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Almost Famous In Depth: Matt James · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous in Depth.
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Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the Almost Famous podcast. We have
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Speaker 1: another mini in depth today and man, are we excited
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Speaker 1: to have the man of the hour Matt James joining
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Speaker 1: us and my husband Jared will be filling in for
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Speaker 1: Ben and then couldn't be here. I'm like, plan, I'm
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Speaker 1: honored to be planned b behind Ben. I feel like
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Speaker 1: I'm playing j um Well Matt. Jared has been fan
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Speaker 1: boying over you for the past five weeks now, so
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Speaker 1: I thought that he would be the perfect person to
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Speaker 1: come because like he literally he like gets smiley watching
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Speaker 1: He's like, man, this guy, this guy got it. Dude.
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Speaker 1: You just got like great vibes about you. You know,
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Speaker 1: like you're authentic, You're You're endearing. I think that's your
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Speaker 1: best quality. You're so endearing. I love Ashley and I
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Speaker 1: were talking about before the season about how you weren't
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Speaker 1: a part of the franchise beforehand, and I feel like
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Speaker 1: I love that now because watching you go through this
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Speaker 1: process for the first time along with the women, I
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Speaker 1: feel like creates a bond between you and your girls
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Speaker 1: that previous leads haven't had. Yeah, I feel that I
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Speaker 1: feel thank you, Jared, I, Um, there there was times
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Speaker 1: where I was I would tell the women, I'm like, listen,
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Speaker 1: like it might look like I don't know what I'm
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Speaker 1: doing because I don't like I'm figuring this out like
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Speaker 1: y'all are, and and and being able to bond on
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Speaker 1: that was nice just because I felt like they didn't
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Speaker 1: feel as much of outsiders as as someone might have
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Speaker 1: if someone had been in their shoes and been on
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Speaker 1: the other side. And I was just dealing with everything
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Speaker 1: that came up like any normal person would if if
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Speaker 1: they were thrown into the Phrakes. So uh, Ashley saw
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Speaker 1: that during our our love story reading that you know,
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Speaker 1: that's I don't think that's something that you can prepare for,
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Speaker 1: regardless of that you've been on the show or not.
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Speaker 1: So uh, it was. It's been a lot of fun here.
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Speaker 1: Were there any instances where you were like, oh man,
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Speaker 1: it would have been very helpful to have had more experience. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'll say that for the rose ceremony, Like the rose
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Speaker 1: ceremony is the most daunting thing for me, Like I
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Speaker 1: I get short of breath because it's just like I'm
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Speaker 1: sending women home for the most part, who are incredible
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Speaker 1: women who I could see myself with, but there's only
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Speaker 1: one one ring at the end of it. It's like,
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Speaker 1: how do I tell you that you're not my person
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Speaker 1: without like crushing you? And there really isn't a way
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Speaker 1: to do it, and that was that was tough. Um.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that there would have been a way
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Speaker 1: to prepare for that. We're talking about how endearing you are.
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Speaker 1: I think one of the most endearing qualities is that, like,
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Speaker 1: you have all the elements in which you could be
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Speaker 1: like a total player, but you don't have a player
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Speaker 1: bone in your body. And even the producers when they
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Speaker 1: were telling me about you beforehand, they're like, I think
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Speaker 1: this guy is far more innocent in relationships and dating
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Speaker 1: than we thought he'd be. I think you need to
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Speaker 1: be smooth to have that, and I don't have it.
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Speaker 1: You know. It's like, uh, I just I just try
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Speaker 1: to act as normal as possible, and it's hard when
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Speaker 1: like things are happening that are are not normal. But
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Speaker 1: I think that I doubled down on just how I
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Speaker 1: was raised and and the conversations I had with Wells
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Speaker 1: and Ben and Sean Low before the fact, so that
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Speaker 1: I would have some sort of idea of how they
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Speaker 1: handled it, and um, the short answer is im perfect.
