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Speaker 1: This is Ben and actually I almost famous in depth.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. This is an in depth episode.

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Speaker 1: If you've never heard an in depth before. This is

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Speaker 1: something Actuley and I started a few years ago, taking

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Speaker 1: fan favorites, people that were intrigued by and just digging

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Speaker 1: into their life. The Bachelor obviously come up because it's

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Speaker 1: a part of your life, but we really want to

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Speaker 1: learn about you. So thanks for doing this with us.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, thank you all for having me. I love

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Speaker 1: it because I think, you know, you see these people

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Speaker 1: from the show on on TV, and you only know

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Speaker 1: so much from the little snippets that you see, and

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Speaker 1: I think there is a lot kind of behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes that you don't really get to know about um

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Speaker 1: various contestants. So I think it's cool to kind of

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Speaker 1: be able to talk more to that. Thank you. That

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Speaker 1: was the whole point of the content. Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Could you imagine if we did an

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Speaker 1: in depth episode with everybody, every contestant before the show started? Man,

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Speaker 1: we should and ABC should pay for us to do that.

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Speaker 1: That'd be awesome. That'd be really good. Um, it's why

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Speaker 1: they did well. Hey, Connor, let's kick it off with

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Speaker 1: this tell us about your childhood. We're both from the Midwest,

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Speaker 1: pretty close to each other. You're from Michigan and from Indiana.

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Speaker 1: What kind of childhood you have, Yeah, good old midwesterners. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so from Birmingham, Michigan. Initially. UM, I was the youngest

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Speaker 1: of four kids. So I feel like I always, um

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Speaker 1: kind of like looked up to my siblings, And I

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Speaker 1: like I looked up to my siblings and they would

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Speaker 1: not necessarily speak for me when I was younger, but

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Speaker 1: would kind of just like follow their lead, UM versus

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Speaker 1: be like the crazy sibling. So I think that kind

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Speaker 1: of contributed a lot to like who I am now. UM.

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Speaker 1: And I think, you know, all my siblings like did

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Speaker 1: very different things throughout their lives, and I'm kind of

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Speaker 1: like a mesh of all of them, which I think

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Speaker 1: is it's really cool. But UM had amazing parents. They've

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Speaker 1: been married for almost forty years now, UM, so they

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Speaker 1: were a great influence on me, and UM, you know

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Speaker 1: kind of like what I'm looking for in a relationship

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Speaker 1: and a partner. UM, So you know, really just like

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Speaker 1: a great, great family, a lot of fun growing up

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Speaker 1: in Michigan, but it was pretty pretty cold and chili

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Speaker 1: and that's why I ended up moving down to Texas.

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Speaker 1: When did you move down to Texas? Um? So, I

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Speaker 1: went to SMU for college, So just whenever I went

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Speaker 1: I found myself on The Bachelor. A former Warsaw High

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Speaker 1: School Tiger played basketball at SMU probably the same time

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Speaker 1: you were there, Nick Moore, he's in a legend. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: yeah he was. He was a point guard, right, he

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Speaker 1: was the point guard. Yeah, all conference. He played high

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Speaker 1: school basketball, same place. Yeah, that that was a pretty

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Speaker 1: exciting time at SMU because Larry Brown was the coach

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Speaker 1: and um the program got really really good and it

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Speaker 1: was a really neat time. You had a couple of proms.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of sports, you were a college swimmer. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I swim in high school. Um, my brother swim in

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Speaker 1: that today, but it's just like, well, fortunately, in high

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Speaker 1: how one even could do that. No, that just sounds miserable.

