Bachelor Happy Hour - Christina & Brayden: One Year of Marriage | Happy Hour

Episode Date: December 9, 2025

Today on “Happy Hour,” Joe and Serena are sitting down with Brayden and Christina! The last time we saw this happy couple, we were deep in wedding talk — so there’s plenty to catch up on now. We get into all their exciting life updates, starting with Brayden’s impulsive decision to run an ultramarathon (yes, you read that right!). Then, Christina opens up about her sobriety journey and how she’s officially passed the one-year mark without alcohol. Plus, we get a sneak peek at Blakely’s birthday present and the hilarious story behind how Christina found the little critter. And of course, Brayden shares his first real parenting mishap — you don’t want to miss this one. Tune in now to hear all this and more, and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm Joe. And I'm Serena. And we are here today with Braden and Christina. Welcome back to Badger Happy Hour, guys. How are you? Out of this world. Yes. Clearly.

She didn't want me to do the background, but I felt like it was appropriate. Yeah. Yeah, if you're listening and not watching, on YouTube right now Braden and Christina have a what even is this an outer space view of Earth as I kind of like it I find that to be

It's kind of soothing it's like blue twinkly lights I'm enjoying speaking to you guys like this I'm glad that you know it's keeping your attention that's important so hopefully the viewers agree so last time we had you guys on here was right after you got married which was almost a year ago now when's the exact anniversary date

oh you're right uh 12th oh my gosh did you get me a present it's not i need to get on that i actually thank you for bringing that up i would have never thought of that did you wow you would have never thought of your one year anniversary no i mean we're not actually big anniversary we're not like big on that either but i think maybe as time goes on you may like as once you hit like the 10 year mark yeah i feel like five years is like you can start like really celebrating we like we made it five years like one year is like you know I mean it's a it's an accomplishment especially with this one but oh I'm just kidding I love already yeah no I feel like it should be a big deal because we have so many random dates of like when is our actual anniversary so really

we should just hone in on the 12 12 12 it was 12 12 24 which is that's why we did it on that date we should do something but we have the date of when we met but we weren't allowed to announce it that we were dating because paradise hadn't come out yet the date that we were able to launch The, yeah. Oh, my gosh, you knew that? That was the day we first met in person. And then our anniversary when we started dating was 9-18. So we actually started dating like boyfriend, girlfriend, pretty fast because I had that voting accident. Engaged.

Engaged was one four. Yeah, look at me. I'm the one who remembers the dates in this relationship. Look at you. Good with numbers. Yeah. And I remember our anniversary, which apparently someone for your cop here. It was a total joke.

my mom texts this every year on the anniversary of the day we got engaged and is like do you know what day it is we're like no they're like it's your engagement anniversary we're the same as you guys where we just have a there's a lot of dates

in the mix so it makes it difficult this will be what our third wedding anniversary in September I feel like the more years from the marriage the more it becomes significant is that weird to say

I feel like I just I said that three minutes ago yeah but yeah I thought you were saying like you start celebrating it once it's been more but for me it like locks into my mind no yeah that's kind of i'm we're on the same page that's what i think too great point just there also i feel like i feel like honestly similar to like valentine's day it's like i know it sounds cliche or cheesy but it's like every day needs to be an anniversary you know i mean like they're

probably you can celebrate you know and go out to dinner or do something nice or get present i love valentine's day but really yeah so i mean i don't know i feel like i feel like it's like you should celebrate it every day you know okay yeah so no plans for the anniversary yet maybe we'll do something special well we have we actually blakely she's at school right now so she can't hear um we have a surprise birthday party that we're throwing for her golden birthday which is she's starting nine on the ninth so that's tomorrow so we have like a lot going on with that and then we have soccer tournaments every single weekend yeah um we are full like just normal life right now.

We're lifing it. And then I have an ultramarathon on Saturday. Tell them about that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Ultra marathon is, what is that? How many miles is that?

