Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome back to batter Happy Hour.
Speaker 2: I'm Joe and we are here with a fan favorite
Speaker 2: herself from Joey's season.
Speaker 1: Maria is on the podcast today.
Speaker 3: Are you drinking Caesar?
Speaker 4: I am a good eye.
Speaker 5: I think it's a freaking bloody Mary. It's so much
Speaker 5: better than a bloody Mary.
Speaker 2: Okay, So for our listeners, I am currently the only
Speaker 2: American on this podcast. We have two Canadians and they
Speaker 2: don't drink bloody Mary's in Canada. They drink Caesar's. And
Speaker 2: the different is clamato juice or tomato juice.
Speaker 3: Good job, Joey, good job.
Speaker 2: I Actually, I will say I like most things American,
Speaker 2: but I do agree that the bloody Mary in Canada
Speaker 2: is better.
Speaker 4: But yes, I respect it, thank you.
Speaker 1: Caesar is better because it's spicier.
Speaker 6: Its icier, it's more flavorful. Like bloody Mary's are hit
Speaker 6: a mess if it's not properly seasoned. The bloody Mary
Speaker 6: is like genuinely gross. It's like watery tomato juice.
Speaker 4: I can't drink it. The tomato juice. I just can't
Speaker 4: do it. I just can't.
Speaker 5: But I respect clemodo juice is the way to go.
Speaker 5: But anyways, I am having one as we speak. I
Speaker 5: had one on the show and everyone was like, is
Speaker 5: she drinking a bloody Mary? And I was like, guys,
Speaker 5: put some respect on Caesar's because we were in Jasper
Speaker 5: And I was like, oh yeah, like ten of them.
Speaker 3: Oh the bad the time? Yeah, so good, so good,
Speaker 3: my favorite. How are you, Maria? Where are you right now?
Speaker 4: I'm good. I am at home. I'm in Woodbridge right now.
Speaker 3: So do you live full time in like an apartment
Speaker 3: in Woodbridge?
Speaker 4: It's a house, but yes, I do.
Speaker 3: Nice. What made you decide? I feel like that's so?
Speaker 3: How far is it rare from like market, like an hour?
Speaker 2: Like what do I?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like an hour? Probably you're like Kleinberg bolt in.
Speaker 4: Area right waiting in Plinberg.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, it's like an hour. And then you're
Speaker 3: what like an hour from the city.
Speaker 5: Half an hour depending on how fast you drive, but yeah,
Speaker 5: I would say forty five minutes tops.
Speaker 6: What made you decide to base yourself in Woodbridge versus
Speaker 6: like downtown Toronto.
Speaker 5: Well, I lived in Toronto for a little bit and
Speaker 5: it just wasn't for me. I mean, I'm not like,
Speaker 5: I don't know, I like being close to the family
Speaker 5: and my friends were all here, and if I ever
Speaker 5: want to go to the city, it's literally half an
Speaker 5: hour forty five minutes away. I was.
Speaker 4: It was just like a quick car ride. So I
Speaker 4: was like, I'd rather be home.
Speaker 5: And then my dad and I invested in this house,
Speaker 5: and it was just it all makes sense to just
Speaker 5: be here. But yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, if you're you were just you were just in
Speaker 1: New York. We saw you.
Speaker 4: Oh, I was I there you are? Yeah? Yeah, yeah?
Speaker 1: Did you just come in for the weekend.
Speaker 5: I was with the sisters in Philly and we were
Speaker 5: planning on doing like one night in New York, and
Speaker 5: then I spoke to Jason's manager and he was like
Speaker 5: telling me about the party that they're throwing, and so
Speaker 5: I wanted to come support Jason, and yeah, that's what
Speaker 5: I that's what.
Speaker 4: I supported the shit out of him that night and
Speaker 4: I had way too much fun.
Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, you are not dating Jason, that's not
Speaker 2: a thing.
Speaker 5: No. But I mean I've seen all over the internet
Speaker 5: you can't even post a photo like innocently with anyone anymore.
Speaker 5: I didn't know that that was the case. I really
Speaker 5: truly didn't.
Speaker 3: How are people speculating that you and Jason were dating.
Speaker 4: More than me and Jason. But yeah, what.
Speaker 2: Do you What do you drink?
Speaker 1: What's your drink? A choice?
Speaker 5: Oh wow, Well, to make it easy, I'll do like
Speaker 5: vodka cran or I'll do a tequila soda like that's just.
Speaker 4: An easy quick drink.
Speaker 5: I don't And then sometimes I'll do like well, if
Speaker 5: whenever I can get it, I'll do a Caesar or
Speaker 5: if we're just all just hanging out, I like a beer.
