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Clare the Air · 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. We've made it through uh the
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Speaker 1: insanely long offseason, the off season that has never stopped,
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Speaker 1: the off season that we'll never get again. Well, who knows.
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Speaker 1: Actually this this has been crazy, But we are celebrating
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Speaker 1: Claire's season premiering starting right now. With this episode, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna break down everything from Claire her Bachelor headlines, the
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Speaker 1: Bachelor headlines. We're gonna bring on some guests who I
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Speaker 1: think you're really gonna want to talk to, uh, Leslie
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Speaker 1: Murphy and Robert Graham. Uh. And then we'll be airing
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Speaker 1: a second episode uh in just a few days, talking
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Speaker 1: about Claire's guys maybe what we think we can expect,
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Speaker 1: and then also talking to uh Tinley Moleson, Eric Bigger
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Speaker 1: and Lupel. Actually we've got a big week in front
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Speaker 1: of us. Yep, So two part guys, and just heads
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Speaker 1: up because next week next week is the premiere. It
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Speaker 1: premieres on Tuesday. The Bachelor will be on Tuesdays this year,
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Speaker 1: so um this this podcast will also be airing on
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Speaker 1: well Tuesday nights, so after the episode this will be up. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're not gonna spoil it. This will be like a
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Speaker 1: let's say it on Monday and you watch on Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: and you know what's gonna happen. It will be Tuesday nights, Ashley.
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Speaker 1: I think it's important right now to mention two things.
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Speaker 1: One thing less serious uh than the other. The first
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Speaker 1: is that if there's like some like pounding in the background,
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Speaker 1: it's not Jared who. What it is is you have
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Speaker 1: like some construction going on around your house, don't you. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's some drilling going on. I'm sure it'll end soon,
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Speaker 1: but I'm sorry. Yeah, just forgiver, uh, for forgive the
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Speaker 1: people outside work and it's a it's a beautiful day
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles to the outside. The second thing we
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Speaker 1: want to talk about is we uh we received some
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Speaker 1: messages this week, um and there they saddened our whole
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Speaker 1: team here. Uh. It was in relation to the Facebook
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Speaker 1: group for the Almost Famous podcast. The group was started
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Speaker 1: a few years ago with the idea that we could
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Speaker 1: build a community around it with our listeners, that they
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Speaker 1: could interact, talk about the show, talk about everything they
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Speaker 1: love in life. Um. It was never intended nor is
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Speaker 1: it still the place for bullying, uh, and for putting
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Speaker 1: other people down. Conversations in the healthiest ways are UH wanted, needed, accepted.
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Speaker 1: But we hope this Facebook group UM is a representation
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Speaker 1: of all of our listeners, including Ashley and myself and
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Speaker 1: our team. We hope this Facebook group is a representation
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Speaker 1: of all of our listeners, Ashley, myself and our team.
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Speaker 1: And it won't be tolerated, UM to make other people
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Speaker 1: feel less than, or to bully or or to threaten UH.
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Speaker 1: That isn't accepted. We don't want it there UM. And
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Speaker 1: so please, if you're a part of that group, encourage kindness,
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Speaker 1: encourage love, acceptance, understanding, UH, gentleness, UH, and listening. That
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Speaker 1: is what our hope is. That is what we ask
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Speaker 1: of all of us together. UH. As you've noticed here recently,
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Speaker 1: Ashley and I had to do a lot of listening,
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Speaker 1: a lot of learning, a lot of understanding. UH. And
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Speaker 1: I will tell you that I am better for it.
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Speaker 1: I'll speak for Rashly UH and say that she is
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Speaker 1: better for it. UM and UH and we hoped for
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Speaker 1: all of you. So we want to start with that.
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Speaker 1: That is really important. UH. It is something we will
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Speaker 1: be monitoring UM. But we just we want to be
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Speaker 1: able to continue to have that platform and uh in
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Speaker 1: that place to speak, and so hey, uh we can
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Speaker 1: move on there, Ashley. With some Bachelor headlines, and there
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Speaker 1: are many just I don't know how they keep doing it,
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Speaker 1: but Bachelor people keep doing crazy stuff. Um. But the
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Speaker 1: first headline is Chris Harrison on what to expect from
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Speaker 1: season sixteen of The Bachelorette. He says, and I quote,
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Speaker 1: it's a wild ride this according to people. Okay, so
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Speaker 1: Harrison says that the drama starts on night one. He
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Speaker 1: also says that there will be an unprecedented twist in
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Speaker 1: season sixteen, beyond usual fights and romantic dinner dates. I
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Speaker 1: wonder what he's referring to their He then goes on
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Speaker 1: to say something that I actually think it is kind
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Speaker 1: of odd, and I don't really know if I like it. Ah,
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Speaker 1: he goes What I can confirm is that this is
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Speaker 1: clear season one, it's all hers. It's about her story
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Speaker 1: and everything that happens after that you'll just have to
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Speaker 1: wait and see. What the heck. Don't you feel like
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Speaker 1: that it's really rude to Tasia? But we don't. But again, Ashley, UM,
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Speaker 1: I mean tell me if I'm wrong, And a lot
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Speaker 1: of times you educate me and all this stuff, but like,
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Speaker 1: we still don't know what Tassia's role is in this,
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Speaker 1: right sure, but if we come to find out in
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Speaker 1: week three or whatnot, that she becomes the bachelorette as
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Speaker 1: everyone is reporting, isn't that just weird to say that
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Speaker 1: it's one clear season and it's all about her, Like
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Speaker 1: that's so weird. Yes, So there's like two paths here.
