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Off-Season's Greetings · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with our radio. Hello everyone, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast.
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Speaker 1: Will you where you get me? Ashley I, Ken Eddie
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Speaker 1: and you get Ben Higgins who is the wonderful, magical, romantic, sexy, wonderful,
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Speaker 1: um smart, intelligent, emotionally um and tuned, former Bachelor and
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Speaker 1: fantastic wonderful podcast host. You had to say wonderful three
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Speaker 1: times just because there isn't any other words to like
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Speaker 1: come up with your like, I'm just stretching here for
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Speaker 1: anything good to say about this guy. Oh hey, actually
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Speaker 1: you kne who else is wonderful? Thanks? Who? Uh? Trista
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Speaker 1: and Bob Guinea. We haven't talked about them in a while.
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Speaker 1: They're rock they do our they of our podcast. They're
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Speaker 1: rocking and rolling. I just got off a meeting uh
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Speaker 1: last night talking about them like. They're killing it and
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Speaker 1: they have great interviews with really intriguing people. If you
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Speaker 1: haven't checked out Almost Famous, O G. I think, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think it's worth I definitely know it's worth the time.
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Speaker 1: It's a good show and the two of them together
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Speaker 1: are really good. But Ben, Um, what kind of meeting
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Speaker 1: did you have about them? That I wasn't on Actually
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a meeting. I was just lying to
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Speaker 1: try to make it. Jeez. Oh, I love it. I
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Speaker 1: love catching Betted moments like that. So funny. But okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: they are amazing. Sometimes I'll see the Instagram for the
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Speaker 1: O G s and I'll be like, wait a second,
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Speaker 1: why didn't we get that that guess like I want Claire,
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Speaker 1: I want so and so. And then I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm glad that Tristan Bob did it.
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Speaker 1: I am too, well, I'm just glad that. I'm just
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Speaker 1: glad they're doing it, like they're just getting it done.
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Speaker 1: They're back in the game again. It's good to see
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Speaker 1: those faces come back because I think as we move
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Speaker 1: on from that, like what we would consider the golden
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Speaker 1: Age of the Bachelor, which we couldn't even put ourselves
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Speaker 1: necessarily in that like age because I really think it
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Speaker 1: was the Bob Guineas and the Tristas and the Andrew
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Speaker 1: you man, but we definitely were also part of a
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Speaker 1: golden age. Wee that you want to call it the
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Speaker 1: first dynasty or the second we were part of one
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Speaker 1: of them, well we were, we were, but it's just
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Speaker 1: the show has changed so much that now it's good
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Speaker 1: to get back to hearing what it was about back then. Ashley,
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Speaker 1: I gotta give a little, uh, a little warning here.
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Speaker 1: I'm sick, and I'm sick, so I'm in and out
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Speaker 1: a lot. I was in Vegas this weekend, and you
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Speaker 1: would think I would be You would think I would
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Speaker 1: be sick from like, you know, what people typically do
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Speaker 1: in Vegas. I haven't consumed any alcohol, um, other than
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Speaker 1: the very first night I was there. Well, I know
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Speaker 1: I did at the basketball game a little bit. I did.
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Speaker 1: It's not a hangover. I got something bad, and um,
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Speaker 1: most people in the trip did. It's just I think
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Speaker 1: it's just a very like Jeremy time of the year
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Speaker 1: to be anywhere, especially in Vegas. But we went with
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Speaker 1: my buddy Brandon, who we've talked about many times on here,
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Speaker 1: who has a ls uh big EU basketball fans. So
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Speaker 1: ten of us met people from all over the country
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Speaker 1: in Vegas, went to U basketball game. Saw I you
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Speaker 1: just get absolutely smacked by Arizona. Um. But we had
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Speaker 1: a great time. But I don't feel great now. I'm
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Speaker 1: pretty tired. I'm so sorry. Then, you honestly sound and
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Speaker 1: look very normal, I showered for this. Uh isn't it
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Speaker 1: amazing what a shower can do when you don't feel good?
