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12 Days of The Bachelorette: Final Predictions and Bachelor Headlines · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I almost famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with our radio. It is the almost famous podcast. And Yes,
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Speaker 1: four months of wondering and looking outside and staring off
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Speaker 1: into the distance and not knowing what's missing in your
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Speaker 1: life now gets solved tonight. Oh it sure does. I'm
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Speaker 1: so excited for everyone. Is there anything that we Is
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Speaker 1: there anything that we have not talked about in these
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Speaker 1: eleven days in which we've led up to this premiere? Uh?
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Speaker 1: You know what I think is I don't think we've
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Speaker 1: talked about how Bachelor Nation is going to respond tonight. Uh.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's We've talked about it many times. Um
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Speaker 1: less people are watching this show on It's regularly scheduled,
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Speaker 1: scheduled at times, And I am very excited Ashley and
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Speaker 1: in league. Maybe's the best word to see. If Bachelor
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Speaker 1: Nation comes out in full support tonight, maybe the ratings
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Speaker 1: go back up. I think these are two incredible leads.
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Speaker 1: I think it's a very interesting season. I can't say
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Speaker 1: yet that I'm behind it or not behind it, because
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Speaker 1: we just don't know how it's going to play out.
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Speaker 1: But I'm wondering if people are going to respond and
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Speaker 1: get really excited and tune in tonight or not? I mean,
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Speaker 1: or are we going to now see three straight or
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Speaker 1: four straight seasons of a big dip? I concur with you, Ben,
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Speaker 1: that is really like the I think the last thing
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Speaker 1: we haven't talked about, and I think the most interesting
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Speaker 1: thing that we'll find out tomorrow. What time did the
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Speaker 1: ratings come in? Or we could be no buy tomorrow's podcast? Yeah, Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: like today, m Mountains, I don't know. You know, usually
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Speaker 1: they come out pretty early in the morning, the preliminary
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Speaker 1: initial um ratings, and then a couple of days later,
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Speaker 1: I think on Thursday they do streaming and downloads and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. But really Tuesday you can see who's
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Speaker 1: tuned in, you know this evening to this show, Ashley,
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Speaker 1: if you could put you're a fan of the show. Uh, Now,
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Speaker 1: we don't know the contestants and the leads as well
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Speaker 1: as we once did maybe five years ago. So what
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Speaker 1: as a fan are you wanting out of this season?
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Speaker 1: What are you needing out of this season? What it
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Speaker 1: maybe has been missing for you? What I think we
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Speaker 1: need for this season to be successful in every way
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Speaker 1: is connection to the leads. I think that's been a
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Speaker 1: complaint when it comes to well bachelor seasons. I think
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Speaker 1: that with Michelle and Katie and Claire and Tasia, people
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Speaker 1: feel pretty connected to bachelorettes. They feel like they know
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Speaker 1: them going to the season, they feel like they get
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Speaker 1: to know them better. I think that's usually been the
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Speaker 1: complaint with the Bachelor's recently. Yeah, so I think that
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Speaker 1: we really just need to feel like we are invested
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Speaker 1: in them finding love. Yeah, what is it? What is
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Speaker 1: the difference between the Bachelor's and Bachelorettes. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what is it? Well, I mean I think with Matt
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Speaker 1: James there was an obvious reason for disconnection because we
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Speaker 1: didn't know him. Yeah, you you had no clue who
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Speaker 1: Matt was coming into it. And then I don't know
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Speaker 1: how well the season or Matt or whatever did at
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Speaker 1: showing you know who Matt was and why we wanted
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Speaker 1: to root for him. With Clayton, I mean, I think
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Speaker 1: Clayton did a fine job. I thought it was a
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Speaker 1: good season. I thought it was engaging and intriguing. I
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Speaker 1: thought he was, you know, himself. Obviously it worked out
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Speaker 1: for him, But I will say the criticism with that
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Speaker 1: season was that there was a lot of people coming
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Speaker 1: off of Michelle's season that just people wanted more like
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think he was up against a hard
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Speaker 1: uh and up against a lot of hard competition, because
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Speaker 1: people watch Michelle's season to the end and fell in
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Speaker 1: love with the Rodneys of the world and the Brandons
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Speaker 1: and all those people, and they said, why are we
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Speaker 1: getting Clayton. We don't know Clayton, And then he gets
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Speaker 1: on the season. I think people have the same criticism,
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Speaker 1: like I wish it was somebody else, not that people
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Speaker 1: didn't give him much chance, but just liked or enjoyed
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Speaker 1: or saw more of the other people from Michelle season
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Speaker 1: more often. Yeah, so we will. We will see if
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Speaker 1: um we have that connection. I feel like we will.
