June 20, 2025 • 29 mins
Our Bachelor Nation OG Bob Guiney is heading back to Ali Fedotowsky's season and catching up with the runner-up, Chris Lambton!
He didn't win Ali's heart in 2010, but you have to hear the story that brought Chris to his true love... who is also part of Bachelor Nation!
And we HAVE to ask Chris an important question as a landscaping pro, will he join in on renovating the Bachelor Mansion??
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio. Welcome back
to Almost Famous to OG's podcast. I am one half
of your og hosts. I am not Trista Sutter Nay
Wren the other one. I'm Bob. Hey, everybody, Bob getting
here today. We are going to go back to Ali
Fedotowski season of the Bacherette. That season six back in
(00:21):
twenty ten, just a baby compared to Tristan. Myself, my
guest today, was the runner up and did not end
up finding love on the Bacherette, but surprisingly still fell
in love in the bachelor world. A landscaper, a TV personality,
part of a family run oyster business, and an elected official.
We're going to talk about all this good stuff. Please
(00:41):
welcome to the pod. My friend who I actually know
this guy I don't normally know everyone. It's Chris Lambton
and I love Chris Lampton, so let's bring him on.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
What's going on? Bob? How are you Ren?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I'm great, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
How are you not too bad? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah? How's the family? Tell me everything? What's going on
with you? Bud?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Fam is great? Yes, it was the last day of school,
so yeah, you know, like today was fast and furious.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Kids are what six and eight, so they're going to
first in third grade.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Which I feel like, Yeah, crazy, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah? It is.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
And then Peyton is crushing it. She's not crushing enough
that I can be a stay at home dad, you know,
knock on wood soon.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Right, that's a dream, buddy, that's a dream for both
of us. I'm into that one too. So yeah, well,
not surprised, dude. I've often said you two are two
of my very favorite people from Bachelor Nation, and I
always love to see your success, love seeing on HGTV
and everything you were doing there. And yeah, you know,
I'm not sure if you heard the rumor, but they're
gonna do a little makeover the Bachelor Engine. Yeah did
(01:45):
you hear? Because producers called you and said we need
you to do this, because that's what I would have
done as a producer.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I've heard that they're in the talking stages and I
was like, dude, you better have Peyton and I come
on now, that's like an honest, perfect thing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I feel like I'm talking to a good host of
that show right now.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So that thank you, buddy. Yeah, well, you know what
now that some some synergy has changed around Bache Nation.
Maybe I would have a chance, you know, but back
in the day, I would have gotten the tombstone, I'm
sure for the powers that be. But now now we
can get back in. So if just to make it clear,
if HGTV makes the right choice and calls you, you're in.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I would love to be in on that show. I mean,
here you go.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, decade plus an AHGTV and Bacher stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Come on. I mean if Peyton, I'd be a perfect fit.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh you really would, man, I mean, I don't think
there's a better one out there. So all right, so
we're going to take it back right back the twenty ten,
right Ali Fedotowski season. You're you're one of the last
guys standing and I remember you know, you were a
young guy your first time on TV. Good looking dude,
got the kind of awesome East Coast accent, which was
(02:56):
I've always found a very endearing just in general. But
you know, with you, you just had such a good
nature about you and got along great with the other guys.
You know, you were never a source of any other
drama or anything like that, but you were definitely someone
who stood up for themselves and was you know, you
did us proud. You did us proud at that point,
but you ended up being the runner up on that season, right,
(03:16):
And as I recall, so it came down to you
and was it you and Roberto?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Right that it came to Roberto and talked to him
the other day.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Did he really? So? I was trying to get him
on the horn because I haven't talked to him a
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I was trying to He's reclusive, man. He is a
fast watch. He's like, there's sightings of home every now
and again.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Is he real? Is he real? We don't know. It's
not behind the trees.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, like fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Have you guys gotten together at all? Have you guys
got together at all? Was like hangout or no?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He came to my wedding.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
That's awesome. That's the last time you saw him. That
was what thirteen how many years ago? Was that?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Man?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So we got married sink of the mile and this
is we got married twenty twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So we've just had a thirteenth year.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Thirteenth years, hey man, that's always a best right, you
get past the seven year at your golden that's what
they say, not a gold not a golden bachelor, but
you know you're golden just the same, not yet, yeah, exactly,
So all right, so you get done with the show, right,
And I've got to believe just because the nature of
things at that time, that they had to have asked
(04:20):
you to be the next bachelor. Did they come to you,
did they court you for it?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
They flew me out to a angels in a Red
Sox game in Anaheim. It was the coolest experience ever.
Like I took a limo and like, I don't think
I ever been at long before. I was like, I'm like,
come on, like let's do this. Like they had good
seats at a game, because usually if I go to Fenway,
like when I was younger, like you know, I was
out in the bleachers and the nosebreed, you know, Like,
(04:46):
so I had good seats and uh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
They asked and.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And and did you say no? Or was it one
of those things where you were like, I'm open to it?
And then they ended up because I know a lot
of times, like I mean, I always heard the story
because I was the first reject so to speak, that
went on to be the bachelor, right, and I had
always heard that they talked to like three or four people,
and uh, I remember. I remember when they first came
to me. I actually said no, and uh they were
(05:12):
like why. I'm like, because I'm a lovable loser man
and you probably had the same problem, right, I'm the
level of loser. I can't do anything wrong. Everyone thinks
I should have won the thing, and I you know,
so it was like, why would I go on and
risk being a jerk picking the wrong person? Like it's
the fear, you know, did you go through that kind
of feeling? Yeah, the pressure?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, because they asked me.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
But I was like him and the hung I was
thinking about it, and I was like, well the thing
that I got caught up on, maybe you were the
same way. It's like it's one thing about me being
on it, you know, like if you want to trash me,
say stuff about me, do whatever, whatever, you know, Like
I signed up for it, literally signed up for it, legit.
And then you know, when I was in the bachelorette,
the same thing. People were like, say stuff about you online,
(05:50):
you know, which hey come to the territory. Yeah, but
like they said stuff about like my brother, my dad
and sant like that.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I said, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
What, if I go on the Bachelor, I'm signing the
whole family up, you know, like they're not getting any
money for it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
They're not getting anything for it, so.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I'm just I'm putting them out there and like, yeah,
my brothers are they don't want the limelight. You know
that my dad didn't want it, and I know that
they'd use my mom's story again, and yeah, I was like,
you know, what is it worth it? But I mean
I took the chance to go in the bacherette because
I was like, you know what, I'm open for finding
(06:26):
somebody in a weird way because it hasn't worked at
this point. And I would never I would never change
that experience. Loved that experience. Death made awesome friends. Ali
was great, you know, she was sweet to me the
whole time. But then that next step when you're like
in the spotlight and your family's in the spotlight, I
was like, yeah, that might be a bridge too far.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You know, well, you know it is. It is a lot.
