January 19, 2024 • 38 mins
Today on “Bachelor Happy Hour,” Joe and Serena dive right back in with Brayden and Christina for part two of their exclusive interview! Picking up from the aftermath of Brayden’s accident, the two take us through to their life together in Nashville. And, of course, they cover the highly anticipated story of their engagement! We get all the details on Brayden’s proposal plan, including when he knew that Christina was the one, who from her family he called for their blessing, and what Gerry and Theresa’s reaction was when he called them to ask their permission. Listen now and make sure you’re subscribed so you never miss an episode!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, everyone, welcome back to bed for a happy Hour.
I'm Joe and we are back for part two with
Brandon and Christina. They are both in love in a
relationship at this point. Brandon just survived a very near
death experience and here we are, so what is what's
the next move?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
So after the boat incident, that next day, Christiana actually
went and she bought a plane ticket and that actually
come out, Yeah, I bought a ticket to come.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Out to see me.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
It wasn't take a note for an answer.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Just because it was like she was like I want
to be here for you. She's like, I know that
you're going through a lot, and originally, like I was
going to try to go like I went to work
the next day, like I was like I was, I
was determined to just go back to life as normal.
And then I ended up going back to work and
it was just like too much, and so I ended
up calling off that whole that rest of the weekend,
and she had like she had been like she had
come out and like she was like originally she said,
(00:54):
She's like even if you're working, She's like I'm gonna
be there when you get off and be coming to
spend time with you when you like when you get off,
and so I ended up calling off because it was
just too much.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
And then we just spent the whole.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Weekend together and it was like that was the weekend
that she actually got to meet my family too, because
my family was wanting to be around me a lot
too that weekend just because they were like I just
almost lost to you, and you know.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Very emotional week very emotional because his dad and his
uncle were also on.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Theh so it was like my dad, my uncle, and me,
we were all on the boat and it was just like,
I don't know, it was like all the like the
the older men in our family were all going to
be gone, and so it was kind of like just
like a big deal. So she ended up coming out
there that weekend, and then it ended up being amazing,
like she met my mom that weekend and my aunt
and who's like a second mom, and like, uh, it
(01:38):
was the first time my mom was like come up
to me and grabbed me and like cried and said
like Brandon, like I actually absolutely love this girl.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Like she's like she lets you be you.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
She's like I don't feel like you're acting like somebody
else when you're like around her and this is like
I love this, and so it was a really amazing
thing for me. And it was just like and then
she started getting along with my family better than I did,
and I was like, well, okay, like.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Let's let's let's pump the's a little bit here, okay.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
But yeah, you can see I'm hanging out with your family.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
My mom literally like told me, She's like, yeah, can
I just trade you for my son?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And I was like, well, I just almost died and
now you're already trying to get me off your hands,
Like what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I thought you loved me, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
But it was actually, it was really cool, and so
that weekend was actually probably like it was one of
the most special weekends for me, just because it was
like I really needed it. And sometimes it's so hard
to ask for that help, like or ask for like
someone to like rely on when you're feeling down, like
you want to be like strong and strong like bull,
you know. But it was really cool that she just
(02:33):
offered to do it for me and like be there
for me.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Tell even by going to work the next day. I
was just like, cut that out. Stop being tough, like
you don't need that. I'm really tough. Let me be tough.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, and she is tough, and so it was like
it was really cool that she did that, and so that.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Was really special.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And then it was crazy because like the week following
that was actually when Paradise aired, and then it just
like that adds a whole new thing for us to
Now we're a new relationship, and now we're like we
just got done through through a near death experience, and
now we got to go through Paradise, which is a
whole other ballgame.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Were you were you, did you guys have the Paradise conversation?
Like Christina, were you prepped on what you were about
to see?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Okay, yeah, I knew everything.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
And then also, you know a lot of the girls
that were on there are also my friends, so I
kind of knew before even knowing Braydon a lot of
the things, and so everything was adding up and not
that it mattered to me, but it was something that
I was like, Okay, well I need to at least
listen to it or watch it or something just so
nothing comes up and later that you know, was something
(03:36):
someone forgot about or whatever, just to know not because
it mattered, but just to know what's out there if
you're going to be publicly on things like we're doing
interviews now, Like I just stuff that I think for
me personally, I wanted to know, and so that I
kind of grounded ourselves on. We didn't know each other
at all. We had not met each other, talked or
anything like we whatever. So not saying it was easy,
(03:58):
but it was. Yeah, No, it was well. The boat
being made it just so much a walk in the park.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Honestly, I don't know. Yes, it was still a lot
he felt.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I think he felt really guilty.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It's just it's weird because it's like, I know, it
wasn't cheating, but it's like when you're in a relationship
with someone you're seeing yourself make out with other people
while you're with someone else, it just does like you
feel so bad because you feel like you're you're putting
your partner through that.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, it's like, do I understood it absolutely and never
try to make him feel guilty anything.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
He Yeah, I think he was struggling with that a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It was just it was a it was a weird
time and so it was like navigating that was interesting,
but I feel like we did pretty like she was
just she was really graceful and gave me a lot
of grace to the whole.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Thing and was like, uh, it was there for me again.
It was just great.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It's like the story of our relationship is Christina just
being there for me. But I'm just saying, but it's
just I appreciate it a lot. And so and then
we ended up going and uh, she ends up coming
out again for her birthday in October nineteen.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
I got to say eighteen because nine eighteen is our
our when we were officially wait to say it, Okay, anyways,
so she comes out, Well, you came out, you came
out there anyways. You no, I came out on my
birthday with Blakely, So this was like the moment. So
they've met on FaceTime and stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So my daughter, like, that's a big decision.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Huge decision, But at the same time, it's like, so
I actually haven't had a boyfriend, like an official boyfriend
since you know, Blakely's father when I was seventeen, So like,
at the same time, it's a big decision. It's a
huge decision, yes, but at the same time, me deciding
to be boyfriend and girlfriend. Was that kind of makes
it to whear, Okay, we're gonna meet her. So so
(05:36):
that was already decided. That's not something I take take
lightly either, So.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
How do you explain it to her? Like, Okay, we're
going to San Diego well out.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
And she's, oh my gosh, she is all about him.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Oh, he's so handsome, and she you know, she was
six at the time, she's seven now, but she's going
on fifteen twenty five of it.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Sometimes.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I mean, she's ridiculous, and so she like really appreciates him.
She's really emotionally mature. I would say, although they've been talking,
that's a later time.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
We'll talk about that later. But it's funny we'll listen
to them talk.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
But so so I'm like, okay, making the decision, and
I think let's make it super fun because he's got
my now new sun River, his dog, his huge dog,
and my daughter is obsessed with all animals.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Especially dogs.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
And she's also been to the beach one time that
she can't really remember. She was three, and so I'm like, okay,
let's just she's gonna think this is just heaven like
a dog beach like we go to the dog Beach.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I'm like, she's going to be sold no matter what.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
So I'm thinking, Okay, October nineteenth, we go out there
my birthday and he was actually working, So Aaronest picks
us up from the airport and then we hang out
with him for a bit. We go to the beach
and hang out their canoeing and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And yeah, so I got off work that day and
then I had the rest of the week and off
to hang out and stuff, and so we just we
took her a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah were you were you worried at all to meet
her because it's a it's a big responsibility for you
as well.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, I mean I knew, Like the biggest thing is
is like knowing that whatever you do is impacting somebody
that is very impressionable, and it's like you have to
be like I know, like on the show and stuff
like that. Like I've been, you know, people seeing me
as a very like care free person. It's like I've
noticed that I've had a lot more care as far
as like, you know, recognizing what.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I'm saying and to who I'm saying it to, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And so I think it's like it's been kind of
a cool like reality check for me in a lot
of regards, just like you know, like being able to
have conversation with her and like be able to make
sure that like it's like age appropriate and like she's
able to understand what I'm saying and stuff like that.
And so it's like it's made me be a lot
more intentional with what I'm trying to communicate with her
and stuff like that. And so it was I realized
(07:49):
that going into it because I'm like, Okay, like this
is a big deal. Like you know, she's at an
age right now where she's a sponge and she's just
gonna like absorb everything around her, and if I like
say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing, I
could mess this case up. And I'm like I don't
want to do that. And I was like I love
her mom, and it's like and I want to make
this work and I want to like be able to
be that person I need to be in order to
do that. And so getting to meet her, though, it
(08:11):
was just like it was surprisingly like way easier.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Than what I thought in my head like it was
going to be like and so it was.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Like she is such a cool kid, Like she is
so much fun, and it's like it's so amazing because
it's like as an adult, it's like you go on
new experience things and like you feel like you've seen
it all, you know what I mean. It's like you've
been to the beach. Like you know, you're living in California,
it's like you've been to the beach every you go
to the beach every day, so it's not something new.
And it was like the first time she went to
the beach, like she's she's like digging with river, like
(08:40):
they're digging in the sand. Like it's like I'm like,
I'm like, this is like so crazy, Like she'd never
seen sand like this before, Like what's going on? Like
she's like running in the water, running away from the water,
and I'm like this is just like it was just
it gives you such a new like appreciation for everything
because it's like you're seeing it through the eyes of
a kid again. And it was like it was such
an amazing thing for me, and I was like, wow,
(09:01):
like I actually really really love this in a way
that I didn't expect to love this, like like cause
like I feel like I you know, you start getting
like a little bit and jaded or a little bit
like you know, like just we're like, oh, I've seen
the beach before, granted, yeah, you take it for granted.
