September 9, 2025 • 29 mins
Today on “Happy Hour,” we have our final two couples — Spencer and Jess, and Alexe and Andrew — here to do a post-reunion interview with Wells! Now that this season of “Paradise” is officially over, Wells is sitting down with the couples to get their takes on everything. From the beginning of their connections to the drama of the season, their endings, and any final words, they’re here to tell us everything. We also get to know what life outside of the beach has looked like for our couples and what the future holds now that they’re embarking on their own journeys moving forward. 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):
All right, welcome back. This is a special Bachelor happy
Hour with the happy couples. You guys look so freaking cute.
I love you so much. I'm so happy that the
show ended the way it did. Spencer and Jess, congratulations,
Thank you, I mean, and also of course Andrew and Alex, congratulations.
(00:28):
I have to be honest, like, just on a personal note,
I always knew you guys were going to end up together,
Like I think I told you how halfway through the
show is like, by the way, you're not gonna be
on this show, by the way, But the couple that
you know really surprising me was you guys, and I
(00:48):
really loved watching your your kind of relationship grow. Did
you have any idea that you'd be sitting here now
going back to those early days of paradise.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I think we didn't think so far ahead, so it's
like hard to say, but like I knew that our
like we had something there. I tell her this whole time,
and she remembers the first thing I said. I was like,
I don't know what it is, but there's something between us.
So like before like choosing to go with Bailey or
Alex still on a date, like I just like I
didn't know what it was, but I was gravitating towards Alex.
(01:23):
But I kind of did that my first Paradise where
I went with the girl that I knew at So
I wanted to do Paradise differently, and I wanted to
put all my eggs one bats, but one egg there,
and I put all ninety nine in hers.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So like I was just like, I don't know, there's
just like.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
This magnetic connection. And I know a lot of people
didn't get a chance to see that. That doesn't take
away from the fact that we were just like having
the time of.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Our lives, and I think that was important first. Yeah,
we just we just enjoyed being around each other.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I think her laugh is so infectious to the point
where like I'm like, all right, well.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
No one else is here, because I'm just gonna keep
making her laugh like it.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I also wanted to go at it differently, where you know,
if you look at my journey at the beginning, I
was with one guy with Ricky, and we had a
lot of chemistry and we wanted to make out all
the time and sorry, but I wanted to really go
in it with the idea of like a long term relationship,
and I didn't want, you know, the the lust or
whatever it is to kind of blur my decision, if
(02:24):
that makes sense. And I feel like we had such
a good friendship foundation and I think that's so important
for like long term relationships. And we can't keep our
hands off each other anyway, so I think it.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Yeah, we have both.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Was there a moment during filming that you were like, oh,
this is something different.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I told you that the other night. Well, I think
one of the things was, I know mine. We were
laying in the day bed and day one two. Yeah,
it was literally.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Day one and she's like, all right, I'm gonna take
a name, turns over and I'm just like looking up again.
I can tell she's going to turn back around, like
so I.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Just want to know. I was just like I was like, oh, yeah,
this is perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
This is when I knew, like this is like, you know,
so this could definitely be my person because it just
felt so comfort, so much comfort, and it felt really natural,
like as if you weren't even on the show.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Like I just felt like we were just so geazed
and relaxed.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
And you kind of gave us kind of not confirmation,
but sometimes you would say things and I was like, oh,
I feel like Well's approved, Like well Well's Well's approves.
That's a twister for me, and I know, just having
like an unbiased opinion. I feel like I was like,
I think we're we're pretty solid, like he sees what
we we feel.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, sitting there, Yeah you guys did. Yeah, sorry, that
was the incorrect answer, Alex. The moment that you knew
that he was the one was when he couldn't get
up because he had a giant phoner.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I can't believe my grandma saw that, but I thought, yeah, that.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
See, that's.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
What would that have done.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It was just like I was just like I was
just dying. I'm just I can't tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
But just the way you reacted to that, I think
a lot of people would be like, Okay, that's way
too much, and you just like jumped in on the joke.
I was like, that's my guy.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Like I feel like.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Not you're very like unfiltered.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Filter and I love that you're always your You're always
yourself and you know sometimes.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
When you say words like that that makes me feel good.
I feel good.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So down in the Southern Hemisphere, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Don't stop saying those things.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I would also say, you know what, I get the tingles.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
That's the equivolent.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I would say to him all the time, I have
the tingles. Anyway, let's move on to the sweet wholesome
couple here.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
He's not done with you too.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, I'm gonna go back and Okay, you guys, what's
the funniest or most most ridicul this thing you've seen
written about your relationship online?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh? I can I take this?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Oh please?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Everyone's like saying that, Like I like, Alex only didn't
tell Jeremy because I wanted Bailey or she she wanted
herself for me. And I was like that was not
even the case, like whatsoever, because you can attest to this.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Like I came back.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I was just like, I really need to like see
like what Alex is thinking, like how she's gonna feel
about this in the morning, so I be lined tour
in the morning. First off, our conversation happened before their
conversation happened, and then the whole massage thing, like the
first thing in the morning. I went and talk to
Alex like that was like the first thing on my mind.
