May 11, 2022 • 47 mins
Ben is on a boys golf trip to Pebble Beach with Bachelor Nation favorites Wells, Andrew and Chris. Come along for the wild ride.
Discover how former Bachelor Andrew Firestone met Wells while in High School and Wells was just a kid.
You won't believe Andrew's connection to the entire Adams Family.
We learn that Andrew is responsible for Wells getting onto the show in the first place!
Plus, find out the REAL reason Andrew signed up to be the lead on The Bachelor season 3.
The trip was great… except Ben lost his bags! Thankfully Uber Eats saved the day by getting Ben his essentials.
Thanks to Uber Eats for sending Ben, Wells, Andrew and Chris on this epic boys trip!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
with her radio. Welcome to a very special episode of
the almost Famous podcast that will either get me fired
or be a massive success. We want to start this
out by saying thank you to Uber Eats for bringing
us on an amazing boy's trip to the Monterey Peninsula.
I said that, right, Wells, is that the right thing?
(00:21):
I'm here with Wells Adams and Andrew Firestone. Chris Harrison
is playing golf with us um as well out here,
and it's gonna be a great trip. Andrew, for those
who do not know you, can you explain who you are?
I am a very average golfer. Let's set that out there.
I was. I was on the Bachelor when you guys
(00:43):
were in diapers, um years ago. I was in two
thousand and three. I was the third Bachelor to uh
to be on TV way back in the day, the
third Bachelor, Third Bachelor. What years at two thousand three? Wait,
I have a question because I feel it's different than
it used to be. Uh so well, because you you'd
(01:05):
go on the bach Sorrette and then the guy that
got his heart broken the most a k A. Ben
gets to be the Bachelor if that didn't happen, So
that that was a big, big difference. So when I
was on The Bachelor, it was a surprise, so it
was like nobody knew who I was, Like the girls
didn't know who was going to be there when they
opened up the limo door. Um, and I was sequestered
(01:25):
for weeks or a couple of weeks ahead of time,
and uh, it was it was a total mystery. And
that's that's a lot of pressure because all these girls
are opening to the door and I'm like, oh god,
what I mean, I'm not looking at them they're looking
at me right because they're like they're they're like I
could see some faces like damn it, like oh this
is the guy, Like like they have a vision in
(01:47):
their head who's gonna be and might not have been me. Well,
the what the hardest thing about that show is is
convincing the audience that that it's justified for all of
these beautiful women who all want this one guy. And
so it's got to be like the pressure has gotta
be ratcheted up because no one knows who you are.
(02:08):
So then you're like, are you having to sell yourself
being like well I have a million dollars and uh,
I'm hung like a exactly like a donkey. Look at this, um,
look at it. No, no, but but but so okay,
I'll tell you. I mean quite frankly, one thing that happened.
So it was like the second Rose Ceremony. And even
before it goes, one of the girls just said, like,
(02:31):
you know, I'm just this isn't for me. And you
know what her excuse was, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were
in the super Bowl and she wanted to go to
the game. I swear to God because I filmed in
January of two thousand three. Look who's in the super Bowl?
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And literally that was she walked
she walked off. So you guys, you ben had it
better because at least they knew who you were. You
(02:53):
know how people leave voluntarily within three weeks. But that's
that's that up. They Bachelor took it to the two
yard line. You can score, but like, but it was
that was a huge thing. And and actually, um, Chris
Harrison was one of the only people that I knew
ahead of time on the show, and we spent some
time together and I could tell he was a little
(03:15):
nervous that I was going to be the captain of
this ship for for this show. But this was so
early on in um you know, in reality TV that
it was such an experiment, and to see a guy
and a girl kiss without a script on TV was like,
like it was mind blowing. And and the way I
describe it all was, it's like back then, it was
(03:35):
like a little fender bender. If we're driving along, you
see a fender bender, you'll stop and take a look.
If you've seen a hundred fender benders, you need it's
not interesting anymore. Back then that was like a little
fender bender. The show today is way more dramatic and
it has a lot more stuff going on. You guys
dates that you guys go on. I went bowling on
one of my I'm not joking. I went bowling on
one of my dates. That's you know that that that
(03:58):
was the budget back then. UM. I want to pause
here and say, speaking of kissing, you and Wells know
each other from the past, and I don't know this story,
so weird preamble, let's get commercial. Speaking of making out,
we can hear anyway. Last night at dinner, I asked, Hey,
(04:20):
how do you two know each other? How are you
familiar with each other? And you said, We're gonna wait
for the podcast to Mars, I've been waiting to ask
this question, how do you two know each other? Because
then we got a video this morning of Wells showing
a picture of Okay, let me, I'll tell you. So
stuff starting to make sense. We made Wells and his
beautiful bride to be a couple of years ago at
(04:43):
an event. Uh We're there with Chris and Um. And
that was the first time that I thought that I
had met him. And I was doing and on the
on the drive up Chris picked me up and to
drive up here to yesterday, and I was asking about Wells.
I knew I know you a bit, but He's like, yeah,
he's from he's from Carmel and he's from up here.
I'm like, oh my god, I must know him from
(05:04):
back in the day. So Wells walks in when the
lobby sitting down before dinner, and Wells walks up and
Um and I'm starting to like kind of like ask
him a little probe questions and he looked me dead
in the eye and he goes, do you remember Whitney
Adams And like my jaw on the floor. I'm like, well, yeah,
I mean, like you, how do you know Whitney Adams
(05:27):
And I'm then my slow brain starts working and I'm like,
wells Adams, Holy crap. I took his sister to a
prom when I was a freshman in high school. You know,
she's the same age. But there is a I have
a I have a photo to this day, and I
(05:47):
wish I would have. I mean, I didn't know to
bring it, but at that point, I was like five
ft four and feathered hair, and I'm I'm arms around her.
You can't see this on radio, but like I'm doing
the awkward like trying to put my around her shoulders
like cocked over to the side. And I also know
your older brother, Brett. So it's funny because when the
(06:10):
first season of The Batch Driver watched was Andrew season.
Because my family is like, we know him, we totally
know him. And so I had heard the story, but
I wasn't sure if it was true. So I asked Brett,
and so we're from this area, we're from Carmel, but
you're not from here. You're from from Santa Barbara. But but
(06:32):
but I was going to school up here, but there's
a there's a high school here that you can It's
a boarding school, but it also has day students. So
my brother was a day student and Uh Andrew was
a border. And so the way that my brother tells
a story is that when you have um, you know,
kids from out of town living in the high school,
they take the day student older kids and team them
(06:55):
up with the younger borders um to kind of show
them the ropes and show around and make him feel comfortable.
So my brother, Brett of whom you know ben Uh
was his big brother and at school, and so my
sister needed a date to I guess the prom or
Sadie Hawkins or something. And so my brother was like,
(07:15):
you need to go with my sister to this dance.
And so I never knew that the story was true.
So last night when we got together, I was like,
I think, you know, like my family, UM, I don't
know if this is true, but like, did you take
my sister to prom? And you took me? I thought?
He was like it was like it was like a punchline,
(07:35):
like do you take my sister prom? But his but
his older brother, he was a senior when I was
a freshman was so kind to me, and and you
know he had yeah, but but he had to play
the role of big brother to a you know, to
a to a freshman. But he was super kind to me.
And he was also like one of thost popular guys
in school. So I had kind of a free pass,
you know for a while. Like I was able to
(07:55):
kind of hang out a little bit with my sister,
No no, no, and and you guys hang out after
prom withne and and yeah, I mean I a little
bit here and there. But she went to a different school.
She went to another school here in town. Um. But
but that was the first dance I'd ever like, the
first formal thing I've ever gone to my life. I
got like a corsage and the whole nine yards. And
(08:18):
I must have met you because I came to your
house to pick to pick her up and we had
I mean, I had dinner there or something. But your
family was so kind to me. And I was so
awkward and so nervous and um, and the picture really
speaks to that about how awkward I actually. I still
I am a little bit, but but was certainly back then.
I have a very uh naive question. So when you're boarding,
(08:41):
when you're you're living out here, your families in Santa Barbara,
you have a dance like this, Like when I had
to dance like this, my mom when I was in
high school would go out help me pick out my tugs,
my soup, the flowers, walked me through the process, make
sure everything was good. The girls show up or I
go over there, my mom would be there, my dad
would be there. The parents kind of like coach you
into this dating world when you're out here, Like, did
(09:03):
you have to find a way and figure out a
way to get all those yourself? Yeah, it's a little
it's a you kind of have to be uh fairly
self sufficient from a very young I mean I was
doing my laundry, you know, not that that's crazy thing
to do, but like you're taking care of everything on
your own, and whether that's you know, your studies or
just like normal everyday life, but a lot of stuff
(09:26):
you're kind of learning on the fly and um and
luckily there are a lot of other guys, older people
there at the school that you can kind of look
up to and ask questions. But like you know, they
have a thumber ride to go down and get a corsage,
the date to take Whitney. You know, like there's there
was like a bunch of things that you had to
be a little bit. You had a little bit scheming
to pull off. That's super interesting. So wait it comes
(09:47):
even more. We can kind of put a pin in
this after it. So and I told you this the
last time I was on your podcast when we were
actually recording in Monterey. Uh was the way that I
got on The Bachelor was because my brother was actually
approached by a casting director. The fact that my brother
was Andrew Firestone's big brother who then became the Bachelor,
(10:10):
was also you know, hit up by a casting director
to be on the show. He turned it down. Then
I went on the show. I think is it's yeah,
schools some good looking people on it. Then, yeah, I
mean you and Brett both, you know, you've got it
going on. Who's better looking? That's a good question. I
mean you're canna answer it. I think it's a good question.
(10:34):
I think that you're better looking than him now, but
I think he had you maybe like tenures his model pictures.
He had a great head a lettis letna tell you what, like,
Like his hair flow was so good. I haven't seen
him in a thousand years, but back then, like he
was definitely a ladies man. He he had so many
girlfriends and cute girls were always falling him around. So
(10:55):
I was like, dude, I want to do that. I
want to be that guy that well, um a little
bit too to explain why we're all out here, um,
you know. And I waited to tell you this, Andrew,
but when I first met you was at Jaden Tanner's wedding.
Uh Chris, who um, I really love. He kind of
walked me. He was like my big brother. I felt
(11:17):
like through this whole weird process, right, I mean said
to many times. I was twenty five years old. I
had no clue what I was doing in this world.