And it was like I just couldn't take it for
granted anymore. I was like, wow, like, yeah, this is amazing.
You're right likely And so I was like I was
digging in the sand too, and it was like and
(09:23):
it was just so much fun. And then so we
had gone to that beach and then understanding, like it's
funny like when a kid finds something they loved, they're like,
they don't want to go and do anything besides that one,
and so trying to teach them that there's other things
that are a little bit different but are just as
cool is very hard to do. And so like leaving
the beach was not as fun. Leaving the beach wasn't fun.
(09:44):
As soon as we left the beach, we hated sand
and it was the worst thing in the world. And
so I'm just like, like, but just two seconds ago
you were loving it and rolling in it.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
She's like, no, I hate sand.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I never wanted to trying to explain to him, like
on the sideline here, like just wait five minutes.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Yeah, she'll forget.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
And then all of a sudden, we go to dinner
and it's by the beach, and then like after dinner
she has like asked for to go cup and then
grabs it to go cup and scoop sand and brings
sand in my car, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You love sand again? Like what's going on?
Speaker 8 (10:12):
Like it was like, Joe, honestly, you're like this, Like
I was.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Just tripping out.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I was just like, how do you go from loving
sand five minutes ago to hating it to loving it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
To hate it?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Stand in your cup for a long time?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, that sand car for months. It was ridiculous on.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
The ground or in the cup, okay, thought she was like, whoa,
we're at the beach, got.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
A coffee cup full of sand with like a princess
like a shovel in it.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Oh that's cute.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah no, And it was just it was an amazing trip.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And then it was funny because it was like I
brought her an introduce her to like my my family,
and it was like we were all hanging out and
it was like, it's funny how a kid can change
the dynamic of a family so much. Too, like, oh yeah,
I like all all the kids are kind of growing.
We're like, you know, sixteen years older. And all of
a sudden, my uncle and my aunt, like my mom
and like my dad, like all these people who are
(11:09):
like oh yeah, like we're glad we're past that phace,
all of a sudden they're like, you can't you can't
find them anywhere because they're playing hide and seek.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
And like I opened the door to the closet and
my uncle's in the closet.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
He's like and I'm like okay, like closing the door,
and it's just like it's it's such a it's such
an amazing thing, like when you get to experience the
energy of a kid, like reintroduced to a family too.
And so I mean Blakely has been like such a
big blessing too, and like I've appreciated that aspect of
our relationship as well. So that's been awesome. But yeah,
and so we've kind of just been we kind of
(11:39):
just kept doing that and it was like, you know,
I would go out to Tennessee to go see her,
and she would come out to California to see me,
and it was hard because like you know, she's she
was working busy with her job and she would have to.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Travel and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And you know with my job, I work full time
too as a nurse, and so it was like, you know,
we would make we would you know, try to make
that time to go and see each other.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
And then but the contract was finally coming up, and like,
you know, nurse.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Nursing contract, and he's either going to resign or not.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
Yeah, and so are you a travel nurse Brandon, I am, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, sou So as my travel nursing contract was kind
of coming out, we started talking and I was like, hey, like,
you know, if we're doing this, like I feel like
long distance, especially with like our lifestyles, it's like it's
really going to be something that I feel like we
need to fix. And so I was like, you know,
I know that it's going to be a lot harder
for you to move out here to California. And I
don't think it's realistic with like, you know, a daughter
(12:31):
and stuff like that. I don't think it's fair to
ask that. So was my travel contract, Like I'll apply
for a nurse license in Tennessee and I can move
out to Tennessee and like I can come to you
and we can do this, you know, do this day
to day together if you'd want to, if like that's
something you're up for. And originally I was thinking, like,
hey know, I'd go and find apartment and stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And she's like no, she's like, if you're gonna do this,
She's like, then we'll do it. Do it. And it
was like so she invited me to.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Move in, and and like things just started going really smoothly,
Like I applied for my nursing license, I got it,
and then.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Like, I'm months, how many months are we in at
this point? From from first.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
August to the three.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You're asking, so we're going into December? December was month
four o four months?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I mean, yeah, this is a bachelor. This is bachelor timeline.
Like there's literally shorter than the.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
So I find people that come off the show too, like,
especially when they're dating other people that come off the show, relationships.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Do just move at a way more accelerated pace.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
With all the dramatic events that we had in such
a more short amount of time as well, you have
to factor in I guess all the hours and hours
of vocals.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
No, I mean I think like it's it's felt weird though,
because like it hasn't felt rushed, like you know what
I mean, Like, and maybe you're right. Maybe it is
just like the aspect of how the show makes you
feel like you're in that like you're in a relationship
for six to eight weeks getting married, like and when
you have you know, months to get to know someone,
you're like, wow, like this is going wrong really smoothly
(13:58):
and slowly, and and so it's.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Like also like knowing like to not the pressure, but
like the like you know in the back of your head,
like if this is going to be a thing, like
people will like it's going to be a thing, Like
people will know it, and so like are you.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Serious about it?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
So if we're going to be public anyways, like that's
already a big decision.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And honestly, I think I think the show changed like
the way I went about dating, like because of like
the purpose of the show of being marriage and stuff
like that. It shifts your intention from dating for just
a date and have fun to dating for the intention
of marrying someone. And I think that that's like something
that has made it so that the timelines nowadays are
so much longer because people are like, Oh, I just
(14:38):
want to date to have.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Fun and explore myself and all that.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Stuff, and that's great, but it's like when you shift
to the intention of wanting to date to find your
person or not, you start asking those questions and I
start out like really like saying like, Okay, is this
someone I could see myself with and if it's not?
Like And I think that was one of my biggest
things when I got off the shows. It was like,
I was like I wouldn't go on more than like
really under two days with people because I was like, Okay,
(15:02):
like I can see this isn't someone I'm gonna work
out with long term, you know what I mean. And
it was like with her, like I didn't have that.
I was like, no, I can see this, you know
what I mean. And so it was like, I think
that that was one thing that the show did that
was so amazing for me. Is it shifted my mindset
of dating to like date for the intention of finding
someone you want to marry?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, yeah, so gohad no you go, I've been talking
a lot, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So I was gonna I was gonna throw it to Christina.
So you guys now released publicly, you know, via Instagram
after the finale. The finale, Yeah, so that how How
was how was that received? How were you guys getting
a lot of we're nervous.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Yeah, we again, like at this point, now we kind
of went through the timeline, which I so appreciate because
you know, there's been a lot and it's kind of
like weird because it's like, oh, yeah, we have it,
like told the world and and that's just kind of
like a side note, like it's just kind of like
something that we'll do that. Yeah, sure, we're excited about
but all so it doesn't really matter in the grand
scheme of things of like okay, when people accept us
or not, because we've got this rock and foundation and
(16:06):
like that's not gonna like alter what we're doing and
what our plans are. But like I'd be lying if
I didn't say, I like thought about, okay, well what
are people going to think? And my overall like thinking,
overthinking and over renalyzing, which I like to do a lot.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I'm thinking, I'm like, okay.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Well, whether people like us or not as people, as
characters on the show or in real life or whatever.
I mean, it'd be hard to say that it doesn't
make sense, like as far as our energies, like, oh,
that's what a lot of people are saying. It's like, well,
they're both really annoying, but you know, they make sense
and their energies are just great. I mean, yet, yeah,
let them go to be them over there. But from
(16:43):
the most part, I mean, we've had a lot of
love and a lot of support and it's been great.
And yeah, I mean I was actually on a work
trip in Florida and we knew we were going to
be seeing each other the next day, and so it
just kind of blew up because I didn't know, you know,
I knew that it was gonna be announced on the finale,
but I didn't know like in what scheme of things
(17:04):
I said in some videos and photos, but it was
just you know, a few seconds. But those few seconds
really just kind of took off and my phone starts
blowing up, and it was a lot of positive things.
So that was really cool and nice to see, and
that does help. It does help a lot. And we
met up and it's like finally I can we met up.
I was flying back from that work trip. He flew
(17:24):
into Nashville, and he just kind of didn't even leave
the concourse, he just kind of fell asleep on the
floor and.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
We see each other.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
We're just like finally and the people are around, they're like, hey,
you guys, We're like, yeah, we're in public.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
So it's been nice, like just being able to not
go in my really uh obvious disguise out in places,
and so that's been cool.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Brandon, you're the only here, the only success story from
your paradise.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
So what'd you guys? Count it?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (17:57):
It literally the episode and I feel like you like
we're a recent season. Christina Brandon was on it. They
included your love story at the finale. I mean you
had an on screen engagement. Definitely counts.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I think it counts as well. Yep, it counts, So
I say it counts.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I mean we're counting it.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
We need we need a success.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
That season was tough, like that was a tough season.
It was wild, but it ended off for me.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
So yes, thank so.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Then you announce it to the world, you're have you
moved in? When did you move in?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
So I actually moved in just now okay right now today.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
No, Basically we were just folding his clothes into the club.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I'm almost fully Actually.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
That's a lot. We were putting the ear rings on
the display.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
But do you like national?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I do?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I mean it's hard, like I definitely like, I definitely
love the beach, like I'm a beach beach guy.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
And I was like, we have beach access.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
And I take him like three minutes down the road.
There's this speech if if there's a couch and the sand,
and it's like saying that they've like brought with a bulldozer.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It's going to be negative one degrees next week many
I will leave the.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Florida on a work trip again.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah, I was like, I was like, Dade.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I was like, I was like, tell me how like
the one week in Nashville, it's me negative one degrees.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I'm going to be home and you're going to.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Florida would just be you and Blakely at home.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Well, so Blakely is going to be going with her mom.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I just like with like you know, me moving in
so quickly and stuff like that, we're going to be
like kind of like you know, easing into like that
kind of.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Aspect of like I was telling Blakely that last time.
