September 18, 2024 • 27 mins
Today on Happy Hour, Joe and Serena are sitting down with our Golden Bachelorette Joan! As we gear up for her premiere later tonight, Joe and Serena are getting into everything we can expect this season. We learn more about how Joan prepared for her journey, how she feels about it looking back, and what she's most excited for! Plus, we get a tease for what we can expect as her season unfolds. Tune in now to hear all this and more and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, everyone, welcome back to Bachelor Happy Hour. I'm Joe
and I'm Serena, and we are here with the one
and only, first ever, making history Golden Bachelorette Joan. Welcome
to Bachelor Happy Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We're excited to have you. We're going to get into everything.
We have a lot to discuss in not that long
of time. So before we get into everything, how have
you been enjoying your time leading up to the premiere?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh? Gosh, Like, it's kind of surreal, to be perfectly honest,
I was actually watching TV this morning and I heard
my voice and it was me on a commercial. So
like every day is kind of a new day. Someone
sent a picture of me on the side of a bus.
So it's just like as it's unfolding, you know, slowly,
as we get closer to the premiere, it gets more
and more exciting every day.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Have you thought about the fact that you are the
first ever Golden Bachelorette.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, I don't think I've ever been the at anything
in my entire life, So like, I finally get to
be at OG and it's, like I said, it's surreal.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I keep pinching myself. It could have been so many
more people.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I don't know how I got so lucky to land this,
but I did, and I'm so grateful.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Do you think it's more or less pressure because you're
the first one?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh gosh, that's a good question. So I think most
of the pressure kind of landed on Gary because he
was really the first one. He was the first golden
of anything. So I feel a little less pressure because
he was kind of the chail blazer and I'm just
somewhat following his lead. But I guess, I guess the
first golden bachelorette, But I don't think I feel as
(01:41):
much pressure as he certainly did.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Did you have any did you have a chance to
reach out to him just to ask him for any
of his advice?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I did, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I spent like two hours on the film with him.
We talked through also different scenarios, and he gave me
really good advice, you know. He, like I said, he
was kind of a trailblazer, and I think he did
it really really well.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
He made all of.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Us women on the show feel very comfortable to be
kind of open and vulnerable, which is kind of scary.
At this age, and you know, you expose your family,
you expose you know, you have a lot to lose.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
At this age.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So I think he did it really really well and
he made us feel really comfortable. So you know, I
relied on him a lot for advice and I still
talk to him all the time.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Now, what was the best piece of advice or the
one that stuck out the most that he gave you.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
He said, it's a really really quick journey, and to
don't leave anything on the table, and make sure that
you encourage the contestants to be the same way. That
you only have one chance sometimes to reveal something about
yourself that's important, and don't squander that opportunity. Make sure
you come clean and you talk about everything that's important
(02:55):
that makes you know kind of you who you are,
or brought you to this, you know, to this place.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So I did that.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Like first night, I said to the man, you know,
this is quick, so make sure you know we get
to know each other as best we can in the
short amount of time.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
As for our listeners who may not know, and I'm
assuming most of them do, but can you just kind
of give us a refresher to why you went home
on Gary season.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So right after our one and only one on one date,
the next morning, I got a text from my daughter
who had just had a baby and she was having
a really hard time. She had had a hard pregnancy,
a hard delivery, she almost died during the delivery. I
mean certainly, like a lot of emotional things were happening
to her and she just needed me to come home
(03:40):
and be a.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Mom and help her. She was dealing with a lot.
She even had some best partum depression, and she had not.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
A super easy baby. She's a doll right now, but
you know she was an infant she was. I left
when the baby was eight days old, and you know,
I dealt with that guilt. To be honest, I knew
that I shouldn't be leaving her, or that this wasn't
a perfect time to be leaving, but it was the
only opportunity I had, and I selfishly left with the
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thought that if I need to come home, I will,
and when she said she needs me, I left.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
One of the things emotionally that I'm the most terrified
of when it comes to becoming a mother is mom guilt.
I feel like it's something that every mom talks about
of like, you have a child and you literally have
mom guilt for the rest of your life.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's true, you will have mom guilt. We all we
drink wine, we do what we have to do to
self medicate. But you you will be fine. You do
have mom guilt because you love that child so much,
and you love that person more than you love yourself
or anything that you think you could possibly love. So
you are you can't, You'll never be perfect, and so
you have mom guilt forever.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
How's your daughter now and the baby? Everyone good?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
They are great. The baby is a year old. She
is a doll. The parents are perfect.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It was such a short amount of time that she
needed me, but it was such an important time, and
you know, it was what it was. But literally two
months later she was her old self again.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You had to you had to do what you had
to do for your family. I respect it. What are
their thoughts on all of this?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
So kind of mixed.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I mean, they all want me to find love, They
all certainly want me to have a happy life, but
it's a little scary that they're worried about me kissing
on TV.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And they, oh are they? Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, very worried about that. The boys are like, please,
you're not kiss anybody. So I lied and said I wouldn't,
and then very worried about fantasy seeks. They're like that's
They're like, don't even say the word.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It just sounds gross.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh my gosh, that's a nightmare as a child. Okay,
when you when you got back from Gary season and then
you had to deal with all your family stuff, but
then you were single, did you start dating again?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
My dating history wasn't super successful full prior to that,
which is probably you know why I even filled out
the application to come on the show. I had done
a little bit of you know, I did one dating app.
