Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome back to beat your Happy Hour.
Speaker 2: I'm Joe and I'm Serena, and we.
Speaker 1: Are here with our newest bachelor at Jen. Does that
Speaker 1: feel weird?
Speaker 3: It feels so weird. That's really going to take a
Speaker 3: lot of getting used to.
Speaker 1: Are you excited?
Speaker 3: Am I excited? Yes? I'm so freaking excited. I'm also
Speaker 3: really freaking nervous because it starts so soon, But no,
Speaker 3: I just can't wait to have some fun with this.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have so much fun. I can't believe the
Speaker 2: turnover time between like today and you starting to film
Speaker 2: your season.
Speaker 3: Not a busy, busy, busy schedule. But I'm literally so excited.
Speaker 3: I'm so excited to meet the men and I can't wait.
Speaker 2: Are you nervous about anything?
Speaker 3: Not really, Maybe like some speeches. I'm not a great
Speaker 3: speech giver, but we'll have to work on that. But
Speaker 3: other than that, no, I'm really just excited to see
Speaker 3: what these men look like and what their personalities are.
Speaker 2: Well, we know that you said that your type is
Speaker 2: like Italian boys. Do you think we're gonna see a
Speaker 2: lot of Italian boys?
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe sprinkle a few in there, But
Speaker 3: like I'm not constricted to one type. You know, I
Speaker 3: honestly feel like, at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 3: personality for me. And like I said, like it's about
Speaker 3: the banter and if you can banter with me, like
Speaker 3: we're gonna have an amazing time together and it doesn't
Speaker 3: really matter what you look like. But yeah, I'm so
Speaker 3: excited to explore all different kinds of options, Like this
Speaker 3: is the time to explore.
Speaker 1: This would be the weirdest show if it was you
Speaker 1: and just a bunch of Italian men thirty thirty Italian
Speaker 1: men thirty A crazy show. I feel like, so do
Speaker 1: you are you going? And do you have I mean
Speaker 1: this was you know, I'm assuming quick because you know that.
Speaker 1: I feel like they always wait last minute to figure
Speaker 1: out who they want to be the bachelorette. But do
Speaker 1: you have a game plan?
Speaker 3: No, I know, tell me what to do? No, I
Speaker 3: really just think I'm gonna be myself and see what
Speaker 3: freaking happens. I think the beauty in it is that
Speaker 3: I know I'm gonna make mistakes, Like I know I'm
Speaker 3: gonna like map up. I'm no, I know I'm gonna
Speaker 3: like do something crazy. But I feel like that's the
Speaker 3: beauty it, and I feel like that's the realness in it, well,
Speaker 3: in it all, because no one's gonna do it perfectly,
Speaker 3: and nobody's a perfect love story. And honestly, I'm excited
Speaker 3: to mess up. I'm excited to see the crazy messiness
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: And the thing too, is like when you mess up,
Speaker 2: that's going to show like the guys that are really
Speaker 2: there for you and like you're really compatible with and
Speaker 2: like I feel like it's always the messiest moments on
Speaker 2: the show that bring out like the best moments as well.
Speaker 3: I kind of agree, because you want to partner that's
Speaker 3: gonna be with you through the messy moments too, Like
Speaker 3: you don't want a partner who's only there for the
Speaker 3: good moments, and like nobody only has good moments, So
Speaker 3: I totally agree. I think you know, the person who's
Speaker 3: gonna stick through me through all the craziness is like
Speaker 3: gonna be the person I know.
Speaker 2: You say you're looking for a big personality tonight, But
Speaker 2: what else are you looking for?
Speaker 3: Like I said, the cheeky bans are, I'm looking for
Speaker 3: kindness obviously. I think that's so so important, Like I
Speaker 3: always say, like it really shows how you treat like
Speaker 3: the server at the rushaurant and stuff like that, Like little
Speaker 3: things like that really do matter to me. I'm also
Speaker 3: looking for someone who's really open minded. You know, I
Speaker 3: am Asian and employe one hundred percent Asian, and I
Speaker 3: think that's something that is going to be talked about
Speaker 3: as well, and so I need someone who's open minded
Speaker 3: about that and the conversations that are going to surround
Speaker 3: all of that. And yeah, someone I want someone who's dedicated.
