A Golden Limo Entrance

It’s finally time for the first episode of The Golden Bachelor! 

Ben finds he relates to Gerry on a deeply personal level, and he’s looking forward to comparing his experience as “The” Bachelor with what he sees in Gerry on his quest for love.

This season of The Bachelor has much higher stakes than a typical season, and Ben and Ashley discuss why contestants in their 60s/70s have an easier time on the show than people in 20s.
 
Plus, we talk to a Golden fan for a REAL grandma’s take on the first episode!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
with iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
We are here for something we've been waiting on for
four years.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Four years to do this.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
At this moment that's actually very accurate. Is actually we've
been waiting four years for this moment. We're very excited
for this moment, and we hope you are too. But
we want to hear your thoughts and opinion, so please,
you know, comment on our social media, let us know,
email us, let us know what you're thinking of The
Golden Bachelor. We're here today to break down episode one

(00:32):
of The Golden Bachelor with our Golden Bachelor, Gary Ashley.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Take it away.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
I feel like you should take it away because this
is the show that you've been waiting for and wanting
to host and all that.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Okay, I think you should, Well, then I will. Here's
the deal, Okay, Well, we look forward to going into
this show. Where we have been talking about for months
now is the idea that this show could transcend the
other shows because of storytelling piece. Now Night one, just
like every other Night one on any other show that

(01:06):
The Bachelor has done, is probably going to be the
weakest storytelling that we get. In fact, I think I
think any emotion that you felt watching episode one, and
my wife, you know, definitely felt the emotion. I felt
the emotion at times. I think, week after week, it's
just going to increase, all right, would hope it would.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
And this starts out.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
And the reason I say this at the beginning is
because we get an in depth look right off the
bat of our golden bachelor Gary. We hear his story.
He's married forty three years to his high school sweetheart.
They have some beautiful kids, they have grandkids, and then

(01:49):
he retires and they build their dream home, and then
all of a sudden, she becomes very sick, and a
week later she passes, and.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
He's now left alone.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
You know, he has his family, he has his grandkids,
but he's left alone. And I would imagine Ashley at
seventy now years old. I think he's seventy one to
be exact, but you know, she passed away in his sixties.
I would imagine that only is a feeling of deep,
deep grief and sadness and confusion, especially as you're into

(02:25):
a monumental season of life with somebody. But it's also
at some point when that grief and the sadness you know,
goes away and you become still sad and you're still
mourning the death of your loved one, but you're you're
moving on with life. I'm assuming it starts to get
very lonely because you a lot of the people I

(02:45):
know in their seventies and eighties, they just miss that partner.
And as Gary said it, like he just misses that
person to lay beside at night and maybe not say
a word, but that somebody else is there.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah, let me tell you that it was because of
Gary's story in the beginning and how absolutely emotional it
was that I actually I felt like almost too protective
of him, almost like nobody I didn't.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
Like.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
I was like, okay, I've never even though we've watched
like you know, former leads get broken up with the
season previous, I've never felt so protective over someone and
like feeling like no one like can compete, and like
he said, like he doesn't want whoever he finds to
compete with his wife. He wants to like find like

(03:45):
a new and different type of love. But I almost
I just found myself being like not worthy, not worthy?

Speaker 6 (03:52):
Are you like, do you think I'm cold hearted.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't think you're cold hearted at all.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
I mean, I don't think you're pointing at any of
these women being like you're not worthy of him, You're
not worthy of And I think it in general, you
had a very similar feeling that Jessica had from the
very beginning, which her very first tears at Rashid, she goes,
who's taking care of him? Like like, I think it's
a similar feeling of like, this is a sweet man,
and he is obviously not looking for fame, He's not

(04:20):
desiring fortune. All these things that I think the Bachelor
started to get criticized for as of recent are out
of the question for him.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
You know, fame might.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Feel good for a bit, this attention might feel fun
and fascinating, but he's not looking for the fortunes. He's
not looking for the Instagram deals. He's in this for
this deep desire that maybe I could try something different
to spark something up in my life at this age
when excitement. You know, you don't get a lot anew

(04:50):
in your seventies. They're not a lot of things that
happened to you in your seventies that are new to you.
Maybe a grandchild right, You've never experienced being a grandfather,
you know, grandparent before, but this is new for all
of these people, especially for him, who is leading this
franchise and leading this new show and getting the interviews
now on television and having to respond to questions and

(05:13):
figure out some like sneaky ways to answer them. And
Jessica just starts crysch, Who's taking care of this man? Like,
because Ben, I know how they took care of the Siffer.
I like a fault, a default to thinking that the
daughters are I'm guessing they're not around for all of this.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
I mean, Ashley, you know you've been around.

Speaker 6 (05:32):
It, I mean throughout the actual process.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, they they're not around for that. So they're not
traveling with him on a plane these interviews. I mean,
let's compare it for a second, okay, because I think
this is this is an interesting conversation to compare. I
think will have to through this whole season, at least
for season one, compare and contrast to my experience because
I think, you know, as the Bachelor, it might be
the closest thing that we know today to what he's

(05:54):
feeling now. Yeah, And I think that is something that
I've had, I've you know, this is the first time
my wife and I've watched a Bachelor related show together
in our relationship, So that's a big deal to me.
And I had a really good time talking to Jessica
last night about my experience compared to what he's feeling,
or what it's like to walk into the mansion for
the first time, or what it's like to pull up

(06:14):
in the limo as the bachelor and to get out
and stand there as these women greet you and you're like,
I don't I don't deserve this, or this is weird
for me. And so I'm sitting there last night and
I'm watching this, and I know how hard it was
for me. Yes, I'm never the one to say the
producers don't care. I've never said that, I never will.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
I think they do. I think they do it in
the best.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Way they know how, and I don't know if it's
a good way, but it's the best way they know how.
It's not criticizing them, but for me it was. It
still to this day has some like effect on me personally.
It's exhausting. You're breaking people's hearts, You're getting things said
about you that are very negative at time and can
really strike a chord with you. You're also getting things

(07:01):
very positive, like you're getting things said about you that
are very positive, and you don't know how to handle that.
You don't know like what to believe and what not
to believe. And at the end of the day, no
human being has training on how to be almost famous,
and this poor man at seventy years old is experience
in it for the first time. Now, yes, he has

(07:21):
some wisdom that I didn't have. He probably has some
you know, some ways in now getting life that he's
learned along the way that I don't know yet. But
he's also seventy years old and he's gone through heartbreak
and he doesn't know what he's getting himself into who's
taking care of him?

Speaker 4 (07:39):
So are you sad and scared that he's not being
taken care of?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
I think he is. I think the show is going
to learn. I think it's gonna be good for the show.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
My response to this, and my response to Jessica was
I think I know and you know these people well
enough to know that they're not going to let a
seventy year old man and a bunch of sixty plus
year old women go through this in the same way
they allow twenty year olds to go through this. They're
just not Yeah, they're not. They're gonna have to step
up the game and care and in like emotional like

(08:05):
rehabilitation and allowing them to talk about their feelings and
their thoughts and about their disappointment. And it might just
be me, Ashley, it might just be me, but I did.
I got very emotional last night as I thought about
the times in my life that my parents have been
really excited for something, Like I know, you know, my
mom puts on the dress and she puts on the makeup.

