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Home Sweet Hometowns · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with her Radio. This is another episode of the Almost
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  Speaker 1: Famous podcast. Ashley is going to be joining us today, yes,
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  Speaker 1: for our interview with a very special guest. Spencer Swice
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be here. Uh you might remember. Spencer's from Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: Illinois's gonna catch up with us on everything he's doing
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  Speaker 1: in his life, what life has looked like post Bachelor.
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  Speaker 1: I know they've made some good friends along the way.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley is gonna sit in for that interview, but before
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  Speaker 1: we do, I want to take a second to hang
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  Speaker 1: out with you all and tell you about Wells Adams
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  Speaker 1: and Sarah Highland's wedding. I just got back from it.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I'm still a little tired. But it was an
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  Speaker 1: incredible event and you can read all about it and
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  Speaker 1: see the pictures in Vogue, which was there to cover
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  Speaker 1: the wedding. It's a pretty good magazine to have cover
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  Speaker 1: your wedding. But a lot of Bachelor Nation guests were there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna forget some of them, but you
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  Speaker 1: can read about him. But it's Nick Vile. It was
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  Speaker 1: Chris Souls, Chris Harrison was there along. Gael was also
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  Speaker 1: there obviously, I was there along with Daniel Maltby. She
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  Speaker 1: is a friend of Wells is from Nashville. Uh, Courtney
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  Speaker 1: Dober was there. Uh. Joe a grocery store. Joe. That
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  Speaker 1: was a big old list. I want to forget somebody, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Caitlin Bristow, Jason tart Ik. There's a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna forget somebody that I really love and care about.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed my time with every person from bachel
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  Speaker 1: Nation that was there. Were I was kind of talking
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  Speaker 1: to Jessica about that. Is it's always good to have
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  Speaker 1: a reunion with people from the show and just have
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  Speaker 1: a second to get to know them a little better.
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  Speaker 1: After I get to know these people better every time
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  Speaker 1: I go. Man, I just I'm very fairly like these people. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so here's the deal. The wedding, uh was just outside
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  Speaker 1: of Santa Barbara, a little town called Solving. Solving is
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  Speaker 1: a really cute town if you're ever up in that
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  Speaker 1: area to stop by. It was at a vineyard, one
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  Speaker 1: of the most incredible settings I've ever seen. The flower
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  Speaker 1: arrangements were spectacular, And I'm not a big like flower
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  Speaker 1: fan like I usually don't even notice that stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: their flower arrangements were spectacular. The food, we had some
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  Speaker 1: miso sea bass, which everybody was talking about when we
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  Speaker 1: had some beef tenderloin. The food was was out of
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  Speaker 1: this world, the best wedding food I've ever had. UM
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  Speaker 1: A live band. Obviously, a lot of the Modern Family
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  Speaker 1: cast was there. Sean White, Nina doughb Ever also there.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica really loved getting to see Kalin Kalin was there
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  Speaker 1: from Bachelor Nation, uh, and also meeting Debbie Ryan. Jessica
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  Speaker 1: really liked those two girls a lot, spent a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time with them. I got to hang out with
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  Speaker 1: him and uh. And so the setting was this was
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  Speaker 1: a three day event. There was a like a welcome party,
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  Speaker 1: there was the wedding, and then the brunch the next day. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The wedding UM was what you would typically um I
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  Speaker 1: think a wedding would be like. It was just like
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  Speaker 1: obviously a little bit uh kind of. It was definitely
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  Speaker 1: like the nicest wedding I've ever been to. And then
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  Speaker 1: that evening we had an after party, a lot of celebration,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of love. You obviously know from this podcast
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  Speaker 1: that I love Wells. Wells is a good buddy of mine. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And you know they're obviously tears shared just in celebration
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  Speaker 1: of the two of them. They've had an incredible story
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  Speaker 1: along engagement. UM. They've definitely understood the meaning of being
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  Speaker 1: together through sickness and in health. They both are really
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  Speaker 1: special people, um, for for different reasons. UM, but they
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  Speaker 1: both are that their specialness, their uniqueness makes them an
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  Speaker 1: incredible couple. And you could just tell at this wedding
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  Speaker 1: that everybody was there just to celebrate them, Like it
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  Speaker 1: felt just like a big party of big celebration. You
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  Speaker 1: can read all about it again in Vogue magazine. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I think People magazine we're covering some things. UM, but
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  Speaker 1: that's my experience. Jessicin I had a great time. We
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  Speaker 1: stayed out late, we celebrated hard. Uh, we got to
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  Speaker 1: be around a lot of Bachelor Nation and catch up
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  Speaker 1: with them that we don't always get to see in person,
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  Speaker 1: and then obviously got to meet some new friends as well.
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  Speaker 1: And UH, and we're just so happy. Uh. Jessica and
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  Speaker 1: I are in the almost famous podcast UH celebrates Sara
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  Speaker 1: Wells for finally being able to have their wedding, for
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  Speaker 1: getting married and adding one more incredible couple uh into
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  Speaker 1: this world. So let's recap of Wells and Sarah's wedding
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  Speaker 1: from what I know I can say because I don't
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  Speaker 1: know all of the rules and restrictions to what I
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  Speaker 1: can and cannot say about the wedding, but it's also
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  Speaker 1: my experience from the wedding, which was something very very special.
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  Speaker 1: Hi Ben, I'm here. Um, thank you for telling us
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  Speaker 1: about Sara Mill's wedding. I just caught the end of that.
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  Speaker 1: It looks looked stunning and her dresses were amazing based
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  Speaker 1: on what I saw on Instagram, dresses four four, Oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh. Okay, well, I think I've only seen two.
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  Speaker 1: I have to go do look at some pictures though.
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  Speaker 1: That is amazing. Wow, that's what like a real celebrity kid.
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  Speaker 1: You not almost famous? You can have four dresses. That's
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  Speaker 1: so amazing. Um okay, well, I am here in Nantucket.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a high noon at noon. Um, my sister's
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  Speaker 1: fiance his family comes out here every year. And because
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  Speaker 1: the travel time is like two hours for me and Jared,
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  Speaker 1: it's an hour drive, and that it's an hour ferry ride.
