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Quarantine in Paradise · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with i R Radio. It's another week of the Almost
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Speaker 1: Famous podcast. And here's the thing. I gotta tell everybody
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Speaker 1: a little story. Who's listening right now? My co host
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Speaker 1: Ashley is on the line as well. Uh, but we're
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Speaker 1: getting ready for today's podcast. And as usual, Ashley and
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Speaker 1: I we chat a little bit, catch up on life,
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Speaker 1: talk about anything that's gonna come up on the podcast.
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Speaker 1: We have our videos up right now because we are
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Speaker 1: doing this remotely. And she walks in. I don't know, actually,
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Speaker 1: what would you just how would you describe the thing
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Speaker 1: you're wearing? What is that? It's a crop top and
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Speaker 1: a high waisted shorts. Yeah, it's a crop top and
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Speaker 1: high waisted shorts. And she's like standing there in front
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Speaker 1: of the camera. She's talking to Jared, and we're all here,
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Speaker 1: the producers and I are on here and we're all
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Speaker 1: like crap, Like Ashley, like this quarantine has been good
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Speaker 1: to you. And I just told you, like, hey, we're
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Speaker 1: friends here, I've seen you know you for a long time,
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Speaker 1: was like actually looking great and you are and you
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Speaker 1: told me this. I mean, there's a reason why now,
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Speaker 1: I mean usually wearing sweatshirts on this So what's going on.
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Speaker 1: There's so many things going on. Okay. So first off,
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Speaker 1: I was away from my closet for like four months.
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Speaker 1: So ever since we got back to l A two
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Speaker 1: weeks ago, I've been like putting. I've been like kind
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Speaker 1: of wearing like even outfits around the house. Like I've
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Speaker 1: been trying to look cute. It's the only time. It's
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Speaker 1: the first time in four months. And not only have
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Speaker 1: I had like all of my clothing options, but that
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Speaker 1: it's just been me and Jared as a couple, and
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Speaker 1: you know, I just like I want to look nice
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Speaker 1: to my husband and myself and all that. So like
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Speaker 1: I've been like, you know, wearing some cuter things around
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Speaker 1: the house and then the sweatpants that you saw me
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Speaker 1: and for four straight months of my parents. Um. And
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Speaker 1: then this all started because of an AD and I
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Speaker 1: think that you guys, I think so many people are like, oh,
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Speaker 1: they like sell flooring, but it will actually use them. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So in April I didn't add for open Fit and
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Speaker 1: it's this streaming online workout class service, and I was
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Speaker 1: thinking during quarantine and I'm like, Okay, you're in such
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Speaker 1: bad shape. Literally your heart races, not just when you
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Speaker 1: go up the stairs, but when you go from like
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Speaker 1: when you get up from the couch and go into
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Speaker 1: another room. Like it's really really bad. I was like
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Speaker 1: skinny fat because nobody would know that I was in
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Speaker 1: that bad of shape. Um, but I wasn't, like my
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Speaker 1: heart wasn't healthy. So once I heard about open Fit
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Speaker 1: through doing this ad, I'm like, Okay, well this is
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Speaker 1: easy enough. Like I can do thirty minutes at home
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Speaker 1: on a mat with a resistance band every day, So
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Speaker 1: that's what Um, I started doing then, and then um,
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Speaker 1: I've been doing it four or five times a week,
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Speaker 1: just half an hour an open Fit class. They're like
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Speaker 1: bar pilates classes at home. And I've been doing it consistently,
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Speaker 1: working out consistent for the first time in legit nine years.
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Speaker 1: Like I had like little spurts throughout then, like when
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Speaker 1: we did Winter Games, like I worked out for like
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Speaker 1: a month before that, But this is the first time
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Speaker 1: that has been like over a span of a few months,
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Speaker 1: and I've just like I had a regular schedule with it.
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Speaker 1: And then finally, I mean like holy like you guys
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Speaker 1: are probably like, actually, we don't really care that much.
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Speaker 1: But when people say, like, what have you done over quarantine,
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Speaker 1: I've truly the answer has probably made myself out there,
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Speaker 1: So I'm kind of into it. I've always been into
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Speaker 1: like how like, I've always been into like kind of
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Speaker 1: like medicine. It's the other field that is so opposite
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Speaker 1: of like hosting and journalism that I could have ever gone. Um,
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Speaker 1: but my dad's a doctor, and I've always just been
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Speaker 1: really interested in learning about the body. So what everybody's
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Speaker 1: going to actually care about, and that you may have
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Speaker 1: read if you follow me on Instagram, is that I'm
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Speaker 1: going to get off the pill in September because obviously
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Speaker 1: jar and I are going to try to get paragna.
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Speaker 1: Um wow. Um. But I've been on the pill for
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Speaker 1: nine years to control my hormonal cystic acne, and I've
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Speaker 1: been working with a natural natural pathic doctor her name
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Speaker 1: is Stacy Shillington over the past two weeks to naturally
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Speaker 1: get me off the pill, which means regulating my hormones
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Speaker 1: mostly through diet. And I don't mean diet as in
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Speaker 1: like the losing weight term. I mean diet as in
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Speaker 1: like eating the proper things that will help balance your
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Speaker 1: hormones naturally and um, I've been following her program for
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Speaker 1: the past two weeks, taking some supplements um and but
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Speaker 1: mostly just changing my eating habits. That she suggested me
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Speaker 1: going cold turkey with gluten and dairy to see if
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Speaker 1: I had like any sort of inflammation because of it,
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Speaker 1: and I just I was a coupled is into and
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Speaker 1: I was like, this is ruining my life. I truly like,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm a person who loves food so much. But
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Speaker 1: am I like super going overboard? Am I going overboard?
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Speaker 1: But I'm interesting? But I'm a person who like just
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Speaker 1: like food is something I look forward to every day,
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Speaker 1: like dinner is is truly like at that time, it's like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, what I'm having for dinner is the
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Speaker 1: best part of my day sort of person. So eliminating
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Speaker 1: dairy and gluten just completely. It affects your social life
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Speaker 1: and it affects your happiness. So I was like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna cut down on that and sugar. And my
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Speaker 1: body has transfer like transformed even further from working out
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Speaker 1: over the past two weeks since I started eating so
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Speaker 1: naturally so many vegetables, a lot of seeds, beans and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. It is, uh, well, it's showing Ashley
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Speaker 1: obviously up super answers to your cools and ever it's
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Speaker 1: the best answer to my question ever. But in the
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Speaker 1: Bachelor headline of it All, Ashley and Jared try to
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Speaker 1: get pregnant starting in September. I think it's so funny
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Speaker 1: when people are like, oh my god, what a glow,
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Speaker 1: she must be pregnant. I'm like, I've been very open
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Speaker 1: about the fact I am on the pill. Yeah. Well,
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Speaker 1: And I think that's a big takeaway here is you
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Speaker 1: know you're making these decisions too for your future here
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Speaker 1: that you're planning. That's super I'm super pumped for you.
