1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: This is the Almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio. Welcome back 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: to Almost Famous to OG's podcast. I am one half 3 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 1: of your og hosts. I am not Trista Sutter Nay 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: Wren the other one. I'm Bob. Hey, everybody, Bob getting 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 1: here today. We are going to go back to Ali 6 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,479 Speaker 1: Fedotowski season of the Bacherette. That season six back in 7 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: twenty ten, just a baby compared to Tristan. Myself, my 8 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: guest today, was the runner up and did not end 9 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: up finding love on the Bacherette, but surprisingly still fell 10 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: in love in the bachelor world. A landscaper, a TV personality, 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,959 Speaker 1: part of a family run oyster business, and an elected official. 12 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about all this good stuff. Please 13 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: welcome to the pod. My friend who I actually know 14 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: this guy I don't normally know everyone. It's Chris Lambton 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: and I love Chris Lampton, so let's bring him on. 16 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 2: What's going on? Bob? How are you Ren? 17 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: I'm great, buddy. 18 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 2: How are you not too bad? Thank you? 19 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: Yeah? How's the family? Tell me everything? What's going on 20 00:00:58,480 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: with you? Bud? 21 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 3: Fam is great? Yes, it was the last day of school, 22 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 3: so yeah, you know, like today was fast and furious. 23 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 2: Kids are what six and eight, so they're going to 24 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 2: first in third grade. 25 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,320 Speaker 1: Which I feel like, Yeah, crazy, isn't it? 26 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 2: Yeah? It is. 27 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,160 Speaker 3: And then Peyton is crushing it. She's not crushing enough 28 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 3: that I can be a stay at home dad, you know, 29 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 3: knock on wood soon. 30 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 1: Right, that's a dream, buddy, that's a dream for both 31 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: of us. I'm into that one too. So yeah, well, 32 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: not surprised, dude. I've often said you two are two 33 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: of my very favorite people from Bachelor Nation, and I 34 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: always love to see your success, love seeing on HGTV 35 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: and everything you were doing there. And yeah, you know, 36 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you heard the rumor, but they're 37 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: gonna do a little makeover the Bachelor Engine. Yeah did 38 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: you hear? Because producers called you and said we need 39 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: you to do this, because that's what I would have 40 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: done as a producer. 41 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 3: I've heard that they're in the talking stages and I 42 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 3: was like, dude, you better have Peyton and I come 43 00:01:57,360 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 3: on now, that's like an honest, perfect thing. 44 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 2: I feel like I'm talking to a good host of 45 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 2: that show right now. 46 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: So that thank you, buddy. Yeah, well, you know what 47 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: now that some some synergy has changed around Bache Nation. 48 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: Maybe I would have a chance, you know, but back 49 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: in the day, I would have gotten the tombstone, I'm 50 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: sure for the powers that be. But now now we 51 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: can get back in. So if just to make it clear, 52 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: if HGTV makes the right choice and calls you, you're in. 53 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 2: I would love to be in on that show. I mean, 54 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 2: here you go. 55 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, decade plus an AHGTV and Bacher stuff. 56 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 2: Come on. I mean if Peyton, I'd be a perfect fit. 57 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:36,640 Speaker 1: Oh you really would, man, I mean, I don't think 58 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 1: there's a better one out there. So all right, so 59 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: we're going to take it back right back the twenty ten, 60 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: right Ali Fedotowski season. You're you're one of the last 61 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: guys standing and I remember you know, you were a 62 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: young guy your first time on TV. Good looking dude, 63 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: got the kind of awesome East Coast accent, which was 64 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: I've always found a very endearing just in general. But 65 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: you know, with you, you just had such a good 66 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: nature about you and got along great with the other guys. 67 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: You know, you were never a source of any other 68 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: drama or anything like that, but you were definitely someone 69 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 1: who stood up for themselves and was you know, you 70 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: did us proud. You did us proud at that point, 71 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: but you ended up being the runner up on that season, right, 72 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: And as I recall, so it came down to you 73 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: and was it you and Roberto? 74 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 2: Right that it came to Roberto and talked to him 75 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 2: the other day. 76 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: Did he really? So? I was trying to get him 77 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: on the horn because I haven't talked to him a 78 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 1: couple of years. 79 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 3: I was trying to He's reclusive, man. He is a 80 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 3: fast watch. He's like, there's sightings of home every now 81 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 3: and again. 82 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: Is he real? Is he real? We don't know. It's 83 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 1: not behind the trees. 84 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, like fifteen years ago. 85 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: Have you guys gotten together at all? Have you guys 86 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: got together at all? Was like hangout or no? 87 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 2: He came to my wedding. 88 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 1: That's awesome. That's the last time you saw him. That 89 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: was what thirteen how many years ago? Was that? 90 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 2: Man? 91 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 3: So we got married sink of the mile and this 92 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 3: is we got married twenty twelve. 