March 20, 2025 • 24 mins
Today on “Happy Hour,” we’re sitting down with Trista and Ryan for another bonus episode powered by David’s Bridal from the iHeartRadio Music Awards! The legacy “Bachelorette” lovebirds are here to give us their updates, talk family and reality TV, and so much more! We kick off the episode getting into Trista’s experience on “Special Forces.” Then, we dive into the latest with their kids — from sports to prom dress shopping, we’re getting all the updates! Plus, we take a deeper look at Ryan and Trista’s 20-year love story, including how Ryan got onto the show, what advice they have for all franchise couples, and how to make it work post-show. Tune in now and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, everyone, welcome back to Beat Your Happy Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Joe and I'm Srina and we are here.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Today with Brian and Trista, and we want to do
a quick shout out to David's Bridal for sponsoring this podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, thank you so much to David's Bridal. We are
all here in LA for the iHeartRadio Music Awards and
we're so excited chat with you guys today.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Let's get started.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Ryan, you've never been on this podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Never, Sorry, what.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Was the last time you've done a podcast?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Well?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I did a half one and a half an hour
ago with Trista. Okay, but prior to that, it's been so.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Long, I don't even remember.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
You're all warmed up.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I don't talk a lot, and that's a requirement of
podcasts generally less interesting if you sit there talking.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Sure, so you're starting it off like cause I actually
I'm hosting this and I don't really talk a lot either.
I do, I do, I do? Okay, So what's new?
Trista Howard's Special Forces?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
It was crazy.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
The last time we talked, it was before it aired,
but it had just been announced, right.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes, I think yeah, first had just come out, so
true which is wild that we're not having you back
on and it's just kind of wrapped.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I know, it's crazy. It was intense.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
As I said before, I am caught between the I'm
proud of myself and I wish I would have stayed
longer area. And I knew in the moment, you guys
have seen it, yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Or you did it. We saw the first episode, Okay,
so I'm assuming you're okay with me spoiling.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
It because it's already out.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
So the second episode or.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
The the breakdown of episodes is weird. But the second
episode when I leave, I had hypothermia the night before
from like buds training, like Navy seals training the day before,
and I was broken down, like just to my limits
(02:05):
of exhaustion, felt like a shell of myself, and was
just honestly grateful to kind of be alive. And I
had a mirror room interview, which is like when you
sit down and kind of like they put that potato
sack over your head and go talk to you in
this little mini room.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Do you get to take the potato sack off?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
They do? They take it off? Yes? No, you talk
to them with the potato sack on. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
So they take you into this room and they have
the potato sack and then they take it off and
you you just confide. They ask about who you are,
why you're there, all of those things. And I before
the show really wanted to get to that point, like
I wanted to connect with the DS on a human level.
And I got that after I had hypothermia and left
(02:56):
that room and felt like, Okay, really have gotten so
much out of this experience.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I'm gonna give it, you know.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
I'm gonna shower, I'm gonna, you know, get as much
sleep as I can, which is not a lot, and
I'll see how I feel in the morning. I'm just
gonna let it play out. And when I was woken
up the next morning when all of us were working,
woken up by essentially bombs going off, like I mean,
they threw this thing in a like metal trash can
that like it sounded like there was gunfire all around us.
(03:28):
And we woke up to that, and my heart was
just like fool out of my chest, you know, and I.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Thought, Okay, I'm dead. If if we.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Had woken up in a different situation, I might have
stayed Actually yeah, I mean yes, but if we had
woken up and they had been like, Okay, go get
your grub right, go get ready, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Like a training morning or something that you can kind
of use to like recenter yourself for ground yourself exactly,
which they were like.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
But I felt like I was in a really good
place where my mind was like, this is okay, You've
done what you could do. You're not I didn't want
to be a burden anymore to the people who were
really helpful to me, including like Golden Tate and Cam and.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Like, like, they really were so helpful to me. In
the moments between.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
The tasks and the travel where you had to run
or with like a thirty five pound pack on your back,
it was really hard for me. I felt like I
just didn't want to be a burden anymore, and I
had gotten a lot.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Out of it, so I left. But yeah, it was
it was.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
A really great experience. I wish that he could have
done it because it's so up his alley.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, yeah, I was gonna I was gonna say, so
you're a firefighter. Do you think the training is similar?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Similar, but not not the same.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I think the the well, the things that she was
sort of impersonating the training that they were sort of
giving her a small taste of is such a small
component of what I think the actual Special Forces guys
are going through. But just to see how difficult it
was for her and for all the other people on
the show to just do that small component of it
(05:17):
was pretty It makes you really respect those men and
women that actually go through the real thing. And and
I mean, like I I was very impressed with Trista.