She's like, but why and so you know she does
want to see.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Also I'm starting, well I'm gonna be going over there
quite a bit, but I also start my new job
next week.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
So just balancing a lot of like things happening, a
lot of moving.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Party structure, and like you know, really kind of be consistent.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
But it's just like it's it's been wild because it
was like this week's been nice because I haven't had
to start work yet, and so it's like it's been like, Okay,
we make breakfast in the morning, we get it ready
for school, and she.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Loves she loves that.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
She's like, well, well she said, she said, well, one
thing's for sure, we won't have to make breakfast because
we know that the chef's in town.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Like this is how she talks.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
And it's because like on her birthday he's like had
like pink pancakes and all this, and so yeah, now
you've kind of just taken on. He's been making her
school lunches every day and I'm.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Just sitting back and with her. This is nice. Let
that happened.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Are you a good cook?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
I made dinner for him the first time when he
came here, and.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
And you bottom shoes bottom cowboy.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I gotta take back this meal that she cooked me.
She cooked me a steak right when I came out.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Okay, did you know gar things? Because I didn't.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
So I'm baking, I'm marinating the steak and I'm thinking
so i'd actually practiced, Like with one of my friends
earlier in the week. I'm like, we've made a steak
and I'm like, we're making it and then like he
ate it and he's.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Like, oh my gosh, he's gonna love this.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
And we're like five and we're like, oh my gosh,
this is it. He's gonna love you.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
And I had it down and I'm like I was
doing it.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
And then he comes down the stairs after a shower
and he like has he picked up my guitar from
upstairs and.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
He's just sinking and plating. I'm like, I didn't know
you could do that.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
And I'm just like being like mes brized and I'm
just I put way too much salt.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Put way too much salt.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
You never heard it too much salt on.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
A steak either, And I tell you, I'd be like whatever, no, no, no, there,
it didn't taste like steak.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
It tasted like salt. And so then I and then.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
She pulls out she had and your defense, steak is
easy to funk up, like I just cooked. I just
cooked a bison the other day and I cooked it
well done, and it was a.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Lot of pressure.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
It's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
It's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
So I'm trying to be like fancy and like, you know,
I do this my house live and I'm not. And
so then I like, I bought some oil and vinegar
at the store and some bread. I'm like, oh, I'm fancy.
And so he was actually Texas pete toasted. But so
he's sitting down like eat the steak now, like I know,
like you want to wait on me, but it's hot.
You know, you know it'd be rude to the chef
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you didn't start eating. So he's over here like I
don't know that the steak tastes like this, So he's
trying to eat it.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Hey, I come over there, and I realized that it
tastes like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
He's liked, wait, I'm gonna make a sandwich with the
bread he made with just Texas peat once again, and
I'm like, no, no, no, that's for my fancy oil
and vinegar. So I get it out and he starts
laughing and I'm I'm.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
Pouring Crisco cooking oil into the oil and vinegar, and
I was just like, I just started funny.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I'm just like, I'm like, you are so so cute.
And she's like, what do you mean.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
I'm like, you don't eat Crisco like it says old,
Like I know you shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
You should like honestly, like you really shouldn't cook with
any oils. At this point, that's a whole.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
Nice Let let bred and cook or you can, you
could order dr Dash.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I do so good at that.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Yeah, so you go, that's your thing. That's your thing.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
But at that, let's let's cut to the golden wedding.
Big decision. Power move, Brandon. You get down on one
knee real quick. Let's just talk about that. You know
that decision?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
What made you do it?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Why?
Speaker 7 (23:24):
How did that decision come to be?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Question?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So I had actually been I mean I talked to
her sister literally like a couple of days prior, and
I was telling her how like my goal was like, oh, Joseph.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I hate this.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
He doesn't, I mean, I don't, I don't, I don't
hate it though I respect it, Okay, but I respect it.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I respect that. I was saving up money because I
wanted to go.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
And the way I originally was thinking about proposing to
her was I wanted to she had this dream. On
one of our first FaceTime callege, she was talking about
winning the put pineapple on pizza in Italy and like
see people's reactions, and she brought a can of pineapples
out and put it on pizza.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
And so my plant was is to take pineapples of
a can of pineapples and put a.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Ring in there, and then like I figured, like we
record it and then like you know, That's how I
was originally gonna propose.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
I heard on their podcast that you like and so
and so yeah pizza. I'm like, we are so much
of comment, but.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It's actually my favorite. It's actually my favorite fruit. Pineapple.
You do, I love pineapple.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You need to give it another shot, man.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
So we're gonna curaoke. We have a party with pineapple pizza.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I mean, if I'm gonna have pineapple on pizza, there
needs there needs to be jalapeno and ham as well.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I'm not just gonna have I'm not just gonna.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Have cheese, no that red sauce and pineapple. But yeah, anyway,
so so originally, like I had been talking to.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Her sister like two days prior, and then I was
like I was talking to my sister like literally the date,
like on the drive out there, and I was like, yeah,
like you know, I'm wanting to save my money and
like you know, be able to do this and do
this the right way. But it's like it's also hard
because it's like I know that I'm ready to do this,
and it's like you know, but like right now with
the way, like you know, making this move out, I
just had to buy a new truck.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I was like buying a ring right now.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
On top of all that is like not like I
would propose her right now if I could, but like it's.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Not and you could proposed with a pebble, we get
on a hike and find a rock, but you know
he's had bear.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And so anyway, so like and it was it was
kind of a crazy situation because I was literally just
talking to my sister about it on the road on
the right up.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So I get to the I get to the.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Hotel and I'm in there and like, uh, everyone comes
and visits and we come and chat and uh as
we're chatting, like they like I get told like, Okay,
me and Christina are gonna have this six minute long
segment where we just get to talk and tell everybody
about how we met. And so I'm like, okay, that's awesome.
So Christina's flight ended up getting delayed and they ended
up just staying and we are hanging out and they're
talking to like, you know, hey, like are you excited
about making this move to Nashville and stuff? And I'm
(25:50):
like I'm still like, you know, I I was like honestly,
like you know, I wish that I could go out
there and like be in a place where I could
be you know, already engaged and proposed to her and
like I've done.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
All that, but like you know, right now, like I'm needing.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Like you know, yeah, especially with Blakely, like wanting to
make sure that I set an example to her daughter
because it's like I mean, in my head, it's like
Blakely's going to be my daughter, and it's like with
my kid of mine, like I want them to be
treated by somebody the way like that way, and if
I want some if I want my daughter to be
treated by a man that way, then I would want
to treat their mom that same man in that same manner,
you know. And so it was like so for me,
(26:22):
I was like, you know, I wish I could do this,
and I wish it was like something that was feasible
for me at this time.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I was like, and you know, if it was, I
would love to do that. And I was like, but
right now, like this.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Is my plan, and and I started talking and like,
as I started talking to producers and telling them like
you know, where I was at and like what I
was wanting to do, we actually started figuring some things out.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
And they had.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Actually said that like you know, we could talk to
Neil Lane and like, you know, see what we could do,
and we ended up like making it all like kind
of come together, and I had you know, they were like, yeah,
like you know, Neil Lane said he would love to
support this and like, you know, love to make this happen,
and so you know, we called him and we got
permission on that end. And then they said, you know
(27:02):
and I was like, well, let me call. I need
to make sure I talk to her mom and dad
and make sure I get permission there, and I want
to talk to Gary and Teresa before I go and propose,
because I want to make sure that I have their
permission because.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
You know, I'm although like, although I know.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Like you know, it's a Bachelor franchise and it's like,
you know, it's a you know, produced wedding, it's still wedding,
and I never, like, you know, my intention is not
to like steal the attention from them at all, because
I mean, what they've done with their with their relationship
and like they're like their whole story has been absolutely amazing,
and I don't want to take any light away from
how amazing that's been and how inspirational that's been. And
so I reached out to Gary and I'm like, hey, Gary,
(27:35):
like you know, I know, you know, I don't want
to I don't want to do this. I was like,
you know, we're doing a I don't want to do
this in a way that's going to be disrespectful or
take away from you.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
And I wouldn't want to do it without your blessing.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I was like, you know, I I really love Christina
and I'm going to do this eventually regardless of whether
I do today.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah. Me, and Gary.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Like Gary was actually one of the first people in
Bachelor Nation to know that I had like been that
Christina was my girlfriend, because like, actually, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
He did say he did say he's good friends with you.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Yeah text even like at thet Blakely's birthday party party,
we called him and they were talking.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
He's awesome And I met him briefly as well.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, and his family's all awesome too, Like we're actually
going to uh, we're gonna be going to his granddaughter's
volleyball game up and they're having a volleyball tournament in Louisville,
So we'll be going to that this year too. I
mean I actually like me and Gary. Yeah, Me and Garry,
Me and Gary. He's just such a great guy. Like
I really I really do like love him a lot.
He's a cool guy. He's a really cool guy. And
so I'd reach out to him though, and and he said, well, yeah,
(28:33):
he's like you know, I He's like I know.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
And it was all kind of late.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I mean, it was like a kind of a last
minute thing, and he was like, let me talk to
Teresa and see how she feels about this, and I
was like okay, And so you talked to Teresa and
he said, I'm okay with it, and Teresa thinks that
this is an absolutely wonderful idea and she loves it.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
And so yeah, when she was on a weird talking
about she was like.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Yes, yes, like I'm excited, Like she really is like
a more the merrier kind of person.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, And so I had I had both their blessing,
and then I was like okay. So once I had
their blessing, I ended up going and I called her mom.
