Bachelor Happy Hour - Jeremy’s All In on Jenn

Episode Date: August 16, 2024

Today on “Happy Hour,” Joe and Serena are here with one of Jenn’s final four men: Jeremy! As we gear up for Hometowns, Jeremy is telling us all about his connection with Jenn. We hear about some of the unseen moments between them, his take on all the drama thus far, plus a fun tease for what we can expect to see during his Hometowns! And, of course, we get into his one-on-one with Jenn and his thoughts on their big conversation about kids. 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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Jeremy, how are you? I'm great. Thanks for having me, guys. It's nice meeting you. Yeah, you too. You two. You two. Where you live in New York?

Yeah, I live in New York. I'm in the East Village right now. Okay. What about you guys? We're like right next to the Hudson Yards vessel. Okay. We're like Chelsea area. Chelsea area.

Yeah. Like one of those new developments over there. Kind of, uh, no. Let's not put our address out. It's not saying exactly where we're. We could stop there. Yeah. All good.

We all live in New York. Yeah. We're off the west side highway. I'm just going to keep Good good Joe's like We're actually Is there cross intersection

If you want to come over My building has windows Yeah Our building has a front door and windows You're from New York No I'm from Stanford, Connecticut originally So about an hour outside of New York But I've been living here on off for like seven years

And you I don't remember exactly what you do But I believe it's something in real estate Yeah the title says real estate investor, which is true, but I have like a normal job. I run, I run sales for a property management and tech startup. Cool. And how, how did you wind up on the Bachelorette? I never thought I'd be on the Bachelorette. I've never seen the show before I went on, or I guess until right before I went on, but my friends had nominated me probably years ago and I was sort of in like this situation ship and it ended and then 15 minutes

later I got text and it's like hey it's whoever from the Bachelorette casting so I thought it was like weird timing and I was like I might as well see the process through and even like when I was like going through the interviews I'm like no one's going to pick me to go on the show yeah yeah I feel there's a lot of people's mentality you're just like I guess I'll see like how this goes down like I'm not going to actually end up on the show and then you end up on the show. How did you know your friends nominated you a few years ago? Oh, because they sent me like what they wrote. I thought various.

And you never heard, you never heard anything back until recently. Yeah, until I guess November, yeah. Wow, that's so interesting. That's actually, I feel like that's pretty rare actually. Yeah. Sometimes we'll hear people that. got nominated and they got reached out to and then it didn't work out and they got reached out to again. But I feel like it's rare for them to like go back in the archives and be like,

hmm, let's see. How did you guys end up on the show? I just sent an application like on a whim. Joe got scouted. Yeah, I was walking through Whole Foods and it was back when they used to scout people on the ground the heyday. Don't people call you grocery store, Joe? Yeah, people, yeah, but that was because I was, my title was, you're a real estate investor. Mine was grocery store owner because I own the percentage of a small store and I was

in the produce business and that's kind of what. But yeah, it is a weird coincidence that also got stouted in a grocery store. Yeah, it is a really weird coincidence. Well, the woman that scouting me, asked me, she's like, do you own this store? And I was like, if I own this store, you and I wouldn't be having a conversation. It was

whole foods, I think, wasn't it? Yeah. I was like, if I own old foods, I'm nowhere near this place. I'm chilling on a penthouse, in my penthouse in fucking in Manhattan. Okay. You right now

have Jen in your background. So what is I've never seen? Wait, clarify what you mean by background. You clarify it. Totally. So we're on Zoom right now, guys. For everyone listening, picture this.

We're on Zoom. We're in our living room. Jeremy's screen has a background, which is a photo that he's like inserted his background. And it's a photo of Jen standing on a hill. It looks like the sound of music. It totally looks like the sound of music. But the way it looks to us is like she. is standing on his shoulder.

We're going to put this on Instagram. So if you're listening and you don't know what we're talking about, go to The Bachelor Happy Hour Instagram and check it up. But we've never had someone come with like a custom background. It looks like what people do... The people that do like the recaps of like the show. Yeah, people that do recaps, it's like a green screen background. The thing is, I'm so not technology savvy, but I was able to figure this out.

