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Bachelor News Roundup! · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
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Speaker 1: with i R Radio. Everybody. It's been again and it's
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Speaker 1: Ashley and welcome to another week of a hot topics
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Speaker 1: edition of the Almost Famous Podcast. Yeah, we got a
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Speaker 1: big podcast out of you with a lot of headlines.
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Speaker 1: But first off, Ashley, it's been a bit since I've
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Speaker 1: asked you this question. Have you been I've been great.
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Speaker 1: I know you weren't here last week when we had
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Speaker 1: Michelle Money and actually Spivy on. It was a fun one.
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Speaker 1: It was a really good one. I almost went in
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Speaker 1: depth with Michelle, it almost got there. What stopped it?
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Speaker 1: You think the fact that she only had twenty minutes fair?
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Speaker 1: You know what, Michelle Money is one of those names
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Speaker 1: that is legendary. It feels like in the Bachelor franchise.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely honestly, she's been around for a while. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what season was she on, Well, Brad season,
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Speaker 1: so that was that you were twenty, so he must
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Speaker 1: have been fifteen. Yeah, so I mean it's been a
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Speaker 1: bit she stayed around. She's obviously someone from the franchise
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Speaker 1: we keep in touch with and we always enjoy hearing from.
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Speaker 1: But Ashley, Yeah, thanks, for covering last week. I was
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Speaker 1: actually on a camping trip up in the Titons, and
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Speaker 1: so I was up in the mountains away from all
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Speaker 1: people because that feels like the the one thing we
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Speaker 1: can do right now. And uh I actually, if you
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Speaker 1: saw my Instagram, I had something that never happens. It
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Speaker 1: feels like up there, it happens more than what I understand,
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Speaker 1: but you never get as close as I did, not
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Speaker 1: on purpose, but a grizzly bear. I was taking a
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Speaker 1: hike and a grizzly bear literally crossed in front of
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Speaker 1: us at about like twenty five yards. That is insane.
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Speaker 1: I went there with Becca Tilly in October and in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the road was a big bison or
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Speaker 1: a moose, And I could not believe how freaking big
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Speaker 1: these wild animals are. They're like completely majest sick, and
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Speaker 1: so different than what you would imagine them looking like.
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Speaker 1: So how big and tall was the bear? Like, was
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Speaker 1: the bear taller than you because you're six four? It
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Speaker 1: was a grizzly It was a baby grizzly. There are
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Speaker 1: three of them. Yeah, the mom was a lot bigger
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Speaker 1: than me if she stood up. The baby wasn't as
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Speaker 1: big but it actually like scratched its back on the
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Speaker 1: pole in front of me, like did a little wiggle
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Speaker 1: thing and took off. I saw a moose, I saw
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Speaker 1: a deer that looked like Elk. I saw Elk like
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Speaker 1: I should. I'll tell you I live in Denver and
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Speaker 1: I love Denver dearly. Uh. But anybody listening to this,
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Speaker 1: if you ever get a chance to visit the Ta Tons,
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Speaker 1: it is a majestic experience. Uh. We had a great time,
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Speaker 1: but I'm back. We're back, Ashley. We have a lot
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Speaker 1: of hot topics to cover today. Uh So let's just
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Speaker 1: jump in and get started. But first let's take a
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Speaker 1: break here from one of our sponsors. This week in
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Speaker 1: trending Bachelor topics. Yes, once again, I'll say it, for
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Speaker 1: the twelfth consecutive week in a row, the Bachelor continues
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Speaker 1: to fill us with hot topics somehow, some way. But
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Speaker 1: the first one here is one that is sad for
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Speaker 1: me to even read. Ah. It's sad for many reasons,
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Speaker 1: and I'll explain why, but we'll let Ashley carry cover
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Speaker 1: the story. First, um Our host Chris Harrison uh announced
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Speaker 1: that he's grateful for his time with Regis philbin Uh
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Speaker 1: in his tender tribute. This according to pop culture dot com, obviously,
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Speaker 1: Regis Philman had passed away UM this week. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: of course Chris and Regis. We're both at separate times
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Speaker 1: the host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? UM,
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Speaker 1: and Chris developed quite a personal relationship with him. He tweeted,
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Speaker 1: we throw this word around too much, but Regis Philbin
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Speaker 1: was a legend. He was a true gentleman. And I'm
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Speaker 1: glad I got to know and and I he was
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Speaker 1: a true gentleman. I'm glad I got to know and
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Speaker 1: a TV host I admired and was honored to follow,
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Speaker 1: much like Arnold Palmer. Everyone has a great, regious story,
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Speaker 1: and I'm grateful to have mine. I wish I knew
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Speaker 1: what that story was, but I also respect him keeping
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Speaker 1: that private and close to his chest. Ben, do you
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Speaker 1: have a regious story? I do. I've never I've never
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Speaker 1: met him in person, Um, But you know, Kathie Lee
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Speaker 1: has became a distant friend. I can't I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: like call her a close friend, but I was on
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Speaker 1: the Today Show a few times with her, and I've
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Speaker 1: met her in passing in a few events, and she's
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Speaker 1: always been gracious and great, And that was always kind
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Speaker 1: of a dream for me because I grew up watching
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Speaker 1: Regis and Kathy on UM television, and I remember those
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Speaker 1: mornings with my mom being so excited for whatever reason.
