Alexe on The No Drama Llama

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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, welcome back to Batcher Happy Hour.

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Speaker 2: I'm Joe and I'm Serena, and we are.

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Speaker 1: Here with Grant's first Impression Rose recipient, Alex Alex, Welcome to Bacheler Happy Hour.

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Speaker 3: Hello Joe and Serena.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for having me and not only the first Impression res recipient, but the recipient of the first one on one day of the season.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, I know. I had Uh yeah, I had so many first.

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Speaker 1: First, were you aware when they threw that out there that that was new? Did they say it? Did Jesse say that that's like a new thing?

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Speaker 5: He did, He said that Grant was very.

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Speaker 3: Already.

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Speaker 5: I can't think of the first word. My French was kicking in. Oh my gosh, what's the word for it? In English?

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Speaker 2: Say it in French?

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Speaker 1: Is French your first language?

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Speaker 5: It is my first language. But you know what sucks is I do not have an accent. But it's because I.

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Speaker 3: You know, so it would be better if I had an accent.

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Speaker 5: It would kind of give content excluse. But then I do this and they're like, uh, yes.

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Speaker 3: It is my first language.

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Speaker 4: I was talking to someone. So we have friends of ours. There are a couple they're from New Brunswick.

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Speaker 3: And what's part Oh my gosh, it's so small. Maybe I know them well.

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Speaker 2: Serena's Canadian, I'm Canadian from Toronto.

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Speaker 3: I know it's amazing. I love it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what part I would have to check.

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Speaker 4: But I was talking to her a few months ago We're at an event and I was saying, is the fact that you went to school because you went to school and miss me a fully French school, are there words that you're like, I still don't know the English translation? Because she was like, yeah, like when you learn the word like subtraction, She's like, I don't use that in my day to day life. So she's like hit, like if you go to like university at an English speaking school, there's like a language barrier.

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Speaker 5: I know.

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Speaker 2: This is so not on top of the batchel.

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Speaker 4: I just find it so interesting because like Toronto doesn't have this right, Like French is our second language, but most people don't speak it.

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Speaker 5: Don't speak it, or I know a little bit, and it's like can I go to the bathroom please?

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Speaker 3: And that's kind of where it adds.

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Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, And I still do certain things like I'll say things like can you close the computer or close the light and it's turn off like little things that I mean, I'm not as bad as anymore, but I used to say for sure, Yeah, it's tough to but I started. I started dreaming in English, so that means that it means that I'm apparently it means that you're starting to really be immersed in that language.

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Speaker 3: So that's a good, that's a plus. The word I'm looking for, sorry to get back to bachelor, is meaningful. I guess he was very guys, help me out, not meaningful.

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Speaker 2: Intentional, intentional, I see you because messy.

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Speaker 5: So to go back to the question, Grant was very intentional. So he wanted to give the first impression Rose or to the person he wanted to go on the first date.

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Speaker 3: With, which, honestly, I think it makes sense and it should be like.

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Speaker 5: That, because it's like, if I give you the first impression, it means that you're kind of intriguing, you're kind of piquing my interest, right.

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Speaker 2: I think percent No, we we liked it.

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Speaker 4: We thought it was a fun twist, and I was saying, I feel like the person that gets the first impress rows usually ends up not getting that one on one time for a little bit of time.

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Speaker 2: So it's nice to be like, hey, I like you.

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Speaker 4: I feel like that person should then it should be the obvious choice to be like, I want to spend more time with you, because the first night getting the first impressed Rows, it's like getting a group date Rows.

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Speaker 2: You didn't get a one on one with.

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Speaker 5: Him exactly, And then it's like, what's what what weight does it hold.

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Speaker 3: To have the first impression Rose?

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Speaker 5: If you're not going on that first one on one, right, that's kind of where.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, but you're also biased. You know you got the first impression.

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Speaker 5: I know it's like easy to say now that I have it, I'm like I should have all the dates.

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Speaker 3: Actually I don't want to.

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Speaker 1: I want to stay on topic with the show, but I do want to ask one one question about Yes, the French language and you're from is it Quebec.

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Speaker 5: No, So we are a small minority and I'm going to put us on the map of French speakers in Brunswick, Canada. So actually, fun fact, New Brunswick is the only bilingual province in Canada. So the northern part is fully French and the southern part is English and at the border. We have what we call Frenglish and schiech, so it's a lot of I'll do it because this is funny. But the classic sentences was step Parqueton car, let to me, not a parking lot.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of you probably understood that.

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Speaker 5: Joe, right, yeah, yeah, it's like where'd you where'd you park your car? So we step Parkqueton car done, parking lot. So a lot of Frenglish. But I'm from the northern part, so I only learned English in the tenth grade, so pretty late.

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Speaker 3: And I used to say things like I didn't heard you.

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Speaker 5: I didn't saw you, and I was like, and I remember my English teacher in my French school before I switched.

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Speaker 3: To an English school. She was very concerned.

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Speaker 5: She thought, oh my gosh, this poor lady, she is going to repeat all her grades as she goes to English school because I.

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Speaker 3: Was very, very bad at it, but I picked it up.

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Speaker 2: How is it that you have no accent?

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Speaker 5: Okay, so this helps that I'm a speech therapist because I used to have one up until I became a speech therapist.

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Speaker 3: And for example, I used to say, oh.

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Speaker 5: I love that seventies show, and until I became yeah, speech therapist, and we like obviously study like accents and like speech production. Then I was like, oh, it's not show, it's show or show. I don't even know if I'm doing it right show.

