September 21, 2023 • 31 mins
Ben and Ashley are hanging out with Wells Adams who is fresh from the beach in Paradise and has all the tea to spill before the premiere!
Wells drops some hints about what we might see when the contestants hit the sand, and he shares a WILD twist that fans will love… but contestants will hate.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I almost Famous podcast
with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's almost famus podcast and we have today. I would say,
in fact, my wife asked me two weeks ago, who's
some of my favorite people in the world? And this
person was listed on that for many reasons, one of
which is his talent and his skill and his ability
to host one of the best shows on television, the
(00:26):
Pizza Show, Best and Dope and A Bachelor in Paradise. Wells, Adams,
welcome to the podcast. That was such a nice welcome
and preamble. Who else is on that list?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Man, I want to know who else is the most
You're one of your more favorite people in the world, Ashley, Jesus,
that's because she's in the room right now.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You have to say that.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
My wife, my parents, her parents, just people you know,
just I just like people I've I've been lucky enough
to know some really great people. We're getting ready to
all be at Dean and Kailn's wedding this weekend, which
we're very excited about. It's going to be a great celebration,
a lot of fun. I'm very pumped to be around
(01:14):
some of my favorite people at that wedding. Wells, let's
just kick it off though, because we're here to talk
about Paradise today. You're now back from Paradise. I least
that's not a secret the when Okay, if we're to
kick this thing off, I think the first question I
want to ask you is do you get excited personally
for Paradise every year?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
At this point? Does it feel more like a job?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Uh kay, that's a good question. I get very excited
for it every year because it's in Mexico, it's in
a nice place, like it's beautiful for me, and like, yes,
it is a lot of work and it's like a
lot of long hours and stuff, but it's still as fun,
you know, like at the end of the day, like
my job is, yes, I'm serving all of them and
(02:00):
making drinks and like getting ice and cleaning cups and stuff,
and so that there is like the nuts and bolts
of all of it, but it still is a little
bit of It feels like I'm hanging out with a
bunch of friends for a month and then we get
to do like fun, wacky stuff, which I which I
always like because you know, that show is is a
(02:20):
little less serious, you know, and you know that kind
of going into it. The opener is, you know, all
the cast members being silly and stuff, and so I
think that gives us a little bit of carte blanche
to be a little fun and silly, and obviously like
my sensibilities leaned towards comedy a little bit. So I
just like going and doing the show. And then you know,
(02:42):
the cherry on top of making that show is what
comes out of it. Case in point, your co host
here and Jared or like you know, I was. I
just married Joe and Serena and they came out of
that show just a couple of seasons ago.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
So going to a wedding this weekend of another exactly.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And you know, dare I say that, I think it's
the show that is the most successful in terms of
what the mission statement is, which is to get these
people engaged and married. So for all that, yes, I'm very,
very excited every year. I will say this though, like
I'm getting a little long in the tooth, Like I'm
not the same guy who first started bartending whatever it
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was eight years ago. The hours are getting longer. I'm
getting a little more like I had to go to
bed my back hurts. And there's that weird thing of
when I first started doing it, I was the same
age as everybody, or I was a little bit older,
but but basically the same age. Now there's this thing
of like like get off my lawn and these these
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kids I don't understand like that all the verbids they're
using and stuff. But no, to answer your question, I
love doing it. It's it is so much fun and
uh yeah, and Mexico just holds like a special place
in my heart anyways, So it's the best.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
So you learn the word riz from the gen z Ers,
what else do you learn from them? They also say,
like what's that expression that they say all the time.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Like, well, there's a lot of giving, like giving.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Yeah, that's kind of annoying to me.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, like it's it's it's giving, Barbie, it's getting, it's giving,
uh Hollywood chic and really all it's giving me as
a headache because you're sounding an idiot.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And then there are a lot of it's funny.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Oh you said it was like high brow or not
high brow.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Low key and high key low key high Yeah, there's
a lot of low key like uh like yeah, like
low key, like I kind of like him, or like
high key, like everyone knows we like it.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
We do that.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That that gets used a lot, and it's like low key.
You guys are all annoying to me, and shut up
and just score to your you know your soda around here.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
That sounds like high key.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I think low key because I don't want everyone to
know how much I can't stand them. That's not true.
I love everyone down there. And then yeah, the other
one was vibes. It's a lot of vibe checking, like
the vibes are off, the vibes aren't right.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
And then like a lot of flags.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
There's a lot of green flags, a lot of red flags,
a lot of beige flags, which is the dumbest thing
because the big flag. Really, all that is is just
an idiosyncrasy of your character that's neither good nor bad.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
So it's just kind of who you are.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Yeah, we said, like Jared being obsessed with Rob Thomas
is his beige flag?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yes, for one hundred percent. Yeah, Okay, let's play a
scenario out here. Okay, I'm thirty four years old. You
know I wouldn't even be like I don't think old
if I was the bachelor again, Like, I don't think
that would be like a storyline of he's an old bachelor,
Like thirty four seems like kind of the age that
(05:50):
the bachelors are going on three.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
So yeahs fair.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So if I let's play a scenario where I am
single again, I'm the bachelor last season and then they
asked me to go on Paradise, you understand the amount
of confusion I would have on that beach with these
things being said, like you're saying this right now, Wells,
and there is like anxiety inside of me where I'm
feeling way older than I feel like I should, and
(06:15):
also just annoyed hearing it. I would not fund like
I don't belong. Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And I, especially though I'm five years older than to
your senior, you know, like I really am, you know,
kind of confused. I watch a lot of TikTok, so
I feel like I was. I feel like I was
a little prepped. And then there was a there was
a nice little like okay, everyone just sit down and
just explain all this to you know, your your old buddy, Wells.
