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Almost Famous In Depth: Mike Johnson · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Ben and Ashley I almost famous in depth.
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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, it's been a while. How are you, buddy,
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Speaker 1: I'm blessed man, it has been a while. It's amazing,
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Speaker 1: you know, it feels amazing. It feels like my fifteen
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Speaker 1: is a Famou have gone up so long ago but
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Speaker 1: still be here and I get to talk to you.
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Speaker 1: It truly feels good. You say that, and I remember
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Speaker 1: very distinctly. So we're sitting here in Las Vegas right
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Speaker 1: now for the I Heart Radio Music Festival. You were
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Speaker 1: at this event, and I remember at that festival you
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Speaker 1: and I talking and it was kind of right when
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Speaker 1: you were getting off the show and moving into whatever
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Speaker 1: was next in your life, and you're you're we were
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Speaker 1: just chatting about where life would take you, what you
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Speaker 1: wanted to do. And that's why we're here today. I
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Speaker 1: want to find out. I don't know, honestly, all that
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Speaker 1: you're up to, and I know you're up to a lot.
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Speaker 1: So let's start with Mike, what are some of the
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Speaker 1: biggest things going on in your life right now? Some
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Speaker 1: of the biggest things going in my life right now.
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Speaker 1: I have just created a newsletter and right now I'm
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Speaker 1: asking everyone to go to my website Feeling Seen dot com.
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Speaker 1: It's like a landing page right now. Uh, it's all
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Speaker 1: about sexual wellness, exploration, education, and entertainment. And so I'm
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Speaker 1: big into that space and I want to make conversation
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Speaker 1: is normal. Conversation is normal about yeah, all things sexual.
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Speaker 1: So I'll give you a few examples. So let's say
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Speaker 1: I'm a virgin, I get married. Um, that's a big
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Speaker 1: thing for me, you know, in that case, and so
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Speaker 1: I may want to have some resources, some articles to
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Speaker 1: look at. Or let's say I'm in a sexless marriage.
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Speaker 1: Or let's say I'm thirty four year old mail me
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Speaker 1: and my libido isn't the same anymore. Or let's say
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Speaker 1: I'm a parent and my child comes to me and
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Speaker 1: said they're born in the wrong gender. These are topics
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Speaker 1: that are truly important. I want to make sure everyone
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Speaker 1: is felt, seen and heard. Oh, you know, after your
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Speaker 1: your book that I believe came out in what yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: smile world, smile day. That's right, and then your yours,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, buddy. Yeah, I got a good memory there.
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Speaker 1: Of course, I don't talk about my book enough um
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Speaker 1: on this podcast, and then you talk about it more alone.
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Speaker 1: Plain Side can go to Amazon by it say make
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Speaker 1: sure you put in the same car making the loan.
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Speaker 1: So with your podcast talking it out, your book, now
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Speaker 1: your newsletter. Uh, and tell me if I'm wrong here.
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Speaker 1: You can disagree with me. But it feels like you
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Speaker 1: have kind of chosen the area of sex to talk
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Speaker 1: about and not make taboo, but to bring UM that
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Speaker 1: conversation to the form front of people's minds. Two questions
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Speaker 1: with that, why are you UM in a place in
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Speaker 1: your life that you believe you can teach people about it?
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Speaker 1: And then to why is that the topic that you chose?
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Speaker 1: I feel in order to do anything great, you must
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Speaker 1: have gone through it yourself, and you must have the experience.
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Speaker 1: And I also had the academic knowledge behind it from
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Speaker 1: the schooling that I've gone to UM. So that's the
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Speaker 1: reason why. And then also have a fantastic team behind
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Speaker 1: me that's way better than I am, that have been
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Speaker 1: doing this for over twenty five years, and so it's
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Speaker 1: not just my words, is the entire I built a
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Speaker 1: dream team basically, Ben, And then why I chose this field.
