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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the most traumatic podcast ever an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Why do we keep doing throw pillows at hotels? I
hate it? It's so gross.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
You will not find them at any of the Firestone properties.
Really do not have throw pillows or those are called shams,
the kind of the fake blankets there. They offer no warmth,
They're only offered bacterial content.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
They're gross. You've eliminated them.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I don't know why I'm answering this.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
It's a great start to the podcast. No, I like this.
Let's this is this is the stuff you have hotels
and yeah, because this is something Laura and I have
a problem with. You got hotels and there's like a
blam wake. We're in a room right now. You're at
this lovely hotel. But there's a blanket that I would
like to burn on the bed. There's a throw pillow
that looks like maybe it's fifty years old.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah, if you throw the blanket on the floor in
the middle of the night, when you wake up, it'll
actually be back on the bed.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It just goes home to wait. Because I know you
have some hotels, Like, do you guys consciously make sure
you don't do that?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, I mean there's a bunch of stuff that we
do in the hotel business, Like we would never have
drawers because ninety percent of the time people will forget
something in a drawer or cleaning a drawer is really hard.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Also under the beds, yes so space.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, so we actually have platforms on all our beds,
so the thing gets under there.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And then you don't have to clean under that, do
you guys?
Speaker 4 (01:25):
People don't lose things under there.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I might be dating your shoe. Come to these hotels.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
They will not let you lose a thing.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You will walk out with the hopping out because I
will have forgotten both of my left shoes.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's just I might be dating myself. But when I
was younger, and we just watched Mission Impossible the other night,
and it made me think of this. They used to
always have a bible. Yes, every hotel room had a Bible.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, yeah, no, I remember that a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Probably Lauren and I just watched Mission Impossible, the original,
and of course he was like talking about the Gideons.
He stayed at the Drake Hotel, and it's like the.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
The boiler alert for the nineteen ninety six Mission Impossible.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It wasn't like I said Amelia dies in the beginning.
Oh my god, come on, it was forty five years ago.
She was like, I was just about to jump into
that Mission Impossible series tonight the Wife and never gonna
sit down. We're going to dive in ghost protocol. And
I'm like, no, let's start at the beginning, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Okay, by the way, like my little brother and his
girlfriend are doing this really fun thing where they're watching
old movies, like they're like.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
This is this is what offends me?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Before you get to that, can we answer the question
I really want to know, like is that still a thing?
Like do you guys put Bibles in your hotels?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Uh? So, different categories of hotels do, okay, And but
it's it's a it's a bit of a controversy which
Bible goes in because they're gifted.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
We don't we don't purchase them.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
They're brought to us King James or the Yes or
which religion or which faith and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I did not know.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
So with the beauty of it in the in this
modern age, you can pull up whatever verse you'd like
on your phone or your tablet and enjoy it that way.
Which do that? Yes, you can do that. I mean
you might be blocked from those sites. Yes, most long
lighting text paying citizens can.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Chris, No, I just didn't because you know, obviously you
used to open up a drawer which don't exist anymore apparently,
and you see the Bible and it was very interesting,
and so there you go.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I just can't believe the Bibles are swag.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
They're gifted.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Though, to promote the church. Yeah, I guess it makes sense.
So sorry, you were asking about old movies.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Well, no, my brother and his girlfriend are starting are
doing the thing where they watch old movies, including like Costablanca.
I mean they are going back, yes, black and white movies,
and I was wondering if they ever get through a movie,
or like if I try to watch an old movie now,
I can't not start looking up about it on my
phone and then like, I'm probably spoilered the movie because
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I get interested in like how it was made and
all that, and I'm googling it as I'm watching it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Certain movies that, yes, the keeping the suspense is important,
like the sixth sense, remember that, you know the Bruce
that's one that you don't want to research dead.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
But like we are running every movie.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
That was so rude.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
His father.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
No. But then there's other ones. I mean, like the
Captain Phillips story. We all kind of know how that ends,
but it's the movie that the story behind it, which I.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Think is so compelling. Tom Hanks always makes it back.
