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  Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
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  Speaker 1: with i R Radio. This is another week of the
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  Speaker 1: Almost Famous podcast and we are lucky to have this episode.
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  Speaker 1: We have somebody absolutely incredible joining us. Yes, Ashley, how
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? Oh that's a sleep Ben. But like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited because we have the woman of the
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  Speaker 1: hour of the past few months, Tasia Adams herself and
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  Speaker 1: her beautiful face staring back at us right now. Hi, guys,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so happy to be with you, Tasia. Uh. We
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  Speaker 1: are super pumped to have you on here for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of reasons. We've been huge fans of years. For
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  Speaker 1: a long time. In fact, I was thinking back the
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  Speaker 1: very first time I met you, and I still remember it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure Ashley. I think Ashley was there for this,
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  Speaker 1: but we you came into our studios in Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: right after Colton season. You were our very first guest
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  Speaker 1: from that season. You came in and sat with us,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember during that time, Uh, your producer looked
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  Speaker 1: at me and said, I'm really happy I got to
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  Speaker 1: meet this girl. She's on going on to do incredible
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  Speaker 1: things and I'm just happy she's happy. And I said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: for a producer to go out of his way to
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  Speaker 1: say that means this is somebody special where you've proven it. Um,
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  Speaker 1: And then we'll fast forward and everybody's her to talk
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  Speaker 1: about this. You've gone to uh I Heart Festival, Music
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  Speaker 1: Festival with us, We've we've been able to be around
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  Speaker 1: each other quite a bit, and we cannot be more
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  Speaker 1: excited for you. Congratulations on a great season, congratulations on
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  Speaker 1: the great ending, and thank you once again for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Honestly, Yeah, you guys are right.
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  Speaker 1: I've been with you since the very beginning of this
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  Speaker 1: all I feel like, so it's perfect timing. We are.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get started here with this because you
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  Speaker 1: are somebody uh who when you know this is a
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  Speaker 1: whole unexpected journey for you. This was not playing, this
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  Speaker 1: was not thought through a few months ago, you had
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  Speaker 1: no clues is gonna even happen. I'm gonna start at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning with a question that I really want you
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  Speaker 1: to think about, because I think it gets important. How
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  Speaker 1: has this experience, sitting where you're at today, knowing what
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  Speaker 1: you know now, how have you changed as a person? Ah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think I've said this, but I know, Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's if anything, it just makes me really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the hard times that you go through in life because
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, for so long I would not have
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  Speaker 1: given myself like to even think that I would deserve
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  Speaker 1: something like this, you know what I mean? And I
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  Speaker 1: think that, Um, I was like so in the mode
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  Speaker 1: of like, Okay, I have to do this next, I
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  Speaker 1: have to this next, this next, But it's just it
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  Speaker 1: was being concerned about everybody else and not listening to
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  Speaker 1: myself and then just knowing, like I worked my butt
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  Speaker 1: to get where I am today and I'm so happy that, um,
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  Speaker 1: I went through all the hard times. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: you don't appreciate things if you don't go through the
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  Speaker 1: hard times, right, I would agree with you, but like,
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  Speaker 1: explain us a little bit more before we get into
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  Speaker 1: your season, because yes, your season had its ups and downs.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't always easy, but for the most part, like
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  Speaker 1: this is a really great season, full of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things to celebrate, a lot of really beautiful moments. Um.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't as controversial and dramatic as past seasons, but
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  Speaker 1: it was still as entertaining because there's a beautiful story
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  Speaker 1: being portrayed. So when you say going through the hard
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  Speaker 1: times of let you hear what are you speaking about?
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  Speaker 1: Because there's multiple things. It's number one, Um, even this
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  Speaker 1: way I was growing up, Like I think that there
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  Speaker 1: are things that I've experienced as a child, just like
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  Speaker 1: even you know, um, hard times that my parents have
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  Speaker 1: gone through, like even financial struggles and and um, I
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  Speaker 1: guess being picked on like being younger. And so that
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  Speaker 1: makes me in turn, like when the guys come around
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  Speaker 1: and they tell me about their struggles that they have
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  Speaker 1: gone through in life. There are things that I have
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  Speaker 1: like a like a soft stop for people that I've
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  Speaker 1: you know, struggled. So there's that part. And then in
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  Speaker 1: relationships and like dating guys that are just like such
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  Speaker 1: jerks and assholes. That makes you really really appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: guys that are in front of you that are super
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable and just being willing to do this. Not that
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  Speaker 1: you would never um, I don't know. I think that
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  Speaker 1: somebody else would do for you. It's just I have
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  Speaker 1: learned to appreciate everything that I've gone through. Now I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I completely desert Like even Zach right that
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  Speaker 1: I have now he treats me like a freaking angel.
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  Speaker 1: And I never thought that I would ever have a
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  Speaker 1: man that would treat me as well as he does.
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  Speaker 1: But like, I feel like now that I know that
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  Speaker 1: what another person has treated me like, I appreciate this
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  Speaker 1: ten times more and I just want to like cherish that.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Now that makes sense, that's great. Well, again,
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  Speaker 1: before we dive into the season, we really just want
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  Speaker 1: to start by saying, congratulations. We're happy you're sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the place you are, and we're excited for this interview
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  Speaker 1: because it's a good interview and it's one that comes
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  Speaker 1: from a place of joy and celebration. So Ashley, I'll
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  Speaker 1: throw it to you. Do you know how hard I
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  Speaker 1: was rooting for you and Zach and like how like
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  Speaker 1: I how to keep it together? Like do you know
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  Speaker 1: like the fire that I felt between you guys, and
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  Speaker 1: like the intensity and how obsessed with the fact that
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  Speaker 1: like for the past month I felt like I had
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  Speaker 1: a new rom com or romance to watch every Monday
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  Speaker 1: and Tuesday. Okay, first of all, it's funny because we
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  Speaker 1: would text every now and then, but you knew nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't tell you one word, and I was just
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  Speaker 1: telling you like I want you to kind of like
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  Speaker 1: give me your insights. You're like a version of it
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  Speaker 1: all and it was so cute just watched having you
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  Speaker 1: watch it and like telling your little pointers about all
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  Speaker 1: these guys. It's like so good. But thank you. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you rooting for Zach and I. It's it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was insane to watch back, I'll tell you that much.
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  Speaker 1: Also really dangerous on Ashley's part. Okay, tell me some
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff she would text you and I'd be like, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know how this is, Like this could get
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  Speaker 1: really awkward for you. Okay, So tasting funny story here. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so you were like I love hearing what you have
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  Speaker 1: to say, you know, like week to week. So when
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  Speaker 1: Ben got sent home the first time I debated, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, well, this is appropriate or not to send
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  Speaker 1: but I this is what I texted Tasia. Guys and
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  Speaker 1: there's a story. So I go, I'm so glad you
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  Speaker 1: sent Ben home. These remaining three are gems. I just
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  Speaker 1: felt disconnected to Ben and the edit was making me
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  Speaker 1: feel like he was going to get top two. See,
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  Speaker 1: he seems like the kind of guy that would ghost
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  Speaker 1: a girl he was in a serious relationship with, So
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  Speaker 1: Tasia doesn't respond to this and like for two days
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  Speaker 1: or whatever, and like that's not like I wasn't worried
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  Speaker 1: about her not responding, Like Tasia is not like a
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  Speaker 1: guy I have a crush on um. And I also
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  Speaker 1: know that she's like the very very busy bachelorette and
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  Speaker 1: I can't even imagine how many texts you get while
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  Speaker 1: the show is going on. So I didn't think twice
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  Speaker 1: about that. But then all these rumors started coming out
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  Speaker 1: that Ben was coming back, and so many people like
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  Speaker 1: she ends up with Ben and I I text immediately,
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  Speaker 1: like in our almost famous message thread, when all these
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  Speaker 1: rumors are coming out, I was like, you, guys, what
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  Speaker 1: if I called that her fiance currently is a guy
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  Speaker 1: that seems like he would ghost a girl in a
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  Speaker 1: long term relationship. Could you imagine if that was the
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  Speaker 1: case about it during that Like maybe Tuesday's episode was
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  Speaker 1: just so obvious, but maybe like Monday's episode that is,
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  Speaker 1: my friends are looking at me watching and being like, god,
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be hysterical, and she's probably sets you
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  Speaker 1: freaking out. I don't freaking out, and I don't take
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  Speaker 1: off from this well, like I get really, I can't
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  Speaker 1: even heard. I can't watch a season of The Bachelotte
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  Speaker 1: and Bachelor without looking through my eyes or through looking
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  Speaker 1: through my hands have time, I get so cringing. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And like, knowing Ashley now for the three plus years
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  Speaker 1: I've known her, I was like, of course you would
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  Speaker 1: do this, Why would you do this? What would do that? What?
