Bachelor Happy HourJoe and Serena sit down and answer questions from Bachelor Nation fans. From their wedding bands to potential baby names, Joe and Serena discuss everything the fans are dying to know.
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Hey, everyone, welcome back to back your happy hour. I'm Joe, and today we are going to answer all your questions. We have fan questions to answer, band question.
Episode band question submitted all by you guys, and we're ready to get into it.
And you said you want me to read these off? Correct?
Yeah, you read them off please?
Okay, all right? First one, Joe, Joe, are you going to run any more marathons? Would you ever do an iron Man? I don't even like talking about marathons anymore because when I was just home, when I was home for Thanksgiving, Clay and had he made a joke. You know how somebody you know how you know someone runs a marathon, they tell you. So now I'm self conscious and I don't even want to talk about it. But I plan on potentially running one more.
He's going to talk about it. But I do.
I like to do New York again. I would like to do Chicago. I don't think I could do an iron Man yet because my beings very weak. Sorena, you're a swimming instructor, so if you instruct me, maybe.
Yeah, maybe maybe. Joe has little to no swim training, and we did do some open water swimming Yeah, at a lake house a few summers ago, and you were better than I thought you would be. But your issue is you don't really like putting your head under the water.
Yeah, and I would need I would need the other I would I do the breaststrokes, I would need the other form to go front.
Cross the front that calls a lot harder, and you definitely need to put your head under the water. Yeah, why do you want to do New York in Chicago? You're like very specific about those two. I mean, I feel like I could guess, but always say when people ask, You're like, I would do New York and I would do Chicago.
Well, because the New York Marathon is, from my understanding, very difficult to get in, so I'm lucky enough to get in, and once you're in, you're in, So I kind of don't want to lose that spot. And then Chicago, I'm from Chicago and it's one of the bigger ones, So I would like to do that.
It would be cool to do in Chicago because I feel like a lot of your friends family, yeah, will come out to support and it would be like a really big exciting thing.
Yeah. And they have Yeah, they have like my friends there and like.
To run through like the city you grew up in.
Yeah, I think, I think it would be fun.
So I want you to do Ottawa in Canada because a lot of my friends are running in Ottawa in the spring. But you know what sucks about a spring marathon is you got to train through the winter. Yeah I would. I mean I'm not going to run a marathon period, but if I was, I would not be running it.
But I feel like that prep that that preps you even more like you're really, You're really. So you get through the winter training, You're good. It's like Rocky, you know, the running the steps training in the winter. Okay, question, next question, what is your most used emoji?
Oh? I can pull let's pull it up. I'm gonna pull up my phone right now.
Can you can you actually search that? We be a text message.
I don't think you can search it. But I think if you go to type and you go to like the emojis, the first ones are like your most used.
Oh yeah, you're probably right, hold on, like.
There might be your most recent used, but the one you would use the most be in there. I use the white heart a lot. I use the skull face a lot. Those are probably my two most used emojis. Oh, and I like the salute emoji, the half face with this the guy.
Mine are all.
Men?
Are all egg plants?
No, I'm I was like, you've never sent me an eggclay out. So we're jumping off this podcast to disguise.
My My first one is the laughing face and then cross your fingers, and then which makes sense? I use all those Yeah, that makes sense, And the next one's turkey. So I you clearly don't use emojis that much.
No, you don't. You're not an emoji guy. Really.
Okay? What are your favorite holiday traditions?
Hmmm? Should we assume Christmas?
Could mean? It could be any holiday, but since I would say, let's let's go Christmas. Okay, So because we're both big on Christmas.
The one thing that my family two things my family literally does every single year. One is all of the cousins on my dad's side get together and my grandmother makes gingerbread houses, like from scratch or she bakes the gingerbread pieces and we each get the pieces and we build our gingerbread houses, and she gets like all the candy and everything she's literally been doing like I can't remember times. Joe's never done it. He's missed, he's missed it. This is the third year he's missing it. But it's okay, obviously, but it's so fun and like we've been doing this is.
Great.