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  Speaker 1: This is the second time we've come up here and
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  Speaker 1: just spent a day, and I thought it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of fun to have Dawson take a ferry and just
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  Speaker 1: kind of like it out and like do a very
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  Speaker 1: New England vacation before the summer is over. In this
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  Speaker 1: summer here winds down quick like at night. I almost
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  Speaker 1: have to go out with that with a jacket now,
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  Speaker 1: and that really depresses me. Yeah, that's I've never been
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  Speaker 1: Nan tugget Um. But I mean it's gonna be increased
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  Speaker 1: as a whole family coming out. It's just his family
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  Speaker 1: and then then my sister and and me and Jared
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  Speaker 1: and and there's like like six of us right now. Awesome. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be special. Thanks for taking the time to
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  Speaker 1: sit down and chat about everything going on in Batchel Nation.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously there's a lot, as I just mentioned. I just
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  Speaker 1: talked about Saren Wills's wedding. Uh, we also have Spencer
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  Speaker 1: coming on. We're gonna break down the episode today and
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  Speaker 1: then also do Bachelor headlines. A lot to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm glad you're here to talk about it with
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  Speaker 1: with me. I don't know how to do this without
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  Speaker 1: you today. Oh you could do it without me, I
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  Speaker 1: know you could. Uh. Now we're gonna get Spencer on
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  Speaker 1: the line, and then after that we'll do the episode recap.
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  Speaker 1: But before we do have Spencer, and I have to say,
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  Speaker 1: can you think of his name without hearing Gabby say it,
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  Speaker 1: Spent Spent, Spencer, sp Spencer. Yeah, I'm doing my best.
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  Speaker 1: I got the yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, but you
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  Speaker 1: have to like nod really quickly what you say it.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if when you say this to him, um,
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  Speaker 1: if you would pick up on what you're what you're referencing,
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  Speaker 1: you would, of course he would. There's like invitations all
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  Speaker 1: over the internet, and I'm sure she's having a good
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  Speaker 1: time with them. Oh definitely. I mean, I've I've really
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  Speaker 1: loved watching Gabby and Rachel. I've I've been fans of
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  Speaker 1: them since the beginning. And you know, when you on
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  Speaker 1: this show, you always find your corks. And then Gabby's
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  Speaker 1: is obviously uh the yeah, like yeah, yeah, she's a
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  Speaker 1: good listener. She's an active listener. I guess what we
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  Speaker 1: could say is at least she you know, she's listening
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  Speaker 1: because she's responding to the things you're saying, which is
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  Speaker 1: a good trait to do. It's just it's just funny
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  Speaker 1: when you watch on TV. Yeah, but yeah, but you
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  Speaker 1: know it's the way she says it, because I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I say yeah as much as she does. But
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  Speaker 1: it's because like she has it's like a quirky tendency
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  Speaker 1: while she does it while like her voice is also
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  Speaker 1: quite unique, like yeah, okay, let's Spencer's wait in the
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  Speaker 1: waiting room. Let's bring him on hell Spencer Spencer, or
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  Speaker 1: as Gabby would say, Spencer. Yeah, no, she Um, she
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  Speaker 1: always had good Greeny Sports. I will always love Spey.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us today. And there's so much to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you about, because there's what I feel, so
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  Speaker 1: little of what we got to hear you talk about
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  Speaker 1: during the time on the show. But I obviously recording
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  Speaker 1: this on a Tuesday Monday night. Uh, episode aired. It
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  Speaker 1: was your first episode without being on it at all.
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  Speaker 1: How did it feel to watch an episode knowing that
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  Speaker 1: you are no longer a part of the season. It
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  Speaker 1: was actually definitely less anxiety driven. I think you always
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  Speaker 1: worry about what they're gonna show, what they're not gonna show.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have been there before, way more so than me. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But it was also like a really great time for
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  Speaker 1: me because I got to watch my friends and support them. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I think we all I don't know how much you
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  Speaker 1: guys watched last night, but I mean we got to
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  Speaker 1: really understand, like I know these guys because I spent
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  Speaker 1: every waking moment of them for you know, however many
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  Speaker 1: weeks I was there. But I think with this season,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we're getting kind of somewhat half of the screen
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  Speaker 1: time of the people who are on the show. Um,
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  Speaker 1: So you guys and all the viewers in America got
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  Speaker 1: to see the people that I've known now for the
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  Speaker 1: past couple of months. I got to see their personalities more,
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  Speaker 1: their parents, who I've you know, either met or you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about while we were on the show. So
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed watching even though I wasn't there, because
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  Speaker 1: those are some of my closest friends now, um, and
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  Speaker 1: getting to see you know, they've interact with their families
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  Speaker 1: as well as obviously something I still haven't even seen yet.
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  Speaker 1: So it was great. Did you watch the show before
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  Speaker 1: you're on it before like previous seasons? Yeah, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: I did, I think. Um, the first one I really
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  Speaker 1: watched was I grew up with Connor Saley from Hannah
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  Speaker 1: Brown season. Um, yeah, yeah, I haven't talking to him
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit now, UM, but I so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: our hometown kind of kind of all we all watched right,
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  Speaker 1: um to support Connor, and so ever since that, I've
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  Speaker 1: been keeping up with the main characters. Right like after
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  Speaker 1: Hannah Brown, it was you know, Pete Pete Webber, and
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  Speaker 1: so I kind of been trickling down the line keeping
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  Speaker 1: in touch with the main characters and all that. So, UM,
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  Speaker 1: I love the main characters, that's yeah, I mean the
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  Speaker 1: main characters of the of the reality show. But yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: they have been keeping up the past couple years. So
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  Speaker 1: was there like a relation there as to how you
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  Speaker 1: got on? Like did Connor help you out? Uh? No,
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  Speaker 1: I mean just with a lot of advice. I was
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  Speaker 1: actually in the casting process for a different season, um,
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  Speaker 1: but that got put on hold for um a lot
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  Speaker 1: of reasons, and so ended up working out for this
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  Speaker 1: this season specifically. UM, And I'm pretty happy about that
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  Speaker 1: just because of I know it was a weird season,
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  Speaker 1: but I really enjoyed my time. They're meaning Gabby and
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  Speaker 1: Rachel um and I think the guys I just kind
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  Speaker 1: of really got along with as well. So I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: have best for a better season. And beyond. Can we
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  Speaker 1: can we dig into that a little bit. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously I mentioned before you came on in your intro
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  Speaker 1: that you've made some good friendships from the show. You
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned you've made some good friendships from this show.