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Speaker 1: A little Ashley and Jared baby will be um, it
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Speaker 1: will be cute, It'll be cute, it'll be beautiful. You
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Speaker 1: guys are beautiful, Ashley. Hey, as you get healthier in life,
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Speaker 1: the podcast is getting healthier as we go. We just
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Speaker 1: got the numbers report. Listeners are up right now. During quarantine,
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Speaker 1: it's been a blast to be talking with you all.
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Speaker 1: Today is no different. We have a lot of really
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Speaker 1: exciting news and Bachelor nations. Some you may have heard
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Speaker 1: and some news you may have never heard yet, and
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Speaker 1: it will be you might be hearing it for the
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Speaker 1: first time here on almost this podcast. But before before
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Speaker 1: we get too hot topics in Bachelor Nation, let's take
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Speaker 1: a break here from one of our sponsors. Will come
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Speaker 1: back with our producer, our head producer and one of
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Speaker 1: the creators of this show, Amy Sugarman, with an update
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Speaker 1: on what The Bachelor is gonna do for filming this year. Alright,
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Speaker 1: actually we do have hot topics in Bachelor Nation. Uh,
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Speaker 1: these topics this week are less I'd say people focused
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Speaker 1: in more show focused. The Bachelor has announced that they
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Speaker 1: were gonna be starting filming again. They've picked a location.
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Speaker 1: In a second, we're gonna bring on Amy to give
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Speaker 1: some details about this location. She's been there many times before.
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Speaker 1: She knows it well, so she knows what we can expect. Ashley,
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Speaker 1: what do you think? Are you excited? Okay? So when
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Speaker 1: I heard a little quinta, I'm like, okay, I think
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Speaker 1: I know this is in Palm Springs and it's not
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Speaker 1: the liquinta on the side of the road. Apparently I'm
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Speaker 1: even saying the hotel, not the bo Okay, yes, okay, sorry,
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it in the booge way. It's spelled
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Speaker 1: the same as Loquinta on the side of the road.
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Speaker 1: It's Quinta Quinta. Okay. So it's a Coachella hot spot. Um,
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Speaker 1: and it has forty one pools, twenty three tennis courts,
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Speaker 1: and um. Because it's the Bachelor, we should know that
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Speaker 1: there are fifty three hot tubs. There's also five golf courses,
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Speaker 1: seven restaurants, seven hundred and ninety six guests, and you guys,
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Speaker 1: it's four hundred acres Like, uh, can somebody put that
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Speaker 1: in mileage form for me? Does anybody know how many
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Speaker 1: square miles that is? This place is a city, it is,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's gonna be perfect, right, Well,
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Speaker 1: let's find out if it's going to be perfect. Let's
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Speaker 1: bring on Amy now, who's been there before, to give
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Speaker 1: us some details about the location. Hi, guys, wait, actually,
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Speaker 1: have you never stayed there with us? No? Okay, so
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Speaker 1: then it is right. It's called Latina, and I've I've
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Speaker 1: been there are many, many, many times, and a lot
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Speaker 1: of Bachelor Nation has stayed there, especially during stage coach.
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Speaker 1: So first of all, it's a hundred and eighteen degrees
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Speaker 1: there right right now, So that's kind of gnarly, but okay,
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Speaker 1: So I have talked to some secret sources that are there,
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Speaker 1: but I'll tell people what it's like so we can
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Speaker 1: sort of analyze how they're going to shoot it. So
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Speaker 1: it's just real quick, real quick. This is Laquita is
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Speaker 1: two point one square miles, so if you take a
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Speaker 1: square miles as most of us know, Um, the kids
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Speaker 1: are learning this in kindergarten today. It's two miles uh south,
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Speaker 1: two miles north, two miles west, two miles. That's a
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Speaker 1: big piece of property. It takes ten minutes, ten minutes
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Speaker 1: to walk from one end to the other, maybe even
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Speaker 1: more based on so do they have golf cards and
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Speaker 1: stuff going around like they do? There's no one there
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Speaker 1: but Bachelor cast and crew, so that's kind of cool.
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Speaker 1: Now there are some homeowners nearby, so I sort of
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Speaker 1: asking can the homeowners walk over? But they kind of
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Speaker 1: have it sectioned off where they're shooting. So there's a
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Speaker 1: million private pools and then there's two really huge pools,
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Speaker 1: so I'm sure they're using those in some ways. The
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Speaker 1: other thing that I was thinking about is there definitely
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Speaker 1: are fantasy suite So there are some rooms that we've
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Speaker 1: seen or stayed in that are like more lavish that
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Speaker 1: have living rooms and dining rooms and private pools and
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Speaker 1: are all dated. So I'm imagining they'll be using those
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Speaker 1: in some way, and they have like the run of
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Speaker 1: the resort, so they could set up fancy dinners or
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Speaker 1: sort of like bachelor date nights on the lawn or
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Speaker 1: you know, on the golf course or in the restaurants.
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Speaker 1: No one's there, so I've sort of been trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out how they're gonna do it. Uh, and everyone,
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Speaker 1: you know, everyone's staying so unlike in the mansion, they're
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Speaker 1: all staying in their rooms. So the guys aren't necessarily
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Speaker 1: like sleeping in a big mansion like they would normally,
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Speaker 1: so they all would have their own rooms or maybe
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Speaker 1: two guys to a room, which these guys are going
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Speaker 1: to be so spoiled. That's so nice to be able
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Speaker 1: to retreat to your own room. But do you think
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Speaker 1: that they're going to have like a gathering areas that
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Speaker 1: the guys like pretty much have to stay in all Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So like, okay, so I'll describe it to you. There's
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Speaker 1: little pools and let's say there's fifteen rooms right around
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Speaker 1: that little pool. So you step out your door and
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Speaker 1: you would be outside where all the other guys would be.
