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The Golden Hammer (Bachelor Mansion Takeover S1E1) · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
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  Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous Podcast. It's been
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  Speaker 2: forever since we've had something to recap in Bachelor Nation,
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  Speaker 2: and we were very excited that this week, the new
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  Speaker 2: HGTV renovation competition show with twelve Bachelor alumni has premiered,
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna break it all down, give us, give
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  Speaker 2: you our honest thoughts. Ben, My my honest thoughts are.
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  Speaker 2: I loved the first half of the episode. I smiled
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  Speaker 2: through it. I loved seeing so many familiar faces. This
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  Speaker 2: is kind of what I've always wanted them to do,
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  Speaker 2: some sort of spin off competition show so that we
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  Speaker 2: could see our favorites again in a more competitive environment
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  Speaker 2: where love isn't necessarily involved. I did think it was
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  Speaker 2: too long, two hours seems. I thought it may have
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  Speaker 2: been even half an hour, just thinking HGTV show, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, no, you know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: HGTV shows maybe an How when I saw it was
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  Speaker 2: two hours, that was too much, and I think it
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  Speaker 2: turned out to be. What were your takeaway thoughts?
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  Speaker 3: I want to start by saying, if you have not
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  Speaker 3: watched this episode of the renovation show when they renovate
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  Speaker 3: the Bachelor Mansion. I would stop this podcast right now
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  Speaker 3: because there's gonna be a ton of spoilers. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to break down who went home, how things went, what
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  Speaker 3: we thought. If you have no interest in watching the episode,
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  Speaker 3: but listening to our podcast, and I would say keep
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  Speaker 3: this podcast going. We will break down everything we saw, experienced,
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  Speaker 3: and felt during the episode. There will be spoilers during
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  Speaker 3: this podcast. Okay, now goodbye. My thoughts were this. I
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  Speaker 3: loved the idea when it started. When we were first
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  Speaker 3: told that the Bachelor Mansion was going to be renovated,
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  Speaker 3: I was very excited to watch this happen. I still am.
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  Speaker 3: And as you said, some of Bachelor Nation favorites are
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  Speaker 3: showing up to help out at the mansion, and I
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  Speaker 3: love I love that we get to see some of
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  Speaker 3: the individual skill sets of some of the people that
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  Speaker 3: we've watched only really you know, communicate their romantic ideals previously.
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  Speaker 3: Now we get to see more of who they are
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  Speaker 3: in real life. The Dean Aunglerts, the Dean Bells, I
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  Speaker 3: guess his skill sets.
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  Speaker 4: Noah, Jill Jill, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, Jill is one of the craziest jobs in the
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  Speaker 3: United States. She said, it's not high paying, but Jill
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  Speaker 3: is helping preserve the mansions in Newport. It's a spectacular job,
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  Speaker 3: one that I've enjoyed every year for Christmas for the
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  Speaker 3: last you know, four years.
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  Speaker 2: It's wonderful miss where Jared and I got married. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually taking Dawson to one of the mansions today,
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  Speaker 2: just like as a mom. It's like a mom son date.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what can I.
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  Speaker 5: Take him on the hill?
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  Speaker 2: Think is like really cool, but like also a little
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  Speaker 2: bit adult, and so that's where.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, then we're going to a castle. We're
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  Speaker 5: going to go to a castle.
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  Speaker 3: A couple questions I have before the show started that
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  Speaker 3: I still.
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  Speaker 5: Have, Sam, I have questions, what are yours?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 3: I think we're in order to break this down concisely
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  Speaker 3: and accurately, we'll have the two two sections, the things
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  Speaker 3: we loved and the things we disliked, and then some
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  Speaker 3: of the questions that are pending after the first episode.
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  Speaker 3: Let's start with some of the pending questions. My question
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  Speaker 3: is what are they doing this for? Is it strictly
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  Speaker 3: for the Bachelor? Because in years previous, as we've talked
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  Speaker 3: about on the podcast, there's a family that lives in
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  Speaker 3: that home. The Bachelor comes in for a few weeks
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  Speaker 3: every year, takes the mansion over, redecorates, repaints, puts up
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  Speaker 3: some new like pillows and decorations, and then the cast
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  Speaker 3: moves in. Well, what they did after the first episode
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  Speaker 3: makes me feel like this mansion is only going to
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  Speaker 3: be used for the Bachelor because now there's permanent bunk
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  Speaker 3: beds and there's permanent fixtures. Things have changed a lot,
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  Speaker 3: and so what are we doing this for. Is it
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  Speaker 3: for the family or is it for the show?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so that was my biggest question, And I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: sure whether that was a question that I had.
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  Speaker 5: Lingering in the back of my mind.
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  Speaker 2: More because we've lived in it, we have a personal
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  Speaker 2: tie to it, and we have known that Marshall has,
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  Speaker 2: you know, built the house, lived in the house for
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  Speaker 2: twenty plus years, and the fact that it's always in
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  Speaker 2: turnover between family and the show. I think a casual
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  Speaker 2: viewer probably wouldn't take that into consideration so much.
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  Speaker 5: They probably think that ABC owns the house.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as we know the beginning, there's a
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  Speaker 2: little clip of Marshall saying that you know how he
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  Speaker 2: thought of designing the house after our favorite spot in Italy,
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  Speaker 2: and it says underneath in his lower third that he
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  Speaker 2: is the original owner. So I'm like, okay, so did
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  Speaker 2: you sell the house because now is it just a
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  Speaker 2: set house? Because if it is, that makes that means
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  Speaker 2: like truly they can do whatever they want. Or is
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  Speaker 2: he giving them the space to just totally renovate the place,
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  Speaker 2: because I think he got divorced from his wife and
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  Speaker 2: I just don't know if the house is like as
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  Speaker 2: much of a center point to the family anymore.
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  Speaker 4: It is a question.
