to
Speaker 2: date me even more. But I remember someone would say,
Speaker 2: you know, a million nice things about me and it
Speaker 2: wouldn't even register, but one mean thing and that would
Speaker 2: stick with me for days. Yes, And did you experience
Speaker 2: a little bit of that?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I mean it's it's like inhuman
Speaker 1: right to to hear not. I mean with social media,
Speaker 1: it's like it's one thing to see a headline and
Speaker 1: see someone write something salacious about you, like on a headline, right,
Speaker 1: and it's another thing. And you know, like, okay, they're
Speaker 1: doing that for clicks, and you get it. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: then you're like, uh, you know Susie two O two
Speaker 1: two who like has a family and like a baby,
Speaker 1: and like you know what I.
Speaker 2: Mean, like.
Speaker 1: Like she looks so sweet and she's like you go,
Speaker 1: oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it definitely was really hard, and like I was
Speaker 1: like a clap backer when I first got.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, what we go?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like I was back and like trying to
Speaker 1: defend myself for like people on my season and things
Speaker 1: like that. And then you realize, like these people don't
Speaker 1: know you. They see what they see or hit a
Speaker 1: note for two seconds from what they see on the show,
Speaker 1: and you can't feed into it, you know.
Speaker 2: So when I when I first came off the Bachelor stuff,
Speaker 2: I did a lot with Oprah at the time, and
Speaker 2: Oprah said the greatest thing to me that I've and
Speaker 2: I've remembered this for years and then you should remember
Speaker 2: it too. And if you ever asked this advice for
Speaker 2: someone passing it along, Oprah always said, She's like, you know,
Speaker 2: everyone out there is watching you live your life, and
Speaker 2: you're in there commenting on how you're living your life,
Speaker 2: but they don't know you. They don't know anything about
Speaker 2: your life except what they see on TV exactly. So
Speaker 2: their reaction is going to be based on such a
Speaker 2: finite moment of you, and it could be a very edited,
Speaker 2: as we all know, moment where you react to something
Speaker 2: that maybe you didn't even do that in the moment. Yes,
Speaker 2: I took it really to heart and it helped me
Speaker 2: a lot because I was I was going through because
Speaker 2: such a people pleaser, I always want everyone to like me,
Speaker 2: and it was so hard for me to hear people
Speaker 2: say negative things. And yeah, it really helped me. Food.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, I will say that Joe Grocery Store, Joe
Speaker 1: one of my good friends. He gave me some of
Speaker 1: the best advice that I ever had from Paradise after Paradise,
Speaker 1: because I had.
Speaker 3: A hard time after.
Speaker 1: But he said, you know, you can't feed into the
Speaker 1: good comments, and you also can't feed into the bad
Speaker 1: comments because when you feed into the good comments, you
Speaker 1: will feel also the bad comments. So you just have
Speaker 1: to like really hunker down and like the people who
Speaker 1: know you in real life and care about you in
Speaker 1: real life, those are the people who's yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Those are the opinions.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and that and that really stuck with me because
Speaker 1: I was like, he's so right, because you can be
Speaker 1: riding a wave one episode everyone's like yeah, Natasha.
Speaker 3: In another episode they're like, what what's wrong with it?
Speaker 3: That I feel like they really kind of oh yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: But yeah. I always say I'm not as great as
Speaker 2: people think I am. I'm not as terrible as you
Speaker 2: think I am.
Speaker 3: Exactly figure it out exactly.
Speaker 2: But I want to talk real quickly before we let
Speaker 2: you go about hitting gems about your podcast. I mean,
Speaker 2: you talk about production value. You can tell your history.
Speaker 4: That things good, things always great, But you actually had
Speaker 4: you had Rachel the Beast at Rachel on your season
Speaker 4: right after she kind of announced her separation, you know,
Speaker 4: from from her husband. Yes, and you could tell that
Speaker 4: the two of you really clicked because I've always liked
Speaker 4: her and I think that she was you know, really
Speaker 4: she's always kind of been an open book to a
Speaker 4: certain degree, but with you, I felt like she really
Speaker 4: kind of opened up. And that's one of the videos
Speaker 4: I watched the other day and I was like, I
Speaker 4: want to make sure I bring that up because I wondered,
Speaker 4: you know, did you do you feel like from your
Speaker 4: interview with her in that moment? Like does she feel
Speaker 4: good about where she's at? Did you feel good about
Speaker 4: the interview you had with her?
