Latest / The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast / Special Episode Live From Las Vegas
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I almost Famous podcast
- 0:03Speaker 1: with IR Radio. Hello everybody, this is the almost Famous podcast.
- 0:08Speaker 1: I'm Ben and we have the new Bachelorette Becca. I
- 0:16Speaker 1: mean we're spoiled right now. We get her two weeks
- 0:18Speaker 1: in a row. I know, no stop now, I feel
- 0:22Speaker 1: very perfect. The best part about and I've I've tried
- 0:25Speaker 1: to watch Beck of the day. Um, she's just completely
- 0:28Speaker 1: untainted by press, so like she's still very happy and
- 0:31Speaker 1: like willing to do anything. So I'm glad we get
- 0:33Speaker 1: this at the beginning because I promise you and like
- 0:36Speaker 1: four months this would be like a huge ask of you,
- 0:39Speaker 1: So thank you for being here. Yeah, she's so excited
- 0:42Speaker 1: to do it. It's nice rush off the plane. So
- 0:45Speaker 1: I'm kind of look like, what am I going right now? Yeah? Well,
- 0:47Speaker 1: we we enjoy having you said this is your beyond
- 0:49Speaker 1: s moment? What do you mean by that? My ash
- 0:51Speaker 1: We'll have this mike set up in front of me
- 0:53Speaker 1: sitting with you guys. I'm like, I need some wind
- 0:55Speaker 1: blowing in my hair. I need a nice to beat
- 0:57Speaker 1: behind me and leotard. Maybe she's definitely loosing from she's
- 1:02Speaker 1: definitely it sounds like something as she would say. But
- 1:04Speaker 1: the funny part is actually has these like outrageous comments
- 1:07Speaker 1: like this is my Beyonce moment. I'm like, I don't
- 1:08Speaker 1: know what that means, and then she explains it. I'm like, yeah,
- 1:11Speaker 1: that makes sense. And unfortunately you can like Ashley is
- 1:14Speaker 1: known to trace everything back to like some pop culture
- 1:16Speaker 1: moment and she's great at it. And so when you
- 1:19Speaker 1: said Beyonce moment, like I was describing it, Yeah, yeah,
- 1:25Speaker 1: sitting around with our portable podcast equipment, Well, I mean
- 1:28Speaker 1: we are in this really cool sky sky Sky. We're
- 1:34Speaker 1: at the sky Sweets. Let's be correct here, We're in
- 1:36Speaker 1: the sky Sweets at the MGM. What are we doing
- 1:38Speaker 1: here right now? Like? Why are we at the MGM?
- 1:41Speaker 1: You explained that because it's really all about you. It's
- 1:43Speaker 1: really it's not even about this is really her month,
- 1:46Speaker 1: it's all about me. Um Okay. So the MGM just
- 1:49Speaker 1: opened us Bachelor uh slot machine, and it just happens
- 1:53Speaker 1: to have my face, Nick Fole's face, Shan Low and
- 1:56Speaker 1: Jake Pavelka, and so we're out here promoting that because
- 1:59Speaker 1: it's a really cool game. It's gonna be a lot
- 2:00Speaker 1: of fun, it's gonna make a lot of people a
- 2:01Speaker 1: lot of money, so make sure you come out and
- 2:03Speaker 1: play and had people lose a lot of money. Well,
- 2:05Speaker 1: either way, the MGM is gonna make money or the
- 2:08Speaker 1: people are gonna make money. And so we're out promoting that.
- 2:10Speaker 1: And we just thought what better way to do a
- 2:12Speaker 1: podcast than live and in person? Um, Becca, how are
- 2:15Speaker 1: you holding up? I'm doing great again? A little loopy
- 2:18Speaker 1: right now? You can a f right now, tann And
- 2:21Speaker 1: happy you looking great? Girl? Yeah? We just we just
- 2:25Speaker 1: got done talking about the fact that we both have
- 2:27Speaker 1: Bible versus tattooed on our bodies. Um, and so I
- 2:31Speaker 1: was sharing my store about my tattoo is where they
- 2:33Speaker 1: actually messed up and it was the wrong verse. It
- 2:35Speaker 1: says proverb sixteen thirty four when I got it done. Yeah,
- 2:39Speaker 1: and now that's why I have a cross after the
- 2:41Speaker 1: three because that used to be a four. So for
- 2:44Speaker 1: like four weeks of my life, I had a tattoo
- 2:46Speaker 1: that was incorrect on my body. And it just happens
- 2:49Speaker 1: to be a bio verse, Like it wasn't like the
- 2:51Speaker 1: no Regrets tattoo. Have you seen that? Remember, like across
- 2:56Speaker 1: the chest? Now, this is a Bible verse. I feel
- 2:58Speaker 1: like of tattoos get messed up. Um, So here's the story.
- 3:06Speaker 1: I went back home for Thanksgiving, my parents and I
- 3:08Speaker 1: got in a massive argument. Year. This was my freshman
- 3:12Speaker 1: year of college. So this has been two thousand eight. Yeah,
- 3:16Speaker 1: that's when. That's when I started college. So long story
- 3:20Speaker 1: short to not born anybody. We got. I got a
- 3:22Speaker 1: massive fight with my parents and I said, I'm gonna
- 3:24Speaker 1: do something that really makes them mad. So I left
- 3:26Speaker 1: my home and I drove down to Bloomington, and on
- 3:29Speaker 1: the way, I was so angry, and I was like,
- 3:30Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something crazy. I'm just gonna really rebel here.
- 3:33Speaker 1: It's like, I'm gonna get a Bible Verse tattoo. Yeah,
- 3:37Speaker 1: I want to show them. Yeah, that's not very tough,
- 3:44Speaker 1: now that I say that out loud. And so I
- 3:48Speaker 1: went down and I had some drinks because I knew
- 3:51Speaker 1: that I was going to be getting a tattoo for
- 3:52Speaker 1: the next couple of hours. Are you legal, Ben? Definitely not.
- 3:56Speaker 1: But that's okay, Ashley, because I'm a rebel. And so
- 4:00Speaker 1: I called him my buddies ask him to take me
- 4:01Speaker 1: to the tattoo parlor. We walk in and I'm just
- 4:04Speaker 1: laying there the whole time enjoying myself getting a tattoo. Yeah,
- 4:09Speaker 1: because I was just kind of like hanging out. I'm
- 4:12Speaker 1: just doing this, I'm just get it done. And I was,
- 4:14Speaker 1: you know, I was angry. And then about halfway through,
- 4:16Speaker 1: like three hours in, I realized that it might have
- 4:18Speaker 1: been a mistake. And I got back to my room
- 4:21Speaker 1: and I showed my buddy my tattoo and he's like, hey,
- 4:23Speaker 1: what Bible verse did you say? This was me? What
- 4:25Speaker 1: this was was like proverb sixteen three. It's like your
- 4:27Speaker 1: side says proverb si, And sure enough it did. So
- 4:33Speaker 1: now I have a cross on my side that covers
- 4:35Speaker 1: up the four So if you ever see me at
- 4:37Speaker 1: a pool shirtless, that cross is not meant to be there.
- 4:39Speaker 1: But I do believe in the cross, so it's all good.
- 4:41Speaker 1: It's a good Yeah. So it's a good touch. Yeah,
- 4:43Speaker 1: at least with the Bible verse, you can't go home
- 4:45Speaker 1: and really regret it. You're like, oh, that was a
- 4:47Speaker 1: stupid saying. It's not it's always gonna be a good thing. Yeah,
- 4:51Speaker 1: that was my That was my comment, was like I'm
- 4:53Speaker 1: gonna eat a Bible verse. I don't know if you
- 4:54Speaker 1: felt this way back at because if I ever regret
- 4:56Speaker 1: having a Bible Verse on me, then I know I'm
- 4:58Speaker 1: at a place in life that I've never wanted to be,
- 5:01Speaker 1: so that that transitions into into this world. Back up,
- 5:04Speaker 1: we got to talk for a second. Um, Ashley and
- 5:07Speaker 1: I are huge fans of you, like massive fais. We
- 5:10Speaker 1: talked about you every week we've been to extent. We're
- 5:12Speaker 1: not always fans of people on the show. We get
- 5:14Speaker 1: in trouble sometimes because we're pretty voiceterous about not being
- 5:17Speaker 1: fans of some people. With you, we are your biggest supporters. Um,
- 5:22Speaker 1: because you're authentic, you're genuine. I mean this, this whole
- 5:25Speaker 1: press tour thing, it gets repetitive, right, You're gonna ask
- 5:27Speaker 1: you the same questions. There's gonna be a moment where
- 5:29Speaker 1: you're like, I haven't said something I actually mean in weeks.
- 5:33Speaker 1: But really because press is repetitive. Because they ask you
- 5:39Speaker 1: a question are you happy and why? And you're gonna say, well,
- 5:42Speaker 1: of course I'm happy and this is why. And you're
- 5:44Speaker 1: just gonna continue to say that over and over again
- 5:46Speaker 1: to eight different people in one room. It gets repetive. Lies. No,
- 5:50Speaker 1: they're not lies. I'm just saying you haven't haven't said
- 5:52Speaker 1: anything you actually feel like where you're angry, you can't
- 5:55Speaker 1: be angry during press tours, so you can be like,
- 5:58Speaker 1: I am happy in my love life, but right now
- 6:00Speaker 1: I'm so frustrated with saying the same thing over and over. Yeah,
- 6:04Speaker 1: that's that's exactly what I meant. And because you're genuine
- 6:07Speaker 1: and you're authentic, and I think that you're going to
- 6:10Speaker 1: carry this franchise with a lot of dignity in respect. So, um,
- 6:15Speaker 1: thanks for coming the podcast, but it just also thanks
- 6:17Speaker 1: for being doing you and being you through this whole process. Um.
- 6:20Speaker 1: So yeah, that's all it can be. And you get
- 6:23Speaker 1: prettier and prettier the day. I just kind of want
- 6:25Speaker 1: to stare at you. You feel like, Okay, so this
- 6:28Speaker 1: comment was made earlier. Do you all feel like the
- 6:31Speaker 1: Bachelor's or bachelor AT's get better looking once they enter
- 6:34Speaker 1: into being the bachelor Bachelor? Att Yes? Always? Why because
- 6:38Speaker 1: we have a team glam Damn. Okay, who is that
- 6:41Speaker 1: it's carry Fatman Gina without them Megan and Rougeo. Yeah,
- 6:48Speaker 1: I mean they make sure that we look at yeah
- 6:51Speaker 1: everybody like so many producers, but it's true, right, like
- 6:53Speaker 1: people seem to get better looking once they actually become
- 6:56Speaker 1: the Bachelor Bachelor. I think I got fatter. I did
- 7:00Speaker 1: was never the Bachelor bachelorette, but I've gotten fathers through
- 7:03Speaker 1: all the seasons. I think I'm just happier. I was
- 7:05Speaker 1: looking at you like I could just stare her you
- 7:08Speaker 1: are on camera. I'm looking at myself right now. I
- 7:10Speaker 1: have morning face. I have this thing I call morning
- 7:12Speaker 1: face where I feel like my my face hasn't completely
- 7:14Speaker 1: drained and it's just really puffy. Story of my life
- 7:17Speaker 1: really three months. Ye morning face. It's the bag area.