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Speaker 1: When I was in the Air Force, I was the
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Speaker 1: only male on the entire base that I was at
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Speaker 1: that became a victim advocate, And basically what a victim's
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Speaker 1: advocate is someone who is there for you if you
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Speaker 1: were to go through something you're sexually assaulted, and I
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Speaker 1: was assault If you you know my book Making Love,
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Speaker 1: you want to talk about being sexually assaulted as a child. Um,
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Speaker 1: And I just gravitate towards in my last relationship that
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Speaker 1: I was talked about when I was on a bachelor
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Speaker 1: my ex and I had a miscarriage. And these are
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Speaker 1: just things that a lot of people go through in
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Speaker 1: life that for whatever reason, they aren't heard. And so
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Speaker 1: I want to make every single human being out there
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Speaker 1: know that there's a place for you in this world
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Speaker 1: and you're not alone. That's beautiful. Man. You built a
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Speaker 1: dream team. Can you talk a little bit about that team? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Thank you. UM. So, I'm not gonna call her names
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Speaker 1: because they hate being in front, but one of the
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Speaker 1: ladies on my team, she actually I say that I can.
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Speaker 1: I say that I'm an author and I'm a writer.
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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean I'm an editor. And so she was
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Speaker 1: on my team for my Bookmaking Love. You want, I
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Speaker 1: have someone else on my team who we work together
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Speaker 1: really closely. When it comes to our clients that we
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Speaker 1: have in the sex working space. And so I have
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Speaker 1: clients writ now a couples, lots of couples, some single individuals,
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Speaker 1: and so we work together. I'm kind of she is
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Speaker 1: my sin say per se, and so I'm onner her truelage.
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Speaker 1: And then we have a group of people as well
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Speaker 1: that help with the writing and the articles. We have
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Speaker 1: people of all genders, Um, we have people that are transgender,
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Speaker 1: we have people that of all races, and people that
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Speaker 1: are different nationalities as well. You have a wide representation.
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Speaker 1: I mean when you're trying to bring you have to
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Speaker 1: and you're trying to bring in a bunch of different
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Speaker 1: opinions and a bunch of different thoughts. We're trying to
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Speaker 1: be the not even trying. We're going to be the
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Speaker 1: biggest sex media company in the Western hums for speaking
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Speaker 1: Spanish in English, and you know we have the we
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Speaker 1: have the best team. I just did a podcast with
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Speaker 1: Shamboo Dram. It's on my on my I G right
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Speaker 1: now you can look at it where I'll talk about
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Speaker 1: me myself and not having performance anxiety men as men,
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Speaker 1: you and know men don't talk about this stuff, um,
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Speaker 1: and so this isn't really important to me, and I
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Speaker 1: find that their strength and vulnerability and and even for me,
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Speaker 1: you know, I got married in November. Congratulations again, thank
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Speaker 1: you buddy, you did. You've already told me that I
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Speaker 1: appreciate that, and it is I like reaching out to
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Speaker 1: you man well, and I always appreciate when you do,
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Speaker 1: because I think opening up these topics and having that
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Speaker 1: safe space, once you talk about it once with somebody,
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Speaker 1: it's not as awkward to talk about it again. And
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Speaker 1: I was saying when since I got married, it's a
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Speaker 1: beautiful partnership, right, and my wife and I can talk
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Speaker 1: about anything and everything, um, but it still is that
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Speaker 1: sometimes lonely because you feel like once you get into marriage,
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Speaker 1: everything is going to be perfect, right. The sex is
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Speaker 1: gonna be incredible, the connection is gonna last forever. And
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Speaker 1: sometimes there's things that just happen due to whatever place
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Speaker 1: your life, outside circumstances um that make you feel, uh
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Speaker 1: like you're doing something wrong and you don't necessarily want
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Speaker 1: to talk to your partner about it. And so having
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Speaker 1: these resources and what I'm hearing from you is this,
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Speaker 1: what you're creating is a place where people can lean
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Speaker 1: on to say hey, maybe I'm not alone, maybe I'm
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Speaker 1: not crazy, maybe I'm not failing. Correct, Well, maybe I
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Speaker 1: mean this is the other side. Maybe you are crazy
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Speaker 1: and there's a group of crazy out there that that
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Speaker 1: are just like you. You know. That's why we're asking
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Speaker 1: people to go to feeling scene dot com and uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, sign up and there's a box where you
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Speaker 1: can actually say, hey, this is the topic. Got one
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Speaker 1: more information about let's switch gears a little bit here.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad that we got to talk about that. Um,
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Speaker 1: but I know, also you're still doing the podcast talking
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Speaker 1: about talking out Bachelor Nation. You know, so you're in
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Speaker 1: this is a Bachelor Nation podcast. It is done by
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Speaker 1: I believe Warner Brothers. Correct, So you were in it,
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Speaker 1: and so I have a lot of stuff I want
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Speaker 1: to talk to you about with the current state of
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Speaker 1: the show. What just happened on the finale? Um? Can
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Speaker 1: I pause you? I could? I genuinely I think the
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Speaker 1: world of you, man. I'll talk about you so highly
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Speaker 1: behind your back all the time, and to be here
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Speaker 1: again with you, it just it's making me smile. I
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Speaker 1: had no clue until yesterday. I'm not kidding. I was driving. Um,
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Speaker 1: we drove our one day from um, yeah, from Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles to Las Vegas. That is a drive and a half.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you there is my grandma. She lives
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Speaker 1: in a Try state area and I want to go
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Speaker 1: visit it. I was in l A last week. Okay, Well,
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Speaker 1: you got to see all the crazy stuff that exists
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Speaker 1: on the side of the road every like fifty miles.
