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Goodbye Bachelor Mansion · 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. It's another week of the Almost
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Speaker 1: Famous podcast with my terrific co host Ashley Iken Eddie Ashley,
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Speaker 1: how you doing, Hey, Ben? I'm good. How are you
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Speaker 1: anything interesting to regale me with from the past week? Oh? My?
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Speaker 1: You know what I've done this last week? I've started
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Speaker 1: going to bed listening to the Spotify station meditation. So
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Speaker 1: I had these headphones in and I go to bed
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Speaker 1: listening to it, and I feel like I am sleeping
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Speaker 1: so well, really, I used to do that too, But
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Speaker 1: I have a question about meditations and so trendy these days.
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Speaker 1: Do you actually clear your mind or just think about
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Speaker 1: one thing constancy on one thing or is it more
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Speaker 1: of like getting you into like a peaceful internal state.
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Speaker 1: I'm not good at meditating. I don't think my mind
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Speaker 1: like goes in a thousand directions. And so I was
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Speaker 1: telling my counselor this and they were saying that I
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Speaker 1: need to practice this thing. I think it's called like, uh,
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Speaker 1: focus concentration. So I pick a feeling and emotion or
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Speaker 1: a word that I want to focus on, So like
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Speaker 1: joy is a good one, right, And you just continue
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Speaker 1: to say joy in your like in your mind, and
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Speaker 1: like as soon as your mind starts to drift away,
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Speaker 1: you just go back to it, and like you you
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Speaker 1: start over and you just say joy and joy and
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Speaker 1: you kind of breathe it and you start to try
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Speaker 1: to start it, you try to start to feel it.
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Speaker 1: And I I think I'm okay at it. I don't
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Speaker 1: think I'm great, but it helps me at least try
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Speaker 1: to stay focused and like relax and take away all
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Speaker 1: the stresses that you know, maybe came with the day. Interesting, Okay,
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Speaker 1: all right, I can get into that. It's trendy. Hey,
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Speaker 1: h Ashley, I think, uh, you and I were chatting
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Speaker 1: and I think we both want to say, like, hey,
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Speaker 1: this is a week and we get to on the
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Speaker 1: on the day of. But happy Mother's Day to um,
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Speaker 1: mothers of biological children, mothers of foster children, mothers that
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Speaker 1: have adopted, mothers of people, mothers who have cared for
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Speaker 1: others who just I read yesterday that mothers are Mothering
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Speaker 1: is a verb, so you know it does. It means
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Speaker 1: nothing more than the care and nurture and be a
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Speaker 1: friend to those around you. So hey, happy Mother's Day
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Speaker 1: to to everyone. Were you with Jesse's Mom or your Mom.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday I was with Jesse's mom. But I've been doing
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Speaker 1: this show on Sunday nights called Hope Still Wins, And uh,
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Speaker 1: my mom was my guest last night, and uh, she
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Speaker 1: just hit it out of the park. She shared her
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Speaker 1: story of her We called it a process to motherhood
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Speaker 1: and she shared a story you know, a few months ago.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember, but I had mentioned
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Speaker 1: during the podcast that, uh, you know, I was learning
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Speaker 1: um a lot, that like people's stories really matter and
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Speaker 1: that you can't assume. And my mom shared her story
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Speaker 1: and the reason you know, where that came from and
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Speaker 1: why I learned that. So it was really powerful for me.
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Speaker 1: I'm really proud of her, and I don't know, it's
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Speaker 1: just special to to hear that and to know that
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Speaker 1: my mom is strong and courageous and she's speaking her story.
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Speaker 1: Now that's one of that's not easy to share, and
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Speaker 1: she did last night. So I got to talk to
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Speaker 1: her on Instagram live. That's awesome. Um, I have to
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Speaker 1: watch those. So it's every Sunday at what time, eight
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Speaker 1: seventh Central. Uh, it's been really fun. We've I've had
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Speaker 1: some of my favorite people on and and it's just
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Speaker 1: been a good just a good time to learn that
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Speaker 1: you know, all of us are pretty messed up. We
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Speaker 1: all got our issues. Um, we're all struggling at some level,
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Speaker 1: but you know we're not alone. And it's been a
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Speaker 1: good reminder for me and just hearing from some really
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Speaker 1: bright minds. So, yeah, what about you. How was your
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Speaker 1: mother's day? My mom had a good day, Like we
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Speaker 1: just we just had a good day. Um. We planned
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Speaker 1: on like picking up maggianos, but that failed because every
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Speaker 1: single straw in the area was totally jam packed, no
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Speaker 1: longer accepting like any online orders. So I scrambled and
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Speaker 1: I put together this macaroni and cheese and broccoli cast
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Speaker 1: role and she was like, this is better than anything
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Speaker 1: you could have ordered. And we just had like a
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Speaker 1: nice family meal. And uh, what else did I do
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Speaker 1: with my mom yesterday? Are you a chef? Do you
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Speaker 1: cook a lot? Um? I like cooking, I really do.
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Speaker 1: I don't have like a ton of recipes under my belt,
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Speaker 1: though I wish I could expand beyond pasta because that's
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Speaker 1: definitely my specialty. Um, and I've been trying to eat
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Speaker 1: a lot less meat lately. Um, so it's kind of
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Speaker 1: hard to come up with things that will learn pasta
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Speaker 1: to make when you're trying to be better about being
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Speaker 1: like a little bit more Presbyterian. Well, it's one of
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Speaker 1: the reasons we're doing What's Cooking vatch Nation, our segment
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Speaker 1: that will come at the end of this episode, at
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Speaker 1: the end of every episode during self isolation, where a
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Speaker 1: bachelination contestant shows us and teaches us maybe a new
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Speaker 1: recipe to cook. I would love to learn some new ones.
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Speaker 1: Do you think your mother left Mother's Day feeling loved?
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Speaker 1: She did? I know this. She's like, it was a
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Speaker 1: really good Mother's Day. It just like doesn't really matter
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Speaker 1: what you do or what you give her, as long
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Speaker 1: as you spend that quality time, which I've gotten eight weeks,
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Speaker 1: which is super awesome. I've loved it. I know I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna just keep thinking about the separation anxiety I'm going
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Speaker 1: to have for my mom and my dad when we leave.
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Speaker 1: So it's gonna be really hard. I think it will
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Speaker 1: be an adjustment. I would imagine it's going to be
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Speaker 1: adjustment kind of getting back into the swing of things.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, like wait, we record from home.
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Speaker 1: I can stay here with my sweats and not have
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Speaker 1: to drive out to the bourbon um. Well, ash I'm
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Speaker 1: glad your mom had a great day. And uh and
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Speaker 1: if somebody out there is wanting to watch, it is
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Speaker 1: on Instagram live my mom's story and it is one
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Speaker 1: that I think will help listeners to this hope me
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Speaker 1: them make a lot more sense of me and why
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Speaker 1: I am the way I am and what probably annoys
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Speaker 1: them about me and why that is and where my
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Speaker 1: story comes from as well. So, hey, Ashley, bachel Nation
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Speaker 1: again has not stopped with the headlines, So let's take
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Speaker 1: a break. When we come back, we'll talk everything going
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Speaker 1: on in Bachelor Nation this last week since the last
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Speaker 1: time we talked. ABC is still planning on making a
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Speaker 1: new season of The Bachelor. This according to Chris Harrison
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Speaker 1: we read on BuzzFeed, but Chris says it will likely
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Speaker 1: move to a different state. Yeah, so he doesn't think
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Speaker 1: that California is ready as far as like being calm
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Speaker 1: with COVID to start filming in the state. Um. He
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Speaker 1: thinks that they should go to a different state where
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Speaker 1: the spread I guess isn't so rapid and that they
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Speaker 1: are getting more accustomed to life outside the home. He singests, Texas,
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Speaker 1: which I think is interesting since that's his home state. Um,
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Speaker 1: but I guess it really doesn't matter where they film
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Speaker 1: because it looks as if they'll be renting out a
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Speaker 1: resort hotel and filming the entire season there without any travel,
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Speaker 1: So I don't think it's gonna affect the vibe in
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Speaker 1: any way. Do you think we'll ever see the Bachelor
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Speaker 1: Mansion again? I mean, I know we talked about this
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. I think it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: really tempting to not use the Listen to your Heart
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Speaker 1: mansion for everything going forward. It just seems like a
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Speaker 1: more comfortable living environment, and now with a year away
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Speaker 1: and remove from it, you know, the fans will be
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Speaker 1: removed from an even longer. I wonder if there'll be
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Speaker 1: a pull back there be interesting to see what happens,
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Speaker 1: but who knows. It sounds like they're working though, to
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Speaker 1: make a Bachelor season happen. I know also they're working
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes to do these like recap shows that
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Speaker 1: we talked about a few weeks ago as well, where
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Speaker 1: they kind of highlight a season in in like a
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Speaker 1: three hour period of time. So the producers at the
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Speaker 1: Bachelor are busy at work. Oh. I should also mention
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Speaker 1: that Chris Harrison says that he's not okay with it
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Speaker 1: being a Zoom season, and I don't think any fan
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Speaker 1: would be either. No, I don't think that. I think
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Speaker 1: that would be a whole new show, and I think
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Speaker 1: it'd be really hard to get into. Firstly, Caitlin Bristow,
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Speaker 1: Tanner Tolbert, and more members of Bachelor Nation react to
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Speaker 1: Chris Soul's and Victoria Fuller's relationship. This, according to US magazine,
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Speaker 1: So funny how people are just so weirded out by
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Speaker 1: this couple for some reason. I'm not that weird out
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Speaker 1: by it, because I mean, are we supposed to think
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Speaker 1: that every couple makes sense on paper in life? No,
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Speaker 1: we don't know Victoria like how she is in real life,
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Speaker 1: and you and I know Chris, and who knows. Maybe
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Speaker 1: they're compatible or maybe they're the perfect like ying Yang
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Speaker 1: sweet sour salty mix right where she's a little bit
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Speaker 1: more out ooken, a little bit more outgoing. Um, she's
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Speaker 1: she's got a little bit more of an attitude. And
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Speaker 1: then Chris is so laid back and just sweet and
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Speaker 1: go with the flow that perhaps like it's really a
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Speaker 1: good combination. I have we yet to get officially confirmed
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Speaker 1: that they are dating. No, I mean like she pretty
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Speaker 1: much confirmed it, being that she took a picture and
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Speaker 1: made the geo tag um Iowa. Wait, what what's his state?