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Speaker 1: I'm not against now, but in high school, I'm not

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Speaker 1: like a you know, like a job or whatever. That was. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about your jobs here coming up intil

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Speaker 1: a second, because you have an impressive resume if this

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Speaker 1: was an interview for a job, but you also up

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Speaker 1: to some new projects now. But let's kind of frame

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Speaker 1: this season of your life then up until college. Talk

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Speaker 1: about you in relationships? Were you, uh, did you date

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Speaker 1: kind of the social life. Yeah? No. In high school,

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Speaker 1: I was like the hopeless romantic guy for sure. Loved relationships,

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Speaker 1: then didn't date anyone for two years after college, and

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Speaker 1: thinking that like a bit of an extreme situation to

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Speaker 1: go to to to have to find somebody. Um, although

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Speaker 1: it does work, out for for a lot of people

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Speaker 1: they're like, Connor, when you're you know, like and single,

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Speaker 1: like we're gonna like, we're gonna nominate you to be

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Speaker 1: have to make the most of them. And I felt

431
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:27,639
Speaker 1: like a lot of time in my life I was

432
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,360
Speaker 1: just living very passively kind of just like letting things happen.

433
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 1: And it wasn't until right before the show where I

434
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 1: had like maybe taken back a little bit of control

435
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 1: in my life. And so I think it kind of

436
00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:41,679
Speaker 1: just reiterated to me, is like, Okay, you know, if

437
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 1: you want to make things happen in your life, you

438
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,439
Speaker 1: gotta go like go do it, you know, Like and

439
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 1: I there's moments on the show where I wish I

440
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 1: had maybe done that more. Um, But I think that

441
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,159
Speaker 1: kind of reiterated to me of like I need to

442
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 1: actually follow through and do that stuff, and then when

443
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,399
Speaker 1: I do have those moments to make stuff happen, to

444
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:01,879
Speaker 1: like really make the most of that. That was that

445
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 1: was probably the biggest takeaway from me, and I feel

446
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 1: like since then, I've really tried to take that to heart.

447
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 1: Are you glad you did it? Then? I mean, looking

448
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 1: back now we're just talking Bachelorrette, We're gonna talk Bachelor

449
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 1: and Paradeston just a second. But are you glad you

450
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 1: did the Bachelorette? Yeah? I mean it was such a

451
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 1: cool experience. I am so thankful for the whole thing

452
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: and like everything that came from it. Um, I would

453
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 1: say it's interesting, like obviously a lot of cool opportunities

454
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,200
Speaker 1: come from from the whole show and everything, but like

455
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:32,639
Speaker 1: people have asked me and we'll talk about it in

456
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 1: a little bit, but the business I'm doing now, I

457
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 1: think I would still be doing that whether the show

458
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: happened or not, taking me longer to get there, But

459
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:45,159
Speaker 1: really being on the show hasn't necessarily impacted how successful

460
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 1: that's better or anything. It's it's just all been through

461
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 1: other means. So I think it's kind of cool, Like

462
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 1: obviously very thankful for everything from the show, but still,

463
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 1: you know, I would like to think I'm the same

464
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: person I was before as I am after. That makes sense?

465
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 1: Does that? Does I mean? With Generous? You know, I

466
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,880
Speaker 1: started it four years ago after my time on the show,

467
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,879
Speaker 1: and I mean it's it's a great launching point for

468
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,919
Speaker 1: a business. But today, you know, the people that have

469
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: heard about Generous through my social or whatever have already

470
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: heard about it, and so you know, i'd like to

471
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: I've asked myself that question, would I'd be doing this

472
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:20,920
Speaker 1: without the show? So part of me and says no,

473
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 1: the show definitely give to me the the platform to

474
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: do it. Um, but I would like to hope I

475
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,239
Speaker 1: would have tried. And so we're gonna talk about your

476
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,200
Speaker 1: business in just a second. Um let's take a break here,

477
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna talk about Bachelor in Paradise

478
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:48,439
Speaker 1: and what Connor is doing today. I just want to

479
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 1: go off of what you're saying about, like kind of

480
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: like finding your groove on the Bachelor at for a second,

481
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: did you find that you grew it all or like

482
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: gained confidence, like any personality traits that you think came

483
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: through through the process. I think definitely gained confidence. And

484
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 1: I feel like, I mean you all can probably speak

485
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 1: to that too, especially like coming off the show and

486
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 1: starting to watch it on TV. I think, you know,

487
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 1: just like hearing all the love and everything people are

488
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: giving you, Um, it definitely like boost your confidence. And

489
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: so I mean, I know we'll talk about Paradise in

490
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 1: the second, but I feel like going from the Bachelorette

491
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: to Paradise, remember going into Paradise just like super confident.