It wasn't like anything that was bad between Bailey and I,
Like it's just like.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
We both knew.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
We were just like, ah, all right, well we tried
were we explored it, and I just knew, like I
was just like okay, well I just had to just
for myself so I wouldn't be like oh later down
the line, like I didn't do everything I could at Paradise,
you know, I wouldn't have leave.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
One a stone on the left on turn. So like
I knew it was gonna be Alex, I just had
to get back to.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
It, and you have to talk me off the ledge.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I was gonna leave regardless.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
She was ready to go.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I think we had and a lot of the reasons
why we I didn't take her on the day because
I wasn't one hundred percent sure that she was into me,
so I was a little nervous about like taking her
and then like me, you know, imploding and then like
I literally have nothing, you know, obviously, like the last
time I was in Paradise, I was literally trying to right.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
My wrongs and I had to talk her off a ledge.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
She was like I think I'm good, I'm done, and
I was like, wait, actually, like there's reasons why you
know I didn't.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Take you on the date is because I thought you
didn't like me.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I heard some or some other sourcing stuff I don't
want to get into. I knew also that like, you know,
she would like it if I went, like didn't choose her.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Right away, and I did.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
I liked it.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I was like, you know me, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
What I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I love it like that that also plays a part
in it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
And I was just like, okay, perfect, Well, now I
know I have your attention and I know that you're
interested in me.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I was like on full go, like this is exactly
what I wanted.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
The conversations that we would have in our room where
we would literally sit there in bed and we talked
about something with like I'd say something I liked about
Jess and we go and like say something like that,
Alex like yeah, that sounds that's really good.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, you guys talked a lot about love levels. Yeah,
what level are you at? Now? Well, the caption says
that I'm in love with her for sure, Like so
does that level?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That's infinity?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So at that point, like it just keeps growing and
keeps going and let's just see how.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Like you know, goes in.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
But we did have levels just to kind of give contexts,
you know. I I had this feeling that I was like,
I feel like it's love. I'm not sure if it is.
And you know, I did say I want to make
sure that I really truly mean it when I say
I love you, And I think there's levels. You can
you know, love somebody as a friend, you can love
somebody for you know.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
My love was like I love this person, like I
fell in love with the person, and I was just like,
let's get to falling in love romantically as a partner.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And I think that was like the levels to that
part on.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
A TV show. It can come off as like, oh.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Do you love her after a week? Really? Yeah, So
that's a level one.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Level two. I love you, I love being around you,
but it's not you know.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Like I care for everything that's going on in her life.
I know so many things about her that a lot
of people don't know. Like that's like, now you're embedding
yourself and investing yourself into this person's life. So I'm
just like, oh my god, I love this.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Person, you know what I mean. So it's like I
love you as a friend, as well, but thank you.
I mean, it's just not romantically he did.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It's fine, that's cool. Whatever. My favorite thing that happened
this season no offense guys, was you guys winning the
Last Relationship Challenge.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yes, I have no idea because I suspected it.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
No, I'm amazing it.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Hair she didn't suspect.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I know.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I love.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That was like the most bullshit I've ever Like, you
never you've never felt you were down, have your partner
tell you're not strong enough?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, because like physically, you know.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
So I looked at Spencer and I said, good job,
like you're you're you're getting this one, and.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
You did feel kind of and then you looked at
Dale and I was just like, okay, listen, I was
I was pro athlete at once too, Like don't don't
you don't, don't don't write me off Like I got
some tricks in my sleep. I can like hold out
for a long time. But I mean, like that's a
that's a tough challenge for everyone, for anyone to do. Obviously,
Dale had like a lingering injury that you had that.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Was kind of tough. And then just you're also doing
it by yourself.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
We like communicated as much as you made fun of
me for like rolling my my my wrist, we would talk,
I'd be like every.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Ten seconds, and we're just we're like dumb competitive, Like
I found this out we played volleyball together.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I couldn't be under mediocre Iona.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
But even if even if you saw me on my
last season, like the bull thing, like I was not
going to let go from that bull and not and
lose that challenge.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
So yeah, can I give you guys some advice as
a married man, if this is how you guys are,
do not play monopoly because like that that continue.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Terror family, My god, not.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Speaking of monopoly and money. You know, it seemed like
you would have been totally fine with Alex taking the money,
which actually I think if I saw it on paper,
I'd be like that, I don't like that, But it
ended up looking like really cute. Are you sure that
that's how you really feel?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
No, one thousand percent, Like I'm very comfortable right now
in life, And like I said, it's not even just
the student loans.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I think that's just kind of got overplayed.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It was her whole lifestyle, like how she grew up
and all the things that have happened in her life.
I was just like, you need this good thing in
your life right now, and like then you could figure
out if you want that in that space.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah you know what I mean. So I'm just like,
figure your life out, get things going, get the ball rolling.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I was like, that'd be perfect. And then like I
think that when I'm sitting up there, I'm like, oh
my god, wait, hold on, do I want this? And
it and like the part was like I'm looking down
at the fucking money. I'm like, oh my god, I
have to watch her take the money or come up
here with me, and like I'd be okay, She's just like,
oh she took the money.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I was like, okay, thinks Jessie.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
But it's like it's like I was like, oh no,
she's not strutting down the beach, but a big old bag.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Money falling out the money all those broke people around.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Alex.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
What was the best part about choosing Andrew over the money?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
How I really think about this. I think when I
saw your reaction, when I saw you tear up, because
I feel like you're such a big goofy guy and
we always like mask with humor, and then to see
you so vulnerable because you really wanted me to take
that money, and regardless, it just made that weird. But no,
(12:19):
I just seeing you, it just showed me how much
you cared for me and how much you loved me.
And I wouldn't have done it any other way. I
think it just showed me. You know, sometimes words or words,
but to see this vulnerable and I.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Know I made the right decision. Did you Guys in
the back of your minds think but maybe we'll still
get the money. So in my honest you know, I was.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Like, come on here, we're doing the right thing. Like no,
but I mean if money, you know, it would have different.
I think it would have been different. It was maybe
even half of that would have been dumb. I think
half a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And we got lucky because we won the last challenges.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
So like if we didn't win those challenges, I think
we were one thousand percent on the chopping block.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
And we had that conversation on her.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
We were like, dude, honestly, I'm super excited that I
just got to meet you here.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Like I've had bad paradise.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Every like my last paradise, Like it's just been a
bad experience, Like you have made this so such a
blessing for me, and like I won't I wouldn't trade
it for anything that an amount of money. Like I
was just so like I can't believe this happened to me.