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Speaker 1: What's his town? NYA? Oh shoot, I don't know, it's
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Speaker 1: a sat Yeah. Well, yeah, that that would be a
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Speaker 1: pretty good hint. I don't know why she'd be passing through.
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Speaker 1: There was that, and then they also took and posted
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Speaker 1: the same picture of a sunset to their Instagram stories.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of cute. I mean, but can we talk
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Speaker 1: about the pressure on a new relationship. You're talking about
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Speaker 1: like probably never having met each other in real life
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Speaker 1: to being quarantined for what seems to be I don't
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Speaker 1: know if she's still there, but like she was, there
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Speaker 1: were at least two weeks, two or three weeks. How
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Speaker 1: do you go from no time together to three straight
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Speaker 1: weeks of no a long time? It would be a
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Speaker 1: big change. Now. Granted, I think Chris is property so
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Speaker 1: big that if they need to get away, they could,
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean that is but I also feel
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Speaker 1: like we've seen some successful quarantine relationships obviously announced Peter
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Speaker 1: and Kelly are together. Uh, you know, Jessica and I
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Speaker 1: had never spent um as much time as we're spending
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Speaker 1: together now. I know you and Jared are getting good
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Speaker 1: like marriage time with your families. It feels like people are,
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Speaker 1: if they're able, spending some really quality time with their partners.
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Speaker 1: And I haven't heard of any massive fall out yet. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: me neither, So we'll see. Hannah Brown's mom appears to
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Speaker 1: throw shade at her daughter's ex, Jed wyatt Is. According
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Speaker 1: to e Online. Okay, so this week, Hannah's mom posted
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Speaker 1: an Instagram. It was her brother's birthday, so her son's birthday,
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Speaker 1: and the caption read this, thank you God for letting
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Speaker 1: him stay with me a little bit longer. You listen
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Speaker 1: to my prayers and he is going to have a
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Speaker 1: wonderful life. She this is captioned with the photo being
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Speaker 1: a picture of Patrick, and then it says the best
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Speaker 1: mother's day anyone could ask for. And I don't have
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Speaker 1: a son in law that hurts my ears when he sings.
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Speaker 1: So there's the shade, very random, thoughtful message towards her son.
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Speaker 1: And then she says, glad I don't have a son
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Speaker 1: in law that doesn't hurt my ears. When he sings
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Speaker 1: with a prayer hands emoji, it says prayers have been answered.
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Speaker 1: That she went Adam, she went hard. I know, but
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Speaker 1: it's so random. It's so random, like, yeah, you're talking
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Speaker 1: about your son and then all of a sudden you
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Speaker 1: talk about your possible son in law from a year ago. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That she did not She did not take to go
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Speaker 1: lightly at jed She went hard at him. Um. It
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Speaker 1: must be an inside joke maybe. But then Hannah goes
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Speaker 1: on and writes underneath the photo saying, mom, we should
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Speaker 1: probably make some edits to this, which is a pretty
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Speaker 1: funny response. Mm hmmm. Uh well. Another headline of Hannah
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Speaker 1: Brown Bachelor at Hannah Brown says she's single but definitely
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Speaker 1: wants to be in a relationship. That's according to people.
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Speaker 1: Not much more to this story except for the fact
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Speaker 1: that Hannah has been single for pretty much a year now,
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Speaker 1: and she says she hasn't been ready to date until
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Speaker 1: just about now. However, of course, the quarantine situation just
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Speaker 1: not making that easy. It's uh, you know what, I'm
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Speaker 1: still there's so many Hannah and Tyler topics that come
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Speaker 1: up week to week. Can we call it insane. It
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Speaker 1: is insane. This one's the next is Tyler Cameron reveals
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Speaker 1: the heartbreaking reason he's not ready to date. So basically,
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Speaker 1: this says that Tyler's mom, of course, passed away a
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Speaker 1: couple of months ago, and that right now he's focusing
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Speaker 1: on taking care of his brothers. Both of them are,
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Speaker 1: you know, significantly younger. His youngest brother is twenty years old,
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Speaker 1: and he just feels like it's his place to kind
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Speaker 1: of take over that nurturing role for them, and he
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Speaker 1: doesn't think it's the appropriate time to start dating someone new,
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Speaker 1: especially of course and quarantine well in the same breath. Actually,
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Speaker 1: Tyler Cameron wants to set up his dad with bachelorette
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Speaker 1: pal Dylan Barber's mom. This according to US Magazine. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so we know that Dylan's father passed away a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago. He talked to us about that in
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Speaker 1: the in depth episode, and his mom seems to be
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Speaker 1: ready to date. And Tyler's dad, who divorced his mom,
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Speaker 1: who you know recently passed away, um over a decade ago.
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Speaker 1: I believe, um. They they're both single, they both seem
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Speaker 1: ready to mingle, and Dylan and Tyler being good friends
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Speaker 1: and want to set their parents up. It makes sense. Well.
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Speaker 1: Moving on from Tyler in Hannah, then, Chris Harrison did
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Speaker 1: some very point of interviews over the last few weeks.
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Speaker 1: He's been out in the news talking and it's kind
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Speaker 1: of interesting to hear his perspective. Very interesting. I think
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Speaker 1: Chris Harrison calls Peter Webber a mess and says he
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Speaker 1: wants to scream at him. This according to Cosmopolitan. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so he was on the Kelly Clarkson Show this week
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Speaker 1: and said that he just wanted to grab Peter by
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Speaker 1: the shoulders and shake him and be like, yo, get
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Speaker 1: yourself together. He said, come on, man, pull it together.
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Speaker 1: He said he was a mess coming down the stretch
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Speaker 1: and uh, that is that's something has to say about that.
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Speaker 1: He also was a wild ending. We can say that, right, Ash.
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Speaker 1: We both agreed like this, this was a mess. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it completely wasn't He also said on series Sex and
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Speaker 1: this week that he felt sick to his stomach watching
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Speaker 1: Maddie have to be berated by Barb during after the
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Speaker 1: final rows. He said that he felt really bad for
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Speaker 1: this poor girl who was getting taken apart on live TV.
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Speaker 1: What was she supposed to do? And what was Peter
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Speaker 1: supposed to do. Did he at any point say he
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Speaker 1: agreed with Barb or was this just say hey, I
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Speaker 1: don't I feel terrible for Maddie. It was just and
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Speaker 1: I feel terrible for Maddie. Wow. Yeah. The Chris Harrison
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Speaker 1: hasn't been afraid of talking publicly about the show, which
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Speaker 1: I appreciate, but doesn't happen all the time. We don't
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Speaker 1: get a lot of Chris Harrison juicy headlines on the Breakdown. Well, hey,
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Speaker 1: two more stories to break down for you. Uh, the
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Speaker 1: headline is no other caption needed. Bachelor atte star praised
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Speaker 1: for body positive pool side selfie. This according to Yahoo,
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Speaker 1: and they're speaking about Ali Fiatowski. Mano. Yeah, so at
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Speaker 1: least Sam as before. But this picture again got some
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Speaker 1: some waves on the internet. She posted a picture of
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Speaker 1: pool side of her tummy which has carried it two
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Speaker 1: children over the past couple of years, and she's got
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of extra skin there and she's embracing
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Speaker 1: it and she's like, Yo, mom's uh, just letting you
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Speaker 1: know that my tommy probably looks a lot like yours
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Speaker 1: and vice versa. So a lot of women have um
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Speaker 1: commented under the picture saying how thankful she was about
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Speaker 1: being so raw and honest with how her body is
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Speaker 1: after childbirth. How do you think people respond actually as
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Speaker 1: a woman. Yeah, Like, and you have friends who have
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Speaker 1: had children. How do you think women respond when they
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Speaker 1: see something like that and they feel like they can
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Speaker 1: relate and that they feel maybe less alone? Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean I think that's just it. They just feel less alone.