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Speaker 3: So and I would just I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I would record myself a lot, listen to myself in high school and I was like, ooh that sounded French and yeah, just by practice.

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Speaker 4: So then how was it going on a US show where Frenish is your first language, English is your second language. But I mean, as a Canadian who went on the show, there's a lot of vocabulary differences. Like I remember being like could I go to the washroom and one of the producers being like what. I was like, the washroom?

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Speaker 2: Do I have time? They're like where what?

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Speaker 4: And I was like, I just I have time to go to the washroom.

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Speaker 1: Who.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, who doesn't know that's common sense?

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Speaker 4: Yes, But he's like, sorry, it took me a second, Like no one calls it that here, Like just little things like that.

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Speaker 3: Where you're like I love the story, what story?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that story.

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Speaker 1: I call it washroom And I'm.

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Speaker 4: An American okay, but yeah, but maybe I gave a bad example.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but I know what you mean. There's definitely yes.

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Speaker 5: There's definitely yes, absolutely American Canadian for sure. That was actually my biggest concern. I remember before going on the show, I asked a producer. I was like, like, if I say something wrong or I trip on my words or they gonna edit that out, and he was just like no, just like it might be funny and honestly, it might make your charm. And the girls were so nice. They it felt like they were little teachers because they would say things.

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Speaker 3: And be like, what does that mean? Like hail Mary?

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Speaker 5: Had never heard that in my life. So I was like they were talking and they were talking about like a hail Mary, and I have to obviously look like I know what they're talking about and.

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Speaker 3: Like hm hm, And I was like on the side after, I was like, so what does hail Mary mean?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So yeah, let's go back to the beginning. How how did you wind up on the show.

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Speaker 5: So this summer, I was driving with my friend and then I got someone reached out to me. And usually it's like those scams about like oh I'll be your sugar daddy, And I was like, oh wait, is this.

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Speaker 3: One of those.

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Speaker 2: Foot pegs.

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Speaker 3: Can you spend foot pigs for five dollars?

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Speaker 5: And then someone reached out and it couldn't have been at a perfect timing because you know, I had been single for a while and I come from a really small town where all my friends are married have babies, and I'm kind of like the crazy one because I live in LA And I felt like super ready. I was like, Okay, I've had my fun, I'm in a good spot in my life.

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Speaker 3: Where I have a good career.

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Speaker 5: The only I know it sounds cliche, but the only missing piece is like having a partner. So I really felt like it was like a sign from the universe.

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Speaker 3: I was like, this is perfect timing.

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Speaker 1: How long have you lived in La?

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Speaker 3: Now it's gonna it's turning on two and a half years.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, two and a half years that I did in my trip from Ottawa to here in my two thousand and seven Hondi accent with two doors and no.

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Speaker 2: Ac Oh my god.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah that was crazy in five days.

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Speaker 3: Like but the Bachelor, we're not talking.

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Speaker 2: About what what brought you at to La.

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Speaker 5: So I my personal idea of hell is snowshoeing. For the rest of my life. I just hate winter activities. I am not a winter gal. I can do the snow right, thank you. Are you from the East Coast.

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Speaker 1: Joe, or I'm from Chicago So it's really really cold? Yeah, really cold?

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Speaker 3: One, you get it.

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Speaker 5: And then I got my green card and I had to kind of choose where I wanted to live, so I was like, why not California. I feel like it has the best best of both worlds.

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Speaker 1: So nice.

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Speaker 4: I want to ask you how you got your green card? But is that something we should not talk about on record?

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Speaker 3: No, Oh my gosh, that's totally okay.

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Speaker 5: My dad moved to the US before I was born, so he was already here.

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Speaker 3: And then I got the there's a name for it, Serena. It's like the I call it the kid visa.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got talking about So.

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Speaker 3: I got it through. Do you have your visa yet?

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Speaker 4: I'm going to work visa right now, but we're in the green card process that I'm married, but I have no like familial ties to the US.

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Speaker 3: You don't or you do.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Well I do prior to him, which is why I was like, did you like secretly get married?

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Speaker 3: Maybe get married? Oh? No, no, no, this is not June. Yes, this is not no. No, no, my dad lives guys, I did it legally. No, my dad lives in the US.

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Speaker 2: So I got my green card through him, Gotchatka.

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Speaker 1: And then what was what was your dating life like prior to this show? Like, when was your last serious boyfriend?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna sound super again cliche like, oh, it was a non existent but to be honest, you know, when I first moved to LA I think it's like a rite of passage. You go on so many days You're like, this is so fun. And then I started realizing it was taking a lot of my time and energy and I wanted to give my time to the right people. And this year, this last year was just really focusing on my friends and we traveled a lot, so I didn't really have time to date. So the last serious boyfriend I had was like a year ago, and we ended on really good terms were I don't want to say we're good friends, but it was a very amicable breakup.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, the last year was just spend on like traveling, and yeah, that was that in my life.

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Speaker 1: Nice, Sorry, well you're perfect for the show. Then what did you what did you think of Grant.

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Speaker 5: I thought he was very That was my first thought, emotionally mature, which I'm at an age where I that's a quality I'm looking in my partner. And I mean, he's handsome, he's tall, so I'm like, Okay, our babies are going to be perfect for basketball. I'm kidding, I'm kidding, but yeah, my first thought of him was very emotionally immature.

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Speaker 2: Man, did you watch the show at all before you went on it?

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 2: Did you watch him on GEN season?

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Speaker 3: I did? And he's when they asked me, like, oh, who do you have a crush on? He was? He was named?