Just know that Tom Hanks is always gonna live, whether
he's on a boat or in a spacecraft.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Uh, Private Ryan, he did not make it back. Good point.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
He didn't make it off.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And now you and now you never will. You're right,
you just lost a viewer. You're right, he doesn't. That's
the one.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Movie where Tom Hanks goes down. Huh because he didn't
die in Big.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You know what is sad is when he dies and
you've got mail.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You think it's such an easy I'll reference that all
the time, and then Lauren never never gets it. I
always say, don't cry, shop girl, don't cry, and she's like,
what is that? Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and Havana
is looking at you right now? Like been here the whole.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Time, literally nothing from movies. I'll watch it the next day.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I'm like, are you are you not a movie person?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Kind of sort of I have my favorites.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You're a genre specific one. If Patrick Dempsey or has
seen it, or has walked by a movie theater that
it was playing in, she loves it?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Is Patrick Dempsey your like exemption card.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah, yeah, have.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
You guys had that conversation for real? We've never had
this conversation I had with.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Avon and Andrew. You're exception, Sevon and I agree, it's
Patrick Dempsey. We yeah, Andrew's yours.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh uh, the weird thing. It's also Patrick Dempsey.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Don't lie to us, don't lie to me, shop girl.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
So, oh my gosh, we've got how do we get
from moving?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I answer that you can't think Andrew gets Let's just
call out what it is.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Andrew gets so uncomfortable, so quickly, so quick we push
a certain b.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
It's a kind of super fun, which is one of
its one of my favorite pastimes, which is making Andrew uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Weird because the four of us when weird. Well, I
guess maybe the three of us, now that I know this,
maybe you're never a part of these conversations. Our conversations
always get pretty sexual and deep.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Oh they do one hundred percent. I'm just saying I
do get uncomfortable, driven.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
By me usually trying to make him feel un she does.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
What buttons to push and so I mean, I don't
you guys were in the car ride home last night.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Yes, it's Kate Beckinsdale by the way.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, she's gorgeous. Yeah, she doesn't die in that.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
She's also you know, I know, she's got the accent
and she's the second.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Most Your mom was British. So let's yeah, how Freudian
take the shovel and dig right in if you looked
in her past. Maybe Kate beckins was also a ballerina,
certainly a performer. Interesting, let's break this down now. Do
you think that's why you're drawn to the stage.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yes, the main stage, dude.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
I just have to say something, is we're giving all
this crap that I love about you. Andrew is such
a geeky theater kid at heart that he will do
a thing that only theater kids do, which is we've
all been taught that you can end on a song.
So if Andrew's uncomfortable, have you noticed he just starts
singing and walks out of the room like he'd be like,
he'll literally leaved breakfast.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Just now I know I shuffled off to Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Did you ever do that? While you were filming The Bachelor?
Speaker 5 (07:45):
He's very you.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Know, Andrew's very old vaudeville.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
When I see a theater kid, I mean back then.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
He pulls out a horn and honks it and leaves.
You're like, did grout your marks? Just walk out of
the room. It's right, he does, makes a scene to
get out of a situation.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
So you know what I've never asked you about. As
we continue to pull you into the realms that no,
well you did? You were on The Bachelor? Were you
ever like? That's a show that gets and I'll be honest,
I've never seen your season, So don't spoil it for
because you.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Were four years old.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I don't end up marrying the girl, watch it, trade
it up afterwards.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Maybe Hey, by the way.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
How did make him feel?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I didn't want it? How you's so uncomfortable?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Spoiler alert?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And literally didn't die but kind of died on that one.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
So well, I will say, the only reason I could
make it through is I didn't actually think anyone was
gonna watch the show. I mean, like I didn't like
that these No, it was it, I mean it was
it was sort of kind of getting there.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
But like Bro, we had over thirty three million viewers
by then, we were the number one show on television.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Okay, So from my person, I didn't realize.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
That he's like, I'm British. Like we had Aaron Bergie
thirty three million viewers, Trista wren Up in the Up
Up twenties thirty millions, and that was she was the
highest rated. And then we came a couple of seasons.
Then later was you Okay, I didn't know all the statistics.
