Episode 187 - This Has To Be The Wildest Reality TV Show Ever

Grant Larsen — the Temptation Island star Netflix fans love to hate and the Mr. Beast contestant who got stranded with 5 of his exes sits down for his most unfiltered podcast appearance yet. 

If you've never seen Temptation Island, simply put, it's a reality TV show where couples go on to test how real their relationship actually is while being tempted by other islanders. So what would make him join a show like this and how did it turn out? Tune in to find out. 

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You got some energy, bro. You know what I'm saying, man? We wait. It was like it was a built-up. Getting the cameras ready. We're like, oh yeah. Welcome back to Can I Vibe with y'all where the vibes are immaculate every time we hop up in here? If it's your first time listening, it's your boy Kaz. Who we got over here? Eli, of course. Oh, he said, of course. Of course. Come on. Of course. Of course. Who else? And we hear somebody in the background, man. We've been excited. This was like, this is the first time in a long time where it's like we're being teased. It's like a buildup. We're just like, come on, let's just but. Oh man, we we got a lot to unpack today. I'm gonna let you introduce yourself real quick. My name is Grant Larson. What's up? Mr. Grant Larson. Um, we have some nicknames for you. Oh yeah. Let's hear it. If people don't know, we'll we'll call you uh a reality TV star. Just uh uh internet sensation, uh YouTube star, and perhaps even uh the internet's biggest cheater. That was crazy. That was actually uncalled. He actually said the internet's biggest cheater. That's crazy, bro. That wasn't called for it. But listen. It's not even true, I don't think. There's a bigger one, right? And that's that's the best part. We're gonna unpack it all. I think there's that's not what I'm saying. That's just what the internet's saying. Oh, oh, oh. But you said we've got some nicknames for you. We, as in, you know, the people. Oh, the people. No, not me and you. All the people. You're representing all the people, saying that I'm the biggest cheater. I'm just the host that does the most. Uh-uh. What else you got? What are the nicknames? Today we get to unpack it. We get to unpack it. You get to share your story, which is the best part. Okay, bro. Because we were talking about all these crazy messages and hate messages and DMs you got, but it's different when it's coming from the source. You get to tell your story. Um, this podcast is very authentic. We we have a good time, so we look forward to it to hearing the different side. So looking forward to talking, bro. And you guys gave me a glass of wine. That's fire. We got the wine, you know, let's do a quick cheers as we get into it. So, a little quick rundown what we're getting into. Uh, you were recently on Temptation Island. Um, you were also on Mr. Beast with the official name uh 30 Days Stranded with Your Ex. Um we'll explain what that is in a minute. But basically, you were stranded for camping with five of your exes. So they say. And you you I know you had a thrill out of it. A thrill out of it, bro? A thrill out of it. Yeah, yeah. Would you have a thrill out of it? Depends what's exactly. You would just have oh, okay. Fair. You know what you got the good ones and you got the not so good ones. So if you you pair me with the good ones, I would have I would have liked to uh been able to pick and choose who was out there. We're gonna we're gonna get into that because I have questions for that. Yeah, um, and money was involved with that. So obviously, you know, you're not just pairing the dead. You could you win something too. Oh, did I? Yeah. We'll get into that. I saw it, but you're supposed to win something. Um we got this man is running for Mr. USA, Mr. North Carolina. That's crazy, but yeah. Listen, we're gonna explain how that happened too. And uh last but not least, you are a father that most people might not know. So, unpacking a lot of stuff, hearing from you firsthand. Uh first of all, let's start with this temptation island. Let's go. What do you want to know? Uh let's let's let's start from the top, all right. First of all, there might not be people who there might be people who have never seen it. Basically, it's a show, as you know. You go on with your partner, and you maybe your relationship's been tested or wherever it stands, and you're going on this island to basically be tempted. So, what made you want to go on this island to be tempted? Nothing made me want to. There was a point I reached where I was like, I guess we can. And that that point was uh well, it's actually such a crazy story. I'll try and wrap it up in uh a few seconds though. Basically, in the beginning of our relationship, she went out to Vegas with a bunch of dudes or whatever. I thought it was something kind of crazy. Every time I FaceTimed her, these guys were answering with their arms around her, and I'm like, all right, this girl isn't serious. I took that as justification, I guess, and a girl was reaching out to me at the same time. So I went out and I cheated on Ashley. Ashley was her name, right? Um, hold up. That's it. I've seen that. I don't know your name job, but yeah. Well, I mean, everyone knows her name if they watch the show. Anyway, anyways, I wasn't asking for confirmation for confirmation. That was her name, by the way. Uh, anyways, yeah, I I justified it and I I cheated on her. I won her back, and then for a year and a half, it was just terrible. She resented me, she never forgave me. Uh, we broke up four different times over that year and a half. We get to a year and a half, and one of her ex-friendly friends uh reached out and was like, Hey, I'm a casting director for the show, you guys would be perfect for it. Hell no. No, there's no way I'm doing a guy, yeah, okay. Oh, the same guy from uh Vegas. One of the guys from Vegas. Oh, yeah, yeah. Just her friend, right? Uh, anyways, yeah. So uh he reached out, uh, we ended up going on it. She kind of convinced me because she kept kind of pushing, well, you know, if we make it, we'll be on a Netflix show and we'll be together. If we don't, we'll be on a Netflix show. That's cool. We were already kind of at a spot where we're at a crossroads. Like, no couple in a in an actual good relationship goes on a show like that. Yes, that's right. Right, like would you ever bring your ever bring your girlfriend together? No way, no, no way. No, of course not. Like that would that sound and she already resents me for cheating on her. Why would I go live in a house with 12 single girls trying to get me to cheat on you? I'm trying to hear the reason how you end up there. Well, that's that's kind of how we just kind of said, you know what, whatever. This sounds kind of cool. Two weeks later we were there. Like we like didn't we didn't apply for it, we didn't go through months of interviews, everything