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Farmer Braden & His Final Woman! · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the almost famous podcast with iHeartRadio everybody. It's
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Speaker 1: a little bit famous here on of course, the almost
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Speaker 1: famous Channel of Goodness.
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Speaker 2: It's Bob Guiney with super producer to the.
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Speaker 1: Stars Heather Monday, and we are chiming in, of course,
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Speaker 1: on Farmer Wants a Wife the finale episode spoiler Alaeric, Guys,
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Speaker 1: if you haven't watched, shut it off right now, because
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Speaker 1: we are going to talk about it in detail.
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Speaker 3: Well, right now, we're talking to a farmer and their winner.
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Speaker 3: So this is like, yeah, this is your alert.
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Speaker 1: I think it's important that Heather. I'm gonna, I'm gonna,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna seed the mic. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna give up the mic right now, so that Heather
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Speaker 1: can tell you all in her own words how she
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Speaker 1: feels about my I was.
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Speaker 3: So strong, I was so wrong, and Bob was so right.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I got one right out of the bunch.
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Speaker 4: You are very right, and I feel.
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Speaker 2: Three for three three.
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Speaker 3: I honestly feel slightly embarrassed how much I gave pray
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Speaker 3: to the edit. But I do love this outcome. I
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Speaker 3: think it's adorable. So we're talking to farmer Braiden and
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Speaker 3: his winner.
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Speaker 2: Turn it off. If you don't want to hear it,
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Speaker 2: turn it off.
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Speaker 4: This is your warning.
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Speaker 1: Bob's prediction all season long, Ladies and gentlemen, and beautiful
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Speaker 1: Casey and lovely Casey.
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Speaker 2: Yes, my favorite, my favorite the whole season.
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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, guy, guys, watching at home, I fell
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Speaker 1: in love with Casey.
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Speaker 2: You all did as well. I knew she was going
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Speaker 2: to be our winner. I loved and here they are.
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Speaker 2: I love Casey.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what's guys?
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Speaker 3: We're so excited to have farmer Braiden and his winner Casey.
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, and what I'm going to be really
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Speaker 3: shocked and say this right now together guys. I know
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Speaker 3: you guys can can't see as you're listening to this podcast,
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Speaker 3: but they are actually sitting together in person together.
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Speaker 4: They're not coming in on separate zooms. I love this
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Speaker 4: you guys. Hi, welcome to the pod.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry to interrupt real quick.
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Speaker 1: Would you mind please telling Braiden and Casey you know
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Speaker 1: who who saw this coming?
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Speaker 2: Who predicted it?
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Speaker 4: We were just talking about this, guys. I was so wrong.
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Speaker 4: I was so wrong. I fell prey to the edit.
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Speaker 3: I was thoroughly happy though, to see this love connection
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Speaker 3: be the final thing. But Bob has been predicting Casey
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Speaker 3: was the winner.
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Speaker 1: The entire since, literally as long as Braiden was, because
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Speaker 1: when Braiden was saying, like, man, I knew it from
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Speaker 1: the second, I mean, I'm like, I knew, I knew it,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, Casey, I knew it too.
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Speaker 2: I knew it too.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, guys, I'm so happy about this. I
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Speaker 1: just loved the two of you together. I loved that
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Speaker 1: it you know that it was It was innocent and
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Speaker 1: it was sweet for so long and then you know,
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Speaker 1: then all the sudden as it started getting more romantic,
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Speaker 1: and I was watching that, I'm like, of course, Heather, Mandy,
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Speaker 1: she's a super producer of the stars.
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Speaker 2: What did I do? I mean, I hand out flowers
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Speaker 2: twenty years ago. What do I know?
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Speaker 1: But you know, my experience on The Bachelor taught me something.
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Speaker 1: And I see real love when I see it, man,
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Speaker 1: And I was watching you guys, and I'm like, I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you, this is my couple, and I just love.
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Speaker 2: I do love that.
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Speaker 1: You guys are on the air with us together because
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Speaker 1: that doesn't always happen. And so congratulations to the two
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Speaker 1: of you and we are so myself especially, I'm so
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Speaker 1: excited to see the coupling here.
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Speaker 4: Tell us where you guys are coming from.
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Speaker 3: Are you Are you currently in Braden's home state or
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Speaker 3: are you in Casey's home state?
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Speaker 4: Where are you guys?
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Speaker 5: We're currently on the Farman ELOI We're.
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Speaker 6: On the farm.
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Speaker 2: Wait.
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Speaker 4: I love this.
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Speaker 3: Okay, So before we dive into your guys's story, which
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Speaker 3: we love, we kind of got to rewind a little
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Speaker 3: bit and talk about the whole season. So what were
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Speaker 3: those kind of first initial thoughts on day one when
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Speaker 3: you're meeting everybody? Branden, what do you think the second
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Speaker 3: you meet Casey?
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Speaker 7: So I actually do have a funny story about this.
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Speaker 7: So when we first walked into the barn, you're so
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Speaker 7: nervous walking in, and we go back, we meet the girls,
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Speaker 7: we see all of them. We go back in the
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Speaker 7: holding and the wardrobe team is in there, and you know,
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Speaker 7: they dressed all the ladies along with us, and they
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Speaker 7: kind of they asked, so you who do you have
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Speaker 7: your eyes on? And I was like, whoever was in
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Speaker 7: the brown dress? I don't even think that girl needs
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Speaker 7: to open her mouth? Like she's coming back to the
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Speaker 7: barn for sure.
