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Is Bachelor Nation Launching an Invasion to Other Franchises?? · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, it is Ashley and it is Ben, and
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Speaker 2: we're back together. Thank goodness. It's been a crazy couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks for the two of us. We haven't been
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Speaker 2: able to meet up and it's been sad and I
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Speaker 2: feel like the on the virgel of a mental breakdown. Ben.
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Speaker 3: No, uh uh, we got to talk this through. I
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Speaker 3: know that you've had a busy week. Laura and I
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Speaker 3: are gonna break down you and Jared on Watch What
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Speaker 3: Happens Live as well as this week's Real Housewives of
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Speaker 3: Rhode Island. Things were obviously we broke down last night's episode.
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Speaker 3: It's out now you can go listen to it. With
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Speaker 3: the big fight, Ashley, what is going on in your
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Speaker 3: life that feels like things are swirling.
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Speaker 2: It's really hard to be a parent while going through
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Speaker 2: all of this, And now we can say filming for
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Speaker 2: season two, bracing for that filming. I can't do it
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Speaker 2: all myself anymore.
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Speaker 3: Okay, it's tough, it is. I mean, I think the
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Speaker 3: big question was do you regret filming this or are
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Speaker 3: you is this like a I mean, this is becoming
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Speaker 3: something that you're gonna be known for maybe more than
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Speaker 3: even your time on the Bachelor here soon.
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I don't think so. I don't know
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Speaker 2: that I'll ever have that lore shadowed over. You know.
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Speaker 2: I feel like everybody just I think that was me
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Speaker 2: at my finest reality TV like, I totally am a
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Speaker 2: totally different person emotionally now. I only stressed out about romance.
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Speaker 2: I only got into fights over guys. I don't I
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Speaker 2: don't get triggered enough by friend drama. I s to
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Speaker 2: pose because it's just like not worth it. It's just
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Speaker 2: like roll off my shoulder.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can go back home to your peaceful, loving
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Speaker 3: house and separate. That's getting older too.
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Speaker 2: It's getting older for sure. It's older perspective and then
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Speaker 2: having the experience everything is just less. I'm less ignited.
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Speaker 3: Well, I know you mentioning that you are looking to
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Speaker 3: hire an assistant will flood our dms with hey connecting
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Speaker 3: with Ashley.
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Speaker 2: You need to have social media or broadcasting background. I
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Speaker 2: need somebody who can shoot and edit very well.
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Speaker 3: Big things are changing in Ashley's life. I've obviously The
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Speaker 3: Real Housewives of Rhode Island is getting ready to film
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Speaker 3: season two. Season one is still airing, and we are
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Speaker 3: breaking it down here on the Almost Famous podcast. Ashley
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Speaker 3: is a beloved participant in the Bravos series. But here's
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Speaker 3: the fun part I think about Almost Famous is we
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Speaker 3: also get you the behind the scenes right here where
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Speaker 3: you're getting prepped to continue on with a chapter of
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Speaker 3: filming that we know is a time commitment and we
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Speaker 3: know will be a time commitment. It's pretty much like
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Speaker 3: a twelve month job, it is. I mean, you get
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Speaker 3: the filming and then it airs and you have all
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Speaker 3: the stuff that comes with it airing. But it's been
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Speaker 3: a huge success and we're still always very proud of
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Speaker 3: our Ashley.
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Speaker 2: While she You're so sweet.
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Speaker 3: Begins again and Lauren's crushing it over there breaking it down.
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Speaker 3: She's tremendous at it.
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Speaker 2: Thank goodness, really good's she gets all the insight from me.
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Speaker 2: It's like every time I come home from filming, every
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Speaker 2: time there's a headline, you gotta call Lauren because Drid
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Speaker 2: gets anxious. He does not want to hear about the drama.
