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Making Love with Mike · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
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  Speaker 1: with i R Radio. We're back with another week of
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  Speaker 1: the Almost Famous Podcast and this is a week like
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  Speaker 1: none other because we have some really special guests. Um Like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've had amazing guests here recently, but this
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  Speaker 1: episode is full of great guests, some hot topics, and
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  Speaker 1: of course my co host Ashley con Eddie. Thanks Ben,
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  Speaker 1: so today we got a lot of hot topics. Should
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  Speaker 1: we begin or is there something you were going to
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  Speaker 1: call me out on? Yeah? Yeah that now We're not
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  Speaker 1: starting yet. Don't don't get away from this. Every it
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  Speaker 1: feels like every evening I calmed down by you know,
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  Speaker 1: scrolling quickly through Instagram and uh watching the stories of
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  Speaker 1: the people that I love and admire the most in
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  Speaker 1: my in my life. And Ashley, you are one of
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  Speaker 1: those people that is not a secret. Uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: I I think, uh, you know, I view you. I
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  Speaker 1: view you like a sister, Like I think that's like
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  Speaker 1: where my heart is. Like I love you deeply, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I care about you deeply. UM. I find you to
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  Speaker 1: be a beautiful human inside and out. And that means
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  Speaker 1: so much from somebody who was so extraordinarily beautiful and
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  Speaker 1: it's similar to last night. It felt similar to how
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  Speaker 1: I would be watching like my sister. Um, there's a
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  Speaker 1: video of you getting your pants pulled up by Jared,
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  Speaker 1: which must be marriage, and you're doing it. I don't,
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  Speaker 1: I don't fully understand what's happening. Um, but I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: you get your pants pulled up and there's just like
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  Speaker 1: this warm feeling in my heart because I see Jared's
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  Speaker 1: commitment to supporting you and helping you, and it makes
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  Speaker 1: me joyfully like giddy in the evening. But if anybody,
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  Speaker 1: if if nobody watched it, Uh, what was going on?
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  Speaker 1: And what was I watching? Okay? So I've always had
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  Speaker 1: this problem, and maybe it's not a problem because I
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  Speaker 1: love my body shape and I love that I have
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  Speaker 1: like a full butt in a tiny waist. Um, But
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  Speaker 1: something that comes along with that body shape often is
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  Speaker 1: not being able to find jeans that fit properly. I
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  Speaker 1: love Good American. I will shout Good Americans name from
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  Speaker 1: the rooftops because they are finally a brand that I
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  Speaker 1: can just slip my jeans up my up, past my thighs,
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  Speaker 1: over my butt and it fits perfectly around my waist
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  Speaker 1: without me having to get them altered. But I saw
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  Speaker 1: these Zara jeans there are very nineties are so cool. Um.
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  Speaker 1: They just had these gigantic rips and they were loose
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  Speaker 1: and all the like the places I felt like Reese
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  Speaker 1: Witherspoon and fear or something. So I had to get
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  Speaker 1: these even Oh yeah, isn't she just the cutest in
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  Speaker 1: that so um, I knew that they didn't fit around
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  Speaker 1: my waist very well. I had to get them taken in,
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  Speaker 1: and they took them in maybe a little bit too much,
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  Speaker 1: to the point that I really couldn't get them over
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  Speaker 1: my butt. But I wasn't going to like just retire
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  Speaker 1: them after I spent seventy getting them and I love
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  Speaker 1: them so much, so I was like, no, I have
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  Speaker 1: to wear these, but it's going to require help every
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  Speaker 1: time I pulled them up and pull them down. So
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  Speaker 1: I the other day Jared had to basically pick me
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  Speaker 1: up while having his fingers through the loops of my jeans,
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  Speaker 1: and then I had to kind of hold his neck
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  Speaker 1: and he had to kind of drop me into the jeans.
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of like if you're like, imagine putting
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  Speaker 1: a pillow into a pillowcase, okay, right, And so it
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  Speaker 1: was such a scene. I was like, Okay, when I
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  Speaker 1: take these things off, I'm going to videotape it because
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  Speaker 1: it took a solid minute for him to have to
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  Speaker 1: pull them off my legs. So I videotaped it. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was pretty funny, pretty relatable. Um, if anybody
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  Speaker 1: else has that similar issue, Um, and that is love,
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  Speaker 1: that is marriage, and that's a big booty. So is
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  Speaker 1: there like a sense of accomplishment that Jared feels when
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  Speaker 1: he gets them off? Like do you see a smile? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Just like it, Like it's almost so ignor Like things
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  Speaker 1: like that are like just so commonplace now that he's
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  Speaker 1: like not in phase, Like if you watch it, he's
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  Speaker 1: watching Superman in the background, Like he's way more focused
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  Speaker 1: on Superman. And Okay. Also, this brings up an interesting
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  Speaker 1: topic that that I've wanted to discuss with multiple women
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  Speaker 1: in my life, and I always forget, uh, how okay,
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  Speaker 1: So say you're in a scenario where there's like a yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: So there's two things I want to go with this,
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  Speaker 1: those those Jeanes being one, because what do you do
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  Speaker 1: if you're at the restaurant? And because when when he
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  Speaker 1: when he finally gets the pants off. You see that
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  Speaker 1: you're wearing something that looks like a bathing suit. I
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  Speaker 1: had a bodysuit on ye shout out to Lonnie the
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  Speaker 1: label by Amanda Stanton. Yeah, good for good for her.
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  Speaker 1: But like this, this isn't just one layer of trickiness.
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  Speaker 1: There's two, because then you have something that like literally
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  Speaker 1: next your whole body. So here's my question for you.