Speaker 4: I'll have a beer.
Speaker 3: What kind of beer?
Speaker 5: I like?
Speaker 4: But corona hits different when you're on a beach.
Speaker 5: But so I don't usually do beer, but when I'm
Speaker 5: at airport like bars, I do beer all the time.
Speaker 2: When I have a sip of book, like, I don't
Speaker 2: really drink corona. But if I do it, what do
Speaker 2: you drink beer? It takes me to uh, back to Maxwell.
Speaker 2: I like Peroni? Hum Peroni?
Speaker 6: You never had an Italian beer? I don't know what
Speaker 6: would it be similar to.
Speaker 3: I would say it's like a light beer.
Speaker 1: It's like a it's similar to like a stella.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Like part of it.
Speaker 1: Till you know what I like.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 2: I won't drink a lot of them, but I I
Speaker 2: like Guinness.
Speaker 6: Actually, I'm never in three years of being with you
Speaker 6: seen you drink a Guinness, So I don't know if
Speaker 6: that's true.
Speaker 2: I actually drink them. I actually drink them when I
Speaker 2: go to when I go out.
Speaker 3: Do you know the Guinness tests.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So it's like if you get a Guinness and
Speaker 6: they serve with you in a Guinness glass, it says
Speaker 6: Guinness on it, and the challenge is like you and
Speaker 6: another person and like do a chug and try to
Speaker 6: land the line like in the very middle.
Speaker 3: It's either the middle or the bottom.
Speaker 4: To day, I wish she told me this. I would
Speaker 4: have loved to do that, I know. And then whoever
Speaker 4: drink it's.
Speaker 6: All it's three pm on a Tuesday in coffee.
Speaker 4: I thought that's the point, and.
Speaker 3: I knew you were drinking.
Speaker 6: I would have made myself a drink. Well, maybe next
Speaker 6: time we'll bring you back.
Speaker 2: All right, let's bring this let's let's uh, let's bring
Speaker 2: this thing back to the beginning.
Speaker 1: Okay, So how did you get on?
Speaker 6: Oh wait, can I ask a question before we get
Speaker 6: into this as So, before you go on the Bachler,
Speaker 6: what is your dating history?
Speaker 4: I was very open and ready for this experiment.
Speaker 6: But like, had you had serious boyfriends casual boyfriends?
Speaker 5: No? I hadn't dated someone seriously in a long time.
Speaker 5: I had like situationship going, like but it wasn't working out,
Speaker 5: you know, stuff like that. But as for like boyfriend
Speaker 5: and girlfriend, no, not in a long time. And that's
Speaker 5: where I was struggling. And I was like, Okay, what
Speaker 5: else can I do at this point? Okay, right, let's
Speaker 5: go on the Bachelor.
Speaker 3: So you're living in what bridge, you're working? What did
Speaker 3: you do?
Speaker 5: I'm an assistant. Well, I work with my dad's company.
Speaker 5: Like it's like a family owned business. My brothers are
Speaker 5: in there, my uncle's in there, Like it's.
Speaker 4: Just a yeah, what is it?
Speaker 1: What kind of business?
Speaker 4: He it's a sprinkle company. No.
Speaker 6: Every time I say, is it cupcake sprinkles or lawn sprinkles?
Speaker 3: Like sprinklers?
Speaker 4: So no, No, that's the thing.
Speaker 5: Every time I say they're like sprinklers, like like the water,
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, guys, sprinkles like the shapes and sugars
Speaker 5: that you see on like baked goods and like all
Speaker 5: that stuff. So we're a supplier and we make it
Speaker 5: in our factory and stuff like that. And yeah, I
Speaker 5: don't know why people always say it's sprinklers, but it's not.
Speaker 4: It's a candy company.
Speaker 5: My dad used to own a chocolate factory and before
Speaker 5: this with his grandfather, with my grandfather, sorry, with his dad,
Speaker 5: and so we've always been in candy.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, that's so fun, Like what have fun
Speaker 6: industry for your family to be working in?
Speaker 3: Say that sprinklers?
Speaker 4: Know every I'm not kidding.
Speaker 5: Every time I'm like, my dad owns a sprinkle company,
Speaker 5: He's like, they're like sprinklers.
Speaker 4: I'm like, no, spring, Am I saying it weird?
Speaker 3: No, you're not. I think just people.
Speaker 2: So when I get an ice cream cone, someone's gonna
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: Well, would I get it?
Speaker 4: It would be my dad's Yes, they.
Speaker 1: Could be your dad. So when I get an ice
Speaker 1: cream cone, I get sprinkles, that could be your dad.
Speaker 4: Yes, because he worked, Yes, yes, yes, wow.