That's impressive. I don't know if I could do it. But you know what? people can figure I can tell you what I wouldn't be able to do it Joe doesn't know Don't tag yourself

Joe I doubt you I don't think you can do it My keyboard wasn't working And I just figured that out Really but you Anytime your friends ask you to drop a pin I have to do it for you

You guys have a whole setup there I'm sure you could figure it out Yeah this is true Okay back to back to the show Okay so Night 1 you show up remind us of what your entrance was again were you the car guy yeah yeah you're the rich the rich guy no I'm not rich um but that was the but that was kind of like

well I tried making a joke about it yeah I might have said I have a big um personality um yeah the overcombinating joke yeah listen like I uh I knew that it might not be received well but like I didn't want when I was doing it I didn't want to think about like how audience might take it. I wanted to do something that will either make me stand out or make Jen laugh or both. Because I knew I was going to be walking into a house with 30 guys. I didn't know if I was

going to be able to talk to her the first night. I'm like at least let her remember me. Originally, I was just going to go in there and like say something romantic, but I switched it up last minute and sort of just made it a playoff of her joke at AFR where she said she was looking for a really big personality.

And yeah, I'm still about that I did that. Yeah, it worked. Why did you get, did you get like, like some, like a little hate for that or something? I don't know if it was hate, but like when you see it live and they put that like little cringy music in the back and then people are like, I can't believe he said that. I'm like, right, but like you can. It's, it's an entrance to a reality show. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I think people sometimes forget that it's like, it's just a reality show. Yeah, it's not that serious. Like, this is not like how this guy enters. Free rooms.

Yeah. But it's not like how you enter every room you walk into in the real world. Yeah. You're not like throwing you player keys. I actually have a port about with me every time I go anywhere. Was that your car? No, of course not. Okay.

We live in New York. We don't have cars. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. But you got into it with another guy. Brian. Yeah.

Brian night one because you were chatting in the car and then he was like, get out, let me in. Can you walk us through that? I feel like you were really calm. yeah what what did you want to do with that moment so when when it was the night of the premiere and I saw that I completely forgot it happened like it was so insignificant in my mind um but that was that was my first conversation with Jen and we're probably talking for a few minutes really surface level stuff because just met her just trying to get to know her and I sort of see her eyes glance to the side I'm like oh I know what's about happened um and I tried finding my keys before I was like

asking around for them. I wanted her to have a ride in the car. And then Brian comes up. And it's it's a tough position to be in first conversation. I don't want to have like I want to act like a child. I'm not going to like fight with Brian in front of her. But then on the opposite side of things is just getting out of your own car and giving it to him, which I wasn't going to do either. So I tried sort of talking to him for a bit and I realized like I'll just be the grown up. That was enough back and forth like I don't care hopefully I did enough to get a rose yeah it's always a smart move on a reality show to be the grown up because that is when you're you're gonna you're gonna look better in my opinion was there a party that's like when that kind of went down when brian was like

let me talk like get out of the car was there was that like the first moment of like oh I'm on I'm on the bachelor like I'm on her reality show like this 100% and I was not expecting it Yeah. But I saw people like, I've seen obviously stuff online and people are like, if he interrupted me at my car, I would have hit him. I'm like, dude. Oh, my God. You know what? First off, like, how old are we? Second off, I would have been on the first flight back if I ever did something. Yeah, you also didn't have the keys You would have got arrested I mean it's like They would have just arrested you guys

And that would have been in Yeah, it's also like you It's like oh I would have it with my car No you wouldn't have That's illegal You're not like who is this person Running around whacking people With their vehicle for like verbally

Assaulting them Yeah That's why People say some crazy stuff Okay It's all right Brian went home Yeah Brian ends up going home At some point

I think he makes it I think he goes home like week two or something. But you stick around. I don't want to pinpoint every scenario, but like kind of just like going back to the ice cream date. What are your thoughts on

all the back and forth between the guy? So it's basically like it's what it looks like to us. It's kind of like Devin versus Aaron Thomas. Sam. That's exactly.

