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The Most Dramatic Girl's Trip in 'Bachelor' History with Mercedes Northup · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost Famas podcast. Today we have one of my
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  Speaker 2: favorites that have ever been on the Beach. I was
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  Speaker 2: a big fan, and I was a big fan of
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  Speaker 2: the storyline because it got a little messy a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: which was fun. Mercedes, Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for being here. Mercedes Northrope. You guys know
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  Speaker 4: her from Zach's season and two seasons ago A Bachelor
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  Speaker 4: in Paradise. Well, I guess there wasn't a season last year,
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  Speaker 4: so it was the last season about well, Mercedes, we
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  Speaker 4: know that there is some sort of casting going on
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  Speaker 4: for Bachelor and Paradise. Have they called you?
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  Speaker 3: No, they haven't.
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  Speaker 5: I talked to someone a while ago, but there hasn't
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  Speaker 5: been anything else. But I know that there's like so
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  Speaker 5: many girls, but because there's two seasons because they didn't
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  Speaker 5: do last season, yeah, so there's a lot of girls
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  Speaker 5: that they have to choose from, and.
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  Speaker 3: So not having done the call, but I was kind
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  Speaker 3: of bummed.
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  Speaker 5: So I was kind of excited to like maybe do
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  Speaker 5: it again, but who knows, there's still time.
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  Speaker 3: You never know, So.
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  Speaker 2: You'd say yes. If they called you tomorrow and said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we want you to come back, you would say yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I would definitely be open for it because I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: I'm twenty seven, I'm ready to like find someone, and
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  Speaker 5: the dating scene in Nashville is not it, So I
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  Speaker 5: would give the beach another try for sure.
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  Speaker 4: How long have you been in Nashville for.
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  Speaker 3: Almost six years? Which is crazy?
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  Speaker 4: So I heard somebody say recently, like is it really
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  Speaker 4: the city or is it just dating in general? What
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  Speaker 4: do you what's your take?
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  Speaker 5: I honestly think it's dating in general. I feel like
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  Speaker 5: it's so hard, especially like at my age and this, Like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, I feel like it's definitely just dating
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  Speaker 5: in general because every person I have friends in like
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  Speaker 5: so many cities and everyone says the same thing. They're like,
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  Speaker 5: dating here is so awful because I'm like, should I move?
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  Speaker 5: Like my husband's literally not here, should I move?
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  Speaker 3: And They're like, no, it's awful here too. So I
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  Speaker 3: don't know. I guess we're all screwed if we don't
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  Speaker 3: have someone.
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  Speaker 4: The Bats are honestly makes dating easy.
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  Speaker 3: Literally, I know it really does.
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  Speaker 2: They used to call Denver Menver now here. It's hard
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  Speaker 2: to date in Denver, so it might be everywhere. It's
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  Speaker 2: just a hard time to date, Mercedes, which brings us
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  Speaker 2: to the next question, which might be a little obvious
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  Speaker 2: based on our conversation so far. But you said you'd
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  Speaker 2: be interested in Paradise because you want to settle down.
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  Speaker 2: You're ready, You're in national ding's not going well, so
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  Speaker 2: you're single. I mean you've been single. Have you like
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  Speaker 2: dated at all? Kind of give us an update on
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  Speaker 2: your romantic relationships.
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  Speaker 5: I've actually been so single since The Bachelor, Like I
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  Speaker 5: have well in Paradise.
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  Speaker 3: Like I mean, I like talk to people here and there.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm very much, like I said, I'm ready to
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  Speaker 5: settle down, so like one red flag and I'm like, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 5: like you're not, you know, I'm saying, like I'm not
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  Speaker 5: just like dating today, like I'm actually looking for someone.
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  Speaker 5: So I feel like that definitely makes it harder to
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, very much single, very much single.
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  Speaker 4: What was your last great date?
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  Speaker 3: My last great date.
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  Speaker 2: The beaches of Paradise.