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  Speaker 1: The drama amongst the cast, I would say was very
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  Speaker 1: limited compared to other seasons this season. Uh what about
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  Speaker 1: kind of the behind the scenes and your time with
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  Speaker 1: the other dudes? Uh did you find so enjoyable? Like
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  Speaker 1: what was so fun about this process? Where some people
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  Speaker 1: get off the show and they're like, Yeah, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it. This wasn't fun for me. You obviously have
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  Speaker 1: a different perspective. Yeah, I, Um, I don't know. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: if you asked like Chris, maybe he didn't have such
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  Speaker 1: a good time this season. Um, But I think the
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  Speaker 1: rest of us, the rest of us, the rest of
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  Speaker 1: us did. And I'm not entirely sure, just because I
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  Speaker 1: haven't been on a normal season. Um. And we could
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  Speaker 1: probably go back and forth about this, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: comparing your best experiences to mine. Um. I just think
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  Speaker 1: that with there being two bachelorettes, there was a lot
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  Speaker 1: more The stress in the house was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: lower at first because you know, there's not one girl.
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  Speaker 1: There's not one Hannah Brown that you know, Connor and
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  Speaker 1: Tyler and Peter and everybody's trying to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: There's two. So you know, you had more time with
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  Speaker 1: at least one girl up front if you weren't sure
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  Speaker 1: who you wanted to, you know, pursue. And that also
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  Speaker 1: opened up or dialogue between the guys like, oh, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how would your conversation with Rachel. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: talked for her yet, you know what she like, and
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  Speaker 1: so all these things. It was just it was a
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  Speaker 1: lot less stress at first, and so that kind of
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  Speaker 1: built up our um bonding from the start um, which
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  Speaker 1: maybe damp into the drama later on. I'm not entirely sure,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that's kind of where where the friendships
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  Speaker 1: kind of started to started to bloom on our season.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have friends that went to the quote other
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  Speaker 1: side the other team and then you just missed them
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  Speaker 1: like they weren't around anymore. So we missed Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: missed him a ton. Um. It was it's because they
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  Speaker 1: did when um, they made it a point to be
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  Speaker 1: two separate seasons to different journeys, and they, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they were right about that. It really was on the boat. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we were in separate you know areas. It was. It
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  Speaker 1: was we didn't you know. I think you saw we
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  Speaker 1: have like the Social Club and someone like that. I
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  Speaker 1: think the Rachel camp had like a different name for
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  Speaker 1: their crew. But yeah, we weren't hanging out. We only
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  Speaker 1: saw each other cocktail parties. So um, seeing that the
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  Speaker 1: roster Monty cocktail parties will be even what's up man? Like,
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  Speaker 1: We're like, so we would compare notes and they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you went to you know, the basketball Corey Plan the
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  Speaker 1: other other day. So um, it really watched separate seasons
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  Speaker 1: and it sucked having friends on the other side for sure. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the let's get to the elephant the room Spencer obviously,
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  Speaker 1: uh Fasgination knows you. Uh, they got to watch you
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  Speaker 1: for many weeks. But the thing I said last week
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  Speaker 1: on this show was we didn't hardly hear from you,
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  Speaker 1: um all season, and uh why was that? Are you
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  Speaker 1: more reserved and quiet? Do you not feel like you
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  Speaker 1: had those big moments? Like what was when you look
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  Speaker 1: back now, what what's your reasoning to why we just
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  Speaker 1: didn't get to see a lot of you. I I'm
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  Speaker 1: definitely a little more reserved. I wouldn't say I'm the
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  Speaker 1: ideal reality TV contestant. Um. And for a lot of reasons,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Um, I don't know, maybe just just
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  Speaker 1: where I come um, um, trying to remain calm and
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  Speaker 1: stressful situations. I definitely lost it once or twice, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they showed it. Um. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know what it is. I think behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes, I was a lot you know, uh, talkative, laughable, enjoyable,
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  Speaker 1: and I was just kind of worried about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of edit you might get or might not get.
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  Speaker 1: So that kind of hurt my journey with Gabby actually
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  Speaker 1: looking back, because I wasn't as open or as vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: as I probably should have been or could have been. Um.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why you didn't hear me, um for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And and again it definitely didn't hder my relationship with
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  Speaker 1: again because she was putting herself out there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being the lead then you know, like you you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're you're giving it all out there from episode one.
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  Speaker 1: So that's something I definitely should have done. Um. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just kind of like a more reserved, calm person,
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  Speaker 1: and I wasn't really acting up on the show a lot,
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  Speaker 1: So maybe executive producers didn't didn't didn't love that I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't m maybe being as as talkative or or honest
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  Speaker 1: as I could have been. For sure, I always say
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  Speaker 1: that it's better to be a listener and be quiet
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  Speaker 1: and than to be the one that is out there instigating.
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  Speaker 1: So I think you did just find my friend. Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it that everybody is wondering this week Logan's
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  Speaker 1: about what a good Logan's departure. People are like, okay, wait,
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  Speaker 1: so the guys they were find out what happened with Logan,
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  Speaker 1: They were also like mysterious about it, and did he
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  Speaker 1: really have COVID? Or did the producers one about the show?
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  Speaker 1: So do you know the truth? Can you relay for us?
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  Speaker 1: You know? That's hilarious. I like, they have me now
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  Speaker 1: questioning myself if if Logan had COVID, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: you guys have all these crazy here as you see,
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  Speaker 1: these means of like that girl talking to that guy
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  Speaker 1: at that concert. Hilarious. Um, but I think no, as
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  Speaker 1: far as I know him and I'm aware, Um, he
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  Speaker 1: had COVID because he had to quarantine on his you know,
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  Speaker 1: on his like last couple of days out. They followed
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  Speaker 1: every protocol so um, I have not heard otherwise, and
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  Speaker 1: in my experience to be in there, he he had COVID.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't see him. We were actually pretty nervous. We
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  Speaker 1: retested into all that stuff. Um. So if if if
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  Speaker 1: he didn't, I guess they're really kind of uh digging
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  Speaker 1: themselves in and they're not going to reveal if he
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  Speaker 1: didn't or didn't. But I personally think he did. But
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  Speaker 1: then why did nobody else get it? And how? Because
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: if you saw that date? Um, we were like on
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  Speaker 1: like the we were laying down on our backs and
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  Speaker 1: Gabby was like going from one to another like maybe
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: kissing a few of us, I don't know exactly kissing
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: or what so. Um when they were like, yeah, look
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: at us COVID, I was like, oh my god, we
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: all have COVID. Um, But I don't know. I don't
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: know why. Honestly, I have no clue. I I wish
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I knew, like for sure, because the Internet now has
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: me questioning like everything else about the show as well.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: So you guys are hilarious, especially Reddit redd it's out
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: there with some crazy theories. Um, as far as he quarantined,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: he quarantined. Well, no one really talks about me because
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: again we just saw I was on the show for
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: four minutes over six episodes, which is wild. So I'm
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: just there for for the good time since to see
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: the jokes some of you guys make. UM, not you specifically,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: but some of the people. Well, you get an upfront
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and very close seat to all of the happenings behind
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the scenes. Now, you mentioned that you've made some friends
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: on this show. Who have you stayed really close with? Uh, definitely,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, for sure, a lot of Chicago guys, Um
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: you talked about, like Nate, Mario Colin Intermaine. Beyond the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Chicago guys, though, I think, um, wow, it's tough because
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I really do, um feel like I'm close with a
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: lot of them. Um, I'll say I mean for sure
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: the Gabby side, Eric, Eric and I were pretty close
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: towards the end there. Um, and Johnny was one of
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the most funny like people I've ever met. So I
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: love Johnny as well and I wish him nothing but
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the best. Um. Maybe on the Rachel side, you know
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Ethan Avan Um. There were some good friends and I
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: really enjoyed them on the boat when we would run
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: into each other, Um, and you guys like you run
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: into him, I think because we had to eat in
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: the that's where were eating, like the cafeteria on the
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: on the cruise ship as well. So sometimes like when
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: you're being taken from the room to um the cafeteria
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and you pass him in the elevator, like you that
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to happen. You're like pulling off and everything. Um.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: So that was a good break in our day. But
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: definitely those crew Chicago Eric Ifan Ethan. Yeah. Oh well,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I want to ask you a whole bunch of cruise
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: ship questions now, but I will keep it to Bachelor.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Are you going to be on Bachelor in Paradise? Um?