I still don't, um, but he kind of like put
me under his wing and would take me around and
introduce me to people. And one of the weirdest things
for me was I always felt like, and and this
is is no bs towards you, Like Andrew Firestone deserves
to be the bachelor, right like it's he's he's a stud,
(11:40):
he gets it. I watched these guys in the past,
like they all understand more than I do. And I
just kind of got thrown into it. Well, we go
to Jaden Tanner's wedding and Chris says, hey, how about
you come golf with Andrew and I and so we
do that and I was really fresh. I think I
was maybe still filming or just after filming when this,
when this wedding happened, and you were very kind, very funny,
(12:01):
very much made me at ease. And I've told everybody
listening to this podcast many times, well, the only reasons
I was able to do the show and have any
type of enjoyment was because I saw guys do it
before me and go, Okay, if they can do what,
I can do it too. Like he's not he doesn't
like walk on water. He's a great dude, normal dude,
a fun dude. And uh, and that's why you know,
it's great to get back out here play Pebble Beach today.
(12:23):
Um again, thanks uber eats for doing that. Uh, it's
a big deal. And here's a funny uber each story.
As I continue to so I fly in last night.
I've been looking forward to this trip for a long time. Um.
I I golf with Wells quite a bit. I haven't
seen Chris in a while. I was really excited to
get to hang out with you again, Andrew. Uh. And
we're playing Pebble Beach come on, like one of the
(12:44):
best places in the world on a beautiful day, too gorgeous.
And so I fly in last night from Denver and
I'm standing at baggage claim. My bag doesn't come. And
in this bag has my golf bag, my clubs, my shoes,
all of my clothes for the weekend, all of my toiletries,
every thing possible. I packed it all into this travel
golf bag and it doesn't come. Called the airline and
(13:05):
uh and they said, oh, you're bag still in l A.
It's not going to get here until eleven o'clock the
next day. So today still not here. So as a result,
thanks super Eats for making sure that I have my toiletries,
I have all of the snacks I need, any of
the food I need, any of the drink we need.
Fooder Eats really saved the day. So this has been
a great trip. Not only come out here with you all,
(13:27):
but to have them make sure that I am the organized.
The fact that your bag got lost, maybe just to
like just to crush this whole thing. And like the
day Yeah. The only thing that I didn't get delivered
is my golf clubs, but I still believe they're gonna
be coming. Um. All right, So I want to start
today talking a little bit about golf. We're not going
(13:47):
to dive into it too much because I don't think
anybody out here really cares. But there's a question that
is is haunting everybody here. Who is the best golfer
in the group. And let's throw Chris into this um.
Who is the in Europe inion? Who was the best
golfer in this group? So I played golf yesterday with Chris,
and he shot a seventy six. I don't think he
(14:07):
wants anyone to know that because he has to post
that score, which will screw up his handicap. But he
was rushing the ball yesterday. By the way, a very
very difficult golf course uh NPC Monterey Peninsula Country Club.
And I can tell you a heart because I was there.
I was playing, and it was a abject disaster. I
mean it was just a mess, spraying balls left right
(14:29):
and center, Chili dipping off the t it was. It
was a mess. Chris was puring it. I played with
you also been years ago and uh, and you you're
a very good golfer, but it's been a while, so
you know, and you're also married, so usually that there's
a decline in your skills. Not at all. He's playing
golf a lot good. Well then maybe just falling apart.
(14:51):
But I haven't played with with Wells here, but I
hear that that he hits it very, very long. So
it's gonna be fun for me just to watch you
guys playing in compete and I'll just be there having
fun eating snacks. Yeah, that was a long diet tribe
to say I'm the worst. I'm the worst, Okay, so
I'll see it right now. I think I think Chris
is the best golf for the group right now. That
feels like a game. It feels like a game. Proved
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me wrong. Ladies, come on, the best, the best is.
I believe that Chris is sitting on the side right now,
like this is the one conversation the day. I want
to join into eating him out now. But he's gonna
have a hard time because we just went on a
trip and uh, seven out of ten times Wells beats
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me at golf. I told you this last night. Um
in Utah, just a few weeks ago I did beat
Wells straight up, and so today is kind of like
that that to really figure out where we're at in
our game. To answer your question, I do think Chris
is the best golfer of the group. He's the most consistent.
That there's an argument also, uh, the thing that I
(15:58):
guess everybody in trouble and golf his nerves, and I
think that he's able to regulate his nerves better than
any of us. For now. Yes, I think that I
can have days where I can I can beat everybody,
but my vote is for for Mr Harris. I also
will put the vote behind that too, because I believe
right now in his head he's like Wow, everybody believes
him a good golfer, and he's gonna get on that
(16:20):
first tea today and shake it. Hey, we're gonna take
a break when we come back. We're gonna come back,
talk more about the trip, talk more, um about a
story I have from my honeymoon that I've never shared
on the podcast that you guys found really funny last night.
That's a great that's a great tease. Um, We'll be back.
Thanks again for Uber Eats for setting up this amazing
(16:40):
trip to the Monterey Peninsula. I shared a story last
night at dinner and every goes you've got us share
this on the podcast, and I, uh, I'm excited to.
(17:01):
It's a hard one to explain this. There's a lot
of visuals to this, um that are necessary. I'm sure
at this point people, you know, my mom and everybody
else has turned off the podcast, like we don't know
what we're getting into. Um, okay, So anyways, here's the storm.
I'm gonna try to explain it the best I can. Uh.
Jessica and I went to St. Bart's for our honeymoon.
And the reason this story came up last night is
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because I'm a big fan of blue cheese stuffed olives
and I love them in a good martini, not a
dirty martine, just straight up martini. And we land in St.
Barts a like eight o'clock. We go right to our resort.
It's a great resort um in St. Bart's um, but
it's a French speaking island and late at night. Uh,
(17:43):
you know, there's not a lot of staff around. Uh,
there's just a few people in the restaurant. And we
sit down there like you have thirty minutes of order
I said, great. So all I want right now is
a blue cheese stuffed olive martini, so I asked for it.
The waiter, who did not speak English, because it is
not in English speaking island for the most part, there's
a lot of them down there, goes, looks at me, goes,
I have no clue what you're talking about, like pretty
(18:03):
much just confusion. I don't know what the blue cheese
stuffed all of this, And so I I said okay,
and he goes, let me get uh somebody, the smally
so as a result, and I the Smalley walks up
and said, can you have any blue cheese stuff olives?
And I make like a circle like like what I
thought was like an olive with my hand, you know,
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like your you put your index finger and your thumb together,
okay symbol, like an okay symbol. And I take my
other hand and I give my index finger in my
middle finger and I start like doing the sign where
you like you're pushing stuffing. And the Smalley gets really confused,
I don't know why, and walks away and says, I'm
gonna get my manager. So I'm sitting there, I'm still
going do you have any blue cheese stuffed, all of
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them saying it very slow, like they're gonna understand it
if I speak slower, which is a very terrible thing
to do. And I'm still stuffing my fingers at the
same time, the manager goes, I need to get my
like GM of the hotel you contain. He goes, I here,
we have a problem here, and he's spoken elish. I said,
I don't know there's a problem, and my and my
wife suddenly catches on. It goes, no, you have a
(19:06):
big problem. Then you've literally just asked every single person
that comes up here. You've just signaled to them if
you're down, if you have anything stuffed, you have anything stuff.
The GM finally goes, oh, we don't have any blue stuff,
but we can't make your martini. That is the story. Um,
it's still today what Jessica does when like things get awkward,
(19:28):
when I say something stupid, she just does the little
stuffing signs that just to remind me um of of
how weird I am. Yeah, and and also how the French,
uh do different hand signals for that? Yeah, well the
Americans do this. This means this as a very young age,
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I think that's a pretty explanatory Yeah, I hope, I
hope that. What I love about that is that there
are waiters and small as that thought that this six
four hunk of a man was like, hey, do you
want to go in the back room on the first
night of your honeymoon? They were like, wow, they all
swing us. I guess this guy was absolutely. I guarantee
(20:17):
the all spokes perfect English, like they're like this, just
check this out, check this out. This guy's just over there.
I was just I was not stopping, was not stopping
at all. Uh. And your question for you, do you
ever use Uber eats? Oh? Yeah, so, um, you know,
I have three kids, and um, you know it is
you know, this isn't any sort of advertisement for but
(20:39):
this is just a utilitarian thing that we use all
the time. And you know, half the time we've forgotten
something somewhere, we need a snack, some of the kids
are you know, milk for one of the kids, whatever
it is. And so it's actually super convenient in Santa
Barbara to go and and have you know, food delivered,
you know, have whatever delivered. Um, and uh, it's really quick.
So we and I'm very slow to adopt technology. My
(21:01):
wife was first using it. Now it's almost it's funny
like these things now become like kind of part of
your like everyday life, like you know, it's so much
more useful. It saves time so long way to say yes,
I wonder if you can get blue cheese stuffed olives.
I guarantee of uber heats. I almost can promise you that.
I mean, think about this stuff that we ordered in fact,
um it should be Oh, it's probably coming there and
(21:24):
I just saw Amy walk away. Um there's more coming today.
I mean we ordered everything, uh for for our trip.
We order some alcoholic Seltzer's. That's what I requested or
over to do that. But we all are one thing.
I noticed that that you put on your request list,
which I didn't know about you. But if you would
like the same kind of potato chip I do. I
know a lot of potato chips, yes, which I think
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it's a very particular style. I mean, not like a
tortilla chip or like as like this is a something
very specific. So cheddar and sur cream is the way
to go. It is halapinia boy like a hallapenia. Yet
I don't like hell open, I don't like salton vinegar
like that, like I love salt. Now, I see I
can't do that. You know, the one thing that was
always told to me. I don't know if you agree
(22:08):
with this, but I know people listening, well, we'll understand.
There's a new chip out there that lebron Um has designed,
which is a Cheddar and Sarah cream Um chip with
spice added to it. There's a spicy noess to it.
When you open up, they taste fantastic. But when you
open up the bagga smells like feet. Have you ever
gotten that? So you know, I can't I can't have
(22:30):
a bad smell. Yeah, it's always told me. Okay, we're
gonna talk a little Bachelor here, Bachelor at Uh Andrew,
do you still watch the show? Uh? Yes, I do. Um,
But it's funny. I mean, so I want to talk
something Bachelor, not directly answering your question, but it's funny
how we're all sitting here together and you kind of
(22:51):
touched on it earlier. And there are literally hundreds and
hundreds of people, men and women that have gone through
the Bachelor over the years. But it's funny how, um,
you can create a relationship with somebody and it makes
that experience that much better and it lasts long, you know,
like and again, so Chris and I, um, you know,
when I was sequestered for all that time beforehand, and
(23:14):
I was, you know, I I didn't know anybody know
what I was doing. I didn't what the show is about.