And I was pissed about the money. So I was like,
oh my god, I'm gonna make it to the end,
like I've never like got to the end of like
the Bachelor whatever it's like my own Bachelorrette season or
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or the Paradise.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I was like, I just need to make it to
the end, like that's all I care about.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And then like, yeah, they're voting people off there, They're
voting me off before I get to go, you know,
make it to the end. I was so pissed, and
you could see like the clips of us, Me and
Spencer yelling like what the hell is this?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
We didn't want they were.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Mad, and I just want to say, like, I you
made me laugh so much, Andrew, And I know I'm
seeing online like she makes too many facial expression and
like you racket sorry that I'm happy and I'm having
the time in my life with my partner.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
I rather that than be serious.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And I agree, all right, real quick, have you paid
off the loans, the student loans.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I will say, Alex was also very rich, responsible, and
she's traveled a lot with that. You know, so no,
not yet okay.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And then and lastly, what's next for you guys.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
We're gonna try to make her get to Chicago in January.
She still works a really big real job. She's an
slp SO speech language pathologist, so she's continue doing that
helping out kids.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I've actually like sit in and watched.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The call, watched her like work, and it was like
I didn't it was it was just super like. It
was like it was like nurturing. It was like, damn, hey,
do you want to have a baby. I'm just kidding,
but yeah. I just I think like we're moving at
a really good place. And I tell her this all
the time and she like gets mad.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
At Me's like why do you say it? Like that
was like, I just like our pace, Like I don't
want to want to rushing. I think that where we're at,
it's gradually getting better and better every single time. And
you know, I just think that.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I don't know, it's like a happy home, Like it's
like super nice, like having her at the house when
I come home or from like wherever we're.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Going and bed well, congratulations. I think I can speak
for vatterination when I say that, I think everyone's rooting
for you guys than you.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I do want to say one last thing.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I want to say something about my partner because I
know a lot of like things online has been getting
misconscrewed about, like who she is a person, and I
just want to say that she always went out of
her way to say hello to the production. She make
sure she went to go say hello to people, and
she always treated the cast with respect. Whoever calls her always,
you know, gets a warm heart from her, a warm greeting.
(15:52):
So I just want to make sure that everyone knows
about this woman and she's a very good person.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And I ain't gonna take no ship.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
If you guys are talking about it, yes we do.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Speaking of Bachelor Nation rooting for a couple, We've got
to talk about justin Spencer. You know.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
You mean.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
That's what it is like, sounds like a pesticide.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Sounds like an STD but you know it's Maya and
I'm proud of it.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I will test this before the show.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I want to know what were you guys looking for
when you came into paradise.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Oh man, would you like to go first?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Okay, ideally I was looking for love, looking for my person.
Did I think there was a high likelihood of that
happening as far as an engagement, absolutely non. I talked
to all my friends and family. I was like, hopefully
I can meet someone that I get along well with
and we can date long distance after this, see if
it makes sense to be able to make our way
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towards each other, and you know, hope for the best
from there. But as far as finding her, I did
not expect that at all.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Jes about you because you were looking for him. I
saw some of the pre interviews I was, I was Spencer.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
So the thing is, I'll be so honest here.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
I thought he was really cute, and I was really
hoping that his personality matched up because you didn't get
to see a lot of.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
That on his season.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
But I was not one to be able to make
any judgments because a lot of people judge me on
my season and it didn't really capture who I am
as a person.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
So I was not gonna vice versa that. But this
is kind of funny.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I actually a I ran out of clothes because I
didn't think for a minute that I would be there
till the end, much less get engaged. I thought the same,
you know, there was a little bit of hope there,
but for the majority of it, I was like, you
know what, we'll give it another shot.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
We'll see what happens. Know who knows.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
I had a trip planned that I was supposed to
leave like halfway through Paradise, And so when I got
my phone back, my boss is like, what the hell
we've been on this trip about you? And I'm like, yeah,
so I'm back, and she's like, you were gone the
whole time still, and it's real. It's so funny though,
Like it's nothing like I could have ever dreamed of.
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He is an incredible human and has just like I
can't even put it into words, like it's honestly hard
to put it into words, but he he I said before,
but he's.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Like literally changed my life.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Both of you guys had really cute like I'm falling
in love with you or I love you or I
want to say it first, like you both it was yeah,
kind of mirrored one another. But when did you guys, Like,
when did you know Spencer that you.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Were in love with her?
Speaker 6 (18:52):
So I will say I don't know necessarily if I
completely subscribe to love it versaa. I think there's so
much that you know, goes into loving someone that love
at first sight is tough. What I do know is
from the moment I saw her, the first conversation we had,
and just how welcoming she is, she makes every room
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she's ever in. Knowing her better now she will fight
to the death for us and me, and yeah, I
don't mess with her. And No, from that first conversation
we had, I knew then that I was either spending
the rest of my time there in Paradise with her
or I was going back to Dallas and it would
have been a cool trip. And you know, like, okay, whatever.
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But if it wasn't her for me after that first conversation,
then it wasn't on that beach for me. I like, Look,
I think one thing that is a lot of guys,
especially go on the show and they think, oh, we're
supposed to stay aroun We're supposed kiss these people, We're
supposed to do all these things. Like we're not in
(20:01):
eighth grade. We've kissed people, we know what that's like.
We have hopefully dated people, we know what we're looking
for in a partner, And it didn't take long for
me to realize that what I had standing from me
was something that I had ever had before.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You know.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
And we did talk for like literally three.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Hours the first day. Everyone was like.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
What what are they?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
They're still over there.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Yeah, so yeah, long winded answer, honey, did.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You know that you were in love with him?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Like Spitzer said, there wasn't like a particular moment where
I'm like, oh my god, I'm in love with him.