You're absolutely right, it's a lot, no question, I will
say this. You know, I had said no for a
lot of the same reasons at first, and in retrospect,
I'm so glad that but but again I was before
social media too, so you were on the front end
of social media when you were doing it. Just people
were savage, right, so even I mean people just sit
(07:09):
there and say the meanest things. None of it's true, right,
and we didn't have that. So at the time when
I was doing it, I even remember I went to
my dad and I was like, you know, I want
to do you proud and I don't want to embarrass
our family. Are you okay with this cause I won't
do it if you if you don't want me to
do it, right, And my dad was like, you know what, buddy,
you do it. Well, I'll tell you. He passed away
in twenty twenty one. And the fact that I have
(07:30):
him on video now talking in my grand and my kids,
his grandkids can see it and go, look how young
Papa was and stuff like that. It's awesome for me.
So that's the That's the big the biggest positive, right
that in the fact they made a bunch of great
friends and I'm still friends with a lot of the
girls too and stuff. But so yeah, so you you
say no to that, they go on to who is
(07:51):
the who was the bachelor? Who do they end up
making the best.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The first guy from Austin.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yep. Yeah, so Brad comes on really takes the heat
off of you because he puts so much of it
on himself. He's such a nice guy. But man, dude,
I felt so bad for him. All right, but you
didn't find love on the Bachelor att right, And so
what a crazy twist that you end up meeting your
wife who was on I mean, did they ask you
(08:18):
to be on Bachelor Pat? Did they ask you to
do that one too?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Okay, no, because when they were they were they started
teaching taping Bachelor Pad, like right near the end of Bachelor.
So I was still on a Bachelor when they started
taping Bascher Pad. Yeah, so thankfully I wasn't on that.
And I say thankfully because one of my best friends
on the show, Jesse Beck, was on Bachelor Pad and
(08:41):
that was like the weird competition. You know, they hadn't
figured it out that, you know, how to do it
right at that point, and his partner was Peyton, and
he was like Chris, Chris. I was talking to this
Peyton girl and telling her how great you be together.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
And fast forward like just a few weeks after I
said no to the Bachelor. Thomas were at an event
together in North Carolina, the Jimmy ve Golf Classic.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh my god, I love that one.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, it was so much fun. So Jesse's like, oh,
I have a friend. I want to invite her over.
I was like, all right, Like who is it. He's
like this girl Peyton, She's awesome. She was on the
path with me. I was like, where does she live?
He's like Dallas. I'm like, Jesse, you need to be
better at geography because Dallas is not near North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Like they're far apart.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
He called her anyway and like, no, jog Like. She
was home in Northeast Tennessee at the time, which was
like an hour.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
From where we were.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
He was home for the weekend. So she came over
met us and like literally, I was like, that's the one.
Nine months later, nine months later, I proposed her.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That's so badass. I love that. Yeah, And you two
really are like you two are one of those couples that, look,
I get it all. You know, whenever you live with
someone and have a family with someone and everything else,
you're gonna have your moments, right, But the two of
(10:12):
you always seemed just wired so nicely together. And I've
always thought that since the day I met you guys.
And it's one of those things that it's like you
see when you see it and it's right, and you're like, oh,
that's how it's supposed to be, because I was I
was still looking for my person at that time, you know,
when we first met, and I remember thinking like, oh, god, dude,
those two are so good together. Maybe you know, maybe
I should do The Bachelor but whatever the time, Bachelor
(10:33):
Paradise or whatever they were doing at that point. But
I was like, I'm not going to be the first
guy from the Bachelor, like the dude who handed out
the flowers. Yeah, I save that. I think they had.
I think they ended up having. Uh didn't Jake Pavelka
do it? One of the guys did it? I can't
remember who it was, or you know he did Bachelor
pad Nick ye, nick Viel did that yeah? Or the
(10:53):
Paradise Yeah he was. He had done it all at
that point, I think. But yeah, So so then you
guys get you guys get together, and then you're together
for a little bit and then the HGTV comes calling, right,
and then that that kind of picked up not too
long thereafter.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
So we had just started dating Peyton and I and
I remember I was like, Peyton, I got these emails
from this d Y and HGTV. I was like, I
was like, what do you think She's like?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Google them?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
So I google this guy and like, I was like, wow,
he actually does work for HGTV, like because you know,
like you get like all these emails from people like
after the show, like hey, do you want to do this?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I'm like that seems fake to me.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm not going to do it right, and it all
seems too good to be true. Yeah right.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I'm like, oh yeah, because I'm a landscape you on
me on TV, right, I don't believe that.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
So I emailed them back.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I'm like, hey, you know what, just so happens that
I'm actually going to be in Tennessee, which is where
the HGTV offices are for Christmas, to visit my girlfriend
and meet her family for the first time, and they're like,
can you come in for an interview?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah? Sure.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So I remember Peyton dropped me off in Knoxville at
the h TV studio and she went to school in
Knoxville University of Tennessee. So we were like, oh, perfect,
We'll cruise around, see her school, get a T shirt,
you know, the whole nine yards, and then go to
her parents' house meet her parents.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
He dragged me off, and who do you think you
would meet the first time? Bob? Like, ah, like somebody
in HR I don't know. I sit down.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I start talking to this lady and we talked for
like an hour and we leave and I'm sitting out
there and then she comes outside. She's like, Hey, all
the ladies in the oves want to take a picture.
You want to come in and take a picture.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Like, oh, yeah, of course. So we take a picture
and I'm just laughing and everybody leave and.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Peyton was like, who'd you meet with it? I said, oh,
this lady. I googled her name. She was this CEO
of HGTV and.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Scripts and I was like and Peyton starts laughing.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
She's like, if you knew that beforehand, you would have
been terrible in that interview.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, it's that you think it's like a low level person.
You're like, yeah, like.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, like if he does well, bumping.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Up a level, right, we'll bring him in again, you.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Know, or whatever, And like I'd never done many interviews,
Like I was either a landscape or a teacher. So
it's not like I was like applying to some big
company and do different interviews.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I I would have assumed the same thing. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Next to fast forward, they send a film crew to
my yard on the cape to do like a little
walk and talk and do like a little two minute sizzle,
and Pateon was like, I'm getting in on this, so
she like jumped in the video and then they were like,
we would love the two you guys together. She'll do
the design, you do the manual labor, like you know,
the landscaping, and we got our first show going yard.
(13:35):
And I mean, like I always say, the Bachelorette completely
changed my life. It got me a wife and a
TV show ONCTV, and like might not.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Have been the way that those producers wanted it to be,
but it definitely worked out the way that you needed
it to be and you and Peyton needed it to
be in your heart. Yeah now yeah, now you got
two beautiful kids. And I mean, with that being the case, right,
So Peyton went on a show and didn't find love also,
which is how she ended up on pad obviously whose
season was she on? By the way, I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Admiral oh Andy Baldwin and who I met a couple
of times, nicest doing the world.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Super nice guy, yeah, super nice guy. Yeah he he
just had a baby.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Runs like however old he is hearing that many miles
for his birthday? Have you seen this?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, dude, he's what they call a what
do they call those ultra runner?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Ultra yeah, ultra marathon yea ultra marathon er.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
So he'll yeah, I'll never forget. I was reaching out
to him. This is years ago. I was still living
in La at the time, so it was pre twenty fifteen.
