Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, Batch, our nation, Batch, our happy, our listeners.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode. We have a good one
Speaker 1: for you because I know you saw tonight's episode and Becca,
Speaker 1: I don't even know where to start. I mean, we
Speaker 1: have never seen anything like ever. No, this is very
Speaker 1: very new in Bachelor territory. I mean usually hometowns it's
Speaker 1: kind of the safe week, it's it's easy, it's standard.
Speaker 1: This week was crazy crazy. I mean, Garrett and I
Speaker 1: were just gasping the entire time we're watching it. So
Speaker 1: we have much to dive into. We have some very
Speaker 1: special guests because we needed help with this crazy We
Speaker 1: needed help and so we needed to bring in the
Speaker 1: main men in our lives to give a male perspective
Speaker 1: on everything that just went down. So we've got drum
Speaker 1: rolled mister Garrett and Briant. Yeah, it's bay Day. It's
Speaker 1: a double date, double date. We need some clarity, some
Speaker 1: some understand ending. We need this male perspective, so let's
Speaker 1: get into it. Becca is the collective sigh of the group.
Speaker 1: We got to talk about Victoria f and her hometown
Speaker 1: because we haven't seen anything like it before and for
Speaker 1: the first time ever, Rebecca, I have no words. I am.
Speaker 1: I am silent, and thank god we have the men
Speaker 1: here who can just give us the mal opinion because
Speaker 1: I am so interested in what they have to say.
Speaker 1: I am too, I mean, I will I will say
Speaker 1: I have a few choice words for everything that we saw.
Speaker 1: But I definitely want to get into Garrett and Brian's
Speaker 1: opinion because men, I think, tend to look at things
Speaker 1: in a different light, a different perspective. But we saw
Speaker 1: a lot go down, like and don't just talk about Victoria.
Speaker 1: I need to understand Peter from the male perspective because
Speaker 1: I'm not getting it same. So who whoever wants to
Speaker 1: dive in, by all means, good luck? Where to start?
Speaker 1: This is a tough one. I just feel like she
Speaker 1: just doesn't know how to express her exact feelings. I
Speaker 1: feel like if she would have just told him, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you know what, people are going to talk shit. It
Speaker 1: is what it is, like, I can't do anything about it.
Speaker 1: I'm in love with you. Everybody has a past, like,
Speaker 1: let's just move forward. And at the same time, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I know you don't agree with me, but
Speaker 1: what if they would have gone in? Peter assesses the situation,
Speaker 1: goes in with the family. Yeah, I know it's a
Speaker 1: big deal. Well, like gets a feel for how she
Speaker 1: is with her family, all the love that comes from that,
Speaker 1: and then maybe talk about it afterwards. But I feel
Speaker 1: like that just ruined the night he left. I get it,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't want to meet the family and
Speaker 1: you know, have this looming over his head. But I
Speaker 1: just think she just doesn't communicate well. I think if
Speaker 1: she would have just been upfront and honest and maybe
Speaker 1: divulge exactly what happened, you know, whatever Marissa was set
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, maybe given her side of the story,
Speaker 1: I think she would have been in a better spot.
Speaker 1: Like put yourself in this situation, Garrett. You've just been
Speaker 1: dancing on stage offbeat because that's Peter. But Peter owns it.
Speaker 1: You've been dancing on stage, singing the song. You're having
Speaker 1: the time of your life. In the words of Peter,
Speaker 1: this is unreal. Peter's having like he's on cloud nine.
Speaker 1: The producers are like, hold on two seconds, like we
Speaker 1: want we got something else for you. So your ex
Speaker 1: comes up, approaches you and tells you something about this
Speaker 1: girl that you've just had the time of your life
Speaker 1: with you? Would you how do you handle that? Um?
Speaker 1: I think depending on how my relationship was with my
Speaker 1: ex and how truthful of a person she was, I
Speaker 1: would take that into consideration and be like, what she's
Speaker 1: telling me, you know it is coming from a good
Speaker 1: place in her heart. So I'm gonna have to approach
Speaker 1: that and ask Victoria f right questions and then approach
Speaker 1: her and ask her, you know, like, what is this
Speaker 1: I've heard about? You kind of explain yourself and then
Speaker 1: you know, asked the right questions. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if he asked the Peter didn't. Peter didn't ask the
Speaker 1: right questions. He took what Mersas said to hard and
Speaker 1: of course addressed with Victoria. But he doesn't sit down
Speaker 1: and say like, hey, like what is she talking about it?
Speaker 1: I don't even juicy details, even though eyes of you
Speaker 1: or want the juicy details. But as Brian was saying, like,
Speaker 1: he didn't ask it and she didn't even bring it up.
Speaker 1: She just said I'm done and she just shuts down,
Speaker 1: and I don't even know, if you want my real opinion, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even have had her make it to the hometown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she walked away. If she walked away. I know that
Speaker 1: I have, you know, two to three other great relationships
Speaker 1: going on, and if somebody's acting this way, it's huge
Speaker 1: red flags to me, it's totally off. I agree with Brian.
Speaker 1: I think she should have or he should have gone
Speaker 1: in there, met the family and gotten a field for
Speaker 1: that and maybe like dove in more with some questions
Speaker 1: and see how they react, see what they say about
Speaker 1: her and her past relationships. But I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you know your ex. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: she does have a good heart, maybe she is coming
Speaker 1: from a good place, but at the same time she
Speaker 1: has your ex. Could there be some type of jealousy
Speaker 1: on her part where she's just stirring the pot and
Speaker 1: now that has him all confused. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just think he I think he's done that a couple
Speaker 1: of times this season, where he just takes somebody's word
Speaker 1: for it, throws him all off, and then that, you know,
Speaker 1: messes up relationship with other women. I think he should
Speaker 1: just you know, take it at face value, you know,
Speaker 1: interact with these women, and then you know, let it,
Speaker 1: you know, leave all at hearsay to the side. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean That's how I guess I would
Speaker 1: handle it. I don't think I would have been able
Speaker 1: to go and meet the family if I was Peter,
Speaker 1: I would not have wanted because family is such a
Speaker 1: big thing that if he was questioning where he's at
Speaker 1: in that relationship, family adds this whole new layer, yeah,
Speaker 1: and just seriousness to the relationship that if he's already
Speaker 1: on the fence like that, don't don't get that muddled.