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Speaker 6: There was an instant attraction there for sure.
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Speaker 4: Casey, same question, what did you think?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, walking in obviously we saw a video and that
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Speaker 8: was about it. And at first just walking in and
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Speaker 8: seeing Braden, I was like, wow, he is so cute
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Speaker 8: in person. And then we just got to talk a
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Speaker 8: little bit with him, and he's cutting jokes, so I
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Speaker 8: was like, Okay, good, he has to good sense of humor.
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Speaker 5: He's funny, and he smells so good.
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Speaker 2: So around, what's your sense? What's that?
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Speaker 6: I'm glad I show them.
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Speaker 1: Little old spice body wash or something right well, you know,
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Speaker 1: I will say, I.
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Speaker 2: Will say this.
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Speaker 1: You know you guys, you guys had such a cute,
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Speaker 1: cute connection right up front, and and I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: from my experience of many years ago being in the Bachelor, guy,
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Speaker 1: I will tell you it is.
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Speaker 2: It is a weird experience for the guys. And I
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Speaker 2: know that.
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Speaker 1: You know, obviously, Casey, you know your you know your
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Speaker 1: feelings of being there in one of you know, five
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Speaker 1: or six or whatever it was in that first night.
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Speaker 1: But it sucks, and it really does. Like because I
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Speaker 1: was on the Bachelorette, I was on trist the season
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Speaker 1: of the Bacherette before I was the Bachelor, and oftentimes
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Speaker 1: people say to me, like, you know, which one did
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Speaker 1: you enjoy better? And I'm like, I actually kind of
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Speaker 1: liked to be in one of the twenty guys on
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Speaker 1: the Bachelorette better because I wasn't gonna hurt anybody's feelings, right,
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Speaker 1: that's the hardest part, I think.
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Speaker 2: And Branden, we saw you going through it too, you know.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we'll get.
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Speaker 1: There obviously to talk about it, but you could tell
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Speaker 1: you're a sensitive guy and you you obviously had this
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Speaker 1: attraction Casey, but you almost have to like bury it
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Speaker 1: to get through the show because it's kind of part
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Speaker 1: of the job, right, And then you get to the
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Speaker 1: end and you're like you're still hurting someone who hasn't
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Speaker 1: done anything wrong, and then that's hard, right, It's like
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Speaker 1: it's a hard experience.
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Speaker 7: But yeah, and I'm glad you said that because they're
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Speaker 7: I think so in all. Honestly, we have listened to
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Speaker 7: y'all's podcast, and I will say I do think y'all
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Speaker 7: y'all are one of the better recap shows because it's
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Speaker 7: so like refreshing. You know, you'll both coming from the
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Speaker 7: kind of reality TV World where I'm like, they get it,
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Speaker 7: they get it, you know, they understand it, and like
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Speaker 7: there's you guys have good takes back. I remember you
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Speaker 7: said something along with what you said now is like
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Speaker 7: there's a lot of times you've got to send somebody
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Speaker 7: home honestly for no reason, you know. And I remember
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Speaker 7: when I sent Cam home, which both of us are
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Speaker 7: still great friends with Cameron, and she was just so fun,
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Speaker 7: the vibes every day, we had a blast, and I
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Speaker 7: was so bummed to see her go, and I was
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Speaker 7: I really just didn't want to do it, and it
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Speaker 7: really I mean, what you saw is what And honestly,
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Speaker 7: I say with all the girls, what you saw is
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Speaker 7: what you got as far as sending them home, I
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Speaker 7: mean they did a great job of kind of showing
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Speaker 7: that as is. And you know, with Cam, that was
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Speaker 7: a really hard goodbye, but it was a really good goodbye.
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Speaker 7: But it was one of those moments where I'm like, man, like,
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Speaker 7: she hasn't done anything wrong. She's actually done everything right.
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Speaker 7: It's just you know with Cam, and I'm like, I
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Speaker 7: think we both wanted it to be there, but it
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Speaker 7: just wasn't quite there. And I knew, especially with Casey.
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Speaker 7: I just had this, you know, very strong connection with her, so.
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Speaker 1: It was undeniable watching the two you. I I the
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Speaker 1: whole time. I mean I know, but you know it's
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Speaker 1: magical though, and you see that, you know you see
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Speaker 1: that between people and Casey. I mean, it says so
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Speaker 1: much about you because these shows are you know, these
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Speaker 1: shows are what they are right, and it's like it's
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Speaker 1: it's essentially like a dating game show. I hate to
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Speaker 1: I hate to make a sound that way, but it
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Speaker 1: gets to that point in your level of maturity to
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Speaker 1: go through something like that and stay positive and sweet
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Speaker 1: to the end.
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Speaker 2: And never you never took the bait, you know what
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Speaker 2: I mean? Like these are easy. They are easy baits.
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Speaker 1: To take where you can turn it and say something
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Speaker 1: negative about somebody or whatever. You never took the bait.