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  Speaker 1: Like what positive was going to come out of you
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  Speaker 1: texting her that, like this is so dangerous. I felt
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  Speaker 1: very passionately towards Zack Tasia. Okay, so I totally eliminated
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  Speaker 1: together two. I was like, Brendan and Ivan so sweet,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think she's going to end up with them.
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  Speaker 1: So in my head, you're going to end up with
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  Speaker 1: Ben or Zach. And when Ben left, I was very
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  Speaker 1: relieved because in my head that just met you ended
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  Speaker 1: up with Zach. That is too funny. That is too funny.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there you go. I mean that that just
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  Speaker 1: goes to show. Maybe um, don't send the text next
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  Speaker 1: time because you just never really know the show. But also,
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, how good did that pause? I'm
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  Speaker 1: really good at pausing, apparently and just not responding and
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  Speaker 1: really allowing for like anticipation just to boil over. Butuck, hey,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll wake that in the end, I made it.
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  Speaker 1: It made it more fun to be honest, Yes, to
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  Speaker 1: have that tension lying there. Okay, so let's just Ben.
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  Speaker 1: Did you think this about Ben? I had my hesitancies
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  Speaker 1: about him, and so I, like Ashley and I would
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  Speaker 1: talk a lot offline about like where we're at, and
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't a guy this season. I was like, no,
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  Speaker 1: for sure, not like I can't this. This dude is
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  Speaker 1: dangerous and trouble. But Ben was the closest thing where
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  Speaker 1: I was like I just don't see it, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't and actually both agreed like, hey, there's something more
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  Speaker 1: there that we're not seeing understanding that we can't put
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  Speaker 1: our fingers on. And Tassia so open and vulnerable that
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  Speaker 1: it just doesn't They don't make sense together. And so
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  Speaker 1: we were just fans of Zach. I mean, we've been
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  Speaker 1: fans of Zach for a while and we thought, you,
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  Speaker 1: this is beautiful, this would work. But I would have
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  Speaker 1: never advised her to do what she did because he
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  Speaker 1: never Crazier things have happened and I'm not kidding to
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  Speaker 1: in this here, like behind the scenes, when she told
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  Speaker 1: me she did this, like I was like, curled up
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  Speaker 1: in a ball in the fetal position on the couch. No,
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  Speaker 1: we'll never have Tasha on the podcast. She's never gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk to us again. I'm gonna lose Tassia and my friend, Like,
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  Speaker 1: this is bad. That is so on me. Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I would have seen you guys, like behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes. But I did tell people who are worried
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  Speaker 1: for me for saying that. I was like Taitia is
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  Speaker 1: the kind of person that I could say that about
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  Speaker 1: her fiance and she would have forgiven me and thought
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of funny. Oh, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, and like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how funny is that? And then just like pull him
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  Speaker 1: on over like fiance, hard feelings at all. No, So,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's talk about the fact that you are
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest bachelorettes of all time and it
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  Speaker 1: almost didn't happen. What, Oh my gosh, can you believe
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  Speaker 1: it almost didn't happen? Well, I still can't believe it happened. Well,
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  Speaker 1: do you feel like it was like a meant to
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  Speaker 1: be type thing that like Claire was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: that bachelorette and then she was supposed to find Dale
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  Speaker 1: and then like that's why you were supposed to commit.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems like it's very meant to be and
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  Speaker 1: faithful to me. I well, I always think that everything
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  Speaker 1: works out when it's supposed to, and I definitely think
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  Speaker 1: that this situation worked out perfectly for me, because if
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  Speaker 1: I would have had too much time, I think I
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  Speaker 1: would have like had, like I've said this before, focused
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of the guys prior to going to
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  Speaker 1: be on the Bachelor ade um and maybe would have
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  Speaker 1: zonned in on one or two people just because of
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  Speaker 1: like their looks are done this or that, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. Just like how clar He did with Dale.
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  Speaker 1: She know, she knew who he was, she loved what
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  Speaker 1: he stood for, and like when she did meet him,
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  Speaker 1: it kind of just like mashed really well, so they
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  Speaker 1: end up together. But I think not knowing any of
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  Speaker 1: the guys, the guys not knowing me me kind of
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  Speaker 1: just like honestly going like within thirty six hours of
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  Speaker 1: me getting the phone call and no time to prep
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  Speaker 1: for anything. It was perfect. It was perfect. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: too into my head. I just had fun and it
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  Speaker 1: went with the flow. When you and the guys, I
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  Speaker 1: felt like reform me too. I don't know they're perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like if when you look back on
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  Speaker 1: night one, did you feel like Zach was a front
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  Speaker 1: runner in your mind or did he truly grow every week?
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  Speaker 1: He truly grew every week. I mean, like I doing
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  Speaker 1: the whole wishing thing in the well um or in
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  Speaker 1: the fountain um. His style stuck out to me because
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  Speaker 1: he was wearing sneakers UM. But other than that, like
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  Speaker 1: I think that there was a little bit more of
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  Speaker 1: like a I don't know, um, instant connection with a
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  Speaker 1: couple of other guys as opposed to act. Well, if
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  Speaker 1: we're starting at the beginning then because I want to
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  Speaker 1: hear this. One of the things that actually I noticed,
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  Speaker 1: and I've been in those shoes before, you kind of
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  Speaker 1: like entered into it and you felt it seemed like
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  Speaker 1: you were very comfortable, Like there wasn't like most of
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  Speaker 1: the time on Night one, I remember for myself, there's
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of nerves. Uh, you're pretty hesitant, you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what to say, you don't know how it
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  Speaker 1: all works. But like right away we got the picture
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  Speaker 1: the sense from you like hey, you're in it, like
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  Speaker 1: you're ready, you're you're you're leading this thing. You're asking
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  Speaker 1: the right questions, You're open, and you're letting them talk back,
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  Speaker 1: Like why why were you so ready on that so natural?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just I'm a people person. I
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  Speaker 1: really like being around people and getting to know them.
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  Speaker 1: But also I remember walking into that room. I remember
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  Speaker 1: driving up and then talking to Chris was the most
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  Speaker 1: nervous I had been throughout the whole night. And then
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  Speaker 1: the second I walked into the room, all the guys
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  Speaker 1: like the energy was just so good and they were
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  Speaker 1: so nice, as like I can do this, like I
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  Speaker 1: had no I wasn't sweating, I wasn't nervous. Everything was
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  Speaker 1: great and I was just living my best life. And
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  Speaker 1: I was just I mean, what girl doesn't want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to like twenty guys that like all the tension
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  Speaker 1: is all yeah, you know what I mean? We did
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  Speaker 1: such and they look good too. I'll suit it up
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  Speaker 1: and I was having the best time and it looks
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  Speaker 1: really all I can say, it looks like it. You're
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  Speaker 1: You're just so fun and easy to watch as the bachelorette. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so before we talk about Zach and how happy and
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  Speaker 1: wonderful the story is, uh, let's go back to your
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  Speaker 1: top three or four for a second. Okay, if Ben
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  Speaker 1: didn't come back and Brendan didn't leave, would Brendan have
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  Speaker 1: been number two? Okay? If Ben didn't come back and
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  Speaker 1: when Brendan didn't leave, m who would have been number two? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: So this is a little backstory on that I had
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  Speaker 1: been saying for like it was. I can't really tell
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  Speaker 1: you like the timing of filming about not because I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember it at this point. But I had been
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  Speaker 1: needing to talk to Brendan about our relationship because it
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  Speaker 1: had kind of plateaued at some point, felt that and
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  Speaker 1: it was like he wasn't giving me anymore. And I
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  Speaker 1: remember after that um lie to check your date, like
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  Speaker 1: something just didn't feel right between us, Like when he
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  Speaker 1: made that um comment about not being ready to meet
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  Speaker 1: my parents and me not to be able to read
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  Speaker 1: his that kind of rubbed me the wrong way, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, hold on a sec him someone
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  Speaker 1: that's actually like in this and ready to um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: move on to the next steps. That's like the last
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  Speaker 1: thing on their mind because meaning your parents is like
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  Speaker 1: it's a big deal for me, and I understand that
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  Speaker 1: being a big deal for somebody else, but like that
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  Speaker 1: should be like the least of your concern as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to getting engaged, you know what I mean. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's like the easy part. Like that's your family, like
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  Speaker 1: they can help you make that decision. That should be
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  Speaker 1: fun and exciting. Yeah. No, um, he was very hesitant
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  Speaker 1: about that. So that kind of like where like that
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  Speaker 1: hesitation started going and then um, yeah, I think when
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  Speaker 1: he told me that, um on our fantasy Suite date,
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  Speaker 1: where he was just like not there the reason why
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  Speaker 1: I didn't react and I didn't cry because I kind
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  Speaker 1: of felt into my gut and I already started like
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  Speaker 1: putting my walls up, um, and so I just kind
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  Speaker 1: of like shut down at that point. So no, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I would have, because once I make a decision,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really go back on it. So no, So
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  Speaker 1: what was up with that sound bite that said I
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  Speaker 1: thought Brendan was going to be the one? My theory
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  Speaker 1: is that like early on you thought that Brendan could
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  Speaker 1: have been the one? Was that? I think so because
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  Speaker 1: I remember saying that since day one. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: was so funny after that first one on one day,
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  Speaker 1: I was like I could leave right now and people
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  Speaker 1: were like, Tasia, slow down, you're staying here, You're not leaving.