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Speaker 1: It is you want to hear, You want to hear
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Speaker 1: some secret about my life. When we remodeled our our
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Speaker 1: master bathroom, the one to remind everybody had carpeting. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: carpet all over the bathroom, like I mean, there was
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Speaker 1: carpet up around the toilet, which is just wild. Um,
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Speaker 1: So we remodeled that bathroom. We bought this house. I
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Speaker 1: decided that for um, it's actually not very expensive if
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Speaker 1: we find the right brand, and it was already plumbed
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Speaker 1: for it. We put a steam shower in our master.
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Speaker 1: So we bought a steam like machine and so now
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Speaker 1: our shower turns into a steam room. Small, but it's
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Speaker 1: great and it's a good luxury. I love just sitting there,
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Speaker 1: and I said it all morning. I mean I was
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Speaker 1: just in there sitting that is so amazing for a
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Speaker 1: moment like this, a moment like this, Do you guys
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Speaker 1: know what else is a little luxurious gift, just like
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Speaker 1: on making your bathroom feel like a spa. It's not promoted.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why I thought it. Well, I know
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Speaker 1: why I thought that you were talking about little luxuries.
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Speaker 1: There's like a forty dollar towel warmer on Amazon, and
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Speaker 1: you keep it in your Yeah, you keep it in
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Speaker 1: your bathroom. You plug it in, you put the towel
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Speaker 1: in there for like ten minutes, and then when you
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Speaker 1: get out of the shower, it's toasty. It seems like
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Speaker 1: my Christmas gifts to my wife. She's going to freak out.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like you could also just use the dryer.
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Speaker 1: But let's be real, when you put a towel in
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Speaker 1: the dryer, it's cozy and ho for like twenty seconds,
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Speaker 1: right this thing. And it's a lot of energy to
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Speaker 1: use the dryer every time, like just but you know,
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Speaker 1: like this thing, I'm sure uses a lot less energy.
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Speaker 1: So when you throw a town the dryer, you're using
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Speaker 1: a ton of energy. So this is this makes a
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Speaker 1: ton of sense. This is a great little so true Ashley.
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Speaker 1: It is off season for the Almost Famous podcast. The
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Speaker 1: show is not airing, so I want to spend a
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Speaker 1: little time today, um talking to you about some shows
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Speaker 1: that are currently out there on streaming or television that
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Speaker 1: you and Jared are enjoying. Uh. We just finished uh
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Speaker 1: from scratch Jessicabald I would uh, I'd say it was
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Speaker 1: a good show. It's very emotional. We started then last
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Speaker 1: night because I was in bed early The White Lotus
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Speaker 1: season two, which we've enjoyed season one. Yellow Stone obviously
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Speaker 1: is a favorite in this household. Um. And then I've
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Speaker 1: also started a show called Dead to Me on flights
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Speaker 1: because I can download it. Dead to Me has Christina
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Speaker 1: Apple Gay um, and it's a it's a good show. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I want to spend about I don't know, seven minutes
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Speaker 1: here because this is mostly for myself. What shows are
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Speaker 1: you watching? What shows do you recommend out there? What
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Speaker 1: shows if you heard that are good? Well? Jared and
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Speaker 1: I don't watch shows together, which I'm sure I've mentioned before,
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Speaker 1: but this is like our one relationship downfall. It's very frustrating.
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Speaker 1: I would love to bench a show with him, just
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Speaker 1: like for like our hour or so alone together at night,
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Speaker 1: be really great, like bond over a show and then
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Speaker 1: be able to speculate what's ahead. He doesn't watch TV shows.
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Speaker 1: It's super annoying. He like wants a plot to be
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Speaker 1: started and finished within three hours tops. So I watched
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Speaker 1: them by myself. Jared, it's funny, you know, like he
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Speaker 1: can watch hours and hours of football, but like can't
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Speaker 1: watch hours and hours of a plot whatever. So yes,
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Speaker 1: actually I started White Lotus last night as well, because everybody,
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Speaker 1: you know, I watched the first season last year, and um,
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Speaker 1: once I kind of we're like week's into it, I
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Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I'll just start it when
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Speaker 1: it's over, and everybody keeps talking about the finale. And
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Speaker 1: it's funny because White load this is like the show
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Speaker 1: that everybody says like, oh, you know, nothing happens, but
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Speaker 1: for some reason, I'm entrenched by it. So it is
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Speaker 1: a little bit hard to like get into when you're sleepy.
