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Some Virgins Have All the Fun with Jade Roper Tolbert · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome back to the Almost Famous podcast. Today
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Speaker 2: I am joined by one of my best friends, Jade Tolbert.
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Speaker 3: Hey Dreed. Hello.
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Speaker 2: So we thought that'd be fun since Ben couldn't be
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Speaker 2: on the pod today, to have you come on, because
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Speaker 2: we just had a great, really impromptu week at the
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Speaker 2: Backshe Boys concert in Vegas at the Sphere.
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Speaker 3: It was the best time.
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Speaker 2: We stayed at the Waldorf Astoria and Jade had texted
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Speaker 2: me legit like six days before I left, and she
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Speaker 2: was like, Hey, we should do a girl's trip to
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Speaker 2: Vegas for Backshoop Boys. I was like, well, I actually
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Speaker 2: am going on to the Sunday show and I think
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Speaker 2: I might have an extra ticket and she was like,
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Speaker 2: let me ask Tanner if he'll watch the kids for
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Speaker 2: like twenty four hours, and we made it happen.
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Speaker 4: So it was very serendipitous because I really could to go,
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Speaker 4: and I was like, the only friend I know who
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Speaker 4: would be like down to do that with me, so
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Speaker 4: like impulsively it would be you and and then You're
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Speaker 4: so perfect.
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Speaker 3: It really couldn't be happier.
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Speaker 2: There would have been no better person to come and
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Speaker 2: it was her first Backs Boys concert, so oh jeez,
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Speaker 2: you'll never be able to go to see him on
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Speaker 2: tour after seeing them at the Sphere. Even though it's
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Speaker 2: wonderful at all times. You guys, this was the nuttiest
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Speaker 2: concert I've ever seen in my life. It was pure
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Speaker 2: sensory candy. Your eyes, your brain was just on so
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Speaker 2: much serotonin.
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Speaker 3: They were.
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Speaker 2: They literally haven't changed as performers, if not gotten better
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Speaker 2: through the years, because I think back when I saw them,
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Speaker 2: I guess like during my college years, like early twenty tens.
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Speaker 2: They were great and live, but sometimes you were like, oh,
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Speaker 2: it's not what it used to be. And now I
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Speaker 2: feel like it's two thousand and one again. They sound great.
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Speaker 2: The acoustics in the Sphere are believable. You like feel
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Speaker 2: the music in your body, but not in the way
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Speaker 2: that you normally would at a concert, like it's crystal clear.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I.
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Speaker 4: Think I told you. Somebody messaged me that there's sixty
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Speaker 4: seven thousand speakers in the Sphere, including one in every
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Speaker 4: single seat, So it did. It felt like they were
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Speaker 4: singing right next to you. It was so crystal clear.
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Speaker 4: They sounded amazing, like.
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Speaker 3: Even your chairs vibrated with.
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Speaker 4: Like the visuals and stuff. It was like, I don't know,
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Speaker 4: it was like being on a two hour ride.
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Speaker 2: It was incredible us. It was a themed ride. The
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Speaker 2: theme was the Back Shape Boys. It felt like we
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Speaker 2: were in a Universal Studios ride. And actually the visuals
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Speaker 2: were better than what you usually would find out a
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Speaker 2: Universal Studios.
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Speaker 3: Right when you.
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Speaker 4: Said that you felt like you were zeen on, I'm like,
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Speaker 4: that was what it felt like.
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Speaker 3: We went to outer space. Yes, it was too cool.
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Speaker 2: We actually through The Bachelor, I met their manager Jen.
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Speaker 3: She is the greatest. She is a power.
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Speaker 2: This woman manages like the biggest boy band in the
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Speaker 2: world and has just kept them going at this amazing level,
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Speaker 2: especially over the past decade, which she's been mostly within
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Speaker 2: the past decade. And so she got us to do
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Speaker 2: their little meet and greet beforehand. They basically have a
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Speaker 2: friends in a family room where the guys, you know,
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Speaker 2: if they choose come and hang out with about I
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Speaker 2: don't know how many people were in there, about one hundred,
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Speaker 2: maybe a little less yeah, maybe a little less yeah.
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Speaker 2: And so we got to say hi to Nick, we
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Speaker 2: got to say hi. Howie gave us a very private,
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Speaker 2: like just a very personal moment.
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Speaker 3: He was so freaking sweet.
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Speaker 2: He remembered details about me and Nas because we also
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Speaker 2: went with Nas Perez, who was one of our Bachelor producers.
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Speaker 2: That's how I became really good friends with her back
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Speaker 2: in Bachelor in Paradise season two. And then Jared was there,
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Speaker 2: so it was truly a BP two reunion at the
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Speaker 2: actual Boys and it was so great.
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Speaker 4: Hollie was so nice. I just have to say, I
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Speaker 4: could not believe how warm he was. Yeah, Like he
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Speaker 4: was just so inviting and so kind, so warm. His
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Speaker 4: family was the sweetest. Yeah, his wife has always been
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Speaker 4: really nice. Yeah, they were so sweet. It just made
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Speaker 4: me and Stellia just be like I could I don't know,
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Speaker 4: you just don't know what to expect from people who
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Speaker 4: have like Megastarta.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, they've been worldwide known, right.
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Speaker 4: And this guy is just sitting there talking to us
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Speaker 4: like I don't know, like we were friends. I mean,
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Speaker 4: you know him, but I don't know him. And it
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Speaker 4: was just like it was really like a I don't know,
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Speaker 4: it was a moment for me. I was like, Hughes,
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Speaker 4: I don't know, I feel like he left such an
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Speaker 4: impression on me.