happened like almost right away. Oh two weeks later we were there. Because you had the connection with the casting director I I don't I think they just saw that we were the perfect fit. Oh which we were. You had a roll from the jump. Yeah, oh oh they knew my storyline before I did. I thought I was gonna go there, dude. We literally had a fucking party. Dude, we literally had a party with a cake on it that said X temptation, like no temptation, like you're not gonna be tempted. I thought I was like, you know what? I got this. I got this. I want to be with this girl. There's no way I'm gonna be tempted. I'm gonna see these girls, I'm gonna be just fine. That's what I thought. So, spoiler alert. Um it wasn't. You you you cheated, you were the first one to cheat. Yes. I think so. I mean, I don't know what happened in Vegas, confirmed, but I'm pretty sure confirmed. He was the first one to be a big chance. Okay, bro. All right, maybe so. Quickly. Did not hesitate. Yo, please okay. Yes, it was in within the first month of dating. Well, I shouldn't have. But put that out there. I don't condone cheating, by the way. No, no, no, we don't condone that. We're just we're just we're it's out there already, so we're talking about it. Um, so being on the island, like what was your thought thought process? Like, did you want to rekindle it, or were you just like, you know what? I'm surrounded by all these people, all these beautiful women, I'm here now. It is what it is. Yeah, I mean, I wanted to make it to the end. I wanted to be able to trust that we'd be together for a long time. Like, I have a seven-year-old daughter, I'm looking for someone that could be a good stepmother, a a wife to me, have that soft love for me and my daughter. So the whole time for me was a miserable experience. That now the edit didn't really show that, but it was miserable for me. Like the first whole week and a half, I was just crying every day. Like it was, oh, Grant's crying again. Like, dude, I was miserable. I was really trying to figure out like off camera. No, on camera, they just didn't put it in. Oh of course, dude. I was doing hours of interviews every single day. I was pouring my heart. I didn't know that I was gonna be the villain. Can you guys believe that? But like the whole year leading up to the the come out of the show, I was like, no, I'm fine. I was vulnerable, I was open, I was like completely myself. Like I wore my heart on my sleeve. Like, I'm more vulnerable than any of these other guys. There's no way. Like America's gonna understand. I was like, America's gonna understand. They didn't. And why would you? I saw the edit, I was like, oh damn. Like, this isn't good. So, how did you see everything after? Like, you you said you didn't see the full thing, so did you just see clips and I watched up to the third episode and you couldn't the third episode? I was like, All right, I know what kind of edit I'm getting. This isn't good. This this isn't good for me. Yeah, I I don't need to watch anymore. This is not how this happened in this order, and like, where's all this? Where's me talking about this? If if the if people would see me say this, they'd understand, but no, they took it all out. Did you learn did you learn anything about your even in the villain edits? Um, obviously a lot of people that don't know you personally, they don't know the real you, and they don't know you know certain situations. Was there anything that you learned from those, I guess, villain edits you could say that you're like, okay, I wish I wouldn't have done this or said this, or I wish I could have worded this differently. When you say the villain edits, what do you mean? Like, did I learn anything by watching the show? Correct. Like how they didn't they didn't paint you in the best light. Like you said you were crying, but maybe they didn't put that in. The only thing I I learned about watching the show was that the storyline matters more, not necessarily the truth. Like the clicks and the drama and instilling emotion in the audience matters more than what actually happened, right? Which makes sense. It's TV. Like, what can you expect? Right. Unfortunately, I expected something different. So I I learned that. Uh like the experience in total, like, did I learn anything doing that? No, not during. Like, I I was I was so lost, I was so miserable, I was so confused. Like, I wouldn't wish that confusion on anyone. Like, that was the worst part of it was not knowing what to do. Like, do I stick it out? Do I stay with this girl? Do I open myself up to another girl, someone that might have everything that I'm looking for? And then you have producers in your ear 24-7. We're filming a TV show. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's have some action. Come on. Grant, your girl's dogging on you. Grant, your girl's just dogging on the other side. Like, what are you doing? Come on, bro. You have this girl right here. Let's go. So how long are you there? I was there for like 25 days, 30 days, something like that. Okay. No, no phone, no technology. You don't know what time of day it is. You don't know what day it is. You're in this beautiful place, but it's like you're being trapped in paradise. Like, I I remember sitting there just looking at the water, being like, I wish I could get in it. But you can't because there's rules. And what one day I finally broke and I just like dove off the rock. I was like, I'm free. Finally. And then I got in trouble. And I'm like, kick me off? Kick me off because I went for a swim. Come on. So a lot of people who go on TV like that, they say it's a one-time thing, but they wouldn't do it again. Like, do you feel the same way? I'd do it again. You do it again? I'll do it again. Oh, yeah. He yeah, he go for this. The same show? I would do the same. I would do the exact same thing. I would like be in the same situation. Wait, sorry. Oh, you're good. You're good. If I was in the exact same situation with Ashley, I would have gone on the show. What I wouldn't have done would have been getting physical with Natalie. I would have waited until the end. I would have broke up with Ashley at the final bonfire, walked away with my dignity, and then dated Natalie. That's what I would have done. So I would still go on the show. I would just do it way differently. But that's hard because that's not something you plan to do. So and you said within two weeks you were on there, so you're kind of just going with the punches. By day three, it felt like a week. By a week, it felt like two weeks. By the third week, it felt like I had been there forever, and like my life was because you guys have a bedtime and wake up time, right? We don't have a bedtime, but like, yeah, like they would shut the lights off, like cameras would kind of go away. You're kind of expected to go to bed. Like you weren't supposed to be having conversations off mic, make sense. Like, yeah, it was it it wasn't real