Speaker 6: So next time I get an ice cream cone, I'm
Speaker 6: gonna post it and I'm gonna say sprinkles by at Maria.
Speaker 4: Why not? You never know? You never know?
Speaker 3: Okay, I have to ask ask me.
Speaker 6: I heard a rumor that you were dating at one
Speaker 6: point one of Drake's best friends.
Speaker 4: Oh Lord, have mercy on me.
Speaker 3: False now comment.
Speaker 5: No, I don't mind talking like we're we're cool. So
Speaker 5: I actually have no problem talking about this. You know,
Speaker 5: he owned a restaurant with Drake in Toronto, So Drake
Speaker 5: in Toronto is a big thing, obviously, but it's not as.
Speaker 6: Like, no, I know being from Toronto. It's like everyone
Speaker 6: it's like two people away from being connected to Drake. Yeah,
Speaker 6: like it's like he's very accessible, not accessible, but you know,
Speaker 6: I know what you're saying, but.
Speaker 5: It's it's just not as crazy to think that, like
Speaker 5: there's ties to Drake in Toronto.
Speaker 6: You don't similar to like Shawn Mendes or like Justin Bieber.
Speaker 6: It's like everyone knows someone who like played hockey with
Speaker 6: Justin Bieber when he was a kid, or like went
Speaker 6: to school like dated friends of Shawn Mendes.
Speaker 4: Right exactly.
Speaker 3: So just a local celeb but still cool.
Speaker 5: He's Oh my god, Drake is the most amazing person.
Speaker 5: He's so kind, so sweet, and yeah, so my ex
Speaker 5: boyfriend did have a restaurant with Drake, and so that's
Speaker 5: where that tie came in. And yeah, I got to
Speaker 5: meet him and know him through my ex and it's because, yeah,
Speaker 5: they were running a restaurant together.
Speaker 4: It was a very popular restaurant at the time.
Speaker 3: What was the restaurant?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, why am I blanking on the restaurant?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Rings Springs, Springs Springs.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, right now, sorry, what's the name Franks?
Speaker 5: Because now my friend, my other friend owns the the
Speaker 5: new it's called Marble Now and.
Speaker 3: He oh okay, so we went on King West.
Speaker 5: Yes, my friend Peter actually worked with Caitlin Bristow and we.
Speaker 3: Were at that event. Okay, we met Peter.
Speaker 5: Peter's Peter's literally the best and he owns Marble now
Speaker 5: but before it could be friends, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: And then he owns the club's right there?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Is there a club right there?
Speaker 4: And Mademoiselle ye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so okay, so how did you get
Speaker 2: on The Bachelor?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I I, well, yeah, funny, sorry, but like
Speaker 5: I always wanted to be on The Bachelor.
Speaker 4: I love the show so much. I watched it all
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 5: And so I've had a couple of producers reach out
Speaker 5: and then so the producer that I still kept in
Speaker 5: contact with as soon as I found out, like Joey
Speaker 5: was going to be the next Bachelor. I was like,
Speaker 5: please throw my my name, my name in the mix.
Speaker 5: I was like, I need to be in on this.
Speaker 5: And then yeah, it was. I had all the interviews
Speaker 5: like right, like one after another after another. I was
Speaker 5: I was a late addition, to be honest, because I
Speaker 5: remember it was August twenty seventh, that's my birthday, and
Speaker 5: I was in LA and I had reached out. I'm like,
Speaker 5: put my name in the mix. The next day I
Speaker 5: had my interview.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, you were a late edition.
Speaker 2: Nah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I truly I was.
Speaker 5: And I think it was because they kind of got
Speaker 5: to know me a little bit from the last year
Speaker 5: and they were like, okay, let's let's put her in.
Speaker 4: But I don't know, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5: It was intense because it was like one thing after
Speaker 5: another after another after another, and it was moving very quickly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy, because I was.
Speaker 6: I heard I applied on July twenty fifth, I think
Speaker 6: it was, and I heard back on July twenty seventh,
Speaker 6: and I remember that being a whirlwind because that was
Speaker 6: like two months before filming, So I can't even imagine,
Speaker 6: like you literally probably left like two weeks later.
Speaker 4: Oh honey, two weeks. I wish, I wish I had
Speaker 4: three days to pack. Three days.
Speaker 5: I didn't really know if I was going to be on.
Speaker 5: I wasn't getting like one hundred percent yes. I was
Speaker 5: always in the dark, and I was just waiting to
Speaker 5: get that yes so I can tell my dad. I
Speaker 5: was like, Okay, I need to like sit down and
Speaker 5: have a conversation with my family because I'm giving things
Speaker 5: very very hush hush, and until I got like I
Speaker 5: went through an extensive process, like you know, everyone knows,
Speaker 5: and so I was just waiting for that confirmation so
Speaker 5: I could sit and have a conversation with my family.