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Speaker 2: It was so crazy because guys he had a NAS
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Speaker 2: interviewed him. I think it was like two and a
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Speaker 2: half years ago. She did this JC Penny ad with
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Speaker 2: them where she was like the host of this sponsored
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Speaker 2: event and he goes, Nas, you're Dominican, right, like he
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Speaker 2: remember her ancestry. He remembered that it was a JC
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Speaker 2: Penny event that she hosted. He was like talking to
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Speaker 2: me about my kids ages. I'm like, you are so kind.
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Speaker 2: I can't believe it. And then he like helped us
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Speaker 2: make a reel Instagram reel and.
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Speaker 4: It was like so ridiculous, and he was he was like,
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Speaker 4: just went along with it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was like, do you want to do it again?
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Speaker 3: If it takes not right, we'll do it again.
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Speaker 2: And then you see them all like because they're all
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Speaker 2: so sweet and so humble. AJ wasn't feeling good. He
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Speaker 2: didn't show up to the back room. And then I
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Speaker 2: didn't get to say hi to Kevin. But we've I've
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Speaker 2: met Kevin a number of times and he's just so sweet.
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Speaker 2: So I was like, I don't need to push any
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Speaker 2: meetings right now or like hellos when I have such
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Speaker 2: great memories, you know, like they're so bombarded right now
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Speaker 2: with other people and let's see who so like when
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Speaker 2: they got on the stage, it's.
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Speaker 4: Just like they personas take us back like older egos,
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Speaker 4: the Backstreet Boys exactly.
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Speaker 3: They're just like.
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Speaker 2: These sweet, humble guys, just like talking. They're just like
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Speaker 2: regular dads and all of a sudden, yes, holy cow,
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Speaker 2: that's so good.
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Speaker 4: I don't know, I have like all those video but
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Speaker 4: I feel like it's just stored in here forever. My
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Speaker 4: brain is like forever, like chemically altered.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I can't even post some of these
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Speaker 2: videos because they don't even do it justice. The experience
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Speaker 2: of seeing these visuals all around you, having this live music,
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Speaker 2: like having your favorite band, it was just absolutely out
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Speaker 2: of this world.
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Speaker 3: If you are a Backstreet.
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Speaker 2: Fan and you have thought like, oh, I should make
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Speaker 2: the trip, like you've got to make the trip. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: Jade and I are trying to put together a giveaway
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Speaker 2: right now so that people can experience this.
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Speaker 4: So I when I go on these things, like when
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Speaker 4: I go to concerts and I just feel like, I
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Speaker 4: don't know, you just feel like I said, forever changed.
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Speaker 3: I just want everyone to experience it.
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Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, I just wish everyone could go because
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Speaker 4: it's just that good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you were thinking about Emmy when you were sitting there.
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Speaker 2: I was thinking about, oddly, my parents. I was like,
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Speaker 2: my parents would love this. My dad loves Backstort Boys.
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Speaker 2: He's always He was the one who took me to
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Speaker 2: the concerts in high school, to college and stuff, and
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Speaker 2: I just know that he would geek out at the
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Speaker 2: coolness of it all. We could go on and on
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Speaker 2: and on. Seriously, you guys have got to check it out.
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Speaker 3: The theme was fun Millennial Millennium.
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Speaker 2: Because they all wore white in the Millennium album cover
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Speaker 2: and like a lot of the times in that Millennium era,
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Speaker 2: it was like universal white with the baby blue background,
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Speaker 2: so they wanted to do a white out and it
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Speaker 2: was cool to look out into the crowd and to
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Speaker 2: see everybody participating in the white totally.
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Speaker 3: It was so fun.
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Speaker 2: And then I wore a butterfly outfit and Jade wore
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Speaker 2: really cool xenon pants.
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Speaker 3: Basically anybo at the Backshi Boys concert. I mean, why not?
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Speaker 2: I know? It was this the perfect night. I smiled
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Speaker 2: so big for so long.
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Speaker 3: It was just I've never I've really like, I was
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Speaker 3: overloaded with serotonin. I couldn't go to sleep.
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Speaker 4: I don't think I've I mean we got back to
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Speaker 4: our room at like midnight and I was like, wow,
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Speaker 4: it's midnight, Like I'm doing good for being in Vegas,
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Speaker 4: and I don't think I fell asleep until about three
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Speaker 4: am because my brain grew down.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right. Well, what I also love about
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Speaker 2: you and Tanner is that you guys keep up with Paradise,
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Speaker 2: you keep up with the Bachelor. A lot of lums
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Speaker 2: have like kind of dropped off as far as like
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Speaker 2: watching dedicatedly throughout the years, but we are we will
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Speaker 2: always watch for me. I can't possibly imagine, like the
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Speaker 2: show that I was on and met my husband and
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Speaker 2: had my family through to not watch it, right if
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Speaker 2: it's like still ongoing. However, with Grand Season, there were
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Speaker 2: times whereas like please, I don't want to watch this.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I mean, you know what, I was having high
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Speaker 4: hopes when like Joey became the Bachelor. Gain it's not
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Speaker 4: trending then, I don't know what happened, and I don't
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Speaker 4: know if it's happening with Paradise, but we are watching.
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Speaker 2: So Tanner was the one that Ben and I relied
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Speaker 2: on for his polls. I love Tanner's polling. I think
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Speaker 2: he has a good grasp of the bachelor demographic through
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Speaker 2: his following as well. So most people, like eighty something
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Speaker 2: percent don't like the new version of the show, totally
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Speaker 2: new production.
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Speaker 3: Crew, highly stylized edit.
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Speaker 4: You.
