00:00How has it been this jet-setting lifestyle for you guys? You've got your home bases in Kansas and Maryland, you're spending time in New York, you're traveling for fun, you're traveling for work. What has it been like?
00:11It's been crazy. It's totally unexpected. I think we both thought we came off the show and we just lived a life as a couple. We didn't realize that the opportunities would continue, which has been such a blessing.
00:22So we have lived a little bit of a jet-set life and we don't have to plan all of our meetings.
00:27When we don't have anything to do for a TV or a radio or a podcast or whatever, we do have to figure out when we're going to get together.
00:34But we have so many of those weaved into him coming to Maryland or me going to Kansas that we actually haven't spent a lot of time at either one of each other's homes, which is exactly what we thought we would be doing.
00:44We thought we'd be going back and forth to Maryland and Kansas. We haven't done that very much, which has been fine.
00:49Yeah, it's been actually way more fun.
00:51Right. So it's just fun, right? It's not that serious. You don't have to be planning something. You're just having fun.
01:00But just because you're older, it doesn't mean you can't have fun and date because you haven't known each other that long.
01:05And I meant that about it. So I feel like people dating at an older age, I don't think they realize how much fun it can be.
01:12Right.
01:12Because for the first time in your life, you have time. So you're probably winding down your careers if you haven't even retired.
01:20Yeah.
01:20And you actually have resources. You have money. Like when you're younger, you're spending money on your kids. You're building a life. You're buying a house. You're doing all these things that cost a lot of money.
01:28Like you're kind of through all that. You're not sending your kids to college anymore. They've already graduated.
01:32You finally have time and resources. And if you have your health, this is a darn fun, good time of life, let me tell you.
01:39So like all you people getting older and worried about your 60s, it could be the best time of your life.
01:43Yeah. I was going to say, do you have it? Because you obviously social media, the bachelor nation is very dedicated, but also can be crazy.
01:49And they say some wild things. And I would imagine at least someone who's been covering the show for so long, the younger couples, when they didn't get married right away, they would all just get infiltrated with like, they're not serious because you're not getting married.
02:01You're not this or that. I don't know if you've gotten that before.
02:03Have you gotten that? But like, what, what is your message to that? Like, we're just having fun. Leave us alone.
02:07All the time. I get it so much. And I, you know, I feel like I owe bachelor something because I want people to actually see that this was successful and that you can find love later in life.
02:16And you can actually find love on a show. Lots of us do. And there's lots of very successful bachelor couples out there just because they don't all succeed.
02:23Doesn't mean it's not possible and that people aren't there for the right reasons. Like I was just in Punta Cana with like charity and Don.
02:30I mean, they haven't gotten married yet. They hear about it all the time. We have the same thing.
02:35And like, I think it's important that they, that they rec, that people recognize that it's a very weird journey that you go on when you do bachelor and that you kind of take a leap of faith right at the end.
02:46Like, I think this is my person. I'm not positive. I have not lived without them, with them in the outside world.
02:51I haven't seen how they treat waiters and waitresses or service personnel. I haven't seen how they interact with my family.
02:57I haven't seen a lot of things or how they get along with my friends. So you're taking a leap of faith and then you go out and you start dating them.
03:03Right. And that dating takes a little bit of time. So like chalk and I are in that part of it.
03:06Like it's been great every second of it and it's maybe solidified our relationship more and more made that leap of faith seem like we absolutely did the right thing.
03:15So we will get married, but we are not ready to plan a wedding yet. We're still just like, I'm meeting his friends.
03:20He's meeting my friends. We're spending time getting to know each other even more. So there's no rush.
03:24I don't have a biological clock. I'm over that. I have four kids. I'm done. And so, so that helps, right?
03:30That takes out part of it. It does. It takes out the whole element of it.
03:33And like, we're not dying to like build a house together. We've got to have homes.
03:35Right. Like we have all those things that we're not worried about doing.
03:38And we're just having fun being together. So, you know, I want to say like, let us be together.
03:43Let's talk and talk and have fun.
03:44Let's just have fun and date and just have a good time and we will get married. I just don't know when yet.
