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Almost Famous OG: Short & Sweet in Paradise with Jack Lencioni · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the almost famous podcast with iHeartRadio. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the almost Famous OG podcast.
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Speaker 2: I am Bob Guiney, of course without Trista Seutter Nate
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Speaker 2: Wren on this particular interview. But I am so excited
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Speaker 2: because I have a guy here who is super funny
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Speaker 2: on The Golden Bachelorette, someone we got to see on
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Speaker 2: this season of Bacheline Paradise as well, and I can't
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Speaker 2: wait to find out what he has been up to since.
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Speaker 1: Leaving the beach. So please join me and welcoming Jack Lindcyoni.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for being here.
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Speaker 3: Jack, Hey, thanks for having me. It's it's a pleasure
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Speaker 3: to be here.
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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely you are. You are a fun guy.
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Speaker 2: The energy you bring is just contagious and I can
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Speaker 2: tell you as a viewer, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much. You know what, I hit
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Speaker 3: a ball on the show. I didn't. I didn't hang.
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Speaker 4: Around as long as I wanted to. But stuff happens,
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Speaker 4: you know, it does happen.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it does. And speaking of which, I mean, let's
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Speaker 1: get right into it, right.
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Speaker 2: I think one of the things that happened on there,
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Speaker 2: what was going through your mind when you decided, you
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Speaker 2: know what shoot or shoot, and I'm shooting my shot.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go kiss April.
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Speaker 2: Because one of the things that I loved was, you know,
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Speaker 2: when we kind of cut away from the romantic interlude
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Speaker 2: and you're like, hey, I threw some tongue.
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Speaker 1: I went for it. What were your thoughts on that?
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Speaker 1: And what were you thinking in the moment.
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Speaker 4: I thought it was like fourth down and inches and
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Speaker 4: I just had to go for it. And I mean
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Speaker 4: that was it was like, oh my god. I mean,
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Speaker 4: I don't want to go home yet, so I thought,
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Speaker 4: you know, a kiss from me would do it.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 2: I mean, watching your technique, it seems like you're pretty
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Speaker 2: experience in that department.
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Speaker 4: I'm old, so a lot of experience.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I do. It was awesome.
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Speaker 1: I loved it.
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Speaker 3: I love it.
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Speaker 2: I loved your candor. Though you're like, hey, I threw
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Speaker 2: some tongue on there. What the hell, let's see what happens?
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Speaker 1: Were you shocked?
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Speaker 5: You know?
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Speaker 1: Afterwards? That night?
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Speaker 2: And and I mean here, you kissed her, you obviously
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Speaker 2: felt a connection with her, and uh and and then
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Speaker 2: April went and did the unthinkable, right, She she gave
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Speaker 2: young Buck Jonathan her rose, and that.
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Speaker 1: Ultimately resulted in sending you a two other goldens home.
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Speaker 4: You know, ten minutes before she told me she was
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Speaker 4: giving me the rows. So I thought I was good.
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Speaker 4: You know, I saw I'm sitting there, going my god,
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Speaker 4: now I gotta go home, I said, because this lady
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Speaker 4: goes and does this. And then she said, it's sick
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Speaker 4: Cappy that actually started all these problems. And she knows
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Speaker 4: she didn't want me on the show for some reason.
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Speaker 4: Before I even got there, she was lobbying for me
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Speaker 4: not to go because she said I was dating Christina,
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Speaker 4: and I saw Christine in my life. We never dated
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Speaker 4: at that point in time. Since then, I've seen her
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Speaker 4: a few times and it's a beautiful thing. Yeah, no date,
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Speaker 4: no nothing at that time. But this lady Cathy, you
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Speaker 4: know that she was gonna stir some trouble and uh
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Speaker 4: and she did so. So I ended up going home,
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Speaker 4: and you know what, again, I had a ball.
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Speaker 3: I don't care. I mean, yeah, I cared a little
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Speaker 3: bit at that time.
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Speaker 4: Right, you spend all my time getting up there, and
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Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, what the hell, by bye, oh.
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Speaker 1: My god, what do you think? So?