(08:26):
My wedding is a good example, and my dad puts
on a suit and he combs his hair, and I know,
and I know for me, when I feel really excited
for something, right, like maybe the Bachelor's a good example
of that, or my wedding day is a great example
of that. Still, and you get really pumped for something
and there's a lot of expectation and there's a lot
of nerves, And I wonder what it'd feel like if

(08:49):
I was in my sixties or seventies and I haven't
felt those that excitement a long time, Like if I've
been desiring it and craving it and praying for it,
and I just haven't felt it. I've been saying, like,
I want something to happen in my life that allows
me to feel alive again. And then these women get
asked to be on the show, and they go to
their hotel rooms and they put on their dresses and
they put on their makeup and they feel alive again.

(09:10):
But then, just like every season and we expect it,
there's a new depth now to letting these women go
to me. And there's probably a heaviness to Gary because
I think he probably feels that heaviness knowing that these
women gave up a lot, they took a lot of risk,
not only a their kids watching this, but then their
grandkids are watching this, and now I'm gonna have to
send you home. Like for me, I knew these girls

(09:32):
would be all right. Like they're twenty years old, they're beautiful,
they'll be fine, They'll find somebody.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
There's not for me. But this is a very different.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Situation, and I think it brings a weight to this
show that I hope the show can bring out. I
hope every week I feel that emotion watching this, because
it makes it a beautiful hour of my life when
I can feel that with him again.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
Ben, this is like one of those scenarios where I'm
just like not even really going to respond to because
I think what you said was just great and you
really kind of opened my eyes to reading the show
in a way that I don't think that I I
did not I did. I didn't think about how it
just like the I didn't think about the way.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
I mean, but you know how it is. I mean
I think to yeah, because like I.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
Don't know, because I was always just I was like
directly comparing to my experience and being like, oh, okay,
this is this is so crazy.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
This is just my point.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
This is how I watched it, my point of view,
which is wrong now and I can like realize.

Speaker 6 (10:37):
After you just said it's like totally wrong. I've just no,
I think it's right. I think I actually think it's wrong.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
When you when I am like young, you know, I'm
in my twenties, like I think, like, oh, I get
a limited from the Bachelor, Like oh my god, my
dreams have been crushed, like total dreams crushed, Like I'm
gonna die alone. Nothing's going to compare this experience, like
I did it, and like, you know, I'm talking about

(11:04):
like the girls who like really nothing came much of
it first night or second nighters.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
I mean, like I haven't.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Then I'm embarrassed. But then I'm thinking about these people
as if they're more mature than to feel those emotions.
And they're like, ah, you know what, cool experience didn't
work out for me.

Speaker 6 (11:20):
He wasn't my guy.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Because I think from there, yeah, just after like all
that life, you're like, oh, now that was just glad
to have experienced it. You know that they say, don't
cry because it's over, but like, smile because it happened.
I feel like they're like truly just smiling because it happened.
And then I'm also thinking like if I'm at that
age and like I have well, I'm particularly thinking of

(11:43):
the loss of a spouse and like say I'm one
of the widows, I'm going to be like, oh it
wasn't him, Well that's too bad. Again, great experience, like
I had the love of my life, Like oh I don't.

Speaker 6 (11:56):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
That's just how I would think of That's how I
think of it from being a thirty five year old
watching it. But you can also spend it and think
about how you've thought of it, because I think that
when you're younger and you're like so striving to have
the love of your life, that in these people women's cases,

(12:20):
they may not be looking for like that great love
and more just like for companionship and fun and like
you're not do it. You're not like there to find
the person that you're gonna have and raise a family with,
but like more like have your quote twilight years with
and you're like, oh, maybe I can do that with
the family that I created with another person, and like

(12:40):
I won't need like the actual spouse.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well, think about this.

Speaker 6 (12:45):
Because there's two different ways to look of it.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
I got to make this like terribly heavy, and we're
gonna get into breaking down the show in just a second.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
This is the person you're gonna die with. That's that
what you're gonna say.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Oh god, yeah, I mean there's a there is a illness.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Is to show that I think I personally and not
maybe And I think there are probably women that did
this show that probably responded the same way you did.
That was cool, that was fun. I'm glad I did it.
I'm going home. And this was a late night and
I'm tired and I'm going to take a break.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
I'm sure that.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
I'm sure that's the case for some, but for others.
I do think there's a lot going into this, and
it's just something about It's it's just a something about
last night hit me where I'm thinking about these women
and preparing with their daughters on how to flirt with
a man again, Like how yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
I was like, oh gosh, that's the most stressful thing
I've can ever imagine.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Like these women crushed it last night out of the lemos.
They crushed it in the conversations. They were not only
beautiful and fantastic, but they were a funny and they
tried new things getting out of the limos, and they
were flirty and and I'm like, now you know again,
will you? And I might have experience when we started

(13:58):
this show in doing that and dating and larning and
all those things, right, we were kind of skilled. We
had the practice at the time we were in the
dating pool base we did.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
But did we have the inherent confidence that it takes
because like you know, how they all you see those memes,
it's like twenties, like just crippling with anxiety thirties, don't
really care what Like I'm fully embracing myself forties is
like I don't care what anybody else thinks.

Speaker 6 (14:22):
So also like maybe I don't know.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
I'd love to see myself at sixty five, just in compare,
I don't want a date at sixty five, but I
would be interested to know whether I find it more
comfortable at that age versus at twenty five.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
And I think that's going to be the best question
of the show for me, because I don't know how
to answer that. I don't have parents who aren't together.
I haven't seen a lot of sixties. I mean, last
night was probably the first time in my life I
saw two seventy year old's makeout. That's probably the first
time I've ever seen I can't remember the last time.
And so I think one of the questions for me
through this show will be what does it look like
to be in your sixties and seventies and dating?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Is there a confidence?

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Maybe there's an insecurity still, maybe there's like so much
of a desire that like it comes off as insecure.
I think this will, you know, just like The Bachelor
and The Bachelorette in its heyday was kind of this
like really cool social experiment where you get to see
how people reacted with each other in different situations, and
you got to learn kind of about human behavior, and

(15:22):
we kind of saw it all by now, right, we've
seen how twenty year olds react to each other. That's
why everybody's wanting, you know, people in their thirties, people
a little more mature, to go on the show so
they could see how thirty year olds react in dating situations.
Now we get to do the same thing, but with
people in their sixties and seventies, we get to see
maybe they are more confident, maybe they do let their
hair down a little bit. You know, last night, I

(15:42):
would say it was probably pointing to Yes, confidence is
definitely a consistent theme throughout all of these women's lives.
I can't say that yet about our Golden Bachelor. I
think he still has some insecurity, which makes sense because well,
I think he just feels overwhelmed by the fact that
he has twenty women coming to date him, and so
he's probably just overwhelmed more than anything. But we're gonna

(16:02):
see if what you think is true. If yes, people
in their sixties and seventies do get more confident as
they get older when it comes to dating.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Alrighty, well, the first woman out of the limo. My goodness,
she's Edith and she's so pretty. She doesn't really make
a splash night one. She wore that golden dress, which
was great move by well her fashion senses, but also
for the producers to be like, yes, that dress, go
with that dress, because this is the Golden Bachelor moment

(16:43):
where he goes, we're making history. You are the first
woman out of the limo for the Golden Bachelor.