And Chris took me out to lunch with with his
en wife Gwen and their two year old son at
that point, Joshua. And so we go out to lunch
and like, you know, he's trying to you know, kind
of figure me out, and I'm trying to figure him out.
And I remember this moment when his son, Joshua is
(23:36):
pinging me with French fries and I'm trying to keep
a straight face, and I've got nieces and nephews and
I've got lots of little kids in my life, and
I'm just like, I want to throw a French fry
back at him, but I'm not going to. But but
there was like this genuineness about that experience, and a
lot of The Bachelor's all, you know, it's it's TV,
and it's you know, it's it's edited and all that
kind of stuff, But there are so many real moments
(23:56):
where you actually developed these relationships, not just the not
as the men and the women, but like you like
like you find these friendships and it makes it not
only tolerable but enjoyable. And um and it's and you know,
it's not a fraternity or anything like that. It's just
you do develop these unique relationships that can last a
(24:16):
lifetime and um and I've had that with Christopher. It
will be twenty years that I was on the show,
uh next year, and we've remained great friends ever since.
And you know, I we met five years ago when
you when you do on the show. Yeah, but it
was and I didn't even know I met you him
here thirty years ago. Not true, Not true, not true.
(24:38):
But it's funny how it's this like it is this
this this group of people that that's that that somehow
you kind of find up you find a commonality in
a friendship. Well, it's you're you're exactly right, because you know,
Wells and I have been always spent a lot more
time this year together along with Dean. Um. Dean's around,
but you never know where he's at in the world. Um, typically,
but I doubt Wells and I other than personal um
(25:02):
stuff that we're trying to figure out have talked about
the Bachelor ever? Like I don't think it comes up.
And that's when you know, like you know, sometimes you
get around the group of people and like that's still
the thing that's discussed, or it's what are you doing next?
Or uh, you know, are you going on the next show?
And and uh, when you get a real friendship, you
start to enjoy the other person and you we've only
(25:23):
met through this weird experience that now we can all share.
And then going back to what I said earlier, it
was on that golf course thatt day with you that
I said, Okay, like Andrew's a good dude, Like he's
you know, he doesn't have he's not he's not a
weirdo that sold out for the fame of this. Like
he's just a good dude who thought it could be fun.
I can do this too now, which is I hope
it's a huge compliment to you. Was all right, we
(25:45):
can we can do this thing. Um. But also I
think you probably played golf with hundreds and hundreds of
people that have a connection to the Bachelor or whatever else,
and some people just kind of want to be near it. Somebody,
you know, want to want to talk about it, but
like you know, it's I mean, how else would I
know a guy from Indiana or how would you know
make this connection back with you know, persone, but the
(26:08):
guy that I that I knew but did stuff. Jeez,
this sister, Now I'm gonna describe it as that. But Sarah,
it's time Martini. No no, no, no, no, no no no,
we want some prisons. The the Andrew. I think everybody
here would be interested. Tell us more about this sequestering
(26:31):
that you did. Uh, that wasn't a thing. When I
was the bachelor, I got a phone call I showed
up to In fact that the back story to that
is I went to Honduras for a wedding. I came back,
uh from Honduras with a parasite that I had through
the whole time that people know about. I lost thirty
pounds when I was a bachelor. But I flew into
l A three days before we started, and everybody in
(26:52):
the world knew I was the bachelor at that point, right,
They knew where I was going to do, so you
were hidden. So yeah, so so nobody knew obviously that
I was on it. It was a big a secret
and uh, it was the the whole reveal. Back then,
it was that I was gonna come out on Good
Morning America and it was gonna say, this is the
next Bachelor, and so I there. I mean, I had
ad anonymity going into it. But then but then, you know, afterwards,
(27:17):
it was it was like, you know, all of a sudden,
the curtain had fallen, and it was a really weird thing. Um,
but it was there was all the secrecy about who
I was or whatever else. But there was a moment
on the show when one of our dates, we were
ice skating and Century Plaza, you know in l A.
It's the the ice skating rink down there part of
the year, and there's this huge kind of viewing deck.
(27:38):
And so there we were on a date and me
and this young lady we're ice skating, and back then,
you guys didn't have this, but like there was a
hot tub on every episode, like every time, like anything
happened on the hot tub, one on the hot tub,
one on the hot tub. They had a hot tub
in the middle of the skating rink. Hundreds of people
were watching all clean there and I'm like, am I
(28:01):
really gonna get not to right now with like this
kind of stranger on a ice drink, with all these
people watching, and it was this again. It was this
migration in a very short amount of time from being
just a guy to all of a sudden the Bachelor
and and you know, it was Good Morning America and
it was US Magazine and like all this stuff, and
(28:22):
it happened so quickly. And the only thing that saved
me is that I never took it very seriously. I
kind of laughed at myself the whole time. I never
though that's a bad picture, or you know, like, uh,
you know, I don't like the way I look or
what I said. I just laughed about it the whole time.
All my friends did. But it was crazy. Do you
still get recognized, um from the time on the show? Yeah?
I mean, you know, when I was on it, it
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was you know, all this alternative TV stations and social
media wasn't around. It was still network TV was still
the thing. I mean, there was thirty million people watched
every episode along the way, so it was out there.
Then US Magazine followed it very closely, and People mag
because all the all the tabloids and so it was
a it was a big part of people's lives for
(29:05):
for a while, and so you know, definitely like you
know that the younger generation, you know, it doesn't recognize me,
but people kind of in my demographic kind of like
they kind of grew up with me, you know a
little bit. So, yeah, you're my aunt's favorite bachelor probably
still to this day. It has amazing taste. Yeah, he's
a great woman. You obviously have a friendship with Chris.
(29:36):
Then he was the host of the show back when
you were the Bachelor. You're sitting in a hot tub
in a skating rink with a hundred people watching in
the back of your mind, going, this guy convinced me
to do this. Yes, I do blame him for a
lot of it now, but he was he was like
and he's always been a confident on the show throughout,
Like you know, but I think more than ever and
(29:57):
I think he'd probably say the same thing. Like I
spent a lot of time with him off the camera
because I was in a in in the mansion where
they filmed most of it by myself, but he would
be there a lot. We would hang out and so
like he was my only friend, like literally not just
talking about the Bachelor, but like just I mean I
was there for I don't know, eight weeks, nine weeks
or whatever it took to film. It was a lot
(30:18):
longer back then. And you know, he was my guy,
like he was my buddy and um and so, and
I'm lucky to call my friends since you know, for
all those years and we're still very tight and uh yeah,
but he had a chance to come up here and
see you guys. We had a road trip for three
and a half hours, driving up the coast. That was
what an interesting like difference between your experience with Chris
(30:39):
and like Ben and ours because we obviously are also
very close with Chris. But you did the show back
when there wasn't a huge age discrepancy between the host
and the lead of the show. Because when I was
on the show was very much like he was a
father figure and for you it must have been more
like a peer. So he was a buddy and like
so we would talk off camera. Uh like wasn't that
(31:01):
weird or like what do you think about that? She
said that, like what you know, like there was it
was a buddy thing. We're only a couple of years
apart in age, and so um and he was, you know,
he had a young family, so like I wanted to
I wanted what he had, right, Like I was aspiring
to have that. And I'm I'm a I'm a die
hard romantic and you know, and I went when I
did the show, it wasn't because I wanted to be
(31:21):
on TV. I didn't see the show before. Like I
wanted that. I wanted the thing. I wanted the family.
I want all that stuff, and maybe this is a
way to make that happen. And so having Chris there,
who was again had a young family, whatever else, like
I saw myself and him. So I took his advice
very genuinely because it had worked for him, you know,
and he he was sitting where I wanted to sit
(31:42):
in a couple of years. How did they find you? Then?
You didn't know? So um so back like you could
apply for it. I didn't apply for it. I just
I literally got a phone call at my desk, um.
And I think it was about the time that Joe
Millionaire had come out, and so I think that the
show kind of wanted a backstory. So the first two
(32:02):
gentlemen that we're on the Bachelor, you know, we're you know,
just guys just like like, you know, like that just
bachelor guys. And I think they wanted to have something
that had a little backstory to it, had a little
history where, you know, they didn't have someone that America
already knew, but they wanted I think they wanted somebody
that America could know or like, oh, yeah, I know Firestone,
I know firestontime you're like, I know that story. And
(32:25):
I think the winery had something to do with it
as a backdrop for you know, for a lot of
the of the of the story. But people that don't
know it's your family has a winery in southern California,
so we're in the wine business, my brothers in the
beer business eight oh five beer. I'm sure a lot
of people are familiar with it, but my family, you know,
generations ago started Firestone Tires and so it fires something
(32:46):
pretty household type of a name. So I think that
blended with what they were trying to get accomplished. And
especially because if none of the girls knew who it
was that they were going to see, maybe it's a
little more familiar to have a name that was recognizable.
But now, you know, having you having they know you
before you were the bachelor you that people followed your story,
they fell in love with you for for your personality
(33:06):
and everything else. And the twenty five bachelorettes that we're
gonna show up also knew you kind of. I mean
not not to say they knew you, but they knew
enough of you to want to go and take that chance.
I had to agree to it. Where were the ladies at, then,
the women at when you were in the mansion You're
saying you lived in that mansion alone. It's a big house,
was it? This is the same mansion. This was. This
(33:28):
was one of the first iconic I don't even think
it's there anymore. It was, you know, on the water
in Malibu, and all the ladies were in a house
about fifteen miles away, also in Malibu, but they had
no he didn't live, but he was just there a lot,
you know, because like he would go there and hang
out and um, you know, because they were doing whatever
the production stuff was. But there was a lot of
(33:48):
production stuff that was happening. But like they wouldn't interact
with me, and like I'm a very social person, Like
I'm like I want to play, I want to shoot
hoops with somebody like I want to do something, and
they were very standoffish to me, because I'm sure they
were too, So it was it was a very odd
couple of months that I was in this huge house
by myself. Yeah. I remember when I went on this show.
(34:09):
One of the first bit of directives that we got
from an executive producer was, I know, you want to
talk to the camera guys and the sound people, but
they are furniture. Do not interact with them. And I
was like, well, I can't do that, Like, I'm gonna
have to talk to these people. I got. I got
close to some, but like it was funny through those,
(34:29):
you know, those couple of months that I was there,
like it they did sort of start to fall into
the background, you know, like like eventually it did normalize
a bit. And that's what people ask me most often,
is like, isn't that weird being filmed all the time.
The first couple of weeks, it was bizarre, but then
eventually it just kind of became it was just there.
It was like white noise. Eventually the this whole thing
(34:52):
has transformed in incredible ways. You are now married. You
mentioned you have children, three kids, three kids? U um,
does your wife it all look back on this time?
