Bachelor Happy Hour - The Chicks Are Out of Office!

Episode Date: June 27, 2024

Today on Happy Hour we have two very special guests, Ria and Fran, otherwise known as The Chicks in the Office! The Chicks are out of the office and here for Happy Hour and we have lots to discuss! We kick off today's episode with a quick DTR on the girls' friendship with Joe and Serena. Then, we get into their thoughts on all things Bachelor; whose Night 1 is their fav? What are their predictions for Jenn's season? Plus, we get the story on how their podcast came to be!  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.

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 podcast and the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Jamel Hill, host of the Sports and Politics and on the latest episode of Spolitics, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joins me for a candid conversation about the state of the Democratic Party. What do Republicans say to you privately that they won't say publicly? Many of them are in fear of their political lives. We continue to say to them, you were elected to defend your constituents.

and there's life after Congress. Make sure to listen to this episode of Politics on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, my name is Enya Yumanzoor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes,

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Search Emergency Intercom and listen now. Hey everyone. Welcome back to Bachelor Happy Hour. I'm Joe. And I'm Serena. And we are here with our two lovely guests. Ria and Fran, chicks in the office. If you don't know, they have a wildly successful podcast.

They have been crushing it. I just saw him in an article on, was it Vulture? Yes. have like as like an influential podcast which i agree um you're one of the few podcasts that i listen to uh i'm a fan and i'm just happy to have you guys here so welcome thank you so much for that was an incredible introduction joe wow i'm really hyped up already appreciated that yeah that was great thank you so much for having us i feel like it's been a long time coming yeah but ria um you did say publicly that you mentioned that uh serena and i were uh one of your favorite bachelor couples

um so that's why i honestly multiple times um it also might have to do with the fact that like i know you guys in real life too so you know like it's you guys have great personalities and your love shines through and i will always shout that from the mountaintops yeah we're i would say we're friends like on a scale of one through 10 on a scale of one through 10 like we're friends but like on a scale one through 10 if your best friend in the world's attend where would we rank each other on the friend scale. Good quite. Because I, I love, like, a 10 is like me and Ria. Yeah, right. Like, you guys are what, like a three?

You know, like, I was going to say, I was going to say four. I was going to say four. Three and a half four. Yeah. I think that's like, we're not getting invited to your guys' wedding. You weren't invited to our house. But if I, like, run into you on the street, I'm really happy to see you. Totally. Right. And we've gone out for some dinners when it's convenient. Yep. Right. When we've, we've lined up at the same events. Yep. Yep. We're always excited to see you guys. Yes. If we're at the same event, we will definitely have dinner and it'll be a blast. If Serena and I are throwing a dinner party, which we never do, you're probably wouldn't invite you because we're not that close, but we're still flat. Exactly. Like, I wouldn't like, okay, so if you were, if you were throwing like a brand event dinner and we weren't invited, I'd be upset. I'd be like, oh, like, why didn't they think of this? But if you were just throwing like a personal dinner party, you'd be like, oh, of course we're not there. Why would we be there?

I think you would think it was weird if you wore it. Yeah, like we're not going to your birthday. Yeah, like a personal event. But does that make us more colleagues than friends that you would like? Probably. Probably. Probably acquaintances. Colleagues, but colleagues can be friends.

We've gone from friends to acquaintances. Like, do we wish each other a happy birthday? You know what I mean? Like, it doesn't, I don't think we have. I might like comment on your Instagram post. Yeah. Or like I've slid up on a DM on your story. You're posting it's your birthday.

I might write like oh my god happy birthday totally you know if someone were to ask you about us or we were to come up in conversation would you say oh I'm friends with them like I feel like that's okay yeah we're friends with them they're great totally yeah yeah yeah yeah I know what I say I definitely play you guys as friends yes yeah I say

if they somebody mentioned I say yeah I love them they're awesome that's what I say exactly yeah that's perfect and we say the same I don't know if I actually love you guys but like I do you know what I'm saying? I don't think I I don't do you guys have our numbers I don't have your numbers

well Fran and Joe Ria and Joe weren't you guys Yeah we have Joe's number Joe and I were yeah We've gone down some dark rabbit holes Yeah I and also the Santa thing When Joe when you guys

And Joe came a Santa at a live show Yep yep yep I feel like Serena and Noah bond over their peanut allergy No we do And Noah, if you're listening, I wanted to let you know that before this, I went to grab a chicken sandwich, and they told me that they couldn't because they used not oils. So I know. I'm just, yeah, thank God I checked. Just a reminder. Well, this has been a great way to start the podcast. So let's, you know what? Who, what's better and more comfortable than talking about your level of friendship?