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  Speaker 1: It's not another bachelor coming, Okay. Um, But I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: I said that in the beginning, just because we had
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  Speaker 1: hit it off so well at that when on one
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: was amazing, So maybe that was a sound bite from
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: the beginning. Did you ever allude to wanting Ben to
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: maybe come back, especially after your fantasy suit with Ivan,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: because maybe you realize that you and Ivan weren't on
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: the same page and that you're like, man, um, I
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: kind of feel like I need somebody else here because
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: I can eliminate him. Or was it by fantasys we
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: you just had decided on Zack and like everything else
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: was trivial. Um. I think at that point I started
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: getting once Brendan left, I started getting in my head like,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, what if these other guys aren't ready?
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: And then after because at that point I had a
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: fantasy suite with Ivan, and I had known that like, Okay,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: there's a couple of things we spoke about that we're
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: gonna have to definitely work on if it were to
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: be us too. Um, And they were kind of wearing
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: me a little bit. And then the whole Brendan thing
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: laughed and like at that point, I was just like,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the heck I'm doing, Like, what
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: is Zach's not even ready? No, I never said or
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: considered ben't even coming back. I was a last thing
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: on my mind. I already had like enough on my plate. Um.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: But at that point, Zach and I Fantasy Suite had
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: been the best one yet, So you know, it was
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: just kind of speaking at the devil you just locked
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: the Zachary is here. So Tasia, we only have a
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: few more minutes left with you. I know that you've
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: you've been busy with uh everything going on in your life,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and we do really appreciate you coming on for a
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: few minutes a day and kind of talking to us. Um,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: before we get into Zack, I want to I want
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: to take this time because there's a question that nobody
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: really ever asked me. But I think you're close with
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: your family. I'm close with mine. Um, Well, was it
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: like for your family to watch and now also if
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: you could, as we transitioned into into your relationship with Zack,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: was it like for Zach to watch this season now
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: play out and all of them to kind of be invested.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Was it weird, was awkward? Were there any funny moments? What? What?
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: What was it like? Um, First of all, with my family,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I don't watch it with my family because that's at
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: it was awful. It was awful. It could never and
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: and the funniest thing is my dad would just text
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: me like Titia with like three little dots, and I'd like,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: oh my god, oh my god, he's watching, Like yeah,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm so happy I'm not in the room
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: with them. UM. So that's that with my family. As
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: far as like Zack watching it back, it did get
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: really hard at times, um. And I think it's just because,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: like he obviously watched it because his family was so excited,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: so he wanted to like watch it back with them,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: And UM, just at times, like I think, like hearing
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: my conversations with other guys or like hearing how I
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: was feeling in the moment is difficult. It's not on
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: it's not normal. Um. But I think that what really
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: helped us is just having that open line of communication.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: The one thing that we have that's very very solid
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: is our communication, no matter if it's going to hurt
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: one another or whatever, it's going to be like we
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: definitely just hit it head on and just deal with
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: what we have to deal with. And um, we definitely
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: had some serious conversations quite a bit, quite a few times. Um.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was really funny because I knew what
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: was coming later down the road. So when I saw
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: him up with Claire, like you're excited to have the date? Huh,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Cause he would say little things like I can't wait
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: to get this started, I'm like, oh, you can't wait
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: to get it started. So I had to get five
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: jobs in when I could, But because I knew they
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: were going to come for me, So it's okay that
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of really happy moments because like obviously
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: when we had our one on one and like a
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: hometown all that kind of stuff. It was really fun
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: to watch back with him. Can you give us the dirt?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Was there? Like? What was the one scene that really
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: set him off with another guy? I think he was
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: more so towards the ad. I think he was like fancy,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: sweet and time, Like just the conversations we were having, um,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and it was just it's just it's just not fun. No,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: it's not it's not fun. It's not healthy. I would
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: say many times, like there's there's some good that comes
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: out of it because you learn how to communicate and
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: then you learn how I mean, like for me, you know,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: moving on from my relationship from the show and moving
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: into uh, you know, my relationship with Jessica, that same
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: communication openness has like existed there, and so it's like
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: really good, it helps, but it sucks. I remember that
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: it just is really awkward and there's no good answers
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: and you're like, I don't have any way to explain
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: myself here, but like that's the thing. I can't really
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: explain myself. It's just it is what it is, and
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that way, but it's just it's also
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: just not normal to watch like multiple relationships with your fiance.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: So it's just it's hard. Was your dad ever like
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: E's zact Like we feel it was Zach. We know
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: you're picking Zack because I know that your dad had
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: a guidance. He was such a guider through it. My
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: mom and my dad said that they knew them. I
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: fell in love with him, which was everyone says like
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the hot tub scene because I was just like so
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: like it's so weird because I don't even remember that scene.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if I watched the episode. Um,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: in my mind, I didn't like Zack that day. I
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: remember that, but every one said it was around then
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that they saw that my eyes, it was a little different.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: So oh, it felt like you guys were fighting it then,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: like you're just like, oh, I hate you, because I
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: know I love you. I think that's what it was,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: because I remember getting out. I'm like, yep, I don't
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: really like him at all. And then, um, zactly. Then
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I actually gave him the rose at night, so clearly
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I liked him, but I was also like fighting the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: feeling so funny. Do I have time for another question?
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: You have one more question left? Actually, then we're going
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: to close this up, and I mean, hey, we can
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: talk to you all day. This was one of the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: best sceness. You are one of the greatest leads. But hey,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: we know the media gauntlet that you've gone on, and
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: we also know that you're engaged and we want you
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: to be able to celebrate that engagement with him without
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: being on your computer the whole time. So actually, you
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: get one final question and then thank you. Crap. I
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: gotta narrow it down, Okay, Um, well, what was like
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the moment that you knew knew? Because I got so
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: like thrilled in on Cloud nine when watching you Guys
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: on that date and he was like, I love you,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and then you were like I love you, Oh my God,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Like you you must have been preparing to say that.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: You must have knew in your head when you said
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: that he was it when I said I love you,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: oh before a fantasy suite. Yeah, well I knew I
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: wanted to say I loved him, but you didn't want
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: to say I love you to anyone else, right, Well,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I think like that's funny to say, but yeah, when
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I was feeling it, I would say it. Um, maybe
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: that's not always the best way to go about it, Ben, Yeah,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I get it. So like I kind of like it
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: was kind of reserved, but like with him, it was
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: just like we had this like again open land communications
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: since the very beginning, and I felt like I could
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: always like tell him how I was feeling, and um,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I couldn't find it at that point. No, when he
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: said it, I was just like wanted to grab him,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: like I love you too, exactly how it was? Okay? Fine?