life. That like that's the main thing I want to get across. Not real life. So when I got off the show, I kind of felt like I was in an insane science experiment. Like nothing made sense. Like, was that real? Like, did that just happen? Are you saying reality TV is not real? Bro. Take it, take it from me. Believe me. Believe me. It's not. What was the most tempting part about the whole show? The most tempting part? Natalie. The girl I ended up getting with. You say she dated her off the show, right? I dated her after the show. Okay, so I heard the story, but I want to hear it from you about the whole process, how you dated her. And then you know what I'm talking about. Okay, say it then. Let me confirm. So just from what I read, you dated Natalie. You're speaking for the people right now, right? I'm just going by whatever I read. Whatever the genus is. This is your chance to speak on it. Okay. So came in the show with Ashley, then ended up dating Natalie, cheated on Natalie, got back with Ashley, cheated on Ashley. That's what you read? Stop me if I'm wrong. I mean you're you're you're wrong on the last part. Okay, the last part. I went into Temptation Island with Ashley. Okay. I left alone, but then got with Natalie. Correct, correct. I started dating Natalie and I cheated on Natalie back with Ashley in person. It was just a kiss. And I told Natalie right away. I already I felt like crap about it. I was like, damn Natalie's a really good idea. How did that come out? How did it come out? Like how did people find out that you cheated or I mean I I've I've been pretty open and honest about what happened after the show about me dating Natalie and me cheating on Natalie with Ashley. I but I like I said I told Natalie right away. I didn't expect her to forgive me. I mean she's a badass and she was super sweet. I felt terrible. But I ended up starting to date Ashley for the next six months. Okay. And no, I didn't cheat on Ashley again. Okay. Alright. See, listen, I'm that's why we're talking to the source. I'm just the middleman. So, okay, so when you and Ashley got together for the six months, is that the six months where you felt like you were putting in work and you were putting in effort and then it wasn't being reciprocated? Absolutely. I mean speak on that a little bit. For those six months after the show, after Natalie, yeah, I mean I gave her my all, I mean, I I bought a ring, I was gonna propose to her, like it was it was pretty serious. Um it didn't work out, but it wasn't my fault, it wasn't necessarily her fault. She couldn't get herself to f to forgive. And some people struggle with that. Like forgiving is a hard thing that we have to kind of practice doing. She was out of practice. Right. So what would you say you're looking for now? Right now, yeah. I'm still looking for the same thing, man. I'm looking for my wife, I'm looking for a partner for life. My parents are still together. I have a seven-year-old daughter, like I'm not trying to date just to date. Like, if I'm going to date someone, I want to see myself actually having a real valuable future. I don't want a transactional relationship, I want transformational relationships. Okay. Right? Like, there's there's no point in having the service level yes. Right. So where would your ideal place be? What do you mean? To like meet your your partner. Because obviously, a lot harder if you're meeting your partner in front of the world. I I don't have an ideal place to meet my partner. I I don't really care about where it's at. Does it happen or doesn't it? Okay. I I I want more kids one day, so it matters more to me like who she is and what her values are and how we get along. I don't know. Okay. Like, are we aligned? Was there anyone on the show that outside of Natalie that caught your attention as well? Or that was I guess you could say tempting you as well. That if you were like Natalie wasn't there, I'm definitely beeling for this person. Yeah, uh, I would say Olivia S. Okay. Okay, and then did you explore that at all after the show or you left it alone? I mean like after Natalie, after Ashley, after the show came out, yeah. Like I tried, I tried a little bit, but like I didn't like try it that hard. It wasn't I I think she was done with it though. She wasn't really interested. So what's the reason, not just with you, but just in general, like what's the reason you think people who like go on these shows still mess with the same people in the same bubble? Uh I mean there's a there's a relationship there somewhat. It's like, why do you hit up a girl that you met five years ago that you just like if if you ran through your options, whatever? Like, you know how it is. We're all guys, like we we get into those moments where like you start to watch it. Well, I always thought she was hot. Let me hit her out. Let me try. Like, whatever. You know how it goes. No, it's just always funny to see because with any show, Temptation, I love Love Island, Love is Blind Anything, like how months after the show there's always two people like rekindling and reconnecting, and it's like, damn, out of all the people. You went back to the person you were on the show with. But yeah, well that shouldn't have happened. I like my it sound it sounds crazy, but like my biggest regret actually is seeing Ashley and kissing her like I did. Like I shouldn't have done that that day. I should have like gone home. I should have called Natalie, like and been fine. But I was but I was and it was taken accountability. So I was in it, I was in a crazy situation. It was a science experiment of a a month-long situation, and I wasn't over Ashley. Like I didn't understand why and did I didn't well didn't understand why, and it sounds crazy. It ended because I chose to end it by getting with Natalie, right? Like I I I I had sex with a girl in a shower knowing that my girlfriend was gonna watch me doing that. Okay, like I knew I knew what was. That was pretty wild. It's not like I didn't know my jaw dropped. My jaw dropped. Not gonna lie, my jaw dropped. That's and the fact that it was like it was like like I said, I said off camera. Um, a girl put me on to the show, so I didn't even like plan to watch it. I'm just watching it going with the storyline. Right. And then that's the first thing I see. I'm like, oh, this man is wild. So you just you just answered a question for me. So just so the people know, sorry. Um so obviously you know you're on camera, you know the camera, there's cameras everywhere. You know, going into the shower that you're still being recorded, correct? Yeah, bro. And you and you know that that your conversations are still being like recorded. Yes. So you just so okay, all right. Listen, it was a it was a conscious decision. Like I I knew exactly what I was doing. But but for me, it was it was like a turning point. One, it's not like I could just they had a a temptation island in Spain where uh well Montoya Montoya no Montoya no