August 12, 2024 • 16 mins
Ben and Ashley are catching up with a Bachelor Nation newlywed that might surprise you! Kendall Long got married in total secrecy almost 2 years ago, and she’s ready to tell Ben and Ashley all the details!
Kendall spills everything about living in Germany with her new husband, and she reveals why it’s never too early to talk about marriage and kids… even on a first date.
Plus, find out why she finally decided to go public with the big news!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey everyone, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. Today we
have a special guest. It's Kendall Long and she is
telling us about this secrets that she has been holding
on to for years. Kendall, welcome to the podcast, and
it's a it's been a year and a half long secret.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, it's been around a year and a half, so
it's been quite a bit. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So what's the secret? Tell people who didn't hear the headline,
so yes, So for those.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Who do not know, I've been married to my husband
Mitch for a little over a year and a half now.
Literally right before we left to Germany, we eloped to
Santa Barbara and then we the next day we hopped
on a flight and moved to Germany.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
So good, all right, Well there's a lot to break
down here. First off, congratulations, thank you Kingarrats. Why was
it kept a secret? So obviously this was an intentional choice.
I'm assuming that it wasn't just like something you didn't
think of. Why did you to keep it a secret
for the first year and a half?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, we kept it a secret because our plan was
to get married, have the official wedding abroad in Germany,
and so we wanted to get married, and it made
it a lot easier to move to Germany as a
married couple because of Mitch's job. So you were going
to get married anyway. So we're like, we'll do this
and then we'll have the wedding when we're in Germany.
(01:31):
And a lot of things kind of transpired and changed
and our family, like, not all of our family could
go out to Germany to have a wedding or can
go abroad.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
That plan didn't happen, and time went on and I
was like, you know, I feel like I just want
to celebrate this now and to tell people.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So, yeah, what's his job that made it easier for
you guys to be married.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So he's an aerospace engineer, so he works on a
military base here in Stutgart, Germany. So it made it
so I was able to stay in Germany and we'd
be able to be together. And we were pretty confident
that we wanted to get married anyway, so and we
had just gotten engaged, so we just expedited the process
(02:18):
a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You guys had been together for a little over I
want to say six months at the point where you
got married eight months maybe, okay that point yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, and so well I think it maybe after announcing
it had been around six months. But yeah, so we
literally had met and got engaged and got married and
moved abroad like in less than a year.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, I hate interviewed to you guys when you'd only
been together for like two or three months. Yeah, and
it was very evident that you would be getting married
all things, based on your answers and is your behavior together,
oh things.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, I felt like we knew pretty early on that
we were going to get married. Yeah, I mean after
the first date, we talked about babies, we talked about
like our life together, like where we were seeing ourselves,
and it kind of just felt like what we wanted
really aligned.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
So remind all of our listeners and me, because I forget,
how did two of you actually meet.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
We met through a mutual friend, So we went to
a friend's party and we just saw each other there.
So it kind of the old fashioned way.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
What was the elopement, Like, was it romantic or was
it because you went to Santa Barbara for it? So
I'm imagining there was like some sort of scene it
wasn't just a go to the courthouse and sign some
papers situation.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, well, we kind of made it so. I didn't
want to wear a white dress at all. I wanted
to save that for our bigger wedding, but just our
immediate family and we dressed up and we did a
dinner together. It's a really nice dinner, and we all
went to the courthouse and it was out in the
front of the courthouse and so it was outside and
we just did it on the lawn there and it
(03:56):
was really sweet, really intimate, and yeah, it was nice
to have just our close family there. And then we
stayed the night in a hotel and it was really Yeah,
it was really cute. It was really special.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
What has the reaction been, because I'm assuming not all
of your friends knew that you had gotten married, but
I'm assuming some did. Kind of tell us the reaction
from both parties, Like the ones that did know you
got married, were they, you know, how did they feel
about it? And then those who have just found out
that you've been married for a year and a half,
what was their reaction.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I'm not really that good at keeping secrets, so my
immediate family knew, of course, and then our relatives and
friends did know, so like all of my close friends knew,
really close friends knew. And also I've been kind of
living a double life in Germany because I literally can't
help but tell people in Germany. So that's part of
the reason why it's been so weird is because I
(04:49):
feel like we've been married for like over a year
and a half now and I've been acting like that.
