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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is the Almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
- 0:05Speaker 2: All Right, welcome to Almost Famous and I am so
- 0:07Speaker 2: excited to get to talk to you today. I mean
- 0:09Speaker 2: this is going to be a gripping interview. Oh boy, yes,
- 0:14Speaker 2: so uh, Susan, You've been a part of obviously The
- 0:19Speaker 2: Golden Bachelor, it was just air that just aired, and
- 0:22Speaker 2: then you were a huge part of the Golden Wedding.
- 0:25Speaker 3: Wedding.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Yeah, were you surprised when they were like, you know,
- 0:28Speaker 2: let's have season actually do the officiancy.
- 0:30Speaker 4: So you know, it's funny when I talked to Jason
- 0:32Speaker 4: some months before they have me go do a segment
- 0:34Speaker 4: in Joey's show, and he said, while they have you
- 0:37Speaker 4: on the phone, just know January fourth, you're going to
- 0:40Speaker 4: be out and Kelly and I said, for what he goes, Wow,
- 0:44Speaker 4: let's just say it's an opportunity.
- 0:46Speaker 3: In my brain, I was like, I'm.
- 0:48Speaker 1: Going to get to meet Chris k We're going to
- 0:50Speaker 1: have lunch.
- 0:53Speaker 4: So when we were at the Final Rose and they
- 0:56Speaker 4: announced the wedding January fourth, I knew.
- 0:59Speaker 3: I used the right now.
- 1:02Speaker 2: You and I were talking earlier, we are we are
- 1:04Speaker 2: actually coming uh this podcast where we're we're doing it
- 1:07Speaker 2: here in Carmel, California.
- 1:09Speaker 3: It's beautiful, isn't it? Lovely place?
- 1:11Speaker 2: Our second year coming out here to do the pro
- 1:13Speaker 2: am and to be a part of everything out here
- 1:15Speaker 2: which has been so beautiful. And you and I were
- 1:18Speaker 2: talking outside about how you said, uh, you haven't had
- 1:20Speaker 2: a bunch of people sliding into.
- 1:22Speaker 3: Your d MS.
- 1:23Speaker 2: Yam unlucky, unsurprisingly, but I think you you have, you
- 1:27Speaker 2: gotten a bunch of officiant offers.
- 1:29Speaker 4: Now that you've been blowing up, blowing up. I can's cool,
- 1:33Speaker 4: that's been great, that's been great.
- 1:34Speaker 3: So who knows. I mean, you might just roll on.
- 1:36Speaker 3: It might be one of those things that comes.
- 1:38Speaker 2: You're up there on this on the stage, officiating officials
- 1:43Speaker 2: at somebody's wedding. He's like a groomsman rights it Has
- 1:47Speaker 2: it been a certain demo that you've been getting young bride?
- 1:51Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 1:53Speaker 1: Is your father available? I meant an uncle?
- 1:56Speaker 3: Yeah? So what is the age range?
- 1:58Speaker 2: I know you were on the show The Golden Bachelor
- 1:59Speaker 2: and and we all know the garys in his seventies, right,
- 2:02Speaker 2: So is that is that you're prime?
- 2:04Speaker 3: Because you're youthful, you have a ton of energy days.
- 2:08Speaker 3: But go down. I won't go past fourteen years younger. Okay,
- 2:15Speaker 3: So okay, so fourteen years younger what I could do?
- 2:18Speaker 2: Okay, so you'd be let's see, you'd be looking at
- 2:21Speaker 2: thirty five.
- 2:24Speaker 4: Fifty six actually okay, okay, so that's not a bad
- 2:28Speaker 4: that's let's see, I'm fifty three.
- 2:30Speaker 3: We'll see. I mean, too bad, you're taking We had
- 2:34Speaker 3: some fun. So, okay, you're on the show.
- 2:38Speaker 2: We were talking about how the producers can kind of
- 2:41Speaker 2: encourage you to say things and get you to do
- 2:43Speaker 2: different things, and it's you know, ratings gold right.
- 2:46Speaker 3: I mean, the show was a big hit. So there
- 2:48Speaker 3: was something you.