That means we're all comfortable with each other. That's true. Exactly. Because does that bump us up? Now we might be a solid for. We can all be honest with each other. That's a true sign of friendship. If we really didn't like each other, we wouldn't be able to have this conversation. Exactly. We'd be faking it.

We'd be like, ah. Oh, you guys are like a seven. Totally. Yeah. This is a, this is a solid for trending upward. So we'll see. Right. We will see where the friendship goes.

Absolutely. After the weddings. After the weddings. We can't afford to make new friends right now. No, no. That's totally fair. invite us. Okay, so let's get into

some things, Bachelor, so we just not that it's super relevant, but Joey just did have a season of The Bachelor. You guys cover the show. We've watched the show with you a few times. Thoughts, opinions on the season and the finale. Let's go see. Yeah, I mean, one of you

could do season. Yeah, I mean, it was a great season. Really, it brought us back in more than past seasons, I feel like. Joey's season was great, loved all the girls. And on top of that,

I think it holds a special place in our heart because it was the first finale that we got to go to. We went after the final rose. And that was something special. But again, getting into the inside, we finally felt like we were somebody that we got to go.

It was extremely exciting. I actually can't believe that's the first time you guys have gone. Yes, too. Same. I mean, we really, it just lined up that we were going to be an

at the same time for our live show. So we really tried to make that happen. And we did. And it was honestly such an honor to go because we've been following the show for so long. So it was so cool to be there and just like see how the magic happens in person. But during the season, I was saying that I think and at the end after the finale, I solidified as Joey is the best bachelor ever. Like just from start to end, I thought that he played his cards right.

Like a lot of times when somebody becomes the lead, you get the hate train on them, right? It's like some people will love them and stick up for them. Other people will start to hate them. Joey was just pretty solid all around. It was like he's making all the right moves and he ended up making the right decision in the end. Yeah, he was really good. I agree.

Like you can't really talk shit about Joey, but what would you, would you rather have that or do you like having a mix of like you get the Clayton's of the world where they kind of like fuck their season up and then that's also kind of fun. Oh, give me pilot P's season.

Right, exactly. It has to go. That's my dream over and over again. It has to go in either direction and you have to know early on in the season. Like Ria said, with like a pile of Pete season, you're just, it's just chaos and which you're enjoying from a drama standpoint.

Exactly. And I also feel like there's a third tier where it's just like boring. Like I didn't find Joey's to be boring. Even though his, yeah, Sacks. I found to be quite boring. You know, I'm really happy for them, though. They look really happy, and I'm so happy that they, you know, found each other and it worked out.

For Joey's season, though, I just, I wasn't necessarily, like, bored by it. I think that there were a lot of great contestants on the show as well that had so many different stories and backgrounds and personalities that that also added to it as well. But when you're talking about Pyle Pete's season and you get his mom barging in for the finale or barbing in. Barbing in. Then it just makes it that much more exciting. And I feel like it had been a while since we've had a baxter like Joey that I think people were at the point where they were like, I'm over this. I just want a really strong male lead and he was able to do it, which was great. Yeah. And I think that, you know, obviously when it came to The Bachelorette and the new season of The Bachelorette, it was like everybody, you know, had their opinion on who they wanted. And I'm actually excited for Jed's season. I feel like people jumped the gun too soon on like, oh my gosh, but we wanted Maria and we wanted Daisy and why didn't that happen? I'm excited. I'm excited for the new season of The Bachelorette.

Out of you two, who do you think would be a better Bachelorette, a more entertaining Bachelorette? Well, those are two different questions. Yeah, those are two different questions. I think you would be a more entertaining. That's right. Well, Ria, you're definitely more emotional. Yeah. You're easier to cry a lot.

Right. Yeah, I'm definitely more emotional. And you would lead with your emotions. Yes. Yes. Like I love very hard. Yeah. And I can also hate very hard.

Yeah. I move a little slower. Yeah. So I think I think yours would be a way more entertaining. Yeah. But in terms of like finding love and all that, like, you know, I think we'd both be great at that because I think we're doing pretty well for ourselves now. Yeah. Definitely. No, 100%. I think that we'd be, that we could do, but we would do it in different ways. Yeah. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious. Well, wait a minute, Sam, maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school week on the OK story time 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 never envisioned being with a woman. I'll just be honest. I'm Jamel Hill, host of the Sports and Politics Podcasts, Politics.

On this week's episode, I'm joined by Basketball Legend, Candice Parker, who stops by to discuss her candid new book, The Can Do Mindset, in which she shares why she waited two years into marriage to come out. Like, when I close my eyes at night, every night, I was like, I need to find my prince charming. Like, it was never a princess. Like, that never entered into my mind. But, you know, as I learned, sometimes life gives you things wrapped in a package that you didn't expect it. 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 Eumanzor. 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.