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Speaker 2: So, Kathy obviously is a great friend of the show
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Speaker 2: we love her, But do you think maybe you're you know,
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Speaker 2: the conversations everyone had about you and Susan being you know,
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Speaker 2: you guys should be a couple and all that kind
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Speaker 2: of stuff, did that make it so that Kathy maybe
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Speaker 2: was like, you know, oh, well, you know, if he
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Speaker 2: and Susan would have gotten together. You know, I'm the
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Speaker 2: best friend, so he maybe he can't be here, you know,
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Speaker 2: too many cooks in the kitchen, so to speak. Is
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Speaker 2: that do you think there's anything to do with that
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Speaker 2: or was it all about Christine?
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Speaker 4: I have no idea what it was about. To tell
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Speaker 4: you the truth, I'm still confused, but that's okay. I
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Speaker 4: don't understand most things, but that one. I desolutely can't
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Speaker 4: figure that one out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it does seem interesting.
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Speaker 2: I almost like, because I was going to ask you if,
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Speaker 2: you know, if maybe because of Susan and Cathy's friendship,
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Speaker 2: if if she was kind of off.
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Speaker 1: Limits to you when you went to the beach. But
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Speaker 1: it sounds like she was.
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Speaker 2: She was off limits to you because she she didn't
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Speaker 2: want you there in the first place.
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Speaker 4: She didn't want me there, and I guarantee you she
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Speaker 4: wouldn't have been my choice.
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Speaker 3: It's just it's just my opinion, you know.
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Speaker 1: I mean.
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Speaker 3: It's uh, again, it was a strange thing.
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Speaker 4: But again, Costa Rica was beautiful and I was fortunate
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Speaker 4: enough to go, so you know what.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and how and how long?
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Speaker 2: I mean I don't know if you can even tell
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Speaker 2: us that's part, but how long were you actually there
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Speaker 2: in Costa Rica? Because I mean, obviously the way it
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Speaker 2: looks like to us, right, you get there and then
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Speaker 2: shortly there after you're going home.
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Speaker 1: I mean, did you get a couple of days out
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Speaker 1: of it at least that beautiful weather?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? About a week? I think it may be a
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Speaker 3: little bit more.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's awesome.
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Speaker 4: I can't actually help remember it was Yeah, it was
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Speaker 4: just then an out type thing, you know, so, but yeah,
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Speaker 4: it was cool.
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Speaker 1: Well, I you know, this was such an interesting season, right.
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Speaker 2: It's the first time ever that we've had, you know,
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Speaker 2: the the Young'ins and the Goldens on the same show,
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Speaker 2: on the same beach, right, and so there was a
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Speaker 2: lot of curiosity surrounding that.
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Speaker 1: A lot of things that were going on.
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Speaker 2: You know, were you in particular, like did you find
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Speaker 2: anybody that you really hit it off with?
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Speaker 1: And you decide you know, I could be friends with
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Speaker 1: this person.
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Speaker 2: Was there was there anyone like that that you found
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Speaker 2: on the beach that that you were able to like
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Speaker 2: have some instant camaraderie with.
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Speaker 4: My buddies from the show, you know, I mean, you
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Speaker 4: know you guys, But to tell you the truth, the
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Speaker 4: women I didn't. You know, Natalie was nice, Leslie was nice,
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Speaker 4: but Leslie was kind of hooked up with Gary at
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Speaker 4: the time, So it was like, you know, and I'm
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Speaker 4: not one of them gonna go and like I'm going
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Speaker 4: to hit on her a lot, you know, and try
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Speaker 4: to steal it. And I guess that's part of the
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Speaker 4: show I did not understand.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is the can I borrow you for a minute?
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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, right, that's funny.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'll be honest that that is a tough one.
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Speaker 2: And I and I get it because you know, before
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Speaker 2: I was the Bachelor guy, I was on trist this
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Speaker 2: season of The Bachelorette, and I remember it was tough
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Speaker 2: for me to do that too. You know, She'd be
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Speaker 2: talking with one of my buddies and I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to go over in there like saddle my way in.
