December 26, 2025 • 29 mins
Today on “Happy Hour,” Joe and Serena are joined by Alexe Godin and Andrew Spencer to talk all about their relationship updates. The two break down how they’ve maintained their connection after “Paradise,” what made this relationship feel different from past Bachelor Nation experiences, and how they’re navigating life together now. They also share how friends, fans, and Bachelor Nation reacted initially, what surprised them most about each other, and how they approach conversations about the future. Tune in for a fun, honest catch-up — and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, everyone, welcome back to bed You're Happy Hour. I'm
Joe and I'm Serena, and we are here today with
Alex and Andrew. Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thank you for having us guys.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
We actually haven't interviewed you guys since No, never together.
I think Alex, we definitely had you on during Paradise
and then you guys did the reunion and I think
you did a chat with Wells after, but we never
had you guys together.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Got I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
When's the last time you did Happy Hour? Andrew?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh, it was definitely with Joe. I think it was
like co hosting with Joe one episode. Yes, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Was gonna say it. I don't think we had you
on during Paradise, did.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
No, No, No, I was. I was staying low under
the radar.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Or it might it might have been like clickbait or something.
It might have been like CLICKBAITA were crazy.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Wow, Yeah, clickbab that's what they were really letting me
just say whatever I wanted. That was a that was entertaining.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You and Natasha were throwing some out of pocket there.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
Yeah, we really were. We were having conversations where I
was like this ship doesn't even make sense. But honestly,
if that podcast was like still going, it would probably
do really well.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I loved that. I used to listen to Clickbait when
you guys were doing it together.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Okay, so, uh, what's uh, what's happening? What's new you guys? Andrew,
you're in Chicago, Alex, you're in LA. But Alex, you
seem to always be in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I'm always in La. Then she's in Chicago.
Speaker 7 (01:41):
You have a little bit more flexibility with your job,
whereas I have to be in person. So hence why
you're always in LA and the weather's a little bit nicer.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
This is true. This is true.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
We're just out there and now we're back in the cold.
So how's long distance going? What are the plans long term?
Do we have plans long term?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Alex? You want to you want to take that?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
That's funny. I was gonna say take it away.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
No, So of course, long distance doing pretty It's going
pretty well, honestly, and I enjoyed a little bit more
than I expected.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I thought when I first got off the show, I
was like, we have to.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Move in together by January, and then honestly, I've kind
of like the being away for a little bit and
then getting together. I feel like it keeps the excitement
and it's fun. But yeah, no, it's doing going pretty well.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Andrew no, uh, to echo what she was saying, like,
I agree, I've always I love a little bit of
space at the same time, but it but we're always
on FaceTime y and we're always facetiming, Like even if
we're not even saying anything, I just like listen to
her breathe. Its usually like our our way. We indo
our nights and then like I will stay in California
(02:51):
for like a month or whatever, you know, and we'll
just get like long lapses together, so it's never really
like we feel like we haven't seen each other, Like
this is the long.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
This is the longest, and it's been is going on.
It's going to be to week and a half long,
a week and a half. Since I haven't died, I'm
starting to have withdrawals.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I'm like, that was kind of I think that was
us because we did it for about eight to nine months,
and I would say our longest stretch was probably like
around that like two and.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
A half stretch. Yeah, that was I think three weeks.
That was I think our longest stretch.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Would you guys ever do which I think would be
ideal and it's and I know it's not super easy,
but when you do have flexible jobs, would you ever
do like part time La, part time Chicago and like
really like get a place.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, the thing is is she wants to leave LA
in New York, which is amazing because I'd remem see
you guys.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I want to hang out with you guys.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, New York, and I'm so on board for that.
I dislike the flight to LA because it is so
far and it's such a such a time time t yeah. Oh,
and then like New York is just like I get
on the flight for like an hour and a half
maybe even less some times, and you're there boom, and
it's kind of like a second home for me. Like
I love being in New York. There's so many things there.
(04:08):
Obviously I have good friends there. So that's something I
would rather have than like doing the LA thing. The
LA it was just too much.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
So is the plan right now? Then Alex potentially is
leaving LA moving to New York. Andrew, You'll have a
place in Chicago and you'll kind of keep Yes, No, we'll.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Get like like a place together in New York, but
I'll also keep my place in Chicago, so we'll split
New York together and I will just be back and
forth between there in Chicago, which is really nice because
you know, my family's all here in Chicago and it's
I have my.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Eventually, the plan is to go to Chicago.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
I just want to experience New York while I can
before I settle down, but in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
But yeah, I that's the plan.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And I agree, and me too, I want to do
New York as well.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
So what's the plan with the dog?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Where we'll Oh, my mom keeps him when I'm gone.
But so for the most part.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Come, I mean, we've introduced him to my cat.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
So right now my cat is at his place and
he's being a sweet cat dad, and they're like surprisingly
getting closer.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
So I think it'll work because we're getting the shoe box,
so they're gonna have to.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Yeah, okay, so you guys, so let's talk a little
bit about right after the show, because that's kind of when,
like for us at least, like it works.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You fall in love on the show, it's great. Then
you get home and you're like, is this ship really
gonna work, Like like, what, how's this? How's this going
to happen? So what was the moment when you guys
like got home where you're like, oh, were this actually
this has some distance in it?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well, I think that off the jump we were just like, well,
we have to make this work or like you want
you like, like, we can't go into this and just
break up right after. Okay, we have to figure out
if this is actually gone to work.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Yeah, And there's a reason why we liked each other,
so it's like, let's try to ride that wave exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Let's build off that, let's just start from scratch, let's
redate each other, let's rehash it out a little bit.
And then we got into a lot of fights in
that time period where we were just like trying to
figure each other out like the real us, because you
don't really get annoyed at each other on the show
because you're just in this like Honeymoon Phace the whole time.
So I think I remember and she got mad at
(06:22):
me over a sandwich and like that's what I was like, new.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
And I was like, Okay, it's never sandwich.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
We're getting the real juices in there.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
And it was also you know it it was a
bad month, period of the month. You know, when you're
a little bit you're more hormones, a little bit more heightened.
There was there's context missing it when it was just
like I and I'm trying to That's the thing with Andrew, though,
I tried for the first time.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I feel like I'm trying to work on my flaws.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
And I think I was driving and then I wanted
to eat my sandwich and it was like getting all
messy and.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I was like, well, like you can't dry it, like anyways.