You would love it. I know you would love it. You will make it one year. But yeah, now my oldest cousin has two little kids and they do it, and I just it's so fun and yeah, it's one of my favorite traditions. And then our other tradition is we always have cinnamon buns on Christmas morning, which I also love because I love cinnamon buns. I think it's like the only time I eat them. And they go great with coffee in the morning too, so it's like the perfect breakfast.
So I'm gonna say week of Christmas we go to Hillstone because I'm making that a tradition and I'm making that right now.
Okay, we did that last year, this person, we ever did it.
And then I like our new movie tradition.
Do you want to explain that for the people that don't.
Know, Yes, thank you for that. So what we decided to do was the day after Thanksgiving, we are watching a different Christmas slash holiday movie every night, and we filled it in a calendar, and like the movies that are more Christmas meeting go towards near like December twenty fifth, and then like we started out with Family Stone and movies that are like borderline.
Yeah, like we started with like Family Stone and the Holiday and then we're gonna end with like alf and like Santa Claus, like super Christmasy movies. I do like that. I'm excited for this tradition. I just feel like you're not going to stick to the calendar. But you've been doing pretty good so far.
You keep saying that I feel like you're not going to stick to the calendar.
Well, the new Hunger Games maybe just came out, so I'm feeling like really drawn to watch the Hunger Games again projecting. But we'll just find like a Sunday afternoon for that.
Okay, how do you too show each other? I can't read? How do how do you to show each other that you love the other?
Aw a love question? Do you want to go first?
How do I show you that I love you?
Do you want to say what I do for you? And I'll say what you do for me?
Yeah? Yeah, that works. You tell me that you love me.
I do.
That's that's pretty much how I know.
Wow, just a simple guy. You don't need a lot. I'm going to start pulling back. That's the only thing you need.
Well, No, I mean you. I mean you're just you're You're just always you. You know You're always Yeah, You're You're there.
This is honestly just such a disappointing answer. I can't even say here Ali to you, like, what the hell? I feel like I do a lot to show you I love you? And that's all you can muster up, you little by that answer. What the hell?
It's funny? No, Like, okay, so you.
Don't feel like I do anything for you?
I literally I just said you you do.
What does that mean? It's use your words.
Word You're you? You, you being you is doing it all for me. It's making me feel like I've loved all the time.
Great, Okay, I'll keep I'll just keep doing me, man, I'll just keep it up.
Okay. I would say the way that you look at me when you wake up in the morning and you smile and you giggle and you instantly put me in a good mood. Oh that's nice.
Thank you, and you could do it.
Thank you. I know I could use my words go that's.
Very sweet, and you you're very I would.
Say, it's not that easy. Have a fucking question, is it? You do a lot.
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been so hard on you. This is actually not that easy. No, you just you're very affectionate and caring and loving, and I'm caring. Well, I'm getting there. Let me narrow with Dane. Okay, I'm starting broad and then I'm gonna work my way into a more narrow answer. Okay, you go out of your way. I feel like you're very thoughtful, Like if you're out and like you're getting you know, a coffee or a sandwich, you'll always think of me like do you want something? Or you'll pick me up something, which I love you are. This is so hard. Maybe we need to talk about our feelings.
For each other sandwiches.
Honestly, this is not a specific thing, but you do make me feel special every single day, Like I can honestly say every day I feel very special. I feel prioritized. I feel like you like think of me. You go out of your way to think of me and consider me in situations and I know that's like not specific but like small actions like all day, every day. Okay, good enough answer.
Yeah for me, I didn't think we were going to be interrogating each other. I know, but we should. We should have read these questions before we started.
We should have, but these are our real, honest answers.
How do you feel about spoilers?
Okay, so this is what I prefer.
I prefer no spoilers.
When I used to watch the show, I didn't follow like anything on social media, and I didn't look for any spoilers, so I went fully spoilerless. And I like that, Like if some one was like, oh, I know how it ends, I'd be like, don't tell me, like for any show, not even for like reality, Like I don't want to know what happens, because that is part of the fun, is not knowing and like being along for the ride. But I feel like now because we've been on the show, like my for you page and my Explore page, spoilers always pop up. It's like so much harder to avoid now. Even if I don't follow anything, it's like the suggested content for me, So then I'm obviously gonna look because I'm curious.
