Bachelor Happy Hour - The Reno 411 with Guy! | Golden Hour

Episode Date: January 3, 2025

Today on “Golden Hour,” we have the “Golden Bachelorette” runner-up, Guy, on the podcast! We kick off the episode catching up with Guy and getting to know who he is on a deeper level. Then, we get into one of your questions, and Guy gives some spectacular advice. Plus, we play a quick game of Get to Know Guy, where we learn some interesting fun facts about the ER doctor, including his hidden talent! 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. I'm Jamel Hill, host to the Sports and Politics podcast, Spolitics. 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 Spolitics. on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 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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How are you doing? I'm getting there. I'm getting there. Okay, so we... This thing goes around all this time of year, everybody's sick. I think you started it. Yeah. Who started it?

You started it. I don't know. We're doing this today, not feeling the best, but we love answering Bachelor Nation questions. And so if you haven't yet, please send in your questions because we love chatting with Bachelor Nation phase. I don't know, Susan, who we got today? I'm telling you, speaking of Bachelor Nation, we have one of the newest members. joining us today. How excited are we? Please welcome Guy from Jones season of the Golden Bachelorette. Hey, Guy. Welcome. Hey, Guy. Hi. How are you doing? Are you ready to be on the hot seat?

I am on the hot seat. Turn it up. Turn up that hot seat. So we've got to know you a little bit, we're going to, we've gotten to know you a little bit, but we want Bachelor Nation. So, you know, we're going to, we've gotten to know you a little bit. So, you know, we're going to, we've gotten to know you a little bit. So, you know, We're going to get to know you, and then we're going to have you help us answer some questions from our Bachelor Nation questions. But in the meantime, before we get to that, tell us what's been going on in your life. Let's see. Wait, didn't you get sick right after the show, too? That's where it started. You know, I did. Oh, Susan, it is him.

It may have been. It was the day after. Well, I think I picked that up in Las Vegas because I had gone to Vegas the week before. see the Eagles at the Spear, which is unbelievable. I'm going Sunday to see our Eagles. No, he means the Eagles, the music group.

Susan, different Eagles. I'm talking football. Come on. The sphere is a place in Vegas for music. Go ahead, guy. Yeah, so that's where I think I picked it up because it was the day after the finale. When I flew home, I started feeling poorly and the next

day, awful. And I tested positive for COVID, but I'm pretty sure I probably had influenza just because in the ER we used to test for three batteries of test viruses, RSB, influenza, and COVID all at the same time. 50% of the people who tested positive for COVID also tested positive for influenza. And so it was, it's very common right now. But isn't it a flu? I mean, COVID. Yeah, influenza.

There's influenza A, B, you know, H1, N5. I hope that means anything or nobody cares. It's a virus. So basically where we are, you can tell us in the yard doctor because we, common people refer to it as the flu. Only a doctor says influenza. I had bronchitis straight up. Yeah, we both have bronchitis.

So we're making it better. But we want to know. We want to know. I don't know, Susan, where should we begin? What do you want to tell us? What do you want to tell us guy? We'll let you start. What would you like us to?

We'll warm this up slowly. Who is guy, except we know the guy on TV. Yeah, yeah. You know, what I will say is, and is that the show was actually, you know, I used, from the beginning, I've used the term a transformational journey for me. And, yeah, I want to clarify what that means to me because it means something to each person. But it wasn't just the show that made it transformational. It was the six months leading up to it. A lot of things happened.

Major milestones in my life that changed that just kept putting me into a better spot. One of those that I decided to hang up my stethoscope as I refer to it, retire after 35 years of working in the same ER and was able to do everything I wanted to do, accomplish everything. I was turning 66. I said, you know, it just feels like the right time. And that was one of them. But, you know, what I, I'll say there's five things

that this transformational journey. The first thing is, and I don't want to sound too mumbo, jumbo, psychological, but it's the first thing is that I learned to love myself again. Did you hear me this morning on that other podcast because you just quoted me. Susan always says that. Okay. It's true.

But it was true. And before, you have to love yourself before you could love someone else. Amen. And so the second thing was, and this was part of what the show helped me with and going through the process, it allowed me to know that I can truly love again. And what I mean by that is I think a lot of times when people get divorced or they're separated, because you can describe love in so many different ways. But I broke it down into a love of convenience and a love of passion. And convenience is those people who jump into a quick relationship afterwards

because they just need somebody, they need something to fill a void. I personally don't need a love of convenience. I'm looking for that love of passion. That feeling you used to get when you were 25 years old. Maybe most of that was hormonal. I don't know. This is a match. Do we have like the same parent or something?

