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From OG to Hosting with Jesse Palmer · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the almost famous podcast with our radio. Hi everybody,
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  Speaker 1: this is Trista with the A F O G Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: We are back. I'm so excited. I do have to
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  Speaker 1: say though, that I am very sad because my co
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  Speaker 1: host Bob Guinea is not here today. We are um
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  Speaker 1: dividing and conquering in terms of the podcast where he
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  Speaker 1: is in Karmel, and you guys can edit this out
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  Speaker 1: if you need to. He's in Carmel interviewing Zach and
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  Speaker 1: I am home and I am getting the chance to
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  Speaker 1: interview Jesse. Jesse is our host with the most who
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  Speaker 1: was our first Canadian Bachelor, and I'm really excited to
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  Speaker 1: just chat with him. We have not talked since he
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  Speaker 1: got his job, and or we have not talked since
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  Speaker 1: he became the Bachelor host and the Bachelorette host and
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  Speaker 1: the Bachelor Barrett Ice host. Pretty good gig if you
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  Speaker 1: ask me, Um, I'm sure he is having a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun, but I want to talk to him all
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  Speaker 1: about how he's liking it, his personal life and of
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  Speaker 1: course this season of the Bachelor. And here we go.
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  Speaker 1: It's good seeing you, by the way, Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: it's so good to see you. I'm so excited to chat.
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  Speaker 1: We have not been able to chat since you know. Actually, okay,
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  Speaker 1: please remind me because I'm a little bit older than you,
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  Speaker 1: so please show me some grace because I have memory issues.
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  Speaker 1: Have we met before we I think we have officially
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  Speaker 1: met very very quickly once, uh somewhere with Ryan, but
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  Speaker 1: we have never done this together in like a professional capacity. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: or had an extended conversation. I know I would have
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  Speaker 1: remembered that, but um, yeah, if we said hi, I Apploian.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so bad these days, Jesse, I don't remember my name.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes as we get older, we'll trust me. I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm always blaming football concussions on my failure, right,
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  Speaker 1: so I have something to fall back on that way,
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  Speaker 1: But I'm I'm I'll tell you man, it's crazy. I
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  Speaker 1: was just thinking about this earlier. It is like, it's
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  Speaker 1: amazing how many seasons have happened since you and I
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  Speaker 1: were both on this thing, and how it's just changed.
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  Speaker 1: It evaulved so much as crazy. It's you know, I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually doing a bunch of interviews this morning
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  Speaker 1: and that was a question, how has it changed? And
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many ways that it's changed. It's
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  Speaker 1: hard to like come up with one profound answer, but, um,
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  Speaker 1: how do you feel like it's changed because your seat
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  Speaker 1: has changed? You know, you went from being the guy
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  Speaker 1: as the Bachelor to being the what are we going
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  Speaker 1: to call it, the friend, the counselor the obviously the host.
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  Speaker 1: But how do you feel like it's changed having that
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  Speaker 1: front row seat? Yeah, well, you know my role, as
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  Speaker 1: you said, it's looking at everything through a completely different
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  Speaker 1: lens obviously, right. Um, yeah, I don't know, Like I
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  Speaker 1: just feel like, you know, from my time as being
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  Speaker 1: the Bachelor, I feel like the budget of the show
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  Speaker 1: is way bigger. I feel like people are going on
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  Speaker 1: way better, better adventures. Like I got to write an elephant,
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  Speaker 1: which was awesome, but that was like that was like
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  Speaker 1: the Pinnacle versus like Zach, who's like, you know, these
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  Speaker 1: people are now taking like helicopter rides and lading on. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's like the Mediterranean. Those are those are things I
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  Speaker 1: never saw. Um, and I think to like, just Bachelor
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  Speaker 1: Nation is grown and grown and grown, and with the
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  Speaker 1: advent of social media that obviously wasn't around when I
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  Speaker 1: did it, it's just made it an entirely different platform.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just the scope of everything now. I just
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  Speaker 1: think it's so so much bigger and different huge. You're
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  Speaker 1: so right, I mean the budget in particular. I was
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  Speaker 1: just laughing earlier today because Ryan and I went to Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: which is awesome. I love Seattle, I love theat I
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  Speaker 1: would not have turned down flying on a helicopter and