Speaker 1: I think that would be too hard, especially when you
Speaker 1: have to go to the family now and put on
Speaker 1: a face and get all excited and talk about like
Speaker 1: you're dating history on the show and relive all these
Speaker 1: special moments. But in the back of your mind you
Speaker 1: have this like nagging why do you have to put
Speaker 1: a face on? Why don't you just walk in there
Speaker 1: and tell him exactly what is he going to go
Speaker 1: meet mister Fuller and be like, hey, I just heard
Speaker 1: that your daughter breaks relationships, But like, let's talk about
Speaker 1: how great she is right now? Will you talk about
Speaker 1: this season and how good it's been, but there's been
Speaker 1: some issues addressed or whatever, and be like, you know
Speaker 1: what her past relationships, like, what is she like as
Speaker 1: a person? I think he should have the ability, like
Speaker 1: the strength to compartmentalize and just be like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna walk in there. Our relationship has been good, like
Speaker 1: you said at the end there, he's like I have
Speaker 1: I'm very passionate about her. You know, I want to
Speaker 1: keep her around, you know, you know, with Kelsey as
Speaker 1: the other option. But but their relationship hasn't been good.
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing. This is like a situation
Speaker 1: where it's like, fool me once, shame on you, fool
Speaker 1: me twice, shame on me. Peter has been fooled multiple
Speaker 1: too many times to count when it comes to her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And every time you see them interact together, every dinner
Speaker 1: that they have together, every moment, she always gets up
Speaker 1: and walks away and cries and just leaves him and
Speaker 1: can't talk things through, like and so it hasn't been
Speaker 1: a great relationship. But he's attracted to her. He's like
Speaker 1: he feels that chemistry and that passion, and I think
Speaker 1: that's the only thing pulling him back, because that's something
Speaker 1: you think maybe he's that's what attracts and to her
Speaker 1: as far as crazy, maybe a little drama. Maybe she
Speaker 1: wants Oh I want I want to change her. She's mysterious.
Speaker 1: You know, I can't figure her out, like I want
Speaker 1: to see what's going Are you looking for a wife
Speaker 1: or a good time? I mean, do you really need
Speaker 1: the Bachelor to find a crazy chick? I mean you
Speaker 1: can do You can do that any day of the week.
Speaker 1: I think it's so frustrating because you're watching this interaction,
Speaker 1: Like I just want to say, I'm over it. That's
Speaker 1: the title of this podcast. I'm fucking over it and
Speaker 1: the words of a good friend. Can we just send
Speaker 1: them all home and ship them to paradise? Like I am.
Speaker 1: I am so over this. The interactions and the way
Speaker 1: we're handling conflict and the way that Peter is navigating
Speaker 1: these relationships. It is so frustrating because, especially in this episode,
Speaker 1: you're sitting here and you're watching Peter literally answer his
Speaker 1: own questions. He is saying, you're bad at communication, you
Speaker 1: get up and run away. These problems continue to happen.
Speaker 1: The writing is on the wall. If you won't read it,
Speaker 1: it's like I don't. That's why I'm like searching for
Speaker 1: the men, like what is it? Why can't Peter like
Speaker 1: have an opinion and stick to it? Why is he
Speaker 1: so easily swayed and manipulated by these women. To your point,
Speaker 1: I think he answers his own questions because he breaks
Speaker 1: the silence. So when he asked the question, she'll sit
Speaker 1: there and kind of look at him saying I don't know,
Speaker 1: and then it's silent, and then he answers it, and
Speaker 1: so you get up, you walk away, and he starts
Speaker 1: answering the question he just asked her, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: just for her to answer and make her use her
Speaker 1: words rather than be like, I don't know. And then
Speaker 1: he's like, Okay, well let me tell you, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have a question. So not even this week, but it
Speaker 1: becomes much more apparent, I think. But even in their
Speaker 1: interactions in the past. Last week, I kept saying, like,
Speaker 1: she's not that into him. If you watch, like she's
Speaker 1: always kind of trying to give him this out and
Speaker 1: some sort of like yeah, I like you, but I
Speaker 1: just don't know and I don't know what I want,
Speaker 1: and she uses all these excuses. I truly, truly think
Speaker 1: at the root of it is that she's really not
Speaker 1: that into him, and she wants to be. She wants
Speaker 1: to put on this facade for the show, because let's
Speaker 1: be honest, if she was like, yeah, no I don't
Speaker 1: like him, like, she'd get much more backlash, I think.
Speaker 1: I mean she's already going to but for like, as
Speaker 1: a man watching this, can you guys sense that? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then I think she put it on him, like
Speaker 1: she feels that she's trying harder than him, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know what what what relationship she's living in,
Speaker 1: but I mean obviously Peter was shocked when she said that.
Speaker 1: She's like, what are you talking about? Like, have you
Speaker 1: not seen me trying? No, No, let's just call a
Speaker 1: spade of spade. She's made it to the top four.
Speaker 1: She's in running for the Bachelorette. I think that that's
Speaker 1: where she's like, peace out, Like, I'm good. I've made
Speaker 1: it as far as I need to come to be
Speaker 1: the Bachelorette. Well, let me tell you something, Victoria f one.
Speaker 1: To be the Bachelorette, you have to be able to
Speaker 1: like have an opinion, to form a sentence, to be
Speaker 1: able to make a declarative statement, to have a conversation,
Speaker 1: to answer questions, to pull things out of people, and
Speaker 1: to be able to communicate. None of these things I've
Speaker 1: been able to sing see her do the only time
Speaker 1: I've seen her form of sentences when she's singing the
Speaker 1: lyrics to a country singer song. Can we can we
Speaker 1: just realize how good the song was that Hunter Hayes
Speaker 1: was singing. And it was very tellative of was that
Speaker 1: the right word? Tellative? Very tent. I am like these
Speaker 1: girls making it my own word place, very telling of
Speaker 1: what I was going to go down. The best part, though,
Speaker 1: I will say, is Peter and Victoria like behind the
Speaker 1: stage dancing and he's singing the lyrics and he goes out,
Speaker 1: I don't want crazy, and she's like, are you sure?
Speaker 1: She like flips her head. I'm like, oh god, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I've guess. I'm shocked that she's twenty six. I
Speaker 1: really thought that she was younger, just the way that
Speaker 1: she handles this relationship. But I just I just don't
Speaker 1: get the red flags. All these red flags are waving
Speaker 1: in front of you. I don't understand what you're trying
Speaker 1: to hold on to this relationship with Victoria when you
Speaker 1: have three other women, as you pointed out, Garrett, that
Speaker 1: are into you that you don't have to struggle with,
Speaker 1: You don't have to play hard to get that with
Speaker 1: any like a lot of times I have as women
Speaker 1: and men, you know you want something that you can't
Speaker 1: have or you can't figure out yet it happened. I
Speaker 1: think that's it. I literally think that's what it boils
Speaker 1: down to, is him like trying to search down and
Speaker 1: dig deep into like how he can get her to
Speaker 1: almost like come out of her show, because I mean,
Speaker 1: like the way we were still watching it, we felt
Speaker 1: like she was a runner, right, Yeah, like she was
Speaker 1: just running. She wasn't answering questions. And I think he's
Speaker 1: just trying to please throw me a bone here, like
Speaker 1: give me something, and I will say, and this is
Speaker 1: a prop to Peter, just because this is a very
Speaker 1: difficult situation. I when I was about to routte, at
Speaker 1: least from my experience, I never wanted to say goodbye
Speaker 1: to somebody that I still had questions about, because you
Speaker 1: say goodbye and you always have that like nagging wonder
Speaker 1: like what if in the back of your head. And
Speaker 1: I think he's truly giving her all of these opportunities
Speaker 1: to like still keep her around, to show him that
Speaker 1: like she really likes him, She is going to open up,
Speaker 1: She's gonna change whatever it might be, and I just
Speaker 1: think he knows, like, Okay, if I were to send
Speaker 1: her home at prior to any of this, he would
Speaker 1: have still had those what ifs. He would have still wondered.