Susan says these things all the time. So wait, I'm taking it. Susan, I was born in Philadelphia. Oh, see that? And my kids were born in Texas in Arlington. But are you, would you say you are a romantic? Yes, very much so. Wear your heart on your sleeve.

We're twins. We should date then, guy. I mean, there's a, there's a reason. There's a reason I got emotional on the show, and those emotions were real. They weren't contrived. You can't, you know, I can't make it. I can't make myself tear up or cry, you know, for out for no reason. So there is that.

And my kids have always said, Dad, you've always worn your emotions on your sleeve, you know. I get very sentimental, very nostalgic. So those are the two things. The third thing, you know, in that transformational journey, is I really have established an even better relationship with my poor kids. Not that I didn't have it before, but it's just gotten stronger, you know. And part of those is they get older and more mature. They've become parental to me, you know, and making sure I'm eating right and I'm doing things.

And, you know, I'm going, what happened here? I was just supposed to come to dad for advice. The fourth thing is, is that I just kept over those six months, started getting happier and happier. And even when I got on the show, every week, you know, when we would go through the rose ceremony and my goal was just to get one rose. That was me. I said to my kids, I can't come home the first week. It would be totally embarrassing. Yeah.

So I said, I don't want to come home and people go, well, how'd that work out for you? Yeah, exactly. But I, you know, I really, and I had a wonderful time with my oldest daughter. and one of my sons, so two of my kids down in Atlanta for Thanksgiving. I got to spend time with my grandson. And I got big news that my daughter is expecting again next year. Yeah, congrats. Yeah.

Okay, wait, and I'm going to interrupt here because before we jump head to what's going on in your life, we have to ask, inquiring minds want to know. On the show, Guy, you were wearing your heart on your sleeve. And, you know, we heard you say to Joan, is there any chance of you changing your mind? How are you feeling now about all that? Yeah, that's a really good question. And I can tell you when at the end of the show, because I was very, I was guarded. I was very skeptical at the beginning of the show.

I just thought, this is not how you find somebody. You find love. I just didn't think it was possible. well that really changed during the show and it was for a lot of different reasons and for me joan was a big factor in that okay it was also the camaraderie between the the guys the romances between the men were huge because we spent time not talking about golf or football or baseball we talked about our lives and our experiences and i journaled for 45 days every single day anywhere from 30 minutes stuff to two hours.

On the big days, I wrote 20 pages in a journal. And so to go back to your original question, Kathy, is I, at the end, I was very, I was emotional, the emotions were because I was convinced. I had convinced myself that I was Jones guy. And rightfully so. I mean, at the end, at the end of the, the hometown i was 100% i said everybody else is going through the motions it's me right and

it got stronger and stronger um i thought we had a very it's not a true overnight but our time together alone that whole day i thought was magical as was the hometown and so i i was i was mentally in this mindset gosh you can you can learn to love again you can't have those feelings again. And so when I got the knock on the door, I honestly had somehow convinced myself that she was there to tell me that I was her guy, not that she was about to let me down and that her heart lies. That was really obvious, guy, watching it back, we thought the same thing. I mean, we knew, no, I'm sorry, we know how the show goes, so we knew that you thought that it was going away.

A knock on the door is never a good thing, God, just to fly. I know that now. I know that now. And I just, but I just, I still had my head that I was convinced because that morning when I was interviewed, I laid it all out. I said, you know what? I'm going to meet her kids. I was convinced her kids would really like me. They would.

They would. I was ready to even ask them for their blessing. That's how I was set. And then 30 minutes later, and 30 minutes later, you know, she knocks on the door. And I still convinced myself, okay, she's here for the right reason. And then when she said, can we sit down and talk? I was going, oh, this is not going to go well. Then I knew this was not good.