exactly what it was. I loved it. Entertainment for me. Like I purposely tried saying out of anything and I did. So I thought it was entertaining. Like I, to be frank, I think Devin was in the right. Like, I don't think he did anything wrong. Like taking Jenna for that ice cream part, like,

was that how I was going to play it personally? No, like I'd rather create like my moments like one-on-one between her, but I don't think he did anything. bad um and then at the at the cocktail party he went first to speak to her and people were upset that he spoke to her and i'm like dude like how could you how could you be upset if anything like he did the respectful thing by taking her first just getting it out of the way um but no i didn't i didn't think he did anything wrong were there other guys that aligned with how you felt was there like a group of you that are kind of like people yeah i feel like the whole

time, like me, Jonathan, Marcus, like any time like some drama might like happen or was about to happen, like we sort of just like glance at each other and like make a face. Makes sense. You guys are all the hometown guys. So that adds up. Plus seven. Yeah. Plus seven. So that that adds up. I never envision being with a woman. I'll just be honest. I'm Jamel Hill, host of the sports and politics podcast, Spolitics. On this week's episode, I'm joined by basketball legend, Candice

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Oh, that's the run right. I'm looking at this thing. Listen to no such thing on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So I think like the first time we see like you, Jen, Jen seems to be really into you. was that race card date. You want to talk about that? Yeah. I was grateful that I got the small group date.

They're only four of us. That was really, yeah, we never really see that. That was kind of one of the first. Yeah. It was like second week and they're like, you know what? Let's throw like 85% of the guys on one date and then four on the other way. Was there a reason for that? Like some sort of like, we could only accommodate four guys on this track situation?

Or they could like only accommodate. accommodate like 10 strippers at the other date. I don't, I'm not sure. But I was pumped. I was one of the four. Were you happy to be on that one versus the stripper one? I would have loved to be on the stripper one, but hats off the John. What would you have done if you were on the stripper one?

I would have put a little routine together. There might have been like a little worm in there, like a little pretty Ricky playing in the backgrounds. Yeah, but. Like, being on a four-person group date was great. It was sort of ironic that it's a race car date and I showed up in a car and, like, has anyone driven stick? And I have not. Corvettes are manual. I mean, excuse me, automatic.

I've never driven stick. And sort of the last part of the race was like one lap, you know, fastest time wins. And just because I'd never driven stick, it was on the opposite side of the car too. The wheel, I was like, I'm probably not going to win this. even if I do like we still might all go to the after party so I might as well just take advantage to like make my own moment the funny thing is like when we were doing the lap I was the fastest like I would have won by like 10 seconds really oh yeah I was like winning the race but at that point I was like already committed to what I was doing so we come around the last corner I sort of like

stall the car we just make out and have phone and chat for a little bit did you you, were you guys, did you think you were filling each other at that point? Was there real chemistry there? Because it seemed like it. Yeah, I think probably like the conversation before that at the second cocktail party. Like there were different like pivotal points. I think for us, you know, as the season went on, that was one of them. But I think we started to feel ourselves like maybe the conversation before. And then just like getting the group date rose later that night was sort of confirming all that. So then what's, I guess, what's the next pivotal moment in your guy's relationship?

Because you are one of the guys you don't get a one-on-one until this current episode. Yeah. And being a viewer, you were one of the guys. I was like, he's very likable. We think Jen likes you. We think you like Jen. But we're not really seeing much. And maybe because you never got a one-on-one.

And so in my eyes, I'm like, maybe it just like fizzled or didn't really get there. Yeah, like truthfully, going into this episode, when you got your one-on-one, I mean, once the one-on-one started, it was very evident how much your relationship had progressed over the weeks prior. But before it started, we were like, is he going to go home? Like, where are they, where are they at? Like, where is this relationship at? We barely see him. It's funny that, like, I feel like the other guys were like that too, because me and myself, like, I was confident the whole. whole time with me and Jen. But I'm not going to be going and like bragging about that to other