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  Speaker 1: landing on a yacht in the Aximas or in Australia
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  Speaker 1: or you know what I mean. You know, damn, I
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  Speaker 1: know it. Um, Okay, so you had some pretty big
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  Speaker 1: shoes to fill clearly with Harrison have well, First of all,
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  Speaker 1: have you talked to him? I haven't talked to him. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really happy for him, though. Yeah. I know he's
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  Speaker 1: got his new podcast. I haven't listened to it, but um,
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  Speaker 1: if anyone's if anyone is able to talk about pop culture,
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  Speaker 1: I know he's a huge fan of that. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: just really happy for him and wish him the best
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  Speaker 1: of us on his next venture. Yeah, of course. Um,
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  Speaker 1: did you feel like pressure coming into that position, considering
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  Speaker 1: Harrison had been doing it for for so long? And
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  Speaker 1: I feel like the you know, the people Bachelor Nation
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  Speaker 1: and were you know, there were there were a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people who were upset. Did you feel pressure or
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  Speaker 1: how did you feel? Because you know, I tried to
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  Speaker 1: come in and just just be myself. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: think I have a lot of my football background to
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  Speaker 1: sort of lean on for that at times when you
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  Speaker 1: go to different teams and you know, fans are used
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  Speaker 1: to a certain player who's playing your position, and all
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  Speaker 1: you can really do is just sort of go in
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  Speaker 1: and and be yourself and not try to be somebody else. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously, as a fan of the franchise, you know,
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  Speaker 1: having been the Bachelor and then having watched for years
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  Speaker 1: and years and years, I just I sort of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: really decided to come in and just really try to
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  Speaker 1: be myself, you know, and and try to own it
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  Speaker 1: the best I could just being me, um, because I
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  Speaker 1: thought that would be the most authentic thing and that
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  Speaker 1: would come across the most natural. So, um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously I'm still I'm still figuring it out right. It's
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  Speaker 1: still so new to me in so many different ways.
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  Speaker 1: And and you know, this season of the Bachelor for me,
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  Speaker 1: hosting is a lot different than when I hosted with
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  Speaker 1: Clayton as the Bachelor, um, and so different, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think the bachelors are different, the personalities are different,
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  Speaker 1: the casts are different, and you know it's I think
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  Speaker 1: when you're a host, you wear so many different hats. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like with with Zach, you know, I've I've
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  Speaker 1: had to sort of learn that you know when to be,
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  Speaker 1: when to be went to where a certain had at
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  Speaker 1: different times. For instance, Zack's you know this is a
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  Speaker 1: really emotional season. Um. Yeah, it's the most It's easily
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  Speaker 1: the most emotional that that I hosted. UM. And I
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  Speaker 1: think a big part of that is because how intentional
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  Speaker 1: everybody is. I think what made this very unique for
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  Speaker 1: me at least was how many women got out of
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  Speaker 1: the limo and looked at Zack and said, hey, I'm
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  Speaker 1: really happy it's you or I'm here because of you.
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  Speaker 1: And I know Zach is really sort of as people
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  Speaker 1: have seen. I think through the first two episodes, he's
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  Speaker 1: really gone out of his way to to try to
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  Speaker 1: give as many women as he could time. He wants
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  Speaker 1: to get to know as many as possible. He took
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  Speaker 1: everybody on a date UM this past episode, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's really he's really intent on on making this work
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  Speaker 1: and finding his person Um. But I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the a lot of the drama that unfolds throughout
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  Speaker 1: the course of this year. I think it's very organic
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  Speaker 1: in the sense that it's not it's not necessarily a Cattinus.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's people falling in love and people getting their
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  Speaker 1: hearts broken. And I think goodbyes for Zach are really tough.
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  Speaker 1: He Um, He's he's the type of guy that just
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  Speaker 1: does not want to hurt anybody's feelings. Um. And so
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  Speaker 1: for me, you know where when you know when when
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  Speaker 1: pass leads would say goodbye, they would just sort of
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  Speaker 1: say goodbye, and it was it was a tough moment.