Um, so that's, that's why when she said that, and then I asked the fact because I just was like, you know what, give me a little more chance. Give me the, give me that last part I was supposed to get the chance to meet her family, to spend more time with her. Because really in retrospect, when I looked at the finale, the after the rose ceremony, she even said live on stage, she said it was all about timing it was um she thought that she said this and i can't quote the exact words she said but essentially you know if we had more time there's a good chance that we would be together you know and um so but now now going back i've had healthy and i've had four months to like think about it i can tell you i was i uh i struggled for the first three to four weeks after i got home

I kind of isolated quarantine, but then you start to assimilate things, you start thinking about it, you spend more time, and then watching the show back was very therapeutic for me because I knew what happened, but you don't know the real details of what happens, and it allowed me to see that, it allowed me, and even when I got home after finale, because on the finale, I only got to see part of it. I didn't get to see everything that everybody had seen. I watched my part, you know, off stage, off camera, but I saw nothing else. And then I went on stage and that went by like that.

Isn't it weird to watch yourself showing emotion? It's kind of strange, right? It is. And it's, you know, and I tried to warn everybody. I said, you know, I said, just just please, please be kind of. to me, especially, you know, my male friends who want to harass the crap out of me. Like, really, you had to cry on TV? I'm Jemail Hill, host to the Sports and Politics Podcasts, Politics.

And on the latest episode of Politics, 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. lives. And that's been part of the challenge. But we continue to say to them, you were elected to defend your constituents, to stand up for your constituents. And there's life after Congress. And you should be willing to actually want to be able to look back on your time in the House of Representatives knowing that you can keep your head held high because you did the right thing. Donald Trump is

gone in three and a half years. But their legacy or their failure to stand up to the extremism and the unprecedented assault on America as we know it will be with them forever make sure to listen to 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. And want to hear people with mental illness, psycho babble. Yes, yes.

Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your free IHeartRadio app. Search Emergency Intercom and listen now. My name is Ed. Everyone say hello, Ed. Hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself. My dad is a farmer and my mom is a cousin.

So, like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I'd just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. The 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed his family. And then he came to my house.

So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? a new podcast called Wisecrack where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage available now listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts so let me ask you let me just turn a little bit here so we are all of a certain age and when we talk about dating obviously we're all all in our golden years here. Yeah, what's it mean to you to be in your golden years? Not only just to be golden, but dating how it looks different, relating with your kids, how

is being in your golden years, never mind doing it on national TV, how does it feel to be dating and doing this all in your golden years? Yeah, it's, it's definitely, as I've said before, it was a whole lot easier when we were young and in college or when I was in medical school. It was, it was easy, right? Because we had not, if you met somebody, you were going to mold your life together with them. We're now at this position where our lives have already been molded. Now we got, when we meet somebody, we have to meld those 40 years together.

We have to meld our kids together. We have to meet our family, our own little quirks and personalities that we all possess. We have our filters and our idea of what we want in a partner that, you know, when you're younger, it was like, boy, they're really cute. I think I'd like to go on a date with him. He's hot. I want to date him. Exactly, right?

Now you have, now you've got to worry about what your kids think. Sure. That's it is. But you're looking for your companion, somebody you're going to spend the rest of your time with that you get along with and you enjoy each other's company. And that's, you know, you know, and I talked about the, at one point five, Steve's, which turned into more, you know, and that was communication, compatibility, um, uh, connection. Um, and caring. Carrey, well, there's one more. We need one more. What's the fifth one? Um, carrying and, uh, compromise. You have to be

able to compromise. That's us can be compromised communication. I will also say the other seeds that have come to mind is comedic, right? I love to laugh. I'm self-depicating. The other person has to be able to do the same thing. If they can't laugh themselves or laugh at me. I think he's asking me out, Susan. I think he's asking me out right here. You're talking to the comedy team over here. I mean, that's all we do is laugh. That's very important. And that's why I like you guys. Okay, but who do you have your eyes on? Anybody from our season? Um, you know, I will say, yeah, I'll go more than, Susan and Kathy, I haven't, I haven't decided, you know, I'm not letting them off the hook. Because, come on.

Especially after you guys went through everything and went through, you guys look terrific. Yeah, I just did it again. Well, I watch your stuff. I'm going, they just keep getting better looking, you know. Well, thank you. You guys are like Benjamin Button, you're going in the wrong direction or the other direction. So let me ask you something, guys, dating prior to the show. Yeah.