Has you ever seen it? Does she laugh at you
or enjoy watching it? So everybody laughs at me? Just
um no, it's it's funny. I mean it. It has
(35:12):
kind of faded into the background quite a bit, you know,
and like you know, I I didn't do any Hollywood
stuff afterwards, like I got back to my to my life.
So it's it's a fun chapter that like like sitting
in this calt right now with you guys, like like
all these memories are popping back up, and it's fun
to reminisce about. But it's it's it's literally just one
chapter in my life. So it's not it's you know,
(35:35):
it's not a defining moment by any stretch, but it
was a lot of fun. Are you happy you did it?
Absolutely no. I don't regret any of it. And and
you know, it's so easy for people to, oh, you know,
I wish I wouldn't have said that, or they portrayed
me wrong, or I wasn't like that. But like if
you're taking that serious, like that stuff seriously, like there's
something wrong like that is literally I mean, it's it's
(35:55):
just a it's a snippet of a portion of your life.
And if if you can't look back on a photo album,
it's like Whitney and I and like be able to
laugh at yourself and be like, oh my god, I
can't believe I was that awkward. I can't believe that
I looked like whatever you should. You need to be
able to take it with a grain of salt and
so answer, Yes, I'm so happy I did it. I
made great friends. Didn't work out the way that I
(36:16):
thought it was going to, but I have no regrets whatsoever.
Did they say on your season, uh, here for the
right reasons, And I'll say, like I was a dent
there genuinely to see if this could work. I didn't
take I didn't take a dime of money. I paid
(36:36):
for for the ring myself, Like really, I did not
want any I didn't want any sniff that it was
it was contrived. I wanted to be an authentic experience.
That was the only thing I could control. I couldn't
control editing, I couldn't control the girls. I could just
control myself and my attitude and perspective on what I
was doing. It's funny because you know that they're for
(36:59):
the right reasons thing. It's brought up so often, and
I think that maybe you are the only person who
has ever been there for the right reason, because like
you can you come from this winery family. You know
you don't need to sell diarrhea t on Instagram, Like
there is no bullshit with you. You actually went there
and wanted to And I didn't know about Neil Lane
(37:20):
wasn't there. You bought your own ring back then as
Harry Winston. But I mean they were gonna offer a ring,
and I'm like, if I give this ring to this
woman that I feel like I'm in love with, and
I want to give this a real shot. I don't
want there to be any sense of like this is
not genuine. I don't want it to be like, well,
I'm gonna give you this ring to then give to
(37:40):
that to her that I'm gonna take it back or
you're gonna whatever it is. I'm like, no, if I'm
gonna do this, it's going to be authentic. I might
get my heart trampled, but you know what, that's authentic
and and and I would learn more from that than
faking it. That was one thing I always appreciated about
Jordan Joe Joe was that Jordan went and bought another
ring afterwards and then did it again like without cameras,
(38:03):
and well, I think it's necessary. Yeah, I mean it
is like you come off that show and you're still
dating and then there's that like moment where you decide, Okay,
is this really something or is it not? I think yeah,
I agree, I think that was It's a good move,
a good moment, and it's you know, it shows that
next chapter where that the show isn't kind of what
like either brought you together, force you together. It just
(38:23):
helped you meet and in life beyond. Hey, we do
have a big, big day ahead of us. I want
to make sure to tell everybody out there to order
with the Uber eats app. They stocked us up, I
mean with everything for this trip, with chips, with tequila,
with Seltzer's. Uh we brought in what else did you
guys order? Uh? Waters, but lots of waters to offset
(38:46):
some of the tequila we're gonna be drinking, so keep
that imbalanced. But I mean, I mean snacks, you know,
energy bars, like the like the whole the whole thing.
I mean, if we're not totally jacked up all day
on the course, like just puring it yards off. That's
That's not uber ITT's fault, that's our fault. Yeah, so
the uber Eats app is the way to go again.
Thank you for bring us all together Uber Eats to
(39:08):
have this awesome trip, but also um to showcase something
that we all use in our lives. Now as we
close this whole thing out um today and get ready
for an amazing round. Uh, wells we do have to
ask you, um we are we are in May? Uh
there's a show that usually is filmed sometime this time
of year called Bachelor in Paradise. Familiar? Yeah, are you
(39:32):
gonna be on Bachelor in Paradise? Gonna ask that question
to you? Are you gonna be doing it? What where
are you at with it? We haven't heard a thing? Well,
it was. It was a weird thing because there was
a bunch of talk that it wasn't going to happen.
I don't know if you guys ever like talked about it. Yeah,
we talked about a lot. There was rumors that the
show wasn't gonna happen. And I thought that was really
(39:52):
interesting because I do feel like it's a very successful
show one and for a lot of people. It's everyone's favorite.
Um So the idea of them of us not doing
it is kind of a silly clickbait story just in general.
Um So I can say that this of course he
has the show is coming back. We're going to film
(40:15):
it where we always film it. It's going to film
during the same time, um that it always does. Will
I be there? Probably? Yeah. Here's the thing that, like,
I know that this sounds like very vague or cryptic,
but this is how this is what I've learned about Hollywood.
Hollywood doesn't get there together until seventeen minutes before something
(40:39):
is supposed to start, so you never really know, um
what's going to happen. So I would say it's definitely
happening and definitely probably gonna see me there, probably definitely,
probably Maybe we're not getting a lot out of it
the time. It works every time. Are you in any
fall up to that? Are you curious watch Paradise? I do?
(41:01):
I mean that is it is a fascinating show. Um
A lot of bikinis, a lot of a lot of tequila,
and those like two of my favorite categories, like if
I was on Jeopardy and those with like what is tequila.
What are bikinis like? That would be those. I would
go for the daily double every time. Um, so yeah,
I I hope we see wellsy on there would be
that would be you know that, that's like one of
(41:22):
the best parts. Would you would like batchelor? Paradise wasn't
around during your time? Would you go? Would you go
on Paradise? You know, I'm forty six years old with
three kids. Nobody wants them. Like, if you want to
if you want to kill a show, put me on it.
On a dating show. Let's flash back, though you're the bachelor.
Doesn't work out? Uh no, bachelor, I don't work out.
It does doesn't It doesn't work out for you if
(41:44):
you work out? Are you looking at my flabby ars? You? Uh? Um?
You you're the first lead ever to do one of
those side shows. Um. Would you have said yes? Does
that feel like your cup of tea? Probably not? I
mean just that's nothing my I mean, I don't know.
It would be tough just because um, like I I
(42:06):
would just get very uh cynical about the thing. But
I do enjoy watching it and like um and and
the characters that have been on it before been so
compelling and so willing to kind of put themselves out there.
So I will say this. I think I can speak
for everybody and say, well, as we hope to see
you on the beach, we hope to see you very
(42:27):
often speaking on the beach. Um. Those flowered shirts, ridiculous shirts.
It fits you, man, you do a great job at it.
My olive skin down there in the Mexican summer sun.
We'll have to U. We'll have to uh just I guess,
wait and uh and wonder until the official announcement if
there is one, if you'll be there or not. Yeah,
(42:49):
it's coming soon, it's coming soon. There we go. That's all.
That's that's all we needed to make sure there's a
little peace of mind walking into the first tea today
at Pebble Beach. Again, thanks to uber eats for bringing
us all here. Uh, gentlemen, this has been a pleasure. Uh,
it's really great to be with you all. Thank you
um for coming out here with the almost famous podcast,
but also thanks to uber eats for bringing us together
(43:11):
out here. We're gonna have a great day uh at
Pebble Beach. Um, we've got to get to the range.
I've got to make sure that my bag is on
its way to the hotel, because that's really important to
have golf clubs. Yeah, to play golf, to play golf.
So I want to see if we can get Uber
Eats to actually come out in the fairway. I want
(43:32):
to order something like while we're like walking down four
and like see if you can meet us like the
six tea bucks. I have the uber ets app. Okay,
we're gonna get on. I wanna see. I wanna see
like roast and brodies, like let's see crossover through through
the yard, through the hedges onto the course. I don't
put it past them. That good. They're that good. Hey,
(43:53):
follow my lead here. Andrew Wells has been around for
a bit. Thanks everybody for listening. Um, we'll be back
uh this next week with one of our regular episodes.
Ash will be there. Ashley is also having the producer here.
She's also having like a girl's trip, right, that's coming
up sometime soon in June. In June, so that's gonna
be a very special episode. I imagine Ashley is very
(44:15):
ready for a girl's trip like hers is like slightly
different than this, Yeah, a little more like Ashley esque,
a little more spa a little more girls. Are we
invited to that too? We'll talk about that. I don't
I don't hate a spat. It's funny because when this
came up and they said, hey, what do you want
to do? Immediately I was kind of joking. I was like,
(44:36):
I want to bring these guys to Pebble Beach and
play golf, and you're an Amy who has been our
producer forever responded with okay, and I was like, oh, well,
I don't always typically say that when you asked me things.
Ben called Danielle and I the other day and said
can we do this? And he asked us something. We
(44:56):
just literally said no, no, no, I'm not going to work. Yeah,
and I say, okay, well that works at least at
least we asked, right, You gotta know what they can do.
All they can do is say no, hey, would that
talk about Andrew's argyll socks? Did you look fashion? That's
what the ladies want to hear about. This is the podcast.
You can't see us. Yeah. Well, I think I got
a picture at some point because I thought we were
(45:18):
getting Best Dressed awards. I'm giving it to Andrew. I'm
getting like first, second, and third Andrew's wearing a blue,
a light blue floral golf shirt just tight enough. I'm
not gonna it's a perfect tightness. Blue pants also just
tied enough, looking stylish our gyll socks wells is all
in black. He's like Johnny cash Over, You're looking really good.
(45:39):
Nice black golf sweater, black pants. Ben, let me tell you,
is wearing the exact same elf he was because he
doesn't have any clothes or any underwear. The Uber Eats
is getting yeah, but just to be said, Uber Eats
is here with my deodorant, my toothbrush, my toothpaste, grabbed
Q tips. It's here. Thanks Suberie for making sure that
(46:00):
I have everything I need. It just came in. This
is a big day. Ben does have a lovely Kashmir
sweater with a like a hood, which I did touch
because it was so solid. He also is kind of
a weird smell. You can get this guy when get
his fresh clothes. Right now. There's a lot going on, um,
but this day is about to turn to be incredible
(46:22):
because I believe everything's gonna show up. And I believe,
uh that once again, uh Chris Harrison shoots low round today.
I believe Wells is in second, I believe I'm really close.