guys. So I think some of them might have doubted me. But no, like our relationship was just like this uphill climb the whole time. I think one of the most pivotal points, it was like at a the first cocktail party in, um, in Auckland. And we just had like this. It wasn't a deep conversation at all. But we were like nonstop laughing the entire time. We were playing some games and she got me like a little bracelet like a little gift and it was just like such a fun and funny conversation and like at that point I realized like this is great like I have so much fun with this girl I like her we've talked about like a little deep stuff but I wasn't like trauma dumping on her and then just from like that point on I'm like I'm enjoying this and I guess like the audience is like seeing the latter part

of our relationship yeah yeah was there any doubts in your mind or concerns that you had when week after week went by and you still hadn't gotten a one-on-one date? No, so there's this like an affliction point in the show, right, where a certain amount of people go home and then out of the guys left, like more people have had one-on-ones who have than who haven't. And at a certain point, I'm like, I feel so comfortable with like where we are in this relationship. I don't need one.

Of course, I'd want one if she gave me one. like it's a full day with Jen, but I didn't feel like I needed one at that point. So in my head, I'm like, I sort of want the last one. I'm like, save the best for last. I didn't really viewed as a competition, but I understood that if I were to get like this last one-on-one and she gave me the rose, it means like she's coming to meet my family. What do you think? How would you have felt at that moment if Grant got the one-on-one and you didn't? Would you have still been as confident or would you be like I would have left okay oh really well yeah because at that point like even though like I felt confident you know confidence can borderline delusion and and

she could only like give you so much confirmation and if she didn't give me a one-on-one like it's obvious that like I thought more about the relationship than she did and I would never invite her to meet my family yeah I get what you're saying of like I didn't feel like I needed the one-on-one to like further our connection or make me feel reassured, but at that point, you're probably thinking, well, I do need the one-on-one because you're going to come meet my family and I've never spent more like 20 minutes alone with you. On my side, like I still needed the one-on-one because meeting my family is a huge step to me. And like as much as the show is about like, let's say, like the guy's trying to like win her over. Like I felt like she needed to win me over too in a sense.

So I really did need that one-on-one. And obviously, like, at the end, I felt, like, ready and she felt ready, too. Did you and the other guys, or did you ever ask, like, you know, Devin or Grant, like, about their relationship? Or were you just kind of solely focused only on what you had going on? Yeah, no, I really didn't, like, sort of from day one. I, you know, in one bucket was my relationship with Jen and on the other side was like my relationship with the guys, which because you spend like all the time with them. And I really never wanted those like paths across because like when I was with Jen, it's me and her. I never

thought about the other guys. I never talked about the other guys. And when I was with the guys, it was with the guys. And I really separated those two in my head. Was there anyone that kind of had a big mouth about their relationship in the house? Or was that kind of like the consensus amongst everyone that it was being kept separate. I don't, it definitely wasn't a consensus because like people obviously like talking. Um, I don't know if anyone had like a huge mouth about things.

Yeah. I mean, people, people were all confident in their own rights. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Sam M. So we,

we see him really kind of, we see him spiral basically in this episode, uh, starting, you know, at the radio group day which you're not on the radio no but I'm sure the guys

came back and told you all about it oh yeah I wish I was at that team what was I guess so before that he seems to be one of the front runners but there's there's some questions there yeah okay so yeah

how did you guys feel about it honestly the first week there in my head I'm like this guy just says the same thing over and over again and I don't think like the other guys even picked up on it at first. But then they started to obviously. And in my head,

I'm like, there has to be a point where Jen realizes this. And so we were, you know, we're down to seven, you know, going into Seattle. And so you start to think about like,

who might be those four going to hometowns? And not once in my mind was I thinking that Sam was going to make it. I'm like, this is the point. where like something happens and it did by chance yeah which is so interesting because she does say in the episode like before this week there wasn't a doubt in my mind that sam would likely be going to hometowns but it does kind of all crumble where like you said he's just saying the same thing over and over again we also see as yours throughout the season him saying the same thing

over and over but it's hard to know if like that translated in the house as well like if it's just Like, we're just seeing that line over and over? Or if he genuinely talks like that? Yeah, no, he said the same thing over and over. But I also, I didn't know what it was like between him and Jen. Like, I don't know what anyone's relationship was like. So for all I knew, he could be, he could have 10 more lines, he says, with her. Totally.