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Speaker 2: We were texting because Jade Tanner, me and Jared have
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Speaker 2: a pretty ongoing text thread, and we were just talking
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Speaker 2: about how it feels so different. Can you describe what
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Speaker 2: Tanner and yourself complain about when you're watching on Mondays?
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Speaker 2: And of course the good things too, because there are
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Speaker 2: great things, and especially as.
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Speaker 3: Time goes on. I think it was like a big.
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Speaker 2: The first episode or two, I was like, oh god,
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Speaker 2: this feels so weird.
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Speaker 3: This feels so weird.
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Speaker 2: And now that we're getting deeper into the storylines, I'm
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Speaker 2: not seeing the edit as much like the style.
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 4: I mean, Tanner definitely has a ton to say, but
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Speaker 4: I just feel, I smith the campiness that was like
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Speaker 4: I don't know, the old song and the old intros
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Speaker 4: and just what made it classically paradise and.
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Speaker 3: Just I don't relate.
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Speaker 4: I just don't relate to the new styles of dating
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Speaker 4: that the generation.
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Speaker 3: Below us how is it different you think, I don't.
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Speaker 4: I just feel like they're always just like one like
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Speaker 4: one flip barely in, you know, like one put out
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Speaker 4: the door one foot. No one's ever just like I'm
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Speaker 4: going to fully dive into this and see what happens,
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Speaker 4: because I feel like maybe that's just more of my
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Speaker 4: personal styles. Like when I'm ready to just like give
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Speaker 4: it a shot, I just one percent try to give
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Speaker 4: it a shot. And I feel like everybody nowadays is
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Speaker 4: always so hesitant. They always have this like I don't know,
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Speaker 4: I feel like people have really high This is good,
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Speaker 4: it's good to have high standards, but I feel like
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Speaker 4: people have like exceptionally.
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Speaker 3: High standards and when something.
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Speaker 4: Goes wrong, they just like totally right off the person
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Speaker 4: instead of understanding that we're complex people with cats and
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Speaker 4: like with like our quirks and everything and that, like
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Speaker 4: if you really want to make something work, you work
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Speaker 4: with somebody. And so I just feel like people give
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Speaker 4: up so easily.
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Speaker 3: And I don't know that's just they do.
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Speaker 4: My two cents on that, but the show just doesn't
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Speaker 4: have the same.
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Speaker 3: There's like a heart, it's a warmth and a heart.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I mean god, i'd give anything for that
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Speaker 4: air conditioning. I was so jealous when they're like, we're
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Speaker 4: staying in an air conditioned space.
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Speaker 2: But also like I kind of like the suffering element
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Speaker 2: to it. It made like you made you have to
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Speaker 2: like be tough for love, like you really wanted to
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Speaker 2: be there, and it did like it create more of
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Speaker 2: like a It kind of created like a community vibe
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Speaker 2: with us, like all like suffering together in one bedrooms,
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Speaker 2: were sleeping outside.
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Speaker 3: Guess we're all like.
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Speaker 4: Are bitten by the sand mites where you all are sweaty, gross, like.
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Speaker 3: In poop for nine days, you know, and poop for
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Speaker 3: nine days.
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Speaker 4: We're all denydrated, our makeups running off our faces.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. About the dating style, there's two theories to it. One.
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Speaker 2: I think you're correct. I do think that that's how people.
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Speaker 2: I think people are extremely picky these days and they
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Speaker 2: get very freaked out by flaw.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I think it's due to like swiping right. It's just
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Speaker 4: like oh, onto the next, onto the next.
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Speaker 3: I don't like this thing about you.
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Speaker 4: There's someone else, like totally. I really think dating apps
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Speaker 4: are ruined dating.
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Speaker 2: But it could be we're glad that we got you know,
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Speaker 2: we were around during it we were single during dating apps,
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Speaker 2: but it was true. It was like thirty percent of
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Speaker 2: people were meeting that way. Now it's like whoof yeah
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Speaker 2: a lot. Now that there's a.
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Speaker 3: Problem with it.
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Speaker 2: I mean it find somebody through dating, aw, that's so
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Speaker 2: so great. But yeah, the never ending options mentality is
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Speaker 2: the probably the issue. Yeah. I also feel like maybe
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Speaker 2: in Paradise they are being more careful about solidifying a
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Speaker 2: relationship because they don't want to get in trouble. They
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Speaker 2: don't want to get the bad edit because if they
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Speaker 2: were to say I'm with you, I'm with you, and
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Speaker 2: then somebody else comes in and then the relationship gets broken,
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Speaker 2: somebody's gonna be vilified.
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Speaker 3: That's true.
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Speaker 4: I mean, if you think about I think Tanner called
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Speaker 4: Paradise the Timu love Islands.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well it but.
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Speaker 4: If you think about Love Islands, they are very.
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Speaker 3: All open minded about that though.
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Speaker 4: They're like, I'm coupled up with you, but we owe
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Speaker 4: it to all of ourselves to get to know everyone,
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Speaker 4: and so everyone's allowed to go have a conversation, everyone's
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Speaker 4: kissing everybody, and nobody's getting really weird about it yet
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Speaker 4: until like halfway through. Then it's kind of like all right,
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Speaker 4: now you've got to be serious with this person, and
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Speaker 4: then you're not really like entertaining other.
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Speaker 3: People anymore, and if you do, you're kind of a villain.
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Speaker 4: But in the beginning, I feel like everybody is really
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Speaker 4: open and understands that that's just the concept, and so
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Speaker 4: I feel like almost I should kind of like ours
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Speaker 4: was not. I was like, if you like go after
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Speaker 4: anybody else, you're gonna be like totally.
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Speaker 3: Like a villain.