I mean just seeing her, like like there's this one
scene where this guy I don't know their names, but
he's like you you shouldn't be here, you need to
(05:38):
go home, and she's like, I don't want to go home.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And then and then the next morning, I want to
go home.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It's like it was like the perfect Trista moment, Like
she's so good at like just going all the way
to her breaking point and then it's like that's it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I'm done, I'm going home. I'm calling it good.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
What parts of the show if you were on it,
do you think he would have been really good at.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
And then maybe struggled with, Well, I probably would have
struggled with all of it, But.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I guess I like that that's probably that's part.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, I would have been good at struggling because that's
joy I liked. Yeah. Yeah, But I.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Think the stuff that they were doing and then the
stuff they continue to do even after Trista left was
it was crazy, Like it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Was there something you watch back where you're like, oh
my god, I'm so glad before they did that?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yes, the fight, the fight and that was the same day.
What's the fight?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Tell us?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
More so, they basically put this like boxing helmet thing
on that's like padded.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah, but not here. Okay, so literally this part of
your face do you.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Have boxing loves on?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Did they Yeah? Yeah, I think they did.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah I did this, and then I did
on the box storm deads here. Yeah I got punched
in the face. Yeah, I know. I was poppings for
like twenty four hours.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
So during that three people broke bones, nose and ribs.
Oh no, yeah, so I was really so they were
foret where the took place?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
This is the one. What do you mean, oh, on
the top of a cliff?
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Oh yeah, so so Nathan Adrian Olympic swimmer, rock star
of a human.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I love him. He's huge, like super tall.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Of course they're gonna pair him with Cam Newton, who
is also massive, but he is like, you know, like
came out fighting guns of blazing and they were on
the edge of a cliff, and from what I understand,
Cam went like balls out, like he was like, I
am going to kill you, you know, like you've given
(07:48):
me a task, guys DS, I'm going to fight him
and and.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Oh my gosh, that scares me so bad.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
But but you know what's funny, I didn't really even
think about that when I was really I was jumping
off of a bridge that was one hundred and thirty
feet I think tall something like that. I did not
even think about the fact that I could potentially die.
I was just doing it because and I felt safe
in the moment.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Hey, well that's good.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
And I guess you could potentially die when you get
in your car too, so one hundred per yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
So you know, you have Cam Newton who's massive, and
he was kind of out for blood because they told
him to be out for blood. So he's like following directions,
but he bam broke Nathan's nose and almost pushed him
off a cliff.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
So are they like strapped in or anything.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I'd be like, I swear to god, you pushed me
off this cliff.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
No, no, no, they were like on it was like
the you know, the top of the cliff.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
But I think they came very close. That's that's that's
it was. So I'm glad that.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
And then there was the submersion where they essentially sink
you in a boat and you have to recover this
box from under the water.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Even though I was not having as many.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Issues with the water as I thought I was going to,
I think I would have had a hard time with that.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah, water's hard. I feel like people underestimate for water sports.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, let's pivot a little bit to a lighter conversation.
David's bridal. They I always thought they just did wedding dresses,
but they do pro homecoming. You guys have children going
to prom?
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Yet, well, we have a junior in a sophomore. At
their high school, it's only upperclassmen. So if Blakesley were
dating an upperclassman, then she would go.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
But she's not.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Max is a junior. But he doesn't really have a girlfriend.