And dating after the show, how does it look different to you? What's the difference? It's definitely different. I will admit that before the show, so after my separation of divorce, I did, I tried to date locally, but in Reno, Reno is very small population, 400,000 inch year. geographically isolated. I mean, you have to go 4 and 50 miles to Vegas, 600 miles or 500 miles to Salt Lake City, 600 to Portland, and 200 to San Francisco. So once you get into your age criteria, wait, Susan, do you love the fact that guy has it down to the miles to each of those

cities? I just want to point that out to everyone. I like to drive. I have a great car. I'll just cruise on over. Not that he isn't dating in his neighborhood, but he knows exactly. exactly the mileage to these cities. I love it. Carry on. It is. And so, so, so, so I went, you know, I tried to date locally, but it just, I just wasn't comfortable with that. There's nobody here. Well, there, there is. It's just that, you'd have to go back and look at my life, but, you know,

my ex and I lived in a fishbowl because she's a politician. And so, so, and then I was the head of the ER and. I have 13, 14. Yeah, it's tough. So it's really difficult. You date one woman. There's a good chance if that doesn't work out. The next one knows that one.

Who knows that one? Who knows that one? Who knows that one? So it makes a little bit different. I went on dating apps. I tried that. Didn't we all? Yes.

You know, I met a lot of very nice women, but I can tell you for me, and again, this is where the show came in. and this transformational journey is that I was able, before I thought I was ready. I thought I was, you know, I was emotionally available. That's the term people like to use. I was not emotionally available. I saw that at the beginning of the show. You didn't seem 100% emotionally available.

But towards the middle and the end, you were open it up. I watched it. That's exactly. You're 100% correct, Susan. but that is right on because I Boy, you two really understand each other. I know. Wait, I have a question, I'm working for you here, Susan.

I'm working it. I have a question guy. You and I've talked a little bit and you have said that dating long distances, that is one thing that constantly comes up when we're talking with Goldens, whether male or female. There's always a distance thing because we all have children.

We all have grandchildren. children. So, you know, I've made it pretty clear that if I met, and I, and Susan, I think, is in the same boat. If we meet the person for us, I'd be willing to relocate because that's what airplanes are for. I would fly back once a month, you know, rent an Airbnb and see my kids. That for me is not an issue. For some people, it is. Not for me. Is it an issue for you? Well, Guy has said, that's my question, because you had said that dating someone, you know, by coastal or whatever, is it, well, you're in Reno, but you know what I'm saying? Dating someone who lives far away is an issue. But is it an issue just in the initial stages or is it a

moving issue for you? No, it's just the initial stages. Obviously, if somebody is an hour flight away, that's, that's easier to say, hey, let's have dinner tonight. I mean, I literally can fly that. Susan, he's going to send a plane for us. He's sending a plane for us. Keep talking. It's getting better all the time. I'm in California. California a lot. And when you have, like, say, we can do this easily, you know, but if I'm going back east, we're looking at, you know, like a 12-hour, 13-hour, you know, I've got to fly to Dallas to hear the day.

It's not 12 hours where you stop. It's five hours, four and a half. Wait, wait, I just want to point out. It depends on where you live, okay? There's, you know, there's some places. Philadelphia non-stop. I guess I win. I'm in Texas.

See you later, Susan. No, you're the one you have to stop. Sioux City, South Dakota, or whatever, wherever it's just located. We'd take a little while to get to, you know. But you're not opposed to it. Absolutely not. And that's actually a conversation I even had with Joan. I said, because I knew that she, she's not leaving her family.

She's so committed. She is, you know, she is. She's going to New York. That's not possible. As a second, as another place, you know, I, but she's. still getting me spending time with their children and I suspect chalk will be doing the same thing because their families mean so much and sure and and for me as to answer your question is if I found the right person I the distance wouldn't be the problem um I'm retired none of my kids

live in Reno okay they live in San Francisco in Atlanta and San Diego when I'm used to just move from London. So it would be easy for me to relocate. But what I would say is, at least I'm in the position where I'd say, I'm just going to keep my place in Reno. I have another place up in the mountains. It's really fun to go to. And you have a place, let's say, on the East Coast or in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Or in- Best of all the world, right, Guy? And wherever it might be. And so, why not just have a place there and a place there? Nobody says it at one place or the other. I need to tell you, I'm saying this with all joking.

I'm glad you're smiling. You know when you went wrong with Joan? Where? You needed to bring keys to the house, mountain house. You needed to bring keys to the house in Reno. That's sealed the deal. You needed to bring a third set of keys and say, pick your poison. You would have had her.