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Speaker 4: When we were on Paradise, Yeah, like if say, like
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Speaker 4: next week, I like jumped over to somebody else and
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Speaker 4: then like was wishing to watch you with Tanner, I
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Speaker 4: would people would have hated me.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, But I.
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Speaker 4: Feel like if they all had that like understanding of
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Speaker 4: we're all this here to get to know each other
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Speaker 4: and they'd get getty, then maybe that's like then I understand.
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Speaker 2: We're like they're not supposed to couple up, or like
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Speaker 2: the first week doesn't have rose ceremonies. That would actually
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Speaker 2: probably could work best for Paradise. That's a good spin
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Speaker 2: the first like two weeks, you know, which is really
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Speaker 2: like six days.
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Speaker 4: I also think if they're gonna adapt so many of
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Speaker 4: these new ways to do paradise. I think if you
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Speaker 4: don't get a rose, I don't think you should have
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Speaker 4: to be sent home. I just think you're just single
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Speaker 4: in the villa or whatever.
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Speaker 3: And then more.
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Speaker 4: People come in that way, like you have an option
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Speaker 4: to see the new people too, and those new people
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Speaker 4: aren't just coming in and be like, oh, everybody's coupled up.
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Speaker 3: Oh I've got one option.
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Speaker 2: That's like when I walked in on season three and
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Speaker 2: Daniel was truly the only person I could ask, and
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Speaker 2: like he didn't even want to go with me, and
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Speaker 2: I didn't really want to ask him, and it's like,
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Speaker 2: but I guess it's just the two of us.
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Speaker 3: It's just Yeah, that is such a good point.
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Speaker 2: And also we could see people like Susie like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: Lexi continue to date in that area, and it would
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Speaker 2: be fun to watch them because we'd still have the
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Speaker 2: awkwardness of justin being around totally.
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Speaker 4: Like I would have loved to have seen Lexi stay
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Speaker 4: around and Susie, you know what I mean. And then
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Speaker 4: you get to see when the new guys come in,
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Speaker 4: how those how everything plays out. It's just like different
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Speaker 4: dynamics or if they say, like you said, if they
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Speaker 4: stay around, then how are Susie and Justin and Lexie
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Speaker 4: still going to navigate that? Like, I feel like it
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Speaker 4: just head off so fast.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you could actually make more drama by having people
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Speaker 2: hang around more, and then you'd also have possibly more
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Speaker 2: couples totally, And that leads me to my next question.
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Speaker 2: So we see that Jess and Spencer are like the
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Speaker 2: Jaden Tanner kind of of this season so far, They're
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Speaker 2: like the one really solid feeling couple and they're doing
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Speaker 2: what they oftentimes do. They don't give them a lot
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Speaker 2: of airtime because quote quote they might be boring. Then
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Speaker 2: people always are sad about not getting to know the
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Speaker 2: couple that may end up being together. I think that
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Speaker 2: if anyone of all the seasons of Bachelor in Paradise,
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Speaker 2: you and Tanner probably got more airtime than most couples
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Speaker 2: that ended up getting married.
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Speaker 3: What do you think I can't remember?
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Speaker 4: I still like it still is not a lot because
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Speaker 4: we were so on yat yeah, you know, and we
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Speaker 4: didn't really participate in any of the other drama too.
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Speaker 4: Like I know, they tried to pull me into Sam,
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Speaker 4: Sam Joe yeah stuff. Yeah, And I was just really
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Speaker 4: sad because I loved Sam and I was like, I
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Speaker 4: don't want to be sucked into this, and they were
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Speaker 4: trying to say.
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Speaker 2: I didn't like that either, because I liked Sam too. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I was like, am I going to look bad for
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Speaker 2: being like supportive of her?
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Speaker 3: I know? So I just didn't play the game. So
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Speaker 3: then I feel like that was the only end.
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Speaker 4: He loves it, though he loves to like he loves
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Speaker 4: little like one liner like quips, and he likes still
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Speaker 4: like start.
17:20
Speaker 3: Little fires and watch him.
17:21
Speaker 4: But yeah, no, I can't remember the airtime, but maybe,
17:26
Speaker 4: but yeah, it is. It does kind of if it's
17:30
Speaker 4: a show about love, I don't know why they aren't
17:31
Speaker 4: at least giving the couples who are possibly on their
17:34
Speaker 4: way to an engagement in more screen time, because then
17:37
Speaker 4: you two get to develop that you get to see
17:39
Speaker 4: that developed, that relationship developed and blossom.
17:43
Speaker 2: Do you think that Jess and Spencer will get engaged?
17:46
Speaker 2: Do you think there's going to be any other couple
17:48
Speaker 2: that gets engaged? But my guess is now, But I
17:50
Speaker 2: guess that I guess that they will.
17:52
Speaker 4: I guess that there's still if the show is still
17:54
Speaker 4: trying to end it in an engagement. But I saw
17:56
Speaker 4: there's now like a money pot at the air right
17:58
Speaker 4: that we still don't know anything about.
18:00
Speaker 3: No, I'm like, wait, what is what is this show? Now?
18:03
Speaker 4: So? I mean, but they are the ones I pick
18:06
Speaker 4: if there's an engagement going to happen. They seem to
18:08
Speaker 4: be the ones that are actually like getting to know
18:11
Speaker 4: each other, spending time with each other, that.
18:12
Speaker 3: Are all like, you know, they seem like you're falling
18:15
Speaker 3: in love.
18:16
Speaker 2: Do you think that there could be a possible spin
18:19
Speaker 2: on the money where it's like, this is your five
18:21
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars for a down payment if you guys
18:23
Speaker 2: actually make it to the altar?
18:26
Speaker 3: I mean, that would be incredible. Yeah that works.