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Speaker 2: He really it just gives him anxiety and he's not
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Speaker 2: helpful about it. Like if people think that I'm nice
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Speaker 2: on the show, if I come to Jared with like
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Speaker 2: a piece of like a look at the shade. He'll
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Speaker 2: be like, oh, that's fine, and I'm like, babe, babe.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, I am so grateful for everything. It's been
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Speaker 2: really fun watching the show and like hearing all the
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Speaker 2: feedback and doing all the press and stuff like that's
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Speaker 2: been that's been great. So anyway, Ben, Yeah, let's do it.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about the ABC lineup.
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Speaker 3: Here we go. ABC fall twenty twenty six schedule was announced.
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Speaker 3: No Bachelor franchise series at all, like none of them
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Speaker 3: Golden Bachelorette, Bachelor. The quote is high potential and shifting
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Speaker 3: gears held held for mid season with the Rookie and
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Speaker 3: Will Trent. So here's what I'm seeing, though, Ashley. There's
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Speaker 3: no even reality coming in.
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Speaker 2: The only reality is Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday Night.
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Speaker 2: This is for the fall. And then there's Shark Tank.
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Speaker 2: If you call that reality.
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Speaker 3: Do you consider Shark Tank like Celebrity Jeopardy reality?
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Speaker 2: I think that's more games. I have Shark Take Baby,
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Speaker 2: not no game.
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Speaker 3: Show, not like I mean, it might fall in the category,
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Speaker 3: but not as like we're thinking we're a reality where
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Speaker 3: you'd fall the islands Bachelor's Yeah, all the perfect men
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Speaker 3: like that's yeah. So it's an interesting lineup for sure. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: the switch up I think from this actually is due
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Speaker 3: to this Bachelorette season. They put so much into it.
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Speaker 3: We're seeing some of the ripple effects and repercussions of
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Speaker 3: it not airing. And you know, it was not more
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Speaker 3: than a month ago when they did the Hulu thing
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Speaker 3: that they kind of were hinting at, Hey, this the
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Speaker 3: Bachelorette might still come about, but right now we're getting
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Speaker 3: nothing from it, and the golden is nowhere to be found.
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Speaker 3: And I know we have some quotes on that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't think that's going to come back ever,
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Speaker 2: that's just my I thought. I don't think it's going
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Speaker 2: to come back.
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Speaker 3: Mel tanked it that fast. You're saying like literally one
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Speaker 3: season and they're like, hey, this will never work.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. It also honestly fell
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Speaker 2: off with Joan, like it just it went from Gary
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Speaker 2: at a high to Joan at a medium to Mail
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Speaker 2: at a very low. So I don't know, but this
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Speaker 2: is the quote said, we've had to take a look
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Speaker 2: at just managing the franchise properly. These shows have an
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Speaker 2: enormous fan base, so we're thrilled to be able. We
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Speaker 2: were so thrilled the year that we were able to
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Speaker 2: launch Gold and Bachelor and have it stand out that
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Speaker 2: fall season the way that it did. But I think
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Speaker 2: that the usual cadence that we like to find ourselves
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Speaker 2: in is really the flagship series in mid season aka
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Speaker 2: Bachelor in January, and then having some summer edition, which
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Speaker 2: we've already locked in for Bachelor in Paradise next season.
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Speaker 2: So this is more of a return to a steady
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Speaker 2: state of the franchise. I am still not convinced that
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Speaker 2: there will be no Taylor Frinky Paul season airing on Hulu,
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Speaker 2: because that is still circulating. That could happen in July
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Speaker 2: or August. And Taylor, who I'm sure you just talked
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Speaker 2: about a little bit last week, has been teasing things
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Speaker 2: on her Instagram about being with her her final guy,
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Speaker 2: like saying like, hey, at so and So, can you
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Speaker 2: come and fix this for me?
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Speaker 3: I missed it. I've never ever seen this is this?