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Speaker 2: So I I totally understand and appreciate that. I think
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Speaker 2: that's that's just kind of It's one of those things
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Speaker 2: that either you got that that kind of move in
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Speaker 2: you or you don't. It sounds like neither you were
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Speaker 2: me had that moving us. So I think we're kindred right,
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Speaker 2: or we're kindred spirits in that regard.
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Speaker 3: I agree with you. And it's so funny.
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Speaker 4: The guy that I didn't think would do something like
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Speaker 4: that tried to move in on the stuff.
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Speaker 3: Right in front of me was Kim.
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Speaker 4: So oh, Kim comes over and starts inside her bent
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Speaker 4: right what that meant matter?
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Speaker 3: And it's like, you know, there in the the excited
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Speaker 3: you there taking him out back and kick his ass.
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Speaker 3: But the East Side Chicago. So again this is part
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Speaker 3: of the show, you know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, well, you know what I thought was
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Speaker 2: kind of cool. And I've gotten to know a lot
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Speaker 2: of you guys from the Golden Season. I really appreciate,
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Speaker 2: you know, the energy, like I said, that you all
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Speaker 2: bring to the whole franchise. Frankly, in my opinion, it
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Speaker 2: was long overdo and it's been really spectacular. But in
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Speaker 2: watching the season, it seemed like the Goldens came to
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Speaker 2: party like the goldens are rolling in there.
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Speaker 1: You guys are just coming in to have a great time.
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Speaker 2: You have body shots going on, You're telling great stories
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Speaker 2: and awesome secrets. Do you think the younger Paradise people, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, if they had a chance, what do you
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Speaker 2: think are some things they could learn from you guys?
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Speaker 3: Patience?
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Speaker 2: You know?
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Speaker 4: I mean there was nobody in any urgency until that
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Speaker 4: last day about any bros or anything, because we were
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Speaker 4: all just enjoying each other's company and everything.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So I know your time on the show is a
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Speaker 2: little short lived and obviously much shorter than you or
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Speaker 2: or us watching at home would have wanted it to be.
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Speaker 1: But let me ask you this.
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Speaker 2: So you get home and then you find out about
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Speaker 2: the money element, right, the cash prize? Was it something?
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Speaker 2: Was that? Were you upset about that? Were you upset
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Speaker 2: that you didn't hear about it beforehand? And it would
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Speaker 2: have affected how you handled any of those moments.
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Speaker 1: You had while you were there on the beach? Would
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Speaker 1: it change anything?
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Speaker 4: It's funny you asked that question because I was talking
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Speaker 4: with some people and I said, you know what turned
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Speaker 4: into a game show at the end, Nicess and it
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Speaker 4: was like a fifty Grand Prize.
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Speaker 3: I think, and thank you well, David, he says, and
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Speaker 3: you didn't go for I. I don't know if I
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Speaker 3: would have done anything different, but it's a great idea.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, hindsight's twenty twenty, right, everybody's an armchair
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Speaker 2: quarterback said, oh, I would have done this. And I wondered,
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Speaker 2: you know, just a standpoint of the fact that it
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Speaker 2: wasn't even introduced while you were there. If if that
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Speaker 2: was you know, a bummer, or if you were kind
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Speaker 2: of like, you know, hey, man, if I would have
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Speaker 2: just made it one more day, perhaps I would have
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Speaker 2: heard about it, you know, or whatever. I was curious
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Speaker 2: about that. But it sounds like you wouldn't You wouldn't
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Speaker 2: have changed anything, you know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't have changed anything. And you know, again,
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Speaker 3: who gets to do this at my age?
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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, hey, I'm going to close three,
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Speaker 4: going I gotta be ANPV show.
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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: It's pretty cool, right, I mean, I think it's interesting people.