18:30
Speaker 4: Are they gonna be like awful and be like you
18:33
Speaker 4: have the chance if you you know, if you're the
18:35
Speaker 4: final couple, you have the chance to keep the five
18:38
Speaker 4: hundred pot or whatever, the five hundred thousand dollars to
18:41
Speaker 4: yourself or split it between you and the other person,
18:44
Speaker 4: Like you don't they do that?
18:46
Speaker 3: And then like yeah, that's like you know, that's like
18:48
Speaker 3: too hot to handle and stuff.
18:49
Speaker 2: But I I don't know, I'm not really You guys
18:53
Speaker 2: watch more dating shows than I do, because you guys
18:55
Speaker 2: watch Love Island.
18:55
Speaker 4: Right, Sander watches you watching the UK version?
18:59
Speaker 2: Ok, yeah, it's too dirty for me, Like it's so
19:03
Speaker 2: uncomfortably dirty.
19:07
Speaker 3: I don't watch.
19:08
Speaker 4: I hadn't seen the the US version. But that's another thing.
19:11
Speaker 4: I wish that Paradise didn't have the hotel rooms. I
19:14
Speaker 4: feel like it's stifling so much of the like connections
19:19
Speaker 4: where you just if it's raining, you just go sit
19:21
Speaker 4: in your room.
19:22
Speaker 3: Like that's so terrible, so crazy.
19:25
Speaker 2: And what do you think about the Goldens my last
19:27
Speaker 2: question about Paradise. I actually think that they bring fun
19:30
Speaker 2: to it. I wasn't very keen on having them come
19:33
Speaker 2: because I wanted attention to be on the young ends
19:37
Speaker 2: and I didn't want any of those like crossover storylines.
19:40
Speaker 2: I think it's actually bringing levity to it.
19:44
Speaker 4: I find them entertaining, Like I do find them like funny.
19:48
Speaker 3: I like I like Gary, who's funny.
19:52
Speaker 4: And but I just feel that they're there for fun.
19:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not going to like leave together. I like
19:59
Speaker 3: they're just there for like Margarita's and patient.
20:02
Speaker 2: Yeah one thousand percent, And those people have been mingling.
20:06
Speaker 2: I know that, like the rules of mingling before. Paradise
20:09
Speaker 2: is far more lax than it used to be. But
20:12
Speaker 2: those people have hung out so many times. If they
20:15
Speaker 2: really felt a connection, they would already be together.
20:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, but I do find like I thought
20:22
Speaker 4: it was gonna be gross. I was like, ew, like
20:24
Speaker 4: I don't want to it would be so uncomfortable for me.
20:26
Speaker 4: But it doesn't seem that way as much as I'm
20:29
Speaker 4: watching it.
20:30
Speaker 2: No, Okay, let's get into some bachelor headlines. The virgin
20:36
Speaker 2: dating show that we did know about. Uh, I don't
20:39
Speaker 2: know that we talked about it yet, probably not, probably
20:41
Speaker 2: weren't allowed to. But it's called Are You My First?
20:44
Speaker 2: Is hosted by Bachelor lum Carlton and Caitlin, and it's
20:50
Speaker 2: going to be on Hulu starting on August eighteenth. It's
20:54
Speaker 2: gonna stream all ten episodes at once. So it's like
20:59
Speaker 2: part of of like the Hulu Disney Plus like ABC,
21:02
Speaker 2: like Family Delio and it obviously, you know, obviously.
21:06
Speaker 3: Like a little fumbou.
21:09
Speaker 2: Like like okay, so there was like lots of virgins,
21:12
Speaker 2: but like maybe like I could have been there and
21:15
Speaker 2: maybe like if you guys do another season, I would
21:17
Speaker 2: love to be your host.
21:19
Speaker 3: But Colton makes sense. They have two leads here, Okay.
21:23
Speaker 2: Caitlin makes sense because I think she's probably when it
21:28
Speaker 2: comes to leads, not very virginy.
21:34
Speaker 4: So it's like it's like the Angel and the Devil
21:36
Speaker 4: on your shoulder.
21:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Yin and Yang for sure.
21:39
Speaker 2: The tagline is the largest hottest group of virgins ever assembled,
21:46
Speaker 2: and where we were following them is a search for intimacy,
21:49
Speaker 2: love and maybe they're first in a tropical paradise designed
21:53
Speaker 2: just for them. For the first time, they're free to
21:56
Speaker 2: explore their connections without judgment, allowing these sexy young singles
22:01
Speaker 2: to embark on a heated yet heartfelt journey packed with
22:04
Speaker 2: the romantic dates, revealing challenges, and new love interests that
22:10
Speaker 2: are eager to find the one who I'm just presuring
22:15
Speaker 2: myself at twenty six, And like on this show.
22:19
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, how do you feel about that?
22:21
Speaker 3: I would feel so effing awkward.
22:24
Speaker 2: I think that, like I felt awkward being on the
22:26
Speaker 2: Bachelor and having to be like, hey, guess what I'm
22:28
Speaker 2: a version this is actually makes me feel like I
22:30
Speaker 2: would be like so much more like I had like
22:34
Speaker 2: a weird scarlet letter, like a good girl, like a
22:36
Speaker 2: nice scarlet letter, but like everybody in the country being
22:39
Speaker 2: just like, oh, look, dating virgins. I don't know what
22:43
Speaker 2: makes me feel weird, weirder even.
22:46
Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean just imagine like a whole daily
22:49
Speaker 4: show revolving around losing your V card.
22:51
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's definitely what it is.