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  Speaker 1: Between that and I think it's called a romper, like
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  Speaker 1: the full body romper things, How an emergency situations does
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  Speaker 1: one go about their business successfully without causing a scene
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  Speaker 1: or need to completely change in the restroom? Fantastic question back,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. So when you're wearing like a jumpsuit, which
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  Speaker 1: is kind of like a romper but a pants edition,
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  Speaker 1: you basically get naked in the stall. So it sounds
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  Speaker 1: so unsanitary. Well, I don't know that it's unsanitary. It's
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  Speaker 1: just awkward because like if somebody were to like peek
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  Speaker 1: through the cracks of a public restroom, they would just
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  Speaker 1: see like this naked girl squatting a romper in This
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  Speaker 1: is what I do, And maybe a lot of girls
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  Speaker 1: are going to be like what the hell? But I
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  Speaker 1: just pull it to the side. There's so much there
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  Speaker 1: that could go wrong. Oh yeah, you can definitely get
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  Speaker 1: p on your romper. But even if like, what's a
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  Speaker 1: cup sprinkles, but I don't do it. I don't sprinkle.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't sprinkle um. And then in this case where
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  Speaker 1: you're wearing way too tight of pants, that's just that's
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  Speaker 1: one of those instances where people people are probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: think you're pooping in the public restroom, but you're really
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get them off and on, like you're
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  Speaker 1: like grunting, you're jumping up and down, you're pulling it
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  Speaker 1: in time commitment. Holy I don't think I could have
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  Speaker 1: gotten those off myself though, So I knew when I
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  Speaker 1: went to dinner that it was going to be like
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  Speaker 1: you cannot be and like make yourself a little dehydrated
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  Speaker 1: if possible. Wow, there's just a lot going on here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always learning something. You know what I did this weekend?
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  Speaker 1: I went to a Halloween party that was Renaissance and
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  Speaker 1: Harry Potter themed. Wait, why a Halloween party so soon?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, just I mean, I don't mind it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really know. I mean it's just like one
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  Speaker 1: of my friend's wise wanted to throw a Halloween party,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a month in advance. Um, and there was
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  Speaker 1: only like ten people there. I think it was like
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  Speaker 1: a super small group. I didn't wear a costume, was
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  Speaker 1: the only one, so like I was one of I know,
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  Speaker 1: I had I have issues. I I have given up
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  Speaker 1: my renaissance days based on you know, my new life,
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  Speaker 1: but of the theme. But here's what happened. So, because
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  Speaker 1: like there's only a few amount of people there, and
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  Speaker 1: I think typically she throws a huge party, like massive celebration.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't want to like uh not have fun, Like
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  Speaker 1: she still wanted to go all out, and so she
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  Speaker 1: bought a bouncy castle, like a massive bouncy castle, and
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  Speaker 1: nobody was getting in it. And so my buddy and
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  Speaker 1: I decided to jump around the bouncy castle for anybodyut
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  Speaker 1: there listening. I don't know the last time you jumped
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  Speaker 1: on a like something. I don't know if it's like
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  Speaker 1: if it's a bouncy castle, if it's trampoline, or if
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  Speaker 1: you just like jumped around in your yard for a bit.
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  Speaker 1: You will never feel so out of shape. And so
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  Speaker 1: then spending one minute, like as a kid, you could bounty,
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  Speaker 1: you could jump, you could fall, you get back up,
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  Speaker 1: you can tackle your buddies. I did it for two minutes.
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  Speaker 1: My buddy and I did not. This is not an exaggeration.
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  Speaker 1: He gets out of the bouncy castle and throws up
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  Speaker 1: next to him, shut up. And there was no adult
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  Speaker 1: beverages at play. It is just simply the fact that
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  Speaker 1: my heart raced to a level I haven't felt in
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  Speaker 1: twenty years. It was aggressive, it was unique. That's not shocking.
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  Speaker 1: The throw up is hilarious, but I totally know what
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  Speaker 1: you mean. Getting on a trampoline looks just like exhaustion
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  Speaker 1: to me. There's no sense of fun there anymore. And
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  Speaker 1: a bouncy castle, those things like they get they get
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  Speaker 1: you so low, you know, there's so there's so much jump,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much height to the jump. There nothing nothing
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  Speaker 1: calls uh, nothing calls my name more than uh. Since
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  Speaker 1: I don't have an a c l I can couch
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  Speaker 1: calls name. But a bouncy castle in my knee is
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  Speaker 1: like hyper standing on itself every time. Nothing just makes
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  Speaker 1: me feel like a couch. A couch sounds great anyways, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: lots our weekends. We're happy to be back with you. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: We're happy to be breaking down everything going on in vacchination.
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  Speaker 1: There are things going on that we'll bring in Mike
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  Speaker 1: Johnson here and just a little bit, so make sure
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  Speaker 1: you tune in for that before we get the hot topics.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take one break. When we come back, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: break down everything going on in Bachelor Nation. Matt James
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  Speaker 1: begins filming season twenty five of The Bachelor. See you
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  Speaker 1: all in two months. He says, nothing juicy here, guys,
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  Speaker 1: just a fact of the matter that the season has begun. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we can can confirm where they're shooting yet,
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  Speaker 1: but if you guys do want to do a little
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  Speaker 1: quick search online you can find out. So Ashley, as
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  Speaker 1: we prep now for getting closer to the season of
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  Speaker 1: The Bachelorette, that there hasn't been anything released to my
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  Speaker 1: knowledge yet on the details of this season. Then knowing
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  Speaker 1: that just you know, in a few months, Matt's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be off filming The Bachelor, We're gonna have another season
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  Speaker 1: pretty quickly following like, how excited are you? It feels
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  Speaker 1: like it's been forever. Yeah, it's fun. It's it's really fun,
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  Speaker 1: And I can't help but think of how excited I
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  Speaker 1: am for the producers to be done filming this season
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  Speaker 1: because they have gone NonStop since we'll say June, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they are going five months, five six months
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  Speaker 1: completely straight, and that's something that they never really have
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  Speaker 1: to experience. So I'm excited for them to be able
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  Speaker 1: to have a holiday break once it gets here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and that's a I think it's an interesting
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  Speaker 1: note that we we've brought up before, but just a
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  Speaker 1: good reminder for all of us, Like when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to first responders, when it comes to any essential workers,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to anybody now trying to put entertainment
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  Speaker 1: on or any any industry that's trying to make this
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  Speaker 1: period of time work for them, there are huge sacrifices
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  Speaker 1: that are being taken place. Like there are producers on
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  Speaker 1: the show. They're sound guys on the show. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if if you hear the word producer out there you're listening,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, Bachelor producers, they're all terrible. Well, then