Speaker 6 (16:50):
Who I am?

Speaker 4 (16:52):
And yeah, she's just beautiful, makes a nice, classy first impression,
and so does Ellen. Like Ellen, I think she might
be my I think she might be my choice for
him if I had to choose right now, which is
obviously very early on. She had a beautiful turquoise like
big flower.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
One sided dress.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
And she's the one who yelled her best friend's name
out because her best friend, who she's been friends with
for sixty years, is going through cancer and this is
like an adventure that they kind of took on together
to get her on the show.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Now, we did see really like Ellen, We did see
at the end of the episode that her friend did
pass away. This episode was dedicated to her friends, So
I didn't see that.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
I do want to highlight that, you know.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
No, that's a new element of the show, right, and
it's you know, death doesn't escape any of us.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
And I think.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
It's a new element of the show again where to
see her?

Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yeah, man, I didn't see this because I was watching
on TVR No No.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
So you know, there's there's gonna be these storylines. There's
gonna be storylines that make us like it does it
makes us stop for a second.

Speaker 7 (18:06):
You know.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
There's a news article today And I'll pause here and
I'll just interrupt and say, there's a news article today
that was kind of like hating on this Golden Bachelor's show.
It came from a big outlet. I won't name out
the outlet because that's just not fair. I guess it
would be fair. It's public and journalism. But there was
and it said that the Golden Bachelor pretty much missed

(18:28):
on a golden opportunity to do something different. And I
just feel like that is very premature, Like you can't
say that after night one.

Speaker 6 (18:35):
It's premature.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
You cannot say that after night one. We don't know,
and last night and yes, I had a lot of anticipation.
I had a lot of excitement. Nobody that listens to
our show did not know that. I really want to
be involved in this show because I do think it's
beautiful in so many ways, and it can probably be
really beautiful, and I hope the show did a good
job at making it beautiful because I have no idea
at this point. But I think if you look at

(18:58):
Twitter and you look at in and you read the
articles from like critics, I think people had a general
consensus where they felt something more watching this show than
they have in years watching Rally television, and so I
don't think they've missed the mark yet. I can't be
a critic that says that because it's one premature. In

(19:20):
two as you're mentioning, as you run through the women
that stepped out of Limo, there was a depth that
we don't get to see every season.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Yeah, no, I totally agree with you. Yeah, they haven't
missed it yet. It was good, emotional first episode. I
can't imagine where they would have would have done differently
this first episode. It's all about going to be about
these one on ones to me, so what they're going
to talk about in the one on ones and how
the one ones are going to make us feel so
much different because you're.

Speaker 6 (19:49):
Like, oh, this was this is heavy.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
I mean, we see a lot of heavy life stuff
on one on ones in the younger version, but they're
just going to have a lot more to recap about life.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
There's gonna be like, in these conversations, tell me your
life story.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
It's like how much time you got?

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Yeah, yeah, well I was born here. No, Like, it's
gonna be different. And I think two, you and I
have desired.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
This for years.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
You've been a fan of this show for longer than
I have, but I've been a fan of the show
for a while. You know, I think last night fell
very similar to the early seasons of The Bachelor and Bachelorette.
I think, yeah, for me, there's some characters that I'm
really invested into. And so obviously you just mentioned the
first two a Lemma, what other women I guess really

(20:37):
stood out to you at night on Night one that
you're like, I want to see more of them?

Speaker 4 (20:42):
All right, Yeah, let's go through the big ones, the
ones that, like, you know you finished Night one, you
remember their names or you remember something memorable from them. Sandra,
who incredible? How is she seventy? She looks incredible. She
is the one that does breath the work with him,
but just goesfward.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
And it was kind of weird. Oh what's your take
on that?

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Uh? I think she apparently like has a tendency to curse.
She likes cursing. She talks about that later in the episode.
It may have made more sense talked about earlier in
the episode because.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
I was like, is she what word is she saying?

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Is she seems?

Speaker 4 (21:20):
I was like, the only word I can really imagine.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
Her saying is the F word right now? Because she's
not gonna say no.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
I imagine there just needed to be more explanation of what, like.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
I'm imagining, like she's learned in her life.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
That's like, that's in a way a contemplative practice that
if she says it, it like releases something inside of
her and some like it allows her to get some
peace because she's like breathing out the anger something. I
don't know, But we just didn't get an explanation.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
That wouldn't have been the best first impression for me.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
No, it would have thrown me off. I'd have been like,
and I think also like this dude's I know where
he's from. He's from thirty minutes from my hometown. Like
he's from small Tenant. I don't think he's used to that.
Maybe he is, I don't, I known't. Maybe they're lakes
different than the lake I grew up on, but like
people are usually a little more like subdued in uh
and how they converse. But yes, I think it probably

(22:13):
threw him off. But obviously he wasn't that uninterested in it.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
No, definitely not.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
She got a rose.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Next up is a very memorable person, Leslie. She comes
out of the limos, she's got a walker trying to
be frail, and he goes so sweetly, do you need help?
Thinking like they actually casted a woman who was like
needing a walker and looks like your prototypical like grandmother,

(22:39):
and she was like no, And then she whips it
off and she's got this tiny little dress on, and
she happens to be an ex of princes. She lives
in Minnesota, which he's famous, which he famously lived in,
and he wrote the song Sexy Dancer about her, so

(23:00):
like she says, you know when she goes, I'm a dancer, choreographer.
She's sound like a dancer choor she is a like
this is a woman who this defines her.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
She kind of blew us away.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
She's not gonna be with Gary though. This is not
Gary's person.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
I mean, I don't know what he's into yet, we haven't.
I can't say that. I mean, she is like I
can't even I don't even know who to compare it
to from our our the like from the franchise that
we'd all be familiar with. I would say she's similar
to a Victoria Fuller to me.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
Because she's like that's sexy, like overtly sexy.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
I think she's probably just gonna be like somebody you're
like goodness, gracious, like you exude a confidence in yourself
and you're beautiful.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
And I think you're.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Gonna be around a while because he's gonna be like,
I have never seen anybody like you.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:55):
Let's see who else do we have?