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Speaker 1: So I fell asleep fifteen minutes into it, but I
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Speaker 1: will get through it. The last show I watched start
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Speaker 1: to finish besides The Kardashians, which duh, it was The
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Speaker 1: Handmaid Sale. Uh. That season I binged. There was like
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Speaker 1: thirteen episodes and I got through it in a week,
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Speaker 1: and I was really impressed. It was really good. It
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Speaker 1: was a good season, especially since the past couple have
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Speaker 1: been like sneezers, what are you watching that you'd like
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Speaker 1: to talk about? I mean Yellowstone. I think Yellowstone is
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Speaker 1: an incredible show that has something for everybody. We always
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Speaker 1: look forward Jessica as a couple loved ted lasts, so
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Speaker 1: I think most people do. We watch a lot of
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Speaker 1: the shows that we here are good. Um. And usually
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Speaker 1: my wife is very sensitive to what she sees on television,
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Speaker 1: very pure soul, that girl. And so we have to
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Speaker 1: like watch something that isn't too intense. And if we
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Speaker 1: watch something too intense, that we gotta like follow it
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Speaker 1: up with something like funny and lighthearted and easy. Um,
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Speaker 1: I will tell you a show, uh, and then we
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Speaker 1: can move on from this that is a secret really
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Speaker 1: funny good show. I think it's called like American Auto
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Speaker 1: or something. It was only Peacock. Um. So we usually
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Speaker 1: watch that to like clear the mind before she head
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Speaker 1: to the bet. But those are the big shows out
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Speaker 1: there right now on streaming. And I saw somebody other
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Speaker 1: day tweet like, what are the good shows that are
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Speaker 1: out there this time of year in the winter, um,
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Speaker 1: And I thought it would be important today to kind
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Speaker 1: of go through some of the stuff we're watching so
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Speaker 1: that if you haven't seen some of it, you would,
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Speaker 1: you know, tune in, check in, find a way to
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Speaker 1: distract yourself from the cold storms that are gonna be
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Speaker 1: hitting you this week. Um, do you as gonna get
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Speaker 1: really cold really fast? I also was very excited to
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Speaker 1: find out that my one of my favorite movies is
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Speaker 1: now a series on Peacock that starts in like a
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Speaker 1: week best Man in Best Man Holiday, have your Investman Holiday.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, don't you love it. It's just it's
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Speaker 1: just great. It's just like great character development and like
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Speaker 1: great relationships, very real. Yeah, that is a good one.
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Speaker 1: We just I know we're going back for We just
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Speaker 1: watched four Christmas Is the other day and it with
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Speaker 1: Vince v. Yeah. That movie made me giggle start to finish.
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Speaker 1: I was giggling, giggling. How many times have do you
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Speaker 1: watch hum alone during a Christmas season? Because I think
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Speaker 1: I watched it four times in the the past, like
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Speaker 1: twelve days. So Christmas is all about We've watched it too.
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Speaker 1: It's a good one. Actually, we have a lot coming
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Speaker 1: up here on the podcast, a lot of big breaking
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Speaker 1: news U headlines to get to. Uh you know this
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Speaker 1: is leading up to Christmas season or holiday season, I
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Speaker 1: should say, but you know it's it's also a time
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Speaker 1: where you would typically uh spend time with family again
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Speaker 1: last week on the episode, we talked about some ways
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Speaker 1: that you can do good for the people in your area.
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Speaker 1: Help some people, help some people feel connected. I think
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Speaker 1: that's something to remind everybody of, especially this week. I'm
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Speaker 1: heading to Honduras here at the end of this week,
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Speaker 1: um to to check on some things down there. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna be down there for a few days. And went
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Speaker 1: ahead and meet up with my family a little islanding
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Speaker 1: called Rheaton just outside of Honduras. It's gonna be a great,
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Speaker 1: a great holiday down there. But just as you're spending
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Speaker 1: time with family this week, as you're getting prep for
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Speaker 1: the holidays, you're probably out buying your last minute gifts,
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Speaker 1: don't forget about the people in your communities that could
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Speaker 1: do some help as well. Well. With that switched, it's
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Speaker 1: time for Bachelor headlines. Take a break, we come back.
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Tia Booth, We headlined about
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Speaker 1: Nick Vile, talk about Clayton Eckard. We have some big headlines.