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  Speaker 3: I would have loved for that to be explained, because
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  Speaker 3: I do think it has a massive piece of the storyline.
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  Speaker 4: Who are we doing this for? Is the question?
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  Speaker 3: Are we doing this for the twenty people to move
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  Speaker 3: in every year, or are we doing this for a
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  Speaker 3: family and how they're going to function inside the home.
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  Speaker 4: It came to my.
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  Speaker 3: I got emotional. I didn't like cry, but I felt something.
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  Speaker 3: When the girls were renovating their room and they talked
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  Speaker 3: about removing the access to the fireplace, those beautiful fireplaces.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, what are you guys thinking.
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  Speaker 3: That's when I was like, whose house is this? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: somebody here has to step in because if you make
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  Speaker 3: that fireplace inaccessible, if you take away, yeah, maybe they're
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  Speaker 3: in the Bachelor. We didn't light it, that's a massive hazard.
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  Speaker 3: But that family has to be lighting that fireplace often.
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  Speaker 3: It is an amazing fireplace. It's gorgeous in so many ways.
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  Speaker 3: I was very concerned for a second that they were
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  Speaker 3: going to replace something that is spectacular with.
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  Speaker 4: What were they going to do? Use it for storage?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they wanted to use it for storge Oh okay,
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  Speaker 2: we actually just got a text from our producer. Marshall
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  Speaker 2: is still the owner during the Reno show. Anyway, Ben
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  Speaker 2: and I have had plenty of encounters with Marshall, so
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  Speaker 2: we do feel attached to it to a certain different way.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, fireplace. That would have been crazy to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of that gorgeous fireplace. But I liked that. Jill
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  Speaker 2: as the preservation is here and it is preserving history. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's Bachelor Nation history. It's very important. The fireplace needed
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  Speaker 2: to stay, in her opinion, and so did the tiles,
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  Speaker 2: and I totally agreed, and I'm glad the tiles stayed there.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm glad that when these rooms were remodeled, it's
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  Speaker 2: still remained still like in the theme with.
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  Speaker 5: The Mediterranean vibes at the mansion.
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  Speaker 2: My favorite thing that they added was the outdoor furniture,
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  Speaker 2: jazzing up those two balconies, because the balconies, well, they
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  Speaker 2: weren't used very often, but it was used by the
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  Speaker 2: girls just for makeup reasons, because it's one of the
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  Speaker 2: only places that you can get good lighting in that mansion.
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  Speaker 5: It's very dim.
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  Speaker 2: I wish that the girls, honestly, this would have been
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  Speaker 2: one of the things where it would have been useful
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  Speaker 2: to know is it only a set or is it
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  Speaker 2: just or is it a house? Sometimes because if it's
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  Speaker 2: always a set, they should have put some vanities in
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  Speaker 2: the girl's room, they should have put some you know, bulbs.
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  Speaker 3: But overall, the whole point of the show is to
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  Speaker 3: renovate a mansion that does need a renovation. I'm all
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  Speaker 3: for it. The home has not been touched for many years.
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  Speaker 3: It's been beat up by casts and crew walking and
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  Speaker 3: trumpling through it. It has so many beautiful aspects of
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  Speaker 3: the mansion. As Marshall said at the beginning, he did this,
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  Speaker 3: built this house in his way because of his inspiration
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  Speaker 3: from traveling abroad, and I think that house feels that
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  Speaker 3: way when you're in it. It very much feels like
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  Speaker 3: a tuscan escape, more than any other parts of Italy.
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  Speaker 3: I think it feels like a tuscan escape because of
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  Speaker 3: the place that it sits, the hill that it sits on,
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  Speaker 3: the arches, and the stucco and the tiles. It has
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  Speaker 3: beautiful bones and it's a beautiful home. It just needed
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  Speaker 3: some care. So let me be clear, I'm all for
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  Speaker 3: this show happening in the way it is. I just
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  Speaker 3: want to understand who we're doing this for, what we're
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  Speaker 3: doing this, and who maybe is going to be the
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  Speaker 3: ultimate say And no, let's not get rid of a fireplace.
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  Speaker 3: Let's maybe keep the fireplaces. Let's keep some of the
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  Speaker 3: things that make this place iconic, but just touch it
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  Speaker 3: up a bit.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Also, I'm sorry our group message is blowing up. I've
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  Speaker 2: actually heard from Amy sugar Bean Intew, our executive producer.
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  Speaker 2: She's thrown a lot of parties there, so she's had
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  Speaker 2: to work with Marshall. Apparently he isn't really the owner.
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  Speaker 2: He's managed the property, he used to own it but hasn't.
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  Speaker 5: For a while.
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  Speaker 2: Still doesn't give us any information though as to whether
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  Speaker 2: or not this is ever going to be a normal
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  Speaker 2: house or whether it's going to be a set.
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  Speaker 3: As we continue on in the show, as Ashley mentioned
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  Speaker 3: in the beginning, there are some familiar faces that we
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  Speaker 3: know and love. Ashley, just for the sake of a reminder,
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  Speaker 3: let's go through very quickly the cast members that showed
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  Speaker 3: up to the mansion.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so Jill jen A is obviously, as we said,
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  Speaker 2: an architictual historian. Makes sense while she's there. Noah married
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  Speaker 2: to Abigail from Bachelor in Paradise.
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  Speaker 5: They do Homer. They like flip their entire house together.
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  Speaker 2: They did a lot of it on Instagram, document documenting
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  Speaker 2: your room room. He was firtatious season and oddly I
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  Speaker 2: was like, who who didn't live at this mansion? Why
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  Speaker 2: are these guys saying that they didn't live at the mansion.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, that's right because during COVID they
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  Speaker 2: didn't film at the mansion. And then Sam, he only
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  Speaker 2: had one night at the mansion because Gen season didn't
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  Speaker 2: really film there either. Joan is an interior designer.