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Speaker 1: Either one is they've really duped us and have very
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Speaker 1: little role this seaar wrong the whole time. They've kept
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Speaker 1: it a secret, which hey, as you and I know
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Speaker 1: the Bachelor is really good at keeping secrets, or Tassia
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Speaker 1: is a part of this season and this ends up
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Speaker 1: being a really weird comment. I think it's is gonna
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Speaker 1: end up being a weird comment. I could even try
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Speaker 1: to excuse it by saying, like, maybe they have Claire
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Speaker 1: be part of the season. Throughout the entire thing, they're
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Speaker 1: always checking up on her, you know, she's part of
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Speaker 1: at least five minutes of every episode. But the fact
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Speaker 1: that he says it's Claire season is super interesting. I'm
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Speaker 1: not hating on Harrison. We love Harrison, but this sounds
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Speaker 1: like an extremist comment. Given all the rumors, Okay, and
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Speaker 1: we can move on from here this but Harrison doesn't
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Speaker 1: speak typically. I've I've never really, in my time kind
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Speaker 1: of following along with him, I have never heard him
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Speaker 1: in the promotion of a season speak unwisely and unthoughtful.
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Speaker 1: He says is very strategic, is very calculated, and he
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Speaker 1: knows where his boundaries can be pushed. And so what
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Speaker 1: if we look into this and say, if I'm following
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Speaker 1: Harrison's lead right now, I'm saying TASTI is a smaller
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Speaker 1: part of the season. We think she's not she doesn't
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Speaker 1: become the bachelorette. Ditto what you said. Everything he said
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Speaker 1: says is usually so thought out that it's that it's
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Speaker 1: almost like he wants us to read into this statement.
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Speaker 1: All right, Chris Harrison, well you did a good job,
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Speaker 1: because I don't know what anyways, that's a comment. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Next headline is The Bachelorettes. Mike Johnson reveals the advice
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Speaker 1: he gave first black bachelor Matt James is according to people, well,
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Speaker 1: it seems like he only spoke to him or gave
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Speaker 1: his advice when Matt was just supposed to be a
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Speaker 1: contestant on Claire's season. The two of them met in
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Speaker 1: New York City and the advice that he gave him
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Speaker 1: is great advice. It's not specific for being the Bachelor
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Speaker 1: or the first black Bachelor, but justin a great advice
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Speaker 1: for anyone who's going to be on the show. He said, Um,
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Speaker 1: treat a girl how your mother taught you to treat woman.
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Speaker 1: And then of course he jokes by saying, your shirt
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Speaker 1: is gonna be off at some point in time. So
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Speaker 1: I told him to make sure that you have a
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Speaker 1: better body than Tyler. Well, it's hard to do. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's not. That's not a challenge I want to accept. Anyways, Hey, Ashley,
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Speaker 1: you've talked about a few times, and it is something
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Speaker 1: that we just seem to be celebrating every week over here.
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Speaker 1: And we're gonna bring on some some new moms, uh
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Speaker 1: in a future mom here to the next two episodes.
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Speaker 1: But The Bachelor's Ashley Fraser Welcome's daughter every ann and
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Speaker 1: the quote is absolutely perfect and healthy. This again, according
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Speaker 1: to People, the baby was born on September. Ashley says
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Speaker 1: that you can expect baby Spam to come to her
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Speaker 1: Instagram and this just adds to our list of bachelor
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Speaker 1: lums having babies this this year. We went through the
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Speaker 1: entire list last week and it's just it's wild. It's wild.
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Speaker 1: This is her, this is her second child with her husband,
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Speaker 1: Aaron Williams. Well, Ashley, before we move on, I do
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Speaker 1: want to mention that there is a bachelor who has
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Speaker 1: recently announced that he is madly in love and it's
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Speaker 1: not with the person that he picked from his season.
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Speaker 1: But before we do, Ashley, let's talk a second about
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Speaker 1: so No Bellow. I have my mom's nose. Everybody says it,
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Speaker 1: I've got my mom's nose. Uh. I have my dad's personality,
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Speaker 1: But I don't know if those things really translate with
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Speaker 1: so no Bellow Ashley, What what kind of genetics do
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Speaker 1: you get from both your parents? Well, I have a
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Speaker 1: flat stomach thanks to my mom, and maybe a big
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Speaker 1: booty thanks to my mom too, But I and I
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Speaker 1: have my dad's personality for sure. Uh. And then I
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Speaker 1: have my grandmother's arms, and that's the body part that
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Speaker 1: I hold some weight in that I would like to
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Speaker 1: that he didn't choose on the season. But before we
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Speaker 1: get there, we do have a headline that we have
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Speaker 1: to cover that came out this week. This According to Cosmo, Tyler,
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Speaker 1: Cameron opened up about not speaking to Hannah Brown this summer. Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is juicy stuff. He says, there was definitely a
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Speaker 1: time where we didn't speak. We have a very different relationship.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to you know, we've had ups and downs
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Speaker 1: right now, I think he means it was hard to define.