I was reaching out to him about something that they
wanted him to do with me, and he was like,
I go, where are you. He's like, I'm in Chile
or something. He's like Honduras or something. He was like
super far away, and he goes, yeah, I just I
just got done running like an ultimate marathon. I think
(14:47):
I was like eating, you know, I was eating pretzel
bites and drinking. Againess, I'm like a taco and yeah,
I have a taco in one hand a pizza in
the other. I'm like, Okay, I can see why we
probably aren't going to get the hang anytime soon. But yeah,
he's a super nice man. I mean, I've been hard
pressed to find too many people that I haven't loved
once I got to know them from the franchise myself too.
But but yeah, so all right, let's talk about this.
(15:09):
You got your you got your family business, you got
your HGTV business, you've got your landscaping business, You've got
your family, and then I just found out you also
ran for political office. Tell me about this.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, so I know it's stupid to me, but so.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Before you say another word, I gotta tell you this.
I think about it all the time, only because I'm like,
I equally love hate all the parties, Like I'm not
a I don't subscribe to one or the others. I'm like,
maybe I could be the great uniter, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I still remember it was like the twenty teens and
our town was trying to get a community center and
it got voted down and there was just nobody young
on the board and I was just like, listen, like
someone's going to do something. And then instead of complaining,
I was like, you know what, I'm going to run,
So I ran for the select board in our town.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It comes humble brag.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I won by the largest margin and by and I
got the most votes in town history.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I love yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And uh so I just got reelected for my third term.
I'm the chairman of the Dentist select Board and I
love it.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And I'm still I'm not that young anymore. I'm still
the youngest on the board.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
And as someone who was born and raised in this town,
I have young kids who go to the public schools
in town. Like, yeah, small business. My one of my
brothers is a police officer in town. Like, we're ingrained
in this town. Yeah, and like you gotta, you gotta.
You can't just complain, you gotta step up and do something.
So I try to get people to get out vote.
I try to help push family oriented things, help with housing,
(16:42):
you know, all that kind of stuff. And uh yeah,
I get paid two thousand dollars wait for it a year,
so no big deal.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Right, right, right, You're not You're not to get rich though, right,
I mean, I get that.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I do it because it helps out and I love it.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
No, I love that, dude. You're so good. And I
bet people find you so refreshing, right because you're such
a good dude and you never looked down your nose
at anybody. And it's like, you know, you're in this
great situation in life, but it's like you're someone who
can help, right because you actually do have young kids.
And it's like a lot of those people forget what
it's like to have young kids. They just don't want
to pay anything else in taxes, right, so they don't
(17:20):
want to do anything. Yeah, right, I get it. I
get it.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah, I appreciate that because, like sometimes it is a
thankless job, but you know, I love doing it, and
everyone in the town is so much fun to work
with and work for, and you know, and you go
someplace like hey, Chris, thank you for doing that, or
hey can you help me get a sidewalk?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Or can you sure? Sure?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well I'm sure too, Like my dad was a policeman
in my hometown, so I know I know that kind
of thing too with your brother. So it's like everybody
loves Slash hates the cops, right, They love the cops
if they need them and they need their help. They
hate the cops they get pulled over for speeding, So
it's like one of those things, right, And I remember
usus I always say to my dad, I was like,
I was like, man, it must be so hard to
(18:00):
be a copies, Like it's the most rewarding and most
what do they say, the most rewarding and taxing job
all at the same time, because you know, you're never
making everybody happy. But at the end of the day,
it's like you get to know that community in such
an intimate way. And I'm sure that's that's got to
be something for you too, Like you know, your brother's there,
your family's there. You want everybody to have the things
that they need, you know, and you're not. Your family's
(18:23):
no different than anybody else's, right, It's just it's just
we got to figure out how to make everybody happy.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
All about family, all about community. That's you know, that's
why you do stuff, right.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You guys get down to Tennessee much to see Peyton's family.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yep, we go a couple times a year. We actually
went in April to the kids of Dollywood.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Want to go there too? Is it great?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It's great? You know, like we've been to Disneyland and like,
you know, you're strict on the rides Dollywood.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
They're like, my son's six, They're like how tall is
I'm like, you know whatever, Like you can go with
all the rides.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I'm like, I don't even want to go into all
the rides, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, well that's funny that you say that. So the
reason we haven't gone. We went to doney World when
my when my oldest was four, and it was like
all we did was walk around and he was bored,
like he did not love it. So we were like,
you know, we're gonna wait a while, right and so
or Disneyland, we went out in California where Canyon, his
parents are from, and recently we even said we're like, well,
you know, our six year old could probably ride most
of the rides now maybe still probably not a lot
(19:17):
of them, but four year old is not getting on anything.
So we're not going to go until they could both
do it. Dollywood might be the answer. I like that.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Idea's great. Man, there's way more rise than I thought
I thought. Wou'd be like to the rides. There's a
ton of stuff there.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I was just.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I was just down. So we invested in a property
down on Highway eleven, and uh that runs through Knoxville.
It's like this road and and it's kind of a
long story, but anyway, we uh and so it's I
guess it's like an hour away from Dollywood. And my
in laws uh spent a lot of time down there
for their and they were like, well, next time we're
(19:51):
we're going down, we got to go to Dollywood. Like
we're in. We're totally in. You know, I want to
do it at big times. So I will call you
guys when we're going if it's.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Only an hour, I recommended that. Yeah, great for the
whole family.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, what's on the horizon, Like what's going on with you? Guys?
Like you if you were to say to me right now, okay, Bob,
here's our next twelve months in a nutshell? Like what
are we working at? What are we looking at?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Great question?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
So you know, obviously every day I go to work
with one of my brothers, one of my brothers, Eric,
my middle brother and I we landscape together, which is fun.
My youngest brother and I Mark, we had the lands
we had the oyster company together, you know, with our wives.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
We do that and that's I mean, that's so much
fun because we.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Drive out in a four wheel drive truck during low
tide sort the oysters. My daughter who is eight going
on twenty eight. I mean, she can sort oysters. She's
a hard worker, so they're out there helping out. So
I love that aspect of my life. Still doing the slecktboard,
I may throw my hat into the next level soon enough,
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running for some a bigger office liketle.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
What would that next level be, like, maybe mayor.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Unfortunately we don't have a Cape cod so okay, if
it was, I'd be like, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Just gonna say maybe maybe you'll be the first mayor.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah, exactly, And then, uh, you know, Peyton is just
doing She's an interior designer. You know, if you're not
born on the Cape, you're called a wash ashore. Okay,
So she calls her company wash the Shore Home, which
is incredible. She always joked with I'm like, yeah, baby,
you're just a wash the shore. Come on, I've been
here for like six years. I'm like, it doesn't matter,
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You're still a washing it still washing. He embraced it,
she loves it. She calls it washed the Shore Home.