93 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 2: So we've just had a thirteenth year. 94 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: Thirteenth years, hey man, that's always a best right, you 95 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: get past the seven year at your golden that's what 96 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: they say, not a gold not a golden bachelor, but 97 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: you know you're golden just the same, not yet, yeah, exactly, 98 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: So all right, so you get done with the show, right, 99 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: And I've got to believe just because the nature of 100 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: things at that time, that they had to have asked 101 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: you to be the next bachelor. Did they come to you, 102 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: did they court you for it? 103 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 3: They flew me out to a angels in a Red 104 00:04:28,279 --> 00:04:32,239 Speaker 3: Sox game in Anaheim. It was the coolest experience ever. 105 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 3: Like I took a limo and like, I don't think 106 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 3: I ever been at long before. I was like, I'm like, 107 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 3: come on, like let's do this. Like they had good 108 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 3: seats at a game, because usually if I go to Fenway, 109 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:44,359 Speaker 3: like when I was younger, like you know, I was 110 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 3: out in the bleachers and the nosebreed, you know, Like, 111 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 3: so I had good seats and uh yeah, yeah, yeah. 112 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 2: They asked and. 113 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: And and did you say no? Or was it one 114 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: of those things where you were like, I'm open to it? 115 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 1: And then they ended up because I know a lot 116 00:04:58,279 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: of times, like I mean, I always heard the story 117 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 1: because I was the first reject so to speak, that 118 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: went on to be the bachelor, right, and I had 119 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 1: always heard that they talked to like three or four people, 120 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: and uh, I remember. I remember when they first came 121 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: to me. I actually said no, and uh they were 122 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: like why. I'm like, because I'm a lovable loser man 123 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: and you probably had the same problem, right, I'm the 124 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 1: level of loser. I can't do anything wrong. Everyone thinks 125 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: I should have won the thing, and I you know, 126 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 1: so it was like, why would I go on and 127 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: risk being a jerk picking the wrong person? Like it's 128 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 1: the fear, you know, did you go through that kind 129 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: of feeling? Yeah, the pressure? 130 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because they asked me. 131 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 3: But I was like him and the hung I was 132 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 3: thinking about it, and I was like, well the thing 133 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,479 Speaker 3: that I got caught up on, maybe you were the 134 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 3: same way. It's like it's one thing about me being 135 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 3: on it, you know, like if you want to trash me, 136 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 3: say stuff about me, do whatever, whatever, you know, Like 137 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 3: I signed up for it, literally signed up for it, legit. 138 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,320 Speaker 3: And then you know, when I was in the bachelorette, 139 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 3: the same thing. People were like, say stuff about you online, 140 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 3: you know, which hey come to the territory. Yeah, but 141 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 3: like they said stuff about like my brother, my dad 142 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 3: and sant like that. 143 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 2: I said, you know. 144 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,080 Speaker 3: What, if I go on the Bachelor, I'm signing the 145 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 3: whole family up, you know, like they're not getting any 146 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 3: money for it. 147 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 2: They're not getting anything for it, so. 148 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 3: I'm just I'm putting them out there and like, yeah, 149 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 3: my brothers are they don't want the limelight. You know 150 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,840 Speaker 3: that my dad didn't want it, and I know that 151 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 3: they'd use my mom's story again, and yeah, I was like, 152 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 3: you know, what is it worth it? But I mean 153 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 3: I took the chance to go in the bacherette because 154 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 3: I was like, you know what, I'm open for finding 155 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 3: somebody in a weird way because it hasn't worked at 156 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 3: this point. And I would never I would never change 157 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 3: that experience. Loved that experience. Death made awesome friends. Ali 158 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 3: was great, you know, she was sweet to me the 159 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 3: whole time. But then that next step when you're like 160 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 3: in the spotlight and your family's in the spotlight, I 161 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 3: was like, yeah, that might be a bridge too far. 162 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: You know, well, you know it is. It is a lot. 163 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, it's a lot, no question, I will 164 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: say this. You know, I had said no for a 165 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: lot of the same reasons at first, and in retrospect, 166 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that but but again I was before 167 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,160 Speaker 1: social media too, so you were on the front end 168 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: of social media when you were doing it. Just people 169 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: were savage, right, so even I mean people just sit 170 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: there and say the meanest things. None of it's true, right, 171 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: and we didn't have that. So at the time when 172 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: I was doing it, I even remember I went to 173 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: my dad and I was like, you know, I want 174 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: to do you proud and I don't want to embarrass 175 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: our family. Are you okay with this cause I won't 176 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 1: do it if you if you don't want me to 177 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: do it, right, And my dad was like, you know what, buddy, 178 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: you do it. Well, I'll tell you. He passed away 179 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. And the fact that I have 180 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,679 Speaker 1: him on video now talking in my grand and my kids, 181 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 1: his grandkids can see it and go, look how young 182 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: Papa was and stuff like that. It's awesome for me. 183 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: So that's the That's the big the biggest positive, right 184 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: that in the fact they made a bunch of great 185 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: friends and I'm still friends with a lot of the 186 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: girls too and stuff. But so yeah, so you you 187 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: say no to that, they go on to who is 188 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: the who was the bachelor? Who do they end up 189 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: making the best. 190 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 2: The first guy from Austin. 