I don't know, like social events. I mean, he kind
of comes from this cloth.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Are not really his gig. You go to prom.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I went to senior prom. I did not go to
junior prom.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Okay, interested did you go to prom?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
I did?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yeah, any chance I got.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And your son's a really he's a really good hockey player, right.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
He's a pretty good hockey player. Yeah, that's his thing.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Love.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
No, But it's funny you said that, because I I
think that's a sport that I need to start getting into,
because I feel like I can do that as I
get older with my kids. I'm trying to figure out
because I'll play hockey now, but every other time I skate,
I feel like I get hurt. If not every time
you do, Like I just separated some ribs, Like it's
(10:47):
the It's like, so it's so fun, but I'm just
getting beat up. And golf, I feel like I'm less
likely to get and.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
It's actually fun. We went to Top Golf, Like, my
dad took me to Top Golf. I was visiting him
in Saint Louis, and I was like, this is actually
kind of fun, and so I think we could do
it as a family.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Joe's gotten into golf in the last year or two.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, Yeah, well I started last year. I'm really bad.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Like it's it's like it's hard.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's a journey for sure, but I'm starting. I'm finally
now starting to see some progress.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I got them golf lessons for Christmas.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Oh that's fun.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
That's a key, I think.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, you gotta, I feel like take lessons. I don't
know if you could just pick it up.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But it gets I mean, it also gets pricey. Like
you take lessons, you take five lessons and I'm like, okay,
well now I'll take five more and then like then
I do course lessons and it's like okay, like I'm
spending a lot of money to suck.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
At something and like suck less.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, I guess, yeah, yeah, okay. So last December you
to celebrate it twenty one years of marriage.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Does it feel longer?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Shorter?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Answer at the same time.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Both, Ryan, it went by fast.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
It does kind of feel if you think back, Well,
what's really weird is thinking back to how we like
the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Like you guys know and.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You'll this would probably be your life at some point,
but that the bachelorette for us was so long ago,
Like it doesn't even feel to me like it was
a part of my actual life because their life is
so much different.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Than it was limp in time.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yeah, just one little like thing, but it it sparked
all of this, you know, like the wedding.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
We got married in Palm Springs, which is a huge
golf community. I don't know if you if you play,
I do.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Actually I'm just getting started.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Going there for a wedding in two months too.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Well, hopefully the courses will be open. Yeah, year around.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
I feel like it was.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
It is really still a part of my life just
because I, you know, have made lots of connections and
I I am a social person and so I feel
like I I am still in the bachelor world more.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Than he is.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
So to me, it's more like I don't forget and
people come up to us all the time saying, you know,
I watched with my grandma or my mom and or
it was our show, you know whatever. So that takes
me back.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, you guys, wedding it was televised, Oh yeah, it
was the first. It was the first televised.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
On first reality show.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Did you get to pick your own like flowers, dress, food, everything?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
So yes, thank god, because I wanted to be a
part of my wedding. The EP at the time was like,
you tell me your list of dream everything right, flowers,
wedding planner, food, I mean everything. She's like just to
(14:00):
create a list, and she asked about dresses. They had
a personal like a fashion show for me and my mom,
Like they had models like showing me the dresses, and
I ended up creating out of a couple different dress
Like I was like, I love this part of this
dress and I love this part. So they created custom
(14:22):
dresses to dresses for me that I still to this
day like, I feel so lucky that I got to
do that.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
We were talking, well, we were talking to Kelsey Anderson
because she just posted in a bunch of David's bridal
dresses she's been trying on because she's wedding planning, and
we were asking her about that process and if she
was going to incorporate her mom's wedding dress in any way,
because that's kind of become like a trend of girls
(14:52):
refurbishing their moms.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
And I didn't.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I really wish that I had, because honestly, I feel
like the trend kind of just started around our wedding.
Would you want your daughter to do that even if
it's like a welcome.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Party dress and she's seen it my reception dress, I
think that she I could see her using part of that,
and that would be if she wanted to cut it
up and use parts of it, Like, I would be
totally fine with that.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
I've got pictures. It's all good. But yes, I have.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Preserved them, you know how you do afterwards, and they're
ready for if she wants them.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I'm sure you both have gotten asked this question so
many times, so I hate to ask ask it, but
I'm going to yeah, because I want to know the answer.
Would you be okay with one of your children going
on the bachelor or bachelorette?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
We have been asked this question a lot, and my
answer is always the same. I would be a total
hypocrite if I said no, Yeah, you know, like I mean, yes,
the world has changed and the people are i'm sorry,
a little bit meaner and they feel like they have.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Instant access to people through social media and.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
They can say whatever they want and there's no repercussions,
you know, and so that like would worry my my
mama heart a little bit.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
And she and I say she, because there is no
way that Max would ever want to do a show
like this, But you know what.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I want to said that about you, right similar.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I get that, actually get that a lot, like how
did you and how did you end up on?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah? Yeah that show?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah? How I what is the answer?