You know, I kept I had this vision that I
was going to meet somebody organically. I was just going
to be out one day at the grocery store, at
a wedding someplace, would meet somebody organically. And it seems
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that there are not a lot of people like in
our situation. So there's not a lot of sixty year
olds that are single, because like, we live in a
world of people that are couples.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Like, you know, this world is full of couples.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
And even if I saw somebody that I thought was
my age and that was attractive or whatever. I would
just assume that they were married and I would never like,
you know, try to meet them or whatever. So I
find it very hard to date at this age. So
I came off the show. I was a little healed
by that, the small little section of that journey that
I got to be part of, and I realized that
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I really did want somebody in my life, but I
still didn't really know how to do it, like how
to meet somebody. So you know, although I had this
hope and this want, I didn't really know how to
do it, so I didn't do it very much.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I didn't make an effort.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And then eventually I got presented with this opportunity, so
you know, obviously jumped at it because you know, I
didn't know also find somebody.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, well, also, Joan, you're like insanely beautiful, so I
feel like finding guys in your league is probably I mean, look,
personality is everything too, but just like you're such a
special person, you deserve someone so special, and like seeing
the cast of men has made us so excited for
your journey because you're amazing, they seem amazing, and we're
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just excited to see how everything unfolds.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, John, I got a question. You say dating is hard,
and I do agree. But you're never getting hit on
when you go out, when you go to the grocery store. Never,
you're not getting to hit on.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, you know, occasionally, sure, but oddly I was a
lot more by people dm ing me after being on
the Bachelor, and I don't know how to navigate. I
know that that's like a big thing, people sliding into
your dams. I know that that is a really common
way that people meet each other, but like the younger.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Guys, I don't know how to work that. How do
you how do you vet them?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
It's a totally strange ming you and and most of
them don't live anywhere even close to you. They are
like the States, and I don't get how all that works.
Maybe you could educate me, but I you know, occasionally
people certainly at restaurants or whatever, I would see him out,
but really not very often. Like I said, they probably
assumed I was married, just like I assume people anybody
(08:40):
my age is married.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I just an assumption. Probably they opposite them like younger people.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I think about, like when my youngest son goes out,
he probably assumes everybody that's at the bar with then
is single.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I'm the opposite. I think everybody else was married.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
That's very true.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I never thought about that. I also think with it's
so interesting that you said, like, how do you vet
these people?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Because it's so true.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
It's like this could be a total creep or like
a really weird guy. Like you want to put yourself
out there, but you also want to protect yourself. And
I do think that's why we see so many people
date within the franchise a lot, because it is this
group of like pre vetted people.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I totally agree with you.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I love all it works so well, Like there are
so many success stories that come after people have left shows.
They find other people on patination. You're you're so right,
like that's the reason they've been vetted.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah, what were you telling when they were casting for
the guys that I am so? I mean, they asked
what your type was, what you were looking for?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
What did you tell them?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So I didn't like really know I had a type,
you know, because I had been married for thirty two years,
I wasn't thinking about my type. I I already had them.
But I do feel like I do have a type now.
That I've been through this whole journey, and I kind
of like guys that are like gregarious, like that feel
comfortable in their own skin, have self confidence, can walk
(10:07):
into a room and kind of talk to anybody.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And I also am really particular about kind of like
my father.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
My father taught me this that you know, men should
be gentlemen, and I like a gentleman. I'd like somebody
who you know, opens stores and stands up and treats
like the waitress at the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Really well, and you know, so a gentleman was important
to me.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
So I kind of like an outgeeling guy that's a gentleman,
and I just want somebody who's kind.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Obviously, Yeah, when you were asked to be the bachelorette,
what was what were you what was going on in
your mind? Were you shocked?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I was, you know, so there was a little bit
of flurry around, like, you know, there's going to be
a golden Bachelorette, and I certainly knew that I wasn't
the only one being looked at that other women from
my season clearly, and I kind of had idea who
it might be. So that was like kind of played
on my little heavy on my mind because I really
didn't want this, and so I was like not really
(11:07):
thinking that I.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Was going to get it.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
To be honest, I thought you could go to anybody,
and maybe there were people that, you know, people would
consider more deserving from my season since I had left
so early. So when I was on the Golden Bachelor,
I left so early that you know, people that made
it farther in the journey would have been maybe a
better contender or more deserving of it. So when I
got the message, and so Jesse Palmer did a zoom
(11:32):
with me and he's the one that told me, and
I was like thrilled, but honestly, I was pretty surprised.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
To be totally honest.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
You might be the lead with the least experience on
the show as a contestant. Ever, like Matt James, Oh,
Matt James, you're right, You're right, But how did yeah,
he was on the show at all before he became
the lean, but how did that kind of play into
when you were filming, like getting to a point of
(12:01):
being like, I haven't actually been here before.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, and that happened pretty early in the journey. To
tell you the truth, I learned a Ton and you
might not need much more than that to get how
all this works. And the thing that I learned most
was when I originally got to the house or even
like when I was considering even going on the Golden Bachelor,
I was really apprehensive because this was the first time
(12:25):
that it had ever been done for the Golden and
I was worried about how we were going to look
on TV, like were we going to look like foolish
