LOVE STORIES: The Golden Bachelorette’s Joan Vassos and Chock Chapple
HELP! I Suck at Dating
iHeartPodcasts
3.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Love Stories continues with The Golden Bachelorette’s Joan Vassos and Chock Chapple, who sit down with Amy & T.J. to talk long-distance love, deep friendship, and why this chapter of their lives feels especially meaningful. The couple open up about navigating a relationship rooted in communication and perspective, why they don’t believe fighting defines a healthy partnership, and how they laugh off breakup rumors instead of letting outside noise create pressure. From learning when to simply listen versus offer advice to embracing love later in life with patience and respect, Joan and Chock share why this season feels calmer, more intentional, and exactly right.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Hey there, everybody. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:07.7 | This is another one of our special episodes in our love stories series where we count you down |
| 0:13.4 | to Valentine's Day and ask our couples who come from all different walks of life who are |
| 0:18.6 | in lots of different types of relationships, |
| 0:21.4 | what the key is to their relationship success. |
| 0:24.6 | And we ask our couples all the same questions. |
| 0:28.2 | This time we are talking to Joan Vassos. |
| 0:31.2 | You know her from the Golden Bachelorette |
| 0:33.5 | and the man she met on the show, |
| 0:36.2 | Chalk Chappelle. |
| 0:37.1 | They got engaged in July of 2024, |
| 0:40.0 | and we check in with the couple to see where they are. |
| 0:42.9 | Now here is Joan and Chalk's love story. |
| 0:49.7 | This is Amy and T.J. Love stories. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is Amy and TJ. Love stories. And we have Joan and Chuck with us right now. |
| 1:03.7 | We have Joan in person. |
| 1:05.5 | We have Chuck long distance, which kind of is appropriate given the status of your relationship right now. |
| 1:13.1 | How we do it? |
| 1:14.3 | What is that like to always be in a different state from one another? |
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