Hello everyone, my name is Ashley Arpelssteinback and I am thrilled to announce my new podcast on the Hopecast Network, Lots of Laughs, where I will be chatting with comedians, restaurant tours, and everyone in the entertainment industry about comedy, duh, pop culture and of course, a little bit of food. You can follow lots of Laughs on Instagram @locksoflapspodcast and lots of Laughs will be available on Spotify, iTunes, anywhere you listen to podcasts, so like, follow, subscribe, and I cannot wait to nosh with you. This is the Hopecast Network, stories and shows you actually want to listen to. Well, she's Heidi, I'm Brad and this is reality check with Heidi and Brad, Heidi, it is so good to see you. It's been a while. It's been a while. It's so great to be here. Let's bring it back. I'm excited for today. We're so excited to be doing this and we have a doozy today. We're going to be talking to Claire White, but no, it's not white. What is it? It's Claire. I don't know. You can follow her on Instagram. She just got married a couple months ago. She's Claire White, I mean, she's Claire from the floor and if you haven't watched the floor, we encourage you to go do that when you're done listening and you can watch Claire own the floor. Right, Heidi? That's right. Time is geography. And I have something planned for her today that's going to catch her off-guard and I'm so excited because I love sneak attacks, sneak attacks. Do you ever watch Kim's Convenience on the Netflix? No. You need to watch Kim's Convenience. It is a great show. It's funny. It's about a Korean family in Canada that runs a convenience store. My wife and I love it, but they have something on there called sneak attack and I'm going to sneak attack Claire. To watch this on your flight to Europe, you can watch an episode and tell me what you think. All right. But anyway, we have Claire from the floor. How can people follow us right now? Yeah. So follow us on Instagram, reality check with HB. And yeah, we're super, super excited to have, we've had an amazing lineup this year. We have. So the variety of shows that we've had has been incredible and just to have the floor today even further. So yeah, just follow us, listen to it, give us a rating there. So yeah, I'm excited to share more of what's coming. Yeah. And we have some, we actually, you know, we got some excited to talk about on this episode that could be a future possibility. So we want you to stay tuned and listen to the whole episode. There's a doozy at the end that you may like if you follow Heidi and Brad. But with that being said, Heidi, hey, let's get to Claire. What do you think? Let's do it. Awesome. Okay, Heidi, I have been like a kid in a candy shop waiting on this day because we have someone from one of my favorite shows. I like a lot of shows. We know that. Yeah. But this one's probably second to yours. Ooh. Yeah. But I like it. I want, I want to introduce her. She is the queen of geography and the queen of plum. And Heidi, you know, I like to talk about plumbing. We got it. We got to get into plumbing. Heidi, Claire from the floor Fox is the floor is joining us today. I'm excited. Hey, I'm excited. I cannot wait. I want to ask all kinds of, I actually watched the whole thing, but I don't remember what questions you got Claire. So I am very cool, we'll get to that and see more about the background of how you got into that show. Perfect. Well, Heidi, thank you guys so much for having me. I'm so thrilled to be talking to you. So I appreciate your time. Yes. Thank you for being here. Heidi, I got to, I got to let you in on something that see here's the thing. Claire, unless she's blowing smoke up the rear, that's a plumber joke, says that there's people on the floor that listen to our podcast. Oh my God. That's amazing. I mean, I don't know. Maybe she's made. Are you making this up? Is this true? It is true. And it all started because you guys interviewed a couple of squid games. Ah, yes. Yeah. Oh, we love the squid game on here. So that's how it started was we started listening and we're having you message me. I was like, my gosh, I've already listened to an episode. Like this is amazing. So I haven't told any of them that I'm doing this. Oh, they're going to be extremely jealous because we're all in a group chat together. Yeah. So it is popping off right now too. So I like to slide in that. Oh, you will be the OG with us. Yeah. Okay. But I need to know like who, who is a fan from the floor? Because I want to know the name. I want to see if I can remember them in my mind. I have a lot of friends that I mean, I can't even name them all. And it was kind of a while ago too, but I do want to shout out Lindsay Olson, who is like also an absolute geography queen who listens to you guys and in her mouth, the squid games and then call me Sarfo also just so you know, on the floor with me, but also was on squid games. Yes, somebody was on the floor and old squid games. Yes, he was buddies with, I mean, he knows the guys that you guys talk to like, that's awesome. It's so crazy, but that's amazing. What category did he is a he, right? The Olympic events he was right next to me. Oh, I do remember. Okay. Yes. We're so stoic the whole time. And I could not have less of a booger face and I love booger. So I should really honestly figure that out. But he showed him like this the whole time with his arms crossed. And I was like, I'm not touching you, bro. Like you would wipe the floor clean with me. And then it turns out I was wife before clean with, but oh, I just looked him up. You found me. I like Kwame. Yeah. Great. Yeah. I remember Kwame. Who was the other one? Lindsey, is she with you? Lindsey Olsen. She was my goodness. She was political candidates and then ended as US states, I believe. Oh, yes, started as political candidates. So when that's why, so I remember the state, I don't, I couldn't remember your questions. So maybe let's dig in. Why? How formal? Let's just go. Tell me. What did they ask you, Claire? And who do you go against? So in my, I was randomized, which, you know, it was always interesting going on a show for the first season, right, because you have no idea what you're getting into. So they just throw you on this game board and tell you these random words, one of them being the randomizer. And then it just picks you and then all of a sudden the game is in your hand. I was randomized and I had to pick a category and I was next and you have to pick, you know, next to you, right? So one next to me was historical figures and I knew absolutely not. I'm not going to, I have not been on this planet long enough to know many historical figures, nor did I like history. Other side was Olympic events, which I already told you why I did not go after Ken. So behind me was shoes. And as I would tie your pageant, my closet is full to the brim with shoes. Yeah. So that was like my path forward and my friend Michael, he really thought he had shoes and I just, I didn't demolish him. Don't get me wrong. I thought I was about to get smoked, but I'm really glad that they had high heels in that my dad golf, so I knew what the golf shoes were, and then after that, I was challenged in my category of geography. And I know