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A Bromance Expedition with Blake Moynes · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. Today we
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  Speaker 2: have a special guest, Blake moins Is.
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  Speaker 3: On Ashley's birthday was yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: So birthday did you do anything? Did you do? What
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  Speaker 4: did you do for anything? Fun?
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  Speaker 5: Well, Ben, I needed to tell you this. I had
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  Speaker 5: the worst massage of my life.
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  Speaker 3: Blake.
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  Speaker 2: He's a massage guy, Like he goes to a massage
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  Speaker 2: like once a week or like he's had points in
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  Speaker 2: his life where he's done that, and like he he
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  Speaker 2: gives the best massages too. So anyway, yesterday, Ben, it
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  Speaker 2: was like the woman was applying just suntand lotion to
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  Speaker 2: me for like an hour.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, it was just all she did.
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  Speaker 2: So go like this and I'm like what and I
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  Speaker 2: this is a good conversation topic.
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  Speaker 5: But do you tell them you need more pressure?
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  Speaker 3: No, that's one thing I don't have have in me.
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  Speaker 3: I can if they ask, I feel like it's appropriately
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  Speaker 3: be like yeah, deeper, yeah, but they they There's been
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  Speaker 3: many occasions to that stand out. I guess Jess just
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  Speaker 3: had one of these where like you've get gotten a
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  Speaker 3: really bad massage and it's mostly like the hardest hour
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  Speaker 3: of your life, because you're like, I was looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to this for so long.
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  Speaker 5: The hardest hour of your life.
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  Speaker 3: And you're like, this is just awkward. I have some
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  Speaker 3: humans just like petting me.
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  Speaker 2: That is exactly what it was. And then the light
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  Speaker 2: was on and I'm just like, I feel so weird.
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  Speaker 2: She's just like gracing my skin. It was the weirdest thing.
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  Speaker 4: You like, this is why this is what you do.
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  Speaker 4: You need to go in and book a deep tissue
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  Speaker 4: to let off light.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, exactly, I think we should keep this all in.
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  Speaker 5: This is the way that we.
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  Speaker 2: Were starting this podcast guys, with Blake Moy's welcome, We're
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  Speaker 2: talking about massages. I felt the same way Blake. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, I could tell them to just you know,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit less. But then I've never been in
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  Speaker 2: the situation where I had to say a little more,
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  Speaker 2: and especially since I'm pregnant and it was a prenatal massage,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know whether she was just trying to be
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  Speaker 2: delicate with me. And I'll say this, so it was
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  Speaker 2: like five minutes in that she asked about the pressure,
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  Speaker 2: and at that point she had just done like my
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  Speaker 2: my back, like my shoulders, and I was thinking like, Okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe she's being super gentle because it's prenatal. So that's
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  Speaker 2: why I especially said, yeah, that's good. But then as
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  Speaker 2: soon as she started doing other regions and it was
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  Speaker 2: truly just like applying suntand lotion on me, I was
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  Speaker 2: just like, I made a mistake.
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  Speaker 4: What is like, Okay, so I see prenatal in there
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  Speaker 4: when I like sign up? What what did they like?
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  Speaker 4: Why do they need to right?
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  Speaker 5: What is the difference?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure except for the fact that like it
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  Speaker 2: comes with all like the cushions, so like there's the
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  Speaker 2: belly slot and there's like a booby slot, and that's
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  Speaker 2: really nice. But in the other prenatal massages I've had before,
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  Speaker 2: which is only even two, they felt very just normal
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  Speaker 2: except for the cushions.
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  Speaker 3: Ashley, we still want to wish you the happiest of birthdays,
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  Speaker 3: because you deserve to be celebrated. We are very happy
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  Speaker 3: you were born. We mean that. I'm sorry about yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I would just it was.
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  Speaker 5: A fun story and I was like, this is great content.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the best way to fix the problem that exists
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  Speaker 3: right now. Just book yourself another massage.
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  Speaker 4: Go do it.