191 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, so Brad comes on really takes the heat 192 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: off of you because he puts so much of it 193 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 1: on himself. He's such a nice guy. But man, dude, 194 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: I felt so bad for him. All right, but you 195 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: didn't find love on the Bachelor att right, And so 196 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: what a crazy twist that you end up meeting your 197 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: wife who was on I mean, did they ask you 198 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: to be on Bachelor Pat? Did they ask you to 199 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: do that one too? 200 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 3: Okay, no, because when they were they were they started 201 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 3: teaching taping Bachelor Pad, like right near the end of Bachelor. 202 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 3: So I was still on a Bachelor when they started 203 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,840 Speaker 3: taping Bascher Pad. Yeah, so thankfully I wasn't on that. 204 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,679 Speaker 3: And I say thankfully because one of my best friends 205 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 3: on the show, Jesse Beck, was on Bachelor Pad and 206 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,839 Speaker 3: that was like the weird competition. You know, they hadn't 207 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 3: figured it out that, you know, how to do it 208 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 3: right at that point, and his partner was Peyton, and 209 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 3: he was like Chris, Chris. I was talking to this 210 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 3: Peyton girl and telling her how great you be together. 211 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 2: You know. 212 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 3: And fast forward like just a few weeks after I 213 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 3: said no to the Bachelor. Thomas were at an event 214 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 3: together in North Carolina, the Jimmy ve Golf Classic. 215 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love that one. 216 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,199 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so much fun. So Jesse's like, oh, 217 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 3: I have a friend. I want to invite her over. 218 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 3: I was like, all right, Like who is it. He's 219 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 3: like this girl Peyton, She's awesome. She was on the 220 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 3: path with me. I was like, where does she live? 221 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 3: He's like Dallas. I'm like, Jesse, you need to be 222 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 3: better at geography because Dallas is not near North Carolina. 223 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 2: Like they're far apart. 224 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. 225 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 3: He called her anyway and like, no, jog Like. She 226 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 3: was home in Northeast Tennessee at the time, which was 227 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 3: like an hour. 228 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 2: From where we were. 229 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: That's crazy. 230 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 3: He was home for the weekend. So she came over 231 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 3: met us and like literally, I was like, that's the one. 232 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:49,839 Speaker 3: Nine months later, nine months later, I proposed her. 233 00:09:50,040 --> 00:10:03,199 Speaker 1: That's so badass. I love that. Yeah, And you two 234 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: really are like you two are one of those couples that, look, 235 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: I get it all. You know, whenever you live with 236 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: someone and have a family with someone and everything else, 237 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 1: you're gonna have your moments, right, But the two of 238 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: you always seemed just wired so nicely together. And I've 239 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: always thought that since the day I met you guys. 240 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: And it's one of those things that it's like you 241 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: see when you see it and it's right, and you're like, oh, 242 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 1: that's how it's supposed to be, because I was I 243 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: was still looking for my person at that time, you know, 244 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: when we first met, and I remember thinking like, oh, god, dude, 245 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 1: those two are so good together. Maybe you know, maybe 246 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: I should do The Bachelor but whatever the time, Bachelor 247 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: Paradise or whatever they were doing at that point. But 248 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not going to be the first 249 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: guy from the Bachelor, like the dude who handed out 250 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: the flowers. Yeah, I save that. I think they had. 251 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: I think they ended up having. Uh didn't Jake Pavelka 252 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: do it? One of the guys did it? I can't 253 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,079 Speaker 1: remember who it was, or you know he did Bachelor 254 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 1: pad Nick ye, nick Viel did that yeah? Or the 255 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: Paradise Yeah he was. He had done it all at 256 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 1: that point, I think. But yeah, So so then you 257 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: guys get you guys get together, and then you're together 258 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,679 Speaker 1: for a little bit and then the HGTV comes calling, right, 259 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:06,319 Speaker 1: and then that that kind of picked up not too 260 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 1: long thereafter. 261 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. 262 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 3: So we had just started dating Peyton and I and 263 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 3: I remember I was like, Peyton, I got these emails 264 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 3: from this d Y and HGTV. I was like, I 265 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 3: was like, what do you think She's like? 266 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 2: Google them? 267 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 3: So I google this guy and like, I was like, wow, 268 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 3: he actually does work for HGTV, like because you know, 269 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 3: like you get like all these emails from people like 270 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 3: after the show, like hey, do you want to do this? 271 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 2: I'm like that seems fake to me. 272 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,679 Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it right, and it all 273 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 1: seems too good to be true. Yeah right. 