492
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: I felt. Honestly, I felt like I was on top

493
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 1: of the world. But um, I would say confidence was

494
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: definitely something I gained, and I think that was maybe

495
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,679
Speaker 1: something that was lacking for me before the show. Just

496
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: because I hadn't found you know, that person for me,

497
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: I'm not the most like the biggest party or anything,

498
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,879
Speaker 1: and so I wasn't like going out that much, um

499
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 1: the years leading up to being on the show, So

500
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 1: it was really hard to like meet people, I guess, um,

501
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: and so hadn't been in a ton of dates or anything.

502
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 1: You know, obviously a few here there, but um, like

503
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 1: just confidence is definitely a big, big one that changed

504
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: for men. I can totally reliate to everything you just

505
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 1: said there. Did you know this? Actually? With that, Connor

506
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: and I have a little bit of a big night together,

507
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: do you know this? Ah? So Jessica and I go

508
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 1: down to Bachelor in Paradise the year that Connor is

509
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,120
Speaker 1: going to be down there. If you remember, right from

510
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: Connor's time on The Bachelor as a fan of his,

511
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 1: I thought he was probably gonna be chosen. And uh,

512
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: Connor is in line walking into the wedding of Chris

513
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 1: and Crystal right behind Jessica. This is Jessica's very first

514
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: time around TV stuff, so she's freaking out. I mean,

515
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: the girl is just a mess um and she still

516
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,400
Speaker 1: would be if we did it again. But Connor standing

517
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: right behind us since we're making small talk, and I

518
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,919
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, how's the show going for you? He's like,

519
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: it's uh, well, it's not going. It was like, what

520
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: do you mean. He's like, I've been quarantined kind of

521
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 1: what is it ten days at that point? Yeah? Man,

522
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 1: that was miserable quarantine for ten days. Yeah, what the

523
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: worst part about that is? And I guess Ben, you

524
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: you didn't go to Paradise, but Ashley, no, you just

525
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 1: you go to that hotel beforehand. And I flew in there,

526
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: I think the day after filming and started, and I

527
00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:30,439
Speaker 1: I feel like I was told maybe that I was

528
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: going to go in like a day or two later.

529
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: She would have made sense for you to be part

530
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: of the original cast. And just to clarify, guys, we're

531
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:42,360
Speaker 1: not talking COVID quarantine. We're talking bachelor quarantine to keep

532
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: you in the room for a couple of days. Yeah,

533
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 1: And so I was like amped up, ready to go,

534
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: fired up for this whole thing. And then the producers

535
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: came in my room like a few days later, and

536
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,959
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, just so you know, some things like

537
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 1: changed down on the beach, um, and we don't want

538
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: to send you in yet. So you're gonna mean this

539
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 1: room for another week and there's a special a week. Yeah.

540
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: So in total, I was stuck in this room for

541
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: ten days. Um and uh, I mean honestly, I feel

542
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 1: like I reached a bit of a groove towards the

543
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: end of the ten days, like just had a routine down,

544
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: you know, wake up. The sun would hit the balcony.