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Speaker 1: I loved you for that. I just I really thought
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Speaker 1: this show. I mean, how they knows I fell in
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Speaker 1: love with the show. Molly Walker and I are new
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Speaker 1: best friends. I mean, it's crazy, but Molly doesn't know it.
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Speaker 2: Molly doesn't know.
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Speaker 1: About we are, but I but I mean I see
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Speaker 1: it in you guys, and I saw you guys as
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Speaker 1: it had to be tough. I had to be tough
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Speaker 1: to be on Casey's side too, to see, you know,
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Speaker 1: these other girls are really into you, and they're basically
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Speaker 1: trying to get this time as the thing is kind
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Speaker 1: of coming down to the end.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Casey, obviously you know you're a young woman.
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Speaker 1: My favorite thing to say about all these dating shows
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Speaker 1: I say, I'm I say about the Bachelor, I say
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Speaker 1: about this people that go on these shows, they don't
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Speaker 1: need help finding a date, right. I can tell you
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Speaker 1: right now, my boy Braiden with the Baby Blues, that
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Speaker 1: dude is not ever hurting right Casey. Casey has never
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Speaker 1: been hurting for a guy to be interested in going
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Speaker 1: out with her.
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Speaker 2: And it's like the two of you together were like just.
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Speaker 1: Handling it so kindly with one another, and I thought
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Speaker 1: that that was such a sweet thing to see on television.
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Speaker 1: And I was just rooting for you guys. And so
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Speaker 1: you know, it's not that I made a five dollars
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Speaker 1: bet with Heather and I won. It's more about the
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Speaker 1: fact that I knew you guys. I just knew you
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Speaker 1: guys were right for each other. And I'm so happy
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Speaker 1: that it turned out the way it was supposed to
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Speaker 1: in my mind, you know. So I'm happy for you guys.
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Speaker 6: I appreciate that a lot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Of course, one thing we didn't get to see on
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Speaker 3: camera was maybe some of the biggest drama of the season,
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Speaker 3: and it happened to be on your phone. So I
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Speaker 3: need to know because we did talk to Carson and
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Speaker 3: she came on and said she had no idea what
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Speaker 3: she could have said behind the scenes that would have
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Speaker 3: been misconstrued as negative.
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Speaker 4: Casey, you were there, you were living in the same house.
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Speaker 3: I need to know what did Carson say about Branden
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Speaker 3: off camera?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, And I do want to preface there are no
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Speaker 8: hard feelings there. You've put a lot of girls in
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Speaker 8: one house stating the same guy. There's gonna be drawn,
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Speaker 8: She's gonna be stuff, he said, So I.
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Speaker 5: Did want to say that.
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Speaker 8: I think I was a little shocked to hear she
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Speaker 8: was shocked because we did have a conversation off camera,
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Speaker 8: me and her, and I told her exactly what I
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Speaker 8: said to Braiden. I told her the conversation and I
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Speaker 8: even apologize for talking to or talking about it on
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Speaker 8: camera too. So I was a little shocked to hear
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Speaker 8: her come on and say that. But Yeah, there were
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Speaker 8: just a few comments made about and she might have
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Speaker 8: hinted at this a little bit but saying how she
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Speaker 8: wouldn't have come on the show if she was matched
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Speaker 8: with Brandon. She told me that, and there were some
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Speaker 8: things there was a clear shift when he was around
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Speaker 8: and then when he wasn't around. So that's all I'm
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Speaker 8: gonna say. Again, no hard feelings, But I was a
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Speaker 8: little shocked to hear her say that she was caught
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Speaker 8: off guard by us talking to him, because I did
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Speaker 8: have a.
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Speaker 5: Conversation with her in the house off camera. We hugged
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Speaker 5: it out.
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Speaker 3: And so I actually got intel from one of the
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Speaker 3: other farmers that told me that you girls talked when
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Speaker 3: you guys all met up at the races, and another
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Speaker 3: farmer's girls actually heard about the things Carson was saying.
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Speaker 3: And a farmer actually went to Branden and also kind
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Speaker 3: of tipped him off before you girls actually had those
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Speaker 3: one on one conversations with him.
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Speaker 2: That's pretty cool, actually, is that true, Braden?
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Speaker 3: And did that also kind of reassure that what the
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Speaker 3: girls were saying to you one on one was accurate
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Speaker 3: because you also heard it from another farmer.
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Speaker 7: Right, And I'll say this to that that is true
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Speaker 7: to answer your question, you know, and he'd be okay
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Speaker 7: with me say this, Yeah, Brett, Brett did come to me.
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Speaker 2: I had to be Brett. Look at Heather. She's blushing,
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Speaker 2: she's yeah, yeah, you know, Brett, I always you know,
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Speaker 2: I loved it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I love it.
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Speaker 7: We're very good friends. Yeah, we talk about every day,
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Speaker 7: just about nothing.
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Speaker 5: They talk more than you.
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Speaker 7: But no, so Brett, you know, at the mixer was
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Speaker 7: kind of like, did I you know, and just kind
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Speaker 7: of what he was saying was, you know, Carson did.
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Speaker 7: And again, I don't have any hard feelings with Carson.