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the sound people, let's go to the cameraman,
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  Speaker 1: let's go do the people behind the scenes. There are
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  Speaker 1: people who have just had babies, but this is the
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  Speaker 1: way they put food on the table and pay for
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  Speaker 1: their families. And now for the last few months they
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  Speaker 1: have literally been in quarantine without being able to see
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  Speaker 1: these people. We keep talking NBA hockey right, well, these
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  Speaker 1: people are quarantining away for their families for months of
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  Speaker 1: that time as well. It's it's you, just it's it's
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  Speaker 1: an important reminder. There's a lot of to be grateful
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  Speaker 1: for when you when things are given up, like uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the time with the family. I think you'd
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  Speaker 1: become more grateful for your time spent. But as fans,
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  Speaker 1: as listeners, whatever, we have to realize that people are
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  Speaker 1: making huge sacrifices, not just in entertainment, not just in sports,
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  Speaker 1: but all over the place to make sure that this
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  Speaker 1: world still functions at a level that's suitable for all
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  Speaker 1: of us. So anyways, shout out to the Bachelor they
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  Speaker 1: are filming. Matt James is gone and we're looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to his season just as much as we are looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to the Bachelorette. Well, speaking of bachelorettes, I think
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  Speaker 1: I could easily say the Queen the favorite, one of
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  Speaker 1: the favorites. Most people love this person, Caitlin Bristow. We're
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  Speaker 1: watching her right now on Dancing with the Stars. She
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  Speaker 1: is still on the show. She's doing great, but last
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  Speaker 1: week she had a battle to go through and that
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  Speaker 1: was a battle with pain. She suffered from an ankle injury. Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: what's the updates. There's not much update right now. She
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  Speaker 1: had an m r I on Thursday. She was scared
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  Speaker 1: about getting the m r I because those can be supercaustrophobic,
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  Speaker 1: but she didn't have to have her head in, which
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  Speaker 1: is good. Um, but she's just super anxious about getting
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  Speaker 1: the medical results back and she hasn't gotten back yet. Huh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So she doesn't have the results of the m r
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  Speaker 1: I back, but as of the recording of this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: she is out of Dancing with the Stars set getting
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  Speaker 1: her makeup done, so it looks like she's going to
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  Speaker 1: be dancing tonight. Um. I guess the issue here is
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  Speaker 1: that she's had very little rehearsal time, so I think
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  Speaker 1: she's very anxious about the fact that her dance probably
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  Speaker 1: won't be as well rehearsed as she's been able to
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  Speaker 1: do the past couple of weeks and as much as
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  Speaker 1: everybody else has been doing. So you guys make sure
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  Speaker 1: to vote for Caitlin. We know that her ankle. Is
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  Speaker 1: she's still in pain. It's getting better with the days,
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  Speaker 1: she said, which is a good sign. So do we
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  Speaker 1: know from Dance with the Stars, like, where does Caitlin
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  Speaker 1: typically stand when it comes to votes and rankings? Is
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  Speaker 1: Is she typically very safe or she on the fringe?
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  Speaker 1: She she's not on the fringe at all. She's getting
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  Speaker 1: sevens and eights both weeks, So I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: she's she's pretty, She's gonna I think she's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: safe regardless of how obvious her injury is, because the
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  Speaker 1: fan vote is just going to She's gonna yeah. And um,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how the judging works if the judges
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  Speaker 1: know that there's an injury present, Like, are they easier
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  Speaker 1: or are they are they easier on them to give
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  Speaker 1: them any sort of slack or they kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: it's your decision to be other dancing. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good question. I don't know if they've even
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  Speaker 1: said or if there is a like a precedent for
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  Speaker 1: that is. Uh, is Carol Baskin still on the show? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but she was in the bottom too last week and
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  Speaker 1: I think the judges made the decision to keep her okay,
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  Speaker 1: So like her time isn't long. Probably, I don't think so. What.
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  Speaker 1: I'm actually surprised because I thought she'd have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fan vote too. Did you see that her that
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  Speaker 1: the husband, you know, the husband that we all we
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  Speaker 1: all know, has passed away somehow over what was it
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  Speaker 1: like over a decade ago? They paid to have an
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  Speaker 1: ad run during Dancing with the Stars, the first against Carol. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I saw that. That's aggressive move, not cheap move either,
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  Speaker 1: if to have primetime ABC commercial space. So statements are
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  Speaker 1: being made. Dance with Stars is airing this week. May
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  Speaker 1: surely go vote for Kaitlin uh and support her Bachelor Nation. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: next headline is one from somebody that we will be
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  Speaker 1: talking to in just a bit, and we get more
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  Speaker 1: info on this later on, But it says Mike Johnson
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  Speaker 1: would never return to Bachelor in Paradise. This according to
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  Speaker 1: US Weekly. Yeah, that's interesting to me. We'll have to
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  Speaker 1: get the answer from him. But he said, everyone involved,
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  Speaker 1: including Mike flies, has been wonderful to me, freaking awesome people.
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  Speaker 1: I would not do Bachelor in Paradise ever. Again, probably
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  Speaker 1: it's just not my cup of tea. He also is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, talking about his new book, which we will
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  Speaker 1: we will talk about later. So Mike Johnson has a book,
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  Speaker 1: he has a lot going on. Uh, I do want
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  Speaker 1: to dig into this a bit. I feel like he's
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  Speaker 1: like well suited for Paradise, Like I just think he
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  Speaker 1: would he fits there. He's likable guy, he's a good
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  Speaker 1: looking guy. You can show up to the beach and
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  Speaker 1: meet some of these new people. But we'll figure out
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  Speaker 1: what he's all about and why he's saying no to
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  Speaker 1: Bachelor in Paradise at least for right now when we
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  Speaker 1: bring him on here after the commercial break. Now, this week, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to talk to shan Low and Catherine
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  Speaker 1: Uh in an in depth episode that will be airing
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  Speaker 1: into the week. Super pumped for that, and uh, they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be great there. Obviously they've been in our headlines
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  Speaker 1: for the last few weeks now, we've been talking about him.
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  Speaker 1: This week's headline is a little different. Uh. Katherine responds
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  Speaker 1: and starts opening up about how she feels about Shanno
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  Speaker 1: shan Low not initially picking her. This according to US
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  Speaker 1: Weekly as well. Okay, so I'm like initially picking her,
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  Speaker 1: She's putting herself on the shoes of say, the mas NICs,
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  Speaker 1: Uh if they if you were to ever pick somebody else,
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  Speaker 1: and then went back to Catherine. She said that she'd
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  Speaker 1: be pissed, that it would take a while for her
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  Speaker 1: to get over and Sean would never live it down.