545
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 1: This is what time out. This is exactly what I

546
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: was gonna say. I still remember the exact words you

547
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,239
Speaker 1: told Jessica and I because jess at this point is

548
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 1: so confusius, like you're kidding me. They have you in

549
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: a room for ten days, and you go, you go,

550
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 1: it's not that bad. At two pm the sun reaches

551
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: over the other hotel and yeah, and she's like this

552
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. Yeah, it was like one or two pm

553
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: the sun would reach over the other like the I guess,

554
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: the top of the building, and then I could get

555
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: I could get sun for like four hours, and so

556
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: I just go like laying the balcony is close to

557
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: the edge as possible so I could hit it, and

558
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: then uh, I'd wake up, order room service. I mean

559
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: I probably wrapped the room services unlimited guys and they

560
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: let you get drinks and stuff. I mean, I had

561
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: some real introspective moments locked in that hotel room for

562
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: five straight days. Like I like, I was just so

563
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: in my head. I was talk about just getting to

564
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: know yourself. That's what happens well for sure, and I

565
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: will say, Okay, So I did try and go. They

566
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: told me that because I was there for so long,

567
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: they let me like do some stuff they don't normally

568
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: let people do, to go to the pool a little bit.

569
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 1: So they took me to the pool one day, two days.

570
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: They took me to the spa a couple of days,

571
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: which is like the other thing. They were like, oh,

572
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: you know, do you want to go golfing? I was like,

573
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I'd love to go golfing. And I ended

574
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: up not being allowed to go golfing because, um, Chris

575
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: was golfing like the whole time. I guess they didn't

576
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: want Chris to see me, so I couldn't go golfing

577
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: because of that. So you just mentioned this, Connor uh

578
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: And we have a couple more minutes left with you here.

579
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: But you said they told you, hey, there's gonna be

580
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: the special event, and what do they what do they

581
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: mean by that. So ultimately they meant that it was

582
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: going to be Chris and Crystal's wedding that I was

583
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:19,560
Speaker 1: gonna be walking in at. And at the time, I

584
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 1: had no clue what they were talking about. I didn't

585
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:23,719
Speaker 1: know there was a wedding plan or anything. So I,

586
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: you know, for a week, I was just kind of

587
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: sitting in the dark having no clue. But um, the

588
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: wedding ended up being the kind of the event that

589
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: we walked in at. And I walked in with Chase

590
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: McNary and then I'm blanking on his name. He's uh

591
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: he was on the show a while ago. Brooks. Yeah,

592
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: the three of us walked in and um, that's when Matt,

593
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: you Ben and actually were you there? I did meet

594
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: you that I met you that day. Yeah. My my

595
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: my moment from that wedding was that I fell off

596
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: a chair. It's the second I got it. I remember that.

597
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: You remember that. It sounds like actually making an entrance. Uh. Well, Connor,

598
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: your time in Paradise maybe was shorter than expected, but

599
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: still impactful. You became somebody that people love from that,

600
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: in fact, so much so that you have a very

601
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: active TikTok following now. Are you meeting anybody through TikTok? Uh?

602
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: Where did TikTok come from? For you? Tell us about

603
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: life now a little bit. Yeah, So I don't know.

604
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like you all might be able

605
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: to relate to this, but I feel like Instagram, Uh,

606
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: it's just not like fun for me, you know, I

607
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of times and you know, you

608
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: guys are probably better at posting and everything than I am.

609
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: I'm I'm absolutely terrible, but um, I just like can't.

610
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: I don't like taking pictures. I don't like doing any

611
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: of that, and so when it comes to like posting

612
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: on Instagram, I can never do it. But TikTok, to me,

613
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 1: it just seems like more of a fun like safe place,

614
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: you know, and I feel like I can have fun

615
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: and be a little silly, to be stupid. And it

616
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: didn't really start until covid started and I you know, obviously,

617
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: like everyone started dancing on there, and I'm a terrible dancer,

618
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 1: but I would just like, you know, start doing a

619
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: little bit of dancing to the trends or whatever, and

620
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: I just thought it was funny and uh ended up like,

621
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: you know, doing some cool stuff with it. So it's

622
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: It's been a lot of fun being on there, and