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Speaker 1: I was like, Grant, did you wat did you watch the show prior to being asked to go on it? Or did you get asked? And then like, let me let me dig into this and see what I'm signing up for.

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Speaker 5: I had watched it before, back in like when it was like one Pablo and Colton season, and then I stopped watching it, So of course I wanted to kind of get a little bit more of like who Grant was to see if it was a good fit. So I did watch Gen season and I thought it was you know what, this is probably the question you're gonna ask me after he's eat your type definitely handsome, like attractive, my type physically. The one thing that was concerned about, and it wasn't anything on him. It was more of a me thing is I'm not super romantic and something I've always struggled with. And he came off very romantic, very intentional. So I was like, Okay, let's go with an open mind, opposite to track. Let's see if he can take the romantic out of me or bring the romantic out of me.

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Speaker 3: And let's just say that he got me out of my comfort zone many times.

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Speaker 2: So but I feel like that's okay.

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Speaker 4: I feel like, rarely do I know relationships where the two people are.

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Speaker 2: Equally romantic, which I think it becomes.

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Speaker 4: Like when one person's really romantic, but when they both are, it can be like too much cheeseball.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I agree, it's I actually know now that you say that, I agree because I feel like it was nice to have different qualities and bringing that out of each other. And that's what I kept repeating too, like we were so opposite. But I feel like I was bringing stuff out of him and he was He's he was bringing stuff out of me. And you can see in the problem of too how you can tell that I'm not romantic and he's singing to me and I'm.

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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, but but I'm.

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Speaker 5: Like I in that moment, I was like, Alex, just p like, like someone's singing to you. How nice is that you've never had that done before? Just enjoy the moment. And That's kind of what was going through my mind. But I was also like, I'm not used to this.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think I think regardless if you're romantic or not, I think it's a difficult position to be being sung to the.

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Speaker 3: First one on one guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, being serenadd is it's intense and.

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Speaker 3: You don't know the person.

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Speaker 5: It's like it's different if I, you know, it would have been the end of the season.

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Speaker 3: I know him. But it was kind of like, hi, Grant, I'm Alex. Okay, let's sing to it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's intimate. It's intimate.

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Speaker 1: I sing the Serena all the time.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, but like, is.

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Speaker 3: It like lallah by to go to bed? Okay?

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Speaker 4: I thought you likely original.

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Speaker 5: I love it, love it Okay, So it's not like a lullaby for her to go to bed and she falls asleep.

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Speaker 2: Far from it, Far from it.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about your limo entry, how you made the decision to walk out of the limb or you weren't even in a lemo right because you had the Lama.

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Speaker 2: Linda no drama Lama Linda Mlada Linda.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 5: I had the stressful situation to walk the whole driveway and see him look at me the whole five minutes as I can't walk too fast because I have a lama with me.

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Speaker 3: But think, honestly, it was a plus.

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Speaker 5: That I had her because she was like calming my nerves. I was like talking to her. I was like, are you nervous because I'm nervous.

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Speaker 2: It was like your emotional support animal.

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Speaker 3: He was my emotional support animal.

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Speaker 5: And I mean, I don't know if I can tease this. But then I got something on my one on one which I kept as.

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Speaker 3: Also an emotional animal.

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Speaker 5: No see, I'm missing it up I that I also kept as my support guys, call me out.

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Speaker 3: Here, animal, You're good. I'm gonna say messy every time I screw up in it. So people are reminded of French people.

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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, Wrench, I'm French.

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Speaker 3: Yes, So yeah, she was like, my, I can't.

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Speaker 5: It's a giveno. You know Nemo when she got he goes and the Maine memo.

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Speaker 4: And emotional super animal is a tiue twister, okay in any language.

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Speaker 1: So you walk up to Grant, you have you have the lama. You gotta get rid of it. Yes, what's the connection like with Grant? Do you feel butterflies? How's that?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 5: So I just want to say that he is hotter in motion, like he's obviously hot in pictures, but then in motion. I was like, because I came in really confident, thinking like I got this, and the second I saw him the nerves. I'm pretty sure, I said. I couldn't remember what I said. I'm like, did I even say the right name? I was like, did I say my name was Bianca for Michigan?

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Speaker 3: Maybe no idea, I said, but it's a for me. It's a good sign.

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Speaker 5: When I'm nervous and I don't know what I'm saying, it means that I'm like, I don't want to say in timid, but it's a good sign. I had the butterflies blacked out, but thank god I had kind of Linda to revert back to. And he thought He was playful as well, which I loved because I need for me my partner. I want my to be goofy at the foundation of everything. To me, It's like I want to be your best friend. I want you to be my best friend. So yeah, from off the bat, I think we clicked over that.

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Speaker 4: How did the leveo, sorry, the Lama entrance come to be? Was that your idea? Was that like maybe a suggestion that you guys workshopped together with the show?

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Speaker 5: Yes, So initially I wanted to bring ketchup chips and because I was like, I love ketchup chips, It's something Canadian. And my producer was like, oh, that's a good idea, but let's take up let's take up something else. So I was like, okay, that's a nope. So we were brainstorming, like you know, I agree. I was raised on a farm, I'm Knadian and you know, as you know Serena, where Canadians tend to be a friend lee and not confrontational. So people were like, how about a no drama Lama And I was like, wait, this is bold. I wanted something bold because I'm my personality, but I also didn't want something too over the top, But now that I look back on it, I'm like, I brought a lama, so it is kind of over the top, but I wanted something in the meat, like in the middle.

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Speaker 3: So that's how it came around about.