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  Speaker 1: They kind of head back on in the mansion and
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  Speaker 1: kind of collect everybody and tell them where we're off
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  Speaker 1: to next. With With Zach, he really like felt the moment.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, there's times people will see as we
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  Speaker 1: move along, when when there's a goodbye, whether it's planned
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  Speaker 1: or it's not planned, but there happens after a ros ceremony,
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  Speaker 1: or it happens premature to a ROAs ceremony somewhere, we'll see. Um,
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  Speaker 1: the further he goes, the harder he takes it, and
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  Speaker 1: he really needs time to sort of collect himself and
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  Speaker 1: he's sort of this present, he's in the moment, and
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  Speaker 1: it was some of those moments where sometimes you know
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  Speaker 1: you've got to kind of as a host go back
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  Speaker 1: in there and and be a shoulder to cry and
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  Speaker 1: you got to give the guy a hug sometimes, And
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  Speaker 1: so it was. It was just a different It was
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  Speaker 1: a different overall field based on the fact that Zack
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  Speaker 1: is authentic to himself. He's his own guy, and it
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  Speaker 1: was a bit of a different, a different journey than
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  Speaker 1: some of the others that I've I've posted so far. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: are there times when you want to jump in and
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  Speaker 1: go do something when they're pretty and are you a
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  Speaker 1: producer at this point? Okay, so are there times when
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  Speaker 1: you want to jump in and do something different than
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  Speaker 1: the producer? Or have there been Has there been a
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  Speaker 1: time like that where you've wanted to do something and um,
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  Speaker 1: it hasn't been something that the producers have said that
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  Speaker 1: you can do any moments like that. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: I haven't had to too many of those. I would
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  Speaker 1: say that what I'm trying to do and I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to be as mindful as i can about this, just
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  Speaker 1: not making it about myself, um, you know, and always
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  Speaker 1: trying to interject with my advice because it's really it's
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  Speaker 1: not about me, you know, it's about Zach, and it's
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  Speaker 1: about the women. I mean, it's it's about the women
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  Speaker 1: as much as it is about Zack. It's their journey too,
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, as you know, the journey kind
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  Speaker 1: of it, it takes itself out on its own course
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  Speaker 1: and it goes where it will. Zack's journey certainly does
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  Speaker 1: not go totally out. He thinks it's going to go um,
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  Speaker 1: and there are a bunch of twists and turns and
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  Speaker 1: things that he's prepared for. He's got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: difficult decisions still ahead of him. Um. You know, my
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  Speaker 1: job is to try to be there and be a
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  Speaker 1: confidante for him, and to be an ally and and
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  Speaker 1: a voice of reason and and to give advice if
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  Speaker 1: Zach wants it and wants to ask for it. Zach
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  Speaker 1: is that and by the way, he does do that.
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  Speaker 1: And and obviously he also has Sean who's who's there
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  Speaker 1: for him as well, the sort of to give him
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  Speaker 1: some some some added perspective. But you know, I just
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  Speaker 1: I think as the host, you got to be careful
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  Speaker 1: not to not to constantly be jumping in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and because because you know, I don't want to derail,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where Zack's going. And by the way, you know,
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  Speaker 1: things that I think Zach should do aren't necessarily right
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  Speaker 1: for Zach. Zach knows himself better and what he wants
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  Speaker 1: than I do. And so I'm just I'm always trying
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  Speaker 1: to be sort of sort of thoughtful and aware of that.
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  Speaker 1: Just available. Yeah, always, yeah, always there, and there's you know,
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  Speaker 1: and there are times certainly that I do have to
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  Speaker 1: go in and and be there for him, no doubt Jack.
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  Speaker 1: But I think you have to pick those moments carefully
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  Speaker 1: and thoughtful, because like, I don't need Zack thinking I'm
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  Speaker 1: always like peeking over his shoulder and I'm hiding in
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  Speaker 1: the bushes, like ready to jump in and like save
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  Speaker 1: the guy. It's like, you know, you're proud of him.
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  Speaker 1: You want to go out and do it, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: but you you gotta let him figure it out for
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  Speaker 1: himself too, Yeah, of course. Um okay, So what has
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  Speaker 1: been your favorite part of this new job for you?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just meeting meeting the people. I I
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  Speaker 1: just love people. I love being around them and I
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  Speaker 1: love getting to know them and so you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: that that to me has been It's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun and I've stayed in touch with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them. Um, and so it's really really cool. Um
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  Speaker 1: it's fun sometimes to be on a season and then
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  Speaker 1: see them again in Paradise and kind of see where
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  Speaker 1: that goes. And you know, try to help people, you know,
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  Speaker 1: find their person and find love. And we've been successful
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  Speaker 1: in doing that as well. Uh. And then I have
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  Speaker 1: to say, because we've already touched on it, uh, but
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  Speaker 1: avel doesn't suck, no kidding, right, it's a totally new thing.
