December 18, 2022 • 18 mins
In what has the feel of a very special crossover episode, Tyler admits he was once asked to be The Bachelor! Find out why it didn’t happen and how his story sends Wells into “talespin” about the food situation on the Bachelor. (Without any spoilers, let’s just say a lot of the guys might have been better off eating the rose.)
It’s reality TV meets food in this behind-the-scenes tell all!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Two Dudes in a Kitchen with Tyler Florence and
Wells Adams and I Heart radio podcast. Alright, it's time
for other episode of Two Dudes in a Kitchen. I'm
not actually in a kitchen. I'm in a studio right now, Tyler,
where are you? I'm at my lovely holiday and we're
getting read for the holidays. We've got the you got
the Christmas tree up, feeling super festive. We're actually hosting
(00:21):
an event here at the house. So we have We've
hosted politicians, We've had huge fundraisers here at the house.
Who's the most famous person you've cooked for? Oh? Gosh, um,
I mean I've cooked for presidents for sure? Did you
vote for them? Was that weird if you hadn't? I did?
I did? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yea yeah yeah yeah sure.
(00:42):
That's that's pretty awesome. Man. Well, I'm excited about today's
episode because apparently a bunch of listeners have been hitting
us up wanting to know more about what we eat
when we're on the Bachelor or bach Fred or Bachelor
in Paradise and guess what, um, I can answer those questions.
I think this is so fascinating because, like, you and
(01:02):
I kind of know each other in a whole different world.
You and I know each other over food, you know,
and and as a guy who hosts the reality show
you know, we have the Great Food Truck Race on
Food Network and you know season sixteen. I get it.
I kind of know how they work the back ends
from production standpoint. But the Bachelor is is something that
(01:23):
I'm not wildly familiar with. I because I work in
the restaurants, are work at nights, I don't really get
a chance to watch a lot of television. Um, but
but one thing that I think is really kind of
interesting with the Bachelor and and and this is going back, dude,
must have been like two thousand three, two thousand four,
two thousand five, because the Batchler's been around for a while, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I turned it down. Really they asked me to be
(01:46):
the Bachelor, and and I turned it down if it
was the same year because I was like the sexiest
chef alive and People magazine, well he's still learned. So
this is going well, thank you brother, Um, this is
so this is going back a minute. Must have been
like two thousand four like that. But so the phone
was ringing out turned down a bunch of shows. I
turned down The Apprentice, we turned down everything, but I
actually turned The Bachelor down. So I think it's so
(02:08):
kind of interesting because you know, because I had, like
my my eldest son is twenty six right now, he
was he was like four, and it just didn't feel
like the energy, like me making that with chicks in
a hot tub. I just didn't really feel like the
energy I want to throw out the world, you know
what I mean? Well I did, that's for sure, And dude,
I mean like and and trust me, I was torn. Um.
(02:29):
But you know what an incredible franchise. I mean, you
really got to think about this. I mean it's like,
I mean, it's super primal a lot of ways, because
everybody wants to date and and have this sort of
fantasy thing where you know, a hundred men doted over.
You know, it's such a fantasy thing for a lot
of it's a little there's parts of it that are
just really very unrealistic, and then there are parts of
(02:50):
it that are very realistic. And then I guess it's
up to the viewer to discern between the two. I mean,
the one thing that you always have to prove of
on the show is the justification for one person to
be doated on by so many amazingly beautiful other people, right,
And I think that you would It would have been justified.
(03:14):
You are a successful chef, you were people magazines most
Sexy Chef in the world or something like that. I
think that would have would have made sense. When they
asked me to do it, I was like, no way,
no one, no one will buy that. People want to
date me on this show. Um. So yeah, that's why
it never shook out for me. But the one thing
(03:34):
that is very real about the show is that a
bunch of dudes, at least on the Bachelorette, have to
learn to live together. And one of those things of
learning to live with other people is eating around them
and cleaning around them and all that that entails. So
we didn't have crafty on that set. We had to
(03:54):
make our own stuff. Okay, So so it's a I
can only imagine that that's a really really big production,
right hundreds. So so listen, I've done Extreme Makeover Home Edition,
you know, I've done like really really really big shows
before where they would take over what would feel like
a city block, like a neighborhood block and um with
(04:15):
trailers and everybody gets a trailer and their assistant gets
a trailer, and you know, and there's like like full
time cappuccino people and that kind of so that doesn't happen.