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  Speaker 4: Wait time out, I forget why did Gen season not
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  Speaker 4: film there? Did they start traveling.
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  Speaker 2: They just start traveling. I think you woul kind of
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  Speaker 2: do with Golden. I think they're like taking like a
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  Speaker 2: time off from there or something, but they like I
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  Speaker 2: think she basically cheers with them and said, we're.
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  Speaker 5: Not going to use the house.
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember that, but that's a really interesting bit.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I didn't remember it until Sam reminded me
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  Speaker 2: of it. Okay, So then Jeremy same season also didn't
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  Speaker 2: live there.
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  Speaker 5: Crazy Dean.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, like I was saying, Dean has done a
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  Speaker 2: whole bunch of like art in their house.
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  Speaker 5: I mean what he does.
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  Speaker 2: Does he like have a professional background in a No,
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  Speaker 2: but he's very like crafts He's got like craftsman hands.
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  Speaker 5: He like knows how to build a.
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  Speaker 3: Creage, built a ton of things for their home, and
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  Speaker 3: it's something that he's passionate about and he's really good
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  Speaker 3: at it.
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  Speaker 5: So good.
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  Speaker 2: Then we have Tammy. She's been in real estate for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. She also has a design background. Chris
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  Speaker 2: you know from Golden Bachelorette. He's a general contractor. Sam
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  Speaker 2: also general contractor Sam you guys know from Gen season.
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  Speaker 2: And then Courtney Robertson real estate agent Sandra real estate
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  Speaker 2: agent Jeremy this he was the most Does he belong
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  Speaker 2: to me? He's a property investor. Brendan, who we know
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  Speaker 2: as the villain from Tatius season, Well, he wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: villa on Tatious season but on the following Bachelor in
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  Speaker 2: Paradise with big scandal about pre planning situations and blah
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  Speaker 2: blah blah.
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  Speaker 4: He has a girlfriend now from the.
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  Speaker 2: Show, right, yeah, yeah, he dated the girl that he
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  Speaker 2: had the whole controversy with. They lasted quite a while
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  Speaker 2: and now he's with another girl from the show slipping
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: in my mind too then, but he like makes so
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  Speaker 2: much sense because he's a commercial roofer and painter. And
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  Speaker 2: then Ali Yisha, she is an interior designer of still
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  Speaker 2: is so funny. When Alisha walks in, she's like, oh no,
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  Speaker 2: because they had beef on this past season of Bachelor
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  Speaker 2: and Paradise. And then just to make notes, Tasha has
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  Speaker 2: two x's there in Brendan and uh noah, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So then basically Jesse tells everyone that there's one hundred
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: thousand dollars at stake, one person will be making it.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna be divided into two teams, girls versus guys,
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  Speaker 2: and then there will be some eliminations along the way.
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  Speaker 2: They first start off with the challenge where they have
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  Speaker 2: to like it's just like a you know, kind of
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  Speaker 2: like a fast challenge. It's a mental thing, and this
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  Speaker 2: is going to get somebody immunity. It ends up being Dean.
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  Speaker 2: I was very happy it was Dean because just seeing
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  Speaker 2: deep like I want to see Dean on my screen
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  Speaker 2: at all times, Like he just makes you so happy.
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  Speaker 2: He is just such a special human being. And I
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  Speaker 2: feel like we all need a dose of Dean on
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  Speaker 2: TV all the time, just so that we can like
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  Speaker 2: get some brightness in our life.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's interesting about Dean. He's one of my
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  Speaker 3: best friends in the world. Yeah, I love him deeply.
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  Speaker 3: But when you're with Dean in person, he can come
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  Speaker 3: off as a little apathetic at times, right, Like he
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  Speaker 3: just like is go with the flow, chill, but he
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  Speaker 3: always is like coke kind of poking and prodding. You
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  Speaker 3: put him on a TV screen.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, And he's like a leader.
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  Speaker 3: He's boisterous and passionate and confident, and I'm like, who
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  Speaker 3: where is this guy?
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  Speaker 2: He has multiple personalities, They're all right to me. I
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  Speaker 2: love him in this zone.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a comfortable zone for him. It's also, I
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  Speaker 3: think a show that doesn't intimidate him. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if any experiences intimidate Dean. He's done a lot of
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  Speaker 3: crazy things in his life, but this feels very much
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  Speaker 3: like we're gonna see Dean Bell come alive. It might
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  Speaker 3: be one of the reasons why his wife really pushed
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  Speaker 3: him to do this.
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  Speaker 2: Oh why did she even have to push, Like, didn't
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  Speaker 2: come on your We had a golf.
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  Speaker 3: Trip plan in the middle of it.
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  Speaker 4: It was a tough it was a tough yes, but no,
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  Speaker 4: I mean he does. And it's fun to.
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  Speaker 3: See Dean come alive like this because when he comes alive,
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  Speaker 3: he is he always is. But when he comes alive,
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  Speaker 3: he is one of those people that stand out and
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  Speaker 3: light up a room. He's a huge character during this
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  Speaker 3: show because he has that it factor, right, He has
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  Speaker 3: that ability to jump off on your screens, which not
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  Speaker 3: everybody does. And it doesn't mean since you've been on
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  Speaker 3: TV you have it either.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm with.
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  Speaker 3: You, Dean was a huge win for them, Ashley. I
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  Speaker 3: do want to pause you here though, before we keep
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  Speaker 3: diving into the episode. I watched the episode but there
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: is a moment where this location scout comes in and
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  Speaker 3: talks about how she found the Bachelor mansion, but she
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  Speaker 3: has like a pony with her. I don't know the why,
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  Speaker 3: what's the pony about?
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  Speaker 5: I just don't even know why these two interviews existed.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they were kind of fun.