And another part of the reason why we wanted to
go public with it now is because we've been in
talks about wanting to move back, wanting to start a family,
really excited for that, and I felt like moving back,
I wouldn't be able to kind of keep up that
(05:10):
we're not married things. I'm really bad at lying, So
I just wanted to kind of start our life together
and act like a married couple when we were back
in America as well. So yeah, that's another reason why
we decided to go public right now.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
How has the distance thing been from your family, because
we knew that, you know, on Bachelor in Paradise and
with Joe, the whole I'm not moving thing play at
a big factor in that relationship, and you didn't want
to be away from your sister, which I totally get.
So now you're half a world away. How has it been.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It's been really really hard. But Mitch and I knew
when we decided to move to Germany that it was
going to be a temporary thing. So yeah, that's comforting
that we were going to be here for two years
having amazing adventure traveling and being able to experience a
life abroad. And we've really learned a lot and evolved
a lot in our relationship. I've just one hundred percent
(06:11):
just like depended on him for so much. It's been
really cool to start our marriage out that way. But
it's been there's been days where it's been really really hard. Like,
my sister is my absolute best friend. I'm extremely close
to my family, so so yeah, it's I mean, as
fun as it's been, that's been the hardest thing for
both of us not be close to our families. So
(06:34):
we've had to depend a lot on each other through that.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You see originally from the LA area as well.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He's originally from well, from Virginia and then moved to
I think Los Angeles area or in California, and then
kind of moved around California.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
From there, so I mean you just kind of touched
on it, but you said it's been really impactful for
your marriage to art out abroad and to do this
now for I mean, how long have you been over there?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I think probably well, yeah, like a year and a half,
a little over a year and a.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Half, year and a half. So how has it, I mean,
if you can kind of give us some details, what
has it done for your relationship and your marriage, you know,
getting married, traveling abroad and just having each other good parts,
bad parts, all parts.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, I mean, you have to completely change your life
in a lot of ways. There's a new language, new places.
You don't really have any friends initially starting off. And
I'm a big social person, a big family person, Like
I talk to my family on the phone every single day,
and I usually would hang out with my sister every
single day or friends, So socially, I feel like I've
(07:48):
depended a lot, like with Misch for like company and
just kind of like all of that. So in that way,
we've just been able to get really really close and
and there's been difficult days when I miss everybody. Just
being able to be there and be strong for each other,
it's been really important. But Yeah, I mean it's just
(08:09):
a it's a lot, it's a lot to change, and
I would one hundred percent recommend it to everybody if
you want to go and have an adventure traveling, you know,
around the world. It's there's a lot to celebrate about it.
But even like small mundane tasks like making doctor's appointments
or going to the grocery store, I have to use
my broken German to get things done. I've had the
(08:32):
phone hung up on me when people realize that I
speak English and they don't know how to speak English. Yeah,
and there's you know, those are kind of funny things
about moving to a country where English isn't the first language,
and you kind of have to expect that in some
ways because in America, I'm sure we're very much like that,
even more so. But but yeah, it's like everything is
(08:53):
a little bit harder. So there's a lot of patience
that's involved in that.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And would you would you say that like, because you're
starting out with a challenge, you think it'll be like
you think it's gonna make your marriage stronger. And do
you think that like when you go back to the States,
everything will feel easy.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Well, you know, in a weird way, like it's felt
easy already here, Like sometimes how easy it feels just
with each other, and so moving back to the States,
I feel like I'm not even worried about it at all.
It's just yeah, I mean, I think we just take
everything one day at a time, and if there's hard days,
(09:37):
there's hard days, and we support each other. And it's
really hasn't despite missing people, it hasn't been too tremendously hard.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Well, I think it's my advice, and I don't have
a lot of advice in my life, but my advice
for any newly married couple is to at least move
away somewhere together, like to just do it, even for
a year. I think think that the struggle but also
just the ability to lean on each other really helps,
you know, build a bond. One thing I do, though,
(10:07):
think would be hard, would be, you know, you left
your profession and kind of you probably left a lot
of the projects and things you were working on back
here in the United States. So what does you know
your life look like in Germany? And do you have
anything you're working on while you're over there.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well, in a weird way, I feel like it's actually
really helped focus what I want to do back in LA.
The only difference is really I just don't go to events.
I don't go to I guess premieres or stuff like
that anymore, which is okay with me. I more so
actually focus on like the nature and science elements of
(10:47):
what I'm doing with my career now. So I work
with the nature Kunta Museum in Stuttgart. It's a natural
history of museum, and so I've been working on videos
with them and just kind of like talking to different
tax or myths and different biologists and that's been really amazing.
