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Love is in Bloom · 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 i R Radio. Oh my goodness, Ashley, I con Eddie.
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Speaker 1: This is a huge day for us. We have the
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Speaker 1: Bachelorette on the podcast. Yes, we love kicking off the
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Speaker 1: season with that. Yes, it's such a big deal for
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Speaker 1: us and for everybody out there listening. So Michelle Young
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Speaker 1: will be coming on in just a second after her
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Speaker 1: first episode as the Bachelor. You know, from watching UM
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Speaker 1: like Instagram, it feels like the Bachelor UM team is
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Speaker 1: really pushing you know, social media and these events and
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Speaker 1: getting you know, the name out there and and kind
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Speaker 1: of treating more than ever these bachelorette and bachelor's as
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Speaker 1: a star. And it feels like Michelle's like kind of
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Speaker 1: just walked into it and done it well so far,
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Speaker 1: at least from what I see. Yeah, I feel like
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Speaker 1: she just has this natural instinct to be so good
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Speaker 1: with media. She's just naturally a very like a little girl.
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Speaker 1: And like, how great did she look? She's so pretty?
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Speaker 1: She was like my eye candy last night watching the episode.
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Speaker 1: She's beautiful, she is, and uh, and I think these
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Speaker 1: guys are going to be just really struck by Michelle.
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Speaker 1: The whole time. But yeah, it's uh, it's it's just
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Speaker 1: interesting because she I mean, even her preview ash like
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Speaker 1: when she's walking through like I don't you know that,
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Speaker 1: like the woods and the dress, like it's just like
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Speaker 1: this is I mean, it's kind of funny. I remember
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Speaker 1: Katie Thurston making a joke about it, like Katie had
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Speaker 1: like a rubber skirt on and kind of just like
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Speaker 1: sat in the studio and then Michelle's out there walking
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Speaker 1: through her first force. It's beautiful. It reminds me a
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Speaker 1: lot of the Hannah Brown promos back in the day.
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Speaker 1: I totally agree. Yes, it's very whimsical, fairy tale like,
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Speaker 1: and she does just carry herself with a lot of
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Speaker 1: grace and confidence. I'm we're excited that we're gonna dig
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Speaker 1: into the episode with her. We're going to talk to
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Speaker 1: her about like you know, the normal bachelor at life,
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Speaker 1: and then we're going to go into recapping the episode
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Speaker 1: with her. So but before we get on the phone
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Speaker 1: with her, we have a new bachelor bracket rule because
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Speaker 1: we're continuing with the bachelorette bachelorte bracket this season. It's
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Speaker 1: a big deal. Obviously, we just had Alexis the winner
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Speaker 1: of Paradise on the podcast Congratulations once again into Alexis Um.
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Speaker 1: But we are also now promoting this new season of
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Speaker 1: the Bachelorette. It's the Bachelor. Brackett is back play along
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Speaker 1: with us the Almost Famous team. The rule of the
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Speaker 1: week for week two is you get ten more points
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Speaker 1: every time a contestant is seen hugging Michelle on a
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Speaker 1: group date. You can visit Bachelorette dot batch bracket dot com. Again,
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Speaker 1: that's Bachelorette dot batch Bracket dot com to set up
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Speaker 1: an account, pick your favorites. Alright, Ash, it's time, let's
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Speaker 1: bring Michelle on and break down the episode. All right,
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Speaker 1: as promised, everybody, we have just the absolute star of
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Speaker 1: this season, Michelle Young on the Almost Famous podcast to
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Speaker 1: talk Everything Bachelorette. She's super busy right now. We just
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Speaker 1: saw her in interviews this morning. She's talking all the time.
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Speaker 1: I hope you're enjoying it, Michelle, welcome to Almost Famous.
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Speaker 1: Talking all the time a lot? Yes, thank you for
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Speaker 1: having me. Are you not talking all the times? Do
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Speaker 1: you not feel like right now like some people are
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Speaker 1: asking you questions. I do enjoy my piece and quiet,
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Speaker 1: but no, I definitely it's been a lot. It's been crazy,
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Speaker 1: it's been busy, but I'm enjoying it for sure. Michelle,
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Speaker 1: as a fifth grade teacher, was there any comparisons or
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Speaker 1: like anything you took from that life to handle thirty men? Oh? Yes,
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Speaker 1: I knew that I would, like you, I was there
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Speaker 1: was honestly well one being a first or being a
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Speaker 1: fifth grade teacher. Remembering names, it is something that helped
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Speaker 1: me out big time. And like being able to keep
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Speaker 1: different situations separate but then remember details about them, because
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Speaker 1: when you're dating thirty guys, I mean it's really really
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Speaker 1: hard to remember all those stories sometimes, but also picking
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Speaker 1: out the bs, you know when somebody's lying for sure,
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Speaker 1: the I imagine, I mean for many reasons, Like you know,
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Speaker 1: we we both think that you're going to thrive in
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Speaker 1: this role, and we've we've heard from Caitlin and Tatia
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Speaker 1: that you just do a tremendous job through the whole season.
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Speaker 1: But I I'm wondering for you, what's it like at
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Speaker 1: your school because teachers typically are pretty big fans of
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Speaker 1: the Bachelor and Bachelor. When they find out you're going
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Speaker 1: to be the Bachelor. At what happened, I am very
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Speaker 1: lucky to have this school environment where I'm incredibly supported.