(06:47):
But at the end of the day, like it's there's
everyone's saying the same stuff. You know, it's just they
found a new way of saying it. Yeah, and everyone
needs the same piece of advice because they're still going
through the same problems, you know.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Okay, Yeah, So well.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
We had a headline last episode where Jesse says that
there's going to be this twist totally new, and he
says that everybody, cast and audience is going to love it.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Now about the same twist.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
You said in a separate interview that like the audience
will like it, but the cast is going to get
really angry.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Can you tease this a little bit more?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Well, I think what everyone thinks it's going to be
is that like we separate everybody like we did last
season Alla like Cassa more from Love Island. And that's
not that we don't that's not happening. I mean, it
might happen, but that's not what everyone's talking about. I
think you I think what he's talking about is and
(07:46):
we show it the teaser, so I don't think it's
a huge spoiler. We try a new thing, which is
I put out this thing called like the truth Box,
and it's a way for the cast to be able
to say what they want to say without any judgment
(08:07):
or with with with anonymity effectively, and uh, it allows
people to speak their truth and it.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Helps a lot of couples. It hurts a lot of couples.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It It brings people together that you never thought were
going to.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It separates people that probably shouldn't be together, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Like so it's it's this new tool that we that
we put together that actually I think really does help
the bottom line and the mission statement of the show,
which is like get people to find each other and
you know, hopefully get engaged at the end of the
single or leave together.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
You know.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
So the PST secret remember that thing.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
It's similar to I don't know if you guys ever
worked like in a corporate office, but I did. There's
this thing of like the complaint box that you can
like put in complaints about like effectively managers and then
and you don't have to put your name on it,
so you can just say what you think. And then
you know, people have to you know, you have like
(09:11):
a meeting at the end of the week to be like, okay,
so this is those in the complaint box. It's a
little bit like that. And I'd be lying if there
weren't a lot of like Wells's drinks suck in that
complaint box this year. But you know, well, everyone's upset
because they want stronger drinks and that's just.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Not an option.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
It's not an option.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And also, I'm trying to do you a service here
of you not being like I can't believe that.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
To me, I'm not as sick as you. Jog ayeah
wan kind because every season you might have to be like, hey, sweetie,
let's go drink of water. Yeah, it's gonna liquid iv
in you.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You know. So I think that's what he's talking about
because we see it. We see it on the teaser
of like I present it, but it could be something else.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So, I mean, because when you hear this and you
hear his statements, do you immediately in your mind go
to what you were talking about in your interview or
something else?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I don't know, Like, so those a lot of those
interviews we do like before the show starts, you know,
so it's a lot of like hyperbole that you're like, well,
I think I know what's what we're going to be
doing this season.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
We don't really know, but I don't really know. I'm
not sure if it's really like anything's really happened yet.
I will say this, like we have more leads than
we've ever had come on the show this year, which
is you know, like praise be to Becca for like
kind of like starting this trend of like leads feeling
comfortable coming on the show, which is really really good
(10:42):
because I think one it brings a lot of brand
awareness back to the show. And listen, leads are leads
for a reason, like they're really good TV makers, right,
Like you know that, like they're going to come in
there with some fire and some grit and and also
like a lot of people want to date them and stuff,
so that's really exciting. We have some fun, funny games
(11:04):
and scenarios that we do, you know, there's always those
like tonight we're doing this thing or like and and
we do want this year that we've ever done before.
And I don't even know if it'll make air, but
it's really really funny, and I think if it does
make air, I think that the audience is really going
to love this like new wrinkle that we've thrown in.
(11:25):
But for the for I have no idea what Jesse,
who was talking about.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Honestly, I have no idea what.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I don't even remember saying what you guys said I said,
but I'm sure I said it.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
I believe it. You're quoted. It's fine.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So in our last when this headline was red Wells,
and I want to speak my piece to you personally
because I feel like I was against this truth I'll
tell you why.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I think one of the healthiest things in life that
we can do is confront issues person to person, confront
them head to head. And I think Paradise is great
because it kind of has always forced people to confront
issues and it makes that weird drama for a bit,
like we have love triangles or Hey, you hooked up
(12:22):
with me before the show and you told me we're
going to date.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Down here, and now we're not dating. I am worried.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
This truth box is allowing kind of like a social
media buffer between humans to be able to speak, and
it's just allowing people to hide behind a box. Am
I looking at this scenario wrong? Argue with me on this.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Tell me I'm not right. I think you were right
and you're wrong. Yes, Like I think there is a
little bit of cowardice in not being able to have
the cojones to actually say what you want to say.
But then again, I think the problem that we've had
in the past is that someone feels a certain way
(12:59):
and I might not even be a part of their relationship,
and they don't want to get in the middle of things,
which I totally understand. Like I don't want to be
a potster. I don't want to be a villain, like
this isn't my thing. But like I heard someone say
something and like that's not cool, and I feel like
someone should know that. But I don't want to be
the one that gets in the middle of all the drama,
which I totally understand. And we are now living in
(13:22):
a very interesting world where and I've been talking about
this a lot, Like, you know, when we all went
on the show, social media wasn't such a thing, right,
Like you just kind of like lived your life, and yes,
there were tweets and like you you'd post on Facebook,
like your photos of your food, you eight that day
or whatever. But now the cast members that are coming
(13:45):
on this show are these these kids who have lived
their life with social media and effectively they have been
curating their storyline on their own social media for a
very long time, and they have a very their brand
awareness is so much stronger than what we had, like
(14:07):
and so there's a lot more trepidation going in the
show of being like, Okay, you saw that, or you
heard them say that, or you feel this way you
should say it. Well, that's not like I don't want
to put myself out there like that, you know. But
the problem with that is that it doesn't get to
the heart of the problem, which is the honesty, the
(14:29):
truth and finding your right person. Like Paradise, At least
for Ashley and I when we were there, it was
a lot of like, you did that person that didn't work.
I did that person that didn't work. I did that
person that didn't work. Then you come to this last
person and you go through all these motions, and it's
been it's been a little bit harder with with this
(14:51):
younger generation who's lived their life, you know, being the
star of their own TV show on their phone, and
so I think this is a This was a really
good way of being able to allow people to say
what they want to say without diminishing their brand of
how they perceive themselves in the show, if that makes
(15:12):
any sense.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
To you, theres a lot of sense. I think that
was a perfect explanation.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, it's it's been a weird I'm seeing it transpire
because and of course I'm the guy who's like, I'm
very black and white when I when when I see
things on the show, because it's always happening right in
front of me, and I always say the same thing.