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  Speaker 1: I wish we could have. Well, I mean this season
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  Speaker 1: on Zach season, he hit like the jackpot when it
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  Speaker 1: came to travel. So you know, when we leave California,
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  Speaker 1: we go to the Bahamas and we go to London
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  Speaker 1: and we go to Estonia, place the show has never
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  Speaker 1: been and I don't even know where that is. It's
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  Speaker 1: like eastern Europe. It's like close to lot and Riga
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  Speaker 1: and the Bay of Finland. It's like right across from
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  Speaker 1: from Finland. It's and I've actually been there before. It's
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  Speaker 1: an amazing place. Um. So so I was really excited
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  Speaker 1: for Zack on that. Uh. And then we also go
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  Speaker 1: to Budapest, which is this incredibly beautiful and charming old
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  Speaker 1: city with tons of history. Um yeah, Zach like totally
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  Speaker 1: lucked out. There's the things that you and I never
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  Speaker 1: got to do. We did not Pacific Pacific Northwest is great.
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  Speaker 1: I just know Zack Za gets a sort of im not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not cutting on Seattle, but I definitely would have
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  Speaker 1: loved to go to buddhadest um okay um. Compared to
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  Speaker 1: ESPN because you have hosted or commentated or been an
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  Speaker 1: analyst on ESPN, So compared to esp comparing ESPN to
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  Speaker 1: The Bachelor, what is what's your face like? If you
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  Speaker 1: had to pick one? I don't know. It's like hard
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  Speaker 1: because like football is my wheelhouse. It's what I've always done,
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  Speaker 1: and I've been doing that, you know, I've been I've
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  Speaker 1: been working at ESPN for seventeen years now. It's crazy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've been there a long time and I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love football, and it's like, you know, you're My
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  Speaker 1: role really is an analytical role. You talk about football,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about what you see, you give your opinions
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  Speaker 1: on that you do it in forty second sound bites.
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  Speaker 1: It's all live all the time, and then you're out
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  Speaker 1: where this is a totally different animal. And I think
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  Speaker 1: what I love about this is that, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm so new at it, still I still get nervous.
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  Speaker 1: I still have those feels, um, you know, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: fanning out as well because you know, having been The
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  Speaker 1: Bachelor and having been a fan of the franchise. I
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  Speaker 1: just love where I am and I love what I'm doing,
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  Speaker 1: and I love the people. And like we talked about earlier,
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  Speaker 1: you wear so many different hats. It's never so much analytical.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's being a therapist at times, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: a shoulder to cry on, being a cheerleader, giving advice,
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  Speaker 1: being a mentor. All those different things were really really fun.
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  Speaker 1: So um, I love I'm lucky that I get to
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  Speaker 1: do both at the same time. And it's just they
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  Speaker 1: just balance and play off each other so well. They
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  Speaker 1: are incredible jobs. I mean I know that my husband
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  Speaker 1: when you were announced as um working in college football,
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  Speaker 1: he was you know, I feel like he would have
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  Speaker 1: so much fun at that job actually, to the point
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  Speaker 1: that he was like, you should go do that. I'm like, No,
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  Speaker 1: I know nothing about football compared to you, and I
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  Speaker 1: would be horrible as you would be great. You would
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  Speaker 1: be amazing, sweet, but would be incredible. Listen, I know
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  Speaker 1: Ryan a little bit because my football agent also knows Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: Peter Schaefer from Colorado. You are Peter Schaefer's client. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he was my agent when I played football. I know.
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  Speaker 1: It's like six degrees of separations. So I've known all
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  Speaker 1: about Ryan and how much he loves football. But I
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  Speaker 1: can tell right away you're super talented. If you ever
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do it, that would be something you'd be amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you're the sweetest, um. But yeah, no, there's no
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  Speaker 1: way I would stress out too much. Like it comes
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  Speaker 1: naturally to guys like you and Ryan who have played
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Like it comes naturally. You did it
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  Speaker 1: for so long, it's part of who you are. For me,
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  Speaker 1: I could commentate on a dance competition, but not a
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  Speaker 1: football game. Nope, not for me. But I'll leave it
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  Speaker 1: to you guys the pros. Um. Okay, so I I
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  Speaker 1: think this is um. This is something that I would
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  Speaker 1: worry about as a host, is if I said something
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  Speaker 1: Because I do this? Everyone does this, right, You go
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  Speaker 1: to a party, you're talking to somebody and you say
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  Speaker 1: something that you're like, why did I say that? Or
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  Speaker 1: you think about it like an hour later the next
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  Speaker 1: day and you're you're like, oh, that just makes me
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  Speaker 1: want to cringe that I said that. Is there anything
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  Speaker 1: that you've said so far or in a way that
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  Speaker 1: you've said it, that you've you've just totally regretted saying
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  Speaker 1: it or cringed at the fact that you said it.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard. I mean, I in general hate seeing myself
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  Speaker 1: on TV. I was like it when I played football.