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Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. It was very memorable. I feel like it was a good one, I know.

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, am I gonna be remembered as like the lama girl?

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Speaker 1: Maybe a little for like the first couple of weeks and then then okay, and.

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Speaker 2: Then they'll know my name's Bianca okay from Michigan. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So then you walk into the house, you meet all you meet, all the women, a you know, are you gravitating to anyone in particular? How's how's the vibes in the house?

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Speaker 3: In the house? Well, at first, it's funny because I had my lama. I knew I had my lama.

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Speaker 5: I kind of forgot she was there, and everybody like when I came in the house, everybody looked at me like this, and.

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Speaker 3: I was like, oh my gosh, you have like what's wrong with my dress? And then I looked at it.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, oh my gosh, I have a lama in the house, Like this is not common, so everybody obviously wanted to touch her, pet her, and I remember there's two girls that I kind of gravitated towards, which were Rose and Janet, and we kind of stuck together during first like night one, which was really nice. Yeah, so of course there was like little, you know, groups of people together, but I feel like the consensus is, you know, it's the first night, you're putting your best foot forward. Everyone's really sweet and nice. So I feel like we were all trying to mingle together and kind of trying to gauge who was our vibe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well there's twenty five women. You're not all going to get along equally. You're trying to find people that you like, feel comfortable around to get through like a very uncomfortable night, and you're like, all spread my wings, you know, if I get.

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Speaker 3: The exactly exactly.

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Speaker 1: Exactly yeactly going through your mind when grandsister came through the house, did you think it was just another like did you think it was an ax or where were you?

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Speaker 3: I was sitting on the couch and I was like, oh my goodness. I was like, okay, there.

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Speaker 5: The production's changing it up this year, like it's giving Love Island.

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Speaker 3: Am I on the Bachelor?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's giving hot new Bombshall enters.

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Speaker 3: Entering the beda exactly, mansion exactly.

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Speaker 5: And then of course we're all like so much as going through her heads. We're like, is this a new girl? And I'm like, she's beautiful first of all, like, don't do that to us. So we're all trying to peet to see. And then they looked too comfortable for it to be a new girl that he had never met.

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Speaker 3: So I was like, okay, is it like a cousin? Is it like an ex? And I think someone knew it was his sister.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna say, there's got to be someone that clocked, like I've seen her on his Instagram.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and that's what happened.

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Speaker 5: And I was like, okay, I want to say she was on the left of me. I can't remember. Oh I have the memory of a goldfish.

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Speaker 3: No, one of the girls, one of the world. Yes, they knew. They were like I think that's grandsister.

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Speaker 5: But girls were like up in arms. They were like should I interrupt them? Which would have been crazy.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, girls are going off like night one. Like the possession starts quick.

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Speaker 3: Very quick.

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Speaker 5: Very the possessiveness, the possessiveness there, you get me both both learning English.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: For do you go to Paris a lot?

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Speaker 3: Not even I've been twice.

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Speaker 5: But it's nice because then I get but you know, it's funny because we have like a little bit of a it's not the same as a French accent, it's we.

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Speaker 3: Have a little twang.

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Speaker 5: They'll go to English and I get so insulted because I'm like, no, we're French.

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Speaker 3: Or they'll say, oh, you have a funny accent.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, they like look down on like Canada French.

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Speaker 5: A little bit time, especially Quebec French. What do you think I can see that?

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Speaker 3: Well, I can say that.

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Speaker 1: I mean when you're in Paris, they look down on anyone that doesn't speak the language.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, that makes sense. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I've only I've been to Paris once and I love it, but I'm like, I really wish I spoke the language, or like you kind of understand it.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we have French immersion, but no I didn't. I took French from grade from I think we're required to take it from like fourth grade to ninth grade and I did it, but by ninth grade I was like barely skimming by, Like I was like, this is not I just don't have a knack for languages. Like I feel like if you're starting something at fourth grade unless you're good, Like at a friend that was great with languages and she just could do it, But most kids are like, I'm too old to.

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Speaker 2: Pick up a new language.

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Speaker 4: Twelve, No one in this province speaks French French.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 3: I know.

00:21:59
Speaker 5: It's like you you known't, You're not around it, and you're like, you're right. It's an affinity for sure. Like I pick up languages really quick, so it's easy for me. But some people, like again they've seen French their entire lives and they still just know how.

00:22:10
Speaker 2: To say, yeah, that's me.

00:22:13
Speaker 4: I feel like if you're from Quebec, or even if you're in Ottawa, there's a little bit more of like a motivation, but like being from Toronto, especially from the where I'm from in Toronto, like we have a huge Chinese population, so like a lot of things are in English and Mandarin or like you're going to learn and there's even less motivation to learn French.

00:22:33
Speaker 1: Well every time, every time I fly to Toronto and they and they start French. I'm like, nobody here. I've yet to be anywhere in Toronto, anyone speaking.

00:22:42
Speaker 3: It's like different than like Montreal. I was gonna say, go to have you been to Montreal before?

00:22:46
Speaker 2: I've been, Yeah, but he hasn't been yet.

00:22:48
Speaker 5: You guys have to. Oh my gosh, it's the most for me. It's the best city.

00:22:52
Speaker 1: And do you say no no? I said, yeah, no, I really.

00:22:57
Speaker 3: He's from Auto. Oh he's from Montreal. You're right Auto.

00:23:00
Speaker 5: I thought I did my master's in Ottawa, and then I was asking him.

00:23:03
Speaker 3: He was like, oh my gosh, I still I'm pretty sure.