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
What it's I.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I was roommates with the kid in college and he
ended up he was dating a woman who knew the
casting producers for The Bachelor and they were.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Looking for people.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
So she gave this guy all of the guys that
were living in this house us as names and they
called and I don't know you guys, have you ever
heard of the show Temptation Island? Yes, So that was
right around the same time, and so they called and
I was like, I don't think I'm the I don't
know I'm the guy, Like, I don't think I'm made for.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
This type of stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
So I'm also was I also was really bad at
saying no, and they were very persistent. He still so
they just said, well, like just fill out the question here,
or just fly out and let us do an interview
and like just show up the first day, and so
it was.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
One Yeah, that's how it was. So I took a
week off of work.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I feel like it was the same with you. That's
how they got you. We'll just jump on one phone call,
we'll fly you out. It's just to day.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Like I essentially turned them down, like because I was
too shy and felt too embarrassed to film a selfie
video of like why I should be on the bedroom
And I said no. I said, respectfully, thank you for
asking me, but I can't do this. Yeah, And they said,
well then we'll set up a skype.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah. Yeah. They're very good at like watching me do it.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Get You're persistent, Yeah, we have similar we set you
into it, right, They're like just a little bit and
then thank goodness, you know, yeah, thank goodness.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I showed up and.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
There were twenty four other like super handsome guys, Like
I was like, oh, I'm out of here. I remember
Jamie blythe I'm like that guy's Kendall, like a real
life Kendle.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I am gone. And I ended up somehow.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
He's lasting but obviously very humble, Yes, which is one
of the reasons. I know.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Do you ever like Trista You've I mean, both of
you made this work, right, but you were the first
and it's been twenty one years and you're still married
and we do see now like there's not too many
leads that it works. Advice.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yeah, that's the number one question. And sorry, I was
on my phone. Our daughter is having some drama, so
I don't wanted to make sure she's tucked in.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
She and Dave. It's Bridle dot com.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
She would love to be dresses are her thing anyway, So.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Number one question. And I think that it is kind
of cliche. It's what everyone says, like all the books,
all the podcasts, whatever about love and relationships. Is communication, trust, honesty, love, friendship?
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Uh, what else? I mean? I've answered this a billion times,
but I think there's lots of grace, grace, lots of grace.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
I just feel like, you know, we're all human, and
if you have a bad day, then it's those little forgivenesses.
Like throughout your relationship, it's having fun together, it's enjoying
life together.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
It's finding humor.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I feel like laughter is so important. It's you know,
sharing values, being a good kisser.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
You have to take a longer term perspective because the show,
like for us, I think it was seven weeks or
something like that, and there is.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
No real reality where you should.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Be getting engaged in seven weeks, really, and so we
did because everything is so intense and then you your
real life comes back into play. And she was gone
and actually here in Los Angeles and I was in Colorado,
and she's going to Super Bowl parties and doing all
this really great fun stuff. And I'm going to like
passed out drunk people in the bar, you know, like
(20:39):
I'm doing my job and she's doing hers, and she's
you know, you're You're offered all these different temptations and
all these different sorts of things, and you have to
be able to get You have to be able to
see past that and not just take the easy road,
which I think a lot of people get sort of
distracted and do that, and then it's hard to come
back from that.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So and and like this was you guys, it's twenty
one years ago.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
There's far less to be distracted by than what people
are dealing with today. So I think I don't blame
anyone who doesn't make it work, because this doesn't work
so hard. We just kind of got lucky, and I
think honestly, luck has something to do with it.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
We're literally just talking about what and where we were,
like I think people need to give luck more credit,
like sometimes your person just wasn't on your season totally.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Did you do bachelor bachelorette parties?
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
He did?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Oh yeah, where'd you go? We can't talk about that.
Probably our biggest fight in our life.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I thought you met viewing parties of the show.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
No brothers, bachelor parties also, like so like we can
talk about golf or bachelor parties.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
That's a whole that's a whole series of podcasts, a series.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
So it was filmed yeah, yeah, oh, and he always
said they should do more, like like a series that
includes like following the couples that are getting married or
doing like a big.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Everyone getting married this year, We're sending you on a
boucherette trip. Like I think there's so much that would
be an opportunity.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
There because that they did that for us. It was
for four parts, a four part series.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I think.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
And it was like meeting the wedding planner doing all that,
like very like the bridesmaids get their dresses, like all
of the things. We like went to New York and
we asked all of our party, what do you call
wedding party?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Like it was all a.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Thing so this was like, yeah, this was like a
this was like a minise, like.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
It was for sure they should do that though. That
would be really fun. I think a lot of people
love to watch all of the up and coming Yeah,
you know.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Well, and I know for us, like we like it's
so different now, like they're not doing the wedding specials
the way they used to and obviously like the Golden One,
which was amazing, But yeah, I think it's so fun
following along with the been coming couples that are tying them.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Numa, especially if you're like, I'm such a girly girl,
and I feel like a lot of our demographic like
for the show are like probably are similar, and they
probably they want to see it. It's all for me
why I fell in love with the show after I
was on it is just I love love, you know,
I love watching people fall in love, and I love
everything that's revolved around it. So that would be a
(23:23):
great That would be a great series. But yeah, maybe
don't include the Bachelor and bachelorette parties.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Okay, we could, we could advise them on what to include.
It ended up being a great time, Like we were
at the same place where we were in Saint something.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Were we to make Thomas, Saint Vincent, Saint Mark's something
like that.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I want to say one of the saints.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Yeah, one of the things.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
And we were separate for a while and that's where
things weren't great.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
We got back together and everything was really fun.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Okay, this was very interesting. Thank you guys both so
much for coming on the podcast and taking the time.