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  Speaker 1: I feel her. You get it, you definitely get it. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Next headline is The Bachelor's Tinley Moleson welcomes daughter rel
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  Speaker 1: James absolute perfection and I quote, yeah, um, she is studying.
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  Speaker 1: What a beautiful baby. She said that we've been completely
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  Speaker 1: captivated and swept off our feet in love with our
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  Speaker 1: precious baby girl. We haven't gotten around to introductions. She
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  Speaker 1: said this when when she was first born, I think
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  Speaker 1: about a week and a half maybe two weeks ago now,
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  Speaker 1: and by following Tinley's Instagram, she's been making all the
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  Speaker 1: family introductions, the aunts, the uncles, the grandparents, the cousins,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: all that stuff this week and showing off this beautiful
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: little girl her and husband Taylor had this month. I mean,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: two good looking people having a good looking baby. Not shocked,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: not shocked. Well, speaking of one of our favorites, we
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: have to give a congratulations. But all so some breaking news,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: unexpected news. Maybe I should say Bachelor alum Leslie and
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Murphy is Yes, I'll say it. She's pregnant, expecting her
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: first child with fiance Alex. This also according to US Weekly. Yeah,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: she posted us on Instagram yesterday she said baby Kavanaugh
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: taking flight in Finally someone to occupy the middle seat. UM.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Her pointfriend her, he says at drone Pilot, her fiance
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: and I couldn't be more excited to grow our little family. Um.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: She also she played she played the Ronetts be my
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: baby in the background of this, so really really cute.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Congratulations to her. Um. I feel like there's been a
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: lot of baby news and the girl like all these girls,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I want a girl, And I'm like Jared, there's so
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: many baby girls in Bachelor Nation. There's no way we're
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: going to have a girl first. Well, yeah, because the
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: genetics bat does. Uh. Super exciting for both of them.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, we've had some amazing baby news over the
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: last few weeks here on the podcast. Uh with babies
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: you know who started out uh needing extra care in
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the hospital, who have came home healthy. I mean, I
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: don't know if you have the list in front of you, um,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: but it is, Yeah, go ahead. So it was Liz
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: we had ten and now we have Leslie, we had Courtney.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Can you think of anybody else from this year? That's four?
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I can't. I mean, when was Tanner and Jade's last
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: child born? Well, Tanner, and you're right, there's a good one.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: So the next one will be born in November. It's incredible.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, just a lot of babies happening. I mean, hey,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: but let's be honest. I guess this wouldn't be I
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: was gonna say Quarantine probably had some people having babies.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: But this wouldn't be Quarantine. Babies wouldn't. Leslie's wouldn't be.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: What about Britta Nelson? Did you have a child? Britta Nelson? Yeah,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: it's a good job. Thank you big. Yeah, that's a
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: big There's just a lot to celebrate, and Bachelor Nation
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: life is being born. We will always celebrate that. Uh. Hey,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: final headline here, Hannah Brown hits the water in a
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: bikini with some Bachelor besties to celebrate her birthday. Hey,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: before we go on this headline, I do have to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: take a note. I just googled it and Beca Martinez
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: also had a baby this year. Du good job. Okay, yeah,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: so uh not a real juicy story here. But Hannah
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Brown did turn twenty six this weekend, and she was
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: joined by Demi and Hannah Gee on what looked like
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a fabulous yacht in the l A area. Over the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: past couple of days, she had like kind of like
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: a week long celebration. I know she did some um
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: zoom some zoom birthday party with some bachelor fins. Yeah,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: they're on a yacht and I'm in a bouncy house
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: sweating my brain. We don't live the same life. But
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the point is there's just a lot of babies being
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: born in Bachelor Nation. Um, we're gonna take a break
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: when we come back. During break, we're gonna google all
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the children being born in Batchel Nation this year because
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I'm sure we miss him. But we come back, we're
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: gonna have Mike Johnson on the podcast talking about his
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: recent project along with his dating life, uh and what
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: his new roommate and him will be up to in Austin, Texas. Uh,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: let's take a break, we come back, well, Mike Johnson. Okay,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: So the Bachelor Babies that we did re Pecca Martinez, Um,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Jenna Cooper, Travis Stark, and Kelly Travis If we are
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: missing any of them. This list let us know. It's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: hinted at UH in the beginning of the podcast, and
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: UH consistent person on the Almost Famous Podcast. We've also
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: done an in depth episode with this human who you
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: should go back and list in two we have up
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: next in the Almost Famous Podcast, Mike Johnson, Mike, welcome,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, Ben, thank you asked
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: you for having me back. I feel like I can't
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: believe I'm saying this. I feel like I'm a part
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: of the family. You are a friend of the podcast. Yeah,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I feel like a friend of the five. I agree.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I was thinking the same thing earlier. So you remember
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: last time you're here, you're talking about maybe moving and
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: you've decided to make that leap. You're in Austin. Yes,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Connor and I are moving to Austin. Let's go Connor
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: who just I mean Connor Saley? Right? Who was on
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the show with you? Yes, Connor Salley. He won our
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: season of the Bachelortte. Wait did he win that? Yeah?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: The guy that wanted. You know, in most people's hearts,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: that guy is a good looking fella. He's nice, he's kind,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: he has his own stuff going. How how did you
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: two decide to live together. Have you stayed for ends
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: throughout the last couple of months. Yeah, man, I think
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: that probably. Honestly, our alumni, the Bachelor of Alumni is
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I think, for most part are pretty cool people. And
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Connor lives in Dallas. I live in San Antonio, but
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: my family is from Dallas, and so I would always
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: go up to Dallas and Connor and I would always
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: try to kick it and hang out, some workouts together
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and do some business things together. And I mean we've
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: just naturally continued to come together. I mean even on
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the show, we were bunk mates every step of the way. Um,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: he left and then I left the next day. I
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: mean we're like it just was. It was meant to be.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: When was the last time you lived at the roommate? Yeah,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I asked a great question because that I swore I
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: would never do it again. And like my last day
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: is my best friend to this day. He's a great
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: human being. But like when you live with somebody, you know,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: like you can't do certain things no more. Right, So
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the last time I had a roommate, I was twenty
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: years old. It was right before going into the military. Um,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and so actually funny story about that. I was in
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: community college at the time. I came home and I
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: told my roommate at the time, it's just things bright
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: like my best for me in the world. And I said, Bro,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I'm joining the military. I'm joining the Air Force. He
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: was like, man, don't join the military. Bro, don't do that.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Next thing. I know he up and left before I
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: left to the military. So look at you being all influential, Mike.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: What's one thing you're gonna have to give up with
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: a roommate that you don't want to have to give up?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Then I'm not gonna lie. I tell people all the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: time too. I can't believe on the saying when you're
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: filling down or sadder, the pressure anything, run around the house,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: but Naken, listening to your favorite music and screaming at
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the top of your lungs. I don't you know. I
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: don't want Connor to get jealous. I can't do it.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I don't. I was gonna say, you don't have to stop.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what's told you back, buddy.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I was literally going to say, I feel like Mike
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: is the kind of guy who likes to walk around
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the house naked. But you know, I still have a
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: room to do that in. You know, I still can
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: do my thing in my room, just locked the door.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: There's so many questions I can ask about, like having
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: a room, like just getting a new roommate, Like how
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: are you guys going to deal with food? Like are
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: you going to think about like you can ask each
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: other what do you want for dinner every night? Or
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: is it going to be like we do our own
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: separate grocery shopping. No, that's yoah see I don't that
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: would never come. I'm go speak for Connor and I.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: That's something we don't have to ask each other. It's
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: like no, that question is like no, it's like, bro,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I'm cooking some healthy food. You want someone? You know?
