Bachelor Happy Hour - Parenting, Stepparenting, and Everything in Between with Molly Mesnick | Golden Hour

Episode Date: November 25, 2024

Today on “Bachelor Happy Hour: Golden Hour,” Kathy and Susan are joined by the iconic Molly Mesnick for a conversation filled with incredible parenting and relationship advice. No topic is off the table, including open communication with teenagers, running a business with your romantic partner, and using different strategies for parenting one gender versus another. Plus, the women explain why you should never judge a parent when their toddler is screaming on an airplane, and Molly and Kathy discuss the immeasurable value of a loving stepparent. All this and so much more... Listen now! 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.

Now, hold up. Isn't that against school policy? That seems inappropriate. Maybe find out how it ends by listening to the OK Storytime Podcasts and the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Jamel Hill, host of the Sports and Politics Podcasts, Politics. On this week's episode, I'm joined by all-time great Hooper and basketball analyst Candace Parker, who gives insight into her candid new book, including why she waited two years into marriage to come out.

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We are so excited to be back here. And I don't know, we're here together in L.A. Isn't it fun? It's easy, right? We're staring at each other in the face. I don't have to do this. Not a computer screen. It's amazing.

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She's married to former bachelor, Jason Messer. Molly, hello, hello, how are you doing? We're so happy you're here. You just called me an icon. Hi, beautiful. My husband. No, no, never, never, never, never. No, no, no.

Don't ever think that. Never, never, you never become invisible. You are fabulous in every way. How have you been doing? Tell us what's going on in your life. Life is so good. Is it? Yes, we're happy.

We live in Seattle. We just built a new house. The kids are great. Work is great. Like, life is good. Wait, wait, wait, one thing, Seattle, isn't that the rainy, it doesn't rain a lot. Yeah, you know what?

It doesn't rain as much as people think. That's what I heard. We have the most gorgeous summers. It's like mild. It's never humid. It's like high 70s and sunny all the time. High 70s in the summer? Yeah.

That is nice. Wait, but you do get a lot of rain in the winter, right? Well, yeah. We get rain in the winter. But I'm from the Midwest and so I hate the snow. So like when it snows back home for me, it's raining here. What's a little rain? Yeah.

I got to tell you, I live. I'm not, I'm from Massachusetts, but I live in Austin, Texas. And I'm so glad to be in L.A. because it's here. It's like low 80s and it's 90 something. I know. It's crazy. It's just, it's funny. Kathy and I were shopping yesterday and I said to the lady.

Wait a minute. I can't wear this stuff here. It's October for me. I have boots out and sweaters or blazers and, oh, it gets cool here. I said, when? When does your season start? Like, when does the temperature? It'll start getting.

school probably in November. Yeah. Okay. All right. I want to get right to it because you are a woman of, you have a lot of knowledge. I've talked to you many times. What are some obvious red flags in men that you recognize now and that Susan and I should be recognized.

That we didn't. Yeah. And we clearly still aren't. But that you wish you knew when you were dating in your 20s. Oh, my gosh. Well, the funny thing is I went on a bachelor when I was. 24, 23, 24. So, like, I didn't really date much in my 20s.

I went straight to Jason. Good choice. You made a good choice there, though. There were no red flags, obviously. There were no red flags about Jason. Jason's, like, the most amazing. He's, like, the perfect human, you guys. It's, like, obnoxious.

I love it. He gets up at 5 a.m. He meditates. He reads. He works out. He works out. He eats healthy. He just, he's so consistent.

He's never rattled. He's the perfect human. It's why. How have you guys been married? Since 2010? Yeah, it'll be 15 years in February. I do not just love hearing this. Were you that good?

Were you that healthy of an eater? No. Oh, God. I'm like the complete opposite of Jason. I'm like the worst kind of human. I drink too much. I don't work out. That's why we love you, Molly.

That's why we get along. So has he helped you do a little better for you? Yeah. He's pretty good about being like, let's eat healthy this week or like, let's go out for a walk. I'm game for, if you're cooking five nights at a seven, I'm game for three healthy and two, not so.

And Molly, I think I told you this before. I don't cook. I literally do not cook. And I go to visit Susan. She's like, you know, we're going to feel piquata tonight. And I'm like, can I just have a salad and a glass of wine? I'm good. Okay, but that's the best kind of friend to have, one that will cook for you.

I know. She cleans up while. And I do clean the dishes. But Susan will say things like, well, what do you want to have for? dinner tomorrow. I'm like a single man. Like, I don't... But that's something I don't know about your house, but we talk about, you know, what are you feeling

like this week? You know, you want to have land chops one neither. That food is a big part of my life. I cannot handle another time. Tell me about your daughter. That's what I want to get into because I was a high school. I taught middle school. So I can, anything questions you got, I've got the answers for you.