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Speaker 3: Is this a headline? We're going to break down? Because
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Speaker 3: if so, I mean yes for me? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: She I guess like he's good at fixing things, And
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Speaker 2: she posted a story last week and it was like, hey,
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Speaker 2: at him, I guess I won't say his name. Can
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Speaker 2: you come over and fix this? And that was in
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Speaker 2: the midst of people saying that that like I think
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Speaker 2: it was, it was Dumagen saying that it could be
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Speaker 2: Hulu air. In the summer, she posted clips with Shane Shane,
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Speaker 2: which when Shane Shane Shane random clips. Oh Shane was
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Speaker 2: her final guy, like her second one guy? Yeah, this
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Speaker 2: is the runner up. Oh, she posted clips with him. Wait,
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Speaker 2: that's strange. I hear that she's trying to reconcile things
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Speaker 2: with the guy that she picks. If she ends up
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Speaker 2: with a guy that she picks at least for a while,
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Speaker 2: and we don't even get to see the season, but
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Speaker 2: he's forgiven her for all these things. It's like, wait,
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Speaker 2: should we what should we do?
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Speaker 3: What should we do? I think that's the big question
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Speaker 3: everybody's asking right now, actually, is what should we do? Hey,
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Speaker 3: switching gears a little bit. Obviously, you can go online
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Speaker 3: and kind of see ABC's fall lineup. We're not going
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Speaker 3: to go through them all. I do see Scrubs on there,
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Speaker 3: So Scrubs is back. Abbot Elementary is a favorite in
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Speaker 3: this household. We do love it, and then football season
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Speaker 3: will kick off again. Actually, the only thing I have
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Speaker 3: about the question of is what is the wonderful World
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Speaker 3: of Disney now? I mean, I know what it used
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Speaker 3: to be, but what isn't now?
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Speaker 2: I think it's just a regular movie. It's a Disney
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Speaker 2: movie that they put in that slot.
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Speaker 3: Oh sweet.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The one thing we should have mentioned before we wrap
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Speaker 2: up this headline is that casting is currently open for
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Speaker 2: the Bachelor. They're looking and Bachelorette. They're looking for both
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Speaker 2: single men and women. I've always thought it was like
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Speaker 2: a rolling application yea, where they had people in their
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Speaker 2: back pocket. But I guess like now it's more of
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Speaker 2: an official thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this isn't really even a thing to me, because
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Speaker 3: there's never not casting. I remember having guys on my
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Speaker 3: season of The Bachelorette that were casted four years previously
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Speaker 3: and just happened to be in a relationship and they
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Speaker 3: can come on, and then they found themselves single and
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Speaker 3: they reached back out to the casting director and then
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Speaker 3: they came on Caitlin season. I think it's always open.
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Speaker 3: I never knew it not to be open. I mean I.
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Speaker 3: When I applied, it was months before the show, so
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Speaker 3: and they called me right away, the casting director.
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Speaker 2: Well me, not right away. Nine months later, our producer
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Speaker 2: Heather is saying, that's actually just the Bachelor, which now
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Speaker 2: I'm interested because they said that they're currently opening for
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Speaker 2: casting single men and women.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, single one and women.
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Speaker 4: But they're not saying actively like we're looking for the
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Speaker 4: next Bachelorette. Remember, because only the Bachelor has been greenlight
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Speaker 4: so that's be the next Bachelor. Bachelor what all the
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Speaker 4: casting stuff says.
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Speaker 2: I remember when they used to like go on tour
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Speaker 2: and it would be like at a casino and be
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Speaker 2: like Bachelor casting at blah blah blah, and you'd have
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Speaker 2: radio announcements and all that. And that's where I want
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Speaker 2: to go meet with casting producers. Like they saw my
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Speaker 2: tape and then they're like, can you meet us at
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Speaker 2: the open casting call in Maryland.
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Speaker 3: See, that's when I applied. Was that. You know. My
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Speaker 3: story was the lady came down and said, will you
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Speaker 3: go downtown Denver to the Bachelor casting call with me?
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Speaker 3: And I was like, Nope, We'll not do that. But
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Speaker 3: she said, if we sit upstairs and sign you up
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Speaker 3: on online, would you like go through with it? And
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Speaker 3: I said yeah, I'd do that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So you were like, yeah, if they're already interested
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Speaker 2: based on my application, I'll go in and meet with them.