And want to hear people with mental illness, psychobabble. Yes, yes. Then Emergency Intercoms the podcast. for you. Open your free IHeartRadio app. Search Emergency Intercom and listen now. If you could, if you could choose a male lead for the next Bachelor in a relationship or non in a relationship from the Bachelor franchise. Oh. Who would you have chosen? Who would you choose? Don't just say me, don't just say me unless you truly mean it. No, just from watching, like, a watching standpoint.

Yeah, like, in a relationship or not. Honestly, my- Just because my-er-strand point. My brain went in a totally different direction. I don't know. I don't know if I would pick any of the. Pilot-a-Pete. Pilot-Pee round two. Give me a pilot Pete round two.

He's going to mess it up again. Yeah. Like, it's not like he's, he will be the same pilot Pete that we watched on his original season. I mean, this dates me for how long I've been watching the show, but they did that once. where they bed that Brad, he got two seasons. But they did it like back to back. Yeah.

There's few, very, very few leads I would ever need to see again, not because they weren't great. Just like, it's too soon. You know what I mean? Like I know there was like, you know, give Rachel or Gabby like their own season kind of thing. And it's like love them, but like we just saw their season. Pete, it's been like enough time.

Yeah. That I actually would totally want to see him again. Like Barb, bring her back, bring them all back. Yeah. It would be incredible. I couldn't, like, even the more recent guys, like the guys from charity season, they were all good on Paradise, but I don't, they, I don't know if any of them have, like, Bachelor potential. I got one. I want to double Andrew and Greg.

Oh, you're right. You're right. That was a good one. Because they've done the double Bachelorette. Right. Yeah. And they're besties. Andrew and Greg are best friends.

So true. And they're very entertaining on TikTok. That's actually a great idea. What about, what about Tyler? I he just I'm not sure he would be like the best you know just only because I don't know if he would fully

like buy into it yeah he's almost like done fine for himself on his own that he I mean he doesn't need to do it but I feel like he's almost like too removed at this point which is his goal so that's great exactly and like what about what about guys in the franchise that are in a relationship I I would maybe throw Jason Antarctic up there just to

just to really Joe's like what about me I know I'm honestly I'm thinking I'm honestly now I'm just I was just adding more to not say Joe

yeah wow this I see the way I'm shocked Joe we can't even picture you as the bachelorette as the bachelor I mean the bachelor certainly not the bachelor

I'm glad you can't picture me as the bachelor's we just can't picture you as the bachelor okay we know you with Serena and that's all we want and also it's very different That's all I want to. Somebody who's in a relationship.

In a relationship is different in my mind than you guys are straight up married. You know? Yeah. Okay. Let's, okay, so going into Jen's season, what are your thoughts about her? Like, how do you, how do you picture her as the next lead? I think she's so sweet, but I think we're kind of flying blind a little bit, which is not a bad thing. I think sometimes that's good.

We did with charity and she was like incredible. exactly when you don't really know when they sometimes you get the lead who was 100% the star of their season that they were on in the group and you know Jen had her moments but they weren't they weren't big moments so I feel like it's exciting because their potential is there to learn so much more about her through her season like we'll we'll find out so much more about her because we didn't we didn't really get to so much during the bachelor yeah I agree and I think she has a cute and bubbly personality and it just like brings livelihood so I'm excited to watch and Serena like you mentioned like I remember when we first interviewed charity before her season I was like blown away by her and I couldn't wait

to watch her season because I just thought she just had such an amazing personality. Great energy and just great energy. Which they did not show like I remember saying like when we were talking about charity season coming up we were like I was like it's not that she doesn't have a personality just don't know what her personality is

because I feel like I have like haven't seen it but she was such a great lead so yeah and i and i think with um jen like she made a joke at the final rose where she was like shot time or whatever and people like yeah people kind of made fun at that but then i was like if maria would have done that people would have been eating it up they would have been like oh my god that's classic maria it's amazing so i just feel like people pick and choose and everyone just has to give her like an open shot right it felt like very soon in that moment too because everybody was so, like, rooting so hard for Maria that everyone's needed to kind of calm down a little

and realize it's not that, it's not, it's not like that big of a deal that it wasn't her, you know, like, immediately, like, first reaction was like, oh, my God, how can it not be hurt? And it's like, okay, calm down, it's okay. Like, they'll find somebody else. It'll be great. So I think it'll be, I just hope they found good, good girls for her

because I do think with this show sometimes you mean guys? I mean guys yeah sorry guys they have we are all over the place today I was going to say because the guys sometimes

they cast so well for the Bachelor and not as much for the Bachelorette sometimes they got like there's like a few guys and I'm like okay those guys are nice those guys are winners and it feels like the last few seasons

of The Bachelor all the girls have been amazing and the guys there's a lot more dud guys yeah that is true i mean there are some good there were some good guys that came out of charity season like i mean we got jolly yeah so yeah i know so i'm saying only a few though yeah did you see joey's new haircut i i liked it okay i liked it i don't know if i feel positively like he's a handsome guy no matter what but that that's how i felt that was like he's oh yeah i mean i thought i either way I thought it was good. He's extremely handsome, so, I mean, he looks good regardless, for sure.