And it was funny. This is funny because when I
went to go call her mom, her mom's name is Arlene,
and I have a contact in my phone and it's Irene.
And so here I go and I call Irene. And
(29:20):
as I'm calling Irene, I am going and I am
expressing my absolute love for her daughter that is not
actually her daughter for about three minutes and asking and
I go and I asked her for a permission to
marry your daughter.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Point yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
And so there's like there's a big long pause, and
I'm sitting there for that big long pause, and she's like, hey, Brady, like,
you know, I think you might.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Have called the wrong person. And my heart just goes
and it drops and I'm like, this is like it
was the worst. It was like worst, I mean, or
you like was.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Your first that? Like, Oh my god, who am I
on the phone with?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That was literally I looked at my phone and I
was like, I was just like, I'm such an idiot,
Like I can't believe that I just did that.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
And so, yeah, it was definitely who am I on
the phone with?
Speaker 9 (29:59):
Moment?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
But it was funny. I mean, he.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Wasted a good surprise on you.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
So I called her mom after that, and then the
comrado with her mom ended up going a lot better.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
So I mean, I guess I'm grateful for that one.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
Like, you know, you had a good like practice run,
you know, you ironed out the kanks, you got out
the nerves, and then you did the official asking exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And so I called her mom and then her mom
loved it and like I was super excited, and then
called her dad and her dad loved it and he
was excited, and so all.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Things were in place. I called my mom and dad
and then told.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Me it kind of worked out that your flight was delayed.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Really, I know, how did you pull that off?
Speaker 9 (30:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You know, I called some.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Airlines. Hey, don't take off.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I'm busy people.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, Christina, when were you expecting? When were you expecting
an engagement or what were you even thinking about one?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
I knew so like whenever he said that, he talked
to my sister, so we were on FaceTime, and like
I was surprised then that he had like even an
idea of how to do it in play, but he
was very much like, all right, go away, go away,
let me talk to your sister. And I respected that.
I actually did walk away. I didn't easdrop or anything.
And so I knew that, like it was in the works,
and we've talked about it, and we've talked about marriage,
(31:11):
and I knew that it's kind of in the same
respect of like me being a RS being boyfriend and
girlfriend and meeting Blakely in the same respect him moving
here and moving in, Like we knew that that's in
the cards, and it's just a matter of logistics and
making it happen and how you know, the ins and
outs of it of making it happen, to make it happen,
not because of us holding that up. So I really
(31:33):
had no clue, and I am hard to surprise. I
really am. I ruined surprises, and so I didn't want
to know that. So I didn't want to know. I
didn't want to like because I'll figure it out, and
that's what I don't.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Want to do. And I was like, I want to
be surprised.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
And yeah, so so I did almost ruin it on accident.
So we get to the party before okay, so I no, no,
you go for You're such a better storyteller. But we
get to the before even we're what would you call it,
like the cocktail party before the ceremony, and it's even
before the proposal happened, and we're all hanging out and
(32:09):
I'm excited, and you know, I see Neil Lane and
I've I've been a fan of this show for a
long time.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I know Neil Ling.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
So I see him, I'm like, babe, Neil Lane, I'm
getting ill. I'm getting Nail Lane drunk tonight. And we're
getting so like over there, and I start making friends
with him and he's the best. He's actually like amazing.
I feel like we're hitting off, we're being best friends,
and I could see that he's getting stressed.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Oh wait, the nails.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
It's fine, okay, the nails.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
So so we're like, I could see that he's getting stressed,
and I'm like, babe, And I go over to the
side and I'm like, do you think I'm being annoying
or something? Because I feel like me and Neil are
being best friends? Do you not feel like And I
strayed up back said am I being annoying? And so
he was like no, because you know that's kind of
a setup. If he said yes, I would have been
really upset. And so he's like no, I'm like, well,
(33:00):
then leave me alone. I'm talking to Neil, and so
then I'm talking to him. I'm like, no, let's do
something crazy. Would you make a pair of ear rings
so I could propose to Braiden? And so I'm trying
to chat him up about this, and we're talking about
these ear rings, and we're talking about this and this
and that, and I could just see he's just like
visibly stressed in the corner.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
But he knows that he knows, and.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
He is such a home though he did not give
it away at all.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
At all, he really is.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
But I was so worried, like I just I didn't
want to be around because I knew that I was
either going to slip or like and I didn't know
slip and I was like.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
So I'm just trying to be there and like be
quiet because like I don't want to be a.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Tis just talking and we're best friends and I'm like,
go what I'm talking to me?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
And I'm not a good liar. So it's like if
I was in the situation where I would have had
to lie, like, oh, like a.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Reading ring, see that you're stressed, So I mean, yeah,
you can't.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Pocket and I was like I had one in my
breast pocket and I was like, you're just happy to
see me.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
No, No, I have in my breast pocket.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
And I was like, I'm literally holding a the La
and diamond my chest right out.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
But I'm would have gone along with a lot of things,
like he had to drag me to the nail song,
so I'm like, I'm not getting my nails done. No, no, no,
And he had like all these things.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
I absolutely zerous.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
So she shows up to the wedding missing like three
nails and it was like yeah, and like she's like
she's like I'll just I'll just color led light and
I'm like no, like, let's go get your nails.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Then it'll be some cute couples.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I'm not bougie. I'm just gonna violent.
Speaker 8 (34:34):
Did you say that, Durantha proposes. I feel like you
said something. We're like, oh my god, is that like that?
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Ony?
Speaker 7 (34:39):
We had to get our nailshot.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
No, because like this thing it was really like now
in hindsight, oh my gosh, like I'm so annoying. I yes,
the way that he was like how did like be like,
I'm You're gonna go to the wedding like that?
Speaker 4 (34:54):
And I'm like, what, like so confused because he doesn't
talk to me like that. I'm like, but you love that.
I'm bougie, Like I'm just gonna file it out. I
can do it.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
He's like, you don't know how to do nails, and
so like I go there and I still have the
same nails on now and they're long. I'd never get
nails like longer than my nails. I'm just like, you
pick it out, baby, like this is.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Important to you.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
And I had to get my nails done.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
I wanted to get He wanted to really get his
nails done. I'm like, I need to support that. He's
moving in Tennessee. He's like trying to test me make sure,
a Cali boy can hang, you know, like if I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Judge them for it. And I'm like, no, no, no,
we can go, we can go. We'll do this for you.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
You're like, fine, I'll get my nails out for you.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
For you exactly.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Although I might seem like a guy who likes to
go get my nails done, he was like, it's not
really my thing, like and so I was like, I
ended up having to go and pay for my nails
to get done too, which.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Was it was it would have been it would have
given dead giveaway, so you had to So then yeah,
with the proposal, I did say this is what I'm
going on a nails on because I had no idea.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
And then he goes.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I said the most romantic thing ever. Was like, you're
such a pain in my butt. I was like, and
I think that. I was just like when I saw
that back, I was like, Wow, that's an interesting thing.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
For people with no context, which is fine, it's very us.
Speaker 8 (36:06):
But I feel like watching it, I was like, she
definitely had to drag grass the Neil Swan the way
you got you said it, I was like, he definitely.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
He was putting my shoes on in the hotel and
I like kicked him off. I'm like, I'm not gonna
get my neils done. I was being a little I
was being a little broad about that.
Speaker 8 (36:23):
Souff one of my best friends got engaged a year
and a half ago, and she was like, guys, do
I get like neutral or should I go finding it
like a green color? And we knew she was getting
engaged that week, and I was like, I think neutrals.
And the green ended up being like it was really cute,
it was like a kind of color.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
She loved it. But I was like we were text
on the side. I was like, tell her neutral, tell
her neutral. She always gets sutral. She's gonna go for
some crazy color this time and she's not gonna like it.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
But if you go there and you take the time,
you spend the money to do it, and you do
something you don't like, it's emotion, it's a lot. It
is just the boy gonna go get them nels done.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
I'll go get it.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
I'll go get a manicure with you. All right, we
are we are out of time before we let you
guys go wedding plans this year, next year, three years anything.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
We were talking like we were looking at within this year,
sooner than later, but with them either this year.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Or the beginning of next year, I think is what
we're going with.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
I've planned a lot of weddings. I can do it fast.
We want it to be in San Diego. And yeah,
so I've got to figure out I don't know, that's
not my terf. So I've got to figure out what's
going on over there. But sooner rather than later, for sure.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
We already like it was cool, Like I talked to
my pastor from church and it was actually really cool.
He we're starting premarital counseling hopefully within this next week.
And then he said he also him and his wife
said that they kind of help also, like with like
you know, come together on like how to plan and
how to go about the dates and stuff like that,
because it's like it can all be really stressful and
like the stuff like that. There's just been a lot
(37:55):
that we've had to like talk about and go over
and so we definitely want to do it. We don't
want a really long engagement, like we didn't get engaged
just to get engaged. And it's like I am, I
don't know, I love this girl and it's like I
want to make her my wife, and so.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
I'm a joiner as my fiance now, but I can't
wait for the day that excuse me my wife.
Speaker 7 (38:16):
That's all right.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Well, thank you guys so much for coming on Bachelor
Happy Hour, and to all of our listeners, thank you
guys for tuning in and make sure you stay tuned
because we have new episodes coming out every week and
we have a whole new season to break down Joey's season,
other Bachelor's coming out.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
Yeah, thanks for listening, Thanks Brandon, Christina, and we'll see
you guys next week.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
See you by River
Hey, everyone, welcome back to bed for a happy Hour.