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Speaker 1: It's overwhelming support. But also what's so nice is that
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Speaker 1: my teachers, my coworkers they know, and my students to
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Speaker 1: know that when I step through those doors, I miss
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Speaker 1: young and I'm able to focus on my job. I'm
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Speaker 1: able to kind of take time away from being in
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Speaker 1: that bachelor role model, which is it's sometimes overwhelming being
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Speaker 1: in this world where you're always in the spotlight and
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Speaker 1: you're always talking about bachelor, bachelorette, and it's it is,
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Speaker 1: it's this amazing thing. It's this amazing experience. But it's
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Speaker 1: nice to have that balance. And so when I'm working,
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Speaker 1: when I'm at my school and in my classroom, my
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Speaker 1: focus truly is on my students. And it's really been
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Speaker 1: nice that my coworkers, my administrators, everybody's really respected that.
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Speaker 1: On Matt season, we loved seeing your family. Your family
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Speaker 1: like just radiates this warmth, and I loved seeing that
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Speaker 1: again in this first episode, and how your parents are
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Speaker 1: such relationship role models for you. How difficult was it
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Speaker 1: to like go through this process without getting their feedback
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Speaker 1: on the guys until I'm assuming the very last minute. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I talked to my mom every day we could normally do,
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Speaker 1: but you weren't able to this time. Yes, no, not
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Speaker 1: in this situation, but I normally do. I mean after work,
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Speaker 1: like she's my phone call, She's the person that I
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Speaker 1: talked to when we talk about our days, and we
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Speaker 1: just were so so close. And so my parents have
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Speaker 1: been there for everything. They've helped me through some really
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Speaker 1: difficult times and navigate certain situations. And so to be
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Speaker 1: through going through this incredibly important process where you are
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Speaker 1: selecting or trying to select somebody to spend the rest
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Speaker 1: of your life with, to not have their input was
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Speaker 1: incredibly hard. But I was very grateful that I had
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Speaker 1: Catlantation there who would also you know, there's an advantage
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Speaker 1: advantage as well because they've been through before. That first scene, um, well,
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Speaker 1: one of the first scenes with you and your family,
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Speaker 1: uh is always one of my favorites because I remember,
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Speaker 1: you know, my parents so excited for me but had
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Speaker 1: no clue how to help me. UM, so nervous, so emotional,
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Speaker 1: knowing I'm gonna leave and possibly come back with somebody,
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Speaker 1: and if not, at least I would have a huge
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Speaker 1: life experience. Um what was it like for you sitting
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Speaker 1: down with him with the cameras around, uh and having
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Speaker 1: that kind of be your first moment as you know,
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Speaker 1: did it hit you in that moment that this your
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Speaker 1: life is going to be changing, hopefully for the better.
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Speaker 1: That was definitely emotional because before that, they've been with
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Speaker 1: me through the heart right through when relationships didn't work,
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Speaker 1: and they kind of saw all that behind the scenes
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Speaker 1: aim that you know, not everybody sees, and so to
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Speaker 1: sit down with them and just be vulnerable, be open
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Speaker 1: and talk to them about it. We all definitely have
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Speaker 1: a moment where we get emotional together because you know,
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Speaker 1: my mom and dad are still so madly of love
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Speaker 1: and I think the world has seen that. They're gonna
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Speaker 1: still continue to see that. And that's definitely kind of
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Speaker 1: my driving force behind what I'm looking for is somebody
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Speaker 1: who is going to stick in it with me for that.
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Speaker 1: And my brother has found that in his relationship with
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Speaker 1: his wife. My sister has found that and her relationship
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Speaker 1: with her husband, and now it's like it's my turn.
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Speaker 1: So my family has just been incredibly supportive and we
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Speaker 1: definitely were emotional. You know, I was just thinking this,
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Speaker 1: you are one of the very few bachelorettes. I think
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Speaker 1: Claire was the only other one who got announced as
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Speaker 1: the bachelorette and then had months to kind of not
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Speaker 1: mull it over, but to prepare, you know, because you
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Speaker 1: were announced in March and then you didn't start filming
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Speaker 1: until I feel like July. So do you feel like
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Speaker 1: you at all? Over thoughts? Um, did you ever get
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Speaker 1: cold feet? Oh? Gosh, that downtime was the best thing
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Speaker 1: that could have happened, because coming off of Matt season,
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Speaker 1: as you know, like that was a very heavy season
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Speaker 1: with all of the racial controversies, conversations, everything that was
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Speaker 1: kind of just unfolding and taking place. And on top
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Speaker 1: of that, I was dealing with heartbreak. And so by
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Speaker 1: the time everything kind of came to a head and
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Speaker 1: I was announced, I was so happy that I was
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Speaker 1: going to get this period of time where I could
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Speaker 1: just recharge and I was back in the classroom, I
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Speaker 1: could hit that restep button, and I spent time with friends, family.