that most people on the show thought this girl's a dumb block, like they just stuck her with geography. Could not be farther from the truth. I wasn't allowed to graduate middle school and not knowing every country and capital in the world on a map and yeah, let's ask you about my country. Okay. Oh, yeah. I'm from Puerto Rico. Do you know that? I put it all up for one. Yeah. That's an easy one. And I didn't know that player. So you beat me into your country and love Puerto Rico. It is so beautiful. And then I even went to a Yolke, beautiful, and then remind me of Prague cookie. Yes. Yes. Goodness. I did a whole study abroad week in college in Puerto Rico. So it's very interesting. It's beautiful. Wow. Let's ask you, how do you get it all started, right? And it's a new show, it completely different concept. I don't know if they've had this concept. Sometimes some of them shows are reboots. Right. How do you? How do you hear about it? How do you become part of it? So long story short, I'm going to give you a little peek on the curtain and I'm glad my husband isn't here, but yeah, he thinks it's funny when I bring it up, but I was on a dating show. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What dating, who are you? Which one? There's a one season wonder on ABC called the proposal. Yes. Well, okay. I'm looking this up right now. It was like literally trashiest, like pageant for a man or a woman, depending on who was behind the curtain, but it was like a step above next, if you remember that show. Oh, I remember next. That's the bus, right? Yes. So, okay. Heidi, if you don't understand what next is basically you and Claire, if I remember right, is it on the bus, right? Uh-huh. You would come on the bus. You would see me and you would immediately go next and then I'm just sitting there like, okay, well, I guess they don't like me and that how it goes. So like, yeah, if you were outside the bus and the people on the bus would come out and they'd be like next and then they'd have to go back on the bus and then the next person would come out. And then they would talk about stuff and they always gave like two highlights about the person and then one just super embarrassing story, like what was your embarrassing story? Well, she looked at the proposal, right? Next thing. Yeah. Oh, oh, yeah, done. Let's see. Like, we still want to know your embarrassing story, Claire. We're going to find this out before. Yeah. What happened today or I mean, I have so many embarrassing stories, but it was definitely like a step above next. It did not go on for a second series or season if you can imagine, but you know, I did that proposal. How long were you on that show for? How many episodes did you make it? So it was like the bachelor in my God. And you're the one thing. I'm confused. After the piece. What? Yes. Wait, you were. It's a different girl every week. So yes. So I was a part of the women contested spine for a man, but the next week could be, you know, contestants that were men buying for a woman. I mean, it was why chaos. I mean, it was filmed in one day and you were expected to get engaged to be in one day, one and you hadn't even seen the guy or the woman, but they go behind a curtain and you were just speaking about your life, hoping that they would say, will you marry me? Which, I mean, all respect to the people that go on the bachelor and say they are on for the right reasons. I did not go on for the right reasons. I was like, I could be on, so of course they said yes. And they said, would you say yes to a proposal? And I said, absolutely not, but I'm good TV. So of course they kept me around. I got cut. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I made so many friends. And so I've kind of been on the hunt for a TV show that was more trivia focused, which has always been my dream. I love trivia at the point where my cat needs to be weekly, but I found out about the floor and it has been done in other countries and it was super successful. So one thing I told myself, I wasn't going to go back on a show that was only going to be on for one season, I wanted to make sure it was going to be a hit and it ended up being the floor. It was incredible. And I mean, seriously, we were all in a good text together. So did you just send like a video and a form in order to get it? Yes. I saw that a producer that I knew through a previous producer from the dating show was casting for it. And I got my hat in the ring, they gave me a call and said, "Do you have a passport?" Yeah. For the floor? You need a passport? Where was it filmed? I mean, I guess people know this by now, but it's filmed in Dublin. Oh, I hear them. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So why does a lot of their shows over there? Okay. I'm so glad you knew that because I saw it thinking, "Is this one of the things I can talk about?" I can't because, okay, Kamal Grant is a friend of the show and he's hosting a new show on our network. Yes. I just listened to his episode. I just started that like two days ago. I haven't listened to the whole thing, but yeah, Kamal, yeah, he's great and a good friend of mine. He went over there and I was going to ask you this. I'm going to ask you now. He said Gordon Ramsay would come in and leave. Like he hardly was there. I think he said that on the episode because he did not care. Remember Heidi? I don't care what I say. He was under no rules. He didn't care. Yeah. Was Rob Lowe that way? Did he just zoom in, do his move and leave or did he shoot the breeze like Chris Traeger on Parks and Rec? No, I think if you asked like a couple of other contestants other than me, you might get different answers, but I was front, middle and I mean, I only had Rob Lowe to look at which there are worse things to look like. He was chatty with the people he could be chatty with. He was so kind, thoroughly enjoyed him, but was he probably staying at our hotel that we were being quarantined in? Probably not. He was sequestered from the contestants and I'm sure that's like to make sure that there's no favoritism and all of that. He was nothing more than and I mean, he was absolutely pleasant every time that we were able to see him. He was a great host, Heidi, and I kept watching every episode going, "Do you think he gets tired walking off stage every time?" Oh my gosh, you'd see him walk off. I'm like, "This has to get old, man." He just keeps walking off and back, walking off and back. It was a lot. Am I wrong, Claire? It seemed like a lot. You know, it's far and it looked like that and it's slippery, so I was wearing sneakers and I even felt my feet kind of like, "Do not eat it on these steps." This is not what you're going to be remembered by, but yeah, no, it's far and it's slippery and raw and handled a little like a champ, so it was so funny, I don't know if you've heard this, but it's a little tidbit that I think is absolutely hysterical. But when someone was individual, you know, as the audience, because we're not playing, we can see the teleprompter and on the teleprompter, it says, "Small talk with loser." Oh my gosh, that's hilarious. I mean, we just giggled like crazy and one of my floor castmates, Jon Hanger, said that it's something that he