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  Speaker 1: I hate it when I played football. I used to
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  Speaker 1: hate watching myself play back, and when I see myself
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  Speaker 1: on ESPN after, I absolutely hate it. I hate my voice.
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  Speaker 1: I hate the way I say things. It's not how
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  Speaker 1: I think I sound, because what I've learned is it's
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  Speaker 1: never as good as you thought. Like there were times
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  Speaker 1: when I played or there's times I say things and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, heck, yeah, that was smooth. That was host
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  Speaker 1: you my friend or a host, And then I watched
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  Speaker 1: it back and replay and I'm like, that was so basic.
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  Speaker 1: That's said. There was nothing about that that was unique
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  Speaker 1: or special. Why did you think it was so good.
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  Speaker 1: But what I've also learned is while it's never as
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  Speaker 1: good as you think, it's also never quite as bad
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  Speaker 1: as you think too. You're so right there. Ever, are
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  Speaker 1: times where you kind of say something, or you set
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  Speaker 1: something up, or you know, you're you know, whatever it
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: is on the show, like like the things I get
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: really fired up for. This is probably really a stupid thing.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: But you know when you go in and you know
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: when you dropped the date cards. Sometimes when when the
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: women are the guys are all in the room and
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: you're telling them where they're flying to next, and you're
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big reveal and it's gonna be
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: like this really incredible international destination. Everybody, go pack your
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: bags and get out because your flight leaves in an hour.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Let's go. In my mind, I always make it sound
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: like I think I'm making it seem like it's just
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: this huge, amazing thing, And sometimes I watch it back
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, you really sort of let your foot
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: off the gas on that one, Like you didn't really
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: like drive at home, you know. And I know part
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: of it is the fact that normally we've had a
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: rose ceremony the night before and you've like slept for
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: like three hours maybe when you go back in the
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: mansion to tell everybody. So it's like you're like stumbling
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: in everybody's half awake and they have to go back.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: But I always wish like I would, I would deliver
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: that with a lot more. We'll see, We'll see how
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: it goes on Zach season, because like I'm fired up
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: for them because they're getting to go to these amazing
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: places and so yes, hopefully that hopefully it comes across better,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: but it's again never as good as I thought, never
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: quite as bad. Also, yeah, that's a great way to
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: look at it. I think you're right. I remember hearing
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: something from someone about, um, don't worry too much about
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: what other people think, because they really aren't thinking that
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: much about you, you know, like, don't worry so much.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: It's not good, you know, just do you? And yeah, um, okay,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: So I would love to know like about you personally.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Obviously you being on the show as the host, we
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: don't get to know a lot about who Jesse is
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: and you're like day to day. I would love to
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: know how you met your wife and tell me a
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: little bit about her. Yeah, thanks, So I'm super lucky.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I'm married to this amazing woman who's way out of
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: my league. And I met Emily. Emily's from Brazil and
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: she lived in New York City for eleven years. I
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: was there for twenty one years. I stuck around after
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I played during all my different TV stuff, and I
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: actually met Emily in a very organic way, which I'm
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: really happy about. I met her at a boxing class actually,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: uh in New York City. Yeah. So I watched this
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: gorgeous woman, all sweaty, and she was punching this bag
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: and she was just beating the crap out of it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: And I was so turned on, but I was also
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: kind of scared. And it was like this this like
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: fine line in the middle, and I was like, man,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: if I'm ever lucky enough to date this woman, I
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: am never gonna lie to her. All right, good, And
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: so that's kind started. Yeah, it's just kind of how
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: it started. And our first date was a boxing class
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: and then it kind of involved the protein shakes and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: then lunches. Emily really slow play. She really kind of
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: wanted to see what I was about. Um, And you know,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: here we are, like almost six years later, and uh,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: she's still putting up with me, so it's great. Stop.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure if you speak French to her,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: she's like a puddle. She's yeah, she's she. It's like
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: when she speaks Portuguese to me. I love it when
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: she speaks to her parents or her friends. You're just
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: sort of sitting there and you're like, coma just uh.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: You probably just called me a bunch of bad names,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: but I don't care. It sounds amazing. Who cares? Yeah,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: your lunch order is making me drool? Are you guys
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: based out of New York? Still? We know? We moved
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to Miami actually back in April. Amazing. It was over
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the cold weather. Oh that's amazing. I actually lived in
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Miami for seven years. I went to University of Miami
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and dance. I didn't when we were there, um Coral Gables,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: so I stayed close to school and UM. And then
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I worked at Miami Children's Hospital, which it's called something
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: else now it's the Children's hospital there, but I was
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: like five minutes away from work, which was amazing that
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: it was fun. They actually just announced that we're having
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: a reunion in March where all of the Heat dancers
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: are going to come and we get to dance on
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the court, um and just re unite, and I'm trying
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to make it work. I don't know, but I'll let
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: you know. If we come to Miami, Um, I'm glad
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: to see. Do you ever bump into Ashley or JP?