56? Yeah. So it's like a one and a half marathons, I think. Or no, sorry. A marathon. It's, a marathon's 26.2. So that would be 50. So, yeah, 52.8.

Something like that. So I really don't have a whole bunch of information. I kind of sign up to apply. Really. So Blakely's soccer coach, he like does ultramarathons and iron mans and stuff like that. And me and him were getting it talking. And I was like, you know, I've always wanted to do one. He's like, well, I'm doing one.

This is like, you know, in two weeks. He's like, if you want to do it. I'm like, I don't know how fast I can go. And he's like, well, I'm going to be taking it pretty easy. He's like, you seem like you're in decent shape. I'm like, all right, let's send it. So I got spent the hundred and, what, 20 bucks or something like that to get a ticket and I'm running it next weekend. Okay.

Have you run a marathon ever? I've ran, I've ran three marathons now, yeah. Okay, okay. It's been like a couple years since I ran my last marathon. I've known you since you've done a marathon. Yeah, okay, so it's been a minute. I was going to be one recently, but honestly, like, stepping in, like, I just, I just, if I do another marathon, I want to actually train for it and try to beat my last, like, my best time. So, like, the best time of what?

346. Okay. So, which isn't, like, crazy, impressive, but it's sub force. So I would like to get, like, sub three. hours and 30 minutes I think is like what my next goal would be well let me that's my that's my next goal be realistic here with the last one you were totally going to do it you were and he is very very athletic but while we were we were at field day oh shoot yeah he ended up pulling his hamstring and so he was still going to run the marathon and I'm like and I called I'm like no we're not doing that like

yeah so hero so I've learned uh I mean I'm not old I know I'm not old but I feel like I'm like like my body's starting to get a little bit older to where I have to stretch now before I do things. He was running the 50-yard dash against older brothers. It was like this 18-year-old. He was like 20. He was 20. But he was like, I guess he ran track for his college or something like that. And I was like, I got to beat this kid. And so we were sprinting.

And it was like, neck and neck. And I was like, tried to kick up that extra gear like as we were nearing the finish line. And that extra gear just took my hammy out. So that was a, that was a learning experience for me. I did win. but I mean I was limping off the field so lost in the long run yeah have you have you trained at all for this like how are you training right now nothing no running at all I'm just going to send it I feel like I mean for me at least like with the experiences that I've had with a marathon so I've

sent a marathon before so like my first marathon was the one that I got 346 on I trained for my second one that I ran I didn't train for I had signed up like pre-COVID and then the marathon got canceled and then basically like it like just re like resigned me up for a new one and um the new one i got like an email the day before and i was like oh shoot i have a marathon tomorrow and i was like eating pizza and so that was a really tough run for me um i still got like four hours in 26 26 or seven minutes um it was um it was um yeah it was uh i feel like i could do it wow i mean ultras yeah ultra's wild are you scared for him i'll be at the finish line no you won't he'll be at Blakely soccer tournament. Oh, yeah, that's right.

The coach and him are both not going to be. Yeah. Who's going to coach the soccer team? Me. You could. She's coached. We did actually, I don't know if we were doing this last time we chatted, but we did coach the rec league. She's now moved up and she's on a, what's it called? Club soccer team, but we coached the rec league and we won the championship. First place. Number one. Congratulations. That's kind of fun.

now that was that was it no it's kind of crazy she brings it up at least like once a day it's it's like something she hasn't let go of like she's so proud i never said it's like one for most proud moments it comes up in every conversation so you you guys are in nashville right yeah do you love it yeah i mean i love now you know i i i can't say i just i struggle with like the weather because it's like i love being outside and but i hate being outside stretch more it's yeah no because it's like you can have like a decent day it'll be like 75 even like on the good days it'll be like 75 and pretty and then all of a sudden out of nowhere you got tornadoes just flying around and you're like you know what the heck like you see

Nashville 911 right that's real life that's not really it's not real life but it's close that's how I feel but what about the scene of Nashville like do you enjoy do you enjoy the restaurant do you like Nashville or so you don't like Nashville is what I'm no so And I'm sober now, too. So we're not going out. And it's, yeah, I mean, that's what you're doing in Nashville. Yeah. I mean, I'm from San Diego where it's like we had some of the best food that you could have.