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Speaker 1: I was home and she'd be drinking her coffee and
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Speaker 1: I'd be sit on the couch and be watching the
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Speaker 1: two of them interact. Um how good they were interacting
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Speaker 1: with them with each other and the guests. And honestly,
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Speaker 1: like if you show, like, tell me a name that
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Speaker 1: kind of like memorializes my childhood, it's Regis filledmin because
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Speaker 1: he was just that. He just was that person that
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Speaker 1: like you love to like and you love to like
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Speaker 1: hear and learn from his laugh. Uh, I can still
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Speaker 1: hear to this day. And so even from somebody's never
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Speaker 1: met him in person, I would still like, I would
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Speaker 1: still say I have those Regions stories just because he
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Speaker 1: was such a part of my life as a kid. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: What do you think about a voice that fills your
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Speaker 1: home and makes it feel cozy? And that is just
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Speaker 1: to me like Regis voice. He's one of those people.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of like Ryan Seacrest, Regis, who else like
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Speaker 1: Chris Chris Harrison. Yeah, And I remember you know, I
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Speaker 1: remember on Sadurday when it happened, I was like my
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Speaker 1: grandma and Heaven is going to be very excited about
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Speaker 1: this new member of Heaven. Yeah, it's it's true, ash
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Speaker 1: And so our thoughts are or with his family. Um
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Speaker 1: and just like I don't know in times like this,
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Speaker 1: and maybe it's just me, um, but when something passes,
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Speaker 1: you know that we care for so much, it's always
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Speaker 1: nice in a in a way two remember them in
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Speaker 1: such a good way. And that's how I feel about Regis,
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Speaker 1: Like it's like a celebration of his life, of his
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Speaker 1: impact on me. And so I'm celebrating Regius, but also
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Speaker 1: sad he's gone. He was, he's he was a very
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Speaker 1: talented and incredible host and so hey, we're with you
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Speaker 1: almost from his podcast is thinking about you and think
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Speaker 1: he regis for your time spent on television. Well, onto
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Speaker 1: some Bachelor topics to change gears a bit here. Obviously
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Speaker 1: we announced, uh two weeks ago, Ashley came out with
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Speaker 1: the kind of breaking news that the Bachelor atte was
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Speaker 1: going to start. Feel me. Well, now we're getting headlines
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Speaker 1: about this filming. The headline reads this, who has already
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Speaker 1: been cut from season sixteen of The Bachelorette an investigation.
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Speaker 1: This according to eat online dot com. So, Ben, when
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Speaker 1: you weren't here last week, Ashley'spivy and I spoke about
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Speaker 1: how the cast will not consist of the forty two
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Speaker 1: guys that we initially broke down. That is just way
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Speaker 1: too much to handle, as you've ben into. Yeah, so, um,
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Speaker 1: once they brought all the guys down to Palm Springs,
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Speaker 1: it looks like they eliminated a hefty amount. Uh, these
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Speaker 1: guys will have never met Claire and a couple of
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Speaker 1: them in this supposed group based on in some cases
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Speaker 1: only Instagram being uh non privatized. So basically, you know
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Speaker 1: how when you go on the show, you you have
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Speaker 1: to privatize your Instagram. Back in our day, did you
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Speaker 1: even have an Instagram? Not when I did The Bachelor,
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Speaker 1: neither did Jared. But when I did The Bachelor, I
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Speaker 1: did okay, So then when I was on Chris's season,
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Speaker 1: I came up. I didn't make mind private for some
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Speaker 1: reason because I heard that wasn't good enough. This was
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Speaker 1: like the rumor. Um, So I created a very weird
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Speaker 1: user name so I didn't have my actual name on there,
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Speaker 1: but I like was like ash Nicole or something like that. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: you're supposed to make your Instagram private the days, and
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Speaker 1: there is a handful of guys who went from being
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Speaker 1: a private you know, at the beginning of the week
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Speaker 1: to public after filming was about to begin. And some
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Speaker 1: of these guys, I am shure, like honestly mind blown
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Speaker 1: if they supposedly, if they supposedly aren't there anymore and
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Speaker 1: never got to meet Claire I'm i'm um. One of
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Speaker 1: them includes Chasen, which is the guy that I had
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Speaker 1: on my show, the sutress, super handsome, thirty one years
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Speaker 1: old from San Diego, uh from what I know, a
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Speaker 1: romantic and a gentleman. Um, Zach Jackson the thirty seven
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Speaker 1: year old from where is he from Utah? The thirty
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Speaker 1: seven year old from I think Utah? Yeah, that I
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Speaker 1: was obsessed with and even went on record and tweeted
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Speaker 1: would be the winner of this season. Wait, that guy
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Speaker 1: your I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna win is still there? Actually,
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Speaker 1: that's like, what do you think is going on? What
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Speaker 1: would you spect? I don't know. A part of me
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Speaker 1: thinks that like they had friends reactivated or maybe they're
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Speaker 1: trying to the producers like, go ahead and reactivate your
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Speaker 1: Instagram just to throw these fans who are doing deep,
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Speaker 1: dirty detective work off the trail. We'll see if they
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Speaker 1: have activity. These guys that I'm going to list right now,
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Speaker 1: including Chason and Zach, have not posted on Instagram again,
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Speaker 1: but have made their their their Instagram public. So it's
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Speaker 1: Peter I'm gonna go with, is a very Greek lass name.