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  Speaker 3: I know that might have been the last one. I
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  Speaker 3: mean I feel like, I don't know. It's hard because
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  Speaker 3: I feel like the dates that I've.
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  Speaker 5: Gone on is just like dinner and like drinks, which
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  Speaker 5: is like no one does anything cool anymore or that
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  Speaker 5: I'm talking to anyways, Like no romantic gestures or anything.
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  Speaker 5: It's always just dinner and drinks.
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  Speaker 4: Even in Nashville when there's so much live music.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Literally, that's like another thing about Nashville too, is it's
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  Speaker 5: so like party scene, so like you'll go to dinner
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  Speaker 5: and then you'll just go get drinks and it's like
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  Speaker 5: you just you know, party and drink, which is fun.
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  Speaker 5: But I also like want a man that's like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: I'm a husband. A husband's material like let's go do
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  Speaker 5: something different, but all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, we're gonna take a second here with you. Then okay,
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  Speaker 2: and there might this might not go anywhere, but it
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  Speaker 2: could be the best thing to ever happened to you.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready?
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  Speaker 2: So you said, like one red flag, you're out. You
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  Speaker 2: said dating's hard. Obviously paradise inn't work.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Now, granted, so many people from this franchise especially kind
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  Speaker 2: of go through that same list. What is it, Mercedes,
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  Speaker 2: if you had to look introspectively into yourself that you're
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  Speaker 2: looking for, that you're not finding, or that you are
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  Speaker 2: desiring that maybe you just aren't seeing that's right in
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  Speaker 2: front of you, Like where and dating? Are you falling short?
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  Speaker 2: I guess is the best way to ask that question.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I definitely have really high expectations.
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  Speaker 3: But I think that's.
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  Speaker 5: It's like a good thing and a bad thing because
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  Speaker 5: I don't give, Like I said, like one red flag
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  Speaker 5: and you're done. Like, I feel like everyone deserves second
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  Speaker 5: chances and stuff. But I feel like I hold people
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  Speaker 5: that I love to a very high standard, or someone
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  Speaker 5: that I potentially see myself loving to a very high standard.
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  Speaker 5: So I feel like I can I definitely like ease
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  Speaker 5: up on that. I feel like that's something that I
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  Speaker 5: could work on.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go back then to some of the dates that
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  Speaker 2: you've been on since the show. What are some examples
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  Speaker 2: of things that stand out to you that have really
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  Speaker 2: like given you was Ashley would say the ick. I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know if that's still a thing.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I was thinking about ick too. I like to always
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  Speaker 4: say he grossed me out. I said that before the
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  Speaker 4: ick was even a thing. Yes, sometimes you don't really
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  Speaker 4: know what those things are until you're experiencing them in
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  Speaker 4: person so real.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's also like it's so crazy because it'll
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  Speaker 5: just be like in a split second, like it'll be
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  Speaker 5: out of nowhere and I'll be like, oh yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: don't like that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not interested anymore. It's kind of crazy. I Like
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  Speaker 3: my mom was.
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  Speaker 5: Like, maybe, like you shouldn't be so you know, picky,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm like, no, but be Picky's good.
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  Speaker 3: They just have to be like you know whatever, I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you this.
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  Speaker 4: So with Jared or I always said before meeting Jared,
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I know I'll find my person when
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  Speaker 4: like he doesn't gross me out, like no matter how
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  Speaker 4: deep we get into it, like he won't gross me out.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, yeah, I've really never been picked out by Jared.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well I also feel like, yeah, once you find someone
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  Speaker 5: that you like, actually love, like you're not like things
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  Speaker 5: don't matter right, like you just sacrifice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like you like you don't even notice it because
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  Speaker 3: you love him so.