I mean, it's a huge production where there's there are
hundreds of people working on set at the same time.
But when you're on the bount threat and you make
it into the house, you make it past the first
rows ceremony, then you all come in. They give you
(04:36):
like bunk beds and stuff. Bunk beds, bro, you gotta
sleep bunk beds with dudes, and like that. The whole
room just just dank duck butter like like a like
a like a karate cloud, like an old gym bag.
That's exactly what the whole it's. It was miserable. Dudes
(04:56):
are so gross, I will say that. And yeah, I
was like hoping for people to get there, like the
dirty kids. We were hoping that wouldn't get roses just
so maybe would smell a little bit better, uh like
the next week. But yeah, we also they put you
in this one big mansions in Agora Hills right outside
of Los Angeles, and so they stocked the refrigerator with
a bunch of stuff, but that gets all destroyed like
(05:18):
within the first I think first week, and then you
start telling handlers like hey, I need you to go
pick up like X, Y and Z and they and
every week they stocked the kitchen with things you want
to cook, and you have to cook for yourself, like
there is no like I can order out anything. But
it's all that on camera like they do that. They
actually that, they just don't show a lot of it.
(05:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, well so that they want they want
to see you make terrible scrimbled eggs or something like that, right, yeah,
like the Kendall Jenner cutting cucumber like backwards. I think
that they're hoping for that. It's funny though, because I, um,
I do make a fantastic duck gumbo. And so there
was one week that I didn't have a date, like
(06:01):
there was nothing for me to do, so I asked
for all the ingredients and then I just spent the
entire day making duck gumbo for like the entire cast
and crew, and they they filmed the entire thing and
I did it like as I was like hosting a
cooking show, like I was you or like Rachel Ray
or something um, And I was like, man, I really
(06:24):
they're gonna air this and I'm gonna be I'm gonna
be on the Food Network soon. And then they didn't.
They didn't hear it, but I did feed like the
entire cast and crew, and I gotta say it was
bombed very good. That's that's how you got to do
it in a situations like that. That that's the reason
I love being a chef because I'll never get kicked
off the island. I'm the I'm the last guy that
(06:46):
will get kicked off the island, just because like, if
I'm going, what do you, bozo is gonna eat? Best
luck the best luck to all of you, right, And
so I think that's really great. It's just you know,
because hospital hospitality professions, you know, we cook for each
other all the time. That's just what we do. We give,
and I think those things are really great. It's like
(07:06):
you kind of kill them with kindness with food, Oh
for sure. You know. One of the weird things about
the Bachelor of the Bachelorette or even Bachelor in Paradise
is there's this unspoken rule that if you go on
a one on one day. You're not allowed to eat
the food because it's almost like set food. Oh right,
I think it's been sitting out for a while, and like,
(07:27):
you know, you effectively when you when you watch it back,
it seems like the dinner is thirty minutes, but really
it's hours and hours on end. You're and you're talking
so much more than what they show, and so the
food isn't you're not supposed to eat it. And I
went on one one on one day and I did
eat the food and it was so cold and so
(07:50):
stale and so gross, but I just you naturally want
to eat because it they're in front of you, you know. Now,
did you guys shoot that at a restaurant with a
real shop or like they took over the restaurant and
they brought in their own like food stylists and that
kind of thing. We were in Argentina and they rented
out the entire building like it was a huge it
(08:11):
was like an old hotel um and they brought in
a chef that cooked it like earlier that day. But
I remember I had like the date that day and
then it was like okay, go home and or go
back to the hotel. Change and then go to the
dinner portion. And during that stint of me going home
and changing, they were like, what do you want to eat?
(08:33):
And I ordered food and ate that before I went
to the dinner so I wouldn't be hungry, even though
I still was hungry, and I still ate the food
that was cold and gross and cardboardy. On a side note,
how long were you in Argentina? They got some of
the best food in the world there, man, the beef
and the male back. Oh my god, are yeah bro?
