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From Boy Bands to Wedding Bands · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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  Speaker 1: with I R Radio. It's a big week on the
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  Speaker 1: Almost Famous podcast. Yes, Paradise is over, but we're bringing
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  Speaker 1: on our very first Paradise couple. Kenny and Mary were
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  Speaker 1: so pumped to talk to him. But actually, before we
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  Speaker 1: get started, I want to ask you, how is the
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  Speaker 1: setup of your coffee shop going? Because it's happening soon, right,
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  Speaker 1: the launch is just a few weeks away. A few
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  Speaker 1: days away. Oh my god. No, we don't have an
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  Speaker 1: actual opening date yet. And Jared's been very stressed about
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  Speaker 1: this opening date because he's been getting think the number
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  Speaker 1: one question is when you open? When do you open?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, Babe, it is best for us to
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  Speaker 1: be fully prepared and very equipped and calm and comfortable
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  Speaker 1: with where we at. We don't have to rush this.
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  Speaker 1: Just because you feel like you said fall, which it
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  Speaker 1: will be fall, does not mean that like we need
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  Speaker 1: to open our doors because of like some baginary timetable
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  Speaker 1: you put on it. It has to be right, because
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  Speaker 1: the worst thing we can do is open and be unprepared. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's stressed, but he's doing a great job. He's doing
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  Speaker 1: amazing and it definitely feels like the past month of
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  Speaker 1: work that we put into it feels like a great leap. Um.
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  Speaker 1: It's getting to look really nice in there. Um we are.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's kind of falling into place. Oh, I just realized
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  Speaker 1: that he had a big meeting tonight, and I think
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  Speaker 1: he called me earlier, probably to tell me about it.
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  Speaker 1: He went to the town council tonight to see if
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  Speaker 1: we got approved for our liquor license. Oh, it's see.
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  Speaker 1: There's lots of little things like that going on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the plumbing, the electrical on blah blah, bah blah. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure this is boring to everybody. But Audrey is
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  Speaker 1: opening sometime this fall in the South County Commons in
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  Speaker 1: South Kingston, Rhode Islands, coming soon, selling generous coffee which
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely delicious. Hey, I appreciate that. Well, we do
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  Speaker 1: have a big podcast in front of us. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: break down the men, the suitors they like to call him.
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  Speaker 1: Coming on to Michelle's season of the Bachelorette again. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking to Kenny and Maury just after the break. So
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  Speaker 1: let's take a break. Let's come back with Kenny and Mark. Okay, guys,
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  Speaker 1: it's the big time we have Mari and Kenny on
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  Speaker 1: the line. Hey guys, congratulations. I'm sure everybody has been
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  Speaker 1: asking you this week. How does it feel to be
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  Speaker 1: open and free? Yeah, We've got quite a lot. It's good.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice to finally be able to just be normal
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  Speaker 1: people out there. Now, what were you doing when you
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  Speaker 1: were in hiding to not get seen? Were you wearing wigs?
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  Speaker 1: Were you even going out to dinner? To be honest,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't really go out much. She came to Chicago
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of times, but we kind of just stayed
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  Speaker 1: at my parents house, my apartment. Um, she would wear
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  Speaker 1: she has like her nerd glasses and like a hat
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing. That's that's if we did go all
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  Speaker 1: but I think we only got spotted a few times. Pictures,
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  Speaker 1: no pictures. What has been uh? What has been some
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest changes for you all? You know, since
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  Speaker 1: being public? Has the relationship felt me different? Did you
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  Speaker 1: feel well prepared for it? Honestly, it actually did. It
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  Speaker 1: did feel different. I know that we've we've been engaged
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  Speaker 1: this whole time, but it almost feels like we just
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  Speaker 1: got engaged when the fun finale happened, which is kind
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  Speaker 1: of weird. Yeah, no, I would agree with that, I
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  Speaker 1: think because now is when everyone knows, and now is
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  Speaker 1: when everyone is telling us congratulations like every two minutes.