- 2:49Speaker 2: Brought up that I thought was kind of interesting, something about, uh,
- 2:54Speaker 2: some measurement something.
- 2:56Speaker 3: What was that?
- 2:57Speaker 4: As I said on The Women Tell All, if I
- 3:00Speaker 4: my son was going to be that upset with me
- 3:02Speaker 4: for saying six inches, he didn't talk to me.
- 3:05Speaker 3: Are you kidding?
- 3:06Speaker 4: Oh?
- 3:06Speaker 3: Mom, I can't believe you said that. So when I
- 3:10Speaker 3: was a woman Tell Jesse asked me.
- 3:12Speaker 4: To describe that movement, Yeah, I said, I would have
- 3:15Speaker 4: definitely said eight.
- 3:16Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're gonna get in trouble for it, yeah, exactly. Now, Okay,
- 3:24Speaker 2: we've been hearing some talk that there might be some
- 3:26Speaker 2: conversations about because of the success of the Golden Bachelor
- 3:29Speaker 2: in the Golden Wedding, maybe they do a Golden Bachelorette.
- 3:32Speaker 3: I believe that's happening.
- 3:34Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 3:35Speaker 4: I think the ads out for men to apply interesting.
- 3:38Speaker 4: I believe honestly that you can find more women than
- 3:43Speaker 4: you can men at that. Yeah. I bet if I
- 3:47Speaker 4: have that opportunity, I hope I like one of those
- 3:49Speaker 4: twenty men.
- 3:50Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's funny. Definitely go down in eight right, Yeah,
- 3:53Speaker 3: there you go.
- 3:53Speaker 2: You'll be like, hey, let's hope up the casting pool
- 3:55Speaker 2: a little bit, right, have they Have they mentioned it
- 3:57Speaker 2: because you know, they're notorious for bringing it up to
- 3:59Speaker 2: a couple of people all on the show that might
- 4:01Speaker 2: be of interest.
- 4:02Speaker 4: They four of us side think, yeah, this has been interesting,
- 4:06Speaker 4: and we all have our own thoughts.
- 4:07Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I always thought it was interesting that when
- 4:10Speaker 2: when they asked me to be the Bachelor, and I
- 4:12Speaker 2: was I was excited, you know, like, of course, you
- 4:14Speaker 2: know this would be so just you know, I think
- 4:16Speaker 2: they brought it up to like three of us on
- 4:17Speaker 2: the show, and then my story was kind of interesting
- 4:20Speaker 2: because Oprah had taken a liking to Trista's season of
- 4:24Speaker 2: the of the Bachelorette, and I was someone who's just
- 4:28Speaker 2: kept appearing on Oprah, right, So I was on there
- 4:30Speaker 2: like fourteen times from the time I was on the
- 4:32Speaker 2: Bachelorette and Oprah. One day was like, I want to
- 4:34Speaker 2: have to be the next bachelor, and that was really
- 4:35Speaker 2: all it.
- 4:36Speaker 3: Sure, that's all.
- 4:38Speaker 2: Yeah, O Earth the Oprah. But they never asked me.
- 4:43Speaker 2: They never like said, like, what are you interested in
- 4:45Speaker 2: in a woman?
- 4:45Speaker 3: Like? They didn't ask me.
- 4:46Speaker 2: So when I show up as a bachelor, it was like,
- 4:48Speaker 2: I think they cast who they thought I would be
- 4:51Speaker 2: interested in, not necessarily never they never said like do
- 4:55Speaker 2: you like blondes, brunettes, like you know, someone who's you know, tall, short.
- 5:00Speaker 3: They didn't ask me anything.
- 5:00Speaker 1: I wonder if they did Gary, if he had anything
- 5:03Speaker 1: to do it.
- 5:03Speaker 3: I don't know that it would be interested in.
- 5:04Speaker 2: That would be interesting because generally speaking, I think I
- 5:07Speaker 2: think they don't, right, because they're looking at a pool
- 5:10Speaker 2: of very confident all types.
- 5:13Speaker 3: And you and I talked about this.
- 5:15Speaker 2: I've been asked a bunch of times, you know, what,
- 5:16Speaker 2: what type of advice would you give to the next bachelor?