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  Speaker 2: It was a snippet from Marshall which actually just ends
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  Speaker 2: up confusing the audience. And then there's a snippet from
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  Speaker 2: this lady who scouted the house. She was the one
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  Speaker 2: who found the house for the show, and she just
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  Speaker 2: has a random pony with her, which I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: don't know why, right, No.
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  Speaker 3: I want to know what the pony's about. Really, I like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm very curious on why there was a pony there.
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  Speaker 3: It just I don't know. Some producers like it'll be
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  Speaker 3: funny if she's petting a pony. It is funny, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but it doesn't make any sense at all. Ashley a
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  Speaker 3: little some data on this house.
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  Speaker 5: Oh gosh, don't make me do this.
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  Speaker 4: No, I got it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you were going to have me do the
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  Speaker 2: math that they did for the challenge, and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I do not I can't do that.
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  Speaker 4: I want to you.
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  Speaker 3: The house's ten thousand square feet. It sits on nine
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  Speaker 3: acres of property. That's incredible in Los Angeles. Seven bedrooms,
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  Speaker 3: eight bathrooms. I don't even know where all the eight
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  Speaker 3: bathrooms are. I could name some of them are hidden
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  Speaker 3: from us.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I could name.
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  Speaker 3: Five that I know of that we had access to
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  Speaker 3: or could finagle our way into. But there must be
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  Speaker 3: some bathrooms hidden that I've never seen.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think we should mention that the house has
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  Speaker 5: a wing to.
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  Speaker 2: It that the cast never sees.
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  Speaker 5: There's part of the house I haven't seen.
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  Speaker 4: It's over on the garage area.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Two of the downstairs bedrooms are used for interview rooms.
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  Speaker 2: So then we are left with the three upstairs bedrooms,
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  Speaker 2: which has a total of three bathrooms upstairs, and then
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  Speaker 2: we have two bathrooms downstairs. One is a powder room
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  Speaker 2: and the other one actually has a shower, and I
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  Speaker 2: used to use that shower because it was the most private.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: The whole show is set up for eliminations. As Ashley mentioned,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Jesse shares that one hundred thousand dollars will go to
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: the winner of this season. In each episode, multiple people,
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: if not one person, if not multiple people will be
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: eliminated from the show coming down to the final winner
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: of the season. That was not a surprise to us.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: We figured it would happen. However, it's a little bit
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: of a bummer to me how many people they removed
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: right away. That was tough because I want to see
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: so many of these people operating inside the house. And
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I do believe that for time's sake on how quickly
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: they can make these innovations, the more people the better.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: My two sins.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Also, as Ashley was very nervous, they start out the
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: episode pretty much with a immunity game. As soon as
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: they said it was gonna be math, I was like,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Dean's gonna crush it. Dean's incredible at math. He's a
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: smart guy. He does He doesn't always brag about his intelligence,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: but he's got a brain. Uh that is pretty much
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: like a safe. He doesn't forget anything, which is very
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: scary as a friend. However, h Ashley, if you were
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: asked to be a part of this game, how well
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: would you have done when it comes to square footage?
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: See here you are no just how I'm not gonna
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: ask you to do it.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: I'm just asking how well would you have done?
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I'm fine with doing like a great
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: multiplication division and stuff, and addie intertracting. I will say
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: with square footage, that was something I kind of learned
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: as of recently.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: One time.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: It's a classic.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: It's just a classic memory in our marriage, Jared and
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I were looking at lots to build a house on.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: This is like four or five years ago, when I
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: had no concept of reality, when I was not a
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: mom yet, and my full concentration was on just building
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: the most beautiful house that has not yet to be yet.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: And that's totally fine because I realized there's more important
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: things in life. Anyway, we were meeting with the real
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: estate agent and they're like, the thing is, you wouldn't
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: be able the house would have like a restriction on
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: the amount of square footage, like probably wouldn't want to
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: go like above.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Sixty or seven thousand on this property.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: And I go, oh, well, I was thinking that we
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: need at least ten thousand square feet. And then Jared
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: was like, what in the world that is so embarrassed,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Like he was so embarrassed. I was like, yeah, my
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: parents have this ten thousand square feet. It's like, you know,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: and actually my parents. Isn't ten thousand square feet and
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: we wouldn't never need a house as big as my parents.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: But lo and behold, what I really meant was that I.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Wanted a house around like the five thousand square feet,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: but I said ten thousand, and it was embarrassing.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I just think this is not an
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: easy If you don't know, square footage just would have
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: been an easy equation to figure out. But if you
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: know square footage, it's not hard, right. It's multiplication and
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: a little bit of subtraction and you're rocking and rolling.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: But this is not embarrassing. Actually, I would never call
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: you out to put you on the spot when it
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: comes to math, because my wife is very smart. She
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: was an incredible student, and we talk often right now
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: about how much we've forgotten. Like if you told me
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: to do long division or any type of calculus, I
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: think I could still do algebra.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: I never had to take calculus a little.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: I do a little more geometry in my daily life
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: than anything else, and so I could probably figure it out.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: But it's not perfect.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: It's like messy and kind of like I'm trying a
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: bunch of different equations to try to figure out what
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: makes sense. It's not easy, and so don't feel bad.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: I think as adults. Most adults would say, yeah, we've
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: forgotten math like it's it's okay. We were not a
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: walking calculator.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Oh man, you are giving me flashbacks at triggonometry.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: I had to drop out of that class.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: How did you do Trigg and not calculus?
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Well, in college I had to do two math classes.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: So I did college algebra, which is fantastic.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: I loved that. I liked algebra. I always did well
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: in that, and then I had to do like one other.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: You chose trigonometry. Wow, good for you.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: Well wait, so you think that that's harder than calculus?
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Really yeah? Oh prod says yes too.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Oh so no, wonder why I had to drop out
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: of it by the tide of the dropout date, you
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: know how you have like three weeks or something easy?