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  Speaker 1: So now is when it's like, oh yeah, we're engaged,
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  Speaker 1: like it feel is real now. So Chicago is kind
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  Speaker 1: of the base for two of these Bachelor in Paradise couples.
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  Speaker 1: Have you guys hung out with Joe and Serena in
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  Speaker 1: Chicago yet? Actually not in Chicago yet all together, but
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  Speaker 1: we actually did early on after Paradise stay all together
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  Speaker 1: at a lake house in Michigan. Oh that's so nice.
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  Speaker 1: How was that all three of you? All three couple? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so the two couples, yeah, yeah, just it was just
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  Speaker 1: Joe and Serena with us. Yeah. You know, sometimes when
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  Speaker 1: the Bachelor couples come off engauge, the show kind of
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  Speaker 1: find some little like hiding spots to go hang out with.
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  Speaker 1: Did the show do that at all for you? Is
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  Speaker 1: that the Lake Michigan trip? No, we actually did that
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  Speaker 1: one on our own, but we did have some planned
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  Speaker 1: meetups through the show as well, so that was really nice.
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  Speaker 1: Michigan was the owner of the club that I worked
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  Speaker 1: for has a house out in Michigan. Let us use
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  Speaker 1: it for a couple of days. Uh, super secluded, like
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  Speaker 1: nobody knew were there or anything. So that was cool.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. So okay, Mari, you live in Maryland, right, Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I do right now. Hello, I'm from Nova, northern Virginia. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know, nobody knows that because the Bachelor they put
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  Speaker 1: Jersey because they wanted me to be a token Jersey girl,
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  Speaker 1: which makes a lot of sense. But anyway, so what's
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  Speaker 1: the moving situation. Are we going to do long distance
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  Speaker 1: for a while? Are we going to be moving to
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  Speaker 1: one or the other places? Yeah? So obviously we've been
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  Speaker 1: long distance and we're going to continue to do the
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  Speaker 1: back and forth kind of thing. For now, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: waiting until my lease is up, which happens in March.
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  Speaker 1: So as soon as my lease is up, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: moving to Chicago. Great, one of the best cities in
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  Speaker 1: the world. I'm from Indiana and so Chicago is has
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  Speaker 1: a special place in my heart. Now, obviously, your story
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  Speaker 1: on Paradise, compared to most I would say even the
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  Speaker 1: other couples, was fairly smooth. You had some moments, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, every relationship does. Looking back in time paradise?
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything you wish you would have been differently
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  Speaker 1: either of you? Are you happy with how the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing obviously worked out, but how the whole thing went? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think it all happened for a reason. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, we're obviously very happy with how everything
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  Speaker 1: ended up turning out for us. Um. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: I would have done anything differently looking back, there are
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  Speaker 1: things I wish wouldn't have happened. Um, But at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, I think it led us to
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  Speaker 1: exactly where we were supposed to be. Kenny. Yeah, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean at the end of the day, I wouldn't. Yah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't regret anything because the way it all panned out,
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  Speaker 1: Like when me and Mari sort of got back together
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  Speaker 1: mid season or so, Um, it's sort of made I
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  Speaker 1: felt like it was it was stronger because of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that had happened, and I think that's what sort
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  Speaker 1: of led the path for us to end up engage
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  Speaker 1: at the end. Marie, I feel bad having to ask
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  Speaker 1: this question, but I'm going to do it. Okay, when
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  Speaker 1: did you find out about the rendezvous that Kenny had
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  Speaker 1: with Demi in the boom boom room. Was that while
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  Speaker 1: watching the show back or they're on campus. Yeah, so, um, well,
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  Speaker 1: obviously that night was very heated and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know the part about like the whole condoms
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  Speaker 1: in the pinata thing until watching it back. Um. But
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  Speaker 1: that night, Demi, myself and Serena were actually one of
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  Speaker 1: the last three girls to end up going to bed,
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  Speaker 1: and so Demi, me and Serena ended up in the
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  Speaker 1: girls changing room or whatever. Second night. Um. Apparently, after
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  Speaker 1: I left, Demi told Serena, I'm up to no good tonight,
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  Speaker 1: and Serena came and told me. Um. So that night
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  Speaker 1: actually didn't sleep much and I noticed that she never
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  Speaker 1: came to our room, came to bed, So I kind
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  Speaker 1: of had a feeling. And then the next morning everyone
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  Speaker 1: was talking about it, and I knew that they had
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  Speaker 1: spent the night together, and yeah, I didn't know the details,
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  Speaker 1: but honestly, probably better that you found out there. Yeah, no, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: if I found out after watching it back, I I
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  Speaker 1: was I told everybody what was I mean, everybody kind
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  Speaker 1: of knew I wasn't obviously, I was trying to be
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  Speaker 1: pretty honest throughout the process, so everybody kind of knew
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  Speaker 1: what was going on. I think pretty much every step
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  Speaker 1: of the way, and as far as me goes, not everybody,
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  Speaker 1: but I I did admire that about you, Kenny, Um.