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  Speaker 3: Again, just go for it. Why not you deserve it? Blake,
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  Speaker 3: You're with us today to talk about a lot of things,
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  Speaker 3: love life, but also the strip that you just got
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  Speaker 3: back from from South Africa was Zach Clark. Zach Clark
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  Speaker 3: came onto the podcast a few months ago. Just an
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  Speaker 3: incredible episode, not because there's a lot of juice that
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  Speaker 3: came from it, but there's a lot of honesty that
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  Speaker 3: came from it. Can you kind of give us a
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  Speaker 3: rundown just for those who are not aware and maybe
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  Speaker 3: don't follow you on social what you were doing in
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  Speaker 3: South Africa? Why Zach came?
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  Speaker 4: What is it all about? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, so yeah,
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  Speaker 4: So I just got back and I leave tomorrow for
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  Speaker 4: another exhibition. But yeah, South Africa was one hundred kilometers
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  Speaker 4: bike run, kayak and endurance challenge over three four days
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  Speaker 4: to raise money for an organization out there that's trying
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  Speaker 4: to purchase land to connect protected areas for wildlife together
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  Speaker 4: to make bigger areas for wallet because right now everything's fragmented,
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  Speaker 4: so there's protected area, agriculture, human disturbance that blocks them
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  Speaker 4: from getting to the other protected area, and you need
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  Speaker 4: these areas all connected for biodiversity to thrive to elephants
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  Speaker 4: to be able to migrate all of these things. So
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  Speaker 4: it was a fundraiser through challenge and Zach came along
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  Speaker 4: with me to do that one because he's one that
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  Speaker 4: would actually love to do it. Yeah, because these things
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  Speaker 4: aren't for everybody being in that environment. And then the
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  Speaker 4: one hundred clumbers. He's also a runner, so I felt like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he was a great one to tag along
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  Speaker 4: because if you have the bad apple out there who
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  Speaker 4: just isn't into it when they get out there, it
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  Speaker 4: can ruin everything for everybody. So he was a great
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  Speaker 4: person to come along and do that and just we're
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  Speaker 4: we've been very tight since the since the show three
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  Speaker 4: years ago. So yeah, that's why it was him because
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  Speaker 4: he gets.
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  Speaker 3: Well we saw in your social media at least I
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  Speaker 3: did a video of you crashing. So my big question
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  Speaker 3: for you is did you finish this challenge? And do
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  Speaker 3: you have a broken hip?
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  Speaker 4: No? I don't actually have a broken hip. It was
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  Speaker 4: more like an embellishment exaggeration of how hard I fell.
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  Speaker 4: I did technically finish. I came ten k short on
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  Speaker 4: the run. The last day was a thirty four kilometer
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  Speaker 4: like marathon run.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, this is my life.
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  Speaker 4: I've never trained, so I never have ran more than
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  Speaker 4: two point five k ever in one so so then
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  Speaker 4: all of a sudden, I tried to do this and
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  Speaker 4: my feet so I don't. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 4: guys remember there was a huge infection I had when
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  Speaker 4: I did my wildlife training last year where I like
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  Speaker 4: almost lost my foot due to blistering and infection that
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  Speaker 4: set in. I had to get surgery in South Africa
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  Speaker 4: last year. So when this started setting in and I
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  Speaker 4: got all the blisters on the bottom of my feet
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  Speaker 4: twenty k in, I went to the doctors like, listen,
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  Speaker 4: I can't afford to do this. I have another expedition
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  Speaker 4: coming up. They're like, hey, well, probably smart to pull out.
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  Speaker 4: We'll treat the bottom of your feet and get rid
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  Speaker 4: of these blisters so you're able to go. So technically
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  Speaker 4: ten k short out of the one hundred, which unfortunate,
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  Speaker 4: but it is what it is. I had to be
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  Speaker 4: smart about it.
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  Speaker 3: Sure that makes complete sense. Don't lose your foot over this.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of did Zach finish though?