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Speaker 1: People are pretty invested in these girls. Now, it'll be
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Speaker 1: a matter of whether the guys are worth rooting for,
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Speaker 1: whether the guys are worthy of these ladies. I think
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Speaker 1: that's a big one. Especially when it comes to the Bachelorette.
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Speaker 1: People complain that, like, oh, the guys suck, Like I
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Speaker 1: love these girls, but the guys sucked. They have no
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Speaker 1: one to choose from. There's like only four in there,
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Speaker 1: you know, And we always go back to Caitlin season
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Speaker 1: because it seems like she may have had more than four,
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Speaker 1: because I think we can almost always say like, oh,
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Speaker 1: there's a good four, but Caitlyn season, you know there
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Speaker 1: was a dozen. There's a lot of good guys there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of good guys back then. I hope
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Speaker 1: they do that again with this season. I don't know
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Speaker 1: why they wouldn't. I mean, especially with the success of Paradise. Now,
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Speaker 1: it's not like if they don't it to show or
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Speaker 1: use these uh contestants as the lead for the next season,
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Speaker 1: they have a place to show still show off the
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Speaker 1: high quality of people they can come through the show.
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Speaker 1: I do think that's an interesting point actually, is why
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Speaker 1: has the show kind of not had six, seven, eight
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Speaker 1: different people that could be a viable option for the
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Speaker 1: bachelorettes recently? I mean, it hasn't happened. It's so bizarre.
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Speaker 1: You think we have the whole country. And I don't
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Speaker 1: know if I said this on the podcast, but you
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Speaker 1: know that the casting directors often look through dating apps
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Speaker 1: in social media now trying to find guys. And I
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Speaker 1: don't think they really try to find girls that way,
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Speaker 1: but like they are starved for guys. They're not applying
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Speaker 1: for the show. I guess, well, yeah, it's it's it's
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Speaker 1: a big risk, and typically the people that are applying
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Speaker 1: are out for different reasons. I saw a post from
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Speaker 1: one of the contestants from this season. It came up
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Speaker 1: on one of the Bachelor scoop page is or something
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Speaker 1: like that, and the post said what are you gonna do?
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Speaker 1: The question that he was asked on Instagram was what
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Speaker 1: are you gonna do now? And this post said modeling, acting,
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Speaker 1: um campaigns, partnerships and all these things kind of like, hey,
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Speaker 1: life is now going to be totally different like that,
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Speaker 1: that's what he said the Bachelor questionnaire. Yeah, and people
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Speaker 1: are like, well, this doesn't sound like a guy that's engaged,
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Speaker 1: so we can cross him out. I want to say
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Speaker 1: his name because that's a spoiler, but yeah, I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, you need to get the people that are
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Speaker 1: still trying to go there because maybe love just hasn't
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Speaker 1: worked for him, or maybe they've had a fall a
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Speaker 1: failed relationship that you know, was a six year long relationship.
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Speaker 1: They don't know how to get back in the dating pool,
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Speaker 1: and this is a good opportunity to going to tide
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Speaker 1: again and they can have a little fun doing it.
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Speaker 1: Uh So, it's gonna be intriguing tonight. I am very excited,
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Speaker 1: uh to tune in. I really like Gabby and Rachel.
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Speaker 1: I think something we haven't spoken about yet is how
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Speaker 1: similar they are, but yet how different unique each of
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Speaker 1: them because they're gonna bring two different um to this
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Speaker 1: show the season, and I think the contestants are now
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Speaker 1: or the Bachelor Nation is now going to kind of
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Speaker 1: have the ability to root for both but relate with
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Speaker 1: both because they're gonna see two different sides of both,
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Speaker 1: And I think that's really fun. Is Batchel Nations going
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Speaker 1: to be really intrigued and never bored because two different
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Speaker 1: storylines are gonna be playing out. I think that they're
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Speaker 1: also going to like use the best of the best
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Speaker 1: content they have, so like they have two seasons going
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Speaker 1: on at once, so everything we're gonna see is presumably
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Speaker 1: very compelling because it's still the same amount of hours
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Speaker 1: of TV UM. But I do like the fact that
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Speaker 1: we'll be able to, like, if we're not feeling like
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Speaker 1: one maybe not one girl, but like say, like we're
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Speaker 1: not feeling one, like something's boring us this week, you know,
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Speaker 1: then there's another side of the episode that probably won't
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Speaker 1: bore Us. I like that. I also think that it's
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Speaker 1: it's nice to have Gabby who's going to bring the humor, lightheartedness,
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Speaker 1: and then there's Rachel who probably being a little bit
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Speaker 1: more of the classic um hopeless romantic vibe. Final point,
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Speaker 1: final thing I think fans should watch out for, at
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Speaker 1: least I'm going to be watching out for. We got
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Speaker 1: to talk to Jesse Palmer last week and have an
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Speaker 1: interview with him leading up to this season while he
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Speaker 1: was still in Paradise finishing and filming that season. I
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Speaker 1: think this is Jesse's big shot. I think during Clayton's season,
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Speaker 1: we kind of felt like Jesse just wasn't there. Uh
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Speaker 1: you know, he wasn't getting into a bad job by
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Speaker 1: any means, but he just wasn't around. It felt like
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Speaker 1: they kind of hid the host, which was a weird idea,
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Speaker 1: and maybe you don't even need a host for this show,
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Speaker 1: but it just felt like he was hidden. I do
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Speaker 1: feel his job this season, helping two leads navigate this
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Speaker 1: along with more contestants than we've ever had, he does
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Speaker 1: have to step in, and I believe this is gonna
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Speaker 1: be where we see, Hey, this is Jesse a good
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Speaker 1: fit for the show, or maybe he's not. I think
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Speaker 1: he will be, but I do feel like we're gonna
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Speaker 1: see more of him this season. Mm hm, totally agreed. Alright, Well,
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Speaker 1: tomorrow we are going to have the girls, Gabby and Rachel,
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Speaker 1: both Ben and I are meeting them for the first time.