We were at the we were at the height when
you were the Bachelor. Man, it was not on his radio.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
This wasn't on my radar, it wasn't And I just again,
I just couldn't fathom not having done anything on TV
or or in show business or whatever else. I just
couldn't fathom the idea that anyone would be interested enough
to watch what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
No one's fighting him on that.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
And crickets songs, Song Please, song play the the I
guess we should probably say that we're with Andrew and
Ivana Firestars and we were recording.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
We should God, I hope we should start Eastern. We
should start recording. We are up here in Carmel, came
up to Monterey for really no reason at all other
than this is a ginormous and doggo for all of us.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
To Kendall as the producer of this weekend, what have
you been told?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
The reason we're here is.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, I'm curious. There's what is the purpose? Just to
come together together. Ben Higgins really likes to claim this
is his family gathering or something he created, but really this.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Is just like, let me tell you what he did,
give the first toast and take credit. So last night
and he gives you He said that you were also
like a footnote. So it was really a really bush
league crep move by Higgins. And here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Last night, so we're all together, we had this big
family meal. It was awesome. And I guess the real
reason is we just keep doing this because we have
this close, tight knit group of people that we just love,
and we keep bringing everybody together. We go play golf,
we go have great dinners. I mean, we're all together
and we slowly are adding people as well. Justin and
Susie are here. Met them last night. Unbelievably nice, both
(10:53):
of them, like they just started dating. Two of the
women that were on The Golden Bachelor. Yep, Susan and Athy,
who are also unbelievably sweet.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I met Jason Tartick for the first time. He really
he's quality, really good dude, really good dude, very good guy.
So and we're just really trying to help him find love.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Didn't you guys are setting them up with somebody.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
He might be guilty, set up trying to also feeling awkward.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Why is that weird? That's amazing my niece that just
got weird?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah right away?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So wait, that would make you his uncle like Jason
Tartic so much.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Nephew, that's fantastic, Uncle Andrew, You're over here thinking I
got a new friend.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
No, you got to intimidate this guy. He's gonna date
your niece.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
You need a scared Tartic.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I don't know how he got he said date my niece.
I mean, how did we get there so quickly?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Because I wanna set them up.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Last night when we all went to a bar to
see a painting of Chris Harrison that hangs above a toilet,
what a love story it does.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
This is a true story that we needed to get to.
There's a painting of me above a toilet at a
bar called Sadies here in Carmel Downtown Carmel. I had
seen this before, and I knew that this painting existed
because I'll try to make this quick. A caddie who
I've played with many times here at Pebble Beach, a
very nice guy named Josh, is an artist, and he
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painted this painting of me. I didn't commission it. I
didn't ask for it. It just happened.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I'm not Liberaci, I'm not commissioning paintings of myself. But
he's like, hey, I want you to have this painting.
And I was like, you know, immediately, like Andrew, like
I got uncomfortable because like, what would I do with
a painting of myself? Put it over my fireplace or
you know, I don't know, sit over my bubble bath.
So he brings it to my house and he's like, here,
you know, I want you to have this. I's like,
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thank you so much, and he wanted money for it, which, okay,
you know, it's his art.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
It's fine.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
But I wasn't prepared to buy a painting of myself
because I didn't really need that in the first place.
So I said, look, you go sell this if you
think you can make money off of it. God, but
it's like and Er season if anyone's going to watch
him on the Bachelor, Like, God, bless you, and so
a drive by shooting.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I'm just sitting here.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
He took it back. I had no idea what happened
to this painting. It just disappeared into the ether. Years later,
I get a text message from first Ben Flannik former
Bachelor Ben Flannick, who is taking a selfie in a
toilet at a bar and Carmel, going, dude, you're up here.
Then flash forward to wells Adams. He and his brother Brett.
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They are from here, so they're up here all the time.
And Sadie's is kind of an institution. It is a
dive bar in the middle of Carmel. It's kind of
like which one of these is not like the others.
You're in the middle of all these cute shops, and
then it's just like this cash only bar that's been
there forever. And there is one bathroom. It's kind of
like a water closet in the middle of this very
tiny bar. And if you walk in there, right behind
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the toilet is a rather large oversized. It's an oversized
of me holding kind of a crown of roses. And
I didn't know there's also a plaque underneath it that's
like man with crown of roses or whatever. And it's
like donated by or like like by Josh.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So nobody bought it.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
They did, they did. It was for millions.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I went to the bar. I went to the bar
keep last night. I said, Hey, what's the story behind
the paint. So here's here's the great thing is the
bartender's like tells me this story. He's like, I don't
really know. It's this guy and da da dada, apparently
like And I said, well, I'm I can break down
the first mystery. I'm the guy. He's like, didn't know
it was you, no idea we had this conversation, had
no idea was me And there was this incredibly accurate painting.
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There was an older woman next to me and she's
like it was like the old man in the sea,
like hymingways, like you want to know about the painting,
I'll tell you. I'll tell you the truth about the painting.
