LOVE FEST! Brayden Bowers & Christina Mandrell On The Competition To Serve - Ep 285
Dear Shandy
Sharleen Joynt & Andy Levine
4.9 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
It's Love Fest time! 🎉 Today Shandy is joined by Bachelor Nation's latest power couple, Brayden Bowers and Christina Mandrell! These happen to be two "villains" Shandy never believed were villains in the first place, and it was so fun to finally hang out IRT to hear behind-the-scenes tidbits and learn about their relationship dynamic!
Today Brayden and Christina share their thoughts on true "contentment", how they overcame their early hurdles, and of course, how they fight! We're also treated to an exclusive Brayden-and-Andy freestyle rap and beatbox performance! Finally, a hilariously chaotic Newlyweds Game you do NOT want to miss! Who knows who better? Watch on to find out!
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Time Stamps:
0:00 - Welcome To Brayden & Christina!
3:01 - Did Being “Villains” Help Bond Them?
6:27 - The Beginning
9:02 - Brayden’s Near-Death Experience & Subsequent Realizations
16:31 - Contentment & Brayden On His Season
22:12 - How They Complement Each Other
26:35 - How They Fight
37:29 - How Brayden Is So Zen
42:04 - Early Hurdle
49:46 - Common Misconceptions About Their Relationship
52:23 - Beliefs About Relationships That Have Changed Since Finding Each Other
54:51 - The Newlyweds Game
1:12:21 - Brayden Freestyles While Andy Beatboxes!!!!!!!!!!!!
1:16:18 - Shandy Debrief
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| 0:00.0 | I have a question about Braden's rapping. |
| 0:02.8 | Like, does he wrap around the house? |
| 0:04.8 | You want him to do a little freezo? |
| 0:06.6 | He'll do it. |
| 0:07.2 | I will do freestyle. |
| 0:18.0 | Give him three words. Give him three words now, random ones. Give him a beat. He's got this. It's crazy. I'll do the beat. I'll do the beat. And I'm going to give you. You can beat box? I'm going to beat box. He's decent. |
| 0:18.9 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:20.2 | So we're going to beat box. I'm going to be box. It's decent. Oh my gosh. |
| 0:26.2 | So, so we're going to go love woman kill. |
| 0:32.2 | Dear Shandy. |
| 0:37.1 | Welcome back to Dear Shandy listeners. |
| 0:43.1 | Hello, Andy. How are you today? I'm very excited. Very excited. It's our first love fest of 2024 and we were holding out for the big guns. And we're very excited about this particular |
| 0:49.6 | couple, partly because they're just, they're newly engaged, freshly engaged and they're just so adorable together in all the ways, but also because we've been rooting for each of these people separately, like since way back. Yes. Braden has been one of my main men. I've had only, I've had only three men, Braden. You are one of them in my whole life. Yes. Yeah, I'll take it. I'll take it. Okay, so I'll give a little refresher, not that anyone needs one. So, Brayden is from Bachelorette season 20 and Bip, season nine. And you can find him on Instagram at Braden Bowers official. I guess presumably there are not official |
| 1:27.7 | Braden Bowers out there. |
| 1:29.0 | Shame on me. |
| 1:29.6 | There's a couple of them. |
| 1:31.1 | And his better have Christina Mandrell. |
| 1:33.9 | You know her from Bachelor season 27. |
| 1:37.2 | And she can be found on Instagram at Christina Mandrell. |
| 1:40.7 | No official necessary. |
| 1:41.7 | Not so official. |
| 1:42.7 | Not so official. |
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