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Speaker 1: Stay tuned, and we're back with headlines. I think the
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Speaker 1: biggest headline this week is definitely that Tia had her baby. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so here's the headline. Bachelor Nations Tia Booth and fiance
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Speaker 1: Taylor welcome first child, a baby boy. This according to
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Speaker 1: US Weekly. So she posted on into story a couple,
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Speaker 1: you know, like a week ago, I guess that she
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Speaker 1: was having contractions during their last date night, and I
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Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, it's so excited. It's so
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Speaker 1: funny because before I had a kid, I was like,
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Speaker 1: oh God, directions, that's so nerves bucking. You feel so
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Speaker 1: bad for her, and now I feel excited for her.
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Speaker 1: Just so fun But it's probably because I had a
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Speaker 1: good birth experience. We've yet to know about TIA's birth experience.
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Speaker 1: She hasn't told that story, which is now like such
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Speaker 1: a thing to talk about on Instagram these days, but
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Speaker 1: she is documenting a lot of their life together with
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Speaker 1: the baby. She's posted on Instagram this morning that they
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Speaker 1: were like up every hour and a half of him.
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Speaker 1: But you're definitely at that phase where it's just like
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Speaker 1: it doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter. It's like adorable
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Speaker 1: when they wake up and they're not screening when they
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Speaker 1: wake up, it's like it's like nothing. Brace yourself for
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Speaker 1: the ear pinching sounds to come. But the baby's name
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Speaker 1: is Tatum Booth. So her last name Mock and that's adorable.
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Speaker 1: I think it sounds really good together. I think Booth
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Speaker 1: is a pretty cool middle name for a kid. Her boy, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Tatum Booth Mock Yeah, really cool. Can be a stud.
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Speaker 1: So she announced the birth with not a photo but
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Speaker 1: an Instagram like real. I guess it was as the
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Speaker 1: soundclip of her seeing me doing her baby for the
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Speaker 1: first time. She captioned it with the best day of
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Speaker 1: our lives. Um, so yeah, that's basically we've got so far.
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Speaker 1: Tia is keeping it real though on Instagram. So if
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Speaker 1: you're a mom, are interested in being a mom one day,
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Speaker 1: she's doing a great job documenting the realness that is
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Speaker 1: the first week or so of having a baby. She's
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Speaker 1: even showing her postpartum belly and you know how that
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Speaker 1: takes time to deflate. So yeah, there we go. Good
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Speaker 1: for Tia, good for Taylor. Congratulates two of them. It's
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Speaker 1: a big deal. Very excited for them. Here's the headline
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Speaker 1: about Nick. The question is she seems like it's still
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Speaker 1: a question. I don't know why, but would Bachelor Nations
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Speaker 1: Nick Vile be up for a TV wedding with girlfriend
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Speaker 1: Natalie one day we talked about TV wedding glassly, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and we said that they don't really do them anymore
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Speaker 1: because they're awash. Well, it's always a question. I think
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Speaker 1: the question is like they would not these weddings probably
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Speaker 1: wouldn't happen with the actual Bachelor franchise, especially if it's
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Speaker 1: with somebody that is not part of the Bachelors like Natalie.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's like if you had to televise wedding
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Speaker 1: with the Bachelor, it's like that would make any sense. No,
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Speaker 1: it wouldn't make any sense. Like it's like that wasn't
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Speaker 1: your journey with her? No, you just want to But
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Speaker 1: I would be down for them to air my wedding.
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Speaker 1: If they would have paid for my wedding, that had
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Speaker 1: been cool. Well would you have you been talking about
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Speaker 1: that for a second? No, he said, no, Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't to be there. I guess it matters. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I guess I guess it matters how much money they
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Speaker 1: were willing to pay. Sure astronomical stupid money, then yeah,
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Speaker 1: I guess yes, No not, I guess if it was
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Speaker 1: astronomical stupid money, then yes. But I am so glad
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Speaker 1: that we did not have a TV wedding. Everything's documented
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Speaker 1: for us in the most perfect way. We watched our
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Speaker 1: wedding video on our first anniversary. Yeah, that was awesome.
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Speaker 1: It was the first time we'd watched it. We saved it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we saved it the first time you watched it. We did.