Speaker 4 (23:58):
April she's the one with which, you know, sorry, I'm
gonna say it because if I don't, you know, I
got to say these things. She's got a little work done, and.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
That's probably going to be you know, it seemed like
Twitter was saying that was a consistent theme. I never
see that kind of stuff. I'm sure Jessica probably pointed
out if I would have asked her, I don't pay,
I don't I don't know what to look for.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
Yeah, Jared would have had no idea. I was like, oh, yeah,
that's a nose job right there. And there was like
some filler in a lot of these ladies cheeks that
were actually quite obvious to me.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
But you know what, go for it.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
I am. I. I am a proponent, as we all know.
I talk about it very openly. But yeah, April is
also a handful. She says that she's quite eccentric. She
walked in with an Easter basket because she used to
grow up on a hen farm.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
The little dance was kind of cue, like the little
shake cue.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
She is such a bachelor girl, you know, she's just
she was cast because she is a character. Teresa didn't
love her entrance as well, because she is just a
little bit too. She was just like a little too
coming in hot for me. She said, it's I came

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in with my birthday suit because it's my birthday. And
then she like reveals like takes off this coat and
like basically reveals like like a nude body suit underneath.
And I was like, okay, girl, like just relax a
little bit. What do you think?

Speaker 2 (25:29):
Well, she also is the first to kiss Gary, right, so,
but she.

Speaker 6 (25:33):
Just came on too strong all over.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
But yeah, I don't know if that's too strong, Like
I don't know he liked it. He liked it, I think.
I mean kind of like we were talking about earlier,
what if in your seventies, when you're dating, you're like,
I don't want to play the games anymore, Like just
are you into this or not?

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Let's dive in. Let's figure this out.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Like we don't got a ton of time to like
sit in chat, like if you like me, let's go
for it.

Speaker 6 (25:56):
See that's still.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
Something that like I can't relate to at the stage
because I'm still give me all the heart to get.
I love hard to get. Jared even tells me it's
like this day, He's like, I still make you play
hard to get. Still, I still make you quick for it.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Goodness gracious, Well it's fun.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
You know, every every relationship has their own dance, and
I don't know what it's like in their in your seventies.
I mean every season. If you think about how we
break down this show, at some point we say it's
obvious that the lead is into this, and we're able
to pretty much identify what the lead's into. Either it's confidence,
or it's vulnerability, or it's insecurity, or if they just
are really attracted to like the physical parts of people.

(26:33):
We don't know yet. With Gary, we don't know at
all what he could be into. It could be if
you're forward, I'm I'm loving it.

Speaker 7 (26:41):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
Let's mention though, that she does give him a birthday
cupcake during their one on one and she definitely alluded, Oh,
he gave it to her. Okay, he definitely alluded to
him wanting a kiss, because didn't he say something like,
what would you to clean off the frosting from my family?

Speaker 2 (26:59):
That was hard. It was hard for you to watch.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
However, Kudos to Gary, Like this dude is pulling out
all the stops and he definitely is not acting like
he has not flirted in years. He crushed the best
in recent memory for me. He has crushed the opening
night conversations and lines and filler space and listening. He

(27:23):
crushed it. He crushed it here, like I want to
kiss what you? Would you help me clean it off
if I put a little icing on his face And
then he does it, and then she does it with him,
and it's.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Hard to watch. I didn't love it, but I think
it's cute.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Overall.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
He made it seem like he was like very open
to every woman. You know how sometimes when you're watching
The Bachelor, you can tell that like he's just like, ah,
this is not gonna work out for her. Oh no,
there's nothing there. He just seemed to be genuinely willing
to hear everyone out. Like I wouldn't have been intimidated
by him if I was one of the late because like,

(28:00):
I really think that he was, like he's like super
just accepting in open ears.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Oh I think so.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
I mean, I think his listening last night is a
good example to all of us on how to listen
and how to respond. Yeah, the last few that stood
out to us, I think for me was Aunt Chippy.
Obviously Jimmy Kimmel's aunt is hilarious.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Plant not a real not a real contestent.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
I mean, I don't know, I've never known them the plant,
but I bet I'm guessing they said like, hey, will
you just come on? You can you only you only
need to be there for night one and she said, yeah,
I'm man, just be yourself and she said I'm.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Good with that.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
I just watched her and I was like, I want
to be at the Kimmel Family thanksgivings, Like I can't
imagine how funny and weird and wacky they are, but
they obviously are something special. You you know, Faith pulls
in in a motorcycle that is just very impressive to me.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
Life with me is going to be like quite the
ride or something like that.

Speaker 8 (28:55):
She had a cute one, so I mean a lot
of women stood out.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
I also think we would be doing it as service
because we won't get to talk about it again if
we don't mention that. Matt James's mom was obviously on
the episode very little screen time, very little. I mean,
we didn't really see much from her other than kind
of telling her or telling Gary, hey, my son was
the bachelor, and he seems to know that, like he

(29:31):
seems he like shakes his head like I knew I
recognize you, or.

Speaker 6 (29:34):
He didn't make it seem like it was a big deal.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
No, I think it should have been a bigger deal maybe,
But you think they understood it though, because I thought
that he took it in but that didn't react to it.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
So I was like, maybe he just doesn't get it.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Yeah, maybe he does, doesn't.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
I mean it was at this point she was late
in the night, and so he kind of probably just
was tired. I'm shocked you went home night one because
I felt like they should.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Have bonded over some like I wanted this. It felt
very distant the experience, but they obviously didn't hit it
off off it was.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
She was probably the one that I watched and I
was like, they have nothing, Like there's no chemistry between
the two of them, and I'm surprised. She's a beautiful person,
but like it was very clear to me that like
they had no chemistry.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
Yeah, I guess not.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Yeah, So Ashley, we're going into the night.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
What stood out to you kind of either emotionally or
like holistically as you watched this episode when it came
to the cocktail parties, any stand out to you where
with Gary and the women.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
Well, first off, I want to mention that it does
feel like like a blink of an eye that it
was over. So it's an hour long show, not a
two hour long show, which really means it's forty minutes.
So they did cram in a lot in forty minutes.
And I think the place that we missed the most
context with that chop was the cocktail party. The conversations

(31:01):
went by fast, we didn't see a ton of them.
But to answer your question, the moments that I like
look back and I remember were obviously the two kisses,
the one with Theresa and the cupcake, then the other
one with Faith who ends up getting his first impression Rose.
To me, that feels like more of a genuine I mean, yeah,
she got the first impression to wear, so obviously it's

(31:22):
more of like a genuine reaction connection there. I think
it's more mutual. And then again, like I really like Ellen.
She just has like a really good energy about her.
She's like very pretty, and then she also just like
feels she just feels like warm and like happy and

(31:46):
smiling outgoing. I don't know, there's just something about that
I really like take to her on.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
And then.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Who else then there was Sandra explains that she likes
the the F bombs. Yeah, was there an anything that?
Was there any other conversation that you that jumps out
of you.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Well, I think I look at the show, you know,
I was looking at the show at this point, analyzing Gary,
because these conversations are sure, they're at some level meaningless
when it comes to the large scope of the show,
because they fly by. No matter if you're on you know,
the Bachelor and Bachelorette, or if you're on the Golden Bachelor.