So she is absolutely doing great with that, and I'm
so couldn't be more proud of her and the kids.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And uh so.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Now I coach my kids teams, whether it be soccer
or ice hockey.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Hockey's big man. We got my boy on skates this
past year, really, yeah, got him on skates. Now. He's
playing flag football right now. Seems to really enjoy it.
But his attention span is such that it's like, you know,
if he's not getting the ball six.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Same age as my son, so yeah, same thing, Like
if they don't have it, they're like picking daisies in
the corner.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Right, Oh totally yeah, yeah, not even paying attention. It's crazy. Yeah,
well let me ask you one more thing. So with
time on your side, right, I mean obviously Bachelor was
years ago for you. Bachelor it was years ago for you,
twenty ten, So what is that fifteen years now? Crazy
to think? Right? I mean for me it's twenty three,
twenty two. Isn't that nuts?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Which is weird because we're both what thirty four years old?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Thirty four years old? How do we do that at
such a young age?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
What are they thinking? Asking so young?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
With that as your as your backdrop, right, how do
you feel about, like, you know, obviously, the way your
life is turned out. I know you well enough as
a guy that you're gonna say it is gret because
the way it turned out. But because I say that
same answer all the time. Yeah, but would you have
done anything different on the show? Would you have taken
different you know, steps after the show or is it
just the way it is today? Is the way it is?
Today's door style, Like you know, you know it's the
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reason because of the choices you made. The butterfly fact,
like where are you at with that?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I mean that's a great question because you know you
look back at it and like it's it's still a
blur to me. The fact that like I remember getting
the call the first time, like Chris, you're leaving in
five days for LA and you can't tell anybody, And
like I just told my two brothers and my dad
like hey, what do I do? And they're like attack
(23:25):
your bad You're leaving it in four days? Like just
take that, you know, like just jump go for Iteah
and all my friends thinking I just they couldn't tell
them where's Chris?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I can't tell you?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But that being said, I mean, honestly, looking back, I
wasn't in a great place because my mom had passed
away like a year before. I was living in home
my dad, which was the right thing to do at
the time, but I was kind of just you know,
spinning my wheels. I didn't really know what that next
stuff was going to be in my life, and I
didn't have that perfect someone to help me help guide
(23:59):
me through that. So if I hadn't done that, like
I don't know what would have happened or where what
I would be doing right now, you know. So thankfully
I did that, and like, uh went on that show
and made some amazing friends who I still talk to
this dage, just like you said, and like even people
have not my season.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Who I see and talk to are awesome.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
It's a it's like going to a small college and
like even if you didn't know that person, you start
talking to me, like it's like a college buddy right there.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
So it was the best move I ever made.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
And uh, yeah, got a wife show kids like you
name it.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Man.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I mean I'm the poster shop. I'm the poster shop
for why you should do the batcherette. You know what
could happen? You could like if you go on and
don't have like weird alter your motives. If you just
go on and be yourself, have fun with it, have
no preconceived notions, and uh just say stay true to
who you are and who your family you know, thinks
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you are. Like put your best foot forward and like
can you come off like you no regrets?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I mean, intentions are everything, dude. I know they always
say the road to Hell's pay with good intentions, but
I always say, intentions are everything. Like, you know, the
one thing about a camera is it can see if
you're faking it, right, I mean, it's not like we're
not like we're you know, gifted, you know, like Anthony
Hopkins style actors on that show. Right, So if you're
an appole, people are going to realize you're an as whole,
you know what I mean. And if you're a good
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guy and you're not trying to screw people over and
you're just trying to be a nice person, they see
that too, you know, And I think I think you're
absolutely right, Like you are the poster child for going
on that show. And I feel like, you know, for me,
it's like I always love seeing people that I know
and like having great things happen to them. Like I'm
always like, oh, yes, you know, and I remember seeing
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that article about you and Peyton. I think that we
had talked not too long there after, and I was
just like, dude, this is amazing. You know, I was
so excited for you, but I'm still excited for you.
I love everything that you're doing. I mean, eight year
old and a six year old. Are they boy and
girl or both boys or both girls?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
So eight year old Lelah six year old Hayes.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I mean, incredible, my son Hayes that got back, you know,
to get those awards for kindergarten.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
He got Athlete of the Class. I was like, what,
that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I love it. Yes, So would you ever if if
they came to you and they were like, Daddy, you know,
I got asked to be on the Beast Route, you know,
when they're when your daughters, you know, in her twenties,
let's say early twenties, would you encourage that, knowing what
you know now? Or I mean, if Hayes came to
you and was like, Daddy, I want to be on
the show, you know, would you encourage that or would
you be like, I don't know, guys, I mean, I
(26:36):
feel I feel I'll answer what I think you would say,
I think you would say exactly what you just said.
You know, if you can remain true to yourself, if
you can, you know, make a decisions, if you understand
that you're reflective of your family while you're on that
show and you think about it, then by all means,
go for it.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
The fact that both their parents were on different seasons
and their mom was on two different shows, and then
we then we were on like over many episodes of
HGTV shows afterwards. I mean, there's no way I would
I could say no. I'd have to like say yes,
but then yes, exactly what you said. If you're going
to go on, be true to yourself, be true to
the family, be true to your last name, because that's
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the only one you've got, and and.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
You know, just make the right decisions all the time.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
But at the end of the day, have fun like
that show, and like, if you're having fun on that
show and you're being yourself, then those are the people
that shine even this day. Like if you're watching it,
you can see the people that are having fun and
aren't trying to think about how they can get like
followers or how they can spend it to the next thing.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Like I think you want deal after this.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Like I didn't go on to thinking like oh how
do I get on at now?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Just be yourself and have fun with it.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
And then like then they see it and they're like oh,
because what people don't realize is that just being on
that show and being in front of cameras and doing
five billion hours of one on one interviews is the
best training you can get for being on TV. I
still remember after doing my first couple of shows and
Ancient you either like you're really good in front of
the camera. I was like I was in front of
the camera for three months straight, like.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
When I was drunk, when I was sober, sleepy not sleepy.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
It's like, yeah, they're always there and it was great
training for anybody.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
No, that's so true. And that and then and then
when you're on a show like you know, like on
your show like Going Yard, you were definitely always that.
You know, you're always perky and ready to go because
you're you know, you're doing your show. I mean you're right, Yeah,
you people saw you at your worst and your best,
you know, from from doing the show like that, from
all the all the camera time. There's no question, Well man,
I'm glad America saw you for who you are. They
(28:37):
were right by the way, you are exactly who you are,
which is just a great guy. Love that you're a
family man, put in your family first, and you know
whatever comes along, you're not. You're You've got the great
power of yes right. You're willing to give it a
shot if it makes sense, but you know you're not
going to sacrifice your values to do it. And I
love you for that, bro, I really do.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I can't thank you enough for having me on man
thinking of me and so proud of you doing all
your success, and thanks again for having me on.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Hey, give Peyton and the boy and your children a
big hug for me, William Man.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
We'll do all right.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Take care, Chris, thank you so much forgetting us. See you, buddy,
Chris lamped in Everybody another great episode of Almost Famous
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This is the Almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio. Welcome back
to Almost Famous to OG's podcast. I am one half
of your og hosts. I am not Trista Sutter Nay
Wren the other one. I'm Bob. Hey, everybody, Bob getting
here today. We are going to go back to Ali
Fedotowski season of the Bacherette. That season six back in
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twenty ten, just a baby compared to Tristan. Myself, my
guest today, was the runner up and did not end
up finding love on the Bacherette, but surprisingly still fell
in love in the bachelor world. A landscaper, a TV personality,
part of a family run oyster business, and an elected official.