Well, that's that's how I feel about But I don't like them, but if I see them, I have to look. It's like the same thing like when I was in school and the person next to me was filling out the answers to the test quicker like, I'm gonna look if I could see them.
So I don't know if that's the same, but okay, that's a decent comparison. But I do think now that we're in like speaking to bachelors specifically. I don't know about other reality shows, but now that we're in this world, it's harder because people do talk, you know, like, yes, there's some great secret keepers, and then there's some not so great secret keepers, and words spreads when people aren't great secret keepers, you know.
Yep, I agree, I agree. Okay, I'm coming to visit New York in December. What are a few things I have to do? You give one, I'll give one.
Okay, I have mine in December.
Yeah, so mine is uh, I think ours is going to be the same. Mind's cliche, but I feel like you have to do it, especially around that time. Is you have to do like Central Park, check out the plaza, all that that's and it's very like, yeah, it's giving holidays.
Yeah, Joe and I last year went and got like hot chocolates. We picked a day that wasn't like too cold. We walked around Central Park. There's a skating rink in Central Park that's really fine. We literally went for like thirty forty minutes just skated around. It was like a perfect little holiday to But there's also a lot of great Christmas bars in New York, even like search it up on TikTok.
Like, yeah, we have specially spars. We actually have to go this year.
Yeah, yeah, I think there's like five main ones.
So the main main one is Rolfs Rolfs, Yeah, which.
Is a German bar and you have to get there like when it opens apparently because it's so busy. We didn't go last year, but maybe we'll go this year.
Okay, can you please tell us more about your movie calendar. Are these movies you've never seen before or just movies you love?
Okay, So let's wak people through how we like did it?
Okay? So I believe this was my idea.
I think it was your idea.
Yeah, I believe I believe it was. And the idea was because I love to watch Christmas movies, and sometimes I have to beg Serena, I watch she won't watch a Christmas movie in the summer.
I'm not watching alone in the middle of the summer.
But so we decided each night we want to watch a Christmas movie up till Christmas. And we decided to start it after Thanksgiving. And it's movies that at least one of us saw.
No, there's a few that we neither of us have seen. Oh really, so what we did, Yes, we looked at just like some big lists online of like Christmas movies. We talked to some friends when we were in Chicago and just said, like, what are your favorites, and then we made the board. And honestly, I think this is a good idea because what ends up happening is like we're binging a show, or we're watching what's on TV, or you're watching football, and then all of a sudden, it's December twentieth and we missed the season of Christmas movies and we have to try to like binge them all in like a few days, which sucks.
This might have been our best couple movies.
This was very strati It was great, so we made two lists. We made really really Christmas y movies, which is like the Santa Claus Is The alf Home Alone, and then we made ones that we love but are like maybe a little less Christmas y, like I think we said before, like The Holiday Family. The Holiday is a Christmas movie, but like it's not. There's no like Sanna, there's no Elf. You know, it's not super Christmas y. So we listed those in like the first half, and then it gets more and more Christmas you go on. I would say most of the movies one of us has seen, and there's maybe like I don't know, like Bad Sana. We neither of us so you have Yeah, Okay, then maybe we have seen one of us has seen every single time.
I think so, I think we have. But regardless, if there was like a new movie coming out that neither of us saw, we would have throw it out.
Yes, And a lot of people were like, you need to add this one or you missed this one. Guys, there's only so many days in December. Like, we had a tough time narrowing it down, but I did make keep the list so that next year we could have a different chart.
Okay, Serena, you mentioned that Joe redid your honeymoon itinerary fifty times fifty plus times, which is not true. Maybe maybe like seven Where else were you planning on going? Anything you would change about the honeymoon you planned? I planned it, So would you change anything?