brings up at every happy hour and I started taking that as well. And one of our friends makes custom sweatshirts, t-shirts, hats, sire, and made us all small talk with loser sweatshirts. I love it here. And we're hoping they continue that tradition on with season two and season three. I wish you were wearing that right now. That would be hilarious. You know what? Opportunity missed. Yes. You know what? Well, Paul, you can put the sweatshirt on, we'll come back, Mountain. I know where it is. So, Brad, if you were to go on to a show like that one, what would be your category? Well, you read my mind, Heidi, because as Bob said, Claire, you're in this big chat. You need to get Heidi and I on the floor. Like, done and done. I can't guarantee, but I have connection with both of us. Put the name in. We're two podcast clubs. She's a winner. I'm a loser. We can have some fun. No, here's the thing. I've got my passport. I have my passport. I'm good. I find myself not great at pop culture, like me growing up speaking Spanish, not English. Like I learn English as an adult fully, like I learn English younger, but I didn't fully immerse myself into English until I was 23. So I was terrible at pop culture. Like what you all would know normal because you grew up here watching TV, whatever. I was like, what are you talking about? But I have a husband who's excellent at it. And my kids are very good at memorizing things. So I've gotten better pop culture, but the categories of the floor, they're so broad. So it could be anything. You know what I mean? So I could be okay. I think my category would be, you asked me to, my category would be movies. I think I could do good in movies. Yeah. Well, I could do that. And I think you would do this. Or reality TV shows. Reality TV. And you know what? I'm challenging Heidi. I'm taking her own right now. Yeah. We're going to see. We're going to see. I didn't know next or whatever the name was. I didn't know that one at all. Yeah. I tried watching that actually just a few months ago, my wife was like, turn this crap off. Nobody wants to watch this. It's stupid. It's so good. But, but Heidi's right, like when you get on, you got to be nervous, right? Like I would be so nervous if I got to walk up to challenge you, no matter how good I think I am, there's that pressure of the lights and the small talk with loser. Right. That's pressure. It sounds to me like the secret sauce of this show after watching one season is not to go up. Try to try to go at the very end, like, oh my, it's seriously, like the people I can go and it's like, don't do it, just don't do it unless you want the money of the day. But yeah, like the people who want, she wasn't even up in the front. Much. At all. Heidi, my wife says every reality show I watch, this is my move. I say, I could go and win that. Like, that's what I always say. I feel like I can win everything except survivor. I would crap, but I figured the same thing you did, Heidi. I'm like, I was rooting for Tom. I liked Tom in the beginning. The tour guide. Isn't that his name? Tom? The tour guide. Tom, we hate Tom. I can't find him on social media. I'd love to bring him on and talk to him also. He would be great. I've been telling his he had all send you this information. You just connect him to us then, and he wants to come on anyway, back to Tom. So I'm rooting for Tom, Heidi. He was dominating in the beginning. But poor Tom, you cannot continue that for five more episodes. You're right. It pays to come in at the very end and win it all. Like, you just got to sit there and like that one girl in the back. She won it, right? The one in the very back. She didn't do crap the whole time. Yeah. Every episode, you don't see her and... Yeah. I wouldn't even have that. She was feared. She was so confident that when he went back to the floor, it's like, okay, well, I'm not going to mess with you. I mean, everyone around her was nervous. Why? She was like, I need to... Just the way she carried herself. I mean, she's such a cool... Like, you know those people that are just like, cool girl? Well, you mean RBS, right? Not... I think that's... She had that. She didn't even have that going on. Like, she like, even backstage, she just was cool girl and I'm so not. I like looked at her and was like, I should channel some of that. And I'm not that girl. I'm like, tell me about your family, tell me about your friends. I'm not playing the long game and she was in it. Like, she was studying at night. I was... Not... You were partying? No, I wasn't partying, but I was eating pizza with the contestants. Oh my gosh. I love pizza by the way. She just is so determined and she had such a great work ethic during the week that I can tell you I did not have because I was... And my mom thinks this of me as well, like, whenever I was in school, like, my main goal was not the education part. It was the social... Yeah. And that was me too in college. But like... That's what you need for a survivor. Maybe you'll be good as a survivor. Tiny. I have a story about survivor. I cannot wait to hear it. Tell us. So, I grew up watching survivor. I love survivor. Thought I wanted to be on survivor. My sister auditioned, didn't get on. She went in factless. I was going to the open call and it was pouring rain. And I called my mom and I was like, "It is pouring rain. I do not want to stand outside while it's just raining." This just sounds horrible. And my mom goes, "It sounds like you are wanting audition for the wrong show." I was like, "Oh, it's so right, so I just kept in my corner and I drove home." So I'll give you bad props because I couldn't even get to the line because I didn't want to be rained on. You're like, "I'm just going to go apply for the proposal." And that seems more like my speed. I will get married in one day. I don't think I've ever asked you this, but do you think I would be good on survivor? I think you'll be surprised. The whole idea of survivor is social more than anything. You don't have to win any of the challenges. As long as you're social, you can stick around. I think I could do the talking. I could be friends with people. Yeah, so I think so. I think all you do is just the social part. Claire, you and I would do great. That's what you're saying. You can surprise yourself winning a challenge here and there. So do you think that survivor is the big brother at that side? Yes. The big brother, it's a little bit different. To your point, it's all indoors, right? You don't really talk to people. When you're doing confessionals, you're talking to nothing. Versus survivor, you're talking to producers and things like that. But it's similar, saying casting people, right? Whoever cast for survivor, saying people that cast for survivor. So there's a little bit of similarities and parallels across both shows. You watch Big Brother Claire? You watch Big Brother Claire? No. I showed it. I think I would like it and I know a couple of people that are super into it that host watch parties in my town, but I've never been, so I should go. Have you listened to Izzy? She's our friend and we had a great episode with Izzy. She's great. She's from Big Brother last year. Yeah, we love Izzy. I do not. You need to. I just put