what was her name that he was running after? I forgot the name. Anyways, it it wasn't like that. Like the other villa was an hour away. I couldn't just run down the beach and break up with my girlfriend if I wanted to. I was clearly I was clearly told, like, no, you have no communication with her. You are single as of right now on this show. It's your choice to choose. Like, are you gonna stay with the girl that you've been chasing for a year and a half that still hates you, or are you gonna move on and explore something new? And I decided at that time I didn't want to be with Ashley anymore. Like, I chose that I was better off either just focusing on myself or exploring something that could be good for me. It it if if I could go back still in that same mindset, like the way I was feeling, it it made perfect sense at the time. It was my only option from what I saw. Yes, I could have just waited out, but I don't think I had the self-respect or self-love at the time to be able to sit and just talk with Natalie and get to know them. Like, I pr if I could actually go back, I would probably go on a date with Natalie, I would go on a date with Olivia, I would go on a date with a few other girls and like really just explore myself and my options, right? But instead, I just stay with Natalie and I'm an intimate person and I'm a physical person and I thought she was hot and cool and smart and you know I feel like you know what I'm I felt I fell for it, whatever. Um so at the time it felt like the right decision. Did you so did you go to I kind of have two questions? Did you go into the show with set boundaries with Ashley and Yeah, don't cheat. And okay, so yeah, don't don't don't get tempted on Temptation Island. Don't get tempted on Temptation Island, Grant. So you guys had those set boundaries. Now, for yourself, were you already like subconsciously checked out, or were you like, I'm locked in? No, no, I am gonna not cheat on her and I'm walking out of this island with Ashley. In the beginning, I felt that way on the first time that I saw Ashley after we separated and went back to our own villas. Yeah, and when she had to pick her date and was like, Oh, I only have to pick one. I'm like, Oh, it was her. Why why am I here then? Like, like this is clearly showing that you treat me like I am the gum on the bottom of your shoe. Like, I don't really matter. Like, you don't you don't trust me before we're even starting. Like, why should and and our entire relationship after I cheated on her in the beginning of it was me trying to prove myself. And what kind of life is that? Just trying to prove yourself constantly to the person that you want to be with and care about. It's it's toxic, it's not right. Right. You shouldn't you shouldn't be doing that. Granted, I shouldn't have cheated on her in the first place. I should have just talked to her or broke up with her, but I I didn't. So that was the decision. Like, do I keep chasing this girl that just resents me and hope that miraculously by the end of the show she'd lets go of it? Or do I move on? We're talking about the Mr. Beast. So we have we had all this talk about Temptation Island. Yeah. And then I don't know how long after that was, but you went on the Mr. Beast show. A year later. A year later. A year later. Basically living with your exes, including Ashley. Crazy work. So now you have a part two of the same question. How did you end up in this situation? I got a phone call from someone saying that they worked with the Beast production team and they wanted to know if I wanted to do a survival-based challenge for a big cash prize. Yeah. I'll do that. I'm a handy guy. I'm an outdoors guy. I love hiking and camping. Like, I can build stuff with my hands. I've been swinging a hammer since I was five years old. Like, I got this. I got this. Absolutely. The only thing I made them promise me is that me winning was based off my own willpower and endurance. If it's something I can control, because I've saw the other I've seen the other videos. I've seen how like certain contestants will lose just based off of chance. And I wasn't willing to do it. Did you see your own video? Yeah, bro. Okay. I saw my own because you But it wasn't like that's not what I that's not how it was pitched to me. I the entire video I thought that it was based off my own willpower and endurance. Can I survive out here? It's 20 degrees outside. It's North Carolina in November. I spent Thanksgiving out there. I was eating worms and and like working my ass off all day long every day. I I swung a hammer and a hatchet literally for eight to ten hours a day. My hands, like the tendons in my hand, couldn't close. So it was snowing. Was it actually 30 days? Bro, it was 25 days. Wow. I left on day 25. I slept on the they didn't bro. I was so mad. Honestly, bro, I was I wish I could curse a little bit here. I I was the man. Like I crushed it. There's I I couldn't pick a single way. Like, if I go back and think about my experience on that show, there's not a single thing I would do different. Not a single thing. I showed up with love, with kindness, with grace. I forgave these girls no matter what they said. I had a smile on my face every day. I did my meditation, my breath work. I built a house with my bare hands in the woods out of mud and trees. I built the girls a swing set, a working swing set that they were able to swing on. You were going crazy every day. No matter there's cuts of you dragging trees and yo, and those were not, listen, they could have so yo, they could have made me look so cool. Like I crushed it. They just cut to the girls, like that's it. Yeah. I mean again, again, the storyline is what matters most. So whatever. Why do you think the girls would not? Because you know, even I forgot who said it, but one of them even said, like, I don't do camping, I'd rather be in a villa. Oh yeah. So why would they agree to go out for 25 minutes? Bro, I I don't know if they knew what they were getting into or not. I don't think they did because I definitely didn't. I thought I was going on a show by myself. I was ready to go. I was I was like, all right, bet. I'm gonna go live in the woods for 30 days. Like, I'm gonna crush this. Like, finally. I get to do something that's not about dating. What? It was about dating. Whoops. Sorry, jinx. Uh, yeah, so that that uh you know So how did they get all your exes though? When I said, okay, I'll do the show, they asked for a bunch of references. I gave them my best friends of you know the last 10 years. They reached out to my best friends, they're like, give us every single girl that Grant has ever met, talked to, or hooked up with. No, don't ever honestly, if I was my friend, I would have done it too. Like, this is a great opportunity. Like, you're gonna go on a Mr. Beast show, like whatever. You got and they all knew that like I had done a bunch of personal development work, I was ready, I was like in the