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Speaker 7: You know, we had a good goodbye. We had a
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Speaker 7: conversation off camera. You know, She's been kind to me,
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Speaker 7: and you know, I really don't have neither of us
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Speaker 7: have anything bad to say about Carson. But yeah, you know,
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Speaker 7: she would tell me, you know, how much she loved
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Speaker 7: the farm, and then she was telling Brett his girls
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Speaker 7: how much she did like the farm. So like, you know,
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Speaker 7: there was kind of some riding on the wall.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but like I get it.
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Speaker 7: I live in Homer, Illinois, so I'm not the most
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Speaker 7: glamorous place. I'm not gonna fallow anybody for that You
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Speaker 7: made it.
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Speaker 3: So clear, Brandon, you can't move the farm. You made
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Speaker 3: it so clear with everybody that that was, you know,
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Speaker 3: and I think right some of our other farmers might
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Speaker 3: be a little bit more open to moving, even though.
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Speaker 4: Brett said he's not moving, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 3: But like there is maybe a little bit more wiggle
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Speaker 3: room in those two farmers' lives. But you made it
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Speaker 3: so clear throughout the season like that that's not happening
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Speaker 3: for you, Like, this is your life and this is
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Speaker 3: a part of it. I am a little bummed we
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Speaker 3: didn't see more singing because I do know that you're
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Speaker 3: a talented singer, and that is.
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Speaker 2: I liked it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they left that out.
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Speaker 4: They left that out.
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Speaker 7: That was.
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Speaker 5: That was a bummer.
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Speaker 7: That should not make the cut. But it's all my
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Speaker 7: social media. So if you want to see a very
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Speaker 7: nervous me singing to Casey, then you can.
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Speaker 2: You can see that. My girl, my girl, Molly Walker.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to hook off for some of that video.
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Speaker 2: We'll have it exclusive.
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Speaker 5: I think you know.
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Speaker 1: I will say this, you know, I actually said I
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Speaker 1: said this to Heather after one episode when uh, I
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Speaker 1: can't even remember her name right now, But when the
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Speaker 1: one lady left left the farm to go to Braden's farm.
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Speaker 2: Was that Lauren with that episode? Lauren, thank you?
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Speaker 1: And I loved that you as a gentleman, which you
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Speaker 1: very clearly are go to bread and you're like, hey,
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Speaker 1: are you okay with this?
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Speaker 2: And He's like, man, this farmer is gonna find a
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Speaker 2: wif I'm fine with it. I love the way Brett talks.
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Speaker 1: I love that. I love that.
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Speaker 2: But uh but I love that you you know you
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Speaker 2: did that. And I even said it at that episode.
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Speaker 2: I was like, you know, I I love this.
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Speaker 1: I love the obvious friendship between these guys, and I
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Speaker 1: love the fact that you know it was It was like, look,
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Speaker 1: if you if you have any problem with whatsoever, she's out.
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Speaker 2: But if you're okay with it, I want to see
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Speaker 2: where it could go.
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Speaker 1: And just to make sure I'm because I mean, this
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Speaker 1: is it's a once in a lifetime experience. You all
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Speaker 1: have to make sure you're doing the right things for
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Speaker 1: each other, you know. And and I was gonna say
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Speaker 1: something else Homer Illinois, by the way, I have been
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Speaker 1: through Homer Illinois before ps and I will say this,
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Speaker 1: it's a true story, and I will say this, you know,
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Speaker 1: one of the beauties of you know, marrying a farmer.
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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say this casey is.
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Speaker 1: You know these guys, you know, they have the ability
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Speaker 1: when they want to, they can probably whisk you away
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Speaker 1: and take you anywhere where the rest of us got
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Speaker 1: to use a charge card.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: These these are land bearings, and they are you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a big fan of traveling.
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Speaker 2: You know, a zip code can't make you happy. I
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Speaker 2: don't care where it is.
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Speaker 1: And my wife and I moved her from sunny southern
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Speaker 1: California to Michigan, where I grew up, and she's.
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Speaker 2: Never been super stoked about it.
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Speaker 1: But we travel our asses off in the winter time
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Speaker 1: because it's cold here in the winter, and so you know,
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Speaker 1: we have a great time going to the sunny places
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Speaker 1: in the winter and we make the most of it.
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Speaker 2: So love is an amazing way of making a zip code. Okay,
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Speaker 2: is all I'm going to say.
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Speaker 4: So that's that's the truth.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, funny enough too, and I wish it was showed
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Speaker 5: more on the season.
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Speaker 8: My family's from Illinois, so Barrett's familiar with cold winters. Yeah,
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Speaker 8: my parents both went to University of Illinois, which is
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Speaker 8: twenty minutes away in Champagne, so a familiar with how
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Speaker 8: cool it gets.
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Speaker 5: And it's kind of a full circle moment, though, small world.
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Speaker 2: How is she anywhere perfect? I don't think she just
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Speaker 2: keeps every time I find something.
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Speaker 6: I say, I haven't found any flaws. I really know.
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Speaker 6: I mean no, and we say this all the time,
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Speaker 6: and I will you know, I'm not.