Oh gosh, I know. Riley just started middle school. She'll be 12 in March. She's just grade. wild. She hasn't had much drama yet, but I know it's coming. I'm going to just give you my little pearls of wisdom that I gave to my parents, because I taught speech and communications in middle school, but my main job was the high school placement director. So when kids finished eighth grade, it was a K through eight school.

So they came to me to figure out what to do, whether it was boarding school, private school, independent school. And I'm just going to tell you the child that you have in sixth grade, you are not going to believe the child you have an eighth grade. That's how much middle school changes, kids. That's what everyone has told me. Like, it just, it is the biggest change in their adolescent life is going from middle school to high school. So we'll see. I'm wishing you luck.

I'm praying. Yeah. I mean, girls can be a little, not your daughter, but in general, girls can be a little snarky in middle school. he is a mini me and that's when Jason looks at me and he's like oh shit oh god

why couldn't she take after him you know what tell Jason it's just another oh let's call it 10 or 12 years you know until she finds someone else to torment so you just have one do you want more children or

no no no I'm done done but we have time my stepson Jason had a son when we were in his previous marriage and he is 19 in college. God. That's like a whole other phase. He's in fraternity. He's doing brat life. Like, it is wild. Wow.

But he is just the best. I love that. I love hearing that. I love it. I love it. I love that. I had a stepmom and I loved my stepmother dearly, so I'm glad you guys have. I love hearing that. I think it's a pretty tough, sometimes thankless

job. And I don't think step parents get enough credit. I know. I will tell you my stepmother, uh, who passed away last year and I dearly miss her. Um, she married my dad when she was, are you ready for this? She was 32 or 34 and took on, she had one daughter of her own from a previous marriage, took on five. Count them. My mother and father had five children. And then my father and stepmother had one. So do that map. Kudos to her. She was great. So you mentioned you just had a house built and you're in real estate. I did. Correct.

Yes, yes. Talk to me about this. Yeah. Yeah. So Jason and I work together. It has been going great. Like Jason has been in real estate for 10 years. He's built an amazing team. We've got about 75 agents under us. Nice. Wait, I'm sorry. Do you do sales or sales and construction in sales? No, we do residential real estate. So sales. We're helping people buy and sell homes. And then in the midst of that, we built our own home. And it's been awesome. We love it. Do you have any recommendations for first-time buyers or some hints you can throw out to people? Oh, gosh. I think the most important thing is finding a good, I feel like sometimes agents don't get a lot of credit,

but having a good agent is so important because they're trying to protect you and help you find the dream in your life. I thought you were going to say, my advice to people, because I'm sort of an unofficial real estate person, is by location because you can always change the house, but you can't change the location. is a great piece of advice. Yes. I always looked at school districts at that time of my life, you know? Yeah. 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 IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. I never envisioned being with a woman. I'll just be honest. I'm Jamel Hill, host of the Sports and Politics Podcasts, Politics.

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And that was just, you know, and honestly, it took me a long time to be okay with myself. Make sure to listen to this week's episode of Spolitics on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, my name is Enya Umanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes, we're not the podcast for you. But if you have unmedicated ADHD... Oh my God, perfect.

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All right. So if you can remember back this far. So grant season of The Bachelor is going to be on, you know, really almost before we know it here. And we're curious, what advice do you have for those women who will be on the season or any contestant, you know, that's trying to try and. out for this process. Like, I think they really would benefit from hearing what you think. Well, yeah, I think the most important thing is to stay true to yourself.

It's a, you guys know, I mean, number one answer. It just, it's so hard to get, it's easy to get wrapped up in the environment that you're in, you know, you're cut off from everything. And it becomes a competition, whether or not you want to say that out or not, it is a competition um and i think people can get really rapid i feel as if it's a competition only if there's chemistry yeah somebody i read somewhere on that uh one of the articles in bachelornation dot com and i don't know which bachelor said this but recently i think it was somebody on gen season said it's not a competition because it has to be two-way street of the heart so you know you're not

competing if she or he you know depending who's the lead it's not interested it doesn't matter. Well, yeah, and I think what happens is, though, we see, most of the time it's the people who end up being the villain on the show. You can tell that they're in it because they just want to win, you know? Wait a minute. It shouldn't be about that. Yeah, we have one.

