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A Match Made in the Explore Page with Luke Pell · 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: It's a special episode of the Almost Famous Podcast. Guest
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  Speaker 2: host Rachel is with us. We have Luke Pell as
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  Speaker 2: our guest.
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  Speaker 3: Luke, welcome, Hey, thanks for having me on. Ben, good
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  Speaker 3: to see you again. It's been a few years.
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  Speaker 2: A lot's happened in your life in the last few years.
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  Speaker 2: Now you and Rachel have never met, and today we're
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  Speaker 2: changing that. But we both want to tell you congratulations
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  Speaker 2: from the very start, Luke, on some recent things happening
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  Speaker 2: in your life and one of the big reasons why
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  Speaker 2: you're here.
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  Speaker 4: With us today.
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  Speaker 5: Awesome, Thank you so much. That means that it's.
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  Speaker 2: A lot, So let's start at the beginning. For those
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  Speaker 2: like Rachel h Now, we're not going to talk a
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  Speaker 2: lot about your experience on The Bachelorette or any other
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  Speaker 2: spinoff shows, but just for fans to be reminded, you
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  Speaker 2: were a part of Bachelor Nation. You still are a
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  Speaker 2: part of Bachelor Nation. You are on JoJo's season of
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  Speaker 2: The Bachelorette, which happened to be the year after I was.
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  Speaker 4: On the show.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, a while ago.
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  Speaker 4: Now it is Rachel.
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  Speaker 2: Caitlin Bristow posted a picture of when she was the Bachelorette,
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  Speaker 2: which is a season I was on and it was
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  Speaker 2: nine years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that wild?
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  Speaker 6: Isn't it crazy how fast it goes? Mine was already
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  Speaker 6: three years ago, like it was actually yesterday. But you guys,
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  Speaker 6: were you on Winter Games together?
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  Speaker 5: We were whoa very true yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay games that never happened again and nobody watched it
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  Speaker 2: was wild.
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  Speaker 6: We were just talking like, did Winter Games actually happen
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  Speaker 6: or did we imagine it?
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  Speaker 2: I think for some I think for some of us,
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  Speaker 2: most of us, we hope it was just a dream,
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  Speaker 2: an imagination, something that just popped up and existed and
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  Speaker 2: went away.
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  Speaker 4: But we were on that show together. Yes, I kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Wish they would bring it back, honestly. And some people
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  Speaker 3: that have watched it that I've they're like, oh, what
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  Speaker 3: was that show? They ever heard of it? And I'll
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  Speaker 3: be like, I'll tell them, we'll talk about it. They'll
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  Speaker 3: go look it up on YouTube and they're like, that's
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  Speaker 3: actually amazing. You have people that can't speak English language
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  Speaker 3: barriers like all over the world, like global.
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  Speaker 5: It completely way more entertaining.
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  Speaker 3: And you've got the sports side of it and non
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  Speaker 3: athletes competing in the Olympic sports, which is also entertaining
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  Speaker 3: in and of itself.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. I had a really good time. And
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  Speaker 2: it's one of those shows, Rachel, where you feel like
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  Speaker 2: you're just hanging out with friends most of the time,
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  Speaker 2: Like you don't feel like you're actually on a show.
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  Speaker 2: You're just kind of kicking it in this cabin. That
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  Speaker 2: was my experience. Now, Luke, you have gone beyond the
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  Speaker 2: Bachelor into a very successful personal life. Until we get
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  Speaker 2: into the big reason you're here today, in the big
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  Speaker 2: announcement and the thing we want to celebrate in the
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  Speaker 2: last let's say six years of your life, then what
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  Speaker 2: have you been up to career wise kind of personally?
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  Speaker 4: What does your life look like?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? You know so Idi, Yes, we talked before COVID
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  Speaker 3: the last time I was on with you and Nashley,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I was still in Nashville and I
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  Speaker 3: had been doing Nashville music there for a few years. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: I guess professionally as a career, and COVID happened and
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  Speaker 3: that was a really a good reset for me. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I've gone into commercial real estate right during COVID, and
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  Speaker 3: so I've been doing that the last four years now,
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's been great.
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  Speaker 5: It's been a great transition.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I knew that at a point there you
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  Speaker 3: start this process and you kind of have a life
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  Speaker 3: moment and you say, what's my perspective here on the
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  Speaker 3: next like a five year planner, Like what what do
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  Speaker 3: you when do you want to start a family?