I'm like, but it's crazy if you don't say that, Like,
the entire world is going to be like, well, you
(15:37):
knew this thing, but you didn't say anything. Like that's
bonkers to me, you know. And that's so that's usually
a lot of like what my advice is is like
I think you can need to say something because if
I were in your shoes, I would definitely say it,
because that's crazy if you didn't, Like, I feel like
the audience would be more upset that I didn't say
something than than if I did, you know. So, Yeah,
(15:58):
it's it's an interesting it's very interesting doing the shows
now in comparison to him, you know, Ashley and I
did it, you know, decades ago.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Interesting.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
You mentioned that, like there's more leads this season than
ever before.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Why am I only thinking of Rachel?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Why don't you gotta wait and watch a show I guess.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Oh, okay, well I know leads come down.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Good teaser, that's gonna get a lot of people watch it.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Okay, Well, off that question. Who is your dream lead
to come back on Paradise?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Ooh, I mean he's married now with Ben Higgins. That
would be this Dad bought on the Beach.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yes, oh my god, what I would leave.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I let my chest here grow out for that show.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
What I would do to be able to like have
my opening credits with Ben with our shirts off being
like this, this is what the wrong side of thirty
looks like, America.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
You will have a lot to look forward to.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Yeah, yeah, you're not getting out of the question.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
No, that's good. That's a good question.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Okay, he's not a lead, but I would like him
to come uh. And that's Tyler Cameron, Like I think
that he would be. I think he would be in
high demand. So we gotta wait. We gotta wait for
his riz to cool down a little bit before he's
like has to come back on these shows.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
And then I think, you know, Peter Krause was a
guy that like everyone loves.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Right, Jared and I are so team at Peter Krause
to do anything Bachelor related. We would love to have
them make him the lead just out of nowhere and
have the audience not even know who he is.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I think Paradise would be a better fit for him.
I would also can I add to this, I would
love to see Pilot Pete in Paradise because I don't
think his personality shows as well as the Bachelor, and
I think he is like really wild and fun, and
he's and like I just feel like he's kind of
(18:03):
got pushed behind. I think he would be a really
great person in Paradise.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah, and listen, you know this is sad because I
was such good I'm such good friends with both of them,
with with uh, with with Caitlin. And I think that
Caitlyn would be really good in Paradise.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
You know, that would be really fun.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I don't know if she would do it, but she
would be funny down there for sure. Jason to Jason,
never came to Paradise, did he?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
He didn't, No, he did it.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Now wait, now you have a whole other show concept
that I'm thinking of, more like Bachelor in Paradise All Stars.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
So it would have to be like the huge names.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
That's the only way to get the other huge names
to get on for sure.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Or like the one of you guys are Watcher was
like this kind of like bad MTV rip off that
I loved so much called X and the Beach.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah, Jase McNairy from The Bachelor when on that, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Jared and I hosted the reunion show one year.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah, yeah, could we could do something like that that?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
That would be pretty great, Listen.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I just like the fact that that one like like
leads that like don't find love, like still deserve to
like to like find love. It's just funny though, Like
you're I think that they're used to being the star
of the show, and then all of a sudden they
get thrown into a situation where like there is no star.
(19:29):
You know, well there's Jesse, He's the star, I guess.
And then and then you're just kind of like your
your your special treatment is is gone and there's a
little bit of learning curve there, which I I always
find funny.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You know, I wouldn't enjoy that. I want to be
the star. Yeah, I don't want to be the I
want to be the center of attention. I want people.
I want a handler, uh handler, Yeah, I want to
filling up my whiskey glass Wells shaking an empty glass
of ice. Excuse me, sir, oh, I would just like
to come up to Wells and be like, well, another
(20:00):
drink man. Sorry, this one was good enough.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Hey, we obviously have made it very clear that this
show is is uh you know, films in the in
the summertime, and you're off of it now, and I
want to give listeners a taste of what is expected,
and so let's drill into the details a little bit.
What as much as you can. What characters that we
(20:25):
know are going to be in Paradise should we be
most excited to watch?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Okay, I think the world fell in love with Aaron
over this last season, or at least we got a
lot of him on the show on Charity season. I
think that that's a good character to watch. I'm trying
to think of everyone who's who we know is going
to be on there. I like Brandon like yeah, like,
And I know that might be a contrac.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
He's always been mad at it because I've defended him
throughout the entire season.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, like, well, okay, here's what I'll say about Bradenley,
he has weird style, like he reminds me a lot
of Dean if I'm being honest, like just kind of
a out there guy that you're just like I, you know,
and you're not really sure if that's like a bit
you know, like I'm doing this because I want everyone
(21:16):
to think that I'm crazy and different, or like you
are just crazy and different, like and I still don't
know if I really know the answer to that question.
I like him because and obviously it's weird because we
film that show before Charity season aired, so we didn't
get to know who the villains were and who were
so I went into being like, you're just a guy
(21:37):
with rubber ducky earrings on right now, Like if you're
the villain, where have we gone? Like, you know, like
my villain was a guy named Chad who is three
hundred pounds of pure muscle and protein and steroid anger
like your rubber.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Ducky's the bad guy.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Hope ohs Scarf as scary. So I just couldn't buy it.
And I liked it because there was a little bit of,
you know, I want a redemption story in him that
I appreciated and like also, all these guys come down,
they're like, oh, we hate Brandon. I'm like rubber ducky guy,
Like reallys so I I really like him. He's also
(22:17):
just a nice guy. I don't think he's a bad guy.