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Speaker 1: Um got a little taste of that Minnesota summer before
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Speaker 1: I took off for filming. But it was just it
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Speaker 1: was so nice that I could get my head and
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Speaker 1: my heart in the right spot to make sure that
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Speaker 1: I was putting my best foot forward and that I was,
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Speaker 1: you know, ready the phone off the We're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: about through this first episode with you. Uh here in
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Speaker 1: just a second, Um and Michelle, we actually uh have
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Speaker 1: prerecorded a little segment with Becca koufren Um who we discussed, uh,
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Speaker 1: one of your contestants, Ryan, So uh let's take a
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Speaker 1: break here. Uh, We're gonna air this segment and then
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Speaker 1: uh you all of us are going to chat about
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Speaker 1: it with you, Okay, Becka Kouffer And we know Ryan,
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Speaker 1: don't we We do. Indeed, I would hate to say
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Speaker 1: unfortunately no, Ryan, but we do. We. Uh. We hosted
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Speaker 1: Bachelorlive on stage and I thought I was getting this right,
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Speaker 1: Beck It was San Jose. He was our Bachelor, right yeah,
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Speaker 1: right before COVID hit, Right before COVID hit. So when
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Speaker 1: we were hosting the tour, Ryan was our Bachelor in
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Speaker 1: San Jose. Uh, And I remember we walked off that
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Speaker 1: and we said, I remember you, and I'm specifically remember
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Speaker 1: us getting on the tour of us and having a
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Speaker 1: conversation about, hey, there's people coming on Bachelor on stage,
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Speaker 1: which is a fun experience. You know, it's pretty lighthearted,
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Speaker 1: it's it was you know, it's it's a great thing
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Speaker 1: to watch and enjoy, but we're like, there's definitely people
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Speaker 1: here just want to go on the show. Now, we
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a problem with it, but it's just like,
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Speaker 1: you can definitely see that the Ryan's of the world
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Speaker 1: really just want to go on the Bachelorette or Bachelor
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Speaker 1: at this point, do you remember that? Yes, Oh, yes, vividly,
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Speaker 1: especially after that one and and so we get to
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Speaker 1: watch him. What was your thoughts after watching the episode
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Speaker 1: and seeing how Ryan's very quick time on The Bachelor
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Speaker 1: it turned out? Oh, I thought it was such a
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Speaker 1: little b s r mm hmm, he said on his
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Speaker 1: short lived time on Michelle season contradicted, I mean really
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Speaker 1: everything else. Um, I think he said he had only
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Speaker 1: he only had watched the show for two hours in total,
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Speaker 1: but I'm true, it's not true. And when when we
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Speaker 1: met him, because we obviously spend time and get to
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Speaker 1: meet and chat with the leads that were on Bachelor
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Speaker 1: live on stage and the contestants, I mean, he knew
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Speaker 1: a lot more than he was letting out on Michelle's season,
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Speaker 1: for sure, and he also was very most people I
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Speaker 1: would say that we're on the stage with us, We're
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Speaker 1: very go with the flow. You know, they just everyone
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Speaker 1: kind of wings that you don't exactly know what is
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Speaker 1: going to happen because every name is vastly different. And
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Speaker 1: he was very calculated and wanted to know everything too,
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Speaker 1: but we'll just go with the flow. You're getting to
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Speaker 1: know these girls, You're gonning to do it all in
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Speaker 1: real time with them. Um, So to see the calculation,
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Speaker 1: you know, in those documents, I wasn't surprised, but also
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Speaker 1: like I'm thinking, dude, you're lying to this girl right
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Speaker 1: now in national television that millions of people are not
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Speaker 1: going to see. But like, if we google your name,
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Speaker 1: you're already affiliated with the franchise in some way, shape
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Speaker 1: or form from a year and a half two years ago.
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Speaker 1: The the crazy one to me was when he's sitting
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Speaker 1: down with Michelle and he's like, yeah, my friend wrote this,
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Speaker 1: did all the study, and then you know she was
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Speaker 1: brilliant and like, I, this is a skill set I
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Speaker 1: did not have when I was a bachelor, but like
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Speaker 1: she read right through it and was like, wait did
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Speaker 1: you Because then he goes on to say, like when
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Speaker 1: I wrote this down and she goes, well, noh, did
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Speaker 1: you write this or did your friends write this? And
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Speaker 1: then you know he does the whole like deep breath, like,
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Speaker 1: oh crap, I'm caught. This is over and uh. And
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Speaker 1: I would just say, like, kudos to her for saying
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Speaker 1: this isn't gonna work any longer, because she was kind
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Speaker 1: of into him, I think for a bit. Yeah, do
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Speaker 1: we all notice that he'spelled bachelor incorrectly? No? Is that true?
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Speaker 1: I go, I gotta watch it. I'm like, if you
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Speaker 1: were this calculated, at least the show you're going on, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that would be especially if they're gonna if they're gonna
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Speaker 1: do a nice close up h D version of your
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Speaker 1: notes on national television. That's that's I mean, Hey, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know what to call his playbook,
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Speaker 1: Like I don't know if there's like a word that
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Speaker 1: I want to associate to it, because it's either like
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Speaker 1: very strategic, um very calculated. It's either really well intentioned,
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Speaker 1: like I don't know what his intentions were behind it,
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Speaker 1: But can we just say how detailed and like how
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Speaker 1: much time that playbook kind of take? I mean there
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Speaker 1: was twenty pages of like graphs and quote and then
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Speaker 1: my name got mentioned. You want to You want to
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Speaker 1: think it's weird. I haven't been on the show in
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Speaker 1: five years. You want to watch a Bachelor episode and
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, here beIN Higgins mentioned it gets weird.
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Speaker 1: And I talked to Titia about it, and I think
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Speaker 1: she said this unhappy hour. She said it wasn't just front,
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Speaker 1: it was front and back notes for page after page
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Speaker 1: after page. You were mentioned, Ben Syntarctic was mentioned, zactatious
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Speaker 1: fiance was mentioned. There were a lot like. The part
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Speaker 1: that got me though, was what it wasn't even about
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Speaker 1: other people. It was like what was written about him
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Speaker 1: that Michelle right out loud, where he's like, you are arrogant,
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Speaker 1: you are this, You're that, like leave that out of
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Speaker 1: their buddy, Like it's just probably the wrong I got.