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Speaker 1: There's like this massive new thing that you have no
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Speaker 1: clue how or why it exists. But then you stopped
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Speaker 1: like that's pretty cool. Uh. And they told me yesterday
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Speaker 1: that you were going to be here. I had no
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Speaker 1: clue who was going to be here on this trip
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Speaker 1: with us. And I was very excited to catch back
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Speaker 1: up with you, um because you don't hold back either,
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Speaker 1: and uh, and I appreciate that. And I'm sure on
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Speaker 1: talking you've been able to talk about some of these
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Speaker 1: topics that were about to kind of broke. Yeah, thank you.
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Speaker 1: So this podcast talk to me about the behind the
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Speaker 1: scenes of it. Has it been been an enjoyable experience?
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Speaker 1: Do you feel like you were supported by Warner Brothers?
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Speaker 1: And I'm asking these questions because they're gonna get to
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Speaker 1: someplace because right now, if you look around us in
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Speaker 1: the Bachelor world, a lot of people are feeling unsupported,
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Speaker 1: a lot of criticism. I came to people who are
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Speaker 1: associated with still the show and working kind of for
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Speaker 1: the show, saying they get better edits, they get better opportunities,
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Speaker 1: they're backed better. Um, they're not afraid of going on
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Speaker 1: shows anymore because they know that the show is gonna
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Speaker 1: protect them. And I'm gonna get all that. But do
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Speaker 1: you feel like you're supported at Warner Brothers with this
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Speaker 1: podcast and what has your experience been doing this podcast
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Speaker 1: with Brian? Beautiful question. I'll start Brian. I'll start Brian,
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Speaker 1: my co host, Brian Apa Solos amazing. Uh. He is
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Speaker 1: a doctor and so therefore as you would think a
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Speaker 1: doctor is, That's how Brian is. He wants to be,
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Speaker 1: you know, tactical with everything and it really helps me
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Speaker 1: a lot. Um. I don't know everyone in the house
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Speaker 1: at Warner so I can't speak to that. I know
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Speaker 1: the people that are on my team for our podcast
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Speaker 1: talking it out, and I love them all. They're amazing.
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Speaker 1: I get this speak Kennidly. I think a lot of
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Speaker 1: people are afraid of me because I'm gonna say whatever
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Speaker 1: is in my mind. I'm not gonna hold back, and
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Speaker 1: I think some people don't like that because I'm uncontrollable,
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Speaker 1: but I find out other people love it because at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day of my heart is in
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Speaker 1: the right place. So by doing this and having a
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Speaker 1: good experience, having great co host. Um if, when, if,
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Speaker 1: and when they ask you to go on spinoff shows,
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Speaker 1: would you say yes to them? Um? That's the saying.
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Speaker 1: That's why I answered the question where I did, because
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Speaker 1: I don't think that you're specifically speaking to what Blake
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Speaker 1: Horseman has said. And I love Blake, but I completely
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Speaker 1: disagree with that statement. Most of Bastel Nation knows for
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Speaker 1: good and will. It seems as if I've been cast
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Speaker 1: out of going on the show. And I know what
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Speaker 1: I just said, and that's where I feel. Why is that?