Like, we had Italian food that was like legit, good Italian food. We had sushi that was fresh. Like Mexican food is the best Mexican food you're going to have. And great weather. An amazing weather. Yeah. Like the best weather ever. Yeah.

So we're in the process. The water's really cold. The water's not. I mean, you wear a wetsuit. But, I mean, I don't know. I just, I like. love it i mean we're trying to eventually move back i think to california um hopefully within the next year so uh okay that's the plan so crossing our fingers but christina you're you're sober

yes for how long um year and a year almost two on the 20th it'll be year in two months oh nice congratulations how's that been yeah yeah so that's been a big lifestyle change for the better and yeah no loving that but again not much to do here enough anymore yeah what are some like fun activities in Nashville that don't revolve around like drinking escape rooms we've done every single escape room we wait for the new ones to come out we do them just us too to try and we always get out we're really good at them so it's funny because like the first escape room I took her and her family too because like I've always loved escape rooms like I just find them so interesting and like they have like cool mechanisms like Joe just did his first one

recently. I just did my first one. Did you get out? We got out. Yeah, we got out, but we, we did. There was an option to like get a clue. Like are there options in all of them to like get it? If you use that button, is that count? It's still count. So the places that we've been to like for your score to count, you can't use more than

three clues. Okay. That's like the rule. So if you use less than three clues, then your score still counts. If you use more, then it's questionable. Well, usually one, because there's one where it's just like, Like, okay, there's, I mean, we're stuck. And I feel like when you're working with, like, a lot of people and especially people that are like kind of newer to it, sometimes they'll move clues around.

And so it's like, you'll press the clue and they'll be like, hey, do you remember that thing you picked up and you moved over there? Go and grab it. And so it's like. And we kick them out. Yeah, then we then we kicked them out. We're like, hey, don't touch it. I get pretty serious. I'm like, don't touch it again.

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I don't know why just like the mentally like upholding it I'm like I don't need to do that I'm at that point where I don't know do you feel so much as your body and everything do you just feel so much better yes I do feel so much better at first I did not I do feel so much better now I feel so much more period

like I feel so much more emotions and so he's been dealing with that yeah I don't know it's been you good no it's been great i do i do yeah i don't know i'm very proud of her and all the progress and she's like made with that i mean i know it's like it was difficult when she first stopped because it was like you know especially with like you know how it is influencing and like social media events it's like there's alcohol at every single one of them you know what i mean

and so you know being constantly surrounded by it can be very challenging and so it's like i i mean i'm amazed by how she's overcome that and how well she's been doing without it so it's been awesome. Well, I got to where, um, for my job, I'll have to do a lot of lives, not even just on my social media, but for the place I work for. And so it's ending up having to do them a transition to doing them at home. And it was late nights. And it was like for four hours at a time. And I'm like, okay, it just, I need to still have a personality and I need to be engaging and all this. And so it was kind of a fear at first of like, do I even have a personality? But I think I've gotten past that. It's like, okay. Well, sometimes I'm more chill and down and

that's okay too you don't always have to be at a tin yeah yeah i i get that i go i drink way less now than i used to like i mean a few posts ago on my instagram i talked about having like ten drinks or something but it was the day for the day before thanksgiving but for the most part i really i usually go like like a month month two months without a drink um do you mind me asking you and feel free don't have to answer this but was there like a a reason that you wanted to go sober uh i definitely i definitely was addicted to it to alcohol yeah yeah yeah yeah well that's good congratulations that's awesome thank you for sharing that with us it's awesome you guys are crushing you Braden's running ultra marathons for i'm i'm actually

curious to see if you if you get through this because so your last marathon right when you get to when you finish it i don't know what time you finish it doesn't kind of doesn't matter with this with the question i'm asking but like do you do was your body you think your body could have done another 20 something miles um i think it'd be different so from what the coach and he kind of convinced me to do it um it he said it it's different than running a regular marathon like because you're more walking right yeah i don't like in my marathons i've ran i've never walked so i'm always doing a jog or run of some sort like i think my first mile time was around like you know 755 in my marathon and then I kind of just like tapered off and slowed down from there.