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  Speaker 4: Did he did? He's strong runner, right, So when it
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  Speaker 4: came to the last day of one, was It was
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  Speaker 4: funny though, put him on the bike, cause I have
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  Speaker 4: a ton of experience in the kayak, in the biking aspect,
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  Speaker 4: just through all the schooling and the stuff that I've
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  Speaker 4: been through. So it was funny seeing him on a
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  Speaker 4: bike getting used to that, and then funny enough, I'm
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  Speaker 4: the one who crashes and makes a fool of myself
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  Speaker 4: on it.
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  Speaker 3: But I was so hard actually, I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you saw this, I will say this, what you know,
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  Speaker 3: Blake's life is one that's admirable. I enjoy the content.
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  Speaker 3: You're an idiot. Honestly, I was watching this. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: this dude is going down a mountain side filming himself
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  Speaker 3: and it's not just like a like when I was
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  Speaker 3: in Peru for a while we did like a bike
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  Speaker 3: ride now in like the most dangerous road. This was
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  Speaker 3: not a road. This was a rocky path and Blake
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  Speaker 3: is filming himself and I'm like this, what is he
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  Speaker 3: thinking is going to happen here? Like there's no way
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  Speaker 3: this does not end how it did.
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  Speaker 4: The thing is is there was a break where it
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  Speaker 4: was when you're going so fast and he've never been
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  Speaker 4: on this trail before, there was like what I could
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  Speaker 4: see not as rocky was a little bit and then
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  Speaker 4: all of a sudden, like it's changed, the terrain changed
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  Speaker 4: and you have one hand on and you're like and
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  Speaker 4: all of a sudden, you know we'll switch is head
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  Speaker 4: over heels.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good you, I'm glad You're okay though, So I
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  Speaker 3: just wanted to say I wanted to get it out
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  Speaker 3: there that like, if if we were closer and your
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  Speaker 3: friend of mine, I would have texted you been like
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  Speaker 3: what were you thinking? But I get to tell you here.
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  Speaker 4: I got enough of those anyways, so it's okay.
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  Speaker 5: Did you and Zach like sit together on the long
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  Speaker 5: plane ride?
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  Speaker 4: I was traveling with Zach uh Zach's Zach is just
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  Speaker 4: so even keel, calm and everything. He's the he was
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  Speaker 4: the easiest to travel with. We didn't get to sit together.
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  Speaker 4: He had a like not the not the he had
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  Speaker 4: a seat up, like an upgrade up because he, I guess,
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  Speaker 4: travels with United all the time, so I an economy.
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  Speaker 2: Same with Ben. Ben gets upgrade all the time because
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  Speaker 2: his United miles are like, well okay, yeah, he logs
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  Speaker 2: them every other day. The man is on a United
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  Speaker 2: plan every other day just.
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  Speaker 3: To get upgraded. That's all I want to do. Actually,
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  Speaker 3: I just want to get upgraded all the time.
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  Speaker 4: A bit about that though, I get it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Now, Blake, as we kind of close up, what's
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  Speaker 3: this next expedition? You know, I'm curious kind of what
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  Speaker 3: is life looking like for you? And you're going on
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  Speaker 3: these expeditions and you're raising funds for wildlife protection and
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  Speaker 3: these protected areas and these animals, but kind of how
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  Speaker 3: does life look on a day to day basis? Like
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  Speaker 3: make it make sense all of us?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So how do I explain this and short? The
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  Speaker 4: next expedition I'm going on is tomorrow. We're running. I
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  Speaker 4: partner with nonprofit organizations to help get funding for them.
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  Speaker 4: That happens in a bunch of different ways. One being expeditions.