zone, like I could handle it at that time. And I did, and I crushed it. But unfortunately, another spoiler alert. Left with nothing. Left with nothing. You know what? You can't control what other people do, bro. But you know what? Even at the end, I mean if you like they the edit was not not the best, but still, if you if you watch until the end, bro, I had a good attitude the whole time. Like the the whole the whole time. I saw a completely different person on there compared to Temptation Island. They showed more of me. I mean, but like I also wasn't expected to stay loyal to a girlfriend, which by the way, I did have a girl during that experience that I was talking to for the last nine months. Outside of that. So honestly, honestly, bro, the reason I truly believe this, the reason these girls were so angry and so mad is because I was not giving them any attention. Like they they wanted so like oh their biggest desire was for Grant to get on his knees and beg for their forgiveness. He's out there in the house. And like they just wanted me to cater to them and make them feel like on top of the room. I'm like, you guys have a big ass pink tent with a wood-burning stove in there, you got some food. I have nothing to prove to you. Now it's not like I'm not gonna like take dude. If we were out there and there was no tents, no nothing, like I absolutely would have been hunting in the woods. I would have built myself a spear and I would have gone killed some game. Like, I was I was ready to set up some traps, catch some rabbits, cook them on the fire. I know how to do that stuff. They didn't have hunting permits. I I I literally was not allowed to do that. I survived on beef jerky and feastables. And I ate a couple worms in the process. Yeah, yeah, the little chocolate bars. Like, that's what we ate. So it's not like I had to provide for these girls, really. And I had a girl at home that I really cared about. I I loved, like, uh she was everything to me. She was my best friend, and she knew I was out there. She was waiting for she had no idea that I was out there with five of my exes. Like, I know that this is gonna be on YouTube and and pumped to millions of people. And so you didn't know that the exes were gonna be there until you got there. No, oh man, I was blindfolded in the woods, and I take off my mask, and there's one of my exes. I'm like, yo, what the hell? How so how so the girl back home, how did she feel about it when she found out everything and saw everything? I mean, when I when I got back, she was miserable, bro. She missed me. Like she was she didn't know if I was okay, what was going on. I mean, I was gone for a month. And you couldn't talk, right? No, I couldn't talk to you. So same thing as temptation on the phone. Yeah. Damn. Plus, I was working all day. Like, that's all that was my only mission was to build that house. You were you were focused on that house. I crushed it. I want to go back to it. I think we went out there just to go. I want to go find it. The girls are like, where's Grant? He's building the house again. Grant, you don't need a house, you have a tent. It's like it's 6 a.m. Alright, hit that button for me once. Hit that button one time. Hold on, you know what I'm saying? It's a little retransition into it. Okay, okay. But so obviously we're talking about all this social media, all this reality TV, all that good stuff, and there's a lot of comments that came with that. Yeah. So what is some of the craziest comments you've seen? They don't really love me. They don't I have not seen one positive comment. Oh no, no, there's positive comments. And in real life, bro, I don't get any hate. Like very, very, very rarely I'll have a girl like scoff at me and roll her eyes, but then like in in real life? Yeah, in real life. Like every every once in a while they'd be like, ew no, I saw you on Temptation Island. Like, where would you be? Like what at party parties. Oh, okay. Bro, I get walked up to all the time. It's it's insane. Your face is all over TV. So crazy. It's crazy. It doesn't feel real. So let's hear some of the the craziest. All right, let's see. Oh, he got them ready. Oh, he hold on, hold on. I love this. I love this. He got them ready. I'm so this is like the tea. I'm getting the tea right now from my homegirl. I'm getting the tea from homegirl, he says. For six months, once Temptation Island hit, I was getting thousands of DMs a day. Thousands. Insane. Insane. And no matter what I posted, no matter what I said, take accountability. We know who you are. No, you're a piece of shit. Blah blah blah. Take accountability, man. Take accountability. I would literally be posting videos saying, guys, I don't condone cheating. What I did was wrong. Like I understand what I did. And then at the in the comment section of that video, take accountability. Like, what are you gonna admit that you're wrong? I was like, yo. There's no way to have you like watched what I was saying. Have you like listened? Are you hated? Are you like, do you have an extra chromosome? Like, what's going on, bro? Uh let's hear some of the DOs. Alright, I'll just go like just one by one. Just some good ones. Hi. I literally hate you so much. You're actually discussing pieces of shit, not gonna lie. Great. Jessica. I hate you. I feel so bad for your daughter. Having you as a dad must be the worst thing anyone could have to go through in life with some throw-up emojis. Damn. By the way, the vid the video that she replied to is her on my shoulders of us having a great time. Oh man. That's just doing normal daddy-daughter time. Oh my god. You ready? You're the most disgusting person I've ever seen or heard of. The way you act on TV is rancid, and the fact that any girl would ever go near you baffles my mind. The way you treat women makes me feel sick to my stomach. I know damn well your family are disappointed in you because you let because let me tell you, if you were mine, you would be fucking disowned. Your family tree will forever be tarnished with you in it. You literally look like you admit toxic fumes out of yourself, you fucking tramp. May your soul forever burn in hell. I hope every piece of happiness that comes into your life disappears and severely, severely hurts you. Tramp. She messages again the next day. Double trap. You chose to cheat, you chose to break a girl's house. You chose to cheat, you chose to break a girl's heart. You chose to be unloyal, an unloyal piece of shit. And then you leave the show, get with Natalie and cheat on her too. What the fuck is wrong with you? I guess it's true what they say. A leopard never changes its spots. I don't know what I don't know what went through your mind to even put Ashley through that and to have the ch the cheek to try and twist it around on her because she's spoken about you to other boys. You're literally insane and need professional help. And the interview you did about the producers and the crew saying shit