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: One question? One final question. I'm so sorry but how
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: was your Christmas with the palm tree? Christmas tree? Because
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: you couldn't get one in time? Oh my gosh, it's
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: so funny. It's actually a seculent and am Um, it
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: was good. It's because usually in New York they have
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: like a bunch of Christmas trees on the side of
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the road and you could just like grab one and
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: drag into your house kind of thing. That's what I
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: was planning on doing. But it was Christmas Day and
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: everyone's like, why are waiting till Christmas Day? I'm I
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: guess because we were in like Orange County. Um, but
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: it was good. It works out right. Just I didn't
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: want to buy the bush for a hundred and seventy dollars.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: That was ridiculous. You're good there. Well, Hey Tasia, UM
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: do us a favor. Uh. You are incredible. You've been incredible.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: You've shown and true to yourself, to your family, to
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: all of us. Um, You're gonna do great things for
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: this franchise and for this kind of the people that
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: watch this series. Um, stay true to you. We've admired you,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: we've laughed with you, we've celebrated you, and thank you
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: for coming on this podcast. And giving us your time.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I know you are busy, um, but you chose to
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: do this and we are very thankful for that. So Tasha, Hey, congratulations,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Now get out there and start celebrating. You got it.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Thanks guys, I really appreciate it. Oh you talk soon, Okay, Bye.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: That's been Tasia Adams. Everybody, She's incredible. Um yeah, that's
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: not often quite honestly, it's very rare after a season
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: that we kind of leave these interviews with the leads
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and be like, wow, they're just awesome, like we just
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: know it. Like there's full comps. Usually there's like a
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: little skepticism, there's a little like something to be worried about.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: There's critiques. There's these things that we feel maybe we
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: say and maybe we don't maybe can sense them in
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: our language that we use on the podcast. What I
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: will tell you this, at least from my perspective, I
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: think I can speak for you actually on this is
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: UM we're confident that Tasia Adams will go on to
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: do great things, has already done great things, and that
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: you know, if this relationship works, we will be celebrating
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the whole time. So if it doesn't, we know they're
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: going to give it their best shot. Um, but I
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: believe it's gonna work. I'd put money behind it working. Um.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: But Tashia Adams had a great season as a Bachelor
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: at and I'm really glad that we got to watch it.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: And it's obvious that I feel the same. That's right. Hey, actual,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: let's take a break here. When we come back, we're
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: gonna do Bachelor headlines, uh, and then later on the
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: in this podcast, we're gonna break down Matt James. Yes,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: we're moving on the Matt James already. Like Tasha, well,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: you don't forget you. You're gonna still be in our
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: hearts and our minds. We hope you come back again.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: But we're moving on to Matt James this season of
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: The Bachelor, which is airing in a very very few
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: amount of days. Um, and we're gonna break down all
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: of his contestants that are coming on uh to try
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: to court him. Hey, we'll be back with almost in
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: this podcast. Yeah, we are excited for the new year.
• 26:10
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• 26:14
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• 26:18
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• 27:31
  Speaker 1: to break down the most recent things in Bachelor Nation.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: The holidays. Hey, we're upon us. We celebrated them, and actually,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I hope you had an incredible holiday season. But we
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: see that Claire Crawley and Dale Moss spent their very
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: first Christmas together as newly engaged couples. This, according to People,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: this picture that Claire posted looks like something out of
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: It's a Wonderful Life, right, Yeah, it's so cute, so
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: are romantic. It's like she won all the phases that
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Bailey goes through and there she is with her love,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: knowing what's important at the end of all of it.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: And she says in the caption, I pray that no
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: matter what these holidays look like for you, that you
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: were able to share and feel the love regardless of circumstances,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the greatest gift of all. Merry Christmas. It's very, very cute.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: And this is a photo that was taken in Dale's
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Well, obviously we just
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: got done talking to Tassia who was a Bachelor, and
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: we can't forget about Claire. She did start this season off.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Even though you know, it kind of became tatious season,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and we're happy for Claire and Dale and we're hoping
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: they do celebrate and continue to celebrate for years to come. Well,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: one couple that we expect to be celebrating for years
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: to come. I think it'd be a shocker to us
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: all if they didn't. Uh, Caitlin Bristow and Jason Tartet
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: test positive for COVID. This is bigger than us. This
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: according to people. Yeah, this was so sad, so so sad.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: They were quarantining for a bit because they were going
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: to go up to Buffalo to spend Christmas with his family,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: and then they let one person in the house who
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: actually had to be tested daily for work, and she
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: had tested four days in a row negative. So of
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: course they thought, okay, it's it's safe for her to
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: come in. Well it wasn't, because she came back positive
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the next day after she visited their house. So you know,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Caitlin and Jason of course decided to stay home and
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: they did not have They're not having an asymptomatic bout
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: of COVID, that's for sure. Jason looks, he looks rough
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: on their Instagram. Poor guy. Um, she said that he's
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: had worse symptoms, worse fever than she has had UM.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: But she definitely isn't like doing real well either. She
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: lost her sense of taste and smell, and uh, we're
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: just hoping that they're going to be good. She says
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: that she's had a lot of anxiety over it. If
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: you've been following her on Instagram story, UM, you know
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: she knows they're most likely going to be fine, but
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: she's like, it's crazy that, you know, one day I
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: think I'm fine, the next day, I think my symptoms
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: are kind of low. Then the next day I can't
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: taste anything. It's like, what is this going to evolve?
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: In some she's nervous, But we're sending our thoughts and
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: prayers out to Caitlin and Jason and Nashville. Yeah, and
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: you know, as Ashley just mentioning at this point in time,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: you know, we've been talking about it now for months.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: We understand that a lot of you listeners have probably
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: had COVID. I mean, the chances are that that out
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: of you know, the hundreds of thousands that listen to this, uh,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: that over thousand of you at least have had this
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: of COVID and have been sick, and so we're thinking
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: about all of you during this time. And I think
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: when Bachelor Nation gets it, we obviously talk about it,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: we obviously break it down, but it gives us a
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: glimpse of what COVID can do. But hey, we're thinking
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: about all of you, those who have lost people during this, uh,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: and all of those of you who have been sick
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: during this time time. And yes, Caitlin and Jason are
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: are as well getting through COVID the best they possibly can. Well. Um,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: onto some Saturday news for just a bit. We released
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: the story last week, kind of breaking news as we
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: were on the podcast, and uh, there's more details around
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: it now. Bachelor in Paradise is Carly Waddell cries over
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Evan basses divorce. It feels awful, she says this, according
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: to US Weekly. Yeah, so Carly, you know, she was
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: pretty quiet on social media the first day or two
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: after the announcement came out that they were splitting up
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: or had separated um officially, and then she got on
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: there on she did a video about you know, how
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: her emotions, how difficult it was, how this is now
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: the new normal, um, but the new normal, doesn't feel normal.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: She says, it feels awful and it's been It was
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: obviously a horrible Every week's gonna be horrible, Um when
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: this happens to you. But um, it was a horrible week,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: especially for it to come out and for her to
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: experience it because it was Christmas week and she didn't
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: get to have Christmas with her kids. And she says,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: it was a weird week for me because most of
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: you know Evan and I are getting divorced. So she
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: uses a learn divorce. Um, we've only seen papers for separation. Um.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: I guess it depends on the state where you have
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to fire file separation papers before divorce. But anyway, she says,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know how to do Christmas alone. Today is
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the first day that both of our kids are staying
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: at Evan's house overnight, and I'm feeling like a piece
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: of my soul is missing. I'm literally just sitting here
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: by myself writing this. But I'm thankful that it was
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: a white Christmas, and I'm thankful that that I have
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: that the kids are going to have a blast with
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: their dad and their brothers and they are feeling so loved. Um.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean like, this is so sad and
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I my heart goes out to her. Really is said,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: this is this is never fun um to talk about.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: It's never are fun to experience. And especially actually, I
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: know you're super close with the two of them, they're
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: at your wedding. I know this. This is something that
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: is hurt you, um, and we're thinking about them both
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: during this time really really difficult. Well, you know, there's
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: this new trend going around on social media where I'm
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: always behind the trends. I don't know how you stay
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: in front of the trends. I'm always consistently behind the trends.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: But this trend right now is where uh people on
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Instagram are asking their friends or who they follow to
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: post different pictures like, hey, show a picture of your childhood,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: show a picture of the most exciting time in your life,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: show a picture when you're sad. Well, Becca Koufrin has
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: jumped in on this trend and she opened this up
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: to her fans. Now, Ashley, this is I think funny
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and funny and sad and like all the feelings and
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: one actually tell everybody about it. Okay, so this trend
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: is actually is for fun. I don't know why I
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: haven't done it yet. I'm going to do it. I
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: am so attentive, and I watched all the slides when
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: people do do this, so it's showed me a picture
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: of And then she said, um, so the question or
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the you know, the statement that the fans sent they
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: wanted a picture of the time that you thought you
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: had life figured out, And it was Becca and Garrett
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: pulling away after the final rose, after their engagement in
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: that minivan that Garrett showed up on night one in
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: and then she has a huge l O l over
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the top of it. So yeah, I mean, like it sucks.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: It's sad. It's like all these bachelor couples lost this
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: year hard. I mean a lot of people spent a