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Speaker 1: We've had ups and downs. Right now, we're in a
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Speaker 1: great spot where friends were able to kind of come back.
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Speaker 1: It was really great to see her this week. If
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Speaker 1: you guys didn't see, they were spotted hanging out in
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Speaker 1: l a Um. It was really great to see her
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Speaker 1: and hang out and be ourselves again and be friends
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Speaker 1: and all that. It was hard. We both weren't in
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Speaker 1: a great spot when we were hanging out earlier this summer.
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Speaker 1: Were in a much better place now as people, and
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Speaker 1: it's allowing us to have a good friendship now. So
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Speaker 1: if you guys remember, and I know you do, Hannah
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Speaker 1: went down to Florida and was part of the quarantine
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Speaker 1: crew in March, and since then they apparently didn't really speak.
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Speaker 1: They had had some interactions on social media, and we
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Speaker 1: know that Tyler was standing by Hannah's side when she
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Speaker 1: was going through the trouble that she went through earlier
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Speaker 1: this summer. Now, this whole article, this interview that Cosmo
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Speaker 1: did with Tyler makes me wonder and like, yes, I'm
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Speaker 1: just assuming here, and yes I am spitballing things that
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Speaker 1: I have no clue about, but I'm just gonna say it, right,
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Speaker 1: I feel like they did have a like a sort
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Speaker 1: of like a friend on and off relationship romance. Something
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Speaker 1: was going on, right, There was definitely more than friendship
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Speaker 1: that happened in the quarantine house. Because if if it
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Speaker 1: weren't for a complicated are we friends? Are we friends
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Speaker 1: with benefits? Can we be more? I want to be more,
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Speaker 1: you don't want to be more type of situation, then
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Speaker 1: why would they stop being why would they stop talking
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Speaker 1: for a period of time. So do we ever get
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Speaker 1: like confirmation from the two of them back during the
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Speaker 1: quarantine crew that they were like more than just friends.
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Speaker 1: I remember that time. I remember watching the videos. I
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Speaker 1: remember like the assumptions being made, like, hey, there's gotta
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Speaker 1: be something going on, like there has to be. But
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Speaker 1: I don't. I can't recall that we ever found out
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Speaker 1: like what the status of their relationship was. I guess
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Speaker 1: now we never did. And if anything, they kept saying like, oh,
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Speaker 1: we're friends, right, friends? We're like yeah, I mean like
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Speaker 1: they're friends. But you cannot tell me that they didn't,
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Speaker 1: like there wasn't a move made at some point in
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Speaker 1: the quarantine house, right, I mean, this is me gossiping,
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Speaker 1: Yes it is. I don't have facts on this. I
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Speaker 1: don't know that anybody beyond Tyler and Hannah and their
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Speaker 1: close group of friends have facts on this um. But
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Speaker 1: I think that what Tyler is saying is that their
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Speaker 1: relationship was complicated at some point and they're becoming friends now.
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Speaker 1: And I'm speculating again, but I would just say that,
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Speaker 1: based on my own experience, somebody probably wanted to be
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Speaker 1: more than just friends, and then another person probably didn't
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Speaker 1: want to be more than just friends, and and maybe
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Speaker 1: somebody was like, I can't be around you if we're
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Speaker 1: not more than just friends, and um, we need to
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Speaker 1: take a friend We need to take a friend break
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Speaker 1: because like it's just too hard for me and it's
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Speaker 1: not healthy for me to be around you if I
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Speaker 1: want more. Right, this is just my deduction from these quotes.
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Speaker 1: But it's good to see him back out together again,
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Speaker 1: and it's nice to see the two of them just
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Speaker 1: sharing life together in whatever way they have previous and
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Speaker 1: are doing now. Who knows those kids those days, they're
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Speaker 1: they're always doing something. And speaking of recent Bachelor's, Peter
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Speaker 1: Weber and Kelly Flann again are and I quote very
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Speaker 1: in love and moving in together soon. This according to
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Speaker 1: US Weekly. Yeah, so the two of them are going
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Speaker 1: to be moving to New York, but interestingly only for
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Speaker 1: a year. The plan is only for a year, and
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Speaker 1: they're going to get a house in the Chicago area
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Speaker 1: as an investment. UM. They are planning on moving to
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Speaker 1: New York in January for Peter's job. UM I don't
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Speaker 1: know that. I tell me pilots and families of pilots
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Speaker 1: out there, if do do pilots have to live in
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Speaker 1: a certain area, I guess, like if they're going on
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Speaker 1: a certain route. So they're going to move to New
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Speaker 1: York for a year in January for Peter's job as them,
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Speaker 1: and they're looking for a house in Chicago now, and
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Speaker 1: they are very in love, very serious and committed to
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Speaker 1: one another. It's gonna be so interesting at these two
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Speaker 1: like get engaged. It's gonna be so so fun, I know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like they're on their way right
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Speaker 1: like like I feel like it's I don't know, like
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Speaker 1: this relationship has blossomed in front of us. They were
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Speaker 1: very secret about it for long, I mean the corners,
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Speaker 1: and they've been really like side by side ever since then.