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Goodness, Actually it's not. No, trigonometry is not fun. I
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: would wish it upon nobody that didn't use it. Anyways,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Dean succeeds at winning this competition, which gives him the
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Golden Hammer. I know he loves the innuendos with the
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Golden Hammer, and Dean does it put that together. Oh,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: I know what Dean's mind was thinking. Oh, he loves
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: that he has this golden hammer to swing around. Dean
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: wins the golden hammer, which gives him immunity for the week. Honestly,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: as much as I love Dean, he's probably the worst
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: person to have immunity week one, because he's gonna come
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: out flying like he's going to just cause can.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: He use this to his advantage?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: But basically he's going to throw out the weirdest ideas,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: like a blue roof, so that he can stick around.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Do you think that he would have suggested the Santorini
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: room if he didn't have immunity.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I like the blue roof, blue ceiling. I thought it
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: was great. Honestly, I do think Dean has well in
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: their house. They've painted a lot of their ceilings, and
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: so I think what Dean was thinking was, Hey, a
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: painted ceiling's in right now, and its ceiling.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Definitely, I didn't like the fact that now that room
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: is not cohesive with the Italian vibe of the rest
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: of the house, with more of the olive tones, more
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: neutral tones, and now there's this bright white and blue
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: room that doesn't fit in.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I want to get into that in a second, hold
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: that thought, okay, because I do think it's something to
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: get into, But I do I think he would have
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: recommended it. I doubt he would have been as confident
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: in his opinion without knowing that he was going to
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: be around.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, matter what you know, you.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Don't want to be the fall guy or the loudest
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: voice week one. You got to kind of get into
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: it a little bit.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well, what do you want to get
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: into before we get into the guy's tasks?
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Okay, So the show is set up, the competition is
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: set The guys will be responsible for two smaller bedrooms
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: and the girls will be The women will be responsible
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: for the larger bedroom with the fireplace. There is a
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: theme given to all of them, I believe, not really.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Okay, so it's kind of just shoot your shot and go.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: And uh, was it fair that the guys had two
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: separate rooms to maneuver is a question I think viewers
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: will ask, and I would say, when it comes to
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: square footage jests, when you think about the details and
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: the dynamics of it, No, No, I think it had
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: been hard. One thing I'm gonna be worried about all season, Ashley,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: and maybe I'm just too concerned about the family that's
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: living there or whoever.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Why are we stressed out the entire time watching this?
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Thinking about it, well, I think I wasn't stressed outuntil
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: they're like, Hey, we're going to take out this beautiful
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: thing on the ceiling, and then we're going or not
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: even beautiful, just like massive piece on the ceiling, and
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: we're going to also make the fireplace inaccessible to anybody
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: for future visits. I'm like, this is these are crazy
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: steps you're taking and not necessarily preferred for me. However,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: my concern with this show is there is no continuity,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: so there isn't an overall theme communicated us on what
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: the house should be looking like. It's not modern Italian,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: it's not set up as clean, it's not necessarily even
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: hey make this, just renovate this Tuscan feel to refresh
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: it a bit. There's no continuity throughout the house. So
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: we are going to have a green room with green
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: shades and a blue room with blue shades, and another
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: room that's Tuscan and feels like very much what I
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: would want my office to look like. And is that
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: how this whole house is.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Gonna be there should have been like, hey, guys, you
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: have to keep it in the Mediterranean mindset.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: One hundred percent, Like I want a theme because for me,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: one of the most impressive things that a designer does,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: one of the most impressive things a carpenter does is
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: when you walk into a home and you're like, it
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: flows right.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: It has an aesthetic that flows from room to room.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: It doesn't all have to look the same, but at
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: least we understand why this room looks the way it
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: does and this room looks the way it does. But
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: we're gonna end up just like patching together different vibes.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be dizzy, is what I would use to
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: describe the esthetic.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Well, so one we do see the final product of
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: all three rooms, which, by the way, guys, the girls
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: are assigned the primary.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Bedroom and it or at least what we think is.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: We don't even know is it the bigger girls bedroom now?
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: So whatever, it's the bigger one. It's the one that
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I lived in lots of memories and they're awesome, awesome
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: to just see it again. And then there are two
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: other bedrooms that are everybody's you know, crammed in the
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: past the first two weeks of the season.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: But in my head, I remember, and I think that.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: This was a point in my head that I was
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: hard bring on that the audience would not harp on.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: But I'm pretty sure they took away two bunks from
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: each room, like a bunk from each room.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, my bedroom had one, two, three, four, five.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Bunks, and I think they made it so that it
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: has four bunks now.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: And then then the.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Room that was the Tusken room that had three bunks,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: and I think there's two in there now. So obviously
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: it's gonna look better when you eliminate in a bunk.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, Okay, this looks great for this show.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: But are they got to cram one in there when
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: everybody moves in.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: It's a good question, it's a fair question. That's why
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: I want to know who are they doing this for.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: I'm sure there was I mean, these rooms are very
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: rarely shown during the season, are.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: They're not shown very much, so they could just throw
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: one in and make it not look so cute.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah they can. They can pack it in somewhere. And
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: there was some more. There are some other rooms in
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: the house that were not so iconic. And used that
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: maybe the show can use now to make up for
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: this space. I don't know necessarily how the sleeping arrangements
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: go these days, But Ashley, are you concerned with my
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: thought of continuity and chaos in the aesthetic of the house.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I think that while it wasn't said, both teams seem
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: to respect the origin theme of the house, which was
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: the Mediterranean, and I think that that's how it'll continue
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: to be. I do think that it was not just Mediterranean,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: but it was Italian, which I think the two rooms
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: are going with. And that's what the why the Santorini
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: room stresses me out right now, because even though it's Mediterranean,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Santorini and Tuscany are two completely different looks.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Very much so.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Tuscany is like a farming community, you know, state I
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: don't like regions.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: Stones and stuff.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Old architecture, a lot of dark woods, and then yes,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Santorini is a beach feel. We'll see how it goes
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: throughout the rest of the season. Honestly, personal actually, just
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: the personal thought, what do you think about this new trend?