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Speaker 1: It's unavoidable to not see each other. But I don't
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Speaker 1: know where they'll put Claire. But I do think it's
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Speaker 1: set up that it's going to be really really cool
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Speaker 1: to watch just knowing the way the resort is. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and you could definitely have tons of drama. Okay, wait,
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Speaker 1: but speaking of drama, how do we think that we're
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Speaker 1: going to be able to force these guys to be
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Speaker 1: together enough that like they won't be able to escape
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Speaker 1: from each other and just not even bring up drama. Well,
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Speaker 1: I mean I think that if you did anything other
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Speaker 1: than sleep, you're gonna be where the other guys are
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Speaker 1: for sure. For sure, um there are there is tennis, golf,
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Speaker 1: so I'm sure they're going to have to incorporate it that.
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Speaker 1: But it's so hot. That's the other thing I can't imagine.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it is it's the middle of the desert,
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Speaker 1: so it's about two and a half hours from Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: You just take the ten three way out from l
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Speaker 1: A straight to Lakinta, and it is where a lot
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Speaker 1: of people say during Coachella and stage coach. So I
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Speaker 1: just don't and I don't think they can leave the
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Speaker 1: resort because they're all tested and in this bubble. So
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Speaker 1: even though there could be things for them to do
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Speaker 1: outside the resort, I don't think they can leave. So
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Speaker 1: I mean, what can we what can we expect it?
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Speaker 1: I mean, this doesn't sound like we're gonna be missing
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Speaker 1: out on too much other than the travel piece of
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Speaker 1: the show. I don't think so. I think it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be so good. I think it's going to change it
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Speaker 1: up just enough so we're gonna have all the interactions drama,
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Speaker 1: and they'll set it up where they're you know, two
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Speaker 1: on ones, just like you would have, or group states,
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Speaker 1: just like you would have. The resort is laid out
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Speaker 1: in a way where you could fully do it, very
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Speaker 1: very similarly to way they only always do. You just
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Speaker 1: won't be going to other locations, which I don't really care.
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Speaker 1: That never like the audience doesn't care. That never was like,
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Speaker 1: oh they're in Denmark, I'm so thrilled. I don't care.
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Speaker 1: It's good for you. I'm jealous, but it doesn't really
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Speaker 1: affect my viewing. I want they could do like one
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Speaker 1: of those you know, pop up concerts, because if they
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Speaker 1: tested the artists and let them into the bubble. Maybe
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Speaker 1: they could. I don't know. We'll see who's been that
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Speaker 1: test bubble. Okay, do you think that from your sources,
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Speaker 1: they're going to be testing the guys throughout the entire process,
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Speaker 1: because like I heard that it could be up to
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Speaker 1: every three days they get a swab FROs. That's where
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Speaker 1: I'm hearing. I mean, I'm hearing. So this is me
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Speaker 1: putting together information. No one's told me this, but everyone's
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Speaker 1: then tested, quarantined, tested again, and we'll be tested throughout
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Speaker 1: the whole um run of the show, six seven weeks,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is. And yeah, I mean it feels like
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Speaker 1: if they're in the bubble, it seems pretty safe because
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Speaker 1: they're not really having any contact with anyone from the outside.
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Speaker 1: And all the crew stays there too, so they're not
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Speaker 1: going home like they normally would when they're at the
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Speaker 1: mansion because normally producers would go sleep at their own
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Speaker 1: houses when they're filming in Los Angeles, so they're not
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Speaker 1: doing do we know when this is starting they are
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Speaker 1: going I don't know if there's actually cameras rolling, but
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Speaker 1: they are all there. They say, cameras roll on Friday.
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Speaker 1: This is coming Friday, So we're four days away. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the guys flew in on Thursday and Friday, last week's
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Speaker 1: quarantine for a week. Now. I don't know if you've
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Speaker 1: heard anything about this aim, but have you have you
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Speaker 1: heard that they have sent over a lot of extras
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Speaker 1: who don't know their extras, and um they did this
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Speaker 1: so that, um, if somebody is diagnosed with COVID, that
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Speaker 1: they fill in for him. I haven't heard that, but
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Speaker 1: it makes sense that they have people there just in case.
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Speaker 1: Now once they start going, I don't know if they'll
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Speaker 1: ever use those guys are not. Isn't that sad? Could
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Speaker 1: you imagine? There's always two people are so on backup
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Speaker 1: they go to the hotel and then they kind of
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Speaker 1: dropped them there, which is heart wrenching. But if they
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Speaker 1: do it to multiple like lots like more than to
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Speaker 1: really fly them out, they don't know who they are
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Speaker 1: until the day before, Like, thank you for quarantining yourself
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Speaker 1: at this fine resort for a week. But I think
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be really good because it's going to change
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Speaker 1: it up just enough. But we're still going to have
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Speaker 1: everything we love so much, you know, Like we're still
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Speaker 1: going to have the competition amongst the guys. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: have the you know, all the sort of juiciness of
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Speaker 1: her being older, it's still going to be in play,
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Speaker 1: you know, and and being a bit more serious maybe
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Speaker 1: about it, and maybe more conversations like she probably wants
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Speaker 1: step kids. I mean, I don't know. I can't speak
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Speaker 1: for her, but that's a lot different than a twenty
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Speaker 1: three year old m hm. Let's just it's probably gonna
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Speaker 1: be just like Paradise. Why are we thinking this is
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Speaker 1: gonna be so wacky when we already have a series
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Speaker 1: that is such a fan favorite that is filmed every year.
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Speaker 1: What I thought too Obviously when we all rewatch Trista
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Speaker 1: didn't have as much traveling. They didn't used to travel
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Speaker 1: as much in the old days. So it's just gonna
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Speaker 1: feel like that, which was one of the best seasons ever.
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Speaker 1: The same with Chris souls As season we only went well,
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Speaker 1: we didn't start traveling until week five Iowa, and then
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Speaker 1: we went we went to Iowa and Santa Fe and
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Speaker 1: sell Dakota. Yeah. Special, that's that's a that is Those
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Speaker 1: Flive States have a special place in my heart. They're
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Speaker 1: pretty beautiful, they are very sweet. I like that I
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Speaker 1: also think it's going to be pretty cool once this airs,
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Speaker 1: and then you know, we all can travel again normal
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Speaker 1: to go to Laquinta, because you could really live the
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Speaker 1: Bachelor experience once you know. They still I can't believe
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Speaker 1: you've never been. I mean, we've been fifty times. I've
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Speaker 1: been there with so many I'm trying to think, I
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Speaker 1: what Bachelor people I've been there with, but I've definitely
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Speaker 1: that's for sure. Yeah. Well, Amy, thanks for coming on.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for giving us the insight we look forward to.