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Speaker 1: It's an imperfect process for for everybody knows you've got
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Speaker 1: to find how it works for you. There's no one
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Speaker 1: on the right way to do. Everyone has their own
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Speaker 1: way of figuring it out. What was the best piece
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Speaker 1: of advice one of those guys gave you. I think
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Speaker 1: the best advice I got was just it's so basic,
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Speaker 1: h Tyler is just like you know where your feet are,
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Speaker 1: and that's just like basically saying, be yourself. And there
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Speaker 1: would be conversations that I'd be in where someone would
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Speaker 1: pose a question and I'm just thinking of my head, like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: how could I give the most articulate, like poetic, thoughtful answer,
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Speaker 1: But like I don't have that, you know, and like
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Speaker 1: all I have is like my lived experiences and like
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Speaker 1: who I am as a person. So my answers were
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Speaker 1: just candid, and it's like it might not have been
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Speaker 1: what they were looking for, but it was what they
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Speaker 1: needed to hear through. Tyler. You struck up a relationship
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Speaker 1: a friendship with Hannah Brown. Did you ask her for advice?
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Speaker 1: And what's the status of your friendship now? Hannah is
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Speaker 1: my girl? I I talked to hand on a regular basis.
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Speaker 1: I actually met her her new boyfriend, who's incredible and
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Speaker 1: thanks for spilling the tanks for giving some confirmation there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's he's awesome and and she's happy and she deserves
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Speaker 1: to be happy. And the questions that I was asking
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Speaker 1: her were just like what to expect? How did you
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Speaker 1: know when you were feeling something? And she was just
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Speaker 1: a sounding board and it was It meant so much
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Speaker 1: to have someone like that who's again been through it
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Speaker 1: on through the highest highs and low flads of what
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Speaker 1: uh what can come with with putting yourself out there?
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Speaker 1: And uh, it made me more equipped for what I
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Speaker 1: was bound to handle. Did she at all suggests that
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Speaker 1: Heather Morris come on the show? I don't know. No, wait,
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Speaker 1: we're not gonna. I think I'm talking about the girl
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Speaker 1: from Glen Alright, So yeah, did she have influence because
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Speaker 1: Heather and her are so close. Um, it wasn't something
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Speaker 1: I was aware of, you know, I was just a
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Speaker 1: shock when she pulled up, as everyone else was. And uh,
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Speaker 1: I think that it makes for a very interesting conversation
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Speaker 1: next week. Oh yeah, I mean it makes for great TV.
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Speaker 1: How did you how did you and Tyler become friends?
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Speaker 1: I don't even know. Wait for so so. I was
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Speaker 1: a year older than Tyler, and but Tyler graduated high
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Speaker 1: school of semester early. He was he gray shirted, so
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Speaker 1: like like instead of going into his springs uh semester
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Speaker 1: as a senior in high school, he graduated in the
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Speaker 1: fall and he came to Wake as a freshman because
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Speaker 1: he's so smart. What no, Uh, Tyler is actually very smart.
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Speaker 1: People don't give him enough credit. He was he was
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Speaker 1: He was the a CEC debate team champion. Wow. Good
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Speaker 1: for Tyler. He has the he has the hardware to
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Speaker 1: prove it. He got his masters from the f a U.
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Speaker 1: He's he's sharp. But but no, I was walking it
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Speaker 1: to his dorm and I saw him walking in with
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Speaker 1: all the stuff. I introduced myself and like, yo, you
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Speaker 1: must be the new QB because he's he's huge. He's
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Speaker 1: like six five, like two thirty. I'm like, listen, we're
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Speaker 1: going on a trip to South Carolina. I was with
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Speaker 1: like a few of other guys on the team. Never
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Speaker 1: met him in my entire life. I'm like, would you
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Speaker 1: want to join us? He's like, yeah, let me just
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Speaker 1: put my stuff down. It's just stuff down. We could
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Speaker 1: have been like anybody, gets in the car with us,
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Speaker 1: ride six hours with us down to USC and we
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Speaker 1: had one of the best weekends of our life. And
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Speaker 1: that's far our friendship. So Tyler's extremely good looking six
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Speaker 1: four quarterback, graduated high school early because he's so intelligent.