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Speaker 1: I will say this, if you can quarantine in a
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Speaker 1: new relationship and then keep it going after courtly, you
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Speaker 1: know afterwards where there you know, it looks like now
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Speaker 1: they're out and about a little bit. Like that's a
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Speaker 1: pretty good sign. Uh, It's something to to celebrate. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they found love on this season, and yesterday maybe didn't
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Speaker 1: happen the way we all thought it would, or expected
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Speaker 1: it would or got to watch it. But hey, as
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Speaker 1: we just said, Peter Webber and Kelly Flannagan are moving
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Speaker 1: in together and uh, looking like they're gonna start life toither. Well, Hey, Ashley, UM,
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Speaker 1: let's take a break here. When we come back, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna have one of our most special people. Uh, somebody
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Speaker 1: uh that has a lot going on in their life,
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Speaker 1: somebody who has recently moved in with their love uh
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Speaker 1: and uh and who has a lot of exciting things
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Speaker 1: to talk about. We're gonna have Leslie Murphy on the podcast.
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Speaker 1: But let's take a break when we come back with
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Speaker 1: Leslie Murphy. Alright, guys, Leslie Murphy from Sean Lowe season,
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Speaker 1: from our season of Bachelor Winter Games is on the
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Speaker 1: line right now. Hey, Leslie, You've got so much going on.
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Speaker 1: There's like three major things in your life. Okay, you
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Speaker 1: got engaged, I did. You got engaged this year pre
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Speaker 1: quarantine Okay, Then you announced last week that you're pregnant
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Speaker 1: and gratulations, thank you, thank you. And this week you
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Speaker 1: announced that you're moving to back home to Arkansas. It's wild.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know where to start. I don't even
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Speaker 1: think it's all processed at any time, and it's crazy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so let's start at the beginning. You've got you got
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Speaker 1: engaged a few months back. When was the exact dated
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Speaker 1: fourth I can't forget February fourth. Had it happened? He uh,
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Speaker 1: he proposed via drone via model plane. So he flew
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Speaker 1: him out a plane on the bottom of the drone
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Speaker 1: with the ring attached, all the way across the beach.
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Speaker 1: And I thought he wasn't gonna put the ring in
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Speaker 1: it and just like pull it out of his pocket.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, it was pretty weasy, and the ring was
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Speaker 1: in the box the whole time. And so then he
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Speaker 1: had this little drop maneuver and he just pressed a
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Speaker 1: button and so then the dring, the ring dropped from
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Speaker 1: the drone and he got down on the knee on
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Speaker 1: the beach and I, that's so cute. Yeah, it was cute.
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Speaker 1: It was like, oh, please, Ben, I'm sure your proposal
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Speaker 1: was beautiful. It was like an It was an ode
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Speaker 1: to how we met because I slid into his d
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Speaker 1: M S and hopes that this complete stranger at the
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Speaker 1: time would fix my drone. So then it all came
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Speaker 1: full circle with the proposal. Wait a stranger would fix
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Speaker 1: your drones? Yeah, I had a I had a drone
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Speaker 1: that needed to be fixed, and so am a mutual
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Speaker 1: friend told me to to d M him to see
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Speaker 1: if he could fix it. And so I randomly just
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Speaker 1: slid into his d MS one day, like two years ago,
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Speaker 1: and he couldn't fix it, but he let me borrow
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Speaker 1: his and hopes that we'd see each other again, and
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Speaker 1: so the rest is history. Was there any other like
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Speaker 1: reason for you d M E M or is it
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Speaker 1: really just for the drone? It was just for the drone.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't do any research on this guy. But
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Speaker 1: I remember pulling up to his house. His door was
20:46
Speaker 1: already open, so I could see him before I even
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Speaker 1: crossed through the threshold. And I saw him and I
20:51
Speaker 1: was like, damn, I should have done more research on
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Speaker 1: this guy. He's hot. And that's how it started. And
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Speaker 1: then we saw each other again because I had to
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Speaker 1: give his drone to him. And then our first day
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Speaker 1: was when we went flying my new drune because he
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Speaker 1: bought me a new one. Where is he from? Where's
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Speaker 1: he lives? He is from Sydney, Australia and he lives
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Speaker 1: with me now in Arkansas. How did you okay, So
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Speaker 1: were you in Australia when you're drone broke? No, we
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Speaker 1: were both living in l A at the time, so
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Speaker 1: this was two years ago. We were both on the
21:26
Speaker 1: West side in l A, which never happens. You know,
21:29
Speaker 1: if you live anywhere close in l A. It's it's
21:31
Speaker 1: like a magical feats because I had to drive like
21:35
Speaker 1: eight minutes to his house to see if he could
21:37
Speaker 1: fix his drone. And so it just worked easy from
21:40
Speaker 1: from the get go. And and yeah, I'll started with
21:44
Speaker 1: drones and ended with drums. That's really cute. That proposal
21:47
Speaker 1: is even cuter now. So you're getting this guy who
21:50
Speaker 1: is from Sydney, Australia to move to Little Rock, Arkansas, right.