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Speaker 3: Well, no, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna wait in line,
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Speaker 3: and I don't want to be really I was embarrassed,
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Speaker 3: like I don't want to be seen standing in line
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Speaker 3: with a bunch of people. That seems like awkward.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Also it makes you seem too easy to get then.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, see that's I was playing the game.
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Speaker 2: See they escorted me. They were like okay, They're like
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Speaker 2: there was all these people them up and then they
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Speaker 2: were like, hey, Ashley, it's so and so the one
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Speaker 2: that you talked to on the phone. Just sit here,
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Speaker 2: sit tight. We'll escort you to like the place we
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Speaker 2: need you to be at the time. So it was
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Speaker 2: like I was gonna. I felt really good about myself
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Speaker 2: getting VIP treatment when all these other people were just
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Speaker 2: you know, I'll fill a form.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I didn't want to think I didn't have a
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Speaker 3: job either. Anyways, a lot of Bachelor stars ended up
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Speaker 3: going to the ACMs. Godwin is one of those. I
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Speaker 3: believe Hannah Godwin is getting ready to be on a
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Speaker 3: new reality show. We just broke that down last week.
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Speaker 3: We have a whole list of people that were there, Ashley.
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Speaker 3: The ACMs are obviously a big deal. Go ahead and
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Speaker 3: tell us all about who slayed the red carpet from
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Speaker 3: The Bachelor.
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Speaker 2: Hannah's dress is absolutely unreal. It's so pretty. It's see through,
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Speaker 2: which is apparently very much on trend right now to
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Speaker 2: totally be dazzled. But like it to me doesn't look skanky,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like it's like really classy
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Speaker 2: see through a dress, really really beautiful. And then she
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Speaker 2: was amongst Tyler Cameron, who I feel like always shows
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Speaker 2: up to something country related. He just like has that vibe.
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Speaker 2: And then Maria Georgis Is that how we say Maria's
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Speaker 2: last name? Yeah, Georgi's okay. Daisy Kent was also there.
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Speaker 2: Lots of Bachelor come out for the ACMs because I
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Speaker 2: just feel like a Bachelor it's an ABC thing, but
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Speaker 2: also it's a I just feel like the same demographic
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Speaker 2: country music and Bachelor. We always have country music stars.
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Speaker 3: It's like it's Middle America.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. The thing about Maria, don't you think that Marie
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Speaker 2: is an interesting figure?
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Speaker 3: I just haven't heard much from.
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Speaker 2: Her exactly not to be, but where has she been.
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Speaker 2: I thought that she thought that she was too good
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Speaker 2: for everything and that she didn't need the Bachelor and
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Speaker 2: she didn't need to go on Paradise and such. But
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Speaker 2: I feel like everybody who thinks like I have my
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Speaker 2: shining for a moment and I don't need the show anymore.
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Speaker 2: It's not always the best move if you do want
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Speaker 2: to continue down that entertainment rabbit hole.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I can't think of anybody alt the top of
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Speaker 3: my head that has been a huge contestant and then
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Speaker 3: not gone on Paradise and the flame has stayed lit
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Speaker 3: for a long time. There's maybe a few. Tyler Cameron
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Speaker 3: would probably be one of those examples.
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Speaker 2: Tyler is like maybe the total exemption to the rule.
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Speaker 3: But he went out and dated Gigi, which blew him
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Speaker 3: up for a while. Yeah you know that that helped.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Amazon brings together housewives and Vanderpunt Rules and Bachelorette alums
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Speaker 3: for a reality retreat. We kind of teased this a
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Speaker 3: few weeks ago, that this was happening. I think they
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Speaker 3: allowed the Bachelor people to talk about it. But now
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Speaker 3: we're gonna be more info and we're seeing exactly We're
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Speaker 3: going to see how these dynamics work in this new show.
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Speaker 3: They brought in some big names from the Bachelor, and
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Speaker 3: I think, especially when it comes to one of them,
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Speaker 3: it had to be the right show for these names
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Speaker 3: to agree to. I'm excited to see if this was
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Speaker 3: an uplifting show, if this was like a vulnerable show.