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: We don't even ask you, just like we're both always hungry.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: What is one thing that you can foresee being annoyed
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: about Connor with without even a thought? Connor is a
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: beautiful human being, but the boy is junk right his
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: count Oh my god. When he stayed here in my
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: place for you know, like a week or so. And
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Connor loves to work out. And that's one reason why
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I'm so happy to moving together because he's gonna be
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: like a positive influence on me. But the dude needs
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a pick up after him. So so that's gonna be
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: a little a nuance for me, a nuance for me.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: So the final roommate question, and I think this is
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: one that even I'm experiencing with my fiance as we
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: start to talk about getting married and we're gonna live.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Jess Yeah, shout out to Jess. Uh.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I think the one thing they can break roommates. I
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: think you can make it happen and work together. I
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: think it's awesome and I don't know if I could
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: do it again, but I'm happy for you. It's a bathroom.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: So are you gonna have to share a bathroom? Do
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: you have your own individual bathrooms? Because sharing a bathroom
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: could ruin you too. Absolutely, you're of the money, like seriously,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: like the bathroom is like a sacred like I'm not like,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: once I move in with a lady again, you know what,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I'm a relationship. The moment that I could take a
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: crap and she's in the bathroom at the same time,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: that means love, right, So you're okay with that. I'm
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: not okay with that. We've talked about this on the
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: podcast before, maybe even before you were even on the show,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: you would be okay, seen your lady poop? Yeah, I mean, like,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: you know, we love, we're like, we're growing together. I'm
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: cool with that. I don't want to see myself poop.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to see the white popart.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: But you know, outside of that good, Oh my gosh,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: all right, while you're sitting I'm okay. Well, but then
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I was talking more about the counter. I was more
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: of the count bathroom. Yeah, on bathroom, bro, we gotta
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: work good. Well, Mike, you have some stuff going on
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: right now that we got to dive into and talk about. Uh.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Not only do we love catching up on your life,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: but you also has recently came out the book called
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Making the Love you Want. Uh. You know, instead of
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: me trying to explain to everybody, how about you just
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: tell our listeners what this is about. What they can
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: look forward to me being extremely authentic and transparent. There's
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: so much more than a smile. There is so much
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: more than you being the pastor. There's so much more
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: than Ashley and Jared right, and in my book you
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: will learn so much more about me things that are unflattering,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: but I feel that that's me standing in my power.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: And that's the goal that I want everyone to have
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: when reading my book and window going through my book,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and you know, uh, working through my book is knowing
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: that we all have self living beliefs, but we're gonna
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: shatter every single stuff. For me, belief and the unflattering
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: things I'll talked about my book. It was hard for
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: me to say I want to be a success when
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I was doing incredibly ignorant things. But those are all
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: self limiting beliefs that I had upon myself right and
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: for us to stand up in our power. And I
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: remember I did an I G Live two days ago
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: with the lady named Sarah, like I really care about
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: our extended UH family, that's where I call our fans.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: And Sarah was telling me she does a calligraphy, and
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: she was telling me that I would. I asked her
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: a question in regards to a piece of clligraphy that
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: she did for Brianna Taylor, and I was incredibly moved
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: by it, and so I said, why did you start calligraphy?
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: And she told me that that was how she found
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: her voice, that was how she found her way to
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: stand in her power. And so my book is simply
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: giving you the keys to finding your own powers, to
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: knowing that you are beautifully made in God's creation and
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: that you're awesome human being. Let's do it. Can you
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: give us one of those keys right now? This as
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a teaser? Can I give you one of those keys
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: right now? I should give you a book right now.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: As a teaser, I would say today, literally, I want
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: you to look in your mirror that you have, not
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the same bathroom then with ys, but look into a
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: mirror that you have, and I want you to write
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: now three things that you love about yourself. So, for example,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: for me, what I would do is, I would say
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: that the people that know me individually know that I'm
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: pretty damn caring. So I would say I'm caring person.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I would say that all my friends that know me
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: know that when I say something I will do, I'm
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: a I stick with things to the hend. That would
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: be the second thing I would say. And the third
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: thing I would say is I legit love making people smile, right,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: And so what we do with this I have a mirror.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: It's a mirror that I look at every single day.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I right, get my goals right as mirrors. Mirrors get
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: a little bit dirty over time, and it's the same
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: thing within our life. In our life, our life can
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: get cluttered and you know, we start to lose sight
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: of who we are. But once you talk positive to yourself,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: once you clean that mirror off, you can see who
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: you are at your core again. So that would be
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: a quick, a quick one. Why out of all the
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: topics that you could write about, why this one? Man?