But I, from somebody who lives in a family where my, you know, not taking ricochet shots at my family, but my brother, my dad, my uncles, they deal with hair loss. And I know that if my brother could have Joey's head of hair, he would in a heartbeat. So when I see guys with great hair Cut their hair off I'm like but you got it You got the hair Yeah but he'll grow it back

He spent so much time with it He seems like he has that kind of hair That'll just grow back into a flow Yeah It's giving like post bachelor Like I want to change my look You know what it is Like the Matt James beard

Like that's his head Or an entourage when Vinnie Chase Just shaves his head off too And they're like Oh my God we can't do the reshoots Right Well I hope Joey didn't I hope Joey didn't shape his head

For those reasons that was such a strange season of entourage Vinnie Chase you could not it was so hard to watch him with that haircut yeah it was bad I gotta be honest

I still love I'm it's just my favorite show so I think I just love any season of it like people hate season seven and I like it season eight's the last one season seven is when

when he goes up the deep end he starts dating Sasha Gray I couldn't stand that season yeah it's a tough season have you watched the movie recently because Joe and I recently just rewatch the movie I have rewatched recently and that's how I got my sister's computer hacked because I was trying to get that

the entourage movie like years ago when it first came out a hacker got me and open up the camera on me because I was trying to get the entourage movie on there besides the point wasn't my favorite like I think I think they could have done better yeah yeah yeah because Haley Joel Osman in that movie is so fucking annoying Sorry, am I allowed to curse on here? Yeah, he's the, he's the son of Billy Bob Thornton. Oh my God, he's so annoying. It's just too many cameos.

Like the cameos were actually so, the cameos, it was like, it was like too gaudy. It was like, okay, we get it. Like, fucking, you know, Radicali, Rhonda Rousey. Oh, and she was not good in it. Yeah. Not good. No. But you know what I will say, the movie itself is not the best, but the way the movie

ended was like the perfect way to tie off that theory like flown in him getting back together they have the baby he's doing god knows what turtles rich and what's his face gets his Oscar yeah i was stoked about that the Oscar ending is amazing it is yes victory yeah that gave me chills I know watching a bachelor that hasn't seen on your eyes I'm not here for this they'll go watch now cutting back to The Bachelor, do you have a favorite night one episode ever? Oh, yeah. So what we've been doing is we've been watching.

We've done this for like five or six people where we watch their night one episode and then interview them. So like we've done Ben Higgins. We did Pilot Pete. We did Hannah Brown. And going back and watching people's night ones, like I feel like you remember the finale so clearly. but like seeing the night once and all these people that like have now gone into paradise and get married and like interviewing the leaves and hearing like the behind the scenes of their night once has been so crazy but joe that was your your time to shine night one yeah yeah really i couldn't have done worse do you think back on that and you're like man i really got sent home immediately like are you just like what the hell yeah yeah all the time all the time no but i do there's a part like watching night one episodes yeah yeah

I will there is a part of me though I said this I said this on this podcast I'm like there's a part of me that like I'm really happy and in I'm happy and I love my wife obviously but there is a part of me that like kind of looks back and I'm like it is kind of sad that I like I sit here I talk about this show every fucking week but like I actually never experienced that like I truly I I don't I actually don't know what goes on like he's never been on like a group day like like nothing yeah oh my God that is so funny. I'd never have anything thought about that. Yeah. The, the, the, the season. That is so funny. Yeah. Two long paradise seasons for you, but, but not a normal season. Right. I don't know what my favorite night one would be. So, I really liked Hannah Browns. I think she had a good one. Her dress too is like, one of the past night one look. Yeah, those like, and all those guys were just good good ones. One that sticks out in my mind and I, maybe, I'm also guessing maybe you guys had just watched this one, but just because it was so ridiculous, not because I liked

it, was Caitlin's because that was a double Bachelorette, and they made the guys vote. It was crazy. It's insane. Like, watching, when I think back at that night one, I'm like, oh, my God, I can't believe they did that, where they

brought in two girls, and they had the guy's vote, and Caitlin won, and the other girl just had to leave. That was it. Insane. Brit, the other girl. was so confident like so sure it was going to be heard Caitlin was not and they clearly like

did not. I don't know if they had like actual issues but like they didn't get along because they were not speaking to each other. Like there was no I mean that puts you in such an uncomfortable position like you're you want to be nice but you also are like I want to be the bachelor