her on her spot. At least she was honest. If you don't like the rain outside, Big Brother may be your show. My next one, well, I mean, we'll see. I'm just not like, again, the poker face. Like if someone asks me who I'm voting out or like trying to admit, I can't lie. Yeah, I don't lie. It's a great quality and then not so great quality. We need to cast her in the traders and she could be a trader. Except that trader is all although she could, she was part of this show now. So I was going to say traders is going for people who have gone to other shows, right? Yeah. I think I'm a peon in the reality TV world. The traders, they get like really cool people. I mean, they do. They're super awesome and they'd be like, who? Who is this? My dream, my dream is for Heidi to text me and tell me she's going on traders. I thought she was the other night. I texted her. I'm like, are you sneaking off to Europe to be on the trader? She's like, no. I just think they found that somewhere really cool too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I wish Heidi was on the traders. We talked about that every episode. We have a streak of trader talk on here. Heidi. We got to continue that. We can do that. I feel like eventually they'll call you. They will. Claire, do some of your connections with the floor and get her own traders. Or get you on the floor and fall for a little bit. I was like, oh, get you on the floor. Yeah. Me and Heidi, I'll definitely go on the floor. And I just want to look at my wife and wink at her and say, boom, in your face. I got this. That's what I want to do. That would be. That would be awesome. I mean, it would be, I think we could be entertaining you and I on the floor, Heidi. Yeah. We were there. We would just look at each other and laugh all the time. And we talk and yeah, it'd be fun if they have like a duo per square. Heidi wouldn't take me. She wouldn't take me. She would take somebody else. I promise you. She'd be like, I'm not. I'm deadweight. She's not taking me. I'm sorry, Ellen. It would come from any challenge pretty well, I think. I think we would. Yeah. You know, Claire, I want to ask you a couple of things because I'm fascinated by your job. Plumbing sales. Mm hmm. Why does that mean? When they said plumbing sales on the floor, I looked at my wife and I was like, holy smokes, she sells like crappers. Is that the, is that? So it, you know, I, I'm in the plumbing industry. I sell a very niche part of plumbing, but um, wait, what's the niche, bidets, drinking fountains and bottle fillers, oh, you're not in the toilets? I'm not in the toilets. I, I really, I wish I was so I could say I was number one and number two, but I got that is awesome. Always. If I ever went into toilets, I would always say I was number one and number two, but um, I like that one. I'm going to use it. I do drinking fountains. It's super like lame, but everyone needs clean drinking water. It is job security. I hope a boss here in cause probably shouldn't say that, but I love the plumbing industry. It's super interesting and um, you know, it's super male dominated also. So it's nice to, you know, pave away for people that are coming after me. Um, I'm a young woman in the market and it's exciting to see other young women leaving um, and leading the charge in the plumbing industry, whether they're in drinking fountains or not. I mean, it's just, it's really cool. Very interesting. So after COVID, the whole drink, you know, refilling of the bottle is a thing. Yeah. To be honest, I'm grateful for it cause I'm always carrying a bottle when you have kids, you always carry like water and snacks is just become a second nature from mothers. So I'm grateful for the refilling of the bottles everywhere. We're grateful for people refilling their bottles. I mean, you know, single-east plastic is such an issue, but unfortunately after COVID, which was just, I mean, we're still dealing with COVID. I actually had COVID after coming back from Ireland, but enough fact, um, everyone is looking for somehow to refill their water bottle. That's, you know, sanitary because the water fountains that you drink out of, like with your mouth, it's just, yes, I don't drink out of water fountains. I do those things like at the airport where you put your bottle in there and the water comes in. That's my, yeah. I'm late to the conversation. Yeah. They're the best. They're the best. Claire, I want to know in the plumbing industry, how do you handle things like this? You want? I don't know. Oh my goodness. How do you handle that? Claire? How do you handle that? You found it. I feel that much with that. I have mean friends who caught me looking like that at one point. That's my, that's my, that's my rear end by the way. Um. Thank you. I'm. You've been tortured now. You will never lose that image. No. It's not. I've seen much worse. I have seen much worse. Do you think Claire, you and I and Heidi could invent a pair of pants that said plumber could wear where we don't have to view their crack when they're working on my sink. So like, I know for, but yeah, I guess, right, but they're not going to wear the overalls. They don't want to wear those. They want to wear the jeans and then bend over. They like that move. It's like they should really, in my opinion, take a note from pregnancy pants. Thank you. That's a good one. Just move it into something that's a little more suitable for the new quality. Yes. I mean, colors notoriously are men like majority are. They are. They are all usually men. You know, I just don't understand the fascination with the pants. It kills me. And you know, my dad sends me this the other day. He's at the beach and we've got this issue going on. Like, I don't, I mean, there's that, you know, the issue isn't the pants, Brad. The issue. That's the way it's so self aware. I don't understand it. I had so many toilet questions. I want to ask you, Claire, I'm, I know I'm like throwing a loop here. I'm just going to ask him anyway. What are your thoughts on the days? You like the day? Okay. That is such a hot topic and industry. So I don't feel fabulous about it. Yeah. I don't know. I'm weird. This is a great topic. But listen, I just went to Japan in November, and when you go to Japan, there's be days everywhere. And public toilets. Right? Yes. That's weird to me. I don't want that. I would feel weird. But once you, like you're in Japan for couple of weeks, you're like, I kind of dig it. I like the warmth. They actually have heaters for the toilets and all these, like the toilets in Japan are legit the best toilets you will ever find. Does it dry you off? Is that what you're saying? Well, so there, there's heaters like for females, if you're going to sit down and have heaters, right? So you sit down. It's not so cold. And they have all kinds of different functions for the day. So yeah. I'm amazed. So you didn't know we were going to talk about this. Yeah. A true call. Yeah. This is like, it's like shower head. Where do you, if I'm in a bidet player, I know this is riveting conversation. I love it. Where do I, if it sprays and cleans, right? Like, where do I like, drop, do I just pull the pants up and just have a wet, like area or how does it work? Maybe we should, it's a, a, a, a, a floor. Yeah. Look, I just like looking at her face while I'm asking these weird questions. She's like clashing. I wish the listeners could see her right now. I feel like you have to have T.P. as your backup. Oh, you definitely, T.P. is a great invention. Like you just have to because like it, or you have to do the wiggle and it's, it's just not comfortable. You're doing the waddle out of the bathroom, it's not you. Okay. I know I just interrupted a great conversation, but my name is Brad and you may be listening to me or any of the other talent we have on this network at HopeCast. We want to thank you for listening, but also we want you to like and subscribe to the show you're listening to. 