Who else cat is?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Two cats, one with a KM with the c.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Yes, both of the cats are good.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Well the one with the sea is she's like the
one that's like, is a cat lady?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Oh is she? She just seems a little bit a
little bit more of an instigator.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
She's like a bartender in New York. And every time
there's a bartend that comes down there that's like judge
me the entire time, and I'm like, just get out
of here.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
A bartender on TV.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, I'm trying to think of who else is on there?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Those are?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Well, what about what about Rachel and Avan because they
had obviously, you know, a thing in the past.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah, that Rachel's great, but Rachel Rachel, there's a little
bit of like Mama bear that Rachel has that Becca
had this too, you know, where it's they want to
take care of everyone else except themselves, and you're like, hey,
by the way, don't forget like you're supposed to be
here to date people. You know, there's a little bit
(23:28):
of that. Listen, there are a bunch of people that,
like I don't think we've released, that are coming on
the show that are going to be amazing.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Everyone's gonna love this season. It's really really fun.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
And there's a wedding in it too, which we haven't
had a wedding in Paradise in a very long time.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And you know what, Traditionally, I'm just thinking off the
top of my head, Bachelor in Paradise weddings have not
been wildly successful.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Have they.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Yeah, the ones that have happened there, yeah, very.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Un Yeah, so I'm hoping this one lasts, let's say so.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
For Yeah, I really like these two people really rooting
for them.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Well, as we're gonna talk about Joe and Serena's wedding
as we close up. But I like to do this
with you every year before Paradise airs, if we could
take twenty seconds, thirty seconds to just tell people out
there why they should watch Paradise this year or as
long as you really want.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
The floor's ears.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah, I think the show is what the show has
always been. So if you have been a fan of Paradise,
you're gonna get that again. You're gonna get tears, you're
gonna get drama, you're gonna get crabs, the ones on
the beach.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
You're gonna get engagements.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You're gonna get heartache, You're gonna get breakups, You're gonna
get funny you know, exit Limo interviews, Like all the
things I think that you're looking for from that show
you're gonna get. You know, villains are gonna become heroes,
Heroes are gonacome villains, all that kind of stuff, great
character arc.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
It's just a.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Fun, good show.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
And I feel like I feel like everyone is going
to be so happy that it's back.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Yeah we are for sure.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
All right, So you were the efficient at Joe and
Serena's wedding. How did they come with you with that?
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Askia?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Joe texted me and my my initial response was I
feel like this is more of a phone call, but sure,
And I was like, I'm not I'm not a priest,
you know. But luckily you can go online to the
Universal Life Church dot com and get a uh I
should be sponsored by them.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
By the way, recently, I recently officiated a wedding two
three weeks ago, and I did it through the Universal
Life Church. And I'm like, Okay, are are we sure
that this is it? Because you basically just signed something
like you sign a so far and that's it.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
My I was like thirty seven dollars or like thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
It was nothing.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
But like now like I'm like, I think I could
be like a cult leader, Like I think I could
say really easy.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
You know, how long did it take to write their
ceremony script?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
It took a while.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I I have a bunch of friends who have married people,
and I took the script that Jesse Tyler Ferguson did
for ours, and so I kind of did this amalgamation
of all of these different weddings that I liked. And
then obviously they came. They flew out here and we
went to lunch and I was like, let's talk about
what you want, like what you want from me? And
(26:26):
so yeah, it probably took me like three weeks, but
it wasn't like every day all day.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Uh, it didn't take me very long, and it was
it was not till like you know, it's like really good.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Pat myself on the shoulder, but like it was really
really beautiful ceremony and not because of anything that I did,
but because of like their love. It was just so
palpable and obvious. And it was just, uh, it was
so fun and and Joe. Joe had like the best
line of the whole. Like I did like twenty minutes
of stand up up there, which I thought like killed.
Then Joe does one line and absol destroys me and
(27:01):
like absolutely takes the house down, which I love. It's
their moment, no mind, but uh, it was just it
was like really fun, and like both of their families
are exactly what you think their families are, Like it's
just like these really nice Canadian people who are just
so sweet and pretty and fun.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
And then like.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Italians from Chicago, like we liked Sass and Peacha, and
everyone's name is Joe and Joe Anne A Josephine And
it was just like IVY was like a movie I was,
and I was like a part of it.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
And yeah, it was so much fun.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
In my time.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I think it's up to fifteen or thirteen people I've
been able to officiate the wedding for.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
It's not it's not a competition, then.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
No, Well you got to remember I also started an
event called the Wedding Fest like years ago, where we
married ten people at once, right, okay, well yeah, it
was a wild thing before COVID. I say this to
say fifteen people in there's nothing that makes me more
nervous in my life than marrying people. Were you nervous
for this like massive responsibility?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Not really, I have really no anxiety speaking in front
of people if I'm prepared and all that kind of stuff.
But I remember I was up there and Joe walked down,
and I was like, I was still feeling pretty good.
And then I saw Serena start walking down, and I
had this flashback to my wedding of when I when
I saw Sarah turn the corner, and I was like,
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that was the That was the biggest day of my life.
It was the most important moment of my life. And
then I then I was like shot back to where
I was sitting in Charleston, you know, at the altern
I was like, oh my god, I really don't want
to screw up their most important day of their life.
And then I started getting a little bit of a
little bit of you know, flop sweat, but you know,
(28:45):
then I opened up with like a couple jokes and
then we were off running in and it was it
was fine.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Yeah, once those first couple of words come out of
your mouth, you're like, okay, So I just want to
know a little bit more about Joe's dad, because everybody
made it seem like he was like the big character
of the wedding.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Big Joe.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
First of all, like Sarah and my wife, Sarah and
Big Joe are like best of friends now, Like they
hung out the entire time. There was a moment in
which I walked outside and everyone was hanging out at
like a table and Sarah was singing show tunes to
Big Joe and like all these Italian and I was like,
(29:23):
do you think that they're like Broadway? And they were
loving it, like they were all singing like and it
was just bonkers. But Big Joe is the best, Like
he was just so much like larger than life. And yeah,
we're going we have like we are playing a trip
(29:43):
to go to Chicago purely to go have Big Joe
cook for us. And he's like, I'm gonna make you
They call it gravy, but I have it's sauce. We
call it sauce where I come from. I'm make you
a delicious sauce. And we're like, yeah, okay, I don't
know what that is, but let's do we're doing that.