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Speaker 1: I don't know? You tell me, Ben Well, I have
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Speaker 1: no idea, now do I? Yeah? I talk about idea. UM.
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Speaker 1: I talked about the show on my podcast and that's
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Speaker 1: about as close as as I get these days. You know,
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Speaker 1: I still have a lot of respect. The show changed
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Speaker 1: my life for the better. Um. It brought me new opportunities. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it taught me a lot. I had a great experience,
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Speaker 1: you know. Um, and I would say my unique My
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Speaker 1: experience was is unique uh to me because I really
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Speaker 1: and I think most people who are fans of the
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Speaker 1: show would say this. I don't have a lot of
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Speaker 1: negativity coming from my Still I get negativity today, criticism
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Speaker 1: people are saying, probably because I didn't get negatively on
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Speaker 1: the show, people are doing it now. Um. But my
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Speaker 1: experience was good, it was and and it did it
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Speaker 1: brought me able to speak to you today. Um. But
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Speaker 1: I know that's not everybody's. But I am confused because
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Speaker 1: when when this season was coming up and the Bachelor
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Speaker 1: was being picked, your name was being tossed around by fans.
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Speaker 1: Fans wanted you to have an opportunity to become the
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Speaker 1: next Bachelor, and we thought, hey, here at the podcast,
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Speaker 1: that's a great possibility. You went to Audrey's coffee shop,
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Speaker 1: met Ashley again. Ash was Mike Johnson's incredible. This dude
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Speaker 1: is awesome. He was great to the fans, he was
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Speaker 1: great to us making the next Bachelor? What are we doing?
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Speaker 1: But it was cool to see your coffee over there
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Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, thank you. They're very kind in buying
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Speaker 1: our coffee. They're actually um, they just became our largest client.
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Speaker 1: Shout out. They're crushing They're crushing it over there, they are. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so thank you to Audrey's um. They're keeping keeping me employed.
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Speaker 1: Uh so, what did you Okay, I guess I gotta
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Speaker 1: start with, did you read the phone call? I'm confused.
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Speaker 1: I mean I'm confused, not because you know Zack's a
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Speaker 1: bad choice or a good dress. I don't know Zack.
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Speaker 1: I can't even speak to that. I can't speak to
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Speaker 1: that a little bit. I've met Zack. Zack is awesome.
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Speaker 1: When I met him on my podcast, it is I
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Speaker 1: think that he's a little bit boring, but that's just
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Speaker 1: my person. Now. I'm very honest. I can think someone's
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Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic and still say well being he crosses his
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Speaker 1: legs when he sits down, you know, like I still
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Speaker 1: think the world Ractice said not to dude. I want
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Speaker 1: are saying not to you right now. That's a conversation
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Speaker 1: that we can have on feelings soon. So okay, boring,
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Speaker 1: I know is going to be one of his criticism.
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Speaker 1: It was one of the criticisms that I got that
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Speaker 1: I was boring. Um. And so you know, until you
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Speaker 1: meet somebody in person, you really don't know. Um, you
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Speaker 1: know that he might be trying to play it too safe.
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Speaker 1: He might just be a normal, boring dude who's like
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Speaker 1: gonna walk a very straight line during this process. And honestly,
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Speaker 1: the thing about being boring, right, it's it's one of
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Speaker 1: my one of the things I'm scared of now as
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Speaker 1: I try to make my life extremely structured is that there.
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Speaker 1: It takes away the spot in eightie, right and so.
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Speaker 1: But I also think that being boring and being disciplined
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Speaker 1: is really good to becoming a success and being the
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Speaker 1: success that you like, And so I don't want people
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Speaker 1: to look at that in such a negative connotation. Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: I think you just said the best word for it's
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Speaker 1: a discipline. I think times people are born seen seem
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Speaker 1: boring because their discipline and they're trying to do the
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Speaker 1: right thing. Uh, be more quiet than they speak. You know. Listen, Well,
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Speaker 1: I want to get back to this. Uh you're not
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Speaker 1: getting even a phone call. It is confusing, I think
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Speaker 1: for many people because they do have you and they
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Speaker 1: know you're not boring. You've been on the show, you
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Speaker 1: work for Warner Brothers, with this podcast, you stayed around,
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Speaker 1: you started this thing out with saying that your fifteen
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Speaker 1: minutes of fame has faded. It fades for all of us.