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: lot of time together, uh, and a lot of things
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: were figured out. You know, it's interesting going from the
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: carly Nevians story to a different story. Right back in
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Garrett were just engaged, um, which still is meaningful in
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of ways. And I know they were trying
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: to make it work. But when we released the Garrett
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: and Beckett's Beccat story, I mean it was crushing for us, right,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I mean I just came off tour Rebecca i'd seen
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: them both together. We're both super sad for him, and
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: now they're at a place where there's like kind of
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: jokes being thrown around, which I think is a good sign.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: There there was another joke too. This wasn't the only
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: shady thing that she posted on this theme of Instagram
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: story slides. She also she somebody asked her what was
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: your what was the best date you're on during the
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Bachelorette and she posted a picture of her and Blake
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: destoring stuff. So she and then she added Blake. So
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: now she thinks of Blake, you know, in a higher way. Oh,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: isn't life interesting? Relationships are interesting? Well, hey, there is
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: a relationship we need to celebrate. Bachel Nations Jordan Kimball, who, Hey,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: we haven't heard a lot from right. He was really
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: out there, really outspoken, kind of controversial in Bachelor Nation.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: He was very opinionated. He was own for his opinions
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: and kind of his polarizing character on the show. Well,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: he kind of disappeared for a bit and I wondered
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: why I was thinking this, and then I saw this announcement.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: This is something cool. Jordan Kimball engaged a girlfriend, Christina Creeden.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: This according to people, he got engaged on Christmas Eve. Um.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: The Instagram caption reads ms Kimball, ms Kimball. Well he's
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: gonna turn Mrs Kimball. Did he mean Mrs Kimball? Okay,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: he said I would bend my knee a million times
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: to stand by you. This ring represents how much I
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: love and listen to you. Um. Then it says I
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: selected every detail will smiling and nervously envisioning this moment
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: he's talking about obviously designing the ring. He says he
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: can't express how lucky he is and just how deeply
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: he's fallen in love with you. Christina. I could think
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: I could cry thinking about how happy you make me.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: I promised to love, nurture and protect you as long
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: as my heart beats on this earth. I love that
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: even beyond this life, you'll remember this love. I can't
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: imagine life without you. Your voice, smile, presence are forged
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: into my picture of the future forever. You're absolutely precious
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: and I want to bring all your dreams to life.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: It's actually a little fantastic caption, And if his proposal
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: is anything like that, I'd say bravo. We'll celebrate Jordan. Jordan,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: congratulations and Christina congratulations. That is a low story we're celebrating. Well.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: The final headline of this week is when I know
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: a little bit about uh, my fiance and I uh
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: just purchased our very first home together. Now a lot
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: of you know this and and you've either watched you know,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Been and Lauren Happily ever After or you've heard us
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: talking about in the podcast. Right now, I live in
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: a house I've lived in for eight years. It's an
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: awesome house. It's only a square foot though, and it's
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: one bathroom. Uh in the bathroom does sit in the kitchen,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: um and it's not the bathroom doesn't even have a tub.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: It's like a shower and a toilet and like a
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: little sink, which hey has been great and nothing to
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: complain about with that. But we got the opportunity to
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: uh kind of go looking for homes over the last
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: couple of months and we found one that fits us perfectly,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: and uh, Jessica is gonna be moving into that. She
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: has already moved out to Denver. That's a big deal
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: for us. We've done long distance for two and a
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: half years. So if you need to know anything about
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: doing a long distance I think Jessica and I an
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: experts on that um, but we did uh just officially.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: She moved out here last week and we had our
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: first dinner in the house together. It was on the
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: floor because we have yet to get any furniture for
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: this place. It is I don't have a lot of
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: furniture in this house. I don't need a lot of
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: furniture in this house. And I wanted her to be
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: able to pick out stuff that she likes, uh, stuff
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: that you know, a lot of Facebook Marketplace stuff. I mean,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: she's been going crazy on Facebook Marketplace. It's been really
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: really actually kind of cool. How much you can but uh, yeah,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: we have officially got our first home together, and it
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: is awesome. We are so pumped. I know that people
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: are going to ask, is this mean that you guys
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: are moving in together beforehand? But you've already answered this
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: question on the podcast. She will be living separately from you.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: You call it jes as Private v I P party
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: pad until the wedding. Yeah, we're not going to be
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: moving in together. It is something that is important to
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Jessica and I. Uh, we've made that commitment to each
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: other you know, and it's not for these like high
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: moral reasons. We want to be excited to uh, to
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: be you know, on on our wedding day and after
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: our wedding day, to be saying okay, now now it's
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: time to start life now. Hey, don't get me wrong.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that we're not going to be together
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: a lot. It doesn't mean that I'm not going to
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: be spending a lot of time up in the mountains
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: where the house is like, we are gonna be together. Um,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: So don't don't think this is a crazy thing. It's
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: smart for us to have our distance right now and
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: to not put ourselves in, you know, in a situation
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: where we won't be able to celebrate it after our
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: wedding day and we've hey, we've gone two and a
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: half years together to make this work and we've done
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: it and it hasn't always been easy, Like at this point,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: why stop now? I mean our weddings this year so
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: or I guess so, yes, she will be up. There
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: will be her private party pad um and I hope
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: she has a lot of parties. I hope she's a
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: great time. She needs to meet friends in Denver um
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: and and here's a cool thing. So give a little
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: shout out to Jessica and then we'll move on because
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about her a lot. I don't know. I
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: have one more question and it's like really personal, but
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: can I may want to ask it? Okay, Well, here's
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: the thing I want to tell talk about Jessica. First.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Jessica just officially passed her final test to become an esthetician,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: so she has finished school. She passed her test. I
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: think she has one more to be a be officially
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: licensed uh as we do this podcast right now, she's
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: at a job interview uh in Goal in Colorado, UM
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: to potentially work at a I don't know what you call,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: like a spa skincare clinic. Yeah, they're UM, which is
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: super Pump. I'm just proud of her and and she did.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: She made a huge deal by moving out here and
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: super Pump. So yes, that's that's her life. And hey,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: if you're if you follow on social media, Guten, tell
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: her congratulations. That was a lot of work to do
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: over COVID. I can't wait for her to extract my
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: face one day. Okay, can I ask you this personal question?
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Because you guys have been together for two years and um,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: like bedroom stuff hasn't happened. Do you guys have the
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: most heated makeout sessions ever? Like, there's still like so
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: much sexual attention there? How much fun is that? You know?
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: It really takes you back to middle school. Um, everything's
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: new and everything is exciting, you know. I I think that,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: I think, honestly, it's gonna be interesting. I want to
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: talk about this, you know, after our wedding day, because
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: I want to see the pros and cons to this.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not against saying that there might be
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: some cons to the strategy that we're taking. Uh, then
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I could we could learn that then, and I think
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Jessica and I would love to talk about it. But
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: right now, the cool part is there's a mystery, and
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: there is a passion, and there's an intense like connection
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: that we have as to humans. Uh. And yes, the
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: physical part has been uh taken out of you know,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: our relationship for the most part. But the cool thing
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: about that is it's really allowed us to grow as
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: people together. Um. And then you know, no, let's not
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: be crazy here. Neither of us thought we were gonna
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: be dating for two and a half years before we
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: got married, Like this was not a part of the
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: original plan, Like this was you know, unfortunately, like the
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: pandemic put a big wrench in our plans in our
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: system here, um, and we talked about that, like, Okay,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: what do we want to do now, and the decision
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: will let's stick to what we want to do the
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: whole time and let's try to make that work. And
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: so it's been a it's been a roller coaster. And
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: and once you know, we get married, I think all
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: very openly and be willing to talk about, Hey, what
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: did we see that was good about this, what it
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: was bad? What do we miss? What do we feel
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: like we we needed to do better? But right now, yeah,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: there is passion because there's so much mrtory. Yeah, like
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: that's like cool because at this point, like most people
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: will be like, ah, I know you inside and out right. Yeah,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: but yeah, like I'm sicky, I'm kind of not sick
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: of you, but like, hey, what's going to change? And
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: first still have something really cool to look forward to
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: together and to share, uh, you know later on in
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: the future. So hey, Ashley, let's take a break here.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna break down. Matt James's Contestants.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is an action packed episode, right. We
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: have Tasha, we have bachelor headlines sponsored by a firm,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: and then we get to break down. One of our
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: favorite episodes every year is breaking down the new contestants
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: that we know nothing about, that we've only seen pick
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: truess of and we get like where they're from and
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: what their occupation is. We're gonna fly through this as
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: quickly as possible, but we're gonna do it for all
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: of you and for us because we enjoy it when
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: we come back with almost famous podcasts. We're back with
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the almost famous podcast. We're gonna be breaking down Matt
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: James's contestants now as we were recording. Uh, we did
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: have another headline come through. This is two weeks in
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: a row where we've had breaking news hot off the press. Uh.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Colton Underwood has reappeared to us all through his Instagram stories.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: He has yet to post a picture um, but he
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: was posting about the holiday season and also that he
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: loves writing the peloton um and he also posts saying hey,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: I missed you all. Now what this means where this goes?