I think that there was different things that I like
knew that I loved about him, kind of like what
you guys were talking about. There was different things that
I knew that I really loved about him. But and
I was like, wow, this is like someone that makes
me feel so safe and like detected and just like
(21:02):
ride or die.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You know, you guys were plagued with the cutting out
of the show because you're actually in a healthy, loving,
sweet relationship. It happens every season, just just so you know,
And that's why I warned you.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
I was so, you know, I don't go talk to
some people ship.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
But there were so many really cute moments that like
are left on the cutting room floored. You have like
a moment that you wish had been on the show.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
I have one.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Oh yeah, okay, So my number one was he actually
had a birthday on the show, and unfortunately his birthday
landed on a dark day.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
And I was so mad because I'm like, I don't
even get to spend his birthday with him.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I'm like so upset. So I wanted to find a
way to hopefully make it special. And we got him
a cake, and I got one of the pretducer to
make a card for him, and she pulled up his
Instagram and pulled up a picture of his dog Rue,
and drew a picture of Rue on his card, and
then I wrote him this sweet card and just like,
even though it was like thirty minutes, we just like
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got to spin with each other, eating cake and laughing
and like there was maybe one camera on us, and
it just felt so special and I just loved that,
and I wish that people would have seen that.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
It was just really cute.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
So there were so many moments that will forever just
be our moments that weren't aired. Some of them I
don't think were caught on camera. But every morning for
the first half of Paradise. I would go on my runs,
and day one we had talked about wanting to go
walk the beach.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
And we got rained out.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
We got rained out night one and then day two.
There were other things that took her away from me.
Talked about some of our favorite memories, like her naming
our loved child iguana with three legs day one.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
On day one, like five minutes in our conversation, we
saw three legged iguana and named him Hughie, and I said,
it's our love child. And I was like, why the
actual hell did I just say that.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
He's gonna think I'm insane.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You know, you guys were kind of vocal about not
liking the game show aspect of the show and money
being involved. Do you still feel that way? And how
do you feel now that you have won?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Do you want me to go?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I obviously sitting here hindsight twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
And anyways, forget everything I said before.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Yeah, but if I'm being honest, so I'm a big
fan of shows like Survivor, Traders and shows like that.
And as soon as they announced that it was a
game show and there was money involved, instantly I'm there,
and I'm like, if everyone's treating this as a game show,
then we're so screwed, like we're going home so soon,
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and so I just don't think that that format lends
itself well to meshing with a show where the end
goal is to find love and find your person. And
luckily for all of us here it worked out so well.
And I love the challenges. I think that was such
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a huge pleas and seeing how we deal with adversity,
potential adversity, how we deal with disagreements, losing, communicating in
high stress environments, everything like that was so great. But yeah,
I think the money aspect, and on top of that.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
He was pissed. He was pissed, I remember, and I
was like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I have a million dollars.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
That's us that I go.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
But I will say I didn't think of it as like, oh,
we're gonna have targets on our back, because we've been
together since day one, you know, the date I went
on we I just was like, I, why are you
upset about?
Speaker 5 (25:06):
This is like a good thing, This is like a
cool thing.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
One thing though that I was talking about this on
a different podcast and it's never really said in the show,
but you know, the final relationship test is the what
are you going to do about this money?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
And so so you passed that test.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Yeah, I think it was also tough to to be
the judge and jury of your peers and their relationships.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
That that really sucked. You know.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
I think throwing that component in and piling money on
top of it was tough because who am I to
judge dictate anyone else's relationships when I only see five
percent of it? Right?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
You know?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well, I think you guys navigated your way through the
paradise really really well. You did, unfortunately end up winning
a lot of money. What what are you going to
do with the money? Is it going to a wedding?
Is it going to a house? Is it going to
a dog?
Speaker 7 (26:01):
So I actually have student loans as well, not too
too many, but I do have a little bit of that,
So I definitely am gonna put a little bit towards that.
And then we obviously we want to take a trip.
I mean, we do want to go on a trip.
We got to treat ourselves. But the majority of it
is definitely going towards our future together.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
A wedding.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
What, yeah, investing and moving I'm literally moving to Dallas
at the beginning of the year, and you know, we're
gonna have our own place and pick out all the things,
and there's so much that the money.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Is going to go too. Honestly, we're really excited.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
For future cast members. What's one piece of advice you'd
give them if they're thinking about coming on the beach
looking for what you guys found Clues?
Speaker 5 (26:46):
No, no, you go ahead.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
I would say this is a once in a lifetime experience.
And that's the mindset I went into it with. And
if you're able to be lucky enough for it to time up,
well for you find someone the same intent, someone looking
for the same thing that you mesh as well with
as we have here. It works and it's more than
worth any of the risk to my fellows out there.
(27:13):
You don't need to go make out with ever girl
on the beach just because you can. All right, boys,
let's be real real time. You know it kind of
been closing. I think that my favorite line of the
entire season came from your lips and you said, I
can make more money. I just can't make more Jessica
Taylor Edwards and I started crying a little bit. One
(27:36):
good fucking line.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
That was a good one.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
What did you think when you heard that?
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Oh my god, honestly it made me tear up. I
was like, wow that.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I mean, obviously I already knew that I.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Made the right decision, but it just he shows me
every day he keeps proving my decision right.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
You're good man. Thank you, guys, is both all of
you for hanging out with me Bachelor Happy Hour. I'm
so happy that you guys found your person in paradise.
I like to think that I was a little bit
a part of it, and you're way funnier than I expected. Yeah,
you've missed like his son would like, well story time.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yeah you feel wrong, sailor. Yeah it was good.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah you guys think you get cut out show anyways,
Thank you guys so much, and you know, obviously, best
of luck going forward. You are as lovely to me
as I think you appear on TV, and I hope
that the audience really sees how great a people you
guys are and you really found so much.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
We love you.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
We love you guys. All right, guys, that'll do it
for this episode, and thank you to our very happy couples.
Jess Spencer Alex and Andrew. We're so happy for you, guys.