- 7:21Speaker 1: It's this whole it's this whole area like cheek boning
- 7:24Speaker 1: up that you just don't feel very good about yourself.
- 7:26Speaker 1: I think it just I don't even think it's morning
- 7:27Speaker 1: face for me anymore. I think it's just life face.
- 7:29Speaker 1: It's not. I'm looking at you right now. That's the
- 7:32Speaker 1: ice stuff that you do, right, You can in your
- 7:34Speaker 1: face for this. That's what I would do on The
- 7:35Speaker 1: Bachelor to provide that or put spoons under our Yeah,
- 7:38Speaker 1: that's goods are really good too. Yeah. You know, I
- 7:41Speaker 1: have never told Ashley this, and it's a good moment
- 7:43Speaker 1: to break it because we're in person. When Ashley did
- 7:46Speaker 1: her season with Chris Souls, I had the biggest crush
- 7:49Speaker 1: on actually what I really did. She's gorgeous, everybody, she's
- 7:54Speaker 1: actually beautiful. And I remember, so I remember there is
- 7:58Speaker 1: this scene that so I had this huge, huge crush
- 8:02Speaker 1: on you and my buddies and I just think you're
- 8:03Speaker 1: absolutely gorgeous and you've never come out before. And three,
- 8:07Speaker 1: I don't know. That's well one year where one season
- 8:10Speaker 1: the podcast, we have the safe stuff, right, we can't
- 8:12Speaker 1: share it all on one podcast. We gotta wait till
- 8:14Speaker 1: we're already going to get good ratings. With Beckett, here's
- 8:16Speaker 1: always challenge and push you Ye, exactly learned about one another,
- 8:20Speaker 1: that's right. But there was one scene where you and
- 8:22Speaker 1: Chris are making out, like I feel like you were
- 8:24Speaker 1: sitting on like alledge somewhere allege. There was one where
- 8:27Speaker 1: we were up on a balcony. Yes, yeah, and it was.
- 8:30Speaker 1: It was a very intense scene and it was the
- 8:31Speaker 1: first time I had seen you kiss, and I was like,
- 8:34Speaker 1: Chris kiss Chris, and I felt jealousy at that time,
- 8:37Speaker 1: which was my first Like so, yeah, I almost pulled
- 8:40Speaker 1: him off the balcony and I was so embarrassed. It
- 8:42Speaker 1: was a very intense kiss, very sloppy. That's something that's
- 8:47Speaker 1: gotten better over time camera. I just remember watching it
- 8:51Speaker 1: and being like that was that was pretty sloppy right now?
- 8:56Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, when you're in the studio next time,
- 9:00Speaker 1: all make sure that I haven't pulled up and we're
- 9:02Speaker 1: you guys, um listening. We are going to have backa
- 9:04Speaker 1: back in studio this coming Tuesday, an entire hour episode
- 9:09Speaker 1: with her. So make sure you email your questions and
- 9:13Speaker 1: put them down in the Facebook group. Yeah, definitely. Ben
- 9:16Speaker 1: joined the Facebook group. Do you have a Facebook? I do, Um,
- 9:21Speaker 1: I don't do a lot with it, but I do
- 9:23Speaker 1: have a Facebook. Yeah, so our Facebook group is is growing,
- 9:26Speaker 1: I hear ah, yeah, I think we're like that. That's
- 9:29Speaker 1: a lot more than my Facebook before. I know. Next
- 9:33Speaker 1: week's a big week for us. We're gonna have a
- 9:35Speaker 1: blast and so we're gonna save a lot for their
- 9:36Speaker 1: I do want to know, based on the kissing conversations,
- 9:40Speaker 1: are you ready to watch yourself kiss up close with
- 9:43Speaker 1: the sounds? I mean, I know with Aria happened, but
- 9:46Speaker 1: you're gonna see this every day every night with your
- 9:49Speaker 1: family watching. Just wait, you have an intense makeout scene
- 9:52Speaker 1: with your your family there. No, I'm not ready for
- 9:54Speaker 1: that at all. I'm gonna have to put blinders on
- 9:56Speaker 1: the entire time. Did you get used to that? Actually?
- 9:59Speaker 1: Like watch it? I think, well, I think I just
- 10:01Speaker 1: got better over time, so it was less awkward watching it.
- 10:04Speaker 1: But Becca, are we going to see you kiss as
- 10:06Speaker 1: much as we've seen the like past five years of
- 10:10Speaker 1: Bachelor and Bachelortt's kiss, because I feel like it was
- 10:12Speaker 1: that's it's been a big jump in the amount of
- 10:15Speaker 1: kissing going on. You know, I talk a lot, so
- 10:18Speaker 1: I don't know how much there's a lot of kissing,
- 10:20Speaker 1: But I also I just can't shut up half the time.
- 10:24Speaker 1: So hopefully it's a good balance. What happens if the
- 10:28Speaker 1: person that you kiss best with isn't the person you
- 10:31Speaker 1: have the storngest connection with. Oh my god, she experienced it. Wait, well,
- 10:35Speaker 1: time out. That's a thing. Yeah, that's a thing actually,
- 10:39Speaker 1: of course. So you think that the people that you've
- 10:42Speaker 1: kissed best are the people you typically have had the
- 10:44Speaker 1: best connection with. No, I'm saying that sometimes there's just
- 10:47Speaker 1: like a really amazing physical thing, but there's not as
- 10:51Speaker 1: much that goes runs runs deeper than that, And then
- 10:54Speaker 1: sometimes you have a good physical and then a good
- 10:57Speaker 1: everything else, So it has to be all to kind
- 11:00Speaker 1: of enter into relationship. No, no, I'm saying, sometimes haven't
- 11:07Speaker 1: you had like a girl that you were just like,
- 11:09Speaker 1: couldn't that you just only had this burning passion for it,
- 11:14Speaker 1: but you didn't like really it wasn't there and completely
- 11:19Speaker 1: and that you never made since why But we got
- 11:21Speaker 1: to talk through this real quick before we left that
- 11:23Speaker 1: I was gonna let Becca go, but no, we're in
- 11:24Speaker 1: it now. This is some relationship relationship advice for us all. Okay, Becca,
- 11:28Speaker 1: let's just assume right now. Um, we're not gonna ask
- 11:31Speaker 1: this is not relating to the Bachelorette. Okay, so take
- 11:34Speaker 1: everything out of play. Whatever you say here is just
- 11:36Speaker 1: giving general relationship advice. Okay, So if anybody's listening, and
- 11:39Speaker 1: then she's speaking from a place of experience, we're not
- 11:42Speaker 1: hinting at any uh um anything right now other than
- 11:46Speaker 1: the fact that she's just in a relationship expert. Okay,
- 11:48Speaker 1: So if you're this is no spoilers. Okay, So if
- 11:52Speaker 1: I feel something with somebody or okay, no, so I
- 11:54Speaker 1: have a great physical connection with somebody, but yet there's
- 11:58Speaker 1: still something lacking. What is that? I don't think it's
- 12:03Speaker 1: where it's not. Okay, are on a different I think
- 12:06Speaker 1: topic right now than you. Okay, then explain this to me. Okay,
- 12:10Speaker 1: can I put it? Can I make it a little
- 12:12Speaker 1: personal to you just based on your own like season?
- 12:17Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, okay, so I would not in real life.
- 12:22Speaker 1: So I think from a viewer standpoint, people will be like,
- 12:25Speaker 1: he's so physically into Jojo, but he probably has a
- 12:29Speaker 1: more well rounded feeling for Lauren. That's yeah, okay, that
- 12:34Speaker 1: makes sense. Yeah, because there was that was there's like
- 12:36Speaker 1: this undeniable physical chemistry with Joe. Joe, like it was
- 12:40Speaker 1: hard for me to not like be like when I
- 12:42Speaker 1: was around here, to not like have my hand on
- 12:44Speaker 1: her or whatever. Right, But but with Lauren, it was like, Okay,
- 12:48Speaker 1: all of this makes sense. Like the physicals, they're precisely
- 12:51Speaker 1: emotional and meant everything else is there too. You would
- 12:54Speaker 1: rather yeah, yeah, you'd rather be with somebody who has
- 12:57Speaker 1: it's good everywhere instead of like the one area where
- 13:01Speaker 1: it's like super hot. But you know that will fade eventually. Yeah,
- 13:04Speaker 1: so that that fades. Yeah, I would think that that fades.
- 13:07Speaker 1: I have never experienced what do you think it's the
- 13:08Speaker 1: most important characteristic then in a relationship to keep something
- 13:12Speaker 1: fruitful and flowing in in long lasting conversation and just
- 13:17Speaker 1: like just the common understanding of each other and being
- 13:21Speaker 1: able to talk about everything. All right, so cliche, but okay, back,
- 13:25Speaker 1: what do you think I would agree with that? Also too?
- 13:27Speaker 1: I heard some really solid advice on my season, and
- 13:30Speaker 1: it was from a couple on the crew, and they said,
- 13:34Speaker 1: go to bed every night and give a kiss, and
- 13:36Speaker 1: wake up every morning and give a kiss, because when
- 13:38Speaker 1: you have kids, it's so easy to get lost in
- 13:41Speaker 1: raising the children and you know just life that you
- 13:44Speaker 1: sometimes forget about your partner. And so I always still
- 13:47Speaker 1: keep that physicalness alive if you can. Yeah, yeah, that
- 13:50Speaker 1: makes that makes sense. And actually actually always drops these
- 13:53Speaker 1: like little bombs on me, like when without her even
- 13:56Speaker 1: knowing it, relationship advice. And you said, you said some
- 14:00Speaker 1: the other day in passing that that's really stuck with me. Really,
- 14:04Speaker 1: you said, because we were talking about my life and
- 14:06Speaker 1: and finding somebody and so this was specific to me,
- 14:08Speaker 1: and you said, Ben, you've got to find somebody that
- 14:10Speaker 1: you love their faults, that you you accept their faults
- 14:14Speaker 1: and you love their faults. I don't know if you
- 14:15Speaker 1: said in those exact words, but but that was what
- 14:17Speaker 1: you're getting at is like you gotta find somebody that
- 14:19Speaker 1: you realize everybody. Nobody's gonna be perfect, everybody's gonna have issues.