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Speaker 1: We saved all year to our first anniversary and we
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Speaker 1: watched together. Well, that's sweet. That's super sweet. That must
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Speaker 1: have been really emotional. I cred a lot, just cred,
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Speaker 1: but I cred a lot. It was very emotional. Will
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Speaker 1: you ever share this video for us to see? I
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Speaker 1: think we could. I think it'd be great too. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how to do that, but yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think we could do that. You could put it on YouTube.
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Speaker 1: You can put it on a long Instagram video. How
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Speaker 1: long is it? It's like an hour long? Oh so
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Speaker 1: you're talking about like all the footage. Did you have
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Speaker 1: like a movie made, like an hour movie? Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: was like a movie. It was like showed the whole
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Speaker 1: ceremony and then like clips of the evening together. It's
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Speaker 1: really good. I would I mean, I don't mind anybody
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Speaker 1: seeing it. Um, I just don't typically know how to
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Speaker 1: upload that stuff, so I'd have to get some help
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Speaker 1: from the outside. Don't know, like a grandpa. You don't
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Speaker 1: know how to upload a YouTube video. No, I have
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Speaker 1: no clue how to upload a YouTube video. Then I don't.
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Speaker 1: I promise you I don't. It's very simple. Literally, you
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Speaker 1: sign in and then there's a button that says upload
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Speaker 1: video and attach it. I don't have a YouTube account,
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Speaker 1: but one day I will. You have a Gmail, don't you?
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Speaker 1: Therefore you have a Google account something every day? Okay, anyway,
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna grill you anymore. This is what Nick says.
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Speaker 1: He said, I don't know. I don't know if anyone
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Speaker 1: would want to have the wedding on TV. Um, But
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Speaker 1: as long as people I love are there, that's all
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Speaker 1: I really care about. They, to be clear, have not
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Speaker 1: gotten engaged yet. I'm sure it will happen soon. Um.
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Speaker 1: He says that he's always that. They also went on
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Speaker 1: to ask him if he wasn't going to have a
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Speaker 1: televised wedding, would he ever have a document, you know, docuseries,
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Speaker 1: a reality show with Natalie. He said, I don't see
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Speaker 1: that in our cards. I'm always fascinated by the content
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Speaker 1: world and the opportunities out there, so you never know,
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Speaker 1: but I don't think that's something we're prioritizing or have
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Speaker 1: even talked about, to be honest. And Nick's just really
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Speaker 1: spending this time of year and often he's a mush ball.
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Speaker 1: Now that he's with Natalie, he says he's has so
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Speaker 1: much to be grateful for, first and foremost, his family,
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Speaker 1: his siblings, his parents, Natalie and his dog Jeff, my
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Speaker 1: family and them, UM and everything that we've been able
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Speaker 1: to accomplish. Um. I'm thankful for my team and UM
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Speaker 1: all the people around me, and just thankful I get
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Speaker 1: to do what I love. And I could go on
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Speaker 1: and on, but I have a lot to be thankful for.
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Speaker 1: That's nice, he sure does. Uh. Next headline is about
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Speaker 1: Clayton Eckard. He reveals whether he still talks to Susie Evans,
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Speaker 1: if you just remind you Susie and Clayton were together
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Speaker 1: after his season of the Bachelor, and if he'd ever
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Speaker 1: go on The Bachelor in Paradise This according to Bachelor Nation. Okay,
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Speaker 1: he says a couple of things here. Bullet point number one, Yes,
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Speaker 1: he talks to Susie. It's not very serious. It's not like,
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Speaker 1: you know, they're great friends. That go back and forth
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Speaker 1: via text all day long and sent tik talks to
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Speaker 1: each other, but they check in to each other from
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Speaker 1: time to time. He says, we're friends. Things are great.