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Speaker 7: Just saying this because we're on a podcast, but like
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Speaker 7: I legitimately went into this process. I mean, this whole
17:31
Speaker 7: opportunity found me. And you know, I did have some
17:34
Speaker 7: reservations just being who I am, and I to be honest,
17:40
Speaker 7: I thought I would kind of breeze through it. And
17:42
Speaker 7: I'm like, you know, the I'm open. I'm very open
17:46
Speaker 7: to finding somebody and I want that very badly. But
17:49
Speaker 7: I'm like, the odds of that happening on reality TV,
17:54
Speaker 7: you know, are slim, And you know, I thought it
17:58
Speaker 7: was gonna be a lot easier became very real. Especially
18:01
Speaker 7: when I met Casey. I'm like, well, this is gonna
18:05
Speaker 7: be a lot harder than I thought you and but no,
18:10
Speaker 7: I I'm blown away by her and you know, we're
18:15
Speaker 7: always hanging out. We haven't gone more than two weeks
18:18
Speaker 7: without seeing each other, and honestly, the distance has been
18:22
Speaker 7: so easy, And there were so many times when we're
18:25
Speaker 7: just hanging out and I'm like, we met on a
18:28
Speaker 7: TV show like this is, and I say, I'm like,
18:33
Speaker 7: this wasn't supposed to happen, Like it wasn't supposed to
18:35
Speaker 7: happen this way.
18:36
Speaker 6: But God, God has a plan.
18:38
Speaker 7: And I'm not one to, you know, judge how he's
18:43
Speaker 7: doing it, but this is the path he put on.
18:46
Speaker 6: And I'm truly blown away.
18:48
Speaker 4: It's amazing.
18:49
Speaker 3: And and Bob and I even though I mean, I've
18:53
Speaker 3: never been on the other end of the camera, but
18:55
Speaker 3: and it didn't, you know, end that way for Bob.
18:57
Speaker 3: We know people that are living proof of that it
19:01
Speaker 3: can work for some people, So it's amazing. I do
19:05
Speaker 3: want to talk a little bit about the breakup with
19:08
Speaker 3: Brittany because.
19:10
Speaker 1: It was.
19:13
Speaker 4: It was hard as a viewer, it was hard to watch, so.
19:16
Speaker 3: I cannot imagine being in your position, Brayden, and you
19:22
Speaker 3: handled it with a lot of grace, and I could
19:24
Speaker 3: tell in watching it that you were also emotional when
19:29
Speaker 3: she came back to confront you and to kind of
19:32
Speaker 3: talk things out. Your eyes looked a little, you know, red,
19:37
Speaker 3: And so I just want to know since that situation,
19:42
Speaker 3: where do you both stand with Brittany. I mean, Casey,
19:45
Speaker 3: were you close to her in the house? Did you
19:47
Speaker 3: build a relationship with her? Braiden, have you heard from
19:51
Speaker 3: Britney since that moment?
19:54
Speaker 7: So I felt like we all became especially last three,
19:58
Speaker 7: we did become very close and we had a lot
20:00
Speaker 7: of fun together. You know, when it gets down to
20:03
Speaker 7: the final two, you know, vibes kind of change and
20:07
Speaker 7: it gets very real at that point, and so emotions
20:11
Speaker 7: are high and with Brittany, you know, at the time,
20:16
Speaker 7: you know, I really thought Brittany was a great girl.
20:20
Speaker 7: And you know it was hard because I was like,
20:23
Speaker 7: you know, but I had my mind made up. I did,
20:27
Speaker 7: and I you know, I'm not sure if it looked
20:29
Speaker 7: that way, but like.
20:31
Speaker 4: It fooled me, Breden, No, just kidding.
20:32
Speaker 2: It didn't feel me.
20:34
Speaker 6: Didn't feel me.
20:35
Speaker 2: I knew the whole time. It gets you.
20:41
Speaker 7: I did like it was weighing heavy on me because
20:46
Speaker 7: I didn't want to hurt Brittany, and I didn't I think,
20:50
Speaker 7: I said, I don't know if they threw this in,
20:52
Speaker 7: but I said, you know, it's a shame I had.
20:55
Speaker 6: To go through a girl like Brittany to meet Casey because.
20:59
Speaker 2: You know, I, I don't know that's a nice thing
21:01
Speaker 2: to say. Yeah, but you know, I.
21:07
Speaker 6: Wish Brittany handled it better.
21:10
Speaker 1: Uh.
21:10
Speaker 7: And I get I mean, I understand how emotional this
21:14
Speaker 7: process is. And but you know, I do have a
21:20
Speaker 7: clear conscience, and I know I never lied through this process.
21:26
Speaker 7: I you know, I can confidently say that I went
21:29
Speaker 7: through it not knowing what I was doing.
21:32
Speaker 2: The whole time.
21:32
Speaker 7: I didn't know what I was doing, and I was
21:34
Speaker 7: just like I I'm just gonna be me. I'm not
21:37
Speaker 7: gonna lie. I'm just gonna do just put my best
21:41
Speaker 7: foot forward and just try to figure it out, figure
21:44
Speaker 7: out how to date five women at the same time.
21:47
Speaker 2: Notice you can do.
21:48
Speaker 3: You've never none of you have ever done this before,
21:51
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? So yeah, I but have
21:54
Speaker 3: you spoken to her since filming ended? Have either of
21:57
Speaker 3: you spoken to her?