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  Speaker 4: Much, Like I do notice him chewing like cereal and stuff,
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  Speaker 4: but like it's all good.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, literally, because I remember with my ex. I
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  Speaker 5: dated my ex for like two years before the show,
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  Speaker 5: and at the time I didn't realize. But then like
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  Speaker 5: once we broke up, I'm like, actually, yeah, I didn't
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  Speaker 5: like that. But you're so like when I was dating him,
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  Speaker 5: I was so in love where I'm like, no, I
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  Speaker 5: love you, like everything about he's perfect that I look
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  Speaker 5: back and I'm like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a group of contestants come through. Obviously you
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  Speaker 2: were on the last season of Bachelor in Paradise, which
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming for you feels like forever ago, forever.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If they were to call you and producers from the
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  Speaker 2: show listen to this, they do. I know it because
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  Speaker 2: sometimes I get in trouble, so I know they listen
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  Speaker 2: and they call you and they say, we want you
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  Speaker 2: on the beach because you sound like somebody ready for love.
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  Speaker 2: Who and you can't dodge this question. It's it's unfortunate,
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  Speaker 2: but we are a show about content, and this is
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  Speaker 2: a moment of content. Give us, like, if you can
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  Speaker 2: give us five, great, if you give us three awesome,
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  Speaker 2: if you give us two still good people that you
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  Speaker 2: would love to see there, Okay, I.
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  Speaker 3: Feel like me and Andrew Spencer would like vibe really well.
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  Speaker 2: I see it, I see it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love him?
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  Speaker 2: You ever met.
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  Speaker 5: No, we haven't met, but like we like follow each
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  Speaker 5: other and like we've like facetimed a couple of times
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  Speaker 5: and we just like he's so funny and I feel
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  Speaker 5: but I've never met him in person, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: I want to meet him in person just to like
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  Speaker 5: see what is like. So I definitely like wanna see him.
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  Speaker 5: And who else I'm trying to think of, like the
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  Speaker 5: guys on Gen season.
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  Speaker 3: That are newer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna go You're gonna just like twist your
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  Speaker 2: brain and be like, yeah, there wasn't one of them.
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  Speaker 2: What about like a justin Glade? Is he single? I
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  Speaker 2: guess I should ask.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know what's.
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  Speaker 4: Going on with him and Susie.
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  Speaker 2: He's a nice guy. I like him. I like Andrew
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  Speaker 2: a lot. Gregg's great, like that group that was.
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  Speaker 4: A good Katie season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a good Katie season. So and that
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  Speaker 2: wasn't that long ago Charity season had who like what
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  Speaker 2: guys are coming off of that?
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  Speaker 3: Like John?
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  Speaker 5: So I was with a lot of guys on from
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  Speaker 5: Charity season on my so like John, Henry Sean a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of a bunch of them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, because that's uh, that's Joey was the bachelor
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  Speaker 2: following that, So those are the guy Sean, So we
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  Speaker 2: can't really look into that, we'd have to pull back
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  Speaker 2: from the past. I see an Andrew Spencer relationship popping.
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  Speaker 4: It's cute. So we really don't have to cross this
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  Speaker 4: off the list. This is a real potential moment.
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  Speaker 2: Throw it out there now, good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's bringt katies guys for this season of Paradise. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: you have so many girlfriends from the show that you
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  Speaker 4: travel with often. You have these big girl get togethers.
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  Speaker 4: We heard that Latilla was the odd one out or
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  Speaker 4: maybe the new member of the crew at your most
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  Speaker 4: recent trip. How we we kind of know how she
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  Speaker 4: got there. She's friends with somebody, one of your one
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  Speaker 4: of your girls. How did she melt in with the crew?
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  Speaker 5: She honestly was like it was like she's been like
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  Speaker 5: she was on our season. Like we like literally all
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  Speaker 5: got so cold on that trip when we were in Montana.
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  Speaker 3: It was cold. It was so freaking cold. We literally
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  Speaker 3: just sat in the house the whole time. Basically we
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  Speaker 3: went on.
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  Speaker 4: Lobby said it made you guys bitchy to each other?
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  Speaker 3: No, it actually did. We literally I think.