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I I am not going to be um coming up,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: but we'll see in the future. I'm still thinking about everything,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and you guys, you know you experienced it, so maybe
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I can ask you is that something I should do? Yes? Okay, yes, right,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: just actually I've ben you to go. Actually, yeah, you
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: liked your time? Yes, it was the most emotionally, um
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: emotional turmoil I've ever experienced. It was so difficult. It
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: was like going through emotion boot camp. But obviously I
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: have a husband and a baby from it, so I'm
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: happy I was for sure from actually okay, right, yeah,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: so that makes you want to go even more? Um, No,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I I think it's a great time. From what I've heard,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: most people actually have said, you know, the texting thing
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: as you Um, yes, uh, so I would love to go.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Um and if it works out, I would definitely love
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: to go for sure. Um. I think you know, it
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: would maybe open me up a little bit. I think
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: we just talked about how I'm quiet, um, and it would,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: but it would be good for me to push push
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: my emotional emotional boundaries for sure on on camera. We
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: we love to play as game spencer and you're gonna
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: love it too. You just mentioned that you're interested, or
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: at least you're open to the idea of Paradise if
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Paradise started tomorrow, knowing what you know about Bachelor Nation
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and not knowing anything about what happens during Paradise this year.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Who is somebody you would want to take on a
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: date in Paradise from Bachelor Nation? Oh boy? Wow? Uh
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: really putting me on the spot. Here. I asked the guys.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I was like, A should have anything prepped in there? Like, no,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: just going in it's fun. You guys are good nor questions. Um, wow,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I don't even know. Yes, do you seem very educated?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I do know the franchise pretty well, all the main characters.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's like one girl out there who
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I would be like, Oh no, I wouldn't go on
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: like every you know, the past couple of Bachelor seasons
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I've watched like m nine of every ten of the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: girls are like wow, she's adorable and hilarious and cute,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Like why would I not want to go on a
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: date with that person? Um? I think from Clayton Seen
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: is probably the most recent one that I would like
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: name so Um I thought, you know, I really thought
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: was just super sweet. Um it was like Teddy, she
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: was sweet the whole season. I would really like to
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: get to know it, just as like a person. Um her, Well,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to go back. Um, I mean that works.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: You said Teddy. I mean we're Teddy fans here were
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: cann't see a lot of Teddy. Uh, you know, after
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: really the first week, acclaims that was kind of a weird,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: like she was yeah out of the gate, you know,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: everybody's talking about her, and then things kind of fizzled out.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened there. Teddy would be a
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: great choice, Uh, Spincer, I'd love to make that happen
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: for you. Hopefully next year she's on the beach. Hopefully
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: you're on the beach and you guys are able to
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: go jet skiing in in Mexico. That'd be really sweet. Yeah,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: that would be a cool day for sure. I think
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I've reached my limit of of dates that with Dominatresses
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: and Amsterdam, I think, oh my gosh. We were talking
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: about that date last week of cars and we were
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: just like, you know, we don't always love group dates
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and we don't always love overtly sexual dates, but that
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: one was pretty fun for us to watch as an audience.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: But we felt really bad for you guys know it actually,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: So it was a super strange day to walking on
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: And I think some of the memes about me were
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: like so funny, um because I was like like what
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the like, what is this? Like? What is going on?