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Speaker 1: It's Peter G. By the way, this is a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a spoiler, right, like we should in some way, yes,
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Speaker 1: because we're saying they never made the show, so like
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Speaker 1: it's a spoiler yet it's not, yeah, because I don't
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Speaker 1: know how they got eliminated, but it could be a
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Speaker 1: big deal, Like if we watch the show back, this
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Speaker 1: could have been like a huge elimination Night one. I
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Speaker 1: guess that is correct. So Peter G is the guy
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Speaker 1: who was from Boston that we were like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he is a real estate advisor. He's he has an
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Speaker 1: MBA from Northwestern. He's an MBA from Northeastern. He just
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Speaker 1: seemed like he had his ship together. And he is
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Speaker 1: also been a limb supposedly cut um a j who
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Speaker 1: was Oh a j was the first guy that I
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Speaker 1: said was a nerd bomber if you guys remember but
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Speaker 1: if you look at his instagram, he uh, he looks cuter.
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Speaker 1: But I also will say his bio says future stay
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Speaker 1: at home dad. Okay, way to put the pressure on
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Speaker 1: and way to set the standards. Early, I guess, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm always for prevent like preventive communications, So preemptive communications.
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Speaker 1: So at least he's he's letting everybody know how he feels.
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Speaker 1: Early Dale looks to be eliminated from the process, and
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Speaker 1: he is an NFL athlete, turn model and host. He
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Speaker 1: is also associated with the Special Olympics. I believe this
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Speaker 1: was one of the guys that we said we looked
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Speaker 1: very friendly. Oh no, this is one of them. This
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Speaker 1: is one of the mind boggling guys. Uh. This is
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Speaker 1: that gorgeous black guy with the green eyes from South
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Speaker 1: Dakota him. Yeah, I think I think this is weird. Actually,
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Speaker 1: something's going on. Okay, So this is what I'm telling you, Like,
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Speaker 1: why are so many people that we thought were front
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Speaker 1: runners didn't even make the first night? Supply allegedly there's
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Speaker 1: two paths here that I'll speculate all right. One, Claire
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Speaker 1: starts out rough when it comes to her judgment of men.
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Speaker 1: That's one that she just got rid of, like some
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Speaker 1: of the best dudes right away too. I got three passed.
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Speaker 1: Two is the producers are paying playing a big trick
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Speaker 1: on us. This is all a part of the show's
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Speaker 1: planned is to get you and I talking about these
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Speaker 1: guys leaving and they're still they're hanging out having a
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Speaker 1: great time. Or Three, they never made the show. They
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Speaker 1: never even walked foot into the show. They're never even
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Speaker 1: planned to be on the show. And Claire had nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with any of it. It just they never
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Speaker 1: were there, which would be almost as weird to me
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Speaker 1: as Claire letting these guys go. Night one. So there's
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Speaker 1: this guy, Robbie, and he has pictures golfing, skiing in
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Speaker 1: the wilderness, being super active, and he is a beute.