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  Speaker 5: Jess was like, yeah, I think we need to stick
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  Speaker 5: with like warmer climates, like this is not for us.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm like that's so true because we were just
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  Speaker 5: like on edge. But no, she literally is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I love her. I haven't really been.
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  Speaker 5: Watching her season, but just meeting her, like she's absolutely Like,
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  Speaker 5: first off, she's stunning, Like she's the most beautiful person
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  Speaker 5: I've ever seen, and she's just so sweet and kind
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  Speaker 5: and she yeah, she got along really well with her group.
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  Speaker 2: It just shows though am I wrong in saying this? Mercedes? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So we just talked to Gabby. I watched the Girl's
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  Speaker 2: trip from social media and I was like, that looks
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  Speaker 2: like the best trip of all time, Like that that
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  Speaker 2: looks like it's nothing but highlights. Everybody is just soaking
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  Speaker 2: in the beauty in the mountains. And then we talked
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  Speaker 2: to me, She's like, it was good. It was great.
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  Speaker 2: We had a blast together. We love each other. But
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  Speaker 2: it was like definitely more like contentious than other trips,
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  Speaker 2: and like we got stuck in the snow a little
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  Speaker 2: bit and people were freezing. I was like, it really
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  Speaker 2: is what it sounds like to me is you had
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  Speaker 2: moments of beauty surrounded by moments of this isn't the
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  Speaker 2: best trip we've ever taken together. So social media really
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  Speaker 2: like lifted this thing up right, like we were watching
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  Speaker 2: the highlights of yeah and not the whole thing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I definitely think like there was times where we like
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  Speaker 5: but I also like I was telling them this, I
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  Speaker 5: was like, we've been friends for like three years now,
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  Speaker 5: and you guys can probably attest to this like when
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  Speaker 5: you're on the show, Like the friends you meet on
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  Speaker 5: the show, it's a different kind of relationship because you grow,
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  Speaker 5: like you get so class so close so fast because
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  Speaker 5: of just the environment. And I was like, we've been
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  Speaker 5: friends for three years, like this is like normal to happen,
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  Speaker 5: Like it's not you know what I'm saying. So there
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  Speaker 5: was definitely some TIFFs, but it was all love and
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  Speaker 5: we're we were good. But yeah, you definitely saw the
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  Speaker 5: highlights on it and it was still a fun trip.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't bad because of it, but definitely some tists.
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  Speaker 4: Who do you want from that group to be with
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  Speaker 4: you in Paradise?
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  Speaker 3: Oh honestly, Jess.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like all the guys want dress too.
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  Speaker 5: They love Jess. Literally, Jess is like a magnet, like
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  Speaker 5: men just love her. But it's because she's like she's
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  Speaker 5: so nice and so kind and so beautiful. Like I
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  Speaker 5: get it. But I'm like, yeah, you need to come.
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  Speaker 5: You'll be my wingwoman on Paradise.
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  Speaker 4: Mercedes, I feel like you and I are the same.
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  Speaker 4: Like Jess is like the girl that just every guy
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  Speaker 4: around us wants to be with, because like she's just
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  Speaker 4: like self spoken and like so sweet. And then you
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  Speaker 4: and I are just like what you are that big personality.
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  Speaker 3: Yes no, literally me and just leaping each other out.
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  Speaker 5: But honestly, I will say Jess is like feisty, like
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  Speaker 5: I call her my little chihuah wah. She's like a
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  Speaker 5: little feisty chiua wah, Like she is so sweet that
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  Speaker 5: she gets so feisty too.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Is she Puerto Rican? Yes, yea that like, yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: makes sense. Yes, it's in there. Yeah, obviously you're like
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  Speaker 2: super I mean just kind of how with how the
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  Speaker 2: show's gone, Like your time the show, as we mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: wasn't that long ago, and we sit in this really
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  Speaker 2: weird place. You were on Paradise when the show was
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  Speaker 2: popping off. Really, I mean, you know you're coming into
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  Speaker 2: the like the Golden like era, and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: we have Joey's season, We have all these like really
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  Speaker 2: exciting things and and we've been through this many times before,
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  Speaker 2: but it feels like we're in a lull right now
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to the franchise. So my first question
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  Speaker 2: two parter to you is are you watching, like watching
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  Speaker 2: Grant season.