Okay, I have a good question. Guy, there is a. a golden paradise i didn't get the opportunity for that i'm i'm just come on world i know i know you're joking it's like when i went back and saw chuck do and i'm going i go i didn't have a chance after that i said it was over right so would you be interested if you were asked to go to a golden paradise um you know and i have to admit i don't know exactly tell me what the premise real premises behind a golden paradise drinking loose women oh finding someone dance wild times i'm kidding because rumor has it they're going to have us seniors us goldens and if so who if anyone would you

like to see on that beach besides susan me besides me yes and can't okay you know um uh i will say that um i I didn't get a chance to meet her at the after party. But she came across so well on the show was Nancy. We love our Nancy. She seems sweet. She seems very sincere, very kind. She is all of that and then some guy. She's a lovely human being.

In fact, I'm going to set you two up on a date. That's going to go viral guys. The three of us are like the three stooges. yeah so but you know wait would you go out with Nancy if I set it up will you go out with her oh would I absolutely let me get her on the phone

I would love to have dinner with her but you know what I will also say there are several other women that were on the show that I would love to have dinner with also to have a nice conversation speak who come on I've already

asked you out twice guys you still haven't said yes. Well, let's see. I don't know if you know it, but Susan, could you talk to Kathy for me? Oh, Kathy, could you talk to Susan for me? We can do it three way. You know what? You learned a lot from your wife and politics.

Let me just tell you, that was really smart there, guy. That's really something. Boy, you're good. You're good. I'm Jamil Hill, host of the Sports and Politics Podcasts, Politics. And on the latest episode of politics, 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, and that's been part of the challenge. But we continue to say to them, you were elected to defend your constituents, to stand up for your constituents, and there's life after Congress. And you should be willing to actually want to be able to look back on your. your time in the House of Representatives knowing that you can keep your head held high because you did the right thing. Donald Trump is gone in three and a half years. But their legacy or their failure to stand up to the extremism and the unprecedented assault on America as we know it will be with them forever. Make sure to listen to Spolitics on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or

wherever you get your podcast. Hi, my name is Anya Emanzor. 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 Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your free IHeartRadio app. Search Emergency Intercom and listen now. My name is Ed. Everyone say hello, Ed. From a very rural background myself, my dad is a farmer and my mom is a cousin, so like, it's not like... What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club?

I know it sounds like the start of a bad joke, but that really was my reality nine years ago. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. On stage stood a comedian with a story that no one expected to hear. The 22nd of July 2015, a 23-year-old man had killed. And then he came to my house. So what do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? A new podcast called Wisecrack, where stand-up comedy and murder takes center stage. Available now.

Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right. So what we do is we share some advice with people that write in. Would you like to join us on this one? Absolutely. We're going to read to you what somebody wrote. Kathy, I'll have you read it, if you will. Okay. So this question is from Anonymous. Sometimes people don't like to give their names and we're good on that. Okay. Hi, Kathy and Susan. And today, Guy, I need your help. I just found out that I, this is right up my alley. I just found out that I got rejected from my dream college, and I'm absolutely crushed. All of my friends are going to their top schools, and it feels like I'm being left behind. I've decided to go to my local state school for freshman year, and I'm just so upset about it.

I was really excited to move somewhere new and have the experience all my friends will be having. What do you suggest I do to feel like I'm not so far behind? Do you think I could transfer next year? just need some direction right now, I guess. Thank you. First, let me say, I was an educational consultant for 35 years, not an ER doc. So, you know, I can- You need to answer that question. I'll take the first crack at this one. First of all, anonymous. You don't feel it right now, but I promise you, it's just like dating. There's more than one guy for you in the world. There's more than one school for you in the world. So things work out for a reason. Go to that state school,

Meet your friends, join clubs. You will make a place for yourself. If you decide, here's the thing about changing schools after your freshman year. If you don't go and invest in your freshman year and your eye is already on transferring, you're not giving that school a fair shake. So I would encourage you, go, join the clubs, do all the fun things, do enjoy dorm life and all the sorority parties. And take every class that you want to take. And then after a year, you can transfer your job.

junior year if you want. But I would really encourage you to make the most of the situation that you have. You're going to make great friends. You're going to have great opportunities. Sometimes things work out this way for a reason. That would be mine. So go and enjoy yourself. What about you, guy? I would say, you know, similar sentiments. I would say that if it's your local school where you live, if you have the ability move into the dorm at the university, or moving to an apartment, you know, with some friends. Like you said, join the clubs, join, you know, think about sororities. You know, you know a group of people from, let's say, your high school, but you don't

know them from the other four high schools that are in town. And once you go there, you may, you have the ability to make a whole new set of friends. You don't have to go 500 miles or 1,000 miles away to meet a whole new group of people. No, only guy has to do that to have a date with Nancy. But that's a whole different conversation, Anonymous. I'm not going to college. I've already done it. I was there for 10 years.