You're the best, and thank you to all our listeners
out there. Make sure you subscribe to a Bachelor Happy
Hour and stay tuned as Joe and Serena jump into
the new season The Golden Bachelor. See you, guys,
All right, welcome back. This is a special Bachelor happy
Hour with the happy couples. You guys look so freaking cute.
I love you so much. I'm so happy that the
show ended the way it did. Spencer and Jess, congratulations,
Thank you, I mean, and also of course Andrew and Alex, congratulations.
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I have to be honest, like, just on a personal note,
I always knew you guys were going to end up together,
Like I think I told you how halfway through the
show is like, by the way, you're not gonna be
on this show, by the way, But the couple that
you know really surprising me was you guys, and I
(00:48):
really loved watching your your kind of relationship grow. Did
you have any idea that you'd be sitting here now
going back to those early days of paradise.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I think we didn't think so far ahead, so it's
like hard to say, but like I knew that our
like we had something there. I tell her this whole time,
and she remembers the first thing I said. I was like,
I don't know what it is, but there's something between us.
So like before like choosing to go with Bailey or
Alex still on a date, like I just like I
didn't know what it was, but I was gravitating towards Alex.
(01:23):
But I kind of did that my first Paradise where
I went with the girl that I knew at So
I wanted to do Paradise differently, and I wanted to
put all my eggs one bats, but one egg there,
and I put all ninety nine in hers.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So like I was just like, I don't know, there's
just like.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
This magnetic connection. And I know a lot of people
didn't get a chance to see that. That doesn't take
away from the fact that we were just like having
the time of.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Our lives, and I think that was important first. Yeah,
we just we just enjoyed being around each other.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I think her laugh is so infectious to the point
where like I'm like, all right, well.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
No one else is here, because I'm just gonna keep
making her laugh like it.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I also wanted to go at it differently, where you know,
if you look at my journey at the beginning, I
was with one guy with Ricky, and we had a
lot of chemistry and we wanted to make out all
the time and sorry, but I wanted to really go
in it with the idea of like a long term relationship,
and I didn't want, you know, the the lust or
whatever it is to kind of blur my decision, if
(02:24):
that makes sense. And I feel like we had such
a good friendship foundation and I think that's so important
for like long term relationships. And we can't keep our
hands off each other anyway, so I think it.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Yeah, we have both.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Was there a moment during filming that you were like, oh,
this is something different.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I told you that the other night. Well, I think
one of the things was, I know mine. We were
laying in the day bed and day one two. Yeah,
it was literally.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Day one and she's like, all right, I'm gonna take
a name, turns over and I'm just like looking up again.
I can tell she's going to turn back around, like
so I.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Just want to know. I was just like I was like, oh, yeah,
this is perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
This is when I knew, like this is like, you know,
so this could definitely be my person because it just
felt so comfort, so much comfort, and it felt really natural,
like as if you weren't even on the show.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Like I just felt like we were just so geazed
and relaxed.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
And you kind of gave us kind of not confirmation,
but sometimes you would say things and I was like, oh,
I feel like Well's approved, Like well Well's Well's approves.
That's a twister for me, and I know, just having
like an unbiased opinion. I feel like I was like,
I think we're we're pretty solid, like he sees what
we we feel.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yeah, sitting there, Yeah you guys did. Yeah, sorry, that
was the incorrect answer, Alex. The moment that you knew
that he was the one was when he couldn't get
up because he had a giant phoner.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I can't believe my grandma saw that, but I thought, yeah, that.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
See, that's.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
What would that have done.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It was just like I was just like I was
just dying. I'm just I can't tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
But just the way you reacted to that, I think
a lot of people would be like, Okay, that's way
too much, and you just like jumped in on the joke.
I was like, that's my guy.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Like I feel like.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Not you're very like unfiltered.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Filter and I love that you're always your You're always
yourself and you know sometimes.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
When you say words like that that makes me feel good.
I feel good.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
So down in the Southern Hemisphere, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Don't stop saying those things.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I would also say, you know what, I get the tingles.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
That's the equivolent.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I would say to him all the time, I have
the tingles. Anyway, let's move on to the sweet wholesome
couple here.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
He's not done with you too.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, I'm gonna go back and Okay, you guys, what's
the funniest or most most ridicul this thing you've seen
written about your relationship online?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Oh? I can I take this?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Oh please?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Everyone's like saying that, Like I like, Alex only didn't
tell Jeremy because I wanted Bailey or she she wanted
herself for me. And I was like that was not
even the case, like whatsoever, because you can attest to this.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Like I came back.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I was just like, I really need to like see
like what Alex is thinking, like how she's gonna feel
about this in the morning, so I be lined tour
in the morning. First off, our conversation happened before their
conversation happened, and then the whole massage thing, like the
first thing in the morning. I went and talk to
Alex like that was like the first thing on my mind.
It wasn't like anything that was bad between Bailey and I,
Like it's just like.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
We both knew.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
We were just like, ah, all right, well we tried
were we explored it, and I just knew, like I
was just like okay, well I just had to just
for myself so I wouldn't be like oh later down
the line, like I didn't do everything I could at Paradise,
you know, I wouldn't have leave.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
One a stone on the left on turn. So like
I knew it was gonna be Alex, I just had
to get back to.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
It, and you have to talk me off the ledge.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I was gonna leave regardless.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
She was ready to go.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I think we had and a lot of the reasons
why we I didn't take her on the day because
I wasn't one hundred percent sure that she was into me,
so I was a little nervous about like taking her
and then like me, you know, imploding and then like
I literally have nothing, you know, obviously, like the last
time I was in Paradise, I was literally trying to right.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
My wrongs and I had to talk her off a ledge.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
She was like I think I'm good, I'm done, and
I was like, wait, actually, like there's reasons why you
know I didn't.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Take you on the date is because I thought you
didn't like me.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I heard some or some other sourcing stuff I don't
want to get into. I knew also that like, you know,
she would like it if I went, like didn't choose her.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Right away, and I did.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
I liked it.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I was like, you know me, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
What I mean.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I love it like that that also plays a part
in it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
And I was just like, okay, perfect, Well, now I
know I have your attention and I know that you're
interested in me.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I was like on full go, like this is exactly
what I wanted.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
The conversations that we would have in our room where
we would literally sit there in bed and we talked
about something with like I'd say something I liked about
Jess and we go and like say something like that,
Alex like yeah, that sounds that's really good.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah, you guys talked a lot about love levels. Yeah,
what level are you at? Now? Well, the caption says
that I'm in love with her for sure, Like so
does that level?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That's infinity?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
So at that point, like it just keeps growing and
keeps going and let's just see how.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Like you know, goes in.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
But we did have levels just to kind of give contexts,
you know. I I had this feeling that I was like,
I feel like it's love. I'm not sure if it is.