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: But it actually ended up being fun because we got
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to like at least show the audience some like personality
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: and for me, as someone who's like pretty non talkative,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: that was fun for me to watch back. Um, but yeah,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: it was. It was a lot. It was interesting. Group
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: dates are are never perfect. Um, so I think jet
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: skiing uh in Paradise would be a little bit, um,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: a little bit more intimate or enjoyable, especially you know,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: with someone like Teddy who's just like adorable and it
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: just seems like a really sweet person Um. That's you know,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: you know something I would enjoy a well, I'm wishing
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: that you were there. You're there too, man. Hey uh Spencer,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: it's really great to have you on. Thank you for
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: giving us uh your time. I know that you're around
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: a lot during the season. We were excited to have
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: you on to get to hear more from you. We
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: hope to see more of you in the future. But
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: until we get to do that, until you come on again,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: thanks for coming on this fast podcast. It means a lot, dude.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Of course, Thank you guys. You guys are super amazing.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I appreciate everything you guys do. Everyone I've talked to
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: is like, oh my god, they're the best. You know,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: x y Z. So you have a bunch of fans
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: within the community, so that means a lot that is
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: going to I know. Um, yeah, please come back and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: give us all the details about the cruise ship and
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: all the other things that you weren't able to say today.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Of course, of course, actually thank you guys. Alright, this
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: week's episode is hometowns. Obviously there is a lot to
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: discuss because there's a lot of hometowns. Ashley, let's get
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: it started. What do you think at Jason's hometown? Jason's hometown?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: My My major takeaway is he doesn't seem like super
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: into it. He's not super into it. I haven't feel
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: like into it all season. You don't think that he's
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: been into like Gabby that much. No, I think he is.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he knows how to express it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: He's into I said that, I think after their first
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: one on one where it's like maybe everybody here is
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: seeing something I'm not, But I just don't see it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Like I think he's probably a great dude, and I
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: think they have some chemistry. I just don't I don't
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: see like the flirtation that you would expect when we're flirtation.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I feel no chemistry. I was I feel weird about
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: this because when they were together in France, loved him,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: thought that he was the front runner, and then all
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, I felt nothing. With his hometown. He um,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: he seems like he's a nice family. That that house
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: was really opulent and fun to look at. But that
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: was my biggest takeaway. That and the fact that his
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: mom is the absolute opposite of your typical bachelor mom.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: She was like, Oh, you're not ready to get engaged,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: but I want you to get engaged in this girl tomorrow.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: It was hilarious and it made me think, this mom
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: is a Bachelor fan mom. She signed him up for
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the show. Now her her son is close to that
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: like Pinnacle Final Rose, and he doesn't really care about it,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: and she's like, no, you should care about it. I
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: want you to be happy. Oh yeah, well it was
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: fun to watch. Like you said, it is a good family.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: New Orleans is always amazing. Uh, don't see the flirtation
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: between the two of them. Definitely would have put it
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: up there in my top hometown date. So let's move
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: on then to Zach's hometown, which took place in Anaheim.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Zach's hometown was nice. It was probably obviously with Rachel. Yes,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Zack's hometown, to put it briefly, was probably the family
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: that you most want to meet out of all the
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: families we saw today, the family that like it went
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: according to ideal plan. You know, I'm gonna go meet
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the parents, and it went quite smoothly. They're very warm.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I feel like they're warm, but dad was a little intimidating. Okay,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: but but I think overall like they accepted her. Yeah,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think it's I mean, I
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: would say this. The beauty of hometowns is the uniqueness
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: of each family. And so some people might see, for example,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and we're going to get to it like Tino's family
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and be like, wow, that was really bad, you know,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: And every season kind of has the family that doesn't
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: enjoy the process and doesn't enjoy the idea of what's happening.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I actually like it and I respect it, uh to
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the point of where I'd say, yeah, smoothness is cool,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: but it's not one. It's not great viewing pleasure. And too,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: we don't get to learn as much about the family
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: as maybe I would ideally want. We didn't get to
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: learn as much as this family because they weren't they
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: didn't have as much of an in your phase dynamic. Yeah,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: i'd say that. Yeah, I get that. I totally understand that.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: But they did have a cute pre date when they
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: went and they watched the airplanes. I think that really
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: kicked it off for me. I think this guy, Zach
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: seems like this is just a prediction on my part. Seriously, guys,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: we are not spoiled. I haven't been spoiled for seasons
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and seasons. Um. My prediction is that they're really setting
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: him up to be the heartbroken one, kind of like
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: a Blake hurtsman. I feel like he's probably the one
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: that she should pick in the end um and I
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: think she's going to pick Tino, even though it seems
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: like Zach and my opinion is way more genuinely invested.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a Zach fan, I'm on I'm on
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Zax team, and I agree with you. I'm on Zack's
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: team now too. I think what he's showing h is
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: that one he respects his his family, that he respects Rachel,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: and then he also has this creativity around wanting to
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: have these experiences with Rachel that will be memorable and
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: meaningful and he's going out of his way to do that,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: and so I do. I'm I like Zach a lot. Well,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Gabby has her next hometown. It's Johnny's hometown. Johnny's an
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: interesting character to me. It's Florida, but he's kind of
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: one that's snuck up just to share my thoughts. He
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: snuck up on me. I can't quite fully read him,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: but he obviously has Gabby's interest, but he kind of
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: came out of nowhere from me. I think she's really
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: physically attracted to him, and I think they have good
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: like fun, flirty physical attraction band her and chemistry. I
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: don't know that they're like they're not like long haul people,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and I think we kind of like got a preview
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: of that. Like he's basically says to his parents like
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not ready to get engaged. I'm not going to
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: get engaged now, and he made it seem like it's
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: not even like it's not even like he was like,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: it's not her. I feel like, okay, I feel like
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: he's not sold on the fact of being with Gabby
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: long term. Not sure if he's sold there, and then
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I know he's not sold on getting engaged after such
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: a short period of time, and his parents are actually
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: again like Jason's parents, like they're kind of encouraging him
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: two go for it if he feels if he feels
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: like it's right in two weeks or whatever the amount
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: of time is that they have left. Uh, they go,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: you know, I think you are like mature emotionally enough.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Financially you may not be, but that's something you can
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: grow together. That conversation really stuck with me. Yeah, financially,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: just get engaged. It's gonna work out. Don't worry about it. Uh,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: there's things that can happen. No, I mean his family did.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed his family dynamics. I loved his family. Yeah,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: there was this, there was this back and forth, and
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: there was this kind of like you'd hope in a
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: in a parent where you express one thing and they
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: might not agree with you, and so from a loving
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: place they kind of tell you what they're seeing. I
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: think we got that with Johnny's family, and I enjoyed
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: that that kind of dialogue. He's still up there for me.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I don't know how long this lasts,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: but there is still this. I would put him above
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Jason now me too, me too, And like if we
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: had to rank them, uh so, I wouldn't last week,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: but now after some hometowns, I would. And I also
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: just want to say about Johnny's family and just the
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: conversation that he had with his parents was the first time,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: perhaps or one of the very few times that I've