21:59
Speaker 7: I have not spoken to her. You know, I think
22:03
Speaker 7: she took that pretty hard. I'm you know, I'm not
22:07
Speaker 7: sure how she feels. But you know, we did have
22:11
Speaker 7: a conversation off camera. She was not happy with me
22:16
Speaker 7: at all and felt like I you know, led her on,
22:21
Speaker 7: and you know I tried to and lied to her,
22:24
Speaker 7: and I tried to tell her that I never meant
22:28
Speaker 7: to do that and that I didn't lie to her ever,
22:32
Speaker 7: you know, I I there was a part of the
22:35
Speaker 7: process where, you know, I did have feelings for Brittany
22:39
Speaker 7: and I was trying to explore that. But you know,
22:43
Speaker 7: like Bobby were saying with Casey, it was just undeniable.
22:46
Speaker 7: I mean, it just meeting somebody who checks every single
22:50
Speaker 7: one of your boxes and so.
22:53
Speaker 8: But yeah, yeah, and I'll say I got extremely close
22:57
Speaker 8: with Brittany throughout filming and I have talked to her since.
23:03
Speaker 8: I gave her a day after that and then I
23:06
Speaker 8: checked in on her, just wanted to make sure she
23:08
Speaker 8: was okay meet her and Cam got extremely close. We
23:12
Speaker 8: have a group message. We'll still text in it. And
23:15
Speaker 8: I know she's happy right now and you know, living
23:18
Speaker 8: her own little life. So we do still stay in touch.
23:21
Speaker 8: We were obviously closer once filming concluded, but obviously life
23:26
Speaker 8: kind of moves on.
23:27
Speaker 5: You don't always stay in touch the way you were
23:31
Speaker 5: with someone. But yeah, we we still will stay in touch.
23:35
Speaker 1: At that says a lot about you. I love that
23:37
Speaker 1: and exactly, it does change and it has to change,
23:41
Speaker 1: right because at the end of the day, that relationship changes.
23:44
Speaker 1: But actually, you know, for Branden, I mean, people used
23:47
Speaker 1: to always ask me after the season, you know, well,
23:49
Speaker 1: do you cheap in.
23:49
Speaker 2: Touch with so and so?
23:50
Speaker 1: And I'd be like, you know, I do check in,
23:52
Speaker 1: but out of respect for out of respect for Casey,
23:56
Speaker 1: You're not going to be blowing up Brittany.
23:57
Speaker 2: I mean.
23:58
Speaker 1: So it's like, and I get right, You're putting your
24:01
Speaker 1: energy into the relationship you have and you have to
24:03
Speaker 1: do that. And I think that you know it is
24:05
Speaker 1: it is such a weird process and very few people
24:07
Speaker 1: understand it. And it's like you get to this end
24:09
Speaker 1: and it's like, I what I happened to happen to
24:12
Speaker 1: really like about the finale was I think, you know,
24:15
Speaker 1: in the in the first kind of run through because uh,
24:18
Speaker 1: have you guys even gotten to see the finale yet?
24:20
Speaker 2: You probably haven't, right, So so we we got to
24:23
Speaker 2: watch it. Okay, So I'm just going to say this
24:25
Speaker 2: without spoiling it for you. Here we go. The first
24:30
Speaker 2: I hope Molly doesn't you know, Molly and are best friends.
24:32
Speaker 2: I don't want are mad at me? Over this.
24:33
Speaker 1: But on the first uh, they kind of almost break
24:36
Speaker 1: it up a little bit, like you know, you you
24:38
Speaker 1: kind of are are trying to essentially break up with her,
24:41
Speaker 1: and you're being kind, but you're also you know, you're
24:43
Speaker 1: you're being a little more like listen, I know you're
24:46
Speaker 1: really into your career and you're you know, and I
24:48
Speaker 1: don't want to, you know. And then she walks away
24:50
Speaker 1: and then she comes back, you know, and you mike
24:53
Speaker 1: back up and you're back in it in the second round,
24:55
Speaker 1: and Heather, you know, feel free to jump in at
24:57
Speaker 1: any point. But at the second round, you're kind of like, look,
25:00
Speaker 1: it's not you, Okay, it's I am. My heart is
25:05
Speaker 1: going somewhere else. And it was almost like you realize, okay,
25:09
Speaker 1: you know what, man, I'm trying to be nice here.
25:12
Speaker 2: This isn't working. I have to be more direct.
25:14
Speaker 1: And so part of me was curious, you know, I
25:16
Speaker 1: don't you never know if you see it in real time,
25:18
Speaker 1: but part of me was curious, like is that kind
25:20
Speaker 1: of where your head was at when you were like, okay,
25:21
Speaker 1: you know what, damn it, I'm putting the mic back on.
25:23
Speaker 1: I am sad that I hurt this person's feelings, but
25:26
Speaker 1: I got to cut the cord here, you know, because
25:28
Speaker 1: I know what I want Casey on this spot right now.
25:31
Speaker 1: You know.
25:32
Speaker 4: Well, I think she was.
25:32
Speaker 3: Also being a little bit more pointed at Braden when
25:35
Speaker 3: she came back that second time. She was like, why
25:39
Speaker 3: wasn't it me, and like just a little bit more direct,
25:42
Speaker 3: and so you had to, I think, be more direct
25:45
Speaker 3: with her in return.