Thank you to David's Bridal sponsoring this podcast. And let's
go to the iHeart Music Awards.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Thank you both so much for being on Tune into
Grant's finale on Monday and we will have some exclusive
interviews coming your way. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Bye,
Hey, everyone, welcome back to Beat Your Happy Hour.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm Joe and I'm Srina and we are here.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Today with Brian and Trista, and we want to do
a quick shout out to David's Bridal for sponsoring this podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah, thank you so much to David's Bridal. We are
all here in LA for the iHeartRadio Music Awards and
we're so excited chat with you guys today.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Let's get started.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Ryan, you've never been on this podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Never, Sorry, what.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Was the last time you've done a podcast?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Well?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
I did a half one and a half an hour
ago with Trista. Okay, but prior to that, it's been so.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Long, I don't even remember.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
You're all warmed up.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I don't talk a lot, and that's a requirement of
podcasts generally less interesting if you sit there talking.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Sure, so you're starting it off like cause I actually
I'm hosting this and I don't really talk a lot either.
I do, I do, I do? Okay, So what's new?
Trista Howard's Special Forces?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
It was crazy.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
The last time we talked, it was before it aired,
but it had just been announced, right.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes, I think yeah, first had just come out, so
true which is wild that we're not having you back
on and it's just kind of wrapped.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
I know, it's crazy. It was intense.
Speaker 6 (01:13):
As I said before, I am caught between the I'm
proud of myself and I wish I would have stayed
longer area. And I knew in the moment, you guys
have seen it, yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Or you did it. We saw the first episode, Okay,
so I'm assuming you're okay with me spoiling.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
It because it's already out.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
So the second episode or.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
The the breakdown of episodes is weird. But the second
episode when I leave, I had hypothermia the night before
from like buds training, like Navy seals training the day before,
and I was broken down, like just to my limits
(02:05):
of exhaustion, felt like a shell of myself, and was
just honestly grateful to kind of be alive. And I
had a mirror room interview, which is like when you
sit down and kind of like they put that potato
sack over your head and go talk to you in
this little mini room.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Do you get to take the potato sack off?
Speaker 5 (02:27):
They do? They take it off? Yes? No, you talk
to them with the potato sack on. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
So they take you into this room and they have
the potato sack and then they take it off and
you you just confide. They ask about who you are,
why you're there, all of those things. And I before
the show really wanted to get to that point, like
I wanted to connect with the DS on a human level.
And I got that after I had hypothermia and left
(02:56):
that room and felt like, Okay, really have gotten so
much out of this experience.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
I'm gonna give it, you know.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
I'm gonna shower, I'm gonna, you know, get as much
sleep as I can, which is not a lot, and
I'll see how I feel in the morning. I'm just
gonna let it play out. And when I was woken
up the next morning when all of us were working,
woken up by essentially bombs going off, like I mean,
they threw this thing in a like metal trash can
that like it sounded like there was gunfire all around us.
(03:28):
And we woke up to that, and my heart was
just like fool out of my chest, you know, and I.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Thought, Okay, I'm dead. If if we.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Had woken up in a different situation, I might have
stayed Actually yeah, I mean yes, but if we had
woken up and they had been like, Okay, go get
your grub right, go get ready, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Like a training morning or something that you can kind
of use to like recenter yourself for ground yourself exactly,
which they were like.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
But I felt like I was in a really good
place where my mind was like, this is okay, You've
done what you could do. You're not I didn't want
to be a burden anymore to the people who were
really helpful to me, including like Golden Tate and Cam and.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Like, like, they really were so helpful to me. In
the moments between.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
The tasks and the travel where you had to run
or with like a thirty five pound pack on your back,
it was really hard for me. I felt like I
just didn't want to be a burden anymore, and I
had gotten a lot.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Out of it, so I left. But yeah, it was
it was.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
A really great experience. I wish that he could have
done it because it's so up his alley.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, yeah, I was gonna I was gonna say, so
you're a firefighter. Do you think the training is similar?
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Similar, but not not the same.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I think the the well, the things that she was
sort of impersonating the training that they were sort of
giving her a small taste of is such a small
component of what I think the actual Special Forces guys
are going through. But just to see how difficult it
was for her and for all the other people on
the show to just do that small component of it
(05:17):
was pretty It makes you really respect those men and
women that actually go through the real thing. And and
I mean, like I I was very impressed with Trista.