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Speaker 1: Super excited about that. And now for the rest of
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Speaker 1: today's episode, we are going to go through headlines and
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Speaker 1: we'll be right back with that. First headline is this.
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Speaker 1: It's it's a big one that we know a lot
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Speaker 1: about Ashley the same. Um oh, what is the page
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Speaker 1: that I follow on Instagram to get all of my
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Speaker 1: scoop on all of our friends in Bachelor Nation. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna look it up right now so they get some
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Speaker 1: some credit. The page is called Bachelor Nation dot scoop.
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Speaker 1: That's literally the one if I feel like it's always
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Speaker 1: on my stories, I'm always getting updates from what our
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Speaker 1: friends are doing and what they're not doing. So that's
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Speaker 1: when I follow a shout out to them. They posted
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Speaker 1: a couple of days ago about you and Jared, and
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Speaker 1: anytime I see your pace face pop up on a
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Speaker 1: Bachelor Nation scoop page, I get nervous and I get intrigued. Well,
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Speaker 1: this one was one not to be nervous about. But
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Speaker 1: it's one of our fans here and our listeners who
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Speaker 1: have been around should know more about than anybody else.
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Speaker 1: I think talked about you and Jared selling your home
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Speaker 1: that you just moved into. We celebrated the purchase of
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Speaker 1: your new really on here. I didn't even see this
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Speaker 1: on our headline list. That's on the headline list. It's
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Speaker 1: not on the headline list. It's on my list because
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Speaker 1: I'm intrigued, Ashley, what is going on? You just moved
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Speaker 1: in this house, you have it settled in, and now
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Speaker 1: you're selling it. Where are you doing? And I'm moving
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Speaker 1: back to l A. What are you? What's going on?
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Speaker 1: It's a mess. Okay, So Jared and I long, long
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Speaker 1: story here. Jared I moved to Rhode Island last to
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Speaker 1: March and we lived with his sister while we looked
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Speaker 1: for an apartment. We found an apartment. Like the apartment,
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Speaker 1: it was the most an l a priced apartment though
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Speaker 1: in random mass suburban Rhode Island. We like, we can't,
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Speaker 1: we should not continue to run. Plus, Jared wanted a
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Speaker 1: house in a yard, and like you know, you wanted
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Speaker 1: to have that settling down feeling now that he moved
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Speaker 1: back to his home state. Then UM got pregnant with Dawson,
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Speaker 1: which was in the plans. We were hoping that we
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Speaker 1: would get pregnant within that year. And then you know,
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Speaker 1: we we kind of knew that that apartment wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: as big as we like for having a kid, So
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Speaker 1: we started looking for houses again and we kept looking.
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Speaker 1: We looked like for an entire year, semi out of curiosity,
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Speaker 1: semi because you know, because we actually wanted it. But
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Speaker 1: it was never like something we were rushing into. But
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Speaker 1: once I was like four months pregnant, We're like, let's
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Speaker 1: like take this seriously again. And we looked at houses
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Speaker 1: all throughout the states, and none felt like us. None
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Speaker 1: felt like home. People keep asking me whether or not
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Speaker 1: we wanted to build, because I've been so like vocal
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Speaker 1: about how I want to design my own house one
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Speaker 1: day and that I want to live in East Greenwich,
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Speaker 1: Rhode Island. Um, but that is like something that I
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Speaker 1: think is like years away. Um, I didn't want to
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Speaker 1: do it. When we started the business, while we were
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Speaker 1: not like this young but like fresh to Rhode Island
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Speaker 1: having a baby, thought that we could put that off
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Speaker 1: a few years. Also like see where financially like our
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Speaker 1: lives take us all that stuff again new business so
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Speaker 1: not building. We're like, let's buy a house that's like
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Speaker 1: our starter house, like our first home with our first kid,
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Speaker 1: and like maybe like the second baby, like a second
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Speaker 1: as like a baby toddler, And then we is this
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Speaker 1: the story that you wanted? Ben? Okay? So then we
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Speaker 1: we found this house in West Greenwich, which we were like, oh, man,
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Speaker 1: never considered living out here. But it's a huge lot
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Speaker 1: and uh, this house it was not done being built yet.