And I still have partnerships with other companies like along
(11:09):
those same lines. I've actually been able to travel from
here a lot easier, so I've gone to Africa a
few times to do things with net Geo and different projects.
So I feel like, in a way, I haven't really
left behind what I do. I've only kind of done
more of what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
That's awesome. We're so happy for you. I guess we
have to bring up your bachelor and paradise your bachelor experience. Yeah,
I think it's like so, I think it's like so
(11:48):
cool that everything just worked out for you. And for Joe,
because the last time we saw you on TV was
you like going back to Bachelor in Paradise seeing if
you guys could possibly rekindle things if it was like
really really over, and then you soon after Mett Mitch,
and then like I'm assuming that you were just like,
(12:09):
oh wow, this is why everything didn't work out.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Right, right, Yeah, I mean the whole Paradise thing. Of course,
I have a lot of opinions about how that all
transpired and don't necessarily agree with everything. Yeah, definitely didn't
go there to date my ex again. But despite that,
it's all.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, despite that, that's what it looked like.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, it is so crazy. I'm just
really happy that life has kind of turned out the
way that I did. I feel like, I feel like
Joe and Streen are happy together, married together, and it
just feels almost kind of like a world away from
all of that, and it's so weird to now kind
(12:52):
of be married and moving forward, and I don't know,
it almost feels like it's weird that I was even
like a part of my past, you know, the Bachelor
and all of that, because in Germany, no one watches
The Bachelor, No one knows who I am, you know,
despite maybe some Americans on base or some of my
American friends. But it's been so nice, just kind of
(13:13):
I don't know, it's being separate from everything. And I
almost got reminded when I went back to America recently
about the whole Bachelor world. I'm like, oh, people like
still recognize me, and like, I feel like I've haven't
been a part of everything for such a long time,
so I'm still like surprised. But yeah, it's just yeah.
Here in Germany, I feel like it's you know, not
(13:35):
really been a thing.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
So it's healthy. I'm assuming it's very healthy to to
get away and to not have that you know, kind
of cloud or that you know, that attention on you.
It kind of helps you reset, which yeah, would be
you know, fabulous for so many and probably necessary.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
In closing here, you've mentioned that your plans are to
move back to units eight together. Obviously, what do those
plans look like? Where would you probably be moving, what
kind of you know, careers would you both be entering into,
And I guess would Mitch be staying in the current
career is in Yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
He'll be in the same career but probably staying within
the company or moving with a different company. We're still
kind of talking about that, but yeah, the plan initially
is to just because it was such a crazy transition
going from America to Germany, we kind of anticipate that's
going to be just as crazy going from Germany to America,
if not more so difficult because you have to you know,
(14:36):
get your license, you have to I have to learn
to drive again, so I've been driven in such a
long time. Everything. So we're planning to stay with Mitch's
family for a little bit while we get all that
figured out, and then our plan is to There's a
couple different places we're thinking of moving, but potentially San Diego,
potentially maybe staying in like a Ventura area, somewhere along
(14:59):
the beach. I've miss the beach so much since being away,
so that's our ultimate goal. But yeah, in California is
where we're thinking of moving to.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Can I just say that it's just so perfect for
your personality and interest to be with an aerospace engineer,
like we would expect nothing less.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Right, That's like how we really connected in the beginning.
As we were talking about which is like a planet
or moon that could potentially harbor alien life. That was
like something that we I was like, oh man, we
both like space. So yeah, there's definitely a lot of
very interesting conversations that we have about things. But yeah,
it is I feel like it's pretty fitting.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
That is so cool. All right, Well, my last question
for you is will you ever wear the white dress?
Are you going to have any sort of celebration.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Oh, yeah, we're definitely going to. I think that doing
it closer to home is what our goal is now,
just to make sure that all of our family can
be a part of that. And a broad wedding is
really expensive for all the guests. I mean, it may
have been with us, but but yeah, so I think
we definitely want to celebrate it in some way back
in America.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
You deserve to be celebrated, Kendall, and so does Mitch.