in your ear is utter horseshit. Stop making excuses for actions you and you alone chose to take. Two books from my boy Danny. You are one vile piece of shit thinking that women, that the women who wanted you from the start and said she loves you before you got onto the show, and now you're saying you forgive her after she cheated on you, you scum of men. You don't deserve to call yourself a good man nor a good father. I hope everyone in your life comes to realize how disgusting you are and leaves you. You have earned no respect. And I hope that you're cheated on and know the pain it causes people who don't deserve that treatment. You are scum. The shit I'd scrape off my foot, you dirty, inconsiderate cunt. You are heartless and deserve nothing, you ugly cunt. That was a man, correct? That was a man. That was a man. That was a man, by the way. When I went to his profile, the dude's got friends. Shout out Danny, man. Like who and Danny's friends. Yo, Danny. What a guy. What? Like, do your friends know you're saying these things to people online? This is insane. Okay, Zeta. Calling out Zeta. I hate you. I'm watching your show right now. You are a fucking piece of shit. I'm embarrassed for you, you fucking loser. Bro, I have so many of these. Oh my goodness. I I have they go off. Do you ever do you ever reply to them? Do you ever get bored and just like, let me give someone the time of the day? I love replying to them. I don't have the time of my life. Now listen, I'll tell you this. In the beginning, when I was getting these hate messages, what pissed me off the most is I know I was open. I know I was vulnerable. I know who I am in my heart, and people were judging me based off an edited version of me. So when they were sending me these messages like this, I took it as an opportunity to try and like help and be kind back. And I would tell them, I'm like, hey, by the way, like I'm in a good headspace, thank God, but please don't be sending this to other people. God forbid, you are the straw that breaks the camel's back. Like, dude, the stuff that was being sent to me was so bad, the mother, my child, like was scared for the safety of our daughter, right? Like, like there's some really vile stuff in there. And if people are going out of their way to send this level of hate to strangers, bro, not everyone is thick skinned like me. Not everyone could take some hate. What if someone what is what if someone was in a really dark space and that message was what made them do something they can't ever take back? I was gonna say, like, how did that affect your mental it never like convinced me that I was just nothing? It never convinced me that I was just a bad person. What it did do was frustrate me that I couldn't get my point across. Like, I I there people refused to see the real me. They wouldn't believe. Like, it didn't matter what I said. No, we saw you, Grant, we know who you are. Oh, yeah, you know me, of course, right? Because you saw 10 hours out of 800 hours split amongst 30 different cast members. You know me? Some of like man, I think about that all the time with reality TV, all that stuff. Like, not just with you in general, I've I've seen some of the messages, and some people put that in the comments, so I know the DMs are even crazier. Oh, my comment section is crazy, bro. Oh man. If you ever want to laugh, just go to some of my comments. Bro, honestly, when I was preparing for this episode, I was I was going through the comments section. Yeah, bro, it's entertaining. It's entertaining. Dude, I I've had girls walk up to me in public. I had her actually listen to this. I was in the airport with my daughter going on to the plane, right? I had a girl walk up to me, shaking, bro, like so nervous. Like it was it was adorable. Like she just wanted a picture, right? We take the selfie. The next day, I get sent a TikTok, and it's that girl making a TikTok about me saying, Guess why I saw this disgusting man on my airplane. Yo, this girl walked up to me, interrupted me with my daughter to ask for a selfie. No, you know what? I think I saw that. I think I saw that. Insane. Insane. And did she like take a picture of what is wrong with people? I don't know if it was the same one. They took a picture of you like when you were seated out of it. Oh yes, yes. Yeah, I saw that one. Is that I and I think I commented, I was like, yo, show him the selfie that we took. Yeah, that thing they took the picture of him like seated on the plane and put some crazy caption, like, look who I'm seated with this disaster. That was that girl. That was that girl. Yeah. Insane. Sheesh. So how how has how has life changed for you since the show? Um, I guess good and bad. Bro, now I have like people stopping me like 15 times a day. And then like, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Oh, it's whatever. It's it's kind of cool. It's like, alright, like I'm I'm known, like I have some clout, whatever, but like the only thing it really did for me is I can get into like any club. Like you I don't have to wait in line. Like, right after Temptation Island, like I went to 11 with some friends, and I was literally just like walking by, like, preparing to go to the back of this big line. And Grant, are you are you Grant from Temptation Island? Yo, no way, no way. Come here, skip the line. I was like, all right, bro. Okay, I'll come in. So I've I haven't waited in many lines. That's kind of cool. So you moved from North Carolina to Miami. I moved from North Carolina to Fort Lauderdale and from Fort Lauderdale to Miami. Uh, but I go back to North Carolina every other week. So I've I've been on so it's been two years now down in South Florida, but literally four flights a month going back to North Carolina and back to South Florida. Your daughter there? My daughter lives in North Carolina, so I I really do get the best of both worlds. Like I have the crazy Miami, so I literally have a double life. Like down in South Florida, I live a completely different life. And then when I go back home, I like literally live on the lake. I see nice swans, I hear birds in the trees, I have my like wholesome daddy-daughter time, and it's nice. And then I go back to Miami. And then these bad boys. Who what was the nickname at the beginning? The internet's biggest cheater. The hater's biggest cheater. Bro, whatever. Listen, my my my daughter saw my daughter saw the Mr. B's video. She's like, Daddy, those girls are mean. I was like, I know. They're mean. What the heck? Of like, of all the shows I've seen, bro, I think you have like the biggest villain picture painted. So it no, it's crazy. It's like, cause I'm again, I'm preparing for that, but so I'm like, damn, like and the thing is when I watch it, I'm not really like I don't get into headspace where I'm like, I'm gonna DM this person, like, oh this is why because I know it it's edited a certain way. Right. But just like it wasn't until last week I'm seeing all