I was just yeah, it was just one of those
moments where you're not proud of looking.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
A little over stimulated, a little hanky Sena.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
I got over stimulated so fast, and that's my biggest flaws.
When I get overstimulated, I get so mean. It's like yeah,
I'm like yeah, until I'm like.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think, I think those arguments though, like let us
closer together, and we started to understand each other a
little bit more, and that's when you like really start
to know who your partner is and you start to
like really like them because we fight and then you
get over the fight and then like we don't go
longer than like maybe thirty minutes mad at each other,
and for the most part, they're just dumb arguments and
they're never like aggressive or you know, malicious, although she
(07:37):
does she does. She does cut me. She likes to say.
She likes to s you're ugly when she's mad.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
As a joke, I'll be like, you're ugly a big.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
She comes at your physical parent.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I can't stop laughing. I think it's so funny. I
don't know why, but.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
That joke you're ugly, you have a big nose.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
She says that every time, and I'm just it's like, oh,
it's just amazing.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Yeah, it's it's because you're too handsome that I feel
like I need to humble you.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
That's why I was talking.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
It's yeah, I've talked to one of your past contestants
on Paradise yesterday and.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
She's like, oh, he's totally a diva, and now I'm
going to use that.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Andrew when you went back on because I mean I
did Paradise twice. Yeah, what'd you think? Did you think
that this was gonna work or were you just kind
of like whatever?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
No, I was, uh, you know, I was kind of
just hoping that like I just get one last opportunity
at it, you know. Yeah, I was like, there's no
way this is gonna work, you know what I mean,
It's not gonna happen, but you're always hopeful like me,
you know, me, me and my freaking rom car lifestyle.
I just won't let that part die out of me.
And I wanted like this big story regardless, but like
(08:55):
going in, I just that wasn't my focus this time.
I think the last time I was on Paradise, I
was harping on this big like trying to control things
that I have no control over. Yeah, and I feel
like once I got there, I just just was present
and Alex was present with me, and we made it work.
And I would have never thought that that was gonna
I thought I was gonna be out after like a
(09:16):
week or whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You saw that, I mean, I remember seeing that. I
remember like when you two were in the pool. I
remember I was like, Andrew's there, like he's just kind of.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Going with.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
It's so validating here from people like you know, of
course I know Andrew, but I've I've heard from so
many people who's who've known Andrew for so long have
been on the show with Andrew, and they're just like
I can't think of like a better match for him.
Like I'm like, yeah, yeah, it just kind of validates,
you know, how we felt and how why we love
each other's company so much on the show.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, it gradually just grew like and it was just
like effortless, you know, we were try and uh to
Like like I said, we were both ready to go,
like I could go right now, and then like something
happened like let me just stay a bit longer, like
I kind of like, you know, I'm enjoying this. And
then like the more and morning obviously like the competition
started happening.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
It's more like, also, we weren't winning any competition. I
was like, I am not leaving until at least win one.
Like that's embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I'm not leaving. I get that. Yeah no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
No one. So there you go, exact right.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
We won the last one, so that's all that was.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
But no, I actually crashed that competition. We did.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
No one thought we were gonna win. We yeah, so
many people were like, we.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Thought, Alex, what were you about to say?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Oh no, I was just thinking, like even yesterday just
talk about like compatibility, Like you know, I'm a little
weird and quirky, and like I love how he just
jumps in with me. Like yesterday, I'm driving to see
friends and I'm like, let's do improv right now in
the car. So we're on FaceTime and he's like sets
the scene and then we start like he's like, we
have four kids. You on the phone with me, You're
trying to go to a meeting, and then it just
turns to like me screaming, like so anyways, just like
(11:07):
things like that.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I'm like, it was really funny.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
And then I'm like crying and the girl like you
were unfaithful. It was just and I'm like he like.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I was crazy. I was like, why would you do that?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
I wanted the emotion, but just like I've never had
that and someone to like match my freak.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I guess it's just like so funny.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So you two are just doing improv with each other
off the car.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I have an hour drive.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's like like a different version of role play.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Thank you exactly, because I can't do it in the bedroom.
I think that's I'm too awkward. I'd be like what
the hell am I doing? But that's like my my
version of it.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I like that. There we go.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I like it too.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
That's actually something you guys can also do to spice
it up.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Where'd you put the sauce? I think it's under there.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Now. You can't do sauce. It's too close to my
my real personality.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
It needs to be true, it's too real.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
With the song, I can't play myself.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I mean you could, I could.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Yeah, I could.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I guess you could play yourself. That kind of takes
out the point of role play.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Yeah, but it's gonna be the clip that they're gonna clip.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
So Alexan and Wrew do role play this.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Episode, role playing with Andrew and alex Andrew, You've got
kind of a crazy journey because I always.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Forget you were on the show right after me, because
you were on Katie season.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
So we have kind of like been.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
In the same timelines a little bit.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah, yeah, same timelines.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
And we obviously, you know, watched you on your first
season of Paradise. I feel like this season you definitely
seemed the most just relaxed coming in.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh, I think I said veteran move. You feel you've
been in the system a little bit, you know, you
can you feel calm. I actually low KI felt like
like Joe a little bit when when I was watching him.
When I was watching film, I was still and I'll say,
how do I be cool in these situations? And I
just channeled my inner Joe and I was like, all right,
(13:06):
I'm just gonna be cool.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well, Chicago guys that end up making it work with
two Canadians on Bachelor of Paradise.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
See, I channeled my inner Joe. That's how I got there.
You know, this is the blueprint I needed to do this.
But no, I just like you've seen everything happen. I
think once you get in these environments, it's it's made
for you to make a mistake or for you to
blow things out of proportion. And I feel like for me,
I just needed to stay level headed and just like
(13:37):
trust you know myself, and then trust your partner. The
moment you start trusting everyone else outside you know what
I mean and what they're saying and what someone else
is saying, and you let someone get in between your relationship,
that's when shit starts to So I just try to
keep keep us the main focus, the main priority.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Alex, what was what was I guess what was coming
from Grant season and it was kindind of like it
didn't work out obviously, but like what was your what
were your hesitations going into Paradise?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Were you at all? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Were you worried or were you just excited?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Like?