274 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:33,959 Speaker 3: I'm like, oh yeah, because I'm a landscape you on 275 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 3: me on TV, right, I don't believe that. 276 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 2: So I emailed them back. 277 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, you know what, just so happens that 278 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 3: I'm actually going to be in Tennessee, which is where 279 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 3: the HGTV offices are for Christmas, to visit my girlfriend 280 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 3: and meet her family for the first time, and they're like, 281 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 3: can you come in for an interview? 282 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 2: Yeah? Sure. 283 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:59,119 Speaker 3: So I remember Peyton dropped me off in Knoxville at 284 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,839 Speaker 3: the h TV studio and she went to school in 285 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 3: Knoxville University of Tennessee. So we were like, oh, perfect, 286 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 3: We'll cruise around, see her school, get a T shirt, 287 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 3: you know, the whole nine yards, and then go to 288 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 3: her parents' house meet her parents. 289 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 2: He dragged me off, and who do you think you 290 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 2: would meet the first time? Bob? Like, ah, like somebody 291 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 2: in HR I don't know. I sit down. 292 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 3: I start talking to this lady and we talked for 293 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 3: like an hour and we leave and I'm sitting out 294 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 3: there and then she comes outside. She's like, Hey, all 295 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:31,840 Speaker 3: the ladies in the oves want to take a picture. 296 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:32,960 Speaker 3: You want to come in and take a picture. 297 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 2: Like, oh, yeah, of course. So we take a picture 298 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 2: and I'm just laughing and everybody leave and. 299 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 3: Peyton was like, who'd you meet with it? I said, oh, 300 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 3: this lady. I googled her name. She was this CEO 301 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,199 Speaker 3: of HGTV and. 302 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,199 Speaker 2: Scripts and I was like and Peyton starts laughing. 303 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,599 Speaker 3: She's like, if you knew that beforehand, you would have 304 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 3: been terrible in that interview. 305 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that you think it's like a low level person. 306 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, like. 307 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:57,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, like if he does well, bumping. 308 00:12:57,640 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: Up a level, right, we'll bring him in again, you. 309 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 3: Know, or whatever, And like I'd never done many interviews, 310 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 3: Like I was either a landscape or a teacher. So 311 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 3: it's not like I was like applying to some big 312 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 3: company and do different interviews. 313 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: I I would have assumed the same thing. Yeah, totally. 314 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. 315 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 3: Next to fast forward, they send a film crew to 316 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,560 Speaker 3: my yard on the cape to do like a little 317 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 3: walk and talk and do like a little two minute sizzle, 318 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,199 Speaker 3: and Pateon was like, I'm getting in on this, so 319 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 3: she like jumped in the video and then they were like, 320 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 3: we would love the two you guys together. She'll do 321 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 3: the design, you do the manual labor, like you know, 322 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,959 Speaker 3: the landscaping, and we got our first show going yard. 323 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:40,559 Speaker 3: And I mean, like I always say, the Bachelorette completely 324 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,679 Speaker 3: changed my life. It got me a wife and a 325 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 3: TV show ONCTV, and like might not. 326 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: Have been the way that those producers wanted it to be, 327 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: but it definitely worked out the way that you needed 328 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: it to be and you and Peyton needed it to 329 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: be in your heart. Yeah now yeah, now you got 330 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 1: two beautiful kids. And I mean, with that being the case, right, 331 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 1: So Peyton went on a show and didn't find love also, 332 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: which is how she ended up on pad obviously whose 333 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: season was she on? By the way, I can't remember. 334 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 3: Admiral oh Andy Baldwin and who I met a couple 335 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 3: of times, nicest doing the world. 336 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: Super nice guy, yeah, super nice guy. Yeah he he 337 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: just had a baby. 338 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 2: Runs like however old he is hearing that many miles 339 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 2: for his birthday? Have you seen this? 340 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, yeah, dude, he's what they call a what 341 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: do they call those ultra runner? 342 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 2: Ultra yeah, ultra marathon yea ultra marathon er. 343 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 1: So he'll yeah, I'll never forget. I was reaching out 344 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 1: to him. This is years ago. I was still living 345 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: in La at the time, so it was pre twenty fifteen. 