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Speaker 1: He's a cute and he was supposedly elimined. I will
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Speaker 1: say his profile could be a little bit leading to
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Speaker 1: being there for the wrong reasons. He's been at the
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Speaker 1: g Q Men of the Year party. He looks like
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Speaker 1: he's done some acting and modeling. Definitely modeling, So who
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Speaker 1: knows a couple of shirtless picks. That's always that's always
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Speaker 1: a positive sign. Yeah, so maybe they were trying to
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Speaker 1: eliminate wrong reasoners that first week. But the last two
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Speaker 1: guys that I need to make mention of that you're
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Speaker 1: going to freak out is Um Tyler Smith. Tyler Smith
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Speaker 1: was the thirty six year old who was Granger Smith's brother,
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Speaker 1: and he was from Texas and you thought he was
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Speaker 1: in the top three of yours. What heck, this is
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Speaker 1: gonna be a bad year for me. And then there
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Speaker 1: was also Alex twenty eight year old Um the very
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Speaker 1: friendly looking at Colin Um Colin's young blood, who was
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Speaker 1: thirty and Tiny Yang who was thirty six. All of
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Speaker 1: these guys apparently not around. Summarize all of this, we
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Speaker 1: will never were first off, almost famous listeners were never never.
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Speaker 1: We're never going to tell you who is eliminated from
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Speaker 1: here on out. So this is the last spoiler we're
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Speaker 1: gonna give. This is not even a spoiler as much
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Speaker 1: as it is just confusing to why these tremendous men
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Speaker 1: are back on Instagram. Did they sneak phones in? Uh?
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Speaker 1: Did they? Are they back home? Is this a trick
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Speaker 1: for the producers? This is a mystery that we all
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Speaker 1: need to solve together. Come on Reddit, you're good at
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Speaker 1: all this stuff. Uh, find out what's going on. We
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Speaker 1: will never tell you again who's eliminated, but this is
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Speaker 1: a mystery that we are going to dive in together
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Speaker 1: on to find out what is happening. But summarize the headline. Uh,
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Speaker 1: from what we see, Claire has either released or the
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Speaker 1: show never involved some of our favorites based on simply
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Speaker 1: the pictures, Ashuley, this next story, uh is sweet, It's
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Speaker 1: nice Bachelor's are Liondyke Jr. Gives Lauren Burnham special ring
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Speaker 1: after going through uh, what they're calling some of their
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Speaker 1: darkest times. This according the Eonline, Yeah, so it's been
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Speaker 1: about two months since they announced that they had a miscarriage,
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Speaker 1: so you know, of course this is gonna be a
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Speaker 1: dark time for them, and are gave her a beautiful ring,
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Speaker 1: an infinitely diamond ring that she says a symbol eyes
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Speaker 1: is that they will always have each other through the
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Speaker 1: darkest times. Um, And she says, if you've been here
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Speaker 1: for the last couple of months, you'll know that we
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Speaker 1: recently had a period of that. So I think it's
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Speaker 1: safe to say, he gets husband of the Year. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he does. Really sad. It's sad, you know, he gets
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Speaker 1: husband of the year, she gets wife of the year.
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Speaker 1: This is tough on both of them, right, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's it's so sad. And we've hear about this often
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Speaker 1: of these scenarios, and I'm sure you know, unless you're
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Speaker 1: in it, you don't know how hard it is. But
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Speaker 1: here's one takeaway that I had after reading this article. Actually,
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Speaker 1: how how cool is it? How uh spectacular is it
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Speaker 1: that this show brought two people together who can support
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Speaker 1: each other well and love each other well through the
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Speaker 1: hardest times they've ever had. I mean, like, these people
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Speaker 1: like Ari and Lauren are in tremendous partners to each other.
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Speaker 1: And isn't that what we all dream of in our
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Speaker 1: marriages and in our relationships or just in our friendships,
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Speaker 1: even that we'd have somebody there beside us who lifts
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Speaker 1: us up through the darkest moments. Absolutely, And there's another
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Speaker 1: bachelor couple going through a very similar thing. Ali Fanatowski
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Speaker 1: opened up this week about her debilitating miscarriage. She had
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Speaker 1: no idea it would affect her as hard as it did.
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Speaker 1: Um she is one in four and so is Lauren.
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Speaker 1: Of women who have lost of pregnancy, one in four
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Speaker 1: will experience a miscarriage. Um Ali goes into detail on
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Speaker 1: her Instagram about what that day was like and it's
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Speaker 1: very traumatizing. Um She was in her bedroom and she
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Speaker 1: passed the uterine sack and she said she just sat
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Speaker 1: there for hours just looking at it. Um And she
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Speaker 1: said that she will never be able to experience the
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Speaker 1: pain of somebody who had a still birth or lost
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Speaker 1: a baby at twenty weeks, or somebody who has never
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Speaker 1: been able to conceive even is still trying after years.