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Speaker 1: I got weird serial killer vibes with that one. So Michelle,
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Speaker 1: as you just heard, uh from our interview with Beckay
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Speaker 1: koferin we actually knew Ryan. I know Ryan and Becca
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Speaker 1: knows Ryan. Do you know how we know Ryan before
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Speaker 1: that aired? I know Enlightening Please so Ryan, Uh, you're
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Speaker 1: your fabulous producer. He was beautiful and stunning and just
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Speaker 1: controls the world. Lady Kay who was with you right now,
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Speaker 1: And I know she's definitely smiling because she just loves
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Speaker 1: the comments. Um. She uh is from a very similar
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Speaker 1: area as Ryan and Uh. When we were in San Jose, California,
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Speaker 1: Ryan was a Bachelor while Becca Koufern and I hosted
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Speaker 1: Bachelor Live on stage. Wow, okay, okay, and you didn't
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Speaker 1: feel it's with me before my first night? Should I
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Speaker 1: feel you should feel offended a little bit? But I'm
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Speaker 1: a little offended too because I didn't recognize him until
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Speaker 1: you guys had your moment in the hotel room when
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Speaker 1: you're going through the papers. I go, oh, my gosh,
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Speaker 1: and I texted Becky, I said, is this who I
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Speaker 1: think it is? Is this the guy from San Jose?
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Speaker 1: And so I had to confirm it with her, but
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Speaker 1: it was, um, Michelle right away. And so you know,
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Speaker 1: we could dig into Ryan and all those crazy decisions,
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Speaker 1: and we might in a second, but right away you
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Speaker 1: were dealt with something unseen before in the bachelor world.
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Speaker 1: I wonder for you in that moment, you handled it
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Speaker 1: so well. Uh you called him out on his BS.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's something I was impressed by,
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Speaker 1: because that first night I was so nervous and I
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Speaker 1: wasn't thinking clearly, but you recognized his small little eyes,
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Speaker 1: you called him out on a small little lies and
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Speaker 1: then you confront a situation and you send a guy
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Speaker 1: home before even makes the group picture, which is just
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Speaker 1: absolutely so sad, Like what was going through your head,
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Speaker 1: not only in the moment, but also knowing like, hey,
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Speaker 1: for the next you know, three months of your life,
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Speaker 1: these are the kind of things that you're gonna have
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Speaker 1: to navigate through. Yeah, I think in that situation it
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Speaker 1: was definitely I was caught off guard for sure, and
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Speaker 1: what I got out of that situation and how I
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Speaker 1: felt those documents being presented, and you know that feeling
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Speaker 1: if you ever just a relationship where someone goes through
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Speaker 1: someone else's phone and it's just like, look like that
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Speaker 1: not good feeling, right, Like I don't ever want to
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Speaker 1: feel that. I don't want to feel the need to
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Speaker 1: do this. I don't want to feel the need. If
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Speaker 1: I feel the need, then that's that's a red flight
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Speaker 1: for me personally. And so I think that's where I
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Speaker 1: went off of that of that gut into the feeling,
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Speaker 1: and it was also setting the tone because coming into it,
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Speaker 1: it's like I'm actually looking for my person, and I
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Speaker 1: need my person to be authentic. And you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: not necessarily here to measure and grade everybody on their authenticity,
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Speaker 1: but I'm here to find my person, and and I
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Speaker 1: have to go with what I think and is invest
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Speaker 1: in the situation. And you know, if that's kind of
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Speaker 1: where I was coming from. Not normally we would go
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Speaker 1: in chronological order with how the episode goes, but I think, like,
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Speaker 1: let's do it a little bit differently because we have
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Speaker 1: Michelle here and she's on a timeframe. Um, let's talk
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Speaker 1: about like the biggest drama is the biggest standout moments
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Speaker 1: of the night. Now, I think Ryan probably was that.
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Speaker 1: What else was in that pack of documents that was
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Speaker 1: on the level of incriminating as say, how to get
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Speaker 1: the most TV time? Was there anything else that wasn't
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Speaker 1: aired that was super red flag? I think what was
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Speaker 1: shown is just truly what made me the most uncomfortable
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Speaker 1: is you know, I I myself have journaled before and
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Speaker 1: have set goals about, you know, what I want to
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Speaker 1: do and what I want to achieve, But when it
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Speaker 1: comes down to it, I'm never writing notes on how
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Speaker 1: to act and how to pre itself and how to
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Speaker 1: come off as something that I feel I'm not. And
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Speaker 1: so that's kind of where I was juggling that, and
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Speaker 1: that's kind of where my my decisions were coming from.
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Speaker 1: I get that Jared is like loves to play Devil's advocate,
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Speaker 1: and he had so much to say about this scene
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Speaker 1: yesterday when we were watching. He's like, my friend Crystal,
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Speaker 1: the one who signed him up for the show, would
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Speaker 1: totally have typed up pages for me and put it
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Speaker 1: in my suitcase and I would have gotten caught. We're
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Speaker 1: all terrified of becoming the villain and this guy was
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Speaker 1: just trying not to be the villain. And I could
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Speaker 1: kind of see both sides of the situation. I thought
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Speaker 1: there was like maybe something I feel like there was
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Speaker 1: like something about his personality, and then when you when
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Speaker 1: you combine it with the papers that made me feel
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Speaker 1: a little bit untrusted, untrustworthy. It was yes, like that
19:43
Speaker 1: what was in I mean, what Tasia Caitlin had brought
19:46
Speaker 1: to me was what you know, triggered that whole scenario.