And you know, I did say I want to make
sure that I really truly mean it when I say
I love you, And I think there's levels. You can
you know, love somebody as a friend, you can love
somebody for you know.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
My love was like I love this person, like I
fell in love with the person, and I was just like,
let's get to falling in love romantically as a partner.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And I think that was like the levels to that
part on.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
A TV show. It can come off as like, oh.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Do you love her after a week? Really? Yeah, So
that's a level one.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Level two. I love you, I love being around you,
but it's not you know.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Like I care for everything that's going on in her life.
I know so many things about her that a lot
of people don't know. Like that's like, now you're embedding
yourself and investing yourself into this person's life. So I'm
just like, oh my god, I love this.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Person, you know what I mean. So it's like I
love you as a friend, as well, but thank you.
I mean, it's just not romantically he did.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
It's fine, that's cool. Whatever. My favorite thing that happened
this season no offense guys, was you guys winning the
Last Relationship Challenge.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yes, I have no idea because I suspected it.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
No, I'm amazing it.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Hair she didn't suspect.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I know.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I love.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That was like the most bullshit I've ever Like, you
never you've never felt you were down, have your partner
tell you're not strong enough?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, because like physically, you know.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
So I looked at Spencer and I said, good job,
like you're you're you're getting this one, and.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
You did feel kind of and then you looked at
Dale and I was just like, okay, listen, I was
I was pro athlete at once too, Like don't don't
you don't, don't don't write me off Like I got
some tricks in my sleep. I can like hold out
for a long time. But I mean, like that's a
that's a tough challenge for everyone, for anyone to do. Obviously,
Dale had like a lingering injury that you had that.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Was kind of tough. And then just you're also doing
it by yourself.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
We like communicated as much as you made fun of
me for like rolling my my my wrist, we would talk,
I'd be like every.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Ten seconds, and we're just we're like dumb competitive, Like
I found this out we played volleyball together.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I couldn't be under mediocre Iona.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
But even if even if you saw me on my
last season, like the bull thing, like I was not
going to let go from that bull and not and
lose that challenge.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
So yeah, can I give you guys some advice as
a married man, if this is how you guys are,
do not play monopoly because like that that continue.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Terror family, My god, not.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Speaking of monopoly and money. You know, it seemed like
you would have been totally fine with Alex taking the money,
which actually I think if I saw it on paper,
I'd be like that, I don't like that, But it
ended up looking like really cute. Are you sure that
that's how you really feel?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
No, one thousand percent, Like I'm very comfortable right now
in life, And like I said, it's not even just
the student loans.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I think that's just kind of got overplayed.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It was her whole lifestyle, like how she grew up
and all the things that have happened in her life.
I was just like, you need this good thing in
your life right now, and like then you could figure
out if you want that in that space.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Yeah you know what I mean. So I'm just like,
figure your life out, get things going, get the ball rolling.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I was like, that'd be perfect. And then like I
think that when I'm sitting up there, I'm like, oh
my god, wait, hold on, do I want this? And
it and like the part was like I'm looking down
at the fucking money. I'm like, oh my god, I
have to watch her take the money or come up
here with me, and like I'd be okay, She's just like,
oh she took the money.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I was like, okay, thinks Jessie.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
But it's like it's like I was like, oh no,
she's not strutting down the beach, but a big old bag.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Money falling out the money all those broke people around.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
Alex.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
What was the best part about choosing Andrew over the money?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
How I really think about this. I think when I
saw your reaction, when I saw you tear up, because
I feel like you're such a big goofy guy and
we always like mask with humor, and then to see
you so vulnerable because you really wanted me to take
that money, and regardless, it just made that weird. But no,
(12:19):
I just seeing you, it just showed me how much
you cared for me and how much you loved me.
And I wouldn't have done it any other way. I
think it just showed me. You know, sometimes words or words,
but to see this vulnerable and I.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Know I made the right decision. Did you Guys in
the back of your minds think but maybe we'll still
get the money. So in my honest you know, I was.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Like, come on here, we're doing the right thing. Like no,
but I mean if money, you know, it would have different.
I think it would have been different. It was maybe
even half of that would have been dumb. I think
half a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And we got lucky because we won the last challenges.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
So like if we didn't win those challenges, I think
we were one thousand percent on the chopping block.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
And we had that conversation on her.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
We were like, dude, honestly, I'm super excited that I
just got to meet you here.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Like I've had bad paradise.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Every like my last paradise, Like it's just been a
bad experience, Like you have made this so such a
blessing for me, and like I won't I wouldn't trade
it for anything that an amount of money. Like I
was just so like I can't believe this happened to me.