623
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,479
Speaker 1: I feel like it is more of a kind of

624
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: a safer, more fun, enjoyable environment for me than Instagram

625
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: is UM and it's it's led to a lot of

626
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: cool things with UM, you know, the business that I

627
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: ended up launching, and we've we've really only been doing

628
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: stuff on TikTok for that, so UM it's kind of

629
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: been cool to you know, to be a part of

630
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: that newer platform. Before we jump into your business, you

631
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: want to talk about your roommate situation, because we had

632
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: Mike on the podcast. He was telling us the last

633
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: time he was here that you guys were going to

634
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: be living together in awesome, but you who told us

635
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: behind the scenes that you're no longer living together. Um

636
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: he is living in where he is living, I believe

637
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 1: it is Porta Irata. Um. He's he's learning, he's learning

638
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: Spanish down in Mexico. He's gone back to his paradise roots.

639
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: He has his parents is right around the corner. Maybe

640
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: he's just waiting until the next summer to pop back

641
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: down there. I don't know. Is this split. Was this

642
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: a good roommate split? It was it was Mike. Mike

643
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: was a great roommate. Loved living with him, Um, and

644
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: I would hope you would say the same thing about me.

645
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: I will sound more of a messy guy. And Mike's

646
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: very tidy mentioned that. Yeah, so although we were roommates

647
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: on the show, so he knew what he was getting

648
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 1: into a little bit. Um, but I think he it

649
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: was really cool living with him because we have a

650
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: very similar kind of outlook and everything on life and

651
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: business and what we're trying to do. And um, I

652
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: think we you know, really motivated each other. And before

653
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: we even like moved in. I remember I drove down

654
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: to San Antonio to visit him, and the whole weekend

655
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 1: we just like wrote goals and everything we wanted to

656
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: achieve we were living together and everything, and it's cool

657
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 1: to see, you know, some of those goals came true. Something't.

658
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: But I think we've really like planted some good seeds

659
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:27,240
Speaker 1: to have a successful year this year and going forward.

660
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously, like I'm I'm super thankful to

661
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 1: have lived with him, And um, I would hope he

662
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: would say the same about me. But we we had

663
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 1: a great time together and Austin was like a great

664
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: city to live in, and it's I'm excited to be

665
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 1: back living here now. Well, you know you mentioned a

666
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: little bit ago, you've mentioned it throughout the podcast, a

667
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: huge part of your life. In fact, you just got

668
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: back to Austin because you're in l a for a bit.

669
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: Tell us about what you're doing now, just give us

670
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: the rundown, the greatest sales pitch you can on your

671
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: new business and where you hope this goes. Yeah, So,

672
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: m I met my friend Mike back in December, a

673
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: little bit over a year ago, I think, right, yeah,

674
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: the two years gosh, keep keep forgetting. But I met

675
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 1: him and he had this idea to create kind of

676
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: like a hangover hydration products, more of not necessarily for hangovers,

677
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: but just a hydration product, and we, you know, just

678
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: clicked and started working on this thing. We ended up

679
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: um manufacturing it in Los Angeles. But before we even

680
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: manufactured it, we uh just started making some TikTok videos

681
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: on a business account that had no followers. A couple

682
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: of them went viral, and um they we decided to

683
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: do a pre sale for the product before we even

684
00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: had it. We ended up selling out all of our

685
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: initial inventory and about thirty minutes when we opened the

686
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: pre sale, and so it was just like crazy seeing

687
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: this thing evolved. And that was in May UM and

688
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: we didn't get more inventory until August and now we're

689
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: you know, getting into some really big production runs with it.

690
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: But it's just been crazy to kind of see this

691
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: thing grow. And it's it's always been like such a

692
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: dream of mine to um start a business and grow

693
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: it and like really grown into something big and um

694
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: make a big impact on people. And it's it's honestly

695
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: just been like surreal being a part of it. UM.