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Speaker 1: Head of the debate debate team. Yeah, screw this guy.
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Speaker 1: He's like two perfect, he's got a rescue Yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: he doesn't give himself enough credit. Yeah, he's actually really smart.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. Speaking of Tyler, did you have any issue
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Speaker 1: with him selling shirts with your naked body on it?
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Speaker 1: That was so funny that picture. I had no problem
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Speaker 1: with it because that picture brings back so many fond
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Speaker 1: memories of just spending a very tough time and in
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Speaker 1: not only our country's history, but in Tyler's life together.
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Speaker 1: That was like a like a month or so after
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Speaker 1: his mom had passed, and we were just trying to
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Speaker 1: find any way to entertain ourselves. And we freaking got
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Speaker 1: a tarp from his uh, from his shed. We put
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Speaker 1: don dish soap all over, we had the hoses running,
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Speaker 1: We had the neighborhood's biggest slipping slide everyone was it
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Speaker 1: was it was a blast, like we were just trying
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Speaker 1: to find ways to entertain ourselves. Tyler's mom was actually
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Speaker 1: the one who nominated you to be on The Bachelorette
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Speaker 1: Claire's season, Um, and then you did. You spent I'm assuming,
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Speaker 1: like just months in that quarantine crew, um, kind of
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Speaker 1: just being there for him. What was it like in
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Speaker 1: that house because on Instagram and on TikTok we see
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Speaker 1: it was just like looks like fun and games, but
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Speaker 1: I'm sure there was a lot of heavy moments as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have gone on the show if it hadn't
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Speaker 1: been for Tyler's mom, Um, And she was so adamant
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Speaker 1: about me being part of this experience because she saw
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Speaker 1: what he did for Tyler and the man that he
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Speaker 1: has continued to become into as he dealt with everything
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Speaker 1: that he did with his relationship with Hannah and going
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Speaker 1: out there and putting himself out in the open and
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Speaker 1: airing out a lot of the things that he's probably
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Speaker 1: never spoken about. And I just felt like I owed
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Speaker 1: it to her after everything that happened, to see it
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Speaker 1: through for her, And who would have thought that I
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Speaker 1: would end up in this position as the bachelor. But uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, I was out there for Claire season and
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Speaker 1: in a hotel quarantining ready to go to the mansion.
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Speaker 1: And that week everything hit the fan of the country.
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Speaker 1: The a C, the n C doul A tournament ended,
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Speaker 1: they canceled, uh, Premier League soccer. Like when I saw
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Speaker 1: these things happen, I'm like like, I'm like, how are
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Speaker 1: we gonna show with all this other stuff? And then
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Speaker 1: they send him home and uh, that time in the house.
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Speaker 1: To answer your question, actually was it was? It was?
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Speaker 1: It was. It was big because Tyler would never say it,
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Speaker 1: but um, I think he enjoyed having us around, and
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Speaker 1: I think his his brothers enjoyed having us around, because
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Speaker 1: you know, when you go through something like that, how
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Speaker 1: do you cope? How do you how do you move
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Speaker 1: past that? And you gotta surround yourself with people who
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Speaker 1: love you and care about you. And that's what he
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Speaker 1: did it and um and ultimately you know, we we
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Speaker 1: we drove each other crazy and we had blow ups,
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Speaker 1: but the culmination of that was just like strengthening our
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Speaker 1: friendship and and just building a bond that is can't
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Speaker 1: be broken. Maybe it was kind of like his mom's
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Speaker 1: the angel just kind of bless you with that lead
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Speaker 1: role after all of it. She had to have something
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Speaker 1: to do with it, No one, no one, Miss Cameron.
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Speaker 1: If she had anything to do with what's taken place
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Speaker 1: that those past six months after coming back from California,
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Speaker 1: it had to had her touch on it, because the
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Speaker 1: way that things fell into place, it just couldn't have
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Speaker 1: been anything else but a miracle. To be honest with you,
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Speaker 1: that's amazing. I want to know when you got the
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Speaker 1: phone call about being the Bachelor, because I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: toot my own horn, but I'm gonna too my own horn.