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Speaker 1: They feel less insecure about their own bodies and they
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Speaker 1: know that. Uh. No matter like how in shape you
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Speaker 1: look when you're on TV in a cute dress, you
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Speaker 1: are in shape. But like, that doesn't mean that there
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Speaker 1: are on other effects that are so normal that have
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Speaker 1: been left on your body. Well, hey, awesome for Ali Fitatowski. Mano.
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Speaker 1: Uh and coming off of that story to Caitlin Bristow
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Speaker 1: gets vulnerable this week and share some raw information. Yeah. So. Um.
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Speaker 1: Caitlin has a new show. It is called Nine to Wine.
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Speaker 1: It's on YouTube, and she talks in the first episode
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Speaker 1: about this horrible depression that she went through after she
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Speaker 1: broke up with her boyfriend, a hockey player who was
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Speaker 1: she was living with in Germany and she came back home.
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Speaker 1: She was she was living with her parents again. And
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Speaker 1: she said that she's just so depressed. And when she
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Speaker 1: went to go see a psychiatrist, they gave her name depressed,
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Speaker 1: but they also gave her valium. And she just got
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Speaker 1: addicted to the valium and she got to be so skinny.
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Speaker 1: She just wasn't eating, and she you know, said that
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Speaker 1: she had to work her way out of that addiction
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Speaker 1: to the valium um and and she, you know, at
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Speaker 1: that point in her life, she was feeling so low.
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Speaker 1: But she picked herself up, moved to Vancouver, and then
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Speaker 1: she kind of she was, you know, making a career
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Speaker 1: for herself. And then one of her friends said, you
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Speaker 1: should sign up for the Bachelor. You love love so much.
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Speaker 1: And look at where she is now. She's thriving. Tell
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Speaker 1: us about the Nine to Wind you know anything about it.
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Speaker 1: It's just a new YouTube series that she's going to
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Speaker 1: be like opening her soul on every week. I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure if they're all going to be like this Quarantine
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Speaker 1: episode where she basically sits and just has an intimate
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Speaker 1: chat with her followers. It was twenty minutes. I watched
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Speaker 1: the whole thing. It was like you're having a conversation
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Speaker 1: with her, but she, you know, she was the only
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Speaker 1: one talking. But you know, Caitlin has that awesome ability
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Speaker 1: to be able to talk to an audience and feel
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Speaker 1: make it feel like it's a conversation. And um, I
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Speaker 1: guess we're gonna get to learn other aspects about Caitlin's
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Speaker 1: life that she hasn't shared yet on our podcast. But
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to be like a
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Speaker 1: follow doc or if it's going to be more of
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Speaker 1: like a fireside chat like it was this episode. Well,
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Speaker 1: as usual, Caitlin Bristow is out there just rocking and
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Speaker 1: rolling and we're a big fan of that. Ashley, it's
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Speaker 1: time for us to take a little break. When we
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Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna break down this week's episode of
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Speaker 1: Listen to Your Heart, then bring in Matt from Listen
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Speaker 1: to Your Heart to speak to him about the show,
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Speaker 1: and finally we're gonna do a what's cooking Batch Nation segment. Ashley,
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Speaker 1: we'll be back this week's Listen to Your Heart. It's
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Speaker 1: getting down to the end, which means that we would
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Speaker 1: expect drama to ensue. Ashley, what do you think of
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Speaker 1: this week? Break it down? Hey? We uh man? This week?
19:57
Speaker 1: What do you think I'm thinking? Right? Now, what do
20:00
Speaker 1: you think I'm thinking, Ben, I think you're sad. Yes,
20:04
Speaker 1: I think you're sad. Go ahead, let it out. I'm
20:09
Speaker 1: so upset. I mean, I know obviously that Ryan and
20:13
Speaker 1: Natashi don't have some amazing romance. I don't think they
20:17
Speaker 1: have anything at all. They gave him the least romantic
20:20
Speaker 1: date there could be. They played with like construction machinets,
20:25
Speaker 1: they played with bulldozers. Um. I thought that they were
20:29
Speaker 1: ignoring their relationship most of the episode, and I thought
20:32
Speaker 1: like they were doing so because they just wanted us
20:34
Speaker 1: to focus on their performance, because their performances are so strong.
20:39
Speaker 1: But to go from last week's amazing performance that I
20:43
Speaker 1: watched four times over and over again, yeah, to this
20:50
Speaker 1: week's performance, which I have to admit was pretty darn sucky.
20:54
Speaker 1: But then to eliminate them because of one crappy performance
20:57
Speaker 1: that was upsetting. But I also was very, very prepared
21:01
Speaker 1: for it because the other couples are so much stronger,
21:05
Speaker 1: and I think at the end of the day, the
21:07
Speaker 1: show is still a Bachelor show and the love is
21:10
Speaker 1: going to trump the performance. So I'm very sad, but
21:15
Speaker 1: I'm at least happy that it was like five of
21:17
Speaker 1: the six episodes. Ryan was president. Uh, and I know
21:20
Speaker 1: there's just one episode that I'm going to have to
21:22
Speaker 1: get through without my my boy band Broadway musician. You know,
21:28
Speaker 1: he's super talented, they both are. It was not the
21:30
Speaker 1: right song for them. It felt weird. It was weird,
21:34
Speaker 1: and like the arrangement and the fact that she left
21:38
Speaker 1: up and saying a different verse. I was like, did
21:40
Speaker 1: they do that on purpose? Did some did somebody tell
21:43
Speaker 1: her to do that so they could just like flounder?
21:47
Speaker 1: I don't know. I thought that they think may have
21:50
Speaker 1: been told the flounder on purpose because their relationship wasn't
21:53
Speaker 1: strong enough. Okay, that's all. Well, if we started the
21:57
Speaker 1: beginning of the episode here, the couples this week are
22:00
Speaker 1: Matt and Rudy, Jamie and Trevor, Chris and Bree, Ryan
22:04
Speaker 1: and Natasha. Chris Harritchinson arrives at the mansion and as usual,
22:08
Speaker 1: he has big news for the contestants involved. He said,
22:11
Speaker 1: they're heading from the mansion and going to Las Vegas.
22:16
Speaker 1: So they jump in their own tour buses and get
22:18
Speaker 1: on the road. So I'm gonna stop here and actually
22:21
Speaker 1: think one of the funniest parts about this to me
22:24
Speaker 1: was they're acting like this is a long road trip.
22:27
Speaker 1: It's like a four hour drive. All they're gonna get
22:32
Speaker 1: to know each other so well in the four hours.
22:36
Speaker 1: I said the same thing to my mom. She's like,
22:38
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is so cool. It's like, Mom,
22:39
Speaker 1: they're gonna be on the bus for four hours. Um. Also, Ben,
22:44
Speaker 1: I couldn't stop thinking about the cost of a tour bus,
22:47
Speaker 1: having known how much your tour buses cost for a
22:51
Speaker 1: week of being out on The Bachelor Live tour. It
22:54
Speaker 1: is not cheap at all. It's very, very not economical.
23:00
Speaker 1: So you're looking, You're looking at these tour buses. I'm thinking,
23:03
Speaker 1: how cool it is. I just got off tour and
23:06
Speaker 1: it was awesome, Like it was such a cool like
23:08
Speaker 1: experience for me personally, and to live on a tour bus.
23:11
Speaker 1: It was a big change, but it was fun. It
23:13
Speaker 1: was exciting. So hey, you get a four hour drive
23:16
Speaker 1: from l A to Vegas. The funniest part is these
23:19
Speaker 1: couples are getting out and like, I remember one of
23:21
Speaker 1: the couples I forget, who's like, oh, we watched a
23:23
Speaker 1: couple of movies and struggled. You ever you watched movies,
23:29
Speaker 1: you only have time for like maybe a movie and
23:31
Speaker 1: a half by a time that Hanks starts totally. I
23:34
Speaker 1: was like, you wasted your alone time with with the movie. Well,
23:38
Speaker 1: I guess like when I don't know, I Jared and
23:41
Speaker 1: I kind of did that in our fantasy sleep. People
23:45
Speaker 1: are like, what did you do? I was like, well,
23:46
Speaker 1: we watched a TV show in the morning. It was
23:48
Speaker 1: really nice to watch TV because you've been without TV
23:51
Speaker 1: for like two weeks at this point. It's uh, you
23:55
Speaker 1: know what it was. It was sweet. I get why,
23:58
Speaker 1: and I'm sure, I'm sure it was fun on So
24:00
Speaker 1: I don't want to poo poo their tour from l
24:04
Speaker 1: A to Vegas, but let's be serious. Let's be honest.