25:47
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that that is exactly how I remember it.
25:50
Speaker 7: And funny enough, Yeah, like I was extremely upset, you
25:55
Speaker 7: know the first time, you know, our first part of
25:59
Speaker 7: our breakout, and because I saw how upset she was
26:02
Speaker 7: and it truly like affected me, and I tried to
26:06
Speaker 7: tell her that that this this is extremely hard and
26:10
Speaker 7: you know, like it's just something I have to do.
26:12
Speaker 7: And but then you know, she walks away and I
26:19
Speaker 7: take my mic off, and I still I remember walking
26:23
Speaker 7: to the back of my shed and I was just
26:25
Speaker 7: like looking out of the feeling like that was way
26:28
Speaker 7: worse than I thought it was gonna be.
26:29
Speaker 2: That was horrible.
26:30
Speaker 6: I hated to do that to somebody.
26:33
Speaker 7: And then you know, some of the producers come back
26:36
Speaker 7: and say, you know, she wants to have another conversation.
26:40
Speaker 7: I honestly was under the impression that that conversation was
26:44
Speaker 7: going to be off camera. So I walked back in
26:48
Speaker 7: because they told me she didn't say, oh she wants
26:51
Speaker 7: to say And so I walked back in and I
26:56
Speaker 7: see the cameras and I see the boom mic, and
26:59
Speaker 7: I'm like, yeah, this is not gonna be off camera.
27:03
Speaker 6: This is gonna be on camera.
27:04
Speaker 2: So you you didn't put that lob mic back on.
27:06
Speaker 2: You didn't put your lob mic back on it.
27:10
Speaker 7: It was the boom like yeah, And so I went
27:13
Speaker 7: back on and yeah, she was a little more aggressive
27:18
Speaker 7: that time around, just kind of you know, implying that
27:24
Speaker 7: I lied to her and I led her on. And
27:27
Speaker 7: that's when I was like, look like, I didn't want
27:32
Speaker 7: to do this. I feel horrible about this, and I'm
27:35
Speaker 7: I'm trying to and I meant everything I said before
27:38
Speaker 7: about you know, her career. You know, I didn't think
27:42
Speaker 7: she wanted to be I wasn't. I had a hard
27:46
Speaker 7: time figuring out what Britney really wanted because it seemed
27:50
Speaker 7: like she wanted it seemed like she liked the idea
27:55
Speaker 7: about me in the farm rather than actually me, And
28:01
Speaker 7: so yeah, that was hard and I to what you're saying, Bob,
28:04
Speaker 7: I did have to just kind of be like, hey,
28:06
Speaker 7: look it's I'm getting pulled in another direction and that's
28:12
Speaker 7: just what it is, and I try to do it
28:15
Speaker 7: the best way of I honestly thought I could have
28:19
Speaker 7: handled that breakup better, just because I was struggling a
28:24
Speaker 7: lot to, you know, find the words, the right words
28:27
Speaker 7: to say, because in that situation, it's it's.
28:30
Speaker 6: Hard to have those words, you know.
28:32
Speaker 7: It's hard to tell me like, hey, I know we've
28:34
Speaker 7: gone through this whole process, but it's not you, it's
28:37
Speaker 7: somebody else, you know.
28:38
Speaker 3: Right Well, from the two people on this call that
28:41
Speaker 3: have actually seen the breakup, I think you handled it
28:44
Speaker 3: with grace, and I think we could both agree on that,
28:46
Speaker 3: because it's not easy at that point of you know,
28:49
Speaker 3: the process, but it is what everybody signed up for.
28:53
Speaker 3: Everybody has seen the show and knows that there is
28:55
Speaker 3: only going to be one person at the end and
28:58
Speaker 3: you have to follow your gut. At the end of
29:00
Speaker 3: the day, we kept saying it over and over again,
29:02
Speaker 3: it's farmer wants a wife. It's your journey at the
29:06
Speaker 3: end of the day, Like, yes, it is Casey's journey too.
29:09
Speaker 3: She was there, but you guys are the ones having
29:12
Speaker 3: to make the decisions that are best for you. I
29:15
Speaker 3: do want to end this conversation on a positive. I
29:18
Speaker 3: have one last question for you, guys, and because I'm nosy,
29:23
Speaker 3: I want to know, are you guys in love?
29:28
Speaker 6: I am in love with Casey. I'm very in love
29:32
Speaker 6: with Casey.
29:33
Speaker 5: Yeah.
29:35
Speaker 7: You know, it's hard to say that publicly because you know,
29:39
Speaker 7: I well, I've never done any of the publicly, so.
29:44
Speaker 6: But no, I well, like I said, I'm truly blown away.
29:48
Speaker 6: I mean, this is very real.
29:50
Speaker 7: It got very real, it's still very real, and I
29:53
Speaker 7: mean those feelings have just grown so much stronger after
29:57
Speaker 7: the show, and we've been able to spend and a
30:00
Speaker 7: lot of time together, our families have been able to
30:03
Speaker 7: spend time together. And yeah, so to answer your question, yes.
30:08
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I love I love it. Guys.