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: watched um you know, the contestant talk to their parents
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: and feel like this feels really authentic. This feels like
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: there's a hidden camera going on. There's nothing like over
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the top about it. This really seems like a conversation,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: a serious conversation that I would have with my parents
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: over dinner, and it would be on air and I
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have been known it was found. I just really
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: really liked the vibe there. Yeah, I'm with you. I
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: don't disagree with anything you just said. The vibe of
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: this hometown felt very very hometown ish on what you
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: would expect and want in need. There's a little drama,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: they're a little intrigue, but then there's a lot of love. Well,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: speaking of drama and intrigue, we have Rachel's hometown next
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: with Tyler. This one was very unexpected. It was in Wildwood,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: New Jersey. I didn't see this coming, Ashley, what in
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: my reference seen here? You sort of saw it coming
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: because last week we thought it was super weird that
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: he didn't have a one on one and he was
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: going into the hometowns and meeting a family. Why bring
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: him to hometowns then? I don't know. But anyways, yeah,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: lo and behold we see that he he doesn't actually
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: she doesn't actually meet the family. They go to Wildwood Um,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: which is you know, basically like a fair carnival area
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: on the Jersey shore, you know, a boardwalk, and he
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: owns one of the games there, so obviously he has
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a big community there. He plays the games and goes
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: on rides with her. It's cute, you know, It's a
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: cute lead up to great day date before going home,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: and of course the cameras waiting. Yeah, but I mean,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: out of anybody so far, it feels like Tyler is
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: sold out. I know this is my wife. I'm all in,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: let's go. He says, I'm not just falling in love
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: with you, I am in love with you, and Rachel
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: is like just cringing, heartbreaking, and damn did he handle
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: it like the ultimate gentleman, like could he have been
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: more perfect in that moment? No, he did really well,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I thought he. I mean, I think he's probably he
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: didn't even ask act embarrassed, which is probably how I
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: would have acted, um or like just like no, never mind,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I take it back. I don't really mean what I said.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I would have done. But he
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: he just took it in stride and then gosh, dang it, ash,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, son of a biscuit. His family, his family
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: was so hyped, and it was like that was hard
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: for me. I did my awkward like I can't watch
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: the screen. I've got to walk away because it just
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: was so hard for me to see how happy they
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: were and they wouldn't let the poor boy get a
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: word out. I know, he is just a sweetness. And
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: my biggest takeaway from that day was this guy is
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: going to be totally fine. This is not even the
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: kind of guy that I worry about taking Bachelor at
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Fame and becoming an f boy with. I think he
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: just wants to find somebody to love. And he seems
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: to use the Ben Higgins word just so lovable. He
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: is lovable, and he lives in Wildwood, New Jersey and
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: he's got to be the most eligible bachelor in Wildwood,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, now right, I mean I even know where
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: that's at. But I mean he's I mean, think about
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: what he can offer you in life. And you can
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: always have a good time. You can play any game
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: you want, you can ride ride just nobody else there.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: And he's good looking and sweet, he's so cute. Yeah. Um,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: but oh it was hard to watch his family. I
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: just I kept I yelled at the screen. I kind
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: of do this, I have your reactions. I was like,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: let him talk, Like, let him talk. He just goes.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: He has to tell you you're you're you're taking the
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: knife and you're stabbing it in a little farther every time.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: You're like Rachel, and they're like Rachel. But then he
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: had like such incredible patients. Now, and there is something
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: to be said Ashley, because hometowns are wild and weird
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: and wacky. There is something to be said about how
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the the contestants uh navigate and communicate with their parents.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: It's also like you can see a little bit of
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: their character behind the scenes, and you could tell there
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: that his character is strong, like he he obviously was
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: not happy. He was probably a little upset with his family,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: but he just let it happen and then he was like, hey,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: just let you know this is what happened. And then
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: there then they all reacted well. But I really was
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: impressed with him, speaking of a man with character. Our
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: next home date hometown date was with Gabby and it's
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: it's with Eric, Eric's hometown. She is in New Jersey
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: as well. This, um, yeah, this is this hometown. Obviously
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: there's gonna be a headline here in a bit, um,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: but just so everybody knows, Eric's father to pass away
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: just a few weeks after this hometown date, um, which
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: brings the gravity of this date in this moment, and
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: having it recorded, I feel like um to an ever
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: brings it to even a more real level, a heavier
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: level than it already was. Watching But this, I mean, actually,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I know I'm kind of like having a monologue here,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: But what I found out, you know that I can't
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: speak about things like this. I just yeah, I feel
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: it and I can't put it into words. He seemed
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: like such a sweet, sweet man. Um. Do you could
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: tell that he was struggling? Yeah, Uh, you could obviously
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: see he was struggling. You could see the other family
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: rallying around him and Eric, their excitement for Eric. Uh.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: The thing that also here I didn't want to just
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: go unspoken is that Eric has been on this show
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: doing the best he can, investing them as much as
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: he can into this relationship with Gabby, while at the
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: same time knowing his dad is at home now. Some
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: would say, like in past seasons, right, how could you
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: leave him? I'm sure his dad wanted him to go, Like,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I'm sure his dad said, like, you need to do this,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: like you need to continue to live your life. You
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: don't know. I could be around for the next forty years.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: I could be around for the next year. You don't
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: know this. And so let's not judge Eric for leaving.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Let's give him some UM. I don't know if the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: word would be grace or just understanding on what his
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: position now has been through this whole experience. Uh, it's
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: had to be heavy on him, It's had to be
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: on his mind. Yet he has done the best he
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: can to try to still find love. And I'm I
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: just I want to give him kudos for that. I mean,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I left when my dad was you know, we had
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: an open heart surgery for my time on the Bachelor.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: It's really hard to be focused in the midst of that.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: And so yeah, I'm i'm I'm I'm impressed with Eric.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: I guess it would be how I sum all that
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: up me too. There was definitely a feeling of strength
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: at that home, that hometown date, and such a such
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: an also, um, a feeling of importance, like you knew
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: that moment wasn't like a TV moment for them, Like
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: that was such a real life moment, and every moment
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: at that point that he had with his son and
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: he had with his dad counted so much, um that
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: like every time, I'm sure they're like, this could be
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: the last time that I'm seeing him. Um, I don't know.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I obviously again him having my speechless moment, but it's
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: just it was a really that was just a moment.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: It's a moment that I will remember watching being speechless
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: over this is really okay, And I think many people
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: will be speechless. And that's why, you know, I guess
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: I did. I wanted to show I wanted to say, like, hey, Eric,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Eric was in it, like this is real life. This
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: is one of those and we haven't had a lot
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: of those this season. But it's one of those where
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: real life kind of comes into contact with the show
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: and it's no longer, like you said, a TV moment,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: and it's we have to we all have to sit
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: back and understand just how what was happening the sacred
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: space that was existing in that room, Uh, knowing that
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: his father was really sick, and knowing that his family
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: was all there, and just yeah, what was being said
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: and not said in that moment, uh, you know, to
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: protect his dad and protect Eric. But it was it