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Yeah, I was actually worried that I wasn't going to
like anyone because I kind of had a feeler of
who was going to go, and I was like, oh,
like some people, you know, you hear people being like,
oh they would be a great match, and you're like,
well maybe, but like like you know yourself, and I
was kind of I was didn't want to just go
on the show, to go on the show and look
like I was just trying to coast. So that was
(14:34):
my biggest worry that I wasn't going to find anyone
that was gonna you know, in like the spark. And honestly,
it happened to such a good surprise, like a pleasant surprise,
since I I kind of knew that Andrew was gonna
come and I was like, ah, whatever, and the fact
that I saw.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Him and like say it again, say that again a
little louder, please, whatever?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
What and whatever?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Yeah, I have been so tough because your fear kind
of did play out for you until Andrew showed up.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Until Andrew showed up, it was exactly that. And I remember,
you know, I was like, I think I'm gonna leave.
There's no one here for me, like I'm and then
of course they probably heard in the mic. They were like, okay,
san Andrew down. And then the next day Andrew.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Showed up and I was like, oh wait a second,
and I had to asked justin.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
I was like, I remember this conversation at the bar.
I'm like, so is your is your friend like Andrew
showing up like.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
And he's like yeah, And I'm like is he funny?
And He's like oh yeah. So I was like, okay, okay,
we'll see. I'll maybe give it another day and then yeah.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
So on my endless I thought on my side, I
was interested in Alex, but I heard through the Great
Vine that she was not interested in me, and I
was just like, oh well, damn, Like who else are.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
They bringing down there? You know what I mean? I
I even showed Alex. I haven't like go ahead. Producers
asked me like who are you interested in? And like
the first picture I sent was out and as, but
I think it's.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Because it's alphabetic order, so I'm not going to take
that as a.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Know. So I was like, oh, I'm interested in Alex
and I heard that she's not really interested in like
I'm not really her type. And I was like, okay, whatever,
you know, we'll just see what happens. We get down there,
and I immediately feel the vibes between us, so I'm like, okay,
maybe like this is this is something. There's something here,
like she kissed my.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Neck, you said that said. I don't know if it's me,
but there's just like something here.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
There's something between us. I felt it.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
And it's also it's also that's also fun for you,
like for like it's like, oh, this is a little
bit of a competition with myself, Like this girl's kind
of already put it out there that she doesn't like me,
and I'm gonna let her know.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
She doesn't know what the.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Fuck she's talking about because she's lucky to have.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And I love I love the dogs that gets you
know what I mean. So like I here we are.
So I was like, okay, well, I'm going to try
to get here to like me because last one I
was in Paradise. We were going in. Both of us
were like, oh, we want to see each other, Like
I like this person, like this person. And now this
was completely different for me, so like I had a
complete opposite experience for my first time, and this was
(17:16):
really fun. Yeah, it was actually it was really fun
doing it nice.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Do you hope that they continued the new format, the
new location, Like what would you like to see them
bring back for Paradise?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
What do you think that? Maybe you were like, I
don't know if we need that again?
Speaker 10 (17:35):
No, I go ahead, No, I was just going to say,
if there's money, now people are going to know that
there's money, and are they going to go.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
There for the right reasons versus we didn't know. We
were just kind of like, oh, by the way, it's
a game show at this point, so it's going to
be tough. I think to have the same same format.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Andrew, what do you think I love the games? I
thought that was interactive. It was something for us to
get together and like bond over and have some substance.
You know how it is on the beach. You don't
do anything in the first one, like you just laid
around and then you waited for someone to come down
with a day card, like that is so boring and bad.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
They would throw us on that middle day, that that
big one everyone collects.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
There, someone's on their way.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
You wait for forty five minutes, you cannot pay any
We would just.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Be It would just be like we're we we live.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, we'd just do nothing.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You do this. So that was the part I would change.
I would keep. The one thing I would love. I
loved about Paradise is the love story, Like what love
story you guys had, Like how we grab it like
you saw it build. They didn't do that with this one.
They focused more on like drama whatever they can, Like
drama is always gonna be a part of it. We
(18:56):
love that, But like, don't forget about your romance, Like
the one thing that people do want to see is
like connections for me. And lastly I would say is
like I think the Goldens, I think they need their
own Paradise. I think that is something that they need
to do. Is they need to be separate. Because I'm
saying if we put more people on that season that
we were just on, I'm telling you that there's there's
no way that's not the number one show in the summer,
(19:18):
because you're bringing in, you're you're putting everyone in a bind,
like when I came down, that caused like a rip,
like a ripple as long as as well as Susie,
like Susie's name went on for the longest, Like you
keep bringing people down like that. I can see it,
but also love the fact that we got to build
more in more time. I just think that, yeah, we
(19:40):
didn't have enough people enough, like and they didn't stay
on long enough. I think I think the people were
getting shut down or getting kicked off too early. That's
the only thing I would change, I agree.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I think what I would change is I think people
were getting kicked off. I think people need a chance
to be there a little longer, and they were.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
They were them just so fast, like you weren't even
able to get in like a triangle, you know what
I mean. You didn't get to see anything play out.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, And I felt like there was a lot of
contestants I would have loved to see at the Beach
that didn't just because there wasn't time for that, because
you were really only doing half of a regular Paradise season.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yeah right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And I don't like. I like the campiness of the
the first paradise of us, of all the guys living together,
I don't like, like two guys in one room, two
guys another I like.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
But I having the ability for you guys to end
up in each other's rooms, I think they added to
the relationship.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
That is exactly why I like that.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Like the fact that people were like having sleepovers with
their partner. I think was really fun and made it
feel a little more real because I think you guys
dove deeper into your relationship.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Yeah, absolutely, and have those conversations yeah at night, like
when you're like, you know, before bed and you're both
on your pillows, and those were like the fun conversations.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, well, I think put us put everyone together instead of.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
That's giving orgy.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Then I don't bedroom, Yeah, I guess, I guess, And.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Then you know, Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I don't. I don't. I don't hate the boom boom.