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Speaker 1: As we've heard this is all speculation, but we know
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Speaker 1: it's starting. They're setting up. We heard that cameras start
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Speaker 1: rolling Friday, as is our source, Amy tells us. Amy
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Speaker 1: is a very reliable source. Yeah, we should expect to
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Speaker 1: people within the gates of Latina, or as actually calls it,
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Speaker 1: la Quinta la Quinta. Amy, thanks for thanks for coming on.
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Speaker 1: You're the best. Hi, guys talking a little bit by
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Speaker 1: guys by another show news, uh and it ties in here.
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Speaker 1: Robert Mills, who is uh the executive ABC, has came
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Speaker 1: out publicly this week. He was asked about this new
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Speaker 1: show that they're gonna try to do the Bachelor's Senior
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Speaker 1: Citizens spin off. Obviously, it got a lot of attention
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Speaker 1: when they kind of started to announce it during the
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Speaker 1: last season of The Bachelor during Peter season. Then it
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Speaker 1: kind of went quiet. Nobody really knew, but everything in
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Speaker 1: production has halted for last few months. So in an
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Speaker 1: interview recently, UH ABC executive Robert Mills did come out
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Speaker 1: and an exclusive and say that yes, the Bachelorette UH.
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Speaker 1: This was with Variety. By the way, the Bachelorette and
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Speaker 1: Bachelor are two main focuses for them to get filmed
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Speaker 1: this year. This is something that they really want to
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Speaker 1: do with Claire season coming up and then with Matt
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Speaker 1: James this season coming up following that. But in one
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Speaker 1: UH in two thousand two, they really are hoping to
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Speaker 1: do a Bachelor Senior Citizen spin off because, as uh
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Speaker 1: Robert Mills said, the stories the applications were so heart
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Speaker 1: filled and they pulled at the heart strings so much
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Speaker 1: that they believe this could be something incredibly special, So
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Speaker 1: don't count that out. We've got a lot of questions
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Speaker 1: about it through email and on Twitter, and for the
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Speaker 1: first time we have some information that he says, God
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Speaker 1: willing we return to some normalcy in the world. We
20:02
Speaker 1: will obviously want to get back to Bachelor in Paradise
20:04
Speaker 1: because uh, that will have been off a year, but
20:08
Speaker 1: soon following it would be great to do a Bachelor's
20:11
Speaker 1: Citizens off. Oh that's so sweet. Everybody was stoked about that,
20:16
Speaker 1: and everyone of you had, everybody who had parents whose
20:19
Speaker 1: pouse spouse had passed away or they were older and divorced,
20:24
Speaker 1: Like I just there was so much excitement about signing
20:27
Speaker 1: those people up. So yeah, I mean, I think it
20:30
Speaker 1: will happen, But you're right, I mean, this is just
20:32
Speaker 1: not going to be a priority right now for them.
20:34
Speaker 1: I think would be huge. You know, these other shows
20:37
Speaker 1: and you and I've always kind of like speculated, and
20:39
Speaker 1: I've always had more of a negative opinion than you
20:42
Speaker 1: have on how they're going to go, Like you know,
20:44
Speaker 1: just s been offs, Like listen to your heart. I'm like,
20:46
Speaker 1: I don't really know how that's gonna work. It doesn't
20:47
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense to me. The Bachelor go
20:49
Speaker 1: I got why they were doing it. It took a
20:51
Speaker 1: ton of time, but they had to get content out there. Um,
20:55
Speaker 1: you know, win our games. We did it as trying
20:57
Speaker 1: to figure out what it was going to be summer Games.
20:59
Speaker 1: I think could work. I really like I am a
21:03
Speaker 1: in on a Senior Citizen spin off. Like, I think
21:06
Speaker 1: that could be huge. Ben, did you know that Bachelor
21:09
Speaker 1: Goat is actually spanning all the way until August thirty one?
21:14
Speaker 1: Had no clue? Yeah, neither did. I learned it this weekend.
21:17
Speaker 1: That's wild. Well, I mean, I get it. The conda
21:19
Speaker 1: has to be out there anyways. That's from Robert Mills. Actually,
21:22
Speaker 1: there's some more hot topics coming up. We'll go back
21:25
Speaker 1: to talk about Claire Crawley season. Claire obviously is the Bachelorette,
21:29
Speaker 1: and we think that filming will start this Friday. She
21:33
Speaker 1: has shared an empowering message to herself before though filming begins.
21:38
Speaker 1: This according to US magazine. Yes, okay, so I could
21:42
Speaker 1: read this to you guys, but I would suggest you
21:45
Speaker 1: just go and read it to herself. It is just
21:47
Speaker 1: a very sweet message about how she's grown over the
21:51
Speaker 1: past couple of years and has taken every negative or
21:54
Speaker 1: challenging situation romantically or otherwise and turned it into who
22:00
Speaker 1: she is today and and the person who was, you know,
22:05
Speaker 1: crowned the Bachelorette. So she's just very thankful for everything
22:08
Speaker 1: she's gone through and toughing it out. Um. I also,
22:13
Speaker 1: I'll give you a little dirt. I texted her after
22:16
Speaker 1: seeing this, or the day after seeing this, because I
22:18
Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh, I supposed to be her
22:19
Speaker 1: sitting off. I have to say something. And she didn't respond.
22:22
Speaker 1: So I think her phone has been taken away as
22:25
Speaker 1: of Friday. Good for her, Well, we hope so, I
22:28
Speaker 1: mean we've talked about it here before. We want Claire
22:31
Speaker 1: to be celebrated. We think it's gonna be a great season.
22:33
Speaker 1: So we hope she's out and filming and having a
22:35
Speaker 1: great time. Uh. Starting next week, well, we're back to
22:39
Speaker 1: a couple that has recently split in Batchel Nation, at
22:43
Speaker 1: least announced their split. It's Colton Underwood and Cassie Randolph.
22:47
Speaker 1: It hasn't gone It doesn't seem like we've we've hinted
22:51
Speaker 1: at last week. I remember you and I speculated, Hey,
22:53
Speaker 1: this doesn't feel like it's going very well. It feels
22:56
Speaker 1: like it's a little messy. Uh. You know, Colton has
22:58
Speaker 1: been out there posting, and we mentioned that Cassie had
23:01
Speaker 1: taken thirty days from social media, so we just there
23:04
Speaker 1: the balance fell off. Well, we now know more because
23:09
Speaker 1: Cassie Randof says that Colton Underwood, uh, she accuses him
23:16
Speaker 1: of trying to monetize their split. This again according to
23:20
Speaker 1: US magazine. Okay, so have you been following this story,
23:23
Speaker 1: because it's kind of juicy it I as I saw
23:29
Speaker 1: these headlines, I went back and I started watching, and
23:30
Speaker 1: I saw Colton's post that like, was this kind of
23:34
Speaker 1: like passive aggressive way of saying that, hey, we agreed
23:37
Speaker 1: to this, but it didn't happen. So now I'm now
23:39
Speaker 1: I'm gonna dive in head first. And then you have
23:42
Speaker 1: Cassie obviously quoted with some things saying, hey, she's monetizing this.