Speaker 3: I want someone who's gonna put in the effort. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I feel like I did a lot of the toxic
Speaker 3: men and a lot of men who just like don't
Speaker 3: put in the effort, like like me for the first
Speaker 3: five seconds and then like string me along. But that's
Speaker 3: what I want anymore. I want someone who's really going
Speaker 3: to be committed, you know, someone who's looking for something serious. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was going to ask, how how does it feel
Speaker 1: to be the first Asian bachelorette.
Speaker 3: It's really it's it's insane to think about, but honestly, like,
Speaker 3: I'm so honored and I'm so grateful for this opportunity,
Speaker 3: like to be the first ancient Asian bachelrette of the
Speaker 3: franchise's historical and it feels monumental, and you know, like
Speaker 3: I said tonight, like I grew up not seeing a
Speaker 3: lot of Asian representation on TV, and I felt constricted
Speaker 3: in what I could do because of that. And you know,
Speaker 3: I called my cousin when I found out. She's twelve
Speaker 3: years old, and she like sobbed when I told her
Speaker 3: I was gonna be the first Ancian Bachelor, and I was, wait, second,
Speaker 3: are you are you upset? Like are you happy? Like
Speaker 3: I don't know, and she was like, I know, I'm
Speaker 3: really happy. And I feel like that was kind of
Speaker 3: the moment where I was like, this is a lot
Speaker 3: bigger than just me, Like this is going to be
Speaker 3: huge for a lot of different people, and especially for
Speaker 3: my cousin and other little girls out there, like who
Speaker 3: are going to be looking up to me? Looking up
Speaker 3: to all of this being like, you know, I see
Speaker 3: myself in her, Like I can do that too. I
Speaker 3: can find my love story. I can be the main
Speaker 3: character of my own story. And I think that's really
Speaker 3: special and important to talk about and to think about.
Speaker 3: And I just hope I do it right. I hope
Speaker 3: I don't mind. I hope I'm not like crazy about it,
Speaker 3: but yeah, it's a lot bigger than who I am.
Speaker 3: And the thing that I'm thinking about the most going
Speaker 3: into this is that I just want to break the
Speaker 3: mold of what people think like the perfect bachelrette will be,
Speaker 3: the perfect person will be, you know, And I think
Speaker 3: I break that mold in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 3: And I think that, you know, I'm going to be
Speaker 3: able to relate to a lot of different people, a
Speaker 3: lot of young women out there who are like, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't fit that mold, but I see myself in Jam.
Speaker 3: I see myself in that role, and now I feel
Speaker 3: like I can do anything. So I really feel like
Speaker 3: this position is a lot bigger than myself for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can you tell us and our listeners more like
Speaker 2: you're the first Asian bachelrette, but like what is your background?
Speaker 2: And like what are maybe some aspects of your background
Speaker 2: your culture that you're excited to share with these men
Speaker 2: in the audience this season.
Speaker 3: Oh, there's so much. So. I am one hundred percent Vietnmese.
Speaker 3: Both parents immigrated over here from Vietnam and the form
Speaker 3: the nineteen eighties, and then they had me shortly after
Speaker 3: that and I think like based on like traditions and
Speaker 3: culture and stuff like that. It's like hard to think
Speaker 3: about when you're in the spot, but you know we are.
Speaker 3: We do come from a Buddhist family, so we we
Speaker 3: have a different New Year's than usual people have New
Speaker 3: Years like I think usual people have New Years like Jennifers.