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I was so jazzed. So excited and I could not sleep on my way back. I was like exhausted, just zonked out because it took everything out of us. But if you did lose your duel, you were sent home the next day. Oh, okay. Yes. Yeah. So I was really lucky that I made it until the end and I was there for the full eight days. But by the time we came back, we were ready to go. Yeah. And and you have to wait. I don't remember this. Did you have to wear the same clothes every day? Yes. So did you wash them every night? So they actually make you bring two of the same. Same. Just so, I mean, they didn't clarify this for us, but I would imagine that it's because whenever you're looking at that new people on board, it's easier for viewership to find where they're like a person is that they're rooting for if they're all in the same clothes. Well, I think it's also production. Like they probably record certain things and put things and certain things and to make it easier for them for editing, they use the same clothes. Yeah. You're so right. I would have never even thought about that, but absolutely. And we brought two of each and most people didn't like, spill on bare outfits or anything we would have packed. So one was enough and they would dry clean it at night. But if you got stuff on rock that you would have bought your second dress, I loved my dress tonight. You had the second and I actually ended up selling it to one of my friends on the floor because she has very similar style to me. So it worked out great for both of us. Did I pick your clothes or you got to pick it? I actually brought. So you give them options and they tell you what they want you in, but I'm just really glad that they picked what I wanted to wear. Yeah. I want to see what clothes you wore. I don't remember. Keep going. Something very similar to this. I love pink and a puffy slave. It's very little house on the prairie, is that the style? Phil got insulted. I don't remember. Also on the prairie, but elevated? Yes. I mean, I'm in the neighborhood though, right? I'm in the neighborhood, right? You're in the neighborhood. I mean, worls, puffy sleeve, yeah, that's something I'm going to do. Get me on that, what's that show where they sew? What's that reality show? Isn't there one where they make- I don't remember? Yeah. I'll design some stuff. What's the new one that Heidi Kloom does? I don't know. I could not clear if we were, if we were in a, this might make you feel good, Claire. If we were in a Walmart right now, I could pick you out, but I could not pick Heidi Kloom. I can't tell you what she looks like. Are you serious? I know, I just, I've never been a Kloom fan. I've never been a Kloom fan. I'm just- She's like the Halloween icon, like, she's the coolest Halloween outfit. And she's just- She checks me out at Walmart and I wouldn't care. Like, ring me up. I don't know. I don't care. She- Wow, I like her. I mean, I- I shouldn't be great. I've just, I've never been a- I don't know her. I don't know. Like, I don't know. So, do you know Tyra Ace? Well, everybody knows Tyra. Well, everyone knows Heidi, too. Daddy Kloom. I better not get a Heidi Kloom question when I'm on the floor. You need to put that in my contract, Claire. She's saying. When you negotiate. No Heidi Kloom. It's kind of all icons. You would be- Yeah. And she's finding those in the wrong way. She hear you're like, "I want to be her." She talk about Full Girl. Yes. Hi, guys. Full Girl. Mm-hmm. Okay. I want to, I want to play a quick game while you're on here. Oh, okay. I'm ready. Heidi, I need you to pull out your phone. Okay. And turn the timer on. We're going to give her 45 seconds. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. Isn't that what you get on the floor? It's 45 seconds, right? Is it really? It's 45 or 40. Yeah. Let's go 45. We're going to be generous tonight. Okay. I have it. Okay. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to answer. I'm going to ask you geography questions. We're putting you to the test on this show. Yeah. Look at her face. She's like. Okay. Like, like- I gave her no warning, by the way, Heidi. This is her name. You didn't prep her on this. I purposely didn't prep her. I wanted to catch her off guard. I asked, is there anything else I've been bamboozled? You're bamboozled. But you know what? You're part of the family now, so you can accept it and deal with it. You're going to shine. You're going to shine. We're going to not have won the geography battle because I feel like I'm about to lose this. Wait, what battle did you lose? What was the value loss? TV show locations. We don't talk about it. Oh, that, yeah. I remember that. I was so disappointed because I was rooting for you. And I was like, she got pasted. I can do TV. It was for me. TV locals. Yes. Do you want me to ask TV show locations? Let's do that instead. Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm ready for geography though. Okay. If it's a time to take capitals, I'm in. I love that. Wait a second. Do you know you were going to get capitals? Or when they said geography was like, broad like that, you had no idea what it meant. It was broad. I had no clue. Okay. Well, we're not going to do capitals. We're just doing geography questions. Okay. I'm sorry I put you on the spot. But I had to do this. Like, this is just part of the game, right? I did this to you and Jamie. Remember? Yeah. I had them doing a season 44 survivor trivia. I didn't know all the answers. So they could have told me. We got them all right because Brad had no idea what they were. But they were never close to what we did. So we knew. Yeah. They were easy. Okay. I'm going to ask one right now before we even start. This is this is a sample. How many states are in America? Well, 50. That's your entrance into this game. Okay. This game works. It's Heidi's going to hit her timer. Do we need to stop it every time she answers one? That way we kind of know and then she's losing time. Okay. I can do that. Okay. Well, we'll have some fun. I'm going to ask if I go to. If you pass. Yes. You can pass. They're going to be easy. There's really no. Okay. Ready? Let's go. Ready? One. Ready? What planet is closest to Earth? Working. And it. Venus. Yeah. Heidi got it. It's called closest to Earth. Which country is also called the Netherlands? Holland. Yes. What is the coldest place on Earth? In particular. What is the official currency of the United Kingdom? And don't worry about