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Speaker 1: I love her and I love her family, and of
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Speaker 1: course I wish her nothing but the best. He's also
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Speaker 1: goes on to say that she's an incredible woman and
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Speaker 1: is going to make someone extremely happy one day. He
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Speaker 1: also talks about going on Bachelor in Paradise, which he
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Speaker 1: says he's not actively considering it right now, but dot
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Speaker 1: dot dot later. That's interesting, Huh. I thought he was
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Speaker 1: going to say a flat out now because he's certainly
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Speaker 1: never acted as if he I think he should too,
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Speaker 1: but he certainly never acted like it was a positive
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Speaker 1: experience for him. So you know, but but yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: he seems open to it. Can we also say that
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Speaker 1: after seeing Jason Tarjek's post with him this week, I
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Speaker 1: don't why did you catch those reels where Jason asked
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Speaker 1: did you make more money before the Bachelor as a
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Speaker 1: medical sales rep or as the Bachelor? You know in
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Speaker 1: your gear after it? And he said he made more
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Speaker 1: money as a medical sales rep. So I was thinking
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Speaker 1: like he was going to say go back to work. Yeah,
19:24
Speaker 1: like he would go back to work, but apparently he
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Speaker 1: is having a great time with his career right now.
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Speaker 1: He says that The Bachelor was able to give him
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Speaker 1: a platform that was able to allow him to do
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Speaker 1: what really makes him happy. He says he's currently chasing,
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Speaker 1: chasing his passions on speaking of mental health, nationally, impacting
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Speaker 1: others through online personal training, and using the platform to
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Speaker 1: share resources to help others in their struggles. All three
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Speaker 1: of these possibilities wouldn't be possible without the platform I
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Speaker 1: was given, and I feel like I found my purpose.
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Speaker 1: So the answer is yes, um, he yeah, he's just
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Speaker 1: he's just happy for the positive outcomes that came from
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Speaker 1: being The Bachelor and says that he's happier now than
20:10
Speaker 1: he has been in a very long time. Good for him, No,
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Speaker 1: it's good. It's not you know, obviously it's not about
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Speaker 1: the money. Uh. It is shocking. I think it's changed
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Speaker 1: a lot here recently where the leads coming off the show,
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Speaker 1: especially the men, aren't really finding the opportunities that maybe
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Speaker 1: they once did. I think it's just kind of time
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Speaker 1: of uh, you know, you know, who's watching the show,
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Speaker 1: how many people are watching the show. They used to
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Speaker 1: be like I heard Clayton in that interview say like
20:39
Speaker 1: he was people were saying, hey, you're gonna make millions.
20:41
Speaker 1: Well that's I mean, that's not always true. Um, but
20:47
Speaker 1: typically there are good opportunities for that first year, second
20:50
Speaker 1: year that where you can really start to find your groove.
20:52
Speaker 1: But I just think it's a different season for the show, which,
20:55
Speaker 1: you know, from the contestants standpoint, probably disappointing and a
20:59
Speaker 1: little frustrating because are giving up a lot of to
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Speaker 1: go on the show. From a fan standpoint, I actually
21:04
Speaker 1: if I take away, you know, and just say I'm
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Speaker 1: a fan, I am really excited about it because people
21:10
Speaker 1: no longer going to be able to go on the
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Speaker 1: show strictly to try to get famous, strictly to try
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Speaker 1: to be influencers, Like they're gonna have to go back
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Speaker 1: to going on the show for the reason of trying
21:19
Speaker 1: to find love. And I think that is going to
21:21
Speaker 1: be a good switch with intentions of people. Um, you know,
21:27
Speaker 1: so who knows it, ebbs and flows. But right now
21:30
Speaker 1: we're definitely in a season where if you're coming off
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Speaker 1: the show, you're not just getting handed every gig, every opportunity,
21:35
Speaker 1: every rag carpet, every show hosting, every thing you can do.
21:39
Speaker 1: This does not happening. For sure, for sure, it's not happening.
21:53
Speaker 1: Bachelor's star Ari Liondyke, he's in our headlines two weeks
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Speaker 1: in a row. Last week he was in the headlines
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Speaker 1: for burning his in Thiaga shoes. But Ari and Brandy
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Speaker 1: Glanville join reality stars to compete in a new show,
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Speaker 1: The Traders. This according to Yahoo, So The Traders to
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Speaker 1: me sounds like it's Big Brother celebrity edition. We don't
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Speaker 1: have a ton of detail. It is hosted by Alan
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Speaker 1: Cumming and it's being publicized as a psychological adventure in
22:27
Speaker 1: which treachery and dissent are the name of the game.