Speaker 1: But like at the end of the day too, you
Speaker 1: can only allow someone to do what they're doing and
Speaker 1: treat you a certain way. So many times, if tears
Speaker 1: were words, Victoria f would win a Pulitzer Prize. Now,
Speaker 1: like that's the only way that she knows how to communicate.
Speaker 1: I Oh, let me ask the men this in the room.
Speaker 1: Were you shocked that Peter decided to let her come
Speaker 1: back into this hotel room? And can we all just
Speaker 1: pause and comment on the hotel room? It was I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know what's happened with the budget
Speaker 1: this year, but that was not it is I'm a
Speaker 1: I'm a hotel snob. That was not okay. But were
Speaker 1: you shocked one that he continued to have the conversation.
Speaker 1: Maybe this goes to what you're saying back and you
Speaker 1: needed those to answer those questions, So maybe that's why
Speaker 1: he led her into the room. I would have looked
Speaker 1: through the people and been like, not today, not today.
Speaker 1: But were you shocked that he said he hasn't made
Speaker 1: up his mind yet and is going going to let
Speaker 1: her continue on the journey. I wasn't shocked. I think
Speaker 1: it's because of not to be a dead horse. But
Speaker 1: I think it's just the same thing, like he really
Speaker 1: wants her to come out of the shell, and like
Speaker 1: I think he's just chasing it. And he really didn't
Speaker 1: get an answer in that exactly. But what would you
Speaker 1: guys have done? Yeah, what would she wouldn't have made
Speaker 1: it this far? No, No, I know, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: like even if she did and that was the case
Speaker 1: or whatever, like Rachel said, I would have look through
Speaker 1: the people whom in like hell now. Yeah, but in
Speaker 1: that moment when Peter is sitting and I still would
Speaker 1: open the door and then told her we still have
Speaker 1: yet to address why this issue even came about the
Speaker 1: things that Marissa had said, Like in that entire conversation
Speaker 1: when they're sitting there together, none of that was still
Speaker 1: brought up, which is the real reason they got into
Speaker 1: this in the first place. And so of course he's
Speaker 1: still I'm sure if he's going to keep around, he's
Speaker 1: going to still wonder about that. Yeah, I would have
Speaker 1: demrioed her get the fuck out, like, yeah, be a
Speaker 1: little bit more direct. It's so disrespectful to Peter and
Speaker 1: even to the other women who are left. And I'm
Speaker 1: not even a fan of that, you know, the ladies
Speaker 1: this season, but it is it's just so disrespectful to
Speaker 1: the process. And I get so because I'm looking around
Speaker 1: this room and it worked for us, and so I
Speaker 1: get very protective of how people navig gate this because
Speaker 1: it was so real to us. And I guess I'm
Speaker 1: frustrated on Peter's part because if you're saying that you
Speaker 1: want a wife, and you say that you want these qualities,
Speaker 1: and you look at your parents who have set this
Speaker 1: beautiful example for you of love, and you see what
Speaker 1: it takes to make a relationship work, why the hell
Speaker 1: are you chasing after Victoria. She has not embodied any
Speaker 1: of the qualities that you say that you want in
Speaker 1: a wife, And I think that is what is so
Speaker 1: frustrating to watch. What do you want? Do you want
Speaker 1: a relationship? Do you want to chase? Do you want
Speaker 1: a girlfriend? Or do you want somebody who's for forever?
Speaker 1: And that's what we've been asking for weeks now. I
Speaker 1: feel like every week I'm like, what do you want, Peter,
Speaker 1: what do you want? And and I feel like in
Speaker 1: the past it was I was questioning him because he
Speaker 1: seems so wishywashy, you know, did he want to keep
Speaker 1: a layer around? Did he believe Victoria Pee? Like all
Speaker 1: these other things that leading up to it seemed big.
Speaker 1: But now that we have this elephant in the room,
Speaker 1: this seems huge, and it's yeah, you're still questioned, like
Speaker 1: what do you want? At this point, this is endgame,
Speaker 1: like you are going into the fantasy suits. You only
Speaker 1: have two weeks left basically after this, Like you have
Speaker 1: a huge decision to make, so you've got to figure
Speaker 1: it out. You know. What's crazy. We've been talking about
Speaker 1: and we I mean, I guess we've kind of talked
Speaker 1: about Peter a little bit on the podcast too, but
Speaker 1: we've been talking about these women and how you know,
Speaker 1: they're just a lot and they're so dramatic, But we
Speaker 1: really have to start talking about Peter and his decision making.
Speaker 1: At this point, we've touched on it, but now Peter
Speaker 1: is a bit of the problem. Victoria f shouldn't be
Speaker 1: here and maybe some others as well, but I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna focus on her at the moment, because she's the
Speaker 1: problematic one at this point. I don't know if Peter
Speaker 1: knows what he wants out of a relationship, which is
Speaker 1: so sad because this beginning of this season, we're like,
Speaker 1: Peter's gonna find love. He's ready for it, he deserves it.
Speaker 1: This is what's missing in his life. But maybe he's
Speaker 1: been single for a reason at this point of his
Speaker 1: life this far, because he just doesn't know what he
Speaker 1: wants well. And I think back to his relationship with
Speaker 1: Hannah Hannah b because that's where obviously we first saw
Speaker 1: him on her season and he felt so hard for her.
Speaker 1: But Hannah Hannah said it like it was she would
Speaker 1: call people out when she needed to, she knew what
Speaker 1: she wanted. Well, obviously that didn't work out, but it
Speaker 1: felt like she was much more assertive and I'm not
Speaker 1: getting that with this group right now. And again, like
Speaker 1: I'm confused of do you want someone that's more independent
Speaker 1: and strong willed like that, or do you want somebody
Speaker 1: that you can kind of take care of and be
Speaker 1: the savior for. And Yeah, I don't think he truly knows.
Speaker 1: I think he has said. What he has said is
Speaker 1: that he wants somebody to love him exactly how much
Speaker 1: love he put out for example with Aunt Hannah b
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And it's just it just
Speaker 1: seems like this woman isn't ready Victoria Fuller, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about it. She's not ready to pour out there those feelings,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know if it's something to happen or
Speaker 1: a past that she's quote unquote like a runner and
Speaker 1: just doesn't really give you all the answers. But I
Speaker 1: think he's just searching for that answer. And I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he could directly ask a little bit better,
Speaker 1: like hey, look, you know this is what's told to me.