Wait a minute. I was the villain on our show, and I wasn't in it to win it. I was in it to find love. No, we have people that wanted to win. Oh, yes. We have people just kind of want to win. Oh, yes, we did have that. Yeah, we did have that for sure.

so just you're telling them be true to themselves be true to yourself don't get wrapped up in the hoopla and the drama and the fact that you're filming a TV show just like going into it with like the idea that this is going to be a fun adventure and what comes from it comes from it a great life experience and i think that's what we did yeah so you um it is remarkable at the top of this um hour you talked about you know how much you love jason and i love hearing that because that's 15 years of joy And it's more than 15 minutes, too. And it's, yeah, exactly. But so, and I honestly would love this, you know, for myself and for Susan, what advice, forget others, I want to know, me. Yeah, what advice you're giving us people? To find love and our forever partner, because we're batty now. I know, but I'm a terrible person.

People ask me this, like, what's your advice for finding love? I went on a TV show, you guys. Like, I'm the worst person. We did too, and we still didn't find it. I think we need another show. There you go. Okay, but I want to ask you guys this. I just think it is so cool what this show and having like the spinoff of the

Golden Bachelor and Bachelor. Do you guys feel like you have this whole new lease on life? Like I just look at you guys and I see what you're doing and I see you being influencers and out of events and like who would have ever thought that that would happen later in life? It just is the most heartwarming thing. We talk about this a lot. I always say, for me, this, being on the Golden Bachelor, literally changed my life. You know, my husband had passed away five and a half years ago.

And I just, for me, the hope, the love, that this is my second chance at living, never mind just finding love. And I am so grateful that to have this time and make new friends. And for me, I've always preached it, always, because I've been behind the chair for 40 years. And that's like same kind of thing. You're talking to people. But what I feel blessed that now I get to tell the whole world. Yeah. Yeah.

Because I'm out there bigger, you know. And the other thing that we both agree, people stop us because, you know, we're together doing stuff a lot. People stop us and say how much we've changed their life for the better and they have hope now and they feel like they're not invisible anymore. And honestly, personally, for me, makes me feel so good that I'm having a positive influence on somebody else. Yeah, we've been given a platform to reach even more people.

Yeah. I absolutely love it. And you know what? I'll bet you guys are going to live way longer than you ever thought you were going to because you have this new lease on life, this new energy and this new purpose. I think it's awesome. So tell me why are you thinking about closing the door to TV? What is this rumor?

No more. What's going on, girlfriend? Inquiring minds want to know. Oh, wow. Um, no, I just, you know, wait, if I called you again and wanted to talk to you again, you're going to say no, is that it? No, I'm not going to say no. Okay, we know.

I did, I did kind of close the door on everything. It was during COVID. We were doing some interviews. They were airing our season again, and I just was kind of over it. Like Jason and I have answered the same questions for 15 years. That makes sense. That's a whole other chapter of my life. Like, I couldn't even remember being on the show.

So I kind of was just sick of it. And I was like, you know what? I don't want to be this person anymore. I want to close that chapter. It was awesome. But I want to move on and just be Molly the realtor. Well, that's what we're interested in what's happening now, you know? And that's the question.

You do so much. Like, how do you balance it all? You're realtor? Because you don't eat healthy. I mean, that's for sure. Sugar keeps are going. The sugar keeps you going. That's the way to go.

That's me. But then once we went to the golden wedding and then we were on Jen season, And it kind of, you know, we got immersed back into that world. And I actually ended up really enjoying it. And so I'm not totally closing it. I'm just saying, like, no one really wants to see me. I did. I was happy to meet you that night.

I, you know, I've watched a lot of bachelor seasons, Molly, but I'm going to tell you, I was so excited to meet you the first time I met you because that was one of my favorite seasons. It really was. Thank you. A lot of drama at the end. It worked out. It worked out at the end. All right. So we do questions, Molly. We, you know, people write in for advice. For advice. And we're going to read a couple and see, have you weigh in. Help us. What do you say? You're good?

All right. First one. This is Sandra asking. Hi, Kathy and Susan. I need your help. I've been dating this really wonderful man for the past eight months. He and I are both 40 and divorced. We both had amicable divorces. But he co-parents with his ex. I didn't have any children with my ex. Now that we have been dating for some time and we've gotten serious, we both feel ready for me to meet his 13-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. They're both very sweet and they know of me. So this won't be a huge shock. I'm just feeling really nervous.

I had a really terrible stepfather when I was a teen, and it's always made me really nervous to be in that role. How can I make a good first impression on these kids and build a solid relationship? Any advice would be so great. Thank you so much. Love you both and love the podcast. Well, this is perfect for her because she's got, yeah. I love this.