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I gotta say, I'm loving the hair, man, I'm loving
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: the hair. I love you, Bro. I just had to say, uh, well,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: why out of all topics talk about this topic? Great question.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I think people like, Bro, you're on the TV, just
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: talk about TV. That's all we care to hear about you.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: And to me, just like all of us, they're so
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: many different sides of us, and this is the side
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: that is I'm most passionate about. I with all of
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: my being believed that if you make someone else happy,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: you make someone else smile, it makes you happy in return,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: it makes the world a better place. And I think,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: quite honestly, right now we all agree that the world
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: could be a better place, right and so um a
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: part of that is starting with ourselves knowing that we
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: are capable of amazing things. Except for being doing his
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: hair this morning. Yeah, I didn't do my hair this morning,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and in fact, uh, Mike, I've I've been running my
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: hands through it all day and it's standing up at
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: different different points. Uh. I love it well as a
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: listener out there, they obviously care about you, they respect you.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Um leaving this book. Outside of giving them the power
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: back and making them feel better, what do you hope
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: they gain? I hope people gain a concrete, a marble,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: a diamond. Let's say, let's stick with diamond, because that's
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the strongest, uh, forced demand. I hope that people have
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: a diamond understanding that you can and they fill in
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the blank. Mhm. I believe it as simple as that.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: It's like my book, I don't define what self love
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: is is. I let the individual define what that is themselves.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I give lots of examples, and I talked about it,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and I talk about what it means to me. But
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I want people to have a diamond knowing that if
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: you love yourself, there's not nothing that on this earth
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: that you cannot do. You can have those courageous conversations
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: like I have my mother about my book and talking
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: about it, which was incredibly hard for me to do,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: you know, talking to her about when my babysitter es
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: sexually harassing me, right, or talking to her about how
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: it made me feel when I had in my eyes
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and cat scans because I was lashing out of my mother,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: you know, when I did some illegal things that I
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: told you about offline that are pretty embarrassing for me. Uh,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: to have those courage conversations. Know that you're Dimon and
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: we're all made wonderful. We just have to, you know,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: go out and seek it. I feel like I'm preaching
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: right now. I'm not normally this guy. Right, this isn't
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: a side of me, but well, this isn't a side
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: that people have seen of me. This is all of me,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and it's just it's it's cool to show this side
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: of me. I like you person. I know that when
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: we did the in depth you talked about a very
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: dark period of your time where you honestly didn't leave
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the house for about a year. Could when you when
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: you go look back and think about that, guy, like,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: how cool is it to see where you are now
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and what you're writing about? It makes me smile. It's
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: awesome too, because that guy was like, I lost like
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: twenty five pounds, I grew my hair out crazy. Um
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: my states account depleted to zero, having thousands in the day,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: uh two, literally throwing up up when I went back
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: out and saw people. That's crazy for me, as everyone
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: knows me, is like, it's super a jovial individual. Thank
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: you asked me for bringing it up. When I came
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: out of that period of time, I literally hyperventilated and
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: threw up because I was around people. Right, It's just
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: blasphemy to me. It's crazy, it's obnoxious, and to be
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: here right now, I would just tell that dude again, Bro,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: you're a diamond. You are strong, you are going to
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: get through this. You are absolutely made for this, and
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: it's just amazing to be here in this position right
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: now too. To go from that to this, Ben talks
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: about in his book about just the importance of connection
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: and how like it's just so tempting to kind of
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: retreat to your whole and just be alone, but that
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: is just going to make everything you're feeling worse. So
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: I like, you guys need to have some little like
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: a book joining moment here. Oh, I absolutely want to.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I honestly were going to bring up Beings that book
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: while being on this podcast. You guys, I think that
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: it is so easy, is absolutely right. It's so easy
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: for us to go into our whole. Right. That's why
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: in dating I'm so big or communication because in dating,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of the times I'm using this as example.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: You know, people know it's from a dating show, right,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and so I'm using this example in dating when we
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: feel down and or hurt from our partner and or
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: we hurt them. There are so many times where we
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: just want to withhold and just retreat, and that's not good.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: And the same thing happens with ourselves. Right. When I
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: was in my deep period of time where I spent
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: like literally a year of my life in a hole, right,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I call it to myself. I say I was in prison.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I imprisoned myself, and that's not good. You know it's
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: not there. You know, no one wins from that situation,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: no one, not You are the people that you can
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: impact in a positive manner. Mike Uh tell us a
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: little bit about the writing process. When did you start, Uh,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: What was your kind of technique for walking through it
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: and making sure the words that you put on paper
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: matched what you were feeling and wanting in your heart. Yeah.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: So when you just said that, I'll tell you what
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: happened to me when you said those words. I kind
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: of took a deep breath because I was reliving what
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: I call emotional homework. That's what me and my editor
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: call it. He would ask me like some really hard
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: questions and I'm like, damn, that's rude, but it was
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: it was needed for me to go into such a
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: deep place and so being to answer your question, I'm
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: not a writer by a trade, right, I think that
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I've written an amazing book. Um. I hope that you guys,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: you know, feel the same way after you read it,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: and if not, please tell me how I can get better.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: But I would say that I spent a lot of
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: writing time then in the wee hours of the morning.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know why. I think it's just because I
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: feel like the world is asleep in the world can't
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: hear my thoughts. And so it was, it was, it
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: was it was subconscious for me to be up at
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: three thirty three in the morning, you know, writing down
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: my deepest things and or my most vulnerable moments, and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: how I would talk to my best friend in the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: entire world. And so for me, it was literally just
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: writing in the middle of the night. Um. If I
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: felt that I had writer's block, I would just stop writing.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: There was The beauty of being self published is that
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I have no time with right It's my book. I
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: do what I want when I want, And so I
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: would really walk away, get up, taking that go bs,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: do something else, and then I would come back to it. Um,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: and I would have conversations with friends about real stuff,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: not about people, not about um what's going on new
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: is what did Kim Kardashian doing, but about real things
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: that's affecting, nealizing, affecting my lives. And via those conversations,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm able to ascertain knowledge. So uh to
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: close up here, Mike things for sharing all that. And uh,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I know people out there anxious and waiting to get
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: their hands on this. When does it come out? Where
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: can they find it? And uh and how can they
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: best access this book that you have beautifully created? Thank
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: you man. Um. I feel like I just want to
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: hug you guys. I'm just really happy to see you guys.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: You know so sweet, You're so cute. I'd hug you back.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: You can go purchase my book on Mike johnson Smile
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: dot com, sign up for my newsletters. They'll also be
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: on Amazon. My book is called Making the Love You One.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: My base is not in a cover up with my
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: book because this book is so much bigger than me.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: I want people to know that it comes out October two,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: this Friday, World Smile Day, not just America Smile Day,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: not just My John Smile Day, but World Smile Day.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Let's do it so you know, we can't let you
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: go without talking about some Bachelor related things. You recently