I'm Joe and we are back for part two with
Brandon and Christina. They are both in love in a
relationship at this point. Brandon just survived a very near
death experience and here we are, so what is what's
the next move?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
So after the boat incident, that next day, Christiana actually
went and she bought a plane ticket and that actually
come out, Yeah, I bought a ticket to come.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Out to see me.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
It wasn't take a note for an answer.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Just because it was like she was like I want
to be here for you. She's like, I know that
you're going through a lot, and originally, like I was
going to try to go like I went to work
the next day, like I was like I was, I
was determined to just go back to life as normal.
And then I ended up going back to work and
it was just like too much, and so I ended
up calling off that whole that rest of the weekend,
and she had like she had been like she had
come out and like she was like originally she said,
(00:54):
She's like even if you're working, She's like I'm gonna
be there when you get off and be coming to
spend time with you when you like when you get off,
and so I ended up calling off because it was
just too much.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
And then we just spent the whole.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Weekend together and it was like that was the weekend
that she actually got to meet my family too, because
my family was wanting to be around me a lot
too that weekend just because they were like I just
almost lost to you, and you know.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Very emotional week very emotional because his dad and his
uncle were also on.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Theh so it was like my dad, my uncle, and me,
we were all on the boat and it was just like,
I don't know, it was like all the like the
the older men in our family were all going to
be gone, and so it was kind of like just
like a big deal. So she ended up coming out
there that weekend, and then it ended up being amazing,
like she met my mom that weekend and my aunt
and who's like a second mom, and like, uh, it
(01:38):
was the first time my mom was like come up
to me and grabbed me and like cried and said
like Brandon, like I actually absolutely love this girl.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Like she's like she lets you be you.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
She's like I don't feel like you're acting like somebody
else when you're like around her and this is like
I love this, and so it was a really amazing
thing for me. And it was just like and then
she started getting along with my family better than I did,
and I was like, well, okay, like.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Let's let's let's pump the's a little bit here, okay.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
But yeah, you can see I'm hanging out with your family.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
My mom literally like told me, She's like, yeah, can
I just trade you for my son?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And I was like, well, I just almost died and
now you're already trying to get me off your hands,
Like what's going on here?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I thought you loved me, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
But it was actually, it was really cool, and so
that weekend was actually probably like it was one of
the most special weekends for me, just because it was
like I really needed it. And sometimes it's so hard
to ask for that help, like or ask for like
someone to like rely on when you're feeling down, like
you want to be like strong and strong like bull,
you know. But it was really cool that she just
(02:33):
offered to do it for me and like be there
for me.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Tell even by going to work the next day. I
was just like, cut that out. Stop being tough, like
you don't need that. I'm really tough. Let me be tough.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, and she is tough, and so it was like
it was really cool that she did that, and so that.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Was really special.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And then it was crazy because like the week following
that was actually when Paradise aired, and then it just
like that adds a whole new thing for us to
Now we're a new relationship, and now we're like we
just got done through through a near death experience, and
now we got to go through Paradise, which is a
whole other ballgame.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Were you were you, did you guys have the Paradise conversation?
Like Christina, were you prepped on what you were about
to see?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Okay, yeah, I knew everything.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
And then also, you know a lot of the girls
that were on there are also my friends, so I
kind of knew before even knowing Braydon a lot of
the things, and so everything was adding up and not
that it mattered to me, but it was something that
I was like, Okay, well I need to at least
listen to it or watch it or something just so
nothing comes up and later that you know, was something
(03:36):
someone forgot about or whatever, just to know not because
it mattered, but just to know what's out there if
you're going to be publicly on things like we're doing
interviews now, Like I just stuff that I think for
me personally, I wanted to know, and so that I
kind of grounded ourselves on. We didn't know each other
at all. We had not met each other, talked or
anything like we whatever. So not saying it was easy,
(03:58):
but it was. Yeah, No, it was well. The boat
being made it just so much a walk in the park.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Honestly, I don't know. Yes, it was still a lot
he felt.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I think he felt really guilty.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It's just it's weird because it's like, I know, it
wasn't cheating, but it's like when you're in a relationship
with someone you're seeing yourself make out with other people
while you're with someone else, it just does like you
feel so bad because you feel like you're you're putting
your partner through that.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, it's like, do I understood it absolutely and never
try to make him feel guilty anything.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
He Yeah, I think he was struggling with that a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It was just it was a it was a weird
time and so it was like navigating that was interesting,
but I feel like we did pretty like she was
just she was really graceful and gave me a lot
of grace to the whole.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Thing and was like, uh, it was there for me again.
It was just great.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It's like the story of our relationship is Christina just
being there for me. But I'm just saying, but it's
just I appreciate it a lot. And so and then
we ended up going and uh, she ends up coming
out again for her birthday in October nineteen.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
I got to say eighteen because nine eighteen is our
our when we were officially wait to say it, Okay, anyways,
so she comes out, Well, you came out, you came
out there anyways. You no, I came out on my
birthday with Blakely, So this was like the moment. So
they've met on FaceTime and stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So my daughter, like, that's a big decision.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Huge decision, But at the same time, it's like, so
I actually haven't had a boyfriend, like an official boyfriend
since you know, Blakely's father when I was seventeen, So like,
at the same time, it's a big decision. It's a
huge decision, yes, but at the same time, me deciding
to be boyfriend and girlfriend. Was that kind of makes
it to whear, Okay, we're gonna meet her. So so
(05:36):
that was already decided. That's not something I take take
lightly either, So.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
How do you explain it to her? Like, Okay, we're
going to San Diego well out.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
And she's, oh my gosh, she is all about him.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Oh, he's so handsome, and she you know, she was
six at the time, she's seven now, but she's going
on fifteen twenty five of it.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Sometimes.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
I mean, she's ridiculous, and so she like really appreciates him.
She's really emotionally mature. I would say, although they've been talking,
that's a later time.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
We'll talk about that later. But it's funny we'll listen
to them talk.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
But so so I'm like, okay, making the decision, and
I think let's make it super fun because he's got
my now new sun River, his dog, his huge dog,
and my daughter is obsessed with all animals.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Especially dogs.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
And she's also been to the beach one time that
she can't really remember. She was three, and so I'm like, okay,
let's just she's gonna think this is just heaven like
a dog beach like we go to the dog Beach.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I'm like, she's going to be sold no matter what.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
So I'm thinking, Okay, October nineteenth, we go out there
my birthday and he was actually working, So Aaronest picks
us up from the airport and then we hang out
with him for a bit. We go to the beach
and hang out their canoeing and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And yeah, so I got off work that day and
then I had the rest of the week and off
to hang out and stuff, and so we just we
took her a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Yeah were you were you worried at all to meet
her because it's a it's a big responsibility for you
as well.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, I mean I knew, Like the biggest thing is
is like knowing that whatever you do is impacting somebody
that is very impressionable, and it's like you have to
be like I know, like on the show and stuff
like that. Like I've been, you know, people seeing me
as a very like care free person. It's like I've
noticed that I've had a lot more care as far
as like, you know, recognizing what.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
I'm saying and to who I'm saying it to, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And so I think it's like it's been kind of
a cool like reality check for me in a lot
of regards, just like you know, like being able to
have conversation with her and like be able to make
sure that like it's like age appropriate and like she's
able to understand what I'm saying and stuff like that.
And so it's like it's made me be a lot
more intentional with what I'm trying to communicate with her
and stuff like that. And so it was I realized
(07:49):
that going into it because I'm like, Okay, like this
is a big deal. Like you know, she's at an
age right now where she's a sponge and she's just
gonna like absorb everything around her, and if I like
say the wrong thing or do the wrong thing, I
could mess this case up. And I'm like I don't
want to do that. And I was like I love
her mom, and it's like and I want to make
this work and I want to like be able to
be that person I need to be in order to
do that. And so getting to meet her, though, it
(08:11):
was just like it was surprisingly like way easier.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Than what I thought in my head like it was
going to be like and so it was.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Like she is such a cool kid, Like she is
so much fun, and it's like it's so amazing because
it's like as an adult, it's like you go on
new experience things and like you feel like you've seen
it all, you know what I mean. It's like you've
been to the beach. Like you know, you're living in California,
it's like you've been to the beach every you go
to the beach every day, so it's not something new.
And it was like the first time she went to
the beach, like she's she's like digging with river, like
(08:40):
they're digging in the sand. Like it's like I'm like,
I'm like, this is like so crazy, Like she'd never
seen sand like this before, Like what's going on? Like
she's like running in the water, running away from the water,
and I'm like this is just like it was just
it gives you such a new like appreciation for everything
because it's like you're seeing it through the eyes of
a kid again. And it was like it was such
an amazing thing for me, and I was like, wow,
(09:01):
like I actually really really love this in a way
that I didn't expect to love this, like like cause
like I feel like I you know, you start getting
like a little bit and jaded or a little bit
like you know, like just we're like, oh, I've seen
the beach before, granted, yeah, you take it for granted.
And it was like I just couldn't take it for
granted anymore. I was like, wow, like, yeah, this is amazing.
You're right likely And so I was like I was
digging in the sand too, and it was like and
(09:23):
it was just so much fun. And then so we
had gone to that beach and then understanding, like it's
funny like when a kid finds something they loved, they're like,
they don't want to go and do anything besides that one,
and so trying to teach them that there's other things
that are a little bit different but are just as
cool is very hard to do. And so like leaving
the beach was not as fun. Leaving the beach wasn't fun.