Speaker 1: This is where you actually just give me a quick
Speaker 1: little explanation. You tell me how much you're in love
Speaker 1: with me, and you know, maybe we can move on,
Speaker 1: you know, because what we have I feel is good.
Speaker 1: But I guess like it's just like I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's asking the right questions that and like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know how she's a runner and he preaches like
Speaker 1: he wants family and all that loyalty and it's like
Speaker 1: do you want a wife when something gets tough and
Speaker 1: just yeah, well when she said that in the conversation,
Speaker 1: he's like, if it's like this, now, what is it
Speaker 1: going to be like when we're married? And he's already
Speaker 1: questioning it, and I think he I think, truly, deep
Speaker 1: down Peter knows that her relationship with him is not right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he knows. I think it's just making that
Speaker 1: a sort of decision making and standing by it that
Speaker 1: he's struggling with. I think he's just really nice. And
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm starting to realize, Hannah Bee would
Speaker 1: have run all over him, forward, backwards, zig zag hop
Speaker 1: scotch two, stepped all over him. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think that he loves the idea of that type of
Speaker 1: woman because that's who his mom is. But when you
Speaker 1: look at the four women that are left, they are
Speaker 1: not barbed, and I just keep asking myself, what would
Speaker 1: Barb do in this situation. That's why I'm thinking there's
Speaker 1: no way Victoria F can go on any further, because
Speaker 1: if for some reason, in an alternate universe, Peter and
Speaker 1: Victoria F ended up together, Barb is going to be
Speaker 1: watching this back and be like, hmm, this is not
Speaker 1: for my son. There's no way. So I think that
Speaker 1: that's why I'm just hoping it won't work. I do
Speaker 1: want to say one thing, and I know Victoria FV
Speaker 1: is going to probably get a lot of shit, a
Speaker 1: lot like this week is gonna be very tough for her.
Speaker 1: I will say, Um, I do wish she addressed this
Speaker 1: issue more and just said, look like, I'm a human.
Speaker 1: I've made mistakes in the past. We all have. Yes,
Speaker 1: did I screw up and maybe ruin some relationships whatever
Speaker 1: it might be, whatever the true story is, she just
Speaker 1: needs to address it and be like, but we all
Speaker 1: have and I'm willing to fight for you and make
Speaker 1: this relationship work. That's all she had to do. But again, people,
Speaker 1: we all make mistakes. Keep in mind, like we've all
Speaker 1: had relationships that haven't worked out for certain reasons. Um,
Speaker 1: So if you're listening on social media, take it a
Speaker 1: little easy, okay, because it's not going to be easy
Speaker 1: on her or Peter. Yeah, yeah, we're just podcasting our opinions, okay,
Speaker 1: but we're not going to go tweet or social media
Speaker 1: troll her. But if you are a pr company, reach
Speaker 1: out to her because she's going to need your help
Speaker 1: informing a statement, you know, and how to address and
Speaker 1: how to make a statement. Yeah, and tears hope. Is
Speaker 1: um Barb going to be a woman? Tell all, because
Speaker 1: I need to be sitting right next to her. I
Speaker 1: need to be with it right next So my girl, Barb, okay,
Speaker 1: so you'll be there in spirit, I mean the only
Speaker 1: one who gets to keep my phone. Okay. So we
Speaker 1: see the rose ceremony happen at this point, and no
Speaker 1: surprise here, We've got Victoria, f Hannah, and Madison. That's
Speaker 1: who's left. Kelsey goes home. I think we kind of
Speaker 1: saw that one coming based on the Hometown episode. But
Speaker 1: the real surprise here is that Madison looks so distraught
Speaker 1: after Peter gives her a rose. She knows she's going
Speaker 1: to Fantasy Suits at this point, and he tells her
Speaker 1: that she's going to the Golden Coast I mean Australia,
Speaker 1: for goodness sake, people, and Madison looks upset, confused, I
Speaker 1: mean any adjective except for happy and thrilled. So we
Speaker 1: see her pull him to the side and says that
Speaker 1: she wants to talk to him, and that's where the
Speaker 1: episode just cuts off. So I'm sure you're like all
Speaker 1: of us at this point where you're like Madison, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: why are we waiting until the thirteenth hour to tell
Speaker 1: him this information that you've been holding since the day
Speaker 1: you met him. If Madison does give Peter an ultimatum,
Speaker 1: which it appears that she does from the pre views,
Speaker 1: how is she any different from Luke p in Hannah's season?
Speaker 1: Where's the lie? I'll wait? I mean, do hometowns bring
Speaker 1: up like memories for you guys? Good ones, bad ones? Brian?
Speaker 1: I know we had some. It wasn't all smooth sailing
Speaker 1: at our hometown, but can I just say Brian is like,
Speaker 1: this is why we're such a good balance. He is
Speaker 1: so optimistic, he is so positive. I remember he walked
Speaker 1: out of our hometowns and he's like, I thought that
Speaker 1: went great. And I was like fuming at my family.
Speaker 1: I was just like, if that's what you took from it,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad because I still want you to be here.
Speaker 1: But my family was just like, like, why can't I
Speaker 1: find the word for this? They were just like on
Speaker 1: you with questions after questions, just like, really put him
Speaker 1: through handled it? Well? You did handle it? Did he did? No? No? No?
Speaker 1: You did? You handled it? So I even was telling
Speaker 1: you that like he did so well, But like I
Speaker 1: loved watching you and you're like, look people Stone my
Speaker 1: brother in law started talking. I was like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: who are you what? I was seeing him and I
Speaker 1: love him because he was the one who's like, oh,
Speaker 1: she's really into Brian because she took up for Brian
Speaker 1: and not the other people. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I was like, in law, sorry, not the person to
Speaker 1: be talking. Yeah, but how was it for you, Garrett?
Speaker 1: I was smooth sailing everything. I pretty much wanted to
Speaker 1: show her about my hometown. As you know, I got
Speaker 1: portrayed my families and agriculture. So I got to do
Speaker 1: like a little tractor date. Um. She got to go
Speaker 1: to like the heart of Antico, which is super small,
Speaker 1: and they got like half the city to go there,
Speaker 1: so there was about thirteen thousand people. And then I
Speaker 1: don't think it was fun. I mean I never really
Speaker 1: had I think, through all the hometowns, I never had
Speaker 1: a bad one. It was always my family was excited.
Speaker 1: His family was just like my family. We walked in
Speaker 1: and just the like bunchets of love and and just
Speaker 1: fun openness like hate me. And he was my last
Speaker 1: hometown and so I was like, oh, yeah, I've had
Speaker 1: three other great ones like this one. We'll see what
Speaker 1: you know. It was the last one, and so I
Speaker 1: didn't really like put much stock into it. No offense,
Speaker 1: that's only bad, not much stock. But I get what
Speaker 1: you mean. As the lead, I understand. Were you like nervous?