No, I would not change anything. I thought you did an amazing job. You're very good at researching and planning trips. The only thing, and I think you would agree with me on this, is I would have done three days in like Como, two days in Florence, three days in the Tuscany countryside versus two days like Como, three days Florence, three days Tuscany, only because Joe and I are typically like city people when we travel, but we're starting to learn that now that we live in a big city, like we live in New York, we are loving a more relaxing vacation style.
Yeah, you took the words out of my mouth. I would truly have changed it to a tropical location, one spot and stay there for seven to eight days and just chill.
That was the original plan. So the places that Joe was changing, we talked about, Oh my god, sorry, I can't talk. We talked about Hawaii. Then we went to Italy. Then Joe changed it to like Bali I think, and then you changed it back to Italy. But like we were going to fly into Rome originally and then we flew into Milan instead, So those were kind of options on the table.
Tell us about your wedding bands.
Oh well, Joe unfortunately can't tell you about his wedding bands because he forgot it at home in New York and.
We are in l I didn't do it out of purpose either. It's like it's all the goal. Okay, I can't bring this because I want to get hit on. I just I just literally forgot it.
I wasn't thinking that at all.
Mine's mind's gold, like Matt Gold. Yep, that's Ring Concierge.
I have two I have like a crisscross skinny it's like two bands that are crisscross and it's like just the skinny bands with diamonds. And then I have another one that's like oval pave. I think is the word diamonds. But I have to take that one into Ring Concierge to get it fixed because it broke.
How is Natasha doing? Miss We miss hearing her voice? Will she ever come be a guest on Happy Hours her. Uh yeah, you want to call her, You call her. Okay, let's see if she answers real quick. If she doesn't answer, then not good, Natasha. Not good.
You guys are always playing phone tackles to be surprised.
If she answered, I'd be surprised. Oh wait, no, it's like eleven thirty New York time. Yeah, it's Tuesday.
Maybe don't call her.
Yeah, okay, but Natasha's good. We see her all We see her all the time, but we all are constantly traveling, so it's hard to be in the same place at once. But we definitely have to get together with her before the holidays. Oh the search, she's called me back. I didn't realize it was eleven thirty New York time. But you are live on Happy Hour because I'm answering fan questions and they just said, how's Natasha? So how you doing? You're just real quick fan questions.
I'm great.
I'm fantastic, all right, So you heard it here first, she's doing fantastic, Natasha. I'll hit you up tomorrow.
Bye bye, miss you. Okay, Natasha is wonderful. Her wonderful. Nyla is great as well, and she's the best.
Yep, okay. Describe each other in three words, go, I gotta go.
Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're spontaneous, you are romantic, and you are funny.
Thank you, thank you? Pretty kind and lovely?
Ah, thank you lovely. I don't know if that counts.
But okay, it's such a lovely girl. What is your favorite way to spend date night?
Going to a new restaurant that we're excited about, or just like a restaurant that we love.
I'm more. I'm more into like a restaurant that we love that has like a more I like that cozier, chill vibe that we really like more like more like Helstone.
Helstone, Joe, Joe, you need to get working for heilstones.
I'm on my Heilstone and grind. I don't know why, all right. What is the screensaver of each of your phones?
Mine is a photo and that I think Joe took this, actually that we took just like of the scenery and lake Como. What's yours?
I have two so this so when my phone's locked, it's a scenery of Lake Como. When it's open, it's a picture of Serena at our wedding. Nice, thank you. Okay, what did you guys? Is there anything you would change about your wedding? Honestly, I I could fully say no. I loved our wedding. I love the wedding week. Sometimes I go back and forth about my bow tie. I feel like it could have been a little thinner, and I if if if there was going to be any change, it would potentially be in my But I did really like my talks. But there's times that I sometimes I don't know, I don't know, I could potentially change the talks. That would be the only thing.