I feel like it kind of creates a complex for both of them like if I'm Brit I'm leaving and I'm feeling like the worst person in the world. Like I'm like and then if you're Caitlin you're kind of like I was picked like you know and then if someone

ends up not liking you you're like well I was picked so it's it's very confusing and they didn't have to pick between Gabby and Rachel but there were clear signs of they can't do it again unless it's Andrew and yeah no they have to do it

they have to do it to a guy one time to even it out yeah but it just and I feel like Gabby and Rachel kind of struggled with that too a little bit like because some of the guys were like switching on who they want like I don't know it's just it's just madness it's just like the bachelor like having

the bachelorette a woman is the lead it's like all right we're going to give you know she has all the power and then they're like nah fuck it let's let's let the guys still vote like it's crazy that the guys have that the guys have never had to do it yeah Greg and Andrew yeah well they're putting Greg and Andrew in

I mean, I think they're both single so I actually think it is possible. One more, another, I got another. I set them both into paradise. Another question. Have you ever thought about what your limo entrance would be? Funny enough, I really, like, I never have. And I'm just, it would be, it would be something punny.

That is surprising to me. You guys, we have the show so much. I would have thought at some point you would have been like, this is what I would have done. Yeah. we just can't we love talking about the show but we have never pictured ourselves on the show never never ever like you know like some people like love the show and they're like oh i would die to be on it it's like we love the show but we love the show from a distance like wouldn't want to be on it but

we always say keegs would be so good oh yeah no you for sure she would be good she may have her exactly i think she would know i think she would know i think she would have her exactly i think i would do something punny and cringy and i would hate it but that's i love a dad joke Right, but that's you, you know what I mean? Like, they would love that. Like, oh, this girl's funny. Like, she could do a little dad joke. For me, like, I wouldn't want to go to, like, stereotypical Italian.

You might do like a lady in the tramp thing. Oh, I kind of like that. Share a little spaghetti. You know, share a little spaghetti. That's cute. I thought that's what they were going to do. I thought that's what I was going to be when I went on the child. I was like, oh, I'm going to be like the Jersey Shore guy, like the Ayo.

And you made From Chicago Yeah You made yourself into that with the sauce You were like Oh they're not going to make me that Well guess what I'm making it myself I'm doing it I'm doing it anyways

Ha ha ha Someone I think did do the lady And the tramp thing on my season Because it was like But it wasn't meant to be like Hey I'm Italian It meant to like they like It was like a kiss of a little

A kiss thing right Which always I could never Like right away No me either You're gonna kiss I would pull it, you'd pull it away like the last second. Yeah, like bite it up, like, chomp it off. Yeah, that's cute.

Right, and then it wouldn't look cute. It would just look, um, not sexy at all. Uh, Serena, what was your limel entrance? I brought out like a stepping stool because Matt was like six, five. So cute. I'm really sure. And I was like, I brought a little something to help me get on your level. And then I stepped on it.

And I like, was like, now we can see like eye to eye or something like that. You could do that right now if your fiance was the best. Yeah, that's true. If my fiance right now. I was back to I could do this other entrance it worked well because I made him like help me get up on it yeah I remember watching that being very very attracted to you in that moment thank you oh wait that's so cute and like I love that so much like not you know not to make like Joe jealous of your entrance with Matt but like that is incredible I yeah I liked it I wanted to do a little

something I didn't want to just like talk I was like I feel like I feel more comfortable if I have like something planned to like lean on yeah prop or something um but i remember walking out the limo and turning to the guy who opened the door for me to say thank you when i like hit the limbo in the stool i was like oh sorry oh i'm on my way yeah i was like sorry okay bye here we go but yeah and then we were at we were at nemacolin because we weren't at the mansion and i remember the stairs were like crazy sweet i was like carrying the stool up in my heels like these long like the stairs. And you're like, oh, why did I do this?

It's funny that they have you like keep your prop. Like, I would feel like you could just throw the prop in the bush. I'm like, all right, I'm done with this. Yeah, I should have thought of that at the bottom of the stairs. But, no, I, I liked, I'm glad when it worked out for my limbo entrance. Yes, that's a good one. That's a good one. My boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now I'm seriously suspicious.