Speaker 1: Were you really nervous going into his hometown just because
Speaker 1: you know how you felt about him. He was probably
Speaker 1: the one I was least nervous for, just because I
Speaker 1: felt like I had known him longer and the way
Speaker 1: he had always talked about his family seemed just just
Speaker 1: like him and just like my family. And so I
Speaker 1: just went in like, oh, we're gonna have a great time,
Speaker 1: and we did. It was amazing, Like it was so
Speaker 1: much fun. And so Brian was my first and I
Speaker 1: knew how I felt about Brian, so I really went
Speaker 1: in thinking, if this this has to go well because
Speaker 1: I could potentially be meeting my in laws, like that
Speaker 1: was my thought, And I was so nervous walking in.
Speaker 1: And then the week before he had told me that
Speaker 1: his mom and his girlfriend before really didn't have the
Speaker 1: best relationship, So I was nervous. I just really wanted
Speaker 1: her to like me, And when we walked in Brian,
Speaker 1: like we walk in, his mom like immediately be lines
Speaker 1: to him, and she's excited, and Brian takes both of
Speaker 1: us and he puts his arm around both of us,
Speaker 1: and so that was very comforting to me, and even
Speaker 1: his mom talks about it to this day. She's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I loved that he did that. It made me know
Speaker 1: where he stands with her. And then later she was like,
Speaker 1: I'll kill you. Have you heard of Yeah, well was
Speaker 1: it that she said at the end, And you were like, wait,
Speaker 1: what did she just say? Was it I'll kill you?
Speaker 1: She said, if you love him, then I'll love you.
Speaker 1: If you hurt him, I'll kill you. Yeah, And it's
Speaker 1: like a Spanish term, And I laughed, like I thought
Speaker 1: it was funny. I knew what she was saying. You know,
Speaker 1: it's she had great advice when you marry you, when
Speaker 1: you marry him, you marry into the family and just
Speaker 1: like a closeness that we should all have with one another.
Speaker 1: And I'm very close with my family, so I got it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's saying in Spanish like de matel. It's
Speaker 1: like very commonly used, Like, you know, her sister forgets
Speaker 1: her glasses at the house. Oh my god, day made.
Speaker 1: How could you like he's gonna start saying that every
Speaker 1: time I annoy him. Yeah, but in English obviously it
Speaker 1: sounds worse. It sounds a little worse. Or when producer's
Speaker 1: preview it for an entire week and in bold red
Speaker 1: letters it's I'll kill you, and his mom's in HR
Speaker 1: so she was mortified because she's gonna lose her job.
Speaker 1: I'm curious though, for you guys, who are you because,
Speaker 1: like I say, hometowns, because Brian came to Dallas to
Speaker 1: meet my family, So you met Becca's family in the Maldives,
Speaker 1: so I'm like counting that as a hometown too. Yeah okay,
Speaker 1: but um, who were you most nervous to talk to
Speaker 1: Garrett and Brian when it came to meeting Garrett? You
Speaker 1: Becca's family and then Brian my family. Oh well, for me, obviously,
Speaker 1: it was the judge all sam its like was never
Speaker 1: ever been on TV before. It was like the man,
Speaker 1: the myth, the legend right situation. It was crazy because
Speaker 1: I actually went third when I met her family, and
Speaker 1: both guys came back with totally different opinions. Oh really,
Speaker 1: I remember Peter came back. He was like he was
Speaker 1: really intimidating. He barely talked to me, like literally got
Speaker 1: to talk to him five minutes. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. And then Eric comes back like, no,
Speaker 1: he was cool. He warmed up to me. We talked
Speaker 1: for a while, you know, we got along great. Eric
Speaker 1: is so positive. Yeah. Yeah, and then I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: which dad am I getting? But my dad did like
Speaker 1: Eric did. Yeah, it was He was a straight shooter.
Speaker 1: I mean, not gonna lie. He asked the questions he
Speaker 1: needed to ask. I answered them, and you know, I
Speaker 1: think at the end of the day we respected each
Speaker 1: other for Yeah, no, totally. My dad did not have
Speaker 1: any issues with Brian. Yeah, because I talked a lot.
Speaker 1: He said he talked a lot, and he said he
Speaker 1: talked a lot, but he just was like no, and
Speaker 1: I didn't say yes to any of them. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: about you, Garrett? She told me her uncle Chuck would
Speaker 1: just be fine. I love him. Okay, Uncle Chuck, he is.
Speaker 1: He just has the sweet All of my uncles, um
Speaker 1: because my dad obviously passed away, so my uncles were
Speaker 1: at my hometown during the Bachelor season and then yeah,
Speaker 1: Garrett was able to meet one of them in the Maldives. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Uncle Chuck. And then it was fun meeting her mom.
Speaker 1: I wasn't too nervous to meet her mom. Her mom
Speaker 1: just always seemed like a sweetheart, you know. And she said,
Speaker 1: my mom's you know, really sweet, easy going, and she's like, well,
Speaker 1: my uncle Chuck is gonna hammer you with questions us,
Speaker 1: which is why. Okay, So I saw my family a
Speaker 1: little bit before that, and my uncle Chuck and my
Speaker 1: aunt Ianne, they were they were the ones originally who
Speaker 1: when I first was like going on to be the
Speaker 1: going on the Bachelor, They're like, do wait, Like it
Speaker 1: will be such a great experience. Why not? They were
Speaker 1: so gung ho. And then they came on the show
Speaker 1: and they started interrogating these guys and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, my uncle Chuck like drilled me hard
Speaker 1: one day before he met the guys, and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I would be nervous to be the guys, right,
Speaker 1: But but it came from a place of love, and
Speaker 1: I think it went well. Him and my sister heard
Speaker 1: it off like they knew each other for years. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was easy talking to her sister, for sure. It
Speaker 1: was like talking to my brother back home. Yeah, for me,
Speaker 1: it was the opposite. I think conscience was the she was.
Speaker 1: But my cousin, who was my best friend, she said
Speaker 1: that when we walked through the door, before we had
Speaker 1: walked in to meet the family, she heard me laugh
Speaker 1: and she was like, I knew immediately that that was
Speaker 1: the guy for you. And I'm like, okay, she would
Speaker 1: know probably better than anyone, right, Yeah, so like that
Speaker 1: was comforting to me. She's like, I haven't heard you
Speaker 1: laugh like that any years, and I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: even remember at that moment, but she did special. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we get that audio back. If you could go back
Speaker 1: and do anything differently, like the whole season, not just hometowns.
Speaker 1: Is there anything I know what you would say? I'm
Speaker 1: very curious, Brian, But Garrett, would you do anything differently?