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Speaker 1: But she said that she found it so shocking that
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Speaker 1: her experience affected her as much as it did, and
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Speaker 1: that her husband is also surprised at how hard it's
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Speaker 1: been for the two of them. It's ah, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean there's not really words you can put around to
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Speaker 1: other than you know, the hardest times. It feels like,
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Speaker 1: you know, even reading this these articles is I know
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Speaker 1: there's people out there listening who have been through similar situations.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sure when somebody that we've seen on TV,
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Speaker 1: or somebody that we've watched and learned from or just
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Speaker 1: kind of live life with, when they go through something
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Speaker 1: similar it helps us know that we're never alone no
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Speaker 1: matter what scenario. But I also think like reading this,
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Speaker 1: just like the strength of these couples, of these humans,
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Speaker 1: um inspires me personally. I just like, you're incredible people
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Speaker 1: who I'm always learning from. And uh, yeah, it's just
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Speaker 1: and it's I don't know, ash, how do you feel
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Speaker 1: like it's It's always impressive to me when through the
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Speaker 1: hardest situations like this, they also choose to open up
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Speaker 1: to us and be vulnerable so that we understand that
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Speaker 1: we're not alone, and they also tell us their stories,
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Speaker 1: Like I appreciate that. Oh yeah, that's what I was
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Speaker 1: going to say. Um, up until the past couple of years,
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Speaker 1: barely anyone spoke publicly about miscarriages, And as you can hear,
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Speaker 1: THAT'STA one and four women experience it, and I think
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Speaker 1: it's super important that if you're willing to share, to
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Speaker 1: do so so that it can just bring comfort to
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Speaker 1: other women who are experiencing it or have experienced it.
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Speaker 1: It's absolutely nothing to be ashamed of, and that is
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Speaker 1: one of the most prominent feelings these women have. But
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Speaker 1: it's really it's nothing you did. It's just that it happens,
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Speaker 1: and it's it's it's a loss that you'll just that
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Speaker 1: I will. I don't know, I don't know. That's tough. Well, uh,
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Speaker 1: let's just take a second and pause here, um, take
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Speaker 1: a little break, and we come back. We'll finish the
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Speaker 1: headlines from Bachelor Nations. We're back with some headlines from
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Speaker 1: the Bachelor World. To start out with weddings in Love
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Speaker 1: Batchel Nations, Kevin Went and Asterrid postpone their wedding due
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Speaker 1: to COVID. This according to US magazine. So Asteroid posted
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Speaker 1: to Instagram on Wednesday, saying, well, y'all, time to give
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Speaker 1: you a wedding update. We've decided to postpone to November.
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Speaker 1: Weirdly enough, we're actually okay with it. She continues to say,
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Speaker 1: with everything going on in the world, uncertainty ahead, and
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Speaker 1: so many changes happening in our lives parentheses more on
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Speaker 1: that soon, we realize it was time to take a
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Speaker 1: step back and reevaluate our priority these. She also said,
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Speaker 1: as much as I was disappointed at first, mostly because
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Speaker 1: we won't get married on Friday that thirteenth anymore, it's
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Speaker 1: been a great reminder as to why we're getting married
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Speaker 1: in the first place. I wouldn't want to tackle. And
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Speaker 1: the rest of my life with anyone else on my
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Speaker 1: side is our year. Kevin. To all the brides, keep
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Speaker 1: your head up now you have more time to grow
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Speaker 1: out your hair, which I completely relate to. PS. Shout
21:28
Speaker 1: out to my planner Kimberly Hensley Events, You're the real
21:31
Speaker 1: m v P. Thanks for keeping me saying throughout it all,
21:33
Speaker 1: let's go back to those parentheses. What do they mean?
21:38
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't wanna allude anything, put out any
21:42
Speaker 1: fake news, but so many changes happening in our lives.
21:46
Speaker 1: More on that soon. I mean, it sounds like she
21:50
Speaker 1: might be pregnant, especially if they're postponing two November. One
21:57
Speaker 1: have a couple of months to recover, gets settled with
22:03
Speaker 1: a new thing. Big news. That's big news. You know,
22:07
Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't speculate and we'll just stay tuned. Well,
22:12
Speaker 1: it's big news because another bachelor couple, the Bachelorettes, Ben
22:16
Speaker 1: Zorn's fiance Stacy, is pregnant and expecting their first child.
22:20
Speaker 1: This according to US magazine, Oh very very related. So
22:25
Speaker 1: they were supposed to get married this weekend, but instead
22:29
Speaker 1: they announced that they were having a child. They said
22:31
Speaker 1: they didn't want to wait to conceive until after they're married,
22:35
Speaker 1: because one, they don't know when they'll be able to
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Speaker 1: have that ceremony at this point, and because she was
22:42
Speaker 1: told that it was going to be very difficult for
22:44
Speaker 1: her to conceive, so they didn't want to waste any time. Um,
22:49
Speaker 1: and they started, they started trying, and they conceived pretty
22:54
Speaker 1: much right away, which was a very pleasant surprise for them.
22:57
Speaker 1: They did not expect that, especially what the doctors were
23:00
Speaker 1: calling her. So congratulations to those two. That's so exciting.