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Speaker 2: You know, I think people take it for granted when
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Speaker 2: they're in the moment. And that's one of the things,
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Speaker 2: you know, as I've gotten to know a lot of
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Speaker 2: you folks from the Golden Season, Golden Seasons. I should
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Speaker 2: say I have appreciated the fact that you all are
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Speaker 2: just living in the moment. You're enjoying it, You're you're
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Speaker 2: having fun with it, and you know that that high
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Speaker 2: that perspective that you have with respect to everything else
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Speaker 2: you've lived your life doing. It's like, you know, this
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Speaker 2: is this is just another awesome moment, right, just another
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Speaker 2: another bucket list thing.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I got to do the TV show in Costa Rica.
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Speaker 2: You know, who's who's gonna ever think that would happen
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Speaker 2: in their lives And it's so cool that you guys
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Speaker 2: appreciate that and appreciate the moment.
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Speaker 4: Exactly, But couldn't have hit it on my bucket list.
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Speaker 4: Has never even dreamed of doing it, you know exactly.
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Speaker 4: It wasn't even like a thought. And then all of
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Speaker 4: a sudden, you know, I'm on the one thing and
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Speaker 4: next thing. I remember one of the weirdest times was
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Speaker 4: when they sent me to Dancing with the Stars and
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Speaker 4: I was like sitting right next to everybody and there's
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Speaker 4: cameras going off everywhere, and I'm sitting here and I'm going,
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Speaker 4: oh my god, how in the hell did I get here?
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Speaker 4: I mean last year I was watching Dancing and the
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Speaker 4: Stars for my living.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's just really really cool.
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Speaker 1: I had.
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Speaker 2: I had one of those moments too, back when I
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Speaker 2: was when I was after I was the Bachelor, and
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Speaker 2: I remember sitting there, I was, I was on Oprah.
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Speaker 1: I was on Oprah.
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Speaker 2: I was on Oprah Show, and I was cooking with
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Speaker 2: her chef and I and I had the exact same moment.
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Speaker 2: I was like, I kind of just looked around and
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Speaker 2: soaked it in for a second because I, you know,
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Speaker 2: it was how.
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Speaker 1: I was going to last. And I was like, this
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Speaker 1: is just so fun.
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Speaker 2: And I would have never thought I'd be hanging out
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Speaker 2: with Oprah cooking with her chef.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's like just bananas.
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Speaker 2: So I think that's so cool that you did that,
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Speaker 2: because I can tell you that's one of those moments
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Speaker 2: in retrospect, I was thankful that I had that moment too,
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Speaker 2: you know, yeah, it was.
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Speaker 3: It was great.
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Speaker 4: And that night we went out for dinner and she
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Speaker 4: was there from the Dancing with the Stars.
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Speaker 3: Was really cool.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but yeah, all of this stuff is just like amazing,
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Speaker 4: and and.
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Speaker 3: You know, it could end.
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Speaker 4: It could have ended it Parabra and it's still could
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Speaker 4: and you know, if it did, I had a hell
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Speaker 4: of a time, So it.
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't have been wouldn't have been bad to have a
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Speaker 2: hell of a time and win half a million bucks though, right,
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Speaker 2: I mean that could have been a cool moment too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that would have been really cool.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, heck yeah, I wouldn't. I want to complained about
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Speaker 1: that at all.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I know that, you know, I'm sure
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Speaker 2: you're still watching all your friends on the show, and
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Speaker 2: you know you're kind of you're kind of seeing it
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Speaker 2: all play.
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Speaker 1: Who are you rooting for? Who? Who are you rooting for?
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Speaker 2: Now that you're kind of at home now back on
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Speaker 2: that same couch you were watching Dancing on Now you're
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Speaker 2: watching your buddies and the paradise, you know, anybody that
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Speaker 2: you're watching, You're thinking this is going to happen. I'm
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Speaker 2: excited for them, you know.
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Speaker 4: I would I would say for Teeth, but he's got
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Speaker 4: campy and I don't really.
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Speaker 3: Care for her, I would say, you know, or I
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Speaker 3: would say faith with.
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Speaker 4: Captain, but camptains and paint in the next sometimes, so
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Speaker 4: I can't say I'm.
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Speaker 3: Rooting for them. So as far as who I root for,
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I mean, for through who's left, it's I kind of
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Speaker 4: like the ones.