(08:54):
All day long? Dude, we really get Argentina grassad, beef
and and like carne asada. It's like where they kind
of cook it sort of kind of out a an
open fire, like cowboys steaks and stuff like that. And
they have like you go to the tango nights and
watch the dancing and eat the Oh I've been to
Argentina before that. Yeah, if I ever went away from home.
By the way, Buenos Aires is an amazing city. It's huge,
(09:18):
It's absolutely massive. You're also in Uruguay, which also has
some amazing food and wine as well. Yeah, super interesting.
South America is on fire now. It's great. So back
to the Bachelor, right, you go on. These dates are
in the house, You're cooking gumbo, You've got these fridge things. Right.
Does it ever get the point where it's like people
start competing with each other to see who can cook?
(09:41):
Is that ever an element where people start to find leverage? Yeah? Well,
I think the people who were good cooks, like myself
and there are some other people that were good like
would kind of take charge of like I'm gonna make food,
like I'll make breakfast this morning. Guys, like what does
everyone want? Okay, you know, you become like almost like
a short order cook, like I like, I was like
(10:03):
a waffle house cook there for a little bit because
looking like alright, I got I got three orders of
scranby eggs, and I got one poached egg, and I
got a couple of sunny side up and um and
all that kind of stuff. But but yeah, it was
it was also funny all these guys. I'm obviously not
like this, but um, all these guys were all so
muscular and like just beef caked out where there wasn't
(10:28):
enough peanut butter, sliced meat or eggs in the house ever,
because they were just constantly being devoured by these guys
who were terrified of carbohydrates, right right, right right, I was,
I was, It's something And what I think it's kind
of interesting about the stuff that it's like we're because
you know, hosting reality shows. And I've been on reality
(10:49):
shows and been a guest judge in a bunch of
reality shows. And my thing is is the fear of
kind of like who you're talking to, because I mean,
I've been in television for twenty six years, man, right,
And and and when you start talking to these like
sometimes the contestants they come off of these shows, and
and and you actually had a career in radio before
(11:12):
you did this, so like you you're a DJ, you
always be a DJ, and like kind of you have
you're so well versed, and you know it can jump
into any genre, Like do you really Sometimes these people
that are kind of like reality famous for like five seconds,
it's like a big mac, you know what I mean?
Do you kind of eat it? And then it's metabolized
And then the shows onto the next season and these
people that that were famous for like five seconds on
(11:33):
season five of whatever it was, right, they start to
fade off of the background, and I feel bad for
these people. Sometimes. Well, I remember talking to the past
host about it, Chris Harrison, and he was like, listen,
don't let this this event in your life define who
you are going forward. Just let it kind of make
your normal life a little bit cooler. I mean, for me,
(11:56):
I was the radio host of like hosting stuff was
was an easy thing to continue going down. But like
you know, it's it's funny when these guys who were
like personal trainers or whatever, insurance salesman and all of
a sudden they go on a show and they they
they can be an actor. It's like, well, that's not
what you were before, Like continue being an insurance salesman.
But then also, you know, you're right, like use this
(12:19):
opportunity to uh, to keep kind of growing I guess
your brand. But I will say this, like I hosted
um Best in Dough on Hulu, and the one thing
that I wanted to ask you as a host of
a cooking show is but mine was a little different
because these guys were like really really good cooks. They
were really good pizza makers. So we ate really really
(12:42):
well on the show, like we had crafty, but we
would always just eat what was happening, what was like
the challenges were, but for when you did um Worse Cooks,
I would imagine you'd be scared to eat that stuff
because sal Manila, Well some of the was you know
it was it was designed to be grossed, right, I
(13:03):
mean so like to to kind of peel the you know,
the sausage make you back a little bit like so
like some stuff early on, like the early challenges in
the show, is designed to be outlandish, right. It's designed
to be really really good television. So the grocer you
can make it like the fun year that it is.
And I if you want to see you want to
see something disgusting? Are you in front of computer right now?
(13:24):
You know what? You want to look up? Something crazy?