The two of you have you know, accomplished a lot, uh,
just moving to Germany and doing what you're doing, and uh,
and we're really thankful that you came on and shared
with us the story. We were all very excited here,
but we didn't know the details. And so thanks for
sharing the details of your relationship and the elopement and
(16:30):
then the future plans for the two of you.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
No, of course, I'm happy to catch up.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
All right, we'll see you, Kendall. Thank you so much
for coming on Yeah by
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey everyone, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. Today we
have a special guest. It's Kendall Long and she is
telling us about this secrets that she has been holding
on to for years. Kendall, welcome to the podcast, and
it's a it's been a year and a half long secret.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, it's been around a year and a half, so
it's been quite a bit. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
So what's the secret? Tell people who didn't hear the headline,
so yes, So for those.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Who do not know, I've been married to my husband
Mitch for a little over a year and a half now.
Literally right before we left to Germany, we eloped to
Santa Barbara and then we the next day we hopped
on a flight and moved to Germany.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
So good, all right, Well there's a lot to break
down here. First off, congratulations, thank you Kingarrats. Why was
it kept a secret? So obviously this was an intentional choice.
I'm assuming that it wasn't just like something you didn't
think of. Why did you to keep it a secret
for the first year and a half?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Well, we kept it a secret because our plan was
to get married, have the official wedding abroad in Germany,
and so we wanted to get married, and it made
it a lot easier to move to Germany as a
married couple because of Mitch's job. So you were going
to get married anyway. So we're like, we'll do this
and then we'll have the wedding when we're in Germany.
(01:31):
And a lot of things kind of transpired and changed
and our family, like, not all of our family could
go out to Germany to have a wedding or can
go abroad.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
That plan didn't happen, and time went on and I
was like, you know, I feel like I just want
to celebrate this now and to tell people.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So, yeah, what's his job that made it easier for
you guys to be married.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
So he's an aerospace engineer, so he works on a
military base here in Stutgart, Germany. So it made it
so I was able to stay in Germany and we'd
be able to be together. And we were pretty confident
that we wanted to get married anyway, so and we
had just gotten engaged, so we just expedited the process
(02:18):
a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You guys had been together for a little over I
want to say six months at the point where you
got married eight months maybe, okay that point yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, and so well I think it maybe after announcing
it had been around six months. But yeah, so we
literally had met and got engaged and got married and
moved abroad like in less than a year.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well, I hate interviewed to you guys when you'd only
been together for like two or three months. Yeah, and
it was very evident that you would be getting married
all things, based on your answers and is your behavior together,
oh things.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yeah, I felt like we knew pretty early on that
we were going to get married. Yeah, I mean after
the first date, we talked about babies, we talked about
like our life together, like where we were seeing ourselves,
and it kind of just felt like what we wanted
really aligned.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
So remind all of our listeners and me, because I forget,
how did two of you actually meet.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
We met through a mutual friend, So we went to
a friend's party and we just saw each other there.
So it kind of the old fashioned way.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
What was the elopement, Like, was it romantic or was
it because you went to Santa Barbara for it? So
I'm imagining there was like some sort of scene it
wasn't just a go to the courthouse and sign some
papers situation.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, well, we kind of made it so. I didn't
want to wear a white dress at all. I wanted
to save that for our bigger wedding, but just our
immediate family and we dressed up and we did a
dinner together. It's a really nice dinner, and we all
went to the courthouse and it was out in the
front of the courthouse and so it was outside and
we just did it on the lawn there and it
(03:56):
was really sweet, really intimate, and yeah, it was nice
to have just our close family there. And then we
stayed the night in a hotel and it was really Yeah,
it was really cute. It was really special.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
What has the reaction been, because I'm assuming not all
of your friends knew that you had gotten married, but
I'm assuming some did. Kind of tell us the reaction
from both parties, Like the ones that did know you
got married, were they, you know, how did they feel
about it? And then those who have just found out
that you've been married for a year and a half,
what was their reaction.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I'm not really that good at keeping secrets, so my
immediate family knew, of course, and then our relatives and
friends did know, so like all of my close friends knew,
really close friends knew. And also I've been kind of
living a double life in Germany because I literally can't
help but tell people in Germany. So that's part of
the reason why it's been so weird is because I
(04:49):
feel like we've been married for like over a year
and a half now and I've been acting like that.
And another part of the reason why we wanted to
go public with it now is because we've been in
talks about wanting to move back, wanting to start a family,
really excited for that, and I felt like moving back,
I wouldn't be able to kind of keep up that
(05:10):
we're not married things. I'm really bad at lying, So
I just wanted to kind of start our life together
and act like a married couple when we were back
in America as well. So yeah, that's another reason why
we decided to go public right now.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
How has the distance thing been from your family, because
we knew that, you know, on Bachelor in Paradise and
with Joe, the whole I'm not moving thing play at
a big factor in that relationship, and you didn't want
to be away from your sister, which I totally get.