22:53
Speaker 2: That's like when they would try to elude that I
22:55
Speaker 2: was going to lose it in the fantasy suite and
22:57
Speaker 2: I'm like, you, guys, this is so effing ridiculous. Would
23:00
Speaker 2: never lose it in a fantasy suite on TV. And
23:03
Speaker 2: so I think that's what's so awkward about this is
23:06
Speaker 2: they're like searching to kind of lose it. Oh my god,
23:10
Speaker 2: where I was just like, this is like an element
23:12
Speaker 2: of me, But like this is like they people are
23:15
Speaker 2: gonna be watching to see if somebody loses it on
23:18
Speaker 2: the show.
23:19
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know if I could watch that.
23:21
Speaker 3: I think I'm going to watch it.
23:23
Speaker 4: It feels so intimate, like it feels like so like
23:26
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know.
23:29
Speaker 3: I don't know.
23:30
Speaker 2: I will definitely watch it because like I want to
23:32
Speaker 2: be supportive of like of course Caitlin, and like it's
23:35
Speaker 2: it's nice to see two bachelor lums as me, Yeah,
23:39
Speaker 2: as the host, Like that's really really cool, and then
23:42
Speaker 2: it's something that I can relate to.
23:44
Speaker 3: So I will definitely be watching. See if they grab
23:47
Speaker 3: me for all ten episodes.
23:48
Speaker 4: Maybe it'll be super sweet because everyone's so like.
23:51
Speaker 2: Vulnerable, you know, exactly, like everybody is going to really
23:54
Speaker 2: be in it, I think for the love and the
23:57
Speaker 2: relationship and not like hooking up. It's gonna be the
24:01
Speaker 2: opposite of Love Island. So it probably won't feel icky
24:03
Speaker 2: at all for me.
24:04
Speaker 3: Yeah that's true.
24:05
Speaker 2: Awkward but ikey, but awkward but not icky, all right.
24:09
Speaker 2: So Nick Viel and Natalie enjoy Vile. They will be
24:14
Speaker 2: also hosting a new dating show. It's called Age of
24:18
Speaker 2: Attraction and it's going to be launching on twenty twenty
24:22
Speaker 2: six on Netflix. I know that they were just spending
24:24
Speaker 2: the last month I think it was June and Canada
24:27
Speaker 2: filming it, and in this obviously they are picked to
24:30
Speaker 2: be the host of this show because crazy enough, Nick
24:34
Speaker 2: and Natalie are eighteen years apart, and it doesn't feel
24:38
Speaker 2: like that ever at all, Like hanging out with them,
24:40
Speaker 2: looking at them doesn't feel like that at all, right,
24:42
Speaker 2: because Nick is the youngest looking forty four year old
24:46
Speaker 2: I've ever seen my entire life, and he's just and
24:49
Speaker 2: he's mature, but he has young he has the youth
24:52
Speaker 2: about him, right.
24:53
Speaker 3: Yeah.
24:54
Speaker 2: Anyway, so and she seems mature like and she's totally exactly.
25:00
Speaker 2: She matures up and he doesn't mature down. I think
25:03
Speaker 2: is mostly her maturing up. But like also it's his
25:05
Speaker 2: youth at forty four, Like how does he look like that?
25:08
Speaker 3: I don't know. So there. This is the This is the.
25:15
Speaker 2: Synopsis for this ages thrown out the window as singles
25:19
Speaker 2: search for their soulmates with the help from Nick and Natalie.
25:22
Speaker 2: The daters range from twenty two years old to fifty
25:26
Speaker 2: nine years old, so potential matches will see if age
25:29
Speaker 2: is truly just a number or if the years will
25:32
Speaker 2: come between them. Oh that is a that's a big chunk.
25:37
Speaker 2: Eighteen years. I've seen eighteen years work plenty of times.
25:40
Speaker 2: This is twenty two to fifty nine.
25:43
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts?
25:45
Speaker 4: So twenty two year old me would have been like, yeah, whatever,
25:51
Speaker 4: all yeah, I see that on thirty eight year old
25:54
Speaker 4: me is like, no, that's predatory.
25:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, like that man's not No, he's gonna try to
26:03
Speaker 5: like manipulate you, and you know what I mean, Like,
26:06
Speaker 5: why is he dating that young, like and as a mother, yeah,
26:10
Speaker 5: well no, yeah.
26:12
Speaker 3: Right, I know. I just get worried. I have so
26:15
Speaker 3: many thoughts. I don't know if I should share them.
26:20
Speaker 3: I thought that your twenty two year old self wouldn't care.
26:24
Speaker 4: To year old, free spirited me would have been like, like,
26:27
Speaker 4: let's seever, like, age is just a number.
26:31
Speaker 2: That's like when nas like, because you guys, we went
26:34
Speaker 2: with our friend nas too to Backstreet and she will
26:38
Speaker 2: like casually go on a date with somebody like her
26:40
Speaker 2: dad's age and I'm like, Nas, no, no, and she's
26:45
Speaker 2: like it's fine, it's cool.
26:46
Speaker 3: She's just like so much more free willing than me.
26:49
Speaker 2: I am such a generational person, like I am definition
26:54
Speaker 2: millennial that like, if I wasn't with the millennial, I
26:57
Speaker 2: would feel like we had nothing in common.
27:00
Speaker 3: I couldn't. I couldn't do that.
27:02
Speaker 4: Well, what does a fifty nine year old have in
27:04
Speaker 4: common with a twenty two year old?
27:06
Speaker 3: Ever? I don't know, And I know that's.
27:09
Speaker 4: Just a range that's probably not who's dating who.
27:11
Speaker 3: But yeah, exactly, so we will shall see.