(32:24):
You're looking for instant chemistry. On night one, it's really
the lead saying whom I'm most attracted to. I don't
know a lot about you yet, but whom I'm most
attracted to. And I do think Gary showed last night
that he was into people that made more of a
concerted effort to get him doing something fun and get
him doing something different than everybody else.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
Well, Leslie did dance with them, and.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
I think that stood out to him. I think that
his listening was incredible, just the eye contact that he
made in the in the ways that he was responding
to their stories and their reasonings for being there. I
mean a lot of the reasonings for being there was
just like, Hey, I think you're great, Gary, Like you
are a dream.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
I am so into you.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
This is the best night of my life, people were saying,
And I think he did a great job at navigating
the beautiful moments and the hard moments. And then I think,
obviously with the Rose ceremony, you see him navigate that
really well. He got emotional. This is gonna be hard
for him, and we're going to talk about that as
we talk about the preview for the rest of the season.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
And he got.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
He got. He also got emotional during some of the conversations,
which is really nice to say. And I just want
to before you go on to say that, like, here's
a difference between our age group versus this age group.

Speaker 6 (33:39):
These people say things.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
Like, oh my god, this is the best day of
my life, like I couldn't wait, Like you know, like
you can show like so much like interest in somebody
without it coming off as like creepy or try too hard,
Like they just love to hear that they're wanted, Whereas
like if somebody were to say to us, be like,
oh my god, I've been watching you and I just
I can't be like, Okay, well can we play a

(34:02):
little can we play a little game here?

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Well, I mean I remember conversations during The Bachelor and
Bachelor when people will say this is the hardest thing
I've ever had to do, And you're like what, yeah,
Like what are you talking about? Like this is the
hardest thing. You just got to let go from reality
Tullivan show, and this is the hardest moment of your life,
Like you're doing our eight then like you're fine.

Speaker 6 (34:21):
I know that's me. I was doing fine. I've had
a quite the quite the life.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
And you know, for Gary and these women when they
say this is the best night of my life, like
that holds some weight.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
That really does.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
Said it's the best day of my life in a
long time.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Sure, I mean, but they hold some way to hold
some holds some some days in there. My favorite part
of the whole episode, the best part of the whole
There's two two moments sit out to me. I guess
one is I think Gary is drinking orange juice at
the cocktail parties. I don't think it's a screwdriver.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
Much much needed conversation topic.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
I think it's just straight orange juice, like and there
is no vodka in that it is it is not
at all. It is as orange as orange can be.
And if there's vodka in it, it's like a splash.
He might be a non drinker.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
He might be, or he just didn't want to drink.
He probably wanted to drink orange juice at six am
because it was six.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
He could have been one to drink orangejuice.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
But the fact that he had a glass of orange
juice hilarious is so great for this The next is
I mean, I love some of the women's comments, like
my contacts heard, I just want to take him out,
Like that's just great stuff. I feel that at this age.
But the best moment for the whole show for me,
the best moment, Yeah, what was Gary the Gary the

(35:41):
Bachelor dancing around looking over his shoulder and says does
anybody have as much fun as we do?

Speaker 7 (35:50):
Like?

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Or does anybody know how to have fun like we do? Like?

Speaker 3 (35:53):
It was something like you would hear your grandfather say,
as you're like having a dance party in your grandparents'
living room as you watch like a movie that they
know you love, and they go and like they bring
out the ice cream with the sprinkles on it because
they just want to spoil you, and they just say,
does anybody have as much fun as we do?

Speaker 2 (36:14):
And you're like, no, I love coming to your home.

Speaker 6 (36:18):
Hey, I feel so bad.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
I like, you guys texted that and I was like, Oh,
that didn't resonate with me the way it did with
you guys.

Speaker 6 (36:24):
It's like made you just cry. It's like so sweet.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
Though I totally appreciate the moment.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
It is so innocent.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
It was an incredibly innocent moment. I think that's a
good way to end this podcast, is you know, until
we talk about the preview for the rest of the season.
I think this show on Night one, to me, if
I were to explain in some words, it was innocent,
It was emotional, it was exciting, and I felt the

(36:55):
whole thing for the whole hour that it was on television.
And for that, I'm thankful. I don't get they usually
say that about a show that I spend this much
time watching. For this podcast, I felt it. And I'm
excited for the rest of the season. And I'm also
very excited that I think Jessica and I will watch
every episode together and have something to talk about it, because, yeah,

(37:15):
this is my job, is breaking down this show. And
she doesn't love the show, and I get that, and
I get reasons why, like it probably brings up some
weird feelings. Yeah, but this is different enough where she's like,
I love this, I love the idea of it. And
Night one was beautiful, and I hope the show continues
to be beautiful. I hope in four weeks we're saying
they're nailing it, like this is so good and we're

(37:38):
not saying they've missed the mark, and I don't think
they will. I think I think this show is such
an easy show to produce.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
I really do. I think it's the easiest show that
they've ever done.

Speaker 7 (37:46):
Much.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Yeah, you just get them out there and you get
them saying stuff, and they say the funny stuff, they
say the weird stuff. They're aggressive, they're awkward, and it's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
I also feel like they probably have a lot less
heart of a time getting people to talk about, like
their emotional stories in their life. You know, they're just
gonna serve it up. They don't even have to really ask.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
I don't care.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
I look, try to judge a seventy year old, I know, like,
come on, try to hate on a seven year old
trying to date like kids like fools, Like that's not
gonna be fun for anybody. Well, the sneak peak of
the rest of the season is it is wild, it's captivating.
We obviously see very similar storylines that we see to

(38:28):
other seasons. It feels like now the new bread and
butter of the show, he's falling in love with multiple people. Ashley,
what do you think about that seventy year old allowing
themselves to fall in love with multiple people?

Speaker 6 (38:41):
Well, I'm not surprised.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
I'm dying to know how many weeks it took to
film this show, because we know it's significantly less than
the normal show, which is two months, which is already
really a very fast process, I feel like.

Speaker 6 (38:56):
But I also think at.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
The same time as people are probably just like, he's
serving up the feelings super fast, so maybe the you know,
the reciprocation of the feelings happens faster. I feel like
it's you know, how you were saying that the being
out of practice with all the heartbreak. It's like this
is this is where it's really sad, is when they
get to like the top something something top four.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Or five, and you're like, I think you'll cry every rose.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
Yeah, you're like, oh my gosh, I'm not surprised to
hear that he's going to fall in love with multiple people,
not at all, No.