- 14:22Speaker 1: And the difference is when you look at somebody and say,
- 14:24Speaker 1: I know you're not perfect and I love you for that,
- 14:27Speaker 1: and that to me, like my mind was blowed. That
- 14:30Speaker 1: makes so much sense. And I felt that before. I
- 14:32Speaker 1: felt that with people when you're like, I don't care
- 14:34Speaker 1: what mistakes you make, I don't care what insecurities you're
- 14:38Speaker 1: holding onto. I want to love you and support you
- 14:40Speaker 1: through that. Yeah. Well, and I think it's easy for
- 14:43Speaker 1: two people will go into some relationships and they want
- 14:45Speaker 1: to change an aspect of somebody or change something in
- 14:49Speaker 1: their character. And I think you can't go into a
- 14:52Speaker 1: lasting relationship that you really want to work changing that.
- 14:55Speaker 1: Definitely not. They'll never really change the projects. That's what
- 15:00Speaker 1: high school always should be in my life. The women
- 15:03Speaker 1: always loved the project. You know, the bad guy that
- 15:06Speaker 1: they can fix projects. We've talked about that. Your sister
- 15:09Speaker 1: is a big project girl. Yeah, she loves it. The
- 15:11Speaker 1: more down and out they are the more she's willing
- 15:14Speaker 1: willing to tackle him. That's literally in figuratively. Um, hey, Beca,
- 15:20Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on today. We're gonna
- 15:23Speaker 1: have a blast next week. I have so many questions.
- 15:25Speaker 1: I'm already writing down for next week. Yeah yeah, so
- 15:27Speaker 1: please if you have any questions, make sure you email
- 15:29Speaker 1: us at Ben and Ashley. iHeart meta dot com. We're
- 15:31Speaker 1: gonna spend an hour I think, just focused on talking
- 15:34Speaker 1: about life and relationships and love and this crazy world
- 15:38Speaker 1: with with the Bachelor at herself. It really does mean
- 15:41Speaker 1: a lot that you come onto this for us. So
- 15:42Speaker 1: thank you. Next week, keep blowing. You're literally glowing. Keep blowing.
- 15:49Speaker 1: I'm so excited that you're excited. That makes us very happy. Alright, bye, Becca,
- 15:53Speaker 1: thanks for being here. Thanks Becca. Actually, I really enjoyed
- 15:57Speaker 1: having Becca here. I do too. She's to kill it.
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- 18:28Speaker 1: get it today you have teeth like Becca. Uh. The
- 18:31Speaker 1: first segment with Becca was needed and awesome and good
- 18:34Speaker 1: for us all. But we're gonna tell you a little
- 18:36Speaker 1: bit about why we're here in Vegas. We're here in Vegas,
- 18:38Speaker 1: like we said, to promote the slot machines. We're sitting
- 18:41Speaker 1: here with one of our good buddies, uh, the former
- 18:43Speaker 1: Bachelor Nick. We had an awesome night last night. We
- 18:47Speaker 1: went to a great dinner here at the mgm UM
- 18:50Speaker 1: at China Tang, and then we went to a nightclub
- 18:52Speaker 1: and had a few a few drinks and people watched
- 18:56Speaker 1: and and now we woke up early to start promoting
- 18:59Speaker 1: the UM the slot machines. And so when we're in
- 19:03Speaker 1: Las Vegas, we thought what better way to take advantage
- 19:05Speaker 1: of this moment than to do a live podcast. We
- 19:08Speaker 1: are live right now. This is a big deal. This
- 19:10Speaker 1: is live. Yeah, this is absolutely live. We have a
- 19:14Speaker 1: few of our special guests in the room right now.
- 19:17Speaker 1: We have former Bachelor Jake Pavelka, who will be coming
- 19:20Speaker 1: on the podcast in a little bit. Um. Right now,
- 19:23Speaker 1: we have Nick File sitting at the seat we before
- 19:26Speaker 1: we got Jake on, We're going to run through the
- 19:28Speaker 1: script of him being it because that is what he
- 19:30Speaker 1: you know, his season is infamous for. But we just
- 19:33Speaker 1: thought we would skip it because some things need to
- 19:36Speaker 1: die and that yeah, and that little set, you know,
- 19:40Speaker 1: that little interaction he Jake feels needs to die. So
- 19:43Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna support that and just allow it
- 19:45Speaker 1: to die. Yeah, you know that. Amy just can't get
- 19:47Speaker 1: enough of this scene. This is our favorite scene of
- 19:49Speaker 1: Bachelor history. Coming up later in the podcast, um, one
- 19:52Speaker 1: of bachel Nation's favorites, Dann Cox, will be in studio
- 19:55Speaker 1: with us. Sorry, now, can we just give a round
- 19:56Speaker 1: appast for all of our guests? Yes, I can't clap
- 20:00Speaker 1: Why I am holding this thing up right now? Okay,
- 20:02Speaker 1: but before we do, Nick, what brought you to Like?
- 20:05Speaker 1: Why did you choose to come here to promote this
- 20:07Speaker 1: this slot machine that I can hang out with you?
- 20:10Speaker 1: I would agree that was really like honestly, the point
- 20:15Speaker 1: for me to come out here was like, you get
- 20:16Speaker 1: to hang out with Nick for a night, uh, you
- 20:18Speaker 1: know at the MGM grant. So we both agreed, let's
- 20:21Speaker 1: do this. Sure, we didn't go to nightclub. We cuddled.
- 20:26Speaker 1: We cuddled and played black jack. How did you do
- 20:28Speaker 1: last night? On the black jack table? How how? What?
- 20:34Speaker 1: There were the reactions that you guys get when there
- 20:37Speaker 1: are two bachelors walking around in Vegas, just disappointment, let down,
- 20:43Speaker 1: like wow, you were better looking on TV. It's like,
- 20:46Speaker 1: oh yeah, well there was makeup. You see you guys here.
- 20:51Speaker 1: We actually let's let's just talk for a second. We
- 20:53Speaker 1: actually had an interaction at the pool yesterday well where
- 20:56Speaker 1: this lady came up to us and she goes, oh,
- 20:58Speaker 1: I recognize you from up actually, and we said okay,
- 21:01Speaker 1: and then she said, um, something along the lines of like,
- 21:05Speaker 1: are you still sad? Really? Like my favorite question is
- 21:10Speaker 1: are you okay? Yeah? Are you okay? Really? You guys
- 21:13Speaker 1: get this, yeah anymore and like and and then things
- 21:18Speaker 1: like it'll be fine, You'll be happy. Yeah about I
- 21:24Speaker 1: worry about you often. It's like, oh really no, I
- 21:29Speaker 1: worry about you often. Yeah, one one time I had.
- 21:34Speaker 1: It's always very positive in real life when people meet
- 21:36Speaker 1: you in her life, they're always so nice. But in
- 21:41Speaker 1: terms of like real concern, well, I feel like I
- 21:46Speaker 1: always get don't cry so much or don't don't worry,
- 21:49Speaker 1: It'll happen for you, Like I get those, But you
- 21:54Speaker 1: know what was my most traumatic meeting of somebody the
- 21:58Speaker 1: only time they weren't nice to meet in real life.
- 22:01Speaker 1: I was in a bathroom in the Bahamas with Carly
- 22:04Speaker 1: and Jade. This is after Bachelor in Paradise three, and
- 22:08Speaker 1: Carly was there with Evan and engaged. So then Jane
- 22:13Speaker 1: Tanner were there, and this is where Emmy was actually conceived. Anyway, long,
- 22:18Speaker 1: long story short, this woman came up does in the
- 22:21Speaker 1: bathroom and goes, oh my gosh, Jade and and Curly,
- 22:25Speaker 1: I'm so happy for you. It's so wonderful to see
- 22:27Speaker 1: you guys found love. And she looks at me and
- 22:30Speaker 1: she goes, actually grow up. Oh I know, that's yeah,
- 22:35Speaker 1: it was I like basically welled up, my dear. Yeah,
- 22:38Speaker 1: there's just a lot of condescending. I've never someone do that,
- 22:42Speaker 1: I know, right, there's just a lot of comments. Like
- 22:48Speaker 1: even today as we were promoting the slot machine, I was,
- 22:51Speaker 1: I was sitting there and this lady came by and
- 22:53Speaker 1: she said some long lines of are you happy, And
- 22:56Speaker 1: I said, I am happy. She goes with yourself and
- 22:59Speaker 1: I it, yeah, remember, because that's when we got soliloquy
- 23:02Speaker 1: about how if you're happy with yourself, then life's good,
- 23:06Speaker 1: Like then you're doing okay. I mean they have great
- 23:08Speaker 1: expectations for you back. What mean they're like, well, I
- 23:11Speaker 1: mean we get it. You know, I don't know, man, Um, Nick,
- 23:17Speaker 1: what's new in your life? What's going on? Tell us
- 23:19Speaker 1: a little bit of catch us up much, man? I
- 23:22Speaker 1: mean you're acting. Yeah, you just had a segment we
- 23:25Speaker 1: just talked about it on General Hospital. UM, that's pretty
- 23:28Speaker 1: awesome playing yourself but also playing a pretty cool role
- 23:31Speaker 1: that a lot of like really talented people have done
- 23:33Speaker 1: in the past. Well, Mario Lopez is very talented. Yeah,
- 23:39Speaker 1: it was a scripted role. I played a host. I mean,
- 23:42Speaker 1: I guess I played myself. UM as the host. They
- 23:46Speaker 1: have this thing in the show called the Nurses Ball,
- 23:48Speaker 1: which because it's General Hospital nurses and UM it's a
- 23:52Speaker 1: great award show. And I had the great pleasure of
- 23:55Speaker 1: interviewing UM in a scripted format of you know, what
- 24:01Speaker 1: was going to take place in the crazy world of
- 24:03Speaker 1: General Hospital. Do you think someone died afterwards? I think
- 24:06Speaker 1: there was a murder We've talked about often on this podcast.
- 24:10Speaker 1: Actually when we were my favorite favorite question because this
- 24:15Speaker 1: wasn't part of the script, Like when we're done, like
- 24:16Speaker 1: doing the scenes. Was have you killed anyone? Or have
- 24:20Speaker 1: you been killed? Because that isn't that what happens? I
- 24:24Speaker 1: don't know. I don't want traditional. Also, you get killed
- 24:26Speaker 1: and you come back like they always come back. Yeah,
- 24:30Speaker 1: the weaken step sister, that's what I wanted to know.
- 24:34Speaker 1: That reminds me this was it was soap oper is
- 24:37Speaker 1: the original reality television? Now because it's not it's completely scripted. Well,
- 24:42Speaker 1: that's a terrible You just can't win today. We all
- 24:48Speaker 1: know the first reality TV was Paris Hilton? Was she not? Yeah?