old people dating? And was it going to look was
it going to look like.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Like tacky wacky?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And I also had like a little bit of the guilt,
like do I deserve like do we deserve to find
love this late in life?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Do we already have our chance?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And we had it, and you know, we're were being
selfish coming on the show and like leaving our families behind,
who are really like really relying on us now, And
so I had all this like apprehension going into you know,
going into the Bachelor series. That was all solved almost
right away. I got there and I got to meet
(13:08):
the producers and I got to meet the Bachelor Nation
kind of, and I saw that they really had our
best interest in mind, and that they really want us
to find love, and that they wanted to make this
journey look really fun and it picked us as like
what a really sixteen seventy year old looking for love
looks like, and that it's not embarrassing and it's not
degrading and you shouldn't feel guilty about it, and they
(13:28):
did all that. I learned all that in a really
fast amount of time. So everything else that I learned,
you know, after Golden Bachelor and after like kind of
the first set of group dates in the first Rose ceremonies,
where now this was like new territory for me, I
felt comfortable with because I knew that the that their
hearts were pure when they were, you know, making this job.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You said, you don't know if people will think you
deserve to find love at that age. Do you think
that's a common thought most people around your age have.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
So my thought is that, and I thought this for
a long time, that as you get older, you're you're
supposed to be supporting the next generations, like the kids
like my kids age, so the thirty, the thirty, twenty
and thirty years old that they that now you.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Should be in like a support role.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
So you should now take a backseat and you know,
be a grandmother, maybe help them over financially, that the
focus is no longer on you, it's on them, and
that when you do something for yourself. I felt kind
of guilty, and I know that I wasn't the only
person because we had that conversation in the mansion when
I was in the Golden voucher with the other women
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that we all shared that thought. We felt like we
were selfish being there, that we had left people behind
that needed us. And you know, at this age, you
have multi generational responsibilities. I have a mother who's still alive,
she's my YouTube. I have a mother in law, I
have kids, and I have grandkids, and you're a lot
of people that rely on you.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
So I do kind of feel like I had.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I felt guilt, and that people my age do feel
guilty when they do something for themselves because we feel
like we're supposed to be in the support will now.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
So then, what did it feel like going and filming
The Golden Bachelor where it's just like it's your journey,
it's your story, everything is about you.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, that's a really good question, because I did like
kind of have to get over that guilt and I
did that, and you know, I give so much back
to the Golden Bachelor that experience, because I've learned so
much that made my Golden bachelort experience like so successful.
And I learned from the other women when they were
talking about, you know, somebody's son had just had an
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appendectomy and she kept him in the hospital, and you know,
people were dealing with all kinds of things at home,
and as we were talking about this, I was saying
to each one of them, oh, my god, you deserve
to be here. They'll they'll be fine at home. Yet
I wasn't embracing that thought for myself. So it did
take me a little time to like give myself the
free pass that I am just like that I deserved
(16:00):
to be here.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Also, my kids will be fine. If they're not, I'll leave.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I felt that about The Golden Bachelor when I was
on that and so by the time I made it
to Golden Bachelorette, I think my kids and I had
all kind of come to terms with the way that
this works, and we were all a lot more comfortable
with it, and like, at that point, I did feel
like I deserved it. I talked myself into that concept
and I was really embracing it.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Did you have any expectations going into it?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I knew what I wanted in the end one person
at the end that we were going to go out
into the real world and see if we can make
it work.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
How did it feel having your friends within the franchise
kind of rally around and support you, because I'm sure
you made some great friendships on Golden Bachelor.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, I mean we were all such good friends. Still.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
We have a group chat that we that if you
don't look at your phone five times a day, you
become like thirty messages behind.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
We are really each other, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Like I said, when we moved into the mansion, I
felt like I found my tribe here there. Finally, these
are the people that understand what it's like to be
in your sixties and seventies and single and being then
ninth person at the table at the wedding, and you know,
watching all your friends couples go on vacations together and
you'd be left behind. You know, it's all these things
(17:21):
that people don't realize. You know, are you know, are
sad for you make you sad, and you know, make
being single even harder. You go out to dinner with
all your friends who have husbands at home, and you
go home to the empty house. So I was with
all these women who understood that, and so we became
very close because we were a great support group for
each other. So their supportment everything to me because I
(17:43):
was kind of, you know, represent all of us to
the world. This is what it's like to be this
age and dating and it's not comfortable.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It's hard what you wanted in a partner going into
Gary season? Did that change it all all going into
your season?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Maybe a little bit. I've made it very clear that
I'm not going to leave my family and that they
are the most important thing to me, and I think
I knew then that I wanted a man that felt
the same way about his family, and like that would
be that's kind of a deal breaker. You're not as
close to your family and value you know, their need
for you and you wanting to be them with them
(18:28):
as I do with my family, then you're probably not
a good match with you know, for me, So coming
out and figuring out how to live in.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
The real world with that expectation is hard.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Yeah, I was there any like worry there of like
it's a there's goods and bad to that right of
like finding someone that is so close to their family
just like you are. But then if you're not from
the same place, then there's that like where are you
going to live?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Question?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Was that something you thought about going into this, because
part of the show is dating people across the country.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
So that absolutely, like was something that I thought about,
and you know, I kind of felt I felt about it.