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: was heavy, and but also I want to say it
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: was very special because I think they grew, they grew
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: closer together, um from that time. Like I didn't really
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: want to say anything along those lines either, but that
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: is how I felt. Um. It's it just feels like
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: his dad is learning to be like really watching over
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: him for what he's going through right now between like
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: the show and whatever the after facts of the show are.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: F cancer. I don't like it. Nobody does sucks um,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: and so many of us have had personal experiences with it,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: um that have affected us. Switching gears. Now to the
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: final hometown date, which was Tino's. Obviously this was going
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: to be held to the end because it was the
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: most controversial, the most confusing. Um, we always have a
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: date like this every season. I'm gonna say some things
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: there about this day actually that I know I'm going
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: to get a lot of backlash for. Okay, but this
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: happened in Santa Clarita, California. I again, and I've messaged
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: you know, I like Tino like I I do. And
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: I think he has been a fan of the show
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: coming into it, which is even more confusing to me
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: on why his hometown date went the way it did
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: because I know his his family has watched it, like
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: there's videos of them watching it together. I don't understand
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: what was happening. Then in this environment, I think Tino
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: uh is very into Rachel, So I will put that
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: and say I think he just really like, actually likes her,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: believes that it could be his wife. But I would
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: say this is two weeks in a row where Tino
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: has been hasn't had his best weeks, uh And and
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: I say this, and this is where people will probably
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: get upset with me. I am confused on why his
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: family was so against the process, considering they knew what
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: he was getting into and their fans of the show
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that where that was coming from.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: They would have to explain that. But it was his
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: dismissal of his family's opinions that I felt like, maybe
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: rubbed me the wrong way. Tell me if I'm wrong,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: tell me if you disagree with me. But I felt
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: like he almost was like unlike maybe Johnny's like Johnny's reaction,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: he just wasn't listening to what his family even was
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: trying to say, am I wrong? You're not wrong, But
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: there's definitely just like different family relationships, Like my family
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: is so close, you know, close close clothes can't get
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: much closer. And we talked to each other, like if
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: you heard the way that we talked to each other
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: sometimes each other. Yeah, I remember one time I got
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: on here and I thought that Lauren took my SD
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: card and I go, lord card, that's stupid, bitch, And
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: I literally sound like angry at her, but like then
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: I told her, I go Lauren. I got on the
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: podcast and I called Lauren. I said, I called you
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: a stupid bitch. And I think that people weren't used
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: to the fact that that's how we talked to each other,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: and she would like laughed, you know, and like my
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: dad tells me all the time, you know, stuff like that,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: So I can if it's that, then it's that not
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: everybody has to be like so totally. I am more
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: puzzled now that you brought up the fact that they're
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: fans of the show. And now again I'm worried about um,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: him just wanting to win to win, because you know
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: that that's been a concern of mine the past couple weeks.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: And I know that he's been a fan, but like
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: somehow like putting it together now and like that Final
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Rose is something that he's like watched for years, which
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: is obviously not unlike so many of us. Um, I
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: don't know why he's giving me f boy vibes so
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: much and guys, again, like I said last week, it's
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: not something I want to feel towards him, but I
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: am there's like something there I can't fully trust. He
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: his dad did say something on Instagram or on Facebook
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. This just came out, you know,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: bachelor data. So he wrote a couple of weeks ago,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: like Tino, a suitcase had more airtime than Tino did
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: this week. He wrote that as a Facebook status, and
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: he goes. I don't know who goes around recording data
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: like this like some nerd uh, but the data is
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: out there. So that just makes me feel like the
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: family is sort of okay. I'm totally like kind of
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: making up a storyline and being a little dramatic here,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: but I'm just, you know, I'm creating a podcast, creating thoughts. Okay,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: what if like they really just were obsessed with having
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Tino get as much airtime as possible, and maybe them
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: being fans that kind of knew how to ruffle feathers
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: and to get some good airtime on a hometown. I
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: don't know. I'm telling you, I know that that's true.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I don't even think that's true. I'm just saying things now. Well,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: here's what we do know. We know they're fans of
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: the show. Before Tina went on, there's been videos of
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: them watching it together, which to me is confusing on
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: why then the reaction was the way it was about
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: how upset they were that they were at this place.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know behind the scenes, and and none of
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: us do. But like as she said, she was creating
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: a thought, this is what's going through her mind as
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: she is playing back kind of what what just happened
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: during this episode, but it is confusing for me. This
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: was definitely not the hometown date that either Rachel or
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Tina wanted. And then it also seems like it wasn't
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: like the family to even won a hometown date, like
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: for Tina to show up and be like, hey, I'm
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: really into this person. Like they were against it before
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: you even walked in. It felt like and I mean
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: my parents were, you know, super weirded out that I was,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: you know, claiming that this was gonna be you know,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: my my partner after the show, and that I was
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: bringing these girls to meet them, and but you know,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: they were weird out by I don't think they enjoyed
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: the idea of it. Obviously today they don't. They still
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: they don't enjoy the idea of it. But um, they
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: at least like gave the space to be open to
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: it because they knew that's what I was doing and
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: they trust me with that. And I felt like here
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: they just weren't into it. And I don't know what
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: of a date that you had with Jojo and her brothers.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, probably, yeah, probably. I probably had a little
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: bit of a bad memories from that Yeah, now you're right,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: it did. And it's just a weird environment to sit
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: in where you're like, I don't know how to explain
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: to you, you know, why we're sitting in front of
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: you today, and then the fact that we're into each
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: other and we're trying to figure this out. I don't
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: know how to I can't like explain away the show.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you it's gonna work or it's not
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: gonna work. And so I don't know what kind of
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: answers you're hoping from me today, Like I I don't
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: know how to give you answers without just telling you
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: a bunch of fluffy things that sound nice and get
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: us through this evening. But yeah, putting me in a
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: corner doesn't help. That's kind of how I felt, um,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: and I think that's how I felt watching it. Was
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: you know, Rachel's getting there being like, hey, I'm really
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: into this guy and I potentially want to like be
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: engaged this man, and by the way his family has
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: uh definitely made it clear not into it. I don't
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: know if that's how you want anybody to leave. Well,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Tino seemed to like, You're like, no, everything's fine, and
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: she was like, no, no, no, that was weird to me. Yeah,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: that was weird to me that he tried to do that.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: I mean that was like I think he was trying
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: to save face and trying to make it like so
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: he slept better than night. But yeah, that was a weird.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, if that's how they show like their love
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: and support, then I would have other questions. Yeah, I
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: don't know. The more I think about this, the more
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking these people love the show. Maybe they talked
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: to producers beforehand. Producers they were like, you know, put
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: some ideas in their head and then they're like, yeah,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: let's roll of this. Oh goodness, I hope not well.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Next week we get Avan's hometown date. In the mentel all,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: We're looking forward to Avan's hometown date. That's all we