Boy, I think the most important thing is, gosh, I was so nervous meeting tied too, you know, and he was a little guy. So it's harder when they're older because, you know, they have more opinions. I think it's important to come in and not try to force yourself as like the new parent or mom. You know, like it was never my role

to take over as mom. It was just to be, you know, another important figure in Tye's life. And just being there for these kids, even if they're not always going to want you, they're always, you know, they may want to gravitate towards their actual parents but like never,

my biggest thing is I never gave up never ever ever gave up just let them know you're there for them did I live with you guys did tie yeah yeah so so we also share that in common I lived with my dad and stepmother uh from the time I was 13 12 on and I remember my my stepmother as I said to you was this beautiful lovely woman but I'll never forget my dad who was kind of a pushover sweet mench you know he just was he um sat us all down and he said you know he told us he was getting married

and he said um now I met her they got married by the way when I was five but so I was very young but they when we moved in together I remember my dad saying uh Ruth is your new

mother person no no it was the way he's he wasn't your new mother my mother was still live. Okay. But when she tells, but my dad traveled a lot for a when she tells you to do something, think of it as me telling you to do something. You will respect her and you will. Yeah. How were you introduced to us? That is not I was introduced. I met him on TV. We were, you know, we were filming The Bachelor is how I met him. Wow. And then, you know, when we started doing, we dated long distance, Jason and I for about 10 months before I moved out. But I think for me, I took

the approach of like, I, I want Ty to see me as just like a friend at first, and we will build our relationship from them. I wanted to earn his respect. But that's a thing. And, like, put down a bunch of rules on. That wasn't my place or my job. You know, like, I kind of took his lead and went at his pace. And now we have the most beautiful relationship. Did you and Jason agree on disciplining him? Yeah, I kind of let Jason take that at the beginning. I didn't want it to be a huge. shocker to have this stranger in the house that's now disciplining him. I didn't want to do that. So I just kind of took my time and it worked really, really well. So your advice. And the most

important thing is like no kid can ever have too much love. I love that. So just shower them with love. I love that. Just stay there and just be you. Just be the love. Sondra, we wish you all the best. Yeah. Congrats. And there'll be moments that they're not going to care about you so much. And Just don't get to her. It's hard. There's always tomorrow, right? There's always up tomorrow. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly, and now I'm seriously suspicious.

Oh, 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 IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Jemail Hill, host to the Sports and Politics Podcasts Politics.

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It turns out that nearly 50% of men think that they could land the plane with the help of air traffic control. And they're saying like, okay, pull this, do this, pull that, turn this. It's just, I can do my ice close. I'm Mani. I'm Noah. This is Devon. And on our new show, No Such Thing, we get to the bottom of questions like these. Join us as we talk to the leading expert on overconfidence.

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one child and we're about six months into the terrible twos what on earth do i do our son throws the loudest in caps most ridiculous temper tantrums when I get my hormonal migraines. It's actual hell on earth. He shuts down the second things do not go his way. It's so hard to figure out what to do and how to handle his behavior. It's nothing out of the norm. Like my husband, mother-in-law, and I don't think he needs a child psychologist. We're just first-time parents and he's very energetic and loud when he gets moody. So he is definitely a handful. I really don't want to let my son walk off. over me, but I can't gentle parent. That's not for me. How do you suggest I go about dealing with this with my husband? We're both just so exhausted between work and this new attitude issue and our son that we really need some advice. Love you both. Oh, what do you say, Molly? Well, parable twos is a phase. It's going to go away, right? This two you shall live through. Yes, this two show path. So I think, you know, sometimes you kind of just have to suck it up and deal with it. But like with Riley, what I would do is just, I think that what works the best is if I was

telling her not to do something, crouching down and getting on her level. And so then we're seeing eye to eye. And then she kind of feels like it's not this power control coming over her. If I'm standing over her, but if I get down to her level and just kind of talk to her about it, she was able to reason a little bit better. But again, there too. I know. I know. Well, my main thing is get through this, but five, you might call us again because that was the worst stage of all. But I believe sometimes ignoring the temper tantrum, like you can't address and go with them. Like you're getting loud too because they're getting loud

and you're shouting or this or not of the third. Or, I mean, I'm a disciplinarian to a point. You're going to get time out if this continues. You know what I mean? At two, it's difficult. Guys, you're... But I like your suggestion about getting down to their eye level and then try to focus on something else

and changed their course. I found though when I have three kids and I remember those years and I'm being honest I wasn't always the most patient and when my kids I mean this whole letter is about in caps you know

so clearly this child is wild when my kids got that way and it didn't happen that often but when they did I literally got down at their level so that I could pick them up carry them into their room and I would very calmly say, when you can behave, you can come out of your room.