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Speaker 1: I called it. I told her a week before you
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Speaker 1: were announced, because we were talking about we were like,
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Speaker 1: who's the next Bachelor? And I was like, I think
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Speaker 1: they're just gonna pull Matt off Claire season to make
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Speaker 1: him the Bachelor, And so I was right. Um, So
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Speaker 1: was it a build up? Did you start getting phone
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Speaker 1: calls from producers saying like, hey, we don't really know
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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen, but would you at all be interested?
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Speaker 1: Or was it just one day they called and really like, hey,
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Speaker 1: do you want to be the Bachelor? Yeah? Basically it
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Speaker 1: was the Ladder, like I just because I hadn't heard
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Speaker 1: from anybody in a while. And I'm just like, dang,
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Speaker 1: I guess like I'm not gonna be going on the
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Speaker 1: bachelorret Like I'm gonna be headed back to New York
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Speaker 1: getting back to work with commercial real estate. And I
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Speaker 1: got a call from a number that I had I
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Speaker 1: didn't have on my phone, hadn't spoke to this person ever.
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Speaker 1: And they're like, Hey, I'm so and so from whatever,
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Speaker 1: uh you have a second talking to me? How did
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Speaker 1: you feel about being the badge player? And I'm like what,
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Speaker 1: Like I'm not supposed to be on the back strett,
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Speaker 1: Like what are you talking about? And they're just like no,
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Speaker 1: like how did you? And I thought it was a
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Speaker 1: joke and I'm like no, I'm like thank you, and
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Speaker 1: I'm just like that was a weird call. And then
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Speaker 1: the next day I got a call back. It's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: like we talked yesterday, like just wanted to make sure
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Speaker 1: that this isn't something that you're actually interested in. And
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Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, y'all serious and they're like yeah, because
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Speaker 1: it was such like a random like I feel like
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Speaker 1: that process is like like you write an essay you have,
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Speaker 1: like your your freaking middle school teacher, right, you let
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Speaker 1: a recommendation like I don't know what the process was
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Speaker 1: to applying or be in that person. So when I
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Speaker 1: was going through it for myself, it just seemed like
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Speaker 1: too surreal for it to be that much of an
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Speaker 1: easy flowing thing. But I guess they had done their
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Speaker 1: homework for me being on the Mastaurette and it worked
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Speaker 1: out your season more than ever we have gotten asked
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Speaker 1: do the producers make you keep certain girls around for
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Speaker 1: a while, because there's no way he wanted to keep Victoria.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not going to ask you that question directly
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Speaker 1: that would be inappropriate. However, how relieved were you when
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Speaker 1: she left? You know, to be honest with you, actually, UM,
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Speaker 1: I was reacting to information in real time, like and
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Speaker 1: every when everyone's fouting this information out, I'm finding it out.
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Speaker 1: And UM, you just hope that when you're going through
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Speaker 1: something like this, everyone's respectful of one another, because when
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Speaker 1: it starts to bleed, when your actions starts to affect
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Speaker 1: up people and they're removing their tone and their willingness
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Speaker 1: to be open, and that's when I've got to say something.
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Speaker 1: And up in and made aware to me that that
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Speaker 1: was going on. Then it makes my job easier because
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's something you've got to act on, and
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's it's it's just a tell, tell
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Speaker 1: that they can be part of that that journey for
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Speaker 1: you anymore. So it's unfortunate that that's how people had
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Speaker 1: to leave. You know, I don't think Anna's a bad person.
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Speaker 1: It's uh, it was a last and judgment, it seems,
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Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that she could learn from it and
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Speaker 1: going forward it's not something that she ever has to
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Speaker 1: deal with again. Yeah, his Anna, as he notes, is
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Speaker 1: definitely not a bad person. Um, we need to give
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Speaker 1: our other co host, who is not here currently because
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Speaker 1: he's doing a big book tour for his book. Um,
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Speaker 1: but he has recorded a couple of questions for you,
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Speaker 1: so they're going to play that audio. Let's do it. Well.
