You are listening to the Reality Steve podcast with your host, Reality Steve. He's got all the latest info in behind the scenes juice on Becca's season of the Bachelor Red and interviewing some of your favorite reality stars. Now here's Reality Steve.

Welcome everybody to podcast number one. I'm your host, Reality Steve. Thank you all for tuning in.

A really good one for you this week. Six months in the making to say the least with Lauren Bushnell. I'll get to that in a second. Please rate, subscribe and review in Apple podcasts. It is very much appreciated.

It certainly helps the podcast to have our rankings be in the top 10, which they have been for almost 20 weeks straight now. I think I actually spivies last week out of two as high as number three.

So I appreciate you all tuning in to that. Also, Nell callters X on the beach recap is tomorrow. And you might want to check that out. Even if you're not watching the show, trust me, Nell is a great writer. She's written two books.

It's two more than I have read and probably are written and two more than I've probably read in the last, I don't know, four years.

Anyway, I actually have read some books, but nothing along the lines of what Nell writes. So check that out tomorrow on the site. Also, if you're listening to this on Thursday tomorrow is the fan appreciation party in Las Vegas, all those who have already informed me they're coming. Can't wait to see you.

This is a yearly thing that I do. It's the one time a year where I open up a throw a party for my readers and listeners to the podcast. Anybody who wants to come. It's open to anybody. It's basically first come first serve. I have a limited amount of spaces I can do. It's usually I always figure 75 to 80 can get in that room this year.

I overbooked and we have 97 coming as of as of me leaving when you're listening to this. I'm probably headed to the airport or on a plane there, but the party is the tomorrow night Friday the eighth at Banda, La Bay. I do it every year. I open it up. It's my thank you to my readers and listeners for supporting the site.

We have an open bar for beer and wine for three hours. And we have some food for you as well. You'll hear at the very beginning of this podcast with Lauren that she is contributing this year to the party a little bit. So you'll get to hear that.

Anyway, as I mentioned with Lauren six months in the making I've wanted to get her on. And it just timing wasn't working out. I know that there was a little hesitation on her part because she knows.

Any time she talks about Ben, she's going to hear it from people saying why are you still talking about him, even though he gets got a weekly podcast where he has talked about his relationship with her like 4,000 times.

But the minute she says one thing about him, you know, she gets a lot of heat for it. So I know there was hesitation on her part to finally join, but she did.

She's very open and honest and candid about the relationship. We talk about certain things that happened in their relationship from the engagement to the happily ever after show to Ben's podcast and whatnot.

She definitely you can tell has some opinions on things that have happened. Some things she's already said in the media in the past. Some things she hasn't. So I hope you enjoy it. I really appreciate Lauren finally coming on and doing this and I really appreciate what she's doing for the party tomorrow night.

So anyway, I hope you enjoy it. Lauren Bushnell. Okay, let's say hello to our guest. Surely you remember her as being the winner of Ben Hagen season of the bachelor. She then went on to have they went on to have their own show happily ever after on free form. But now she's getting herself into the wine business officially launching her own brand of wine. It's Lauren Bushnell Lauren. How are you?

Hi, I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I want to talk about the wine. We're going to talk about the beginning and then we're going to bring it up at the end because I'm going to sandwich all the bachelor stuff in between.

Okay, the wine stuff is interesting because it kind of plays into what's happening this week. I had, you know, we've been I've been trying to get you on for a good six months now to come on the podcast. I know we've had some scheduling things here and there and we wanted to do it in conjunction with the wine launch and whatnot.

And pretty much just started and I said, Hey, why don't you, you know, a couple weeks ago, I brought up to Hey, why don't you go to my party and you can bring some wine with you. And because of scheduling and I know you have an event on Saturday, you couldn't really do it. But you will be contributing bottles of wine.

I'll be there in spirit. Yes, you will be there in spirit. You will be contributing bottles of wine to the party this Friday night. So anybody that is already booked and coming to the party for a night, you will get to 10.

And you will get to taste dear Rosé. Yes, you will. I will be getting it for the first time as well. And it's already been sent, right. You already did this. You took it. Yes, it will be there by Friday. Okay, good. Yes.

Yeah, if I if I don't have anything at the waiting downstairs for me.

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