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: said that, despite respecting and loving the whole production crew,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: you have no desire to go back to Bachelor in Paradise,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: So can you explain why. Yes, I'm glad you said that.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: I really am glad that you said because some people
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: have like coming me when I said things that have
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: not been the most flattering in regards to the franchise.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: And I appreciate you saying that because I have all
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the love in the world for our franchise. Right, I
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: love you guys, love our franchise. You of all people
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: know I'm very honest though, and the reason I want
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: to go on Paradise again, is because I don't feel
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: like that's the best form for me to find my love.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: And quite honestly, the point of going on the show
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: isn't it gain I g phone. The point of going
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: on the show is I fine your love. And that's
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: why I haven't been opposed to when people ask the
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: question about being the lead, because I feel I like
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: that round more so. I like being on the batch
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: read more so than Paradise. I feel like Paradise to
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: me was I felt like high school popularity contest. No,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I unders stand. I felt that Paradise, even though it's
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: where I found my love, it was far more emotional.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: It's just like kind of like a wrecking process. But
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: when I look back on being on The Bachelor, it
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: was just fun. Yeah, a lot lighter, a lot lighter.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Agree with that, so much lighter. And yeah, that's why
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not for me. But what's not for
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: me doesn't mean it's not for you. Obviously, you found
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: a wonderful guy in there who has the best jaw
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: in the world, right, so he's yes, he does. It's
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: just it's not it's not for me now of course. Um, yeah,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: I'll just see like that now if they did Summer
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Great Games, because Summer Games was canceled. Ben and I
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: know that that's a lot different than Bachelor in Paradise.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: It's a lot um it's a lot more casual. It's
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: just kind of like, if it happens, it happens. It
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: just doesn't feel like it kind of feels like you're
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: there to be friends first and foremost and to like
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: have fun with competitions. Would you do something like Summer
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Games or Winter Games again or ever not again? You
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: didn't do it? No, Yeah, that's my alley because like
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: when I go on a first date with the woman,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: some things that I want to do was just be lighthearted,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: be fun, doing activity to where like I'm trying to see,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: like you know your comfort zone, right, I might take
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: you too. I fly right indoor sky down because it's fun,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: it's activity. We're like friends in comparison to having an
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: interview deep questionnaire for six hours straight. Yeah, what makes
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: you laugh? That's what I want to know. Yeah. Yeah, Okay,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: So you guys, it's not the end of possibly seeing
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Mike Johnson on the show. Yeah, don't get too said yet.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: You know, he could be back possibly one day somehow,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: based on this conversation. Based on this conversation, it sounds
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: like you are still single. Can you like let us
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: in on the last time me went on a date?
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: What kind of has there been any little spark since
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: we've last seen you on the show. I feel comfortable
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: telling you, guys, someone just stayed with me here are
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: my place? And it wasn't Connor. They stayed. They stayed
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: for multiple days. Okay, so there's someone. There's someone. But
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: what city is she from? Is she gonna have to
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: be traveling? Interesting? I don't know. All right, Oh, thanks
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: for giving us that to smile on that guy's face
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: right now. Something happened. I don't know what assumptions, but
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: something happened in that guy smiling. National Smile Day, October three,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Mike Johnson's book comes out. Make sure to get it
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: on Amazon or Mike Johnson Smile dot com. Making You
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Want by Mike Johnson. Mike, thanks for joining us, buddy,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys, Love you guys, have a great day,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Love you buy. It's always good to catch up with Mike,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: but we also love catching up with you. We're gonna
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: break down some listener emails. Please email us. Continue to
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: email us your thoughts, your opinions, uh, your concerns to
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Ben and Ashley at I heeart meatia dot com, but
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: also follow us on Instagram at Almost Underscore Famous Podcast.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: We will be updating that Instagram every week, uh and
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: kind of teasing the episodes and also breaking down any
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: further content needed. Yeah, you guys can d m us.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: You can d m u s questions too, but we
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: love having these little behind the scenes questions to answer
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: for you guys every week, so keep them coming. First
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: email is from Shawnee. Is it true? The producers track
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: the contestants minstrel cycles and schedule their one on one
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: interview when they are most likely to be hormonal, emotional
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: wreck Ashley. I don't know about this. You on. I
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: think this has to be something sort of fake news.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know where you heard this, Shawnnie. Now I'm wondering.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Did I ever fill out a questionnaire about when my
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: last period was? That would be insane? I don't what
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: I never did. Oh no, you never filled that out? Um,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean like maybe we did during
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Like we don't do a physical, but we do like
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: have to get blood drawn and stuff and in that paperwork,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: I may have filed something out. But you guys, they
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: schedule interviews with you, one on one interviews every single day,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: So it's not like they're like, oh, but this is
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: the one that we're gonna get and it's going to
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: be super good. I don't really believe this. That would
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: be really extra. I mean, I guess I wouldn't rule
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: it out, but like, I don't think they revolve the
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: schedule around periods. The Bachelor isn't as like dark and twisted,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: as like a fake. It's not. It's like very much okay.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: It's not like I don't feel unsafe going on the show.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: I don't feel like they're trying to ruin me. I
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: never felt that well. I mean, the number one behind
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: the scenes question I get asked is do they try
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: to throw alcohol down your throat? And I'm like, no,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: not at all. Never once did they say like can
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I get you something? Like if you want something, you
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: can be like, oh, can you grab me memosa? I'd
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: love that, thank you. But they're never like I think
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: you could use another one. It's not like they're in
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: the fact of like there's an open bar in the
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: interview room. People make it seem like there's like they
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: have a bar car in the interview room. No. I
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: actually remember them like telling me no often, Like if
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: I was like, hey, can I get a drink for
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: this interview, They're like, nah, Like not tonight, Uh you
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: got an early morning, Like I remember them saying that.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: I never remember them going, hey, you should have like
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: a few shots before you talk to us tonight, Like
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: that never happened. And honestly I never needed this, Like
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: once you get into this, like the regiment of interviewing
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: so often and opening up your heart and being so vulnerable,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: you don't need alcohol to be vulnerable or to cry
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: or anything like that. Actually, you're not that I ever YEA. Hey,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: next email is one that we want to broach because
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: we appreciate this person coming in. We're gonna keep it anonymous,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: but we do appreciate this email and the vulnerability behind it.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: I think we can answer it to the best of
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: our abilities. But um, the listener writes, my husband recently
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: admitted to me that he has had a sexual attraction
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: to another woman that we know for the past six years.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: He told me that he's never acted upon it, and
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: I do believe him. He's been brutally honest with me
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: and very communicative. He told me that he loves me
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: so much and he feels satisfied with our relationship, but
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: still has an attraction to this person. We plan on
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: entering therapy together, but I guess I feel like I
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: don't know how to move forward from here. If it's
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: been this long, it's clearly not going away. How can
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: I ever feel confident? How can I ever stop wondering
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: if he's thinking about her when we're intimate together. I'd
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: appreciate any advice from both of you on how you
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: battled those insecurities and feelings uh like you're enough for
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: your spouse. So I don't think Ashley and I have
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: maybe entered into this exact scenario, but I think the
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: last sentence is relatable to all of us. Um not
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: feeling enough and having insecurities within a relationship. Those are
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: things that that all of us have felt and that
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: we've had to work through. Ashley, do you want to
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: kind of broach this first? Do you want me to try?