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Speaker 3: So Ashley tell us everything we need to know about
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Speaker 3: this show, because we know quite a bit now.
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Speaker 2: It's an all star cast. It's gonna be on Amazon.
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Speaker 2: It's called Reality Treat. Caitlyn Bristow's on it. I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: see Kitlyn tomorrow. It'll be the first time I see
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Speaker 2: her stint. She's filmed this and it's just a crazy
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Speaker 2: cast of all women. So it has Kenny Moore from
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Speaker 2: Housewus of Atlanta, Margaret Joseph's New Jersey, Kim Zoziak Atlanta
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Speaker 2: that it has selling sunsets, Christine Quinn, Vander pompt Rules
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Speaker 2: and The Valley Star Brittany Cartwright. I saw her at
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Speaker 2: the Kentucky Derby. Probably should have asked her about this,
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Speaker 2: but it wasn't. I didn't even think I knew that
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Speaker 2: this was a thing. Then Braxton Family Values, Tamar Braxon,
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Speaker 2: and then when it comes to Bachelor, we have Caitlyn Bristow,
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Speaker 2: Jenran and then Julie and Savannah, Chrisly and Hilario Baldwin. Like,
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Speaker 2: it's a really big cast of reality TV women. It's
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Speaker 2: set in a tropical location and it's going to follow
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Speaker 2: a group of women whose lives have been the spotlight.
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Speaker 2: They've made the spotlight has made them icons, villains, tabloid fixtures.
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Speaker 2: Now they're gonna be removed from their comfort zones and
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Speaker 2: embark under the mercy of experience is centered on healing, accountability,
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Speaker 2: and transformation. They're going to do wellness rituals. They're gonna
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Speaker 2: have unfiltered truth telling exercises and emotionally charged confrontations. Oh goodness, gracious,
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Speaker 2: I'm like a little bit stressed. There will be a
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Speaker 2: wellness director. This kind of sounds like the Nine Perfect
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Speaker 2: Strangers show Nicole Kidman was in, but like, these are
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Speaker 2: nine perfect reality stars.
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Speaker 3: It's big personalities for this new show. I would have
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Speaker 3: to assume, though, Ashlely that for the people that they
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Speaker 3: got there, like there was some clarity on what this
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Speaker 3: exactly was and what it was gonna be and what
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Speaker 3: they're trying to get out of it. And there's zero
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Speaker 3: chance actually, in my mind, that Caitlin Bristow would agree
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Speaker 3: to go on a show that she thought could backfire
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Speaker 3: on her. At this point in her career, she's past that,
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Speaker 3: So I have to imagine that there was clarity on
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Speaker 3: what the show was, that it was supposed to be
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Speaker 3: helpful and beneficial, that it was going to be real.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we know that Caitlyn is definitely into self
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Speaker 3: help and figuring out whatever she could do to better
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Speaker 3: herself along the way, so I'm not as concerned. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: we are very protective of Caitlyn here, but honest about
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Speaker 3: who she is, and we know that Caitlyn is a
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Speaker 3: big personality. So I would just say, I think this
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Speaker 3: show will be an enjoyable watch, but I do believe
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Speaker 3: there's going to be a lot of tears.
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Speaker 2: Think about the formats, so many tears, so many tears.
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Speaker 2: Caitlyn is really open about her therapy and having gone
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Speaker 2: on these retreats before, so she probably feels like this
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Speaker 2: is actually already a comfort zone, even though they're saying
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Speaker 2: they're taking you out of a comfort zone. It's like
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Speaker 2: kind of maybe something she's already pretty comfortable with. It's
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Speaker 2: super interesting that Caitlyn hasn't done anything like Traders or
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Speaker 2: she didn't see the Stars, but she hasn't done like
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Speaker 2: Special Forces or anything. But she decided to do this.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to ask her tomorrow what made her
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Speaker 2: say that this would be you know, one of like
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Speaker 2: the collaboration. What would it be like it's an all
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Speaker 2: star cast, all star reality cast show to do. She's
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Speaker 2: probably gonna be like, there's a lot of money.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm assuming that will be one of the outcomes.