(09:44):
As soon as we left the beach, we hated sand
and it was the worst thing in the world. And
so I'm just like, like, but just two seconds ago
you were loving it and rolling in it.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
She's like, no, I hate sand.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I never wanted to trying to explain to him, like
on the sideline here, like just wait five minutes.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Yeah, she'll forget.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
And then all of a sudden, we go to dinner
and it's by the beach, and then like after dinner
she has like asked for to go cup and then
grabs it to go cup and scoop sand and brings
sand in my car, and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You love sand again? Like what's going on?
Speaker 8 (10:12):
Like it was like, Joe, honestly, you're like this, Like
I was.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Just tripping out.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I was just like, how do you go from loving
sand five minutes ago to hating it to loving it.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
To hate it?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Stand in your cup for a long time?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah, that sand car for months. It was ridiculous on.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
The ground or in the cup, okay, thought she was like, whoa,
we're at the beach, got.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
A coffee cup full of sand with like a princess
like a shovel in it.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Oh that's cute.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah no, And it was just it was an amazing trip.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And then it was funny because it was like I
brought her an introduce her to like my my family,
and it was like we were all hanging out and
it was like, it's funny how a kid can change
the dynamic of a family so much. Too, like, oh yeah,
I like all all the kids are kind of growing.
We're like, you know, sixteen years older. And all of
a sudden, my uncle and my aunt, like my mom
and like my dad, like all these people who are
(11:09):
like oh yeah, like we're glad we're past that phace,
all of a sudden they're like, you can't you can't
find them anywhere because they're playing hide and seek.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
And like I opened the door to the closet and
my uncle's in the closet.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
He's like and I'm like okay, like closing the door,
and it's just like it's it's such a it's such
an amazing thing, like when you get to experience the
energy of a kid, like reintroduced to a family too.
And so I mean Blakely has been like such a
big blessing too, and like I've appreciated that aspect of
our relationship as well. So that's been awesome. But yeah,
and so we've kind of just been we kind of
(11:39):
just kept doing that and it was like, you know,
I would go out to Tennessee to go see her,
and she would come out to California to see me,
and it was hard because like you know, she's she
was working busy with her job and she would have to.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Travel and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
And you know with my job, I work full time
too as a nurse, and so it was like, you know,
we would make we would you know, try to make
that time to go and see each other.
Speaker 9 (12:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
And then but the contract was finally coming up, and like,
you know, nurse.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Nursing contract, and he's either going to resign or not.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
Yeah, and so are you a travel nurse Brandon, I am, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, sou So as my travel nursing contract was kind
of coming out, we started talking and I was like, hey, like,
you know, if we're doing this, like I feel like
long distance, especially with like our lifestyles, it's like it's
really going to be something that I feel like we
need to fix. And so I was like, you know,
I know that it's going to be a lot harder
for you to move out here to California. And I
don't think it's realistic with like, you know, a daughter
(12:31):
and stuff like that. I don't think it's fair to
ask that. So was my travel contract, Like I'll apply
for a nurse license in Tennessee and I can move
out to Tennessee and like I can come to you
and we can do this, you know, do this day
to day together if you'd want to, if like that's
something you're up for. And originally I was thinking, like,
hey know, I'd go and find apartment and stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And she's like no, she's like, if you're gonna do this,
She's like, then we'll do it. Do it. And it
was like so she invited me to.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Move in, and and like things just started going really smoothly,
Like I applied for my nursing license, I got it,
and then.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Like, I'm months, how many months are we in at
this point? From from first.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
August to the three.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You're asking, so we're going into December? December was month
four o four months?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I mean, yeah, this is a bachelor. This is bachelor timeline.
Like there's literally shorter than the.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
So I find people that come off the show too, like,
especially when they're dating other people that come off the show, relationships.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Do just move at a way more accelerated pace.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
With all the dramatic events that we had in such
a more short amount of time as well, you have
to factor in I guess all the hours and hours
of vocals.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
No, I mean I think like it's it's felt weird though,
because like it hasn't felt rushed, like you know what
I mean, Like, and maybe you're right. Maybe it is
just like the aspect of how the show makes you
feel like you're in that like you're in a relationship
for six to eight weeks getting married, like and when
you have you know, months to get to know someone,
you're like, wow, like this is going wrong really smoothly
(13:58):
and slowly, and and so it's.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Like also like knowing like to not the pressure, but
like the like you know in the back of your head,
like if this is going to be a thing, like
people will like it's going to be a thing, Like
people will know it, and so like are you.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Serious about it?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
So if we're going to be public anyways, like that's
already a big decision.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And honestly, I think I think the show changed like
the way I went about dating, like because of like
the purpose of the show of being marriage and stuff
like that. It shifts your intention from dating for just
a date and have fun to dating for the intention
of marrying someone. And I think that that's like something
that has made it so that the timelines nowadays are
so much longer because people are like, Oh, I just
(14:38):
want to date to have.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Fun and explore myself and all that.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Stuff, and that's great, but it's like when you shift
to the intention of wanting to date to find your
person or not, you start asking those questions and I
start out like really like saying like, Okay, is this
someone I could see myself with and if it's not?
Like And I think that was one of my biggest
things when I got off the shows. It was like,
I was like I wouldn't go on more than like
really under two days with people because I was like, Okay,
(15:02):
like I can see this isn't someone I'm gonna work
out with long term, you know what I mean. And
it was like with her, like I didn't have that.
I was like, no, I can see this, you know
what I mean. And so it was like, I think
that that was one thing that the show did that
was so amazing for me. Is it shifted my mindset
of dating to like date for the intention of finding
someone you want to marry?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yeah, yeah, so gohad no you go, I've been talking
a lot, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
So I was gonna I was gonna throw it to Christina.
So you guys now released publicly, you know, via Instagram
after the finale. The finale, Yeah, so that how How
was how was that received? How were you guys getting
a lot of we're nervous.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Yeah, we again, like at this point, now we kind
of went through the timeline, which I so appreciate because
you know, there's been a lot and it's kind of
like weird because it's like, oh, yeah, we have it,
like told the world and and that's just kind of
like a side note, like it's just kind of like
something that we'll do that. Yeah, sure, we're excited about
but all so it doesn't really matter in the grand
scheme of things of like okay, when people accept us
or not, because we've got this rock and foundation and
(16:06):
like that's not gonna like alter what we're doing and
what our plans are. But like I'd be lying if
I didn't say, I like thought about, okay, well what
are people going to think? And my overall like thinking,
overthinking and over renalyzing, which I like to do a lot.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I'm thinking, I'm like, okay.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Well, whether people like us or not as people, as
characters on the show or in real life or whatever.
I mean, it'd be hard to say that it doesn't
make sense, like as far as our energies, like, oh,
that's what a lot of people are saying. It's like, well,
they're both really annoying, but you know, they make sense
and their energies are just great. I mean, yet, yeah,
let them go to be them over there. But from
(16:43):
the most part, I mean, we've had a lot of
love and a lot of support and it's been great.
And yeah, I mean I was actually on a work
trip in Florida and we knew we were going to
be seeing each other the next day, and so it
just kind of blew up because I didn't know, you know,
I knew that it was gonna be announced on the finale,
but I didn't know like in what scheme of things
(17:04):
I said in some videos and photos, but it was
just you know, a few seconds. But those few seconds
really just kind of took off and my phone starts
blowing up, and it was a lot of positive things.
So that was really cool and nice to see, and
that does help. It does help a lot. And we
met up and it's like finally I can we met up.
I was flying back from that work trip. He flew
(17:24):
into Nashville, and he just kind of didn't even leave
the concourse, he just kind of fell asleep on the
floor and.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
We see each other.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
We're just like finally and the people are around, they're like, hey,
you guys, We're like, yeah, we're in public.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
So it's been nice, like just being able to not
go in my really uh obvious disguise out in places,
and so that's been cool.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Brandon, you're the only here, the only success story from
your paradise.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
So what'd you guys? Count it?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (17:57):
It literally the episode and I feel like you like
we're a recent season. Christina Brandon was on it. They
included your love story at the finale. I mean you
had an on screen engagement. Definitely counts.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I think it counts as well. Yep, it counts, So
I say it counts.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I mean we're counting it.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
We need we need a success.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
That season was tough, like that was a tough season.
It was wild, but it ended off for me.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
So yes, thank so.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Then you announce it to the world, you're have you
moved in? When did you move in?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
So I actually moved in just now okay right now today.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
No, Basically we were just folding his clothes into the club.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I'm almost fully Actually.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
That's a lot. We were putting the ear rings on
the display.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
But do you like national?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I do?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I mean it's hard, like I definitely like, I definitely
love the beach, like I'm a beach beach guy.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
And I was like, we have beach access.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
And I take him like three minutes down the road.
There's this speech if if there's a couch and the sand,
and it's like saying that they've like brought with a bulldozer.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It's going to be negative one degrees next week many
I will leave the.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Florida on a work trip again.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Yeah, I was like, I was like, Dade.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I was like, I was like, tell me how like
the one week in Nashville, it's me negative one degrees.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I'm going to be home and you're going to.
Speaker 7 (19:19):
Florida would just be you and Blakely at home.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Well, so Blakely is going to be going with her mom.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I just like with like you know, me moving in
so quickly and stuff like that, we're going to be
like kind of like you know, easing into like that
kind of.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Aspect of like I was telling Blakely that last time.