And third, I actually think Wells and I are gonna
go back and forth into the final hole. I believe
Andrew just has a great time and makes it. If
I don't, if I don't launch a club into the
Pacific Ocean today, like that's a win. Like that's that's
(46:43):
a lot of pressure on Today. There will be some
games being played. I'm assuming there'll be some updates, uh
that you can follow. I'm hoping. Um, if if I
take Wells down today, it's not gonna feel great because
I do love the guy, but it's gonna feel so good,
really deep inside my evil soul. Mean, he's gonna do
you like one of those. It's gonna be really bad. Well.
(47:06):
I mean I can't beat you. You invited all of
us here, you know, so I feel like I gotta
take a nail here. Yeah that's right. Yeah, good for you.
Hey follow my lead here, Andrew, Thanks for listening. Almost
Famous Podcasts brought to you by Uber Eats. I've been been,
I've been and what I've been Andrew? Oh yeah, okay,
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(47:30):
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the almost Famous podcast that will either get me fired
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us on an amazing boy's trip to the Monterey Peninsula.
I said that, right, Wells, is that the right thing?
(00:21):
I'm here with Wells Adams and Andrew Firestone. Chris Harrison
is playing golf with us um as well out here,
and it's gonna be a great trip. Andrew, for those
who do not know you, can you explain who you are?
I am a very average golfer. Let's set that out there.
I was. I was on the Bachelor when you guys
(00:43):
were in diapers, um years ago. I was in two
thousand and three. I was the third Bachelor to uh
to be on TV way back in the day, the
third Bachelor, Third Bachelor. What years at two thousand three? Wait,
I have a question because I feel it's different than
it used to be. Uh so well, because you you'd
(01:05):
go on the bach Sorrette and then the guy that
got his heart broken the most a k A. Ben
gets to be the Bachelor if that didn't happen, So
that that was a big, big difference. So when I
was on The Bachelor, it was a surprise, so it
was like nobody knew who I was, Like the girls
didn't know who was going to be there when they
opened up the limo door. Um, and I was sequestered
(01:25):
for weeks or a couple of weeks ahead of time,
and uh, it was it was a total mystery. And
that's that's a lot of pressure because all these girls
are opening to the door and I'm like, oh god,
what I mean, I'm not looking at them they're looking
at me right because they're like they're they're like I
could see some faces like damn it, like oh this
is the guy, Like like they have a vision in
(01:47):
their head who's gonna be and might not have been me. Well,
the what the hardest thing about that show is is
convincing the audience that that it's justified for all of
these beautiful women who all want this one guy. And
so it's got to be like the pressure has gotta
be ratcheted up because no one knows who you are.
(02:08):
So then you're like, are you having to sell yourself
being like well I have a million dollars and uh,
I'm hung like a exactly like a donkey. Look at this, um,
look at it. No, no, but but but so okay,
I'll tell you. I mean quite frankly, one thing that happened.
So it was like the second Rose Ceremony. And even
before it goes, one of the girls just said, like,
(02:31):
you know, I'm just this isn't for me. And you
know what her excuse was, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were
in the super Bowl and she wanted to go to
the game. I swear to God because I filmed in
January of two thousand three. Look who's in the super Bowl?
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And literally that was she walked
she walked off. So you guys, you ben had it
better because at least they knew who you were. You
(02:53):
know how people leave voluntarily within three weeks. But that's
that's that up. They Bachelor took it to the two
yard line. You can score, but like, but it was
that was a huge thing. And and actually, um, Chris
Harrison was one of the only people that I knew
ahead of time on the show, and we spent some
time together and I could tell he was a little
(03:15):
nervous that I was going to be the captain of
this ship for for this show. But this was so
early on in um you know, in reality TV that
it was such an experiment, and to see a guy
and a girl kiss without a script on TV was like,
like it was mind blowing. And and the way I
describe it all was, it's like back then, it was
(03:35):
like a little fender bender. If we're driving along, you
see a fender bender, you'll stop and take a look.
If you've seen a hundred fender benders, you need it's
not interesting anymore. Back then that was like a little
fender bender. The show today is way more dramatic and
it has a lot more stuff going on. You guys
dates that you guys go on. I went bowling on
one of my I'm not joking. I went bowling on
one of my dates. That's you know that that that
(03:58):
was the budget back then. UM. I want to pause
here and say, speaking of kissing, you and Wells know
each other from the past, and I don't know this story,
so weird preamble, let's get commercial. Speaking of making out,
we can hear anyway. Last night at dinner, I asked, Hey,
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how do you two know each other? How are you
familiar with each other? And you said, We're gonna wait
for the podcast to Mars, I've been waiting to ask
this question, how do you two know each other? Because
then we got a video this morning of Wells showing
a picture of Okay, let me, I'll tell you. So
stuff starting to make sense. We made Wells and his
beautiful bride to be a couple of years ago at
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an event. Uh We're there with Chris and Um. And
that was the first time that I thought that I
had met him. And I was doing and on the
on the drive up Chris picked me up and to
drive up here to yesterday, and I was asking about Wells.
I knew I know you a bit, but He's like, yeah,
he's from he's from Carmel and he's from up here.
I'm like, oh my god, I must know him from
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back in the day. So Wells walks in when the
lobby sitting down before dinner, and Wells walks up and
Um and I'm starting to like kind of like ask
him a little probe questions and he looked me dead
in the eye and he goes, do you remember Whitney
Adams And like my jaw on the floor. I'm like, well, yeah,
I mean, like you, how do you know Whitney Adams
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And I'm then my slow brain starts working and I'm like,
wells Adams, Holy crap. I took his sister to a
prom when I was a freshman in high school. You know,
she's the same age. But there is a I have
a I have a photo to this day, and I
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wish I would have. I mean, I didn't know to
bring it, but at that point, I was like five
ft four and feathered hair, and I'm I'm arms around her.
You can't see this on radio, but like I'm doing
the awkward like trying to put my around her shoulders
like cocked over to the side. And I also know
your older brother, Brett. So it's funny because when the
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first season of The Batch Driver watched was Andrew season.
Because my family is like, we know him, we totally
know him. And so I had heard the story, but
I wasn't sure if it was true. So I asked Brett,
and so we're from this area, we're from Carmel, but
you're not from here. You're from from Santa Barbara. But but
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but I was going to school up here, but there's
a there's a high school here that you can It's
a boarding school, but it also has day students. So
my brother was a day student and Uh Andrew was
a border. And so the way that my brother tells
a story is that when you have um, you know,
kids from out of town living in the high school,
they take the day student older kids and team them
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up with the younger borders um to kind of show
them the ropes and show around and make him feel comfortable.
So my brother, Brett of whom you know ben Uh
was his big brother and at school, and so my
sister needed a date to I guess the prom or
Sadie Hawkins or something. And so my brother was like,
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you need to go with my sister to this dance.
And so I never knew that the story was true.
So last night when we got together, I was like,
I think, you know, like my family, UM, I don't
know if this is true, but like, did you take
my sister to prom? And you took me? I thought?
He was like it was like it was like a punchline,
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like do you take my sister prom? But his but
his older brother, he was a senior when I was
a freshman was so kind to me, and and you
know he had yeah, but but he had to play
the role of big brother to a you know, to
a to a freshman. But he was super kind to me.
And he was also like one of thost popular guys
in school. So I had kind of a free pass,
you know for a while. Like I was able to
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kind of hang out a little bit with my sister,
No no, no, and and you guys hang out after
prom withne and and yeah, I mean I a little
bit here and there. But she went to a different school.
She went to another school here in town. Um. But
but that was the first dance I'd ever like, the
first formal thing I've ever gone to my life. I
got like a corsage and the whole nine yards. And
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I must have met you because I came to your
house to pick to pick her up and we had
I mean, I had dinner there or something. But your
family was so kind to me. And I was so
awkward and so nervous and um, and the picture really
speaks to that about how awkward I actually. I still
I am a little bit, but but was certainly back then.
I have a very uh naive question. So when you're boarding,
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when you're you're living out here, your families in Santa Barbara,
you have a dance like this, Like when I had
to dance like this, my mom when I was in
high school would go out help me pick out my tugs,
my soup, the flowers, walked me through the process, make
sure everything was good. The girls show up or I
go over there, my mom would be there, my dad
would be there. The parents kind of like coach you
into this dating world when you're out here, Like, did
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you have to find a way and figure out a
way to get all those yourself? Yeah, it's a little
it's a you kind of have to be uh fairly
self sufficient from a very young I mean I was
doing my laundry, you know, not that that's crazy thing
to do, but like you're taking care of everything on
your own, and whether that's you know, your studies or
just like normal everyday life, but a lot of stuff
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you're kind of learning on the fly and um and
luckily there are a lot of other guys, older people
there at the school that you can kind of look
up to and ask questions. But like you know, they
have a thumber ride to go down and get a corsage,
the date to take Whitney. You know, like there's there
was like a bunch of things that you had to
be a little bit. You had a little bit scheming
to pull off. That's super interesting. So wait it comes
(09:47):
even more. We can kind of put a pin in
this after it. So and I told you this the
last time I was on your podcast when we were
actually recording in Monterey. Uh was the way that I
got on The Bachelor was because my brother was actually
approached by a casting director. The fact that my brother
was Andrew Firestone's big brother who then became the Bachelor,
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was also you know, hit up by a casting director
to be on the show. He turned it down. Then
I went on the show. I think is it's yeah,
schools some good looking people on it. Then, yeah, I
mean you and Brett both, you know, you've got it
going on. Who's better looking? That's a good question. I
mean you're canna answer it. I think it's a good question.
(10:34):
I think that you're better looking than him now, but
I think he had you maybe like tenures his model pictures.
He had a great head a lettis letna tell you what, like,
Like his hair flow was so good. I haven't seen
him in a thousand years, but back then, like he
was definitely a ladies man. He he had so many
girlfriends and cute girls were always falling him around. So
(10:55):
I was like, dude, I want to do that. I
want to be that guy that well, um a little
bit too to explain why we're all out here, um,
you know. And I waited to tell you this, Andrew,
but when I first met you was at Jaden Tanner's wedding.
Uh Chris, who um, I really love. He kind of
walked me. He was like my big brother. I felt
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like through this whole weird process, right, I mean said
to many times. I was twenty five years old. I
had no clue what I was doing in this world.
I still don't, um, but he kind of like put
me under his wing and would take me around and
introduce me to people. And one of the weirdest things
for me was I always felt like, and and this
is is no bs towards you, Like Andrew Firestone deserves
to be the bachelor, right like it's he's he's a stud,
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he gets it. I watched these guys in the past,
like they all understand more than I do. And I
just kind of got thrown into it. Well, we go
to Jaden Tanner's wedding and Chris says, hey, how about
you come golf with Andrew and I and so we
do that and I was really fresh. I think I
was maybe still filming or just after filming when this,
when this wedding happened, and you were very kind, very funny,
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very much made me at ease. And I've told everybody
listening to this podcast many times, well, the only reasons
I was able to do the show and have any
type of enjoyment was because I saw guys do it
before me and go, Okay, if they can do what,
I can do it too. Like he's not he doesn't
like walk on water. He's a great dude, normal dude,
a fun dude. And uh, and that's why you know,
it's great to get back out here play Pebble Beach today.