We're going to talk about all this good stuff. Please
(00:41):
welcome to the pod. My friend who I actually know
this guy I don't normally know everyone. It's Chris Lambton
and I love Chris Lampton, so let's bring him on.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
What's going on? Bob? How are you Ren?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I'm great, buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
How are you not too bad? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah? How's the family? Tell me everything? What's going on
with you? Bud?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Fam is great? Yes, it was the last day of school,
so yeah, you know, like today was fast and furious.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Kids are what six and eight, so they're going to
first in third grade.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Which I feel like, Yeah, crazy, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah? It is.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
And then Peyton is crushing it. She's not crushing enough
that I can be a stay at home dad, you know,
knock on wood soon.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Right, that's a dream, buddy, that's a dream for both
of us. I'm into that one too. So yeah, well,
not surprised, dude. I've often said you two are two
of my very favorite people from Bachelor Nation, and I
always love to see your success, love seeing on HGTV
and everything you were doing there. And yeah, you know,
I'm not sure if you heard the rumor, but they're
gonna do a little makeover the Bachelor Engine. Yeah did
(01:45):
you hear? Because producers called you and said we need
you to do this, because that's what I would have
done as a producer.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I've heard that they're in the talking stages and I
was like, dude, you better have Peyton and I come
on now, that's like an honest, perfect thing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I feel like I'm talking to a good host of
that show right now.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So that thank you, buddy. Yeah, well, you know what
now that some some synergy has changed around Bache Nation.
Maybe I would have a chance, you know, but back
in the day, I would have gotten the tombstone, I'm
sure for the powers that be. But now now we
can get back in. So if just to make it clear,
if HGTV makes the right choice and calls you, you're in.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I would love to be in on that show. I mean,
here you go.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, decade plus an AHGTV and Bacher stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Come on. I mean if Peyton, I'd be a perfect fit.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Oh you really would, man, I mean, I don't think
there's a better one out there. So all right, so
we're going to take it back right back the twenty ten,
right Ali Fedotowski season. You're you're one of the last
guys standing and I remember you know, you were a
young guy your first time on TV. Good looking dude,
got the kind of awesome East Coast accent, which was
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I've always found a very endearing just in general. But
you know, with you, you just had such a good
nature about you and got along great with the other guys.
You know, you were never a source of any other
drama or anything like that, but you were definitely someone
who stood up for themselves and was you know, you
did us proud. You did us proud at that point,
but you ended up being the runner up on that season, right,
(03:16):
And as I recall, so it came down to you
and was it you and Roberto?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Right that it came to Roberto and talked to him
the other day.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Did he really? So? I was trying to get him
on the horn because I haven't talked to him a
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I was trying to He's reclusive, man. He is a
fast watch. He's like, there's sightings of home every now
and again.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Is he real? Is he real? We don't know. It's
not behind the trees.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, like fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Have you guys gotten together at all? Have you guys
got together at all? Was like hangout or no?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
He came to my wedding.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
That's awesome. That's the last time you saw him. That
was what thirteen how many years ago? Was that?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Man?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
So we got married sink of the mile and this
is we got married twenty twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
So we've just had a thirteenth year.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Thirteenth years, hey man, that's always a best right, you
get past the seven year at your golden that's what
they say, not a gold not a golden bachelor, but
you know you're golden just the same, not yet, yeah, exactly,
So all right, so you get done with the show, right,
And I've got to believe just because the nature of
things at that time, that they had to have asked
(04:20):
you to be the next bachelor. Did they come to you,
did they court you for it?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
They flew me out to a angels in a Red
Sox game in Anaheim. It was the coolest experience ever.
Like I took a limo and like, I don't think
I ever been at long before. I was like, I'm like,
come on, like let's do this. Like they had good
seats at a game, because usually if I go to Fenway,
like when I was younger, like you know, I was
out in the bleachers and the nosebreed, you know, Like,
(04:46):
so I had good seats and uh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
They asked and.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
And and did you say no? Or was it one
of those things where you were like, I'm open to it?
And then they ended up because I know a lot
of times, like I mean, I always heard the story
because I was the first reject so to speak, that
went on to be the bachelor, right, and I had
always heard that they talked to like three or four people,
and uh, I remember. I remember when they first came
to me. I actually said no, and uh they were
(05:12):
like why. I'm like, because I'm a lovable loser man
and you probably had the same problem, right, I'm the
level of loser. I can't do anything wrong. Everyone thinks
I should have won the thing, and I you know,
so it was like, why would I go on and
risk being a jerk picking the wrong person? Like it's
the fear, you know, did you go through that kind
of feeling? Yeah, the pressure?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah, yeah, because they asked me.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
But I was like him and the hung I was
thinking about it, and I was like, well the thing
that I got caught up on, maybe you were the
same way. It's like it's one thing about me being
on it, you know, like if you want to trash me,
say stuff about me, do whatever, whatever, you know, Like
I signed up for it, literally signed up for it, legit.
And then you know, when I was in the bachelorette,
the same thing. People were like, say stuff about you online,
(05:50):
you know, which hey come to the territory. Yeah, but
like they said stuff about like my brother, my dad
and sant like that.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I said, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
What, if I go on the Bachelor, I'm signing the
whole family up, you know, like they're not getting any
money for it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
They're not getting anything for it, so.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I'm just I'm putting them out there and like, yeah,
my brothers are they don't want the limelight. You know
that my dad didn't want it, and I know that
they'd use my mom's story again, and yeah, I was like,
you know, what is it worth it? But I mean
I took the chance to go in the bacherette because
I was like, you know what, I'm open for finding
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somebody in a weird way because it hasn't worked at
this point. And I would never I would never change
that experience. Loved that experience. Death made awesome friends. Ali
was great, you know, she was sweet to me the
whole time. But then that next step when you're like
in the spotlight and your family's in the spotlight, I
was like, yeah, that might be a bridge too far.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You know, well, you know it is. It is a lot.