I just think that they made it weird, like they
made it like a oh boom. They're just going like, no,
maybe we just want to sleep together and like hang
out and say like like if they would just yeah, yeah,
I mean you're gonna do that. But like you just
take that focus off of that and just make it
just like, all right, there's there's designated rooms for if
you guys want to sleep together, go do that, and
(21:36):
if you want to film those, obviously make sure they're
not you know, whatever.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Did you do to the like you don't have to
tell you No, he didn't like, Okay, we didn't go
to see I wouldn't have gone either, because I would
have not want people to think that.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yeah, so at least this no one knew and you know,
gave us more time.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Anyways, Okay, I also really liked the Palka footage from
the bedrooms.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I know, like some people might have felt a little
by those.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
But as a viewer, I was like, this is so
entertaining for me. I really got to see people's like
perspectives and personalities.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
I thought it was such a good idea.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Say that was entertaining party.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I was like, I thought you were free. You were like, oh,
there are no cameras in here, like a lot of
you heard a lot of secrets being told in those bedrooms.
I'm just like, this is good TV. Like I would
just extended always to the bedrooms. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, we didn't really have before because of the way
the layout was.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
With timitting Away Real Quick from Paradise Holiday Season rom Coms, Andrew,
you're a rom com guy, Oh for sure, give me
give me your top three both.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Of you of all time.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
That's so hard.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I mean like it's okay.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Now, but like we're talking about okay, okay, so give.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Us a letterbox moment.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I will tell you how give you one that's that's
really good right now? You should go see. I would
go see Eternity Dying.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
To see that Eternity.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
It will be a movie that will go down as
one of the best because it's it's deep but also
has that comedic relief. And then there's just good characters
in that.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yes, Miles Teller.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Then yeah, and then the Calum dude or.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yes, yeah, yes such dating, Yeah yeah, yes, he's a
good actor. To see that, even like the oh my gosh,
the other two characters that play like their guides in
the trailer, oh so good.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And you always gotta have good like supporting casts. And
I think they crushed it. I think. I mean, I'm
gonna tell you the premise of it real quick. It's
just like imagine like you married someone, or you fell
in love with someone and they maybe they passed earlier
than you, and then you had to marry someone else.
So basically you go to heaven and your first husband
is waiting for you because he's like, that was the
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love of my life. I'm waiting for her. But you
have created this whole life and kids with another person,
and like, who do you choose to live eternity with?
You know what I mean? You can't live with both
of them. You got to pick.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I know, I know, I know the premise.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Too, and they should go see no listeners.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
But yeah, I really want to.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I want to. I think the premise is great. Alex,
how about you do you have? We'll just use that
for Andrews. Forget my top three things?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Like holiday?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, what's your wreck for? Like a rom com that
people can go watch over the holidays.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
So I'm not a big rom com gal, I will
be What do you like? I'm like super old school,
I'm like creature of Habit. Grinch. Grin's great. We love Grinch.
So yeah, if you guys have the opportunity to go
see Brinch, go see Brinch.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Have you ever seen punch Drunk?
Speaker 7 (24:57):
I think everyone could go see The Grinch for you
Grinches back in theater actually anywhere. But I think she
could carry one or the cartoon Jim Carrey original.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I feel like, yeah, I feel like Alex, you would
really enjoy Punchy because because you're you're artsy, you're a
little more eccentric. And I think it's just.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Said the Grinch, that's true. I think maybe it's more
of an Andrew.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Andrew will like it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Too, as like I'm gonna tell.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
You that I know my tattoos and like I'm a
little bit kirky thinking. People are like, oh, she's super
like experimental.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Like watches Monsters, inc.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Like don't watch love that.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
We just watch it. It's very very intense, like.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
A psychological thriller. I love like Black Mirror and like
things that make you think is that kind.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Of No, it's like and uncut Gems.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
It's an Adam Sandler movie, and it's probably more aligned
with that tone.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Oh than No, Joe, I don't think I'll like.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
But Ham and my sister just went and saw that
and she was like, this movie is bringing me back
to wanting to see movies. And she was like, I thought,
She's like it was so Powerful Kelly.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
That's on Netflix. I thought Hamnett and j Kelly two
movies I cried in. I haven't cried in a movie.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
My dad just watched Jake Kell.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I heard I heard bad reviews on J.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Kelly, Adam Sandler anyone right.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
My dad was like, it's a tough watch in the
sense it's very intense, but like ch actors.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yes, it was so good. It was good.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I like, all right, let's jump off of the random
movie chat. Why don't we wrap up by you guys
telling us what you're gonna be doing for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Do you want to take this pade? Well, she's getting
in on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Nope, Friday.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
So that's one thing though, I will say, with our relationship,
because we're both and I know you don't like to
hear it, we're very disorganized. So I buy my flight
sometimes left communication, I buy my flight Saturday.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Then he's like, no, there's a bear game Saturday. You're
gonna miss it.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
So then I was like, well, I just paid for
my ticket already that I had a coupon for or
a credit because you also told me to cancel another flight. Anyways,
So basically I said, okay, if you want to take
that flight and buy it. Sure, So I'm leaving Friday, babe,
not Saturday.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yes, okay, that's correct, and you're getting but you're getting
in Saturday at one am. So technically I was right anyway,
but no, no, no, she's getting in. And then we're
going to I have my Christmas party in throwing. I
decided to start throwing like a family Christmas party.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
I love that. That's so fun.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
So I invite all my family and they're coming up.
I created this new game called Ultimate Influencer because they
always talk about what I do. So I'm like, all right,
I'm gonna put you to test. I'm gonna get you
a brief and you have to figure out how to whatever.
So oh yeah, no, it's gonna be so good. It's
gonna be oh my god.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I'm excited.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
I can't wait to hear about how this goes.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
And then we have the Bears game, which is gonna
be super exciting. Alex's first like games.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
They cannot lose this game.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
They cannot lose this game.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
This is very important, very important.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And then we have New Year's We're doing Pizzeria PiZZ
on the River where they're doing this knee ball drop
thing in Chicago and fireworks, so we're doing that and
then we're heading to Tuloom for hang out with her friends.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
So we're gonna be in Chicago for a couple of
days from New Year's so we'll hit you.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Yeah, let us know.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
I was gonna say, last night, he was like, where
were you the whole night?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
You were?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
I didn't see you all night? You were with Serena
the whole night. Didn't he see you once we were Anyways.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
I know like you guys have been sitting on this
couch talking for two and a half.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
I'll tell you what we talked about.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
But you were nodding and you would look at me and.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
You're right Diva.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
All right, we will let you guys go. Thank you
so much for coming on where. We love you, guys.