Yeah. Have you been surprised watching anything back, Sam M. or anyone else? Um, not really. No. I mean, it's obviously, you know, first time for me. So I don't know what's said behind closed doors. But between like what happened with me and her and then like what I hear about from the guys, it's sort of shown. What did the guys say when they came back from that group date when they gave you the little debrief?

So I was actually, I was rooming with Devin at the time. So I like, I wasn't asleep yet. I think my one-on-one was the next day. So I was trying to go to sleep and then Devin comes back. And he's like, you won't believe what happens. Those are the best. I remember those when I was on the show where you're like just kind of asleep, but like waiting for them to come back to see if anything went down.

Yeah. And then he told me, I'm like, yo, I can, I literally said there. I'm like, I cannot wait to see this on TV. Do you think Sam was genuine or do you think he? was trying to play the role of what he thought would do well

on a show like The Bachelorette. And if you don't want to if you don't want to answer, you know that the answer. I'll say this much. The lines that he said are like lines that that seem like prepared

for a show like this. Yeah. Like I didn't want to go in with like anything I wanted to say, like in front of cameras or in front of Jen. I just try to be like myself and however that plays out, that plays out. And I think that, and not even just like all Sam, I know. I feel like there are people who did just like come in and act as certain in front of cameras. Yeah.

There's, that happens every season. Was, how are you with the cameras? Was it an easy adjustment? Dude, I thought I would be nervous and I really didn't care. I feel like I didn't even notice they were there, which is a funny thing because when you're with Jen, it's really like 10 other people in the room, including the cameras. And I sort of just like blocked it out, which probably credit to her too because we were just like so comfortable and cool with each other and just like focused on what we were doing.

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Search Emergency Intercom and listen now. let's get into your one-on-one date um so you go you do the market how did you feel about the activity it looked it looked really fun and very casual overall yeah it was um going into that like week in general in my head I'm like oh you know I wish I was going skydiving or something like that um but after the date happened I was like I was like I I'm so glad I got this one because I feel like I probably had like the most continuous time with her like you said it was casual and it's it's something that like we would have done if I was dating Jen or anyone in the real world and we went on a

date like this is something we could do you're not going skydiving every day but you could go around a market and I don't go to a palm reader so no it was it was a lot of fun a lot of good quality time where is your head at on this date if you do make it to hometowns your whatever it is i don't know the exact timeline but let's just say it weeks away or less than a week away from a potential engagement are you there yet um at that point i'm i'm not ready for an engagement just being honest um but i also know how quickly things could develop because like at the beginning you know people are saying oh i feel a connection with her within five minutes of meeting with her i'm like

No, you can't. So, you know, you're lying. The relationship is always progressing. And it's like a crush. And then you start to like her. And then it's like, oh, I really like this person. And just because I had my one-on-one and my hometown within like a week of each other, like, I knew the possibility of like where it could go. And like, I really was like starting to fall for her.

But I was not ready for an engagement at that point. What was the last time you brought a woman home to? your parents like this is serious yeah i've had like two long-term relationships um the most recent one was the last time anyone met my mom um and that ended probably like three years ago yeah so we see you and we see you and jen kind of uh have a deeper deeper conversation about your faith and about her experience being Buddhist and your experience being Jewish. What was

did you go into the date knowing you wanted to talk about that? No. I never had a plan for like what I was going to talk about. Like if our nighttime like I know historically nighttime portions of dates are like you know, they get

deep. If we were just like fucking around the whole time would have been fine by me. It just you know sort of happened to come up. which is important because I did like I want my kids to be raised Jewish or at least half Jewish and like have that faith and that culture in them. Obviously she's Buddhist and not Jewish and I was open to that as well. Like you have to be. If you're asking someone to be open to you, you need to be open to them.

So it was an important conversation. I'm glad it happened. Can you tell us a little bit more about your famous rabbi family member? Yeah, it was my grandma's grandpa was like the head chief rabbi of Lithuania and, you know, didn't want to to leave the country, you know, during World War II. Judaism has obviously been so important, not just like recently, but like in like generations of my family. So very proud of that. Nice. Very cool. Going into hometowns, what are you? What are you most nervous about for Jen to meet your family?