You're absolutely right, it's a lot, no question, I will
say this. You know, I had said no for a
lot of the same reasons at first, and in retrospect,
I'm so glad that but but again I was before
social media too, so you were on the front end
of social media when you were doing it. Just people
were savage, right, so even I mean people just sit
(07:09):
there and say the meanest things. None of it's true, right,
and we didn't have that. So at the time when
I was doing it, I even remember I went to
my dad and I was like, you know, I want
to do you proud and I don't want to embarrass
our family. Are you okay with this cause I won't
do it if you if you don't want me to
do it, right, And my dad was like, you know what, buddy,
you do it. Well, I'll tell you. He passed away
in twenty twenty one. And the fact that I have
(07:30):
him on video now talking in my grand and my kids,
his grandkids can see it and go, look how young
Papa was and stuff like that. It's awesome for me.
So that's the That's the big the biggest positive, right
that in the fact they made a bunch of great
friends and I'm still friends with a lot of the
girls too and stuff. But so yeah, so you you
say no to that, they go on to who is
(07:51):
the who was the bachelor? Who do they end up
making the best.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
The first guy from Austin.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yep. Yeah, so Brad comes on really takes the heat
off of you because he puts so much of it
on himself. He's such a nice guy. But man, dude,
I felt so bad for him. All right, but you
didn't find love on the Bachelor att right, And so
what a crazy twist that you end up meeting your
wife who was on I mean, did they ask you
(08:18):
to be on Bachelor Pat? Did they ask you to
do that one too?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Okay, no, because when they were they were they started
teaching taping Bachelor Pad, like right near the end of Bachelor.
So I was still on a Bachelor when they started
taping Bascher Pad. Yeah, so thankfully I wasn't on that.
And I say thankfully because one of my best friends
on the show, Jesse Beck, was on Bachelor Pad and
(08:41):
that was like the weird competition. You know, they hadn't
figured it out that, you know, how to do it
right at that point, and his partner was Peyton, and
he was like Chris, Chris. I was talking to this
Peyton girl and telling her how great you be together.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
And fast forward like just a few weeks after I
said no to the Bachelor. Thomas were at an event
together in North Carolina, the Jimmy ve Golf Classic.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Oh my god, I love that one.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, it was so much fun. So Jesse's like, oh,
I have a friend. I want to invite her over.
I was like, all right, Like who is it. He's
like this girl Peyton, She's awesome. She was on the
path with me. I was like, where does she live?
He's like Dallas. I'm like, Jesse, you need to be
better at geography because Dallas is not near North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Like they're far apart.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
He called her anyway and like, no, jog Like. She
was home in Northeast Tennessee at the time, which was
like an hour.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
From where we were.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
He was home for the weekend. So she came over
met us and like literally, I was like, that's the one.
Nine months later, nine months later, I proposed her.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That's so badass. I love that. Yeah, And you two
really are like you two are one of those couples that, look,
I get it all. You know, whenever you live with
someone and have a family with someone and everything else,
you're gonna have your moments, right, But the two of
(10:12):
you always seemed just wired so nicely together. And I've
always thought that since the day I met you guys.
And it's one of those things that it's like you
see when you see it and it's right, and you're like, oh,
that's how it's supposed to be, because I was I
was still looking for my person at that time, you know,
when we first met, and I remember thinking like, oh, god, dude,
those two are so good together. Maybe you know, maybe
I should do The Bachelor but whatever the time, Bachelor
(10:33):
Paradise or whatever they were doing at that point. But
I was like, I'm not going to be the first
guy from the Bachelor, like the dude who handed out
the flowers. Yeah, I save that. I think they had.
I think they ended up having. Uh didn't Jake Pavelka
do it? One of the guys did it? I can't
remember who it was, or you know he did Bachelor
pad Nick ye, nick Viel did that yeah? Or the
(10:53):
Paradise Yeah he was. He had done it all at
that point, I think. But yeah, So so then you
guys get you guys get together, and then you're together
for a little bit and then the HGTV comes calling, right,
and then that that kind of picked up not too
long thereafter.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
So we had just started dating Peyton and I and
I remember I was like, Peyton, I got these emails
from this d Y and HGTV. I was like, I
was like, what do you think She's like?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Google them?
Speaker 3 (11:18):
So I google this guy and like, I was like, wow,
he actually does work for HGTV, like because you know,
like you get like all these emails from people like
after the show, like hey, do you want to do this?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I'm like that seems fake to me.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm not going to do it right, and it all
seems too good to be true. Yeah right.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I'm like, oh yeah, because I'm a landscape you on
me on TV, right, I don't believe that.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
So I emailed them back.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I'm like, hey, you know what, just so happens that
I'm actually going to be in Tennessee, which is where
the HGTV offices are for Christmas, to visit my girlfriend
and meet her family for the first time, and they're like,
can you come in for an interview?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah? Sure.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
So I remember Peyton dropped me off in Knoxville at
the h TV studio and she went to school in
Knoxville University of Tennessee. So we were like, oh, perfect,
We'll cruise around, see her school, get a T shirt,
you know, the whole nine yards, and then go to
her parents' house meet her parents.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
He dragged me off, and who do you think you
would meet the first time? Bob? Like, ah, like somebody
in HR I don't know. I sit down.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I start talking to this lady and we talked for
like an hour and we leave and I'm sitting out
there and then she comes outside. She's like, Hey, all
the ladies in the oves want to take a picture.
You want to come in and take a picture.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Like, oh, yeah, of course. So we take a picture
and I'm just laughing and everybody leave and.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Peyton was like, who'd you meet with it? I said, oh,
this lady. I googled her name. She was this CEO
of HGTV and.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Scripts and I was like and Peyton starts laughing.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
She's like, if you knew that beforehand, you would have
been terrible in that interview.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah, it's that you think it's like a low level person.
You're like, yeah, like.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, like if he does well, bumping.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Up a level, right, we'll bring him in again, you.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Know, or whatever, And like I'd never done many interviews,
Like I was either a landscape or a teacher. So
it's not like I was like applying to some big
company and do different interviews.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I I would have assumed the same thing. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Next to fast forward, they send a film crew to
my yard on the cape to do like a little
walk and talk and do like a little two minute sizzle,
and Pateon was like, I'm getting in on this, so
she like jumped in the video and then they were like,
we would love the two you guys together. She'll do
the design, you do the manual labor, like you know,
the landscaping, and we got our first show going yard.
(13:35):
And I mean, like I always say, the Bachelorette completely
changed my life. It got me a wife and a
TV show ONCTV, and like might not.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Have been the way that those producers wanted it to be,
but it definitely worked out the way that you needed
it to be and you and Peyton needed it to
be in your heart. Yeah now yeah, now you got
two beautiful kids. And I mean, with that being the case, right,
So Peyton went on a show and didn't find love also,
which is how she ended up on pad obviously whose
season was she on? By the way, I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Admiral oh Andy Baldwin and who I met a couple
of times, nicest doing the world.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Super nice guy, yeah, super nice guy. Yeah he he
just had a baby.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Runs like however old he is hearing that many miles
for his birthday? Have you seen this?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, dude, he's what they call a what
do they call those ultra runner?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Ultra yeah, ultra marathon yea ultra marathon er.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
So he'll yeah, I'll never forget. I was reaching out
to him. This is years ago. I was still living
in La at the time, so it was pre twenty fifteen.