346 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: I was reaching out to him about something that they 347 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: wanted him to do with me, and he was like, 348 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: I go, where are you. He's like, I'm in Chile 349 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: or something. He's like Honduras or something. He was like 350 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: super far away, and he goes, yeah, I just I 351 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: just got done running like an ultimate marathon. I think 352 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: I was like eating, you know, I was eating pretzel 353 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: bites and drinking. Againess, I'm like a taco and yeah, 354 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: I have a taco in one hand a pizza in 355 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,960 Speaker 1: the other. I'm like, Okay, I can see why we 356 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: probably aren't going to get the hang anytime soon. But yeah, 357 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: he's a super nice man. I mean, I've been hard 358 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: pressed to find too many people that I haven't loved 359 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: once I got to know them from the franchise myself too. 360 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: But but yeah, so all right, let's talk about this. 361 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: You got your you got your family business, you got 362 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: your HGTV business, you've got your landscaping business, You've got 363 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: your family, and then I just found out you also 364 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: ran for political office. Tell me about this. 365 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, so I know it's stupid to me, but so. 366 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: Before you say another word, I gotta tell you this. 367 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,920 Speaker 1: I think about it all the time, only because I'm like, 368 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: I equally love hate all the parties, Like I'm not 369 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: a I don't subscribe to one or the others. I'm like, 370 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: maybe I could be the great uniter, you know. 371 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 3: I still remember it was like the twenty teens and 372 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 3: our town was trying to get a community center and 373 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 3: it got voted down and there was just nobody young 374 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 3: on the board and I was just like, listen, like 375 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 3: someone's going to do something. And then instead of complaining, 376 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 3: I was like, you know what, I'm going to run, 377 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 3: So I ran for the select board in our town. 378 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 2: It comes humble brag. 379 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 3: I won by the largest margin and by and I 380 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 3: got the most votes in town history. 381 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: Oh my god. 382 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 2: I love yeah. 383 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 3: And uh so I just got reelected for my third term. 384 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 3: I'm the chairman of the Dentist select Board and I 385 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 3: love it. 386 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 2: And I'm still I'm not that young anymore. I'm still 387 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 2: the youngest on the board. 388 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 3: And as someone who was born and raised in this town, 389 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 3: I have young kids who go to the public schools 390 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 3: in town. Like, yeah, small business. My one of my 391 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 3: brothers is a police officer in town. Like, we're ingrained 392 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 3: in this town. Yeah, and like you gotta, you gotta. 393 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 3: You can't just complain, you gotta step up and do something. 394 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 3: So I try to get people to get out vote. 395 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 3: I try to help push family oriented things, help with housing, 396 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 3: you know, all that kind of stuff. And uh yeah, 397 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 3: I get paid two thousand dollars wait for it a year, 398 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 3: so no big deal. 399 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: Right, right, right, You're not You're not to get rich though, right, 400 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I get that. 401 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 2: I do it because it helps out and I love it. 402 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 2: I love it. 403 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: No, I love that, dude. You're so good. And I 404 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: bet people find you so refreshing, right because you're such 405 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,160 Speaker 1: a good dude and you never looked down your nose 406 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: at anybody. And it's like, you know, you're in this 407 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: great situation in life, but it's like you're someone who 408 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: can help, right because you actually do have young kids. 409 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: And it's like a lot of those people forget what 410 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 1: it's like to have young kids. They just don't want 411 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: to pay anything else in taxes, right, so they don't 412 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: want to do anything. Yeah, right, I get it. I 413 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 1: get it. 414 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate that because, like sometimes it is a 415 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 3: thankless job, but you know, I love doing it, and 416 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 3: everyone in the town is so much fun to work 417 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 3: with and work for, and you know, and you go 418 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 3: someplace like hey, Chris, thank you for doing that, or 419 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 3: hey can you help me get a sidewalk? 420 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 2: Or can you sure? Sure? 421 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 1: Well I'm sure too, Like my dad was a policeman 422 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: in my hometown, so I know I know that kind 423 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: of thing too with your brother. So it's like everybody 424 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: loves Slash hates the cops, right, They love the cops 425 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 1: if they need them and they need their help. They 426 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: hate the cops they get pulled over for speeding, So 427 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 1: it's like one of those things, right, And I remember 428 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:58,919 Speaker 1: usus I always say to my dad, I was like, 429 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: I was like, man, it must be so hard to 430 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 1: be a copies, Like it's the most rewarding and most 431 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: what do they say, the most rewarding and taxing job 432 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: all at the same time, because you know, you're never 433 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: making everybody happy. But at the end of the day, 434 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 1: it's like you get to know that community in such 435 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 1: an intimate way. And I'm sure that's that's got to 436 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 1: be something for you too, Like you know, your brother's there, 437 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,360 Speaker 1: your family's there. You want everybody to have the things 438 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 1: that they need, you know, and you're not. Your family's 439 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 1: no different than anybody else's, right, It's just it's just 440 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: we got to figure out how to make everybody happy. 441 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,880 Speaker 3: All about family, all about community. That's you know, that's 442 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 3: why you do stuff, right. 