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I do not since I've been down there, And I
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: also haven't been there at Ton too. It's like with
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the schedule, I'm sort of there for a couple of
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: days and I'm gone. But Emily is so happy. We're
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: close to the beach and we've got the dog and
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: she she walks the dog into the water every morning
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and it's just like her paradise that it's great love
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: it has she been able to travel with you, she has,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: which is really really important for us and our relationship
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: because I'm I'm constantly on the go, and so what's
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: really really neat is that she gets to come out
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: to l A when we're filming in l A. And
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: then on some of these trips we take, she's able
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: to kind of pop out and join along. And so
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: over the last year and a half she's got to
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: sort of meet everybody on the crew and there's like,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: you know, the Bachelor crew, it's like it's like four deep.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: There's so many people and so there's a lot of
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: familiarity there with her, which is really nice, meeting people
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: in our producers and like the camera people in the US,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: an audio and everyone that that makes the show so great. Um,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: she's kind of she's kind of becoming, you know, sort
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: of this extended part of that family, which is which
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: has been really really cool, and it's it's great for
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: us to be able to spend that time away from
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: home too. Yeah, of course, I think it's so important
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to get away. And like I said, I was doing
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: some interviews this morning and people were celebrating our twentieth
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: wedding anniversary in December, and you know, the question has
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: come up, what's your what's your secret? Or you know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: how do you keep going? And I think it's all
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: about prioritization and making sure that your relationship is is
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: at the top of the list. You know, when you're
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: when you're traveling, you try to do stuff together. When
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: when you our home, you try to do stuff together.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: And just making sure that each other knows that, yeah,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you are each other's top priority. I think that's that's
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the best way to go about life and make or
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: that you're happy. Um, so are you guys looking to
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: expand your family at all? And got something more? No,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: we we've talked about Yeah, we would love to have kids,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: and so I think we're sort of both at a
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: point where we're ready to have a little Jesse's and
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: emilies running around. So we're you know, we're excited and
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: hopeful and we'll see what happens. Yeah right, I mean
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: she's got a busy schedule following you around, but hopefully
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: you can have little bachelor babies. And I've waited, Yeah,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I've waited a long time to do this. I mean
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: it took me a lot of years to finally get
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: down on the knees. So I feel like it's it's
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: time to kind of hustle it up a little bit,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: start getting Yeah, it's a little ones running around now. Yeah,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I have two younger brothers. Okay, have kids, so I
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: gotta kid. Oh you do they have kids? Yes? I
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: have four nephews. Oh so your parents are like, Okay,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: it's time let's go. Yeah, time for a second time
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: for a little girl. That would be great? Oh yes,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: would you? Would you be? You know, I hate saying
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: this because as a parent. You can't pick a favorite.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And when I was pregnant, Everyone's like, what do you
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: hope you would have? Um? I just wanted a healthy baby.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: But do you feel like being a girl dad would be?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: You know, in your wheelhouse? Or would you rather be
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: a football with a little boy? I mean, you hit
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: it on the head. For me, it would just be
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: if we had you know, at this point, beggars can't
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: be choosers. I'll take anything, totally, take anything. And hey,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you can have a daughter and throw the football with
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the daughter. Totally totally. I just I would. I would
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: love to have a little a little baby girl, and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: because I know I would be a total daddy's girl
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: and she would have me wrapped around her finger and
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I would do it. I would do it without any hesitation.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: We just somehow don't make a lot of girls in
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: our family. I have two brothers. My brother has three boys.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: My other brother has a boy. So something's got to give.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I think it's me. I'm going to manifest this. You're
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: going to do it right now? Yes, every night, you're
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: just going to think about it. Okay, So I'm sure
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: this is your job. Let's go one job. Um, Okay,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I want to end on UM on Zack season, give