She's like, but why and so you know she does
want to see.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Also I'm starting, well I'm gonna be going over there
quite a bit, but I also start my new job
next week.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
So just balancing a lot of like things happening, a
lot of moving.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Party structure, and like you know, really kind of be consistent.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
But it's just like it's it's been wild because it
was like this week's been nice because I haven't had
to start work yet, and so it's like it's been like, Okay,
we make breakfast in the morning, we get it ready
for school, and she.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Loves she loves that.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
She's like, well, well she said, she said, well, one
thing's for sure, we won't have to make breakfast because
we know that the chef's in town.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Like this is how she talks.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
And it's because like on her birthday he's like had
like pink pancakes and all this, and so yeah, now
you've kind of just taken on. He's been making her
school lunches every day and I'm.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Just sitting back and with her. This is nice. Let
that happened.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Are you a good cook?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
I made dinner for him the first time when he
came here, and.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
And you bottom shoes bottom cowboy.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I gotta take back this meal that she cooked me.
She cooked me a steak right when I came out.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Okay, did you know gar things? Because I didn't.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
So I'm baking, I'm marinating the steak and I'm thinking
so i'd actually practiced, Like with one of my friends
earlier in the week. I'm like, we've made a steak
and I'm like, we're making it and then like he
ate it and he's.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Like, oh my gosh, he's gonna love this.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
And we're like five and we're like, oh my gosh,
this is it. He's gonna love you.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
And I had it down and I'm like I was
doing it.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
And then he comes down the stairs after a shower
and he like has he picked up my guitar from
upstairs and.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
He's just sinking and plating. I'm like, I didn't know
you could do that.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
And I'm just like being like mes brized and I'm
just I put way too much salt.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Put way too much salt.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
You never heard it too much salt on.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
A steak either, And I tell you, I'd be like whatever, no, no, no, there,
it didn't taste like steak.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
It tasted like salt. And so then I and then.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
She pulls out she had and your defense, steak is
easy to funk up, like I just cooked. I just
cooked a bison the other day and I cooked it
well done, and it was a.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Lot of pressure.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
It's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
It's a lot of pressure.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
So I'm trying to be like fancy and like, you know,
I do this my house live and I'm not. And
so then I like, I bought some oil and vinegar
at the store and some bread. I'm like, oh, I'm fancy.
And so he was actually Texas pete toasted. But so
he's sitting down like eat the steak now, like I know,
like you want to wait on me, but it's hot.
You know, you know it'd be rude to the chef
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you didn't start eating. So he's over here like I
don't know that the steak tastes like this, So he's
trying to eat it.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Hey, I come over there, and I realized that it
tastes like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
He's liked, wait, I'm gonna make a sandwich with the
bread he made with just Texas peat once again, and
I'm like, no, no, no, that's for my fancy oil
and vinegar. So I get it out and he starts
laughing and I'm I'm.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
Pouring Crisco cooking oil into the oil and vinegar, and
I was just like, I just started funny.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I'm just like, I'm like, you are so so cute.
And she's like, what do you mean.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
I'm like, you don't eat Crisco like it says old,
Like I know you shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
You should like honestly, like you really shouldn't cook with
any oils. At this point, that's a whole.
Speaker 8 (22:53):
Nice Let let bred and cook or you can, you
could order dr Dash.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
I do so good at that.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Yeah, so you go, that's your thing. That's your thing.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
But at that, let's let's cut to the golden wedding.
Big decision. Power move, Brandon. You get down on one
knee real quick. Let's just talk about that. You know
that decision?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
What made you do it?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Why?
Speaker 7 (23:24):
How did that decision come to be?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Question?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So I had actually been I mean I talked to
her sister literally like a couple of days prior, and
I was telling her how like my goal was like, oh, Joseph.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I hate this.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
He doesn't, I mean, I don't, I don't, I don't
hate it though I respect it, Okay, but I respect it.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I respect that. I was saving up money because I
wanted to go.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
And the way I originally was thinking about proposing to
her was I wanted to she had this dream. On
one of our first FaceTime callege, she was talking about
winning the put pineapple on pizza in Italy and like
see people's reactions, and she brought a can of pineapples
out and put it on pizza.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
And so my plant was is to take pineapples of
a can of pineapples and put a.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Ring in there, and then like I figured, like we
record it and then like you know, That's how I
was originally gonna propose.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
I heard on their podcast that you like and so
and so yeah pizza. I'm like, we are so much
of comment, but.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It's actually my favorite. It's actually my favorite fruit. Pineapple.
You do, I love pineapple.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You need to give it another shot, man.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
So we're gonna curaoke. We have a party with pineapple pizza.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I mean, if I'm gonna have pineapple on pizza, there
needs there needs to be jalapeno and ham as well.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I'm not just gonna have I'm not just gonna.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Have cheese, no that red sauce and pineapple. But yeah, anyway,
so so originally, like I had been talking to.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Her sister like two days prior, and then I was
like I was talking to my sister like literally the date,
like on the drive out there, and I was like, yeah,
like you know, I'm wanting to save my money and
like you know, be able to do this and do
this the right way. But it's like it's also hard
because it's like I know that I'm ready to do this,
and it's like you know, but like right now with
the way, like you know, making this move out, I
just had to buy a new truck.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I was like buying a ring right now.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
On top of all that is like not like I
would propose her right now if I could, but like it's.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Not and you could proposed with a pebble, we get
on a hike and find a rock, but you know
he's had bear.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
And so anyway, so like and it was it was
kind of a crazy situation because I was literally just
talking to my sister about it on the road on
the right up.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
So I get to the I get to the.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Hotel and I'm in there and like, uh, everyone comes
and visits and we come and chat and uh as
we're chatting, like they like I get told like, Okay,
me and Christina are gonna have this six minute long
segment where we just get to talk and tell everybody
about how we met. And so I'm like, okay, that's awesome.
So Christina's flight ended up getting delayed and they ended
up just staying and we are hanging out and they're
talking to like, you know, hey, like are you excited
about making this move to Nashville and stuff? And I'm
(25:50):
like I'm still like, you know, I I was like honestly,
like you know, I wish that I could go out
there and like be in a place where I could
be you know, already engaged and proposed to her and
like I've done.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
All that, but like you know, right now, like I'm needing.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Like you know, yeah, especially with Blakely, like wanting to
make sure that I set an example to her daughter
because it's like I mean, in my head, it's like
Blakely's going to be my daughter, and it's like with
my kid of mine, like I want them to be
treated by somebody the way like that way, and if
I want some if I want my daughter to be
treated by a man that way, then I would want
to treat their mom that same man in that same manner,
you know. And so it was like so for me,
(26:22):
I was like, you know, I wish I could do this,
and I wish it was like something that was feasible
for me at this time.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I was like, and you know, if it was, I
would love to do that. And I was like, but
right now, like this.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Is my plan, and and I started talking and like,
as I started talking to producers and telling them like
you know, where I was at and like what I
was wanting to do, we actually started figuring some things out.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
And they had.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Actually said that like you know, we could talk to
Neil Lane and like, you know, see what we could do,
and we ended up like making it all like kind
of come together, and I had you know, they were like, yeah,
like you know, Neil Lane said he would love to
support this and like, you know, love to make this happen,
and so you know, we called him and we got
permission on that end. And then they said, you know
(27:02):
and I was like, well, let me call. I need
to make sure I talk to her mom and dad
and make sure I get permission there, and I want
to talk to Gary and Teresa before I go and propose,
because I want to make sure that I have their
permission because.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
You know, I'm although like, although I know.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Like you know, it's a Bachelor franchise and it's like,
you know, it's a you know, produced wedding, it's still wedding,
and I never, like, you know, my intention is not
to like steal the attention from them at all, because
I mean, what they've done with their with their relationship
and like they're like their whole story has been absolutely amazing,
and I don't want to take any light away from
how amazing that's been and how inspirational that's been. And
so I reached out to Gary and I'm like, hey, Gary,
(27:35):
like you know, I know, you know, I don't want
to I don't want to do this. I was like,
you know, we're doing a I don't want to do
this in a way that's going to be disrespectful or
take away from you.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
And I wouldn't want to do it without your blessing.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
I was like, you know, I I really love Christina
and I'm going to do this eventually regardless of whether
I do today.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah. Me, and Gary.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Like Gary was actually one of the first people in
Bachelor Nation to know that I had like been that
Christina was my girlfriend, because like, actually, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
He did say he did say he's good friends with you.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Yeah text even like at thet Blakely's birthday party party,
we called him and they were talking.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
He's awesome And I met him briefly as well.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah, and his family's all awesome too, Like we're actually
going to uh, we're gonna be going to his granddaughter's
volleyball game up and they're having a volleyball tournament in Louisville,
So we'll be going to that this year too. I
mean I actually like me and Gary. Yeah, Me and Garry,
Me and Gary. He's just such a great guy. Like
I really I really do like love him a lot.
He's a cool guy. He's a really cool guy. And
so I'd reach out to him though, and and he said, well, yeah,
(28:33):
he's like you know, I He's like I know.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
And it was all kind of late.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
I mean, it was like a kind of a last
minute thing, and he was like, let me talk to
Teresa and see how she feels about this, and I
was like okay, And so you talked to Teresa and
he said, I'm okay with it, and Teresa thinks that
this is an absolutely wonderful idea and she loves it.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
And so yeah, when she was on a weird talking
about she was like.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Yes, yes, like I'm excited, Like she really is like
a more the merrier kind of person.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, And so I had I had both their blessing,
and then I was like okay. So once I had
their blessing, I ended up going and I called her mom.