I thought I kind of figured out in my mind
how it would work for me, and I just needed
to find somebody that had the same thoughts that you know,
you can't have your cake and eat it too, you
can't have your family and you know, possibly they have
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their family and then also be together all the time,
and that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
You're gonna have to make a sacrifice on something. But
I think it can work. You just have to maybe
work harder at that part of the relationship.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Makes sense. With your premiere airing later tonight, can you
tell us how you were feeling going into night one?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
So you mean night when like when the limos.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Arived, animals are coming up and you're standing.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
On Yeah, So I will remember probably that moment for
the rest of my life because it's like one of
those iconic moments that starts every season, and I remember
so many other Bachelor and bachelorettes standing there and looking
nervous and watching that first limo pull up, and it
is like so exciting and so terrifying at the same time,
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because you thought, like, this is this moment could possibly
change my life. And I was so excited and I
felt like the weight of all this suddenly like right
in that moment. Everything was funny games until then, and
I was like, Okay, this is it. I could hardly breathe.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Honestly, Can you tell us about your dress?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I was very randy Rob and she's a popular designer
on the show. And I think I was wearing the
most beautiful dress I've ever put on in my life.
I felt so happy in it. I felt like I
like it was made for me and yeah, you'll see it.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So do you think if you didn't like you, if
you didn't feel comfortable in your ress, do you think
that would have messed you up at night? One?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Sorry, I'm only laughing because we are off because if
Joe doesn't like what he's wearing, it like impacts everything,
Like the whole night is ruined.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Like we usually go home early.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I'm just saying it's a really big deal if I
was the lead.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
That's why he's asking this question, because he's putting himself
in here.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I'm if I was the lead and whatever the suit
I wore night one, I felt uncomfortable and I didn't
like it, it would it would really be something that was
on my mind.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
For honestly, I feel like not in general, but in
that moment, if I didn't like the dress, I probably
wouldn't have felt as happy as.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah, you have to feel confident and beautiful what you're.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
We you do belily, I mean confidence is really important
that moment, because like I felt like it was my
responsibility to make the men feel comfortable because I remember
being in that limousine and like stepping out and.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I was freaking.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I was like, I don't know, if why did I
do this to my life? Why did I say yes
to this? I could hardly breathe, So I really needed
to feel confident and like exude like calmness to them.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
So my dress was important.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Joe, You're right, I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Did you go into do you go into filming with
any like non negotiables, Like if a guy says this
or does this, It's not gonna work out.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
M M.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Not really, Like I do have red flags, but you
certainly don't say that like first night.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's all about like.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Like kind of everybody needs to get a free pass
on the first night because everybody's really nervous. Yeah, so
certainly not the first night. I mean there were things
that stood out and why I didn't give people roses
in the long run, but you know, no, like I
didn't have something in my mind that said this is
a no no go for me, because you know, people
have already been bet so like really glaring bad things
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about people there.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
They're not on the show.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
So everybody that you're encountering at this point are really
good guys.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Any unexpected challenges that I mean you could tease.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Can Yeah, what can you tease for your season overall?
And then I think we have a game to play
with you.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, okay, unexpected challenges. I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
The emotional journey was way different than what I thought
it was going to be. I thought I was in
like like people kept saying are you one hundred percent
ready to do this? And I kept saying yes, And
then I got there and I discovered I wasn't anywhere
near one hundred percent ready. I had to go through
kind of a huge emotional journey that I didn't even
know was going to happen.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I feel like that happens with every lead, because we've
now had a lot of leads on right after they've
been announced and then after they've filmed, and usually they
come on being like, I'm not nervous, I'm just excited.
I feel great, and then they come back and they're like,
that was a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
That was so hard.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Okay, that is I'm so glad that you're saying that,
because I think, you know, maybe that was only me
and I just was ready, and I was. It was
so much harder than I ever thought it was going
to be, and so much more fulfilling than I ever thought.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It was going to be.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Sweet. Love that, Love that, And I can't wait to
see your dress. Okay, Joan, you want.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
To play and not seen?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Oh, I've seen.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
It's in the provos.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I'll show it to you.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It's beautiful. It's called Joe. We're gonna play a quick game,
rapid fire. Get to know Joan. First thing that comes
to your head. You ready, Yeah, I'm ready. What's your
love language?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yes, gold or silver jewelry? Favorite way to unwind.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Beach?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
What is your go to comfort food? You might be
the only person that's ever played this game that's that
has actually played Rapid Fire, So thank you. What is
your pump up song?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Hmmm, that's a hard one. Oh gosh, probably.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Oh that one's hard. That one's hard. That's hard.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It's probably a Taylor Swift song, but I don't know
which fune.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Okay, all time favorite movie?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Well, I was in Santa Ahemo's Fire, so obviously, okay,
that's with.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Rob Low. Yeah, okay, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna
watch now and look for you. I'm excited. Uh. Cooking
or ordering takeout?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Sure, that's a hard one.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
So I'm just gonna can I not be Rapid Fire
in this sw So I love cooking like with a guy.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I think it's fun. You learned so much about him.
It's a great date thing to do.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
But in the long run, I'd rather order out because
I don't feel like cleaning up the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Favorite vacation destination. A fun fact about you, Vetri Nation
should know.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Ok, I'm gonna tell you my stupid party trick you ready, Yeah,
I can. I can tie the stem of a cherry
with my tongue.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Oh that's a fun one.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Go to cocktail at a bar.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
French seventy five.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And if you could sum up your season of The
Golden Bachelorette in one word, what would it be?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Oh? Jeez, I think kind of? It was emotional?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Emotional? Okay, yeah, Joan, it's been a blast. I'm sure
this won't be the last time we're going to have
you on here. I can't wait to watch your season.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I hope not. I hope I'm bad. This was so
much fun. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Thanks for coming on, and thank you to our listeners
tuning into Bacheler Happy Hour. We so appreciate you guys
tuning in every week, and we'll have new episodes and
new interviews every week.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
We hope you guys are as excited for The Golden
Bachelorette Jones's season as we are, and we will have
recaps and interviews coming your way, so don't have to subscribe.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Bye bye o.