19:51
Speaker 1: And then looking through and feeling that in my intuition
19:55
Speaker 1: was another thing. But I'm a big having a conversation
19:58
Speaker 1: and I wanted him to speak as peace. But in conversations,
20:02
Speaker 1: if in conversations they start to go back on what
20:05
Speaker 1: they said in that same conversation, then I'm like, Okay,
20:08
Speaker 1: now what are we doing? So I totally understand playing
20:11
Speaker 1: Devil's advocate, and I definitely do that in situations as well.
20:15
Speaker 1: It was more the conversation was help incriminating in that
20:20
Speaker 1: own conversation as a whole. Take documents, take what people
20:25
Speaker 1: said outside of it that maybe uncomfortable, and yeah, that's 'restling.
20:30
Speaker 1: And to be honest, I have a couple of feelings.
20:33
Speaker 1: One is gonna be this is gonna be such a
20:35
Speaker 1: small storyline in like four weeks, like you, Like, I
20:38
Speaker 1: bet in three years, Michelle, you'll even forget that this happened.
20:41
Speaker 1: Like there's gonna be so much that you forget. You'll remember,
20:43
Speaker 1: like the really meaningful parts. And and my honest opinion
20:47
Speaker 1: is you did a huge favor because can you imagine,
20:50
Speaker 1: I mean, this show does a few things to you,
20:52
Speaker 1: as we all know here, and it always brings out
20:55
Speaker 1: your true character. At some point, you might be able
20:57
Speaker 1: to hold onto it, you might be able to fake it,
21:00
Speaker 1: you might be able to act for weeks, but at
21:03
Speaker 1: some point you break, and it is guaranteed that you
21:07
Speaker 1: will break. And can you imagine how exhausting it would
21:10
Speaker 1: have been to have a pamphlet of how to act
21:12
Speaker 1: and behave and what to say and what not to
21:14
Speaker 1: say and then like do that for a couple of
21:16
Speaker 1: weeks and I say, he's around, like that would be
21:18
Speaker 1: so tiring for him. So you did him a favor.
21:21
Speaker 1: You're very kind in that moment, Michelle, nice job. Yeah,
21:25
Speaker 1: it's just more. I mean, I don't think any of
21:27
Speaker 1: the people who came out my season are bad people.
21:29
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just trying to find my person. Is
21:32
Speaker 1: that good for you? Good for you? Well? Okay, what
21:35
Speaker 1: other big moments stood out? Uh during this episode? I mean,
21:38
Speaker 1: I would really like to know, Michelle, if we can
21:41
Speaker 1: kind of backtrack to the very beginning of it. You
21:43
Speaker 1: are the bachelor ate. Now you pull up to uh
21:46
Speaker 1: this resort um. This is a big deal for you.
21:49
Speaker 1: And now the guys saw getting out of the car
21:52
Speaker 1: um were you after their entrances? Did you feel more
21:55
Speaker 1: at peace, more excited, more comfortable with the situation, or
21:59
Speaker 1: were you of us still walking into the house, I
22:02
Speaker 1: was nervous to give, like you know, walking in that
22:06
Speaker 1: initial toast, but I was excited, nervous, and I think
22:11
Speaker 1: once like the first few guys got out of the limo,
22:14
Speaker 1: I was definitely nervous, but I started to calm down
22:17
Speaker 1: more because I'm like, okay, like I'm just gonna be myself.
22:20
Speaker 1: That's what I know how to do. I don't know
22:22
Speaker 1: how to be somebody else, don't know how to act
22:24
Speaker 1: a certain way. I know how to be myself. That's
22:26
Speaker 1: what I'm the best at, and that's what I'm gonna do.
22:29
Speaker 1: And if that's what I want them to see, like
22:31
Speaker 1: if you fall in love with me, I want your
22:33
Speaker 1: fall in love with me. And so that was kind
22:35
Speaker 1: of my what centered me through through that whole first night.
22:40
Speaker 1: I gotta know about the guy who you are d
22:42
Speaker 1: m ng with? Was his name Joe? Joe? I go
22:46
Speaker 1: by just descriptions on night one? Okay, so you okay,
22:50
Speaker 1: how did you go, how did you meet with? How
22:53
Speaker 1: you slid in to Joe's d M when we need
22:56
Speaker 1: a time frame on this, and how you came across
22:59
Speaker 1: him on Instagram? Oh my goodness. Minnesota's a small community,
23:04
Speaker 1: you know, especially athletics a small community and pre everything
23:09
Speaker 1: you know, I had. We chatted back and forth and
23:13
Speaker 1: you will see how the rest of that story unfolds.
23:17
Speaker 1: It's quite a story. And I did call myself out
23:20
Speaker 1: with sliding into somebody's DMS. I mean, I told you
23:22
Speaker 1: I was gonna, genuinely told you guys, gonna be authentic.
23:25
Speaker 1: Whether that's throwing myself under the bus by admitting that
23:28
Speaker 1: on national television, Hey, but I loved it. At least
23:31
Speaker 1: you know you're getting an honest person, you know, Yes,
23:34
Speaker 1: I love so You're good from no shame in that
23:41
Speaker 1: game at all, and not necessarily. I don't know about
23:49
Speaker 1: him though, I I don't know. I don't trust him.