So now you're half a world away. How has it been.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It's been really really hard. But Mitch and I knew
when we decided to move to Germany that it was
going to be a temporary thing. So yeah, that's comforting
that we were going to be here for two years
having amazing adventure traveling and being able to experience a
life abroad. And we've really learned a lot and evolved
a lot in our relationship. I've just one hundred percent
(06:11):
just like depended on him for so much. It's been
really cool to start our marriage out that way. But
it's been there's been days where it's been really really hard. Like,
my sister is my absolute best friend. I'm extremely close
to my family, so so yeah, it's I mean, as
fun as it's been, that's been the hardest thing for
both of us not be close to our families. So
(06:34):
we've had to depend a lot on each other through that.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You see originally from the LA area as well.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He's originally from well, from Virginia and then moved to
I think Los Angeles area or in California, and then
kind of moved around California.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
From there, so I mean you just kind of touched
on it, but you said it's been really impactful for
your marriage to art out abroad and to do this
now for I mean, how long have you been over there?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I think probably well, yeah, like a year and a half,
a little over a year and a.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Half, year and a half. So how has it, I mean,
if you can kind of give us some details, what
has it done for your relationship and your marriage, you know,
getting married, traveling abroad and just having each other good parts,
bad parts, all parts.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, I mean, you have to completely change your life
in a lot of ways. There's a new language, new places.
You don't really have any friends initially starting off. And
I'm a big social person, a big family person, Like
I talk to my family on the phone every single day,
and I usually would hang out with my sister every
single day or friends, So socially, I feel like I've
(07:48):
depended a lot, like with Misch for like company and
just kind of like all of that. So in that way,
we've just been able to get really really close and
and there's been difficult days when I miss everybody. Just
being able to be there and be strong for each other,
it's been really important. But Yeah, I mean it's just
(08:09):
a it's a lot, it's a lot to change, and
I would one hundred percent recommend it to everybody if
you want to go and have an adventure traveling, you know,
around the world. It's there's a lot to celebrate about it.
But even like small mundane tasks like making doctor's appointments
or going to the grocery store, I have to use
my broken German to get things done. I've had the
(08:32):
phone hung up on me when people realize that I
speak English and they don't know how to speak English. Yeah,
and there's you know, those are kind of funny things
about moving to a country where English isn't the first language,
and you kind of have to expect that in some
ways because in America, I'm sure we're very much like that,
even more so. But but yeah, it's like everything is
(08:53):
a little bit harder. So there's a lot of patience
that's involved in that.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And would you would you say that like, because you're
starting out with a challenge, you think it'll be like
you think it's gonna make your marriage stronger. And do
you think that like when you go back to the States,
everything will feel easy.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Well, you know, in a weird way, like it's felt
easy already here, Like sometimes how easy it feels just
with each other, and so moving back to the States,
I feel like I'm not even worried about it at all.
It's just yeah, I mean, I think we just take
everything one day at a time, and if there's hard days,
(09:37):
there's hard days, and we support each other. And it's
really hasn't despite missing people, it hasn't been too tremendously hard.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Well, I think it's my advice, and I don't have
a lot of advice in my life, but my advice
for any newly married couple is to at least move
away somewhere together, like to just do it, even for
a year. I think think that the struggle but also
just the ability to lean on each other really helps,
you know, build a bond. One thing I do, though,
(10:07):
think would be hard, would be, you know, you left
your profession and kind of you probably left a lot
of the projects and things you were working on back
here in the United States. So what does you know
your life look like in Germany? And do you have
anything you're working on while you're over there.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well, in a weird way, I feel like it's actually
really helped focus what I want to do back in LA.
The only difference is really I just don't go to events.
I don't go to I guess premieres or stuff like
that anymore, which is okay with me. I more so
actually focus on like the nature and science elements of
(10:47):
what I'm doing with my career now. So I work
with the nature Kunta Museum in Stuttgart. It's a natural
history of museum, and so I've been working on videos
with them and just kind of like talking to different
tax or myths and different biologists and that's been really amazing.