The way he was kind of explaining it to me is he's like your first mile time you'll do it like your first few miles you'll do it run but you're running like 13 minutes a mile. So it's like you're really not pushing your body. So I mean and he said because he said you have all day to basically run this thing. He's like it's like it's just a matter of you know timing it out and doing your blocks. He's like so the first like you know 10 miles or show you're doing a 13 minute mile. I feel like I could almost walk a 13 minute while if I was like speed walking so i mean i feel like running and doing a quick job like a light jog for 13 miles is not too difficult but yeah mentality the mental is going to be the hardest part and that's like

that's really why i was excited about doing it as i like challenging myself mentally and like kind of re getting myself back down to like a place of discipline you know what i mean where it's like my mind's in control of my body you know what i mean because sometimes i feel like my i'm just listening whatever my body's craving to do or wanting and so i feel like it's kind of a good reset button to do something challenging every once in a while i agree i agree i'm gonna quick i have a quick question for joe have you ever done the i fly the indoor skydiving have you know what i'm talking about i've yeah i know what you're talking about i've never done it yeah i've done that and as you were talking about that i was like yeah challenging our bodies i want to see joe do one of them we just did this

i fly indoor skydiving we're planning my mom's 70th birthday there next month in atlanta hopefully she's not watching this and um they ended up afterwards talking about him being athletic and the guy comes over to him and hands him his like personal card and was like hey if you know if you i know you're out of town because we were in california but like if you ever like want to take this more seriously like you have a true talent he's not he said you're a natural athlete he did say i was a natural athlete i was bragging so we went like with my sister and stuff and me and my sister super competitive. And I told her afterwards, I was like, hey, do you get recruited to get part of the, you know, indoor skydiving community? No, I did. And so, yeah, but

is there, is there a skill set? I've, I'm going to be honest. I don't know how you would be. And I, you are naturally very athletic. I will give you that. But you are not comfortable in the water. And I think that there's something to be said about the parallels of like, athleticism with a natural element involved. Well, I am comfortable in the water. I mean every hotel we go to I'm the one that goes in the pool Right You do like to you like to be

You are never in the pool But I mean like the natural Like open bodies of water But I've actually skydied I've jumped out of a plane You have you have So I have that experience Oh yeah

It's different because that is like Obviously badass But when you feel like You're in a tube of wind Yeah You're trying to orient your body Have you done it? Yeah, so my aunt

And you just feel manhandled it They like lift you and like throw you into the wind And you're just like ah Well, so so Brayden What did you do that was so athletic That the instructor's like you have a career in this? I would imagine it was like your coordination My first time doing it

And he was pretty hands off with me So it was like a lot of people he manhandled But like for me he kind of just let me do my thing And I don't know I was just kind of feeling the win and like kind of moving my body and like you know i learned that when i like did different things on my body i'd go up or down and so i started doing kind of some of that and then i don't know i really i don't know why i think he was just trying to sell me something to be honest i don't necessarily think

you inspired him i think he saw me as a vulnerable uh prospect for a uh that's also like indoor skydiving you know pyramid scheme or something i don't know that's very humble of you to say that I think and very very global so how is blakley doing well she is she's nine almost and tomorrow and her attitude is getting there to the preteen it's uh it's yeah nine it starts at nine is that um yeah no no no part at eight i mean it's it's i mean she's amazing kiddo i want to make sure everyone knows she's an amazing kiddo but just the past couple days she's been testing us and so that's where we're at with that. but like we just when we went um for thanksgiving or a few days before to california she was just