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Speaker 1: I don't think yours has faded, um completely. I think
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Speaker 1: it's still very active. I think you still have a
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Speaker 1: huge influence and a huge impact. Uh. In fact, I
14:52
Speaker 1: would say that your influence and impact is probably um
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Speaker 1: more than anybody getting off the show too right now, um,
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Speaker 1: based on following, based on experience, based on your group
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Speaker 1: that you know comes around you, and based on social
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Speaker 1: media's um kind of push to make you the next Bachelor.
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Speaker 1: And so if you could explain to me, because I
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Speaker 1: know this has crossed through your mind, why you don't
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Speaker 1: think you've even got a phone call about it? Why? Like? Where?
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Speaker 1: Why is that? What are we missing? Well? I did
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Speaker 1: get a phone call on twenty nine, okay, but I
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Speaker 1: haven't gotten one since Peter matt Um Clayton Zack. I
15:32
Speaker 1: think I named all the other ones. Um, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: My honest response, it's not my business, um. And what
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Speaker 1: I mean by that is my business is to continue
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Speaker 1: to be a good human being that I am focused
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Speaker 1: on what I do, continue to be a great mentor
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Speaker 1: to the big brother, big sisters, and my mentee and
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Speaker 1: do right about my family. Um, I really mean that?
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Speaker 1: Did it piss me off? Yeah? It felt like a
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Speaker 1: slap in the face. In twenty nine Team in two,
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Speaker 1: I could care less. They've clearly clearly show that they
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Speaker 1: don't like something in me, and I'm okay with that.
16:11
Speaker 1: I'm not for everybody. I'm gonna I'm gonna acquire a
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Speaker 1: tell youst baby, we're to go wrong In two thousand nine, Um,
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Speaker 1: nothing on my in I don't feel. But if I
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Speaker 1: did something wrong, I genuinely don't know. I think you
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Speaker 1: probably know more than I do because I don't. I
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Speaker 1: know nothing. So you and I together, I really, I
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Speaker 1: mean I would have to think that I know. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I I could not tell you. Man. So
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Speaker 1: this is just an interesting season for you now because
16:44
Speaker 1: you're telling me that talking it out is still going on.
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Speaker 1: You're not getting the phone calls to be the next Bachelor. Um,
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Speaker 1: if they called you about Paradise, what would you say?
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Speaker 1: It would be the right woman. If I went to Paradise,
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Speaker 1: I would only go on for one specific woman. I mean,
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Speaker 1: like I would. I'm not going to go into Paradise
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Speaker 1: and like trying to flirt with all that, I'm going
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Speaker 1: for one woman, one womanly, So your follow up question
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Speaker 1: probably who was that? Yeah, you're good. Um, I'm a
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Speaker 1: podcast too, now, yeah you get it. Um, I haven't
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Speaker 1: seen that woman because you know, we got the Bachelor
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Speaker 1: ask for I. We don't know what's going on with
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Speaker 1: their season, you know, I just don't know. But if
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Speaker 1: I would go in Paradise, it would be for one woman. Mike,
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Speaker 1: I would love to see in my television. Again. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'm reminded every time I'm with you. I'm not a
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Speaker 1: short man, and I do try to work out. Uh
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Speaker 1: So I tried to get my muscles as plump as possible.
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Speaker 1: They're not there yet. Yeah, I'm reminded every time of
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Speaker 1: just how massive you are and the fact that you
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Speaker 1: could walk on. Like if you walk to the beach
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Speaker 1: on Paradise and I was sitting there as like one
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Speaker 1: of your competitors, I would just I know what I
18:02
Speaker 1: would do. I'd walk to my bedroom and I'd be like,
18:04
Speaker 1: this is the stupidest thing I've ever done. I have
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Speaker 1: to stand next to Mike Johnson on the beach. I'm
18:08
Speaker 1: gonna look like an idiot, and every girl is going
18:11
Speaker 1: to go after him. You. I think you're crazy if
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Speaker 1: you don't say yes to Paradise, because I feel like
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Speaker 1: you would go down there. You might go for one person,
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Speaker 1: but you're gonna have I don't know how many people
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Speaker 1: go twenty people being like that guy is a dude.