Hey, everyone, welcome back to Bachelor Happy Hour. I'm Joe
and I'm Serena, and we are here with the one
and only, first ever, making history Golden Bachelorette Joan. Welcome
to Bachelor Happy Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We're excited to have you. We're going to get into everything.
We have a lot to discuss in not that long
of time. So before we get into everything, how have
you been enjoying your time leading up to the premiere?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh? Gosh, Like, it's kind of surreal, to be perfectly honest,
I was actually watching TV this morning and I heard
my voice and it was me on a commercial. So
like every day is kind of a new day. Someone
sent a picture of me on the side of a bus.
So it's just like as it's unfolding, you know, slowly,
as we get closer to the premiere, it gets more
and more exciting every day.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Have you thought about the fact that you are the
first ever Golden Bachelorette.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yeah, I don't think I've ever been the at anything
in my entire life, So like, I finally get to
be at OG and it's, like I said, it's surreal.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I keep pinching myself. It could have been so many
more people.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I don't know how I got so lucky to land this,
but I did, and I'm so grateful.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Do you think it's more or less pressure because you're
the first one?
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Oh gosh, that's a good question. So I think most
of the pressure kind of landed on Gary because he
was really the first one. He was the first golden
of anything. So I feel a little less pressure because
he was kind of the chail blazer and I'm just
somewhat following his lead. But I guess, I guess the
first golden bachelorette, But I don't think I feel as
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much pressure as he certainly did.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Did you have any did you have a chance to
reach out to him just to ask him for any
of his advice?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I did, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I spent like two hours on the film with him.
We talked through also different scenarios, and he gave me
really good advice, you know. He, like I said, he
was kind of a trailblazer, and I think he did
it really really well.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
He made all of.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Us women on the show feel very comfortable to be
kind of open and vulnerable, which is kind of scary.
At this age, and you know, you expose your family,
you expose you know, you have a lot to lose.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
At this age.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
So I think he did it really really well and
he made us feel really comfortable. So you know, I
relied on him a lot for advice and I still
talk to him all the time.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Now, what was the best piece of advice or the
one that stuck out the most that he gave you.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
He said, it's a really really quick journey, and to
don't leave anything on the table, and make sure that
you encourage the contestants to be the same way. That
you only have one chance sometimes to reveal something about
yourself that's important, and don't squander that opportunity. Make sure
you come clean and you talk about everything that's important
(02:55):
that makes you know kind of you who you are,
or brought you to this, you know, to this place.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
So I did that.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Like first night, I said to the man, you know,
this is quick, so make sure you know we get
to know each other as best we can in the
short amount of time.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
As for our listeners who may not know, and I'm
assuming most of them do, but can you just kind
of give us a refresher to why you went home
on Gary season.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So right after our one and only one on one date,
the next morning, I got a text from my daughter
who had just had a baby and she was having
a really hard time. She had had a hard pregnancy,
a hard delivery, she almost died during the delivery. I
mean certainly, like a lot of emotional things were happening
to her and she just needed me to come home
(03:40):
and be a.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Mom and help her. She was dealing with a lot.
She even had some best partum depression, and she had not.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
A super easy baby. She's a doll right now, but
you know she was an infant she was. I left
when the baby was eight days old, and you know,
I dealt with that guilt. To be honest, I knew
that I shouldn't be leaving her, or that this wasn't
a perfect time to be leaving, but it was the
only opportunity I had, and I selfishly left with the
(04:07):
thought that if I need to come home, I will,
and when she said she needs me, I left.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
One of the things emotionally that I'm the most terrified
of when it comes to becoming a mother is mom guilt.
I feel like it's something that every mom talks about
of like, you have a child and you literally have
mom guilt for the rest of your life.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's true, you will have mom guilt. We all we
drink wine, we do what we have to do to
self medicate. But you you will be fine. You do
have mom guilt because you love that child so much,
and you love that person more than you love yourself
or anything that you think you could possibly love. So
you are you can't, You'll never be perfect, and so
you have mom guilt forever.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
How's your daughter now and the baby? Everyone good?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
They are great. The baby is a year old. She
is a doll. The parents are perfect.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It was such a short amount of time that she
needed me, but it was such an important time, and
you know, it was what it was. But literally two
months later she was her old self again.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You had to you had to do what you had
to do for your family. I respect it. What are
their thoughts on all of this?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
So kind of mixed.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I mean, they all want me to find love, They
all certainly want me to have a happy life, but
it's a little scary that they're worried about me kissing
on TV.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And they, oh are they? Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, very worried about that. The boys are like, please,
you're not kiss anybody. So I lied and said I wouldn't,
and then very worried about fantasy seeks. They're like that's
They're like, don't even say the word.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It just sounds gross.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh my gosh, that's a nightmare as a child. Okay,
when you when you got back from Gary season and then
you had to deal with all your family stuff, but
then you were single, did you start dating again?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
My dating history wasn't super successful full prior to that,
which is probably you know why I even filled out
the application to come on the show. I had done
a little bit of you know, I did one dating app.
