Bachelor Happy Hour - Getting in the Holiday Spirit

Episode Date: November 5, 2024

Listen to the beginning of this conversation over at The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast. Joe and Serena’s holiday party continues with Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti!  More holiday questions are answered, more traditions are shared, and we find out who’s making it onto the naughty list!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious. Wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, luckily, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend's been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone.

Hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That seems inappropriate. Maybe find out how it ends by listening to the OK Storytime podcast and the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everyone, welcome back to Bachelor. Happy Hour. I'm Joe. And I'm Serena. And we are here with not one, not two, but three lovely guests. Ben Higgins, Kathy, and Susan are all here. And it's the holidays. And we are celebrating. Yes, we are. You guys, if you missed it, we started our chat over on Almost Famous. So be sure to go check out part one on the Almost Newest podcast. Oh, podcast. And now we are here to continue our conversation about our holiday favorite moment in part two.

Yeah, let's do it. All right. So I think where we would love to start, considering, you know, the Bachelor franchise is known for being one of the most dramatic shows on television. Do you guys have a most dramatic moment or gift that you can remember from the holidays? Ben, let's kick it off with you. Yeah, I think I'm usually the cause of the drama. And it's mostly, I have this distinct memory in my mind when I had just turned 21. So when I turned 21, it was a big deal for everybody involved, right?

Mostly myself. Nobody else cared that much. You were legal. Yeah, I was legal. And so you start to consume as much as you. you can. So I remember a holiday. This would be 14 years ago now. And we had a great snow in Indiana, about three foot of snow, beautiful white powder. And we finish our dinner. And I remember it being a great idea. Like one that everybody would not only enjoy, but one I would enjoy,

is to get down to my, like, underwear, to run out into the yard and do snow angels. During menopause, I could do that. During menopause, it sounds fantastic. I'm sweating. It's 62 degrees inside and I'm sweating. But I remember doing snow angels in the middle of my grandparents' yard all by myself. And finally, at some point, coming to my senses and looking up and being like, nobody else is feeling this. Why am I the only one?

Yeah, why am I the only one that seemed to have a good time? Okay. I can't even. That's good. I can't even. Mine is not humorous at all. Well, mine, although that is a great story, Ben. Thank you, Kathy.

Mine is my parents were divorced, and my dad, when he married my stepmother, they didn't have, she didn't have a diamond engagement ring when they got married. And a few years after they got married, we're sitting around opening gifts, and our family tradition was each person opened a gift. And my dad went and made this big thing of going under the tree and getting this box and giving it to my stepmom. And in it was the most exquisite emerald cut diamond ring. And I remember when she opened it, it was so unexpected.

All of us, there were seven kids between the two marriages. And we all just sat there. We had no words because we knew what it meant. How old were you? When my dad married her, I was six. she got this ring I was 13 I believe you remember it oh I remember it like yesterday I can describe the ring as if it was given to me it was the most beautiful moment and an example of true love and I will never forget it's an emotion that's a feeling that was that was that was that was a lot

different than Ben's yeah very different you know my dad was not naked in the snow my dad was not naked it was a beautifully wrapped gift but you know what was all it was It was all Christmas. It was all Christmas. And you know what? My dad and mom, a stepmom, had a great marriage until he passed away. And it was just a beautiful moment. It was a Christmas I will never forget.

The point is there's no right or wrong way to do the holidays. Well, wait a minute. If he'd given her the ring and he'd been naked, I don't know. You should ask her. Yeah, if you weren't in the room if that was me. Yeah, I don't want to know that. I don't want to know that. I'm going to live with my story.

The different kind of Christmas story. Susan, how about you? Okay, I have two different ones, actually. I torture my children all their lives. I would put clues and they'd open box after box inside a box inside a box and then tell them to go down in the dryer. But the best, I'm famous for this, my poor father, he would always, I would always lose his Christmas present.

Like, Dad. Dad, I bought you a gold chain. It costs me a fortune. It's nowhere to be found. And a year later, when I get out all the Christmas paper, there it was. Wait, this isn't what is even on purpose? No, it really happens. I've done it several times.

And everybody's like, not again. I was like, Dad, I promise. One year I bought them. Yeah, the following year. And then I start looking where I was. I've done it a couple times. One time I think I just threw it away. You just make a new one.

I did. The next year I bought him a new gold chain. His birthday is the day after Christmas, so he gets two gifts, and I wait to the next day to give him the birthday gift. And the following year I went out and bought a brand new chain and found it, found the original one. And your father is still with us today.