that. That's not really geography. Ouch. Yeah. Yeah. The pound. What country lies above Mexico? The United States. How many countries are there in the United Kingdom? What is the capital of Senegal? Of where? The. Senegal. Yeah. How many time zones does Russia have? Ooh. Six. No. One. My son's age. If you remember what I told you. Oh. Yes. Are you sick? What is the name of the tallest mountain in Canada? That was 45 seconds right there. I was stopping it. Mount Logan. No idea what that is. Mount Logan. These were tough. If Rob Lowhead asked those, man, that would have been tough. Yes. Yeah. Those are harder. Those were hard. Those were not floor questions, Claire. I apologize for putting you on the spot. I'm sorry. I'm not really. It's so well. So 11. That's crazy. Wait. Let's not walk now. Yeah. How do they have 11 times old? That doesn't even make sense. We have four. And you. Do well. And I thought. Yeah. We do. Yeah, we do. Specific central mountain. Yeah. And I kind of put it all over by. Yeah. Yeah. I, like, I would imagine it's like two, maybe three wide. So I was like six. I mean, Russia's pretty long. But it sounds like a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. Russia. 11 times old. Is it really done by the zones? I'm looking here. They have. Wow. Yeah. There's a lot of time. I think they do their own thing, though. Yeah. You know, which currently observed times ranging from two to noon. So it's not like far apart. They must do their own thing over there. What does it mean? Like both. So two and two. Zero two hundred to noon. So yes. That's, that's wide. That is wide. But that's a lot for 11. It is done by zones. If you Google Russia's time time zone and put images, you will see the different colors. It's incredible. I never knew that. That wasn't, that's a new fun fact. Yeah. Bring that up. How many times was it clear? Would you take a million dollars to move to Siberia for? Absolutely not. Oh, that would be right. It was absolutely. Yes. I was like, Oh my gosh. Heidi, I think she's lost it. I know. I could not. You couldn't move to Siberia. I hate cold. You don't come to Minnesota. I like to be out and about. You can't be in Siberia. Oh my gosh. You're right. You can't. And Siberia would be brutal, Heidi. I feel like I would run out of people to talk to. You have to be Siberia for how long you said? Two years. I would run. Can I take my people with me or is it just me? Yeah. You can take your family. You that you live with. You would do it. I don't know. But I'm doing a signal in Siberia to do reality check. I don't know. But I will make it an adventure. Wait. So for two years it would be called reality check with Claire and Brad. Until you came back. I like it. I wouldn't want to take my people to Siberia. Because I would end up having to split the money with them. And I'll just put your family. Your husband, you don't want to split the money with your husband? Wait, wait. How long you been married by the way? How long you been married? Since March. Oh. Oh. Oh. You're a newlywed. Congratulations. Yes. Congrats. Why weren't we invited to this wedding? We should have been at these numbers. We need to look this before March. I know. She. Yeah. Claire, I went to a wedding Friday night. I hate going to weddings. I hate them. You won't fight. My son and I was like, I told him I was like, I said weddings suck dude. I don't want to go to a wedding. I hate. I don't want to go. I said, we have to go. My wife's like, we're going. Every minute. We got invited to a wedding. I was excited. You know, I wasn't. She was. Why do you hate them? They're just boring. There's not much. And then you got to sit out and wait on the family and take photos for like an hour and looking at food. That's the planning behind the wedding. Yeah, it's bad. So anyway, we get to this wedding up the street because where I live, you can walk anywhere. And literally, it ranked top three all the time best weddings I've ever been to. It might be better than my own personal wedding. It was great. Like it was quick. It was a, it was a quickie. And then we went out and the reception, the wedding, the grooming bride, like escorted everyone out. So you don't have to wait in that long line to greet them and then you just sit there and you ate buffet style cadauba. Ooh. I was like, you know what? These people know what they're doing. They planned it in three weeks. That's my, that's the thing. That's the sweet spot Claire. You, you plan a wedding in three weeks and then you get married. Wow. I, I did not. Claire stressed me just saying three weeks. She just went through that. Mine was 14 months planning. Wow. Bradzilla at all. No. No, I actually, I, I thought I was going to be a bridezilla. My whole family thought I was going to be a bridezilla and I was chill as a cucumber for the most part. There were like times that were really stressful, but I, can you imagine planning wedding in three weeks? Like, why is your, why is your husband behind us shaking his head? No. When you said chill is a cucumber. See, look, I'm just like, oh no, he's not here. He's like, no, probably would say I wasn't as chill to keep proper. Okay. So back to, back to your poor husband. You want to cut him out of the million bucks, right? That's your goal. Does he, do you keep him from your wealth of plumbing sales or do you bring up your husband and did you lock him on a, I mean, technically if I did it, it would be 50% his anyway. Exactly. But I don't know if I'm going to make that big of a leap. I want the million per person. So if you up it to two mill per per, but it's 500,000. And I think big brothers, like 750,000 a minute, that a couple of years ago, and you're there for a little amount of time in two years and you have heating and air conditioning. Hey, man, Rob Lowe is hosting a new reality show, Claire in Siberia. And we're going to have cameras all over you. What, what do you do? Me? Heck no. I, look, I don't care about money like that to me. Time is way more valuable at my height. But it's not like you're wasting time. You're still having it for me. It's about having an adventure like it's, it's, it's a little bit beyond the money as well, because otherwise I would say no, but it's like, Hey, this is, this sounds like an adventure with my family. Heck yeah. Let's do it. Okay. You're right. It sounds like an adventure, but you're missing up all your other friends and family. You're just. I'll come back in two years. Hmm. I'll come back in two years. I'll have them back and do. But 64 in Siberia right now, six, what's that bad? Sixty forty versus warm. Yeah, it's 64 in Siberia. So you know what? That's not the bad. You can, I mean, you do know I went to Antarctica, right? You've been there. Yes. Never talked about this. I don't think you've brought that up with me, Heidi. It was cool. Did you, from Chile, Argentina, the laws in Argentina, but it's so cool in about. So I was going for two plus weeks or so on the way to Antarctica. So and it was my favorite place ever because it's so pristine and beautiful and very short after that is Iceland and Iceland is also cold. So I love the hot, but somehow I love the cold places just because they're so beautiful. So yes. Yeah. Oh my