So yeah, he was the best. But also Serena's parents
are absolute dolls. And by the way, Serena's mom is
(30:10):
drop dead gorgeous. Shocked, just not shocked. Well, so so
what When I met her for the first time, I go,
you look just like Serena and she goes, you mean,
Serena looks just like me?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
And I said, no, you look a girl.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
That was good. Comeback.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Well, yes, you're smooth. You're smooth man. Hey, Wells, it's
always great having you on. Cannot wait to see you
this weekend. Uh continued success obviously as the season of
Paradise comes about.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Thanks for talking about it with this.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
We hope to have you back, all right, Love you guys,
see us see you this weekend. Okay, ye bye bye bye.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
This has been the Almost Famous podcast until next time
I've Been Ben, I've
Speaker 1 (30:54):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's almost famus podcast and we have today. I would say,
in fact, my wife asked me two weeks ago, who's
some of my favorite people in the world? And this
person was listed on that for many reasons, one of
which is his talent and his skill and his ability
to host one of the best shows on television, the
(00:26):
Pizza Show, Best and Dope and A Bachelor in Paradise. Wells, Adams,
welcome to the podcast. That was such a nice welcome
and preamble. Who else is on that list?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Man, I want to know who else is the most
You're one of your more favorite people in the world, Ashley, Jesus,
that's because she's in the room right now.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
You have to say that.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
My wife, my parents, her parents, just people you know,
just I just like people I've I've been lucky enough
to know some really great people. We're getting ready to
all be at Dean and Kailn's wedding this weekend, which
we're very excited about. It's going to be a great celebration,
a lot of fun. I'm very pumped to be around
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some of my favorite people at that wedding. Wells, let's
just kick it off though, because we're here to talk
about Paradise today. You're now back from Paradise. I least
that's not a secret the when Okay, if we're to
kick this thing off, I think the first question I
want to ask you is do you get excited personally
for Paradise every year?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
At this point? Does it feel more like a job?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Uh kay, that's a good question. I get very excited
for it every year because it's in Mexico, it's in
a nice place, like it's beautiful for me, and like, yes,
it is a lot of work and it's like a
lot of long hours and stuff, but it's still as fun,
you know, like at the end of the day, like
my job is, yes, I'm serving all of them and
(02:00):
making drinks and like getting ice and cleaning cups and stuff,
and so that there is like the nuts and bolts
of all of it, but it still is a little
bit of It feels like I'm hanging out with a
bunch of friends for a month and then we get
to do like fun, wacky stuff, which I which I
always like because you know, that show is is a
(02:20):
little less serious, you know, and you know that kind
of going into it. The opener is, you know, all
the cast members being silly and stuff, and so I
think that gives us a little bit of carte blanche
to be a little fun and silly, and obviously like
my sensibilities leaned towards comedy a little bit. So I
just like going and doing the show. And then you know,
(02:42):
the cherry on top of making that show is what
comes out of it. Case in point, your co host
here and Jared or like you know, I was. I
just married Joe and Serena and they came out of
that show just a couple of seasons ago.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
So going to a wedding this weekend of another exactly.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And you know, dare I say that, I think it's
the show that is the most successful in terms of
what the mission statement is, which is to get these
people engaged and married. So for all that, yes, I'm very,
very excited every year. I will say this though, like
I'm getting a little long in the tooth, Like I'm
not the same guy who first started bartending whatever it
(03:28):
was eight years ago. The hours are getting longer. I'm
getting a little more like I had to go to
bed my back hurts. And there's that weird thing of
when I first started doing it, I was the same
age as everybody, or I was a little bit older,
but but basically the same age. Now there's this thing
of like like get off my lawn and these these
(03:49):
kids I don't understand like that all the verbids they're
using and stuff. But no, to answer your question, I
love doing it. It's it is so much fun and
uh yeah, and Mexico just holds like a special place
in my heart anyways, So it's the best.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
So you learn the word riz from the gen z Ers,
what else do you learn from them? They also say,
like what's that expression that they say all the time.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Like, well, there's a lot of giving, like giving.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Yeah, that's kind of annoying to me.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, like it's it's it's giving, Barbie, it's getting, it's giving,
uh Hollywood chic and really all it's giving me as
a headache because you're sounding an idiot.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And then there are a lot of it's funny.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Oh you said it was like high brow or not
high brow.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Low key and high key low key high Yeah, there's
a lot of low key like uh like yeah, like
low key, like I kind of like him, or like
high key, like everyone knows we like it.
Speaker 8 (04:46):
We do that.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That that gets used a lot, and it's like low key.
You guys are all annoying to me, and shut up
and just score to your you know your soda around here.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
That sounds like high key.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I think low key because I don't want everyone to
know how much I can't stand them. That's not true.
I love everyone down there. And then yeah, the other
one was vibes. It's a lot of vibe checking, like
the vibes are off, the vibes aren't right.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
And then like a lot of flags.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
There's a lot of green flags, a lot of red flags,
a lot of beige flags, which is the dumbest thing
because the big flag. Really, all that is is just
an idiosyncrasy of your character that's neither good nor bad.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
So it's just kind of who you are.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Yeah, we said, like Jared being obsessed with Rob Thomas
is his beige flag?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yes, for one hundred percent. Yeah, Okay, let's play a
scenario out here. Okay, I'm thirty four years old. You
know I wouldn't even be like I don't think old
if I was the bachelor again, Like, I don't think
that would be like a storyline of he's an old bachelor,
Like thirty four seems like kind of the age that
(05:50):
the bachelors are going on three.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
So yeahs fair.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So if I let's play a scenario where I am
single again, I'm the bachelor last season and then they
asked me to go on Paradise, you understand the amount
of confusion I would have on that beach with these
things being said, like you're saying this right now, Wells,
and there is like anxiety inside of me where I'm
feeling way older than I feel like I should, and
(06:15):
also just annoyed hearing it. I would not fund like
I don't belong. Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And I, especially though I'm five years older than to
your senior, you know, like I really am, you know,
kind of confused. I watch a lot of TikTok, so
I feel like I was. I feel like I was
a little prepped. And then there was a there was
a nice little like okay, everyone just sit down and
just explain all this to you know, your your old buddy, Wells.