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Speaker 3: That they send home.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course I get it. I get it.
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Speaker 2: What about like any of the young the young bucks,
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Speaker 2: like anybody you did you find yourself?
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 2: I know, like obviously I know Jonathan got that rose
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Speaker 2: and sent you all and send up bout a bunch
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Speaker 2: of home, which which which was unfortunate. But did you
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Speaker 2: get a chance to hang out with him? Did you
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Speaker 2: get a chance to hang out with you.
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Speaker 3: Know, yes, Jonathan the great guy.
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Speaker 4: I you know, I ran into Jonathan a lot of
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Speaker 4: different affairs, and I just think he's a fantastic On
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Speaker 4: the way out, I went and I said something, Hey,
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Speaker 4: I thought you were my buddy.
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Speaker 3: Here's something you don't like that? He said, Jack, I'm
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Speaker 3: going I'm just screwing around you.
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Speaker 1: You looked as shocked as anybody in that what you know?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think a couple of the couples
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Speaker 2: on there that are interesting and you probably got to
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Speaker 2: know them way better than than I know I have.
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Speaker 1: I don't know any of them would be like.
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Speaker 2: Jason, Spencer, Kat and Dale, any of them kind of
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Speaker 2: like jumping out at you as people that you think
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Speaker 2: potentially could kind of move on to the next step,
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Speaker 2: like maybe we get a little, a little paradise engagement.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 4: No, Andrew, I liked him, you know, a lot, and uh,
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Speaker 4: and and I thought that they were really a good couple, and.
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Speaker 3: All of them were good dudes.
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Speaker 4: They were all good dudes. And they I never had
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Speaker 4: a when I was their age.
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Speaker 1: God, they didn't.
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Speaker 2: Make him like that when we were their age, buddy,
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Speaker 2: I don't think they existed.
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Speaker 3: I think that guys concentrate on it's still twenty four
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Speaker 3: hours a day telling you.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, yeah, when they didn't even have six
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Speaker 2: packs available when I was the Bachelor. So it's not
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Speaker 2: even right. It's not even fair. Now now it seems
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Speaker 2: like everybody just is born with them. I don't know
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Speaker 2: where the heck that comes from, but man, I've been
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Speaker 2: trying for a long time. I still walk around with
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Speaker 2: a one pack and it doesn't seem to be doing anything.
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Speaker 1: Hey, So a couple of questions for you.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, now right we're rolling into the next season of
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Speaker 2: The Golden Bachelor, and that's coming up, and everyone's of
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Speaker 2: course heard about you know, mel Owens, who's going to
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Speaker 2: be the new Golden Bachelor, and in some comments he made,
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Speaker 2: you know ahead of filming, and he recently publicly apologized
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Speaker 2: for those comments. And so I want to and I'm
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Speaker 2: sure you've been asked this question many times, so I'm
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Speaker 2: not gonna ask it. I'd rather ask you this, what
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Speaker 2: do you think Mel has to look forward to when
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Speaker 2: it comes to dating women sixty plus versus younger? It like,
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Speaker 2: what do you what do you think he can look
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Speaker 2: forward to with with having that opportunity?
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Speaker 4: You know, the only thing is is that you know,
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Speaker 4: I've dated a lot of women that were younger than me,
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Speaker 4: and I've dated a lot of women that were older
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Speaker 4: than me. And tell you the truth, I never asked
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Speaker 4: the age, and I really didn't care what they're age.
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Speaker 4: If they were nice, nice is my first prerequisite. Sure
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Speaker 4: you know after that, you know, pretty is nice, you know,
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Speaker 4: if they can have the nice with it.
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Speaker 3: But no, you got it, that's that's what you got.
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Speaker 1: Well, Kindness is free, right, it's easy, right. I tell
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Speaker 1: my boys.
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Speaker 2: I have two young sons, and I always tell them
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Speaker 2: like it takes you know, it takes more muscles to
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Speaker 2: frown than it does to smile, and if you being
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Speaker 2: nice to someone makes their day a little bit better,
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Speaker 2: aren't you going to feel good about yourself? And they're like, yeah,
15:46
Speaker 2: I go, then let's do that. Let's make people laugh
15:48
Speaker 2: instead of making them cry. Let's just have a good time.