Look up teddy Bear meat loaf. You heard me. You
can't unsee this, bro, if you look it up. I'm
telling you that that's totally at the teddy Bear meat
loaf force cooks. Just like google it. It looks like
I mean, it does look like a Teddy Bear in
like an mashed potatoes they got ran over by a
car or something. I mean, it's it's like, it's is
(13:47):
that crazy, It's it's disgusting road kill meat loaf. It's hysterical.
It's a Teddy bear man meat it Yeah, I ate it, man.
I mean it's just it's like it's like you to
cut into it. But it wasn't like I mean, so
most of the food it's not it's not inedible where
it's gonna make you sick. It's just it's just kind
of like wildly or conceived and and kind of gross
(14:11):
and really bland, and you know what I mean, just
like dumb, and you never really you know, there's always
options for improvement. There's always like points this like, okay,
there's bits of this. I like, oh, kind of teddy
bear meat. Look, but I want to get back to
the batchelorp or second because to me, I think this
is like this is so so fascinating for Marie from
a his cultural standpoint, right, because like it just never
(14:31):
it never loses a theme the show, right, I mean,
it's it's always fascinating. Everyone's always excited about the new
castic characters come out every single season, and you've had
a chance to be part of that. And when it
comes to like like cooking in the house itself, like
so if you didn't cook, no one ate, you didn't
eat for the day, there's no Crewe launches, and you're
(14:53):
you know, you're in charge of your own meals, and
so yeah, you had to go. I mean I think
there probably was a cup of noodles and like microwavable
things if like you just didn't know how to cook.
But for the most part, yeah, you were in charge
of all that, unless you went on like a date somewhere,
or like a group date where they'll kind of feed
everybody when you get to the place or whatnot. But uh,
(15:14):
you know, obviously I did only one season of Bachelorette,
but I've done now six or seven seasons of Bachelor
and Paradise is the bartender, and that's a whole different thing.
The food there is completely different than it is at
the mansion because this it's filmed at an actual resort
called Pla Escondido, which you can go to any time
(15:37):
except for the months of June and July, because when
we they're filming, um, and they have some of the
best food in the world. It's uh amazing. It's traditional,
like baja tacos. The guacamole is ridiculous, and it's funny
(15:57):
because when um, what happens usually is like I'm the
bartender every season, I have like a little bit of
an inside track into UM, into production and casting and
all that kind of stuff, And usually people hit me
up to be like, hey, should I do the show
or should I not do the show? And like what
do you think, Like what was your UM experience when
(16:19):
you were on the show compared to when you were
the bartender UM? And usually my main pitch is, if
nothing else, you're gonna have the best tacos for like
the week that you're on before like a rose ceremony,
and if nothing else, just go for the food. Just
go for the food to sco for the life experience, right.
I always think that sucks kind of wild because like
(16:40):
sometimes when these people get casted and and I always think,
like the real magicians when it comes to great reality
show production is the casting directors, the casting team, like
they because they've got to find like, you know, needles
and a haystack of averageness, and these people have to
be special on some particular level. You know, they've gotta
(17:01):
you know, like it's got to look like a slice
of American pie. All right, there's a little slice for everybody,
so's somebody for everybody. And uh, and they have to
really have some sort of dynamic personality to be interesting
kind of what they do. Yeah, well, I hope that
we've answered all the questions for listeners out there about
what the hell you eat when you're on the Bachelor
(17:21):
or the batchelor or batchroom paradise. It was fun chatting
with you about it. Like, I feel like it's not
an important subject, but I think looking back, it was
pretty interesting, super interesting. Man. I mean all this stuff
is like because because there's what you see on television
and then there's kind of like living in this reality world,
which I think the show behind the show is sometimes
(17:42):
more interesting than the show. Like the Great the Great
Food Truck Race. Dude, We've got so many crazy stories
that's been crazy. Yeah, i'll tell you what. Next episode.