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Speaker 1: It's a new construction and we love new construction. We
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Speaker 1: were able to put our like our own touches in
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Speaker 1: the finishing, like we were able to choose the color hardwood,
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Speaker 1: in the color of like knobs and whether we wanted
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Speaker 1: granted or courts and stuff like that. We're like, that
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Speaker 1: will give us a kind of a building feel while
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Speaker 1: not like going all the way right now. So we
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Speaker 1: saw this house and because the market, especially last September
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Speaker 1: was in sanity, like we could not um you know,
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Speaker 1: like the houses were going for like over fifty over
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Speaker 1: asking and there's just like there was so much there
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Speaker 1: was there was a lot going up on the market,
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Speaker 1: not a lot that we liked. But the thing was,
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Speaker 1: you had to make a decision whether you're not you
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Speaker 1: want to put an offer in within hours of seeing
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Speaker 1: the place. You know, if you weren't telling the owners
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Speaker 1: that you wanted to buy it within like two hours,
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Speaker 1: it was too late to get it. So we put
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Speaker 1: in an offer, it was accepted, and we were like excited. Um,
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Speaker 1: so the house was done, it was ready to move
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Speaker 1: in in December, and that's what we did. And it
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Speaker 1: was soon after that I was like, man, this place
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Speaker 1: is not convenient, is it. This place is kind of
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Speaker 1: in the country. This place is twenty minutes from a
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Speaker 1: drug store. That's not fun. And then it was like, huh.
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Speaker 1: The drive to Audrey's thirty five minutes seems like a
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Speaker 1: nothing commute when you live in l A. But when
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Speaker 1: you live in Rhode Island, thirty five minutes there and
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Speaker 1: back is quite a hike. And after living in the
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Speaker 1: house for about two months, maybe not even two months,
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Speaker 1: I was joking with my friends that we should sell it.
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Speaker 1: After my dad said you should sell it because it
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Speaker 1: just did not work with our lifestyle, did not work
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Speaker 1: like Jared he'll go to work. I mean, yeah, and again,
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Speaker 1: I don't think half an hour commute is a bad deal.
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Speaker 1: But for jared schedule it is because he oftentimes will
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Speaker 1: be driving home at one thirty am. He'll call me
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Speaker 1: and be like, I need you to talk to me.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I could fall asleep. Um. He he
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Speaker 1: has the schedule in which, like he could come home
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Speaker 1: during the day, do other work, do housework, go the gym,
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Speaker 1: play golf, play with Dawson, like live a little bit
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Speaker 1: more of a life, which he's not really been living
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Speaker 1: any bit of life the past like nine months since
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Speaker 1: really getting this place off the ground, Like just no
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Speaker 1: work life balance, Like the guy comes home from work,
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Speaker 1: does more work on his computer, goes to sleep day
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Speaker 1: all over again. He's lucky if he does take one
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Speaker 1: day off a week. We're trying to make Tuesday's a
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Speaker 1: consistent day offer him. But the d LEO is if
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Speaker 1: we we soon found out that if we moved closer
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Speaker 1: to the shop. Can you believe how long this story
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Speaker 1: is taking me to tell No, I can't. We We've
16:32
Speaker 1: this is like a vent session. I'm just venting. We
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Speaker 1: found out, you know, We're like, if we move closer
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Speaker 1: to the shop, like within five minutes, you'd be able
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Speaker 1: to come home during your quiet hours because people aren't
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Speaker 1: getting coffee or drinks really from like two thirty to seven,
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Speaker 1: and then it gets really like it's busy again, but
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Speaker 1: like between lunch and drink hours, it's pretty quiet and
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Speaker 1: he could come home during that point. But when you're
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Speaker 1: thirty five minutes away, you're not going to come home.
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Speaker 1: Plus talk to talk about the gas situation. Ouch. So
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Speaker 1: one day I was joking with my friends. I was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're I'm gonna move there, like house the house. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I think we should move. And then Jared comes over.
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Speaker 1: He's working, and he's a middle working and he's like,
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Speaker 1: what are you talking about? What are you laughing about?
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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm never going to sell the house
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Speaker 1: and he's like, are you kidding me? And it was
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Speaker 1: literally like a week later, Jared was fully on board,
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Speaker 1: even more of a pro proponent to sell the house.