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  Speaker 4: So we bring people along on conservation impact style expeditions
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  Speaker 4: where they get to interact with animals, sometimes get hands
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  Speaker 4: on and some of the research and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: And so I run a bunch of these. We have
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  Speaker 4: a bunch more coming up. We're about to launch three
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  Speaker 4: shark ones back to back in Florida of South Africa
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  Speaker 4: in May. I have another trip to Kenya right after that,
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  Speaker 4: where we're doing work with elephants and putting satellite callers
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  Speaker 4: on elephants for tracking and research purposes. So it's expedition
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  Speaker 4: or research project one after another with nonprofit organizations for
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  Speaker 4: the most part, and that's kind of my life is
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  Speaker 4: traveling and doing this work. But it's also a lifestyle.
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  Speaker 4: So it's been really rewarding to be able to make
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  Speaker 4: work my passion and then it also gives back. So
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  Speaker 4: that's really takes me away from the life that I
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  Speaker 4: have had here and which also makes it difficult to
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  Speaker 4: find somebody in this lifestyle. The partner, my partner would
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  Speaker 4: need to be on board, and it just doesn't seem
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  Speaker 4: like it's easy to find.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well, we want to get into that in a second,
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  Speaker 2: but we also I want to ask you, and we
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  Speaker 2: know that you were involved with wildlife before the show,
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  Speaker 2: but would you have been able to do these partnerships
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  Speaker 2: so successfully if it for it?
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  Speaker 4: No, the show, I mean, the show has been a
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  Speaker 4: massive part in letting that all play out. I was
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  Speaker 4: always involved in wildlife, but not to the stream of
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  Speaker 4: exotics and be able to work with nonprofits for conservation
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  Speaker 4: because if very quick.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're like the celebrity contest well, not contestant, but
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  Speaker 2: like participant.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, so realistically, I mean what it comes down
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  Speaker 4: to is the value liese in voice. There's just not
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  Speaker 4: voices in conservation or want to dedicate their time to that.
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  Speaker 4: So the partnership is very mutual, and so my value
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  Speaker 4: is that voice and be able to uplift and provide
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  Speaker 4: a voice for their initiatives and projects. So yeah, the
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  Speaker 4: show has definitely helped in that capacity. Now it's just
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  Speaker 4: sustained itself because of all the shit that I've been
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  Speaker 4: doing for two years that have I wouldn't say classifies
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  Speaker 4: me as an expert, but I've been in master classes
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  Speaker 4: now with you know, Shark Week experts and people that
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  Speaker 4: have expertise and rhinos and elephants and translocations and vet work.
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  Speaker 4: So I have now very very good understanding and knowledge
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  Speaker 4: base and that can just continues as I continue to
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  Speaker 4: do all this work in all these different specialties.
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  Speaker 3: Where does this lead? Like kind of where do you
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  Speaker 3: see yourself with this in five years? What are you
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  Speaker 3: working towards?
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  Speaker 4: So I mean interestingly enough, and I haven't necessarily signed NDA,
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  Speaker 4: so I can speak on a little bit. We just
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  Speaker 4: got back from Peru and Bolivia, but Perue. Mostly we're
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  Speaker 4: in the infancy stage and we have funding to start
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  Speaker 4: shooting a long feature documentary with some good backing and
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  Speaker 4: some already a lot of interest from some networks, which
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  Speaker 4: is great and it's good be mission driven. So there's
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  Speaker 4: that we're working on in the background, aside from all
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  Speaker 4: the exhibitions and stuff that I'm doing. There's a couple
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  Speaker 4: lines in the water just in terms of other potential
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  Speaker 4: TV appearance things in this space as well too that
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  Speaker 4: I can't speak on right now, but there's things happening
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  Speaker 4: on that front. So you know, I don't know exactly
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  Speaker 4: what things look like in the wildlife space, but I
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  Speaker 4: would say that there's more I do this, the more
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  Speaker 4: interest there is in that, and a lot of reach
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  Speaker 4: outs are coming from the TV space, but just expedition
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  Speaker 4: is nonprofits, all these things, so I just continue to
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  Speaker 4: continue to see it kind of flourish in that direction.
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  Speaker 5: Now to dating. So it sounds the way you disworded it.