(06:47):
But at the end of the day, like it's there's
everyone's saying the same stuff. You know, it's just they
found a new way of saying it. Yeah, and everyone
needs the same piece of advice because they're still going
through the same problems, you know.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Okay, Yeah, So well.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
We had a headline last episode where Jesse says that
there's going to be this twist totally new, and he
says that everybody, cast and audience is going to love it.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Now about the same twist.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
You said in a separate interview that like the audience
will like it, but the cast is going to get
really angry.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Can you tease this a little bit more?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Well, I think what everyone thinks it's going to be
is that like we separate everybody like we did last
season Alla like Cassa more from Love Island. And that's
not that we don't that's not happening. I mean, it
might happen, but that's not what everyone's talking about. I
think you I think what he's talking about is and
(07:46):
we show it the teaser, so I don't think it's
a huge spoiler. We try a new thing, which is
I put out this thing called like the truth Box,
and it's a way for the cast to be able
to say what they want to say without any judgment
(08:07):
or with with with anonymity effectively, and uh, it allows
people to speak their truth and it.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Helps a lot of couples. It hurts a lot of couples.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It It brings people together that you never thought were
going to.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It separates people that probably shouldn't be together, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Like so it's it's this new tool that we that
we put together that actually I think really does help
the bottom line and the mission statement of the show,
which is like get people to find each other and
you know, hopefully get engaged at the end of the
single or leave together.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
You know.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
So the PST secret remember that thing.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
It's similar to I don't know if you guys ever
worked like in a corporate office, but I did. There's
this thing of like the complaint box that you can
like put in complaints about like effectively managers and then
and you don't have to put your name on it,
so you can just say what you think. And then
you know, people have to you know, you have like
(09:11):
a meeting at the end of the week to be like, okay,
so this is those in the complaint box. It's a
little bit like that. And I'd be lying if there
weren't a lot of like Wells's drinks suck in that
complaint box this year. But you know, well, everyone's upset
because they want stronger drinks and that's just.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Not an option.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
It's not an option.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And also, I'm trying to do you a service here
of you not being like I can't believe that.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
To me, I'm not as sick as you. Jog ayeah
wan kind because every season you might have to be like, hey, sweetie,
let's go drink of water. Yeah, it's gonna liquid iv
in you.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You know. So I think that's what he's talking about
because we see it. We see it on the teaser
of like I present it, but it could be something else.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
I don't even know.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So, I mean, because when you hear this and you
hear his statements, do you immediately in your mind go
to what you were talking about in your interview or
something else?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I don't know, Like, so those a lot of those
interviews we do like before the show starts, you know,
so it's a lot of like hyperbole that you're like, well,
I think I know what's what we're going to be
doing this season.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
We don't really know, but I don't really know. I'm
not sure if it's really like anything's really happened yet.
I will say this, like we have more leads than
we've ever had come on the show this year, which
is you know, like praise be to Becca for like
kind of like starting this trend of like leads feeling
comfortable coming on the show, which is really really good
(10:42):
because I think one it brings a lot of brand
awareness back to the show. And listen, leads are leads
for a reason, like they're really good TV makers, right,
Like you know that, like they're going to come in
there with some fire and some grit and and also
like a lot of people want to date them and stuff,
so that's really exciting. We have some fun, funny games
(11:04):
and scenarios that we do, you know, there's always those
like tonight we're doing this thing or like and and
we do want this year that we've ever done before.
And I don't even know if it'll make air, but
it's really really funny, and I think if it does
make air, I think that the audience is really going
to love this like new wrinkle that we've thrown in.
(11:25):
But for the for I have no idea what Jesse,
who was talking about.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Honestly, I have no idea what.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I don't even remember saying what you guys said I said,
but I'm sure I said it.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
I believe it. You're quoted. It's fine.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
So in our last when this headline was red Wells,
and I want to speak my piece to you personally
because I feel like I was against this truth I'll
tell you why.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
I think one of the healthiest things in life that
we can do is confront issues person to person, confront
them head to head. And I think Paradise is great
because it kind of has always forced people to confront
issues and it makes that weird drama for a bit,
like we have love triangles or Hey, you hooked up
(12:22):
with me before the show and you told me we're
going to date.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Down here, and now we're not dating. I am worried.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
This truth box is allowing kind of like a social
media buffer between humans to be able to speak, and
it's just allowing people to hide behind a box. Am
I looking at this scenario wrong? Argue with me on this.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Tell me I'm not right. I think you were right
and you're wrong. Yes, Like I think there is a
little bit of cowardice in not being able to have
the cojones to actually say what you want to say.
But then again, I think the problem that we've had
in the past is that someone feels a certain way
(12:59):
and I might not even be a part of their relationship,
and they don't want to get in the middle of things,
which I totally understand. Like I don't want to be
a potster. I don't want to be a villain, like
this isn't my thing. But like I heard someone say
something and like that's not cool, and I feel like
someone should know that. But I don't want to be
the one that gets in the middle of all the drama,
which I totally understand. And we are now living in
(13:22):
a very interesting world where and I've been talking about
this a lot, Like, you know, when we all went
on the show, social media wasn't such a thing, right,
Like you just kind of like lived your life, and yes,
there were tweets and like you you'd post on Facebook,
like your photos of your food, you eight that day
or whatever. But now the cast members that are coming
(13:45):
on this show are these these kids who have lived
their life with social media and effectively they have been
curating their storyline on their own social media for a
very long time, and they have a very their brand
awareness is so much stronger than what we had, like
(14:07):
and so there's a lot more trepidation going in the
show of being like, Okay, you saw that, or you
heard them say that, or you feel this way you
should say it. Well, that's not like I don't want
to put myself out there like that, you know. But
the problem with that is that it doesn't get to
the heart of the problem, which is the honesty, the
(14:29):
truth and finding your right person. Like Paradise, At least
for Ashley and I when we were there, it was
a lot of like, you did that person that didn't work.
I did that person that didn't work. I did that
person that didn't work. Then you come to this last
person and you go through all these motions, and it's
been it's been a little bit harder with with this
(14:51):
younger generation who's lived their life, you know, being the
star of their own TV show on their phone, and
so I think this is a This was a really
good way of being able to allow people to say
what they want to say without diminishing their brand of
how they perceive themselves in the show, if that makes
(15:12):
any sense.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
To you, theres a lot of sense. I think that
was a perfect explanation.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, it's it's been a weird I'm seeing it transpire
because and of course I'm the guy who's like, I'm
very black and white when I when when I see
things on the show, because it's always happening right in
front of me, and I always say the same thing.