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Who knows? But Colton has reappeared on social media, and
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: uh we uh will be following that. I will be
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: following that and seeing kind of what the next steps
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: and stages he takes to get back into this world
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: of social media. Well, hey, social media is gonna be
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: a big part of a lot of these contestants lives.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: It's a big part of Matt James's life already. We've
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: watched him through the Quarantine Crew and through just Matt James,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: uh doing his ABC Food tours, and now he is
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor, and here are his contestants. Ashley. You've studied
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: where they're from and their occupations. So here's how I
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: think we should do this. Um, you're gonna read, I'll
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: read the names. You tell us what you think of
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: them through your research, and then I'm gonna just give
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: you my first initial opinion based on what they look like,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: which is the most judgmental, mean thing you can ever do.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna do that, and then we'll close it
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: off and move to the next al Right, here we go.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: First contestant, Abigail So. Abigail's twenty five. She's a financial
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: manager from Oregon, and little known fact about or maybe
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: not a little known fact but interesting fact about her
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: is that she is hearing impaired. Um, so we'll see
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: if that plays any sort of role on the season.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: She looks, uh, she looks spunky, That's what I want
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: to say. She looks like she's got some athletics spunk
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: to her. Like she's gonna be uh fun and giddy
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: and really sweet. Next contestant is a Lana. She is
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: twenty six. She's a photographer from Canada and she well
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: loves puns and uh, she's like traveled all throughout the world.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: She spent her post her not college years, but the
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: the years that lots of people would go to college
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: in Europe and did programs there instead. She Uh, to me,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: anybody from Canada that goes in the show has a
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: super witty sense of humor. I think she's gonna make
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Matt James laugh. I think she's gonna make us all laugh.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: And I think she's gonna say some things that push
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: the envelope because hey, that's what Canada oftentimes does. And
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: I just think of Caitlin Bristow and some of the
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: other really beloved Canadian contestants on The Bachelor. Way up
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: next Alicia. Alicia is twenty four. She's a professional ballerina.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: She dances for the prestigious Dance Theater of Harlem. She's
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: a kind of girl that is like so hard working, dedicated,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: and driven and wants to see the same type of
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: thing from her for her future spouse. I was gonna
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: say that when I look at her, I think, is
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: somebody that is driven like she? I mean just based
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: on also her professional background. To be a professional ballerina
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: means that you've spent hundreds of thousands of bill jillions
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: of hours in a studio, that you've your body has
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: been sore, but you've pushed through it to perform this
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: art that we can all be entertained by, and also
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: that she can love doing so. I look at Alicia's
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: picture and I say that girl is hard working, she's driven,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: and she's gonna take that into this season. Up next
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: is Amber Amber very interesting facts about her. She's thirty
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: yet has a thirteen year old She is a nursing
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: student in California. She was young when she had that
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: thirteen year old. Man, I think that's gonna play a
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: role in her storyline. When I look at Amber, I
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: think that you can look at her picture and go, oh,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: that girl could cause some trouble. However, I think this
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: about her, She's going to be a very soft spoken,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: in a very wise individual. In fact, I think Matt
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: James might have like be very very into Amber and
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: also be so into her that maybe you know, having
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: a kid. He just goes, this is awesome. I get
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: two for one here. Um who knows? Up next is
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Anna and it's twenty four from Chicago, Illinois. She's a
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: copywriter and she's terrified of fish, obsessed with shes and
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: she one time she one time I convinced a pilot
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: to let her fly the airplane over the bluffs of
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Minnesota for fifteen minutes without having any background and flying. Well.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: I look at Anna's picture and I think she's the
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: type of person that doesn't hold back. She's going to
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: ask the questions and ask things of Matt that most
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: people would. She is forthcoming. I would say Brie up next.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Brie is twenty four. She's a communications manager from San Francisco.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: She talks about how her mother and her grandmother worked
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: so hard to get her in a place that she
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: can have a successful life. So she is like NonStop grinding.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Her dream is to live in Hawaii and to live
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: on the island life of eating nothing but sushi. She
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: loves brunching, and uh yeah, she's an outdoorsy girl. I
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: look at her picture and I think she's going to
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: be appreciative. I think she's to find be very thankful
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: for the experience and very gracious to Matt. Uh And
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: as a result, I think she's going to go far
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: up next is Caroline. Caroline is like going to be
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: the tattooed girl of the season. She doesn't like to
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: listen to top forty basic girl music. She says she
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: likes post punk music. And she is also somebody who
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: is not going to settle for well. She says she
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: doesn't like it when guy's name drop or brag about money,
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: but somebody who has a warm heart and his passionate
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: about philanthropy. So good things she's got. She's paired up
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: with Matt James right now. She's a thirty year old
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: journalist Melie. I could see her being the one that
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: kind of pushes Matt James out of his comfort zone.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Uh that she isn't you know, with the way that
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: the kind of music she likes, the things she's into.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: I think she's gonna push Matt into his out of
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: his comfort zone. And I think she's also going to
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: be that type of character that doesn't really like fit
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: into the group, but the group enjoys being around because
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: she's different than the rest. Uh. Cassandra is up next.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: So she's a twenty five year old social worker from
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Newport Beach, California. She's still scared of the dark, and
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: she hates it when people eat food off her plate.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: She also loves stargazing and eating eating s'mores with sweatpants on,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: no makeup. She's that kind of girl. Well, I think
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Matt James's heart is going to be taken by Cassandra.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: In fact, I think she might be one of my
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: top favorites. Uh. And the reason for this is I
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: think she is that type of girl, and I think
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: that's what Matt James is probably looking for, is somebody
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: that can just take a deep breath, enjoy the little moments, uh,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: and smile at all the craziness going around. I don't
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: think she's gonna involve in the drama. Again, I know
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: nothing about any of these girls. These are all guesses,
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: and so who knows. If I'm right we'll see later on. Well.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Chelsea is up next. Chelsea is a twenty eight year
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: old runway model from New York. So. She had a
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: corporate job and then just a few years ago she
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: quit it and went into modeling. She said that her
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: dating life has been pretty non existent since she was
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: in college. I have a feeling Chelsea is going to
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: be a fan favorite. I think she's fierce. I think
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: she's funny. Her smile tells me that she uh, she
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot to hide, but she has a
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: story to tell, and um, I see that in Chelsea.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Up next is kar Karin is a twenty two year
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: old marketing manager. She is family. She's very family and
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: married oriented, even though she's twenty two. She currently works
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: um as in marketing for her family's high end Italian restaurant.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: So I like that about her. I don't know how
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: you say Italian restaurant. I'm like sold. She loves Disney
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: World and has been there more time since she can count.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: And she once snuck into an abandoned sane asylum in
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: the middle of the night. That makes two of us.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Don't ask. My sister loves doing wild things. That's a
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: a little creepy ash. Well, hey, um, I look at
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: this picture, and I think motherly. I think she's gonna
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: come in and she's gonna show signs of being a
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: terrific partner. Uh. Friend, I think she's gonna be a
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: good mother figure too many. Up next as a Moni
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Amani is a twenty five year old realtor from Albuquerque,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: New Mexico. She um says that if she could be
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: anyone else for a day, that she'd still be herself
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: because she is pretty cool. She also says she's not
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: a lovey dovey kind of person, but she loves deeply.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: She also prefers a sophisticated jazz bar over a baseball
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: game for a date. See. I think she's empathetic. I
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: think you're gonna she's a good listener, uh, And I
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: get to that from her jazz love. Like, if you
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: love good jazz music, you typically like to get in
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: that mood, that vibe of just sitting and hearing the
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: different sounds come off those instruments. And as a result,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: she's a good listener, which typically good listeners are empathetic.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Up next is a lot Elena. Elena is a twenty
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: five year old health food developer who lives in New York,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: New York. She has big dreams of making herself a
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: name in the health food world. She has an orange
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: tabby cat named Sir Theo. Who get this? This is he?