- 5:19Speaker 2: And my statement has always been for the guy to
- 5:22Speaker 2: realize about you, right, you really know, I'm always like, buddy,
- 5:28Speaker 2: you are not ben Affleck. Okay, this is just because
- 5:31Speaker 2: a flower. It doesn't make you leading man.
- 5:34Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 5:34Speaker 2: But I always say, I'm always like, it's not about
- 5:36Speaker 2: the guy. It's really about the women that are cast
- 5:39Speaker 2: around that guy. And I and I say that, you know,
- 5:42Speaker 2: people think I'm saying it and like being self deprecating,
- 5:45Speaker 2: but I'm honestly not. I really think that if you
- 5:48Speaker 2: had a monkey up there handing out a flower and
- 5:50Speaker 2: you have twenty very strong, beautiful, accomplished women, they're just.
- 5:55Speaker 3: Like, I don't want that bitch to get a flower.
- 5:58Speaker 3: She's not gone.
- 6:00Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's more about the women and that in
- 6:02Speaker 2: that interplay that it's really not about the Guy's not
- 6:05Speaker 2: the product.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Go back to chemistry. There has to be chemistry.
- 6:09Speaker 2: I had it, Yeah, and you, I said, you know,
- 6:11Speaker 2: you you had mentioned that you and Gary did you
- 6:13Speaker 2: guys have more of like a a friendship vibe or
- 6:16Speaker 2: what would you say?
- 6:17Speaker 1: Was I was his support? He confided in me.
- 6:20Speaker 4: I made him laugh, like the very first one, not
- 6:24Speaker 4: one on one, but the first few minutes we had together.
- 6:27Speaker 4: I remember looking in his eyes, and he was very
- 6:29Speaker 4: sincere and paid attention, which is very important in who
- 6:34Speaker 4: I picked you, and I liked it. I thought, oh well,
- 6:37Speaker 4: let's give this a shot. Yeah, I'd like to get
- 6:39Speaker 4: to know him. We never got to that point where
- 6:42Speaker 4: one on one, but throughout the whole thing I jumped
- 6:45Speaker 4: out of his birthday cake and everything I did made
- 6:49Speaker 4: him laugh. And at the Rose ceremonies, I was his
- 6:51Speaker 4: support in a touch of my heart, I was there
- 6:54Speaker 4: for him.
- 6:55Speaker 3: So we're buddies.
- 6:56Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost like a wonderful gift to come away
- 6:59Speaker 2: from the show with Trista and I have been friends
- 7:01Speaker 2: now for twenty years. Ryan was actually my roommate in
- 7:04Speaker 2: the mansion when we were like we were bunk mates.
- 7:06Speaker 2: You know, you were in a bunk bed. Well, we
- 7:08Speaker 2: were in singles. Yeah, they weren't stacked.
- 7:13Speaker 3: Yeah, but we were like we were in singles.
- 7:14Speaker 2: But it was funny because you know, it was a
- 7:17Speaker 2: very similar type of chemistry, Like I adore her, but
- 7:20Speaker 2: we we were we had that friendship vibe that's carried
- 7:23Speaker 2: over for twenty years now.
- 7:25Speaker 4: When you weren't the bachelor per se, you were in
- 7:28Speaker 4: the group. Yes, how did the men vibe. Oh, so, you.
- 7:33Speaker 2: Know, it is interesting. I I think it starts at
- 7:36Speaker 2: the top. I really do so. And I would always
- 7:38Speaker 2: say that. I wouldway say, you know, I think it's
- 7:39Speaker 2: the lead really sets the tone for the show. And
- 7:42Speaker 2: Trista is such a lovely shirle.
- 7:46Speaker 3: It's all about gratitude.
- 7:47Speaker 2: And so we went on that show and it's you know,
- 7:50Speaker 2: we were twenty five guys.
- 7:51Speaker 3: We were.
- 7:51Speaker 2: And I remember saying, because I was the elder statesman
- 7:54Speaker 2: of the girl at the time, I was thirty, and
- 7:57Speaker 2: I remember saying to the guys, I was like, guys,
- 7:59Speaker 2: it does matter if we like each other or not.