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Speaker 1: Their celebrities and non celebrities, and they come together to
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Speaker 1: compete in a series of challenges with the objective of
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Speaker 1: earning a cash prize. Prizes can reach up to as
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Speaker 1: much as a quarter of a million dollars. Three of
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Speaker 1: the those twenty contestants will be known as the Traders,
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Speaker 1: and they will be plotting to steal the prize from
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Speaker 1: the rest of the group, dubbed the Faithful. So I
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Speaker 1: guess it's a little bit different than Big Brother UM.
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Speaker 1: It'll it'll be set in a remote castle in the
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Speaker 1: Scottish Highlands and it'll be a game chuck full of alliances,
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Speaker 1: deceptions and even murder. Well I don't think it says quote.
23:18
Speaker 1: There's like a quote around murder, so who knows what
23:22
Speaker 1: that'll mean. Maybe they'll get like captured into a dungeon
23:25
Speaker 1: and considered murder. So it'll be interesting. I really like
23:28
Speaker 1: aries poster, you know, his face shot whatever you want
23:33
Speaker 1: to call it, what do you would you call it?
23:34
Speaker 1: Like his head shot for the It's yeah, it's pretty cool.
23:40
Speaker 1: So not only will Brandy Glanville be there, but lots
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Speaker 1: of people, not lots of but there's people contestants from Survivor,
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Speaker 1: Shahs of Sunset, Big Brother UM and Summer House, Real
23:53
Speaker 1: Housewives and Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lockedy because lion Ryan
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Speaker 1: loves to do things. Like I was going to say,
24:01
Speaker 1: he just shows up. Yeah, there'll be ten episodes and
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Speaker 1: they all start streaming, they all drop, they ll drop
24:10
Speaker 1: on January. Well, actually we're getting more info on the
24:16
Speaker 1: Peter Webber Kelly Flanagan relationship. The headline reads this, Peter
24:20
Speaker 1: Webber and Kelly Flannagan give first joint interview since reconciliation.
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Speaker 1: Everything happens for a reason, they said this according to
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Speaker 1: US Weekly. I know. So they were at the Points
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Speaker 1: Guy Awards at Terminal five in New York City on Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: and they talked in the carpet and they said, it's
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Speaker 1: been really really special. This is Peter's words, really really special.
24:45
Speaker 1: And I think we're both enjoying how it's been the
24:48
Speaker 1: second time around, and things happen for a reason, and
24:50
Speaker 1: I can say that I'm very, very happy. Also says
24:54
Speaker 1: that his parents love it. They absolutely love the reunion,
24:59
Speaker 1: and Kelly says that she's happy, genuinely happy. We get
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Speaker 1: along and connect, which is good. And I think coming
25:09
Speaker 1: off the show, you go through a lot of stuff
25:11
Speaker 1: that puts a lot of pressure on you, and this
25:14
Speaker 1: time around, it's a lot more relaxed, so it's easier.
25:17
Speaker 1: And they will not be spending the holidays together. Kelly's
25:22
Speaker 1: eighty five year old dad is going through some health issues,
25:25
Speaker 1: so she's going to spend the holidays with family as
25:27
Speaker 1: much as she can, and Peter understands and it's very
25:30
Speaker 1: supportive of that. She says, good for the two of them.
25:33
Speaker 1: We'll follow that story, follow that relationship. Another Bachelor love
25:37
Speaker 1: story forming. Even though it didn't fully happen on television,
25:40
Speaker 1: it's happening outside of television. Ashley, that's all the headlines
25:44
Speaker 1: we have today. Again, holiday season is upon us. Families
25:50
Speaker 1: are going to be joined together, Friendships are going to
25:52
Speaker 1: be coming together. You're gonna have some holiday parties. Don't
25:55
Speaker 1: forget the people in your community that could use a
25:58
Speaker 1: little love. And here the Almost Famous podcast wants to
26:02
Speaker 1: support that and be behind that. Um So share your
26:04
Speaker 1: stories if you uh, you know, brag about yourself a
26:07
Speaker 1: little bit, uh, reach out to us, email us, find
26:11
Speaker 1: us on Twitter, tell us what you're doing to care
26:14
Speaker 1: for those around you. Well, that's all we have for
26:17
Speaker 1: you today. Will be back next week breaking down another
26:20
Speaker 1: week of Bachelor headlines, which is always fun. Getting prepped,
26:25
Speaker 1: starting to get more prepped for this next season that's
26:27
Speaker 1: coming up. We're gonna start talking about some of the
26:30
Speaker 1: people that have been on the show, some of the
26:31
Speaker 1: rumors flying around the show. How we think Zach's gonna do.