Well, wait a minute, Sam, maybe her boyfriend's just looking for extra credit. Well, Dakota, it's back to school. a 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 never envision being with a woman. I'll just be honest. I'm Jamel Hill, host of the Sports and Politics Podcasts Politics. On this week's episode, I'm joined by basketball legend, Candice Parker, who stops by to discuss her candid new book, The Can Do Mindset, in which she shares why she waited two years. years into marriage to come out. Like when I close my eyes at night, every night, I was like, I need to find my prince charming. Like, it was never a princess. Like, that never entered into my mind. But, you know, as I learned, sometimes life gives you things wrapped in a package that you didn't expect it. 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 I-Hare Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Hi, my name is Enya Yumanzoor. 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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five people who would, like, you'd be like, all right, this is my all-star crew. going into the next season of Paradise, who would it be? I mean, as much as I would love an Andrew and Greg Batchelor, I think it's way more realistic that they could go back to Paradise. I mean, Andrew's done it, but Greg has not. Greg's never done it. Greg has not. Andrew, then put Victoria Fuller back on Paradise and see what happens between her and Greg.

Throw Victoria Fuller back in there. I'd be shocked if she ever went back. I would send. No, she doesn't need to go back. I will put Maria and Daisy. Yes. Yeah. Pilot Pete. You could throw Pete back. Oh, God. We're dying for Pilate Pete to go back to paradise.

And he was great on traitors. Yes. You really are like right on television. You're a reality TV star, Pete. Yeah. So yeah, I would put, yeah, I think Pilot Pete, Daisy, Maria, Greg, Andrew, and let's think of one more, one more girl to go on there. I would maybe throw like, oh, one more girl. Yeah, because we have three guys. I'm trying to think he were the last bachelor's.

Joey, Zach. Takeaway Victoria, because I don't think Vichario. Oh, what about, what about, um, um, um, um, um, Ariel. Oh, I like her. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. Thank you, thank you. I would also maybe send Tanner back too.

I like Tanner. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Shell, let's not do that with our hat. That's it. Uh, okay. I think that's, yeah, I think that's not do that with that.

That's a great lineup. of chicks in the office chicks in the office you guys have been a podcast now for six years about yeah yeah longer less than no about six 20 18 yeah how did your podcast start I don't know if I've ever heard that story um let me think back for a minute well we were we started doing um an hour long radio show on series XM every single day Monday through Friday when bar Barstool Sports got their Serious XM channel. So the two of you together

the two of us together through Barstool through Sirius. Well, we met at Barstool when we were interns. And we just like bonded over pop culture and we started making one minute videos on our Instagram, chicks in the office, every day. We were literally the only girls. Yeah, we were the only girls there besides Erica

at the time, she's no longer CEO, but at the time, CEO. Doing content, I should say. Yeah, only girls doing content. And we started doing one-minute videos on Chicks in the Office, literally just one-minute videos, pop culture-related. And then that kind of took off. And when Barstool got their series XM channel, Dave came out to us and was like, okay, so you guys are going to be on radio every single day, Monday through Friday.

And at the time, I was 20, Fram was 23. And we, like, literally had no idea how to host a radio show. And I think we were probably the youngest. Radio is also like a whole different skill. probably the youngest host on serious XM like it was insane and it was live every single day yeah you could even legally drink yeah no I literally couldn't drink like I remember doing the radio show the day after my 21st birthday party yeah um which was insane like coming in that Friday and and doing the show so that was crazy and people really enjoyed that and they were like okay why don't you guys

tried making this into a podcast and we kind of and this was in 2018 and we at the time thought oh my God, there's so many podcasts already. Like, nobody's going to listen to our podcast. I mean, now podcasts have exploded to a whole other level. But at that time, they were still popular. And we started throwing the radio show into podcast form. And it exceeded their expectations, like 10 plus times, like what they thought it was going to get. So, yeah, then it just took off from there.

And we started doing it once a week. Then it went to twice a week. And then in COVID, we started doing it three times a week because we were home. We, like, fully transitioned from radio to doing this, too, because it was like, radio we would do five days a week and then we would kind of turn it into like the best of the week episode would be in a podcast form and then radio uh once the radio deal ended it was easy for us like fully transitioned to just doing the podcast yeah and then uh during covid when we started doing three times a week they kind of slowed down on the radio show you know because it was just

people didn't know how to do the radio show from home at that point and then other people took over at barcel and then the radio the channel kind of ended after that so yeah the contract was just yeah anyway so have you guys ever gone back and listened to like your first radio you should would you would you ever no no literally i'd rather jump off to george washington bridge no literally like also my my voice changed like literally the summer of 2021 like my balls dropped or something and my voice has literally changed like i don't know happened. So that also makes it. No, I don't like to listen to myself now. I could and listening to myself six years ago. I, uh, no. I could. I do agree with that. Like, I've never listened to this

podcast. Uh, we don't listen to ours either. Yeah. Like I do like, like a love all our listeners. And thank you guys for listening. I just, yeah, I can't, I don't like listening to myself. There's something very different about listening to yourself. I think it's just, there's some science behind it or whatever you sound different well that's like why people like for a variety of reasons but one of them is like the way you hear yourself is not the same as the way you actually sound to other people so it's like got to be mentally jarring to be like but that's not my voice right i could watch our clips like i have no problem watching our clips and video of it like if i ever watch i'll watch it on youtube but i can't just listen to it like i need to see us speaking