00:23:07
Speaker 5: That one of those University of Well I did in Brunswick for my undergrad and then I did the University of Ottawa.

00:23:13
Speaker 1: For my grad school Montreal.

00:23:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Nippina, Okay, all right, you got me. He's like, he's like, you got me.

00:23:23
Speaker 1: Back back on topic. Okay, So you get someone on one time with Grant? Yes, before you get the first impression Rose, how how's that conversation like? From our point of view as a viewer, I thought it was the first time of the night that I saw Grant seem really comfortable with someone. For me, when I'm watching the show, especially night one, when I see the lead comfortable with somebody, usually that's a sign that they really like them. So yeah, I just want to hear your take on how that went.

00:23:53
Speaker 5: Absolutely so the first thing he told me, he like grabbed my hand and he said, you're.

00:23:58
Speaker 3: Like a little ball of energy.

00:23:59
Speaker 5: And at that point, we're so tired because you guys know, the night is very long, and I felt dull, and I was like, really, I'm like, you think this is energy because I was like, I feel pretty well energy, so like just wait. And honestly, I went in there just being again I keep saying the word cliche, but it's true.

00:24:16
Speaker 3: I just went in being myself.

00:24:18
Speaker 5: And one thing that my the last text that I got from my friend before like they took our phones away, was like just be yourself and like they will love you. And I went in there being like worky self. I kept saying things at the wrong time. I was like saying things. I was like, I just don't have said that, and that's my normal self. And I think obviously it worked because he saw he.

00:24:39
Speaker 3: Either thought it was charming or he thought I was psychotic.

00:24:42
Speaker 5: I don't know, but it worked, and I did feel I really appreciated that even if I was kind of all over the place, he kind of calmed me, which I for me, that's a really good sign because I need again, I need somebody that's gonna ground me for sure, and and that's something I felt with Grant right away.

00:25:03
Speaker 3: And then he also, you know.

00:25:04
Speaker 5: Told me, he's like, whatever was going on in your little hamster wheel in your mind, I have it too, I just don't externalize it. And I was like, oh, great we have That was actually really sweet. Yeah, so that was a very sweet body moment.

00:25:18
Speaker 4: So you left that interaction feeling good. You guys kissed where are you at?

00:25:25
Speaker 5: So at that point I knew it went really well, but you just you can't gauge how his conversations went with the other girls, and one of the girls that I was really really close to, they had so much in common, and at that point, I was just so happy for her and we were like all thinking, like, she's going to get the first impression bros. That so I really thought it was going to be Janey, my girl Jenney, and I was so happy I was.

00:25:46
Speaker 1: She goes home and Serena actually said when we recapped the episode that you were shocked.

00:25:50
Speaker 4: She was the only one that I was like, Oh, I wasn't expecting her to go. Not that the other girls weren't great, she was just one of the Like from watching the first episode, I was like, ah, like there's a little something.

00:26:00
Speaker 2: She seems cool, and.

00:26:01
Speaker 5: Especially that we vibed really really well, I was like, Oh, he's definitely like if he likes me, he's gonna like her, especially that they.

00:26:08
Speaker 3: Had so much in common.

00:26:09
Speaker 5: So I was like, yes, like you're gonna you're at that point you're like rooting for your girls because you don't you don't have that attachment yet, right.

00:26:15
Speaker 3: So I was like, yeah, it's like today. So yeah, it was very shocking.

00:26:19
Speaker 5: And if you guys end up asking me like one word to describe the season later on, I'll say surprising, because there's a lot of surprises like that.

00:26:29
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we will not ask you now.

00:26:31
Speaker 3: Because I'm ahead of my.

00:26:36
Speaker 1: Which is great.

00:26:38
Speaker 3: At this point, I don't even need you guys.

00:26:39
Speaker 2: We're really taking a load off of us.

00:26:42
Speaker 4: You're like, if you asked me this this, I was like, actually that was what we were gonna ask you.

00:26:49
Speaker 3: One man show one Man show no.

00:26:50
Speaker 2: But that's good to know.

00:26:51
Speaker 4: I like hearing that it's going to be surprising, because yeah, you don't want it to be predictable. You want it to be exciting and surprising. So surprising.

00:27:02
Speaker 1: So then getting the first getting the first impression rows and it coming along with also receiving the first one on one. How are you feeling. I mean, that's kind of like you're in the best position at this point.

00:27:15
Speaker 3: Absolutely.

00:27:16
Speaker 5: The first I think feeling I felt was validation in the sense that it really validated that, hey, I can literally just be myself and like be funny and like I could just be quirky and funny and who I am, and it's going to work because he's obviously seeing that. Felt very validated and very grateful. But at the same time, it's a tough situation to navigate because you want to be happy, but also you don't want to have a target on your back and you don't want to boast it in front of all the girls, right because you're still trying to make meaningful relationships with the girls and friends. Yeah, and you don't want to come off that's me anyways, I don't want to come off too strong, like I got this, So it was tough to like kind of high my excitement but also be excited at the same time and validation and feeling good.

00:28:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is hard because it's like mid season.

00:28:06
Speaker 4: You kind of know who it's like, Oh, whoever like just got the group date Rose and I can bond or like whoever got the one on one last week and I. But it's like at this point, everyone is on the same playing field and you're the only person who's taken a step up, so you're kind of on your own when it comes to like like they're happy for you, but you also are.

00:28:27
Speaker 1: There's no one in that house that was truly happy for you, and that jo.