You know, I kept I had this vision that I
was going to meet somebody organically. I was just going
to be out one day at the grocery store, at
a wedding someplace, would meet somebody organically. And it seems
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that there are not a lot of people like in
our situation. So there's not a lot of sixty year
olds that are single, because like, we live in a
world of people that are couples.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Like, you know, this world is full of couples.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
And even if I saw somebody that I thought was
my age and that was attractive or whatever. I would
just assume that they were married and I would never like,
you know, try to meet them or whatever. So I
find it very hard to date at this age. So
I came off the show. I was a little healed
by that, the small little section of that journey that
I got to be part of, and I realized that
(06:53):
I really did want somebody in my life, but I
still didn't really know how to do it, like how
to meet somebody. So you know, although I had this
hope and this want, I didn't really know how to
do it, so I didn't do it very much.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I didn't make an effort.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And then eventually I got presented with this opportunity, so
you know, obviously jumped at it because you know, I
didn't know also find somebody.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, well, also, Joan, you're like insanely beautiful, so I
feel like finding guys in your league is probably I mean, look,
personality is everything too, but just like you're such a
special person, you deserve someone so special, and like seeing
the cast of men has made us so excited for
your journey because you're amazing, they seem amazing, and we're
(07:37):
just excited to see how everything unfolds.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, John, I got a question. You say dating is hard,
and I do agree. But you're never getting hit on
when you go out, when you go to the grocery store. Never,
you're not getting to hit on.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, you know, occasionally, sure, but oddly I was a
lot more by people dm ing me after being on
the Bachelor, and I don't know how to navigate. I
know that that's like a big thing, people sliding into
your dams. I know that that is a really common
way that people meet each other, but like the younger.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Guys, I don't know how to work that. How do
you how do you vet them?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
It's a totally strange ming you and and most of
them don't live anywhere even close to you. They are
like the States, and I don't get how all that works.
Maybe you could educate me, but I you know, occasionally
people certainly at restaurants or whatever, I would see him out,
but really not very often. Like I said, they probably
assumed I was married, just like I assume people anybody
(08:40):
my age is married.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I just an assumption. Probably they opposite them like younger people.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I think about, like when my youngest son goes out,
he probably assumes everybody that's at the bar with then
is single.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I'm the opposite. I think everybody else was married.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
That's very true.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I never thought about that. I also think with it's
so interesting that you said, like, how do you vet
these people?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Because it's so true.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
It's like this could be a total creep or like
a really weird guy. Like you want to put yourself
out there, but you also want to protect yourself. And
I do think that's why we see so many people
date within the franchise a lot, because it is this
group of like pre vetted people.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
I totally agree with you.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I love all it works so well, Like there are
so many success stories that come after people have left shows.
They find other people on patination. You're you're so right,
like that's the reason they've been vetted.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah, what were you telling when they were casting for
the guys that I am so? I mean, they asked
what your type was, what you were looking for?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
What did you tell them?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
So I didn't like really know I had a type,
you know, because I had been married for thirty two years,
I wasn't thinking about my type. I I already had them.
But I do feel like I do have a type now.
That I've been through this whole journey, and I kind
of like guys that are like gregarious, like that feel
comfortable in their own skin, have self confidence, can walk
(10:07):
into a room and kind of talk to anybody.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And I also am really particular about kind of like
my father.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
My father taught me this that you know, men should
be gentlemen, and I like a gentleman. I'd like somebody
who you know, opens stores and stands up and treats
like the waitress at the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Really well, and you know, so a gentleman was important
to me.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
So I kind of like an outgeeling guy that's a gentleman,
and I just want somebody who's kind.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Obviously, Yeah, when you were asked to be the bachelorette,
what was what were you what was going on in
your mind? Were you shocked?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I was, you know, so there was a little bit
of flurry around, like, you know, there's going to be
a golden Bachelorette, and I certainly knew that I wasn't
the only one being looked at that other women from
my season clearly, and I kind of had idea who
it might be. So that was like kind of played
on my little heavy on my mind because I really
didn't want this, and so I was like not really
(11:07):
thinking that I.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Was going to get it.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
To be honest, I thought you could go to anybody,
and maybe there were people that, you know, people would
consider more deserving from my season since I had left
so early. So when I was on the Golden Bachelor,
I left so early that you know, people that made
it farther in the journey would have been maybe a
better contender or more deserving of it. So when I
got the message, and so Jesse Palmer did a zoom
(11:32):
with me and he's the one that told me, and
I was like thrilled, but honestly, I was pretty surprised.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
To be totally honest.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
You might be the lead with the least experience on
the show as a contestant. Ever, like Matt James, Oh,
Matt James, you're right, You're right, But how did yeah,
he was on the show at all before he became
the lean, but how did that kind of play into
when you were filming, like getting to a point of
(12:01):
being like, I haven't actually been here before.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, and that happened pretty early in the journey. To
tell you the truth, I learned a Ton and you
might not need much more than that to get how
all this works. And the thing that I learned most
was when I originally got to the house or even
like when I was considering even going on the Golden Bachelor,
I was really apprehensive because this was the first time
(12:25):
that it had ever been done for the Golden and
I was worried about how we were going to look
on TV, like were we going to look like foolish
old people dating? And was it going to look was
it going to look like.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Like tacky wacky?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And I also had like a little bit of the guilt,
like do I deserve like do we deserve to find
love this late in life?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Do we already have our chance?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And we had it, and you know, we're were being
selfish coming on the show and like leaving our families behind,
who are really like really relying on us now, And
so I had all this like apprehension going into you know,
going into the Bachelor series. That was all solved almost
right away. I got there and I got to meet
(13:08):
the producers and I got to meet the Bachelor Nation
kind of, and I saw that they really had our
best interest in mind, and that they really want us