Speaker 6 (39:29):
Yeah, he just seems very emotionally available.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Well, I think they're diving in.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
I think there's an intentionality to this thing that will
make them open up their hearts more. Now, he does
have a line that we see that he says, you know,
he's talking about his wife passing away, So that was
the hardest day of his life.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
And this is a damn close second.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Oh, I know, And he's great and he's bing and
like he has like he has like the.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
He has like the like the dad tea you know,
I'm talking about, like the one in the world. Yeah,
there's like a depth to their voice.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yea, Like they don't know how to cry and they're
not gonna let the tears overwhelm them, so they're holding
it in. But yet they're so emotional. He's he's so
frustrated with what's happening. So obviously I think we can
point to this season becomes very real for multiple people,
including our Golden Bachelor, and I think we see that

(40:28):
the tears that Gary is showing will not be stopped
throughout the entirety of the season. I think every breakup
is going to be hard for him in a different way.
And I think He's going to have to end relationships
that he's probably feeling something for because he hasn't felt
a relationship in a long time. Even though I do
think something unique to this season will be Gary knows

(40:50):
what it feels like to have true love and so
that's what he's kind of looking for again. Not the
same kind of love, something something different, something new, But
he's looking for love again.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
Do you think his wife is in heaven laughing?

Speaker 2 (41:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
I mean, I would imagine if the daughter signed our
our Bachelor, is it harder signed the Golden Bachelor up?

Speaker 2 (41:14):
They knew that, you.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
Know, his wife want and their mother would want him
to do this. Yeah, Like I think I think if
the daughter's saying, Dad, we really want you to do this,
they knew it would have been a wish of his
late wife and as a result, Yeah, I bet she's like,
this is ridiculous, This is wild, And I'm so excited
to celebrate with him as he goes on the rest

(41:37):
of his life with somebody you know, knew. But my
memory's still there, and I think there's so much more
to break down when it comes to this show. There's
so much more to talk about. Can we talk about
how weird of an emotional switch it is to go
from this to Paradise.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
Well, you almost kind of need it because you go
from this heavy emotional show to just foolery.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
Yeah, I just felt like almost dirty. I don't know,
like it just felt was so weird to me. I'm
hoping that sucking toes. Yeah, sucking toes is like the
first scene, You're like, what is going on? Like, I
can't I can't do this mentally, I can't make this
these jumps. But I'm hoping both of these shows do

(42:18):
well enough where they have their own nights here next season,
because if we have to always do Golden Bachelor in Paradise,
I think I'm gonna be all twisted up inside.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
All Right, Well, every week we're gonna have a grandma
on the show, or I guess I don't know if
they're all gonna be grandma's, but they're all going to
be of the age range of these Golden Bachelor contestants.
So our first Golden Guests will be joining us after
the break to give her opinion on the night.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
So every week here on the Almost fame Is Podcast,
We're going to start something new, something exciting, something to
even continue pushing this Golden Bachelor forward with almost Fames
podcast because we just love it so much. We're going
to bring on somebody that is in the age range
of the contestants on the show.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
On the Golden Bachelor.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
We're gonna get their thoughts each week on what they saw,
what they expected. Was it shocking, were there You know
what I'm interested in, Ashley, is was there anything that
stood out to them because of like sayings and phrases
that maybe they haven't heard in a while because they
don't we don't like say them in our common language today.
Maybe they've gone away, but you know on the show,

(43:41):
they're like, no, I remember when people used to say that.
This week, we have a very special guest, Sherry Sugarman,
the aunt of Amy Sugarman, who.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Produces this podcast. Cherry, Welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (43:55):
Thank you so.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
Sherry.

Speaker 6 (43:58):
What's your initial take on The Golden Bachelor.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
I like it.

Speaker 7 (44:02):
I like it. I think there is a need to
show people that are a little more mature and have
experienced life, and I think this is a very nice
new approach. I've watched a bachelor and bachelorette from time
to time and I'm wondering, you know, what the demographics are.

(44:23):
I'm hoping that you're going to get a very good response.
Have you have you heard anything about the viewers.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
The ratings aren't all yet. We're kind of hoping they
would be. They're not all yet, they should be soon.

Speaker 7 (44:36):
I think there's a need for people my age to
be able to love, to be able to find love again.
We all want to find love, and if we don't
already have it, we're certainly looking for it.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
Well, you have been married to your high school sweetheart
for quite some time and you're close to eighty Would
you ever think of yourself as being a participant on
the show? If you guys, if you were not Belle married?

Speaker 7 (45:00):
Would I ever think of myself as being on the show? Is?

Speaker 1 (45:02):
What?

Speaker 4 (45:03):
Yeah? What kind of personality do you think it takes.

Speaker 7 (45:08):
I think it takes an outgoing personality, that is for certain.
I think it's a difficult thing to expose yourself to
the public. You have to be pretty confident, and you
have to want it very badly.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
Now, Sherry, you know, I have a few things I'm
very interested in when I talk to you. This is
the first episode of The Golden Bachelor.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
You are a first guest to break this.

Speaker 7 (45:32):
Down my goodness.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Okay, the criticism and there is very little okay of
this show so far, and I think as weeks go on,
they'll probably be even less because people will get to
know the stories of each participant. Right, There's been a
lot of life lived, a lot of stories of ups
and downs. But the criticism so far is that people
maybe don't feel like this is a fair representation of

(45:55):
people in their sixties and seventies because a compliment to
all the contestants and the Golden Bachelor, they're all extremely
good looking, Like everybody is beautiful, and he's very handsome.
Do you if when you hear that these are people
in your age range, what's your response?

Speaker 7 (46:15):
I think they're inspirational. I mean I, as a viewer,
would much rather see people who are physically fit and
who are attractive to represent seniors. I mean, obviously some
people are ill and you know, have lots of problems

(46:36):
and could not be on the show. But for the
most part, I enjoy seeing these women. Well, I have
enjoyed seeing these women. We've only had one episode so far.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Yeah, well, and it kind of feels like, uh, you
know sixty today is not old. Seventy is not old, right,
like eighty is not old Like the people I live
in Colorado, eighty might be old. Ben Oh, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
I don't think so. I don't think you can say
that approaching. Yeah, I don't think you can say that.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
And I live in Colorado, right I live on a
street that they're eighty five year old's biking road biking
up and down this mountain that I live on every
day every day.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
I know four of them.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
They get out and they ride twenty five miles and
they're booking it right now.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Yes, eighty five.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
It means you're in, you know, the second definitely the
second half of your life. You're in the final chapters
of your life. Is the quote on this show said,
you know, we're excited for another ten years of love.
If somebody said that, that's great, it's a great perspective.
But I think what it's showing is as you get older,
it doesn't mean that you just got to sit in
a nursing home in a chair all day, like you
can still get out there and have fun.

Speaker 7 (47:47):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (47:49):
So who stood out to you last night? Who do
you like? For Gary Well?

Speaker 7 (47:53):
It's interesting. I did like his choice for the first
impression rows. It seems like usually the past people who
were picked end up not being the ones at the end.
But I like her. I think she's really genuine. I
think she's fun, she's attractive. I think she has she
I can check all the boxes as far as you know.