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: It's it's very easy to do DIY and to fix
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: up a room doing this with the kind of wood
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: slats that go straight up and down with a little
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: space in between.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: It was used in.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: All both the women and the men's design there.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: It's called fluted.
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: Yes, I saw this is on the bunks.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: And we see it in the preview for the rest
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: of the season kind of everywhere. It is a very
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: common design right now. What do you think of it?
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: How do you feel? I don't like it, so it's
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: a little hard for me to look out honestly, no,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: like not like I It's like my eyes can't adjust
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: my sense, I can't get like a point of focus
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: when that's kind of sitting behind somebody, which is why
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't put it in my house because I would
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: walk into the room and it kind.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: Of feels a little too much for me. It is
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: popular though. People do like it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: They do use it, and it is a very quick
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: way to kind of fix up and clean up any
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: type of wall or any type of paneling needed. But
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: it is used a lot, and we see it use
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: a lot throughout the rest of this season. Ashlely kind
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: of some final thoughts here. Obviously, Tasha and Tyler Cameron
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: are the judges this season. It seems like they will
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: be used throughout the season where they'll have some guest
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: judges come in for some specific projects, and Jesse is
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: the main host of the show, so we have a
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: lot of voices in power and influence during this season,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: which is good. I think the Bachelor is this is
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: coming from a place where The Bachelor has year for
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: years trying to figure out how do we utilize this
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: talent from the past who people followed and loved and
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: still follow and love. How do we continue to use
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: them in ways that benefit the show.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I think this is fine. It's for HGTV. It's good,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: it makes sense.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: I like it. It's fun. Dude, does this fill that
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: void for me? The one that I've.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Been saying for years and years that I want them
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: to take couples? I mean, obviously this is selfish that
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: I want them to take couples that have had success
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: and then put them on some competition show where you
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: get to see the couples compete, you know, Amazon, you know,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Amazing Race Style or whatnot, Trader Style, something like that.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: It'd be so fun, but.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it'll ever happen, And now with
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: my NBC contract.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: I don't know that I could ever participate if it
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: happened anyway.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Well, I think you make the point that I'm trying
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: to get to. I love seeing these familiar faces again. Yeah,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: but I want to see them. I don't want to
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: just see him stop in, Like I don't care to
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: see Hannah Brown just stopping on my television.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm talking about like the regular cast.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Like I love seeing the regular cast, like Jill and
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Dean and Courtney and Joan really even even Noah, just
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: people that you've become so familiar with. I really, I
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: had my cup filled in a way with it all.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I yes, but I want to finish the stocks. I
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: don't want it to sound like I just said I
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: don't want to see Hannah Brown. I do want to
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: see Hannah Brown, but I want to like see her
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: compete again or see her get involved in something again.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: I feel like they keep.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Bringing the Hannah Browns and the Tashia's and the JoJo's back,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: but we miss it because we don't get to actually.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: See them. We just see him stop in.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: Fill a day roll exactly more than a day roll.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Like Hannah Brown was on Paradise And what did we
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: what did we learn about Hannah Brown or what did
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: we talk about when it came to Hannah Brown based
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: on her time in Paradise?
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Nothing?
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: What are we going to talk about when it comes
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: to Hannah Brown and her like stop in on this show? Nothing?
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: It's great to see them, Yes, does it add anything?
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think this episode would have
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: been fine if it was just Jesse walking through the rooms.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: My point is I want to see these people shine
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: on television again, and the way we know them to
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: be able to shine, which is when we get an
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: up close and personal look at their life.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: So you're saying that you would want to see Tyler
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: and Tasha and Hannah competing in the games?
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, totally is it? And if not, like, what
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: are we doing?
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: And so then just have Jesse be the host?
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, that makes sense. All right.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: I want to see Tyler Cameron have to.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: I want to see somebody else to do stuff too. Yeah.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: So that is one thing that I think the show
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: they they wanted to elevate a few people and make
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: it a thing. I just think it feels like we're
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: never going to experience who they act are and see
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: them compete. Because one thing I do think will happen
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: this season is I do think drama will ensue. I
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: know in my family dynamic, especially with my parents growing
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: up in a household that did everything ourselves very rarely
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: would hire anybody to do anything. There is a lot
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: of outdoor work, a lot of indoor work. My grandpa
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: was working all the time on his farm. Arguments happen
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: within the first five minutes. It's just how things work.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: When it comes to a project.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: You want to put us and make us.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Argue more than decorating. Jared and I it's our ultimate
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: weakness in arguing.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: So it's going to happen, right, We're not going to
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: be able to walk through this season with this many
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: big personalities without arguing happening. I want to see it happen,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: and arguing happen from some of the Bachelor Nation people
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: that we know can argue the best, the Hannah.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Browns, the Tashas, the Ews.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: So one thing I just think we'll miss is while
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: so many people stop in and we're like, yeah, but
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: if they had to get dirty a little bit, this
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: could be awesome.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: Okay, Well, let's actually talk about the drama that we
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: did see. I mean, it was not.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's ever gonna get really dramatic or fiery,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: but because people needed to eliminate people on their team,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: there was definitely tension. Uh, Sandra didn't feel hurt during
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: the entire day. She was like, and I think I
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: have a big personality, but then I'm next to these.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: Girls and like, apparently I'm just drowning.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: And then there was the stealing of the iron that
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: was not real drama. There was the fact that now
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Chris feels like he has to watch his back because
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: there is people trying to eliminate him left and right,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: mainly because I really I think that's just because he's
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: just not of the same age group and he's just
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: a little bit left out.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: I think he has plenty of stores on a note there,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: he might be the most talented and the most full.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: One of his most experience, which I'm so glad Dean
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: did not vote him off because you know, he had
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: to do a tiebreaker. Yeah, and I'm glad that he
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: chose to eliminate Jeremy because Jeremy like just doesn't make
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: as much sense there as Chris obviously.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: And goodness, I mean we I wanted to see Jeremy
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: kind of have this redemption arc during the show or
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: see kind of his skill set.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: But I don't know if you felt this way. I'm