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  Speaker 5: I watched the first episode and then I you were just.
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  Speaker 4: Like it didn't get you right because I was like,
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  Speaker 4: this first episode is a drug and.
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  Speaker 2: We wanted to come back here Mercedes. And so my
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  Speaker 2: second part of this is like, what does the show
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  Speaker 2: need to do in your opinion to really like spark
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  Speaker 2: things up again?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like.
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  Speaker 5: For Paradise there because have you guys, you guys want
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  Speaker 5: on Paradise c Toy did you guys go?
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  Speaker 4: Was?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I feel like it was just very like you
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  Speaker 5: kind of lay around and like don't do much, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know what I'm saying. Like I feel like if there
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  Speaker 3: was like games or kind of like love islandy not like.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously it's like on ABC, so it's gonna be family friendly,
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  Speaker 5: but like I feel like just like games or doing
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  Speaker 5: something other than just like laying around and just.
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  Speaker 4: Talking all the time every day is a little bit monotonous.
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  Speaker 4: I do understand there's a lot of time for talking,
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  Speaker 4: So if you are hitting it up with somebody, it
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  Speaker 4: could be great, but it's also like a little worri zone.
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  Speaker 4: You're like, what are you gonna do together than just
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  Speaker 4: talk all day? That's why everybody gets so excited for
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  Speaker 4: dates in Paris. Yes, but yeah, you're right, if we
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  Speaker 4: had like some more group activities that, yeah, that'd be good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that'd be good TV too.
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  Speaker 3: When I was there, we played what did we play?
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  Speaker 3: Truth or Dare?
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  Speaker 5: One night we were just bored and we were like,
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: we're playing Truth or Dare? And we did it and
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  Speaker 5: it was so much fun. I don't even think it aired,
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  Speaker 5: to be honest, I don't think it did. But it
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  Speaker 5: was so fun and it like made everyone. It just
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  Speaker 5: like lifted the move, you know what I'm saying. And
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  Speaker 5: so I feel like them doing that would like really one,
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  Speaker 5: it would stir the pot, two, which is good for
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  Speaker 5: viewers if they're like trying to get more viewers, and
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  Speaker 5: then two like it's just I don't know, I just
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: think it's more fun.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: But what about the main show?
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, for a Bachelor A Bachelorette.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I feel like, I don't know. I
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: honestly am so bad. I mean I watched Joey season
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: a little bit, but I mean Joe's season did so
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: good though, Like, I don't know, I feel like his
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: season was really good.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: It's kind of a mix between casting. I mean, I
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: think the lead and how popular the lead is coming
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: off of the previous season I think is a huge
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: factor for sure. And I do think the format gets,
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: you know, monotonous when we have all these other shows
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: competing with it now, and instead of watching The Batcher,
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: you could watch you know, Love is Blind and see
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: them try to make life together and figure out what
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: it looks like in the end. I get it. Yeah,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: but you're really talking about paradise. And I do think
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: it was the right move. I was supportive of this move.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: I think it was done at a time that it
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: was needed to. However, I do think the lack of
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: drinking has also taken away from the activities of the day.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: I think that for the show filled so much space,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: it brought so much drama that now that it doesn't exist,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: they have to find a way to keep everybody engaged.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: And interested when there is that drink limit.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: Yes, no, I agree. I will say though on Paradise,
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: I was like I had a good buzz most of
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: the time, especially at night, and I was like we'd
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: be and Kylie and Jess.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: We would drink white wine because you can have like
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: two or whatever, so.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: You would drink white wine and then like on the hour,
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: we would take a shot at tequila and then drink
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: and then we had we had like a system going,
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: and so like, I definitely had some nights of Paris.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: There was a night where I literally kissed well I think,
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: uh it was like a I think it was a cockroach.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Honestly, it was like I literally was holding it.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: I was literally not actually didn't actually kiss it, but
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: I was like I had it like right here, and
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: I was like law and I'm like I watched that
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: it was on a blooper and Wells, like I think