Speaker 3: We have New Years like in February, and we do
Speaker 3: like a whole big prior setting and all the things
Speaker 3: for that. And then there's also like the crazy foods
Speaker 3: that we have, all the different foods and other cultural
Speaker 3: elements to that, which I'm so excited to talk more about,
Speaker 3: and I'm excited to showcase that. You know, when they
Speaker 3: are able to meet my family, I think that's going
Speaker 3: to be such so telling for like how like my
Speaker 3: family dynamic is and how different it is from what
Speaker 3: you would usually see on screen. And I think that's
Speaker 3: going to be something that a lot of people can
Speaker 3: relate to and are going to be so happy to
Speaker 3: see that dynamic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that you are nervous about the potential
Speaker 2: of bringing Joey home to your family this season, and
Speaker 2: I know you just said you know, we're obviously going
Speaker 2: to see them because you are the bachelorette. How is
Speaker 2: your family feeling about this announcement about potentially being part
Speaker 2: of your journey and what are they kind of hoping
Speaker 2: for and the guy that you bring home? Sorry three part.
Speaker 3: Question from my relief, they're honestly so freaking excited for this,
Speaker 3: And I feel like, like I said, like my mom
Speaker 3: and I's relationship has really changed throughout the show because
Speaker 3: she really can see me as my person now, like
Speaker 3: finding love and all this stuff, Like she wants the
Speaker 3: absolute best for me, and you know, she says, like,
Speaker 3: if you're happy, I'm happy. So like I'm obviously very
Speaker 3: happy about all everything that's happening, and she's so happy
Speaker 3: for me. She's so proud of me. She sees the
Speaker 3: way I carry myself on screen. She's just so excited
Speaker 3: for a whole season of it, obviously, But you know,
Speaker 3: her first concern was like, you know, like I'm scared,
Speaker 3: like I don't want you to get hurt, you know.
Speaker 3: And so she's still coming from that motherly standpoint of
Speaker 3: like she wants me to find the best person for me,
Speaker 3: and you can bat that she's gonna be kind of
Speaker 3: a crazy, not a crazy, but she's gonna be you know,
Speaker 3: harsh at hometowns because she wants me to find the
Speaker 3: best person there is for me, and she know, you know,
Speaker 3: she wants me to find someone who's gonna love me
Speaker 3: more than she loves her. She keeps saying she loves me,
Speaker 3: she keeps saying. So, you know, I'm just so incredibly
Speaker 3: happy to have the support of both my mom and
Speaker 3: my brother throughout this whole thing, and they're just so excited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's yeah, it's it's huge. It's like
Speaker 1: an awesome thing. And like I for your family to
Speaker 1: be able to watch and see your journey is incredible.
Speaker 1: You mentioned like, you know, you don't want a guy
Speaker 1: that's rude to a server, and nobody should because those
Speaker 1: people are the worst. But what are some deal breakers
Speaker 1: you think a guy could do night one that you're like,
Speaker 1: he's gotta.
Speaker 3: Go chewing with her mouth open?
Speaker 1: Okay, what if he's what if he's he's the most
Speaker 1: handsome guy in the world and he's really nice, but
Speaker 1: he's just he's doing a cookie with his mouth open.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna cut him? The best looking guy in
Speaker 1: the house.
Speaker 2: I feel like what you mean, would your mouth open?
Speaker 2: Is more like manners, you know, like.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, but to that agree if he is truly
Speaker 3: the hottest man in the house, you know what, I'll
Speaker 3: give some meanings. Maybe I'll tell me what your little
Speaker 3: mouth we're doing, you know, like, let's work on that.
Speaker 3: I feel like that that's something that maybe can be
Speaker 3: worked on. But if he's resistant to it, if he's
Speaker 3: like no, like.
Speaker 2: I love to let with my mouth open, and that's
Speaker 2: gonna be maybe a bit, there's a few other problems.
Speaker 2: If that's one of his favorite things to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna think that that's a little weird. Yeah no,
Speaker 3: But you know, I'm not like, I'm not like a
Speaker 3: stretch like you have to do this, you have to
Speaker 3: do this, you know, like I'm open to a lot
Speaker 3: of different things.