Speaker 4: But it was three days before I knew I was
Speaker 4: gonna be picking up and leaving.
Speaker 6: That's crazy. Yeah, I had such a quick turn around.
Speaker 6: And the packing is so strenuous. I can't even imagine,
Speaker 6: because you guys are traveling, so you're packing for like
Speaker 6: every season under the Sun.
Speaker 5: I was so grateful that people liked how I dressed
Speaker 5: on the show, because I had no time. I would
Speaker 5: have ordered way more things. I would have I would
Speaker 5: tried on things and like seen what worked, wouldn't. But
Speaker 5: that's why I'm grateful, you know what, maybe it was
Speaker 5: better to have little time, so I had less time
Speaker 5: to think about it and just do it and just
Speaker 5: kill it whatever.
Speaker 4: But uh yeah, I three days.
Speaker 6: You did have some like iconic style moments, though, Did
Speaker 6: you have something like a favorite outfit that you wore
Speaker 6: that you're like, oh, I felt so good that well
Speaker 6: Night one, I.
Speaker 5: Mean that dressed to me was one of my favorite
Speaker 5: dresses of all time. I just never knew when and
Speaker 5: where I could ever wear that, and it was hit
Speaker 5: or miss, like I had like a bunch of people
Speaker 5: tell me they loved it, but then so many people
Speaker 5: tell me that it was the ugly, ugliest dress in
Speaker 5: bachelor history. So I was like, oof, but that was
Speaker 5: one of my favorite dresses. It was a little risque,
Speaker 5: but I loved it.
Speaker 3: I thought it was vintage designer right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was amable and I and I love her
Speaker 5: vintage stuff, so for me, that was like the perfect
Speaker 5: excuse to wear it.
Speaker 4: And then that's why I was like, like some people
Speaker 4: loved it and some people were like, oh no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: never again.
Speaker 3: So uh no, I loved it. I thought it was great.
Speaker 4: I thought it was like I said such nice things
Speaker 4: about Night One, Thank you.
Speaker 5: I I heard the podcast and and honestly, yeah, that
Speaker 5: thank you for.
Speaker 2: Saying that, of course, going being being someone that liked
Speaker 2: the show prior to going on it, Yeah, was your
Speaker 2: experience what you expected?
Speaker 4: Hmm, good question.
Speaker 5: I mean I just my thought process going into the
Speaker 5: whole thing was just make it past Night one.
Speaker 4: Like I did, didn't have an endgame.
Speaker 5: I didn't have a like perfect vision of what my
Speaker 5: time on the show would be.
Speaker 4: Like you know, I had.
Speaker 5: Someone in the past tell me that like, oh, I
Speaker 5: feel like he's been on the show before. And I
Speaker 5: remember he was like, you're going to be the villain.
Speaker 5: And I remember being like, why, why the hell am
Speaker 5: I going to be the villain?
Speaker 4: Like what would I do? And he's like, it's not
Speaker 4: going to be your fault.
Speaker 5: But I just have a feeling if you were ever
Speaker 5: to be on the show, like this is how your
Speaker 5: time would be. And I remember going against that, and
Speaker 5: I just remember just being like, I just want to
Speaker 5: get past Night one.
Speaker 3: Wait who said that?
Speaker 4: See my mind my mouth just just like a like a.
Speaker 1: Past contestant, undisclosed past.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Actually it's not who you guys are thinking too.
Speaker 5: I just like, yeah, no, just an old friend, uh, yeah,
Speaker 5: and I was. I just remember just being like, I
Speaker 5: just want to make it past night one, like I
Speaker 5: you know, but I to say that I had like
Speaker 5: a idea of how things were gonna go, or like
Speaker 5: feeling confident.
Speaker 4: No, I thought I was gonna go home night one.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 4: I was one of the last.
Speaker 5: Roses that night, and I just remember being like, oh
Speaker 5: that's it.
Speaker 4: I'm gone. I'm a goner.
Speaker 6: But yeah, the Rose order will mess with your head too,
Speaker 6: especially later.
Speaker 3: On not as much, but like early on, like that
Speaker 3: first night.
Speaker 6: I remember I was like like I think I was
Speaker 6: like Rose eight and I was like you're just waiting
Speaker 6: and you're like, yeah, what, Like, oh my god, it's going.
Speaker 3: It's going.
Speaker 6: And like you see the people get like the first
Speaker 6: Rose or two and you're like, damn it, like he's
Speaker 6: in love with them.