23:53
Speaker 1: She she shrugs. Guys, she shrugs. Ashley, we've made this
23:57
Speaker 1: mistake before. We've said things like that and then they
24:00
Speaker 1: end up with the person, and we got to did
24:04
Speaker 1: I do that too? I was so embarrassed. I was afraid.
24:07
Speaker 1: I was afraid that somebody was going to pick and
24:11
Speaker 1: they ended up being like their runner up. Yeah, okay,
24:18
Speaker 1: all right, night one. He made me go, hmm, that's
24:22
Speaker 1: all I'll say. That's what that's what we'll say. That's
24:26
Speaker 1: what we'll say here. It's great, Um, Michelle, talk us through.
24:31
Speaker 1: Uh some of these entrances because they were pretty elaborate
24:35
Speaker 1: this season. Uh, including uh the poor guy who had
24:39
Speaker 1: his head stuck in a plate. Um. We talked to
24:43
Speaker 1: the box man, what's his name? Rick? Rick? He? Uh,
24:48
Speaker 1: how so, all right now, I'm just recovering from knee
24:51
Speaker 1: surgery from playing basketball. How in the world did that
24:54
Speaker 1: poor man's knees hold up inside of that inside of
24:58
Speaker 1: that table? Hi asked him the same question. That's why
25:03
Speaker 1: I said, you're gonna need a chiropractor at the moment
25:05
Speaker 1: he got out of that table, knowing how long he
25:07
Speaker 1: had been in there, I mean that was well into
25:09
Speaker 1: the night. It's not like I spoke to Trick right away,
25:12
Speaker 1: like he was in there for a minute. He was
25:14
Speaker 1: in there during my toast and um. But that also
25:18
Speaker 1: shows commitment. I mean he was dead to make an impression.
25:23
Speaker 1: He showed me his goofy side. He made me laugh.
25:26
Speaker 1: I mean he really kind of wont if you think
25:29
Speaker 1: about it, Yeah, I mean he stood out. I will
25:33
Speaker 1: say that it was memorable. It was I like the
25:36
Speaker 1: fact that he liked played on food. I would have
25:39
Speaker 1: been eating everything off of his his plate there and
25:43
Speaker 1: just for fun. Okay, Well, we only have like a
25:46
Speaker 1: minute left with you. I do want to bring up
25:49
Speaker 1: Nate though, since he got your first impression Rows and
25:52
Speaker 1: he also got my first impression Rose. As a viewer,
25:56
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure you were like ready to be giving
26:00
Speaker 1: out the first impression Wars. I felt like we had
26:01
Speaker 1: like another few like one on one time, and all
26:04
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I was seeing I see Nate and
26:06
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's the best conversation so far.
26:09
Speaker 1: And then you go and grab the rose and I
26:11
Speaker 1: was like, oh, wow, plays she feels the same. Yeah,
26:14
Speaker 1: we're all on the same thing. Really like him. Yeah,
26:18
Speaker 1: it was just it was a good conversation. And we
26:21
Speaker 1: talked a lot about vulnerability, and I asked for vulnerability.
26:24
Speaker 1: And in that first conversation, you do you see him
26:27
Speaker 1: talk about how he doesn't want to talk about, you know,
26:30
Speaker 1: some of the more things that are close to his heart.
26:32
Speaker 1: And then right after that he pulls down his walls
26:35
Speaker 1: and he does just that, and so that's what I
26:37
Speaker 1: really connected with and yeah, that's that's that's why the
26:41
Speaker 1: rose was given out. Alright, Michelle, last question for you, Um,
26:46
Speaker 1: you have a lot I mean you, I mean this,
26:49
Speaker 1: we wish you the best here and we've heard great
26:51
Speaker 1: things about you. We haven't got to meet in person.
26:53
Speaker 1: I hope to be able to do that one day. UM,
26:56
Speaker 1: best of luck through this whole experience. It's a wild ride,
26:58
Speaker 1: but it's awesome and I can do it. You can
27:01
Speaker 1: do it. If actually can do it, you can do it. Um.
27:04
Speaker 1: But you have a lot of really good looking dudes. Uh,
27:06
Speaker 1: they're really good talkers. You're obviously very strong. You could
27:10
Speaker 1: read through that. We've seen it. What do viewers have
27:13
Speaker 1: to look forward to, um, through the rest of the
27:15
Speaker 1: season if you give them a little shout out before
27:18
Speaker 1: we say goodbye. Just we had some tough conversations. We
27:22
Speaker 1: had conversations about race, we had conversations about culture. We
27:26
Speaker 1: had so many different, just in depth, solid conversations that
27:32
Speaker 1: I don't think are normally had on this And those
27:35
Speaker 1: conversations are important to me, and they're also important to
27:37
Speaker 1: the men who were on my season. And so to
27:39
Speaker 1: be able to just happen to that little a little
27:41
Speaker 1: bit and how the world see that is something that
27:43
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be really special. Thanks Michelle, Hey,
27:47
Speaker 1: we wish you the best much again. Bye. Well, it's
28:03
Speaker 1: always good having to lead on the podcast as the
28:06
Speaker 1: season starts. We'll get it back on later on, obviously
28:09
Speaker 1: hopefully to celebrate a love story, but if not, then
28:11
Speaker 1: we'll still want to break down everything with her at
28:13
Speaker 1: some point. Um, but Michelle Young is off and running
28:16
Speaker 1: with her season of The Bachelorette, so Ashley, it bigs
28:19
Speaker 1: us the question. Um, Episode one was fine in my opinion, Uh,
28:23
Speaker 1: nothing against Michelle, just Ryan took up most of the
28:25
Speaker 1: episode and it felt like, um that dragged out. It
28:29
Speaker 1: probably should have because it was such a kind of
28:32
Speaker 1: like important night one storyline, but like, not a lot happened.