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Speaker 1: My first question for you, Matt is, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: we we talked way before the season started about how
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Speaker 1: you can control your reaction and you can kind of
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Speaker 1: explain that, uh to actually what we kind of talked
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Speaker 1: about there. But obviously, uh, you know, a headline came
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Speaker 1: out this last week. Uh, that said, you know, Ben
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Speaker 1: Higgins says, Matt James has no clue what's going on,
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Speaker 1: And we talked about that. You know what I meant
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Speaker 1: is that, hey, when you're as the lead in the house,
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Speaker 1: you don't know all the things happening with the content essence.
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Speaker 1: You don't see it, you don't hear it, you don't
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Speaker 1: experience it. So until it's brought to your attention, you
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Speaker 1: have no clue what's going on in the house. That's fair,
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Speaker 1: That's just what happened. So my question for you is this,
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Speaker 1: when did you finally find out that there was a
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Speaker 1: toxic environment going on the house? And then as you
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Speaker 1: walk through the next steps to take, like how did
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Speaker 1: you process through that? What was the right thing to do?
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Speaker 1: How are you going to confront it? Uh? And then uh,
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Speaker 1: were you overwhelmed in that moment that that feel heavy
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Speaker 1: to you? Wasn't confusing to you? Or do you have
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Speaker 1: a pretty clear idea of what you wanted to do?
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Speaker 1: That's a great question. Um, thank you. Then you stumped Matt.
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Speaker 1: I'll say this that, Um the first thing Ben said,
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Speaker 1: I mean he's spot on whenever. Uh, that that's part
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Speaker 1: that's par for the course in the world that we're
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Speaker 1: in now is is people are gonna take your words
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Speaker 1: and and they're gonna spin them into things that aren't
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Speaker 1: the context that they were meant and me and been
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Speaker 1: uh talking a regular basis, and we had a conversation
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Speaker 1: about that, and and there was no offense taken to
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Speaker 1: that article because what he was saying was right, Like,
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Speaker 1: I didn't have an idea what was going on in
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Speaker 1: the house, you know. And when I did have an
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Speaker 1: idea is when I acted on it. And that was
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Speaker 1: that following day at the Rose ceremony. And to his
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Speaker 1: question about, um, how did you what steps did you
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Speaker 1: take in terms of knowing the proper course of action?
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Speaker 1: The biggest thing I wanted to do was I didn't
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Speaker 1: want an H and Victoria to feel like horrible people,
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Speaker 1: you know. I didn't want to alienate them. I wanted
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Speaker 1: to make sure that you went about this in the
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Speaker 1: right way so that it's a teaching moment and it's
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Speaker 1: not h this attack on them, because I don't think
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Speaker 1: that's the proper way to go about anything. Just in
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Speaker 1: my life, whenever someone's taught me a lesson or whenever
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Speaker 1: someone's brought something into my attention, I've been the most
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Speaker 1: receptive when it's in love, and you know, that's how
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Speaker 1: I tried to approach those conversations, just like making them
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Speaker 1: aware of how they made people feel, and that you know,
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Speaker 1: going forward, that probably isn't the best way to to
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Speaker 1: navigate a relationship. And unfortunately we don't have that luxury
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Speaker 1: of time to you know, have that second chance because
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Speaker 1: there's a bunch of deserving women who have done everything
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Speaker 1: the right way, who who deserved that time, and and
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Speaker 1: and honestly, wasn't that difficult of a decision knowing that
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Speaker 1: I have these incredibly women who are waiting to get
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Speaker 1: to know me. Well, I'm gonna wrap this up by
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Speaker 1: doing something that my mom used to do with us
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Speaker 1: when we were having crushes on people. She said that
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Speaker 1: you can't stay the person that you love's name without smiling.