I mean just seeing her, like like there's this one
scene where this guy I don't know their names, but
he's like you you shouldn't be here, you need to
(05:38):
go home, and she's like, I don't want to go home.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And then and then the next morning, I want to
go home.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It's like it was like the perfect Trista moment, Like
she's so good at like just going all the way
to her breaking point and then it's like that's it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
I'm done, I'm going home. I'm calling it good.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
What parts of the show if you were on it,
do you think he would have been really good at.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
And then maybe struggled with, Well, I probably would have
struggled with all of it, But.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I guess I like that that's probably that's part.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, I would have been good at struggling because that's
joy I liked. Yeah. Yeah, But I.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Think the stuff that they were doing and then the
stuff they continue to do even after Trista left was
it was crazy, Like it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Was there something you watch back where you're like, oh
my god, I'm so glad before they did that?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Yes, the fight, the fight and that was the same day.
What's the fight?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Tell us?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
More so, they basically put this like boxing helmet thing
on that's like padded.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah, but not here. Okay, so literally this part of
your face do you.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Have boxing loves on?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Did they Yeah? Yeah, I think they did.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah I did this, and then I did
on the box storm deads here. Yeah I got punched
in the face. Yeah, I know. I was poppings for
like twenty four hours.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
So during that three people broke bones, nose and ribs.
Oh no, yeah, so I was really so they were
foret where the took place?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
This is the one. What do you mean, oh, on
the top of a cliff?
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Oh yeah, so so Nathan Adrian Olympic swimmer, rock star
of a human.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I love him. He's huge, like super tall.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Of course they're gonna pair him with Cam Newton, who
is also massive, but he is like, you know, like
came out fighting guns of blazing and they were on
the edge of a cliff, and from what I understand,
Cam went like balls out, like he was like, I
am going to kill you, you know, like you've given
(07:48):
me a task, guys DS, I'm going to fight him
and and.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Oh my gosh, that scares me so bad.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
But but you know what's funny, I didn't really even
think about that when I was really I was jumping
off of a bridge that was one hundred and thirty
feet I think tall something like that. I did not
even think about the fact that I could potentially die.
I was just doing it because and I felt safe
in the moment.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Hey, well that's good.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
And I guess you could potentially die when you get
in your car too, so one hundred per yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
So you know, you have Cam Newton who's massive, and
he was kind of out for blood because they told
him to be out for blood. So he's like following directions,
but he bam broke Nathan's nose and almost pushed him
off a cliff.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
So are they like strapped in or anything.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I'd be like, I swear to god, you pushed me
off this cliff.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
No, no, no, they were like on it was like
the you know, the top of the cliff.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
But I think they came very close. That's that's that's
it was. So I'm glad that.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
And then there was the submersion where they essentially sink
you in a boat and you have to recover this
box from under the water.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Even though I was not having as many.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Issues with the water as I thought I was going to,
I think I would have had a hard time with that.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah, water's hard. I feel like people underestimate for water sports.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, let's pivot a little bit to a lighter conversation.
David's bridal. They I always thought they just did wedding dresses,
but they do pro homecoming. You guys have children going
to prom?
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Yet, well, we have a junior in a sophomore. At
their high school, it's only upperclassmen. So if Blakesley were
dating an upperclassman, then she would go.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
But she's not.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Max is a junior. But he doesn't really have a girlfriend.
I don't know, like social events. I mean, he kind
of comes from this cloth.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Are not really his gig. You go to prom.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I went to senior prom. I did not go to
junior prom.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Okay, interested did you go to prom?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
I did?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yeah, any chance I got.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And your son's a really he's a really good hockey player, right.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
He's a pretty good hockey player. Yeah, that's his thing.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Love.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
No, But it's funny you said that, because I I
think that's a sport that I need to start getting into,
because I feel like I can do that as I
get older with my kids. I'm trying to figure out
because I'll play hockey now, but every other time I skate,
I feel like I get hurt. If not every time
you do, Like I just separated some ribs, Like it's
(10:47):
the It's like, so it's so fun, but I'm just
getting beat up. And golf, I feel like I'm less
likely to get and.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
It's actually fun. We went to Top Golf, Like, my
dad took me to Top Golf. I was visiting him
in Saint Louis, and I was like, this is actually
kind of fun, and so I think we could do
it as a family.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Joe's gotten into golf in the last year or two.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah, Yeah, well I started last year. I'm really bad.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Like it's it's like it's hard.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's a journey for sure, but I'm starting. I'm finally
now starting to see some progress.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
I got them golf lessons for Christmas.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Oh that's fun.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
That's a key, I think.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, you gotta, I feel like take lessons. I don't
know if you could just pick it up.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But it gets I mean, it also gets pricey. Like
you take lessons, you take five lessons and I'm like, okay,
well now I'll take five more and then like then
I do course lessons and it's like okay, like I'm
spending a lot of money to suck.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
At something and like suck less.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, I guess, yeah, yeah, okay. So last December you
to celebrate it twenty one years of marriage.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Does it feel longer?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Shorter?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Answer at the same time.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Both, Ryan, it went by fast.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
It does kind of feel if you think back, Well,
what's really weird is thinking back to how we like
the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Like you guys know and.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
You'll this would probably be your life at some point,
but that the bachelorette for us was so long ago,
Like it doesn't even feel to me like it was
a part of my actual life because their life is
so much different.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Than it was limp in time.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yeah, just one little like thing, but it it sparked
all of this, you know, like the wedding.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
We got married in Palm Springs, which is a huge
golf community. I don't know if you if you play,
I do.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Actually I'm just getting started.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Going there for a wedding in two months too.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Amazing.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Well, hopefully the courses will be open. Yeah, year around.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
I feel like it was.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
It is really still a part of my life just
because I, you know, have made lots of connections and
I I am a social person and so I feel
like I I am still in the bachelor world more.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Than he is.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
So to me, it's more like I don't forget and
people come up to us all the time saying, you know,
I watched with my grandma or my mom and or
it was our show, you know whatever. So that takes
me back.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, you guys, wedding it was televised, Oh yeah, it
was the first. It was the first televised.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
On first reality show.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Did you get to pick your own like flowers, dress, food, everything?