Speaker 3: It's over.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, I And I remember the you know what's so
Speaker 5: funny like watching it back, they're so like the way
Speaker 5: that they recorded it was so funny. You see me
Speaker 5: like trying to like it looks like I'm like looking
Speaker 5: at joy to be like you know, and he like,
Speaker 5: look it is the way it looks.
Speaker 4: But I don't.
Speaker 5: It didn't actually happen this way, but where he's like
Speaker 5: looking at me and then he goes daisy like that
Speaker 5: happened like.
Speaker 4: Ten times Night one. I was dying of laughter. I'm like,
Speaker 4: no way literally looked. I was like, and he was
Speaker 4: like looking at me and then he would turn and
Speaker 4: go kelsey a Like I was like, why are they
Speaker 4: doing that to me? I look like such an idiot
Speaker 4: right now?
Speaker 5: But but yeah, no, Night one's so nerve racking, like
Speaker 5: you just never know, you just never know.
Speaker 4: It's almost a good first impression, and that's where I'm like,
Speaker 4: I feel like I had in the bag. But then
Speaker 4: when you get to the rosamer and your ceremony, you're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: you have nothing. You don't know what the hell you're doing. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, I think Night one's hard too, because no one
Speaker 6: thinks that they're gonna be going home unless maybe they
Speaker 6: didn't get the chance to talk to him. But like,
Speaker 6: I feel like anyone that talks to the lead is
Speaker 6: like I feel good, but you just someone's gotta go.
Speaker 4: Well with my conversation. I didn't really feel that that good.
Speaker 3: I'm really why not.
Speaker 5: I mean, we were going against each other with movies
Speaker 5: and stuff like that. And I didn't know the movie
Speaker 5: that he mentioned, and I didn't know if that was
Speaker 5: going to be like a like a.
Speaker 4: Make or break moment for him.
Speaker 5: He was like, this bitch doesn't know what remember the
Speaker 5: Titans is Center as Packing, So like.
Speaker 3: The was that's the movie?
Speaker 4: No guy, listen?
Speaker 3: So I never seen it either, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 4: And I try. I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 1: I want you don't like the movie.
Speaker 5: You don't like I watched the movie after and it
Speaker 5: just it wouldn't be on my movie list, and my
Speaker 5: movie list is so important.
Speaker 4: To me, and like it just wouldn't be on my
Speaker 4: movie list. But I was a movie you said, well
Speaker 4: I gave okay, so this would happened.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to go in there being like I
Speaker 5: want to like open up to you with my feelings
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 4: I want to tell you my family and whatever.
Speaker 5: I was like, I actually know if Geminis are really assholes,
Speaker 5: and I want to know, like what your favorite movie is,
Speaker 5: Like I want to like shoot the shit with you
Speaker 5: the way I would normally do with a guy at
Speaker 5: a bar, like that's who I am. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 5: give me your top three movie list, do you guys
Speaker 5: want to hear his top three? Yeah, Tarzam the fucking
Speaker 5: the Cars, and I love, like, like Phil Collins the
Speaker 5: song in that movie, like that is like to this day, to.
Speaker 4: This day is amazing. So okay, fine, I let him
Speaker 4: have it. Inception. I let him have it. I like Inception.
Speaker 4: It's not my movie list, but I like the movie.
Speaker 5: And then he goes remember the Titans, and I remember
Speaker 5: going like humph, and he was like, okay, give.
Speaker 4: Me you're freaking top three. And then I said, what
Speaker 4: did I say?
Speaker 5: I think I said, what the fuck did I say?
Speaker 4: See?
Speaker 5: I want to tell you guys the truth because I
Speaker 5: don't want to line just named three top movies now,
Speaker 5: But I said, uh, the wedding singer. I said, Happy
Speaker 5: Gilmore and then I said Goodwill Hunting. And then he
Speaker 5: was like, oh, can you name anyone else other than
Speaker 5: Adam Sandler movies?
Speaker 4: I'm like I just did.
Speaker 5: But like you're like like going back and forth and like,
Speaker 5: how do you know remember the Titans? I'm like, well,
Speaker 5: how are you not gonna appreciate the wedding singer? Like
Speaker 5: are you crazy? So we were like, you know, bantering
Speaker 5: back and forth.
Speaker 2: But then in my head.
Speaker 4: I was like, wait, was it banter or is he
Speaker 4: actually mad?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: And then so I was like waiting at the Rose,
Speaker 5: I'm like, Oh, this fucker is gonna kick me off,
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna go watch this movie and fucking jump
Speaker 5: off a cliff.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it ended up working out. We
Speaker 4: laughed about it.
Speaker 5: But to be honest, my movie list is top tier,
Speaker 5: and and I realized something like moving into maybe a relationship,
Speaker 5: like I need a guy to love and appreciate the
Speaker 5: movies that I love and that's so telling to me.