We're so happy for you, guys, and we'll see you soon.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Keep coming.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Thank you and thank you to all our listeners. Make
sure you download and subscribe to Better Happy.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
We'll have explicive interviews for you every single week. Thanks
for listening. Bye,
Hey, everyone, welcome back to bed You're Happy Hour. I'm
Joe and I'm Serena, and we are here today with
Alex and Andrew. Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thank you for having us guys.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
We actually haven't interviewed you guys since No, never together.
I think Alex, we definitely had you on during Paradise
and then you guys did the reunion and I think
you did a chat with Wells after, but we never
had you guys together.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Got I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
When's the last time you did Happy Hour? Andrew?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh, it was definitely with Joe. I think it was
like co hosting with Joe one episode. Yes, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Was gonna say it. I don't think we had you
on during Paradise, did.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
No, No, No, I was. I was staying low under
the radar.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Or it might it might have been like clickbait or something.
It might have been like CLICKBAITA were crazy.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Wow, Yeah, clickbab that's what they were really letting me
just say whatever I wanted. That was a that was entertaining.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You and Natasha were throwing some out of pocket there.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
Yeah, we really were. We were having conversations where I
was like this ship doesn't even make sense. But honestly,
if that podcast was like still going, it would probably
do really well.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
I loved that. I used to listen to Clickbait when
you guys were doing it together.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Okay, so, uh, what's uh, what's happening? What's new you guys? Andrew,
you're in Chicago, Alex, you're in LA. But Alex, you
seem to always be in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I'm always in La. Then she's in Chicago.
Speaker 7 (01:41):
You have a little bit more flexibility with your job,
whereas I have to be in person. So hence why
you're always in LA and the weather's a little bit nicer.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
This is true. This is true.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
We're just out there and now we're back in the cold.
So how's long distance going? What are the plans long term?
Do we have plans long term?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Alex? You want to you want to take that?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
That's funny. I was gonna say take it away.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
No, So of course, long distance doing pretty It's going
pretty well, honestly, and I enjoyed a little bit more
than I expected.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I thought when I first got off the show, I
was like, we have to.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Move in together by January, and then honestly, I've kind
of like the being away for a little bit and
then getting together. I feel like it keeps the excitement
and it's fun. But yeah, no, it's doing going pretty well.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Andrew no, uh, to echo what she was saying, like,
I agree, I've always I love a little bit of
space at the same time, but it but we're always
on FaceTime y and we're always facetiming, Like even if
we're not even saying anything, I just like listen to
her breathe. Its usually like our our way. We indo
our nights and then like I will stay in California
(02:51):
for like a month or whatever, you know, and we'll
just get like long lapses together, so it's never really
like we feel like we haven't seen each other, Like
this is the long.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
This is the longest, and it's been is going on.
It's going to be to week and a half long,
a week and a half. Since I haven't died, I'm
starting to have withdrawals.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I'm like, that was kind of I think that was
us because we did it for about eight to nine months,
and I would say our longest stretch was probably like
around that like two and.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
A half stretch. Yeah, that was I think three weeks.
That was I think our longest stretch.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Would you guys ever do which I think would be
ideal and it's and I know it's not super easy,
but when you do have flexible jobs, would you ever
do like part time La, part time Chicago and like
really like get a place.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, the thing is is she wants to leave LA
in New York, which is amazing because I'd remem see
you guys.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
I want to hang out with you guys.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, New York, and I'm so on board for that.
I dislike the flight to LA because it is so
far and it's such a such a time time t yeah. Oh,
and then like New York is just like I get
on the flight for like an hour and a half
maybe even less some times, and you're there boom, and
it's kind of like a second home for me. Like
I love being in New York. There's so many things there.
(04:08):
Obviously I have good friends there. So that's something I
would rather have than like doing the LA thing. The
LA it was just too much.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
So is the plan right now? Then Alex potentially is
leaving LA moving to New York. Andrew, You'll have a
place in Chicago and you'll kind of keep Yes, No, we'll.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Get like like a place together in New York, but
I'll also keep my place in Chicago, so we'll split
New York together and I will just be back and
forth between there in Chicago, which is really nice because
you know, my family's all here in Chicago and it's
I have my.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Eventually, the plan is to go to Chicago.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
I just want to experience New York while I can
before I settle down, but in Chicago.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
But yeah, I that's the plan.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And I agree, and me too, I want to do
New York as well.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
So what's the plan with the dog?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Where we'll Oh, my mom keeps him when I'm gone.
But so for the most part.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Come, I mean, we've introduced him to my cat.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
So right now my cat is at his place and
he's being a sweet cat dad, and they're like surprisingly
getting closer.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
So I think it'll work because we're getting the shoe box,
so they're gonna have to.
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Yeah, okay, so you guys, so let's talk a little
bit about right after the show, because that's kind of when,
like for us at least, like it works.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You fall in love on the show, it's great. Then
you get home and you're like, is this ship really
gonna work, Like like, what, how's this? How's this going
to happen? So what was the moment when you guys
like got home where you're like, oh, were this actually
this has some distance in it?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well, I think that off the jump we were just like, well,
we have to make this work or like you want
you like, like, we can't go into this and just
break up right after. Okay, we have to figure out
if this is actually gone to work.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Yeah, And there's a reason why we liked each other,
so it's like, let's try to ride that wave exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Let's build off that, let's just start from scratch, let's
redate each other, let's rehash it out a little bit.
And then we got into a lot of fights in
that time period where we were just like trying to
figure each other out like the real us, because you
don't really get annoyed at each other on the show
because you're just in this like Honeymoon Phace the whole time.
So I think I remember and she got mad at
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me over a sandwich and like that's what I was like, new.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
And I was like, Okay, it's never sandwich.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
We're getting the real juices in there.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
And it was also you know it it was a
bad month, period of the month. You know, when you're
a little bit you're more hormones, a little bit more heightened.
There was there's context missing it when it was just
like I and I'm trying to That's the thing with Andrew, though,
I tried for the first time.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I feel like I'm trying to work on my flaws.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
And I think I was driving and then I wanted
to eat my sandwich and it was like getting all
messy and.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I was like, well, like you can't dry it, like anyways.
I was just yeah, it was just one of those
moments where you're not proud of looking.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
A little over stimulated, a little hanky Sena.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
I got over stimulated so fast, and that's my biggest flaws.