amazing as far as behavior but she's such a cool kid i mean i have to say that i'm her mom but no she's she was absolutely amazing like um as far as like uh so we went back to california i actually um i lost my grandfather uh when we went back to hear that you know i appreciate that um but it was it was really amazing to see her in that environment because it was a very emotional time for a lot of my family and I was so proud of how she was like so empathetic and so supported like for you know kids normally like eight years old they're just running off and playing or not paying attention but she was there like consoling like my mom and like you know see your grandfather and wanting to yeah wanting to see my grandfather he was super excited to see her

so it was just it was really uh I was very impressed uh to say the least with how she like behaved and you know handled herself there was really really cool and on the different note we can tell i have i have a little friend over here oh yeah we do have surprise for her for the birthday not only are we doing the surprise birthday dinner because again we can't do a big party because she has a soccer tournament but with her soccer team because they're all really close we're going to do a surprise dinner tomorrow but in the morning she asked for a new backpack because her backpack and i was like maybe maybe for your birthday you can get a new backpack so i got her a backpack and we're going to put this inside of it something she's been asking for for a very long time

I really don't, but I will. You got to hurry up. People are waiting. We got a ball python. Oh, my God. So we're going to wait. I thought you were going to hold up a puppy, and that's just so much more shocking.

I thought it was going to be like a fucking elf on the shelf type of thing. Oh, my God. Did you just pull a snake out of a plastic container? Okay, so this whole snake thing, honestly, is the most ridiculous thing in the world. what kind of snake is it it's a ball python and look how pretty he is it is kind of pretty does it is it safe yeah apparently i mean they said they're safer than like corn snakes and stuff like that like when they get scared they'll just ball up but um you know yeah look at scared well does do they what do they eat uh mice live live mice yeah he has like a little elephant on his tail

But honestly, we don't really know. So I think we're going to do live mice. I'm never had a snake before in my life. And neither has Christina. The whole story for how she ended up going about getting this snake for Blakely is kind of ridiculous. There's this guy named Reptile Steve. Yeah, I just drove an hour or, you know, our there, hour pack. And met him in his shed out behind his house where he has a thousand snakes by myself.

but I make reptile Steve No he's great It's not sketchy at all But at first whenever I told you She was telling me about it originally This man's shed Yeah she like found this guy through a friend And she was like oh yeah

Her friend I guess told her like Oh yeah he has amazing snakes That are super pretty and all this stuff And I was like Big you're gonna go drive to the country To someone's house And go to their shed where they have thousands of snakes Like that sounds like a plot line

For like a taken movie You know what I mean It's giving like, Braden's like, I just want to go have some tacos in San Diego. And Crusino's like, no, I'm actually going to go get a snake from this random shed. No, that's exactly how it was. So, but she did it. And Reptile Steve is legit, honest to God, great snake handler. If you guys were looking for a snake in Tennessee, reptile Steve is your guy.

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She doesn't. Is that because someone said something? He didn't realize that she believed in Santa. Yeah, I mean, I think like what's the age? Well, this is two years ago. She was seven. I, okay. in my defense I never really believed in Santa myself

so it was like I don't know I kind of forgot that people believe Santa's not real I'd scale it at you really fast from the driver's seat she's like what do you mean I think she was a little suspicious at the time I was just afraid of like letting her know and then for being too young to not tell other kids but we we worked through it she didn't tell anybody because she okay cousins and stuff and I didn't want to ruin it for anybody yeah I was a lapse on my part um she was asking for a million dollars from Santa.

And so that's kind of what did it. We're like, well, that's... I'm like, this Santa doesn't have a million dollars to give you. I'm like, what? She was like, I'm like, somebody ain't real. What are you talking about? And then it was like, you know... Yeah, I don't know.