Really? Your answer, though, was great. I made the assumption. You're absolutely right, Guy. Anonymous, please do live into the dorm, move into the dorm or get an apartment because that is such an important aspect of college life. As do the best you can do that first year. And then it'll be your choice.

where you want to go. You'll get it down and get the feel of everything and you'll feel better about yourself and decide where you want to go. Yeah. There's nothing wrong with it. And I, in my experience, this was, I think, for people,

at least when my kids with high school also, but I think it applies to college, where you really, at least for me, where I really felt connected was when I got to my sophomore year. You're just starting, you're still trying to feel yourself out what do you want to do most of the time you change majors two or three times your freshman

year yeah geez guy you could have my job good for you you're absolutely right so so give that give those things and give it a chance and and be all in you know if it doesn't feel right you know after you know call me anonymous I'll help you at the applicable I'll help you at the transfer application call that's totally normal to feel like she's feeling you know what me or he, I don't know. Yeah, yeah. But you can have a great time at your local school. No question. Absolutely. I will say to you, from a financial point of view, I recommend to students often go to your local or at least an in-state school for your undergrad because so many kids today need to go for a master's or a PhD or medical or law, whatever it is. And you can go to your local school. It's a lot cheaper. Get those prerecs out of the way. There's a lot of good things about doing that. And also, let me just give you another little bit of advice that I used to charge a lot of money for.

Make a name for yourself. Make a name for yourself at that school because those professors will be the ones that are writing your wrecks for grad school, helping you get internships. Make a name for yourself there. There's nothing wrong with being a big fish in a small local pond. This is so true. So true. And we're going to get to know God now. What do you think?

Okay. Oh, I can't forget to know, Guy. We're going to do something a little different, right? Okay. Bring it on. So if you were stranded on a desert island and could only bring three guys from the mansion, who would they be? Yeah. Two would be very easy. Okay. So I had, the five, there was five guys in my, in my room. That was Chuck, Charles L. Gary, and Michael, all really great guys. No question that Gary and Charles were the closest to people that I connected with.

We got along famously, and I love those guys to the death. And I've talked to Gary several times. Charles not as much because he's so busy. Charles L now. He's an icon, you know, but maybe he'll talk. But he did reach out and, and we've talked a little bit. And I would say the third person, Susan Kathy. They weren't in the mansion.

The men, the men. Just trying to help him not struggle so much. You know, I will sell, I will honestly say chalk. Cool. Cool. He was, we, because we were in, we were, because we went to the end, but we were the three, the two left in, in our, in our room together at the mansion. Are you talking to Chalk? Did you have? Did you have the Master's suite or did you, were you in one of the smaller? We were in the middle ones. We're in the middle one that had five. So two bunk beds and a single bed. I got the single bed because I was the oldest. Wait a second. I have a question. Are you talking to Chalk? Have you talked to Chalk or Joan? I forgot to ask you that. Yeah, I've talked to Chuck several times, never as long as I want, not as relaxed, because he's got so much, he and Joan are moving at warp speed. Yes. It takes a lot of time to find a place in New York.

Yeah. I've not had the opportunity to speak with Joan since the finale and then briefly at the after party. Yeah. And, but I have talked to Chalk a few times, but I really want to have that, you know, he's going through so much, but I really want to have that conversation with him because we really became, from my perspective, we became, we became friends. We confided in each other alive and got to experience, you know, we got to share our backstories with, with each other.

And that's how it was with Gary and I, you know, and the backstories are the important part. That's right. All right. My next question for you is, what would you say is your hidden talent? Okay, outside of medicine. That's not hidden. We all know you're an ER doctor. I would say I have, and it's not as good as was,

but a pretty good memory and unique ability to remember TV theme songs from the 60s and 70s. Oh, wow. Give me, oh, Susan, let's think of a show. In the 60s. Laverne and Shirley.