I loved your TuS. I really thought it was perfect. The only thing I would change. And this is if I'm being like so nitpicky, because it really was so perfect. Was I kind of wish we did like groom side bride side for seating, so that like when I looked out, it was like I feel like everyone was mixed matched. I okay, yeah, no, I actually take that back. I liked that it was mix matched as well. But what I do wish is I had like unofficial bridesmaids, Like they didn't stand up there with us, but I had six girls that like got ready with me and went on my bachrap party, and I wish that I had a row designated for them because they were kind of all over the place and some of them were sitting facing my bath and they were like, oh, like we like we wish we sat here. We didn't know, So that was the only thing I would maybe change is do a designated row for my bridesmans that weren't standing up there, so that like they all had like a really good seat and they were all sitting together. But again, like that's me being so nitpicky, Like the day was literally amazing and so perfect.
Would you guys ever do a rewatch series of your Season of Paradise? So I actually have an answer to this, Okay. I always looked at that like one day when we have children, they're eventually gonna want to see that. So that is when I plan on doing rewatch.
Yeah. I don't know if I'm ready to rewatch our Season of Paradise yet and recap it, because it's been what two and a half years now. Maybe I'm at like the ten year mark, we'll do a rewatch recap. I think it could be fine. I'm not against it by any means, I just.
Too soon, too soon. Yep, tell us a weird fan you happen to know for no reason doesn't have to be bachelor related.
A weird fact that you don't know for I don't. I don't know. This is one of those things like I'm sure I have it, but like now that I'm on the spot, yeah's up. Yeah, your nose I think grows until you're forty years old.
Interesting.
Is that a weird fact?
I think that's a weird Factum.
Do you got anything? You're full of facts?
Yeah, I mean I don't know if they're weird though, Like I believe that you should get sunlight in your eyes within waking in the first thirty minutes.
I mean that's really good for your friends who are also our neighbors will be like, yeah, look outside sometimes and Joe's just in the streets staring at the side.
I don't think that's a weird fact. That it's just a scientific fact.
Yeah, there you go, all right. Next question, was.
There a specific moment in paradise where you knew that you were each other's forever?
Hmmm? Wow, that's like a loaded question because like, did I see you as someone that I was madly in love with? That I wanted to spend my life with that I saw as like my husband. Yes, But can I say that I knew like one hundred percent in Paradise that we were each other's forever. I don't know, because there was just so much unknown there. I think within the ten days of leaving Paradise and being with you, when I left your apartment in Chicago, that's when I like felt like, yeah, like is that a bad answer?
No, because I'm still not sure. No joking, No, I actually I agree. I feel like it was those ten days after Yeah, those like yes, And I don't think there was, because.
Like it was integrating into each other's lives kind of like testing living together a little bit, like where I was like wow, like I could like I was with you twenty four seven for ten days in the real world, I'd already done it in Paradise, and I was like crying when I had to leave you, Like I was like, I'm not going to get sick of this guy.
Yeah, Paradise is just different because just there's you're there's so many emotions and so much is happening and everything's heightened. Yeah, that you can't really pinpoint a certain moment but yeah, I agree, it was those ten days after for me too. Yeah, not asking when you two are having kids. But do you have baby names already picked out? Yeah? No, Uh, Matilda for a girl.
Joe's been saying Matilda since like a few months into our relationship. He jumped on this and he's been riding that Matilda wave for the last two years.
Yeah, and then I think for a boy, I think it's just Joe. Probably. No, we haven't really, we haven't thought, we haven't picked up. We don't have baby names.
Yet, right, No, we don't have any baby but I do like I do like like gender neutral names personally, Joe.
What is Serena's best physical attribute? Serena? Same question about Joe. I would say Serena's best physical attribute.
Is nothing. Where are you gonna go with that?
Well, I'm gonna go I'm gonna be nice and say your face.
Oh that's nice, not my juicy booty. Sure this podcast, I will go. I like your your arms, and I like your hands. You have big hands, and they're always very nicely groomed.
I do groom Okay, Well, the Bachelor franchise ever bring back Bachelor Pad full transparency. I never watched Bachelor Pad. I know it was like the first season of Bachelor and Paradise. I believe.