I'm like, but it's crazy if you don't say that, Like,
the entire world is going to be like, well, you
(15:37):
knew this thing, but you didn't say anything. Like that's
bonkers to me, you know. And that's so that's usually
a lot of like what my advice is is like
I think you can need to say something because if
I were in your shoes, I would definitely say it,
because that's crazy if you didn't, Like, I feel like
the audience would be more upset that I didn't say
something than than if I did, you know. So, Yeah,
(15:58):
it's it's an interesting it's very interesting doing the shows
now in comparison to him, you know, Ashley and I
did it, you know, decades ago.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Interesting.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
You mentioned that, like there's more leads this season than
ever before.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Why am I only thinking of Rachel?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Why don't you gotta wait and watch a show I guess.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Oh, okay, well I know leads come down.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Good teaser, that's gonna get a lot of people watch it.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Okay, Well, off that question. Who is your dream lead
to come back on Paradise?
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Ooh, I mean he's married now with Ben Higgins. That
would be this Dad bought on the Beach.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Yes, oh my god, what I would leave.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I let my chest here grow out for that show.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
What I would do to be able to like have
my opening credits with Ben with our shirts off being
like this, this is what the wrong side of thirty
looks like, America.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
You will have a lot to look forward to.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Yeah, yeah, you're not getting out of the question.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
No, that's good. That's a good question.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Okay, he's not a lead, but I would like him
to come uh. And that's Tyler Cameron, Like I think
that he would be. I think he would be in
high demand. So we gotta wait. We gotta wait for
his riz to cool down a little bit before he's
like has to come back on these shows.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
And then I think, you know, Peter Krause was a
guy that like everyone loves.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Right, Jared and I are so team at Peter Krause
to do anything Bachelor related. We would love to have
them make him the lead just out of nowhere and
have the audience not even know who he is.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I think Paradise would be a better fit for him.
I would also can I add to this, I would
love to see Pilot Pete in Paradise because I don't
think his personality shows as well as the Bachelor, and
I think he is like really wild and fun, and
he's and like I just feel like he's kind of
(18:03):
got pushed behind. I think he would be a really
great person in Paradise.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Yeah, and listen, you know this is sad because I
was such good I'm such good friends with both of them,
with with uh, with with Caitlin. And I think that
Caitlyn would be really good in Paradise.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
You know, that would be really fun.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Wow.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I don't know if she would do it, but she
would be funny down there for sure. Jason to Jason,
never came to Paradise, did he?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
He didn't, No, he did it.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Now wait, now you have a whole other show concept
that I'm thinking of, more like Bachelor in Paradise All Stars.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
So it would have to be like the huge names.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
That's the only way to get the other huge names
to get on for sure.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Or like the one of you guys are Watcher was
like this kind of like bad MTV rip off that
I loved so much called X and the Beach.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah, Jase McNairy from The Bachelor when on that, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Jared and I hosted the reunion show one year.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah, yeah, could we could do something like that that?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
That would be pretty great, Listen.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I just like the fact that that one like like
leads that like don't find love, like still deserve to
like to like find love. It's just funny though, Like
you're I think that they're used to being the star
of the show, and then all of a sudden they
get thrown into a situation where like there is no star.
(19:29):
You know, well there's Jesse, He's the star, I guess.
And then and then you're just kind of like your
your your special treatment is is gone and there's a
little bit of learning curve there, which I I always
find funny.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You know, I wouldn't enjoy that. I want to be
the star. Yeah, I don't want to be the I
want to be the center of attention. I want people.
I want a handler, uh handler, Yeah, I want to
filling up my whiskey glass Wells shaking an empty glass
of ice. Excuse me, sir, oh, I would just like
to come up to Wells and be like, well, another
(20:00):
drink man. Sorry, this one was good enough.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Hey, we obviously have made it very clear that this
show is is uh you know, films in the in
the summertime, and you're off of it now, and I
want to give listeners a taste of what is expected,
and so let's drill into the details a little bit.
What as much as you can. What characters that we
(20:25):
know are going to be in Paradise should we be
most excited to watch?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Okay, I think the world fell in love with Aaron
over this last season, or at least we got a
lot of him on the show on Charity season. I
think that that's a good character to watch. I'm trying
to think of everyone who's who we know is going
to be on there. I like Brandon like yeah, like,
And I know that might be a contrac.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
He's always been mad at it because I've defended him
throughout the entire season.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Yeah, like, well, okay, here's what I'll say about Bradenley,
he has weird style, like he reminds me a lot
of Dean if I'm being honest, like just kind of
a out there guy that you're just like I, you know,
and you're not really sure if that's like a bit
you know, like I'm doing this because I want everyone
(21:16):
to think that I'm crazy and different, or like you
are just crazy and different, like and I still don't
know if I really know the answer to that question.
I like him because and obviously it's weird because we
film that show before Charity season aired, so we didn't
get to know who the villains were and who were
so I went into being like, you're just a guy
(21:37):
with rubber ducky earrings on right now, Like if you're
the villain, where have we gone? Like, you know, like
my villain was a guy named Chad who is three
hundred pounds of pure muscle and protein and steroid anger
like your rubber.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Ducky's the bad guy.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Hope ohs Scarf as scary. So I just couldn't buy it.
And I liked it because there was a little bit of,
you know, I want a redemption story in him that
I appreciated and like also, all these guys come down,
they're like, oh, we hate Brandon. I'm like rubber ducky guy,
Like reallys so I I really like him. He's also
(22:17):
just a nice guy. I don't think he's a bad guy.
Who else cat is?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
Two cats, one with a KM with the c.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Yes, both of the cats are good.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Well the one with the sea is she's like the
one that's like, is a cat lady?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Oh is she? She just seems a little bit a
little bit more of an instigator.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
She's like a bartender in New York. And every time
there's a bartend that comes down there that's like judge
me the entire time, and I'm like, just get out
of here.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
A bartender on TV.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, I'm trying to think of who else is on there?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Those are?
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Well, what about what about Rachel and Avan because they
had obviously, you know, a thing in the past.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Yeah, that Rachel's great, but Rachel Rachel, there's a little
bit of like Mama bear that Rachel has that Becca
had this too, you know, where it's they want to
take care of everyone else except themselves, and you're like, hey,
by the way, don't forget like you're supposed to be
here to date people. You know, there's a little bit
(23:28):
of that. Listen, there are a bunch of people that,
like I don't think we've released, that are coming on
the show that are going to be amazing.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Everyone's gonna love this season. It's really really fun.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
And there's a wedding in it too, which we haven't
had a wedding in Paradise in a very long time.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And you know what, Traditionally, I'm just thinking off the
top of my head, Bachelor in Paradise weddings have not
been wildly successful.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Have they.