23:46
Speaker 1: This is wrong. But that's about as far as I've gotten.
23:49
Speaker 1: I'm really counting on you to give us the dirt. Okay,
23:51
Speaker 1: So yes, let's start with what you said. Apparently there's
23:55
Speaker 1: tension between them because Cassie did go on the Goat,
23:58
Speaker 1: did the interview with Chris Harris in and but but
24:02
Speaker 1: the thing is, I get I get that Colton is
24:06
Speaker 1: mad that she did this interview without obviously telling him,
24:09
Speaker 1: but she she told nothing and it was nothing. She
24:13
Speaker 1: really went on there, And like if I would have
24:15
Speaker 1: watched that as an X. I'm like, that was pretty
24:17
Speaker 1: respectful because she literally said nothing, that's what I said
24:21
Speaker 1: last week. I thought it was super tasteful, very respectful. Um.
24:25
Speaker 1: And you could see how uncomfortable she was when Chris
24:28
Speaker 1: was trying to push your more information and she stood
24:30
Speaker 1: her ground. She didn't say anything. I would have been like, okay.
24:35
Speaker 1: But then Colton goes on Instagram and in some sort
24:38
Speaker 1: of passive aggressive way, I guess, he says like things
24:40
Speaker 1: have changed this week, Like he's like I was, you know,
24:43
Speaker 1: this was gonna be private, but things changed this week.
24:45
Speaker 1: But honestly, I think they still remained pretty private, even
24:49
Speaker 1: though Cassie did just show her face on the show.
24:52
Speaker 1: So then after Colton said things changed this week, Cassie
24:57
Speaker 1: gone her Instagram story and posted a number of slides
25:02
Speaker 1: calling Colton out, like talking to him directly, saying Colton
25:06
Speaker 1: you blah blah blah Colton la la la la la,
25:09
Speaker 1: and um, because I guess was as an alternative of
25:13
Speaker 1: her calling him, texting him directly, but she wanted to
25:16
Speaker 1: put it out there publicly so that fans would understand that,
25:23
Speaker 1: like it would be on record that they're no longer,
25:26
Speaker 1: that they're not talking about this in publicly. How do
25:28
Speaker 1: you describe that, ben Like she basically wanted to keep
25:31
Speaker 1: him accountable as the and then like was using the
25:35
Speaker 1: public to do so. Yeah, I mean, I think you
25:37
Speaker 1: just said it like it It felt like watching it.
25:41
Speaker 1: She just wants her side to be out there to say, Hey,
25:46
Speaker 1: I want to give everybody a notice that this is
25:49
Speaker 1: our situation, this is what I feel like is going on.
25:53
Speaker 1: And I mean, I'm assuming she did this because she
25:57
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like it's right and she doesn't want it
26:00
Speaker 1: to go she doesn't. I don't. I think I'll say this.
26:05
Speaker 1: I only know from my own experience. Public breakups are hard.
26:08
Speaker 1: Both sides probably have agreed to something they have behind
26:11
Speaker 1: the scenes. Hey, we're not going to talk about it.
26:13
Speaker 1: You know at some point you're gonna have to talk
26:15
Speaker 1: about it, because here I am four years later and
26:20
Speaker 1: people still ask me about it even though I am engaged.
26:22
Speaker 1: Like it's something that you have to find that like
26:26
Speaker 1: middle ground to talk about it without saying too much,
26:28
Speaker 1: without throwing the other person under the bus, without making
26:31
Speaker 1: it hostile. And I think Lauren and I have tried
26:34
Speaker 1: to do that for each other, and there has been
26:36
Speaker 1: very few if any times where I remember going, wow,
26:40
Speaker 1: that really hurt that she said that, and I hope
26:42
Speaker 1: she would say that about me, But you have to
26:45
Speaker 1: talk about it. And so for Cassie to go on
26:47
Speaker 1: and just not really say anything, that's kind of what
26:49
Speaker 1: you have to do because you're not gonna hide forever.
26:52
Speaker 1: And she feels like the other side, she feels like Colton,
26:56
Speaker 1: from what she says here, has gone too far where
26:59
Speaker 1: he now is trying to monit ties it. Okay, So
27:01
Speaker 1: then it looks as if on Monday evening, as Cassie says,
27:06
Speaker 1: which was the day that her Goat interview aired, quote,
27:11
Speaker 1: you informed me, Coulton that you intend to monetize our
27:16
Speaker 1: breakup by writing a new chapter to discuss your experience
27:20
Speaker 1: with COVID where you stayed in my family's house during
27:22
Speaker 1: your recovery, and about our breakup. You also refused to
27:26
Speaker 1: give me any sort of approval on the chapter that
27:28
Speaker 1: you'll be writing, which will heavily feature me. This seems
27:31
Speaker 1: a bit unfair to me, Coulton. You can do what
27:35
Speaker 1: you want, but please don't have a double standard. So
27:37
Speaker 1: what it sounds like I'm being a detective here is
27:41
Speaker 1: that her episode aired he got really mad and then
27:45
Speaker 1: said like, I'm writing a chapter on the And now
27:49
Speaker 1: she's like, Okay, this is absolutely ridiculous. So you're gonna
27:52
Speaker 1: take my interview in which I said nothing, and now
27:56
Speaker 1: you're going to write a whole chapter about this. Yeah,
28:01
Speaker 1: I think that's where we say. I think it's where
28:03
Speaker 1: he said and to his Okay, so did his credit here?
28:06
Speaker 1: I get you know, he has this book, he wrote
28:09
Speaker 1: this book. He wants to add you know, he wants
28:11
Speaker 1: to keep it in the the headlines. He wants to
28:14
Speaker 1: continue to sell copies. Uh, you know, nobody knows yet
28:18
Speaker 1: what detail he'll go into on this book. He might
28:21
Speaker 1: like she did on her interview. He might gloss over everything,
28:24
Speaker 1: kind of similar to what she did on the interview.
28:27
Speaker 1: So I understand that. Now does she need to approve
28:30
Speaker 1: it or not? Uh, you know, that's up to them.
28:33
Speaker 1: I I can't even say. I don't know what's right
28:35
Speaker 1: or wrong there. But the point of this is there's
28:39
Speaker 1: obviously high tensions. Now it's very public. Oh they're never
28:43
Speaker 1: going to be friends again if they were on good terms.