15:50
Speaker 2: And you obviously carry that energy with you. You can tell
15:53
Speaker 2: you know, you're just you roll into the party and
15:55
Speaker 2: it's like between you and Keith, and I love Keith.
15:58
Speaker 2: I'm always like, which one of these guys is gonna
15:59
Speaker 2: make left first? Because they're both going to be funny.
16:02
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we were in Vegas, you know, a couple
16:05
Speaker 4: of weeks ago, we were all in Vegas, the sixteen guys.
16:10
Speaker 4: You talk about a comical trip. Oh that was fun funny.
16:14
Speaker 2: I was actually gonna ask you about that because I
16:16
Speaker 2: saw some of the stuff on Instagram and everything else.
16:18
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you, you know, if you if
16:19
Speaker 2: you had a chance to sum that trip up in
16:21
Speaker 2: a couple of words, you know, how how would you
16:23
Speaker 2: sum that up?
16:24
Speaker 3: A lot of fun?
16:26
Speaker 4: Yes, we get off fun, and the camaraderie actually built more.
16:30
Speaker 3: Because you know here we are. I don't know, you know,
16:33
Speaker 3: we got that well.
16:35
Speaker 4: We drank together quite a bit, which was always fun,
16:38
Speaker 4: and we went to the pool and there were you know,
16:42
Speaker 4: bikinis at the pool, so we were enjoying everything at
16:45
Speaker 4: the pool. It was, uh, it was a very nice time.
16:50
Speaker 4: Not only there, so.
16:52
Speaker 5: A lot of the ladies and those bikinis recognized us
16:56
Speaker 5: in one of the com pictures and yeah, we did
16:59
Speaker 5: a lot of oh hell yes, yeah.
17:03
Speaker 2: Again, it doesn't take it doesn't cost anything for you
17:05
Speaker 2: guys to if they're fans of the show and they
17:07
Speaker 2: want to get a picture. I think it's really great
17:09
Speaker 2: that you're like, I'm never too busy to that stuff,
17:11
Speaker 2: even now twenty some years later.
17:13
Speaker 1: So someone asked me for a photo, I'm like, sure.
17:15
Speaker 2: You know, I've often loved the whole mansion men. You know,
17:29
Speaker 2: concepts you guys got going on, and I enjoy that.
17:32
Speaker 2: So just to give you an idea, you know, when
17:34
Speaker 2: we did the First Bachelorette, which is again twenty two
17:37
Speaker 2: years ago with Trista, all of us on that season,
17:40
Speaker 2: we were really and still are good friends, like we
17:43
Speaker 2: became buddies. There was no animosity. We were rooting for
17:46
Speaker 2: each other. We realized it wasn't that she you know,
17:49
Speaker 2: that anything we were going to do was gonna make
17:51
Speaker 2: or choose us over a guy that we just became
17:54
Speaker 2: friends with, and so we all decided we were gonna
17:55
Speaker 2: be friends regardless.
17:56
Speaker 1: And I told a lot of the guys. I told
17:58
Speaker 1: Gary this, I told Keith this.
18:00
Speaker 2: I loved seeing you guys have that same type of
18:03
Speaker 2: camaraderie and friendship and it made me feel like.
18:06
Speaker 1: Man, they got it.
18:08
Speaker 2: You know, people got to see that that season, which
18:10
Speaker 2: was with you know, with Twista, and that's twenty some
18:11
Speaker 2: years ago, was a hugely successful season and it resulted
18:15
Speaker 2: in a in a in a in a successful marriage
18:17
Speaker 2: and family. And it's like and then you guys come
18:20
Speaker 2: along and and bring that same energy back to the
18:23
Speaker 2: television screen. And I think people missed it, and I
18:25
Speaker 2: think it's it really is something that resonates, you know.
18:28
Speaker 1: I mean I see some of these people from the shows.