- 8:02Speaker 2: What matters is who she likes. So why don't we
- 8:04Speaker 2: make Why don't we have a great time. Let's be buddies.
- 8:06Speaker 2: Let's get along.
- 8:06Speaker 3: Let's be supportive of one of the guys. Guy, And
- 8:08Speaker 3: I'm like, let's be buddies.
- 8:09Speaker 1: Anybody butt up against you, like, not really.
- 8:14Speaker 3: With me, but they would like there was still a
- 8:16Speaker 3: couple of and I'd be like, dude, they're filming. You
- 8:21Speaker 3: don't don't don't don't talk like that. You're gonna regret it,
- 8:25Speaker 3: you know.
- 8:25Speaker 2: And I was so glad because we got along great
- 8:27Speaker 2: and then when I was the Bachelor after that, I
- 8:29Speaker 2: remember saying, like, I had such a great experience on
- 8:31Speaker 2: the beast Red because we all got along. I hope
- 8:32Speaker 2: you guys can do the same thing. I think for
- 8:34Speaker 2: the most part, the women on my show got along
- 8:35Speaker 2: really well too. You know, there are a couple in
- 8:37Speaker 2: there that you know, they weren't there to make friends, right,
- 8:40Speaker 2: That's where the whole thing started, I think.
- 8:42Speaker 4: But that was different with our show because I guess
- 8:46Speaker 4: because of our agent, our maturity, and what we've been
- 8:48Speaker 4: through in life, we were bonding that I took away
- 8:52Speaker 4: such good friendships from this.
- 9:05Speaker 3: You've probably heard me say this before.
- 9:08Speaker 2: I was so happy with how they cast the show
- 9:11Speaker 2: because there was definitely an opportunity there where they could have,
- 9:15Speaker 2: you know, made it like, yeah, like cast some some
- 9:19Speaker 2: you know, young women in there that we're going to
- 9:21Speaker 2: just stir up the pot and all this kind of stuff.
- 9:23Speaker 2: I was so glad that they went with an age
- 9:24Speaker 2: appropriate cast, beautiful, accomplished, still young, you know, still young
- 9:30Speaker 2: and vibrant women. But it wasn't like they were trying
- 9:33Speaker 2: to just mix it, mix it up and make it
- 9:34Speaker 2: druma dramatic for dreams.
- 9:36Speaker 4: Thought it to be golden, you had to be sixty five.
- 9:38Speaker 4: That's what I understood. And when the first day, when
- 9:40Speaker 4: we came down from the hotel the first night, then limos,
- 9:44Speaker 4: I'm looking around and I'm like.
- 9:45Speaker 3: Okay, I feel it right.
- 9:46Speaker 4: And I look over here and my producers like, don't
- 9:48Speaker 4: look at anybody. I said, I'm going to get in
- 9:50Speaker 4: a car with them.
- 9:51Speaker 3: I can't. I can't. I look over here. It's all joan.
- 9:54Speaker 4: I go and then I find out she's sixty. I
- 10:00Speaker 4: was like, really, really, that's not golden. That's you don't
- 10:03Speaker 4: get touch of security at sixty, like that should be
- 10:07Speaker 4: a proper bak. But there was like six of them
- 10:10Speaker 4: on our shop. Yeah that we're only sixty something.
- 10:13Speaker 2: But what did you think, I mean, when you first
- 10:15Speaker 2: met Gary, were you kind of like, oh my god,
- 10:17Speaker 2: he's like he's a nice guy. I thought he seemed
- 10:19Speaker 2: like the nice He is a nice guy. He was midwesterner.
- 10:22Speaker 2: He didn't have a lot of games like that edge
- 10:25Speaker 2: or whatever. Like girls, you guys you went for a
- 10:28Speaker 2: little eleven. Then you're like, okay, no game here. No.
- 10:32Speaker 3: I think I shocked Gary.
- 10:34Speaker 4: Don't you think it's time you gave me a real
- 10:36Speaker 4: kiss and then he and then he.
- 10:40Speaker 3: Went for he brought it in. That's all you can do.