gosh. That's so cool. No, it's Siberia. Yes. That's more. Heidi's going to vacation to Minnesota eventually. I, I, I want to come. Yes. You got to come visit me in Minnesota. That's me. Yeah. I mean, Claire, tell us about you on your life now. So what's next, right? So you live in Texas, you're happily newlywed and you, I mean, we heard about your job. So what's next? Are you going to try to get into another show? Yeah. Um, I recently moved to Oklahoma City with my husband. No, you're not in Texas. You're in Texas. Yes. I know. We moved shortly after we ended up in, well, it says Texas, but um, we're in Oklahoma City and we thoroughly enjoy it and I would love to get on another show. Yeah. I don't have to be like the right bit, but until then we're just having a blast. My husband and I just bought a house. So we're going to, I mean, honestly, we should call it GTV. Yeah. Yeah. Like that. But, um, no, it, it, we're just going to see what happens and live the newlywed lives and learn how to mow ones and plant stuff and keep a house clean. No. Do you get noticed out at the grocery store? Do people like all there's clear from the floor? So no, I don't, but I do have friends that do regularly, didn't notice. But on my honeymoon, we vacationed in Mexico and we were at a steviche making class and I was sitting next to, you know, a holder of people and a girl leaned over and she said, this is so great. But where you look for? And my husband was like, oh my gosh. You just made a great, like, head go, my head got so big. It's like, I, you know, I'm not very certain it was like out of anywhere in the world that you could be recognized. It's on our honeymoon in a different country. Like it was, I mean, it was really cool, but I've only been recognized two times. So those funds were really funny. Yeah. I've been noticed a few times. Are you the guy that hosts work advice and we're like, yeah, I am not. Yeah. I mean, you also have like very memorable losses and those are your, like, only ones. But no, I have a lot of glasses hiding. How do you not invest in the glasses? We change them all the time. I like your white ones. You like my white ones? Yeah. When have I ever done something with white? I don't remember. White ones? I like. I do have white ones. Yeah. I do. I have a woman. We call it something with white ones. We have them all the colors. Like, we, we change them. I'm pretty sure we change them every so often. Yeah. I feel like it's someone that you, maybe I don't think it was really cool. You know, I'm going to wear white next time just to pay tribute to you, Claire. Please. Next time we're on, I'm going to wear the white ones. Love it. Now, not Claire. I want to, I'm going to pitch this to you. How he doesn't know this yet, but I'm just going to throw this out because I'm, there is a season two of the floor. Yes. Will you be reality checks floor correspondent and come on every few episodes to talk about how the floor is going? I love that I know my gosh. Yes. Okay. Good. Like, I'll give hot takes and everything. Like, I don't know anything about what's going to happen. But if I like smell a snake in the grass on the floor, I'm, I'm calling it out. And then let's pick winners too, like, do they on outside like the other reality shows ahead of time? Let's pick winners. Who we think it's going to, there's a hundred of them. Right. Like, yes. So there's a hundred now. There were only 81 on my season. They've upped it. They've upped it. So like a fantasy bracket. Yeah. The three of us fantasy. Oh, I say we do it, Heidi. We got to do a special floor episodes for this. It's going to require some dedication on all three of our ends. Yeah. But I like them though. But the thing I like about the floor is it's so easily consumable. It's a quick hour. Like it goes by and you get to play along because I'm constantly like, like, Siberia and these mountains. I'm like trying to answer them too. And I'm like, how is it? I'm not nervous. Yeah. It's like Jeopardy. A little less. It's here. Yeah. Easy. I was going to say a little bummer. But yeah. Sorry. It is and I like, I always say, I think I would do okay at Jackery. So Claire. Oh, you wouldn't make after you would. You would do good. You would always aligned on like certain categories. I would get smoked. I don't know. I think you would do good, Claire. You're a trivia queen and Heidi, we got a lot going on now because we got Jamie being our traders correspondent. I like it. And we've got Claire, our floor correspondent, we're just going to quit our day jobs. I mean, it's just going to happen. I guess. Um, fun fact. I don't know if you guys know who drew or what's through his name, drew from survivor 45. Bessel, I think it is something like that. Oh, that's a Jeopardy guy, right? He did Jeopardy not long ago. Oh, he did. Are you friends with him? Are you friends with him? Yeah. He's six, seven times in a row, I think. So he did very well. Can we get him on here and challenge Claire or close to school in London? So I don't know how that works, but but yeah, we can definitely reach out. I know. He's so brilliant and he had a great personality. Great. Like, I mean, it's kind of hit and miss with Jeopardy, like, I mean, you only get to see a little tiny piece of their life because they're in between shows, like, or in between categories and, uh, segments so quickly, but like, I thought he was so personable. Yeah. And he was very good at survivor too. Um, he's the one that the producers told to tone it down. Right. I read that article. He came out and said that Jeopardy producers told him to tone down his celebrations. It wasn't. It was. Yes. He got scolded by the producers because he celebrates, he's like, you know, he gets excited. I don't blame him. I mean, yeah. And they told him you need to tone it down. You got to have some decorum on Jeopardy, which makes me hate Jeopardy, by the way, cause it's stupid. I mean, I just had some fun, man. Cheer. You can't wait for yourself. He reminds me of, um, a guy that was on the floor. His name is Michael, and also a tour guide, like Tom in Philadelphia, brilliant, brilliant human. Also, cause drew more glasses, right? Yeah. Michael also, like, had glasses. They looked super similar, um, and I was like, he was different. He looks like a little bit like Napoleon that I might, when he was a survivor, he always thought that while he was just kind of cruelly hair. Get rich. Napoleon down my still holds up, by the way. It's a great movie. Yeah. It's great. I want to say one more thing about the floor. My wife and I are our least favorite player. You were one of our faves. I will confess that. One of our least favorite, she, I hope she's not on your texturing cause I don't want to offend anybody, but I'm going to go and say it cause it's not you, it's me, Santa. The lady from San Antonio, a little full of herself, when she was winning, in my opinion. So I love Stephanie. Okay. You can change my feelings. She was one of my very first friends whenever we landed in Dublin and it's kind of like Jeopardy, like you want to be able to cheer and get excited for your wins. And she has had so many jobs, like she's been in every industry. There was not. Oh, she let you know. She let you