Speaker 4: And yeah, but.
Speaker 2: When we go top three movies, are you going and
Speaker 2: you're going, You're not. These aren't the best movies you've
Speaker 2: ever seen. They're just your favorite correct.
Speaker 4: There's no order. I can't.
Speaker 5: I don't think I could ever like break it down
Speaker 5: to like three of my like top top top.
Speaker 4: But my movie list is what's yours?
Speaker 6: Noah, tell me, tell me, Oh gosh, that's so hard.
Speaker 1: I'll go. I'll go first. All right, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say Ocean's eleven Love It's on my list.
Speaker 1: Ratituey, we paid, It's not a bad movie.
Speaker 4: Would have would I put it on my list.
Speaker 7: No, and then honestly, elf, oh I love el Okay three.
Speaker 1: No, I don't want hear alf Home alone.
Speaker 3: It is complicated. You love comfortable?
Speaker 4: Really, I was gonna watch that recently. I was like, Godfather,
Speaker 4: Oh the Godfather? Are you crazy?
Speaker 1: No, it's hard, it's hard, this is hard. This is hard.
Speaker 6: Okay, But I feel like you don't need to have
Speaker 6: the same movie list as the person you're dying, because
Speaker 6: like part of the fun is like then showing them
Speaker 6: your favorite movies.
Speaker 4: No, not the.
Speaker 5: Same movie list. I never said anything but the same
Speaker 5: movie list. I would feel like that's crazy. But I
Speaker 5: would like a guy to appreciate and be like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I want to watch the movies that I love, like
Speaker 5: that's so important to me.
Speaker 4: But also like having the same interest because I love
Speaker 4: quoting movies.
Speaker 5: I love like saying lines from things and that that
Speaker 5: was actually one thing Joey and I had in comment,
Speaker 5: like he would say something funny for a movie.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, like we would get it. But wait,
Speaker 4: what's your top three?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: What I had to talk about this, But I'm actually curious, like.
Speaker 6: This is Google hunting is in there? Google hunting? What's
Speaker 6: the one movie with Alison Brien Jason. I can never
Speaker 6: remember that.
Speaker 3: The sleeping with other people. I love sleeping with other
Speaker 3: people Jason and hmmm, I do love inception.
Speaker 1: Inception is good, but I don't know if it's in
Speaker 1: the top.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Oh gosh, I don't know. I have
Speaker 3: to think.
Speaker 6: We watch a lot of movies, Like, I've seen a
Speaker 6: lot of movies, So to put me on the spot
Speaker 6: for three is so hard.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 4: It is hard.
Speaker 5: And that's where I was like, Okay, I'm gonna give
Speaker 5: him grace in this moment, but I I hate I
Speaker 5: almost got mad at myself for like not knowing.
Speaker 3: You know what, I do love step brothers.
Speaker 1: I might put that the Hangover. I mean the Hangover?
Speaker 4: Ye are you kidding me?
Speaker 5: Sorry, that's a good classic, Like who knows, CAUNTI shot
Speaker 5: the best.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk. When did you know during the season
Speaker 1: that Joey was into you?
Speaker 4: Oh? Was there?
Speaker 3: Was there a moment must have at some point when
Speaker 3: like all right, like this guy.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, you had to know, like you're most like
Speaker 2: like yeah, like was there ever? Was there any point
Speaker 2: where you're like, I'm at least gonna be top eight.
Speaker 5: Okay I want to say, I want to say earlier on.
Speaker 4: Like maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, well let me ask you this.
Speaker 2: Then, when you went one on one with Sydney, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: did you go into that confident thinking that he was
Speaker 2: going to choose you over her?
Speaker 4: I'll say this.
Speaker 5: Did I go into it confident that he wasn't gonna
Speaker 5: send me home?
Speaker 4: Yes? Did I think he might keep her too? And
Speaker 4: like like.
Speaker 5: Weirdly like this two and ones did nothing for him,
Speaker 5: He's just gonna keep us both.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a possibility. In my head.
Speaker 5: I was like, I don't know what she's gonna say
Speaker 5: to him, what she's gonna do. Like in my head,
Speaker 5: I'm like, maybe he might just be like, you know what,
Speaker 5: I'm still keeping them both.
Speaker 4: I don't know. But did I say I was gonna
Speaker 4: go home in my head? No? But was I still worried? Obviously?
Speaker 4: But like, I mean, who else was he gonna dance
Speaker 4: to Aba Mariya two?
Speaker 5: Imagine Sydney one and then they're saying there dancing there
Speaker 5: to Aba Muddy?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That actually would have been funny though, I would have
Speaker 1: actually been the right move.