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Speaker 1: So here we are house on the market and bought
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Speaker 1: another one. We bought another house, which we love and
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Speaker 1: is so convenient and so conducive to our lifestyle, and
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Speaker 1: it's four minutes from Audrey's. We actually walked it the
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Speaker 1: other day. So you've bought a new house. Are you
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Speaker 1: excited about this new house? Oh? My god, Like, I'm
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Speaker 1: so excited. So the thing was, I even knew when
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Speaker 1: we started moving to the house. I was like, there's
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Speaker 1: not a sense of excitement like people like I was
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Speaker 1: getting like magazine being like, can we get an exclusive
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Speaker 1: of you, like giving a tour of the house, like
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Speaker 1: your first pictures in front of it, blah blah blah,
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Speaker 1: And I was like sure, like when it's ready, I
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Speaker 1: just had like no, I was just like not excited
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Speaker 1: about Like once we're here, is is not excited about it.
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Speaker 1: It was like there's something about this place that isn't
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Speaker 1: home to me. In this place I dad dream all
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Speaker 1: day long of and like how our life is gonna
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Speaker 1: be different when we lived down there. Is it an
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Speaker 1: older house? Is that some of this up here is
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Speaker 1: in an older house? Is in a new build. It's
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Speaker 1: just it's still a new build. Will be the first
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Speaker 1: people to live in it, but it was fully finished
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Speaker 1: by the time we bought it, so it wasn't like
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Speaker 1: a work in progress. Okay, well we're excited for you.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this seems like a good change it will
18:47
Speaker 1: probably be a funny story ten years. So now that
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Speaker 1: you talk about how you bought your first house together,
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Speaker 1: you sold it within a year. You're moved to this
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Speaker 1: new house. So yeah, but hey, but hey, we're so happy.
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Speaker 1: We're so happy, so excited, and it's just it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be like a great little way of life. It is.
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Speaker 1: But wait till I move, Wait till I move with
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Speaker 1: a six month old. I'm going to move with a
19:18
Speaker 1: six month old. I thought that being eight months pregnant
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Speaker 1: during move was hard. Yeah, that would be tough. But
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Speaker 1: you have a thirty minute move. This is gonna be
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Speaker 1: worth it. Okay, what's at thirty minute move? I was like,
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Speaker 1: is that a company thirty minute move? Okay? First headline
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Speaker 1: of the week is is a big one Bachelor Nations
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Speaker 1: Tia Booth reveals sex a first child with fiance Taylor Mock.
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Speaker 1: It's a big deal, guys. How many boys are being born?
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Speaker 1: Can you believe every gender revealed boy? With TIA's pull
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Speaker 1: on Instagram, I was like, Oh, I'm gonna vote girl
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Speaker 1: because this is when it like it starts turning around
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Speaker 1: and there's gonna be split between the sexes. Nope, it's
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Speaker 1: a boy bully Molly. So many boys born into Bachelor
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Speaker 1: Nation this year. Craziness Me Kevin and Astrid Raven and
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Speaker 1: Adam Tia and her fiance. This is wild. Am I
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Speaker 1: missing somebody? I mean Jaden Tanner and Carly and Evan
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Speaker 1: had boys in their last batch. Now, I don't know
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Speaker 1: if I said this on this podcast. It's a fit.
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Speaker 1: It's a mind boggling stat I gotta look more into it.
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Speaker 1: I'm really going off of just one doctor in one
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Speaker 1: conversation that I had. But I gotta tell you, did
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Speaker 1: you know that apparently in times of turmoil, crisis, um,
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Speaker 1: just like times of like flair in history, more boys
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Speaker 1: are born. It's a biological thing, so that we are
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Speaker 1: producing like warriors, soldiers. Yes, really, Yes, that's the coolest
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Speaker 1: thing you've heard. Our bodies are weird. I don't get
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Speaker 1: our bodies are so weird. Well, it is something to celebrate.
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Speaker 1: Something else to celebrate here. Ashley is the Bachelor's Becca Martinez,
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Speaker 1: a friend of the podcast she's been on many times before.
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Speaker 1: Also the host of Chatty Broad's is engaged to boyfriend
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Speaker 1: Grayston Leonard after nearly five years together. Yeah, congratulations to
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Speaker 1: Becca and Grayson Grayston. I am so excited for them. Um,
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Speaker 1: this is not like a surprise. They have been together
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Speaker 1: for four years. They have two kids. Um, Ruth is
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Speaker 1: I think with it's almost four or is she almost four? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's crazy because they conceived Ruth three months after they
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Speaker 1: started dating. That is some pressure. And then they also
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Speaker 1: have baby frank Franklin and he is um too. He
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Speaker 1: just turned to Uh. Becca has been talking on Instagram
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Speaker 1: a lot lately, being like, I know we're not engaged,
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Speaker 1: but like I know we're gonna be engaged. And I
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Speaker 1: think she was even talking about like the ring that
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Speaker 1: she wanted and like whether or not she should buy
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Speaker 1: a ring or whatnot, the specific one that she wanted. Um,
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Speaker 1: and here is the official moment they are engaged. Really
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Speaker 1: excited for them. Um. She actually said that Grayson proposed
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Speaker 1: sorely after Ruth was born, so he proposed twice. And
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Speaker 1: she said, this is so sweet, but this is just
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Speaker 1: not the time. I'm super hormonal. I'm in the thick
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Speaker 1: of postpartum and also like our relationship wasn't in the
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Speaker 1: best place. Um, so she was She's just reminiscing on this.