I think we're gonna have some of the people from
The Bachelor on the show, and um, we'll find it
everything but they cooked in the mansion and what they've
got going on show that if you're a Bachelor Finn
should be pretty good. All Right, this has been two
(18:02):
dudes in the kitchen. I'll see you Tyler, all right, man,
I'll see you next week, but you take care alright, guys,
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It's Two Dudes in a Kitchen with Tyler Florence and
Wells Adams and I Heart radio podcast. Alright, it's time
for other episode of Two Dudes in a Kitchen. I'm
not actually in a kitchen. I'm in a studio right now, Tyler,
where are you? I'm at my lovely holiday and we're
getting read for the holidays. We've got the you got
the Christmas tree up, feeling super festive. We're actually hosting
(00:21):
an event here at the house. So we have We've
hosted politicians, We've had huge fundraisers here at the house.
Who's the most famous person you've cooked for? Oh? Gosh, um,
I mean I've cooked for presidents for sure? Did you
vote for them? Was that weird if you hadn't? I did?
I did? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yea yeah yeah yeah sure.
(00:42):
That's that's pretty awesome. Man. Well, I'm excited about today's
episode because apparently a bunch of listeners have been hitting
us up wanting to know more about what we eat
when we're on the Bachelor or bach Fred or Bachelor
in Paradise and guess what, um, I can answer those questions.
I think this is so fascinating because, like, you and
(01:02):
I kind of know each other in a whole different world.
You and I know each other over food, you know,
and and as a guy who hosts the reality show
you know, we have the Great Food Truck Race on
Food Network and you know season sixteen. I get it.
I kind of know how they work the back ends
from production standpoint. But the Bachelor is is something that
(01:23):
I'm not wildly familiar with. I because I work in
the restaurants, are work at nights, I don't really get
a chance to watch a lot of television. Um, but
but one thing that I think is really kind of
interesting with the Bachelor and and and this is going back, dude,
must have been like two thousand three, two thousand four,
two thousand five, because the Batchler's been around for a while, right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I turned it down. Really they asked me to be
(01:46):
the Bachelor, and and I turned it down if it
was the same year because I was like the sexiest
chef alive and People magazine, well he's still learned. So
this is going well, thank you brother, Um, this is
so this is going back a minute. Must have been
like two thousand four like that. But so the phone
was ringing out turned down a bunch of shows. I
turned down The Apprentice, we turned down everything, but I
actually turned The Bachelor down. So I think it's so
(02:08):
kind of interesting because you know, because I had, like
my my eldest son is twenty six right now, he
was he was like four, and it just didn't feel
like the energy, like me making that with chicks in
a hot tub. I just didn't really feel like the
energy I want to throw out the world, you know
what I mean? Well I did, that's for sure, And dude,
I mean like and and trust me, I was torn. Um.
(02:29):
But you know what an incredible franchise. I mean, you
really got to think about this. I mean it's like,
I mean, it's super primal a lot of ways, because
everybody wants to date and and have this sort of
fantasy thing where you know, a hundred men doted over.
You know, it's such a fantasy thing for a lot
of it's a little there's parts of it that are
just really very unrealistic, and then there are parts of
(02:50):
it that are very realistic. And then I guess it's
up to the viewer to discern between the two. I mean,
the one thing that you always have to prove of
on the show is the justification for one person to
be doated on by so many amazingly beautiful other people, right,
And I think that you would It would have been justified.
(03:14):
You are a successful chef, you were people magazines most
Sexy Chef in the world or something like that. I
think that would have would have made sense. When they
asked me to do it, I was like, no way,
no one, no one will buy that. People want to
date me on this show. Um. So yeah, that's why
it never shook out for me. But the one thing
(03:34):
that is very real about the show is that a
bunch of dudes, at least on the Bachelorette, have to
learn to live together. And one of those things of
learning to live with other people is eating around them
and cleaning around them and all that that entails. So
we didn't have crafty on that set. We had to
(03:54):
make our own stuff. Okay, So so it's a I
can only imagine that that's a really really big production,
right hundreds. So so listen, I've done Extreme Makeover Home Edition,
you know, I've done like really really really big shows
before where they would take over what would feel like
a city block, like a neighborhood block and um with
(04:15):
trailers and everybody gets a trailer and their assistant gets
a trailer, and you know, and there's like like full
time cappuccino people and that kind of so that doesn't happen.