I don't smoke weed, but like the first time I ever smoked weed, I remember hearing my voice what I thought was like the first time and really being like, this is what I sound like. Wait, but just like listening to yourself talk, like not anyone playing it back to you? No, yeah, just listening to myself talk because I was like the first time I was like, I was like, whoa, this is actually. I think that's what I would do a different. That's a different thing. You were just really thinking about it. You were just like, wait, you were like, I'm talking right now.

So you guys have, you guys have had like some, like, you guys have had A list celebrities on your, on your show. Is there anyone that, A, you were like either shocked to get or be like just, I don't know, like somebody who you're like, wow, that was like, I was like a massive star. You guys have some really big ones, I feel like in the last year. I mean, just two weeks ago, Jessica Alba was kind of. like yeah like you know Jessica Allie you grow up like oh my god that's incredible yes it's like the coolest thing that's amazing she's the coolest person ever yeah that's awesome she was she was so sweet and it was kind just like growing up like you look up to Jessica Alba you're like oh my god I want to be Jessica Alba so the fact that she came on our show was an honor um we had we had a bunch last year that was like

are they sure they know what uh what what what what we are like what you're like we had Ashley Coucher. We had Josh Jumel. We had James Marston, Drew Barrymore. Katie Perry. Katie Perry. He's huge. Some really massive. Do you ever get nervous before you have somebody like that on? Yes. Yes. Absolutely. What interview were you the

most nervous for? Is there one that you remember being like I'm really freaking out for this? I think probably the Jonas Bellers just because we had like a whole day plan with them. We did like a brewery tour and it was a whole thing. And so we had a lot of time with them leading up to the interview before we sat down, which was a good thing and also a bad thing because we had so much time to think about it. And it was also one of those interviews that, like, I felt like we really wanted to nail.

Like, it had to be perfect because our listeners had, like, heard us for a while saying how badly we wanted them on. So it was like, well, we have to crush this interview. I blacked out during that entire thing. Like, if you asked me right now one question that I asked them, during that interview, could not tell you. I, like, it's, it's brown in my memory. Yeah. I do remember a game we played where it was like, does Fran or the Jonas Brothers know the Jonas Bellers better?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think Fran knew them better. No way. No, no, I got a lot of those wrong and then I was very upset with myself. Yeah, I specifically remember the softball question. I was making a joke, but I didn't, I don't remember the actual outcome. That I do, I do slightly remember. But, yeah, no, there's, and I feel, honestly, sometimes it's the ones you

wouldn't expect that will make us more nervous because we're just like, oh, man, this could be a wild card. Sometimes I get nervous when I feel like the guests, maybe we have some restrictions on what to talk about. And then I kind of am like, okay, well, what if there's a space in time? Like what if we just run out of things, which we never have. but there have been times where the interview starts off kind of slow and like when you're interviewing somebody and they give you like one word answers and and no and there's no like evolving of

the kind of anxiety too like I'm always like what if we look at the timer and it's only been 18 minutes and they ran through every like major topic we had prepared and the conversation is just not flowing and now you're like what do I ask you right exactly and then you're like kind of like there's no evolving of the conversation because you didn't really give anything. Yeah. And now we're like, I'm like, we were given restrictions on what not to ask. So now like that, that, it actually makes me more nervous than, than anything. You're not breaking any personal wall where you feel like you're actually having a conversation. You're just asking questions and getting answers. And there's no in between conversation where you're like, okay, well, that's, uh, that's all we have to.

It's like, you answered my exact question. You didn't expand in a way where I could take it anywhere. Yeah. Yeah. And I, and even for our listeners, like, I get upset for them sometimes because I'm like, I bet they're listening to this and they're like, well, what? Like ask this or why didn't the conversation go there? But there's like stuff that goes on behind the scenes that maybe they don't know that we weren't allowed to ask something. And then, you know, I'm like, shit, I wish this like, you know, was a little bit more in depth. Yeah. So for everyone listening, if we don't ask questions that you wanted us to ask, know that maybe we just couldn't ask them. Yeah. Maybe there was just. a limit with our friendship trending upward i was actually nervous about this really what if yeah what i'm like what if they what if what if what if this knocks us down to a three what if we just ran out of things to talk about those two i can't tell you know it's just so lame any anything you guys would like to share any exciting projects coming up anything that you want to plug just the usual yeah chicks in the office three

times a week. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter. New episodes, Monday, Wednesdays, and Friday. Very exciting. As always. And then you can find our we have, you know, long last names sometimes, so you can find our personals on there.