And I was like, oh my god, sit down, I said.
I was like hi, and she's like I'm Dorothy. Okay, Dorothy,
let's go. And her and her husband were sitting at
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the end of the bar. Apparently they come there a
lot there drinking tea. I said, down with Dorothy, and
she says, there was a guy who came to Pebble
Beach and played golf and he agreed to have a
painting done of himself, and the person drove down to
his house in LA. They agreed on fourteen hundred dollars
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and when he got there, the guy wouldn't pay.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I didn't hear this.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
He wouldn't pay the fourteen hundred dollars. He said, he
would only offer four hundred. So the guy left and
he took the painting with him and I said, Dorothy,
that is a fascinating story, and let him have that.
I said, do you want to know the truth?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Truth?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I did, and she said what And I said, well, Dorothy,
I don't know why people aren't understanding this if they've
been there a lot. But I said, I'm the guy
in the painting. She said what, So I blew Dorothy's mind.
They had so I introduced myself and she's like, oh
my god. After we had a hug and we took
a picture. I said, most of that story is correct,
except for the fact that we ever agreed on the
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painting or ever talked about money until he got in
my living room in la and I was like, I'm
not going to pay three or five thousand dollars from
an oil painting in myself, and I said, hey, just
take this and go sell it. So that so the bar,
the owner of this SADS somehow acquired it and during COVID,
from what I understand, he put it on an easel
because you had to drink outside on the streets. They
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put it on an easel outside on the streets of
downtown Carmel, and the caddies would come and just drink
around the painting. Is that right, No way, Dave, that's
kind of your dream.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
It is my dream. I mean, yeah, caddies. Six percent
truth in that story. It was just a painting. They
couldn't put anywhere else. They stuck it in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
But I was so weird that that painting is the
weird thing is too is honestly Carmel, Monterey Pebble. This
is one of my and now Lauren's favorite places in
the world. We love coming up here. So the fact
that there is a weird shrine over a crapper in
a dive bar is just poet.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
It's the least subtle bathroom in the end of any
public space I've ever seen. Like, if you have to
go to the bathroom, it's a circle bar. Everyone's watching
you go in and timing you how long you've been
in there. I mean, any Bachelor fan should make a pilgrimage.
Yes to Sades and Carmel, get a selfie with that,
which we all did last night.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
We all crammed into the bathroom. You'll be seeing a
lot of those social media posts.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
I just love I'm jealous that you had a moment
with someone where you got to say, Dorothy, I'm that guy,
I'm the guy in the painting.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Who else whoever.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Gets to say?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Is that both the bartender and Dorothy, who clearly both
of them have been there quite often. And again, there
is one bathroom, and as Andrew said, the distance from
the bar to the bathroom is maybe three feet. I
mean you turn around and you hit the bathroom door.
So rather clean, by the way, I will give them credit.
At Sadie's. The bar itself not so clean. The bathroom
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very clean. Nice, So thank you for keeping my shrine
very clean.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
So clean that you sat on the toilet to take
a picture with your pants on.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
That was one of the weirdest things.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Got so creepy outside.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
What did I tell you to do before you went
back into your hotel room?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Burn my pants?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I did so.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I thought it would be funny because guys, you'll see
the picture on Instagram. If not, go to my Instagram
at Chris B. Harrison and you'll see that it. I
mean when I say it's above the crapper, it's there
twelve inches above the crapper, and it's huge. And so
I thought it'd be funny if I sat on the
toilet like I was using the toilet. Yeah, we'll get it.
You don't have to explain it. But immediately and I
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thought I was actually going to drop trow. And then
I realized I didn't know where the bathroom, I didn't
know the situation of the geography had just been you guys,
I would have dropped trow. But when you open the door,
you're in the bar. I mean you're part of the bar.
You guys will be sitting on the toilet and at
the bar at the same time the bartender could reach you.
So that didn't seem like a great idea at the time,
So I kept my pants.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Any point, would you have put the seat cover on though,
seat covers? Yeah, line it with toilet.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Build the pyramid. No, you know, I'm not to have
a seat cover, I said. I said this to Lauren.