I mean, it's a huge production where there's there are
hundreds of people working on set at the same time.
But when you're on the bount threat and you make
it into the house, you make it past the first
rows ceremony, then you all come in. They give you
(04:36):
like bunk beds and stuff. Bunk beds, bro, you gotta
sleep bunk beds with dudes, and like that. The whole
room just just dank duck butter like like a like
a like a karate cloud, like an old gym bag.
That's exactly what the whole it's. It was miserable. Dudes
(04:56):
are so gross, I will say that. And yeah, I
was like hoping for people to get there, like the
dirty kids. We were hoping that wouldn't get roses just
so maybe would smell a little bit better, uh like
the next week. But yeah, we also they put you
in this one big mansions in Agora Hills right outside
of Los Angeles, and so they stocked the refrigerator with
a bunch of stuff, but that gets all destroyed like
(05:18):
within the first I think first week, and then you
start telling handlers like hey, I need you to go
pick up like X, Y and Z and they and
every week they stocked the kitchen with things you want
to cook, and you have to cook for yourself, like
there is no like I can order out anything. But
it's all that on camera like they do that. They
actually that, they just don't show a lot of it.
(05:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, well so that they want they want
to see you make terrible scrimbled eggs or something like that, right, yeah,
like the Kendall Jenner cutting cucumber like backwards. I think
that they're hoping for that. It's funny though, because I, um,
I do make a fantastic duck gumbo. And so there
was one week that I didn't have a date, like
(06:01):
there was nothing for me to do, so I asked
for all the ingredients and then I just spent the
entire day making duck gumbo for like the entire cast
and crew, and they they filmed the entire thing and
I did it like as I was like hosting a
cooking show, like I was you or like Rachel Ray
or something um, And I was like, man, I really
(06:24):
they're gonna air this and I'm gonna be I'm gonna
be on the Food Network soon. And then they didn't.
They didn't hear it, but I did feed like the
entire cast and crew, and I gotta say it was
bombed very good. That's that's how you got to do
it in a situations like that. That that's the reason
I love being a chef because I'll never get kicked
off the island. I'm the I'm the last guy that
(06:46):
will get kicked off the island, just because like, if
I'm going, what do you, bozo is gonna eat? Best
luck the best luck to all of you, right, And
so I think that's really great. It's just you know,
because hospital hospitality professions, you know, we cook for each
other all the time. That's just what we do. We give,
and I think those things are really great. It's like
(07:06):
you kind of kill them with kindness with food, Oh
for sure. You know. One of the weird things about
the Bachelor of the Bachelorette or even Bachelor in Paradise
is there's this unspoken rule that if you go on
a one on one day. You're not allowed to eat
the food because it's almost like set food. Oh right,
I think it's been sitting out for a while, and like,
(07:27):
you know, you effectively when you when you watch it back,
it seems like the dinner is thirty minutes, but really
it's hours and hours on end. You're and you're talking
so much more than what they show, and so the
food isn't you're not supposed to eat it. And I
went on one one on one day and I did
eat the food and it was so cold and so
(07:50):
stale and so gross, but I just you naturally want
to eat because it they're in front of you, you know. Now,
did you guys shoot that at a restaurant with a
real shop or like they took over the restaurant and
they brought in their own like food stylists and that
kind of thing. We were in Argentina and they rented
out the entire building like it was a huge it
(08:11):
was like an old hotel um and they brought in
a chef that cooked it like earlier that day. But
I remember I had like the date that day and
then it was like okay, go home and or go
back to the hotel. Change and then go to the
dinner portion. And during that stint of me going home
and changing, they were like, what do you want to eat?
(08:33):
And I ordered food and ate that before I went
to the dinner so I wouldn't be hungry, even though
I still was hungry, and I still ate the food
that was cold and gross and cardboardy. On a side note,
how long were you in Argentina? They got some of
the best food in the world there, man, the beef
and the male back. Oh my god, are yeah bro?