Speaker 6 (13:38):
So yes, thank god, because I wanted to be a
part of my wedding. The EP at the time was like,
you tell me your list of dream everything right, flowers,
wedding planner, food, I mean everything. She's like just to
(14:00):
create a list, and she asked about dresses. They had
a personal like a fashion show for me and my mom,
Like they had models like showing me the dresses, and
I ended up creating out of a couple different dress
Like I was like, I love this part of this
dress and I love this part. So they created custom
(14:22):
dresses to dresses for me that I still to this
day like, I feel so lucky that I got to
do that.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
We were talking, well, we were talking to Kelsey Anderson
because she just posted in a bunch of David's bridal
dresses she's been trying on because she's wedding planning, and
we were asking her about that process and if she
was going to incorporate her mom's wedding dress in any way,
because that's kind of become like a trend of girls
(14:52):
refurbishing their moms.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
And I didn't.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I really wish that I had, because honestly, I feel
like the trend kind of just started around our wedding.
Would you want your daughter to do that even if
it's like a welcome.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Party dress and she's seen it my reception dress, I
think that she I could see her using part of that,
and that would be if she wanted to cut it
up and use parts of it, Like, I would be
totally fine with that.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
I've got pictures. It's all good. But yes, I have.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Preserved them, you know how you do afterwards, and they're
ready for if she wants them.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I'm sure you both have gotten asked this question so
many times, so I hate to ask ask it, but
I'm going to yeah, because I want to know the answer.
Would you be okay with one of your children going
on the bachelor or bachelorette?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
We have been asked this question a lot, and my
answer is always the same. I would be a total
hypocrite if I said no, Yeah, you know, like I mean, yes,
the world has changed and the people are i'm sorry,
a little bit meaner and they feel like they have.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Instant access to people through social media and.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
They can say whatever they want and there's no repercussions,
you know, and so that like would worry my my
mama heart a little bit.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
And she and I say she, because there is no
way that Max would ever want to do a show
like this, But you know what.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I want to said that about you, right similar.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
I get that, actually get that a lot, like how
did you and how did you end up on?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah? Yeah that show?
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yeah? How I what is the answer?
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
What it's I.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I was roommates with the kid in college and he
ended up he was dating a woman who knew the
casting producers for The Bachelor and they were.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Looking for people.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
So she gave this guy all of the guys that
were living in this house us as names and they
called and I don't know you guys, have you ever
heard of the show Temptation Island? Yes, So that was
right around the same time, and so they called and
I was like, I don't think I'm the I don't
know I'm the guy, Like, I don't think I'm made for.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
This type of stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
So I'm also was I also was really bad at
saying no, and they were very persistent. He still so
they just said, well, like just fill out the question here,
or just fly out and let us do an interview
and like just show up the first day, and so
it was.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
One Yeah, that's how it was. So I took a
week off of work.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I feel like it was the same with you. That's
how they got you. We'll just jump on one phone call,
we'll fly you out. It's just to day.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Like I essentially turned them down, like because I was
too shy and felt too embarrassed to film a selfie
video of like why I should be on the bedroom
And I said no. I said, respectfully, thank you for
asking me, but I can't do this. Yeah, And they said,
well then we'll set up a skype.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah. Yeah. They're very good at like watching me do it.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Get You're persistent, Yeah, we have similar we set you
into it, right, They're like just a little bit and
then thank goodness, you know, yeah, thank goodness.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
I showed up and.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
There were twenty four other like super handsome guys, Like
I was like, oh, I'm out of here. I remember
Jamie blythe I'm like that guy's Kendall, like a real
life Kendle.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I am gone. And I ended up somehow.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
He's lasting but obviously very humble, Yes, which is one
of the reasons. I know.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Do you ever like Trista You've I mean, both of
you made this work, right, but you were the first
and it's been twenty one years and you're still married
and we do see now like there's not too many
leads that it works. Advice.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yeah, that's the number one question. And sorry, I was
on my phone. Our daughter is having some drama, so
I don't wanted to make sure she's tucked in.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
She and Dave. It's Bridle dot com.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
She would love to be dresses are her thing anyway, So.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Number one question. And I think that it is kind
of cliche. It's what everyone says, like all the books,
all the podcasts, whatever about love and relationships. Is communication, trust, honesty, love, friendship?