26:36
Speaker 1: I uh, she will remain nameless, but I have spoken
26:41
Speaker 1: to somebody that was on this season of the show.
26:44
Speaker 1: I could probably share a few things of what we
26:46
Speaker 1: talked about. Can you do that now? No, No, I'm
26:50
Speaker 1: gonna wait till next week. No, let's have her on
26:53
Speaker 1: and then we'll put one of those voice transformers on her.
26:56
Speaker 1: That's so good that we can utilize that way more often.
27:00
Speaker 1: How fun would be to have voice like transformers. We
27:04
Speaker 1: could be the podcast that does that. Well is And
27:07
Speaker 1: then I went on the show and I was eliminated
27:10
Speaker 1: during Well, Um, I guess it's a week where it's
27:13
Speaker 1: a beginning week. I will say this, Ash, I will
27:17
Speaker 1: say one little him. Okay, okay, you got to give
27:22
Speaker 1: us something because this season is not something that we're
27:24
Speaker 1: all very thrilled about. I am. I am nervous that
27:30
Speaker 1: our biggest questions and concerns about this season. Yeah, I'm
27:36
Speaker 1: nervous about that. You mean that no girls are really
27:38
Speaker 1: into him. I'll leave that with what I said. I
27:42
Speaker 1: think our biggest concerns and questions maybe true, but it
27:47
Speaker 1: is not that no girls are into to him. I
27:50
Speaker 1: just I think, Um, I think we're gonna have to
27:54
Speaker 1: have the cast really carry a heavy weight through this season.
28:00
Speaker 1: I think I think it's going to have to be
28:02
Speaker 1: a very cast that was Clayton too, like, why do
28:04
Speaker 1: they keep doing this? Does gosh? Maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.
28:08
Speaker 1: I'll gather more info, um from a couple of people
28:12
Speaker 1: this week so that we can talk about a little
28:14
Speaker 1: more next week. I have some more details. I am
28:17
Speaker 1: just nervous as of right now. Uh with that and
28:21
Speaker 1: um and that that scares me a bit. I don't
28:24
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch a show that it's just
28:26
Speaker 1: like this is boring, But I don't think it will be.
28:29
Speaker 1: They always find a way to shake it up. They
28:30
Speaker 1: always find a way to bring in some dramas, some
28:33
Speaker 1: love uh stories. Um, I just don't know. I don't
28:38
Speaker 1: know if it's a home run. And I think one
28:40
Speaker 1: of the other reasons I'd say that is because we
28:42
Speaker 1: haven't heard from a lot of the people that usually
28:44
Speaker 1: tweet about the show, uh during production and after production,
28:47
Speaker 1: like this is the most dramatic show season ever, stuff
28:50
Speaker 1: happening that we've never seen before, Like this hasn't been
28:53
Speaker 1: said yet and usually has already been said because it
28:57
Speaker 1: usually happens during filming, and it's been a very quiet filming,
29:01
Speaker 1: Like nobody's talking about it, nobody's even hinting at stuff.
29:05
Speaker 1: There's even no rumors spreading around. It's kind of wild
29:08
Speaker 1: how quiet people have been about this upcoming season, and
29:12
Speaker 1: that makes me nervous. I wish I had something to
29:16
Speaker 1: add here, but I don't. Yeah, that's the way it is. Well,
29:19
Speaker 1: we'll be back next week talking more about this. We'll
29:21
Speaker 1: get more info for you, we'll start teasing this season.
29:24
Speaker 1: We're gonna be as honest with you as we possibly
29:26
Speaker 1: can be. Basically just scheming how we can make it interesting. Yeah, exactly.
29:31
Speaker 1: We're going to figure out a way to make this
29:32
Speaker 1: next season of the Bachelor one that you cannot miss
29:35
Speaker 1: because you've got to be here hanging out with us,
29:38
Speaker 1: talking with us, catching up on life. Well, until next time,
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Speaker 1: I've been been, I've been Ashley. I can't wait till
29:43
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