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Um again, thanks uber eats for doing that. Uh, it's
a big deal. And here's a funny uber each story.
As I continue to so I fly in last night.
I've been looking forward to this trip for a long time. Um.
I I golf with Wells quite a bit. I haven't
seen Chris in a while. I was really excited to
get to hang out with you again, Andrew. Uh. And
we're playing Pebble Beach come on, like one of the
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best places in the world on a beautiful day, too gorgeous.
And so I fly in last night from Denver and
I'm standing at baggage claim. My bag doesn't come. And
in this bag has my golf bag, my clubs, my shoes,
all of my clothes for the weekend, all of my toiletries,
every thing possible. I packed it all into this travel
golf bag and it doesn't come. Called the airline and
(13:05):
uh and they said, oh, you're bag still in l A.
It's not going to get here until eleven o'clock the
next day. So today still not here. So as a result,
thanks super Eats for making sure that I have my toiletries,
I have all of the snacks I need, any of
the food I need, any of the drink we need.
Fooder Eats really saved the day. So this has been
a great trip. Not only come out here with you all,
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but to have them make sure that I am the organized.
The fact that your bag got lost, maybe just to
like just to crush this whole thing. And like the
day Yeah. The only thing that I didn't get delivered
is my golf clubs, but I still believe they're gonna
be coming. Um. All right, So I want to start
today talking a little bit about golf. We're not going
(13:47):
to dive into it too much because I don't think
anybody out here really cares. But there's a question that
is is haunting everybody here. Who is the best golfer
in the group. And let's throw Chris into this um.
Who is the in Europe inion? Who was the best
golfer in this group? So I played golf yesterday with Chris,
and he shot a seventy six. I don't think he
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wants anyone to know that because he has to post
that score, which will screw up his handicap. But he
was rushing the ball yesterday. By the way, a very
very difficult golf course uh NPC Monterey Peninsula Country Club.
And I can tell you a heart because I was there.
I was playing, and it was a abject disaster. I
mean it was just a mess, spraying balls left right
(14:29):
and center, Chili dipping off the t it was. It
was a mess. Chris was puring it. I played with
you also been years ago and uh, and you you're
a very good golfer, but it's been a while, so
you know, and you're also married, so usually that there's
a decline in your skills. Not at all. He's playing
golf a lot good. Well then maybe just falling apart.
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But I haven't played with with Wells here, but I
hear that that he hits it very, very long. So
it's gonna be fun for me just to watch you
guys playing in compete and I'll just be there having
fun eating snacks. Yeah, that was a long diet tribe
to say I'm the worst. I'm the worst, Okay, so
I'll see it right now. I think I think Chris
is the best golf for the group right now. That
feels like a game. It feels like a game. Proved
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me wrong. Ladies, come on, the best, the best is.
I believe that Chris is sitting on the side right now,
like this is the one conversation the day. I want
to join into eating him out now. But he's gonna
have a hard time because we just went on a
trip and uh, seven out of ten times Wells beats
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me at golf. I told you this last night. Um
in Utah, just a few weeks ago I did beat
Wells straight up, and so today is kind of like
that that to really figure out where we're at in
our game. To answer your question, I do think Chris
is the best golfer of the group. He's the most consistent.
That there's an argument also, uh, the thing that I
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guess everybody in trouble and golf his nerves, and I
think that he's able to regulate his nerves better than
any of us. For now. Yes, I think that I
can have days where I can I can beat everybody,
but my vote is for for Mr Harris. I also
will put the vote behind that too, because I believe
right now in his head he's like Wow, everybody believes
him a good golfer, and he's gonna get on that
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first tea today and shake it. Hey, we're gonna take
a break when we come back. We're gonna come back,
talk more about the trip, talk more, um about a
story I have from my honeymoon that I've never shared
on the podcast that you guys found really funny last night.
That's a great that's a great tease. Um, We'll be back.
Thanks again for Uber Eats for setting up this amazing
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trip to the Monterey Peninsula. I shared a story last
night at dinner and every goes you've got us share
this on the podcast, and I, uh, I'm excited to.
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It's a hard one to explain this. There's a lot
of visuals to this, um that are necessary. I'm sure
at this point people, you know, my mom and everybody
else has turned off the podcast, like we don't know
what we're getting into. Um, okay, So anyways, here's the storm.
I'm gonna try to explain it the best I can. Uh.
Jessica and I went to St. Bart's for our honeymoon.
And the reason this story came up last night is
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because I'm a big fan of blue cheese stuffed olives
and I love them in a good martini, not a
dirty martine, just straight up martini. And we land in St.
Barts a like eight o'clock. We go right to our resort.
It's a great resort um in St. Bart's um, but
it's a French speaking island and late at night. Uh,
(17:43):
you know, there's not a lot of staff around. Uh,
there's just a few people in the restaurant. And we
sit down there like you have thirty minutes of order
I said, great. So all I want right now is
a blue cheese stuffed olive martini, so I asked for it.
The waiter, who did not speak English, because it is
not in English speaking island for the most part, there's
a lot of them down there, goes, looks at me, goes,
I have no clue what you're talking about, like pretty
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much just confusion. I don't know what the blue cheese
stuffed all of this, And so I I said okay,
and he goes, let me get uh somebody, the smally
so as a result, and I the Smalley walks up
and said, can you have any blue cheese stuff olives?
And I make like a circle like like what I
thought was like an olive with my hand, you know,
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like your you put your index finger and your thumb together,
okay symbol, like an okay symbol. And I take my
other hand and I give my index finger in my
middle finger and I start like doing the sign where
you like you're pushing stuffing. And the Smalley gets really confused,
I don't know why, and walks away and says, I'm
gonna get my manager. So I'm sitting there, I'm still
going do you have any blue cheese stuffed, all of
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them saying it very slow, like they're gonna understand it
if I speak slower, which is a very terrible thing
to do. And I'm still stuffing my fingers at the
same time, the manager goes, I need to get my
like GM of the hotel you contain. He goes, I here,
we have a problem here, and he's spoken elish. I said,
I don't know there's a problem, and my and my
wife suddenly catches on. It goes, no, you have a
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big problem. Then you've literally just asked every single person
that comes up here. You've just signaled to them if
you're down, if you have anything stuffed, you have anything stuff.
The GM finally goes, oh, we don't have any blue stuff,
but we can't make your martini. That is the story. Um,
it's still today what Jessica does when like things get awkward,
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when I say something stupid, she just does the little
stuffing signs that just to remind me um of of
how weird I am. Yeah, and and also how the French,
uh do different hand signals for that? Yeah, well the
Americans do this. This means this as a very young age,
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I think that's a pretty explanatory Yeah, I hope, I
hope that. What I love about that is that there
are waiters and small as that thought that this six
four hunk of a man was like, hey, do you
want to go in the back room on the first
night of your honeymoon? They were like, wow, they all
swing us. I guess this guy was absolutely. I guarantee
(20:17):
the all spokes perfect English, like they're like this, just
check this out, check this out. This guy's just over there.
I was just I was not stopping, was not stopping
at all. Uh. And your question for you, do you
ever use Uber eats? Oh? Yeah, so, um, you know,
I have three kids, and um, you know it is
you know, this isn't any sort of advertisement for but
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this is just a utilitarian thing that we use all
the time. And you know, half the time we've forgotten
something somewhere, we need a snack, some of the kids
are you know, milk for one of the kids, whatever
it is. And so it's actually super convenient in Santa
Barbara to go and and have you know, food delivered,
you know, have whatever delivered. Um, and uh, it's really quick.
So we and I'm very slow to adopt technology. My
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wife was first using it. Now it's almost it's funny
like these things now become like kind of part of
your like everyday life, like you know, it's so much
more useful. It saves time so long way to say yes,
I wonder if you can get blue cheese stuffed olives.
I guarantee of uber heats. I almost can promise you that.
I mean, think about this stuff that we ordered in fact,
um it should be Oh, it's probably coming there and
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I just saw Amy walk away. Um there's more coming today.
I mean we ordered everything, uh for for our trip.
We order some alcoholic Seltzer's. That's what I requested or
over to do that. But we all are one thing.
I noticed that that you put on your request list,
which I didn't know about you. But if you would
like the same kind of potato chip I do. I
know a lot of potato chips, yes, which I think
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it's a very particular style. I mean, not like a
tortilla chip or like as like this is a something
very specific. So cheddar and sur cream is the way
to go. It is halapinia boy like a hallapenia. Yet
I don't like hell open, I don't like salton vinegar
like that, like I love salt. Now, I see I
can't do that. You know, the one thing that was
always told to me. I don't know if you agree
(22:08):
with this, but I know people listening, well, we'll understand.
There's a new chip out there that lebron Um has designed,
which is a Cheddar and Sarah cream Um chip with
spice added to it. There's a spicy noess to it.
When you open up, they taste fantastic. But when you
open up the bagga smells like feet. Have you ever
gotten that? So you know, I can't I can't have
(22:30):
a bad smell. Yeah, it's always told me. Okay, we're
gonna talk a little Bachelor here, Bachelor at Uh Andrew,
do you still watch the show? Uh? Yes, I do. Um,
But it's funny. I mean, so I want to talk
something Bachelor, not directly answering your question, but it's funny
how we're all sitting here together and you kind of
(22:51):
touched on it earlier. And there are literally hundreds and
hundreds of people, men and women that have gone through
the Bachelor over the years. But it's funny how, um,
you can create a relationship with somebody and it makes
that experience that much better and it lasts long, you know,
like and again, so Chris and I, um, you know,
when I was sequestered for all that time beforehand, and
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I was, you know, I I didn't know anybody know
what I was doing. I didn't what the show is about.
And Chris took me out to lunch with with his
en wife Gwen and their two year old son at
that point, Joshua. And so we go out to lunch
and like, you know, he's trying to you know, kind
of figure me out, and I'm trying to figure him out.