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: She pulls a fokker. The cat goes to the bathroom
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: on the toilet, and he also wears a bow tie.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: She says he's very sophisticated. Um. Yeah, she also has
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: um a background with synchronized ice skating dancing. Well, I
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: think she's patient. Um, if she can teach a cat
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: to sit on a toilet and she finds that as
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: a worthwhile pursuit, then she's obviously very patient. But I
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: think her patients, my guess, is going to get in
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: the way because she's too quiet. She looks. I look
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: at her, and I think she's quiet. She she's gonna
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: sit back in the scenes and really she's just start
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: out with Hey, my cat goes to the bathroom on
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: the toilet, and I think Matt James would be all
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: over it. Well, hey, up next is just sin she is.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: She's a social media marketer from San Antonio, Texas. She
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: is one of our pageant girls. Yes, there are multiple
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: pageant girls again. She was MS El Paso in two
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen. She loves escape rooms and if she
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: could live in any other decade, it would be the
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: eighties because of the music and the super funky fashion. She's, Uh,
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: she's giddy. I'm gonna say giddy. And now that like
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: I think when I look at her picture and I
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: hear that she's a pageant girl and she's from El Paso,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: which is a really great city, Uh, you know down south,
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: It's it's giddy and cute. Like she's just she's got
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: a good understanding of the world and how people operate,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: and she's going to kind of walk through this process, uh,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: with a lot of friends. Now up next is Kale
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Kaylee is a twenty six year old hostess from Chicago, Illinois.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: From her bio, you can tell that she's the happy,
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: go lucky girl of the season. She's witty and charismatic
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: and not afraid to laugh at herself. She's the girl
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: that at her high school graduation tripped on the stage
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: as she went to go get her diploma. Yeah, that's her.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: That's how I was going to explain it is she's happy,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: go lucky, but she's goofy. She's clumsy. Um, and she's
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: lovable and endearing because she's gonna make a fool of
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: herself often. Uh, and that's what makes her makes her lovable. Hey.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: Up next is Katie. Katy is a twenty nine year
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: old marketing manager from Washington State. They say that she
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: or she calls herself a witty storyteller who would want
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: to find somebody who's worth committing to. She says that, um,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: she's adventurous and daring. Her idea of a fun day
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: is skinny dipping. And this is one of the most
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: interesting access that I've heard from any of these girls.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Katie once planned a dog flash mob that got a
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: huge turnout. She is an adventurer. She's the Becca Kouffrin lookalike. Uh.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: In my opinion, I think she looks just like Becca
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: in her picture. Uh. And she's an adventure She is
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: going to try new things and try to start new things,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: and she don't care who's watching. Uh. Kayla. Kayla is
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: a twenty eight year old healthcare advocate from Durham, North Carolina.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: What I noticed about her profile is that she's looking
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: for somebody who wants to make the world a better place.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: And she feels like Matt could be that person because
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: he does work with children through you know ABC. I
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: feel like or ABC tours um that that they might
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: be able to bond over that. She loves a good
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: tailgate and idolizes Rihanna. She is wise. She is a
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: wise human uh, full of knowledge and intrigue, and she's
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: not going to settle for anything less than great. Kimberly
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: is up next. Kimberly is an airline recruiter from Seattle, Washington.
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: She is definitely going to be kind of like the
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: whimsical girl. She radiates joy and happiness wherever she goes.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: She calls herself a care free soul. Uh. She hates
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: cats though, like she basically will non date you if
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: you have a cat um and she isn't afraid of
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: anything except for finding out that the guy she's into
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: has a foot fetish. Well, I don't know she has
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: to worry about that with Mat. Maybe she does, who knows.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: But here's the thing about Kimberly. And you know, I'm
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: gonna say this every out there. Do I want to
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: say this? Anybody that would tell us that their whimsical
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: and happy? Um, I just am concerned about on this show,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: because I think this show can eat up people who
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: think that way. Um, very quick. But she's beautiful, she's cute.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: I hope she sticks around for a long time. Up
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: next is Kit. Kit is twenty one. She's a fashion entrepreneur.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: But depending on where you're looking, they're also calling her
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: a social lite. She's from New York, New York, and
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: the reason she's being called a social lite is because
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: her mom is Cynthia Rally, the legend honestly legendary designer. Um,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: somebody has everybody has a Cynthia Rally something, whether it's
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: a T shirt and you don't even know it's by her,
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: or some Cynthia Cynthia Rally sheets. But despite the fact that, um,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: you know, she she might be I don't want to
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: say spoiled, but you know, very privileged. She says that
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: she has an extremely high maturity level even though she's
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: only twenty one. She's ready for that serious commitment now
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: and um, fun fact she can surf and high heels.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling that I look at Kit and
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: I think You're gonna be a storyline this season somehow,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: some way. I don't know, good or bad or indifferent,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: but there she is going to be a main focus.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: So keep your eyes out on Kit. And I look
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: at her picture, I think, Yeah, people are gonna be
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: watching you, and uh, they're gonna be very interested by you.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Kristen's up next. She's a twenty seven year old attorney
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: from Virginia Beach and she also is very goal oriented,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: very business savvy, that's what she wants. And a guy.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: She says, she's fiercely loyal. She's intelligent and has an
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: unmatched work ethic thanks to her incredible mother. She also
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: loves to belt Disney songs during karaoke, something that seems
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: very divisive about her though, Like serious stuff right here.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: She says she does not share food, and this sounds
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: like a lawyer move. She does not share food unless
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: both parties have previously agreed upon it. Oh, she's going
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: to be the stickler. She is going to have rules
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: and boundaries. She's gonna she is going to be very
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: strict on what she wants, how she wants it done.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: And who knows, maybe Matt wants that. Some guys are like, hey, yeah,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: I just tell me how to do it and I'll
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: do it. Uh, Lauren's Up next, we have another attorney.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: She's twenty nine and she is from Miami, Florida. She
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: in her free time enjoys fashion, going to the beach,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: working out, and spending time with their girlfriends in their
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: book club she has says. She says that nobody that
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: she's dated in her in her past has truly been
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: her best friend, and she's hoping to change that with Matt.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: She's terrified of lizards and frogs. I see Laurence picture,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: I think hesitant. I think she's going to be really concerned,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: um and hesitant to open up um that it might
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: get in the way of her and mass relationship because
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: she is hesitant and she's a little scared of the
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: fact that maybe she hasn't found that right person. And
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: this environment is really hard to get through, and so
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: I can see some walls coming up there. Uh. Up next, Maggie.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: Maggie is a thirty two year old pharmacist from Ethiopia.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: She's been living in the US for a while. She
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: said the scariest thing she's ever done was moved to
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: the US, but she doesn't regret it one bit. She
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: actually won the lottery, she says, Um as it's like
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: it's a real lottery, it's the Diversity Visa lotto. And
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: she's so grateful for all of the opportunities that she's
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: been given and she never takes anything for granted. She
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: runs a nonprofit that supplies shoes two girls back in
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: her hometown. She is going to be so sweet. She's
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: going to be a fan favorite as well. I see
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: her story, I hear her story, I see her picture.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be one to keep your
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: eye out on that The fans are going to absolutely
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: adore Maggie because she does care, and she's super smart,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: and she has a story to tell and she has
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of life to uh to kind of uh
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: communicate to Matt and all the other women. I don't
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: see her getting involved in the drama though. Hey up
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: next is Mary. She's twenty four. She's a marketing director
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: from Maryland, and she's your kind of girl. She's your
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: kind of girl band because she says that with the
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: people that she dates, she loves giving them massages and
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: planning small little surprises. She's our pageant girl. She actually
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: won Miss Maryland USA in two thousand nineteen and she
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: placed in the top ten at Miss USA last year.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: M she is, uh yeah, any anybody, Well, you know
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: Jess was went to esthetician school, so she doesn't know
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: how to give a good massage. Uh that that? I
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: mean she's my favorite right now. You wanna say you're
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: good at massages. You've got me hooked and I'll be
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: rooting for you to the very end. Up next is Maryland.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Maryland is twenty eight. She's an event coordinator from Studio City, California.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: She needs a man who is ready to commit and
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: not be afraid to wear his heart on his sleep eve.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: She says that she really prioritizes health and hygiene and
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: she needs somebody like that. She does not like lazy
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: and introverted, and she also grew up surfing but is
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: terrified of sharks. I look at her picture, and she
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: she's a tough cookie. I think she's a tough cookie.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: I think her picture here is gonna be anti who