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: watching it and I.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Don't know the dynamics internally, but you could tell Jeremy
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: like really just wanted to be buddies with so many
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: of these guys on the show, right, And he was
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: like roommates with Dean and they get set up together
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: and you can tell he's just trying to be like, hey,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: I'm happy to be here.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: Kind of guy. And then yeah, the one guy you.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Could tell he really wanted to like buddy up with
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: was Dean, and then Dean votes him off and I'm like, goodness,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: this this is It's like it.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: Was sad to me, it was.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: It was a little sad.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: And while like we've always been super hard on Jeremy
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: on other shows, I do find that he's a good
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: He's good on TV. There's something about him that is
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: interesting to watch. Sure, maybe because he's a stir I
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it would have been good TV, but okay,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: keep going. Sorry, I just wanted to note that that
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: I felt like he was like a puppy dog at times,
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: being like, Hey, I want to be friends with guys here,
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: and then they're like hey, get out of here.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, then there was people someone really just Sandra
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: having a little beef with Jill, thought that Jill was
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: just well not being a team player.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: She walked out of a group meeting just saying that
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: it was over. And then she.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Also said that somebody said that Jill was like being
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: kind of too opinionated, like to my way or the highway.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Does she have that in her but probably yeah. But
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: I also like like that about her. But if you're
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: working on a team, it is hard when you have
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: that hard personality. Sure, I don't know if I'm like
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: that in a team, but I know that when it
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: comes to our home, I'm always like, no, that doesn't
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: belong to I'm sorry, Like I know, I told you
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: can put something somewhere, but no, that doesn't work.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: I you know what I do. I sulk.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: And I was watching this show and I was like,
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: there's so many moments that I would be sulking because
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: my voice wasn't heard or my opinion wasn't shared. And
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: so I get like that even in my own home,
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, hey, I think we need to do
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: it this way. Maybe there's an opposite opinion, and I'm like,
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: all right, but now I'm the one that has to
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: do it. I'm gonna have to do it the way
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: that I don't want to do it. I would have
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: a hard time because I've I've been trying to follow
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: in life better, like be a follower and a leader
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: at times, being able to step up and lead but
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: also be able to take a back seat. It's I
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: know this about myself, Ashley. I don't take a back
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: seat easily.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: That's when Sandra said some people are leaders and then
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: some people have to be followers. I was like, oh,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: is that how it goes? Because not on my terms?
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I am not good at it.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: There there's so many moments where I go into something
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna just listen, I'm gonna
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: follow along. I'm gonna have a great time doing it.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: And then what do I find I find myself at
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: some point having the loudest voice, the most direct voice,
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: the most opinionated voice.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: Well that's because we were on like reality TV.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that most people on reality TV tend
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: to have the leader person.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Who been a problem my whole life. I think it's
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: an older child.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: Thing, oldest child and only child.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody in the conversation, who's a second child, third child?
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: Come in here?
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Jessica just still fall along.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so well, she's so good at just hanging out.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: But okay, to speed this up a little bit, Ashley,
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: we did remove again Jeremy and Sander from this episode
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: very early on. There was the finished product. As we said,
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: the women did win, the men had to vote out
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: one more person. It's a to be continued episode, Ashley,
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: who do you think I voted out?
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I'm actually super duper torn because everybody there what is
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: pretty darn qualified to be there constructing and designing.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: And how sweet of it was Dean to vote for
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: himself even though he can't smart.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: That was smart, so so sweet, so Dean. And yes,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: that means he's not eliminating one of the other guys.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: My gut says it's probably gonna be.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: I don't know, it could be Noah or Chris.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: I think I would actually go completely. I think it's Sam.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: Okay, why he didn't have a huge role.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: He didn't have a huge role.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: He's one of the two people that have like an
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: old school carpentry background, and I think they saw uh
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: kind of the usefulness of Chris's skill set. You see
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: Chris doing a lot, you don't see Sam doing a lot.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: I also think Sam probably came into this tired of
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: being known as the villain, so he was a little
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: more quiet at least a first episode. I think over
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: time we would see his personality shine, but he's a
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: little more quiet.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: I also.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Have this feeling that people want to play nice during
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: this show. They don't want this and be like a
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: super dramatic show, and they know that Chris was on
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: the chopping block during the first elimination. I bet they
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: would have a hard time being like, yeah, Chris, we're
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: going to like double down on that.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, that's my guest, Sam.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Okay, I would say Sam, I don't think Noah, because
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: I think he's built enough.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: Alliances, He's friendly enough with.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: Every scheme in behind the scenes at the.
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: Ultimate guy who has a connection to everyone too.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think no. It would be a hard vote
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: at least right now.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: What's going to happen when we get to a certain
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: point where you can't vote people off like it's not
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: going to make like I guess it's just going to
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: be two on one and then eventually on the finale.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: It'll probably be up to like the judges, yeah, or
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: you know whose project was better. It'll be interesting to
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: watch this season go on.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Well, there's one last note that I have to say,
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: and that was that we see carpenters in the background.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: But they could have explained like, we'll have a team
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: to make your dreams become reality really quickly. They didn't
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: explain that that's how all the HGTV shows work. It's
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: not like, you know, the property brothers are making the house.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there was too much.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: When they took down the fixture that was in the
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: middle of the women's room, there was obviously a ton
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: of drywall work and patching work than the area done.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: So somebody had to work through the night to patch
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: that mud that saying that and then get it ready
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: for painting. So yes, there had to be help people
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: helping throughout the day. I do know this and I
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: will share this bit of information. Uh, they worked, really
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: the contestants did have to work really hard. It was
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: all day things, doing like on their hands knees doing
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: the project. This is not a setup for TV kind
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: of sh show. The contestants were actually doing the projects,
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: but there had to be more hands involved, a little
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: more expertise, probably from a few people kind of helping
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: navigate some of the projects. But I know that the
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: contestants at the end of the day were exhausted from
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: the work that had to be done, which is fun.