21:55
Speaker 1: I never thought there'd be a day like like this
21:58
Speaker 1: would happen, but it did. And he lovingly and willingly
22:02
Speaker 1: said yes because he's such a family guy and the
22:05
Speaker 1: Australian borders are closed for god knows how much longer
22:08
Speaker 1: because of COVID, and so he said, you know, I
22:11
Speaker 1: think family is so important, and when we have this baby,
22:14
Speaker 1: I think it's important to be around family. If we
22:15
Speaker 1: can't be around mine, we should be around yours. And
22:19
Speaker 1: so I've struggled really hard of it because I never
22:22
Speaker 1: thought i'd move back to Arkansas. Um, never in a
22:24
Speaker 1: million years, And then you know, I kept going back
22:28
Speaker 1: to I'm never going to regret many more time with family,
22:31
Speaker 1: especially when this baby is born. And so here we
22:33
Speaker 1: are on day one in Arkansas. This is day one,
22:38
Speaker 1: like this is this is the first move. Well, thanks
22:41
Speaker 1: for taking time to hang out with this. UM. What
22:44
Speaker 1: are some things you're most looking forward to with the
22:46
Speaker 1: move back other than family? I mean families obvious? Um,
22:51
Speaker 1: the yeah, family is obvious. I mean that's the number
22:54
Speaker 1: one reason we're here. And to have help with the baby. Honestly,
22:58
Speaker 1: I mean I am not there yet. I certainly don't
23:01
Speaker 1: know what I'm doing. Uh, so I need all the
23:04
Speaker 1: help I can get from them. Rekindling old friendships that I,
23:08
Speaker 1: you know, haven't seen since high school or prior to that, um,
23:12
Speaker 1: and being gone. I work in travel, and so when
23:15
Speaker 1: we were living in l A, it's hard to create
23:18
Speaker 1: a community there when you're constantly back and forth all
23:22
Speaker 1: over the world. And so here I have that stable
23:25
Speaker 1: community and so I can leave and know I can
23:28
Speaker 1: come back and have you know, the ones to see
23:31
Speaker 1: you when I do, what do you plan on doing
23:34
Speaker 1: when it comes to traveling and having a newborn? Drap
23:39
Speaker 1: the kid on my back and go, yeah, so it's
23:42
Speaker 1: not gonna we don't think it's gonna affect your travel
23:44
Speaker 1: as much. I think in the beginning beginning it will.
23:49
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm so scared for that first ride. I'm
23:52
Speaker 1: not gonna lie because we all we've all been there
23:54
Speaker 1: where there's a crying kid behind us, and I know
23:58
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, and I don't know what to do
24:01
Speaker 1: just yet. But it's like anything else, you figure it out,
24:05
Speaker 1: right and uh and yeah, I think it's everything is
24:08
Speaker 1: learning process and an experiment. And like I said, I'm
24:12
Speaker 1: I'm so nervous, but we we figured it out. People
24:15
Speaker 1: do it all the time. Did you, guys, did you
24:18
Speaker 1: ever set a wedding date? Like were you planning on
24:21
Speaker 1: getting married this year or were you still like this
24:23
Speaker 1: was still a planning year for you guys? Yeah, I
24:26
Speaker 1: mean he engraved ten ten twenty on this guy, which
24:32
Speaker 1: is you know, in a few days from now. Um,
24:36
Speaker 1: so it's a little it's a little sad knowing that
24:39
Speaker 1: date is coming soon and we won't be getting married
24:43
Speaker 1: and that's okay. I think as the pandemic went on,
24:47
Speaker 1: we realized that that date was less and less likely
24:50
Speaker 1: to be ours, especially because he's from Australia and his
24:54
Speaker 1: family is still in Australia. They can't get out, we
24:58
Speaker 1: can't get in. It's it's just a crazy year. And
25:01
Speaker 1: so I think we are doing the best we can
25:06
Speaker 1: with the time we have by having a baby. First,
25:08
Speaker 1: he engraved a date. Um before you said yes, right?