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Speaker 3: It will be really it'll be really fun to watch
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Speaker 3: and it will be airing. Ashley, when can you give
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Speaker 3: us those dates it will be airing? I think we
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Speaker 3: have a little bit of time. I think it's next year. Well,
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Speaker 3: speaking of people that were on this show, Jen Tran
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Speaker 3: feels very insecure is her quote, and reveals why she's
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Speaker 3: more guard. Did after last relationship super interesting?
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Speaker 2: We know it was with Sasha. They broke up like
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Speaker 2: six months ago, maybe a little bit more time flies.
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Speaker 2: She said in a new video that I'm currently in
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Speaker 2: a very insecure place of my life. It's so interesting
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Speaker 2: because I used to love being vulnerable in here, and
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Speaker 2: I've stopped because there's a group of people on here
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Speaker 2: that are actually rooting for my downfall, which is so
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Speaker 2: crazy for me. She said that there's just a certain
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Speaker 2: group of people that are leaving mean comments, and she
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Speaker 2: confessed that that is why she doesn't really want to
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Speaker 2: open up as much anymore, so that I've never talked
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Speaker 2: about this before, but it's a group of people that
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Speaker 2: I'm it's because I'm no longer with a certain person,
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Speaker 2: and it feels like everything that I do is because
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Speaker 2: of this person, and I truly can't be happy.
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Speaker 3: Wait, are we talking about the person from the show?
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Speaker 3: I don't even know his name.
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Speaker 2: No, she's talking about there's a group of people online
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Speaker 2: that basically think that because she's not with him any more.
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Speaker 3: Sasha, Oh, Sasha.
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Speaker 2: They don't even they keep like bullying, you know, putting
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Speaker 2: her down. Said, I've been meaning my life had meeting
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Speaker 2: before there was a man in it, and I will
20:12
Speaker 2: continue to be happy with Adaman no matter who it is.
20:15
Speaker 2: Like sometimes people will say crazy things, you know, in
20:19
Speaker 2: the dam so we'll be like, you know, you have
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Speaker 2: to be more respectful of your husband. You should stop
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Speaker 2: working so much and just like be with your husband
20:27
Speaker 2: and stuff like you need to worship him on hand
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Speaker 2: and foot.
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Speaker 3: And blah blahlah.
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Speaker 2: People are like really weird in old school like that sometimes,
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Speaker 2: So that's wild.
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Speaker 3: I wonder what would happen if I told Jess that
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Speaker 3: tonight you need to.
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Speaker 2: They do have that. Sasha has been posting a lot
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Speaker 2: of videos with Janelle. This is an actress who he
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Speaker 2: I think has been seeing and she's going through a
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Speaker 2: divorce right now. We don't really know if he's one
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Speaker 2: hundred percent seeing her, but they've been spotted.
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Speaker 3: Okay, speaking of love interests, Juliana, who we had if
21:03
Speaker 3: you remember she was with Grant Ellis for a short
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Speaker 3: period of time from that season of The Bachelor, which
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Speaker 3: was the last season of The Bachelor to air, moves
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Speaker 3: in with boyfriend Michael, and there's engagement rumors surrounding this. Actually,
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Speaker 3: I just want to mention that when we had Juliana
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Speaker 3: on the podcast a long time ago, it's been months,
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Speaker 3: she kind of hinted that she was, you know, oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: figuring things out. But this is exciting for her. We
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Speaker 3: do think she was an incredible catch. She got a
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Speaker 3: really raw deal here from the bachelor, moved on and
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Speaker 3: found love successfully. Outside of it.
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Speaker 2: There are rumors online that there two are already engaged
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Speaker 2: or even secretly married.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know why this is a thing.
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Speaker 3: Like why you get secretly married?
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Speaker 4: Well?
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Speaker 2: No, like why are people speculating that they are married?