Shemiel, Shemazel, Hobson and McCorpe. We're going to do it on your Mars cassette and go now. We got a dream that you love it. How about Fonzie. We're going to make it after all,

doing it our way. Anyway, give me a What's a fun fact about yourself? Say that again? A fun fact about yourself. I think you just shared one with this really, but I did. The fun fact is that I will say, and this is really cool about where like social media, Facebook can come, can really be so incredible. reconnected because of the show with my first grade teacher from Thornton Elementary in Arlington, Texas.

I got this request from Roxanne Mayhew and I accepted and I sent a message. I said, could you possibly be Roxy Mayhew, my first grade teacher in 1964, 65? Was she asking you out? She's a kunker. She actually she had seen the show. She said. all my name, she remembered me because I was in her very first class. She was no more than 23 years old, and we've reconnected. That's so sweet. So what I will say, the fun fact is that I, it's hard to believe now. I was pathologically shy when I was young, probably all the way up into kind of the junior

high high school is where I started to make a transition. But, I mean, I was pathologically shy. Wow. You know, I was going to ask you, was that a fear? Because that was one of my questions when you were young. What was your silliest fear? It sounds like you, you know, being called out might have been a fear of yours if you were that shy. You know, it's funny you're saying this.

Jones said how shy she was on our show. When she read that poem, my girlfriend and I love her dearly doesn't seem shy to me. Yeah. Well, the fun fact is that I was pathologically shy then. I am far from pathologically shy now. I mean, you can pretty much get me to do almost anything within reason. I know we have to wrap up, but there's just one more thing. Is there anything you've always wanted to do but haven't done yet? You know, what's interesting, the show, which I did not anticipate any of this.

clearly did not intensify the attention, the number of things. So I'm having, I have some potential opportunities that are out there right now that I think would just be a black. Well, one of them, you know, I think I talked to Kathy about this is, you know, and I don't know how it's going to turn out, but playing in the AT&T, Pebble Beach, Celebrity Pro-Anne, golf tournament. We're going to be there with you. We got our clothes. That is like off the chart. I mean, I have a lesson scheduled at news today because all I want to do is not have to yell out four before I even hit the ball. Mine will be in the water the whole time.

That's okay. You know what? It's all about having fun, guy. It's not about the score. Trust me. It's about having fun. And that's what I. And little things like there's another really cool thing that might come up that I have the opportunity that it's, it's.

it's not my daily wick i mean these things change your life being on this show i mean i you know i mean i've been in er doc i i've i've not done acting i've not done podcast i've not done i've done podcasts but i do them with i do podcasts i did podcasts every day with patience okay yeah yeah you know and but um not not to this extent and now that we're in the spirit of a brand new year one you know you're going to go play pebble beach right yeah What are some of the things you want to accomplish this year? Have you given that any thought? Yeah.

The answer is yes. First of all, I want to, and this has been hard because I didn't know how much I wanted to do and what I didn't want to do. When I first got back from the show, I was ready to just say, I want to put this all behind me. And I don't want to think about this. I want to just move on with my life. I now having had this experience, I'm having fun. And I'm, I'm thinking of 20, 2025 as being one of the most fun years that I've ever had. Getting to do fun things.

No, no. He's saying to next year, 2025. I want it to be. I will say to you guys, Susan and I said this at the end of 2023. And 2024 has been a fabulous fun year for us. And we're not stopping. 20, 25 is going to be a great year for all of us. A lot more to come.

But in the meantime, in the meantime, I hate to break up this party. I know we can talk to him forever. We could. This is going to do it, though, Guy. For this episode of Bachelor Happy Hour's Golden Hour, we really want to thank you, Guy, for coming on and being such a good sport and giving advice. I didn't even know you, I knew you knew about medicine. Who knew you knew about college counseling?

You're just a renaissance man. I'm going to check right behind you on that golf swing, too. We love getting to chat with you, especially so everybody else could hear your story. And we'd love to have you back because there's never enough time. There isn't, and ask me back any time. I love this kind of stuff. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, everybody out there for joining us. And I love your show and I love talking to you guys. It's so easy. Thank you. And we'll let you know how it's date goes with Nancy. But in the meantime, please make sure to submit your questions. If it doesn't work out, I told you before. right here guy i'm right thank you everybody for joining us and be sure to follow bachelor happy hour

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