18:30
Speaker 2: And and they you know, went in there with a
18:33
Speaker 2: different type of attitude and they don't get the same
18:35
Speaker 2: response that you guys get everywhere you all go, which
18:37
Speaker 2: I think is really awesome to say it.
18:39
Speaker 3: Really, I tell you what, it was amazing.
18:42
Speaker 4: It was just walking down the street people, because there's
18:46
Speaker 4: there were like fifteen of us walking down the street
18:48
Speaker 4: looked like all of the Over the Hill game Zero
18:52
Speaker 4: again and Mary are walking down the street, you know,
18:57
Speaker 4: for people stopping us along the way, which was really cool.
19:01
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, it's it really is kind of a
19:04
Speaker 2: cool thing to see, you know, the attention that you're
19:06
Speaker 2: all getting, and truthfully, the way these y'all are handling it,
19:10
Speaker 2: which I think is really great.
19:11
Speaker 1: I love that you're having a good time with this.
19:12
Speaker 2: It's one of those things, right, It's it's like I
19:14
Speaker 2: used to always say to people, I go, hey, man,
19:16
Speaker 2: just because you're on a show like this, it doesn't
19:17
Speaker 2: mean you're Ben Affleck.
19:18
Speaker 1: Right.
19:19
Speaker 2: You go on this show and you're still the same
19:21
Speaker 2: person when you come off. So it's either going to
19:23
Speaker 2: magnify how nice a person you are or is going
19:26
Speaker 2: to take it in to the other direction. And I've
19:27
Speaker 2: loved seeing everyone, you know, with the kindness and and everything.
19:31
Speaker 2: I just need you to know that I appreciate it
19:33
Speaker 2: so and I love your sense of humor. I love
19:35
Speaker 2: the way you've handled this thing. Now let me ask
19:37
Speaker 2: you this. So obviously you know Mel's going to be
19:39
Speaker 2: in the seat with the Golden Bachelor, and if there
19:43
Speaker 2: were to be an opportunity for someone from the Golden
19:46
Speaker 2: Bachelorette or I'm sorry for the Golden Bachelor previous season
19:50
Speaker 2: that we know, anybody that you could see step into
19:52
Speaker 2: that role and be in the next Golden Bachelorette.
19:55
Speaker 4: I think Nancy is very nice, you know, Christina's very nice.
19:58
Speaker 1: They're all, you know.
20:00
Speaker 3: I can't I can't pick one over the other right
20:03
Speaker 3: this second.
20:03
Speaker 2: No, I hear you, But I mean, maybe, just maybe
20:06
Speaker 2: you really wouldn't want to be Christina though, because you know,
20:10
Speaker 2: I mean maybe you guys are kind of hanging out,
20:12
Speaker 2: you know, spending some time.
20:13
Speaker 3: We are some time and she lives in California. I
20:17
Speaker 3: live in Chicago.
20:18
Speaker 1: There you go, There you go. I hear you.
20:20
Speaker 2: Well, listen, last thing I wanted to talk to you about.
20:22
Speaker 2: So Chttgo obviously is a great restaurant town. And I
20:25
Speaker 2: know you're a retired cater and a retired chef. So
20:28
Speaker 2: I'm curious when you when you roll through Vegas with
20:31
Speaker 2: your boys with the mansion men, Any's what's the place
20:34
Speaker 2: you want to hit up? Because obviously Vegas is you know.
20:37
Speaker 2: First of all, I live in Detroit, and Detroit has
20:39
Speaker 2: become a top spot for a lot of the top
20:42
Speaker 2: chefs in the country. You want to open up spots,
20:43
Speaker 2: which you know, back in the day it wasn't the case, right,
20:45
Speaker 2: you'd have to go to Chicago to get a great restaurant.
20:47
Speaker 1: Now you can get it here in Detroit.
20:49
Speaker 2: But any place in Vegas when you guys are out there,
20:51
Speaker 2: are you kind of the guy that helps steer the ship?
20:53
Speaker 1: Okay, we're going to go to this restaurant.