Speaker 1: I would say I would have brought her to Reno
Speaker 1: Red lived the past ten years, to show her where
Speaker 1: I was currently living and show her like why I
Speaker 1: lived there and what I love, you know, like it
Speaker 1: was cool bring her back to like where I grew
Speaker 1: up and where my family was at. But it would
Speaker 1: have been nice to have her like come to where
Speaker 1: I was at and why I enjoyed living there so much.
Speaker 1: I would love to see Reno. I feel like the
Speaker 1: only thing I know about Reno is Sister Act. Oh
Speaker 1: when I thought of Reno, I thought of Sister Act Yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: Sister Mary Clarence. Yeah, but you need to go. It's beautiful. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's much prettier than I expected. Rather than that. No,
Speaker 1: it was all the everything I wouldn't. I would have
Speaker 1: done the same. Yeah. Yeah. Well he was good too,
Speaker 1: because he I think he'd never really watched the show,
Speaker 1: so he just was very go at the flow, like, oh,
Speaker 1: what are we doing this week? And he was the
Speaker 1: one who kind of not was more reserved, but held
Speaker 1: back his feelings until he knew he really felt them,
Speaker 1: which I appreciated because I was thrown off because I
Speaker 1: was like, I under all these guys, like what do
Speaker 1: you mean? You're like, you know, you have all these
Speaker 1: guys in the house, right and you we've all experienced it,
Speaker 1: and it's like these guys would get so fired up,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, we've been in the house for three days,
Speaker 1: twenty three of us like they're pissed. They're like, can
Speaker 1: you believe she kissed? She kissed so and so right
Speaker 1: and talking about you're gonna let that get to you.
Speaker 1: It's like, what's gonna happen when there's like five of
Speaker 1: you left? And then I was like he was the
Speaker 1: one who would like sit back and just laugh and
Speaker 1: the guys would start to lose their mind. I just
Speaker 1: literally watched guys losing lens. It's like, who was surprising.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh my god, she kissed me, and now
Speaker 1: she kissed somebody the next day. It's like the nerves
Speaker 1: would be not rattled. But the only time where I'd
Speaker 1: be like, damn, she needs like it was when she
Speaker 1: would wear red lipstick and then she would come and
Speaker 1: like her lips would be and her chin and I'm like,
Speaker 1: from all the guys one I learned my lesson. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was like coming in for a kiss, I'm like lipstick,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. He talk about compartmentalizing. I hadn't do that
Speaker 1: a lot. With that. It's like Jess like she was
Speaker 1: just having a hard makeout session. Her face is all
Speaker 1: read and then it's like, hey, yeah, let's make out.
Speaker 1: It's great. It's mouth wash. You do some squats so
Speaker 1: you get the blood out of your face into your
Speaker 1: legs or something. It's like, wow, I mean I definitely
Speaker 1: wouldn't wouldn't have changed anything. I mean obviously it led
Speaker 1: me to you, but I mean, if there was one thing,
Speaker 1: I would definitely Obviously Ellen, I knew it. I knew
Speaker 1: it well everybody would. Let me paint the scenario. Um,
Speaker 1: you know we're going on Ellen, and you know we're
Speaker 1: riding the bus drinking. I guess you were allowed to
Speaker 1: drink heavily back then. Yeah, y'allre lit by the time
Speaker 1: y'all got to So we were lit getting there, and
Speaker 1: we were in the green room and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: our producer comes in and hands each one of us
Speaker 1: bright neon underwear like box or briefs. So we're thinking,
Speaker 1: obviously I'm going to the day. We're like, okay, we're
Speaker 1: definitely gonna have to dance in some capacity because that's
Speaker 1: what they do on Ellen. So he hands this like
Speaker 1: all right, guys, put these on. So of course we're
Speaker 1: all looking at each other's like, wow, we are going
Speaker 1: to be getting butt naked on stage in front of Ellen,
Speaker 1: in front of the audience, front of America, Like, where's
Speaker 1: where are the drinks? She walked in so I literally,
Speaker 1: in a span I think of like ten minutes, we
Speaker 1: down like four fireball shots. So we were all just
Speaker 1: I would have been napping up on stage after this. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: we were. We were lit and I just got ahead
Speaker 1: of myself and you know, so what happened was because
Speaker 1: here it's like what happened? So Ellen standing up there,
Speaker 1: she's like, oh, these are the guys on the date,
Speaker 1: and I think there were six people, and so she's
Speaker 1: asking questions and so she says, has anyone kissed Rachel?
Speaker 1: And Will says yes, I've kissed her, and or raise
Speaker 1: your hand if you've kissed her, and so like the
Speaker 1: guys didn't know. So they're kind of like, oh, everybody,
Speaker 1: but like a couple of people I said, at first
Speaker 1: I think I said she's a great kisser. Yeah. Brian
Speaker 1: grabs the mike from Ellen and he's like, she's a
Speaker 1: great kisser. And then Ellen's like, okay, that one kisses
Speaker 1: and tells and then Will and then Will goes I
Speaker 1: second that, and then Brian goes he had my sloppy
Speaker 1: seconds and people were like I was like, yeah, she
Speaker 1: turned to me. She turned to me, and she goes,
Speaker 1: I don't like that one off, she goes, don't pick him?
Speaker 1: Did I know what Brian was trying to say? But
Speaker 1: I was like, you have to realize in that moment,
Speaker 1: you were calling me the sloppy seconds and I was like,
Speaker 1: and people were not okay with it, and so like
Speaker 1: my sister had seen that before, so that's why she
Speaker 1: came into hometowns with these preconceived notions about um Brian,
Speaker 1: and so it just was not good. Yeah, and obviously
Speaker 1: no way, like what did I mean that towards you know,
Speaker 1: and we were all drunk as hell, and it was like,
Speaker 1: just me compete. Can I tell you about an unseen moment?
Speaker 1: I don't even know if I've ever said this on Mike.
Speaker 1: So then later that night we're having the cocktail party,
Speaker 1: or maybe it was a couple of days later, Brian
Speaker 1: when he meets me to have a conversation, has a
Speaker 1: present for me. This did not air, and so like
Speaker 1: I come out the door and he's like leaned up
Speaker 1: against the side of the wall like all ricos suave,
Speaker 1: and he hands me this present. I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: what is it? And I opened the present. It's the
Speaker 1: Ellen underwear that he wore and he had sprayed his
Speaker 1: cologne and the underwear talking about high Okay, you all
Speaker 1: might think that's a very cheesy like it, but I
Speaker 1: wore them that night. I thought it was hilarious. But
Speaker 1: seeing how like people perceived Brian and after that day,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that didn't air because it just would
Speaker 1: have been so cheesy. But it was funny. I couldn't
Speaker 1: stop laughing at that, Like I was like, this is
Speaker 1: so extra, but I love it. The move is the
Speaker 1: way to go. I did that with a present for her.