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Speaker 3: Because we just mentioned Ashley, I think people speculate a lot.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so there's it's just like this one silly thing
22:09
Speaker 2: she said somebody She was like when you told she
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Speaker 2: wanted him to propose in Paris, right, basically like they
22:16
Speaker 2: were going to Europe and she just wanted him to
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Speaker 2: propose when they went on a trip, and then they
22:25
Speaker 2: were also like I don't know, he called her wife
22:29
Speaker 2: or something. Yeah, yeah, he said on Instagram that they
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Speaker 2: were at Coachella. It's aid Coachella weekend with wifey. I'm like, okay,
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Speaker 2: I mean, uh, that definitely sounds at least engaged.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's but it could just be a nickname.
22:45
Speaker 2: But I don't know, do you nickname somebody that you've
22:47
Speaker 2: been with first a six months?
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Speaker 3: No sweet cheeks? Yes?
22:53
Speaker 2: Now, maybe I am believing these are reversed And Okay,
22:59
Speaker 2: we know that she is very close to her family
23:01
Speaker 2: in Boston, and that Grant was supposed to be moving
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Speaker 2: to Boston, and now here we see she's actually moving
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Speaker 2: to New York for the boyfriend quote boyfriend. She's gonna
23:12
Speaker 2: be on the podcast very soon.
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Speaker 3: Caitlin Bristow just moved to New York City, Ashley Yow.
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Speaker 2: Why would she move to New York?
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Speaker 3: I have no idea.
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Speaker 2: Why would she move to New York.
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Speaker 3: Be very confusing for me if you know, she's moved
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Speaker 3: to New York with the dogs for not a similar
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Speaker 3: reason like Juliana at least has a reason. She's moving
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Speaker 3: there with a boyfriend.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, did you see what Kitlyn posted? You know, somebody
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Speaker 2: named Kitlyn one time said that she never wanted to
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Speaker 2: post anything of any other man until she was like
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Speaker 2: deep into marriage, and she posted something about the and
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Speaker 2: there was a man's voice in it.
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Speaker 3: Goodness, gracious, she can't do it any longer. Mercedes north
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Speaker 3: Up discusses Marciano Brunette hookup on vander Pump Villa.
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Speaker 2: All right, so I am not in the loop with
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Speaker 2: the vander Pump dramas, But Mercedes, you tried to hook
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Speaker 2: up with what you didn't cook up with her. You
24:26
Speaker 2: tried to you with someone someone.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for clarifying that.
24:35
Speaker 2: Well. When she recently joined fellow Bachelor fan favorites Charity
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Speaker 2: Dot and Jess Maria Ariel a whole bunch of others,
24:45
Speaker 2: they were celebrating dotton thirty third birthday at the vander
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Speaker 2: Pump Villa and while there she formed a connection with Marciano.
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Speaker 2: Now Mercedes is talking about it and what would happened,
24:58
Speaker 2: And she did this on the Happy Hour podcast. She said,
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Speaker 2: this is where I was at. Okay, no no drink limits.
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Speaker 2: We're feeling good, and I'm in the back corner of
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Speaker 2: the hot sub because I'm just not really connected with
25:12
Speaker 2: anyone and I'm just looking around and everyone's boot up
25:15
Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, what the heck I need to
25:17
Speaker 2: boot up too, And the only one left in this
25:21
Speaker 2: group was Marciano and I'm like, well, I guess we're
25:25
Speaker 2: walked in for the night. They also continue to have
25:31
Speaker 2: a game of truth or Dare, and like the truth
25:35
Speaker 2: of the dare was like make out with someone here
25:37
Speaker 2: or who if you had to make out with someone here,
25:38
Speaker 2: who would it be? And obviously she won't say somebody
25:43
Speaker 2: who was already taken, So she said Marciano, so she
25:46
Speaker 2: said it was fun, but the connection wasn't serious, so
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Speaker 2: they just had like a fun rest of the night.
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Speaker 3: His name is Marciano Brunette.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Marciano Barnette.
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Speaker 3: I've never heard of him before.