Speaker 2: And being a woman who's you know, gone through public
Speaker 2: breakups and you know how difficulty can be. You know,
Speaker 2: were you hearing good stuff? And you know how was
Speaker 2: that for you?
Speaker 1: I well, so before we started the podcast, because Rachel
Speaker 1: and I are good friends and she is someone from
Speaker 1: Bachelor Nation who the moment I went on the show,
Speaker 1: she reached out and was like, Hey, if you ever
Speaker 1: need any advice, if you need this, if you need that,
Speaker 1: like very great, and we just continue to develop our friendship.
Speaker 1: And you know, she's not she wasn't ready to talk
Speaker 1: all the way through because obviously she's still fully going
Speaker 1: through this divorce right, Yeah, exactly, she's in the middle
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 3: But I told her, you know, this is our safe space.
Speaker 1: We are we will edit anything that we need to
Speaker 1: edit in out whatever, you know what I mean, like,
Speaker 1: and if you want to go there and we talk
Speaker 1: about it, we definitely can.
Speaker 3: And if you don't, then we don't.
Speaker 1: Because you're so great, you have so many other accomplishments,
Speaker 1: have so much stuff going on. This divorce should not
Speaker 1: define you, you know. And obviously it's something that she
Speaker 1: was going through and heavy on her heart. And the
Speaker 1: whole podcast is about being stuck and getting unstuck, and
Speaker 1: she was like, this is a very stuck moment in
Speaker 1: my life. So she wanted to talk about it, you know,
Speaker 1: so I just I I look at her, I talk
Speaker 1: to her, I check on her all the time, and
Speaker 1: you know, obviously it's not easy what she's going through,
Speaker 1: but she's handling it so well.
Speaker 4: Yeah she really ist network Yeah you don't, I'm still.
Speaker 3: Here exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: And that was the thing, and it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I really am excited for her when it is when
Speaker 1: she can get to a resolution and she does want
Speaker 1: to share her story in whatever way she wants to,
Speaker 1: because it's kind of there's there's you know, obviously there's
Speaker 1: a lot that she did not say, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, And it's just the way that she is
Speaker 1: still like showing up. She'll call me and be like hey,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, oh, girl, you're dealing with this
Speaker 1: so well. You know, I'm like, I just saw this
Speaker 1: like video that this man just posted in all this craziness,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, the.
Speaker 2: I hope she's wearing blinders right now too.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: It's almost like you have to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and she and she's staying close to the people
Speaker 1: who really care for her, and I think that that's
Speaker 1: like the best thing that you know, someone can do.
Speaker 3: And she was, you know, she just went home and
Speaker 3: visited her family and things like that.
Speaker 1: So really that interview, I've obviously, you know, we've been
Speaker 1: talking about her coming on the podcast for long and
Speaker 1: she was also a big champion for me to start
Speaker 1: my own podcast too, And it just so happened when
Speaker 1: she announced her divorce and all that was going on,
Speaker 1: so we did talk about it, and I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone picked it up and all.
Speaker 2: The because she helpful and I mean on purpose too. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: she was somebody randomly does know.
Speaker 1: And she also is so and she also said, you know,
Speaker 1: she's Rachel is like so smart and she's so great.
Speaker 1: And she also was just like, why would I want
Speaker 1: to talk to anyone else, you know, but my friend
Speaker 1: who I know is going to have my back, And
Speaker 1: then like one you know, well you.
Speaker 2: Could tell you guys had a great friendship. It was
Speaker 2: a great conversation and a great a great pod, as
Speaker 2: I believe we say in this industry. I don't really know,
Speaker 2: but I enjoyed it, and I wish you continued success
Speaker 2: on it. I hope it keeps going great for you,
Speaker 2: and thank you. I hope you play good golf today
Speaker 2: because you look wonderful. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Supposed to be a tough course, so you need to
Speaker 2: help out there. Don't don't ask me, ask Ben. He's
Speaker 2: much better than me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going for the whole in one today.
Speaker 2: There you go, hoping we'll win a car or something. Man,
Speaker 2: we got a prize. I mean, this is a golf tournament.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, Natasha Parker, thank you so much for joining us
Speaker 2: on almost famous the ogs. I appreciate it and I
Speaker 2: look forward to talking with you against sum Thank you
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 3: You're welcome