The Santa doesn't have a million dollars. I just, I mean, for me, I think that like, I don't know, I'm new to parenting at the time. It was when I first came out, you know? It happened. You know, I, again, I don't know. I may have a lapse. It was a mental lapse.

fine. I was also kind of, it kind of, I wasn't sure if I wanted to do Santa with her or not. And when the time came, she was around other, again, cousins and people that, that were doing it. So it just got sprung on her. I never made it like a huge deal. All right. So you got out of like Elf on the shelf and all that stuff. Yeah. Not doing. Yeah. No, that's too much for me. Yeah. What will you guys do for the holidays this year? Um, honestly, it's been hard because we've been so busy with Planting our anniversary. Yeah, planning anniversary. Right, yeah, every day.

I've been thinking about it nonstop. No, we've been so busy because we traveled to California. And then we've been having soccer games. Like, again, soccer takes up our life. Like, it's crazy. Like when people, like, I didn't realize how much my parents really put into me playing sports as a kid. Like, I thought, like, I just went and played sports.

But it takes, like, a lot to take your kid out of sport. And then when you're coaching teams or when you're doing things like that. So things kind of take a little bit longer to plan. And so I think that, I mean, this next week, now the school is kind of winding down, we'll probably start planning things for Christmas. We've got to create a Christmas tree still. Yeah, I don't even have a tree up. Oh, you got to do that. I mean, you'll go, you'll go to the country and buy a python, but you won't put up a Christmas tree.

That's what I'm saying. I think we just have random things that, I don't know. I don't feel like we're very traditional in that sense. You know what it is? I think about going in the attic, getting all the decor down and then putting it right back a couple weeks later. I get that. I get that. I get that.

So much. It's so much, you guys. Joe gets like that when we decorate because we go to Chicago for Thanksgiving. Because we leave. And then we either go to Chicago or Toronto for Christmas, depending on the year. So I like to decorate

before we go away for Thanksgiving so we can come back and it's already done. And I mean, look, we're putting up like a tree and like one other thing. Maybe because we're in an apartment. You see like our little like decor here. But he's always like, oh, like we're going to go to the storage unit.

We're going to get all the boxes. We're going to unpack. We're going to take them back. And then, like, literally in six weeks, we're going to have to do it again. But once it's done, it feels good. Yeah. Do you guys do a real tree or do you guys do fake tree? Fake.

We do fake tree here. As we will, no matter, no matter, you, you, I mean, listen, if you really want to do a real tree. Like, we used to go and cut it down. Oh, wow. Yeah. I would do it. My parents still do it. My dad loves a real tree.

And I think I don't want to do a real tree right now. But, like, if we, you know, in 10. years have like a actual house then maybe you would want to i mean i would do it but i just think it i think a fake tree is like so much easier it is so much easier but like i like the smell and it's fun especially if you have like kids the smell like the smell like the smell i get and like picking the tree and we'd get hot chocolate it's like a whole thing yeah it's like a whole spiritual kind of experience picking the tree out you know you have to find what tree talks to you and stuff and you know do you guys no we don't have any pets but joe is really getting the end

Do you guys have a dog? Do you guys have a dog? Yeah, we have two big ones. That's what my next question was going to be, because you guys were on opposite ends of the tree, as we are as well. And I was going to ask if your dogs are allowed to sleep in the bed because we're also in non-agree. No, if we get a dog, it's not sleeping in the bed. And Joe will want it to sleep in the bed for sure. I just feel like, I mean, the house is like, they have their, like, even my dog's sitting on me and he's looking at me because he knows what we're talking about. Because he's like, he's like, fight for me, dad. Like, when he looks at me, I sleep in a dog and he's like, fight for me, dad.

you know um but he's such a cuddle bug i mean he might be 120 pounds and he might lay right on top of you but it's like they love you and you're their life and you know me strong but when i'm half asleep and i have to get up in the middle of night to go to the restroom i can't get up you're getting buried okay so we have blakely may and she'll come in our house come in our bed at like 2 a m every morning scares the living crowd it's still a fear of mine because like i'll just wake up at 2 a.m because she's loud when she comes in and i just see the shadow standing over the bed It's a scary movie.