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Speaker 2: I had to look Marciano, I've heard of him.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they were I thought his like the description here
26:04
Speaker 3: was describing as hair color.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I was gonna say, oh, dud was like a
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Speaker 2: fashion line because he sounds like a designer name, Like
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Speaker 2: it's Marciano because it's Marciana from Guess.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never heard of him. So Marciano Brunette is
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Speaker 3: somebody I need to pay attention to because he is
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Speaker 3: stealing the girl from my show when I'm trying to
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Speaker 3: hook her up with a single dude. Yeah that makes sense, Ashley.
26:31
Speaker 3: That's all the headlines we have today. Some big ones
26:35
Speaker 3: out there, a lot of Bachelor Nation people stepping outside
26:38
Speaker 3: of the Bachelor world as the Bachelor takes a hiatus
26:42
Speaker 3: to do other projects. Obviously, we got Hannah Godwin on
26:45
Speaker 3: Celebrity Squid Games. We've got Caitlin and Jen going on
26:49
Speaker 3: this new Amazon show. We had the whole list of
26:52
Speaker 3: people who showed up to the vanderpump Villa from the
26:56
Speaker 3: show It in You. Goodness, gracious, you're leading the way
26:59
Speaker 3: on Real house wise of Rhode Island. So a lot
27:02
Speaker 3: of Bachelor people taking advantage of their celebrity and sharing
27:08
Speaker 3: it with other networks while the Bachelor is still trying
27:11
Speaker 3: to figure things out. If there was only a way
27:14
Speaker 3: where the Bachelor could bring people back together again and
27:17
Speaker 3: get them back in their franchise and their show on
27:21
Speaker 3: their network, wouldn't that be nice?
27:22
Speaker 2: I just also want to make fun of you for
27:24
Speaker 2: a second with about Marciana thing, because I know there's
27:26
Speaker 2: a lot of reality stars on our podcast that we
27:28
Speaker 2: like chat about and the whole this The worlds are
27:31
Speaker 2: just so intermixed right now. But he was actually the
27:34
Speaker 2: one that got in trouble on Sacret Lives of Warm
27:38
Speaker 2: and Wives. He was the one. I'm just I'm just
27:41
Speaker 2: remembering this. He was the one that had like a
27:43
Speaker 2: sexual assaulting with one of the girls.
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Speaker 3: Come on, Mercedes, Yeah, come on, Mercedes. How do those
27:50
Speaker 3: people get keep getting on tv? Ashley? That's my question.
27:53
Speaker 2: Accused accused not kilt our producer allegedly Yes, yes, yes,
27:59
Speaker 2: wants to clarify, Yes, he was apparently hooking up with
28:04
Speaker 2: another wife, you know, one of the wives, Jesse. We're
28:08
Speaker 2: gonna talk about this when we understand that one more.
28:11
Speaker 2: That's not our world, Okay, our world's just connected to
28:14
Speaker 2: those worlds.
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Speaker 3: It feels like it's more and more what I have
28:17
Speaker 3: to understand.
28:18
Speaker 2: So many Ben diagrams, So I know the diagrams.
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Speaker 3: This for years, we broke down the Bachelor here at
28:24
Speaker 3: the Almost Famous podcast. Now you're asking me to break
28:27
Speaker 3: down every single reality show that exists and tie all
28:30
Speaker 3: these trends and knots and drama together. No wonder you're spiraling, Ashley.
28:36
Speaker 3: Ours pleased so brutal out there right now.
28:39
Speaker 2: You guys, I'm fine. It's just all good things. That's
28:42
Speaker 2: the thing. Too much good things, and that's not something
28:45
Speaker 2: to complain about. I just need a helping hand, all right.
28:47
Speaker 2: We love you. Thank you so much for being here.
28:49
Speaker 2: Until next time, I've been.
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Speaker 3: Ashley, I've been.
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Speaker 2: I will be on Watch What Happens Live this Sunday night,
28:57
Speaker 2: and Ben, we'll see you next time with my Lauren. Bye.
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