18:25
Speaker 1: I would like to try to like connect with I
18:29
Speaker 1: appreciate that. You know how many talents I get people
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Speaker 1: saying oh, you're better looking in person, or I'm like, damn,
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Speaker 1: I take that bad of photos. Yeah, like man, my photos.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at here. I'm like, yeah, you're better looking person.
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Speaker 1: Or but I don't know they got they say something
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Speaker 1: I think they say on five flight seven on Google.
18:50
Speaker 1: I think that's what Google said. I would like a
18:51
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pounds. Everything on Google is wrong telling you, um,
18:56
Speaker 1: but no, I would only do Paradise for one woman,
18:58
Speaker 1: like and I don't know who that woman is for
19:00
Speaker 1: the record, but if I were to say yes to Paradise,
19:03
Speaker 1: it would be me chasing and going after one woman,
19:05
Speaker 1: letting her know from moment one, Well, I feel like
19:10
Speaker 1: then to close this out, that's a place in life
19:12
Speaker 1: we could probably say you're at right, I mean, you're
19:14
Speaker 1: wanting to settle down. I am, I'm I'm oh man,
19:18
Speaker 1: I'm older than you about a few years. And so,
19:22
Speaker 1: you know, every time I see my mom and my
19:23
Speaker 1: father like okay, when are you having kids, I'm like,
19:26
Speaker 1: what are you paying for this? You know? Are you?
19:28
Speaker 1: Are you honest? Stuff? You know, because I got a
19:30
Speaker 1: little boozeing this in me sometimes and so my kid
19:32
Speaker 1: is going to be going to the private schools and
19:34
Speaker 1: all that good stuff, and so I gotta make sure
19:36
Speaker 1: that everything is in order. I would say it's for me,
19:40
Speaker 1: um then not to get you know, because I go
19:42
Speaker 1: on and on. But for me, it's been the best
19:44
Speaker 1: decision I've ever made. But a lot of it was
19:46
Speaker 1: also because of wanting to start a family and knowing that,
19:50
Speaker 1: you know, it's weird all of a sudden, you getting
19:52
Speaker 1: your thirties, and stuff speeds up fast, and you're like,
19:54
Speaker 1: holy cow, will except for them tabloom that that slows down?
19:59
Speaker 1: Trust me because back that I was saying earlier, But Mike,
20:04
Speaker 1: we we hope here. And I know if Ashley was
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Speaker 1: here with me, um, you know, she'd be saying the
20:09
Speaker 1: same thing she had rave I could show you the
20:13
Speaker 1: text that I got from her. Um, after you going
20:16
Speaker 1: to Audrey's. She is one of your biggest supporters, one
20:20
Speaker 1: of your biggest fans. We hope for nothing more or
20:24
Speaker 1: less in your your happiness, UM, for things to fall
20:27
Speaker 1: into place. We're so excited to be celebrating with you
20:30
Speaker 1: here uh in Las Vegas, UH for the I Heart
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Speaker 1: Radio Music Festival once again. I hope we can make
20:37
Speaker 1: this UM kind of a tradition that you just continue
20:42
Speaker 1: to be here when I'm here, because it's a lot
20:44
Speaker 1: of fun to see you and to celebrate with you. Uh.
20:48
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, the clothes out for anybody listening, for all
20:52
Speaker 1: the fans out there, where can people find you? What
20:55
Speaker 1: can people look forward to hearing from you? Um? What's
20:58
Speaker 1: the name of your newsletter? Uh? And also again I
21:01
Speaker 1: can just do it for you talking it out is
21:04
Speaker 1: wherever you can listen to to podcast, you can can
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Speaker 1: listen to that. UM. Again. If I'm closing it out,
21:10
Speaker 1: I'll definitely want to say it's still an honor to
21:12
Speaker 1: be here a few years later, because like I'm just nobody,
21:16
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Speaker 1: has been a good title from my book instead of
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Speaker 1: This in depth episode is great to catch up with you, buddy.
21:43
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Follow the Benn
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