When I get overstimulated, I get so mean. It's like yeah,
I'm like yeah, until I'm like.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think, I think those arguments though, like let us
closer together, and we started to understand each other a
little bit more, and that's when you like really start
to know who your partner is and you start to
like really like them because we fight and then you
get over the fight and then like we don't go
longer than like maybe thirty minutes mad at each other,
and for the most part, they're just dumb arguments and
they're never like aggressive or you know, malicious, although she
(07:37):
does she does. She does cut me. She likes to say.
She likes to s you're ugly when she's mad.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
As a joke, I'll be like, you're ugly a big.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
She comes at your physical parent.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I can't stop laughing. I think it's so funny. I
don't know why, but.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
That joke you're ugly, you have a big nose.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
She says that every time, and I'm just it's like, oh,
it's just amazing.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Yeah, it's it's because you're too handsome that I feel
like I need to humble you.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
That's why I was talking.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
It's yeah, I've talked to one of your past contestants
on Paradise yesterday and.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
She's like, oh, he's totally a diva, and now I'm
going to use that.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Andrew when you went back on because I mean I
did Paradise twice. Yeah, what'd you think? Did you think
that this was gonna work or were you just kind
of like whatever?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
No, I was, uh, you know, I was kind of
just hoping that like I just get one last opportunity
at it, you know. Yeah, I was like, there's no
way this is gonna work, you know what I mean,
It's not gonna happen, but you're always hopeful like me,
you know, me, me and my freaking rom car lifestyle.
I just won't let that part die out of me.
And I wanted like this big story regardless, but like
(08:55):
going in, I just that wasn't my focus this time.
I think the last time I was on Paradise, I
was harping on this big like trying to control things
that I have no control over. Yeah, and I feel
like once I got there, I just just was present
and Alex was present with me, and we made it work.
And I would have never thought that that was gonna
I thought I was gonna be out after like a
(09:16):
week or whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You saw that, I mean, I remember seeing that. I
remember like when you two were in the pool. I
remember I was like, Andrew's there, like he's just kind of.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Going with.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
It's so validating here from people like you know, of
course I know Andrew, but I've I've heard from so
many people who's who've known Andrew for so long have
been on the show with Andrew, and they're just like
I can't think of like a better match for him.
Like I'm like, yeah, yeah, it just kind of validates,
you know, how we felt and how why we love
each other's company so much on the show.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, it gradually just grew like and it was just
like effortless, you know, we were try and uh to
Like like I said, we were both ready to go,
like I could go right now, and then like something
happened like let me just stay a bit longer, like
I kind of like, you know, I'm enjoying this. And
then like the more and morning obviously like the competition
started happening.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
It's more like, also, we weren't winning any competition. I
was like, I am not leaving until at least win one.
Like that's embarrassing.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I'm not leaving. I get that. Yeah no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
No one. So there you go, exact right.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
We won the last one, so that's all that was.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
But no, I actually crashed that competition. We did.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
No one thought we were gonna win. We yeah, so
many people were like, we.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Thought, Alex, what were you about to say?
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Oh no, I was just thinking, like even yesterday just
talk about like compatibility, Like you know, I'm a little
weird and quirky, and like I love how he just
jumps in with me. Like yesterday, I'm driving to see
friends and I'm like, let's do improv right now in
the car. So we're on FaceTime and he's like sets
the scene and then we start like he's like, we
have four kids. You on the phone with me, You're
trying to go to a meeting, and then it just
turns to like me screaming, like so anyways, just like
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things like that.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I'm like, it was really funny.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
And then I'm like crying and the girl like you
were unfaithful. It was just and I'm like he like.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I was crazy. I was like, why would you do that?
Speaker 7 (11:16):
I wanted the emotion, but just like I've never had
that and someone to like match my freak.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
I guess it's just like so funny.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
So you two are just doing improv with each other
off the car.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
I have an hour drive.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
It's like like a different version of role play.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Thank you exactly, because I can't do it in the bedroom.
I think that's I'm too awkward. I'd be like what
the hell am I doing? But that's like my my
version of it.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I like that. There we go.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
I like it too.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
That's actually something you guys can also do to spice
it up.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Where'd you put the sauce? I think it's under there.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Now. You can't do sauce. It's too close to my
my real personality.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
It needs to be true, it's too real.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
With the song, I can't play myself.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I mean you could, I could.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Yeah, I could.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I guess you could play yourself. That kind of takes
out the point of role play.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Yeah, but it's gonna be the clip that they're gonna clip.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
So Alexan and Wrew do role play this.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Episode, role playing with Andrew and alex Andrew, You've got
kind of a crazy journey because I always.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Forget you were on the show right after me, because
you were on Katie season.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
So we have kind of like been.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
In the same timelines a little bit.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah, yeah, same timelines.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
And we obviously, you know, watched you on your first
season of Paradise. I feel like this season you definitely
seemed the most just relaxed coming in.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Would you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh, I think I said veteran move. You feel you've
been in the system a little bit, you know, you
can you feel calm. I actually low KI felt like
like Joe a little bit when when I was watching him.
When I was watching film, I was still and I'll say,
how do I be cool in these situations? And I
just channeled my inner Joe and I was like, all right,
(13:06):
I'm just gonna be cool.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well, Chicago guys that end up making it work with
two Canadians on Bachelor of Paradise.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
See, I channeled my inner Joe. That's how I got there.
You know, this is the blueprint I needed to do this.
But no, I just like you've seen everything happen. I
think once you get in these environments, it's it's made
for you to make a mistake or for you to
blow things out of proportion. And I feel like for me,
I just needed to stay level headed and just like
(13:37):
trust you know myself, and then trust your partner. The
moment you start trusting everyone else outside you know what
I mean and what they're saying and what someone else
is saying, and you let someone get in between your relationship,
that's when shit starts to So I just try to
keep keep us the main focus, the main priority.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Alex, what was what was I guess what was coming
from Grant season and it was kindind of like it
didn't work out obviously, but like what was your what
were your hesitations going into Paradise?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Were you at all? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Were you worried or were you just excited?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Like?