- 24:52Speaker 1: The Simple Life is definitely, But I think what Ben
- 24:55Speaker 1: means is like over the top drama. Yeah, like the
- 24:58Speaker 1: original Like, yeah, I'm not stupid. It's scripted and unscripted,
- 25:02Speaker 1: but it was stupid. Question. No, I think it's a
- 25:05Speaker 1: pretty good question. Was soap my forehead? Right now? Um?
- 25:09Speaker 1: Soap operas the original form of entertainment for the people
- 25:12Speaker 1: that love reality television? Yes, melodramatic? Did you watch him now?
- 25:17Speaker 1: My mom always watched all my children. My mom was
- 25:22Speaker 1: a big soap opera person, which is surprising because she's
- 25:24Speaker 1: not a reality television fan. She I think it was
- 25:27Speaker 1: around the world as the World turns. Yeah, so it
- 25:31Speaker 1: no longer does that. But I remember growing up having
- 25:34Speaker 1: that on TV often, which is surprised because it doesn't
- 25:37Speaker 1: really seem like my mom today, I got to talk
- 25:39Speaker 1: to her about that. What does your mom like to watch? Um,
- 25:42Speaker 1: they're my dad's a big Cubs fans. They watch a
- 25:45Speaker 1: lot of Cubs, the big like voice in American Idol
- 25:48Speaker 1: fans and the Big Bachelor fans. I wonder what the
- 25:51Speaker 1: Bachelor for some reason, Um, you know, it was kind
- 25:55Speaker 1: of my mom and I thing. Uh. After I moved
- 25:57Speaker 1: back home after college, for like a year, we watched
- 26:01Speaker 1: both season. We really enjoyed it. Um, but no who
- 26:04Speaker 1: would have known? Like, how crazy is that one day
- 26:08Speaker 1: in five years my son is going to be that Bachelor?
- 26:14Speaker 1: I mean I watched Chris Souls this season and Andy
- 26:16Speaker 1: season from the couch at my parents house. I remember
- 26:19Speaker 1: this clearly because we we got into the show, like
- 26:22Speaker 1: I remember that. This is an iconic scene for me.
- 26:25Speaker 1: I remember the moment that we had last week had
- 26:27Speaker 1: Josh Murray in the podcast. Um, it was unique, um, honestly,
- 26:34Speaker 1: and awareness it was something nick so you know you
- 26:38Speaker 1: know Josh well, um, hey Ben um to the scene
- 26:43Speaker 1: that was that was absolutely back to the scene as
- 26:46Speaker 1: Josh Murray confronts a guy after he gave a number
- 26:50Speaker 1: to a waitress. Remember this scene like where there you
- 26:53Speaker 1: guys are all to dinner something and he like was like, hey,
- 26:55Speaker 1: that's okay. And there was a moment I was like,
- 26:57Speaker 1: that guy's a stand up dude. He's willing to face controversy,
- 27:01Speaker 1: fight for fight for love. I remember that with my
- 27:03Speaker 1: mom and we were like, that's a good guy. Yeah, yeah,
- 27:07Speaker 1: sometimes get and now look at us now we're talking
- 27:10Speaker 1: about it with all of you, all of the people
- 27:11Speaker 1: that I grew up watching I now sit in the
- 27:13Speaker 1: room with right now. How special am I watching actually
- 27:17Speaker 1: make out with Chris? Watching Nick dress as a mine? Dum?
- 27:23Speaker 1: We didn't go through the whole Ben had a crush
- 27:26Speaker 1: on me during Chris's season. Sorry, we didn't finish this.
- 27:29Speaker 1: We got to go back to it. Yes, or after
- 27:31Speaker 1: you suck Chris face off? That was apparently during he
- 27:34Speaker 1: said he was jealous while watching that. I mean I wasn't. Actually,
- 27:42Speaker 1: I mean when did you lose the crush? When you
- 27:46Speaker 1: met me? And probably after watching you sucks face you
- 27:49Speaker 1: were jealous? You know? Yeah? I think I think watching
- 27:58Speaker 1: that show actually you're GORGEO, You're absolutely beautiful. And so
- 28:01Speaker 1: you watch that, I think everybody says, everybody comes up
- 28:03Speaker 1: to me. I know it happens. It's all they're like that,
- 28:04Speaker 1: actually she's one beautiful person, Like, yes she is. And
- 28:07Speaker 1: so you watch the show and you're like, she's beautiful.
- 28:10Speaker 1: And then I got to know You're like we're just
- 28:11Speaker 1: we're good friends. Like this makes sense. And so there
- 28:13Speaker 1: wasn't like a lack of like loss of love. I'm
- 28:15Speaker 1: not sitting here like actually like there's a lack of
- 28:18Speaker 1: love for you. It's like I just absolutely adore you
- 28:21Speaker 1: as a person. But on that show, I was like,
- 28:23Speaker 1: that girl is gorgeous. Who else I thought it was
- 28:25Speaker 1: really pretty? Another good example Samantha Stephens oh Man, Yeah,
- 28:29Speaker 1: insanely very similar. Look thank you. The personal no way
- 28:36Speaker 1: you guys keep it coming actually is actually saying stop
- 28:40Speaker 1: but actually continue. But I love it. But I do,
- 28:42Speaker 1: I do. I love it. I remember my first real
- 28:45Speaker 1: interaction with you, Ben, You're actually were in my hotel
- 28:48Speaker 1: room and there was like ten other people a mismatch
- 28:52Speaker 1: of my season and Caitlin season, and it was after
- 28:55Speaker 1: your mental all and I just remember how like when
- 28:59Speaker 1: I was talking. You were completely invested in every word
- 29:03Speaker 1: I was saying, and I was like, Ben Higgins really
- 29:05Speaker 1: is the Prince Charming that he is on TV? And
- 29:08Speaker 1: then I basically texted my mom and I go, I'm
- 29:10Speaker 1: gonna marry Ben, you know. And then and then and
- 29:14Speaker 1: then we do a podcast together. See, there's just a
- 29:15Speaker 1: lot of love you. That's why this worked. And then
- 29:18Speaker 1: we're both happy, we both fighting for love in the world,
- 29:20Speaker 1: and we're just supporting each other through it. Can we
- 29:22Speaker 1: talk about Benjamin Button Nick for a second. I'm just
- 29:25Speaker 1: looking at Sorry now is actually insane how much younger
- 29:28Speaker 1: he looks now than when he was on Andy season.
- 29:31Speaker 1: What's your secret? First? Yeah, yeah, you lost six months
- 29:37Speaker 1: since you just sat down. I have no clue how
- 29:38Speaker 1: this happened. I actually do know how this happened. This
- 29:41Speaker 1: is the perfect podcast for this, this transition. Here, we
- 29:44Speaker 1: have one of the reasons why Nick stays so young
- 29:46Speaker 1: and so fit on the podcast today with us Dan Cox, Um, Dan,
- 29:50Speaker 1: do you mind stepping into the seat here and replacing Nick.
- 29:52Speaker 1: Nick thinks so much for coming on the podcast. Thank you, Nick.
- 29:56Speaker 1: Next time, What a smooth transition. Nick. One day you'll
- 30:02Speaker 1: come back with our secrets with your secrets of youth
- 30:05Speaker 1: please So, so Dan Cox is sitting here with us
- 30:09Speaker 1: right now, Dan, before we get into before we getting anything,
- 30:12Speaker 1: can we talk about that photo you have with me,
- 30:15Speaker 1: the photo in the this from does This season six
- 30:20Speaker 1: years ago. The spacial hair does you so well? Thank you?
- 30:25Speaker 1: And so does the lengthen on your hair, You're like,
- 30:28Speaker 1: grow your hair out? Yes, the guy should always have
- 30:31Speaker 1: a couple of inches if they have hair, have it
- 30:35Speaker 1: the Okay, So Dan, before we get into how you're
- 30:38Speaker 1: helping Nick look young because you look work out stuff. Um,
- 30:45Speaker 1: can you catch up a little bit. How the people
- 30:47Speaker 1: out there know you? Yeah, so you probably don't know
- 30:50Speaker 1: me from Desiree season. I was only on it for
- 30:53Speaker 1: about three weeks and then yeah, and then I was
- 30:57Speaker 1: on Bachelor Paradise too with Ashley. Yes, you were any
- 31:00Speaker 1: dated Ashley Salter, thank you for bringing that up. You
- 31:03Speaker 1: and Mike Flace Mike Place did it before and now
- 31:05Speaker 1: here I am recording it. That's how I'm remembered. So
- 31:09Speaker 1: so Yeah, but it was it was a great experience.
- 31:11Speaker 1: And it's crazy. I mean it's been what three years now,
- 31:14Speaker 1: it will be three years in jam. Yeah, it's nuts.
- 31:17Speaker 1: But but yeah it was. It was good run, great experience,
- 31:19Speaker 1: and uh, life's been good. Since you have a girlfriend,
- 31:22Speaker 1: don't you do, Yeah, tell us about it. Natalie she is,
- 31:26Speaker 1: she's amazing. So she lives in l A. We go
- 31:28Speaker 1: back and forth from l A to Vegas, and uh,
- 31:32Speaker 1: we've just made it work. She was actually on Survivor
- 31:35Speaker 1: Reality Star a couple it happened. Um and she did
- 31:38Speaker 1: another Sean e too. But yeah, no, we've kind of
- 31:41Speaker 1: like all that's behind us and uh, just conctrate on
- 31:44Speaker 1: each other and it's been good. That's awesome, man. Okay,
- 31:46Speaker 1: So in all seriousness, let's talk about some of the
- 31:48Speaker 1: stuff you're doing, because I know I love the products
- 31:51Speaker 1: that you've developed and that you market and you sell.
- 31:54Speaker 1: Uh Nick uses them as well, so uh and that
- 31:56Speaker 1: was my that was kind of my plug there. I'll
- 32:00Speaker 1: lot of this stuff that you sell is really great.
- 32:03Speaker 1: Can you just tell everybody out there what you're doing
- 32:04Speaker 1: and and and in all seriousness of how these products
- 32:07Speaker 1: can help them? For sure. So so I'm in the
- 32:09Speaker 1: nutrition world. Um, I started opening up breaking morder nutrition
- 32:11Speaker 1: stores and then SolV voids in the market of of
- 32:14Speaker 1: products that weren't available that I want to take UM.