23:04
Speaker 1: It is exciting. And uh, we know Ben well, he's
23:06
Speaker 1: been a big friend of the podcast. He was actually
23:07
Speaker 1: on Caitlin Bristow season if you don't remember, of the
23:11
Speaker 1: Bachelorett and uh, and he has found love. He is
23:14
Speaker 1: engaged and now announced this week that they are pregnant
23:18
Speaker 1: with their first child. One of the friends of the podcast,
23:22
Speaker 1: Beca Martinez, you know what she is, has recently become
23:25
Speaker 1: a mom now a mom of two. And then she
23:28
Speaker 1: announced that she's interested in fostering or adopting kids, which
23:32
Speaker 1: is incredible. This according to US magazine. Yeah, she is
23:36
Speaker 1: going to take a fostering class and she wants to
23:39
Speaker 1: have up to five or six children, but Becca is
23:43
Speaker 1: so young that it's, uh, that's very very possible, and
23:48
Speaker 1: she could even take a break like she wants to.
23:50
Speaker 1: She said, she's going to give her body a pregnancy break,
23:53
Speaker 1: so don't expect her to be popping out on any
23:55
Speaker 1: kids anytime soon. She went as far into detail us
23:58
Speaker 1: to say that she's gonna get on a type of
24:01
Speaker 1: birth control more effective than the pool out methods, and
24:04
Speaker 1: since that doesn't seem to work out well for them,
24:07
Speaker 1: or it does seem to work out well for them,
24:08
Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem to prevent pregnancy for them. Yeah,
24:12
Speaker 1: and then to say that she's gonna foster or adopt kids,
24:16
Speaker 1: I mean, just any time that is said or happens, like,
24:19
Speaker 1: I'm just it's awesome. What a thing to say. We
24:21
Speaker 1: got to celebrate her and you know, her partner and
24:25
Speaker 1: anybody out there fostering or adopting like that's really cool. Yeah,
24:28
Speaker 1: it's really cool. Definitely takes a special person. The love
24:32
Speaker 1: stories don't stop, or at least the like stories don't stop.
24:37
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know where they're at in their relationship.
24:39
Speaker 1: But The Bachelor's Victoria Fuller says she's so happy my
24:43
Speaker 1: voice cracked there and I quote dating Chris Souls and
24:47
Speaker 1: I quote again, he's a good one that according to
24:51
Speaker 1: the people dot com. So she's finally opened up about
24:54
Speaker 1: her relationship to people. They met in April, and it
24:58
Speaker 1: was through Kelsey Weir from her season. She said for
25:02
Speaker 1: her to reach out to him, that he was a
25:04
Speaker 1: good guy, that he seems single, and uh, Victoria flew
25:09
Speaker 1: out there to Iowa, and she said it's so quiet there.
25:12
Speaker 1: It's a great place to get to know someone and
25:13
Speaker 1: focus on each other. She said it wasn't awkward that
25:16
Speaker 1: they had never met before and then they were flying
25:19
Speaker 1: to each other to like have a quarantine session together.
25:23
Speaker 1: She said it felt very natural and that she loves
25:26
Speaker 1: the fact that their relationship has no like strict timeline
25:30
Speaker 1: on it, that they are just easy, breezy, not um,
25:34
Speaker 1: you know, not rushing to make like the take the
25:36
Speaker 1: next step in anything. They're just enjoying each other. And yes,
25:41
Speaker 1: she I was gonna say, she's planning on moving still,
25:43
Speaker 1: and they're okay with long distance. She's going to move
25:46
Speaker 1: to either Nashville or New York or l A. And
25:49
Speaker 1: I know that when it's not COVID times, um Chris
25:53
Speaker 1: kind of splits his time between l A and in Iowa,
25:57
Speaker 1: so we'll see where she what she decides there. I
25:59
Speaker 1: might over analyzing this, but you know what's kind of
26:04
Speaker 1: cool about this relationship so far that they've been really private. Yes,
26:08
Speaker 1: that's actually you hit on the head, because you know,
26:11
Speaker 1: people in the bachelor world, as soon as something happens
26:14
Speaker 1: in their life, it's an opportunity to creative story or headline.
26:17
Speaker 1: Like I get that, you know, but for them to
26:19
Speaker 1: be so quiet means that they're trying to make something
26:23
Speaker 1: actually real without you know, getting the attention from it.