27:13
Speaker 2: This also is the third Bachelor alum to be recently
27:17
Speaker 2: announced as the host of a dating show. Because Gabby
27:20
Speaker 2: Winley is doing Alex Cooper's new show on Hulu.
27:23
Speaker 3: She's being the host of that already.
27:36
Speaker 2: So we move on to Gary Turner giving his honest
27:40
Speaker 2: opinion on the new Golden Bachelor mel Owens. So he
27:44
Speaker 2: actually they didn't fire him, which is shocking.
27:49
Speaker 4: So that was the rumor, but it actually didn't happen.
27:51
Speaker 2: I don't think so, because I believe that they had
27:54
Speaker 2: to start filming like this week.
27:56
Speaker 3: Gotcha, no time to grab anyone.
27:59
Speaker 2: Else, no time to remind everybody if you weren't if
28:03
Speaker 2: you didn't know. Mel Owens, the New Golden Bachelor, said
28:07
Speaker 2: that he would be cutting any female contestant over the
28:11
Speaker 2: age of sixty.
28:12
Speaker 3: He said this on a podcast.
28:14
Speaker 2: Did he realize that the Golden starting age is sixty
28:18
Speaker 2: and like all the contestants thus far and the series
28:21
Speaker 2: have been from sixty to seventy years old. He also
28:24
Speaker 2: said a couple of other things. He said that his
28:27
Speaker 2: ideal age would be like forty five, and he said
28:32
Speaker 2: something about like no grannies or something like uh oh,
28:35
Speaker 2: I forget, but something about bodies. He said something about
28:40
Speaker 2: bodies that was in not a tasteful comment.
28:43
Speaker 3: Really highly of himself. Doesn't he I do.
28:46
Speaker 2: They really should have switched him out because this is
28:49
Speaker 2: going to carry with everybody's feelings for the entire season,
28:53
Speaker 2: because when he is dating six year olds, we're going
28:55
Speaker 2: to be like, oh wow, he's probably just gonna dump
28:57
Speaker 2: this lady because he's just doing it.
28:58
Speaker 3: For the show. He doesn't really want to be with
29:00
Speaker 3: somebody of this age anyway.
29:01
Speaker 2: To get to the back to the headline, Gary says this,
29:04
Speaker 2: I think it'll be unfortunate if he cuts anyone over.
29:07
Speaker 3: The age of sixty.
29:08
Speaker 2: I think he's going to have a change of heart
29:10
Speaker 2: in this when he starts. I think he will see
29:12
Speaker 2: the grace and the charm of women who are over
29:15
Speaker 2: sixty and the confidence that they carry, and that he's
29:18
Speaker 2: going to have a change of heart the age thing,
29:20
Speaker 2: Ignore the number, deal with the person. Gary also said
29:25
Speaker 2: that if Mel treats each and every one of them
29:27
Speaker 2: with the courtesy and respect, with curtesying respect, and he
29:30
Speaker 2: is a good listener, he's going to be fine. Okay,
29:35
Speaker 2: that's very nice, Gary, that's very positive and optimistic, and
29:38
Speaker 2: you're being a great spokesperson for the show there. I
29:41
Speaker 2: really think that this is a mistake for them. I
29:43
Speaker 2: think there's so many handsome, worthy men to be the
29:48
Speaker 2: Golden Bachelor, and he royally messed up.
29:51
Speaker 4: Well, how are you going to feel if you're one
29:53
Speaker 4: of the golden bachelorettes going on?
29:56
Speaker 3: Now? Yeah, that's if you.
29:58
Speaker 4: They haven't started filming, so obviously you probably already read
30:00
Speaker 4: that headline.
30:01
Speaker 3: So how are you gonna feel?
30:02
Speaker 4: You're not gonna go intoy like self confident and like, no, I.
30:06
Speaker 3: Have value, I have worth.
30:07
Speaker 4: I'm here to find my person and like have this
30:10
Speaker 4: like next chapter of my life like so many of
30:12
Speaker 4: them we did see, like that's.
30:13
Speaker 3: Why we fall in love with all those women.
30:15
Speaker 4: Anyways, It's like, you know, it was just like their
30:19
Speaker 4: readiness to be like vulnerable and find love in the
30:23
Speaker 4: stage of their life.
30:23
Speaker 3: And now you're like, oh, but you want a forty
30:25
Speaker 3: five year.
30:26
Speaker 2: Old I know, and you know I think about us
30:29
Speaker 2: and the fact that forty five for you is seven
30:32
Speaker 2: years away.
30:33
Speaker 3: For me, it's eight years away, Like I like, if
30:36
Speaker 3: would I take this?
30:37
Speaker 2: I don't even want you mail Okay, in eight years
30:39
Speaker 2: I don't want you.
30:43
Speaker 3: All right now I'm being hypocrite.
30:45
Speaker 2: Whatever, So now we move on to some happy love news.
30:50
Speaker 2: Kelsey Weir from Peter season Pete Season is engaged to
30:55
Speaker 2: basketball pro Matt Thomas. He plays out in Europe. She
31:00
Speaker 2: moved with him over there in twenty twenty three and
31:04
Speaker 2: they just got engaged this week July twenty first, at
31:08
Speaker 2: a beautiful resort that one of our that our producer
31:11
Speaker 2: has been to. It's apparently so nice out in the desert.
31:13
Speaker 2: We are so happy for her because I know that
31:17
Speaker 2: she's such a hopeless romantic and she went through a
31:20
Speaker 2: lot after Pete's season and now she's found her happily
31:24
Speaker 2: ever after.
31:24
Speaker 3: It's wonderful.
31:26
Speaker 2: And an other exciting news this dropped on Instagram yesterday.