Speaker 5: But you can never be too confident obviously going into it,
Speaker 5: Like I said to myself, like, I know who I am.
Speaker 4: I have nothing to worry about. I didn't go in
Speaker 4: there wanting.
Speaker 5: To even talk about Sydney and like, and I made
Speaker 5: that very clear to him. I was like, I'm here
Speaker 5: to further what you and I have going on. And
Speaker 5: so I just knew that like if he was there
Speaker 5: for like, and I almost kind of went in there
Speaker 5: being like, this is gonna tell me a lot about
Speaker 5: Joey too, because if he's there entertaining this kind of BS,
Speaker 5: then like then he'll either a send me home or
Speaker 5: be keep us both. And so when he just like,
Speaker 5: you know, he got to the bottom of it and
Speaker 5: like in my mind, you know, trusted me and it
Speaker 5: did the right thing, then I felt very confident with
Speaker 5: him after that. But you can never be too confident.
Speaker 5: But did I go in there being like, oh, I'm
Speaker 5: a goner. No, Because at that point I feel like
Speaker 5: we had already like established something where you know.
Speaker 4: We're very attracted to each other, We're very like into
Speaker 4: each other.
Speaker 5: Not all conversations were shown, but like we had great
Speaker 5: conversations and like we're very interested in each other.
Speaker 4: So like to me, I was like.
Speaker 5: This would be such a waste if you're gonna believe
Speaker 5: something so whatever. But in my mind, I was like,
Speaker 5: there's no way, come on like Smyrn enough and then.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know on at that point in the season,
Speaker 6: you hadn't had your one on one yet, but you
Speaker 6: had had enough time with him to establish like if
Speaker 6: there was a connection there, and I think it's obvious
Speaker 6: that there was, so it'd be it would make sense
Speaker 6: for you to go and being like we have an
Speaker 6: established connection, like I know, we're into each other, so
Speaker 6: something would have to go seriously wrong for maybe living
Speaker 6: today one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: And that's why I like, even in my confessional, I
Speaker 5: was like, Sidney's weirdly confident, because not to say that
Speaker 5: I don't like, we don't always know what other people
Speaker 5: are like have going on with the with the lead
Speaker 5: and whatever, but from my experience and everyone knowing that,
Speaker 5: I had way more time with him than she had,
Speaker 5: so in my mind, I was like, you're really gonna
Speaker 5: now start focusing on like other things other than building
Speaker 5: your connection. That's what you should be feeling like you
Speaker 5: need to do most importantly. So when that wasn't the case,
Speaker 5: and that wasn't like what she wanted to do. I
Speaker 5: was like, yeah, you're doing yourself a disservice at this
Speaker 5: point because you've already fallen behind by default because you're
Speaker 5: you're not even getting any time with this guy. I
Speaker 5: already knew I had so much time with him where
Speaker 5: I was like, if he it's either he must say
Speaker 5: I'm like this, like I would. I would have been
Speaker 5: shocked by left, But now would I have been shocked
Speaker 5: if he kept her too?
Speaker 4: No, that's what I mean.
Speaker 3: So you have watched the show before, obviously before you
Speaker 3: went on you're a fan of the show. Were you
Speaker 3: on this too?
Speaker 6: And when like kind of shocked on how your journey
Speaker 6: as a contest on the show has unfolded, because I
Speaker 6: feel like no one ever expects that for themselves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like nobody ever, Nobody ever goes in in it
Speaker 2: thinking like I'm gonna be the one that's stuck, you.
Speaker 3: Know, on a two on one in drama with these
Speaker 3: other people.
Speaker 5: Well, what I can say is like, you know, usually Okay,
Speaker 5: Well here's the thing. I never watched the show thinking that,
Speaker 5: like it's a play by play of like how you
Speaker 5: need to act or do or like everything happens in
Speaker 5: the past from like each previous season, it's gonna happen
Speaker 5: on this seat, and like I didn't think of it
Speaker 5: like that. I was just like, oh shit, like the
Speaker 5: two on one, Yeah, I know, the two on one,
Speaker 5: Like this is where two people don't get along and
Speaker 5: usually they don't make it far because they're.
Speaker 4: Both problematic and it's gonna be a mess.
Speaker 5: So when it didn't turn out that way, and like
Speaker 5: I actually moved forward, and not only that, but like
Speaker 5: we built something way stronger than that one moment and
Speaker 5: it was like so good, Like my one on one
Speaker 5: was like.