No. He's not. No, but he's looking down smiling right now going, I remember Susan. You know what he's looking down? He's overlaid. He's drowning in gold chains. That's what he's doing.

So when the final holiday he spent with you, did you forget his gift? No. There we go. That's all it matters. You got him a gift. That's beautiful. All right. I love that I follow Susan because our stories are somewhat similar.

We are so much alike, yeah. I will say for me, we drink on the holidays, especially Christmas Eve. and my fan we're a gambling family so we usually play we usually start out playing cards and it's very light and fun and friendly and we play a game called in between the sheets and before you know it it starts out it literally starts out as like a dollar two dollar game and by the end of the night someone has lost three thousand dollars We never went over a couple hundred. Somebody's lost their sheets, their pillowcases, the quilt.

And it's all, I can't. And it just turns into just total chaos. Somebody leaves really pissed off. Someone's happy. And then, you know, out comes the lemon chello. And then they play poker and I never knew how to play. My dad would make up names of games. I go, what is that?

one-night jacks are wild like deuces are wild what do you mean i couldn't play a lick but i just kept putting the money in there just to be with the whole party yeah it was fun and you think you think you're going home at 10 p.m and you don't go home until 2 30 and yeah you're hung over the next day and that's the holidays but you know and you could stay in your jommies can't say can't have experience that one this year maybe yeah this year this year i'll be hung over run down a lot of money. Can't be. My most dramatic story.

Yeah. The only one I can remember was maybe five years ago. I want to say this was like two years before I went on The Bachelor or maybe a few more. But I was, I had lived in Helton Head for a few months. And I was going through this thing where I was breaking out in hives every night for like no reason, just like on my neck or on my arms. They don't really know what it was. We never really figured out.

They think it was like maybe anxiety or something was triggering it. And I remember on Christmas, we're sitting at the dinner table and I'm eating and I start like feeling it. And I broke out and head to toe like full body hives. And it was the first Christmas I was spending with a boyfriend. And I was seeing him after. And I remember being like, you never told me you had a boyfriend. Joe, come on. I'm literally hideous.

This is so terrible. I'm downing Benadryls in the kitchen at my aunt's house. And we had these unexpected guests. like friends of my aunts who were Russian and they brought their mom who was Russian and she told me to cut a lemon in half and cover my face and my body. Did it burn? And I was so desperate. I was like, I'll do anything.

So I'm taking Benadryl's. I'm not going to this story. I blocked it out. I actually forgot about this story until this question came up. I'm covering my whole body head to toe in this lemon. I'm like soaked in lemon juice. I'm like on the verge of tears. And honestly, it worked.

cleared off in like 30 minutes. It was a miracle. Like this woman saved my business. That's true. So like Russian remedies, they know what's up. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious. Wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit.

Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast. So we'll find out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend has been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That sounds totally inappropriate.

Well, according to this person, this is her boyfriend's former professor, and they're the same age. And it's even more likely that they're cheating. He insists there's nothing between them. I mean, do you believe him? Well, he's certainly trying to get this person to believe him because he now wants them both to meet. So, do we find out if this person's boyfriend really cheated with his professor or not? To hear the explosive finale, listen to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

I do have one thing to add to this, though. Yeah. And as Joe was talking, it reminded me of a story I hadn't thought of. You know, my wife, I messaged on Thanksgiving evening because I drank at Thanksgiving and was laying in my bed at my aunt's house because I was getting ready to fly out the next day in her house really close to the airport. And I was scrolling my phone and I found the picture I screenshot. of her profile, and I had the confidence that night to send her a message and say,

if you're single or you're ever in Denver, please let me know. And if you're not, just like take it as a compliment. So the holidays are big for me too. That might be the most dramatic story I've ever had because I got married from that night. We never stopped talking since. I've heard this story. Wait, Ben, I've heard this story before. When did you send her that message?

the third Thursday in November in 2018 that's a Thanksgiving think about that if you weren't in the holiday mindset you probably were feeling pretty good you had a few drinks yeah life was up and in wow yeah I'm buried in the child I know whoever is this drink a bunch of Kim Crawford wine, the Thanksgiving and Gamahadi. We're going to find a man drinking Kim Crawford. We're going to drink Kim Crawford and go to town in about

one week. There you go. All right. I think we have time for one more question. I want to hear about everyone's favorite or most memorable holiday gift. Oh, mine is my first dog. 100%. I still remember when I got my very first dog when I was a little kid.

she was I'm an only child so she was like my ride or die all through like college like she she passed away and I was a sophomore in college but she was my rider die I remember when she showed up she I just remember playing with her in the yard with her little collar and being like I got my friend that was my favorite gift ever what was her name Zoe so do you think that you will want your kid to grow up with a pet then yes 100% guess what we're buying Yeah, I already got a dog. You guys are good. It's coming.