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  Speaker 2: In your tone, that like it's unfortunate for you that
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  Speaker 2: you are having a hard time finding somebody who's okay
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  Speaker 2: with the lifestyle.
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  Speaker 4: That yes, that, but I also am finding a hard
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  Speaker 4: time how do you prioritize both right? Both require lots
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  Speaker 4: of effort and time. One's the stuff that I'm doing
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  Speaker 4: right now, which is taken up all of my time,
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  Speaker 4: and so it's hard to then break off of that
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  Speaker 4: and be able to give effort and time to letting
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  Speaker 4: a relationship first connection happen to an extent where you
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  Speaker 4: want to then put in the work for it to
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  Speaker 4: make it blossom. And so it's hard to do both
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  Speaker 4: of those things. Sometimes I'm remote and I can't even communicate,
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  Speaker 4: So how do you even get a relationship going at
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  Speaker 4: that point or a connection going? And then how do
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  Speaker 4: you maintain and sustain it when other people have needs?
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  Speaker 4: And if I can't, it's been hard to manage both.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes I get excited about a certain person that I'm
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  Speaker 4: dating or seeing, and then I'm off for three weeks
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  Speaker 4: and it kind of might dissipate, or you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I have an obligation once you start
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  Speaker 4: connecting with somebody to try to provide, and you're not
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  Speaker 4: providing emotionally or like getting to texts or getting to
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  Speaker 4: calls or being physically present. So I'm finding there's a
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  Speaker 4: balance there, and I'm not balancing it very well right now,
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  Speaker 4: and so I don't know where it goes, to be honest,
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  Speaker 4: right now, I'm kind of lost in the relationship space
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  Speaker 4: and how to go about it.
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  Speaker 3: Is it one of the reasons why you went on
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  Speaker 3: Paradise was the idea that you would be able to
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  Speaker 3: focus on it for a bit and then did I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's a two part or if something from
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  Speaker 3: Paradise would have worked out for you, like, how do
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  Speaker 3: you think that works out in the real world?
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  Speaker 4: Then yeah, So to that two part question, I in
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  Speaker 4: this really really weird way we have. I mean, and
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  Speaker 4: you probably both know this. Even though you're in relationships,
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  Speaker 4: there are so many distractions in everyday life right now
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  Speaker 4: that it's the I find it's the hardest to actually
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  Speaker 4: connect and then maintain before something like fizzled out. There's
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  Speaker 4: so many distractions, whether it's work, other people, dating apps,
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  Speaker 4: all of these things. Weirdly enough, Paradise for the amount
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  Speaker 4: the time that we're there every day, no phones, no music,
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  Speaker 4: no job I can go to, no business stuff, no
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  Speaker 4: other distraction aside from other women coming down. You literally
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  Speaker 4: are That's what we need nowadays. Put the phones away
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  Speaker 4: all and just focus on that person. That's why I
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  Speaker 4: was able to develop feelings for Jesh, which was so nice.
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  Speaker 4: I remember them being like thinking that I was going
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  Speaker 4: to be walking away with her, and things obviously didn't
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  Speaker 4: turn out that way. But yeah, I loved Paradise for
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  Speaker 4: that because it forced you to get away from the
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  Speaker 4: that doesn't allow us to connect nowadays, right, all the distractions.
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  Speaker 4: They're all so loved it for that. The second part
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  Speaker 4: was you asked how would it have worked out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Good question. I don't really know what I could say.
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  Speaker 4: I think to that is, I also do have the
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  Speaker 4: ability to bring people along with me and my partner
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  Speaker 4: or along with me on these things. Would they be
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  Speaker 4: able to at every time?
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  Speaker 6: Know?