No, Bacher Pad I think was before Paradise. Yeah, Chris Potowski was Yeah, but.
I think it turned. I think I think Bachelor and Paradise Bachelor Pad turned into Bachelor in Paradise. Yes, yeah, I think it morphed into it, so I would say no, usually things don't go back.
For those who don't know what Bachelor Pad is, it was like the spinoff show with girl contestants and guy contestants, but I think it was more like competition style, like it was like relationship and competition for money potentially.
I oh, I've been saying this and I think they they've dropped the ball on this, and I hope somebody from ABC is listening and I should get executive producer credits. But we should definitely have a challenge type show with couples facing off first other couples, or you bring couples verse singles and you have a competition show within the Bachelor franchise.
Yeah. Either I don't understand why they don't do that competition or like like a Housewives style show where it's like a whole bunch of Bachelor alumni like go on vacation together, and it's just like following along on like the different friendships and relationships and dynamics, Like there's so many people from this franchise and so many relationships. Like let's do like a real housewives with Bachelor Nation yea, or like a summer house.
Are there any reality starts from different shows that you think would be great as the Bachelor or Bachelorette?
M m? Are there any reality stars from different shows that you think would be great as a Bachelor Bachelor. I'm trying to think of like single reality starts from other shows, and if I'm being totally honest, we're not like out here watching No.
I would say off the top of my head, I'm gonna say that Harry Jowsey because he was just on oh yeah, Dancing with the Stars, so he would be a good bachelor.
Problem that would be entertaining for sure. Okay, I'm trying to think. I mean, like Chloe Kardashian would be sick.
Sure. I don't even consider them like real, I mean their reality, but like.
They're like so much more than that.
Yeah, yeah, okay, how can you tell the difference between someone who lives in New York versus a tourist. Well, I kind of consider us still tourist. I mean we've only been there for.
A year and a half.
Yeah, well we're gonna hit two years pretty soon. I feel like, honestly, I kind of feel like you're a tourist until you are there for ten years. WHOA, I think you need to be in a city for ten years to consider yourself a local.
That's insane? Is that ten years?
Joe? That's what I think if I still consider myself I live in New York. I love it, but I love living there, But I still consider myself a Chicago And now if I'm in New York for ten plus years, like what, I consider myself a New Yorker.
I mean, I don't consider us New Yorkers, but I don't consider us tourists. Yeah, we do live there.
I guess it's fair. Yeah, But I don't.
Know if it's it's there's so many people in New York and everyone's kind of mining their business. I don't know if I could point out like a tourist versus a non tourist, But I guess you could say, like on like a Saturday, you'll see like a family walking around, Like the dad's got a backpack on, and.
Like when families walk around and pass their tourists.
Yeah, usually sure. Yeah. I mean like I look at them and be like, that's what my family looked like when we came to New York. You know, like they're bundled in layers, they're ready for the day.
Yeah. Do you too think it's important for a couple to live together before getting married? Personally, yes, I do. I think it's very important.
I agree. I think everyone has their own preferences when it comes to that. But for me, I would not have been comfortable marrying Joe without living with him first. I do think it worked out for us, thankfully, and it's great, but you learn so much about that person and there's always the chance that you live with them and you're like, I can't live with this person for the rest of my life.
Yeah. I agree. And I know there's people that have different religious beliefs, totally fine, but for me, I do need that.
Yeah. Yeah, And it worked out because we were both on the same page with that that we both wanted to live together before we got married. And you know, I think you just have to kind of be on the same page as your partner with that one.
Okay, last question, who from the Golden Bachelor would be the most fun to get a few drinks with?
I mean, I'm gonna go Susan.
Susan or Gary Susan or Gary.
Who are you gonna go with?
Uh? Probably April because I feel like she talks the most shit.
Yeah, April's definitely got some shit to talk.
So that's it. You guys. Honestly, thank you so much for sending in your questions. We make full episodes out of them, so thank you so much. It's been a lot of fun. And make sure you tune in and subscribe to batchel Her Happy Hour. We have new episodes, exclusive episodes every week. Hie