Speaker 4: Crazy good, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: But I think it came into play when I started
Speaker 5: self sabotaging because in my head, I'm like, oh, like
Speaker 5: I was on a two on one, everyone said I
Speaker 5: was this, that and the other thing, Like I'm this,
Speaker 5: he has all these things, like all these things in
Speaker 5: the back of his head where I'm like, there's no
Speaker 5: way I'm going to make it to the end, Like
Speaker 5: I brew my my like script has been written for
Speaker 5: me before this, Like I can't, like, even how good
Speaker 5: it's been, I still think that, like because of my
Speaker 5: journey up until this point has been so like this
Speaker 5: that's going to take its toll on me one way
Speaker 5: or another, and so I started sabotaging and being like,
Speaker 5: oh I'm going home, Like I yes, it's a good
Speaker 5: moment that we've had, but like we had to remember
Speaker 5: where I came, like where everything like or remember things
Speaker 5: that has happened up into this moment, and it became
Speaker 5: overwhelming because in my head, I'm like shit, like he
Speaker 5: still might think in the back of his head that
Speaker 5: I can potentially be this kind of person that they're
Speaker 5: they kind of like made me up to be, and
Speaker 5: like I just it was a lot because I was
Speaker 5: still it was like one battle I would be and
Speaker 5: then it's like another battle. Then I had to overcome
Speaker 5: that battle, and it was like another thing. It was
Speaker 5: one thing after the other after the other, where I
Speaker 5: was like, Okay, it's my time, Yeah, say my goodbyes.
Speaker 6: Did you feel like like that self sabotaging came from
Speaker 6: you being like he's never fully gonna be able to
Speaker 6: look past everything we went through in the first half
Speaker 6: of this journey, So like, why am I going to
Speaker 6: open myself up and be vulnerable just when I feel
Speaker 6: like so confident I'm gonna end up getting hurt in
Speaker 6: the end when like you had had kind of more
Speaker 6: of an up and down journey than the rest of
Speaker 6: the girls in Final four.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, one hundred percent, that was what the big problem was,
Speaker 5: And I think people failed to realize that because they're
Speaker 5: watching each each episode as it is, right, and so
Speaker 5: they it's like last week's up the episode was like
Speaker 5: all the drama, but then next week's episode wasn't, and
Speaker 5: so they forget that I actually went through that and
Speaker 5: I was actually living that in the moment.
Speaker 4: So for me, it was a build up of like
Speaker 4: insecurities because.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I I've gone over one thing, Okay, here's another, Okay,
Speaker 5: here's another, and now we're at a good place. But
Speaker 5: now I'm like, how do you know he's truly over
Speaker 5: all those things? Like he still did question it enough
Speaker 5: to put me on a two on one, So I'm like,
Speaker 5: my chances here are ruined.
Speaker 4: Like we're hard.
Speaker 6: Sorry, I was gonna say it was it hard to
Speaker 6: not compare yourself to the other girls as well, being
Speaker 6: like they've had such a smooth, like no drama journey.
Speaker 5: Yes, one hundred percent, like you see them like like
Speaker 5: how can you how could you not? You know, like,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm proud of myself and I'm out of
Speaker 5: like our you know, whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 5: that we were able to overcome because in reality, in
Speaker 5: real life, that's what you kind of do with your partner.
Speaker 5: You kind of learned how to navigate through stuff like this,
Speaker 5: like your ups and downs. And it was nice that
Speaker 5: we got to like experience that and actually like get
Speaker 5: through it together. And trust is a big thing, and
Speaker 5: I felt like he trusted me. But at the same time, like, yeah,
Speaker 5: like while I was falling behind because of all the drama,
Speaker 5: everyone else was having the like the best time, like
Speaker 5: no drama free, like there was no issues. So it
Speaker 5: was like, Okay, where do I even stand in all
Speaker 5: of this? Like little moments, one or two moments that
Speaker 5: could be great, fine, but then there's still so many
Speaker 5: things that kind of ruined. Not I want to say ruined,
Speaker 5: because I think everything happens for a reason, But at
Speaker 5: the same time, it's still kind of.
Speaker 4: Took its toll on.
Speaker 5: Our relationship, and I think our relationship ran its course
Speaker 5: and we were kind of grasping it stru us to
Speaker 5: try to like make things work, and I think I
Speaker 5: saw that, he saw that, and I was always that's
Speaker 5: where you saw myself self sabotage in Jasper when I
Speaker 5: tried to leave, because I was like, oh, it won't
Speaker 5: even matter if I leave, because he's already built something
Speaker 5: so much better with other girls, where I'm like, I'll
Speaker 5: easily slip.
Speaker 4: Out, And that's how in my head it felt.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay.
Speaker 2: I think this right now is a perfect place to
Speaker 2: stop the podcast because we will be coming out with
Speaker 2: a part two very soon.
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Speaker 1: Bye. I