20:55
Speaker 2: Trust me that I know some people at this spot
20:56
Speaker 2: like are you are you still connected or if not,
20:59
Speaker 2: are you still so one who's really you know, mindful
21:02
Speaker 2: of where you're going to be eating and you know
21:03
Speaker 2: all the hotspots.
21:05
Speaker 3: Well, I know Vegas very well. And the best restaurant
21:07
Speaker 3: in my opinion in Vegas is Joe's Joe's Seafood Stone Crab.
21:12
Speaker 3: It's inside caes There's fabulous. Actually, my oldest brother designed
21:16
Speaker 3: it and he was the architect. Yes, and he does
21:20
Speaker 3: the Joe's and different things. But yeah, yeah, we went
21:26
Speaker 3: to Joe's. The food was phenomenal.
21:28
Speaker 4: I mean it was it was really really good.
21:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to trust your palette, right, I mean
21:33
Speaker 2: I would think if it comes down to a restaurant selection,
21:36
Speaker 2: I'd be like, Okay, you're a chef.
21:39
Speaker 1: Where are we eating tonight?
21:40
Speaker 2: And I'd be so excited to go because I know
21:41
Speaker 2: I would just know you would have it dialed.
21:45
Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's so funny when you said retired,
21:48
Speaker 4: because I was retired and when I got back, they
21:52
Speaker 4: had a problem with my Italian club. They have a
21:54
Speaker 4: thousand sea banquet hall. Well it turns out that I
21:57
Speaker 4: said I'd help him out for six months, you know,
22:00
Speaker 4: as far as Wow, so nice. So tomorrow at Arrest
22:04
Speaker 4: local restaurant, the White Rhino, I'm doing a cooking demonstration
22:08
Speaker 4: for about fifty people.
22:10
Speaker 3: I got a wedding.
22:11
Speaker 4: Wedding on Friday, it might bank, but haul in the
22:14
Speaker 4: funeral lunch and on Saturday.
22:15
Speaker 3: It's like, all of a sudden for a couple of months.
22:22
Speaker 3: That's it.
22:23
Speaker 1: You know what though, isn't it?
22:24
Speaker 2: Isn't that the beauty of it when you're when you
22:26
Speaker 2: when you have kind of stepped aside to a certain degree.
22:29
Speaker 2: If you want to dabble, you can dabble, but you
22:30
Speaker 2: don't have to, you know, stay in it for longer
22:33
Speaker 2: than you want to.
22:33
Speaker 3: So for you, I make the rules now, which is
22:37
Speaker 3: kind of that's right.
22:38
Speaker 1: Keeping your chops sharp right keeping that saw sharp. I
22:41
Speaker 1: think that's a great move.
22:42
Speaker 3: Yep, yep. I'm having a lot of fun with dead
22:45
Speaker 3: too well.
22:46
Speaker 2: Jack Man, I I pretty much think you probably have
22:48
Speaker 2: a lot of fun with everything you do. Man, But
22:49
Speaker 2: thank you so much for being a part of this
22:52
Speaker 2: with us, and thanks for sharing, you know, your story
22:54
Speaker 2: with us and and being willing to open up about
22:56
Speaker 2: all the good times you've been having and continued success
22:59
Speaker 2: with everything you're doing. And I feel like, you know,
23:02
Speaker 2: I feel like love could be in the air for
23:03
Speaker 2: you again.
23:03
Speaker 3: Jack.
23:04
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just saying, you know.
23:08
Speaker 3: I'm always always looking so amen, take care of now
23:15
Speaker 3: you two.
23:15
Speaker 1: Jack.
23:15
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us. There you go, everybody,
23:18
Speaker 2: Jack LENCIONI.
23:19
Speaker 1: Here, I'm almost Famous the Ogs.
23:21
Speaker 2: What a great guy and what a whole bunch of
23:23
Speaker 2: fun it was to have him on the call and
23:25
Speaker 2: get a chance to talk to you. We get to
23:26
Speaker 2: know him a little bit better. So thank you all
23:28
Speaker 2: for tuning in. It's been another great episode. Almost Famous
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Speaker 2: to Ogs. We'll see you next time.