Speaker 2: Part How did it feel you had so many members
Speaker 2: from Bachelor Nation here tonight? We had a lot of
Speaker 2: charities guys. Charity and Dotton were there, Rachel and Gabby,
Speaker 2: we saw Leo, We saw Rachel. I think, like multiple
Speaker 2: goals from your season we're in the audience. How was that?
Speaker 3: Honestly? So, it's freaking incredible. I wish you guys were
Speaker 3: there too as well, obviously, but you know, I haven't
Speaker 3: met a lot of these people foreigned. For them to
Speaker 3: come up to me and tell me how much they
Speaker 3: support me and how excited they are for this season
Speaker 3: like like makes me so freaking happy and just like
Speaker 3: completely forms my heart. And it was so nice to
Speaker 3: like put it like a real face to people that
Speaker 3: I've seen on the screen before and all this stuff
Speaker 3: and fall on social media, but like they've all been
Speaker 3: so supportive, and I don't know, it just feels insane
Speaker 3: to have me like another family kind of backed me
Speaker 3: up in all this, and it feels really amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the moment between, like I know you and Maria
Speaker 2: are genuinely friends, Like we both we've had you both
Speaker 2: on the podcast, you both said you guys are friends,
Speaker 2: and just the moment between the two of you tonight
Speaker 2: where like you saw her and you were so happy
Speaker 2: to see her, and she was so excited for you
Speaker 2: to be knows as the bacherette was a really cute
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 3: I didn't know she was gonna be That was honestly crazy,
Speaker 3: absolutely crazy. I had no idea she was going to
Speaker 3: be here, and it felt so good to have somebody
Speaker 3: that I'm so so close to be here tonight and
Speaker 3: support me and for her to just you know, come
Speaker 3: up on stage and we were able to catch up.
Speaker 3: I mean I saw her two weeks ago, but like,
Speaker 3: it was so good to be able to have that
Speaker 3: girl moment with her seriously, and I'm like, can you
Speaker 3: come back for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: For Joey's season, we heard him really express how scared
Speaker 1: he was about potentially falling for someone who didn't feel
Speaker 1: the same way about him. What do you think, what
Speaker 1: are you most nervous about going into this?
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, just like any maybe just like somebody being
Speaker 1: there for you, falling for someone who is there just
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe to get Instagram followers and then
Speaker 1: hit on girls after the show or something like that.
Speaker 2: Don't don't put these ideas in her head. Joe Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh. She's like, I have no worries, and he's like, well,
Speaker 2: I'll give you some worries.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me just plant something in red. I'm not
Speaker 3: super worried about that. I feel like if that happened,
Speaker 3: I would see through it really quickly. And I think
Speaker 3: I really depend on my intuition at my gut, So
Speaker 3: if that happens. So I'm not super worried about that,
Speaker 3: but I guess I am worried about falling into old habits.
Speaker 3: You know, I've had a lot of toxic access where
Speaker 3: I just get so caught up in the moment about
Speaker 3: something like you know, they're really hot or whatever it is,
Speaker 3: and then I like completely disregard like their personality and
Speaker 3: like the red flags. So I guess I am pretty
Speaker 3: nervous about ignoring those red flags if I do, and
Speaker 3: I hope I don't, But like, you know, that's what
Speaker 3: this process is about, and I hope that I can
Speaker 3: kind of work through that and it'll be really interesting
Speaker 3: to see, you know, whatever amount of men there are,
Speaker 3: if I can work through that and choose like the
Speaker 3: right one who's really there for me, who really will
Speaker 3: fight for me.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you're already saying if he's hot, you'll
Speaker 2: look past and chow with his mouth up, and.
Speaker 1: So it's yeah, I mean you're but any any any
Speaker 1: places you you what would be like a Africa? Okay,
Speaker 1: you answered it without me even asking the questions. So
Speaker 1: I hope you guys go.