I said, you know what, if you really think that
that toilet seed is any dirtier than every barstool, another
seat we sit on, I bet it's not.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
It might be.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Cleaner if it's just someone's clean naked skin.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
No, okay, the journey on, that is what I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
I took a glance. I took a really good look,
and I quickly assessed that the bathroom itself is really clean. Well,
we should have had Andrew in there.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
He's the one whose nose don't have these shams and pillowcases.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
And story the mystery of the painting above the toilet
at Sadies and we had.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
A great time. Thank you Annabel for buying us a
tequila shot. She was in town for the tournament.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
She was great. Her friend thought you were Joe Rogan,
so that was funny.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
There you go. She was like, I love his podcast.
I was like, oh, you listening like the Joe Rogan podcast.
That's really great. By the way, I love Joe Rogan too.
He has a fantastic podcast. He's also a beefcake and
the dude's huge, So thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
We haven't heard that one before. I don't think he's
easily mistaken beefcake.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, I'm Jack's Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
I'm really Ivanna was setting up Jason, your future nephew
with your niece.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
That time.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I'm breathing. I'm not just breathing.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Wells and Sarah were.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
There, Yeah, talking through some kind of ghost experiences.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
She's had. She's very into ghosts.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Bob Guiney Canaan showed up. They were there last night,
so it was. He had a great group. It was
it was. It was a loud room. There's thirty of us,
like write thirty down.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
I don't know why I'm thinking about this, but I
think my mind went from like you intimidating Jason as
his future uncle to you having to fight Jason if needed.
And I don't know if you guys ever talked about this,
but of like the crew of guys who's here, if
you had to fight somebody, who are you fighting.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I mean there's a lot of a lot of the
Bachelor people else.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
He grew up here, Like, I don't think he's that feisty.
He grew up coddled here and you know, Pabo Beach,
that's my best shot.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah, you know he is.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
My first time meeting Wells was when I started him
on JoJo's season and they were having them do a
challenge where they all had to like pretend to be firefighters.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Oh god, yes, like Jordan Rodgers is crushing it.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
That Luke pel guy is crushing it.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
It was we had a real firefighter on the show,
Grant Yes.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
And they have me interview Wells, and the producers like,
this guy's going to be great. He does radio for
a living, so he's gonna be like a SoundBite machine,
like sound really great. And I go over there and
he's like so gray and like near passing out, like truly,
like in the middle of the interview.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Goes, I don't think I keep talking anywhere.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
I need some water because he just done like the
physical exertion that all of the other Meal contestants were
sailing through.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
To be honest, I think Wells is a good choice.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, Well, I think I could just picture a fight
with us. It would kind of be one of those
like slap fights that ends up with us just kind
of like hugging and wrestling each other on the around
and then in like a minute and a half or like,
I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted. All right, let's go play golf. Andrew,
are you going with?
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Who am I gonna fight? Yeah, I'm not gonna fight.
I'm gonna fight Bob Guinea. No, yeah, Detroit, and he's
also big, you know, and he was a you know,
he was an athlete. I'm not going to fight him.
Justin who I met last night, definitely not going to
fight him.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Monsters tartic buffalo.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I know he's definitely he's fit,
like I learned, and.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
You're going to be spending Christmases and Thanksgivings together the rest.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Of to make it ocer.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I just learned Jason used to play hockey. I never
knew that. I definitely soccer.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Wells or Ben or Brett.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I take Brett Adam.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Brother.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah no, I think Brett can throw a punch. That
guy can throw back.
Speaker 8 (22:47):
And yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Have a quest for you and I'm very serious about
this question. Do you feel like you have been ostracized
and cut out of this bachelor world because of our relationship?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
One hundred percent, But I don't care, Like it's so
funny you said that because Bob and I were just
talking about this. Yeah, and you know again, I'm one
of the dinosaur bachelors, So it's not like you know.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
But here's the thing, so is Trista. So is getting
like there are others that are, you know, old school
that they keep like Sean Lowe even at this point,
and they keep having them back and keep propping the
franchise up. I've noticed you are easily one of the
most popular I'm not just blowing smoke. You're easily one
of the most successful, one of the most popular shows
we ever had, and people are You're very beloved when
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we go out, and about as much as any bachelor
we've ever been with. And they have cut you completely
out of the picture, like you don't get invited to anything.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I'll tell you the only thing that I we got
invited to, and it was Evan of myself and our kids.
We came down to the wedding of Jad and Tanner
Jade and Tanner.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And that's still when I was with the show though
no I know, but but but you and.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
And the only they had asked me before, They're like,
do you want to come down? I'm like, I don't
even know. These people are like, I mean, why.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Would I go?