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  Speaker 4: But I would be able to have them come for
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  Speaker 4: whatever they wanted to. Would I also try to maybe
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  Speaker 4: dial back the amount that I'm away, Yes, especially if
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  Speaker 4: I really believed in that relationship. So I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: but I think that the issue here is trying to
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  Speaker 4: find a connection where I then have to make that
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  Speaker 4: decision right now. Mection that reform. Never had to think
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: about it. But I think if someone really made sense
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: for me, I would find a way to pull away
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: from you know, these guys here a little bit then,
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: and and you know, and find that space for to
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: be able to give enough of that to foster that
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: relationship which had to make that decision yet.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: No, but it's it's I like the way you talk
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: about it. It's sweet, Like you can definitely tell it's
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: a priority in life, as you could tell on the
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: show that it was a priority in life for you.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: I've been a relationship person all of my twenties two
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: and a half years, two years, three years, three and
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: a half years, and then the show. Stuff has happened
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: and it has made things and it's been difficult, it's
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: been challenging. As you know, we come off the show.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: There's just it's just everything's weird. It's different, you look
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: at things different. There's so I am a little lost
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: in that space for sure right now. And I and
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: I always used to be so confident in it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I guess the big question then for
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: people that follow you are rooting for you, that are
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: wanting you to find what you're looking for. I know
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: you just said you're lost, but kind of what I'm
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: sure it crossed your mind. How are you seeing dating
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: for you in the next couple of years? You know,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: how do you see that looking?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: I have been trying to put myself out there more
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: and I have been going on dates and connecting with people,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: and there's like lots of potential there. I don't. I
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: don't really I'm hoping ben, to be honest with you,
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: I'm hoping I go on one of these expeditions and
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: there's a girl like my space that I'm just like, wow,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: and she gets it. She wants to be out there
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: with me and want or at least shares the same
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: passions though I'm out doing these things. She's like, good
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: for you. I wish who's like gets that feeling that
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: animals can bring to people, or those those awe aha
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: moments out in wild life, that like she would never
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: want to take those things away, or I can be
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: I'm just hoping I find someone in my space to
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: be honest, and hopefully I go on enough of these
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: that she just pops up one day. Because outside of that,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: like being here in my hometown or wherever I'm traveling,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: like it's gonna be difficult, But I don't close the
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: door either, right, It's like, hey, well I'm not ready.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: I can't give my time to somebody yet but in
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: saying like, Okay, well I'm gonna stop dating, Well, I
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: don't want to ever close that door. That I'd be stupid,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: So I keep it open and hoping that someone just
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: rips it wide open and gives me that feeling of like, hey,
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: now I'm gonna you know, because it's a disservice to
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: myself too, because I naturally want it. I want somebody
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: I you know, I lay in this bed, I'm and
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: he's watching a wrong com or whatever. I'm like, like,
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: I haven't had that forever. Like I love that, we
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: all want it, but and I would do myself a
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: disservice to turn that off and be like because I'm
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: gonna you know, I love what I do, and it's
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: it's a it's a it's a it's a challenge for sure.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Did Zach talk about his dating life at all with you?
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Oh? Why did I feel like you're gonna go there?