26:27
Speaker 1: And for me, that just shows that this could be
26:29
Speaker 1: something good. Yeah, me too. As much as I want
26:32
Speaker 1: them to come on our podcast and really spill the goods,
26:36
Speaker 1: part of me is also really respecting the fact that
26:38
Speaker 1: they're taking the relationship seriously and it's definitely not something
26:41
Speaker 1: that they're using to get attention, you know it. We
26:45
Speaker 1: in all honesty, we've asked him to come on the podcast,
26:47
Speaker 1: and Chris is a friend. We know Chris well obviously
26:49
Speaker 1: you were on his season, and he's a friend of mine,
26:51
Speaker 1: and and they've politely declined every time, with not a
26:54
Speaker 1: lot of reason behind it, Nor would I push and
26:56
Speaker 1: say why not, like that's his deal and just to
26:58
Speaker 1: ask and they say no, And now I'm like, I
27:01
Speaker 1: just I'm pretty happy he said no quite honestly, like
27:03
Speaker 1: it makes me happy for him. Yeah, but you guys,
27:07
Speaker 1: don't do another podcast before ours. We're gonna be so
27:10
Speaker 1: nice to you guys. We just want to celebrate you. Actually,
27:15
Speaker 1: before we finished the hot topics, there is another topic
27:17
Speaker 1: that you and I definitely wanted to talk about. Oh
27:19
Speaker 1: my god, this one's so juicy. Who is this? Actually
27:23
Speaker 1: it is Mike Johnson who get this? That week that
27:28
Speaker 1: Claire kind of went silent on social, he went silent
27:32
Speaker 1: on social. Wait, how did you know this? This? This?
27:35
Speaker 1: This is what the fans have noticed that noticed this too.
27:38
Speaker 1: You actually don't act like you weren't watching this, Okay?
27:43
Speaker 1: And then he emerged this week saying very suspect things
27:49
Speaker 1: like what come on, give us some detail. So he says,
27:53
Speaker 1: I just got my phone back from a quarantine. Where
28:00
Speaker 1: what quarantine? Are we taking phones from each other? If
28:02
Speaker 1: you're not the Bachelor? Exactly? And then he goes, I'm
28:06
Speaker 1: in a bubble right now, and COVID is extremely high
28:11
Speaker 1: on my radar continues to say, I guarantee I've been
28:17
Speaker 1: tested more than most, and I'm taking higher safety precautions
28:22
Speaker 1: than most, which would allude to the multiple tests that
28:28
Speaker 1: these guys have had to take whall in their hotel
28:31
Speaker 1: room down in Palm Springs. Wait, so, either Mike Johnson
28:35
Speaker 1: is in some type of sports bubble because there's those
28:37
Speaker 1: bubbles going on, okay, or he could be We're saying,
28:41
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this, You've convinced me there is an
28:44
Speaker 1: eighty three point four or five percent chance that Mike
28:48
Speaker 1: Johnson is on this season of The Bachelorrette. But the
28:53
Speaker 1: thing is, he has been a little bit more active
28:55
Speaker 1: on social the past week, appearing in um Hannah Hannah
29:01
Speaker 1: Ann's TikTok. So that makes me wonder whether or not
29:07
Speaker 1: he's still he's still in this process. Possibly he showed
29:12
Speaker 1: up the first week, he filmed a little bit, and
29:15
Speaker 1: then Clara eliminated him. But to add more fuel to
29:19
Speaker 1: the fire, Hannah Ann is in a what looks like
29:24
Speaker 1: a production trailer during this TikTok, which leads us to
29:30
Speaker 1: this headline from hashtag Bachelor Graham And the question is
29:36
Speaker 1: the headline reads this, are Mike Johnson Hannah and Sluice
29:41
Speaker 1: and Jesse James Palmer secretly filming This doesn't make any
29:45
Speaker 1: sense to me. Bachelor in Paradise. This after Buzz TV Ashley. Again,
29:50
Speaker 1: I'm gonna repeat this because our listeners out there gonna
29:52
Speaker 1: be like, huh, because that's the way I was. The
29:55
Speaker 1: headline reads this are Mike Johnson, Hannah and Sluice, and
30:00
Speaker 1: Jesse James Palmer secretly filming Bachelor in Paradise. Alright, so
30:06
Speaker 1: I know what they're I know that this is kind
30:10
Speaker 1: of a headline for clicks. Right. They are all in swimsuits.
30:15
Speaker 1: But Jesse Palmer is engaged, so he's not going to
30:18
Speaker 1: be the host of this. I mean, he's not going
30:20
Speaker 1: to be a part of the show. He could be
30:22
Speaker 1: the host of this Bachelor in Paradise. But I guarantee
30:28
Speaker 1: you Ben and especially producer Amy would know if they
30:32
Speaker 1: are producing a b I p on the side of
30:35
Speaker 1: Claire season, and I think there would be more people
30:38
Speaker 1: off social media right now if that were the case.