24:06
Speaker 1: Most people would drive from l A to Vegas for
24:09
Speaker 1: like even a day just to kind of hang out
24:13
Speaker 1: in in the city. So the first date card comes
24:15
Speaker 1: is to Breathe and Chris and it says a love
24:18
Speaker 1: like this will last forever, and they head to the
24:21
Speaker 1: Little White Chapel yep, and they watched a couple get
24:24
Speaker 1: married and they sing for them and that's it. You know.
24:29
Speaker 1: All those teases about them getting married in a little
24:32
Speaker 1: white chapel were, of course just that teasus it kind
24:36
Speaker 1: of felt like they could though, Like this couple is legit.
24:39
Speaker 1: I felt like they could too. I wouldn't have been
24:41
Speaker 1: surprised if they did. I would have been like, Yeah,
24:44
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be together forever. And based on
24:46
Speaker 1: the fact that we had that conversation with Breed last
24:48
Speaker 1: week and she keeps talking about them in the present tense,
24:50
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, they're still a geller and I feel
24:52
Speaker 1: like I think they're gonna end up together. Could I
24:54
Speaker 1: go as far as to say this is one of
24:56
Speaker 1: the most uh what I want to say, like noticeable
25:01
Speaker 1: uh connections that I've ever seen on a bachelor's show,
25:05
Speaker 1: the two of them together, Yeah, I would say that
25:09
Speaker 1: it feels very peacefully. It's something to celebrate. Yeah, it's
25:13
Speaker 1: very celebratory. Um So the date Carniver two comes in
25:17
Speaker 1: your leve will keep you warm. This is to Trevor
25:20
Speaker 1: and Jamie. They're playing hockey or ice skating at the
25:26
Speaker 1: stadium there in Las Vegas. Yeah, the T Mobile Arena,
25:29
Speaker 1: And I'm like, wow, they spend a lot of money
25:32
Speaker 1: on the Seaton. Uh. They go ice skating where the
25:37
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Nights play And that was a really cool experience.
25:41
Speaker 1: Trevor was a former hockey player and Jamie. You know,
25:46
Speaker 1: there's points in this episode where I just keep thinking, man,
25:49
Speaker 1: this girl is so twenty one. She's telling Rudy to
25:51
Speaker 1: say I love you. She wants to say I love
25:54
Speaker 1: you to Trevor after two weeks, and I'm like, two weeks.
25:57
Speaker 1: I was like, girl, just keep it and just play
25:58
Speaker 1: it cool. But she is relatable in the sense that,
26:01
Speaker 1: like she she's a little awkward. She's so excited about
26:06
Speaker 1: everything that's going on, and she just can't keep it in.
26:10
Speaker 1: She says I love you. And then even though Trevor
26:13
Speaker 1: says to her, like ten minutes earlier that he can't
26:17
Speaker 1: say I'm following for you until he really feels it,
26:20
Speaker 1: apparently he did really feel it because there are on
26:23
Speaker 1: the rink and he says, I'm following for you too.
26:28
Speaker 1: It's uh, you know, so far it's a match made
26:32
Speaker 1: and listen to your heart history. I mean, there's some
26:34
Speaker 1: good couples going on now. Later on in the podcast,
26:38
Speaker 1: we're gonna have Matt on to talk about his relationship
26:41
Speaker 1: with Rudy's, but we do want to mention that the
26:43
Speaker 1: date card came out to Matt and Rudy and said
26:46
Speaker 1: it's you, it's both of you. And they went to
26:49
Speaker 1: a concert that Shaggy performed at Shaggy. Uh. So let's
26:56
Speaker 1: stop here, Ashley, because to your point earlier, you are
27:00
Speaker 1: saddened because every day to this point was romantic or fun,
27:05
Speaker 1: like fun and like the Shaggy concert, maybe not the
27:08
Speaker 1: most romantic concert, but exciting. You got to get on stage,
27:11
Speaker 1: you got to sing and dance with Shaggy. And then
27:14
Speaker 1: we have the date card number four come for Ryan
27:16
Speaker 1: and Natasha and it says it's time to dig deep.
27:20
Speaker 1: They are destroying cars, so random. Yeah, so they just
27:27
Speaker 1: definitely put them on the least romantic date. But that's
27:30
Speaker 1: because there's nothing there, Like it would be so awkward
27:32
Speaker 1: to see them at a candlelight dinner, right, mm hmm.
27:36
Speaker 1: They just both have amazing talent. Like what do you
27:40
Speaker 1: at this point, what do you assume their conversations are?
27:44
Speaker 1: Like do you think they both believe? I mean you
27:45
Speaker 1: saw later on when Natasha left and Ryan left at
27:49
Speaker 1: Ryan hints to her, Hey, I want to see if
27:50
Speaker 1: this can work outside of this. Is that something that
27:54
Speaker 1: you believe is still going on? But I do I
27:58
Speaker 1: think that Yan is probably thinking, man, I am so
28:02
Speaker 1: good at performing with this girl, as we saw in
28:04
Speaker 1: the two weeks prior, like you know, last weekend, the
28:07
Speaker 1: week before that. He probably doesn't want to drop out
28:11
Speaker 1: on what they could do together on stage, probably wants
28:13
Speaker 1: to keep some sort of performance relationship together, especially since
28:17
Speaker 1: they'll be paired in Bachelor Nation, so it's best to
28:21
Speaker 1: monopolize on That makes sense. I mean we move on then,
28:26
Speaker 1: So the dates have happened, the connections exist. Actually, you're
28:31
Speaker 1: saddened because you felt like that Ryan and Tasha did
28:34
Speaker 1: not have a romantic date. I would agree, but hey,
28:37
Speaker 1: we're excited for their performance because their performance always pulls out.
28:41
Speaker 1: I wasn't waiting for them to just blow the pants
28:47
Speaker 1: off that performance, and I was so disappointed. Everybody was
28:51
Speaker 1: better than them. Let's go and talk about the performances.
28:55
Speaker 1: Chris and Brewer. The judges this week are Ari and
28:59
Speaker 1: Lauren Lyon and Dyke, Pat moynihand Massive name from Train
29:03
Speaker 1: and Ashley and Evan Ross formerly known as Ashley Simpson
29:08
Speaker 1: was her maiden name. Chris and Brie, We're first. They
29:12
Speaker 1: sing a song by Elvis. I can't help falling in love? Yeah,
29:16
Speaker 1: at first I'm like, Chris, this isn't giving Chris the
29:20
Speaker 1: vocal range that he's so good in. And then halfway
29:24
Speaker 1: through they amped it up and I thought it was amazing.
29:27
Speaker 1: They did a great job, and she sounded probably the
29:29
Speaker 1: best that she has all season, in my opinion, I'd agree.
29:33
Speaker 1: I mean, Chris started out, you know, shaky like that,
29:37
Speaker 1: those first couple of notes, We're like, Oh, what's gonna
29:39
Speaker 1: where is this gonna go? This isn't what you're used to.
29:41
Speaker 1: But by the end, I mean, I think I'm learning.
29:44
Speaker 1: I'm learning something from this show is when you do
29:46
Speaker 1: have a true connection with somebody, I think you see,
29:50
Speaker 1: I think it does show through music, and I think
29:53
Speaker 1: his true connection with bree helped him take it up
29:56
Speaker 1: a notch. After those first couple of notes were shaky,
30:00
Speaker 1: and by the end we were all we had forgotten
30:01
Speaker 1: the beginning. We were just celebrating them as a couple again.
30:04
Speaker 1: And I agreed with what I think Evan said. He
30:07
Speaker 1: said that even though it wasn't like his perfect register,
30:11
Speaker 1: because he was so gentle and sensitive singing those lines,
30:15
Speaker 1: it almost made up for it. Chris is a talented Breeze,
30:19
Speaker 1: extremely talented. I'm just a huge fan of this couple.
30:22
Speaker 1: It's fun to see no matter you know the show
30:24
Speaker 1: or not, it's fun to see a connection made like this.
30:27
Speaker 1: We got to celebrate love when it exists, and it's love.
30:30
Speaker 1: It's definitely existing between them. The next performance was Jamie
30:34
Speaker 1: and Trevor Just a Kiss by Lady Antebellum. I was
30:39
Speaker 1: very surprised that the two of them were not super
30:42
Speaker 1: familiar with this song, especially with Jamie being a Nashville
30:45
Speaker 1: native and a country singer. Um. But we got to
30:49
Speaker 1: see Jamie have this amazing jolt of confidence this week
30:54
Speaker 1: because I think they exchanged the I fall I'm falling
30:57
Speaker 1: in love with you and she is rock to the stage.
31:01
Speaker 1: She didn't have her normal jitters. She expressed herself with confidence,
31:06
Speaker 1: and I thought they it was their best performance so far.