00:28:30
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be, you know what, I'm gonna be the devil's advocate. I feel again, maybe I'm super wrong because I'm like naive with that, but I feel like because I really again I'm Canadian. I was nice with everybody. I feel like the girls were genuinely happy for me. Like I didn't come off as yes, I had a lama, but I wasn't like bringing the lama to be like, hey, I'm trying to stand out in that.

00:28:50
Speaker 3: Way with the girls. It was more like ha ha, like Lama would be funny.

00:28:54
Speaker 5: And I feel like I really made sure to talk to everybody and be nice to them that I.

00:28:59
Speaker 3: Felt like they were happy for me to an extent.

00:29:02
Speaker 5: But now if I say it out loud, I'm like, Joe's right, I'm like, no, there's no way.

00:29:05
Speaker 2: It's probably mixed feelings.

00:29:07
Speaker 4: You know, everyone wishes that they were the one to get it, but also it's so early on. Their investment in Grant isn't as strong yet. You're a sweetheart and you're not like a jerk.

00:29:16
Speaker 1: Like if you were like like the bitch of the house, then I could see everyone being like, oh no, I'm even more mad, but you're not.

00:29:22
Speaker 2: So was there any portrayed me like you never know? You are great?

00:29:28
Speaker 3: You o great? Good God?

00:29:30
Speaker 4: Was there anyone night one or any you don't have say names, you don't want to where it was like people might have been less happy if she got the first impression ro she was maybe stirring up a little stuff early on.

00:29:41
Speaker 5: I think, you know, we all have different personalities and we're gonna vibe with different people, I think, And we all have different backgrounds and we have all different ways.

00:29:54
Speaker 3: To approach social situations.

00:29:56
Speaker 5: I do think that, you know, for me, I just wasn't ray. I don't know, maybe it's the Canadian in me, but if someone says, hey, I love your dress, I won't say thank you.

00:30:09
Speaker 3: That's just not me. And I think maybe some people came off like.

00:30:13
Speaker 5: That to a couple of girls, And I think, to answer your question, maybe if that those people would have had the first impression rows it would have set the tone as to what is Grant's type and what is he looking for? Because for me, I'm super different from that. But again, we all show different sides of us to different people, right, so, and we can have different connections with different people. Doesn't mean that we all have to be the same. But yeah, I think from my perspective, there's definitely maybe a couple of girls.

00:30:40
Speaker 2: That, yeah, there was like shots.

00:30:44
Speaker 3: Xoxo, Gas Girl.

00:30:48
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm watching Gossip Girl.

00:30:50
Speaker 2: Okay, the first time.

00:30:55
Speaker 3: I have never seen. Is it good?

00:30:57
Speaker 2: Would you recommend so it holds up?

00:31:00
Speaker 1: It's actually pretty good.

00:31:01
Speaker 4: I recommend it's every other start is just amazing. But no, I like your answer, and I think it is honest and truthful in the sense of like there's gonna be girls that are a less controversial pick than other girls when it comes to give it the first impression Rowse and what that stirs within the house.

00:31:27
Speaker 5: Right and especially I think as the first impression, I think a lot of it is.

00:31:32
Speaker 3: No, I'm going to retrack that Quese, No, because.

00:31:34
Speaker 5: I was gonna say I think like the first impression Rose usually. Again, I don't want to know because it can depend on the conversation, never mind scratched out.

00:31:42
Speaker 4: Were you going to say that, like people that make a good first impression with the girls are like being a first impression with him?

00:31:50
Speaker 5: Yes, I think again, I haven't seen every season, and it's.

00:31:54
Speaker 2: Okay, we can like generalize. There's always an exception, you know.

00:31:56
Speaker 5: Exception of course exactly, but I think, yeah, if you exude I think like positivity. I think the person like the Bachelor's going to see that and it's going to also bleed into like the friendships with the girls.

00:32:08
Speaker 2: So yeah, one hundred percent.

00:32:10
Speaker 1: But besides yourself and Janey, was there anyone else from your point of view, that had a strong connection with Grant in the house night one, or that maybe the other girls were also you know, considering her to maybe be the first impression roles recipient.

00:32:31
Speaker 5: Honestly, I don't think we really talk because everyone had really good conversations, so we didn't really have anything to gauge it based on. We didn't really have anything to really gauge it on, so because we would talk and we'd say, oh, I had a great conversation, and everyone said that, So we were just kind of like, it's up to anybody's it's anyone's game at this point. So no, I don't think I really except for Janee. I think because they had so many things in common, like the bas basketball, the dirt, like the number down to like I was like, this is like a match made of heaven in heaven, and this is the first time that I was like, oh wait, like I need to be more romantic because if I don't have more things in common with them, Like, how are we gonna.

00:33:11
Speaker 3: Make this work if they have so many things in common?

00:33:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's so interesting. So night one ends. How are we feeling going into the week? You know, you've survived the first night of the show. Where's your hat at?

00:33:25
Speaker 3: Yes? I was just so excited to move into the mansion.

00:33:30
Speaker 5: I mean, as you know you're in the hotel room by yourself, like scratching the walls because you're not talking to anybody, and you're like, I just can't especially I'm an extrovert, so I just couldn't wait to talk to people. I wasn't actually scratching the walls. That was just a joke, but I'm just making sure there.

00:33:48
Speaker 2: Oh my god, we're like, I gotta get this girl out of the room.

00:33:51
Speaker 6: Okay, Oh my gosh, I'm snorting now, Okay, so okay, professional, Yes, I was just so excited to be in the mansion and just see what the dynamic would be with the girls.