And I was pissed about the money. So I was like,
oh my god, I'm gonna make it to the end,
like I've never like got to the end of like
the Bachelor whatever it's like my own Bachelorrette season or
(13:34):
or the Paradise.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I was like, I just need to make it to
the end, like that's all I care about.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
And then like, yeah, they're voting people off there, They're
voting me off before I get to go, you know,
make it to the end. I was so pissed, and
you could see like the clips of us, Me and
Spencer yelling like what the hell is this?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
We didn't want they were.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Mad, and I just want to say, like, I you
made me laugh so much, Andrew, And I know I'm
seeing online like she makes too many facial expression and
like you racket sorry that I'm happy and I'm having
the time in my life with my partner.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
I rather that than be serious.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
And I agree, all right, real quick, have you paid
off the loans, the student loans.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
I will say, Alex was also very rich, responsible, and
she's traveled a lot with that. You know, so no,
not yet okay.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And then and lastly, what's next for you guys.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
We're gonna try to make her get to Chicago in January.
She still works a really big real job. She's an
slp SO speech language pathologist, so she's continue doing that
helping out kids.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I've actually like sit in and watched.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The call, watched her like work, and it was like
I didn't it was it was just super like. It
was like it was like nurturing. It was like, damn, hey,
do you want to have a baby. I'm just kidding,
but yeah. I just I think like we're moving at
a really good place. And I tell her this all
the time and she like gets mad.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
At Me's like why do you say it? Like that
was like, I just like our pace, Like I don't
want to want to rushing. I think that where we're at,
it's gradually getting better and better every single time. And
you know, I just think that.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
I don't know, it's like a happy home, Like it's
like super nice, like having her at the house when
I come home or from like wherever we're.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Going and bed well, congratulations. I think I can speak
for vatterination when I say that, I think everyone's rooting
for you guys than you.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I do want to say one last thing.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I want to say something about my partner because I
know a lot of like things online has been getting
misconscrewed about, like who she is a person, and I
just want to say that she always went out of
her way to say hello to the production. She make
sure she went to go say hello to people, and
she always treated the cast with respect. Whoever calls her always,
you know, gets a warm heart from her, a warm greeting.
(15:52):
So I just want to make sure that everyone knows
about this woman and she's a very good person.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And I ain't gonna take no ship.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
If you guys are talking about it, yes we do.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Speaking of Bachelor Nation rooting for a couple, We've got
to talk about justin Spencer. You know.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
You mean.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
That's what it is like, sounds like a pesticide.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Sounds like an STD but you know it's Maya and
I'm proud of it.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I will test this before the show.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I want to know what were you guys looking for
when you came into paradise.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Oh man, would you like to go first?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Okay, ideally I was looking for love, looking for my person.
Did I think there was a high likelihood of that
happening as far as an engagement, absolutely non. I talked
to all my friends and family. I was like, hopefully
I can meet someone that I get along well with
and we can date long distance after this, see if
it makes sense to be able to make our way
(17:04):
towards each other, and you know, hope for the best
from there. But as far as finding her, I did
not expect that at all.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Jes about you because you were looking for him. I
saw some of the pre interviews I was, I was Spencer.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
So the thing is, I'll be so honest here.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
I thought he was really cute, and I was really
hoping that his personality matched up because you didn't get
to see a lot of.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
That on his season.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
But I was not one to be able to make
any judgments because a lot of people judge me on
my season and it didn't really capture who I am
as a person.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
So I was not gonna vice versa that. But this
is kind of funny.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I actually a I ran out of clothes because I
didn't think for a minute that I would be there
till the end, much less get engaged. I thought the same,
you know, there was a little bit of hope there,
but for the majority of it, I was like, you
know what, we'll give it another shot.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
We'll see what happens. Know who knows.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
I had a trip planned that I was supposed to
leave like halfway through Paradise, And so when I got
my phone back, my boss is like, what the hell
we've been on this trip about you? And I'm like, yeah,
so I'm back, and she's like, you were gone the
whole time still, and it's real. It's so funny though,
Like it's nothing like I could have ever dreamed of.
(18:26):
He is an incredible human and has just like I
can't even put it into words, like it's honestly hard
to put it into words, but he he I said before,
but he's.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Like literally changed my life.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Both of you guys had really cute like I'm falling
in love with you or I love you or I
want to say it first, like you both it was yeah,
kind of mirrored one another. But when did you guys, Like,
when did you know Spencer that you.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Were in love with her?
Speaker 6 (18:52):
So I will say I don't know necessarily if I
completely subscribe to love it versaa. I think there's so
much that you know, goes into loving someone that love
at first sight is tough. What I do know is
from the moment I saw her, the first conversation we had,
and just how welcoming she is, she makes every room
(19:17):
she's ever in. Knowing her better now she will fight
to the death for us and me, and yeah, I
don't mess with her. And No, from that first conversation
we had, I knew then that I was either spending
the rest of my time there in Paradise with her
or I was going back to Dallas and it would
have been a cool trip. And you know, like, okay, whatever.
(19:40):
But if it wasn't her for me after that first conversation,
then it wasn't on that beach for me. I like, Look,
I think one thing that is a lot of guys,
especially go on the show and they think, oh, we're
supposed to stay aroun We're supposed kiss these people, We're
supposed to do all these things. Like we're not in
(20:01):
eighth grade. We've kissed people, we know what that's like.
We have hopefully dated people, we know what we're looking
for in a partner, And it didn't take long for
me to realize that what I had standing from me
was something that I had ever had before.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You know.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
And we did talk for like literally three.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Hours the first day. Everyone was like.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
What what are they?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
They're still over there.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Yeah, so yeah, long winded answer, honey, did.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You know that you were in love with him?
Speaker 5 (20:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Like Spitzer said, there wasn't like a particular moment where
I'm like, oh my god, I'm in love with him.