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  Speaker 5: What does that look like? How do you build an environment?
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  Speaker 3: And that's conlusive for having a family and doing that,
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  Speaker 3: And so for me that was, yeah, getting out of
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  Speaker 3: the entertainment business and working my way back to Texas
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  Speaker 3: which just recently moved back to Texas, and and kind
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  Speaker 3: of setting roots here close to home and uh and
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  Speaker 3: and getting ready.
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  Speaker 5: To star our family. So yeah, it's been quite a process.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a few years in the maying and took
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  Speaker 3: some turns and unexpected things that happened. But I'm very
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  Speaker 3: happy and blessed to be where I'm at right now.
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  Speaker 2: And you are also an entrepreneur. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you're still involved. You had started or been involved in
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  Speaker 2: a moving company. Is that still exists today?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm still equity stakeholder in black Tie Moving.
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  Speaker 3: My location is up in Louisville, Kentucky, and the headquarters
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  Speaker 3: since in Nashville. So a friend of mine started that
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  Speaker 3: and franchised it, and I started the first franchise for them.
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  Speaker 2: So he's up to a lot, Rachel. Wow, the show
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  Speaker 2: did not slow him down obviously. This last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 2: the announcement came out that you are engaged.
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  Speaker 4: Now we have followed.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a part of Bachel Nation, you've probably followed
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  Speaker 2: Luke's story, you know, and kept up with his life.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the behind the scenes romantically has not
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  Speaker 2: been shown, but this one was and I started to
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  Speaker 2: watch it and I started to see you. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if this is the real deal, and it
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  Speaker 2: is all right if you don't mind. Luke catches all
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  Speaker 2: up on maybe what we didn't see, your your love story,
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  Speaker 2: how you met, uh and then ultimately where you're at today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so the we met actually through Instagram and uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know there's.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah I did DM slide That's what I actually knew.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so that works for Bence, I said, well,
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  Speaker 3: I guess it works for a lot of people now.
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  Speaker 3: And the more I've we've we've talked about that, people
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  Speaker 3: are like how have you met? It was like, there's
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  Speaker 3: a DM slide, and I'm hearing it's actually pretty frequent.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe like the most frequent answer that I hear now
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  Speaker 3: is that that's how people are. I did.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I did, absolutely, And I don't even know.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, we were talking about like how did it come
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  Speaker 3: across We didn't have a lot of mutual friends. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's the Instagram algorithm. It was like an explore
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  Speaker 3: pace thing. I was like, oh my god, she's she's gorgeous,
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  Speaker 3: and you click on it and then you kind of
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  Speaker 3: like learn about somebody, like hey, you know, like what
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  Speaker 3: their values, how important family, all these different things you
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  Speaker 3: can see by somebody's Instagram. Sometimes sometimes people they curate
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  Speaker 3: their Instagram a little differently.
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  Speaker 5: But but but.
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  Speaker 3: Hers is very much who she is as a person
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  Speaker 3: and very transparent, and so she's just an incredible person.
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  Speaker 3: And uh and so we we, uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: talked through DMS for a little bit and and then
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  Speaker 3: we initially we didn't actually meet until late February of
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  Speaker 3: this year in person, and so it's been quite an
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  Speaker 3: expediitted timeline. If you're not on reality TV shows, it's
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  Speaker 3: been an extabouted timeline, but so.
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  Speaker 6: Brought you together in Instagram and then how long were
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  Speaker 6: you talking online or over the phone and show you
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  Speaker 6: guys met how many months?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so like it was just a brief interaction like
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  Speaker 3: two months prior.
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  Speaker 5: And so there was you know, where you where do
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  Speaker 5: you live.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know anything about her, and she was like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Max, you know, looking at moving back to
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  Speaker 3: Texas next year, and et cetera, et cetera, and then
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  Speaker 3: it just was kind of tabled.
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  Speaker 5: And and and and then it came back around.