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Yeah, the ones that have happened there, yeah, very.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Un Yeah, so I'm hoping this one lasts, let's say so.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
For Yeah, I really like these two people really rooting
for them.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Well, as we're gonna talk about Joe and Serena's wedding
as we close up. But I like to do this
with you every year before Paradise airs, if we could
take twenty seconds, thirty seconds to just tell people out
there why they should watch Paradise this year or as
long as you really want.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
The floor's ears.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Yeah, I think the show is what the show has
always been. So if you have been a fan of Paradise,
you're gonna get that again. You're gonna get tears, you're
gonna get drama, you're gonna get crabs, the ones on
the beach.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
You're gonna get engagements.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
You're gonna get heartache, You're gonna get breakups, You're gonna
get funny you know, exit Limo interviews, Like all the
things I think that you're looking for from that show
you're gonna get. You know, villains are gonna become heroes,
Heroes are gonacome villains, all that kind of stuff, great
character arc.
Speaker 8 (25:01):
It's just a.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Fun, good show.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
And I feel like I feel like everyone is going
to be so happy that it's back.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Yeah we are for sure.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
All right, So you were the efficient at Joe and
Serena's wedding. How did they come with you with that?
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Askia?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Joe texted me and my my initial response was I
feel like this is more of a phone call, but sure,
And I was like, I'm not I'm not a priest,
you know. But luckily you can go online to the
Universal Life Church dot com and get a uh I
should be sponsored by them.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
By the way, recently, I recently officiated a wedding two
three weeks ago, and I did it through the Universal
Life Church. And I'm like, Okay, are are we sure
that this is it? Because you basically just signed something
like you sign a so far and that's it.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
My I was like thirty seven dollars or like thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
It was nothing.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
But like now like I'm like, I think I could
be like a cult leader, Like I think I could
say really easy.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
You know, how long did it take to write their
ceremony script?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
It took a while.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I I have a bunch of friends who have married people,
and I took the script that Jesse Tyler Ferguson did
for ours, and so I kind of did this amalgamation
of all of these different weddings that I liked. And
then obviously they came. They flew out here and we
went to lunch and I was like, let's talk about
what you want, like what you want from me? And
(26:26):
so yeah, it probably took me like three weeks, but
it wasn't like every day all day.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Uh, it didn't take me very long, and it was
it was not till like you know, it's like really good.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Pat myself on the shoulder, but like it was really
really beautiful ceremony and not because of anything that I did,
but because of like their love. It was just so
palpable and obvious. And it was just, uh, it was
so fun and and Joe. Joe had like the best
line of the whole. Like I did like twenty minutes
of stand up up there, which I thought like killed.
Then Joe does one line and absol destroys me and
(27:01):
like absolutely takes the house down, which I love. It's
their moment, no mind, but uh, it was just it
was like really fun, and like both of their families
are exactly what you think their families are, Like it's
just like these really nice Canadian people who are just
so sweet and pretty and fun.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
And then like.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Italians from Chicago, like we liked Sass and Peacha, and
everyone's name is Joe and Joe Anne A Josephine And
it was just like IVY was like a movie I was,
and I was like a part of it.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
And yeah, it was so much fun.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
In my time.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I think it's up to fifteen or thirteen people I've
been able to officiate the wedding for.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
It's not it's not a competition, then.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
No, Well you got to remember I also started an
event called the Wedding Fest like years ago, where we
married ten people at once, right, okay, well yeah, it
was a wild thing before COVID. I say this to
say fifteen people in there's nothing that makes me more
nervous in my life than marrying people. Were you nervous
for this like massive responsibility?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Not really, I have really no anxiety speaking in front
of people if I'm prepared and all that kind of stuff.
But I remember I was up there and Joe walked down,
and I was like, I was still feeling pretty good.
And then I saw Serena start walking down, and I
had this flashback to my wedding of when I when
I saw Sarah turn the corner, and I was like,
(28:24):
that was the That was the biggest day of my life.
It was the most important moment of my life. And
then I then I was like shot back to where
I was sitting in Charleston, you know, at the altern
I was like, oh my god, I really don't want
to screw up their most important day of their life.
And then I started getting a little bit of a
little bit of you know, flop sweat, but you know,
(28:45):
then I opened up with like a couple jokes and
then we were off running in and it was it
was fine.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Yeah, once those first couple of words come out of
your mouth, you're like, okay, So I just want to
know a little bit more about Joe's dad, because everybody
made it seem like he was like the big character
of the wedding.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Big Joe.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
First of all, like Sarah and my wife, Sarah and
Big Joe are like best of friends now, Like they
hung out the entire time. There was a moment in
which I walked outside and everyone was hanging out at
like a table and Sarah was singing show tunes to
Big Joe and like all these Italian and I was like,
(29:23):
do you think that they're like Broadway? And they were
loving it, like they were all singing like and it
was just bonkers. But Big Joe is the best, Like
he was just so much like larger than life. And yeah,
we're going we have like we are playing a trip
(29:43):
to go to Chicago purely to go have Big Joe
cook for us. And he's like, I'm gonna make you
They call it gravy, but I have it's sauce. We
call it sauce where I come from. I'm make you
a delicious sauce. And we're like, yeah, okay, I don't
know what that is, but let's do we're doing that.
So yeah, he was the best. But also Serena's parents
are absolute dolls. And by the way, Serena's mom is
(30:10):
drop dead gorgeous. Shocked, just not shocked. Well, so so
what When I met her for the first time, I go,
you look just like Serena and she goes, you mean,
Serena looks just like me?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
And I said, no, you look a girl.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
That was good. Comeback.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Well, yes, you're smooth. You're smooth man. Hey, Wells, it's
always great having you on. Cannot wait to see you
this weekend. Uh continued success obviously as the season of
Paradise comes about.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Thanks for talking about it with this.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
We hope to have you back, all right, Love you guys,
see us see you this weekend. Okay, ye bye bye bye.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
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