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: us a little tease if you if you will. Obviously
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I know you can't spoil anything. It comes with a job.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: But is there something you can tell us that you
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: haven't told anyone else, or something you can tell us
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: about this season that is super exciting that we'll get
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: people to listen to this podcast, you know, like like
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: for me, like I what I what I kind of
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: feel and why I'm so excited about this season, especially
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: for Bachelor fans out there and people that have been
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: watching the show a long time, including when we were
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: we were on the show. UM, is that I think
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: this is gonna feel very nostalgic to a lot of them. Um.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: This season really is a throwback in the sense that
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: it is so much more about the love story and
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: less about the drama. There absolutely is drama, no doubt
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: about it, and you can't like you can't avoid that,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: but that's not going to be the prevailing, overriding theme
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: of this season. We know Zack's intentions on being there
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: and these women are very intent as well. They can't
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: you know, they really are there for Zach and so,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: like we were talking about earlier, UM, it's extremely emotional
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and and you know, we're sort of going to ride
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the lightning and ride the wave here with Zack as
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: he tries to navigate all of this. But um, you know,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: his his soul main focus is finding love. He's not
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: there to play the drama. And you kind of saw
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: that in in this most recent episode. He just Zack
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: is able to make decisions and not let things manifest
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: and fester. He he he can, he can step up.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: He can make tough decisions and move on. I think
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: that's endearing him right now a lot with a lot
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: of the women in the house. Um, and so you know,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I I just spoke with Zach. I can't give the
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: ending away. Zach is extremely happy and he wouldn't change
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: anything about how this journey unfolds. So there's just a
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: lot of kind of old Bachelor vibes going on. We've
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: got the Bachelor Bowl coming up in the next episode,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: which is something that's become synonymous with the franchise. There's
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: a massive pool party, which we had on my season
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: at the Mansion when I was a Bachelor's acts about
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the partake and that coming up as well. And there's
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: just you know, I think people are just going to
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: sort of see and feel a lot of a lot
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: of the love, which which really at the core of
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: this show. That's what it is about. That's what it
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: should be about. And I think we're really sort of
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: getting back to that on this season. Good. That's why
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I've always watched. I feel like I love love and
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I love to see a love story unfold and root
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: for the couple and and you know, see how it
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: pans out after the show. So I'm glad to hear that.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, I wish only the best for every single
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: person who has filled the shoes that we have been
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: lucky enough to Phil Prior, and um, I hope that
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: for Zach too, So thank you so much. I do
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: have one last question, So, um, do you think you
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: can put a word in that you know, Shan Low
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: is great and all, and he's successful in his relationship,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and you know he's got kids and they're very happy.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: What about me, Like, dude, Hello, you're on, I will
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: be the messenger for you. You're ready. No, I'm like, dude,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: they must have something against me. I must have done
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: something wrong because I am never asked to come back.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: And you know, Zach was like Oh, Sean's been married
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: for however long, I can't remember how long he's been
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: married for. And he's super successful in relation relationship. And
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I know me too, what I was
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: on it way before that. Just over here, I'm just
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready for a dance. I'll totally be the
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: messenger for you. Put a good word. I thought you
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: were going to ask me for a job at ESPN.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I was like, yes, would die he would be so excited.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Jesse, thank you so much for your time,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: for your energy. I think you're doing a great job.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: It's great to watch you and and I'm glad you're
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: there to support our our new little siblings. Little siblings
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: is the little gaffers running all over. It's so great
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: being on with you. Thank you so much, Thank you, Jesse.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: All Right, we'll see you all right, cool, have a
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: great day, have time in those interviews. Oh yeah, you're
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the high point. We'll see okay. Bye,