31:10
Speaker 1: When you get told when you you know, risk saying hey,
31:14
Speaker 1: I love you to somebody and they respond back like,
31:18
Speaker 1: how good does that feel? It's the best. I mean,
31:20
Speaker 1: it's only happened to me once in my life, but
31:22
Speaker 1: it was the greatest. And I when I saw that scene,
31:25
Speaker 1: I flashed back to where I was when Jared told
31:27
Speaker 1: me for the first time, that's so cool. As there
31:30
Speaker 1: really is. I mean it does, because you can see
31:32
Speaker 1: it in Jamie this week. She's doing like high kicks
31:35
Speaker 1: in address. She's like, I don't know. She was like
31:37
Speaker 1: ready to explode through a wall. That girl was so
31:39
Speaker 1: pumped up. It was awesome to see and the love
31:44
Speaker 1: existed on stage and the two of them crushed it.
31:47
Speaker 1: Natasha and Ryan were up next. They sang perfect by
31:50
Speaker 1: ed Shearon Yep and that I didn't even recognize this song.
31:56
Speaker 1: I didn't recognize the sob. It was weird and apparently,
32:00
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, in Natasha sang a verse that
32:03
Speaker 1: was supposed to be his, and I was wondering during
32:05
Speaker 1: the performance. I was like, why isn't he singing at all?
32:07
Speaker 1: And then she grabbed two Mike's and then he started
32:11
Speaker 1: like playing the guitar and walking down the catwalk and
32:13
Speaker 1: it was just so chrish. If only those judges saw
32:18
Speaker 1: them last week, I know, I'll drop it. I'll drop it.
32:22
Speaker 1: It's tough. It was hard to watch, but I do think,
32:26
Speaker 1: you know, the three couples remaining have the best connections
32:30
Speaker 1: as well, so uh. The last couple, Rudy and Matt
32:35
Speaker 1: singing Shallow from a Star is Born we'll talk to
32:37
Speaker 1: Matt about it more here and just a little bit,
32:40
Speaker 1: but from our perspective, just one of our favorite songs.
32:43
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, And this is the song that they teased
32:46
Speaker 1: the whole season with, and it's the song that I,
32:49
Speaker 1: true to rely was like, why are they teasing this
32:52
Speaker 1: season with? Because it's the one of the best songs
32:56
Speaker 1: of the past decade and it's got to be one
32:58
Speaker 1: of the most chemistry field performances that US millennials have
33:03
Speaker 1: probably ever seen, and it's a lot to live up to,
33:06
Speaker 1: and I just kind of wanted them to let it lie.
33:09
Speaker 1: It's kind of like when they reboot your favorite show
33:13
Speaker 1: or they do a sequel to your favorite movie. You're like, oh,
33:15
Speaker 1: just let it lie. But they I think Rudy and
33:19
Speaker 1: Matt did it did a justice. I mean, it ain't
33:21
Speaker 1: Loo Gaga and Bradley Cooper, but pretty good. It was
33:27
Speaker 1: super good. I I thought it was a great performance.
33:29
Speaker 1: We'll talk to Matt here about it just a little bit. Well.
33:31
Speaker 1: That leads us to the rose ceremony. Jamie and Trevor
33:35
Speaker 1: receive a rose, then Matt and Rudy receiver rose. Finally
33:39
Speaker 1: Chris and Bree receiver rose, and Ashley, Bryan and Natasha
33:45
Speaker 1: are sent home. Yes, bye, guys, it was a pleasure
33:49
Speaker 1: watching you. Well. Ryan was super talented, Natasha just an
33:56
Speaker 1: incredible artist. The two of them will be just fine.
33:58
Speaker 1: I we wish and the best in their careers because
34:01
Speaker 1: I think the two of them are are just off
34:03
Speaker 1: to do amazing things and music. But the contestants that
34:07
Speaker 1: are left, well, they're off to one of the best
34:11
Speaker 1: music cities in the world. According to Chris Harrison, they're
34:15
Speaker 1: heading to Nashville. Ashley, what do you expect with the
34:19
Speaker 1: upcoming episodes, Well, I'm wondering if it's gonna be like
34:22
Speaker 1: American Idol where for the finale they're each going to
34:25
Speaker 1: sing two songs together, because I think it'd be weird if,
34:27
Speaker 1: like on this last chance to perform on a stage
34:33
Speaker 1: and like before their crowned listen to your heart couple,
34:38
Speaker 1: if they only get one song, they should get multiple songs. Yeah,
34:43
Speaker 1: like really music focused kind of You know, you have
34:46
Speaker 1: the dates, but you also have a lot of more
34:48
Speaker 1: a lot more music next week. This one performance thing
34:51
Speaker 1: just hasn't given me personally enough And can we figure
34:55
Speaker 1: out the criteria that makes you the couple that is
34:59
Speaker 1: the listen your Heart winner. We don't know is it
35:03
Speaker 1: going to be based on love performance? I mean because
35:06
Speaker 1: at this point when it comes to the depth of
35:08
Speaker 1: a relationship, I think we just have to say that
35:10
Speaker 1: Chris and Brewery just win. Yeah, I mean, yeah, you're right.
35:15
Speaker 1: We we haven't heard yet. Is this up to the judges?
35:17
Speaker 1: Is it up to a fan vote? Uh? Is it
35:20
Speaker 1: just the most talented performance? Is Chris Harrison just picking
35:23
Speaker 1: his favorite. We don't know this yet, but it is
35:25
Speaker 1: a big deal to win, like this could change their careers.
35:30
Speaker 1: But it also could be like Bachelor Winter Games where
35:32
Speaker 1: it was like there were four remaining couples and everybody
35:37
Speaker 1: kind of one except for them, Like they crowned somebody
35:40
Speaker 1: at the end, and then it's like it's just for fun. Yeah,
35:44
Speaker 1: then it's over. Yeah, the only loser was like me
35:48
Speaker 1: and Michael g It's kind of like, um, it's actually
35:56
Speaker 1: very much like the Too Hot to Handle Show, which
35:59
Speaker 1: I know you have and watch, but ONTI out to
36:02
Speaker 1: handle it? Like they don't really know how they're going
36:04
Speaker 1: to split the money up in the end, and in
36:05
Speaker 1: the end they're like, oh, we each got five thousand
36:08
Speaker 1: dollars each and taxes are cretic getting taken out and
36:11
Speaker 1: uh cool, yeah it sounds good. Uh hey, well, Ashley,
36:18
Speaker 1: Uh this show this week, I'm gonna we end every
36:20
Speaker 1: episode with this, and you're rating from this episode for
36:24
Speaker 1: Listen to Your Heart? Was I thoroughly enjoyed. Let's give
36:28
Speaker 1: it a nay, I would give it an a awsome.
36:32
Speaker 1: The last two weeks have been a lot better. I've
36:35
Speaker 1: actually enjoyed and and appreciated watching them. Uh, this has
36:39
Speaker 1: been a fun journey to see these couples fall in
36:42
Speaker 1: love and to connect over music. So I've given an
36:45
Speaker 1: a as well. I wasn't sold on the show at first.
36:47
Speaker 1: I'm getting sold as we go. I gotta say with
36:50
Speaker 1: Listen to Your Heart, I love the character development. I
36:53
Speaker 1: feel like I know these characters by week five better
36:57
Speaker 1: than I know most characters on The Bachelor by week
37:00
Speaker 1: five or even Bachelor in Paradise. It's it's obviously more
37:04
Speaker 1: closer aligned with Paradise. Yeah, yeah, it's Uh, it's been
37:09
Speaker 1: it's been an interesting journey. I would say this actually
37:12
Speaker 1: the closest thought I would agree with you on all things.
37:15
Speaker 1: I thought Natasha and Ryan did not have a great date.
37:17
Speaker 1: I thought their song was weird, But I do think
37:20
Speaker 1: that I have invested into these characters now, these people,
37:23
Speaker 1: and I want to see I want to see love exist.
37:26
Speaker 1: I think it would be awesome. Uh if we could
37:29
Speaker 1: see some couples come from this, well, hey, I'm so
37:32
Speaker 1: excited to see if they put any of these guys
37:34
Speaker 1: into Bachelor in Paradise. Whenever that may happen, I think
37:37
Speaker 1: it's a given. You know what, Actually, what would you
37:42
Speaker 1: do if Ryan shows up to the beach with a guitar? Well,
37:44
Speaker 1: that's what Jared was like. Jared's so he saw that
37:47
Speaker 1: I was annoyed that my favorite was gonna get eliminated.