Speaker 1: I was like, so good. Smell is the sense that
Speaker 1: you know you remember the most. So okay. So I
Speaker 1: think Rache and I have talked about how night one.
Speaker 1: We obviously like we're very into you guys, like we
Speaker 1: knew when was the moment though rage where you were
Speaker 1: like it snapped. You were like Brian's the one. So
Speaker 1: I always, I mean, both of you guys got the
Speaker 1: first impression row So we obviously were impressed and saw
Speaker 1: something in the beginning. So I could just we're very smart,
Speaker 1: like very perceptive, cut straight to it, like we don't
Speaker 1: have time to play games. Basically we're not Peter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was watching it. We were like, oh, that was amazing.
Speaker 1: That was so that was one of the best I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. Seriously, um, but with Brian, I always knew
Speaker 1: I was super into him, but he was so smooth
Speaker 1: and charming that I was afraid of Like I was like,
Speaker 1: is he who he says he is? And so for
Speaker 1: me and we both talked about this, it was geneva.
Speaker 1: There was something and like, do you guys feel this?
Speaker 1: There's something about those second dates that tell everything because
Speaker 1: you get below the surface, you kind of see more
Speaker 1: of a personality. So that second date that Brian and
Speaker 1: I had to me was just magical. And it was
Speaker 1: the nighttime portion where I had questions that I needed
Speaker 1: answered and I didn't even have to ask. He was
Speaker 1: already telling me. I needed to know why are you
Speaker 1: still single? Have you had a serious relationship? What is
Speaker 1: your family like? And he answered all those questions, and
Speaker 1: it was just this sincerity behind everything that he was saying.
Speaker 1: I was like, he is who he says he is.
Speaker 1: I just got to meet the family. And at hometowns.
Speaker 1: Before I met the family, I actually pulled his producer
Speaker 1: to the side and I was like, he's the one.
Speaker 1: And because we were drinking and dancing, and she was
Speaker 1: like what and I She was like what did you say?
Speaker 1: And I was like nothing, nothing, I'm drunk and I
Speaker 1: ran into the bathroom. He never heard me say that,
Speaker 1: but I told his producer. I didn't. I didn't even
Speaker 1: told my producer. It was just like word vomit, right,
Speaker 1: but I meant it because it was just having such
Speaker 1: a great time. Geneva was was everything. So all that
Speaker 1: to answer your question, week seven okay, right before hometown, okay,
Speaker 1: for me, it was the same Geneva. I mean, I
Speaker 1: as far as I was convinced with her, like as
Speaker 1: far as the foundation of what you know, her makeup is,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was everything I wanted, you know, in
Speaker 1: my future. So I was pretty much convinced at that
Speaker 1: point on her. But you know, obviously want her to
Speaker 1: pass a family test, and she did. Family His mom
Speaker 1: slid a note to him. This didn't air either, but
Speaker 1: we were at the table eating and his mom like
Speaker 1: wrote like is it true? Is this real? You know,
Speaker 1: like checky yes or no or something, slid it under
Speaker 1: the table and they were like, Olga, she's in school.
Speaker 1: But it's funny you asked that because like, as far
Speaker 1: as answer like you got like all your questions questions answered,
Speaker 1: and it's like going back to Victoria f It's like
Speaker 1: you had a second chance to answer his questions and
Speaker 1: you still couldn't do it. So it's like alternate red flag.
Speaker 1: I digress ahead well and going back to hometowns. I
Speaker 1: think it's such a pivotal week for people. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's always interesting because usually in season's past, it's always
Speaker 1: been a pretty tame week. It's very standard. You meet
Speaker 1: the four families. You always have the one dad who's,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of hesitant and won't give the blessing.
Speaker 1: You have the mom who cries and it just wants
Speaker 1: you to find love. It's it's pretty standard. This one
Speaker 1: is very different. But I think for Garrett and I personally,
Speaker 1: that's Hometown's week was when I realized I loved him,
Speaker 1: and I didn't even think it was gonna hit me.
Speaker 1: It was. It was after I met his family. I
Speaker 1: was sitting in the airport about to fly, so I
Speaker 1: was with my producers and I just started sobbing into
Speaker 1: into my breakfast. I was like, oh my gosh, I
Speaker 1: had this this breakfast burrito and I just started crying.
Speaker 1: And they're like, what is going on? I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I think I love him. And I
Speaker 1: did not expect it. I just because because his hometown
Speaker 1: was last. I was like, you know, I've had three
Speaker 1: great ones, like we'll see what happened, and it hit
Speaker 1: me and I don't know. I don't know when you
Speaker 1: when it clicked for you. I mean, you told me
Speaker 1: in the Bahamas that you were falling for me, But
Speaker 1: but I don't know if you guys felt I'm sure
Speaker 1: you did with your family, But even when I was
Speaker 1: sitting with Garrett's parents, because he had been married before
Speaker 1: and he had been divorced, and that was his main
Speaker 1: narrative throughout the entire season, was us talking about it,
Speaker 1: which I honestly forgot that one. Honestly, it's not if
Speaker 1: he will remember, because I was like he was, and
Speaker 1: I felt like that's all they would show is of
Speaker 1: our conversation was only talking about his past relationship and
Speaker 1: his divorce. And so when we went to hometowns, I
Speaker 1: just really wanted to get to know his family and
Speaker 1: talk to them. I finally got to the point when
Speaker 1: I think I talked to his dad last, and they
Speaker 1: kept bringing up the divorce I'm like, I don't want
Speaker 1: to talk about that. He's answered it, his family has
Speaker 1: answered it. I think he's ready. And I felt like
Speaker 1: this defense mechanism. I was just like, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk about it anymore. And I
Speaker 1: kind of snapped and I don't think they had ever
Speaker 1: really gotten that before. For me, Yeah, girl, that's what
Speaker 1: I knew. I was like, dang, yeah, it was that moment.
Speaker 1: I don't think I ever even told you that. I
Speaker 1: don't know know. The funny part was, I was just
Speaker 1: thinking of the unseen moment that you guys were talking about,
Speaker 1: because you know how you were saying, you know, I
Speaker 1: was really easy because Brian was answering all those questions
Speaker 1: or whatever. For me, that happened our very first group date,
Speaker 1: before our first one on one. They were like, hey,
Speaker 1: why don't you get you know, we were just like
Speaker 1: getting to know each other, and then it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: why don't we just like switch it up a little
Speaker 1: bit and uh talk about past relationships? So I fired
Speaker 1: it up and I went right into it. I was like,
Speaker 1: she's like, tell me about your serious relationships. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I was off and on in high school.
Speaker 1: But it's high school. I was like, but in college,
Speaker 1: you know, I had one or two serious girlfriends, and
Speaker 1: then after that and then I went straight into the marriage.
Speaker 1: I was like, right when I graduated, you know, I
Speaker 1: met this girl I was coaching baseball. And then they're
Speaker 1: like whoa, whoa, and she's just sitting there like this,
Speaker 1: like this is how it went down. You were married.