31:30
Speaker 2: Rodney Matthews, Rodney or Sweet Rodney from Michelle Season marries
31:35
Speaker 2: his fiance Ari in an intimate ceremony. It was they've
31:39
Speaker 2: been together since twenty twenty three and they officially tied
31:44
Speaker 2: the knot in at Beverly Hills City Hall this week.
31:48
Speaker 3: So that's that was the cutest pictures.
31:50
Speaker 2: I do love a courthouse wedding, not for myself but
31:53
Speaker 2: for others.
31:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's awesome. I didn't know that they got.
31:57
Speaker 2: Married, So congrat Oh so wonderful. All right, Jed, Well,
32:01
Speaker 2: thank you for coming on. I'd like to create a
32:03
Speaker 2: headline for you because everybody's always interested in your house,
32:06
Speaker 2: your house stuff, because you guys switch houses all the time. Now,
32:11
Speaker 2: we love it. We love the excitement of it. I
32:17
Speaker 2: love seeing all your new houses. So you're currently in
32:21
Speaker 2: a place that is like you bought when you first
32:23
Speaker 2: moved back to Kansas City a year ago.
32:26
Speaker 3: But this was always supposed to be.
32:27
Speaker 2: Your transitional home while you guys figured out where you
32:30
Speaker 2: really really wanted to live forever in Kansas City.
32:34
Speaker 3: And first you bought a lot that you thought you
32:36
Speaker 3: were going.
32:36
Speaker 2: To build on, and then stuff happened and you decided
32:41
Speaker 2: to buy a house that was.
32:44
Speaker 3: Built what in the nineties.
32:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're totally redoing it because Tanner has a
32:49
Speaker 2: thing where Tanner loves a fresh house.
32:52
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
32:53
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, So when we moved from California, we wanted
32:56
Speaker 4: to move back to Kansas to have our kids in
32:59
Speaker 4: the school system there because Tanner has all these wonderful
33:02
Speaker 4: memories and it's a great it's a great school system.
33:05
Speaker 3: It's okay.
33:05
Speaker 2: We were in very same similar about not the school
33:07
Speaker 2: system element but the home state.
33:09
Speaker 1: Yeah.
33:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so our household was in like one day
33:13
Speaker 4: and so we needed to find somewhere. We bought the
33:15
Speaker 4: house we're currently in, like sight unseen, and then we
33:18
Speaker 4: had bought that land like six months before, so we
33:21
Speaker 4: thought that that was totally going to like start like
33:23
Speaker 4: being a thing.
33:24
Speaker 3: We were going to have a house soon.
33:25
Speaker 4: But then some stuff happened and it fell through kind
33:30
Speaker 4: of with the building of it.
33:31
Speaker 3: So now we bought a house.
33:34
Speaker 4: That we're renovating, because it is true. My husband loves
33:37
Speaker 4: like new builds and.
33:39
Speaker 3: Never thought he had to do a rento. I can't
33:41
Speaker 3: believe he is too, I.
33:43
Speaker 4: Know, but I think I just commenced him because it's
33:46
Speaker 4: on twenty six acres.
33:47
Speaker 3: It's so beautiful, so serene. It just feels like.
33:50
Speaker 4: The people we bought it from call it the Healing
33:52
Speaker 4: Vore Attax because their daughter, while they were living there,
33:56
Speaker 4: she was pregnant, and when she was pregnant, she found
33:58
Speaker 4: out she had stage four colon cancer.
34:01
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
34:03
Speaker 4: And she moved in with them, and while living there
34:07
Speaker 4: and like doing like her treatments and stuff, she completely healed.
34:09
Speaker 3: It's like I'll find any trace of the cancer in
34:12
Speaker 3: her body.
34:12
Speaker 4: He wrote this whole book about it, but they call
34:14
Speaker 4: it the healing vortex, and I'm like, I swear to
34:16
Speaker 4: God every time we're out there, and it's so peaceful.
34:19
Speaker 3: I feel so healing.
34:20
Speaker 4: I don't know what it is about the energy there,
34:22
Speaker 4: but I just feel like it's just I don't know.
34:26
Speaker 4: I feel so happy that that's where we're gonna be
34:28
Speaker 4: and this we're not moving anymore after this, I promise.
34:31
Speaker 3: That is so magical. That's really that's that's a nice history.
34:37
Speaker 3: This's great.
34:37
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, the history is really beautiful and it
34:40
Speaker 4: was so nice.
34:40
Speaker 3: They're the nicest people. They built the house themselves.
34:43
Speaker 4: And but yeah, I would love someday, like I want
34:48
Speaker 4: to see like Emmy get married there and.
34:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, near the pond and have a family compound.
34:55
Speaker 4: There's some day if I can convince all my kids
34:57
Speaker 4: to live next to.
34:58
Speaker 2: Us, and that would be I think that's like the
35:01
Speaker 2: way of the future is like all of us are
35:03
Speaker 2: going to have come We all like want to live
35:06
Speaker 2: on the same cul de Sac as our families, which
35:08
Speaker 2: is really nice.
35:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, alrighty well, Jad.
35:11
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming on to recap our
35:14
Speaker 2: weekend Talk Bachelor and our next trip we hope is
35:20
Speaker 2: going back to ply Escondida, not really play Escandida Vendonta.
35:25
Speaker 2: We hope to have a joint family vacation over the
35:27
Speaker 2: fall where we go back to where we filmed. Bachelor
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Speaker 2: in Paradise is season two through nine. The og resort,
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Speaker 2: the Danta is calling us.
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Speaker 3: I can feel it. I know I feel that too.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, love you until next time. I've been, Ashley,
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Speaker 2: all right, thanks for having me, and she's been. Did bye.
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