And it was funny. This is funny because when I
went to go call her mom, her mom's name is Arlene,
and I have a contact in my phone and it's Irene.
And so here I go and I call Irene. And
(29:20):
as I'm calling Irene, I am going and I am
expressing my absolute love for her daughter that is not
actually her daughter for about three minutes and asking and
I go and I asked her for a permission to
marry your daughter.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Point yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
And so there's like there's a big long pause, and
I'm sitting there for that big long pause, and she's like, hey, Brady, like,
you know, I think you might.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Have called the wrong person. And my heart just goes
and it drops and I'm like, this is like it
was the worst. It was like worst, I mean, or
you like was.
Speaker 7 (29:47):
Your first that? Like, Oh my god, who am I
on the phone with?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That was literally I looked at my phone and I
was like, I was just like, I'm such an idiot,
Like I can't believe that I just did that.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
And so, yeah, it was definitely who am I on
the phone with?
Speaker 9 (29:59):
Moment?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
But it was funny. I mean, he.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Wasted a good surprise on you.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
So I called her mom after that, and then the
comrado with her mom ended up going a lot better.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
So I mean, I guess I'm grateful for that one.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
Like, you know, you had a good like practice run,
you know, you ironed out the kanks, you got out
the nerves, and then you did the official asking exactly.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And so I called her mom and then her mom
loved it and like I was super excited, and then
called her dad and her dad loved it and he
was excited, and so all.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Things were in place. I called my mom and dad
and then told.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Me it kind of worked out that your flight was delayed.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Really, I know, how did you pull that off?
Speaker 9 (30:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You know, I called some.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Airlines. Hey, don't take off.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
I'm busy people.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, Christina, when were you expecting? When were you expecting
an engagement or what were you even thinking about one?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
I knew so like whenever he said that, he talked
to my sister, so we were on FaceTime, and like
I was surprised then that he had like even an
idea of how to do it in play, but he
was very much like, all right, go away, go away,
let me talk to your sister. And I respected that.
I actually did walk away. I didn't easdrop or anything.
And so I knew that, like it was in the works,
and we've talked about it, and we've talked about marriage,
(31:11):
and I knew that it's kind of in the same
respect of like me being a RS being boyfriend and
girlfriend and meeting Blakely in the same respect him moving
here and moving in, Like we knew that that's in
the cards, and it's just a matter of logistics and
making it happen and how you know, the ins and
outs of it of making it happen, to make it happen,
not because of us holding that up. So I really
(31:33):
had no clue, and I am hard to surprise. I
really am. I ruined surprises, and so I didn't want
to know that. So I didn't want to know. I
didn't want to like because I'll figure it out, and
that's what I don't.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Want to do. And I was like, I want to
be surprised.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
And yeah, so so I did almost ruin it on accident.
So we get to the party before okay, so I no, no,
you go for You're such a better storyteller. But we
get to the before even we're what would you call it,
like the cocktail party before the ceremony, and it's even
before the proposal happened, and we're all hanging out and
(32:09):
I'm excited, and you know, I see Neil Lane and
I've I've been a fan of this show for a
long time.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I know Neil Ling.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
So I see him, I'm like, babe, Neil Lane, I'm
getting ill. I'm getting Nail Lane drunk tonight. And we're
getting so like over there, and I start making friends
with him and he's the best. He's actually like amazing.
I feel like we're hitting off, we're being best friends,
and I could see that he's getting stressed.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Oh wait, the nails.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
It's fine, okay, the nails.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
So so we're like, I could see that he's getting stressed,
and I'm like, babe, And I go over to the
side and I'm like, do you think I'm being annoying
or something? Because I feel like me and Neil are
being best friends? Do you not feel like And I
strayed up back said am I being annoying? And so
he was like no, because you know that's kind of
a setup. If he said yes, I would have been
really upset. And so he's like no, I'm like, well,
(33:00):
then leave me alone. I'm talking to Neil, and so
then I'm talking to him. I'm like, no, let's do
something crazy. Would you make a pair of ear rings
so I could propose to Braiden? And so I'm trying
to chat him up about this, and we're talking about
these ear rings, and we're talking about this and this
and that, and I could just see he's just like
visibly stressed in the corner.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
But he knows that he knows, and.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
He is such a home though he did not give
it away at all.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
At all, he really is.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
But I was so worried, like I just I didn't
want to be around because I knew that I was
either going to slip or like and I didn't know
slip and I was like.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
So I'm just trying to be there and like be
quiet because like I don't want to be a.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Tis just talking and we're best friends and I'm like,
go what I'm talking to me?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
And I'm not a good liar. So it's like if
I was in the situation where I would have had
to lie, like, oh, like a.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Reading ring, see that you're stressed, So I mean, yeah,
you can't.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Pocket and I was like I had one in my
breast pocket and I was like, you're just happy to
see me.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
No, No, I have in my breast pocket.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
And I was like, I'm literally holding a the La
and diamond my chest right out.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
But I'm would have gone along with a lot of things,
like he had to drag me to the nail song,
so I'm like, I'm not getting my nails done. No, no, no,
And he had like all these things.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
I absolutely zerous.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
So she shows up to the wedding missing like three
nails and it was like yeah, and like she's like
she's like I'll just I'll just color led light and
I'm like no, like, let's go get your nails.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Then it'll be some cute couples.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I'm not bougie. I'm just gonna violent.
Speaker 8 (34:34):
Did you say that, Durantha proposes. I feel like you
said something. We're like, oh my god, is that like that?
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Ony?
Speaker 7 (34:39):
We had to get our nailshot.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
No, because like this thing it was really like now
in hindsight, oh my gosh, like I'm so annoying. I yes,
the way that he was like how did like be like,
I'm You're gonna go to the wedding like that?
Speaker 4 (34:54):
And I'm like, what, like so confused because he doesn't
talk to me like that. I'm like, but you love that.
I'm bougie, Like I'm just gonna file it out. I
can do it.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
He's like, you don't know how to do nails, and
so like I go there and I still have the
same nails on now and they're long. I'd never get
nails like longer than my nails. I'm just like, you
pick it out, baby, like this is.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Important to you.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
And I had to get my nails done.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
I wanted to get He wanted to really get his
nails done. I'm like, I need to support that. He's
moving in Tennessee. He's like trying to test me make sure,
a Cali boy can hang, you know, like if I'm gonna.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Judge them for it. And I'm like, no, no, no,
we can go, we can go. We'll do this for you.
Speaker 7 (35:29):
You're like, fine, I'll get my nails out for you.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
For you exactly.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Although I might seem like a guy who likes to
go get my nails done, he was like, it's not
really my thing, like and so I was like, I
ended up having to go and pay for my nails
to get done too, which.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Was it was it would have been it would have
given dead giveaway, so you had to So then yeah,
with the proposal, I did say this is what I'm
going on a nails on because I had no idea.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
And then he goes.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
I said the most romantic thing ever. Was like, you're
such a pain in my butt. I was like, and
I think that. I was just like when I saw
that back, I was like, Wow, that's an interesting thing.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
For people with no context, which is fine, it's very us.
Speaker 8 (36:06):
But I feel like watching it, I was like, she
definitely had to drag grass the Neil Swan the way
you got you said it, I was like, he definitely.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
He was putting my shoes on in the hotel and
I like kicked him off. I'm like, I'm not gonna
get my neils done. I was being a little I
was being a little broad about that.
Speaker 8 (36:23):
Souff one of my best friends got engaged a year
and a half ago, and she was like, guys, do
I get like neutral or should I go finding it
like a green color? And we knew she was getting
engaged that week, and I was like, I think neutrals.
And the green ended up being like it was really cute,
it was like a kind of color.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
She loved it. But I was like we were text
on the side. I was like, tell her neutral, tell
her neutral. She always gets sutral. She's gonna go for
some crazy color this time and she's not gonna like it.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
But if you go there and you take the time,
you spend the money to do it, and you do
something you don't like, it's emotion, it's a lot. It
is just the boy gonna go get them nels done.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
I'll go get it.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
I'll go get a manicure with you. All right, we
are we are out of time before we let you
guys go wedding plans this year, next year, three years anything.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
We were talking like we were looking at within this year,
sooner than later, but with them either this year.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Or the beginning of next year, I think is what
we're going with.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
I've planned a lot of weddings. I can do it fast.
We want it to be in San Diego. And yeah,
so I've got to figure out I don't know, that's
not my terf. So I've got to figure out what's
going on over there. But sooner rather than later, for sure.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
We already like it was cool, Like I talked to
my pastor from church and it was actually really cool.
He we're starting premarital counseling hopefully within this next week.
And then he said he also him and his wife
said that they kind of help also, like with like
you know, come together on like how to plan and
how to go about the dates and stuff like that,
because it's like it can all be really stressful and
like the stuff like that. There's just been a lot
(37:55):
that we've had to like talk about and go over
and so we definitely want to do it. We don't
want a really long engagement, like we didn't get engaged
just to get engaged. And it's like I am, I
don't know, I love this girl and it's like I
want to make her my wife, and so.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
I'm a joiner as my fiance now, but I can't
wait for the day that excuse me my wife.
Speaker 7 (38:16):
That's all right.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Well, thank you guys so much for coming on Bachelor
Happy Hour, and to all of our listeners, thank you
guys for tuning in and make sure you stay tuned
because we have new episodes coming out every week and
we have a whole new season to break down Joey's season,
other Bachelor's coming out.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
Yeah, thanks for listening, Thanks Brandon, Christina, and we'll see
you guys next week.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
See you by River
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