And I still have partnerships with other companies like along
(11:09):
those same lines. I've actually been able to travel from
here a lot easier, so I've gone to Africa a
few times to do things with net Geo and different projects.
So I feel like, in a way, I haven't really
left behind what I do. I've only kind of done
more of what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
That's awesome. We're so happy for you. I guess we
have to bring up your bachelor and paradise your bachelor experience. Yeah,
I think it's like so, I think it's like so
(11:48):
cool that everything just worked out for you. And for Joe,
because the last time we saw you on TV was
you like going back to Bachelor in Paradise seeing if
you guys could possibly rekindle things if it was like
really really over, and then you soon after Mett Mitch,
and then like I'm assuming that you were just like,
(12:09):
oh wow, this is why everything didn't work out.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Right, right, Yeah, I mean the whole Paradise thing. Of course,
I have a lot of opinions about how that all
transpired and don't necessarily agree with everything. Yeah, definitely didn't
go there to date my ex again. But despite that,
it's all.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, despite that, that's what it looked like.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, it is so crazy. I'm just
really happy that life has kind of turned out the
way that I did. I feel like, I feel like
Joe and Streen are happy together, married together, and it
just feels almost kind of like a world away from
all of that, and it's so weird to now kind
(12:52):
of be married and moving forward, and I don't know,
it almost feels like it's weird that I was even
like a part of my past, you know, the Bachelor
and all of that, because in Germany, no one watches
The Bachelor, No one knows who I am, you know,
despite maybe some Americans on base or some of my
American friends. But it's been so nice, just kind of
(13:13):
I don't know, it's being separate from everything. And I
almost got reminded when I went back to America recently
about the whole Bachelor world. I'm like, oh, people like
still recognize me, and like, I feel like I've haven't
been a part of everything for such a long time,
so I'm still like surprised. But yeah, it's just yeah.
Here in Germany, I feel like it's you know, not
(13:35):
really been a thing.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
So it's healthy. I'm assuming it's very healthy to to
get away and to not have that you know, kind
of cloud or that you know, that attention on you.
It kind of helps you reset, which yeah, would be
you know, fabulous for so many and probably necessary.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Now.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
In closing here, you've mentioned that your plans are to
move back to units eight together. Obviously, what do those
plans look like? Where would you probably be moving, what
kind of you know, careers would you both be entering into,
And I guess would Mitch be staying in the current
career is in Yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
He'll be in the same career but probably staying within
the company or moving with a different company. We're still
kind of talking about that, but yeah, the plan initially
is to just because it was such a crazy transition
going from America to Germany, we kind of anticipate that's
going to be just as crazy going from Germany to America,
if not more so difficult because you have to you know,
(14:36):
get your license, you have to I have to learn
to drive again, so I've been driven in such a
long time. Everything. So we're planning to stay with Mitch's
family for a little bit while we get all that
figured out, and then our plan is to There's a
couple different places we're thinking of moving, but potentially San Diego,
potentially maybe staying in like a Ventura area, somewhere along
(14:59):
the beach. I've miss the beach so much since being away,
so that's our ultimate goal. But yeah, in California is
where we're thinking of moving to.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Can I just say that it's just so perfect for
your personality and interest to be with an aerospace engineer,
like we would expect nothing less.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Right, That's like how we really connected in the beginning.
As we were talking about which is like a planet
or moon that could potentially harbor alien life. That was
like something that we I was like, oh man, we
both like space. So yeah, there's definitely a lot of
very interesting conversations that we have about things. But yeah,
it is I feel like it's pretty fitting.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
That is so cool. All right, Well, my last question
for you is will you ever wear the white dress?
Are you going to have any sort of celebration.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Oh, yeah, we're definitely going to. I think that doing
it closer to home is what our goal is now,
just to make sure that all of our family can
be a part of that. And a broad wedding is
really expensive for all the guests. I mean, it may
have been with us, but but yeah, so I think
we definitely want to celebrate it in some way back
in America.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
You deserve to be celebrated, Kendall, and so does Mitch.
The two of you have you know, accomplished a lot, uh,
just moving to Germany and doing what you're doing, and uh,
and we're really thankful that you came on and shared
with us the story. We were all very excited here,
but we didn't know the details. And so thanks for
sharing the details of your relationship and the elopement and
(16:30):
then the future plans for the two of you.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
No, of course, I'm happy to catch up.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
All right, we'll see you, Kendall. Thank you so much
for coming on Yeah by
Speaker 1 (16:40):
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