And of course, I would sit outside the door to make sure, you know, they weren't, whatever. But I'd hear them banging around nine times out of ten, you know what they did? Fell asleep. And when they woke up. Well, they cry themselves to so screaming. But no, no, they would just, they knew they weren't coming out and they would fall asleep. And then when they woke up, they were happy. Have you ever seen it when you're out, though, a child taking a temper tantrum, throwing his head on the ground?

I feel sorry for those parents. Their parents, I know. It's like on airplanes. I never get upset with kids on airplanes because those poor parents are already in it. They can't control it. I know. Yeah. Anonymous, what we can say is this two shall pass. Before you know it, you'll be writing back into us for dating advice for his child.

I say eat a gummy. Just get through it. And try to get it. And sleep when you can. That's the other. Sleep when you can. All right, we have one more, and this is also from Anonymous. Excuse me.

Hi, ladies, I have a big issue with my team. She's been dating her boyfriend for a little over a year, and she really, really likes him. Their promise coming up, and she, of course, planned on going with him. However, I have a feeling something is going on with them. The other day, during dinner, I suggest that we go dress shopping this weekend, so I can tell her boyfriend, friend's mother what color tie to get him she dodged the subject and got really moody she was really short with me and quiet for the rest of the dinner then she ran up to her room i know something's going on but anytime i've tried to bring it up she shuts down i don't care about logistics tie colors

etc i just want to be there for my daughter and i want to see her cheer up what should i do love you ladies so much I love this question we have done I feel very proud of Jason and myself we have with both Ty and Riley created a relationship where they can talk to us about anything and they do

and the way that we got to that point is whenever they tell us something that's happened at school we don't have big reactions we just sit there and listen and so they don't feel like scared next time to tell us something and I mean sometimes with Kai

we've gone to the point where he tells me maybe a little bit more like whoa TMI TMI but it's still so good that he's able to like call me and tell me these things that are happening in his relationships and same with Riley I do the same when she comes home with drama at school it's not like I'm like oh my gosh you can't do that you know I just I listen and so for this situation just sitting your daughter down and saying

are you okay and you know sometimes they don't want to talk about it But just giving them a hug, you're a safe place. Yeah. And, you know, it's exactly, Molly, when you repeatedly ask, or at least for me, when I repeatedly asked my children something, the door locked tighter and tighter. And so, Anonymous, if you just sit back, she'll come to you. And if she doesn't come to you, she doesn't want to come to you. You know, you can't.

I would just go in her and say, I just need a hug. I'm just here. No questions. I would stop asking. If you want to cry, you could cry. I just notice your temperature change here, and I'm here for you. It's so tough. And, you know, prom, all those milestone high school things are just, you'll find out, Molly, for when, it's, I think it's tougher for a girl, don't you?

Yeah, for sure. You know, the hormonal things and all that take things. It's just like the first wedding. It's like a wedding dress. Imagine a guy canceling your prom date, not that this one did, but. You know what I mean? I know. He was with somebody else.

I mean, that's life. That happened on junk season with Jonathan. I don't know if he'd been watching, but he was going to the prom. I can't even imagine what that's like. But I know when my daughter went to her prom, it was. Cost me a fortune. It cost him fortune. I remember saying to her.

And then she got asked to his senior prom. And it's like, seriously, Brett, another dress? I remember thinking, oh, my God, I paid this much for your prom. I can't hardly wait for your wedding dress. It was just ridiculous. Molly, you've been great. Thanks so much. And all these.

I love talking to guys. We love you too. And if we get to Washington, should we go over there? I mean, listen, if we move to Washington, can you find us a good house? We're coming over. We couldn't move there, Susan. Yep, sure can. I'm not moving there.

No, I'll visit, though. I remember being in Vancouver and flying over with the helicopter and seeing how beautiful. It is a beautiful, beautiful. Are you in Seattle, you said? Yes. One of my dearest friends is the headmaster at the girls school. Is it girls school Seattle? Can I tell you, Kathy, has a friend in every city in the United States and Canada.

I can't. I just can't. Even Europe. I mean, she's got them everywhere. This woman has been around. You know what? I've always said if you have friends, it's a good thing. It says something positive to your friends from.

Well, I am your friend. Wait, is it Seattle Girl School? What's the name of it? Seattle Girls School. Anyway, I worked with her in Austin, and she's now the headmaster, headmistress, head of school, whatever the proper terminology is these days. I love it. Anyway, thank you again, Molly. Thank you, guys. I love seeing you. Tell her how we said hi. Yeah, give Jason our love, and good luck with middle school. Thank you. Thank you all. The rest of you for joining us on Bachelor Happy Hour,

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