28:46
Speaker 1: I don't know that they're going to recover from this.
28:48
Speaker 1: It's it's very public. I mean, it's it feels really
28:51
Speaker 1: heavy and honestly, Ashley, like, as I read more and
28:56
Speaker 1: more into this, I think I think Cassie is just
29:00
Speaker 1: crying out to stay Colton stopped like this, this is disingenuous,
29:04
Speaker 1: and Colton is going back to say, I'm gonna do
29:07
Speaker 1: right now because this is a part of my story.
29:09
Speaker 1: I'm gonna share it as I will. And so I
29:12
Speaker 1: don't know how you come to the middle on that now,
29:14
Speaker 1: like you see what I'm saying, Like she's saying, Colton,
29:16
Speaker 1: this seems disingenuous. There's a double standard, like you can't
29:19
Speaker 1: monetize our breakup and at the same time get mad
29:23
Speaker 1: at me for going on to speak to Chris Harrison
29:26
Speaker 1: and saying nothing. Colton saying, this is my story. My
29:30
Speaker 1: book is also my story, so I have every right
29:34
Speaker 1: to write it in And because you went on Chris
29:37
Speaker 1: Harrison's deal, according to his post, it gives me now
29:41
Speaker 1: the freedom to do what I want. Now, here's the question,
29:46
Speaker 1: here's the question. He'll I'll interview with him, and like,
29:48
Speaker 1: you know, she sat down for a half an hour
29:50
Speaker 1: fireside chat with Chris Harrison, spilled every detail and then
29:54
Speaker 1: I'd be like, sure, Colton go right the chapter, but
29:57
Speaker 1: to react to the interview that she did like this
30:00
Speaker 1: is insane. It's like, Colton, are you never going to
30:03
Speaker 1: do an interview again and you expect that the interviewer
30:07
Speaker 1: won't ever ask you about Cassie? That's what I was
30:10
Speaker 1: gonna say. The point is like, hey, would he have
30:13
Speaker 1: if if Cassie never does this first? Does it mean
30:16
Speaker 1: that Colton was never going to write the chapter? Like?
30:20
Speaker 1: Because it feels like that's what he's using it, Like, hey,
30:22
Speaker 1: U she went on, so now I can write it
30:25
Speaker 1: and because things have changed from what we agreed upon
30:28
Speaker 1: or has was he already in the process of writing
30:31
Speaker 1: it and this gave the excuse? Or what was he
30:33
Speaker 1: gonna do? I mean, we would all be naive to
30:35
Speaker 1: think that in Bachelor World we're not going to be
30:37
Speaker 1: asked about her X as ever like he was gonna
30:40
Speaker 1: be asked, especially if he wants to stay in the
30:42
Speaker 1: in the in the public eye. As I said, I mean,
30:45
Speaker 1: I'm four years out and I still get asked about it.
30:46
Speaker 1: And there's there's a really like a very truth filled
30:50
Speaker 1: I answer that I give that is hopefully respectful to
30:53
Speaker 1: both parties, that gives enough for the viewers to understand
30:56
Speaker 1: where we're coming from. But I had to learn that
30:59
Speaker 1: along the way. That wasn't my first reaction, my first
31:02
Speaker 1: I mean, here's my advice to them, not that my
31:05
Speaker 1: advice is warranted, is to take a couple of deep breaths,
31:08
Speaker 1: because your first reaction a few months out is going
31:10
Speaker 1: to be a lot different than when you're four years
31:12
Speaker 1: out or three years out later and one person is
31:15
Speaker 1: married and you're engaged. You no longer have the anger
31:18
Speaker 1: or resentment that you once held. So like, pause a
31:20
Speaker 1: second before you jump to conclusions. Think about what you
31:25
Speaker 1: want to say, how this, how you really feel about
31:27
Speaker 1: this person? Because time heals all. And if you're mad now,
31:32
Speaker 1: I doubt you're gonna be mad four years later. Mhm yeah.
31:36
Speaker 1: And Cassie mentioned that she says, let's not um. She
31:40
Speaker 1: was like, I would like that you don't cloud our
31:43
Speaker 1: great one and happy relationship with this messy breakup. So
31:48
Speaker 1: Colton and Cassie, which one seemed to be they were
31:51
Speaker 1: getting tattoos or whatever that was, and they were like
31:54
Speaker 1: friendly with each other. Now feels heavy, um, and that
31:59
Speaker 1: according to magazine, so we'll follow that story. I don't
32:02
Speaker 1: know what else will go on there. Maybe hopefully for
32:05
Speaker 1: everybody's sake, they'll recover in men wounds and move on
32:09
Speaker 1: and move forward respectfully and in authentically. But we will see.
32:15
Speaker 1: Next story is The Bachelor's Kayla Quinn wants to say
32:17
Speaker 1: yes the dress, except her mom thinks it's basic. This
32:21
Speaker 1: according to the the online I watched this clip. I think
32:25
Speaker 1: the episode may have aired on Saturday night, but you
32:28
Speaker 1: know TLC runs them just in loop. I love say
32:32
Speaker 1: yes to the dress. Uh. They dress that Kayla pick
32:36
Speaker 1: that her mom thought was bland. I thought was beautiful.
32:38
Speaker 1: It's very it was very on brand for Kayla. It
32:43
Speaker 1: was very princessy. It was conservative. Um, it really highlighted
32:48
Speaker 1: her body shape. So I don't know on the clip
32:52
Speaker 1: if she picks this dress and her mom's still like
32:55
Speaker 1: not keen on it. But if you guys can find
32:58
Speaker 1: the episode, it'll be a good on, uh, because I
33:01
Speaker 1: think you do get to see the dress that she's
33:03
Speaker 1: going to wear at one of I think they're having
33:06
Speaker 1: two ceremonies, but I think she said that she was
33:08
Speaker 1: going to wear the dress, the same dress at both
33:10
Speaker 1: of them. But anyway, it's always fun to watch somebody
33:13
Speaker 1: pick out a wedding dress, especially if you know them
33:15
Speaker 1: from Bachelor Nation. That's uh, yeah, I'm I'm pumped for that. Obviously,
33:20
Speaker 1: Kayla was on the twenties season The Bachelor, which just
33:23
Speaker 1: happened to be the season that I was the Bachelor of.
33:25
Speaker 1: And uh, and we're I mean just pumped for her.
33:28
Speaker 1: Uh she is, Uh, she will be seen on again.