to find love, and that they wanted to make this
journey look really fun and it picked us as like
what a really sixteen seventy year old looking for love
looks like, and that it's not embarrassing and it's not
degrading and you shouldn't feel guilty about it, and they
(13:28):
did all that. I learned all that in a really
fast amount of time. So everything else that I learned,
you know, after Golden Bachelor and after like kind of
the first set of group dates in the first Rose ceremonies,
where now this was like new territory for me, I
felt comfortable with because I knew that the that their
hearts were pure when they were, you know, making this job.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You said, you don't know if people will think you
deserve to find love at that age. Do you think
that's a common thought most people around your age have.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
So my thought is that, and I thought this for
a long time, that as you get older, you're you're
supposed to be supporting the next generations, like the kids
like my kids age, so the thirty, the thirty, twenty
and thirty years old that they that now you.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Should be in like a support role.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
So you should now take a backseat and you know,
be a grandmother, maybe help them over financially, that the
focus is no longer on you, it's on them, and
that when you do something for yourself. I felt kind
of guilty, and I know that I wasn't the only
person because we had that conversation in the mansion when
I was in the Golden voucher with the other women
(14:43):
that we all shared that thought. We felt like we
were selfish being there, that we had left people behind
that needed us. And you know, at this age, you
have multi generational responsibilities. I have a mother who's still alive,
she's my YouTube. I have a mother in law, I
have kids, and I have grandkids, and you're a lot
of people that rely on you.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
So I do kind of feel like I had.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I felt guilt, and that people my age do feel
guilty when they do something for themselves because we feel
like we're supposed to be in the support will now.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
So then, what did it feel like going and filming
The Golden Bachelor where it's just like it's your journey,
it's your story, everything is about you.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, that's a really good question, because I did like
kind of have to get over that guilt and I
did that, and you know, I give so much back
to the Golden Bachelor that experience, because I've learned so
much that made my Golden bachelort experience like so successful.
And I learned from the other women when they were
talking about, you know, somebody's son had just had an
(15:39):
appendectomy and she kept him in the hospital, and you know,
people were dealing with all kinds of things at home,
and as we were talking about this, I was saying
to each one of them, oh, my god, you deserve
to be here. They'll they'll be fine at home. Yet
I wasn't embracing that thought for myself. So it did
take me a little time to like give myself the
free pass that I am just like that I deserved
(16:00):
to be here.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Also, my kids will be fine. If they're not, I'll leave.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I felt that about The Golden Bachelor when I was
on that and so by the time I made it
to Golden Bachelorette, I think my kids and I had
all kind of come to terms with the way that
this works, and we were all a lot more comfortable
with it, and like, at that point, I did feel
like I deserved it. I talked myself into that concept
and I was really embracing it.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Did you have any expectations going into it?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I knew what I wanted in the end one person
at the end that we were going to go out
into the real world and see if we can make
it work.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
How did it feel having your friends within the franchise
kind of rally around and support you, because I'm sure
you made some great friendships on Golden Bachelor.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, I mean we were all such good friends. Still.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
We have a group chat that we that if you
don't look at your phone five times a day, you
become like thirty messages behind.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
We are really each other, you know.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Like I said, when we moved into the mansion, I
felt like I found my tribe here there. Finally, these
are the people that understand what it's like to be
in your sixties and seventies and single and being then
ninth person at the table at the wedding, and you know,
watching all your friends couples go on vacations together and
you'd be left behind. You know, it's all these things
(17:21):
that people don't realize. You know, are you know, are
sad for you make you sad, and you know, make
being single even harder. You go out to dinner with
all your friends who have husbands at home, and you
go home to the empty house. So I was with
all these women who understood that, and so we became
very close because we were a great support group for
each other. So their supportment everything to me because I
(17:43):
was kind of, you know, represent all of us to
the world. This is what it's like to be this
age and dating and it's not comfortable.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It's hard what you wanted in a partner going into
Gary season? Did that change it all all going into
your season?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Maybe a little bit. I've made it very clear that
I'm not going to leave my family and that they
are the most important thing to me, and I think
I knew then that I wanted a man that felt
the same way about his family, and like that would
be that's kind of a deal breaker. You're not as
close to your family and value you know, their need
for you and you wanting to be them with them
(18:28):
as I do with my family, then you're probably not
a good match with you know, for me, So coming
out and figuring out how to live in.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
The real world with that expectation is hard.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Yeah, I was there any like worry there of like
it's a there's goods and bad to that right of
like finding someone that is so close to their family
just like you are. But then if you're not from
the same place, then there's that like where are you
going to live?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Question?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Was that something you thought about going into this, because
part of the show is dating people across the country.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
So that absolutely, like was something that I thought about,
and you know, I kind of felt I felt about it.
I thought I kind of figured out in my mind
how it would work for me, and I just needed
to find somebody that had the same thoughts that you know,
you can't have your cake and eat it too, you
can't have your family and you know, possibly they have
(19:20):
their family and then also be together all the time,
and that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
You're gonna have to make a sacrifice on something. But
I think it can work. You just have to maybe
work harder at that part of the relationship.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Makes sense. With your premiere airing later tonight, can you
tell us how you were feeling going into night one?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
So you mean night when like when the limos.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Arived, animals are coming up and you're standing.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
On Yeah, So I will remember probably that moment for
the rest of my life because it's like one of
those iconic moments that starts every season, and I remember
so many other Bachelor and bachelorettes standing there and looking
nervous and watching that first limo pull up, and it
is like so exciting and so terrifying at the same time,
(20:15):
because you thought, like, this is this moment could possibly
change my life. And I was so excited and I
felt like the weight of all this suddenly like right
in that moment. Everything was funny games until then, and
I was like, Okay, this is it. I could hardly breathe.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Honestly, Can you tell us about your dress?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
I was very randy Rob and she's a popular designer
on the show. And I think I was wearing the
most beautiful dress I've ever put on in my life.