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: I knew it. I just knew it.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Good job, Ashley.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Yes, and no, to be honest, I mean you probably
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: see that. I mean the rumors and all those things.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: It probably plays into you know. You see, Zach doesn't
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: comment on all and any of those things. He's just
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: very nonchalant and the guy when I have asked, he
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: is very it's almost like, you don't. I don't want
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: to tell you anything because then you get wrapped up
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: in it and people know we're close, so people are
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: going to know that you potentially know stuff. And so
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: when I ask, you know, I went to the New
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Year's thing and all that stuff, like yes, do I
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: know that they are hanging out and have yes? But
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: he does not give me the guts because when I
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: have asked, he makes it awkward and so, Okay, I'm
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: just not going to go there again with you. He
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: just doesn't want to feed and play into that, and
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: he's just not he's all business and he's just he's
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: not a very emotional guy with me in that sense.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: But I think he also is in some way protecting
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: me from whatever is going on on that he doesn't
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: want me wrapped up in it because he knows everyone
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: knows we're tight, and so that I don't. It's he
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: makes it awkward to talk about, so we just don't
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: really talk about it. Well.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: One of the things that's admirable about Zach too is
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: a lot of people go through this world and then
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: they're looking left and right for the next headline. And yes,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: a lot of what he's doing right now could create
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: some very spicy headlines, some headlines that would definitely attract
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: people to have Zach's name on their computers or on
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: their phones every day. I think the lack of his
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: interest in creating a headline as something admirable, and I
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: think it shows the authenticity and the genuineness to whatever
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: connection exists. If it does, if it doesn't, you know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: whatever comes up. I think that is something that not
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: a lot of people in this world invest into. But
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I think Zach's one of those guys, especially after you're
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: talking about on the podcast, that really cares about, Hey,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: if I'm going to do this thing, it's not because
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: it's going to make me more money or it's going
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: to keep my name out there.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, he is. He moves with so much bois
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: and just calmus, and he's so happy in his own
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: life and so wrapped up in trying to continue to
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: help people through Lease Recovery Foundation and all his work
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: that there's no there's no money aspect to this at all.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: There's no ulterior motives to it, and you know, it's
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: just it's just part of the course with that guy.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: That's why he's just easy to be around in that sense,
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: because there's no other noise, there's nother you just get
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: an actual true friends. The show stuff is just so
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: and the public stuff is so to the side. He's
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: just you know what I mean. So it's nice because
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: when I'm with him, I mean, as you probably both know,
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: once you've done this show and you're around the other
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: people done the show, the show is like just seems
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: to be always part of the conversation With Zach. I
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: never we never talk about the show. It's about what
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: he's doing. I'm doing the work. It's never show based conversation,
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: which is a really nice disconnect because a lot of
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: the times when I'm in these group settings, it always
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: always built the show this or that episode, and there's
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: none of that with him, which is such a breath
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: of fresh air.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, so speaking of the show, actually I do have
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: one question here, speaking of the show, speaking of love,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: speaking of some of our favorite people in the world,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: have you and Rachel ever made out.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Rachel this Rachel season?
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: We know now no, Rachel Lindsay, No, sure, no, Reky Oh,
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Rachel Rekia. Oh my god, how did I not.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: On a trip together? They We talked to Rachel about
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: this and we she this was I think pre trip
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: and I see the two of them being really good together,
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: and so I want to know, like they spend time together,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: they're friendly, they like each other. Has it ever been anything?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, They've totally made I which you guys
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: could have seen his face.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: That's no.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: I swear I'm very much, very much a book, And
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: I would just tell you if we have. We legit
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: have not, but like maybe tell you if I would
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: tell you if we if we did, I would we
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: are like she is my go to She's my go
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: to confident with and not front okay dating.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that leads in perfectly to my next question. So
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: your friends, you're close with Zach and with Rachel. Of
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: all the three seasons you've done, the Tasia, Claire, the
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Katie and then Paradise, which cast would you do it
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: all over again with?
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Mhm?
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: The first the first one Claire Claire. That was a
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: good cast. It was the most It was really good.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: The guys were awesome. But you know, it's not to
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: take away from Katie's season and those guys there. But
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: you know, when you do it for the first time,
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: it's exciting, it's new. It's different when you When I
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: went back for KS, it's just like, can've been this before?
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: The same excitement wasn't there on like the experience aspect.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: The excitement was there for Holy this is a really
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: blossom relationship with that excitement was there, but the show
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: experienced itself the first time in that cast and going
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: through it with everyone.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Is speaking of Tasha and clar Season Ben Smith, I
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: don't know how close you were, but did you see
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: that Britney Spears posted a picture of him.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: I someone said it to me. I remember, and I
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: was like I didn't. I was like you, being like, what,
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: how what? I don't understand. I still don't. I know
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: he does some type of work in that space with
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: like musicians and things like that.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Oh really, yeah he does.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Like I know he does stuff with oh oh oh
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: oh DJs one of my favorites and I'm blanking on
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: them hard.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Like a big DJ, like a DJ that like is
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: a household name sort of thing.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, he travels with things that.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, so you're saying that it could just not be
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: a random photo that Brittany posted from the Internet.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: I don't. Yeah, it could very well be that there's
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: maybe some link there where he's helping. He helps with
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: like not just mental health, but I think keeping people
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: on track, so like you know, not drinking, and they'll
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: do you know, work together and workouts on the road
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: and stuff like that. So I think he does stuff
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: in that space, so there could be some there. Maybe
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: he actually does work with her. I don't really know.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, appreciate that insight.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I did DM him no response, but also it didn't
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: look like he read it. However, when he saw the
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: first line of the message, he definitely knew it was
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: about and probably didn't open it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: Hard to say, but that it's not that random to
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: me knowing that he was post there because I know
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: he's done space work in that space with other notable
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: people before.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Alrighty, and then my last question for you is just
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: you talk to Jess anymore?