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Uh, what else? I mean? I've answered this a billion times,
but I think there's lots of grace, grace, lots of grace.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
I just feel like, you know, we're all human, and
if you have a bad day, then it's those little forgivenesses.
Like throughout your relationship, it's having fun together, it's enjoying
life together.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
It's finding humor.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I feel like laughter is so important. It's you know,
sharing values, being a good kisser.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
You have to take a longer term perspective because the show,
like for us, I think it was seven weeks or
something like that, and there is.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
No real reality where you should.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Be getting engaged in seven weeks, really, and so we
did because everything is so intense and then you your
real life comes back into play. And she was gone
and actually here in Los Angeles and I was in Colorado,
and she's going to Super Bowl parties and doing all
this really great fun stuff. And I'm going to like
passed out drunk people in the bar, you know, like
(20:39):
I'm doing my job and she's doing hers, and she's
you know, you're You're offered all these different temptations and
all these different sorts of things, and you have to
be able to get You have to be able to
see past that and not just take the easy road,
which I think a lot of people get sort of
distracted and do that, and then it's hard to come
back from that.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So and and like this was you guys, it's twenty
one years ago.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
There's far less to be distracted by than what people
are dealing with today. So I think I don't blame
anyone who doesn't make it work, because this doesn't work
so hard. We just kind of got lucky, and I
think honestly, luck has something to do with it.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
We're literally just talking about what and where we were,
like I think people need to give luck more credit,
like sometimes your person just wasn't on your season totally.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Did you do bachelor bachelorette parties?
Speaker 6 (21:33):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
He did?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Oh yeah, where'd you go? We can't talk about that.
Probably our biggest fight in our life.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I thought you met viewing parties of the show.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
No brothers, bachelor parties also, like so like we can
talk about golf or bachelor parties.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
That's a whole that's a whole series of podcasts, a series.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
So it was filmed yeah, yeah, oh, and he always
said they should do more, like like a series that
includes like following the couples that are getting married or
doing like a big.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Everyone getting married this year, We're sending you on a
boucherette trip. Like I think there's so much that would
be an opportunity.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
There because that they did that for us. It was
for four parts, a four part series.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I think.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
And it was like meeting the wedding planner doing all that,
like very like the bridesmaids get their dresses, like all
of the things. We like went to New York and
we asked all of our party, what do you call
wedding party?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Like it was all a.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Thing so this was like, yeah, this was like a
this was like a minise, like.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
It was for sure they should do that though. That
would be really fun. I think a lot of people
love to watch all of the up and coming Yeah,
you know.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Well, and I know for us, like we like it's
so different now, like they're not doing the wedding specials
the way they used to and obviously like the Golden One,
which was amazing, But yeah, I think it's so fun
following along with the been coming couples that are tying them.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Numa, especially if you're like, I'm such a girly girl,
and I feel like a lot of our demographic like
for the show are like probably are similar, and they
probably they want to see it. It's all for me
why I fell in love with the show after I
was on it is just I love love, you know,
I love watching people fall in love, and I love
everything that's revolved around it. So that would be a
(23:23):
great That would be a great series. But yeah, maybe
don't include the Bachelor and bachelorette parties.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Okay, we could, we could advise them on what to include.
It ended up being a great time, Like we were
at the same place where we were in Saint something.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Were we to make Thomas, Saint Vincent, Saint Mark's something
like that.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I want to say one of the saints.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Yeah, one of the things.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
And we were separate for a while and that's where
things weren't great.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
We got back together and everything was really fun.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Okay, this was very interesting. Thank you guys both so
much for coming on the podcast and taking the time.
Thank you to David's Bridal sponsoring this podcast. And let's
go to the iHeart Music Awards.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Thank you both so much for being on Tune into
Grant's finale on Monday and we will have some exclusive
interviews coming your way. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Bye,
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