25:14
Speaker 1: Why why? Wait? Why that date is a really good
25:18
Speaker 1: question because when he proposed shortly thereafter, he was like, okay, okay,
25:22
Speaker 1: look at the look at the engagement ring Luke quotes
25:24
Speaker 1: on the inside. And I was like, oh god. And
25:27
Speaker 1: I looked at the sentence in twenty and I was
25:30
Speaker 1: so taken aback because obviously we we hadn't talked about that,
25:34
Speaker 1: and and I came to find out that he had
25:38
Speaker 1: just talked to my mom, and I guess my mom
25:40
Speaker 1: always knew that I liked the October month for getting married,
25:44
Speaker 1: although and I had never talked about it, so it
25:46
Speaker 1: was still a bit random and like super super ballsy
25:50
Speaker 1: on his side. Um, But like I said, I've always
25:54
Speaker 1: visioned in October wedding and I love even numbers, and
25:57
Speaker 1: you can't forget a date like ten ten twenty. Uh
26:01
Speaker 1: so it all kind of lined up. I was on board,
26:05
Speaker 1: you know, other plan. I still can't. I find it
26:09
Speaker 1: like kind of sweet that you're always remember based on
26:14
Speaker 1: that engraving, Like you'll look back and you, yes, that
26:16
Speaker 1: wasn't the day. There will be a new date. But like,
26:20
Speaker 1: I kind of find it sweet. I kind of find
26:23
Speaker 1: it like. I like it too. First, I don't. I
26:25
Speaker 1: can't put my finger on what it is about it,
26:27
Speaker 1: but I like it. I want to do something special
26:29
Speaker 1: on that date too. I don't know what yet, but
26:31
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to celebrate in some way
26:34
Speaker 1: of I guess what could have been. Um, yeah, we'll
26:39
Speaker 1: have a new dates. I don't know what it's gonna
26:42
Speaker 1: look like. I don't know where it's going to be,
26:44
Speaker 1: because it's hard to visualize something when another milestone like
26:50
Speaker 1: babies coming first, and when a whole half of the
26:53
Speaker 1: family is on another continent. There's just a lot of
26:56
Speaker 1: things in the air that haven't settled. Yeah, Leslie Murphy,
26:59
Speaker 1: you have more things going on right now than most
27:02
Speaker 1: humans have in like five years, and you're just packing
27:06
Speaker 1: into the one year that like, why not, you know,
27:08
Speaker 1: we got time on our hands, just go ahead and
27:11
Speaker 1: have a baby, move and get married. But really, I
27:14
Speaker 1: mean that's the thing. We do have time on our
27:17
Speaker 1: hands because, like I said, I work and travel. Can't
27:20
Speaker 1: really do that right now. Um, And so I don't know.
27:23
Speaker 1: I am not mad at this year. There are many
27:27
Speaker 1: many hard hardships that have come with it, but I
27:30
Speaker 1: think for the most part it's been, you know, pretty
27:32
Speaker 1: good to the two of us, with an engagement and
27:34
Speaker 1: a baby and a move back home to family. I
27:37
Speaker 1: really can't complain. Well, can you share with us the
27:41
Speaker 1: day that you found out you're pregnant? Um? Sure, yeah,
27:45
Speaker 1: I Um, I haven't talked about this anywhere. So here
27:49
Speaker 1: we go exclusive and it's it's really not like anything dramatic.
27:57
Speaker 1: I you know, as you do and you get pregnant,
28:01
Speaker 1: if you were in tune with your body, you realize
28:04
Speaker 1: that you must period. And I did just that, and
28:07
Speaker 1: so I said, I I had I just had a feeling,
28:11
Speaker 1: and I m took a pregnant to test. I went
28:14
Speaker 1: to Target and then waited until that night to take
28:18
Speaker 1: the pregnancy test because it's such a big moment, and
28:21
Speaker 1: I knew. I'm just knew in the back of my mind.
28:23
Speaker 1: I was like, this is going to read positive. And
28:27
Speaker 1: I knew from that moment on that my life and
28:30
Speaker 1: would be forever changed. And so I waited until that
28:33
Speaker 1: night to take it. I actually took the test, said
28:39
Speaker 1: it on the stink because it takes like a few
28:40
Speaker 1: seconds or moments, and actually took a bath, and I
28:44
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, I just need to like fends the fence.
28:49
Speaker 1: But I knew the moment I looked at it that
28:52
Speaker 1: my life would forever change. So I just wanted a
28:53
Speaker 1: few more moments of um, I guess peace and stillness
28:58
Speaker 1: and the way life was and moment before it changed forever.
29:02
Speaker 1: And so then I got out of the bath and
29:04
Speaker 1: I immediately looked at it and it said pregnant on it,
29:06
Speaker 1: and I literally just walked out of the bathroom and
29:11
Speaker 1: he's sitting there watching TV, and I go, um, we're pregnant.
29:19
Speaker 1: I like had to get it off my chest. I couldn't.
29:22
Speaker 1: I so badly wanted to do something cute and surprising
29:25
Speaker 1: in some way, but it was nighttime. We were really
29:28
Speaker 1: about to go to sleep, and I like it was
29:31
Speaker 1: like word about it. I had to get it out
29:33
Speaker 1: of my body and have somebody else just know it.