28:37
Speaker 1: Um that like to grab onto uh from episode one?
28:40
Speaker 1: Do you agree? Yeah? Totally? I mean, but then again,
28:43
Speaker 1: we say it every year. We don't always love episode one.
28:46
Speaker 1: Episode one's eart least favorite. Yeah, it's at least favorite.
28:49
Speaker 1: It just gets us started. Um, the preview happened. We're
28:52
Speaker 1: excited to see what happens throughout the season. Is as
28:54
Speaker 1: Michelle said, you know, some of these conversations that she's
28:56
Speaker 1: gonna lead throughout the season are important for all of
28:59
Speaker 1: us to hear, um, but also really hopefully important for
29:02
Speaker 1: the relationships that she's building on the show. And so
29:04
Speaker 1: that's gonna be something that that we watch and and
29:07
Speaker 1: kind of get into and see just how these men respond.
29:11
Speaker 1: I have a feeling, Ashley, that Michelle is very comfortable,
29:15
Speaker 1: um asking the tough questions, like she won't stand back
29:19
Speaker 1: from that. You know, we've seen it in past leads
29:21
Speaker 1: when they aren't good at asking questions and they're not
29:23
Speaker 1: good at digging deep, and they're not good at follow up,
29:25
Speaker 1: and they're not good at pushing. How just hard it
29:27
Speaker 1: gets to watch. No offense to the men, but it's
29:30
Speaker 1: usually bachelors. We'll say it. It's it's most of the
29:34
Speaker 1: like I can I'm not gonna name him right now,
29:36
Speaker 1: but like it comes to mind, like three of these
29:38
Speaker 1: guys who was like these seasons fell way short because
29:41
Speaker 1: you just sucked at dating, Like you were terrible at
29:44
Speaker 1: this thing. Um. But Michelle, I believe, is going to
29:48
Speaker 1: be really good at it, and I believe it's going
29:50
Speaker 1: to really progress some relationships forward and and we're gonna
29:52
Speaker 1: hopefully be able to get into it because they're gonna
29:55
Speaker 1: get deep and um well anyways, uh, hey, listeners, I
29:59
Speaker 1: encourage you to do this along with us. But as always,
30:03
Speaker 1: we're going to start episode one with this question for
30:05
Speaker 1: for a resident expert, actually Liken, Eddie Ashley, who we're
30:09
Speaker 1: top three men that stood out to you? You don't
30:14
Speaker 1: have to give him an order yet, but who what
30:16
Speaker 1: three men stood out to you from episode one? Well,
30:18
Speaker 1: like I just said with Michelle, definitely Nate, this is
30:21
Speaker 1: good vibe about him. Liked how like he was uncomfortable
30:26
Speaker 1: but then just went in and leaned into the uncomfortable
30:31
Speaker 1: and then I and I feel like they're they have
30:34
Speaker 1: visual chemistry and all that too. I liked Clayton, you know,
30:37
Speaker 1: like as I think we're all supposed to like Clayton.
30:41
Speaker 1: He's of course the new Bachelor, and I did get
30:45
Speaker 1: warm vibes from him. Uh. Likes the family dynamic there,
30:51
Speaker 1: like the way he carried himself, seems confident but not cocky.
30:55
Speaker 1: And then I liked Jamie. Jamie just seemed to be
31:02
Speaker 1: that guy that's really easy to talk to UM and
31:05
Speaker 1: he was very attentive to her. So those are my three?
31:09
Speaker 1: What about you? Yeah, I was gonna say, I was
31:12
Speaker 1: gonna say Jamie, Nate, and Brandon. Um. Actually the only
31:16
Speaker 1: thing about Brandon, yeah, Brandon, Uh, they have the name
31:19
Speaker 1: on here, Liz listen we'll get better at names as
31:21
Speaker 1: we go. But it was listened as Brandon J. I
31:23
Speaker 1: don't know if there's a second Brandon, UM, but I
31:26
Speaker 1: like Brandon. I thought he was um, just kind and
31:29
Speaker 1: and and sat down and he just gave good vibes. However,
31:34
Speaker 1: and maybe it's a look. And I need you to
31:36
Speaker 1: tell me this, our listeners. You need to tell me
31:37
Speaker 1: this because I have to put a tie on fairly
31:40
Speaker 1: soon in my life. His tie was so long, like
31:44
Speaker 1: his tie was, it was outrageously long. It stood out
31:48
Speaker 1: to me. But I liked him. So Jamie, Nate, and
31:50
Speaker 1: Brandon are my top three after episode one. And what
31:54
Speaker 1: was like the standout moment for Brandon, Like what would
31:56
Speaker 1: I know him by? I mean mostly their time on
31:59
Speaker 1: the couch and so didn't get a lot of one
32:01
Speaker 1: on one conversations with Michelle in episode one because you know,
32:05
Speaker 1: Ryan took up a lot of the night. UM, there's
32:07
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that go through UM. But really
32:10
Speaker 1: they were sitting just on a couch together having a
32:13
Speaker 1: conversation and it felt like, um, you know when you
32:16
Speaker 1: just initially when a guy makes eye contact or when
32:20
Speaker 1: somebody makes eye contact with you and they feel like
32:21
Speaker 1: they're in the moment, like they're where their feet are.