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Wells was talking about it somewhere and I'm like, oh
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: my gosh, like I literally.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Did that, Mercedes. This would be my first dating tip
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: to you. Don't do this in front of the boys.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: That's like number one. If you take nothing away from this,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: don't kiss cockroaches in front of the boys.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, I literally because Rachel was holding it. Rachel was
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: like letting it crawl all over and we were just
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: like honestly drinking and we were just messing around and
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: I don't even think there was guys around, so but
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: it definitely aired so.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: They so I feel like I couldn't never get a
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: buzz in Paradise because I was sweating the alcohol out
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: this second it would like go into my system.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: Yes. No, honestly though, like it was not that hot
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: for us in Paradise, like it was hot, Like there
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: was like probably three times where I was like, holy shit,
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: like I need to get in ac But other than that,
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: like it really it wasn't that bad.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: But it was I don't know, it was just a time.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: I don't know that was that was a unique summer. Then.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, Mercedes that the listeners out there obviously
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: saw you on Paradise go through. If I remember right,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: and tell me if I'm wrong, it was like will
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: falling in love with you, right, yeah, and then you
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: weren't feeling it and you went to Tyler and then
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: somehow in there there was somebody else that I don't remember, Jordan.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Maybe Jordan yeah, he was at the end.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: YEP, so you you kind of had this like love
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: triangle that it wasn't a triangle because they just kind
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: of came and went. Can you walk us back through?
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Now as you think about it, did you do anything
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: you wish you could take back during that season where
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: you're like, I wish I would have stayed with this person,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: or I wish I would have never entered into it.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I yeah, I wish I would not have like
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: been with Tyler that long, to be honest, like me
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: and him, like he's cool, Like.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: He seemed checked out from the very beginning to be
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: very much so.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: And I feel like I was like, so, you know,
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: like before Paradise, like you get so hyped up and
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: like Kylie was with Avon and me and Kylie are
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: best friends, and even and Tyler are best friend. So
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh my gosh, this is perfect. So I
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: had like this like all in my head, and I
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: feel like I stayed with him because it was like
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: easy and we were just like you know, coasting. I
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: wish I would have not done that, and like actually
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: like dated around and like trying to get other connections
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: because I do think that like there could have been
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: something somewhere else.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know with who, but like I don't know.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: That's like my biggest regret honestly that I wish I
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: could like redo, it's just not being with Tyler so long.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a final question for you. We just went through
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: the paradise scenario. We talked about you not dating. What
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: is life like for you now, Like, what does it
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: look like day to day? I also think this could
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: be for the producers who are listening to say, you
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: either have no time on your hands or you have
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: a little time on your hands.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Honestly, I like so I'm modeled during the week and
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: then I actually work at Barstool on the weekends, which
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: is a bar in Nashville. And then I do like
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: a lot of volunteering, so and I travel a lot.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: I'm really kind of all over the place. But I
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: love my life right now. Honestly, it's like so easy.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: I'm just go with the flow. But yeah, basically just
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: chilling honestly.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Well, it's out in the world now, Mercedes, thanks for
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: jumping on. Of course, we appreciate it. We're gonna watch
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: you closely to see if Paradise gets announced. We're gonna
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: put short hard. We want you on that beach. We
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: want to watch you again again. I wasn't lying when
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I said that. Just your energy and the excitement you
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: brought to the last season A Paradise was something that
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed here because we talked about it a lot,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: and so we want to see you back. We want
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: to see you there on the beach. Wherever in the
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: world they're going to be filming, rumors.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Swirling, hopefully, fingers crossed, We'll see.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Yeh right, hopefully.
• 21:24
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• 21:26
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• 21:30
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