I think that there was different things that I like
knew that I loved about him, kind of like what
you guys were talking about. There was different things that
I knew that I really loved about him. But and
I was like, wow, this is like someone that makes
me feel so safe and like detected and just like
(21:02):
ride or die.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You know, you guys were plagued with the cutting out
of the show because you're actually in a healthy, loving,
sweet relationship. It happens every season, just just so you know,
And that's why I warned you.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
I was so, you know, I don't go talk to
some people ship.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
But there were so many really cute moments that like
are left on the cutting room floored. You have like
a moment that you wish had been on the show.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
I have one.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
Oh yeah, okay, So my number one was he actually
had a birthday on the show, and unfortunately his birthday
landed on a dark day.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
And I was so mad because I'm like, I don't
even get to spend his birthday with him.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I'm like so upset. So I wanted to find a
way to hopefully make it special. And we got him
a cake, and I got one of the pretducer to
make a card for him, and she pulled up his
Instagram and pulled up a picture of his dog Rue,
and drew a picture of Rue on his card, and
then I wrote him this sweet card and just like,
even though it was like thirty minutes, we just like
(22:15):
got to spin with each other, eating cake and laughing
and like there was maybe one camera on us, and
it just felt so special and I just loved that,
and I wish that people would have seen that.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
It was just really cute.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
So there were so many moments that will forever just
be our moments that weren't aired. Some of them I
don't think were caught on camera. But every morning for
the first half of Paradise. I would go on my runs,
and day one we had talked about wanting to go
walk the beach.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
And we got rained out.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
We got rained out night one and then day two.
There were other things that took her away from me.
Talked about some of our favorite memories, like her naming
our loved child iguana with three legs day one.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
On day one, like five minutes in our conversation, we
saw three legged iguana and named him Hughie, and I said,
it's our love child. And I was like, why the
actual hell did I just say that.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
He's gonna think I'm insane.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You know, you guys were kind of vocal about not
liking the game show aspect of the show and money
being involved. Do you still feel that way? And how
do you feel now that you have won?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Do you want me to go?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I obviously sitting here hindsight twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
And anyways, forget everything I said before.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Yeah, but if I'm being honest, so I'm a big
fan of shows like Survivor, Traders and shows like that.
And as soon as they announced that it was a
game show and there was money involved, instantly I'm there,
and I'm like, if everyone's treating this as a game show,
then we're so screwed, like we're going home so soon,
(24:09):
and so I just don't think that that format lends
itself well to meshing with a show where the end
goal is to find love and find your person. And
luckily for all of us here it worked out so well.
And I love the challenges. I think that was such
(24:29):
a huge pleas and seeing how we deal with adversity,
potential adversity, how we deal with disagreements, losing, communicating in
high stress environments, everything like that was so great. But yeah,
I think the money aspect, and on top of that.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
He was pissed. He was pissed, I remember, and I
was like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I have a million dollars.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
That's us that I go.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
But I will say I didn't think of it as like, oh,
we're gonna have targets on our back, because we've been
together since day one, you know, the date I went
on we I just was like, I, why are you
upset about?
Speaker 5 (25:06):
This is like a good thing, This is like a
cool thing.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
One thing though that I was talking about this on
a different podcast and it's never really said in the show,
but you know, the final relationship test is the what
are you going to do about this money?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
And so so you passed that test.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Yeah, I think it was also tough to to be
the judge and jury of your peers and their relationships.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
That that really sucked. You know.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
I think throwing that component in and piling money on
top of it was tough because who am I to
judge dictate anyone else's relationships when I only see five
percent of it? Right?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
You know?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well, I think you guys navigated your way through the
paradise really really well. You did, unfortunately end up winning
a lot of money. What what are you going to
do with the money? Is it going to a wedding?
Is it going to a house? Is it going to
a dog?
Speaker 7 (26:01):
So I actually have student loans as well, not too
too many, but I do have a little bit of that,
So I definitely am gonna put a little bit towards that.
And then we obviously we want to take a trip.
I mean, we do want to go on a trip.
We got to treat ourselves. But the majority of it
is definitely going towards our future together.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
A wedding.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
What, yeah, investing and moving I'm literally moving to Dallas
at the beginning of the year, and you know, we're
gonna have our own place and pick out all the things,
and there's so much that the money.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Is going to go too. Honestly, we're really excited.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
For future cast members. What's one piece of advice you'd
give them if they're thinking about coming on the beach
looking for what you guys found Clues?
Speaker 5 (26:46):
No, no, you go ahead.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
I would say this is a once in a lifetime experience.
And that's the mindset I went into it with. And
if you're able to be lucky enough for it to time up,
well for you find someone the same intent, someone looking
for the same thing that you mesh as well with
as we have here. It works and it's more than
worth any of the risk to my fellows out there.
(27:13):
You don't need to go make out with ever girl
on the beach just because you can. All right, boys,
let's be real real time. You know it kind of
been closing. I think that my favorite line of the
entire season came from your lips and you said, I
can make more money. I just can't make more Jessica
Taylor Edwards and I started crying a little bit. One
(27:36):
good fucking line.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
That was a good one.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
What did you think when you heard that?
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Oh my god, honestly it made me tear up. I
was like, wow that.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I mean, obviously I already knew that I.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Made the right decision, but it just he shows me
every day he keeps proving my decision right.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
You're good man. Thank you, guys, is both all of
you for hanging out with me Bachelor Happy Hour. I'm
so happy that you guys found your person in paradise.
I like to think that I was a little bit
a part of it, and you're way funnier than I expected. Yeah,
you've missed like his son would like, well story time.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yeah you feel wrong, sailor. Yeah it was good.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah you guys think you get cut out show anyways,
Thank you guys so much, and you know, obviously, best
of luck going forward. You are as lovely to me
as I think you appear on TV, and I hope
that the audience really sees how great a people you
guys are and you really found so much.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
We love you.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
We love you guys. All right, guys, that'll do it
for this episode, and thank you to our very happy couples.
Jess Spencer Alex and Andrew. We're so happy for you, guys.
You're the best, and thank you to all our listeners
out there. Make sure you subscribe to a Bachelor Happy
Hour and stay tuned as Joe and Serena jump into
the new season The Golden Bachelor. See you, guys,
Hosts And Creators
Joe Amabile
Susan Noles
Serena Pitt
Kathy Swarts
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