37:49
Speaker 1: And he comes and watches for like the only time
37:51
Speaker 1: he gets watched, and he's like, I can't wait to
37:52
Speaker 1: see her action. And then I was like, Jared, Ryan,
37:56
Speaker 1: it's a goot a Paradise. And then he's like, Actuley,
37:59
Speaker 1: He's going to Para yes, And then I was like,
38:01
Speaker 1: but we need to see him seeing in Paradise. He's like,
38:03
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna be giving him a guitar. Yeah,
38:07
Speaker 1: that dude's gonna have a while. That dude's not ready
38:09
Speaker 1: for Paradise. Blow mind, Holy caw Uh, well, hey, let's
38:15
Speaker 1: take a break. When we come back, we're gonna bring
38:17
Speaker 1: on Matt from Listen to Your Heart to break down
38:19
Speaker 1: his relationship with Brudy and everything Listen to your Heart
38:23
Speaker 1: up to this point in the season. Alright, we got
38:35
Speaker 1: Matt on the line. Matt, Hey, welcome to the Almost
38:38
Speaker 1: Nest Podcast. Thank you for having me. So we want
38:42
Speaker 1: to recap with you right now what went on in
38:46
Speaker 1: this episode five, because you and Rudy were probably the
38:50
Speaker 1: main stars the most air time on this episode. But
38:54
Speaker 1: before we get to that, I want to talk a
38:56
Speaker 1: little bit more about like your musical background. So you
38:59
Speaker 1: started music at three years old. You have a band
39:02
Speaker 1: with your cousin called it's called It's Behind You, brother
39:05
Speaker 1: Stone and the get Down. And your dad was a
39:09
Speaker 1: musician and you live in l A. So tell us
39:11
Speaker 1: about what like a day today it looks like in
39:14
Speaker 1: your music life. Well, yeah, I grew up in Connecticut. Uh,
39:18
Speaker 1: my dad was a touring musician, so I was surrounded
39:21
Speaker 1: by by music all the time and great musicians I do.
39:25
Speaker 1: I have a band with my cousin who um, it's
39:28
Speaker 1: called brother Stone to get Down. Like you said, we
39:31
Speaker 1: do a lot of music for TV shows and film,
39:36
Speaker 1: and we do our own original music as well, and
39:39
Speaker 1: when there was concerts to be played, we would go
39:43
Speaker 1: play lots of music out touring and cover gigs and
39:47
Speaker 1: private events and stuff like that. So TV shows and
39:49
Speaker 1: film anything we know. Um yeah, like some of the
39:54
Speaker 1: guys here, we kind of have. So I live in
39:57
Speaker 1: the house with a lot of the guys in my band,
39:58
Speaker 1: and we kind of have like a revolving door of
40:02
Speaker 1: different TV shows that we write little little background music
40:05
Speaker 1: stuff for that kind of like helps pay the bills,
40:08
Speaker 1: but like twenty four Hours to help him back, Um,
40:12
Speaker 1: Wicked Tuna some some of those kind of shows you'll hear,
40:16
Speaker 1: like the dramatic music in the back. Is there anything
40:19
Speaker 1: you do other than music for for work? No, No,
40:25
Speaker 1: we just just just play music. I'm a lucky guy.
40:28
Speaker 1: So you and Rudy you had something from day one, Um,
40:33
Speaker 1: but it was complicated also since day one. In this episode,
40:39
Speaker 1: you guys are all over the place. Um, first it
40:42
Speaker 1: seems like you're starting out strong. Then Rudy says that
40:46
Speaker 1: you guys weren't ready to go to Vegas. So then
40:49
Speaker 1: you stop on the side of the road to a
40:50
Speaker 1: creepy hotel and you supposedly stayed overnight, did you really? Yeah, yeah,
40:56
Speaker 1: we did, and it was and it was really creepy too.
40:59
Speaker 1: So did you have a ghostly experience, because in the
41:03
Speaker 1: end credits we see that you guys are asking the
41:05
Speaker 1: owner about it. Um, it was. It was really a
41:10
Speaker 1: very creepy place. It definitely was. The funny thing that
41:13
Speaker 1: happens that you don't get to see is there was
41:15
Speaker 1: a train train tracks right next to the hotel. So
41:18
Speaker 1: at three four in the morning, it came glaring with
41:21
Speaker 1: the horn and like woke us up, and it was
41:23
Speaker 1: like it kept coming. It kept it came like three
41:26
Speaker 1: or four times. So that was that was pretty cool.
41:29
Speaker 1: Were there any other guests at the hotel? No? No,
41:33
Speaker 1: I don't think there's ever been a guest there in
41:35
Speaker 1: the past twenty years. It was like an abandoned West
41:38
Speaker 1: World weird town that we're in. You arrived in Vegas
41:42
Speaker 1: and you guys seem to be in pretty good spirits
41:45
Speaker 1: and then you guys get a date card. You get
41:47
Speaker 1: to go and perform a shaggy which was cool for
41:50
Speaker 1: all of us nineties early two thousands kids. And then
41:56
Speaker 1: she tells you that she's following for you and it
41:59
Speaker 1: kind of freaks you out of that tell us about
42:01
Speaker 1: how like your mood, your attitude just kind of changed
42:05
Speaker 1: in that moment. I think that I was so um,
42:10
Speaker 1: I was taking off guards. We we had just gotten
42:14
Speaker 1: off stage with Shaggy. We had a couple of drinks
42:17
Speaker 1: and and it's kind of naive of me to think
42:20
Speaker 1: that we weren't going to have that kind of conversation,
42:22
Speaker 1: but I think I was just so overwhelmed with just
42:25
Speaker 1: everything that had been going on that when she said
42:28
Speaker 1: it kind of it kind of took me back a
42:31
Speaker 1: little bit. And I wish I could have said something
42:34
Speaker 1: better than what I said, because what I said was
42:36
Speaker 1: like the dumbest you could possibly say, and I, you know,
42:41
Speaker 1: anything else would have been would have been better to say,
42:44
Speaker 1: but I, unfortunately was just just kind of defending it
42:50
Speaker 1: and like not really knowing how to say what I
42:53
Speaker 1: actually meant. So I actually didn't think that it was
42:57
Speaker 1: a crazy reaction because I'm thinking, think, you guys probably
43:00
Speaker 1: only only have known each other for about two weeks?
43:03
Speaker 1: Is that true? How long had it been up until
43:05
Speaker 1: that point, very very very short amount of time. It
43:09
Speaker 1: seems like it's a lot longer, but the whole process
43:12
Speaker 1: is over a very very short amount of time. Yeah,
43:15
Speaker 1: so I don't think hearing I can understand if hearing
43:19
Speaker 1: I love you or I'm falling in love with you
43:22
Speaker 1: could be a little freaky at that point. Yeah. And
43:26
Speaker 1: and to be honest with you, in in real life,
43:29
Speaker 1: I'm so guarded and I'm so I don't talk about
43:34
Speaker 1: my feelings and I don't express that these kinds of things,
43:37
Speaker 1: especially with cameras and lights and and and Shaggy is standing,
43:43
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, I don't know's it
43:46
Speaker 1: was very overwhelming for me. And that's that's the only
43:50
Speaker 1: thing that I guess my brain could figure out to say.
43:54
Speaker 1: And yeah, so I don't know. Rudy has a huge personality.
43:59
Speaker 1: But I also think she's super relatable to girls. She's
44:01
Speaker 1: relatable to me. I feel like she has so much emotion,
44:04
Speaker 1: she doesn't hold it back, she has no filter, right,
44:07
Speaker 1: But she's also hilarious and she just seems like you're
44:11
Speaker 1: never gonna be bored in a life with rude. Yeah,
44:14
Speaker 1: there was never a dull moment with with us, and
44:18
Speaker 1: and you didn't get to see a lot of it.
44:19
Speaker 1: But she whenever she has like a drink or food.
44:23
Speaker 1: She spills it everywhere and drops and she's like a
44:26
Speaker 1: She's like a pleasant tornado moving throughout the world. And
44:31
Speaker 1: it's that It's great. What do you think it is
44:34
Speaker 1: about personalities like hers that girls just seem to really um,
44:40
Speaker 1: you know, register with that. Guys get completely freaked out
44:44
Speaker 1: and overwhelmed by It's that undying like loyalty, like that
44:48
Speaker 1: rider died, loyalty, like like she'll she'll murder somebody for you,
44:54
Speaker 1: that's how much she cares. And some people can't can't
44:57
Speaker 1: handle that, and that breaks you up. But I'm down
45:00
Speaker 1: with that. I like that. I think that's super cool
45:03
Speaker 1: and endearing. And I don't know, she's she's a badass chick,
45:07
Speaker 1: and yeah, I know we're both crazy. We're both crazy people,
45:11
Speaker 1: so you know it kind of it kind of works out.
45:14
Speaker 1: You were super forgiving early on in the season, like
45:17
Speaker 1: she lost it on you guys, and now you just
45:19
Speaker 1: joke about it, which I love. Yeah, yeah, believe me,
45:23
Speaker 1: I've been through so much that was that was not anything,
45:27
Speaker 1: And in fact, it was kind of it was kind
45:29
Speaker 1: of sweet and cute, and I get that kind of craziness,
45:32
Speaker 1: so I don't know it worked for me. So you
45:35
Speaker 1: guys go from you know, ups and downs throughout this episode.