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  Speaker 3: But I guess, like I said, late February, and she
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  Speaker 3: happened to be in Dallas at the same time as
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  Speaker 3: I was, and we met up for coffee and and
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  Speaker 3: then just kind of took it from there and then
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  Speaker 3: I traveled out to I guess our really our first
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  Speaker 3: like real date was in Dallas, and then we ended
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  Speaker 3: up doing Easter together and just one thing led to
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  Speaker 3: another and a matter of family are very early on
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  Speaker 3: this spring, and uh, they were great, and everything just
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  Speaker 3: kind of fallen into place.
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  Speaker 5: And so you know, we're.
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  Speaker 3: Both people of faith and very forward with you know,
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  Speaker 3: what what our past has been and who we are
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  Speaker 3: as people, and very forthcoming with all of that, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that that's what really, you know, bridge that
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  Speaker 3: gap for us and and made us feel comfortable with
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  Speaker 3: each each other.
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  Speaker 5: Moving forward so quickly, beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: Your fiance's name is Haley James. Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she's originally from where rock Wall, Texas, Rockwall, Texas.
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  Speaker 2: And you're from Dallas.
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  Speaker 3: Burnett, Texas originally, yeah, which is closer to Austin.
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  Speaker 2: Burnett, Texas. I know, Burnett, Texas. My cousin is talking
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  Speaker 2: to a girl from Burnett, Texas. Actually, oh my god, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: not a very big.
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  Speaker 5: Time probably know who it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, after the after this, I want to check to
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  Speaker 2: see if you do.
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  Speaker 4: I just got to download on her.
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  Speaker 2: Uh so you you obviously did she know of who
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  Speaker 2: you were when you two met?
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  Speaker 4: Like did she had she seen the show?
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  Speaker 3: She had seen the show? Yeah, I don't, you know
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  Speaker 3: obviously yours and my shows have been so far in
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  Speaker 3: the past. I don't know that it mattered registered with
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  Speaker 3: her and that currently like I was like I was
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  Speaker 3: from the.
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  Speaker 5: Show because it's been several years. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 5: caught up, caught up quickly. Yeah, it was a bashelar thing.
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  Speaker 2: So okay, And so when you first reached out to her.
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  Speaker 2: That is not the reason why she was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm interested in this guy. I know him from the show.
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  Speaker 2: She was like later on that became.
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  Speaker 4: Apparent to her.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 4: That's the best way to do it, Rachel.
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  Speaker 2: That's some good advice for you is to you know,
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  Speaker 2: not everybody can't can't get mad at somebody for watching
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  Speaker 2: the show, but you can definitely question them when they're like,
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  Speaker 2: I'll go on date with you.
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  Speaker 4: I remember you from the show.
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  Speaker 6: That absolutely, I will say, though she probably did know
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  Speaker 6: because all of my friends are like FBI agents and
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  Speaker 6: they send me a full back as soon as I tuck.
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  Speaker 5: That's true. The the CSI agents come out pretty quick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Luke, you kind of touched on it. But now,
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  Speaker 2: for the remaining time we have, I really want to
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  Speaker 2: get to know you and and Haley as a couple.
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  Speaker 4: What made her?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously her beauty stood out to you at first,
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  Speaker 2: but then as you got closer to an engagement, what
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  Speaker 2: about her stood out to you to make you feel
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  Speaker 2: so comfortable that, even after five months of knowing each
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  Speaker 2: other in person, you said, this is it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know I touched on it earlier, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, for both of us, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and she's got her own stories. She's been through quite
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  Speaker 3: a lot in the last few years, and one of
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  Speaker 3: those things was her dad passed away in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 3: and so you know, that's just one of the things.
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  Speaker 3: And so she had been through a rollercoaster of just
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  Speaker 3: emotion and just life changes and things like that. And
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  Speaker 3: so you know, I had gone through some some big
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  Speaker 3: relational changes myself early in twenty twenty three or a
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  Speaker 3: year ago, and so we were both in a place
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  Speaker 3: of just really digging down deep and I think finding
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  Speaker 3: ourselves and what we really wanted in life. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: our faith brought us together. And then just that ability
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  Speaker 3: for us to both I think, be vulnerable and just
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  Speaker 3: really not put on a mask of who we were
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  Speaker 3: or why, what our intentions were or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: We were just very everything was on the table very
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  Speaker 3: early and said, look, there is no nonsense. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: here to just date around and see how this goes. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking for somebody to spend my life with. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, I would love for this to work out,
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  Speaker 3: but let's be very upfront about everything coming into it,
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  Speaker 3: so that we're not wasting each other's time or the
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  Speaker 3: family's time or anything like that, or dragging anybody else
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  Speaker 3: into this. And so that's that was it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: And so I think that was the advice piece of
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  Speaker 3: anybody was ever to ask me. It's it's it's be
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  Speaker 3: as transparent as you can be and focused and intentional
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  Speaker 3: up front. You know. I think the world we live
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  Speaker 3: in now is so full of distractions, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: Instagram and other people on you know that are just
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  Speaker 3: talking into our life and it becomes all this noise.