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Yeah, I was actually worried that I wasn't going to
like anyone because I kind of had a feeler of
who was going to go, and I was like, oh,
like some people, you know, you hear people being like,
oh they would be a great match, and you're like,
well maybe, but like like you know yourself, and I
was kind of I was didn't want to just go
on the show, to go on the show and look
like I was just trying to coast. So that was
(14:34):
my biggest worry that I wasn't going to find anyone
that was gonna you know, in like the spark. And honestly,
it happened to such a good surprise, like a pleasant surprise,
since I I kind of knew that Andrew was gonna
come and I was like, ah, whatever, and the fact
that I saw.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Him and like say it again, say that again a
little louder, please, whatever?
Speaker 4 (14:54):
What and whatever?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Yeah, I have been so tough because your fear kind
of did play out for you until Andrew showed up.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Until Andrew showed up, it was exactly that. And I remember,
you know, I was like, I think I'm gonna leave.
There's no one here for me, like I'm and then
of course they probably heard in the mic. They were like, okay,
san Andrew down. And then the next day Andrew.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Showed up and I was like, oh wait a second,
and I had to asked justin.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
I was like, I remember this conversation at the bar.
I'm like, so is your is your friend like Andrew
showing up like.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
And he's like yeah, And I'm like is he funny?
And He's like oh yeah. So I was like, okay, okay,
we'll see. I'll maybe give it another day and then yeah.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
So on my endless I thought on my side, I
was interested in Alex, but I heard through the Great
Vine that she was not interested in me, and I
was just like, oh well, damn, Like who else are.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
They bringing down there? You know what I mean? I
I even showed Alex. I haven't like go ahead. Producers
asked me like who are you interested in? And like
the first picture I sent was out and as, but
I think it's.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Because it's alphabetic order, so I'm not going to take
that as a.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Know. So I was like, oh, I'm interested in Alex
and I heard that she's not really interested in like
I'm not really her type. And I was like, okay, whatever,
you know, we'll just see what happens. We get down there,
and I immediately feel the vibes between us, so I'm like, okay,
maybe like this is this is something. There's something here,
like she kissed my.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Neck, you said that said. I don't know if it's me,
but there's just like something here.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
There's something between us. I felt it.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
And it's also it's also that's also fun for you,
like for like it's like, oh, this is a little
bit of a competition with myself, Like this girl's kind
of already put it out there that she doesn't like me,
and I'm gonna let her know.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
She doesn't know what the.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Fuck she's talking about because she's lucky to have.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And I love I love the dogs that gets you
know what I mean. So like I here we are.
So I was like, okay, well, I'm going to try
to get here to like me because last one I
was in Paradise. We were going in. Both of us
were like, oh, we want to see each other, Like
I like this person, like this person. And now this
was completely different for me, so like I had a
complete opposite experience for my first time, and this was
(17:16):
really fun. Yeah, it was actually it was really fun
doing it nice.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Do you hope that they continued the new format, the
new location, Like what would you like to see them
bring back for Paradise?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
What do you think that? Maybe you were like, I
don't know if we need that again?
Speaker 10 (17:35):
No, I go ahead, No, I was just going to say,
if there's money, now people are going to know that
there's money, and are they going to go.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
There for the right reasons versus we didn't know. We
were just kind of like, oh, by the way, it's
a game show at this point, so it's going to
be tough. I think to have the same same format.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Andrew, what do you think I love the games? I
thought that was interactive. It was something for us to
get together and like bond over and have some substance.
You know how it is on the beach. You don't
do anything in the first one, like you just laid
around and then you waited for someone to come down
with a day card, like that is so boring and bad.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
They would throw us on that middle day, that that
big one everyone collects.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
There, someone's on their way.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
You wait for forty five minutes, you cannot pay any
We would just.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Be It would just be like we're we we live.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, we'd just do nothing.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You do this. So that was the part I would change.
I would keep. The one thing I would love. I
loved about Paradise is the love story, Like what love
story you guys had, Like how we grab it like
you saw it build. They didn't do that with this one.
They focused more on like drama whatever they can, Like
drama is always gonna be a part of it. We
(18:56):
love that, But like, don't forget about your romance, Like
the one thing that people do want to see is
like connections for me. And lastly I would say is
like I think the Goldens, I think they need their
own Paradise. I think that is something that they need
to do. Is they need to be separate. Because I'm
saying if we put more people on that season that
we were just on, I'm telling you that there's there's
no way that's not the number one show in the summer,
(19:18):
because you're bringing in, you're you're putting everyone in a bind,
like when I came down, that caused like a rip,
like a ripple as long as as well as Susie,
like Susie's name went on for the longest, Like you
keep bringing people down like that. I can see it,
but also love the fact that we got to build
more in more time. I just think that, yeah, we
(19:40):
didn't have enough people enough, like and they didn't stay
on long enough. I think I think the people were
getting shut down or getting kicked off too early. That's
the only thing I would change, I agree.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I think what I would change is I think people
were getting kicked off. I think people need a chance
to be there a little longer, and they were.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
They were them just so fast, like you weren't even
able to get in like a triangle, you know what
I mean. You didn't get to see anything play out.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, And I felt like there was a lot of
contestants I would have loved to see at the Beach
that didn't just because there wasn't time for that, because
you were really only doing half of a regular Paradise season.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yeah right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
And I don't like. I like the campiness of the
the first paradise of us, of all the guys living together,
I don't like, like two guys in one room, two
guys another I like.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
But I having the ability for you guys to end
up in each other's rooms, I think they added to
the relationship.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
That is exactly why I like that.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Like the fact that people were like having sleepovers with
their partner. I think was really fun and made it
feel a little more real because I think you guys
dove deeper into your relationship.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Yeah, absolutely, and have those conversations yeah at night, like
when you're like, you know, before bed and you're both
on your pillows, and those were like the fun conversations.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, well, I think put us put everyone together instead of.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
That's giving orgy.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Then I don't bedroom, Yeah, I guess, I guess, And.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
Then you know, Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I don't. I don't. I don't hate the boom boom.
I just think that they made it weird, like they
made it like a oh boom. They're just going like, no,
maybe we just want to sleep together and like hang
out and say like like if they would just yeah, yeah,
I mean you're gonna do that. But like you just
take that focus off of that and just make it
just like, all right, there's there's designated rooms for if
you guys want to sleep together, go do that, and
(21:36):
if you want to film those, obviously make sure they're
not you know, whatever.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Did you do to the like you don't have to
tell you No, he didn't like, Okay, we didn't go
to see I wouldn't have gone either, because I would
have not want people to think that.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Yeah, so at least this no one knew and you know,
gave us more time.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Anyways, Okay, I also really liked the Palka footage from
the bedrooms.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I know, like some people might have felt a little
by those.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
But as a viewer, I was like, this is so
entertaining for me. I really got to see people's like
perspectives and personalities.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
I thought it was such a good idea.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Say that was entertaining party.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I was like, I thought you were free. You were like, oh,
there are no cameras in here, like a lot of
you heard a lot of secrets being told in those bedrooms.