I felt so happy in it. I felt like I
like it was made for me and yeah, you'll see it.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So do you think if you didn't like you, if
you didn't feel comfortable in your ress, do you think
that would have messed you up at night? One?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Sorry, I'm only laughing because we are off because if
Joe doesn't like what he's wearing, it like impacts everything,
Like the whole night is ruined.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Like we usually go home early.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I'm just saying it's a really big deal if I
was the lead.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
That's why he's asking this question, because he's putting himself
in here.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I'm if I was the lead and whatever the suit
I wore night one, I felt uncomfortable and I didn't
like it, it would it would really be something that was
on my mind.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
For honestly, I feel like not in general, but in
that moment, if I didn't like the dress, I probably
wouldn't have felt as happy as.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah, you have to feel confident and beautiful what you're.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
We you do belily, I mean confidence is really important
that moment, because like I felt like it was my
responsibility to make the men feel comfortable because I remember
being in that limousine and like stepping out and.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I was freaking.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I was like, I don't know, if why did I
do this to my life? Why did I say yes
to this? I could hardly breathe, So I really needed
to feel confident and like exude like calmness to them.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
So my dress was important.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Joe, You're right, I know, I know.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Did you go into do you go into filming with
any like non negotiables, Like if a guy says this
or does this, It's not gonna work out.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
M M.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Not really, Like I do have red flags, but you
certainly don't say that like first night.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's all about like.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Like kind of everybody needs to get a free pass
on the first night because everybody's really nervous. Yeah, so
certainly not the first night. I mean there were things
that stood out and why I didn't give people roses
in the long run, but you know, no, like I
didn't have something in my mind that said this is
a no no go for me, because you know, people
have already been bet so like really glaring bad things
(23:02):
about people there.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
They're not on the show.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
So everybody that you're encountering at this point are really
good guys.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Any unexpected challenges that I mean you could tease.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Can Yeah, what can you tease for your season overall?
And then I think we have a game to play
with you.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, okay, unexpected challenges. I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
The emotional journey was way different than what I thought
it was going to be. I thought I was in
like like people kept saying are you one hundred percent
ready to do this? And I kept saying yes, And
then I got there and I discovered I wasn't anywhere
near one hundred percent ready. I had to go through
kind of a huge emotional journey that I didn't even
know was going to happen.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I feel like that happens with every lead, because we've
now had a lot of leads on right after they've
been announced and then after they've filmed, and usually they
come on being like, I'm not nervous, I'm just excited.
I feel great, and then they come back and they're like,
that was a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
That was so hard.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Okay, that is I'm so glad that you're saying that,
because I think, you know, maybe that was only me
and I just was ready, and I was. It was
so much harder than I ever thought it was going
to be, and so much more fulfilling than I ever thought.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It was going to be.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Sweet. Love that, Love that, And I can't wait to
see your dress. Okay, Joan, you want.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
To play and not seen?
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Oh, I've seen.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
It's in the provos.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I'll show it to you.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
It's beautiful. It's called Joe. We're gonna play a quick game,
rapid fire. Get to know Joan. First thing that comes
to your head. You ready, Yeah, I'm ready. What's your
love language?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yes, gold or silver jewelry? Favorite way to unwind.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Beach?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
What is your go to comfort food? You might be
the only person that's ever played this game that's that
has actually played Rapid Fire, So thank you. What is
your pump up song?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Hmmm, that's a hard one. Oh gosh, probably.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Oh that one's hard. That one's hard. That's hard.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
It's probably a Taylor Swift song, but I don't know
which fune.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Okay, all time favorite movie?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Well, I was in Santa Ahemo's Fire, so obviously, okay,
that's with.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Rob Low. Yeah, okay, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna
watch now and look for you. I'm excited. Uh. Cooking
or ordering takeout?
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Sure, that's a hard one.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
So I'm just gonna can I not be Rapid Fire
in this sw So I love cooking like with a guy.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I think it's fun. You learned so much about him.
It's a great date thing to do.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
But in the long run, I'd rather order out because
I don't feel like cleaning up the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Favorite vacation destination. A fun fact about you, Vetri Nation
should know.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Ok, I'm gonna tell you my stupid party trick you ready, Yeah,
I can. I can tie the stem of a cherry
with my tongue.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Oh that's a fun one.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Go to cocktail at a bar.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
French seventy five.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And if you could sum up your season of The
Golden Bachelorette in one word, what would it be?
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Oh? Jeez, I think kind of? It was emotional?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Emotional? Okay, yeah, Joan, it's been a blast. I'm sure
this won't be the last time we're going to have
you on here. I can't wait to watch your season.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I hope not. I hope I'm bad. This was so
much fun. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Thanks for coming on, and thank you to our listeners
tuning into Bacheler Happy Hour. We so appreciate you guys
tuning in every week, and we'll have new episodes and
new interviews every week.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
We hope you guys are as excited for The Golden
Bachelorette Jones's season as we are, and we will have
recaps and interviews coming your way, so don't have to subscribe.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Bye bye o.
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