- 32:16Speaker 1: So I started developing my own product line, so I
- 32:18Speaker 1: have to really one is called met Con that's more
- 32:22Speaker 1: for you know, endurance and performance, and then another one
- 32:25Speaker 1: called Wealthy, which is much more like health central focus
- 32:28Speaker 1: get people that are goals optimized health UM. And uh,
- 32:32Speaker 1: you know, the whole point behind it was to find
- 32:35Speaker 1: the cleanest possible nutrients I could find, make them gluten free,
- 32:37Speaker 1: soy free, dairy free, make them non intimidating UM and
- 32:41Speaker 1: very simple for people to take and understand what they
- 32:43Speaker 1: need UM. And then with that, you know, it was
- 32:46Speaker 1: my intention that you know, how lucky are we and
- 32:49Speaker 1: the people that are buying these products to supplement our diets,
- 32:52Speaker 1: ford op themal health and there's people that can't even
- 32:54Speaker 1: afford to put a meal on the table. So I
- 32:56Speaker 1: partnered up with Feeding America and so for every product
- 32:59Speaker 1: we sell, we donated meal to someone I need through
- 33:01Speaker 1: local food banks. That's absolutely credible. I mean, that really
- 33:03Speaker 1: is great, and and honestly, I think I have to
- 33:05Speaker 1: give you Maybe maybe Nick Will won't own up to it,
- 33:08Speaker 1: but I have to give you a lot of credit
- 33:09Speaker 1: because the reason that I feel like I'm in good
- 33:12Speaker 1: shape right now, and I feel like I have energy
- 33:14Speaker 1: and a clear mind is really because of the products
- 33:16Speaker 1: that you have, Fison and that I bought from me.
- 33:18Speaker 1: So uh, I would say, anybody out there looking to
- 33:22Speaker 1: kind of take the next step in their health, um,
- 33:24Speaker 1: how can they find you so you can go? For performance,
- 33:27Speaker 1: it's metcon dot com, M E T C O N
- 33:29Speaker 1: dot com. And then for the wealthy line, it's I'm wealthy,
- 33:32Speaker 1: so I m W E L L T H y
- 33:35Speaker 1: And actually, fun fact, you guys both worked with Fat
- 33:38Speaker 1: Fit Fund right so they're huge supporters. Um. And so
- 33:42Speaker 1: for any fat Fit Fund members, there's actually a couple
- 33:44Speaker 1: of products on the box add on right now if
- 33:46Speaker 1: they're interested, like ridiculous price so um, if you guys are, yeah,
- 33:51Speaker 1: just look up. It's Wealthy Sweat and her Um. So
- 33:53Speaker 1: it's a fat burn and then a women's multi item
- 33:56Speaker 1: and with the hair, skin and nail complex. So any
- 33:58Speaker 1: Fat Fit Fund members if not, goes right to the website.
- 34:00Speaker 1: We're both numbers. Were in the box, all my boxes,
- 34:05Speaker 1: all my boxes. They're really good. Dana, can you give
- 34:09Speaker 1: us a little bit something funny that happened with Ashley asked,
- 34:13Speaker 1: just because our audience is gonna love it. Your girlfriend
- 34:16Speaker 1: may not. But is there anything that didn't make air
- 34:18Speaker 1: or a very memorable moment that you'd like you'd like
- 34:21Speaker 1: to regale our audience with. There was there was one
- 34:24Speaker 1: time when we were like just I would think it
- 34:27Speaker 1: was the Rose Ceremony where it was pretty much like
- 34:28Speaker 1: we were done, and she grabbed me and was like
- 34:32Speaker 1: we need to talk and I'm like okay, and she's
- 34:35Speaker 1: like follow me, and I'm like where are we going?
- 34:37Speaker 1: And you remember the stairs like kind of up to
- 34:39Speaker 1: where you get taken away and I'm like, what's going
- 34:42Speaker 1: on here? And I was like, I'm not sure what
- 34:44Speaker 1: was happening? This a bird moment? Yeah, And she was like,
- 34:48Speaker 1: come with me and I want you to show you
- 34:49Speaker 1: the birds. And I'm like, I'm like kind of freaking
- 34:52Speaker 1: out right now. And it's like dark, there's no light
- 34:54Speaker 1: or anything, and like all of a sudden, Louis comes
- 34:56Speaker 1: out of nowhere the producer and grabs me and he's like,
- 34:59Speaker 1: yeahn I need talk to you. Come with me. And
- 35:01Speaker 1: I'm like, what's going on? Man? He's like, dude, I
- 35:03Speaker 1: just need to talk to you. Come with me. And
- 35:04Speaker 1: I'm like and he was watching the whole time, saw
- 35:06Speaker 1: her pull me away and was like, dude, I was
- 35:07Speaker 1: scared for you. I just saved you know. Yeah. And
- 35:10Speaker 1: he's like, I didn't know if she's going to take
- 35:11Speaker 1: you in the bird cages and what was gonna happen.
- 35:14Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I appreciate it, Lily, as if
- 35:16Speaker 1: the birds were gonna Parteah, you guys date after this story.
- 35:20Speaker 1: You never kissed again? Yeah, it was done at that point.
- 35:24Speaker 1: I kind of find that attractive interest. And you're still
- 35:28Speaker 1: single right now. Yeah, a little crazy hurting nobody. Ashley
- 35:33Speaker 1: is very married with a two year old child, and
- 35:35Speaker 1: she was honestly, she was great. But yeah, that was
- 35:39Speaker 1: a funny story that I give the listeners. Dan. You know,
- 35:43Speaker 1: we have a lot of very uh um, very big
- 35:49Speaker 1: fans of the show on this they'll listen to this
- 35:50Speaker 1: podcast and they'll all know your name. Um, but I
- 35:52Speaker 1: am I think I don't know about that. Well, I
- 35:54Speaker 1: think they will. And this is my question. Then, you
- 35:56Speaker 1: were only on for three weeks, you did do Paradise?
- 35:59Speaker 1: How like, how what do you Why do you think
- 36:01Speaker 1: people know you so well? I mean a lot of
- 36:03Speaker 1: people that were only on for three weeks I would
- 36:05Speaker 1: never know their name. I would never know who they are.
- 36:07Speaker 1: Dan Cox is a staple in the Bachelor world. How
- 36:10Speaker 1: does that happen? I don't think it was from the Bachelor.
- 36:12Speaker 1: I think after the Bachelor that no one knew who
- 36:14Speaker 1: I was. I think it was probably bachel in the
- 36:15Speaker 1: Paradise um. And it was just because I was on
- 36:18Speaker 1: there the whole time with Ashley and you know, we
- 36:20Speaker 1: kind of it was it was a cool group you
- 36:22Speaker 1: kind of really big role. It was. It was like
- 36:25Speaker 1: it was fun, like we had a good time and
- 36:27Speaker 1: it wasn't um, you know, it wasn't all the pressures
- 36:30Speaker 1: of you know, the Bachelor aute with you guys that
- 36:32Speaker 1: you're competing with. It was just more of like a
- 36:34Speaker 1: hangout atmosphere. Um. And that was pretty much it. And
- 36:38Speaker 1: I think that's probably, you know, for the people that
- 36:40Speaker 1: remember me, it's probably from Bachelor Paradise, or it's from
- 36:43Speaker 1: your T mobile commercial or tell us about this. I
- 36:47Speaker 1: was actually I got to hear because I didn't know
- 36:50Speaker 1: it was him. Okay, anyways, Dan, what's your relationship with
- 36:53Speaker 1: T Mobile? So? T Mobile? T Mobiles, I'll just tell
- 36:56Speaker 1: you they're amazing. So um that commercial was so no,
- 37:00Speaker 1: tell us about what. I didn't know you did a
- 37:02Speaker 1: commercial till I watched it on TV and saw, you know, like,
- 37:04Speaker 1: I think that's Dan Cock. So so I get a
- 37:08Speaker 1: call and it was from my I have an agent here.
- 37:10Speaker 1: I do like the different commercials and stuff on the
- 37:12Speaker 1: side and uh, and she's like, hey, are you available?
- 37:14Speaker 1: And usually when that happens, it's like something bad, like
- 37:17Speaker 1: someone screwed up, someone didn't show. So then you got
- 37:20Speaker 1: to come in And I'm like what's it for? And
- 37:21Speaker 1: she's like it's T Mobile and I'm like local or
- 37:24Speaker 1: like worldwide. She's like I think worldwide. I'm like, yeah, free,
- 37:27Speaker 1: what's up? And so she's like you need to be
- 37:29Speaker 1: at this house in like two hours and I'm like okay.
- 37:32Speaker 1: So I literally drive down. I have no idea what's
- 37:34Speaker 1: going on. I show up to this neighborhood in Vegas
- 37:38Speaker 1: and there's a whole production it's like a Bachelor production
- 37:41Speaker 1: set up and and I pull up and I see
- 37:43Speaker 1: the main producer and I'm like, Hey, who didn't show
- 37:45Speaker 1: and he's like, no, we've been waiting for you. And
- 37:47Speaker 1: I'm like, what's And so I get into do hair makeup?
- 37:51Speaker 1: And uh, and I'm like, what's going on here? And
- 37:53Speaker 1: they were filming a commercial for internal sales meetings with
- 37:57Speaker 1: the CEO that whole lemonade. They were filming it with
- 38:01Speaker 1: him as my role. But then the marketing team was
- 38:04Speaker 1: there and I was like, this is brilliant. We should
- 38:05Speaker 1: run this as a as a commercial. Do we have
- 38:07Speaker 1: any actors that we can get here like but today?
- 38:09Speaker 1: Because they had everything set up, so someone in production
- 38:12Speaker 1: was like, oh, I know this guy Dan Dan Cox,
- 38:14Speaker 1: he may be available. They found me and got me
- 38:16Speaker 1: down there and it was like literally happened within two hours.
- 38:19Speaker 1: We filmed it in about an hour and then t
- 38:22Speaker 1: mobile just blew it up, like and then someone started
- 38:25Speaker 1: tweeting out like oh my god, Dan from The Bachelor,
- 38:27Speaker 1: and then it started running during the Bachelor and they
- 38:29Speaker 1: were just pumping it everywhere. So that was a fun commercial. Dun,
- 38:32Speaker 1: that's insane. IM. I texted you so I had saw it.
- 38:35Speaker 1: I was like, Dan, I think I just saw you
- 38:38Speaker 1: on TV, like and You're like, no, you did. I never.
- 38:42Speaker 1: I mean, that's kind of why. I don't know why
- 38:43Speaker 1: I got so excited and giddy bad I see my
- 38:45Speaker 1: friends on TV al times. It was Here's the crazy
- 38:47Speaker 1: thing about it is, you know the Bachelor Paradise. You know,
- 38:49Speaker 1: people recognize you basically until the next season, right, and
- 38:53Speaker 1: then it kind of you fade out a little bit.