29:36
Speaker 1: So that's how it happened. Did he know like that
29:39
Speaker 1: you had an inkling or was he just completely like
29:43
Speaker 1: was just out of nowhere. No. I in fact, I
29:45
Speaker 1: didn't tell my box pregnant's test that day, um, because
29:48
Speaker 1: I I like this the shock factor a little bit,
29:52
Speaker 1: so I was I didn't even tell him I was
29:53
Speaker 1: taking the test, So I just kind of watched in
29:55
Speaker 1: the bathroom, took a bath, and then came out with
29:58
Speaker 1: a massive surprise. And you know what is the funniest
30:01
Speaker 1: part of this whole thing is so, like I said,
30:03
Speaker 1: this is at nighttime. I just think about we're about
30:06
Speaker 1: to go to sleep. So he gets in bed. I
30:10
Speaker 1: walked back to brush my teeth, and I can hear
30:12
Speaker 1: him kind of breathing really hard in the bedroom, like
30:17
Speaker 1: almost like he's hyperventilating, And I'm like, are you okay
30:20
Speaker 1: in there? And he's like, yeah, I think I'm fine.
30:21
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, it's just a lot to process.
30:24
Speaker 1: And so I walked back in the bed, I sit down,
30:26
Speaker 1: and he immediately gets up and runs to the bathroom
30:28
Speaker 1: and vomits everywhere. Oh, it was just a lot to
30:36
Speaker 1: handle for him, I think. But in the moment, all
30:39
Speaker 1: I can do is laugh because I was like, I'm
30:41
Speaker 1: a pregnant one, actually, and it was it was a
30:44
Speaker 1: funny moment. I'm always interested though. I think those I mean,
30:47
Speaker 1: those moments are so special ones that you can't forget.
30:50
Speaker 1: But like, what was his first reaction? Because I put
30:53
Speaker 1: myself in his position, Yeah, and I mean, honestly, you
30:58
Speaker 1: don't know what you know, you don't know how you're
30:59
Speaker 1: gonna what was his initial reaction and instinct it was
31:03
Speaker 1: not as it wasn't as like dramatic as I had hoped.
31:08
Speaker 1: And so I walk out of the bathroom and I
31:10
Speaker 1: don't even give him time to think or look or anything. Immediately,
31:15
Speaker 1: just word vomit, Uh, we're pregnant. And it takes the
31:19
Speaker 1: seconds to register in his brain. And then he was
31:22
Speaker 1: just like, oh my god, are we really Wow, He's
31:29
Speaker 1: just tell he's just sitting and processing, sitting and processing.
31:33
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, that's that's it. That's all I got.
31:37
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, and then about a few
31:39
Speaker 1: minutes later is when he threw up everywhere and so
31:43
Speaker 1: still processing. But ultimately, I mean, with all having said,
31:49
Speaker 1: he is thrilled. I mean, he wanted to be a
31:52
Speaker 1: dad last year, so this is these thrills minus the
31:56
Speaker 1: you know, vomit. Speaking of vomit, how is your first trimester, Ben?
32:02
Speaker 1: How you feeling? Yeah? Good? I have had no morning thickness.
32:06
Speaker 1: Good for you, none, I would. I am lucky in
32:10
Speaker 1: that aspect. I it was really really tired, a lot
32:14
Speaker 1: of fatigue, a lot of bloating, but that's about it.
32:17
Speaker 1: I really I was shocked because I had prepared myself for,
32:22
Speaker 1: you know, the worst, and it it didn't come. That's amazing,
32:26
Speaker 1: couldn't for you? It's amazing, Leslie. We uh we hear
32:32
Speaker 1: the almost famous podcast. I want to say congratulations and
32:34
Speaker 1: all this stuff. I mean, that's just a huge deal
32:38
Speaker 1: for you, uh and in so many ways. And moving
32:41
Speaker 1: back home is obviously a big move. And people love
32:44
Speaker 1: you and follow you because of your travels and because
32:46
Speaker 1: of your adventure. And this is a new adventure, one
32:50
Speaker 1: that we can't wait to fall along with. If people
32:52
Speaker 1: out there listening go, hey, uh, I just need a
32:55
Speaker 1: little bit more of Leslie Murphy in my life. Where
32:58
Speaker 1: can they follow you? Where can they tune into this journey?
33:02
Speaker 1: I love it? You can tune in various places, one
33:05
Speaker 1: being Instagram at Leslie and Murphy or my blog The
33:09
Speaker 1: road Less Travels with one s as in Leslie, we
33:12
Speaker 1: can't let you go before we talk about Claire. Of course,
33:16
Speaker 1: of course you and Claire got really close during Bachelor
33:18
Speaker 1: Winter Games. Tell us all your thoughts about her being
33:22
Speaker 1: the Bachelorette, if you talk to her since she's left
33:25
Speaker 1: the show or anything that you got. I know, and
33:29
Speaker 1: we were all there together on Bachelor Winter Games, so
33:32
Speaker 1: you guys know just as much as I do. But um,
33:35
Speaker 1: I love I love that she's the Bachelorette. All I
33:38
Speaker 1: guess one of two? Uh this season? Well, let's pause there,
33:43
Speaker 1: let's actually pause there. Um, Leslie, there's a quote this
33:46
Speaker 1: week from Chris Harrison. Okay, and we we spoke about
33:50
Speaker 1: it before you came on. We don't know how to
33:52
Speaker 1: decipher it. In fact, we're super confused by it. And uh,
33:56
Speaker 1: and before we move on to your thoughts on Claire,
33:58
Speaker 1: I do think it. I want to hear your thoughts
34:00
Speaker 1: on this this quote. So Chris Harrison came out this
34:03
Speaker 1: week and told people, uh, he says. What I can
34:07
Speaker 1: confirm is this is clear season a dent it's all hers,
34:12
Speaker 1: it's about her story and everything that happens after it.