32:23
Speaker 1: It felt like Brandon was where his feet were. To me,
32:26
Speaker 1: it felt like he was very much invested in this
32:27
Speaker 1: moment and U And I'm excited to see where this
32:30
Speaker 1: goes because episode one he definitely made an impression on
32:34
Speaker 1: me and I was like, Hey, this guy, this guy
32:36
Speaker 1: seems like a good dude. Nice all right, Yeah there,
32:39
Speaker 1: I feel like, uh, I don't know if it's Brandon
32:42
Speaker 1: j or Brandon Kay. People will know, I'm time he
32:44
Speaker 1: were like a silver tie, um black suit, you know,
32:48
Speaker 1: one of those dudes you'll know. Well, we'll know, give
32:50
Speaker 1: give us two weeks. I feel like this first episode
32:53
Speaker 1: more than recent first episodes. I didn't connect with a
32:57
Speaker 1: lot and I'm not remembering as many names, So I
33:02
Speaker 1: hope that changes. I'm sure will. Obviously Clayton stands out
33:06
Speaker 1: and we connect with his name, but it's because of
33:08
Speaker 1: the anticipation comes from him or what we what we assume, uh,
33:13
Speaker 1: you know, it's not been official yet, but we assume
33:15
Speaker 1: he is an ex bachelor based on Jesse Palmer's you
33:18
Speaker 1: know picture being posted with him, but um, he is.
33:21
Speaker 1: He did stand out to me, but I was very
33:23
Speaker 1: focused on him the whole time. And yeah, he was great.
33:26
Speaker 1: I mean he was nice, he was kind, he was
33:28
Speaker 1: you know, a great moment with his with his mom,
33:30
Speaker 1: and um, he was kind of Michelle. I mean, yeah,
33:33
Speaker 1: he seems awesome. But but I think that was just
33:35
Speaker 1: a given to me, Like, oh, of course Clayon's gonna
33:36
Speaker 1: stand and he's gonna stand out the whole season. He's
33:38
Speaker 1: gonna be like star number two on this show because
33:40
Speaker 1: he's got a big future in front of him. Yeah,
33:43
Speaker 1: first time this has happened in a long time or
33:46
Speaker 1: ever that we get to literally just a no based
33:48
Speaker 1: on episode one who the bachelor is and follow him
33:51
Speaker 1: along with that mind. Yeah. Yeah, And I don't know
33:55
Speaker 1: if I like it. I wish I think it's gonna well,
33:59
Speaker 1: and I think it is gonna keep me from investing
34:01
Speaker 1: too deeply into his story with Michelle, like if he
34:03
Speaker 1: does get his heartbroken or if there is a relationship there.
34:06
Speaker 1: I think in the back of my mind, I'm like, dude,
34:08
Speaker 1: you we all know you're fine, Like we all know
34:10
Speaker 1: you're good, And I don't like that, Like I want
34:11
Speaker 1: to feel things with each person. I want to feel
34:14
Speaker 1: things in each relationship and I I do think, say
34:17
Speaker 1: for the viewer, it's a little sad because like if
34:18
Speaker 1: Cleyton does, um, you know, stay on for a while,
34:23
Speaker 1: I feel like most people will watch him be like yeah,
34:25
Speaker 1: but Cleayton, you're the next batchlor like, come on, can't
34:27
Speaker 1: be that upset. Also, that's like when we get down
34:30
Speaker 1: to top four, Like, say he's in the top four,
34:32
Speaker 1: like I would imagine him to be like we already
34:35
Speaker 1: can eliminate him. We're like, okay, well he's gone. So
34:37
Speaker 1: it's really between these three guys. Yeah, alright, Yeah, that's
34:41
Speaker 1: gonna be weird. I don't know. Anyways, Hey, episode one
34:44
Speaker 1: is done. That's big for us. Now we start to
34:47
Speaker 1: dig deep team listeners, we start to get involved. Episode
34:50
Speaker 1: one is always actually not. I mean it might be
34:53
Speaker 1: our slogan for the almost in his podcast, we're never
34:55
Speaker 1: fans of Night one. It's always hard. The only thing
34:58
Speaker 1: I was a fan of a Night one in recent
34:59
Speaker 1: memory was the backdrop to Matt James this season, because
35:01
Speaker 1: it was so beautiful. I was like, yeah, I'll watched
35:03
Speaker 1: this forever. I was thinking about that last night. I
35:06
Speaker 1: was like I missed NEC. Yeah, I mean that was
35:08
Speaker 1: a cool place all right. Hey. Uh, that's it for
35:11
Speaker 1: the Almost Famous podcast today. Um. We will be back
35:14
Speaker 1: next week breaking down Michelle Young season of The Bachelorette. Um.
35:18
Speaker 1: Really exciting time for the Almost Famous podcast because we
35:21
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35:24
Speaker 1: so make sure you go out and fill out your brackets. Uh.
35:27
Speaker 1: We will be picking a winner at the end of
35:28
Speaker 1: the season. Um. Again. The rule for next week is
35:32
Speaker 1: any contestant you get ten more points if they hug
35:34
Speaker 1: a Michelle Young on a group date. That's a lot
35:37
Speaker 1: of points being given out at bet next week. Anyways. Hey,
35:39
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