And what are you most excited about? I'm most excited about how Jen is going to mesh with them, right? Like you want someone who could just like, you could bring home their family, can have fun, drink, play board games. Like, I don't know what families do, do whatever. Just be able to, like, shoot the shit. So I definitely want to see that, like, their interactions. What I'm nervous about, like,

I don't know if my mom will be tough on her. You know, I love my mom, but she could definitely be a critic because she could be overprotective of her only son. But yeah, that would be interesting. Has that ever happened before? Not with the two girls I've brought home, but we'll see. I also think it's different bringing someone home that you're like, hey, I've been doing this person for a couple months.

And then, you know, it's getting serious. Let's like introduce you to mom. versus like, hey, I've been on one date with this person on this reality show. Like, the parents often come in as skeptics, which is totally fair. No, that's a, that's a really good point, too, because I was definitely a little, like, in my head about that because I just wanted, I wanted, like, my whole family to accept, like, what I've been through and just, like, take my word for my word. And, like, I talk about it on the show, but my, I know it was a different time, but my grandparents

were engaged after, like, three weeks. I'm like, it's already been seven. So, yeah. That's true. you're like we're late let's get a ring on her finger like let's get a baby already my mom she's like you know just

very personable and just a sweet lovely woman and I remember but I never really I never you know I never really brought a serious girlfriend home and I think I was like whatever in my like mid-20s and the first time I brought a girl hold

the way she acted I was like where the fuck is this coming from my dad's like see you're about babies the fuck out of you i was like whoa what did she do your mom was just declared like it's not when i no no no no no no no no this sweet angel yeah yeah i know that's how that's how she's how he knew you were the one but but yeah like this she was just like very uh like interrogating her interrogated her little i was like what do you what do you to where i was like okay all right

and i don't even know who this girl is but probably wasn't that serious no wasn't that serious. But I remember and my dad just was like in his glory because he found it so entertaining. And I was like, oh, I never saw the side. But no, she, yeah, you, that's probably how I did know you were the one. Thank God we were already engaged, so. But no, that like never

happened again. I think it was just like the first one where I was like, she probably got nervous. She never met a girl you brought home. You were like 26 probably. I was younger than that. You didn't, you didn't meet his mom until you were engaged already. Yeah, because we got engaged on the show. Oh, true. And on Paradise, there's no

like family interaction. Yeah, it's different. I didn't think about that. All right, kind of just like looking back on the season, um, now we're nearing hometowns you're going. Who are your like guy friends in the house? Like, do you have like a crew? Yeah. I mean, and like not to, I'm probably going to leave some people out. So no disrespect or if I'm forgetting someone, but like, you know, Jonathan, Hakeem, Marcus, Devin, Austin, like those are my boys. Like, I'll be friends with them forever. And looking back, what did you, I guess what was your most memorable time on the season? Up until this point, obviously, not hometowns. Wow.

That is a great question that I should have thought about before. Were you aware since you never watched the show, were you shop at the travel? Yeah, so I never watched the show before I, like, interviewed, but then I did watch a few seasons. So I knew that you were. We always recommend that. When people go on this show and they've never seen it before, it gives me so much anxiety. I'm like, do a little research, please. I actually had a really weird feeling that we would be traveling internationally right away for reasons I can't say.

But I was not surprised, but I was happy about it. Was this your first time in Australia and New Zealand? Yeah, first time in both Australia and New Zealand, which I was pumped about. But I'm a huge traveler. Like I solo travel all the time, but I've never been to that part of the world. Nice. All right. Let's, uh, should we jump in, play a game?

Yeah, let's do it. All right. This is a rapid fire. Get to know me with Jeremy. You ready? First thing that comes to your head. Yeah. I guess it's not first thing that comes to your head.