the comments. I'm like, geez, like this is people take this serious. Bro, I c I cut some hearts open. Like people were throwing the remote at the TV watching me. They were. See? They definitely like I've seen so many videos of people screaming at the TV watching me do what I was doing. I put myself in that situation. I'll be in a house with 12 single girls with your girlfriend. You never know where life takes you. Or in the woods for 30 days and five years. You guys want to hear something crazy? Let's hear it. Like, absolutely something crazy. You guys know my two exes' names, right? Ashley and Natalie. Yeah. After the Mr. Beast show, I was still talking to the girl that I was talking to for the last nine months. She cheated on me. This is now after Temptation Island came out, after six months of being with Ashley, another nine months goes by. Now I'm on Mr. Beast, okay? Following? So I'm on the Mr. Beast show for a month, I get off. Two months after getting off of Mr. Beast, the girl that I had been talking to for the last nine months then cheats on me with her ex. Do you think it was because what she saw on the show? I don't know. I don't justify it she she did what she did, right? Broke broke my heart. This girl was my best friend. Anyways, that makes me want to leave Fort Lauderdale, which is where I was living, right? I moved up to Fort Lauderdale for this girl. So she lives here. She lives in Fort Lauderdale. So so I so I left. I've y'all y'all better not know her. Y'all better not know her. Anyways, we're gonna talk here. Anyways, I I leave Fort Lauderdale. I'm heartbroken. I'm just like, I'm I gotta go. So I go down to Miami. I hit up my boy, he's a real estate agent. I'm like, yo, I I gotta get somewhere immediately. Within a week and a half, I was moved down to Miami. It was amazing. I I moved quick. I moved quick. You went very fast. Listen, listen, yeah. Well, whatever. At least it's not in Fort Lauderdale where I'm gonna see her walking around every day, right? So I go down to Miami, I'm like, all right, where do we go? He's like, go to the flow building. This like popping, like every everyone's moving there. I'm like, all right, perfect. So I I go to move into flow. Then I get I'm touring the building and I post it on my story, and one of my friends reached out. She's like, Hey, you know Ashley lives there. Like, oh no, no, no, no, no. Adaptation island, Ashley? Yes, yes. And Mr. Beast Ashley. But mind you, I had just gotten out of the woods living with her for 30 days. Oh no. Okay, so yeah, of course, I'm not gonna go in flow. Screw that. There's no way I'm gonna go live with my ex. So I hit up the leasing. I hit up the leasing agent, right? I'm like kind of with the leasing agent and my realtor when I get this message. So I'm like, hey, can you like double check, like make sure she doesn't live here? Because she was immediately the leasing agent. She was like, no, she doesn't live here. I I've never seen her. I was like, all right, double check for me. Check the registry. So she checks the registry, confirms Ashley does not live there. Perfect. Thank God. Apparently, like she was making a take talk about moving there, and the leasing agent confirmed, Oh, it must have just been the hotel. She was probably just doing a promo for them. Okay, cool. I sign my lease. I go to the gym, I'm hanging out, I'm like doing some squats in the back, and then in the mirror, who do I see? Ashley walking right up to me with their fists in a ball, angry, all red in the face. What are you doing here? What are you doing here? What the hell? And and she starts like literally harassing me, like stopping me from working out. I'm like, yo, I don't know why you live here. I double checked. She's like, You're not she was like, You're stalking me. You're stalking. I'm like, yo, why would I want to be with you right now when I just spent 30 days in the woods with you? Like, get out of. Like, I'm not here for you, but I'm sorry, I I didn't know you lived here. I literally double checked, she didn't believe me, whatever. Before she walked away, you know what she said to me? She said, You know, Natalie lives here too. I said, What? This dude. I said, What? Whoa, hold on, hold on. You're talking about Natalie that doesn't live on the East Coast, that lives in Arizona, that lives in Scottsdale? You're saying that she lives in this building with you and me? Yo, what? Yo, what? You got some luck. You got some luck. You got some shit going on. You know what? We're gonna bring the cameras. We're going to Miami. You better be on another show. Immediately, immediately, I FaceTime the leasing agent. I said, tell me why I'm working out and I just see my ex and she's harassing me in the gym. She's like, You guys didn't start any drama to draw. I'm like, tell me why I'm in the gym and my ex walks up to me, and Natalie lives here too. Two exes living in my building that I just moved into to get away from a girl I just got cheated on by. And she's like, I don't know. Oh shit. I said, check right now. And of course, no one believes me. Like, I think yo, this dude must be like obsessed with his exes or something. No, of course, of course not. Why would I want to live in a building with both my exes? I don't think I've ever met anyone who's who keeps being drawn back to their I all my friends, I'm like, yo, it where's where are the cameras? Like, is my life an actual rom-com? There's extra. Like, what is happening in years? And you you run into them all all over. I know we're short on term. I heard you, I heard you had a crazy story about with your exes. Did something happen recently? Oh, yeah, like last week. Do we have time for that or no? If we don't, let me know. Yeah, I mean, I could quick I could quickly touch on it. So, I mean, I got my karma, right? I I met a girl, I fell in love with this girl. This girl was my absolute best friend. Okay. Right? I moved up to Fort Lauderdale just to be with her. Um, I went through the Mr. Beast video, like she's what got me through the Mr. Beast video, honestly. Like thinking about her, like being excited to go back to her. And then she cheats on me with with her ex. Um, and then this past weekend, you know, I hadn't seen her in three months, bro. Like, I was miserable for the last few months because this was the first relationship where I actually felt like I was the man that I knew I could be. I I treated her like a princess. I I was like proud of who I was, right? And this past weekend I saw her out. And uh I was different. It was thank thank God Natalie and Ashley had moved out of the building. I hadn't seen them in a little bit. It's all good. I mean, Natalie, I don't mind seeing. Like she was she never did anything wrong to me. She was always sweet. Uh and then I see I see this girl out that Lily just broke my heart, and I hadn't seen her in a couple months. And I kept thinking, like, I know I'm gonna see her, I know I'm gonna see her, but