And I remember this moment when his son, Joshua is
(23:36):
pinging me with French fries and I'm trying to keep
a straight face, and I've got nieces and nephews and
I've got lots of little kids in my life, and
I'm just like, I want to throw a French fry
back at him, but I'm not going to. But but
there was like this genuineness about that experience, and a
lot of The Bachelor's all, you know, it's it's TV,
and it's you know, it's it's edited and all that
kind of stuff, But there are so many real moments
(23:56):
where you actually developed these relationships, not just the not
as the men and the women, but like you like
like you find these friendships and it makes it not
only tolerable but enjoyable. And um and it's and you know,
it's not a fraternity or anything like that. It's just
you do develop these unique relationships that can last a
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lifetime and um and I've had that with Christopher. It
will be twenty years that I was on the show,
uh next year, and we've remained great friends ever since.
And you know, I we met five years ago when
you when you do on the show. Yeah, but it
was and I didn't even know I met you him
here thirty years ago. Not true, Not true, not true.
(24:38):
But it's funny how it's this like it is this
this this group of people that that's that that somehow
you kind of find up you find a commonality in
a friendship. Well, it's you're you're exactly right, because you know,
Wells and I have been always spent a lot more
time this year together along with Dean. Um. Dean's around,
but you never know where he's at in the world. Um, typically,
but I doubt Wells and I other than personal um
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stuff that we're trying to figure out have talked about
the Bachelor ever? Like I don't think it comes up.
And that's when you know, like you know, sometimes you
get around the group of people and like that's still
the thing that's discussed, or it's what are you doing next?
Or uh, you know, are you going on the next show?
And and uh, when you get a real friendship, you
start to enjoy the other person and you we've only
(25:23):
met through this weird experience that now we can all share.
And then going back to what I said earlier, it
was on that golf course thatt day with you that
I said, Okay, like Andrew's a good dude, Like he's
you know, he doesn't have he's not he's not a
weirdo that sold out for the fame of this. Like
he's just a good dude who thought it could be fun.
I can do this too now, which is I hope
it's a huge compliment to you. Was all right, we
(25:45):
can we can do this thing. Um. But also I
think you probably played golf with hundreds and hundreds of
people that have a connection to the Bachelor or whatever else,
and some people just kind of want to be near it. Somebody,
you know, want to want to talk about it, but
like you know, it's I mean, how else would I
know a guy from Indiana or how would you know
make this connection back with you know, persone, but the
(26:08):
guy that I that I knew but did stuff. Jeez,
this sister, Now I'm gonna describe it as that. But Sarah,
it's time Martini. No no, no, no, no, no no no,
we want some prisons. The the Andrew. I think everybody
here would be interested. Tell us more about this sequestering
(26:31):
that you did. Uh, that wasn't a thing. When I
was the bachelor, I got a phone call I showed
up to In fact that the back story to that
is I went to Honduras for a wedding. I came back,
uh from Honduras with a parasite that I had through
the whole time that people know about. I lost thirty
pounds when I was a bachelor. But I flew into
l A three days before we started, and everybody in
(26:52):
the world knew I was the bachelor at that point, right,
They knew where I was going to do, so you
were hidden. So yeah, so so nobody knew obviously that
I was on it. It was a big a secret
and uh, it was the the whole reveal. Back then,
it was that I was gonna come out on Good
Morning America and it was gonna say, this is the
next Bachelor, and so I there. I mean, I had
ad anonymity going into it. But then but then, you know, afterwards,
(27:17):
it was it was like, you know, all of a sudden,
the curtain had fallen, and it was a really weird thing. Um,
but it was there was all the secrecy about who
I was or whatever else. But there was a moment
on the show when one of our dates, we were
ice skating and Century Plaza, you know in l A.
It's the the ice skating rink down there part of
the year, and there's this huge kind of viewing deck.
(27:38):
And so there we were on a date and me
and this young lady we're ice skating, and back then,
you guys didn't have this, but like there was a
hot tub on every episode, like every time, like anything
happened on the hot tub, one on the hot tub,
one on the hot tub. They had a hot tub
in the middle of the skating rink. Hundreds of people
were watching all clean there and I'm like, am I
(28:01):
really gonna get not to right now with like this
kind of stranger on a ice drink, with all these
people watching, and it was this again. It was this
migration in a very short amount of time from being
just a guy to all of a sudden the Bachelor
and and you know, it was Good Morning America and
it was US Magazine and like all this stuff, and
(28:22):
it happened so quickly. And the only thing that saved
me is that I never took it very seriously. I
kind of laughed at myself the whole time. I never
though that's a bad picture, or you know, like, uh,
you know, I don't like the way I look or
what I said. I just laughed about it the whole time.
All my friends did. But it was crazy. Do you
still get recognized, um from the time on the show? Yeah?
I mean, you know, when I was on it, it
(28:44):
was you know, all this alternative TV stations and social
media wasn't around. It was still network TV was still
the thing. I mean, there was thirty million people watched
every episode along the way, so it was out there.
Then US Magazine followed it very closely, and People mag
because all the all the tabloids and so it was
a it was a big part of people's lives for
(29:05):
for a while, and so you know, definitely like you
know that the younger generation, you know, it doesn't recognize me,
but people kind of in my demographic kind of like
they kind of grew up with me, you know a
little bit. So, yeah, you're my aunt's favorite bachelor probably
still to this day. It has amazing taste. Yeah, he's
a great woman. You obviously have a friendship with Chris.
(29:36):
Then he was the host of the show back when
you were the Bachelor. You're sitting in a hot tub
in a skating rink with a hundred people watching in
the back of your mind, going, this guy convinced me
to do this. Yes, I do blame him for a
lot of it now, but he was he was like
and he's always been a confident on the show throughout,
Like you know, but I think more than ever and
(29:57):
I think he'd probably say the same thing. Like I
spent a lot of time with him off the camera
because I was in a in in the mansion where
they filmed most of it by myself, but he would
be there a lot. We would hang out and so
like he was my only friend, like literally not just
talking about the Bachelor, but like just I mean I
was there for I don't know, eight weeks, nine weeks
or whatever it took to film. It was a lot
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longer back then. And you know, he was my guy,
like he was my buddy and um and so, and
I'm lucky to call my friends since you know, for
all those years and we're still very tight and uh yeah,
but he had a chance to come up here and
see you guys. We had a road trip for three
and a half hours, driving up the coast. That was
what an interesting like difference between your experience with Chris
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and like Ben and ours because we obviously are also
very close with Chris. But you did the show back
when there wasn't a huge age discrepancy between the host
and the lead of the show. Because when I was
on the show was very much like he was a
father figure and for you it must have been more
like a peer. So he was a buddy and like
so we would talk off camera. Uh like wasn't that
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weird or like what do you think about that? She
said that, like what you know, like there was it
was a buddy thing. We're only a couple of years
apart in age, and so um and he was, you know,
he had a young family, so like I wanted to
I wanted what he had, right, Like I was aspiring
to have that. And I'm I'm a I'm a die
hard romantic and you know, and I went when I
did the show, it wasn't because I wanted to be
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on TV. I didn't see the show before. Like I
wanted that. I wanted the thing. I wanted the family.
I want all that stuff, and maybe this is a
way to make that happen. And so having Chris there,
who was again had a young family, whatever else, like
I saw myself and him. So I took his advice
very genuinely because it had worked for him, you know,
and he he was sitting where I wanted to sit
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in a couple of years. How did they find you? Then?
You didn't know? So um so back like you could
apply for it. I didn't apply for it. I just
I literally got a phone call at my desk, um.
And I think it was about the time that Joe
Millionaire had come out, and so I think that the
show kind of wanted a backstory. So the first two
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gentlemen that we're on the Bachelor, you know, we're you know,
just guys just like like, you know, like that just
bachelor guys. And I think they wanted to have something
that had a little backstory to it, had a little
history where, you know, they didn't have someone that America
already knew, but they wanted I think they wanted somebody
that America could know or like, oh, yeah, I know Firestone,
I know firestontime you're like, I know that story. And
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I think the winery had something to do with it
as a backdrop for you know, for a lot of
the of the of the story. But people that don't
know it's your family has a winery in southern California,
so we're in the wine business, my brothers in the
beer business eight oh five beer. I'm sure a lot
of people are familiar with it, but my family, you know,
generations ago started Firestone Tires and so it fires something
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pretty household type of a name. So I think that
blended with what they were trying to get accomplished. And
especially because if none of the girls knew who it
was that they were going to see, maybe it's a
little more familiar to have a name that was recognizable.
But now, you know, having you having they know you
before you were the bachelor you that people followed your story,
they fell in love with you for for your personality
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and everything else. And the twenty five bachelorettes that we're
gonna show up also knew you kind of. I mean
not not to say they knew you, but they knew
enough of you to want to go and take that chance.
I had to agree to it. Where were the ladies at, then,
the women at when you were in the mansion You're
saying you lived in that mansion alone. It's a big house,
was it? This is the same mansion. This was. This
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was one of the first iconic I don't even think
it's there anymore. It was, you know, on the water
in Malibu, and all the ladies were in a house
about fifteen miles away, also in Malibu, but they had
no he didn't live, but he was just there a lot,
you know, because like he would go there and hang
out and um, you know, because they were doing whatever
the production stuff was. But there was a lot of
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production stuff that was happening. But like they wouldn't interact
with me, and like I'm a very social person, Like
I'm like I want to play, I want to shoot
hoops with somebody like I want to do something, and
they were very standoffish to me, because I'm sure they
were too, So it was it was a very odd
couple of months that I was in this huge house
by myself. Yeah. I remember when I went on this show.
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One of the first bit of directives that we got
from an executive producer was, I know, you want to
talk to the camera guys and the sound people, but
they are furniture. Do not interact with them. And I
was like, well, I can't do that, Like, I'm gonna
have to talk to these people. I got. I got
close to some, but like it was funny through those,
(34:29):
you know, those couple of months that I was there,
like it they did sort of start to fall into
the background, you know, like like eventually it did normalize
a bit. And that's what people ask me most often,
is like, isn't that weird being filmed all the time.
The first couple of weeks, it was bizarre, but then
eventually it just kind of became it was just there.
It was like white noise. Eventually the this whole thing
(34:52):
has transformed in incredible ways. You are now married. You
mentioned you have children, three kids, three kids? U um,
does your wife it all look back on this time?
Has you ever seen it? Does she laugh at you
or enjoy watching it? So everybody laughs at me? Just
um no, it's it's funny. I mean it. It has
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kind of faded into the background quite a bit, you know,
and like you know, I I didn't do any Hollywood
stuff afterwards, like I got back to my to my life.
So it's it's a fun chapter that like like sitting
in this calt right now with you guys, like like
all these memories are popping back up, and it's fun
to reminisce about. But it's it's it's literally just one
chapter in my life. So it's not it's you know,
(35:35):
it's not a defining moment by any stretch, but it
was a lot of fun. Are you happy you did it?
