Joan

100%.

Great. We haven't been in public that much. We've been doing press for two days. So this afternoon, we're like finally free. We're headed to the airport. We get to ride in a car together. Actually, last night we got to go to dinner. So that was kind of our first ever out in public for dinner, which was fun and kind of weird.

And we're headed to New York City for the weekend just to relax and have fun. And then on Monday, we're going to be looking for an apartment. What?

Yeah, what? Yeah, we're just going to have like a little place to meet up when we're not in Maryland and in Kansas.

He's kind of a natural. He's like an easy person to talk to. So the interviews flow like you can tell. He's just easy to be around.

Yeah, we do. So Chalk and his two kids, who are adults, are coming to Maryland and joining my big fat Greek family and... We're having Thanksgiving and we're also doing it for Christmas. So our kids are like similar in ages and they are all like really looking forward to having like this new set of stepbrothers and sisters.

And, you know, I think it's going to make I think it's like the holidays more fun. Already fun holidays are going to like they're going up. You know, we're raising the level.

Yeah, it's very true. I love like the chaos is welcome. I always wanted it in my life and now I have it. Yes, you do.

I invited him on that date specifically because I wanted to see if we could have fun together because we'd had really good conversations before. you know, already from the first night at the mansion. And, um, I, you know, I got off that train kind of pulled in and he was standing there and he was so handsome. And we just started talking immediately.

Like the rapport was quick and it was almost like we were having a date and nobody else was around. The cameras kind of faded away. Even Disneyland faded away a little bit as hard as that to, you know, for that to actually happen, you know, it's the happiest place on earth and we were having a great time, but it was like so much more about like our connection and getting to know each other. So, um,

You know, that was like the first time that I thought this could really happen on this show. I could really find somebody.

I think, you know, speaking to kind of to that, I am looking forward to going on. I love couples vacations. It's just, you get away from like all your responsibility and it's all about having fun and eating great meals and being in cool places. So I think that's like kind of what I'm most looking forward to. It's like the couple of vacations.

Like I have kind of two opinions about that one. So I get that, you know, you've established your lives in, you know, particular areas and that it's hard to uproot families, but I kind of look at it in a little different way. I think that it's fun.

Like you can make that a positive thing that you could spend time going to each other's homes and not, you know, even if you don't live full time together, you'd spend, you could spend a lot of A lot of time together, you know, as long as you have the time, which we do at this age, you know, we don't have as many responsibilities and you have the resources.

You have to have some money to be able to go back and forth and meet in places. I think you can make this like a really fun way to live. It doesn't need to be a negative. And it also doesn't limit you. And I know he lives in a big city. He lives in Chicago. I live in D.C. You know, there are plenty of options out there.

You're still limiting your pool of people and your person might not live in your state. So you might need to go farther out and explore other possibilities. And The Bachelor allows you to do that. It's harder to be one of those people trying to date outside of your state in just the normal world. But in The Bachelor world, it's not hard.

And as long as you know that there's going to be compromises, I think it's so doable.

Yeah.

There were a couple of women from Golden Bachelor that I was on that season with that were willing to move. They said they found the right person. So there are people that are willing to move. You know, you know, a lot of times your kids don't stay in the area where you where they were raised or where they grew up. They move. So some people are more flexible than others.

Why don't we start from that assumption? We're all good.

She actually says that. He said, I'm going to be the easiest guy you've ever been with. And that kind of is true. So far, that statement was so accurate.

Chalk asks me it every day. When are you going to marry me? So I get asked all the time. He says whatever I want is fine with him. There he is, the easiest guy in the world. And I originally thought like I kind of wanted it to just be like an intimate wedding with just family and friends, which is easy to plan. I could do it quicker and sooner.

You know, I want to wait a little bit, like let us just be out there and live life for at least a few months before we start thinking about wedding. But now I'm thinking maybe bigger, maybe include Bachelor Nation. Nope. Okay. TV. No idea. That's a bigger conversation and maybe a little harder to do.

So it may take a little longer, but we're going to get married and I'd say it's in 25, early 26, you know, timeframe. Okay. Wow. We love. I just want to know, who do you think will be the next golden bachelor?

I love Dan. He really is.

And I think up until mental law, Jonathan was like right up there, but he announced that he has a girlfriend. And that's the other problem that a lot of these guys are pairing off already. I mean, they've become, you know, the world knows who they are and, you know, they become really popular with the women. And I think about five of them have girlfriends already. Wow.

Yeah.

Oh.