33:31
Speaker 1: Say yes to the dress. Hey, Ashley, Hannah Ann and
33:34
Speaker 1: Madison Pruett, they're friends. Like, I didn't know this that
33:37
Speaker 1: they're friends. They've showed up a couple of times together, right,
33:39
Speaker 1: They've been talking to hang out. Uh. Well, they have
33:43
Speaker 1: started to react to some of the most cringe Bachelor moments,
33:46
Speaker 1: and fans love it. I mean they're freaking out over it. Okay,
33:50
Speaker 1: what they did is really cute. I think it was
33:52
Speaker 1: a TikTok, but I watched it on Instagram. They took
33:55
Speaker 1: like expressions that they made on The Bachelor, whither it
33:59
Speaker 1: was crying or just like biting her lip making a
34:02
Speaker 1: weird face, and they put themselves like on the They
34:08
Speaker 1: like projected themselves on the screen and then would re
34:12
Speaker 1: enact it in like a modern day scenario. And it's
34:15
Speaker 1: funny to watch the two of them go back and
34:17
Speaker 1: forth between all their memorable reactions on the show. It's
34:21
Speaker 1: really cute. Yes, so they're friends. Obviously they've been hanging out.
34:26
Speaker 1: We've seen them in dual interviews together. Did this friendship?
34:31
Speaker 1: Did I miss it like that? Was it happening on
34:32
Speaker 1: the show or is this something after the show? I
34:35
Speaker 1: think they're pretty friendly on the show. I'm sure that
34:37
Speaker 1: there became a time where like there was a sense
34:41
Speaker 1: of rivalry, But when neither of you end up with
34:45
Speaker 1: the with the guy, I think that that kind of dissipates. Yeah, okay,
34:50
Speaker 1: fair enough. Well, actually that's what we have in Bachelor
34:53
Speaker 1: Nation news. Obviously there's some big stories with the start
34:56
Speaker 1: of the Bacherette filming where it's being filmed. Amy came
35:00
Speaker 1: on give us some great details and insight along with
35:03
Speaker 1: the unfortunate. This is not the unfortunate scenario that Colton
35:07
Speaker 1: and Cassie. I mean, I've been there, and this sucks
35:09
Speaker 1: like it no matter what side you're on, no matter
35:11
Speaker 1: who you agree with and don't agree with. I don't
35:12
Speaker 1: know if that even matters as much as when there
35:16
Speaker 1: is this kind of hostility within a couple. After being
35:20
Speaker 1: watching them on TV. It just is hard, as you know,
35:25
Speaker 1: to watch. It's not fun. We doesn't feel like stuff
35:28
Speaker 1: we should be watching. I guess we just I mean,
35:31
Speaker 1: we wish them to reconcile and if they don't need,
35:35
Speaker 1: they don't need to be best friends. Like I mean,
35:37
Speaker 1: Laura and I are not best friends. We never were
35:39
Speaker 1: best friends. Afterwards we've barely talked, and that's I think
35:43
Speaker 1: very common with x is um. We you know, the
35:48
Speaker 1: the point that you hope to get to is just
35:50
Speaker 1: where both parties can move forward, release any burdens and
35:54
Speaker 1: any baggage in any like pains and forgive and then say, hey,
35:57
Speaker 1: we're going to look forward to the future. I mean,
36:00
Speaker 1: but right now it doesn't feel like it's getting in
36:02
Speaker 1: that direction. So we hope that for them. Well, that's
36:05
Speaker 1: all the news. We have a Bachelor Nation. Let's take
36:06
Speaker 1: one more break. When we come back, I'm gonna give
36:08
Speaker 1: it a quick update on where we're at with the
36:10
Speaker 1: Bachelor Live on stage. We've gotten some questions and uh,
36:13
Speaker 1: well I have some answers, So we'll be back with
36:15
Speaker 1: the almost famous podcasts. Ben, I do want you to
36:28
Speaker 1: talk about, um the status of Bachelor Live. But first,
36:33
Speaker 1: did we confirm this a couple of weeks ago. I
36:36
Speaker 1: want to go into ben news. Are you and just
36:39
Speaker 1: waiting until to get married? Now? Yeah? I mean unfortunately
36:43
Speaker 1: we are so just in all transparency, this is where
36:46
Speaker 1: our thought process went. Ideally it would have been this
36:48
Speaker 1: year we got married, obviously, Yeah, November was the idea.
36:52
Speaker 1: COVID you know, kind of stopped those plans, and so
36:56
Speaker 1: then we go, okay, let's look at well, um, early,
37:04
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be on tour again, We're the
37:06
Speaker 1: Bachelor live on stage, We're supposed to pick up and
37:08
Speaker 1: start touring. I was that was important for Jess and
37:11
Speaker 1: I'd be able to do It's you want to do
37:14
Speaker 1: that well married, Well, we're gonna do before we got married,
37:18
Speaker 1: because it was just the timing at of all, we
37:19
Speaker 1: weren't going to be able to plan a wedding for
37:22
Speaker 1: like the January through April dates that we thought the
37:24
Speaker 1: tour was going to be going on tour, and it's
37:28
Speaker 1: important for me to do that. It's it's a good
37:30
Speaker 1: source of income for us. We both were pumped about
37:33
Speaker 1: the idea of it. So we're like, okay, we'll do
37:35
Speaker 1: it midyear. Well, then her brother plays professional baseball, as
37:40
Speaker 1: I've mentioned before the season. Yeah, okay, so I remember
37:45
Speaker 1: when you guys first talked about your engagement and you're like,
37:47
Speaker 1: the wedding revolves around her brother's baseball schedule. So that's
37:51
Speaker 1: why I thought you guys decided on November. Yeah, and
37:53
Speaker 1: it's joyfully around his schedule. I don't want to make
37:56
Speaker 1: it sound like he's like, you know, like there's a
37:58
Speaker 1: lot that's going to be going on during a season.