Yeah, we're done. Okay, I don't like following you, Ben, because my stories are like about my kids. So my best holiday gift was not for me. It was for my children. I have three kids. And my husband and I decided to surprise my children with a trip to Disney World. And we had the tickets printed out, airline tickets. it was their first flight and we had the tickets printed out for Disneyland and when they

almost makes me cry when they opened the card and said you're going to Disney World they all started jumping up and down going really really we're going we're going it was again I'll never forget it the thrill of seeing their excitement about going to Disney World was was the best I used to do that sometimes and then I hold back from giving it to them because they would haunt you how many days how many days so we do it just a few days before you like guess my kids when we wake up tomorrow we're going to the airport that's the best tell you when we get there okay remind me right now though how big are your families i have three children okay i have two boys and a girl my oldest son

turned 43 yesterday i have a 39 year old son and i have a 37 year old daughter and i have a 37 year old daughter, and I have two granddaughters, a five-year-old and a 16-month-old. Oh, me, okay. My daughter's 38. I have twin boys. The day I go home, Wednesday, they'll be 36. I can't believe it. And six grandchildren.

And six grandchildren. Five are with us. One's in heaven, but yeah. Amazing. Do you have a favorite grandchild? I would never tell. So, you know, that's like asking of you have a favorite child. A 12-year-old.

a 13-year-old. And you probably have one of those too. And a 14-year-old, but I have two, three-year-olds. That's tough. Having two, my daughter has one and my son. I'm going to be honest. I have three kids. I love them all for different reasons. I have favorite ones depending on the question you asked me. Okay. Well, Susan, do you have a favorite gift? I give the favorite gifts. I don't receive a favorite gift. I What have you given that, what have you given that you feel like that was your, a special moment? Yeah.

A trip to Europe. One, one time it was Greece and then another time it was Paris. But like my gifts have a card with the Eiffel Tower. These are the dates. This is how you pack, but they didn't know where they were going. You know, one was a boyfriend. One was my husband. So, yeah, it's kind of cool because like I said, I give clues.

and Dickie didn't get it until the limo pulled up. I was like, back then they were Franks. We didn't even have the Euro. And he was like, we're going to France. What about you guys? What about you guys? What did you give me for our first Christmas? I gave you that they're a body gun that you use all the time.

We're watching TV on your IT bands. Oh, I have you. Wait a minute. He's cheating. He's cheating. He's cheating. he's making you tell no i'm not cheating it was neither it was neither of those things and then i got you a cashing scarf but first christmas was hard yeah i've stepped it up since yeah you have but you

still have all the things i gave you that first christmas and you use all of them look at her face i love it second christmas i don't know yeah why don't you remember what i gave you jell what did you give her on the first christmas my my favorite my favorite gift and i talked about it on the almost famous podcast, but would be the home loan to experience. Nice. And what about yours? My favorite gift, I have a lot, there's a lot, but the one gift that I always think about when I think about Christmas was when I was like maybe eight, seven or eight years old.

And all I wanted was a two-step doll house, which was like a two-floor big dollhouse. And I remember waking up, I still remember, like it's a core memory, waking up and walking into my family room and my dad had built it. So it was standing there fully built when I walked in and it was pink and purple. And I just remember being like, this is the height of luxury. Like, this is the coolest thing ever. I am living my best life. Yeah. I guess I should talk about for you last Christmas. I mean, Jesus Christ. I mean, did he ever give you anything that you were excited and remember? I mean, he's given me lots of amazing gifts. Yeah, but we don't have we don't have to rattle off because there's just too many gifts.

Good recovery. Good recovery. Thank you guys for coming out of the podcast and to all our listeners. Make sure you download and subscribe, Bachelor Happy Hour, and stay tuned. Yeah, thanks for listening. We'll have more fun, exclusive interviews

coming your way. Bye. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious. Wait a minute, Sam. Maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, luckily, it's back to school week on the OK Storytime podcast, so we'll find

out soon. This person writes, my boyfriend's been hanging out with his young professor a lot. He doesn't think it's a problem, but I don't trust her. Now he's insisting we get to know each other, but I just want her gone. Hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That seems inappropriate. Maybe find out how it ends by listening to the OK Storytime podcast on the IHeart

radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast. Thank you.