I was reaching out to him about something that they
wanted him to do with me, and he was like,
I go, where are you. He's like, I'm in Chile
or something. He's like Honduras or something. He was like
super far away, and he goes, yeah, I just I
just got done running like an ultimate marathon. I think
(14:47):
I was like eating, you know, I was eating pretzel
bites and drinking. Againess, I'm like a taco and yeah,
I have a taco in one hand a pizza in
the other. I'm like, Okay, I can see why we
probably aren't going to get the hang anytime soon. But yeah,
he's a super nice man. I mean, I've been hard
pressed to find too many people that I haven't loved
once I got to know them from the franchise myself too.
But but yeah, so all right, let's talk about this.
(15:09):
You got your you got your family business, you got
your HGTV business, you've got your landscaping business, You've got
your family, and then I just found out you also
ran for political office. Tell me about this.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah, so I know it's stupid to me, but so.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Before you say another word, I gotta tell you this.
I think about it all the time, only because I'm like,
I equally love hate all the parties, Like I'm not
a I don't subscribe to one or the others. I'm like,
maybe I could be the great uniter, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I still remember it was like the twenty teens and
our town was trying to get a community center and
it got voted down and there was just nobody young
on the board and I was just like, listen, like
someone's going to do something. And then instead of complaining,
I was like, you know what, I'm going to run,
So I ran for the select board in our town.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It comes humble brag.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I won by the largest margin and by and I
got the most votes in town history.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I love yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
And uh so I just got reelected for my third term.
I'm the chairman of the Dentist select Board and I
love it.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And I'm still I'm not that young anymore. I'm still
the youngest on the board.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
And as someone who was born and raised in this town,
I have young kids who go to the public schools
in town. Like, yeah, small business. My one of my
brothers is a police officer in town. Like, we're ingrained
in this town. Yeah, and like you gotta, you gotta.
You can't just complain, you gotta step up and do something.
So I try to get people to get out vote.
I try to help push family oriented things, help with housing,
(16:42):
you know, all that kind of stuff. And uh yeah,
I get paid two thousand dollars wait for it a year,
so no big deal.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Right, right, right, You're not You're not to get rich though, right,
I mean, I get that.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I do it because it helps out and I love it.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
No, I love that, dude. You're so good. And I
bet people find you so refreshing, right because you're such
a good dude and you never looked down your nose
at anybody. And it's like, you know, you're in this
great situation in life, but it's like you're someone who
can help, right because you actually do have young kids.
And it's like a lot of those people forget what
it's like to have young kids. They just don't want
to pay anything else in taxes, right, so they don't
(17:20):
want to do anything. Yeah, right, I get it. I
get it.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah, I appreciate that because, like sometimes it is a
thankless job, but you know, I love doing it, and
everyone in the town is so much fun to work
with and work for, and you know, and you go
someplace like hey, Chris, thank you for doing that, or
hey can you help me get a sidewalk?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Or can you sure? Sure?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well I'm sure too, Like my dad was a policeman
in my hometown, so I know I know that kind
of thing too with your brother. So it's like everybody
loves Slash hates the cops, right, They love the cops
if they need them and they need their help. They
hate the cops they get pulled over for speeding, So
it's like one of those things, right, And I remember
usus I always say to my dad, I was like,
I was like, man, it must be so hard to
(18:00):
be a copies, Like it's the most rewarding and most
what do they say, the most rewarding and taxing job
all at the same time, because you know, you're never
making everybody happy. But at the end of the day,
it's like you get to know that community in such
an intimate way. And I'm sure that's that's got to
be something for you too, Like you know, your brother's there,
your family's there. You want everybody to have the things
that they need, you know, and you're not. Your family's
(18:23):
no different than anybody else's, right, It's just it's just
we got to figure out how to make everybody happy.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
All about family, all about community. That's you know, that's
why you do stuff, right.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You guys get down to Tennessee much to see Peyton's family.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yep, we go a couple times a year. We actually
went in April to the kids of Dollywood.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Want to go there too? Is it great?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
It's great? You know, like we've been to Disneyland and like,
you know, you're strict on the rides Dollywood.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
They're like, my son's six, They're like how tall is
I'm like, you know whatever, Like you can go with
all the rides.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I'm like, I don't even want to go into all
the rides, you know.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, well that's funny that you say that. So the
reason we haven't gone. We went to doney World when
my when my oldest was four, and it was like
all we did was walk around and he was bored,
like he did not love it. So we were like,
you know, we're gonna wait a while, right and so
or Disneyland, we went out in California where Canyon, his
parents are from, and recently we even said we're like, well,
you know, our six year old could probably ride most
of the rides now maybe still probably not a lot
(19:17):
of them, but four year old is not getting on anything.
So we're not going to go until they could both
do it. Dollywood might be the answer. I like that.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Idea's great. Man, there's way more rise than I thought
I thought. Wou'd be like to the rides. There's a
ton of stuff there.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Yeah, I was just.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
I was just down. So we invested in a property
down on Highway eleven, and uh that runs through Knoxville.
It's like this road and and it's kind of a
long story, but anyway, we uh and so it's I
guess it's like an hour away from Dollywood. And my
in laws uh spent a lot of time down there
for their and they were like, well, next time we're
(19:51):
we're going down, we got to go to Dollywood. Like
we're in. We're totally in. You know, I want to
do it at big times. So I will call you
guys when we're going if it's.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Only an hour, I recommended that. Yeah, great for the
whole family.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, what's on the horizon, Like what's going on with you? Guys?
Like you if you were to say to me right now, okay, Bob,
here's our next twelve months in a nutshell? Like what
are we working at? What are we looking at?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Great question?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
So you know, obviously every day I go to work
with one of my brothers, one of my brothers, Eric,
my middle brother and I we landscape together, which is fun.
My youngest brother and I Mark, we had the lands
we had the oyster company together, you know, with our wives.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
We do that and that's I mean, that's so much
fun because we.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Drive out in a four wheel drive truck during low
tide sort the oysters. My daughter who is eight going
on twenty eight. I mean, she can sort oysters. She's
a hard worker, so they're out there helping out. So
I love that aspect of my life. Still doing the slecktboard,
I may throw my hat into the next level soon enough,
(20:54):
running for some a bigger office liketle.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
What would that next level be, like, maybe mayor.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Unfortunately we don't have a Cape cod so okay, if
it was, I'd be like, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Just gonna say maybe maybe you'll be the first mayor.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah, exactly, And then, uh, you know, Peyton is just
doing She's an interior designer. You know, if you're not
born on the Cape, you're called a wash ashore. Okay,
So she calls her company wash the Shore Home, which
is incredible. She always joked with I'm like, yeah, baby,
you're just a wash the shore. Come on, I've been
here for like six years. I'm like, it doesn't matter,
(21:29):
You're still a washing it still washing. He embraced it,
she loves it. She calls it washed the Shore Home.