(08:54):
All day long? Dude, we really get Argentina grassad, beef
and and like carne asada. It's like where they kind
of cook it sort of kind of out a an
open fire, like cowboys steaks and stuff like that. And
they have like you go to the tango nights and
watch the dancing and eat the Oh I've been to
Argentina before that. Yeah, if I ever went away from home.
By the way, Buenos Aires is an amazing city. It's huge,
(09:18):
It's absolutely massive. You're also in Uruguay, which also has
some amazing food and wine as well. Yeah, super interesting.
South America is on fire now. It's great. So back
to the Bachelor, right, you go on. These dates are
in the house, You're cooking gumbo, You've got these fridge things. Right.
Does it ever get the point where it's like people
start competing with each other to see who can cook?
(09:41):
Is that ever an element where people start to find leverage? Yeah? Well,
I think the people who were good cooks, like myself
and there are some other people that were good like
would kind of take charge of like I'm gonna make food,
like I'll make breakfast this morning. Guys, like what does
everyone want? Okay, you know, you become like almost like
a short order cook, like I like, I was like
(10:03):
a waffle house cook there for a little bit because
looking like alright, I got I got three orders of
scranby eggs, and I got one poached egg, and I
got a couple of sunny side up and um and
all that kind of stuff. But but yeah, it was
it was also funny all these guys. I'm obviously not
like this, but um, all these guys were all so
muscular and like just beef caked out where there wasn't
(10:28):
enough peanut butter, sliced meat or eggs in the house ever,
because they were just constantly being devoured by these guys
who were terrified of carbohydrates, right right, right right, I was,
I was, It's something And what I think it's kind
of interesting about the stuff that it's like we're because
you know, hosting reality shows. And I've been on reality
(10:49):
shows and been a guest judge in a bunch of
reality shows. And my thing is is the fear of
kind of like who you're talking to, because I mean,
I've been in television for twenty six years, man, right,
And and and when you start talking to these like
sometimes the contestants they come off of these shows, and
and and you actually had a career in radio before
(11:12):
you did this, so like you you're a DJ, you
always be a DJ, and like kind of you have
you're so well versed, and you know it can jump
into any genre, Like do you really Sometimes these people
that are kind of like reality famous for like five seconds,
it's like a big mac, you know what I mean?
Do you kind of eat it? And then it's metabolized
And then the shows onto the next season and these
people that that were famous for like five seconds on
(11:33):
season five of whatever it was, right, they start to
fade off of the background, and I feel bad for
these people. Sometimes. Well, I remember talking to the past
host about it, Chris Harrison, and he was like, listen,
don't let this this event in your life define who
you are going forward. Just let it kind of make
your normal life a little bit cooler. I mean, for me,
(11:56):
I was the radio host of like hosting stuff was
was an easy thing to continue going down. But like
you know, it's it's funny when these guys who were
like personal trainers or whatever, insurance salesman and all of
a sudden they go on a show and they they
they can be an actor. It's like, well, that's not
what you were before, Like continue being an insurance salesman.
But then also, you know, you're right, like use this
(12:19):
opportunity to uh, to keep kind of growing I guess
your brand. But I will say this, like I hosted
um Best in Dough on Hulu, and the one thing
that I wanted to ask you as a host of
a cooking show is but mine was a little different
because these guys were like really really good cooks. They
were really good pizza makers. So we ate really really
(12:42):
well on the show, like we had crafty, but we
would always just eat what was happening, what was like
the challenges were, but for when you did um Worse Cooks,
I would imagine you'd be scared to eat that stuff
because sal Manila, Well some of the was you know
it was it was designed to be grossed, right, I
(13:03):
mean so like to to kind of peel the you know,
the sausage make you back a little bit like so
like some stuff early on, like the early challenges in
the show, is designed to be outlandish, right. It's designed
to be really really good television. So the grocer you
can make it like the fun year that it is.
And I if you want to see you want to
see something disgusting? Are you in front of computer right now?
(13:24):
You know what? You want to look up? Something crazy?
Look up teddy Bear meat loaf. You heard me. You
can't unsee this, bro, if you look it up. I'm
telling you that that's totally at the teddy Bear meat
loaf force cooks. Just like google it. It looks like
I mean, it does look like a Teddy Bear in
like an mashed potatoes they got ran over by a
car or something. I mean, it's it's like, it's is
(13:47):
that crazy, It's it's disgusting road kill meat loaf. It's hysterical.