Speaker 1: You in the morning after a dodgeball date. So the
Speaker 1: guys had been going hard all day. Garrett was one
Speaker 1: of the last guys I was going to talk to,
Speaker 1: and they knew I was really into him, and so
Speaker 1: they like pulled us down by the pool and set
Speaker 1: up this like sexy it felt very cruel intentions, very
Speaker 1: sexy in the corner, and and so we're talking. We're
Speaker 1: like having small talk at first, you know, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the date, how much fun we had, and then
Speaker 1: they were like, why don't she talked about something more serious,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, Okay, tell me about your
Speaker 1: past relationships, and all of a sudden, he looks at me.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, you know, I dated a little bit
Speaker 1: in college, but I was also married and then got divorced,
Speaker 1: and then right away they came in. They're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you guys have to go, and I was like no,
Speaker 1: I was like and then in my mind, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is sabotaged because they knew I
Speaker 1: was in him. I gave him my first impression rows
Speaker 1: and he was married and divorced, and so it was
Speaker 1: the most awkward moment. I wanted to cry. I was
Speaker 1: so oh no. So we had to walk out. So
Speaker 1: the only redeeming part of this entire conversation is that
Speaker 1: as we were walking out, I was wearing heels and
Speaker 1: I tripped off the curb and Garrett like, I almost
Speaker 1: faced planning, and Garrett grabbed me and pulled me up,
Speaker 1: and then we had this special moment. We were laughing,
Speaker 1: and then we kind of danced under the street lights,
Speaker 1: and that was the only moment. But I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Like and then I'm thinking all the worst,
Speaker 1: Like was he planted just like screw with me? Because
Speaker 1: I really liked him. But he's the first guy I
Speaker 1: ever wrote about in my journal. I my rose and
Speaker 1: now it was And so luckily the next day I
Speaker 1: was like, I need I need to have a date
Speaker 1: with this guy and talk about it because I got
Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of this. But I'm scared
Speaker 1: at first. But to answer your guys question, not to Victoria,
Speaker 1: f you or anything like that. When I knew was
Speaker 1: I was fun in love with her in the Bahamas,
Speaker 1: I told her, but I really wanted her to meet
Speaker 1: my family and interact because they are such a huge
Speaker 1: part of my life. Yeah, and I knew. I was like,
Speaker 1: it's gonna go well with him or whatever. And it went.
Speaker 1: And then they hit it off right away, and I
Speaker 1: could tell, like right through the door, like the energy
Speaker 1: and everything. And she had great conversation with my brother,
Speaker 1: my sister, my mom, and my dad, who were like
Speaker 1: the foremost important people. And then feel the love. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: And then I was like, man, I love this girl.
Speaker 1: And then but then it sealed the deal when I
Speaker 1: met her family in the Maldives. So it was I
Speaker 1: think the first time he cried was with Uncle Chuck.
Speaker 1: I remember, I don't even know what happened. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, dude, they must have slipped some sort
Speaker 1: of thing. It was like they were talking. I wasn't
Speaker 1: even like anything being that emotional in the beginning, and
Speaker 1: I was like tearing up and I was like, what
Speaker 1: is going You were probably taught it's everything like tire.
Speaker 1: But it was because my uncle Chuck brought up my
Speaker 1: dad and then you guys sort of crying about my dad.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the dad think hit me hard because I
Speaker 1: was like, it would be difficult to go through it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I had both my parents and like,
Speaker 1: it'd be difficult to go through something like this and
Speaker 1: want advice from your parents of the opposite sex. I
Speaker 1: feel like at least for me. So I was like,
Speaker 1: that'd be tough to do. I thought it was endearing,
Speaker 1: like I remember, see, these are the things we remember.
Speaker 1: I remember you crying in there, and I remember be
Speaker 1: like whoa, whoa, And I think that's when we saw
Speaker 1: a different side of him. And I typically do this
Speaker 1: when I'm watching You didn't cry when I when you
Speaker 1: were talking about it was a Hallmark movie for me
Speaker 1: or something they did in the Hallmark I don't even
Speaker 1: do that as we watched Hallmark movies. I'm like, why
Speaker 1: am I even tearing up right now? Oh God, I
Speaker 1: cannect it through a Hallmark movie with a dry eye.
Speaker 1: Oh They're ridiculous When I want to know. So you
Speaker 1: actually the last the last date, when you have the
Speaker 1: two final guys, they'll give you a gift. Brian, did
Speaker 1: you give something to Rachel? I did I gave her?
Speaker 1: Give her a couple gifts, Yeah, he did, but the
Speaker 1: one I remember, there's the first one. I love that. No,
Speaker 1: but I gave her a Domino box because we actually
Speaker 1: went to play Dominoes on a street. So it's a
Speaker 1: it's called Domino Park. It was very famous. All the
Speaker 1: old old gentlemen are always playing there. They're really good.
Speaker 1: They kicked our ass. Yeah, together Domino We played Mexican
Speaker 1: Train Dominoes. He said, Domino's box. I thought of pizza.
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, what would you put there? Favorite?
Speaker 1: This was an actual Domino box. Um. So it was
Speaker 1: her own unique set. But when you opened it up,
Speaker 1: it had actually all the pictures of all our interactions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know our first date or Geneva date. Second.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I love that little moments that we're special
Speaker 1: to us. Yeah, I still have it. Well, you guys,
Speaker 1: this was so fun having our little love bugs in
Speaker 1: the studio. We're gonna have to do it again. I
Speaker 1: feel like we just touched the surface. We have games
Speaker 1: to play in the future. Yeah, this was our double
Speaker 1: date and we did it on our podcast with everybody listening.
Speaker 1: I think it was a success. I agree. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you guys are going to come back. Are you scared? Now?
Speaker 1: Now we'll come back. Yeah. They got real confidence. They're
Speaker 1: like sitting back in their chairs. They're like, yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: come back. No, thank you guys so much for being here.
Speaker 1: We'll have to We'll bring them back again. Becca, we'll
Speaker 1: do this again. That puts an end on Hometowns, which
Speaker 1: was I'm done. I'm done. I'm shock. I'm a little
Speaker 1: nervous going into next week because I really have no
Speaker 1: idea what to expect. You know exactly what to expect.
Speaker 1: Peter can't make a decision. The girls give him a
Speaker 1: run around. There will be tears, no conversations. Everyone gets
Speaker 1: a rose. That's Peter should be Oprah right now, because
Speaker 1: that's what it's getting. Right. Well, we already um up
Speaker 1: and recapped Week nine. You're welcome you guys. No, but
Speaker 1: thank you guys so much for tuning in. We love,
Speaker 1: of course, talking all things Bachelor, even when it confuses
Speaker 1: and frustrates the hell out of us. So make sure
Speaker 1: you come back next week because we'll have another great
Speaker 1: episode for you