443 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 2: I love it. 444 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 1: You guys get down to Tennessee much to see Peyton's family. 445 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 2: Yep, we go a couple times a year. We actually 446 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 2: went in April to the kids of Dollywood. 447 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 1: Want to go there too? Is it great? 448 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 2: It's great? You know, like we've been to Disneyland and like, 449 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 2: you know, you're strict on the rides Dollywood. 450 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 3: They're like, my son's six, They're like how tall is 451 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 3: I'm like, you know whatever, Like you can go with 452 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 3: all the rides. 453 00:18:54,119 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't even want to go into all 454 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 2: the rides, you know. 455 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's funny that you say that. So the 456 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 1: reason we haven't gone. We went to doney World when 457 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: my when my oldest was four, and it was like 458 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 1: all we did was walk around and he was bored, 459 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 1: like he did not love it. So we were like, 460 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna wait a while, right and so 461 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: or Disneyland, we went out in California where Canyon, his 462 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 1: parents are from, and recently we even said we're like, well, 463 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 1: you know, our six year old could probably ride most 464 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:17,679 Speaker 1: of the rides now maybe still probably not a lot 465 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: of them, but four year old is not getting on anything. 466 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 1: So we're not going to go until they could both 467 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: do it. Dollywood might be the answer. I like that. 468 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,160 Speaker 3: Idea's great. Man, there's way more rise than I thought 469 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 3: I thought. Wou'd be like to the rides. There's a 470 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:29,240 Speaker 3: ton of stuff there. 471 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just. 472 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: I was just down. So we invested in a property 473 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: down on Highway eleven, and uh that runs through Knoxville. 474 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: It's like this road and and it's kind of a 475 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: long story, but anyway, we uh and so it's I 476 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 1: guess it's like an hour away from Dollywood. And my 477 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: in laws uh spent a lot of time down there 478 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: for their and they were like, well, next time we're 479 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 1: we're going down, we got to go to Dollywood. Like 480 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 1: we're in. We're totally in. You know, I want to 481 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 1: do it at big times. So I will call you 482 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: guys when we're going if it's. 483 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 2: Only an hour, I recommended that. Yeah, great for the 484 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 2: whole family. 485 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, what's on the horizon, Like what's going on with you? Guys? 486 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 1: Like you if you were to say to me right now, okay, Bob, 487 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: here's our next twelve months in a nutshell? Like what 488 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:10,160 Speaker 1: are we working at? What are we looking at? 489 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 2: Great question? 490 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 3: So you know, obviously every day I go to work 491 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 3: with one of my brothers, one of my brothers, Eric, 492 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 3: my middle brother and I we landscape together, which is fun. 493 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:23,600 Speaker 3: My youngest brother and I Mark, we had the lands 494 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 3: we had the oyster company together, you know, with our wives. 495 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 2: We do that and that's I mean, that's so much 496 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 2: fun because we. 497 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 3: Drive out in a four wheel drive truck during low 498 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 3: tide sort the oysters. My daughter who is eight going 499 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 3: on twenty eight. I mean, she can sort oysters. She's 500 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 3: a hard worker, so they're out there helping out. So 501 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:49,919 Speaker 3: I love that aspect of my life. Still doing the slecktboard, 502 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 3: I may throw my hat into the next level soon enough, 503 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 3: running for some a bigger office liketle. 504 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: What would that next level be, like, maybe mayor. 505 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:03,679 Speaker 3: Unfortunately we don't have a Cape cod so okay, if 506 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 3: it was, I'd be like, yeah, I'm. 507 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 1: Just gonna say maybe maybe you'll be the first mayor. 508 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, And then, uh, you know, Peyton is just 509 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 3: doing She's an interior designer. You know, if you're not 510 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 3: born on the Cape, you're called a wash ashore. Okay, 511 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 3: So she calls her company wash the Shore Home, which 512 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 3: is incredible. She always joked with I'm like, yeah, baby, 513 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 3: you're just a wash the shore. Come on, I've been 514 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,160 Speaker 3: here for like six years. I'm like, it doesn't matter, 515 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,239 Speaker 3: You're still a washing it still washing. He embraced it, 516 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 3: she loves it. She calls it washed the Shore Home. 517 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 3: So she is absolutely doing great with that, and I'm 518 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 3: so couldn't be more proud of her and the kids. 519 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,120 Speaker 2: And uh so. 520 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 3: Now I coach my kids teams, whether it be soccer 521 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 3: or ice hockey. 522 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,360 Speaker 1: Hockey's big man. We got my boy on skates this 523 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: past year, really, yeah, got him on skates. Now. He's 524 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:55,360 Speaker 1: playing flag football right now. Seems to really enjoy it. 525 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: But his attention span is such that it's like, you know, 526 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 1: if he's not getting the ball six. 527 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 3: Same age as my son, so yeah, same thing, Like 528 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 3: if they don't have it, they're like picking daisies in 529 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 3: the corner. 