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  Speaker 1: And we talked about on the podcast a few times,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And and I'm gonna talk to you for
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  Speaker 1: a second because I want to give you some encouragement,
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  Speaker 1: like that sucks. You know, not every cup, not any
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  Speaker 1: other couples really in the world have to see that
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  Speaker 1: happened and then watched on national television. Like that sucks
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  Speaker 1: for you too. It does not. Every couple is different.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that it changes your relationship now. And
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  Speaker 1: in fact, actually I talked about all the time, like
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  Speaker 1: when as soon as that show ends, I believe that's
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  Speaker 1: where the like it. You know, it starts like you
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  Speaker 1: you you have a really weird dating past. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that because it's not fun and I
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  Speaker 1: feel for you. UM, But can you were very honest,
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  Speaker 1: you know through this whole thing, very upfront. Where I watched,
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  Speaker 1: I would I was putting myself in your shoes, and
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  Speaker 1: I honestly feel like I'm not that good of a
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  Speaker 1: guy like I would have tried to hide things. Um,
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  Speaker 1: skirt pass things, let things get pushed off the side.
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  Speaker 1: You very much confronted them. Uh. I know that's probably
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  Speaker 1: just who you are. But why did you choose to
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  Speaker 1: do that on Paradise, Like why was that? You're kind
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  Speaker 1: of your emo through the whole thing, you know. I
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  Speaker 1: I because in the back of my mind, I obviously
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  Speaker 1: I know that it's all gonna be known anyways, and
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  Speaker 1: I figure if people are hearing everything from me directly
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  Speaker 1: instead of hearing through gossip or whatever, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's sort of softens the blow. Um. You know I
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  Speaker 1: got going in. I didn't know obviously, I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: how what was going to happen. But in real life
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  Speaker 1: I am pretty open and honest with people in general,
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  Speaker 1: So I just it wasn't nothing new for me. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, also with Paradise, like I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: if anything is gonna work out, you need to be
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  Speaker 1: honest throughout because you don't have a whole lot of
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  Speaker 1: time and you can't be like building relationships on bulls,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in my opinion, so it's just why not
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  Speaker 1: just be like, this is what happened. To be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, I was actually getting it was actually getting
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  Speaker 1: overwhelming and sort of like exhausting, just sort of always
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  Speaker 1: trying to be tell everybody what was going on, Like
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  Speaker 1: it would be go you know, I'd be like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to telling t on the day what's going on
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  Speaker 1: with them and what was going on. And then I
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  Speaker 1: get and I got back from that date, and then
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  Speaker 1: I was already had pulled me for a conversation. And
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  Speaker 1: then right after that, like I had to go have
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  Speaker 1: a conversation with Demi and explained to her what just
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  Speaker 1: happened with the Mari conversation and the tea day, and
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of just like it was. It was
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  Speaker 1: kind of h I mean, you know how it is,
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  Speaker 1: like these are long days and eventually you kind of
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  Speaker 1: just get like it kind of drives you, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you get disoriented. You're like, I don't remember who I
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  Speaker 1: did this morning, Like I'm just trying to I'm just
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  Speaker 1: trying to take the next best step here, guys, like
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying my best. Well, it worked out and and
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  Speaker 1: and I know we have more questions for you too
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  Speaker 1: as a couple, but I do want to say Ashley
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  Speaker 1: and I are both very excited for you. In fact
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  Speaker 1: um when you when you showed up to the beach together. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you were like top of our power couples, just on like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this felt like there was something instant, like just like that,