- 38:55Speaker 1: Like I started getting people coming up to me being like,
- 38:57Speaker 1: you're the T mobile guy, and I'm like, oh my god,
- 38:59Speaker 1: this is crazy. That's so cool. It's something different. You
- 39:02Speaker 1: know who else has a commercial in repeat right now
- 39:06Speaker 1: for coals is Michael Garafola, also from right right making
- 39:11Speaker 1: the appearances? Does he really Yeah, he's like yeah with
- 39:14Speaker 1: the family, Like yeah, he's like the dad. He is
- 39:17Speaker 1: a dad winning games with us, and he honestly is
- 39:20Speaker 1: one of my favorite people I ever met. He I
- 39:22Speaker 1: used to sit there and just drink bourbon and look
- 39:24Speaker 1: at all their relationships blasheming around us. He really is
- 39:26Speaker 1: a great products so I take care of a lot
- 39:28Speaker 1: of people from the show. Michael has obviously been a
- 39:30Speaker 1: customer for a while, and he you know how sarcastic
- 39:33Speaker 1: he is, so he requested He's like, I don't want
- 39:35Speaker 1: to I don't don't want to pay for the products,
- 39:37Speaker 1: but I'll pay for a picture of you. So every
- 39:39Speaker 1: time I send him a batch of products, I literally
- 39:41Speaker 1: print out like a headshot or something, sign it and
- 39:44Speaker 1: then say here, this is for you, Michael. I'm your
- 39:45Speaker 1: biggest fans. Oh that's amazing. I love that guy. He
- 39:49Speaker 1: is he's one of kind of Okay, so Dan, before
- 39:51Speaker 1: we say good body here, Um, you were starting a
- 39:53Speaker 1: podcast of your own correct? Yeah? So uh and actually
- 39:56Speaker 1: I mean inspiration from from you guys and a couple
- 39:58Speaker 1: other people in the Bachelor world. Um, I wanted to
- 40:01Speaker 1: create a podcast that was for you know, disruptors in
- 40:05Speaker 1: different industries. It's kind of become a big term where
- 40:07Speaker 1: you know, you see different companies and different individuals really
- 40:10Speaker 1: disrupting certain spaces. Um. And so really it's about bringing
- 40:13Speaker 1: people on that have done some things and you know,
- 40:15Speaker 1: whether it's business, entertainment, sports, nutrition, that have really changed
- 40:19Speaker 1: the game. And so yeah, I really would love to
- 40:21Speaker 1: have you on. It's called Excuse the Disruption. But yeah,
- 40:24Speaker 1: when you come on, we'll talk about the coffee and
- 40:26Speaker 1: what you're doing in the coffee. Do you figure do
- 40:28Speaker 1: you consider Ashley Night disruptors? I do, So Ashley would
- 40:30Speaker 1: ask me. She was like, I don't know if I'd
- 40:32Speaker 1: be right for your podcast because I don't know how
- 40:34Speaker 1: much has disrupted, and I'm like, I look up to
- 40:36Speaker 1: you because so many people have done this reality TV
- 40:40Speaker 1: scent and they talk a big game that they're gonna,
- 40:43Speaker 1: you know, move to l A and they're gonna be
- 40:44Speaker 1: on all these shows and they're gonna make a career
- 40:46Speaker 1: out of it, and I think Ashley really has so
- 40:50Speaker 1: no but it really is, like I mean, it's a
- 40:51Speaker 1: testament to you and your hard work, not just you know,
- 40:54Speaker 1: talking and trying to leverage you know, what happened from
- 40:56Speaker 1: the show. So she's, you know, the one thing I
- 40:59Speaker 1: get with actually here recently, Um, I was telling her
- 41:02Speaker 1: that before the crush, the one thing I get with Ashley,
- 41:05Speaker 1: and this just happened. And maybe because they're starting to
- 41:08Speaker 1: like talk to me about Ashley because they kind of
- 41:10Speaker 1: relate us through the podcast to go, Ashley's like every girl,
- 41:14Speaker 1: Like she's our every girl. Like everything she says is
- 41:17Speaker 1: like I can relate with no matter where I'm at.
- 41:20Speaker 1: We've all had like our Ashley moments in life, and
- 41:22Speaker 1: then we've all had our Ashley moments where we've like
- 41:24Speaker 1: found love. That's cool part about this podcast is we've
- 41:28Speaker 1: known Ashley now for a year, where you know, you're
- 41:30Speaker 1: kind of down and out questioning if you're ever gonna
- 41:32Speaker 1: date you're going on? Remember remember the beginning, we were
- 41:35Speaker 1: setting like, um, setting you up like and then we
- 41:39Speaker 1: see you do winner games and kind of meet somebody
- 41:41Speaker 1: and then you know that doesn't work, but it's still
- 41:43Speaker 1: a great story and it still brings you to a place.
- 41:45Speaker 1: So we've kind of been able to ride the Ashley
- 41:47Speaker 1: wave with her through some seasons of life recently. Um,
- 41:50Speaker 1: and so I think people just loving it because she
- 41:52Speaker 1: is the every girl. Thanks then, thanks Dan, Dan, We
- 41:56Speaker 1: appreciate you coming on, man, Thank you for having me
- 41:58Speaker 1: keep dissing. Yeah, it's good to be here. We're looking
- 42:01Speaker 1: out over the strip right now. Uh. And if you
- 42:04Speaker 1: can kind of hear some background noises because we have
- 42:06Speaker 1: a ton of a ton of people up here listening
- 42:07Speaker 1: and watching us do this live podcast. So hey, Daniel
- 42:11Speaker 1: talks man. Thanks to you guys for having by. Okay,
- 42:16Speaker 1: just to give the listeners a little background of Jake's
- 42:18Speaker 1: season of the Bachelor, here is um, word for word,
- 42:21Speaker 1: the argument between Jake and Vienna. Um, I'm gonna play
- 42:25Speaker 1: Jake and Ashley. You'll play Vienna. I'm so mad at you.
- 42:29Speaker 1: I'm so disgusted with you with me. You sold me
- 42:33Speaker 1: out to a magazine for payment and then flirted with
- 42:35Speaker 1: me all weekend. I didn't see you all weekend. Oh baby,
- 42:38Speaker 1: I have the text messages. Hey baby, come to the charity.
- 42:41Speaker 1: We'll get to your lying issues in a minute. Oh
- 42:44Speaker 1: my lying issues. Right. You are a fame whore, that's
- 42:48Speaker 1: what you are. I thought you were going to live
- 42:51Speaker 1: a normal life in Florida, but all of a sudden,
- 42:53Speaker 1: we're in l A and you're pursuing acting. At least
- 42:57Speaker 1: I am pursuing something. My dog was sick with her.
- 43:01Speaker 1: I v S and her and the first thing that
- 43:04Speaker 1: you said was I'm so sorry your dog is so
- 43:06Speaker 1: spoiled that she can only maintain one relationship at a time.
- 43:10Speaker 1: You called my dad on Father's Day to see why
- 43:13Speaker 1: I wasn't talking to you that weekend. Well, you're busy
- 43:16Speaker 1: having flings with other men. You are the biggest fake
- 43:20Speaker 1: liar I have ever met in my entire life. I
- 43:22Speaker 1: don't even know that guy he seems to know you.
- 43:25Speaker 1: And who is the single guy you had at the
- 43:27Speaker 1: apartment Saturday night? I had a gay guy over named Todd.
- 43:31Speaker 1: You are a liar? Is there a polygraph machine around here,
- 43:34Speaker 1: because you would fail it. You don't know me, I do.
- 43:38Speaker 1: Stop interrupting me. The thing is, I would never done
- 43:44Speaker 1: this to someone I love. You don't love me again,
- 43:47Speaker 1: I got interrupted. You are the famous person I've ever met,
- 43:53Speaker 1: Jake on the podcast. Sorry, we just had to do that.
- 43:59Speaker 1: It is our producer Amy's favorite scene of Bachelor history.
- 44:02Speaker 1: I watched this season. Do you watched Jake focus season?
- 44:04Speaker 1: I didn't. Jake, You're the last Bachelor I didn't watch,
- 44:07Speaker 1: so sorry season. I know you sound you know what
- 44:13Speaker 1: I honestly, I don't know. I think you know. I
- 44:18Speaker 1: think kind of like kind of like you guys. You know,
- 44:21Speaker 1: I was just an airline pilot, um kind of happy,
- 44:24Speaker 1: go lucky, and I was just myself. I went on
- 44:27Speaker 1: there to find love. I watched it work for Jillian Harris.
- 44:30Speaker 1: I really believed that I was going to walk out
- 44:32Speaker 1: of there um in love. And you know, ultimately I did.
- 44:36Speaker 1: You did. But it's something that most people do. I
- 44:39Speaker 1: don't know if anybody knows this. I had both engagement
- 44:42Speaker 1: rings in my pocket at the time of the engagement.
- 44:45Speaker 1: You had a separate ring for each girl. Had both
- 44:48Speaker 1: want a different setting because I didn't know what I
- 44:50Speaker 1: wanted to do. Really, what I wanted to do was
- 44:52Speaker 1: continue to date both of them and see how it went.
- 44:54Speaker 1: But that is not acceptable in the real life. No
- 44:58Speaker 1: it's not. And that who was your final two? It
- 45:01Speaker 1: was Tinley in Vienna, and so I made my choice
- 45:05Speaker 1: based on which one I could stomach watching come back
- 45:07Speaker 1: as the Bachelor, and I said, I'm gonna have a
- 45:09Speaker 1: harder time watching Vienna not having seen that through, than
- 45:13Speaker 1: enjoying Tinley season next year, I didn't watch it, but
- 45:17Speaker 1: I do remember people were astonished that you didn't pick Tinley.
- 45:21Speaker 1: M Tinley and I Tinley is the type of type
- 45:26Speaker 1: of person. She's just beautiful inside and out, and I
- 45:32Speaker 1: just when I would think about and pray about it,
- 45:34Speaker 1: I just could not see a long future with her.
- 45:40Speaker 1: Do you regret that? I mean, do you still believe
- 45:42Speaker 1: that you're confident that was right's choice? You know what
- 45:45Speaker 1: I went through the season. I know why I made
- 45:47Speaker 1: the choice was really thought through, it was prayed through,
- 45:50Speaker 1: and I would do it all over again. I probably
- 45:52Speaker 1: make the same choice was Vienna because I remember this.
- 45:56Speaker 1: Tinley obviously is has become very well known in Batchelor world,
- 45:59Speaker 1: just married, so we celebrated that with her a couple
- 46:02Speaker 1: of weeks ago. But from what I understand, Vienna was
- 46:05Speaker 1: kind of like the dark horse, right, Like she wasn't
- 46:07Speaker 1: loved by America. Is that true? Or my Timley was
- 46:11Speaker 1: Tilly's like America's sweetheart. Absolutely, and I think Vienna was
- 46:14Speaker 1: a little bit edgier, I like Edgie. My mom would
- 46:19Speaker 1: would have said, I know that we're both close to
- 46:22Speaker 1: our mom's she would have said, at the time, my
- 46:24Speaker 1: picker was broken. My parents loved Tilly, not to She's
- 46:31Speaker 1: a great girl. And I'll tell you you know, Vienna,
- 46:34Speaker 1: she she had she didn't have the greatest edit in
- 46:38Speaker 1: the world. She had a really hard time. You know.