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: got for this episode as hometowns, most of them, not
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: all of them. Again, even is next week? Mentel all
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: is next week? And uh yeah, I don't know. I
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: mean mentel all, it feels like it's going to be
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: a little bit. There was no fighting here. Why even
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: have one skip it? Skip it? All? Right? Hey, Ashley,
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: we got bachelor headlines to roll ride into. Uh, we've
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: talked about a few of them already. Obviously, Wells and
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Sarah's wedding was incredible. Um, I have some amazing stories
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: that at some point on this podcast I'll share from
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: the wedding, but I want to give Wells and Sarah
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: the space to show and share everything they can from
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: their very special day before I give all the little
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: like details and the funny moments in between. Okay, of
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: the people that were there and some of the the
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: awkward run ins, but jessicin I did have an incredible time,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: and h bachel Nation did come out to celebrate with them,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: and we are excited for them as they now officially
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: can be a husband and wife, which had been waiting
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: for for years. We also, um, you know, I just
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: want to again say, Hey, Eric, if you ever listen
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: to this podcast, We're thinking about you and your family. Uh,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: your dad. Uh show courage and strength and grace during
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: this episode. It's all I've ever been able to see
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: of him. It's all Ashley has been able to see
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: of him. All a lot of us that watch the
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: show have ever been able to see of him. But Uh,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: it was it was a special moment watching that dynamic
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: in that hometown. I know it carries a lot of weight.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: I know. Um, it was probably hard to see over.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: But your dad was a courageous man from what we saw,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: and so take that for what you will. But moving
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: on then to the headlines, we haven't got to talk
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: about the bachelor. Clayton and also his his contestant, are
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: they engaged. His girlfriend Susie are no longer living together
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna do long distance. They're gonna live in
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: different states, which is not what they told us when
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: they were on this podcast. So this was like dramatic online,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: but they claim it's not really dramatic. So they didn't
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: move to Virginia together. Clayton moved there for her, and
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: then on the podcast they alluded to being open to
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: moving to other places. Well, they are going to move
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: back to where he was living, Scottsdale, Arizona. But while
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: they're getting that house together, UM, they are going to
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be a little bit apart. Clayton is going
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: to be in Arizona and Susie is going to be
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: in l a. Um. They said they also are only
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: fifty minutes a flight apart. They're both chasing their dreams, um,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: and it's a commuter, but for right now, that's going
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: to work for them, um, And what I read it
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: was mostly it was mostly about them like settling eventually
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: in Arizona and not so much going back and forth.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: But according to this article from people, it's looking more
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: like it's a long term UM long distance relationship. Well,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: we want them to be happy because they seem like
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: they're supportive and caring for each other, and so long
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: distance doesn't mean it's bad. I mean, my wife and
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: had long distance for a long time. Many of you
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: listening have done long distance. I don't know if it's
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: ideal or not ideal. It works out for us, it
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: works out for many, so maybe it's gonna work out
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: for them. But we want them happy because they seem
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: great together and we really like the two of them together.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: They've been through the Ringer, I mean, they've been through
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: a lot um with each other so far. Well. Actually, uh,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: the final headline today, it's really about Nate Mitchell. He's
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: still making headlines here even since his departure from the show.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: We have articles and headlines here about people um threatening
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: to not watch the show if he's the batchelor. We
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: also have people then here saying, hey, we want him
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: to be the Bachelor, that this is unfair for people
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: to still be talking about the way you know, this
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: situation went down where one person on TikTok kind of
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: said that they're dating or Nate and he didn't tell
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: about his daughter and then he's all dating other people
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: at the same time. He has a quote for it,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: and uh, and you can break down anything I didn't say.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: They're actually he said the reason that you know people
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: didn't meet his daughters because you have to get through
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: a king to get to the queen. Is a quote
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: from Nate Mitchell about this situation. Mm hmmm. And he
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: said this message to Will Smith's just the two of us.
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  Speaker 1: Um it was pictures and um them daughter and and
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  Speaker 1: and father in front of Cinderella's castle and uh yeah,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: just basically denying the fact that Nate ever cheated on
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  Speaker 1: the girl who we discussed last week. Um. She claims.
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  Speaker 1: His ex claims uts he was deeming another girl during
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: the relationship and that she learned about him having a
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: daughter on TV even though they dated for a year
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: and a half, that it's obviously a big deal. Um,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: but people are people are rallying to make him not
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor. People really don't want him to be the
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Bachelor after all these rumors. Just a little tidbit here,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Dustin Kennan, you know Peter Webber's bestie. He is longtime
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: friends with Nate. And he says, first off, let me
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: say this is not an angel. He's not a perfect guy. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But I feel like you don't go and try to
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: tarnish someone's name because a relationship didn't work out. It
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: seems childish to me. So who knows whatever happened there.
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  Speaker 1: But I would say that this is enough speculation in
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: the hardcore bachelor community, you know, the people that spend
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of time talking about and researching on the internet,
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: that he won't be the next Bachelor. Um. And because
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: of that, because he seemed to be a front runner
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: for next Bachelor with this cast of guys, people are
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: starting to think that Greg Rippo I'd be the next.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: This guy's name is just gonna keep popping up until
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: they make him the Bachelor. He's just got a lot
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: of fans support behind him. Yeah, I saw that. I
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: want to be shocked. I want to be surprised he'd be.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: You know, if somebody said and we'll do an episode
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: where you kind of break down who do we think
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: will be the next Bachelor? He probably at He would
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: be at the top of my listen who I think
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: could be it? But there's some others out there as
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: well well. Ashley. Uh final little headline, I guess just
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: to say not Bachelor Nation affiliated. But j Lo and
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Ben Affley got married. I'm very passionate about this. I
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: love those two together so so much. I love this
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: look at him. He's rolling his eyes at me. I'm sorry,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: but they're like two of my favorites separately and even
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: better together. Jared and I feel like we would be
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: best friends with Ben Affleck. He has a lot of
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: similar interests in His passion for all the things that
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: he's interested in really really hits our heart. We really
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: support Ben. We've loved this relationship back twenty years ago,
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: and we're very excited when it re reignited last year.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen any pictures yet. I feel like Jello's
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: dress pictures aren't out there, the actual seremony pictures aren't
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  Speaker 1: out there, truly. I found their Vegas wedding more thrilling
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: than the big elaborate wedding because it was a little
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: less expected. But either way, I think this is happy
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: news and I think it's a really cool story. I
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: just hope it lasts. You know, two huge personalities we'll see.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: I hope this is this podcast, and I hope they
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: know that we're both of fen and we were invited
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: to their wedding. Hey, Ashley, that's all we got for
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: everybody today. We'll be back next week breaking down Avan's
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: hometown day and the Mente law and everything good happening
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: in Bachelor Nation and also what's happening in our lives.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: I think at that point I'll be able to give
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: some more funny details a couple of funny stories from
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: the Wells and sarah wedding. But it was it was
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: special again. Congratulations to the two of them. Congratulations to
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: Ben affleck In Jennifer Lopez on their wedding. Until next time,
• 57:17
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