It's a Teddy bear man meat it Yeah, I ate it, man.
I mean it's just it's like it's like you to
cut into it. But it wasn't like I mean, so
most of the food it's not it's not inedible where
it's gonna make you sick. It's just it's just kind
of like wildly or conceived and and kind of gross
(14:11):
and really bland, and you know what I mean, just
like dumb, and you never really you know, there's always
options for improvement. There's always like points this like, okay,
there's bits of this. I like, oh, kind of teddy
bear meat. Look, but I want to get back to
the batchelorp or second because to me, I think this
is like this is so so fascinating for Marie from
a his cultural standpoint, right, because like it just never
(14:31):
it never loses a theme the show, right, I mean,
it's it's always fascinating. Everyone's always excited about the new
castic characters come out every single season, and you've had
a chance to be part of that. And when it
comes to like like cooking in the house itself, like
so if you didn't cook, no one ate, you didn't
eat for the day, there's no Crewe launches, and you're
(14:53):
you know, you're in charge of your own meals, and
so yeah, you had to go. I mean I think
there probably was a cup of noodles and like microwavable
things if like you just didn't know how to cook.
But for the most part, yeah, you were in charge
of all that, unless you went on like a date somewhere,
or like a group date where they'll kind of feed
everybody when you get to the place or whatnot. But uh,
(15:14):
you know, obviously I did only one season of Bachelorette,
but I've done now six or seven seasons of Bachelor
and Paradise is the bartender, and that's a whole different thing.
The food there is completely different than it is at
the mansion because this it's filmed at an actual resort
called Pla Escondido, which you can go to any time
(15:37):
except for the months of June and July, because when
we they're filming, um, and they have some of the
best food in the world. It's uh amazing. It's traditional,
like baja tacos. The guacamole is ridiculous, and it's funny
(15:57):
because when um, what happens usually is like I'm the
bartender every season, I have like a little bit of
an inside track into UM, into production and casting and
all that kind of stuff, And usually people hit me
up to be like, hey, should I do the show
or should I not do the show? And like what
do you think, Like what was your UM experience when
(16:19):
you were on the show compared to when you were
the bartender UM? And usually my main pitch is, if
nothing else, you're gonna have the best tacos for like
the week that you're on before like a rose ceremony,
and if nothing else, just go for the food. Just
go for the food to sco for the life experience, right.
I always think that sucks kind of wild because like
(16:40):
sometimes when these people get casted and and I always think,
like the real magicians when it comes to great reality
show production is the casting directors, the casting team, like
they because they've got to find like, you know, needles
and a haystack of averageness, and these people have to
be special on some particular level. You know, they've gotta
(17:01):
you know, like it's got to look like a slice
of American pie. All right, there's a little slice for everybody,
so's somebody for everybody. And uh, and they have to
really have some sort of dynamic personality to be interesting
kind of what they do. Yeah, well, I hope that
we've answered all the questions for listeners out there about
what the hell you eat when you're on the Bachelor
(17:21):
or the batchelor or batchroom paradise. It was fun chatting
with you about it. Like, I feel like it's not
an important subject, but I think looking back, it was
pretty interesting, super interesting. Man. I mean all this stuff
is like because because there's what you see on television
and then there's kind of like living in this reality world,
which I think the show behind the show is sometimes
(17:42):
more interesting than the show. Like the Great the Great
Food Truck Race. Dude, We've got so many crazy stories
that's been crazy. Yeah, i'll tell you what. Next episode.
I think we're gonna have some of the people from
The Bachelor on the show, and um, we'll find it
everything but they cooked in the mansion and what they've
got going on show that if you're a Bachelor Finn
should be pretty good. All Right, this has been two
(18:02):
dudes in the kitchen. I'll see you Tyler, all right, man,
I'll see you next week, but you take care alright, guys,
thanks for listening. Follow us on Instagram at two Dudes
in the Kitchen. Make sure to write us a review
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