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Yes, yes, she she and I have It's a
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: very just good, healthy relationship. We have not explored in
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: a romantic sense, but I think yeah, I mean, it's
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: it's an interesting one, right, Like there's a general curiosity there,
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: but I think no, Okay, Like I said, all the
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: things I've already talked about, is what plays into like
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: you know, the potential? I don't know.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Okay, Blake, you are close with Kylie and we know
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: that she had quite the breakup post the airing of
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Bachelor in Paradise. We need I'd love to know more
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: about this. I know that Nick had her on her
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: on the podcast and we got some more details about
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: that breakup and the cheating and all that that went down.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: Did would there ever be a thing with you two?
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Since we saw that you were so close on the
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: show that we thought that you were going to make.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: Out when you got in the black car.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: No. No, and Jess Mercedes and Kye lived together now
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: in San Diego.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: Oh, that would be a very sloppy situation.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Very very very not one that I have the mental
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: capacity to handle or entertain in any way. And so no,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: I mean from Kylie's front, she wouldn't and I wouldn't.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: And no, there's nothing, nothing there. But I'm seeing the
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: rumors that the potentially back together are trying to make
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: things work again. I don't know. I've traveled so much
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: that I I just see the headlines.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: Do you Okay?
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Sorry?
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: As my eyes are bugging out.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Last week when we had Braydon on, he heard that
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: one of the the Paradise couples that had broken up
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: were trying to rekindle things. He teased this for us,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: didn't give any names even and Kylie would have been
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: the last.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: I would assume would be rekindling, and Blake is giving
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: us other information with his facial expressions right now.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: No, I honestly, i'd be surprised too. I think obviously
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: when something like that happens, there's that's a big hurdle
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: to overcome to try and rekindle and trust and all
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: that stuff. So I'm with you, I'd be I would
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: be surprised, But I don't know. My my rumors are
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: as good as your rumors.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Who is the couple that you think could possibly get
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: back together?
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: Like, I really when I'm thinking about them, I really,
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: that's the only one that I feel like.
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: Was strong enough to begin with, I enough to begin
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: with to then you know, re try to even write
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: so because none of the mouse makes sense to me
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: that they would try to none stand out.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Now that we're just on the topic, I gotta throw
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: these names out for you. What the heck happened with
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Aaron and Eliza because we saw that Eliza moved on fast.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: That there's just there wasn't even an acknowledgment of the
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: ending of it.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: It was just Yeah, she never even acknowledged him honestly
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: on her social media.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I know, that's an interesting one. I mean, you know,
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: we talked there. I have not talked to her since.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: I just feel like she's really disconnected and that kind
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: of shows.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: Okay, well, thanks for the dish.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: We really are I always like a little gossip, you know,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: I've got to throw it in there with the serious stuff.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: This has been another Almost Famous podcast. We have one
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: of Bachination's favorites, one of the names that continues uh
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: to interest people not only because of who he was
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: on the show, but who he is outside of the show.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Blake Moys. Thanks for joining us today.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Thank you for having me. It's great to be here.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Bake.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: All right, until next time, I've been, Ashley and.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I've been been. We'll see you later. Guys.
• 31:50
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