38:00
Speaker 1: It's her brother, you know, she only has two brothers, Like,
38:03
Speaker 1: she wants him there. It's important for me for to
38:06
Speaker 1: have him there. And so we're like, that's fine. And
38:09
Speaker 1: now we're looking and unfortunately now and and actually it
38:13
Speaker 1: might actually work according to what we're hearing. We've now
38:17
Speaker 1: planned it to be around November one. We don't have
38:19
Speaker 1: exact date yet. We're finalizing the location of it, but
38:23
Speaker 1: I do believe it will be in November of that
38:26
Speaker 1: will be getting married. Yes, that feels like a long time. Yes,
38:30
Speaker 1: that feels hard, and it's not ideal. But what Jess
38:35
Speaker 1: and I have been able to do is like mentally
38:36
Speaker 1: wrapp our brains around the idea how much fun is
38:38
Speaker 1: it gonna be to be engaged for a year and
38:40
Speaker 1: a half, and we're talking to each other in that
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Speaker 1: way like this is a fun time, we should enjoy this,
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Speaker 1: we can celebrate this are and and hopefully by then,
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Speaker 1: you know COVID is across our fingers. It's far enough
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Speaker 1: gone that our family can be there and celebrate um
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Speaker 1: with the freedom of knowing that you know, there's a
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Speaker 1: solution to the COVID virus and we can look at
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Speaker 1: it in that in that manner. Okay, So first off,
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Speaker 1: whenever Jared and I are talking to a couple who's
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Speaker 1: had to postpone because of COVID, we're like, enjoy this
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Speaker 1: is the time to enjoy like that. Looking forward to
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Speaker 1: the wedding time. So our wedding was true, like it
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Speaker 1: was mind bogglingly perfect. Okay, like we just couldn't We
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Speaker 1: still can't believe it happened, and it happened as well
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Speaker 1: as it did, and it was everything we've ever dreamed.
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Speaker 1: But it is one day and by the time and
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Speaker 1: when it's over, you're like, holy moly, I will never
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Speaker 1: be able to experience that day again. So now every
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Speaker 1: single day leading up to your wedding, you'll be like today,
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Speaker 1: I will savor the fact that my wedding hasn't happened,
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Speaker 1: and it's going to be the best day of my life.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome. And and we're keeping that Like,
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Speaker 1: we're keeping that mindset. It's exciting for us. In Part two,
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Speaker 1: I I have to know how you and Jess are
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Speaker 1: going to deal with living apart for the next year
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Speaker 1: and a half, because I know that that was one
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Speaker 1: of the reasons that you definitely want to get married
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Speaker 1: this year, because you don't want to live together until
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Speaker 1: you're married, which I totally love in respect. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: not easy. Uh, And I don't ever want anybody to
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Speaker 1: think when they hear us talk about that that like
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Speaker 1: this is just a joyful decision that we make. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's healthy for us, it's good for us, it's the
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Speaker 1: best thing for us as people. But like, actually, it's
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Speaker 1: not easy. It's not I don't think it should be easy.
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Speaker 1: I miss her often. Um, we're apart right now. But
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Speaker 1: one of the things that we've done to kind of
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Speaker 1: make up and and I guess, uh, distract us from
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Speaker 1: the time A part is both of us have decided
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Speaker 1: to enter into learning or trying or investing our time
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Speaker 1: in the new things over this time that we're engaged.
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Speaker 1: So Jess, as I mentioned, has gone back to Estetician
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Speaker 1: school to be a more like qualified, trustworthy voice when
40:55
Speaker 1: it comes to skincare and when she talks about you know,
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Speaker 1: the act diets or the face washes and the natural
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Speaker 1: products that you can use, Like she she really desires
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Speaker 1: to be a trusted voice. So she's in school right
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Speaker 1: now in Nashville. I'm back in Denver, and we have
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Speaker 1: the restaurants and the coffee shops here. Uh, and we're
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Speaker 1: investing into those things. Um, So it's not gonna be
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Speaker 1: I'm sure there's gonna be a time that it hits us.
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Speaker 1: We will be seeing each other often, but we will
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Speaker 1: be apart until that day. And uh, I want to
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Speaker 1: believe and trust that it will in five years, we'll
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Speaker 1: look back and it will almost be just a distant
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Speaker 1: memory of how much time we spent apart, and that
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Speaker 1: we have a lifetime together, hopefully God will lifetime together.
41:38
Speaker 1: You should also savor this time where it is so
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Speaker 1: exciting to see each other. I always tell I always
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Speaker 1: tell Jared, I'm like, you know, the one thing that
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Speaker 1: makes me sad about us moving in while we were
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Speaker 1: while we were engaged. Was that like I missed the
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Speaker 1: excitement of hearing your footsteps come up to my door
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Speaker 1: and like the fact that I would like candles and
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Speaker 1: put perfume and makeup on before you came over, because
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Speaker 1: it feels like more of like a dating thing. Um,
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Speaker 1: when you live together, you can't be in that. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you can't be in that perfect state. Not perfect state,
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Speaker 1: but like the the I put makeup on and look
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Speaker 1: cute for you when you come over phase. Yeah, No,
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Speaker 1: I know, I know what you're saying. So we're looking
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Speaker 1: forward to it. Things are great with us. I appreciate
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Speaker 1: you asking. Um, I do appreciate you asking very much.
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Speaker 1: It means a lot and it's not gonna be easy.
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Speaker 1: So hey, almost famous family, Ashley h we could use
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Speaker 1: your support in the next you know, year and a
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Speaker 1: half that will be planning this and prepping for it,
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Speaker 1: just like I know a lot of you out there
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Speaker 1: making huge wedding changes or dating changes in life because
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Speaker 1: of COVID. We're in this together yean alone. Uh and
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Speaker 1: then hey, I was going to kind of give the
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Speaker 1: bachelor on stage is still is still planning on coming back? Uh.
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Speaker 1: The exact dates we don't know when. It's looking more
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Speaker 1: like mid next year to end the next year, just
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Speaker 1: because of the shut down and kind of what Broadway
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Speaker 1: is doing. And unfortunately, you know, we all just heard
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Speaker 1: that uh Cirque from Circus l you know, has declared bankruptcy. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's been really hard on the industry. But for anybody
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Speaker 1: out there that's asked, when is it coming back or
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Speaker 1: coming to a city near you, we do plan on
43:17
Speaker 1: coming back. We do look forward to seeing you soon. Um,
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Speaker 1: we just don't know when yet. And I think that's
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Speaker 1: just kind of a common theme. I'm writing a letter
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Speaker 1: right now to the staff of Generous and my theme is, uh, confusion,
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Speaker 1: chaos and the unknown, and it feels like kind of
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Speaker 1: where we're at right now with everything. Yeah, alright, so
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Speaker 1: stay tuned guys. Um, I think that's all we got
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Speaker 1: to talk about today. Benjamin, that's it, ash Well, Hey,
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Speaker 1: we'll be back next week with another episode of Almost
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Speaker 1: Famous podcast. I wish you ever be the best, Stay
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Speaker 1: stay healthy, stay safe, and wear a mask, plays well,
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Speaker 1: hear a mask. It's it's easy, not fun. It's easy
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Speaker 1: to do well. Hey, Ashley, UM, miss you see us
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