- 10:43Speaker 3: You gotta ask, right, the answers always know.
- 10:44Speaker 4: If you don't ask, well, you know what if there's
- 10:46Speaker 4: chemistry and a woman says to you, yeah, don't you
- 10:50Speaker 4: think it's time to give me a kid?
- 10:51Speaker 3: If you feel like, if you have chemistry, you're coming in,
- 10:53Speaker 3: you gotta get you gotta throw it down. It was
- 10:56Speaker 3: my buddy there you go.
- 10:57Speaker 2: Yeah, You're like, okay, we're not gonna we need to
- 10:59Speaker 2: go on next level here that how much longer?
- 11:02Speaker 3: How much longer did you stay on the show after?
- 11:04Speaker 4: Actually I stayed to the very last right before hoo
- 11:06Speaker 4: yeah hometown.
- 11:07Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the same.
- 11:08Speaker 4: Because I was his support system. I really believe it.
- 11:11Speaker 4: We are still friends.
- 11:12Speaker 3: Today, isn't that nice? Yes?
- 11:13Speaker 2: Well, I would say so. I mean, you were the
- 11:15Speaker 2: officiant in the wedding, so you got you got it.
- 11:17Speaker 4: That was a moment too, and they asked me, that's
- 11:20Speaker 4: so hard for It was really special.
- 11:21Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a lot of great things that went
- 11:22Speaker 3: on in that wedding.
- 11:23Speaker 2: I mean there was also a proposal that happened at
- 11:25Speaker 2: the wedding, which was pretty cool.
- 11:27Speaker 4: And I was plugging away. I'm going to marry charity.
- 11:29Speaker 4: I told Braden, I'm going to marry your business cards
- 11:33Speaker 4: all over the place.
- 11:34Speaker 3: That's awesome.
- 11:35Speaker 2: So how's your experience been so far here in Karmel?
- 11:37Speaker 2: I have You've been having fun getting to everybody.
- 11:39Speaker 4: Just a little upset of the weather. But I'm even
- 11:43Speaker 4: more upset than I have to leave tomorrow. Had I known,
- 11:46Speaker 4: I would have been here for four days. Oh hecky ezy.
- 11:48Speaker 3: Next year, I will stay.
- 11:50Speaker 2: Now.
- 11:50Speaker 3: Are you going to go down to the program? Are
- 11:51Speaker 3: you gonna check it? Head down there? Safe to noon?
- 11:54Speaker 3: I can't wait. Fun experience.
- 11:55Speaker 4: Really thought I was going to get to play a
- 11:56Speaker 4: little bit just to say I did. But I guess
- 11:58Speaker 4: I'll buy your shirt. Yeah, no one's going to know
- 12:01Speaker 4: if I was there. I crushed the pebble beach. Well,
- 12:06Speaker 4: I love thank you so much for coming on. Here's
- 12:10Speaker 4: just such a blast.
- 12:11Speaker 2: I had so much fun hanging out with you last
- 12:13Speaker 2: My wife loved hanging out and somebody, what a fun crowd.
- 12:18Speaker 2: It really is a fun crowd, isn't it. I always
- 12:20Speaker 2: say that with the iHeart Crew too. It's like once
- 12:22Speaker 2: once you're a part of it. It's like, oh, please
- 12:24Speaker 2: invite me to the next thing. We did that jingle
- 12:26Speaker 2: ball thing that was that was such a That was
- 12:30Speaker 2: my first time ever at the Bacheler mansion really, so
- 12:32Speaker 2: when we did my season way back in the day,
- 12:34Speaker 2: it was in a totally different house. So that's now
- 12:38Speaker 2: the primary occas. You know, that the primary residence for
- 12:41Speaker 2: the Bachelor, but I had never been.
- 12:42Speaker 4: It's so funny because I was watching Joey's and I'm like, oh,
- 12:46Speaker 4: they re arranged that, they changed that color.
- 12:48Speaker 3: There's new sofas in there. Everything's designer, I guess designer. Yeah,
- 12:53Speaker 3: it was beautiful when we were there.