00:34:04
Speaker 5: It was definitely really sad to see, like girls that I got really close with nine one leave and that's gonna be a very recurrent theme with me in the season. You'll see how sensitive and emotional, well I am. I'm not emotional with my own feelings, but it gets to my friends and how they're feeling. Yeah, so you'll see a lot of tears every roast ceremony.

00:34:24
Speaker 2: I'm like, what's your sign.

00:34:28
Speaker 3: I'm a Pisces. Does that make sense?

00:34:30
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:34:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, what are you?

00:34:32
Speaker 2: I'm a Scorpio November October.

00:34:37
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, yeah, I'm not super.

00:34:40
Speaker 2: It takes a minute honestent with.

00:34:44
Speaker 3: Like what's your your son's sign then, or your your moon? What's your moon?

00:34:48
Speaker 2: Scorpio scorpio?

00:34:50
Speaker 3: Oh waits so interesting?

00:34:52
Speaker 4: A wait, I'm no, no, no, I'm a scorpio sun a cancer moon and then a scorp be arising cancer moon.

00:35:02
Speaker 3: Okay. I'm like, I don't know what that means.

00:35:04
Speaker 2: And I'm like, okay, yeah, I don't really know what it means either, but.

00:35:09
Speaker 3: It's kind of fun to like know, Yeah, I'm a Pisces. Apparently they're very emotional.

00:35:13
Speaker 5: So but then I'm right on the cusp of being an aries, which makes a little bit more sense because I'm very like spontaneous and like.

00:35:21
Speaker 3: Let's go, so it makes sense. Yeah, oh okay, so you okay? Are you very crazy?

00:35:34
Speaker 2: Yeah? We're all scratching.

00:35:35
Speaker 1: How many tattoos do you have?

00:35:38
Speaker 3: I can't even count them?

00:35:38
Speaker 2: Oh my wait, I like lost did these were covered up night one? Because I didn't see these.

00:35:45
Speaker 4: So funny because one of my best friends is also a pediatric speech pathologist and she has tattoos like yours, like little ones spread out.

00:35:51
Speaker 3: Oh really, yeah, I would love to meet her.

00:35:55
Speaker 5: I would love to meet her because I feel like it's not a common thing for speech therapists to have tatto And honestly, even before going into this career, I was so insecure about my tattoos.

00:36:05
Speaker 3: I was like no, like right me, because I was like, no one has them.

00:36:08
Speaker 5: Like, I don't know how like people are going to react or treat me differently because I have tattoos. So I tend to work with long sleeves at school just to like be respectful.

00:36:17
Speaker 3: And same thing with the show.

00:36:18
Speaker 5: I wanted to come off like first impression, like very modest, and I didn't want to be judged based you know. I didn't want to be like the girl with the tattoos because I'd been, you.

00:36:28
Speaker 3: Know, profile that way before.

00:36:31
Speaker 5: And then after talking to the girls in the house, we were like no, Alex, like you look cool.

00:36:34
Speaker 3: I was like, really okay, because I.

00:36:36
Speaker 2: That your new Brunswick is showing.

00:36:37
Speaker 3: Girl, your Runswick's showing.

00:36:42
Speaker 5: But the first night I was like I told the girls, I was like, I had a phase where I wanted to be Miley Cyrus, so I got all my tattoos and then I realized I am not Miley Cyrus, but I'm still.

00:36:49
Speaker 2: Going to rock them god.

00:36:51
Speaker 3: So uh yeah.

00:36:53
Speaker 5: So you'll see on my first one on one date that I rocked the tattoos.

00:36:57
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm just gonna.

00:36:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, do you have a favorite or like one that has a really special meaning?

00:37:04
Speaker 3: I really really like. So this is funny.

00:37:08
Speaker 5: Being in New Brunswick, there's not a lot of tattoo parlors and every time I would ask for fine line and they would give me, which I love them, but they would give me these big ass tattoos and they'd say this was fine line, and I was like, not really sure that's fine line. So I went to Bali last year and I got this like I'm really terrified of snakes, and I was like, I kind of want a sneak tattoo. And I asked for fine line, which is this is fine line, this is not and this is also this is me being too nice.

00:37:36
Speaker 3: I asked for start. I'm going all over the place. This is just.

00:37:40
Speaker 1: It's a podcast. We need you to talk, so we need you to talk.

00:37:44
Speaker 3: So this bee I asked.

00:37:45
Speaker 5: I wanted it originally this big, and he put it on my skin and I was too too scared to say no, so I was like, yeah, that's perfect.

00:37:54
Speaker 2: No it's not a manicure where you don't polish color.

00:37:58
Speaker 5: It's there for the rest of my life, too nice. I was like, yeah, no, this is perfect, this is exactly what I wanted this big so I would say the snake would be my favorite one, just because it's very feminine, very like small line, like I wanted all my tattoos to be.

00:38:10
Speaker 4: But it's okay, fact that you're afraid of snakes. You wanted to get something that you're afraid of.

00:38:15
Speaker 5: I yes, so well, the meaning came after I really like the cool, like the look of the snake tattoo, and then I was like, what am I most terrified of snakes?

00:38:24
Speaker 3: I was like, let's put it a little, give a little meaning.

00:38:27
Speaker 5: I was something, got's say that I'm getting the tattoo because I'm facing my.

00:38:32
Speaker 3: Fears every day when I wake up.

00:38:34
Speaker 1: I'm like, you do.

00:38:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like exposure exposure therapy.

00:38:39
Speaker 2: Literally, that's so funny.