like, what am I gonna do when I see her? And I saw her, I walked right up, of course. That's what I that's what I do. I entertain my exes apparently. We see. Anyways, uh I I I walk up to her. And we're at this party and it's four in the morning and it's like no one exists. I mean, we're we are talking for a good 45 minutes, just just you know, inches away from each other's faces, tearing up, like talking. I'm like, are you still with your ex? Yes, I'm still with my ex, blah, blah, blah. But, you know, the grass isn't always greener. And she kind of gave me hope. And then the next day it was uh it was over again. You know, she was pretty much like, no, I'm with him, I'm happy. You need to get over me. I'm like, oh God. And that like ruined my I was like heartbroken all over again. Oh I'm sorry, I'm not laughing. And this is so so that that happened literally this past weekend, and then on my way here. On the way here. On my way here. After, by the way, she told me she wanted nothing to do with me, so I blocked her. I was like, all right, screw this, like I'm done. I I need to have like some self-respect. I uh I went on another podcast and I blocked her and I unblocked her after last night. I unblocked her today. On my way up here to meet with you guys, I get a call from her, and it's her. She's like, hey, I need to talk to you. What do you what do you need to talk to me about? Like, really, like you're gonna play me again? Like, what do you need? It's like meet me on the beach tonight in Fort Lauderdale. Like, what wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. You want me to meet you on the beach tonight in Fort Lauderdale? Should we bring I mean we could continue this? We could let me let me finish. You want me to meet you? I'm actually on the way to Fort Lauderdale to meet this like for this podcast. I'm on the way to Fort Lauderdale right now to film this podcast. It's like you know, there's no way you're on the way. I'm like, listen, are is this like a setup? Like, did your boyfriend read the messages? Or am I gonna like get jumped or something? You want me to meet you on the beach tonight? Like, what's going on? Like, can I trust you? Yeah, you can trust me. I'm like, you know what? I'll hit you up after the podcast. I'll let you know if I'm gonna make it. And uh then I take some big breaths and I come here and meet you guys. So uh I don't know what's gonna happen. So oh, you're gonna go meet her. Bro, I have to. Like it was my best friend. We need the updates tonight. I need the I I have to see. Like we're gonna do like Temptation Island. We're gonna bring keep the cameras running. We need the updates. We'll be behind you. We need the updates tonight. Because I'm tapped in now. This is like behind the temptation island. If you need to come back, behind the behind the behind the behind the screen. Nobody knows if the kid would. Yeah. So, anyways, that's uh that might happen in uh a few minutes. Oh, that will we're by the way, tonight my boys that they're like streamers down in uh in Miami, and they're like, hey, tonight we're gonna put you on a blind date. Where we're we're so that they're gonna put a lot of shit going on. So tonight going on, great. So tonight. So tonight I'm gonna like I don't know. I'm gonna just go see this girl that's here in Fort Lauderdale that like I've been heartbroken over and I love. And then if that doesn't go well, I'm going down to Miami, I'm going on a blind date. Oh my you know what? If it goes well, we're gonna give the recap. I need the recap. We have because we're doing our outro right now. We're we're getting this is like perfect time to give the recap of this. You're literally going from this podcast down the street to go meet. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So if all right, never mind. We'll talk later. We'll talk later. Here's here I'm thinking now, because I know we're short on time. This connects, so if you call, give the recap, I can record it on here. If I call and give the recap, what do you mean? Like if you want to give the recap, it would be like an audio recording of like Okay, okay. So this is the piece. I'll be on call. Just let me know. All right, so now just like for editing purpose, this that's the piece where I don't know if we could put in, right? Because if it goes super well, I don't know if I want it out there. Like, yeah, it's it's stay tuned. But hey, that that like I got cheated on and I'm choosing to be able to forgive, right? I promise, I promise we won't give you a chance. Well, listen, edit people always people always ask you, like, would you forgive yourself? Like, or would you forgive someone if they cheated on you? And I had never been cheated on, so I didn't know. Like, I don't I don't know. Like I've never been cheated on before. Now it's happened to me. Karma, sure. Like, I probably deserved it. Uh it happened. It broke my heart, it felt terrible. Well, I definitely hope it goes well. Hope it's a good conversation. Thank you. Thank you. Or it's nothing and it's a waste of time. I I don't know. It'd be it'll see it would it would fucking warm my heart, bro, if it was. Like, really, I like I love this. You got some wine in you. You about to you know what? I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a bottle to go. Yo, go. Can I bring a bottle with me to the beach? Absolutely. Go take care of her. Make sure he has a wine opener. Yo, let me get it. This bottle's leaving with Grant. Some Dow? Some Dow. Shout out to Dow. I got a crazy request. What's up? Let me get a bottle opener. Of course. Make sure he has opened up. Of course. I got you. I got you. Because I'm going to the beach. We'll we'll give you a quick minute to uh shout out Mr. North Carolina. Okay. Um, we didn't get into fatherhood for time purposes, but you know, we can do a quick outro, plug in anything you want. Yeah, so my name is Grant Lars. If you guys want to go follow me and stay tuned for the crazy thing that is my life, uh you can find me at the Grant Larson, L-A-R-S-E-N on all platforms. Perfect. Perfect. Um and while while you're at it, guys, go ahead and share some love. Share some love. Share some love. Listen, kindness is free. Love that. Kindness is free. We don't condone cheating, we don't condone uh hate comments. So that's right. All love. Listen, all love here. Cool to be kind. It's always good vibes on the podcast. Appreciate you coming on for real. Thank you. It's all love here. You know, we appreciate you. I'm very, very excited to hear the follow-up because this is maybe maybe the first podcast ever where a story we're talking about is continuing 10 minutes later. It is live. This is live. Um, but yeah, I appreciate y'all. Go check all the good stuff YouTube, Apple, Spotify, IG, TikTok, Facebook. Did I miss anything? I did. I was like, uh, go check out Graham, like he said. It's your boy Kaz, Eli over here. I'll put you back up real quick. We out, we out, we says peace.