It's just like answer quickly, you know? Just hurry up. Uh, okay. What's your signature cocktail? oh wow i don't really make cocktails i have bartended before but just tequila sodas i mike i'll change the question my go-to drink of choice is red wine well yeah that's yeah i'm not not your signature cocktail that you make just like what you would get yeah i i i take a bottle of red wine and pour in a glass and that's that's how i make it okay what was your favorite but no but if

you go to a bar what's your what's the drink that you order Don't shame me, but I've ordered wine at bars before. Okay. I like that. I'll take the house red at this bar bar. What was your, that's actually how you actually get pretty fucked up. What was your favorite group date this season? Um, I mean, I feel like it has to be the race car date.

Like, I had so much fun, like the guys that were there and then the moment that, that, you know, I pulled for Jen. Like, I love that date. Dream vacation destination. this changes all the time I think right now it's Japan cheapest in 38 years something on your I feel like you're thinking about going there if you know that

we haven't yeah I've I went once to me it's still like my favorite place I've ever been but yeah we were thinking about going there we just recently booked a trip and we're doing London and Copenhagen which is like the most expensive fucking place you can No, dude, like Copenhagen is dope. We're so excited.

We've never been. But we were laughing because we were thinking about Japan and that I've never been, he's been. And then we decided on London, Copenhagen, just a little bit closer, a little bit easier. And then after we found out, it's like the cheapest ever in Japan right now and the dollar in London is not good. Yeah. But I think that the thing about Japan, or at least the way like I travel, I feel like I would need a month there to like see what I want to see. That's the thing. We're only doing like a week to 10.

10 days on this trip and we're like if we're going to go Japan it's got to be like two and a half weeks which is a bit more of a commitment you guys should uh should add a few days in stockholm while you're right around there we can't we like literally are or like so no no we're like we won't be doing that but thank you uh okay what your favorite thing about jen about um her sense of humor yeah I've never had so much fun with someone. Your favorite episode of this season that you've watched back. That was a good question.

That is a good question. I will say, I guess, six, just because my one-on-one. Seattle. Favorite food or cuisine? Sushi and grapes. Oh, wow. Like not together. Grapes?

We actually just went to a restaurant. Frozen grapes? No. Do you like frozen? That's disrespectful. Oh, wow. Okay. It's perfect as it is.

Red grape or green? Both, but like not cotton candy. I don't. Yeah. You were talking about a restaurant? Oh, I was saying we just went to a restaurant in New York called Raku and they end off the meal and they serve you grapes. I obviously need to go there now.

It's perfect for you. But they're frozen grapes. Oh, you're in New York. You should definitely go. Where is it? There's two locations. There's a new one in Hell's Kitchen and then there's one in the West Village.

Okay, so the West Village. And there's sushi on the menu. Really? Yeah, so you can get sushi and end your meal with grapes. I might go by myself. Go to Comfort Movie or a show. Ooh. Let's go with some movies.

La La Land, if you want a good tear at the end. Interesting that that's your comfort movie. The other guys, you know, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg. But yes. Have you seen that? Yeah. I feel like a lot of maybe just the time that I was like born and raised, but a lot of those like Will Ferrell movies will never like go, go out of my mind.

Yeah. Also a non-Wilfarlary one, Starsky and Hutch with Ben Stiller. It's a great movie too. Yeah. an artist you'd love to see perform live I actually had lower seats to see him and then he canceled his tour but Wiskid What is your love language

Probably quality time What is your favorite way to unwind Sleep 8 hours 9 hours something bachelor nation doesn't know about you oh wow this is a lot of pressure Joe rapid fire

yeah yeah I I studied engineering and math at college if you could sum up Jen season of the bachelor at one word what would it be let's go with intentional

okay and then going into next week Can you give us a little teaser for hometowns? Yeah. Hometown's next week. Jen's going to meet my family. It'll be interesting. I can't wait to watch it back personally.

Without giving away what me and Jen do at the hometowns, it's sort of similar to some of the dates me and her I've been on before. And it's a lot of fun. It's in New York, right? no i didn't say that well it's hometown oh yeah i guess no i i i did in connecticut because that's like true hometown yeah yeah okay i guess that's that's fair all right uh jeremy thank you so much for coming on bachelor happy hour no thank you guys it's a lot

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