530 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 1: Right, Oh totally yeah, yeah, not even paying attention. It's crazy. Yeah, 531 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 1: well let me ask you one more thing. So with 532 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 1: time on your side, right, I mean obviously Bachelor was 533 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: years ago for you. Bachelor it was years ago for you, 534 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: twenty ten, So what is that fifteen years now? Crazy 535 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 1: to think? Right? I mean for me it's twenty three, 536 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:21,679 Speaker 1: twenty two. Isn't that nuts? 537 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 2: Which is weird because we're both what thirty four years old? 538 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: Thirty four years old? How do we do that at 539 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: such a young age? 540 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 2: What are they thinking? Asking so young? 541 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: With that as your as your backdrop, right, how do 542 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: you feel about, like, you know, obviously, the way your 543 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:46,679 Speaker 1: life is turned out. I know you well enough as 544 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: a guy that you're gonna say it is gret because 545 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: the way it turned out. But because I say that 546 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 1: same answer all the time. Yeah, but would you have 547 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: done anything different on the show? Would you have taken 548 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 1: different you know, steps after the show or is it 549 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: just the way it is today? Is the way it is? 550 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 1: Today's door style, Like you know, you know it's the 551 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 1: reason because of the choices you made. The butterfly fact, 552 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: like where are you at with that? 553 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:07,439 Speaker 3: I mean that's a great question because you know you 554 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 3: look back at it and like it's it's still a 555 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 3: blur to me. The fact that like I remember getting 556 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:15,439 Speaker 3: the call the first time, like Chris, you're leaving in 557 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 3: five days for LA and you can't tell anybody, And 558 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,439 Speaker 3: like I just told my two brothers and my dad 559 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 3: like hey, what do I do? And they're like attack 560 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:27,919 Speaker 3: your bad You're leaving it in four days? Like just 561 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,640 Speaker 3: take that, you know, like just jump go for Iteah 562 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 3: and all my friends thinking I just they couldn't tell 563 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 3: them where's Chris? 564 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:37,439 Speaker 2: I can't tell you? 565 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 3: But that being said, I mean, honestly, looking back, I 566 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 3: wasn't in a great place because my mom had passed 567 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,920 Speaker 3: away like a year before. I was living in home 568 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 3: my dad, which was the right thing to do at 569 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 3: the time, but I was kind of just you know, 570 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,120 Speaker 3: spinning my wheels. I didn't really know what that next 571 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 3: stuff was going to be in my life, and I 572 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 3: didn't have that perfect someone to help me help guide 573 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 3: me through that. So if I hadn't done that, like 574 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,919 Speaker 3: I don't know what would have happened or where what 575 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 3: I would be doing right now, you know. So thankfully 576 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 3: I did that, and like, uh went on that show 577 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 3: and made some amazing friends who I still talk to 578 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 3: this dage, just like you said, and like even people 579 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,120 Speaker 3: have not my season. 580 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 2: Who I see and talk to are awesome. 581 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 3: It's a it's like going to a small college and 582 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:23,800 Speaker 3: like even if you didn't know that person, you start 583 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 3: talking to me, like it's like a college buddy right there. 584 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 2: So it was the best move I ever made. 585 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 3: And uh, yeah, got a wife show kids like you 586 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 3: name it. 587 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 2: Man. 588 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 3: I mean I'm the poster shop. I'm the poster shop 589 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 3: for why you should do the batcherette. You know what 590 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 3: could happen? You could like if you go on and 591 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 3: don't have like weird alter your motives. If you just 592 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,800 Speaker 3: go on and be yourself, have fun with it, have 593 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 3: no preconceived notions, and uh just say stay true to 594 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,160 Speaker 3: who you are and who your family you know, thinks 595 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 3: you are. Like put your best foot forward and like 596 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 3: can you come off like you no regrets? 597 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: I mean, intentions are everything, dude. I know they always 598 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,439 Speaker 1: say the road to Hell's pay with good intentions, but 599 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,879 Speaker 1: I always say, intentions are everything. Like, you know, the 600 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 1: one thing about a camera is it can see if 601 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:11,880 Speaker 1: you're faking it, right, I mean, it's not like we're 602 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: not like we're you know, gifted, you know, like Anthony 603 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: Hopkins style actors on that show. Right, So if you're 604 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 1: an appole, people are going to realize you're an as whole, 605 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,120 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And if you're a good 606 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: guy and you're not trying to screw people over and 607 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,640 Speaker 1: you're just trying to be a nice person, they see 608 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,920 Speaker 1: that too, you know, And I think I think you're 609 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: absolutely right, Like you are the poster child for going 610 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,719 Speaker 1: on that show. And I feel like, you know, for me, 611 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: it's like I always love seeing people that I know 612 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: and like having great things happen to them. Like I'm 613 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,160 Speaker 1: always like, oh, yes, you know, and I remember seeing 614 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: that article about you and Peyton. I think that we 615 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,359 Speaker 1: had talked not too long there after, and I was 616 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,399 Speaker 1: just like, dude, this is amazing. You know, I was 617 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: so excited for you, but I'm still excited for you. 618 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 1: I love everything that you're doing. I mean, eight year 619 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: old and a six year old. Are they boy and 620 00:25:58,400 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: girl or both boys or both girls? 