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Speaker 1: In June and she said we had a lot to
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Speaker 1: sort through, a lot of talk through. Now I feel
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Speaker 1: ready to say yes, so we'll see what happens. I
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Speaker 1: do foresee a proposal sometime in the near future. So
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Speaker 1: that was just last month that she said that, I
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Speaker 1: didn't know that. That's a good little tidbit, and they
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Speaker 1: stuck together through that. Now they're engaged. They're so happy.
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Speaker 1: It's something to celebrates. Well, more dating and love stories
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Speaker 1: going on in the headlines Batchel Nations. Tyler Cameron is
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Speaker 1: dating model Page Lorenz's, according to E So multiple sources
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Speaker 1: have confirmed to E that the two have been seeing
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Speaker 1: each other for about a month. Okay, I wouldn't quite
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Speaker 1: say the men as one thousand percent off the market,
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Speaker 1: but they were spotted together over the fourth of July
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Speaker 1: weekend at the Surf Lodge in montaug Up in the Hampton's,
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Speaker 1: New York. She's eight need four year old model who
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Speaker 1: um is also the founder of the brand Dairy Boy,
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Speaker 1: and she has been previously linked to Army Hammer. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I guess the two of them are testing the waters.
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Speaker 1: I saw the Army Hammer whatever his name is, is
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Speaker 1: now selling time shares, and like the Caymans, well you know,
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Speaker 1: that Army Hammer had quite the situation not good, not good.
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Speaker 1: So this is a better a better choice for her
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Speaker 1: um moving forward. And so they have been linked together,
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Speaker 1: well a couple that is no longer linked together, and
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Speaker 1: we couldn't get a read on our shared podcast. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't really important to us to to try to get
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Speaker 1: everything out of Michelle, and we tried to be as
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Speaker 1: respectful as possible about the break up. Those situations are hard,
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Speaker 1: but we did get the sense that something there was
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Speaker 1: more to this story, maybe than what was being uh
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Speaker 1: led on. And so now it feels like there's more
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Speaker 1: turmoil within the Nate and Michelle relationship. Michelle you U
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Speaker 1: and Nate unfollow each other on Instagram amid break up.
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Speaker 1: This according to Cosmopolitan. Okay, so Cosmo likes to use
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Speaker 1: this one instagram that Ben suggested on Instagram earlier for
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Speaker 1: all your bachelor news, and this is for all your
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Speaker 1: bachelor gossip. It's at Bachelor at Windmill. And they have
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Speaker 1: noticed that they have no longer are tagged in each
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Speaker 1: other's photos, and that could indicate that they've blocked each other.
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Speaker 1: But does that really mean they've blocked each other? Could
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Speaker 1: that be that did they just untagged each other. Can
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Speaker 1: we even know, like as people that aren't signed into
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Speaker 1: their accounts, that they have blocked each other. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Well, either way they're untagging,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. Um, I don't even
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Speaker 1: know if you have to follow somebody to tag somebody.
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Speaker 1: But we do know that they have actually unfollowed each other.
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Speaker 1: We do know that, and so there's something going on there, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's rumors this week with Nate being seen
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Speaker 1: with other contestants from Bachelor Nation, Deandra Deandra Um, who
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Speaker 1: was kind of I think rumored for a bit too,
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Speaker 1: maybe be hanging out with Rodney. There's like a whole
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Speaker 1: trying like, you know, the whole weird Bachelor Nation world
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Speaker 1: of dating is happening in front of our eyes. Uh So,
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Speaker 1: I don't we don't know the details yet. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: continue look into it, but we do know they fun
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Speaker 1: followed each other. Uh But back to happier stories. A
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Speaker 1: couple that has been together for a long time as
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Speaker 1: well as recently engaged bachel Nations. Luke Pell from JoJo's
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Speaker 1: season is engaged to Amanda Mertz. This according to e Well,
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Speaker 1: congratulations to them, um that he got down on one
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Speaker 1: knee in Rome. Literally. The caption says, when in Rome,
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Speaker 1: dot dot dot, Um, we are so thrilled to finally
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Speaker 1: share the news we're engaged. They first began dating in
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Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen. Okay, so I thought this was the
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Speaker 1: same girl that he was dating back then. Yeah. Crazy, Okay.