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: I want you to try. So how I go about
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: this is um one there is with all we know here,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: there is an honesty Uh, that is admirable on his
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: part to open up to you and tell you this,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: I think in a partnership. Um, in fact, you know,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: I'll go about this way. I have one of my
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: best buddies admitted this to his wife, not in a
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: six years and but he said, hey, I you know,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: I'm realizing that I'm having eyes for other people and
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: I don't like it and I don't want this, but
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I need to tell you this so that you can
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: help me through it. And she did. She owned that
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: with him and said, hey, what do I need to do?
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: What can we do together to help you, uh, get
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: through this? Because this isn't something I know you want.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I know you don't want to be looking at other people.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: I know you don't want to be thinking about this
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: about other people. And it's better for a relationship. So
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: there is a partnership here that I think is is
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: admirable on both of your parts to stay together, but
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: also for him to be communicative. I don't I want
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: to be honest, I don't think this is super uncommon now.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know to the extent of the sexual attraction happened,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know that scale. And and what
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: was thought of. But I don't think it is uncommon
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: for people, uh in relationships too at times go Wow,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: that person is incredibly attractive. Now acting upon it is different,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: and then think letting your mind go to a place
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: that's a healthy um is a boundary that that personally,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: I think would be healthy to set. So yeah, that's
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: where I feel like I have a little something to say.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll go out with my girlfriends and we'll talk.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: I'll be like, oh he's hot, Oh he's hot, Like
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about hot guys still do because I'm married.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not blind, But it doesn't mean it means that,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: like you find them attractive, but you don't have any
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: intent or desire to act on that attraction. And I
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: also think there's a difference between acknowledging like, oh that
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: person is hot, they're fun to look at, versus, um,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: I'm daydreaming about that person, like I'm thinking about that
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: person romantically. And I think that's what our listener listeners
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: husband is doing. And and and let's go with that
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: because I don't know right that that doesn't go in
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: enough detail for us to know this. However, Uh, here's
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: my advice to you uh, and it sounds like you're
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: doing it from your email. You have to communicate, and
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: I think an open line of communication and within this
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: is now necessary. I think if I was your husband
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: who had admitted this to you, and you told me
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: as we were intimate together that hey, you're worried about
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: what I'm thinking about or who I'm thinking about, I
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: think you should tell him that. And I think a
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: good partner with an understanding partner, especially with look at
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: you and go I get I get why because this
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: was something that I put on you, and this is
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: the way I put on you, and let's work through this. Um.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: You might need more validation now than maybe you would
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: if this was never said to you. There's insecurities that
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: came up because of his openness to you that you
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: never thought you'd have to deal with, and and a partnership,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: I would just imagine that both people are better when
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: there is that open line of communication because you're only
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: doing it. I mean, the goal is that you're doing
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: it to mend and to get back to a place
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: of healthiness and happiness and fulfillment and enjoy within your relationship.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: And if that is the intent with your communication, that
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: I don't think much can go wrong. I think that
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: if you're speaking to him and communicating with him and saying, hey,
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: I'm worried about this, and I'm only worried about it
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: because I want you to want me, and I want
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: you to desire me, and I want you to think
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: about me. Ask him, let him, let him respond. Uh.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: But I do also want you to know that you
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: should feel confident in relationship because you two are together
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: and you're trying to work it through, and you are
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: desirable and you are desired and uh, and for that,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: I think, actually I are wishing you the best. This
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: is tough, this isn't easy. But but if you're feeling
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: alone and like you're the only one out there experiencing this,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: I can promise you that this isn't an isolated event
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: that there there. This isn't uncommon. It doesn't take away
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: from the pains that you're feeling, but this isn't uncommon. Yeah,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: And I wish that I had more advice on this,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: especially since this person probably reached out being like, actually,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: must have insecurities because of the way that Ashley and
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Jared's relationship started. I don't have a I don't really
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: have a lot um and a lot of it is
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: just healed over time. And I think that it's just
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: like as simple as being open and honest, um, giving
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: a time and just yeah, what Ben said, the fact
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: that he's wanting to work through this, it should be
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: a great sign for you. Hey, what a podcast. We
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: appreciate you writing in, Thanks for your honesty, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: connecting us all. Uh. We'll be back this week with
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be really great. We'll be posting that by
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  Speaker 1: the end of this week and then we're back next
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  Speaker 1: week on Monday. As we get closer and closer, I
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  Speaker 1: think that is going to be our official last offseason podcast.
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  Speaker 1: with that, I've been Ben, I've been Ashley. We'll talk
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