00:38:41
Speaker 1: Okay, honestly, I think that's it. You told us you already teased the season surprising.

00:38:47
Speaker 4: That was your Yeah, is there anything else you can tease for us before we get into a little game.

00:38:53
Speaker 5: I think surprising is the perfect word and just yeah, if you're you're seeing a facade of me right now. But I really stepped out of my comfort zone and you'll see a different not a different Alex, but I think aside of me that I don't necessarily show to people, which is exciting and fun and I'm really excited to see that.

00:39:13
Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna do It's a rapid fire game. Get to know per first first, don't think about it. First thing that comes to your mind, and then you're just answer in a way.

00:39:22
Speaker 3: Rapid fire, perfect, Let's do it.

00:39:25
Speaker 1: What is your love language physical?

00:39:28
Speaker 3: I'm like physical touch. Okay, let's do that again.

00:39:30
Speaker 1: Sorry, do it again. What is your love language physical touch? Are you more of an introvert or extrovert?

00:39:38
Speaker 5: Oh?

00:39:38
Speaker 3: Extrovert definitely, can't shut up.

00:39:40
Speaker 1: If you If you said introvert, I was gonna be like, no, you You're like, come get out of here. What is your What is your go to cocktail?

00:39:50
Speaker 3: Express so Martinie, because I'm always tired.

00:39:53
Speaker 1: What's your favorite thing about Grant.

00:39:56
Speaker 3: His goofiness.

00:39:58
Speaker 1: That's interesting because he doesn't across goofy. What's one thing you haven't done that you want to do this year?

00:40:07
Speaker 3: I want to go bunge of jumping.

00:40:10
Speaker 1: What is your favorite way to unwind after a long day?

00:40:15
Speaker 3: Rotten bed and watched tiktoks?

00:40:19
Speaker 1: What is a deal What is a deal breaker for you?

00:40:25
Speaker 5: Besides chewing with your mouth open? I think someone who's not spontaneous and willing to like travel and yeah, wants to stay sedentary. What's the word sedentary? Sedatary?

00:40:40
Speaker 3: Yeah? Not moving? Not on the You know what that means, right? Like always?

00:40:44
Speaker 1: Like no mad?

00:40:46
Speaker 4: Like you don't want someone who's to date said it.

00:40:50
Speaker 1: I think we're pronouncing it wrong, but you were right there.

00:40:55
Speaker 2: People know what we're Yeah.

00:40:59
Speaker 1: What are artists would you love to see perform?

00:41:04
Speaker 5: Mmm?

00:41:04
Speaker 3: That I haven't seen or that I've seen either. I'm a big rufus Dusaul fan.

00:41:11
Speaker 1: Okay. What is your favorite comfort movie or show?

00:41:16
Speaker 3: Monsters Inc.

00:41:17
Speaker 5: I've seen that movie too many times and it's embarrassing, Big Monsters Inc. Fan. If I'm sad, I watched Monsters Inc. If I'm happy, I watch Monsters Inc.

00:41:27
Speaker 1: What is your favorite dessert?

00:41:31
Speaker 5: Uh?

00:41:31
Speaker 3: Oh, lemon lemon tarts? H If you were a lemon no lemon bars? No I said that let me part?

00:41:40
Speaker 1: Or lemon Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I mean, I.

00:41:42
Speaker 3: Love right, they're the same, Okay, Lemon Bars.

00:41:46
Speaker 1: If you are on a deserted island and could only bring three people from your season, who would they be.

00:41:54
Speaker 3: Okay, that's a really good question.

00:41:56
Speaker 5: I would bring Natalie, Letia and Chloe.

00:42:02
Speaker 2: I believe Natalie is actually friends with a friend of mine.

00:42:06
Speaker 3: No way, Yeah, I love it from Seattle or Kentucky, Seattle, Seattle? Oh, I love it? Okay, Wait, I'm gonna text her after this. I mean, like, hey, and if.

00:42:17
Speaker 1: You could describe Grant season in one word besides surprising.

00:42:23
Speaker 5: Besides surprising, I want to say intense. Intense in the sound, in the sense that it's very.

00:42:36
Speaker 3: Like poetic, very or musically charged music.

00:42:44
Speaker 5: Okay, I like poetic, but musically a lot of a lot of singing, a lot of having to beat box.

00:42:51
Speaker 4: Maybe that makes sense because Grant is very We had some of his friends on recently from his season of The Bachelorette, and they talked about out the fact that he's a very expressive and musical person.

00:43:03
Speaker 3: Right, which I'm not.

00:43:04
Speaker 5: So you'll see a lot of me struggling there because it's funny. Everyone one was like, oh how before the one I sawr I'm cutting guys off, but they're like, how am I gonna get Alice out of her comfort zone? Like I'm super like, go with the flow. Uh huh, your pull.

00:43:17
Speaker 3: Your pants there it is? Yeah, get me to sing and then yeah.

00:43:21
Speaker 1: Karaokee now okay. Finally, to end this off, can you give Bachelor Nation a little send off in French?

00:43:29
Speaker 5: A little send off like a goodbye oo okay podcast the Kamasi said, Journey. We're gonna throw a little bit English English in there, but Brad the Kamasi said, journey sid at exode, she yeah learns.

00:43:50
Speaker 1: The question perfect okay into all our listeners. Thank you so much for tuning in to bet Your Happy Hour, and make sure you stay tuned because we'll be having so many from Grant season on Betchler Happy Hour. Yeah.

00:44:03
Speaker 4: We're excited to see the rest of his season and how his journey unfolds.

00:44:06
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening. Bye