621 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 2: So eight year old Lelah six year old Hayes. 622 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 3: I mean, incredible, my son Hayes that got back, you know, 623 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 3: to get those awards for kindergarten. 624 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,639 Speaker 2: He got Athlete of the Class. I was like, what, 625 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 2: that's awesome. 626 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: I love it. Yes, So would you ever if if 627 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,199 Speaker 1: they came to you and they were like, Daddy, you know, 628 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 1: I got asked to be on the Beast Route, you know, 629 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: when they're when your daughters, you know, in her twenties, 630 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: let's say early twenties, would you encourage that, knowing what 631 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 1: you know now? Or I mean, if Hayes came to 632 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:31,919 Speaker 1: you and was like, Daddy, I want to be on 633 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,880 Speaker 1: the show, you know, would you encourage that or would 634 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,159 Speaker 1: you be like, I don't know, guys, I mean, I 635 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,880 Speaker 1: feel I feel I'll answer what I think you would say, 636 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: I think you would say exactly what you just said. 637 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: You know, if you can remain true to yourself, if 638 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: you can, you know, make a decisions, if you understand 639 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: that you're reflective of your family while you're on that 640 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: show and you think about it, then by all means, 641 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: go for it. 642 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,200 Speaker 3: The fact that both their parents were on different seasons 643 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 3: and their mom was on two different shows, and then 644 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 3: we then we were on like over many episodes of 645 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 3: HGTV shows afterwards. I mean, there's no way I would 646 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 3: I could say no. I'd have to like say yes, 647 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 3: but then yes, exactly what you said. If you're going 648 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,399 Speaker 3: to go on, be true to yourself, be true to 649 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 3: the family, be true to your last name, because that's 650 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 3: the only one you've got, and and. 651 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 2: You know, just make the right decisions all the time. 652 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, have fun like 653 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 3: that show, and like, if you're having fun on that 654 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,680 Speaker 3: show and you're being yourself, then those are the people 655 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 3: that shine even this day. Like if you're watching it, 656 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 3: you can see the people that are having fun and 657 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 3: aren't trying to think about how they can get like 658 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 3: followers or how they can spend it to the next thing. 659 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: Like I think you want deal after this. 660 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,120 Speaker 3: Like I didn't go on to thinking like oh how 661 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 3: do I get on at now? 662 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 2: Just be yourself and have fun with it. 663 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 3: And then like then they see it and they're like oh, 664 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,719 Speaker 3: because what people don't realize is that just being on 665 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 3: that show and being in front of cameras and doing 666 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,719 Speaker 3: five billion hours of one on one interviews is the 667 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 3: best training you can get for being on TV. I 668 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 3: still remember after doing my first couple of shows and 669 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 3: Ancient you either like you're really good in front of 670 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 3: the camera. I was like I was in front of 671 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 3: the camera for three months straight, like. 672 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: When I was drunk, when I was sober, sleepy not sleepy. 673 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,240 Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, they're always there and it was great 674 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 3: training for anybody. 675 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: No, that's so true. And that and then and then 676 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 1: when you're on a show like you know, like on 677 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: your show like Going Yard, you were definitely always that. 678 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 1: You know, you're always perky and ready to go because 679 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,120 Speaker 1: you're you know, you're doing your show. I mean you're right, Yeah, 680 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 1: you people saw you at your worst and your best, 681 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 1: you know, from from doing the show like that, from 682 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,920 Speaker 1: all the all the camera time. There's no question, Well man, 683 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: I'm glad America saw you for who you are. They 684 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: were right by the way, you are exactly who you are, 685 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 1: which is just a great guy. Love that you're a 686 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: family man, put in your family first, and you know 687 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 1: whatever comes along, you're not. You're You've got the great 688 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 1: power of yes right. You're willing to give it a 689 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 1: shot if it makes sense, but you know you're not 690 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: going to sacrifice your values to do it. And I 691 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: love you for that, bro, I really do. 692 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 3: I can't thank you enough for having me on man 693 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 3: thinking of me and so proud of you doing all 694 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 3: your success, and thanks again for having me on. 695 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 1: Hey, give Peyton and the boy and your children a 696 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 1: big hug for me, William Man. 697 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 2: We'll do all right. 698 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 1: Take care, Chris, thank you so much forgetting us. See you, buddy, 699 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: Chris lamped in Everybody another great episode of Almost Famous 700 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 1: The Ogs find us on your socials.