30:24
Speaker 1: I will tell you from a former guy who went
30:27
Speaker 1: through kind of what Braden went through. My relationship from
30:29
Speaker 1: the show did not work out, but I was very
30:33
Speaker 1: close of course with Trista and Ryan, who are you
30:36
Speaker 1: know kind of set the benchmark from the standpoint on
30:38
Speaker 1: how the Bachelorette and the Bachelor unfold, and we are
30:40
Speaker 1: very good friends. Trista and I do our podcast together
30:43
Speaker 1: of course, almost famous and the ogs. But I will
30:46
Speaker 1: tell you, guys that one of the things that they
30:47
Speaker 1: did that I would love to unsolicited advice, but I'm
30:50
Speaker 1: given it anyway. They always made sure their relationship and
30:54
Speaker 1: with the energy and effort they gave to it was
30:56
Speaker 1: more important than all the extracurricular stuff that they were
30:59
Speaker 1: given the opportunity to do right. And and so I
31:02
Speaker 1: just feel like for the two of you, you know,
31:04
Speaker 1: it just from somebody who has a little bit of
31:06
Speaker 1: a track record with this thing. You know, as long
31:09
Speaker 1: as you guys put yourselves in your relationship and the
31:12
Speaker 1: love that you already started to grow with one another first,
31:16
Speaker 1: then the show can be an awesome story you tell
31:19
Speaker 1: your friends and family about.
31:20
Speaker 2: Forever, right, and this is a weird way we met.
31:23
Speaker 2: You never believe it. And oh my god, it's on video.
31:25
Speaker 1: You can watch it a little Billy and little Denny,
31:27
Speaker 1: you know, or whatever, and it would be such a
31:29
Speaker 1: magical experience for you guys. And but that's really the
31:32
Speaker 1: that's really the difference is it's the it's in the details, right,
31:35
Speaker 1: and those details are putting your relationship first, and I'm
31:38
Speaker 1: just so happy for you guys. I just you know, Casey,
31:42
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. I have a friend and I'm
31:44
Speaker 1: just I need to say this.
31:45
Speaker 2: Her name is Cherish Fitter.
31:47
Speaker 1: Okay, Cherish is. When I first saw you on the show,
31:52
Speaker 1: you looked to me like a young Cherish. And Cherish
31:55
Speaker 1: is one of my wife's absolute best friends. Absolutely beautiful
31:57
Speaker 1: woman and just a great couple with her husband, and
32:00
Speaker 1: they are our best friends. And I literally called Cherish
32:03
Speaker 1: and I was like, Cherish, I am seeing a young
32:06
Speaker 1: you on television and you have.
32:07
Speaker 2: Got to tune it. So she literally looked you up
32:10
Speaker 2: online and she goes, oh my god, that's the nicest
32:12
Speaker 2: compliment you've ever given me. She is stunning.
32:15
Speaker 1: And I just loved it because it was one of
32:18
Speaker 1: those things where I was just rooting for you guys.
32:20
Speaker 1: And Braden, you know, I think you wore your heart
32:22
Speaker 1: in your sleeve, man, And I know it's hard to
32:24
Speaker 1: do in a show like this, it really is. It's
32:26
Speaker 1: hard because you're being coached to, you know, keep your
32:28
Speaker 1: feelings to yourself and you can't tell anybody how you
32:30
Speaker 1: really feel. And you got to do all these things
32:32
Speaker 1: because it's the TV show, guys, and we got to
32:34
Speaker 1: get to the end, right, And I just thought you
32:36
Speaker 1: did a really great job of handling yourself and being
32:38
Speaker 1: a gentleman and being able to go back in that
32:41
Speaker 1: second round.
32:42
Speaker 2: And you know, and I know, I know that was
32:44
Speaker 2: hard for you. And the way they edited the.
32:45
Speaker 1: Show was pretty brilliant, by the way, because as we
32:48
Speaker 1: were watching it, I didn't know who at first you
32:50
Speaker 1: were talking to, right, because they're going back and forth
32:52
Speaker 1: and there, and I'm just like, oh my god, you
32:55
Speaker 1: cannot be talking to my casey this way.
32:56
Speaker 2: What are you doing.
32:57
Speaker 1: So I'm just You're really super happy for you, guys man,
33:01
Speaker 1: not again, not just because I won five bucks off Heather.
33:04
Speaker 3: It's more we're both happy. I mean, we're both happy
33:10
Speaker 3: that the show has produced love and I think it's great.
33:14
Speaker 3: It's so it was It's been so fun for Bob
33:17
Speaker 3: and I to watch your guys' journey this whole season.
33:20
Speaker 4: And thank you guys so much for coming on.
33:22
Speaker 3: We're definitely rooting for you both, and you know, this
33:26
Speaker 3: is amazing that you found love on TV.
33:29
Speaker 2: Yes, I love it.
33:30
Speaker 6: Thank you so much, Thank you to come on again.
33:34
Speaker 6: Got it? Got it man, We're listening.
33:37
Speaker 2: I love it makes me so happy.
33:40
Speaker 1: Congratulations you guys. We love you guys, and we're so
33:43
Speaker 1: excited for your future together. And uh and keep us posted,
33:46
Speaker 1: come back whenever you want, call us whenever exactly.
33:49
Speaker 6: We appreciate it.
33:50
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks, take care, you guys.
33:54
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34:00
Speaker 2: Yes,