So she is absolutely doing great with that, and I'm
so couldn't be more proud of her and the kids.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And uh so.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Now I coach my kids teams, whether it be soccer
or ice hockey.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Hockey's big man. We got my boy on skates this
past year, really, yeah, got him on skates. Now. He's
playing flag football right now. Seems to really enjoy it.
But his attention span is such that it's like, you know,
if he's not getting the ball six.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Same age as my son, so yeah, same thing, Like
if they don't have it, they're like picking daisies in
the corner.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Right, Oh totally yeah, yeah, not even paying attention. It's crazy. Yeah,
well let me ask you one more thing. So with
time on your side, right, I mean obviously Bachelor was
years ago for you. Bachelor it was years ago for you,
twenty ten, So what is that fifteen years now? Crazy
to think? Right? I mean for me it's twenty three,
twenty two. Isn't that nuts?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Which is weird because we're both what thirty four years old?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Thirty four years old? How do we do that at
such a young age?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
What are they thinking? Asking so young?
Speaker 1 (22:39):
With that as your as your backdrop, right, how do
you feel about, like, you know, obviously, the way your
life is turned out. I know you well enough as
a guy that you're gonna say it is gret because
the way it turned out. But because I say that
same answer all the time. Yeah, but would you have
done anything different on the show? Would you have taken
different you know, steps after the show or is it
just the way it is today? Is the way it is?
Today's door style, Like you know, you know it's the
(23:02):
reason because of the choices you made. The butterfly fact,
like where are you at with that?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
I mean that's a great question because you know you
look back at it and like it's it's still a
blur to me. The fact that like I remember getting
the call the first time, like Chris, you're leaving in
five days for LA and you can't tell anybody, And
like I just told my two brothers and my dad
like hey, what do I do? And they're like attack
(23:25):
your bad You're leaving it in four days? Like just
take that, you know, like just jump go for Iteah
and all my friends thinking I just they couldn't tell
them where's Chris?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I can't tell you?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But that being said, I mean, honestly, looking back, I
wasn't in a great place because my mom had passed
away like a year before. I was living in home
my dad, which was the right thing to do at
the time, but I was kind of just you know,
spinning my wheels. I didn't really know what that next
stuff was going to be in my life, and I
didn't have that perfect someone to help me help guide
(23:59):
me through that. So if I hadn't done that, like
I don't know what would have happened or where what
I would be doing right now, you know. So thankfully
I did that, and like, uh went on that show
and made some amazing friends who I still talk to
this dage, just like you said, and like even people
have not my season.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Who I see and talk to are awesome.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
It's a it's like going to a small college and
like even if you didn't know that person, you start
talking to me, like it's like a college buddy right there.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
So it was the best move I ever made.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
And uh, yeah, got a wife show kids like you
name it.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Man.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I mean I'm the poster shop. I'm the poster shop
for why you should do the batcherette. You know what
could happen? You could like if you go on and
don't have like weird alter your motives. If you just
go on and be yourself, have fun with it, have
no preconceived notions, and uh just say stay true to
who you are and who your family you know, thinks
(24:56):
you are. Like put your best foot forward and like
can you come off like you no regrets?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I mean, intentions are everything, dude. I know they always
say the road to Hell's pay with good intentions, but
I always say, intentions are everything. Like, you know, the
one thing about a camera is it can see if
you're faking it, right, I mean, it's not like we're
not like we're you know, gifted, you know, like Anthony
Hopkins style actors on that show. Right, So if you're
an appole, people are going to realize you're an as whole,
you know what I mean. And if you're a good
(25:21):
guy and you're not trying to screw people over and
you're just trying to be a nice person, they see
that too, you know, And I think I think you're
absolutely right, Like you are the poster child for going
on that show. And I feel like, you know, for me,
it's like I always love seeing people that I know
and like having great things happen to them. Like I'm
always like, oh, yes, you know, and I remember seeing
(25:43):
that article about you and Peyton. I think that we
had talked not too long there after, and I was
just like, dude, this is amazing. You know, I was
so excited for you, but I'm still excited for you.
I love everything that you're doing. I mean, eight year
old and a six year old. Are they boy and
girl or both boys or both girls?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
So eight year old Lelah six year old Hayes.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I mean, incredible, my son Hayes that got back, you know,
to get those awards for kindergarten.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
He got Athlete of the Class. I was like, what,
that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I love it. Yes, So would you ever if if
they came to you and they were like, Daddy, you know,
I got asked to be on the Beast Route, you know,
when they're when your daughters, you know, in her twenties,
let's say early twenties, would you encourage that, knowing what
you know now? Or I mean, if Hayes came to
you and was like, Daddy, I want to be on
the show, you know, would you encourage that or would
you be like, I don't know, guys, I mean, I
(26:36):
feel I feel I'll answer what I think you would say,
I think you would say exactly what you just said.
You know, if you can remain true to yourself, if
you can, you know, make a decisions, if you understand
that you're reflective of your family while you're on that
show and you think about it, then by all means,
go for it.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
The fact that both their parents were on different seasons
and their mom was on two different shows, and then
we then we were on like over many episodes of
HGTV shows afterwards. I mean, there's no way I would
I could say no. I'd have to like say yes,
but then yes, exactly what you said. If you're going
to go on, be true to yourself, be true to
the family, be true to your last name, because that's
(27:13):
the only one you've got, and and.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
You know, just make the right decisions all the time.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
But at the end of the day, have fun like
that show, and like, if you're having fun on that
show and you're being yourself, then those are the people
that shine even this day. Like if you're watching it,
you can see the people that are having fun and
aren't trying to think about how they can get like
followers or how they can spend it to the next thing.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Like I think you want deal after this.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Like I didn't go on to thinking like oh how
do I get on at now?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Just be yourself and have fun with it.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
And then like then they see it and they're like oh,
because what people don't realize is that just being on
that show and being in front of cameras and doing
five billion hours of one on one interviews is the
best training you can get for being on TV. I
still remember after doing my first couple of shows and
Ancient you either like you're really good in front of
the camera. I was like I was in front of
the camera for three months straight, like.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
When I was drunk, when I was sober, sleepy not sleepy.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
It's like, yeah, they're always there and it was great
training for anybody.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
No, that's so true. And that and then and then
when you're on a show like you know, like on
your show like Going Yard, you were definitely always that.
You know, you're always perky and ready to go because
you're you know, you're doing your show. I mean you're right, Yeah,
you people saw you at your worst and your best,
you know, from from doing the show like that, from
all the all the camera time. There's no question, Well man,
I'm glad America saw you for who you are. They
(28:37):
were right by the way, you are exactly who you are,
which is just a great guy. Love that you're a
family man, put in your family first, and you know
whatever comes along, you're not. You're You've got the great
power of yes right. You're willing to give it a
shot if it makes sense, but you know you're not
going to sacrifice your values to do it. And I
love you for that, bro, I really do.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
I can't thank you enough for having me on man
thinking of me and so proud of you doing all
your success, and thanks again for having me on.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Hey, give Peyton and the boy and your children a
big hug for me, William Man.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
We'll do all right.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Take care, Chris, thank you so much forgetting us. See you, buddy,
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