I'm just like, this is good TV. Like I would
just extended always to the bedrooms. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, we didn't really have before because of the way
the layout was.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I feel like.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
With timitting Away Real Quick from Paradise Holiday Season rom Coms, Andrew,
you're a rom com guy, Oh for sure, give me
give me your top three both.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Of you of all time.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
That's so hard.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I mean like it's okay.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Now, but like we're talking about okay, okay, so give.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Us a letterbox moment.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I will tell you how give you one that's that's
really good right now? You should go see. I would
go see Eternity Dying.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
To see that Eternity.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
It will be a movie that will go down as
one of the best because it's it's deep but also
has that comedic relief. And then there's just good characters
in that.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Yes, Miles Teller.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Then yeah, and then the Calum dude or.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yes, yeah, yes such dating, Yeah yeah, yes, he's a
good actor. To see that, even like the oh my gosh,
the other two characters that play like their guides in
the trailer, oh so good.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
And you always gotta have good like supporting casts. And
I think they crushed it. I think. I mean, I'm
gonna tell you the premise of it real quick. It's
just like imagine like you married someone, or you fell
in love with someone and they maybe they passed earlier
than you, and then you had to marry someone else.
So basically you go to heaven and your first husband
is waiting for you because he's like, that was the
(24:06):
love of my life. I'm waiting for her. But you
have created this whole life and kids with another person,
and like, who do you choose to live eternity with?
You know what I mean? You can't live with both
of them. You got to pick.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I know, I know, I know the premise.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Too, and they should go see no listeners.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
But yeah, I really want to.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I want to. I think the premise is great. Alex,
how about you do you have? We'll just use that
for Andrews. Forget my top three things?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Like holiday?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, what's your wreck for? Like a rom com that
people can go watch over the holidays.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
So I'm not a big rom com gal, I will
be What do you like? I'm like super old school,
I'm like creature of Habit. Grinch. Grin's great. We love Grinch.
So yeah, if you guys have the opportunity to go
see Brinch, go see Brinch.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Have you ever seen punch Drunk?
Speaker 7 (24:57):
I think everyone could go see The Grinch for you
Grinches back in theater actually anywhere. But I think she
could carry one or the cartoon Jim Carrey original.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I feel like, yeah, I feel like Alex, you would
really enjoy Punchy because because you're you're artsy, you're a
little more eccentric. And I think it's just.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Said the Grinch, that's true. I think maybe it's more
of an Andrew.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Andrew will like it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Too, as like I'm gonna tell.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
You that I know my tattoos and like I'm a
little bit kirky thinking. People are like, oh, she's super
like experimental.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Like watches Monsters, inc.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Like don't watch love that.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
We just watch it. It's very very intense, like.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
A psychological thriller. I love like Black Mirror and like
things that make you think is that kind.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Of No, it's like and uncut Gems.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
It's an Adam Sandler movie, and it's probably more aligned
with that tone.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Oh than No, Joe, I don't think I'll like.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
But Ham and my sister just went and saw that
and she was like, this movie is bringing me back
to wanting to see movies. And she was like, I thought,
She's like it was so Powerful Kelly.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
That's on Netflix. I thought Hamnett and j Kelly two
movies I cried in. I haven't cried in a movie.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
My dad just watched Jake Kell.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I heard I heard bad reviews on J.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Kelly, Adam Sandler anyone right.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
My dad was like, it's a tough watch in the
sense it's very intense, but like ch actors.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yes, it was so good. It was good.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I like, all right, let's jump off of the random
movie chat. Why don't we wrap up by you guys
telling us what you're gonna be doing for the holidays.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Do you want to take this pade? Well, she's getting
in on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Nope, Friday.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
So that's one thing though, I will say, with our relationship,
because we're both and I know you don't like to
hear it, we're very disorganized. So I buy my flight
sometimes left communication, I buy my flight Saturday.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Then he's like, no, there's a bear game Saturday. You're
gonna miss it.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
So then I was like, well, I just paid for
my ticket already that I had a coupon for or
a credit because you also told me to cancel another flight. Anyways,
So basically I said, okay, if you want to take
that flight and buy it. Sure, So I'm leaving Friday, babe,
not Saturday.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yes, okay, that's correct, and you're getting but you're getting
in Saturday at one am. So technically I was right anyway,
but no, no, no, she's getting in. And then we're
going to I have my Christmas party in throwing. I
decided to start throwing like a family Christmas party.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
I love that. That's so fun.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
So I invite all my family and they're coming up.
I created this new game called Ultimate Influencer because they
always talk about what I do. So I'm like, all right,
I'm gonna put you to test. I'm gonna get you
a brief and you have to figure out how to whatever.
So oh yeah, no, it's gonna be so good. It's
gonna be oh my god.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
I'm excited.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
I can't wait to hear about how this goes.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
And then we have the Bears game, which is gonna
be super exciting. Alex's first like games.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
They cannot lose this game.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
They cannot lose this game.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
This is very important, very important.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
And then we have New Year's We're doing Pizzeria PiZZ
on the River where they're doing this knee ball drop
thing in Chicago and fireworks, so we're doing that and
then we're heading to Tuloom for hang out with her friends.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
So we're gonna be in Chicago for a couple of
days from New Year's so we'll hit you.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Yeah, let us know.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
I was gonna say, last night, he was like, where
were you the whole night?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
You were?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
I didn't see you all night? You were with Serena
the whole night. Didn't he see you once we were Anyways.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
I know like you guys have been sitting on this
couch talking for two and a half.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
I'll tell you what we talked about.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
But you were nodding and you would look at me and.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
You're right Diva.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
All right, we will let you guys go. Thank you
so much for coming on where. We love you, guys.
We're so happy for you, guys, and we'll see you soon.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Keep coming.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Thank you and thank you to all our listeners. Make
sure you download and subscribe to Better Happy.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
We'll have explicive interviews for you every single week. Thanks
for listening. Bye,
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Serena Pitt
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