34:15
Speaker 1: After it, you'll just have to wait and see. Leslie.
34:19
Speaker 1: If you're just uh an almost famous listener and two
34:23
Speaker 1: hosts that try to do their best to make sense
34:25
Speaker 1: of it all, what's your thoughts on that? Knowing that
34:28
Speaker 1: we've always thought there was two bachelorettes, Yeah, no kidding.
34:32
Speaker 1: I guess my initial thoughts are, I'd love to sit down,
34:36
Speaker 1: drink a bottle of wine with Chris and really get
34:38
Speaker 1: the deeds. Because I now I'm just thoroly. I don't know.
34:43
Speaker 1: I am fairly confusing. I just want to I just
34:46
Speaker 1: want to get Chris intoxicated, so it tells me all
34:49
Speaker 1: be good. But I don't know. I uh, I'm still
34:55
Speaker 1: regardless of that quote. That is very that's still very vague.
34:59
Speaker 1: I still think we got we got two bachelors. I
35:02
Speaker 1: think we do too. Okay, anyway, sorry to Storty to
35:04
Speaker 1: do uh go off on a teange there. We just
35:07
Speaker 1: I have no clue what to do with that. Um
35:09
Speaker 1: thoughts unclear. I don't know what to do with this
35:12
Speaker 1: whole season. But going back to Claire, I love Matt.
35:17
Speaker 1: They chose her first as the bachelorette. I love that
35:20
Speaker 1: she is fierce. I love that she knows what she
35:24
Speaker 1: wants as a woman. I love that she hasn't settled
35:27
Speaker 1: as a thirty nine year old. I think a lot
35:29
Speaker 1: of women, um, I can't generalize their blanket that statement,
35:33
Speaker 1: but by any means, but I think some women as
35:37
Speaker 1: they get older tend to settle and and she's not
35:41
Speaker 1: done that. And I think the world of her for that,
35:44
Speaker 1: um And I think it's a good She's a great
35:46
Speaker 1: role model for others to find their power and find
35:49
Speaker 1: the person they're meant to be with in the end.
35:51
Speaker 1: And I hope she does that with us as an
35:54
Speaker 1: audience being able to watch it. I'll play out because
35:58
Speaker 1: we didn't. We didn't get there around Bachelor Winter Games,
36:01
Speaker 1: and that's okay. They get another dose. I love the
36:03
Speaker 1: other dose. And let's just point out that you and
36:06
Speaker 1: Claire used to take baths together in the Winter Games house.
36:10
Speaker 1: We sued it, um but is one of my favorite
36:13
Speaker 1: moments from that season, and the edit from that is
36:18
Speaker 1: just great. I mean, really, I don't know. I don't
36:20
Speaker 1: remember if you guys were in the hot tub, but
36:22
Speaker 1: it was full, so we had to make our own party. Yeah,
36:26
Speaker 1: the party in the bathroom was better. There was there
36:32
Speaker 1: was way too many bodies in the hot top it
36:33
Speaker 1: all times. It's not for me to make your own
36:41
Speaker 1: parties sometimes, you know, right Well, Leslie Murphy, you're the best.
36:45
Speaker 1: Congratulations on all the things going on. UM, good luck
36:48
Speaker 1: with the move. This is a an exciting one. Ashley
36:52
Speaker 1: and I both love our families. I know you love
36:54
Speaker 1: your family. UH is not an easy decision, I'm sure,
36:59
Speaker 1: but one we can all celebrate and know it's for
37:01
Speaker 1: the good. Leslie Murphy. Everybody, thanks for coming on. Thank
37:04
Speaker 1: you guys, appreciate it. By hey. As we mentioned UH,
37:08
Speaker 1: this week, we will be releasing a second episode breaking
37:11
Speaker 1: down all of Claire's guys. We're gonna have mini guests,
37:15
Speaker 1: three guests actually onto the podcast to talk about Claire season,
37:19
Speaker 1: to talk about their lives. It's gonna be awesome. It's
37:21
Speaker 1: gonna be great. I also have to give a shout
37:24
Speaker 1: out to Last week was a National Coffee Week. If
37:27
Speaker 1: you don't celebrate National Coffee Week, you crazy. UH. And
37:31
Speaker 1: obviously UH for me it was extra personal because generous
37:35
Speaker 1: UH had a tremendous week with a lot of support
37:37
Speaker 1: and a lot of support from all of you listening,
37:38
Speaker 1: so thank you for that. Ashley, You're the best. I
37:41
Speaker 1: will talk to you here in just a few days
37:43
Speaker 1: and I'm pumped for it. With that, I've Been Been,
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