30:41
Speaker 1: It's not. They're not filming Bachelor in Paradise. Looking at this,
30:46
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that they are possibly filming a cameo on
30:50
Speaker 1: Claire season. Now is Mike there for a cameo? Is
30:54
Speaker 1: Mike going to be there for a group date? And
30:58
Speaker 1: then slide we ask Claire to stay all on Nick
31:02
Speaker 1: and Caitlin because that would make sense, the three of
31:07
Speaker 1: them there to have a little appearance, and then I
31:10
Speaker 1: feel like for Mike to join in. Ha ha, I
31:15
Speaker 1: mean we we always love the little bachelorette Bachelor appearances
31:19
Speaker 1: from the past favorites. That's always fun to see, fun
31:22
Speaker 1: to watch, fun to see him again. But how how
31:26
Speaker 1: just awesome would it be for TV if all of
31:28
Speaker 1: a sudden Mike Johnson comes walking through the door in
31:31
Speaker 1: a group date appearance. The guy's jaws drop and he
31:35
Speaker 1: looks at her and says, Claire, I'm here to stay baby. Yeah.
31:39
Speaker 1: And because Mike did kind of instagram Hannah's TikTok, I
31:46
Speaker 1: am I'm not thinking it would be out of the
31:50
Speaker 1: question for producers to allow him to have his Instagram
31:54
Speaker 1: for a minute or so to throw off Bachelor Nation.
31:58
Speaker 1: I do believe that they allow Nick to post a
32:01
Speaker 1: little bit when he entered Caitlin season. And if you
32:05
Speaker 1: guys are wondering what this TikTok is about, it's not
32:07
Speaker 1: leading at all in this direction. It's just them saying,
32:10
Speaker 1: do you want to it's a frozen a play on
32:12
Speaker 1: the Frozen songs. You want to build a snowman? It's
32:15
Speaker 1: do you want to drink during the day? Yeah, it's
32:17
Speaker 1: a it's a nice little well uh, Ashley. This episode
32:22
Speaker 1: has been full of hot topics. We're gonna keep coming
32:25
Speaker 1: back with more hot topics week by week. Obviously, clear
32:29
Speaker 1: season is being filmed right now. We can confirm that.
32:33
Speaker 1: We also can confirm that we know we know that
32:36
Speaker 1: forty two guys did not are still not there. They
32:40
Speaker 1: might have started there, they're still not there. Yeah, there're
32:43
Speaker 1: thirteen guys who showed Instagram activity this week. Well, we're
32:48
Speaker 1: gonna track the activity. We're gonna track Batchel Nation stories.
32:52
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33:09
Speaker 1: few years now, we've had a dear friend, a lovely face,
33:12
Speaker 1: a face actually Ashley is obsessed with. She talks about
33:14
Speaker 1: how beautiful this girl is. All the time. She has
33:18
Speaker 1: put in a lot of work behind the scenes, uh
33:21
Speaker 1: grinded for us, I mean, honestly, and all that actually
33:24
Speaker 1: here speak here in a second. I don't want to
33:25
Speaker 1: take up the whole time here, but what you don't
33:28
Speaker 1: see as listeners, as a time spent putting together the rundowns, uh,
33:32
Speaker 1: putting together the ads, calling upon you all, making sure
33:37
Speaker 1: this stuff runs smoothie. And the person who I'm talking
33:40
Speaker 1: about is Tori, who is this is our last episode
33:42
Speaker 1: with us, um sadly and also exciting for her, but
33:46
Speaker 1: I just want to share that Tori, thank you for
33:48
Speaker 1: your time spent. You've made this podcast amazing. We appreciate
33:50
Speaker 1: you so much. Tori. You I know you've put tears
33:57
Speaker 1: into this. I know you've put sweat into this. I
33:59
Speaker 1: don't know about blood. Have you put blood in it
34:03
Speaker 1: somewhere along the line. I think you probably have and
34:06
Speaker 1: tore you guys. Is the most detailed oriented person the
34:09
Speaker 1: rundowns that we get have more information in them that
34:13
Speaker 1: Ben and I could possibly even like tell you all um.
34:18
Speaker 1: She does such thorough research. And not only that, she's
34:22
Speaker 1: been such a great friend and like a fun person
34:24
Speaker 1: to vent to. And when you have exciting news, like
34:27
Speaker 1: nobody receives it better than Tori, Like she's super stoked
34:31
Speaker 1: for her friends and something happens, but she also has
34:34
Speaker 1: an amazing amount of empathy when something is going wrong
34:38
Speaker 1: and we're going to miss your presence and you're smiley,
34:41
Speaker 1: beautiful face and all all the effort that you put
34:46
Speaker 1: into this podcast, it's gonna make me cry to best
34:51
Speaker 1: of luck. We love your kid, get out there, crushed
34:54
Speaker 1: the world. We know you're going to, but thanks for
34:56
Speaker 1: doing it with us for so many years now. We
34:59
Speaker 1: love you for real. For you guys, thank you of course.
35:06
Speaker 1: Well don't be savvy happy, you're on the great things.
35:11
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35:17
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35:19
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