- 12:54Speaker 2: I loved what they you know, how they set up
- 12:56Speaker 2: the outside for the food and everything and the big
- 12:58Speaker 2: screen and it was kind of I.
- 13:00Speaker 4: Got to know that the caterer lady like the rose
- 13:02Speaker 4: Hermony's the cocktail party. She would come in the first
- 13:05Speaker 4: night I was out there and I'm going, so, what
- 13:06Speaker 4: do you bring it next time?
- 13:07Speaker 3: She was is there anything you'd like?
- 13:09Speaker 4: I said, oh, yeah, I would dictate, and she brought
- 13:12Speaker 4: it on.
- 13:13Speaker 3: People were like, wow, we got I said, You're welcome.
- 13:15Speaker 3: You're welcome. Yeah, I knew I liked you, so I
- 13:18Speaker 3: was doing that same thing. When I walk into the mansion,
- 13:21Speaker 3: I was like.
- 13:21Speaker 2: The second persons. Yeah, I was the second person in
- 13:25Speaker 2: for trist this season. And there was like a pause,
- 13:27Speaker 2: a really long pause, and I'm like in there by
- 13:29Speaker 2: myself with this one other guy and his name was Jamie.
- 13:31Speaker 2: We ended up putting it off and still buddies today.
- 13:33Speaker 2: And I remember I wasn't supposed to talk to the
- 13:35Speaker 2: waiters or anything. But next thing you know, I'm walking
- 13:36Speaker 2: in the middle kitchen, which you guys, what's going on
- 13:38Speaker 2: back here? Can I get some extra lemons of my drink?
- 13:41Speaker 2: And next thing you know, it's like, you know, come
- 13:42Speaker 2: to find out they're all producers.
- 13:44Speaker 4: Right, I didn't even know, right, But yeah, I'm so
- 13:48Speaker 4: glad you had such a great real quick I had
- 13:50Speaker 4: a psychic breathing.
- 13:52Speaker 3: Okay, nice. Now.
- 13:53Speaker 4: I used to see this woman's mother for twenty some years.
- 13:56Speaker 4: She passed and the daughter took over, and I've been
- 13:58Speaker 4: seeing her and they're doing some kind of a documentary.
- 14:01Speaker 1: She helps police find the body so on.
- 14:03Speaker 3: So but she's really really amazing.
- 14:05Speaker 4: And I was down in Saint Martin with Kathy and
- 14:07Speaker 4: Nancy about a week ago, and she wanted to do
- 14:11Speaker 4: this thing. I had to go upstairs and shut the door.
- 14:13Speaker 4: Long story short. She says to me, there's a third ring.
- 14:18Speaker 4: I go really, she said. He has a connection with California.
- 14:23Speaker 4: He's a bigger guy, and he wears a mic in
- 14:25Speaker 4: his ear. I'm like, I have not met him yet,
- 14:30Speaker 4: but if you're out there and you hear me, step up,
- 14:32Speaker 4: step off, buddy.
- 14:33Speaker 3: Listen. We're not kissing like friends. You know what I'm saying.
- 14:36Speaker 4: We're going for I just know how to kiss. That's
- 14:38Speaker 4: something you can't teach people.
- 14:40Speaker 3: Now, you know.
- 14:41Speaker 2: It's kind of weird. I'm practicing on my pillow in
- 14:44Speaker 2: seventh grade. I'm like, I'm gonna be really good at
- 14:45Speaker 2: this Sunday. I never knew how affect me later in life. Yeah,
- 14:48Speaker 2: how do you learn that?
- 14:49Speaker 3: You know? It just happens, you're not.
- 14:52Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I haven't gotten any bad reports, but
- 14:54Speaker 2: if there are any out there, keeping to yourselves, I.
- 14:57Speaker 3: Don't want to hear about it. Thank you so much.
- 15:00Speaker 3: I should have a great time the rest of the time.
- 15:01Speaker 2: You're I and we get to have you on the
- 15:03Speaker 2: show again, thanking about all the other good stuff. Absolutely,
- 15:06Speaker 2: I know it's just lining up I'm having the ball,
- 15:08Speaker 2: so keep it up.
- 15:09Speaker 3: Let's go see this Gouff