45:40
Speaker 1: She says she is falling for you. You get kind
45:42
Speaker 1: of freaked out. You seem to be in a Bible place.
45:44
Speaker 1: She keeps crying, and then you guys get shallow as
45:48
Speaker 1: your performance song. I feel like they gave you that
45:50
Speaker 1: song because, like, uh, talk about having something almost impossible
45:56
Speaker 1: to live up to, you know, because with Lady Gaga
45:59
Speaker 1: and like Cooper, everybody was obsessed with the chemistry. Everybody
46:03
Speaker 1: is obsessed with that performance for like an entire year.
46:06
Speaker 1: Even watching this episode back, I was like, Mom, do
46:08
Speaker 1: you want to watch the Stars Born tonight? So I
46:12
Speaker 1: felt like they purposely gave you the most challenging of performances.
46:16
Speaker 1: Do you think so? I think that they gave us
46:21
Speaker 1: the perfect the perfect song. Really. I think that, yeah,
46:24
Speaker 1: that when we got it, we were we were adamant
46:28
Speaker 1: with each other about like, let's let's not overdo this,
46:31
Speaker 1: Let's not you know, try doing the crazy because it's
46:34
Speaker 1: such an iconic performance and it's you. You could really
46:39
Speaker 1: mess that up. And Yeah, I think they gave us
46:43
Speaker 1: that song because a they wanted to see if we
46:45
Speaker 1: could rise to the occasion and be it just was
46:48
Speaker 1: the perfect song for the for the moment, for and
46:51
Speaker 1: for for both of us. Vocally, it uh, it was
46:54
Speaker 1: the perfect song. Her performance was unreal, Like, you guys
46:57
Speaker 1: are both great, but the fact that she was able
46:59
Speaker 1: to like kind of compete with Gaga and that oh
47:02
Speaker 1: oh part, like how did you do that? She gives
47:05
Speaker 1: Goga a run for her money totally, and being there
47:08
Speaker 1: like in person watching that happen was one of the
47:12
Speaker 1: most powerful and amazing things I've ever done performing and
47:17
Speaker 1: I'll remember it for the rest of my life. It
47:18
Speaker 1: was such an amazing experience. And she's so she's so
47:21
Speaker 1: freaking good. It's it's crazy. It's just crazy to watch it.
47:26
Speaker 1: You guys both um, I mean, you really came together
47:30
Speaker 1: on that song when you both felt like you had
47:32
Speaker 1: a rift in your relationship. How did you do that?
47:36
Speaker 1: Because we because her and I just we have such
47:40
Speaker 1: a great connection musically and and as human beings like
47:45
Speaker 1: we just we do. We have this mag magnetic connection
47:49
Speaker 1: with each other. And when when we're like, yo, let's
47:53
Speaker 1: let's do this, we do it. We and we we
47:56
Speaker 1: come together and good stuff happens. And I've never I've
48:00
Speaker 1: never made music with somebody where it's been so easy
48:04
Speaker 1: and just so like right, and it just comes so
48:08
Speaker 1: naturally to both of us. We just we just have
48:11
Speaker 1: that thing where we could work off each other and
48:14
Speaker 1: it's just a it's just an amazing thing to be
48:16
Speaker 1: a part of. And I'm so grateful for her and
48:20
Speaker 1: for this whole experience, because I never experienced anything like that.
48:25
Speaker 1: You guys are headed to the finale next week, and
48:29
Speaker 1: you have an amazing musical connection. You both live in
48:31
Speaker 1: l A. Could Rudy be the next member of Brother Stone.
48:37
Speaker 1: Rudy would never be a member of any band. She
48:41
Speaker 1: is too cool for that. It's so artist. Yeah, well
48:45
Speaker 1: she's too she's too badass to just be a member
48:47
Speaker 1: of my band. But you definitely will see her and I,
48:52
Speaker 1: uh performing together, making music together and and continuing on
48:58
Speaker 1: uh what we've done on the show, in the in
49:00
Speaker 1: the in the real world, in the real world. Alright,
49:03
Speaker 1: So you guys are on good terms no matter what
49:05
Speaker 1: kind of drama goes down next week. Thank you so
49:08
Speaker 1: much Matt for joining us and for giving us a
49:10
Speaker 1: little insight into this wild episode of hers. Of course,
49:14
Speaker 1: thank you for having me so much. I really appreciate it.
49:16
Speaker 1: All right, We'll see you around l I'm sure all right?
49:19
Speaker 1: Bye bye. What's Cooking Batch Nation? Alright, guys, we're back
49:33
Speaker 1: with our quarantine segment, What's Cooking Batch Nation? And we
49:37
Speaker 1: have DeAndre from Peter Season on the line, and she's
49:41
Speaker 1: going to tell us what she's been cooking, what her
49:43
Speaker 1: specialty is during quarantine. Hey DeAndre, Hey, Hey, Hey, what's up?
49:49
Speaker 1: Before we get into your recipe, I just have a
49:52
Speaker 1: quick question for you. You were eliminated rather early on
49:56
Speaker 1: Peter season one week was it week four? Okay? Um?
50:01
Speaker 1: How has it been watching as a viewer having not
50:04
Speaker 1: been there for all of his mess and then being
50:06
Speaker 1: able to just observe what's happened in the aftermath of
50:11
Speaker 1: the season? Um? I think it's weird getting the side.
50:15
Speaker 1: Like when you're there, obviously you don't see everything happening,
50:18
Speaker 1: but like when you get to watch this an outsider,
50:20
Speaker 1: you get to see the big picture. So I think,
50:22
Speaker 1: like a lot of things start to make sense to
50:24
Speaker 1: me watching it back and be like, oh, okay, so
50:26
Speaker 1: this is what was happening that I was so far
50:28
Speaker 1: removed from so much of the drama and so much
50:30
Speaker 1: of the things that went on. I was like, oh, wow,
50:33
Speaker 1: so this is what was going on. I feel like
50:35
Speaker 1: so dumb. I was there in the middle of everything
50:37
Speaker 1: and I didn't even notice these things happening. Um. So
50:40
Speaker 1: it's definitely weird looking on, but it was kind of funny,
50:42
Speaker 1: like it made a lot of sense. How do you
50:44
Speaker 1: feel about Kelly and Peter being together? Now? I is
50:48
Speaker 1: it true? Because like my thing is like I'm friends
50:50
Speaker 1: with Kelly, but she's never once actually mentioned anything. So
50:53
Speaker 1: I'm like, is it true? Like are these rumors? Like
50:56
Speaker 1: what's going on? Um? But they confirmed it. Yeah, they
50:59
Speaker 1: confirmed it. Okay, So I mean, hey, at least he
51:02
Speaker 1: ended up with someone from our season. That makes me happy,
51:05
Speaker 1: Like at least it wasn't a complete l somebody want, hey,
51:11
Speaker 1: before you started here on the segma of what's cooking batination? Uh,
51:15
Speaker 1: there's an interesting fact about you that I have to
51:17
Speaker 1: bring out. You are one of ten siblings. Actually they
51:21
Speaker 1: got them wrong, eleven eleven siblings. Tell us about that? Um,
51:25
Speaker 1: I mean I have a bunch of sliplings. A lot
51:27
Speaker 1: of them are half like it's a very like blended family.
51:30
Speaker 1: So I got half slipblinks. I have adopted siblings that
51:32
Speaker 1: are my cousins. Um, but it's awesome. I love having
51:35
Speaker 1: a big family. I wouldn't change it for the world.
51:38
Speaker 1: That's so crazy to think I'm an only child and
51:42
Speaker 1: you have eleven siblings. How different our worlds are. I
51:45
Speaker 1: couldn't I get very lonely. I feel like that's why
51:47
Speaker 1: I love being around people, because I always have someone
51:50
Speaker 1: to be with when I'm home always. Oh that's awesome. Alright,
51:53
Speaker 1: have you been cooking for the family? How many are
51:55
Speaker 1: you corn right now? I'm quarantine one, two, three, four, five,
52:02
Speaker 1: six of them? Yes, fun. So are you the go
52:09
Speaker 1: to cook? I'm not the go to cook. I feel
52:11
Speaker 1: like I'm work so cooked for myself because I eat
52:14
Speaker 1: so differently, Like I'm just into different stuff. I'm just
52:16
Speaker 1: super healthy, like weird recipes. And I also I'm like
52:20
Speaker 1: a snacker, so I'm not even a meal person. I'm
52:22
Speaker 1: just constantly eating snacks, which is why I brought a
52:25
Speaker 1: snack recipe today for the podcast. Yeah, you go for it.
52:31
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So, I mean you guys probably don't know this,
52:34
Speaker 1: but I'm obsessed with peanut butter. So I'm like anyway
52:36
Speaker 1: that I can get peanut butter into my diet, even
52:38
Speaker 1: though it's probably not the healthiest thing I do it.