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Speaker 1: So I'm going to run off some of the girls
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Speaker 1: names that I feel like we're going to make your
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Speaker 1: top five ish and I want to see how starright
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Speaker 1: of a phase you can keep Alright, ready, hold on,
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Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, Let me let me take a
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Speaker 1: deep breath. Let me just say, with Ben's voice coming through,
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Speaker 1: did anybody else think that was like the voice of
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Speaker 1: God for a second. Dar, I'm just like, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, this is the moment right here, God
17:57
Speaker 1: has spoken to me. All right, you got your smiles out, okay,
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Speaker 1: pipera Brie, Abigail, Oh god, oh he bumped his head. Um, Rachel, Rachel,
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Speaker 1: he really had to try, but you had to try
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Speaker 1: too hard. There he's trying. He's good, Chelsea, chel Oh, wow,
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Speaker 1: smile there too, Victoria, the big all we got him
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Speaker 1: comes back? All right. Not you're a pleasure. You're a pleasure,
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Speaker 1: and we just feel like you handle everything with such
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Speaker 1: great grace and warmth and we're so proud to call
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Speaker 1: you the president of our franchise right now. It's it's
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Speaker 1: been it's been wanting to be, uh in this position,
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Speaker 1: knowing that you know, people like yourself and Jared and
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Speaker 1: Ben and Sean have been in similar positions, and um,
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Speaker 1: all all I try to do every week is is
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Speaker 1: the best that I can do, and I fall short constantly,
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Speaker 1: But um, it's it's been a learning experience and I'm
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Speaker 1: hoping that uh it paves the way for people who
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Speaker 1: look like me to be in this position more often.
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Speaker 1: So well, I think your best is good enough. Man,
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Speaker 1: You're awesome, So thanks for joining us. Thank you so much,
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Speaker 1: keep for having me. Bye. Well, I guess it's only
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Speaker 1: appropriate that I wrapped this interview up because who the
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Speaker 1: hell knows when I'm going to be on Almost Famous again.
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Speaker 1: This is my last chance to plug Help I Suck
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Speaker 1: which is right now. I thought that you would wrap
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Speaker 1: up with like talking about what your fan fanboy dreams
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Speaker 1: were achieved. I know, I I kind of did fanboy
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Speaker 1: a little bit over Matt Dude. He's just awesome. He's
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Speaker 1: so endearing, and I forgot to ask him the most
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Speaker 1: important question of all, which is I'm curious if the
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Speaker 1: investment invested in Game Stop this past week. But I'm
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Speaker 1: glad that we're able to talk to him for a while.
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Speaker 1: He's just an awesome, awesome guy, and and I love
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Speaker 1: him and Tyler's friendship. I remember first watching the Quarantine
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Speaker 1: Crew and being almost like yeah, and it was like,
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Speaker 1: what is this, what's going on there to like always
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Speaker 1: have their shirts off, but learning more and more, not
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Speaker 1: say having your shirts off is terrible, but like as
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Speaker 1: someone who doesn't have six you know, as a guy,
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Speaker 1: it's a little jealous. Yeah, it's like I want to
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Speaker 1: look like those dudes put a shirt on your embarrassing
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Speaker 1: me um. But learning more and more about their friendship.
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Speaker 1: I I just love it. I love Tyler and Matt's
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Speaker 1: friends friendship and and everything it represents, and and uh,
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's cool. It's just really cool. And I
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Speaker 1: love that Matt's a bachelor and not I don't want
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Speaker 1: to put down previous bachelors, but it feels like it's
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Speaker 1: been a little while since we've had someone like Matt
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Speaker 1: as the lead who's like not but like put together,
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, like he's a man, you know,
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Speaker 1: like Matt's a man. Yeah, Jared smiling while saying that, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I like, I like, you know, I don't know how
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Speaker 1: it's because I don't want to put down other people,
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Speaker 1: and and that's not my intention. It's just it shows
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Speaker 1: how much I love Matt as the lead. Like that
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Speaker 1: dude is a he's a man. Yes, he has women
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Speaker 1: and men just kind of being like, that's what i'd
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Speaker 1: want to be with or that's what i'd want to
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Speaker 1: be Oh totally yeah. Um, so we're just wishing him
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Speaker 1: the best of luck. Uh and it was really cool
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Speaker 1: talking to him for a while. All Right, do you
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Speaker 1: know how we signed off on this show. I've been
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Speaker 1: I've been Jared. I don't know why I said it twice.
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