know. Yes. And I mean, there was not a category that she was touching, that she wasn't going to totally demolish. And she's brilliant. She's fast. It's like a trivia team. And I was just really glad that she was farther away from me because I did not want to go up next to her, but also fellow Texans. So I really love Stephanie, but I, I'm not as, I didn't have a winning streak like she did. No, yes. If my memory serves me right, she sent my, one of my faves Tom home. Okay. Cause I want, I was already frustrated with her cause I like Tom's and so like for our friend group, we, we all met on the same, like on the first day together and explored around town. And when they, they were our first friends that were going head to head and it was like a lose, lose either way. It was so sad. It was like the toughest tool to watch and I was sitting there front row like about to shed a tear of stupid that the camera didn't get me, you know, crying, but it was sad to like lose your friends and know that they were going home the next day. And you were living to see another day. So I'm pretty sure she says she also was a bartender cause if I'm not expecting to get cocktails or I can't remember what that ever great, but I was like, she's lying. She's a la carte man. She was like, all these different. I. So there was a point where I was like, are you bluffing? Yeah. Oh, I would bluff. She wasn't. I mean, she's been in every industry and she was working for a brunch restaurant whenever she was on the floor. So I was like, I love brunch. Oh. But. I was like, well, I'm sure on that little tidbit about San Antonio. I was in San Antonio with my dad a few months ago, first in like March or April and they, the lady said, y'all should ride in the, um, the horse drunk carriage together and I, I was like, look, that's my dad. I'm not doing that. That's weird. She stopped and she like, you, why don't y'all two get him one of those and my dad's gonna, you know, he's the loyal listener. He's gonna be 73 this year. I'm like, no, no, no, that's weird. We made fun of that for a while. They do have a lot of characters in San Antonio though that light up. I mean, it's kind of romantic, like I don't want romance with my old man. I don't want that. And you know, they hustling it like, it is expensive. Yeah. I don't, I don't have those plumber bugs. I can't do that. Yeah. Hey, as we close, I do want to say Tom is one of my favorites and I would, I'm just gonna say it. You got to meet Heidi, which was incredible. I would love for Tom to, to send me a message on the Instagram. So. That's my dream. I want this. Tom, I loved watching you and him my message favorite ones. We'll have Tom on here, Heidi. We can do that. But I won't, I would, my dream is for Tom to reach out to me and say, Hey Brad, that's all I want. I, that's, that's my dream. Can you make that happen? I will put the plan in motion. Thank you. He has a reference. He can, he can big Tommy. That's fun. It's super cool that he's a part of the floor mates on my season with dating Lindsay. Like, I, I, they remember Lindsay and I don't know if Lindsay actually, she can't remember Lindsay. She has black hair with some blue and green in it and kind of corner. She's super cool. She's brilliant and they hit it off and they're the, she lost it for the bed. Yeah. Yeah. I thought she was not going to be that great and she actually did pretty, pretty well. Yeah. She's, I love how we size people up on the floor, Heidi. I'm looking at this guy. No, this guy's going to be dumb. And then I'm like, she might make it and you know, we're constantly, we're going just off looks. Yeah. We don't, we don't know. They're genius. Life right. It is. It's, it's a microcosm of how we do in normal life. Yeah. You look at me, you're like, he's a moron, but I'm actually a Harvard graduate. He's lying. I'm lying. I'm not a Harvard. He's lying. I like her face though. She's been shocked. I was going to say Claire, if people want to follow you, tell us where they can follow you. Oh, okay. On Instagram, I am the clear white. I still have my maiden name on my tag. I'm not really on anything else. I'm like a little older millennial where I just like stick on Instagram. I haven't been swayed anywhere else, but yeah, be clear white. Let's see. So the clear white I added on my space is nine. Okay. I'm sorry. I still have not logged in somewhere. Oh my gosh. It's been a bit. Thank you, Claire. We so appreciate you and I hope to hear from Tom, but I also hope to have you, we hope to have you back as our floor correspondent. So I think that'd be fun. I love, I would love to do that. That is one of my favorite shows. I will be your coordinator to the floor people and correspondent. I mean, I'd wear many hats for this. We could be known Heidi as the floor recap show with the, with Claire, like we can just call it the floor recap episode one, it will be the Rob has a podcast for the floor. I don't know if they cover the floor, like who covers the floor from a podcast perspective. So yeah, let's do it. I think when we cover the floor now, we have the genius over here that we love Claire. She is, we're, we're your biggest fan now. I mean, thank you. I appreciate you guys having me and I'm more than happy to be your coordinator. Okay, we're going to make that happen. I don't know. When does the new season premiere? We don't even know that on September 25th, right after the mass singer on Fox. It's okay. We need to look this up and we got to prep. So I go out of the country on Friday when I come back, we got to plan this bread. So it's happening. I didn't realize it was so close. We were a month away from the floor, but right now I'm on the ceiling. So I got to get down. Thank you, Claire. We appreciate you. You're always a friend. You're welcome. We'll be seeing you soon. I don't have to say you're welcome back. You're coming back. It's in your contract. The zero. No. Come on. We'll have fun with it. Thank you, Claire. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's awesome to meet you. To meet you guys. Bye. Bye. That was incredible. Claire, thank you so much. You know, Heidi, that was amazing. She is really nice. I would encourage everyone to follow her on IG's that's listening right now. We'll put it in the show notes, right, Heidi? Yeah. I'm excited. Heidi, it's always good seeing you. I know you're about to head over to do traders. So in my mind, you're going to have a safe trip to Europe. Thank you. I know. I can't wait for you to come back and you'll realize that we're now reality check with Claire and Brett. I mean, you're stability. I could never replace you, Heidi. You're the best. Yeah. No, thank you. It's been a while. Brad just moved. So, and I've been traveling and it's been insane, but hey, we're going to keep it up for now. So let's just keep going. Fun week. Yeah. I have a few people. We just got to find dates that work for us. So just thank you. We'll make them worse. When you get back from Europe, we'll nail down some stuff. Good times. Well, thank you, Heidi. Thank you for listening to reality check and we will see you next time. She's Heidi. My name is Brad. We'll catch you later. Bye. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.