696
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: What's the name of it. It's called water Boy. Water Boy,

697
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: But right now we have a it's a it's more

698
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: of a hangover hydration product. And so a lot of

699
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: the hydration products you see in the market have a

700
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 1: lot of sugar, UM don't really have that many electrolytes,

701
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: and we took a different route, no sugar, more electrolytes

702
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: than any other products on the market. Ginger and camm

703
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: meal for stomach nausea athening which relaxes you, and then

704
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: vitamin B and C and so everyone that's tried it

705
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: loves it. So far, I will say we've kind of

706
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: refined to taste a little bit, so it tastes a

707
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: lot better. Um. And then we're launching two more products,

708
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: uh probably within the month. So um. It's been a

709
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: pretty pretty exciting time for all that and just honestly

710
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: been really cool to make it happen. I wish I

711
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: would have had this um when I was throwing up

712
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 1: every day. Um, mainly because I felt like liquid ivy

713
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: was too sweet and plus it didn't have anything like

714
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: the ginger to use the stomach. Yeah. Yeah, And what

715
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: I will say, no knock on liquid ivy or I

716
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: do love liquid ivy. Yeah, yeah, it is a It

717
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: is a great product and polite to a lot of

718
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: people take that for hangovers. But I don't think a

719
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 1: lot of people realize when you buy liquid ivy, se

720
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 1: of what you're buying is sugar, um, And do you

721
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: really need that for hydration? No you don't. Um. And

722
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 1: so we really just packed it with like everything that

723
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: you need that is essential. And um, it really works.

724
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: It really does a good job. And you know, people

725
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: have loved it so far. But we'll have to send

726
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,439
Speaker 1: you something to try out. We have some some good

727
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: flavors going on, actually big on TikTok also, yeah, you

728
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: can get some TikTok followers big on TikTok. Now you

729
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: need to be on TikTok for sure. You gotta you

730
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 1: gotta get on TikTok. You. Mike and I had a

731
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: rule for TikTok dances. It was more so my rule,

732
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: but I think a lot of people spend too much

733
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: time thinking about like doing a dance and getting it

734
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: really good before they post it. My rule is one take.

735
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 1: You watch the video of the dance for one minute,

736
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 1: one and then you do one take and you post it,

737
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: even if it's terrible and so Mike and I have

738
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: some pretty bad dances out there. It's my fault, but

739
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: I feel like it it makes it more fun because

740
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 1: it's it kind of like makes you laugh at yourself

741
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: a little bit because it's just so bad. I like

742
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 1: that that probably works for two single attractive men, like

743
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: a married couple. I don't know if that's too funny

744
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: or too engaging. I think y'all can do some good

745
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: stuff on that. We we've got some ideas too. We

746
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: just feel like we're just like production people or we're like,

747
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: oh my god, it will take us like four hours

748
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: to do it. TikTok and then we'll we'll argue about

749
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 1: it because like some because I'm so bad at acting

750
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: and he's so good and it takes me forever and

751
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: he could do it one tape. Wonder anyway, that sounds

752
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: like my nightmare. Well, hey, we got to talk about

753
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: his love life. We will, we will, but before we do. Here, Connor,

754
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: last time you're on, And if there's a sore subject,

755
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,239
Speaker 1: I still think it's worth talking about. You were creating

756
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: uh some gummies. Um I believe they were apple. They

757
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 1: were like vinegar apple cider vinegar gummies. Right, yeah, yeah,

758
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: so we had we had a sleep gummy. And is

759
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: that still going on? Or is that has that been?

760
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,839
Speaker 1: That's that's an interesting one. I actually uh so I

761
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 1: was pumped to start that, put so much time and

762
00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,240
Speaker 1: energy into it, and then Covid started and it was like, oh,

763
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: this is the worst time to launch a business. It

764
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: ended up being like somewhat of a good time, I

765
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:23,400
Speaker 1: guess because online products and sales and well and stuff

766
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,919
Speaker 1: did really well, and so it did start to do well.