(48:16):
My my impression of her and was I think he
likes I think he likes brunets with long hair.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
That's the thing he does too. I was noticing that
as well.

Speaker 7 (48:25):
Many women that I was very impressed with and some
not so much.

Speaker 6 (48:29):
Yeah, who was not so much for you?

Speaker 7 (48:32):
Well, I don't got to get in trouble, but I
know that this.

Speaker 6 (48:34):
Is okay, nobody, You're not going to get in trouble.

Speaker 7 (48:37):
Okay. Well, very pretty, pretty woman, very intelligent woman, the
chicken lady. I think she just kind of wore me out.
And I have a feeling they're probably, you know the
woman that i'm that I'm.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
Talking to one that lived on the hen farm April April. Yeah,
well April is a handful. We can tell the April
is a handful.

Speaker 7 (48:58):
Yeah, she's a handful. She's definitely antle. She would be
very high maintenance for this lovely Jerry. I mean, I
think I think she would. I think she would, but
she's amusing and I like that aspect of the show
because I think we always you always need to keep
somebody that keeps you laughing. And it's and is yeah,
and it's it's worth watching.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
So did you find it to be more emotional than
the main show?

Speaker 7 (49:25):
Not not yet, but you know, we've only had had
one one showing of it, so you have to give
me a little more time to evaluate that.

Speaker 6 (49:33):
Okay, he's emotional. He was emotional, Yeah, and package was just.

Speaker 7 (49:38):
Like, can I get that? I get that? And I
think he's I think men who have lost their spouses,
who have come from good marriages want that again. So
I think he's very genuine. I think he really is
looking for someone to marry.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
Do you have any predictions for what's to come this season?
Because we saw quite the te It's multiple people are saying,
I love you now. Great. This this show was shot
very quickly. I don't even know if it took six
weeks to shoot the entire show. So these feelings are developing, really,
these feelings are developing quickly as well.

Speaker 7 (50:15):
Well as seniors we don't have a lot of time,
so better to shoot it. I show in the middle
of it.

Speaker 4 (50:24):
So how do you feel like Gary is going to
like handle all this emotional pressure.

Speaker 7 (50:30):
I think it could be a little difficult for him.
I think it could be a little bit. So I
think he comes over as a very nice man, so
we certainly don't want him to get hurt, and he
doesn't want to hurt any any other women either. I
think that's going to be a really an issue for him,
because just saying goodbye to the few that he said
goodbye to last night was very emotional.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
For him, so sweet to see him cry when the
lady was relieving.

Speaker 6 (50:56):
He was so nice.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
I've never seen a bachelor cry at the first rest ceremony.

Speaker 7 (51:02):
Men should not be afraid to cry, no.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Feeling the There was a comment last night at sherry
Uh one of the ladies I think I think it
was seven years, said she hadn't kissed a guy in
seven years when she kissed Gary, and.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
That made me.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
She said several years.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Several or seven, I don't know what it was.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
I think it could have been more than seven.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
However it was, it was a long time.

Speaker 7 (51:29):
Was that Teresa is that.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
I think it was, yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
That maybe for all those years she did right, It was.
It was very it was very nice to watch.

Speaker 7 (51:41):
Very aggressive, very forward.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
That was my question to you, Okay, So that when
she said that, Jessica and I both got watery eyed
because we're just like, you know, this is a very
special thing for these these women and for Gary, right.
I mean, they maybe have been a little lonely, maybe
they haven't had in a while, and then they get
asked to be on this show and they get to
dress up. Like, think about the excitement as you're dressing

(52:06):
up and you're putting your makeup on and you're going
on a date for maybe the first time in seven
or several years, whatever it was. I would love to
hear what you think of that. You know, with your friendships,
obviously you're still happily married, but with the people that
you know that maybe are not any longer due to
a loss of a loved one or a separation, Like,
what's your perspective at your age for people who have,

(52:29):
you know, not been dating for a while.

Speaker 7 (52:32):
I think it's difficult, and I think for her this
was this is an amazing opportunity and I just My
impression though, was that I thought she was just a
little too forward. Maybe I'm kind of old school, but
I thought she should have taken it just a little slower.
She's charming, and I certainly would love her to be happy.

(52:53):
You know, she's a very likable person.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
She's getting tips from the main show and all the
young uns.

Speaker 7 (52:58):
Oh, the young people. He probably probably yes, yes. And
of course, man like Jerry, I mean, you know, they
they don't want to be rejected. So when they meet
somebody like Teresa who's somewhat forward, I think it makes
him feel wonderful that, you know, he's so he's so admired,
and she would like to be with him for so much,

(53:20):
you know, so much. But it was only it's only
the first time they met, So I'm saying, wait a minute,
let's just go a little slower. That would just be
my opinion.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
I do think that's an interesting dynamic because obviously, you know,
if you're in your thirties, you know, it's not uncommon.
I think the question that I used to get asked
when I was dating was would you kiss on a
You know, like two girls would ask each other like,
would you kiss somebody in their first date, right, especially
growing up in the church, that was a very common
question of would you kiss somebody in your first date?

(53:50):
And they'd all chatter about it, and the guys would
talk about it too, right, So it wasn't uncommon to kiss.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
On a first date.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
As I think about, you know, my even my parents' generation,
which is, you know, in their sixties and mid sixties, now, like,
I think it would have been uncommon for them. I
think that would have been something that have been frowned upon.
I think it would have very I think have been
very taboo to even bring up, even if people are
doing it. I don't think it was a question even
offered to be asked. And so it's interesting to think, yes,

(54:24):
now we've watched a few people kiss, you know, on
the first night, and that has to be a really
big deal to them.

Speaker 7 (54:32):
Well that was quite a kiss.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Yeah, I mean they're making out.

Speaker 7 (54:35):
A little check on the she who was the woman
who was who came, who was on roller skates, who
presented herself in the beginning on roller skates. I know
that there's the aerobics teacher who is an ice skater,
roller skater or whatever, but she was the one that
came in the Walker, Is that correct?

Speaker 5 (54:56):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (54:56):
The one in the Walker I think ended up being
the one that said she dated Prince.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
Yes, because that was That's what she's gonna be known
for to me, is the woman who dated Prince and
he wrote a song about her?

Speaker 7 (55:07):
Okay? And was she Leslie or am I getting this missed?

Speaker 4 (55:09):
She's Leslie?

Speaker 7 (55:10):
Yeah, got it. But then that was a woman that
came in on roller skates, not Leslie, and I can't
who she was. I thought that was really cool.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Yeah, but remember I don't know her name.

Speaker 7 (55:21):
I can't place it.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
You know, the speaking of what you're just saying. Though.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
The interesting thing share to me is as we watch
this season go by, and as I said, I get
to watch eighty five year olds up and down my
road all day long. Biking was like they're mountain climbing,
Like they're they're going down mountains on this show. That
was shown in the previews, like they're not taking it
easy on anybody now. And I say that with maybe

(55:47):
the meanest thing they'll do to anybody all season.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
I think it was inappropriate.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Jessica and I thought talked about a thousand different ways
they could have done this better they made these poor
people stay yeah, through the night into the morning. I
don't do that at all.