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Speaker 1: Then they broke up for a time, right, yeah, okay
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Speaker 1: they did. Okay, So now they're back together. Okay, so
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Speaker 1: Luke tells People Magazine it felt like a long time coming.
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Speaker 1: There are other points in my life in which I
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Speaker 1: thought I was much closer to it, and now I'm
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Speaker 1: finally here. So I'm really excited, really excited about this
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Speaker 1: new season of life. And um, the wedding planning brainstorming
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Speaker 1: has begun. They're thinking about a small destination wedding just
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Speaker 1: with close friends and family, and they've also talked about
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Speaker 1: big Texas weddings as well. He says, at this point,
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Speaker 1: we're leaning towards Texas, which is a destination for a
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Speaker 1: lot of people. He also said that there will be
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Speaker 1: plenty of Bachelor Nation family invited. I'm pumped them. They've
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Speaker 1: been together, they had the rocky road. Typically when couples
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Speaker 1: go through that kind of like if he's stage and
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Speaker 1: they come out on the other end, they're stronger, they
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Speaker 1: understand what they appreciate, so good for them. Also, congratulations
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Speaker 1: to uh Mari Peppin. She placed seventh uh in top
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Speaker 1: seven at Miss Mundo Puerto Rico pageant and in her
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Speaker 1: fiance Kenny was right there by her side. This is
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Speaker 1: a huge accomplishment, something very very impressive. So mar has
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Speaker 1: been representing your hometown Liquido in the Miss Mundo Puerto
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Speaker 1: Rico pageant. It's not her first pageant. She was actually
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Speaker 1: previously Miss Maryland USA in and she placed the top
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Speaker 1: ten in top ten at the MS Merry the Miss
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Speaker 1: USA pageant, and over the weekend she announced that she
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Speaker 1: plays seventh at Miss Mundo Puerto Rico and she was
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Speaker 1: just on Instagram thanking everyone for the support, including her
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Speaker 1: wonderful fiance Kenny. She said, although I didn't walk away
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Speaker 1: with the crown, I'm so freaking proud of myself for
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Speaker 1: making it as far as I did, for accomplishing so
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Speaker 1: many goals along the way, and for proving to myself
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Speaker 1: that I could do it. She said, it was a
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Speaker 1: long and often stressful journey, but I pushed myself to
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Speaker 1: stay committed in focus and kept my dream of carrying
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Speaker 1: Puerto Rico across my chest as motivation. I've grown in
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Speaker 1: so many ways, gained a few new sisters for life,
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Speaker 1: and learned so much about myself and embrace living in
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Speaker 1: my beautiful Puerto Rico for the longest amount of time
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Speaker 1: since I was a baby. Um. She also says, um,
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Speaker 1: I'm so thankful for my family and friends and supporters.
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Speaker 1: I mean so much of me, especially especially, and I
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Speaker 1: want to especially recognize my amazing fiance Kenny for first
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Speaker 1: of all convincing me to compete, but also supporting me,
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Speaker 1: encouraging me, motivating me, and keeping up with everything this
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Speaker 1: journey through our ways. I love you always. You know
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Speaker 1: they are. They're strong and adorable there too. It's so awesome.
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Speaker 1: I feel like they were maybe like that couple that
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Speaker 1: people are like. One can't believe they're actually going to
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Speaker 1: get engaged now, right because like they had their rocky nous,
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Speaker 1: a lot of rockiness, a whole demi situation in paradise
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Speaker 1: they left engage and then you're like, they're probably gonna
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Speaker 1: be the first ones to break up over a year strong.
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Speaker 1: Now it's really yeah, congratulations with two of them. Congratulations
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Speaker 1: tomorrow if you're doing this placing seventh just I mean,
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Speaker 1: I cannot imagine the nerves that it takes to get
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Speaker 1: up on stage and do this. But she did it
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Speaker 1: well and we're proud of her. Here, Okay, it's time
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Speaker 1: for a couple of Bachelorette headlines as we close out
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Speaker 1: this week's celebration. The The Eleventh Day UH podcast for
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Speaker 1: the almost famous celebration of the Bachelorette airing tonight, Jesse Palmer,
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Speaker 1: the host of this show, says Bachelorette rules will be
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Speaker 1: broken due to and I quote, unique situations of the
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Speaker 1: two leads. This according to people, So this is what
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Speaker 1: Jesse says. He says, the first time this has ever happened,
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Speaker 1: having two bachelortes the entire season. So I think a
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Speaker 1: lot of rules are going to be broken, he says,
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Speaker 1: because this is such a unique situation and a unique environment,
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Speaker 1: they're going to need to make decisions that were not
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Speaker 1: accustomed to seeing before. Um always, and he says, this
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Speaker 1: is going to be a journey that we have never experienced.