I definitely scared my parents a few times doing that. But I wasn't allowed to sleep in their bed. My mom would, like, grab my hand and walk me back to my room. Oh, yeah. This one says, okay, yes, so she opens the covers up and let her sleep, right? She doesn't get out. Blakely's like, what, 80 pounds? You're pushing around and get up and go to the bathroom?

No, she wakes me up in the middle of night to get up and move so she can go to the bathroom. You got a lot of things in your bed, guys. You got two dogs. You got a kid. I hope you have a king's size. We do. We do. but I agree there's too much too much happening in the bed that sounds weird I'll sleep in the

guest room with the dogs he does have a whole good I do sometimes I will like go to bed like or like I'll take a nap and like couple the dogs in the guest room bed that's the only bed they're allowed yeah yeah I mean I agree with actually like I I love dogs um but I agree with not keeping them on the bed I just I was just watching videos on sleep being so important and it's yeah it's messing with my head um anyways you guys yeah i want a dog i want a dog but here's the thing we we can't get a big dog because we live in a new york apartment and we travel too much and we'll travel is something that's probably always going to be a part of our lives to some extent just because we're both from different same as you guys right we're from different cities so

you'll always have to travel so um i think if we get a dog it's going to have to be a small dog um and yeah i mean i mean i would get one right now but then i then i know i know i'll be like damn i shouldn't have got this dog but then i'll be like i love but i love the dog i suggest like what if we foster but joe is like i won't be able to send it back like fostering for him is the same as like just getting a dog i'm having a moment right now with this guy who he is beautiful well yeah he's too big for the bed yeah he is too big for the bed yeah he is too big for a big boy go let down buddy go lie down buddy go let him he's like what you're up you go lay down baby well well what else you all got any rapid fires no I think that's it that's it

anything you guys want to plug plug anything you're doing now that you want to let our listeners know yeah as always stay tuned with life updates especially this marathon we'll be covering down over on Instagram on our socials and yeah When is that? What's the date? What's the date? Saturday, right? Yeah. Okay. And last question before we let you leave. How are you, how are you like fueling for it?

Do you have a breakdown? Like you, you're a nurse, right? Like, you know you have to put like electrolytes and shit in your body. I mean, I feel like it's like four days away. I'll get to it. No, honestly, I don't know. I haven't really been feeling up for it quite yet. I think I'm going to start carb loading, you know,

spaghetti, pastas, things like that. I have to go and get, like, apparently for the ultras, you have to bring, like, nutrition, like, so like a, well, yeah. So I have to go and get that. I have to get walking sticks because it's like a trail, like part of it's a trail run. And so I still have to do that. There's quite a bit of stuff I have to do, Joe. And you got Blakely's birthday. This is insane behavior right now.

It's a, it's a type of lifestyle that I'm choosing to live and, uh, so he did talk me into a real Christmas tree last year. We actually still have it on the side of our house. we wanted to make a walking stick out of it. You still have your last year's Christmas tree on the side of the house. So wait, did we go fake this year? We're going to get another real one because he talked to me into donating my fake. I'm not going to get a fake. I'm not putting a fake tree up.

I think it's sacrilegious. It's just, it's not good. Sacrilegious. No, it's fine. It looks like a real tree. No, they have a home. They can get a steak. They can get a real tree.

I'm for it. It's so, it's cozy. And then we get a walking stick. Even in, like, I have, even in, like, my 600 square foot studio apartment, I had, like, a real, like, tree. Like, it was only, like, a four-th year. But it was, like, a real truth. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you guys so much for coming on Bachelor Happy Hour and taking the time. We really appreciate it. I'm glad you guys didn't forget about us, man. It's nice to talk to. Never. No. And to all our listeners, thank you guys so much for tuning in the Bachelor Happy Hour. Make sure you download and subscribe to the podcast. We'll have new and exclusive interviews for you every single week. Thanks for listening. Bye. I know he has a reputation, but it's going to catch up to him. Gabe Ortiz is a cop.

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