767
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: I think I just reached the point where I was like,

768
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: I didn't really think through this before I started it.

769
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: If I was actually like really interested in doing this,

770
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: kind of just hit it, and um, I it was

771
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: December of I was like, what do I want to

772
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: do next? And I honestly wasn't sure what that business.

773
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 1: But it ended up being perfect timing because some people

774
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: reached out and actually wanted to buy it from me.

775
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: So I ended up selling that business in December. And

776
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: that's kind of when this whole water boy thing started it.

777
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 1: And um, you know, I was kind of trying to

778
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: think of like the next chapter in my life of

779
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do, and the hydration stuff was

780
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: actually the other thing I was considering of starting when

781
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,280
Speaker 1: I started the gummy Thingum it was just the gummies

782
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 1: were easier to make at the time. So um it's

783
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting how it's come full circle. But yeah,

784
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:26,399
Speaker 1: I wonder I can not take Apple's shot. So those

785
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: gummies are Yeah, I've tried the goalies. Yeah, yeah, they're

786
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: not bad. It's not bad. Well, obviously actually has some

787
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: questions for you about your love life. And then every

788
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: time we end and in depth actually want to prep you.

789
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,280
Speaker 1: Now get your questions together. We're gonna do a rapid

790
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 1: fire around. So one more, two more questions here and

791
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: then rapid fire, We'll get you out of here. Connor, perfect,

792
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: All right, Well, there are rumors that you're dating someone

793
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: named Jenna Palack. She has um a pretty good social

794
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: media following. She also lives in Texas. The spell it

795
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: Jenna Jay okay, Um, can you could infirm or deny

796
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:16,280
Speaker 1: any um any relationship there? Um? You know, I will

797
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 1: say I am off the market currently. I think that's

798
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: that's kind of all I can give you at the moment.

799
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: Not not that I'm trying to hide anything. I just

800
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: kind of like, and y'all can probably relate to this.

801
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: It's nice to have like a little bit of privacy,

802
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,760
Speaker 1: uh for for a bit on some of that stuff.

803
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: And so I think it's it's not trying to hide anything.

804
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: I just there's like certain things it's kind of nice

805
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: to like, at least for now. Keep that to myself.

806
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: But I will sig him off the market at the

807
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:48,479
Speaker 1: moment um and just just very happy spending time with somebody. Well,

808
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:52,359
Speaker 1: Jess and I kept quiet for probably five or six months,

809
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: and it was the best five or six months. At

810
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 1: some point people are like, you know, you need to

811
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: come out and tell people and I'm like, why it

812
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: doesn't It doesn't you know, it adds a whole new

813
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 1: level pressure. Well, if it's not with Jenna, this conversation

814
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: just got really weird for whoever is with Um. Okay, well,

815
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: I guess I won't pry anymore. Um, Yeah, okay, fine,

816
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: I want I won't pry anymore. But you're happy and

817
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:22,879
Speaker 1: you're dating someone and that person lives in Texas. Yes,

818
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to pry anymore, but I probably

819
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:40,280
Speaker 1: trying without pride. Okay, fine, Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, okay, Um,

820
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: And now should we do rapid Fire? Ben, do you

821
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 1: have a question before we go around? No, before we do.

822
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,320
Speaker 1: This is how we'll send it off. Connor, thanks for

823
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: joining us today. Thanks for doing this in depth. It's

824
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,280
Speaker 1: great to learn more about you. Um. All jokes aside,

825
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,479
Speaker 1: We were very happy that you're happy. Best of luck

826
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: with water Boy and to the new things coming out.

827
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: But this is where I pass it off to Ashley

828
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: for rapid Fire, So Ashley take it away. All right?