Speaker 3: There talking about Africa for ages now and what I
Speaker 3: really want to do is go on a little safari,
Speaker 3: had a little line, hang out with the elephants, you know,
Speaker 3: sleep in the tent and then like see a little
Speaker 3: draft coming like tell me good morning. That kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: You should be what you should You should try to
Speaker 1: talk them for, like for like your clip art for
Speaker 1: the show, like have it like safari theme and basically
Speaker 1: paint the show in a corner to where they have
Speaker 1: to take you to Africa. That could be like your thing,
Speaker 1: like you're whole. They could be like go on a
Speaker 1: safar fine love and go on a Safari with Jen.
Speaker 2: You know what. Joe loves to come up with like
Speaker 2: little like themes for like the Batchelrett marketing or the
Speaker 2: Bachelor marketing. And he's had some good ones and that
Speaker 2: is like your worst one yet Safari season with Jen.
Speaker 2: Let's at the animals and fall in love.
Speaker 1: Like well, that's how I would I would want. I
Speaker 1: would want to watch that.
Speaker 3: I would see thank you. Honestly, I'm with it. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be in a little puper outfit, I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: wines in the background. I'm all for it, and I'm
Speaker 3: all about manifesting what i want. So I've been I've
Speaker 3: been telling everybody. I'm saying, Africa is the place I
Speaker 3: want to be.
Speaker 1: Ye, would you get like a sexy snake around you
Speaker 1: and all that? That could be very cool?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that's right, snakes.
Speaker 2: We're also just copyriting Britney Spears. But jen we saw
Speaker 2: in the audience to sit was Charity, the last Bacherette.
Speaker 2: She's we love HER's favorite of ours, who is kind
Speaker 2: of Do you have any inspiration from her or there
Speaker 2: any past bacherettes that you kind of look to as
Speaker 2: role models or inspiration going into your season?
Speaker 3: Kidding, it was absolutely insane to be able to meet
Speaker 3: Charity personal. She's definitely inspiration. You know, she is a
Speaker 3: woman of color and she did her so much grace,
Speaker 3: and she also is you know, engaged to dolt and
Speaker 3: like it's so inspiring and it gives me so much
Speaker 3: hope for this process, seriously. But also I was able
Speaker 3: to meet Gabby and Rachel tonight, who sees and I
Speaker 3: also watched and loved because they're so freaking cool. There's
Speaker 3: so much theirselves and I see myself in both of
Speaker 3: them because they're both so different, but I see myself
Speaker 3: in both of them, which I thought was really cool
Speaker 3: to meet them, and Jessie said that, I mean, everybody
Speaker 3: is so incredible, but those are definitely my top three
Speaker 3: and I'm so happy that I was able to meet
Speaker 3: that nice.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm very excited for you. I think this is
Speaker 1: going to be incredible. I can't wait to watch your safari.
Speaker 1: This is this is it's gonna be great. But Jen, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like I said, I'm really happy for you and
Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I will say I was watching with my mom and
Speaker 2: my sister tonight live from home, and my mom had
Speaker 2: told me the other day. She was like, I really
Speaker 2: hope it's Jen. I really really hope she's the bachelorette.
Speaker 2: And they were so happy because I didn't tell them that,
Speaker 2: like I knew we were interviewing you tonight, but they
Speaker 2: were like, oh my god, I'm so happy. She's gonna
Speaker 2: be amazing. So you have lots of support out there
Speaker 2: and lots of support from Joe and I were so
Speaker 2: excited for you. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Well. Honestly, that means the world to me. And I
Speaker 3: hope Guess can maybe come on for a little episode
Speaker 3: and we can chat.
Speaker 2: Oh, I would love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah to pitch that to the show along with your
Speaker 1: Safari idea, and we got some them.
Speaker 3: You guys are a success story. I would freaking love it.
Speaker 2: You guys came on and you know what, if you
Speaker 2: can convince them to have us play out on the
Speaker 2: Africa episode, that would be idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, I'll let them know to bunk
Speaker 3: you with the elephants and the drafts.
Speaker 1: Thank you amazing well, Jen, Thank you so much again,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure we're going to be talking to you
Speaker 1: much sooner than later. And to all our listeners, thank
Speaker 1: you guys for tuning in. Make sure you will get
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Speaker 1: Bye,