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  Speaker 5: And if you can find a way to shut out.
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  Speaker 3: That noise and really focus on your own part and
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  Speaker 3: what God's put on your heart.
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  Speaker 5: And who who you should.
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  Speaker 3: Be with from that standpoint, and what you want in
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  Speaker 3: terms of having a family and the future, I think
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  Speaker 3: that would save a lot of drama on a lot
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  Speaker 3: of breakups and confusion for people.
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  Speaker 6: How quickly after the first date did you know that
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  Speaker 6: she was the one? Was it really soon on?
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  Speaker 5: I would say it was. It was within probably the
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  Speaker 5: first thirty days. Yeah, after our first date, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we had a coffee date went great, and we.
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  Speaker 3: Had like a you know, more formal dinner date, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, but still just like meet at the restaurant type.
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  Speaker 5: Of dinner date.
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  Speaker 3: And really, you know, we were very careful up front too,
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  Speaker 3: and very like we put in some parameters of saying like,
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  Speaker 3: let's not make this casual. Let's not you know, go
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  Speaker 3: go to the club and and have this this this
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  Speaker 3: party thing and and just kind of hanging out. Let's like,
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  Speaker 3: let's sit down, have a nice dinner together, be very
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  Speaker 3: formal about our and I think that also helped where
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  Speaker 3: we were going. So there was no just you know,
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  Speaker 3: emotional I guess what they call it where youngitulated with
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  Speaker 3: somebody up ron or used just being to somebody it's
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  Speaker 3: like what where what direction are you setting in that part?
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  Speaker 5: We put that in the same direction.
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  Speaker 3: And so we were just very and it almost seems
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  Speaker 3: on paper that almost seems to go it's more interview style.
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  Speaker 5: It's like a job interview or whatever, if you think
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  Speaker 5: about it.
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  Speaker 3: But when we did it, it was built on a
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  Speaker 3: foundation of respect. I think is really what the common
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  Speaker 3: theme for both of us is. We just respected each other.
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  Speaker 3: We respected each other's our past and what we were
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  Speaker 3: looking for in our intentions, and that just really set
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  Speaker 3: us up for success.
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  Speaker 2: So now that uh, it's official. You guys are engaged.
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  Speaker 2: What's the timeline. Obviously this has been, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: an expedited dating process, But I am with you where
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  Speaker 2: I feel like once I met my now wife, it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't it wasn't with in a few hours that I
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  Speaker 2: didn't think, yeah, this is this is the one. So now,
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  Speaker 2: what does the wedding look like? Well, are you guys
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  Speaker 2: starting to plan prep talk about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're actually gonna do like a private family
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  Speaker 3: only only ceremony much much sooner and then we'll get married.
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  Speaker 3: It just because of the logistics of fight and everything
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  Speaker 3: that we would build, people in Prentish and then living
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  Speaker 3: in all those things. We'll get married, have a prep
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  Speaker 3: ceremonial family and then we'll do dark together the ring
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  Speaker 3: in the spring next next spring. And uh it sounds
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  Speaker 3: like we've you know, picked a venue and and she's
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  Speaker 3: excited about it. Yeah, so I think that'll be the
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  Speaker 3: fun part where we get to celebrated with friends. But
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  Speaker 3: we also it takes a little bit of stress out
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  Speaker 3: of the whole the planning process. It doesn't put as
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  Speaker 3: much you know, anxiety and suspense on that planning process.
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  Speaker 3: When you're like, well, we're legally legally getting married, have
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  Speaker 3: a private ceremony and do more of a large celebration
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  Speaker 3: later in the spring when everything's right.
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  Speaker 4: Are you ready to be a married man?