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: she is. I think this picture looks tough, looks fierce.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: I think she's gonna be sweet and quiet. I also
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: don't think she might get involved in the drama. I
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: can see it. I can see it that she might
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: uh start falling from Matt, and she could be the
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: Matt this girl is doing this person who knows, Hey,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: MJ's up next. MJ's a twenty three year old hairstylists
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: from Ohio. And what I found interesting about this bio
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: is that the word bachelor bubble is mentioned. So it
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: says and like, I don't know whether these these are
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: her words or the words of the right or that
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: puts together the bios but says Matt James is charming
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: and memorable, and once she enters the bachelor bubble, we
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: don't think Matt will have any trouble keeping her on
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: his mind. So interesting that the Bachelor refers to themselves
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: as having a bachelor bubble for the first time, Like
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: I thought that was always like a cast term that is.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: That's really weird, isn't it. I have never heard that
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: as well. I don't know. Well, hey, I look at
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: in J and I think, uh, really funny, really outspoken,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: very charismatic, and will be a very popular figure to Matt. Mean,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it off of what the Bachelor wrote
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: about her, Like, hey, if the Bachelor says he's gonna
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: have a hard time not thinking about her, well there
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: you go. Up next Piper. Piper is a grad student.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: She's twenty three from Happy Valley, Oregon. She is very
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: into European cars and she dreams of having a Rolls
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: Royce one day, which goes very well together with the
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: fact that she had as a lot of ambition. Um.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: She values independence in a partner. She wants to have
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: certain parts of her life remain her own. Looking for
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: somebody with confidence, um, and somebody who has a lot
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: of forethought. Um. There is a lot of words in
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: this bio that have to do with her being a
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: total catch, a dynamic personality, a creative mind, not just
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: a pretty face. So interesting. Well, that's that's probably how
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: I have to say it too. I have to just
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: mirror what they said. Creative, um, intelligent, uh. Driven. Now
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: we'll have to see that's a big conversation, right. You
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: know if somebody came comes to man and says, hey,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: my dream is to drive a Rose Royce one day, well,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: is that something that he's attracted to or did he say, yeah,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: let's do it, let's get that Rose Royce, let's drive
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: that in the highway, or is he gonna say it
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: seems you know too much for me? Who knows Rachel's
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: up next. Rachel's a twenty four year old graphic designer
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: from Georgia. She calls herself the hope was romantic, but
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: has never been in love and believes that Matt might
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: be the guy to change that. Now. I love I
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: love that, and I say it like that because we
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: all know that Matt's never been in love yet either,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: so it would be pretty cool to see the two
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: of them fall in love for the first time together.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: She UH is from coming Georgia, as actually mentioned, and
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: I think when you come from the South, there's just
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: a different level of uh, let's say slowness, Like the
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: South moves slower than a lot of places, which brings
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: on a ton of pros. And I think this experience
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: is maybe going to move too fast for her, But
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: it doesn't mean she has anything wrong with her just
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: means she's not gonna be prepared for it. Hey, I
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: am a big fan of I think the only Denver
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: person represented UH this season is somebody named Sina well
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: SNA who's twenty five and an I T consultant in Colorado, Denver.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: She takes advantage of everything that Denver has to offer.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: She loves the outdoors, hiking, kayaking, a sunrise yoga at
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: the Red Rocks Amphitheater. Is that a thing there? Oh yeah, okay,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: so like everybody gathers there to do like thousands of people.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. So she wants on somebody to go
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: on adventures with her for a lifetime. Uh, and this
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  Speaker 1: is super crazy. She completed her first marathon at the
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  Speaker 1: age of sixteen. Well, I know Matt James loves his
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  Speaker 1: uh like keeping his health up. And so I look
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  Speaker 1: at her. I know she's from Denver, which I mean,
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  Speaker 1: come on, you can't get much better than that. I
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  Speaker 1: think she goes a long way. She probably will be
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  Speaker 1: my preseason favorite. Actually, Uh, she's healthy, she likes to
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  Speaker 1: get outside. Um, I'm gonna start the campaign now to
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  Speaker 1: bring Matt James to Denver Up next. Sarah Sarah is
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  Speaker 1: a twenty four year old broadcast journalist from San Diego, California,
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  Speaker 1: and she says that she hopes to one day be
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  Speaker 1: in a power couple when when they're not spending time
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  Speaker 1: with their own kids, they're doing work for the community
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  Speaker 1: and giving back to children in need. So that seems
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  Speaker 1: to be something that Matt already spends a lot of
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  Speaker 1: his time doing. She's also a trained fire dancer. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Unique is how I'm gonna say this. She is a
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  Speaker 1: unique person, not good or bad, just unique. And she's
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  Speaker 1: going to be have flair for this season. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you flare in fire go together. So uh, the
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  Speaker 1: flame that she'll be throwing Matt will be interesting to all.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're going to be very curious to watch
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  Speaker 1: her journey. Well, we have to Serenas this season. We'll
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  Speaker 1: start with Serena c. She's a twenty four year old
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  Speaker 1: flight attendant from San Francisco and nothing makes her happier
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  Speaker 1: than putting together the perfect outfit. I love that she
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  Speaker 1: also is not a fan of getting birthday attention. She
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  Speaker 1: likes the idea of a date being getting dressed up,
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  Speaker 1: fancy night out, taking in the sunset over good champagne
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  Speaker 1: and I thought provoking conversation. Oh she's gonna be good,
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  Speaker 1: She's gonna she's gonna get Matt. I think she's the
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  Speaker 1: one we watched the previews that gets Matt to really
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  Speaker 1: open up, because I think she does love those thought
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  Speaker 1: provoking conversations. I think she's very non judgmental, but I
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  Speaker 1: think she's beautiful, and she's stunning, and she's kind and
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  Speaker 1: she's sincere and Matt just tells her everything. Serena P. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Serena P has my heart. She's a twenty two year
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  Speaker 1: old publicist from Ontario, Canada. And listen to this very
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  Speaker 1: opposite to the other girl that we heard from earlier.
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  Speaker 1: She said that her future husband has to be willing
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  Speaker 1: to share his food with her. She says that if
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  Speaker 1: they don't let me taste their food, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if the relationship could survive. Amazing. I love that I
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  Speaker 1: have this thing where I have to take like a
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  Speaker 1: chef's bite of everything that I prepare before like give
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  Speaker 1: me it to Jared. I have to make sure it's right,
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  Speaker 1: so I give it a chef's bites. That is one
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  Speaker 1: of my mandatory little traits as well. She is chronically angry,
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  Speaker 1: which goes hand in hand, and she would love to
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  Speaker 1: she manned. This girl so food oriented. She would love
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  Speaker 1: to have a pet chicken, so that she could have
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  Speaker 1: a pet in an endless supply of eggs all in one.
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  Speaker 1: She's a renaissance woman. She does a lot of things,
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  Speaker 1: she knows a lot of things, but she knows herself
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  Speaker 1: really well, Well, Hey, Sydney's up next. She's a twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight year old marketing specialist from Nashville. She says that
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  Speaker 1: she hates awkward dinner conversation and says that a man
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  Speaker 1: with big goals for the future is her biggest turn on.
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  Speaker 1: She says that she looks for love, loyalty, and motivation
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  Speaker 1: and support in a relationship, and she's not just looking
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  Speaker 1: to settle for any average Joe Schmo. She says that
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  Speaker 1: amusement parks creep her out. She is she knows what
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  Speaker 1: she wants, and I think I look at Sydney, and
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  Speaker 1: I think she is somebody, uh who is who's gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a hard time with all these other women liking
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  Speaker 1: the man that she likes because I think she might
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  Speaker 1: like him. I think Matt like might like her, but
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  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be really hard for her. Well,
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  Speaker 1: our final uh contestant is one we've seen on the previews.
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  Speaker 1: She's been highlighted, and I think she will continue to
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  Speaker 1: be highlighted. It's Victoria. Yeah. Victoria is a twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: year old queen from Los Angeles, California, and the most
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  Speaker 1: interesting part about her bio is that her occupation is Queen.
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  Speaker 1: I think Victoria might be one of the first contestants
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  Speaker 1: that we've ever seen has gone into this and we
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  Speaker 1: all know what we're going to get out of her, right,
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  Speaker 1: we all know that she is going to be the troublemaker.
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  Speaker 1: She's going to be um, the kind of the the
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  Speaker 1: pot ster. She has no shame in saying what she wants.
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  Speaker 1: I I thinks she might be one of the first
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  Speaker 1: contestants ever that we can go into the season pretty
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  Speaker 1: confident that Victoria is gonna cause trouble. Now, the question
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  Speaker 1: is will Matt see it or will he not? Well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: that is Matt James's contestants going into this season of
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: The Bachelor. We're super pumped for this season. It's coming
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  Speaker 1: up right around the corner. We'll be here to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it every week. Well, Ashley, another great episode. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: to Tasha for coming on. Uh, thank you to you
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  Speaker 1: for coming on. The headlines were great, The contestants are
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  Speaker 1: gonna be awesome. We'll be back next week UH with
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: the almost Famous podcast again and we'll continue to bring
• 1:13:31
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