Speaker 4 (56:07):
It was the first time the host has ever said
it's the last rose this morning.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
I think there was an emphasis on, like, yeah, we
just made these people stay.

Speaker 6 (56:17):
Up all night this evening.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
It was never it's never been brighter in there. It
was like, really weird.

Speaker 7 (56:23):
That's something that we were not privileged to see.

Speaker 6 (56:25):
So, yeah, you were, no, you saw it. It was
light in that room. And he said this.

Speaker 7 (56:29):
Morning late in that room.

Speaker 6 (56:30):
Oh, it was light, the morning.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
Light through the windows.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
I guess you would have to have been in that
room before, because you know, to look through the windows.

Speaker 7 (56:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
So when was the last time you stayed up all night, Sherry?

Speaker 7 (56:44):
Oh my gosh, I guess a few New Year's Eves ago.
Not on a regular basis. I'm an early riser. I'm
a golfer, so I get up at the crack of
dawn and then you know, about ten o'clock I've done.
But I'm a I'm a morning day person. But I
have a lot of friends who stay up till two,
three o'clock in the morning, but then I don't call

(57:06):
them until ten, ten or eleven in the morning. You know,
they're they're they're late late risers and they stay up
at night. But it's not my style.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
The you put in more hours than I do, then
I'm an I'm an early early, better early rise. I
just think it was painful for it had to be
painful because I've been in that experience as the bachelor
and known what it feels like to be so tired,
and then to know that, yes, these people are you know,
when I was the Bachelors in my mid twenties, and

(57:38):
so to know fifty years later they were putting in
the same type of hours that's not fun.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
In fact, Jimmy car'ar them.

Speaker 7 (57:47):
I admired them.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Yeah, I mean I admired at twenty four.

Speaker 7 (57:50):
But when I think you chose well, I mean I
think the the the program, you know, whoever books all
the people, I mean, they picked well well so far.
Now I think it's going to turn into somewhat of
a train wreck, because it always does. I'm just kind
of waiting for that to happen, and I guess that's
what makes people view the program a little bit more.

(58:12):
I like it when people are funny but not you know,
crazy crazy.

Speaker 4 (58:17):
I'm honestly looking forward to more sappy stories.

Speaker 7 (58:22):
Yeah, I mean, I will definitely continue to watch it.
It held my.

Speaker 5 (58:25):
Interest more than The Bachelor and Bachelorette lately, but then
you know, it's it's more age appropriate for me, it's
more realistic for me to see this.

Speaker 7 (58:38):
Well, I can identify with that.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
My final our final thought with you, Sherry is a
question I have.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Obviously.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
Again we'll mention that you've been happily married for how
many years?

Speaker 7 (58:50):
And I'm really going to give away my age. I
am going to be married in June sixty years.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
That's amazing.

Speaker 6 (58:58):
That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
Something.

Speaker 7 (59:00):
So I married my high school sweetheart and I married
him when I was very very young. And he is
the twin brother of Amy's father.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Okay, well, very cool.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
You know.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
Again, the final thought here is watching last night, there's
always I mean, for Ashley and myself, one of our
favorite parts about talking about the Bachelor franchise is, Yes,
the drama and the funny things are great and they're entertaining,
but there's moments I think it will happen more during
the Golden Bachelor than it does during the other shows

(59:33):
where the show really kind of like makes an impact
with reality. All of a sudden, you feel like you
know you're watching something that will affect this person after
the show is done. And I think that brings That's
that's a really good part of reality television. You feel
like you can relate or you feel like the people
on your television are feeling something that you know is

(59:55):
going to impact them. And last night watching our Golden
Bachelor and Jessica and I talking about this Forever, Jessica
cry through the whole show. She just just gets emost.
She's just an emotional person. But you know, he he
was married for forty three years to his sweetheart. She
sadly passes away. That's it's been a few years since

(01:00:17):
she has passed away. And last night was probably the
first time he has had to break up with somebody
in fifty years. Right for me again to relate it
back to the other show, it wasn't an unfamiliar feeling
for me. You know, I didn't go out there breaking
up with everybody, but.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
I I knew it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
Was something that could be expected, and I had some training,
I guess during that time and doing it, even if
it was still as hard fifty years of not hurting
somebody else's feelings rel you know, romantically, Sherry, what would
you say to that?

Speaker 7 (01:00:55):
Yeah, I think it's it's you've had no practice. It's
a hard thing and as I said, he appears to
be very genuine, so he doesn't want to hurt anybody.
This is going to be the most difficult part for
him is when he has to say goodbye to these women.

Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
Sarah, you married your high school sweetheart. Have you ever
broken a heart?

Speaker 7 (01:01:20):
Have I ever broken a heart?

Speaker 4 (01:01:21):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:01:22):
I don't think I ever. Have I dated a little
bit in between, and so did my husband, but no, no,
I haven't experienced that really, although have you my marriage?
I think I've sometimes broken my husband's heart and he's
broken mine at times and we've been able to get
past it. I mean I have felt that emotion from

(01:01:45):
time to time.

Speaker 4 (01:01:47):
My mom and dad they've been married for over forty
years now, but they got married when my mom was
twenty two and met when my mom was twenty and
my sister and I are sometimes busy at her, were like,
you don't even know.

Speaker 6 (01:01:59):
What our break feels like. Like that's so crazy. You're
just like going to go through life by marriage.

Speaker 7 (01:02:04):
You can experience it with your spouse. I believe that
might not be a breakup, but it's it can it
can be heartbreaking. Marriage is difficult, It really is difficult,
you know, and you have to you can. It's easy
to be lovers in the beginning, but you know, to
remain friends, that's the challenge. That is the challenge.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
I believe that coming.

Speaker 7 (01:02:27):
From a wise old woman.

Speaker 8 (01:02:29):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
Well, you're a beautiful woman yourself. Thank you for being
our first guest. Breaking down.

Speaker 7 (01:02:37):
To be your first guest, it was a little bit nervous,
but thank you for inviting me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
No nerves here.

Speaker 7 (01:02:42):
I didn't want to turn my niece down. So good
luck with this program and I will pass the word
on to my friends to to please watch it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:52):
Let's do some come on, get the people together, let's
pour the wine, let's celebrate.

Speaker 7 (01:02:58):
I can do that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
Let's show every buddy that age is just a number
and love exists for as long as you want it
to aunt.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
Sherry, thanks for coming on the podcast.

Speaker 7 (01:03:08):
You're so welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:03:10):
Bye, thank you, bye.

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
Well this has been it for the almost Famous podcast again.
This is episode one of the Golden Bachelor. We had
a blast breaking it down. We'll blast watching it We'll
keep watching it and keep breaking it down right here on.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
The Almost Famous Podcast. But until next time, I've Been.

Speaker 6 (01:03:26):
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