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  Speaker 3: I'm so ready to be a married man, ready to
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  Speaker 3: be a dad, a married man. I'm just I'm just
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  Speaker 3: excited about that season of light. And you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: been it's been a long time time coming. As both
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  Speaker 3: of you guys know, it's like, uh, you've you've probably
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  Speaker 3: seen it. Don't know if you've experienced that feeling yourself,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, reality TV it can kind of become
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  Speaker 3: this hamster wheel of if you want it to be,
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  Speaker 3: you can kind of continue to continue on in that
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  Speaker 3: space and your perspective too, you know, leave that world
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  Speaker 3: and say.
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  Speaker 5: I want a family, I want to I want to
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  Speaker 5: build a family.
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  Speaker 3: Is you know sometimes difficult to see and and and
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  Speaker 3: and navigate, but it's uh, it's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: But the Bachelor of franchise at the same time.
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  Speaker 3: Like there's been some great success stories, like obviously like
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  Speaker 3: Sean Catherine from.
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  Speaker 5: Way back, and like it worked for.
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  Speaker 3: Them immediately on the show and they're still happily married
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  Speaker 3: at some many you know, such a big beautiful family,
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  Speaker 3: and but for a lot of people it just becomes
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's like spin off shows and other things happening,
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  Speaker 3: and like when you when you start, you know, so.
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  Speaker 4: I'm with you.
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  Speaker 2: And as soon as you make that decision, it isn't easy, Rachel,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you can relate with this at all.
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's gonna say, tell me more, I'm still on
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: the hamster.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: It's a hard decision to kind of divorce yourself from
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: the separate yourself from. But once you do, yeah, uh,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: it's it's so good. There's a lot of peace to it.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: And then the show becomes this amazing chapter of your
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: life and not this defining moment. It's just like a
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: really important memory and it's not this thing that you
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: have to keep.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: Up with.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: Love it is there going to be anyone from Nation
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: in attendance?
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, absolutely, Yeah, I'm excited to have.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Like I was actually just Chase McNairy just got married
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: in Colorado over the coourth of July weekend and so
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: I would say grimsmoon for that uh wedding and we
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: had a great.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: Time there and and then yeah.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I'm still really close with Chris Soles he spends a
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: lot of time. I lived in Scottsdale for a couple
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: of years. He would come down in the winter and
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: stay with me and go OFLF and whatnot. And so yeah,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's there's gonna be several people from Bachelor
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Nation there, and obviously a few people from Nashville that
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: were on the show as well.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: So I don't know how Chris Sol's is friends with everybody,
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: but he is. It's wild.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: He is at every wedding I've ever been a part of,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: and it's awesome. Yeah, I love him so much, but
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: he is friends with every single human.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: He's such a good friend. I mean he'll just show up.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Like I get a phone call on like a Friday afternoon.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I'm at the office like three pm. He's like, what's
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: dy trying to up the office. He's an Iowa. He's like, uh,
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: He's like, what are you up to? I was dismissing
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: the office. He goes, what do you wanna do for dinner?
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: I was like, He's like, I'm in the air, I'll
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: be I'll bean I'm landing in two hours, just no warning,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: just shows up and like he's just that friend. He's like,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: it's just a fun guy to hang out with and
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: then he'll stay for a month, you know.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so we have a lot of fun to get it.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: He's a good dude.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Well, Luke, we're going to be happy for you here.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Congratulations to you and Haley James on this engagement. We
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: will be following your story and kind of keeping tabs
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: on the wedding plans and the wedding date and all
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: the announcements about the wedding. But until then, from the
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: almost samous family and Rachel, myself and Ashley who is
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: texting on a thread but cannot be with us, congratulations
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: and we're so excited for your future.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Well, thank you so much.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: And I also want to tell Ashley and Jerry congrats
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: on the new edition that their family and that's beautiful,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: beautiful kids love to meet him someday.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we are.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: We are anxiously waiting here for her return so she
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: can give us the whole rundown and all the details.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: But we haven't got it yet, and so we're waiting
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: here to give her a big congratulations.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: But it's a big deal.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Again, another success story from the show. Like you said,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Jared and Ashley just making babies and I love it,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: keeping the fire alive until next time.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: I've been Ben and I'm Rachel and that was Luke.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Thanks for joining us, Luke, thank you guys.
• 19:10
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• 19:13
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