Absolutely no. I don't regret any of it. And and
you know, it's so easy for people to, oh, you know,
I wish I wouldn't have said that, or they portrayed
me wrong, or I wasn't like that. But like if
you're taking that serious, like that stuff seriously, like there's
something wrong like that is literally I mean, it's it's
(35:55):
just a it's a snippet of a portion of your life.
And if if you can't look back on a photo album,
it's like Whitney and I and like be able to
laugh at yourself and be like, oh my god, I
can't believe I was that awkward. I can't believe that
I looked like whatever you should. You need to be
able to take it with a grain of salt and
so answer, Yes, I'm so happy I did it. I
made great friends. Didn't work out the way that I
(36:16):
thought it was going to, but I have no regrets whatsoever.
Did they say on your season, uh, here for the
right reasons, And I'll say, like I was a dent
there genuinely to see if this could work. I didn't
take I didn't take a dime of money. I paid
(36:36):
for for the ring myself, Like really, I did not
want any I didn't want any sniff that it was
it was contrived. I wanted to be an authentic experience.
That was the only thing I could control. I couldn't
control editing, I couldn't control the girls. I could just
control myself and my attitude and perspective on what I
was doing. It's funny because you know that they're for
(36:59):
the right reasons thing. It's brought up so often, and
I think that maybe you are the only person who
has ever been there for the right reason, because like
you can you come from this winery family. You know
you don't need to sell diarrhea t on Instagram, Like
there is no bullshit with you. You actually went there
and wanted to And I didn't know about Neil Lane
(37:20):
wasn't there. You bought your own ring back then as
Harry Winston. But I mean they were gonna offer a ring,
and I'm like, if I give this ring to this
woman that I feel like I'm in love with, and
I want to give this a real shot. I don't
want there to be any sense of like this is
not genuine. I don't want it to be like, well,
I'm gonna give you this ring to then give to
(37:40):
that to her that I'm gonna take it back or
you're gonna whatever it is. I'm like, no, if I'm
gonna do this, it's going to be authentic. I might
get my heart trampled, but you know what, that's authentic
and and and I would learn more from that than
faking it. That was one thing I always appreciated about
Jordan Joe Joe was that Jordan went and bought another
ring afterwards and then did it again like without cameras,
(38:03):
and well, I think it's necessary. Yeah, I mean it
is like you come off that show and you're still
dating and then there's that like moment where you decide, Okay,
is this really something or is it not? I think yeah,
I agree, I think that was It's a good move,
a good moment, and it's you know, it shows that
next chapter where that the show isn't kind of what
like either brought you together, force you together. It just
(38:23):
helped you meet and in life beyond. Hey, we do
have a big, big day ahead of us. I want
to make sure to tell everybody out there to order
with the Uber eats app. They stocked us up, I
mean with everything for this trip, with chips, with tequila,
with Seltzer's. Uh we brought in what else did you
guys order? Uh? Waters, but lots of waters to offset
(38:46):
some of the tequila we're gonna be drinking, so keep
that imbalanced. But I mean, I mean snacks, you know,
energy bars, like the like the whole the whole thing.
I mean, if we're not totally jacked up all day
on the course, like just puring it yards off. That's
That's not uber ITT's fault, that's our fault. Yeah, so
the uber Eats app is the way to go again.
Thank you for bring us all together Uber Eats to
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have this awesome trip, but also um to showcase something
that we all use in our lives. Now as we
close this whole thing out um today and get ready
for an amazing round. Uh, wells we do have to
ask you, um we are we are in May? Uh
there's a show that usually is filmed sometime this time
of year called Bachelor in Paradise. Familiar? Yeah, are you
(39:32):
gonna be on Bachelor in Paradise? Gonna ask that question
to you? Are you gonna be doing it? What where
are you at with it? We haven't heard a thing? Well,
it was. It was a weird thing because there was
a bunch of talk that it wasn't going to happen.
I don't know if you guys ever like talked about it. Yeah,
we talked about a lot. There was rumors that the
show wasn't gonna happen. And I thought that was really
(39:52):
interesting because I do feel like it's a very successful
show one and for a lot of people. It's everyone's favorite.
Um So the idea of them of us not doing
it is kind of a silly clickbait story just in general.
Um So I can say that this of course he
has the show is coming back. We're going to film
(40:15):
it where we always film it. It's going to film
during the same time, um that it always does. Will
I be there? Probably? Yeah. Here's the thing that, like,
I know that this sounds like very vague or cryptic,
but this is how this is what I've learned about Hollywood.
Hollywood doesn't get there together until seventeen minutes before something
(40:39):
is supposed to start, so you never really know, um
what's going to happen. So I would say it's definitely
happening and definitely probably gonna see me there, probably definitely,
probably Maybe we're not getting a lot out of it
the time. It works every time. Are you in any
fall up to that? Are you curious watch Paradise? I do?
(41:01):
I mean that is it is a fascinating show. Um
A lot of bikinis, a lot of a lot of tequila,
and those like two of my favorite categories, like if
I was on Jeopardy and those with like what is tequila.
What are bikinis like? That would be those. I would
go for the daily double every time. Um, so yeah,
I I hope we see wellsy on there would be
that would be you know that, that's like one of
(41:22):
the best parts. Would you would like batchelor? Paradise wasn't
around during your time? Would you go? Would you go
on Paradise? You know, I'm forty six years old with
three kids. Nobody wants them. Like, if you want to
if you want to kill a show, put me on it.
On a dating show. Let's flash back, though you're the bachelor.
Doesn't work out? Uh no, bachelor, I don't work out.
It does doesn't It doesn't work out for you if
(41:44):
you work out? Are you looking at my flabby ars? You? Uh? Um?
You you're the first lead ever to do one of
those side shows. Um. Would you have said yes? Does
that feel like your cup of tea? Probably not? I
mean just that's nothing my I mean, I don't know.
It would be tough just because um, like I I
(42:06):
would just get very uh cynical about the thing. But
I do enjoy watching it and like um and and
the characters that have been on it before been so
compelling and so willing to kind of put themselves out there.
So I will say this. I think I can speak
for everybody and say, well, as we hope to see
you on the beach, we hope to see you very
(42:27):
often speaking on the beach. Um. Those flowered shirts, ridiculous shirts.
It fits you, man, you do a great job at it.
My olive skin down there in the Mexican summer sun.
We'll have to U. We'll have to uh just I guess,
wait and uh and wonder until the official announcement if
there is one, if you'll be there or not. Yeah,
(42:49):
it's coming soon, it's coming soon. There we go. That's all.
That's that's all we needed to make sure there's a
little peace of mind walking into the first tea today
at Pebble Beach. Again, thanks to uber eats for bringing
us all here. Uh, gentlemen, this has been a pleasure. Uh,
it's really great to be with you all. Thank you
um for coming out here with the almost famous podcast,
but also thanks to uber eats for bringing us together
(43:11):
out here. We're gonna have a great day uh at
Pebble Beach. Um, we've got to get to the range.
I've got to make sure that my bag is on
its way to the hotel, because that's really important to
have golf clubs. Yeah, to play golf, to play golf.
So I want to see if we can get Uber
Eats to actually come out in the fairway. I want
(43:32):
to order something like while we're like walking down four
and like see if you can meet us like the
six tea bucks. I have the uber ets app. Okay,
we're gonna get on. I wanna see. I wanna see
like roast and brodies, like let's see crossover through through
the yard, through the hedges onto the course. I don't
put it past them. That good. They're that good. Hey,
(43:53):
follow my lead here. Andrew Wells has been around for
a bit. Thanks everybody for listening. Um, we'll be back
uh this next week with one of our regular episodes.
Ash will be there. Ashley is also having the producer here.
She's also having like a girl's trip, right, that's coming
up sometime soon in June. In June, so that's gonna
be a very special episode. I imagine Ashley is very
(44:15):
ready for a girl's trip like hers is like slightly
different than this, Yeah, a little more like Ashley esque,
a little more spa a little more girls. Are we
invited to that too? We'll talk about that. I don't
I don't hate a spat. It's funny because when this
came up and they said, hey, what do you want
to do? Immediately I was kind of joking. I was like,
(44:36):
I want to bring these guys to Pebble Beach and
play golf, and you're an Amy who has been our
producer forever responded with okay, and I was like, oh, well,
I don't always typically say that when you asked me things.
Ben called Danielle and I the other day and said
can we do this? And he asked us something. We
(44:56):
just literally said no, no, no, I'm not going to work. Yeah,
and I say, okay, well that works at least at
least we asked, right, You gotta know what they can do.
All they can do is say no, hey, would that
talk about Andrew's argyll socks? Did you look fashion? That's
what the ladies want to hear about. This is the podcast.
You can't see us. Yeah. Well, I think I got
a picture at some point because I thought we were
(45:18):
getting Best Dressed awards. I'm giving it to Andrew. I'm
getting like first, second, and third Andrew's wearing a blue,
a light blue floral golf shirt just tight enough. I'm
not gonna it's a perfect tightness. Blue pants also just
tied enough, looking stylish our gyll socks wells is all
in black. He's like Johnny cash Over, You're looking really good.
(45:39):
Nice black golf sweater, black pants. Ben, let me tell you,
is wearing the exact same elf he was because he
doesn't have any clothes or any underwear. The Uber Eats
is getting yeah, but just to be said, Uber Eats
is here with my deodorant, my toothbrush, my toothpaste, grabbed
Q tips. It's here. Thanks Suberie for making sure that
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I have everything I need. It just came in. This
is a big day. Ben does have a lovely Kashmir
sweater with a like a hood, which I did touch
because it was so solid. He also is kind of
a weird smell. You can get this guy when get
his fresh clothes. Right now. There's a lot going on, um,
but this day is about to turn to be incredible
(46:22):
because I believe everything's gonna show up. And I believe,
uh that once again, uh Chris Harrison shoots low round today.
I believe Wells is in second, I believe I'm really close.
And third, I actually think Wells and I are gonna
go back and forth into the final hole. I believe
Andrew just has a great time and makes it. If
I don't, if I don't launch a club into the
Pacific Ocean today, like that's a win. Like that's that's
(46:43):
a lot of pressure on Today. There will be some
games being played. I'm assuming there'll be some updates, uh
that you can follow. I'm hoping. Um, if if I
take Wells down today, it's not gonna feel great because
I do love the guy, but it's gonna feel so good,
really deep inside my evil soul. Mean, he's gonna do
you like one of those. It's gonna be really bad. Well.
(47:06):
I mean I can't beat you. You invited all of
us here, you know, so I feel like I gotta
take a nail here. Yeah that's right. Yeah, good for you.
Hey follow my lead here, Andrew, Thanks for listening. Almost
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I've been and what I've been Andrew? Oh yeah, okay,
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