When I start spelling out my last name, I'm like, you know what, just go luck on chicks in the office. You'll find us. I have that same issue. Wait, Rhea, aren't you doing the barstool reality? Yes. I am. that's a reality show. It is a reality show. Surviving Barstool, that'll be filmed in the fall.

Oh, you some time. Yeah, I have some time, thankfully. Super, super pumped for that. I think it's going to be insane. Like, we were just in Chicago at the Barstall office there. We're doing it in Chicago. We're doing it at the Barstall office there. And we were just there. And a couple of other people that are doing the show. And Dave's doing the show as well. And we were all, like, kind of talking about it. And it was just funny. Like, you know people are fishing all. already like I was like I haven't talked to anybody about alliances and Dave was like yeah right and I was like no I really have it but like nobody believes each other right now because you know of course we have so much time before it that people are going to try and start talking to each other before the show even begins I've actually I have never heard of it until you and um telly posted about it and I was like Joe did you see this like what's going on he was so he explained

me what it was and so I've obviously never watched it but I kind of want to see it now You should watch the last season they did. It's juicy. You guys would eat it up. I mean, they had to take it off YouTube and put it up like to. Paper view, right? Paper view because there were some things that were said that they, that YouTube was like, no, we can't have this. Like, it's real reality TV.

Like, things get heated. Yeah, it's really, really good. So I'm excited for that. But that's, that's in the fall. So I have a little bit of time. And then my parents' house is just, every time. come here. My dad's doing something. Changing the bathrooms, the concrete and the front. I knew concrete. But nothing could be more than 500. No matter what he does, if you charge over

500, you are ripping him up. Before we let you guys go, we're to play a quick rapid fire. Who's Who game. It literally is going to take under probably like 40 seconds. Cool. I will do it. This is between you two. Who's the messiest? I'm going to go with Fran because every time I walk into her hotel room, I'm shocked. There you go. She's never said that to my face before. Yes, I definitely have. 100% I have.

I always say, oh my God, you put your stuff on the floor. Oh, well, that, I don't think that that's that weird. What do you mean? I will not put my stuff on the floor of a hotel room. Nothing can touch the floor of the hotel. Like your luggage, your clothes. Like I open my luggage on the floor in my hotel room. I do that too.

It's the other room right now opened on the floor. That alone is enough for her to be like, ugh. It depends on. Where are you putting your bag though? Because you can't put it on the bed. You put it on a chair.

Like they have those, they have those things in the closet, the luggage thing. If it's like a, like a house with like a clean tile floor, like that's different. But like in a hotel room, I won't put my luggage. Yeah.

Like, yeah. Yeah. Well, that's how people get. That's how people, that's how people, that's how they get warts. That's how they get warts too because if you, if you, if you, if you walk on carpet in a hotel the whole the carpet's usually a little yeah yeah and and my mom always scared me my entire life about bed bugs like when i would bring my luggage home she would make me leave it in the garage before i was able to bring them in the house so i think that maybe just comes

maybe that just comes from that wow it definitely does all right well okay rabbit fire uh was yeah sorry full explanation on that one we do this every time honestly it was that's great uh who's more talkative. I think Ria. Okay. What was the next question? Who's the funniest? Oh, thank you. I would say both of us on different humor. Yeah. Who takes longer to get ready?

Me. Fran. Who's better at keeping secrets? Fran. Yeah, I think maybe me. Who's the planner? I don't know. Kind of both of us. We both like to plan things. Different occasions.

Depends on the occasion. Yep, yep. Who's best at leading a tough interview? Ooh. Depends on the person. Yeah, this is a thing. We have it, when you have a co-os, you just have that chemistry where you know when someone needs to pick up a section or someone needs to like, we're like, oh, you just

ask that question, run with that for a little. And then I'll jump back in. I think you can have an unspoken. And also, I think there's some. guests that maybe you'll know better than I or I'll know certain guests better than you so like I think we sometimes we have like somebody that they were pitched or we pitched

to them and it's from a show that like Ria absolutely loved or a show that I absolutely loved and maybe the other one of us hasn't watched as much so it's like you know someone's leading in that scenario yeah makes sense okay well I mean that's really that's all I have wonderful oh great game

thank you guys honestly thank you guys so much for doing this we really of course thank you for having us to all our listeners make sure you also follow chicks in the office and listen to them they are awesome thank you guys so much for listening and make sure you download and subscribe our podcast to subscribe too thank you guys so much thanks guys thanks bye bye my boyfriend's professor is way too friendly and now i'm seriously suspicious it's 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,

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