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: So I wish I would have seen a little bit
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: more of the handsiness.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: I think it would be an injustice to us if
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: we don't see more of them working and struggling and failing,
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: because we didn't see any of them that like tossing
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: away of really nice like mahogany during the episode and
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: somebody being super frustrated.
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: I remember when Marshall told me that the double door
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: is going into the primary bedroom. Insanely intricate doors. They
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: were shipped over from India, completely hand crafted. They're not
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: going to be They're not gonna get rid of these things.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: No, just say primary yeah, the uh yeah. There's there's
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: a lot to this house that I'm sure I'm assuming
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: has a piece of tape on it saying please do
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: not touch, please do not remove. But we'll see as
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: the season goes that's gonna be One of the intriguing
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: factors is how much of this house do they change
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: and how much do they actually change it? Ashley after
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: episode one, are you intrigued by this show?
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: It is two hours. It does feel like a long time.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: There was a lot of standing around during this episode.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: I hope it gets a little more action packed, a
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: little more fast paced. I want this to be more
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: in the weeds on how they're doing the projects and
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: who's doing well and who's not.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: But are you intrigued with this show?
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, I'm excited to see it again.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: I am too. I think it's gonna be good. I
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: think it's gonna be fun for us to watch.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: It's fun for us to watch because it's not like
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of drama.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fun to see these people like work and
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: get gritty and have to.
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: Compromise in another element that we're used to see.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: That's right right now?
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: Would I care if?
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me see if it wasn't for Bachelor contestants, Like,
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: what if the Bachelor contestants weren't doing this and that
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: we're actual experts on the show doing the flip? Would
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: you be as interested, because I guess I probably wouldn't care.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: No, I think the seeing the Bachelor mansion get redone
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: is it fun and exciting. And I do love HGTV,
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah I do so.
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: I do like watching regular houses get flipped.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: So there might be an element to that, but I
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: do think it's fun to see the contestants have to
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: be doing this. I think that's fun and it does
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: add The only reason I mentioned that little behind the
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: scenes detail is it's fun for me to know that
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: these people, like a weekend like this was day one,
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: They've gotten good rest, they haven't been lifting anything in
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: a while. But let's see this like a weekend like
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: episode three four, and see how tired and sore some
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: of these people are working on this house. That's when
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: I think things are going to get really good. So
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: it's fun for me to know that the people that
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: came are actually the ones doing the projects. Because I
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: know in my own life, day one's easy, Day two's frustrating,
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Day three, I'm exhausted. In day four, I'm ready to
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: get it done. So we'll see how the contestants handle
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: all this. It's fun to see, you know, the Bachelor
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: coming up again. On our televisions. It's also really great
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: for us to have something to break down Ashley, as
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: we do every first episode of every season that we
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: break down. If you were to pick your guests on
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: who wins, who would it be?
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: Can you go first?
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: No?
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: I don't want you to go first. I feel like
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: Dean's gonna win.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna pick Joan, mostly because I think it's
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: gonna be really hard to vote Joan off. She's so lovable,
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: she's so likable, she's so considerate of other people's opinions
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: and feelings and emotions that I think she's gonna feel
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: like the person that kind of is the glue to
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: bring people together.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: And I also think she has some talent, and.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: So I just can't see any I mean, how brutal
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: human do you have to be right now to like,
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: I honestly to vote off Sandra or Chris, but then
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: also to be like, hey, Joan go home. Like I also,
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: here's who I hope wins. Though you want to outside
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: a Dean because he's a friend. I want to see
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: Courtney win.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: Courtney is an empathetic character.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: I know she's a beautiful and wonderful human who you know,
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: we both love. And I think she got a bad
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: rap on her time. I think it really hurt her.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: But now she has a family. She said yes to
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: this show, and she was taken away from her family
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: for a long period of time. I really would love
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: to see her walk away because I think it would
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: give her that bump that would be true to who
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: she is, but also give her that encouragement maybe she needs.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: So I'm my hope is that Courtney sticks around.
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Courtney.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: When they had the little roundtable moment with the girls,
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: she was pretty emotional saying that, like she feels like
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: she's lost herself, you know, and motherhood and all that,
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: and this is like a way to get part of
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: her own personality back. So it was very relatable and
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: very emotional. And I yeah, again, like you just said,
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: always like Corney, but I do feel like she kind
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: of like fell to the wayside.
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: In this episode.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: And I guess I'm just going off Dean because I
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: just think that he's the personality that stands out the
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: most of everybody. And I do think he only made
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: this ANTURNI decision because he had immunity. I don't think
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: that he would have done that.
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: Dean would also be a hard person to vote off.
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: That's that's yeah.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: Well, this has been the first breakdown of HGTV's news
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: show where they're renovating the Bachelor Mansion. Hey, if you
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: haven't watched the episode yet and you just listen to
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: our podcast, there is still so much in there that
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: we didn't go over, Like, hey, Dean did a DIY
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: artwork project as well as convincing everybody to paint the
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: ceiling blue. You'll want to see the visuals of how
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: these rooms looked and operated outside of how we explain
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: them to you. So go back and watch the episode,
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: but also continue to come here and listen to our
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: breakdown of each episode as we break it down each
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: week on the Almost Famous Podcast. Now, just because we're
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: breaking down this actually doesn't mean that we stop our
• 49:10
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• 49:15
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• 49:18
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• 49:22
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• 49:25
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