- 46:40Speaker 1: I know she's backed away from the franchise. She doesn't
- 46:42Speaker 1: go to any reunions anything like that. And it's it's
- 46:45Speaker 1: kind of a shame because you know, it's a special
- 46:47Speaker 1: time in her life, and I don't know how special
- 46:49Speaker 1: it was for her. You know, we've all gotten older, matured,
- 46:53Speaker 1: you know, back then, I think she was twenty three
- 46:56Speaker 1: or twenty four, We've we've all been there. Made in
- 46:59Speaker 1: your early wise are not the choices you make in
- 47:01Speaker 1: your thirties, you know, I think Jake, you you do
- 47:06Speaker 1: have one of the most polarizing seasons ever as the Bachelor.
- 47:10Speaker 1: I mean, I think we still Jake. Pavelka's name is
- 47:12Speaker 1: known and it's been eight years. It's been a long time. Um.
- 47:17Speaker 1: I kind of want to walk back through the thought
- 47:19Speaker 1: process leading up to the last few weeks of year
- 47:21Speaker 1: season because it was a big deal. Uh, Tinley is
- 47:24Speaker 1: America's sweetheart. We love Tiley, she's happy now she's married.
- 47:27Speaker 1: But going back as the Bachelor, what was the most
- 47:29Speaker 1: difficult part for you, especially towards the end. I always
- 47:36Speaker 1: wanted it to be Gia. I thought you was just
- 47:40Speaker 1: an amazing person and I still do. Um. Yeah, she
- 47:46Speaker 1: passed away in Yeah, I still think back, you know
- 47:51Speaker 1: when she got out of that limousine and just like
- 47:53Speaker 1: she glided over to me. Um. Yeah, I's still just
- 47:58Speaker 1: here up thinking about I wanted it to be her
- 48:01Speaker 1: so bad, but she had so much hurt in her life.
- 48:04Speaker 1: You know, she had dated guys that truly did not
- 48:07Speaker 1: treat her the way she should have been treated. Um.
- 48:12Speaker 1: It was you know, it was disappointing when Ali left.
- 48:13Speaker 1: Had a great connection with Ali. Um, great things happened
- 48:17Speaker 1: to her. You know, I think now that she's married,
- 48:19Speaker 1: and she married second, that's awesome. Good for her. Um.
- 48:26Speaker 1: At the end, I wasn't ready to be engaged. I
- 48:30Speaker 1: had both rings, one for Tinley and one for Vin
- 48:32Speaker 1: in my pocket. The helicopters flew over, My heart was
- 48:36Speaker 1: in my throat. You know, I couldn't. I couldn't hear
- 48:38Speaker 1: my spirit talking to me. You wrm me, you hear
- 48:40Speaker 1: your spirit in your gut. It's kind of okay, this
- 48:42Speaker 1: is what you need to do. I could. I was
- 48:43Speaker 1: just was not getting any direction. The producers like, whatever
- 48:46Speaker 1: you want to do, it's fine with us. You just
- 48:48Speaker 1: need to probably decide whether you want to be engaged
- 48:50Speaker 1: or not. Yeah, it sounds like you just he didn't
- 48:54Speaker 1: feel forever or either one of them. No, I did not.
- 48:57Speaker 1: What did you make the decision then? If the helicopters
- 48:59Speaker 1: are flying over and you have both rings in your pocket,
- 49:01Speaker 1: when did you finally make the decision to to propose
- 49:04Speaker 1: to Vienna? Good question, that's a very good question. I
- 49:11Speaker 1: made the decision based on which one of the two
- 49:14Speaker 1: girls women, Which one of the two women I could
- 49:17Speaker 1: stomach watching as the bachelorette next season? And I was
- 49:22Speaker 1: at that moment I was gonna have a harder time
- 49:24Speaker 1: watching Vienna go back through the f or possibly go
- 49:27Speaker 1: back through the franchise than I would kindling. But when
- 49:30Speaker 1: was it? Like, as they were walking up to you,
- 49:33Speaker 1: I kind of knew that it was gonna gonna be Vienna. Okay,
- 49:37Speaker 1: you said that feeling, Yeah, but I kept waffling. I mean,
- 49:40Speaker 1: it's you know how it is. It's really really stressful
- 49:44Speaker 1: that that last those last few moments of the of
- 49:46Speaker 1: the filming. Definitely, So you picked out a ring, a
- 49:49Speaker 1: different ring for each girl, like depended on their personality
- 49:52Speaker 1: and style, No, I asked, um, so during the fantasy
- 49:57Speaker 1: days or the fantasy suites, you know, I asked each
- 50:00Speaker 1: one of each one of the girls women. I gotta
- 50:02Speaker 1: put saying that that's asked that Jia, Tinley, and Vienna,
- 50:09Speaker 1: what what kind of setting they wanted? And so I
- 50:12Speaker 1: kind of kept mental notes and I picked I picked
- 50:14Speaker 1: rings out for for Tinley, and you know, why not
- 50:18Speaker 1: just not propose? I thought about it. I thought about
- 50:23Speaker 1: it long and Harvon. That did not work out very
- 50:27Speaker 1: well for one of the previous bachelor's from Austin by
- 50:30Speaker 1: things like Brad Walmack because America travels on this big
- 50:35Speaker 1: journey with you. You know, when you're upset, they're upset.
- 50:38Speaker 1: When you're happy and you have a great date, It's
- 50:40Speaker 1: like America has a great date and they expect the
- 50:42Speaker 1: fairytale ending. That is definitely an expectation at the end
- 50:45Speaker 1: of the Bachelor, And I would venture to say, if
- 50:48Speaker 1: America doesn't get some sort of you know, closure at
- 50:53Speaker 1: the end of the show, it's like, wait a minute,
- 50:56Speaker 1: you can't do that. The show hasn't ended yet. You
- 50:58Speaker 1: come out, you come out and aged, and so I
- 51:01Speaker 1: think it's it's that expectation of America. You know, it's
- 51:05Speaker 1: a lot of pressure. You kind of feel it. But
- 51:07Speaker 1: for me, I was I knew I wanted to take engagement.
- 51:09Speaker 1: I could. I could definitely relate with anybody that was
- 51:12Speaker 1: the Bachelorrette or Bachelor, knowing it those last few days
- 51:15Speaker 1: that it would feel like I don't want to disappoint anybody.
- 51:17Speaker 1: And at the same time, you're like, and I have
- 51:19Speaker 1: some amazing people here around me, Like, so getting engaged
- 51:22Speaker 1: one of these I would be lucky. That's kind of
- 51:24Speaker 1: my thought, was like I'd be lucky to be able
- 51:26Speaker 1: to spend life with these women. Um, okay, so you
- 51:28Speaker 1: got engaged and we have to talk about it. You
- 51:31Speaker 1: had one of the most epic breakups and Bachelor history.
- 51:33Speaker 1: You and Vienna had a televised breakup. Um, people still
- 51:37Speaker 1: watch it on YouTube. I mean, Jake walk us through?
- 51:42Speaker 1: How does that happen? I think, just from for some clarity,
- 51:45Speaker 1: how do you allow that to be on TV? How
- 51:47Speaker 1: does it get on TV? And then does it still
- 51:49Speaker 1: affect your life today? Was it the breakup or was
- 51:52Speaker 1: it like some sort of Chris Harrison mediation on the
- 51:56Speaker 1: verge of a break up? All very good questions. So
- 52:05Speaker 1: the way that all came down, the relationship was not
- 52:11Speaker 1: in a good place, and there were there was a
- 52:12Speaker 1: lot of you know, after we became engaged, I got
- 52:14Speaker 1: to know her. Um, we started we started planning a
- 52:18Speaker 1: life together, and I could really once you get away
- 52:22Speaker 1: from the show, you really start to get to know somebody.
- 52:24Speaker 1: I always tells me, you know, you get to know
- 52:25Speaker 1: a six cent of somebody on the show, and then
- 52:27Speaker 1: there's that that you know whatever that you it's kind
- 52:32Speaker 1: of kind of looming out that she's a great person. Um.
- 52:39Speaker 1: The relationship wasn't doing so well and I got invited
- 52:43Speaker 1: to do a guest starring role on Drop Dead Diva,
- 52:46Speaker 1: which aired on Lifetime. I left on a Thursday and
- 52:51Speaker 1: everything was fine. I mean everything was fine. It was
- 52:55Speaker 1: I think Father's Day weekend, so flew to Atlanta and
- 52:59Speaker 1: we shot all weekend, and then on Monday afternoon, kind
- 53:03Speaker 1: of late, I get a call from my publicist and
- 53:05Speaker 1: she says, hey, sit down, something's happened to Vienna. And
- 53:08Speaker 1: I said, oh, my gosh, something she's been killing at
- 53:10Speaker 1: a car accident or something like that. Uh. She said, Jake,
- 53:14Speaker 1: Vienna has gone down to Star magazine and has sold
- 53:17Speaker 1: your breakup story. Was like, what, We're not broken up?
- 53:20Speaker 1: What do you I don't even know what you're talking about.
- 53:22Speaker 1: So I hung up on her and called Vienna, and
- 53:24Speaker 1: Vienna answers. She's like, hey, babe, what are you doing?
- 53:26Speaker 1: And like, Vienna, what have you done? Long pause on
- 53:30Speaker 1: the phone, and I said, look, if you don't want
- 53:33Speaker 1: to be together, that's fine, not a problem, but don't
- 53:37Speaker 1: do it like this, opening Pandora's box by putting this
- 53:41Speaker 1: out in the media. And she said, Jake, it's done
- 53:45Speaker 1: and hung up on me. The next thing I knew,
- 53:47Speaker 1: ABC had me on an airplane flying all night long.
- 53:51Speaker 1: Chris Harrison was wrapping up the last episode of the
- 53:54Speaker 1: first season of Bachelor Pad at about three in the morning.
- 53:59Speaker 1: I landed about midnight. They sent a car to l
- 54:01Speaker 1: a X at three, and I guess about three in
- 54:04Speaker 1: the morning, we sat by the pool. I hadn't talked
- 54:07Speaker 1: to Vienna. It was the first time I'd said I
- 54:09Speaker 1: hadn't read the article, and we had just as well,
- 54:13Speaker 1: like two fools sitting on national TV having our first
- 54:17Speaker 1: conversation after I realized my relationship was over. I hadn't
- 54:21Speaker 1: accepted that was over. I didn't even had time to
- 54:23Speaker 1: get heartbroken. It hurt. Nasty article came out, you know,
- 54:28Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you have to respond. The paparazzi reaction
- 54:33Speaker 1: was probably even worse. I know, she couldn't leave her house.