829
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: These are all fun questions, Alright, it favorite favorite bachelorette

830
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: memory that didn't make air? Um, probably hanging out with

831
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: hanging out in the kitchen, with John Paul Jones late

832
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 1: at night and him talking about his greatest fear. I

833
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: can only imagine. Honestly, I've told this story so many times,

834
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 1: but I just forgot what his greatest fear was. Oh

835
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: my gosh, I have to ask him. Yeah, you'll have

836
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 1: to ask him. Okay, Um, who's your celebrity crush on? Oh,

837
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 1: that's a good one. That's a very good one. What's

838
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 1: your favorite movie? Um, you name a few I love.

839
00:44:57,800 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: I feel like this isn't a good one. I might

840
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: get after this, but I love like National Treasure. That's hilarious.

841
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: I never saw it. I feel like people always laugh

842
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 1: at Nick Nick Cage, but I you know, I love those.

843
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: I love Treasure. What's your favorite chain restaurant? Um. I

844
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:22,439
Speaker 1: used to be a big Taco Bell guy. Great one

845
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: used to be. You know, I'm trying the whole gluten

846
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 1: and dairy free thing, so it's not very conducive, certainly not. Okay, Um,

847
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: what's your f food pizza? Do you do the dairy

848
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: free and gluten free food? I do? I do? Um?

849
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: And what is your um m hmm. What's your best

850
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: memory from the past year. Um? In the past year, honestly,

851
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: I think, I think just like living think with Mike

852
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: was a really cool experience. Um, just like the whole

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Speaker 1: the whole year. I think I learned a lot about myself.

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Speaker 1: He did too. He did a lot of cool stuff.

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Speaker 1: I actually one of the more fun things as we

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Speaker 1: went to uh to Loom for a weekend with another friend,

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Speaker 1: and that was that was just like a really good time.

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Speaker 1: And I felt like it was cool for both of

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Speaker 1: us to maybe branch out of like the business, everyday

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Speaker 1: life of living in Austin, like going a fun little

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Speaker 1: adventure a tving around Mexico. Um. So that that was fun.

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Speaker 1: It was a good time. Okay, So what was the

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Speaker 1: worst part of Mike being your roommate? So, Mike, Mike

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Speaker 1: is like a He's like a natural alarm clock. Every

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Speaker 1: morning when he wakes up, he yells as loud as

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Speaker 1: he can. He does like the whoa he does that thing.

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Speaker 1: I could hear him. Our rooms were on like very

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Speaker 1: separate ends of this apartment we lived in. I could

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Speaker 1: hear him like he was right next to my ears.

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Speaker 1: It was so loud. So whether I wanted to wake

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Speaker 1: up or not, it was like the same time every

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Speaker 1: day he wakes up jumps in a cold bath, yells

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Speaker 1: WHOA punches the wall three times and gets his butt

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Speaker 1: outside that Basically, Basically, I will say one thing I

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Speaker 1: love about Mike, and this is a great memory that

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Speaker 1: I have. I bought these like affirmations on Amazon that

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Speaker 1: I like. They were like wall decals. Um. I was

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Speaker 1: told I'm like one of those live laugh love girls.

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Speaker 1: I have like signs all over. But I put this

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Speaker 1: up right next to our door and it was five

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Speaker 1: different affirmations, and whenever we would invite someone over to

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Speaker 1: our house, we would make them yell the affirmations and

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Speaker 1: it was like it was like you were in like

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Speaker 1: the huddle of a football game or something. We would

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Speaker 1: just like hype each other up and yell him every

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Speaker 1: morning sometimes like get amped up. There's a funny Instagram

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Speaker 1: post on Mike's Instagram. Actually we like took a video

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Speaker 1: of us making this one of our friends do it,

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Speaker 1: and it was I just like loved love doing that

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Speaker 1: because it just brings so much good energy. Wow. This

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Speaker 1: this feels like a very very energetic house. Um trying

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Speaker 1: to make it. That's your right, hey, Connor follower lead here. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna understand in a second, just repeat after us,

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