Speaker 3 (24:16):
But then but then Chris, Chris said, listen, no, come down.
It'll be fun and we can hang out. We can
play golf and you can. We met Ben Higgins that time.
I wanted to hook you up with that so and
so we did, of course, because I'll hang with you
guys anytime. I don't have a real connection with the
Bachelor because they don't foster it really and and like
I don't. I don't really try, and I don't cling
onto it or hold on to it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Well, you're right, it's twofold one. They don't. They do
a really poor job, always have even when I was there.
They did a really poor job of keeping that family
tight knick group together and using it for good I mean, honestly,
for for the benefit of all of us. But the
other side of that is you've never sought that out,
like you've never needed it or wanted it, And so
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that's a big part of it too was if these
people really want it, they'll they'll make a way to
get back in.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Yeah. And I mean, I don't think I've talked to
anybody from the bastlor in, you know, besides from this
crew here in forever. I can't even remember the last time,
and which is totally fine, which is awesome, and Ivon
and I have our you know, our own life and
everything else going on. So it's it's there's not really
a big I just it's available.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I saw a big they it's something where a bunch
of formers were there, and I'm like, that's weird that
the Firestones aren't there.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
But there was a time and it wasn't that long
ago actually where we were, Like I was on the
cover of People magazine they were doing an anniversary was
me and Bob and Trista and like the ogs.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
And I think that's because that's like the fan base
knowing that you guys are beloved. But I don't think
the show fosters that, like last night, it's.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
No good because they're not promoting their future shows and
there's there's so many so like I get, there's no
upside for them to include me, which is totally fine.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
But I've only realized since not covering the show anymore,
how many people come up to me and I'll just
to his orne for a second, but like say that
Chris was the connection and it's not just fans. Like
last night, Bob Guiney was talking about his season and
I don't think you could hear this part because it
was like so loud in the room, But Bob turned
to me and was like, Chris is the only reason
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I survived the show, like he is the only reason
I even made it through my season was because he
was a friend to me, and it was really sweet.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Higgins and I have had this conversations too, and I
love Bob and I do love Ben. I know you
don't care, but I just I found it odd. Yeah,
and I didn't know if you've thought about that too,
or let me you have been surgically removed. No, it
gets brought and I apologize.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I am.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
I am a little sorry that, like you, we went
down with the boat were no.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Way was when I was asked like, oh, did you
go to you can go to the wedding, the Golden Wedding, Yeah,
And I was like, I don't know, why would you know,
why would I ever like, who's gonna go? And there
was a lot of other people there. Trista was there,
and Bob went.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
I think, yeah, you know, what's the worst move on that?
Speaker 5 (26:55):
From a TV perspective, they're literally not inviting the family
only of models that came out of the franchise. The
Firestones are literally a family of models. They model for
the rich Carlton, they model for Abercarmie put them. These
two and their children are paid models.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
I put this family up against anyone in the Bacher family.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
But these faces on TV, it's idiocy.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You know, that is a better discussion like hottest family,
best looking family for sure Firestones and it's really one hundred.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
We're sorry, we know you're in the room now, you're beautiful,
but they're.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Literally the well, no, it's it's not. It's first of all,
it's not Andrew. But you look at Ivna, brooks Anya,
even Shane, you know he's really coming into his own.
Yeah he loves Chili for some weird reason, but he's
a I mean, it's a good looking family, like it
is an Abercrombie fish.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
I ask, and we need to wrap you guys, but seriously,
I want to applaud Evana because this is something she's
done in the last couple of years, like created this
modeling career for the entire crew, and you Gushians are
crushing it. They're about to go on a cruise as
they've been hired to film and do ad campaigns for
a cruise line, which is incredible.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So what's that been like for you guys?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Like she's your sugar mama now and so Andrew is
that has that gone for you?
Speaker 3 (28:11):
So I think one of the coolest things that's happened
over the last few years is like, you know, again,
the Bachelor thing was so long ago and I don't
have that big of a connection with it. But Evanna,
you know, raised our three kids, supported me so much
in my you know, starting my business. In the last
four or five years, she has been able to go
and like create and foster and grow this career for
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herself that she had before when I met her. You
gotta remember, I used to be the one that was
like the plus one when all her red carpets and
when I would go to her photo shoots. I was
the one that was the hanger on. And but then
while I was building my business, and raising the kiddos.