52:41
Speaker 1: So today I'm gonna be talking about how I make
52:43
Speaker 1: chocolate peanut butter bites and banana bites. Um. It's super easy,
52:48
Speaker 1: super simple. All you need is chocolate, chips, coconut oil,
52:52
Speaker 1: a banana, whatever nut butter you want to use, and
52:55
Speaker 1: that's it in a freezer. Um. So what I'll do
52:58
Speaker 1: is I'll take like one to two and it's just
53:00
Speaker 1: depending on how many fights I want to make, and
53:02
Speaker 1: you cut it up real thin and small pieces, kind
53:05
Speaker 1: of like if you were going to make a little sandwiches,
53:07
Speaker 1: so not too thick, and then you take whatever nut
53:10
Speaker 1: butter you want to use. Again, I'm of sausa peanut butter,
53:13
Speaker 1: and you just take the little slices of banana and
53:16
Speaker 1: you put the peanut butter in between them, and then
53:18
Speaker 1: you make little sandwiches out of them. Now, the trick
53:20
Speaker 1: here is you have to freeze the little sandwiches before
53:23
Speaker 1: putting any chocolate on it. So I like to put
53:26
Speaker 1: my little peanut butter bites, however many I make at
53:28
Speaker 1: that time, into the freezer for thirty minutes and while
53:31
Speaker 1: they're freezing, you can melt down your chocolate chips. And
53:34
Speaker 1: the key to melting the chocolate chips is to add,
53:36
Speaker 1: like tea, two tablespoons of cocon oil. And if you
53:39
Speaker 1: don't add the cocon oil, it might burn the chocolate
53:42
Speaker 1: chips or make it harder to actually get that melty
53:44
Speaker 1: consistency that you're looking for. Um. So while the fruit,
53:48
Speaker 1: while the bananas, and the freezer, you do that, and
53:51
Speaker 1: then whenever the little bites are frozen after thirty minutes,
53:53
Speaker 1: it makes it a lot easier to actually coat them
53:56
Speaker 1: and chocolate or drizzle them and chocolate. So you take
53:59
Speaker 1: a cup of chocolate chips, you melt it down with
54:01
Speaker 1: two tablespoons or two teeth spoons of cocon oil in
54:04
Speaker 1: the microwave, and then you take your little peanut butter
54:07
Speaker 1: bite sandwiches that are halfway frozen now and you can
54:09
Speaker 1: either dunk them like with a spoon. I dunk because
54:12
Speaker 1: I need them to be like almost like a Reese's
54:15
Speaker 1: pieces like dunk, or you can drizzle them. You're a
54:18
Speaker 1: little healthier, you can drizally get a little bit of
54:19
Speaker 1: chocolate um, and then you put them back in the
54:22
Speaker 1: freezer for thirty minutes to an hour and that's it.
54:25
Speaker 1: That's so amazing. I'm so into this recipe. And it's
54:28
Speaker 1: also very podcast friendly, so like I followed the entire thing. Okay, good.
54:33
Speaker 1: I was worried about the measurements, but you really don't
54:34
Speaker 1: have measurements. It's all about what you want and how
54:37
Speaker 1: much you want, and that's what I love about it.
54:39
Speaker 1: So in total, like, how long does it would it
54:41
Speaker 1: take from like start to finish? How long are we talking? Um?
54:44
Speaker 1: I would say an hour or forty five minutes only
54:47
Speaker 1: because and it's not no, it's not work involved though.
54:51
Speaker 1: The work time is like ten minutes. No, no, no, no no,
54:54
Speaker 1: I'm not saying bad. That was a that was a
54:56
Speaker 1: good one. Like, oh, overleaf, like I can do that, yeah, yeah,
55:02
Speaker 1: And honestly, if you didn't want to freeze the chocolate
55:04
Speaker 1: on it, you don't have to. You can just drizzle
55:06
Speaker 1: it on it and the little bite should be frozen
55:08
Speaker 1: already and you can just eat it right there if
55:10
Speaker 1: you're like in a rush. But I say freeze it
55:12
Speaker 1: because it's nothing better like biting into like a hard
55:14
Speaker 1: frozen little banana chocolate. I'm just yes better fire, I'm
55:20
Speaker 1: so into it, Thank you so much, for sharing. Of course,
55:25
Speaker 1: I think that there you're up to that you need
55:26
Speaker 1: to uh to share with us outside of your recipes
55:29
Speaker 1: before you go. Oh, I don't know. I'm up to
55:32
Speaker 1: not that much. Because quarantine is happening, it's really put
55:34
Speaker 1: a dint in the dating scene. I feel like. So
55:36
Speaker 1: I feel like that was like very pro dating. Um.
55:40
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm happy for Kelly and Peter because they
55:41
Speaker 1: got to right their quarantined together. I guess so they're winning. Um. Yeah,
55:46
Speaker 1: I'm not really up to much. I'm back at work
55:48
Speaker 1: weirdly enough, what do you started last week? I'm an
55:52
Speaker 1: account executive and insurance company. So what Tammy does mean?
55:55
Speaker 1: Tammy come in eye to eye with each other? Nice?
55:59
Speaker 1: All right, Well, maybe we'll see you guys in paradise
56:01
Speaker 1: whenever that may happen. Could be see you Dangel, Bye
56:11
Speaker 1: guy bye. This has been another episode of the almost
56:17
Speaker 1: famous podcast Ashley. We've talked about all the time, but
56:21
Speaker 1: more than ever during I think Quarantine. I have felt
56:26
Speaker 1: the way of negative comments and criticism, especially revolving around
56:31
Speaker 1: this podcast, which I love so much and I really
56:33
Speaker 1: love hosting with you, and so I've been talking to
56:36
Speaker 1: people about it, trying to get some help and assistance.
56:38
Speaker 1: Did you know scientifically that for every bad comment or
56:44
Speaker 1: bad scenario that happens in your life, science would point
56:48
Speaker 1: to you needing at least four positive ways of reassurance
56:53
Speaker 1: based around that event to get you back into a
56:56
Speaker 1: positive mindset. Isn't that crazy to think about? That's interesting,
56:59
Speaker 1: but it's not surprising to me at all. It's like
57:02
Speaker 1: how I'll go through a whole bunch of Instagram comments
57:05
Speaker 1: and there'll be a hundred positive ones, and then they'll
57:08
Speaker 1: be one negative one and that's the one that I
57:10
Speaker 1: want to respond to. M hmm. It's like it's like paralyzing.
57:15
Speaker 1: I was asked this week on a podcast myself that
57:19
Speaker 1: I was doing separately than this, Hey, if you were
57:21
Speaker 1: a middle school student right now, what is your advice
57:26
Speaker 1: for them on how to handle social media and how
57:28
Speaker 1: to try to be leaders? So say they want to
57:30
Speaker 1: be leaders in whatever field they're doing it, knowing that
57:33
Speaker 1: criticism is criticism is going to come. And I honestly
57:38
Speaker 1: that question kind of shook me because I don't I
57:40
Speaker 1: don't know what I would tell them, and I don't
57:41
Speaker 1: know if I have a place to tell them, because
57:43
Speaker 1: I thought you were going to ask me what my
57:45
Speaker 1: advice would be, and I was like totally blank. Yeah,
57:48
Speaker 1: I guess my advice would be, no their worth, no
57:51
Speaker 1: their value, no their purpose. Know that if they're trying something,
57:54
Speaker 1: then they're doing something. Um Like, just know that we're
57:59
Speaker 1: all trying here and we all kind of I can
58:01
Speaker 1: feel it. I don't know, ash it's just been um.
58:04
Speaker 1: I think it's This is one of the things in
58:06
Speaker 1: Quarantine that I'm learning the most is through struggle and
58:09
Speaker 1: through these kind of heavy times, I'm gonna learn something.
58:12
Speaker 1: Jessica promised me last night before I went to bed.
58:15
Speaker 1: I was walking into my room and she knew this
58:17
Speaker 1: has been heavy on my heart. She goes, hey, I
58:19
Speaker 1: just want you to know this. I don't know when.
58:21
Speaker 1: I don't know where all of these heavy moments they're
58:24
Speaker 1: gonna lead to something beautiful in the end. You just
58:26
Speaker 1: don't know how. And I was like, wow, I hope.
58:29
Speaker 1: So she's so cute, she's so good. She's so good, Ashley,
58:33
Speaker 1: You're so good though, You're the best. I love you.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for another episode coasting with me. You've made this
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Speaker 1: work during a time of quarantine where there isn't a
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Speaker 1: lot of stuff out there to talk about, and you've
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Speaker 1: done it in such a great way. So thank you
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Speaker 1: right back at you. Sorry about my dogs constantly interrupting you.
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Speaker 1: Listeners don't know because our producers and editors do a
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Speaker 1: great job editing it out. My dogs are a pain
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Speaker 1: in the butt. Signing off, I've been Ashley and I've
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Speaker 1: been been. We'll talk to you later. Follow the Benn
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