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Speaker 1: I yeah, So basically I think that they're going to
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Speaker 1: design the show so that the girls are less pitted
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Speaker 1: against each other as much as possible, and I think
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Speaker 1: that they're going to have to be a little unconventional,
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Speaker 1: as Jesse says, And I wonder if they like went
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Speaker 1: in with that open vibe like, oh yeah, well we'll
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Speaker 1: change the rules up a little bit. Well, there's there's
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Speaker 1: no rules, right, but we kind of know that there's
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Speaker 1: usually rules, Like usually we can't just cancel rose ceremonies. Um,
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Speaker 1: but can you think of any other rules? I can't
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Speaker 1: what are the rules? Rules? I think like there's like
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Speaker 1: it's formulaic because the fact of like a rose ceremony
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Speaker 1: has never been canceled, but we've had like rose ceremony
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Speaker 1: cocktail parties obviously always canceled. Um, what else is there
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Speaker 1: like keeping what if you like went multiple weeks out
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Speaker 1: a rose ceremony and you're like, I'm just gonna get
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Speaker 1: to know these guys for a long time. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just it's it's impossible because of the staffing. So
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Speaker 1: that's like the only thing I remember them ever being
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Speaker 1: putting their foot down. Only they told you that because
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Speaker 1: you wanted to like skip rose ceremony or something. I
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Speaker 1: was like, how cool would it be if night one
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Speaker 1: there is nobody going home? Because I was that's just
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Speaker 1: a weird thing to do, is to send people home
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Speaker 1: at night one. And I brought it up and they're like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that works, but there's not enough bunks in the house. Okay, good,
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Speaker 1: there's only a limited number of bunks. And then second,
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Speaker 1: especially especially when you start traveling, you know, there's a
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Speaker 1: limited number of airfare. Uh, producers that travel with the show,
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Speaker 1: you just have to. And so that's the only thing
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Speaker 1: I remember them ever saying, hey, you have to have
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Speaker 1: a road ceremony. Well, final headline, all of this conversation
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Speaker 1: that we've had for months now leading up to this season,
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Speaker 1: we finally have a response from Gabby and Rachel, two
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Speaker 1: leads The Bachelorette. Gabby and Rachel address criticism of their
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Speaker 1: two lead season. They addressed criticism interesting. So Rachel starts
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Speaker 1: out by saying, this is just so different from anything
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Speaker 1: everyone has ever seen. Not only do they get to
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Speaker 1: see two love stories, but they also get to see
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Speaker 1: our friendship as well. So I'm excited for them to
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Speaker 1: get the inside on that as well as the love stories.
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Speaker 1: It's just gonna be really great, and then Gabby echoed
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Speaker 1: her sentiments by saying that, um, we didn't know anything
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Speaker 1: truly going in. We found out in real time with
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Speaker 1: the rest of America. Well maybe not with the rest
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Speaker 1: of America since we don't get to see until later,
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Speaker 1: but you guys know what she means. So a lot
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Speaker 1: of it was trial and error, Rachel and I working together,
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Speaker 1: listening to ourselves, figuring out was the best for both
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Speaker 1: of us. We had lots of heart decisions, and ultimately
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Speaker 1: we just followed our hearts. Um, she said. Um. Gabby
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Speaker 1: continues to say that we started off dating the same
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Speaker 1: pool of men, but naturally, when you're working towards a
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Speaker 1: life partner, you have to have your own journey. You
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Speaker 1: need to find who's best for you individually, because this
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Speaker 1: person is going to be potentially spending the rest of
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Speaker 1: your life with you, and you have to do that
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Speaker 1: on your own, of course. And then when they talked
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Speaker 1: about what kind of man they're looking for, Rachel said
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Speaker 1: she's looking for somebody who's supportive, somebody loyal, somebody ready
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Speaker 1: to commit, and Gabby looking for somebody with humor, emotional intelligence,
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Speaker 1: and stability. So hopefully there's not a lot of rollover
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Speaker 1: as far is their love interest, because you know that
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be one or two that they're bummed out
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Speaker 1: over because like one preferred like one guy who Rachel
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Speaker 1: wanted preferred Gabby and vice versa. Like that's gonna suck
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Speaker 1: and it's ultimately gotta happen, but hopefully it's not a
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Speaker 1: huge deal. Hopefully it's not somebody that they thought was
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Speaker 1: going to be one of their like top two or three.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting. We'll find out tonight as this
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Speaker 1: season of The Bachelorette kicks off. We're excited. We hope
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Speaker 1: you tune in. It's gonna be on ABC. Uh and
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Speaker 1: we'll be back again tomorrow to break down this week's
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Speaker 1: premiere episode, along with an interview with the leads, Gabby
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Speaker 1: and Rachel, right here on Almost Famous Podcast. Until then,
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Speaker 1: I've been been, I've been actually talked to you guys tomorrow. Bye.
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