She was bearing the brunt of doing all of that work,
or most of that work. And now we're at a
(28:53):
point where she can now focus back on that, which
is so fun for me to watch and to be
able to be that again and like kind of like
basking that Aunt I do And then so we did.
So she just booked for our family a massive, massive
campaign and I had nothing to do with it, and
she did it on her own. She hustled it made
it happen. And she manages all three of our kids
(29:15):
who are are working all the time, and she does
all that and I, you know, again, I get a
lot of credit for things that I've done in the past,
but she doesn't get enough credit for the stuff that
she doesn't know.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Wow, guys, Avon, do you I mean in all seriously
because I've always known you to be a badass on
every level because I met you before kids, I've seen
you and pickleball International pickleball champion. But to have watched this,
you know, next chapter in your life, to have watched
that evolve, to see the fire burning in you again,
Like is it exciting for you to get back to
(29:48):
that and to feel that fire. I mean, you have
your kids. Your kids aren't gone, by the way, you're
not done with that. I just want to break this
to you guys. Shane, Shane can't move out yet. But like,
is that has that been exciting?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yes, it's been so exciting.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
And I mean we were talking about this yesterday, the
fact that I went back at forty five.
Speaker 8 (30:06):
Who would have ever thought.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
But it's been awesome.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
And it's nice to have a thing that feels good,
to have a thing something to you know, work towards
and do.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
And this cruise is going to be amazing. It's icon
in the seas. The kids are gonna have so much fun.
It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Are we invited on that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
You know right, as much as the Bachelor cut them out,
they've cut us out. This is a good place to
stop it. Such a quick note.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
But before we before we stop, one thing that we
noticed a lot of our you know, like wet to
this age and as long as you've been married, a
lot of there's a lot of tension ends up boiling
between couples because you're at this point where like she's
had this assignment for so long raising the kids. I've
had this assignment whatever else. Then you get to a
point where you're like, wait a second, I want this
and this is what you know, like what she needs
(30:52):
and what she wants and what I've gotten used to
sometimes aren't in congruence. And so we we had a
we had a rough pass where we had to try
and talk through and figure out that like, wait a second,
like this is important to her, not just because you
know it's important to her from a you know, from
a financial perspective, whatever else, but if fulfilling part of it,
and I had to I was like a re education
(31:13):
for me well, and to think that like.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I am growing and work is being done by the
way it's it is. It's first of all, it's been
a great way to help self realization. This is growth.
But it's also something that every couple who has children
have to face. And it is one one if I know,
we talk about finances and all that, but it's one
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of the biggest reasons couples end up getting divorced and
going their separate ways is because one or the other
has defined themselves for the better part of a decade
or two on raising children and and when that is
over to a certain degree, and they go to high
school or go to college or whatever, and you're like,
oh crap, my definition just left. Now what am I
and what? And so if you guys have not, if
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you don't do the work that you're just talking about
self realization and figure that out, you do end up
going somewhere.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I promise you. I was almost too late to it.
I was so focused. I was looking down. I'm like,
everything's awesome. I've got a beautiful wife, three amazing kids, whatever,
I mean, my life is amazing. And I wasn't looking left.
I wasn't looking to my partner enough. And she you know,
and she wasn't quiet about it, But I was like,
but then, but then I didn't realize for a while
(32:24):
how important it was to fulfill her. And when she's filled,
when she's happy, it makes me that much happier. And
so it's been. It's been a I think, a pivot
in our in our relationship and our family that she
now controls this big part of what we do, and
it's so much more balanced than it has been I
think in our entire life.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Wow, I love that we FI FI five.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
We started this podcast by saying we were going to
make Andrew uncomfortable and now he's he's spun around on
us and he's just crushed.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
And we also talked about who you thought was going
to die first, me or Bob Gami.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
So you know, we didn't answer that.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I don't know, I don't know that we want to.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
No, Dean and Calen, have we scared you with this conversation.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Nearly what you say? Goodbye to the Firestones. We love
you guys. Y'all are of course dear, dear friends to us,
and we love anytime we get to hang out with
you guys. And I can't wait to be done with
this because then we can spend the rest of the
day together.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
I know I can't wait to go back to that
bathroom and look at that picture.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
We just spend the rest of the day. Thank you,
love you guys, Thanks for listening. Follow us on Instagram
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