- 54:36Speaker 1: I definitely just kind of had to huddle up for
- 54:38Speaker 1: about a week. Um, it was awful, awful for her,
- 54:42Speaker 1: it was it was terrible for me. How did it
- 54:44Speaker 1: affect your life, because that was something that you probably
- 54:47Speaker 1: weren't excited about showing the world. How did it affect
- 54:50Speaker 1: your life negatively or positively by having that on TV? Well,
- 54:59Speaker 1: everybody has a break cup. Everybody has an argument, you know,
- 55:02Speaker 1: things like that. We just unfortunately had, you know, our
- 55:06Speaker 1: final breakup argument in front of America. You know that's
- 55:09Speaker 1: that is definitely something I regret. You know, yeah, I
- 55:16Speaker 1: look at it now, you know, if that's the if
- 55:22Speaker 1: that's the worst breakup. But you know I ever have
- 55:24Speaker 1: in my life, it's not that bad. You know, we
- 55:26Speaker 1: just had a little argument in front of America. What
- 55:28Speaker 1: it was was incredibly immature. Yeah. Did I mean we're
- 55:32Speaker 1: talking earlier. Were you able to still fly afterwards as
- 55:37Speaker 1: a pilot as a pilot, yeah, you've You've been a
- 55:38Speaker 1: pilot your whole life. I know what you're I know
- 55:42Speaker 1: what you're alluding to. It. It did alter the course
- 55:45Speaker 1: of my career completely. I mean, that's the huge you
- 55:48Speaker 1: just think about that. I mean, outside of any of
- 55:49Speaker 1: the details, one thing on TV altered the course of
- 55:53Speaker 1: your life really. Uh yeah, for about the next year
- 55:56Speaker 1: of my life. You know, that's all people talked about was,
- 56:00Speaker 1: you know, Jake and Vienna's, you know, the worst fight
- 56:03Speaker 1: they've ever seen. I tell you what. We were on
- 56:06Speaker 1: the cover. God, this isn't something to brag about. We
- 56:09Speaker 1: had more magazine covers and Kim Kardashian did that year
- 56:13Speaker 1: because of that breakup. That's a lot finally that from
- 56:19Speaker 1: Kim that granted in two thousand and nine that the
- 56:24Speaker 1: Kardashians weren't as big of a deal, but they finally
- 56:29Speaker 1: took us off off the covers of the magazines about
- 56:32Speaker 1: that breakup was Mel Gibson and somebody else that call
- 56:39Speaker 1: where he was screaming, yeah, okay, well to switch gears
- 56:43Speaker 1: a little bit. Then life took you to Vegas. Are
- 56:46Speaker 1: you enjoying Vegas right now? Being out here because you
- 56:48Speaker 1: called this home for a little bit. I did. I did. Yeah,
- 56:51Speaker 1: I worked on the I worked on the hosted Chippendales
- 56:53Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks. That was really in a
- 56:55Speaker 1: crazy experience. Kept all my clothes on. Really, I had
- 57:00Speaker 1: a suit on the altime. That's a you've you seem
- 57:03Speaker 1: to be pretty happy about that, like that was a
- 57:05Speaker 1: good experience for you. It was, you know, um, one
- 57:09Speaker 1: of the cool things that you know, being part of
- 57:11Speaker 1: the brass or franchise you know, offers is you get
- 57:14Speaker 1: to experience a lot of different things in life. I've
- 57:16Speaker 1: never done anything theatrical and so that was kind of
- 57:19Speaker 1: the check off right there. Again, to host it, you know,
- 57:21Speaker 1: one of the one of the bigger shows out here
- 57:22Speaker 1: in Vegas. You're now in real estate. Yeah, do commercials
- 57:26Speaker 1: still fly airplanes? And that's the way to describe what
- 57:30Speaker 1: I do. I help CFOs and CEOs of large companies
- 57:35Speaker 1: understand and better manage their real estate. Going back to pilotry, aviation,
- 57:44Speaker 1: give us a little tidbit of what goes on in
- 57:46Speaker 1: the cockpit that we would never expect. Does what come
- 57:54Speaker 1: like scare us a little bit between the bile high cockpit? No,
- 58:00Speaker 1: that's not what I was referring to. Like, do you
- 58:02Speaker 1: guys eat up there? Sleep? Sleep? And be honest, no,
- 58:08Speaker 1: you don't sleep on a flying airplane. I think you know,
- 58:10Speaker 1: I knew scariest moment in the air. Oh good question.
- 58:16Speaker 1: Good thing. I'm jump on a flight in three hours. Yeah,
- 58:18Speaker 1: me too. So my high school sweethearts years ago, I
- 58:23Speaker 1: was still getting my pilot slices. Actually I was working
- 58:25Speaker 1: on my instrument rating. My high school sweetheart asked me
- 58:31Speaker 1: to take her best friends brother flying, and so I'm like, okay,
- 58:34Speaker 1: well can we can do that? So I rent an airplane,
- 58:36Speaker 1: we fly from Dallas down the Waco, have dinner down there,
- 58:38Speaker 1: while we're at dinner, it gets really foggy. I completely
- 58:42Speaker 1: fogged in. This sounds like a chef. K there's next day.
- 58:45Speaker 1: He's got an audition for the Dallas side kick, you know,
- 58:48Speaker 1: professional soccer audition to join the team. It's like, Jake,
- 58:52Speaker 1: I have to get back and let's rent a car.
- 58:53Speaker 1: We couldn't rent a car because I was too young.
- 58:56Speaker 1: I couldn't wouldn't qualify. Can't rent a car. But you
- 58:58Speaker 1: can fly an airplane? So crazy, so um. He talked
- 59:04Speaker 1: me into flying an airplane in instrument conditions and I
- 59:08Speaker 1: had no experience doing that. We got we so I remember,
- 59:12Speaker 1: we took off, we got into severe turbulence in instrument conditions.
- 59:17Speaker 1: I literally turned white. I started at airplane. It was crazy.
- 59:22Speaker 1: So that means when you can't see out of the window,
- 59:24Speaker 1: like you're flying through a cloud, you have to completely
- 59:26Speaker 1: rely on the airplane's instruments. I had my eye fr
- 59:29Speaker 1: license for like two days. I've never been in actual
- 59:34Speaker 1: like I don't know what we flew through. It was
- 59:37Speaker 1: the only turn time in years of flying, I've ever
- 59:39Speaker 1: been in severe turgule. Listen, it was with this guy,
- 59:43Speaker 1: he said. He looked over and he said you were
- 59:44Speaker 1: sheet white, so scary. That's absolutely great. Yeah. Well, I
- 59:49Speaker 1: mean but for the most part, for all the fans
- 59:51Speaker 1: out there listening, it was flying is very safe, right,
- 59:56Speaker 1: Not for myself. I'm not worried, but just let's let
- 59:58Speaker 1: everybody know. Not max A really weirried sometimes about flying
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: because because you're in a tube in the air kind
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: of floating. I bet you know what, I bet I
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: could fix that. Yeah. I've taken a lot of people
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: flying that have a fear of it, lest they see
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: how incredibly easy it is. Pilots don't really fly the airplane.
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: We're more like lifeguards sitting at the side of How
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: do the wings not pop off? They take them on? Okay, perfect, No,
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: It's fascinating to me every time I'm on a plane,
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: and I feel like I'm on a plane at least
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: every three weeks, and it's just like I am miles
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: in the sky right now? What in the world in
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: What always fascinates me is how they invented the car
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: in the late eighteen hundreds. In the early nineteen hundreds,
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: we had planes. That's what. Okay, let's do a lightning
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: round of questions before we think about a Jake on
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: flying flying questions, Jake, how do birds not get hit
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: in the sky like and take their plane? Ask solely
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: that question. So that actually does happen. That's just what
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: took his airplane now I know. But why doesn't happen
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: more often? Um? Well, I mean it's sometimes it does,
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: it doesn't normally. I've inadvertently hit birds. You can't see him,
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: especially small ones, but you know, like big ones, like
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: like I think he hit a couple of geese flying by,
- 1:01:19Speaker 1: and that will take an airplane out of the sky.
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: Do you get so tired of sitting and can you
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: go to the bathroom in the cockpit? Well, you don't
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: want to go to bathroom, go to the bathroom in
- 1:01:27Speaker 1: the cockpit, you know what I mean? But you're allowed
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: to get out of the cockpit. Um, yeah, you can't.
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: How do the wings not break off when turbulence is
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: happening in they're flopping up and down? You know what? Hey,
- 1:01:39Speaker 1: that's a great that's a fair question. Um So Boeing
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: and Airbus they test those wings, they would it would
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: have to get so bumpy. I'm trying to think those
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: wings will flex well above the top of the airplane.
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: You'd have to be an extreme turbulence to break one apart.
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: They're just built to do. You can't imagine if my
- 1:02:02Speaker 1: wing on my plane was above my airplane, I'll turbulent
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: that the wings I would be so scary. I've never
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: seen anything even close to it, really moving up and
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: down and that that that's the extreme. If they to
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: snap the wings, you have to bend the wings up
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: almost nine degrees okay, last never even imagined a plane
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: can be like a bird like that. Um flying etiquette.
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: When it comes to people getting off the plane, is
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: there an order in which people should follow? You know what,
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: people are pretty calm getting off an airplane. No airport etiquette.
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: Let me, I was going to write a book. Seriously,
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: let's go back to this planet etiquet. Is there an
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: order at which people should be getting off a plane
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: as fast as freaking possible because the pilots are ready
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: to go home? Yeah? But is it? Okay? Is it
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: seat by seat? Row by row? Do they stand in
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: a line in the middle? Do you wait to the
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: person passes? Just? Is there any type of order in
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: which people need to get off planes? Mr pilot? So
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: I guess you just start with row number one, and
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: it just kind of trickles. You would think, Yeah, you
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: would think that you encounter normally people try to people
- 1:03:10Speaker 1: climb over my seat. Oh wait, please regale us with
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: the tail of your last flight. Yeah, I was sitting,
- 1:03:18Speaker 1: uh in the middle seat. Somebody on the window seat
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: decided once the plane had stopped and every we were taxiing,
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: we had stopped. After the taxi, I guess we were
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: at the gate. That little chime goes bing and he
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: decides to climb over me to get Yes, literally scooted
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: over me. Did you have a twenty Yeah, it felt
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: like it. It was incredibly inappropriate and odd and I
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: don't get why we as Americans just can't stand in lines. Hey, Jake,
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: thanks so much for coming on the podcast. Yeah, thanks
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: for talking. Thanks for sharing. I know a lot of
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: this stuff isn't always easy and uh and and a
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: lot of your memories as the bachelor, you know, are
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: kind of related back to a breakup and and that's
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: kind of the case for a lot of us. But
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: just know we appreciate you talking about so thanks man,
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Thank you so much. Jake Pavelka
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: joined our podcast and we appreciate him. That's that's that
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: was an awesome segment. Appreciate. As we close out now
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