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  Speaker 1: like you had an attraction. So I'm really glad it
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  Speaker 1: ended up this way. Ashley is very glad ended up
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  Speaker 1: this way. Even though the road to get there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: smooth the whole time, but it was. It's still going
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  Speaker 1: to be your story. So anyways, that's where I pause.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to make sure you guys knew that
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  Speaker 1: very much behind me. Kenny, you just brought up you know,
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  Speaker 1: Tia and Demi and Marie. How did it feel to
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  Speaker 1: be the oldest guy there on the beach. But honestly,
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  Speaker 1: probably like the most sought after. Well, I wouldn't, I wouldn't,
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  Speaker 1: I would. I think it only happened because Brendan was
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  Speaker 1: mixed up in his own stuff. I think I think
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  Speaker 1: the day one, Brendan was probably the most sought after.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously he's, you know, he's a good looking guy and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: And I think somehow he got you know, when he
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  Speaker 1: had his stuff going on, and then sort of like
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I started hanging out with multiple people.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of blame her because I tried to lock
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  Speaker 1: her up like on the first night, and she didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to. She didn't want to lock it up that early.
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  Speaker 1: So it's actually her fault to be honest. And when
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  Speaker 1: I said, when I say, you're like the oldest guy
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  Speaker 1: yet to the most uh you know, uh sought after,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. You're forty, you know, like that's you're
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  Speaker 1: still like thriving and you look thirty. How money comments
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  Speaker 1: did you get like from people mind boggled about how
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  Speaker 1: like you look a decade younger than your age. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean because the show put four year old as
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  Speaker 1: like my occupation. That was kind of it was like
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  Speaker 1: every comment or DM basically up until like it got
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  Speaker 1: to the serious point of the show with me and
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  Speaker 1: her for the most part, seriously, like what's your secret?
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  Speaker 1: Like are you in the Tom Brady diet or something?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's similar. I mean, I'm pretty good with
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  Speaker 1: my diet. Um, it's very strict. Yeah, I'm pretty strict. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I would I would say I owe it
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  Speaker 1: all to my eating habits for sure. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: in the germ and whatnot. But you know, yeah, well
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  Speaker 1: you look good, you do you both do your beautiful
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  Speaker 1: couple absolutely stunning, Um, talk about a guy that could
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  Speaker 1: have probably BI and I think I like Brendan. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I agree with much of what he's done
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  Speaker 1: in the last couple of months of his life, but
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  Speaker 1: I do think when he's on the podcast, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: he's a nice guy, Um, but he could have learned
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  Speaker 1: from you on being just straightforward and honest. That seems
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  Speaker 1: to work out really good for you without a lot
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  Speaker 1: of negativity. In fact, this show the paradise for both
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  Speaker 1: of you. I think really helped you both. Um. I
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  Speaker 1: do have to ask you a couple of personal questions
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  Speaker 1: that I'm wondering, Um, did you expect to or how
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  Speaker 1: did you prepare to be so naked so often? Both
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  Speaker 1: of you? This is for both of you. This is
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  Speaker 1: not just for for you, kid, because I know that
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  Speaker 1: was kind of your your thing at the beginning. But Mario,
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  Speaker 1: you caught raight back up to him and walked beside
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  Speaker 1: him in this Was it hard for you at all?
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  Speaker 1: If not? Why? No? Absolutely not. I mean I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was funny at first when he was you know,
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  Speaker 1: and that was his thing, um, But when I was
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  Speaker 1: asked to you know, participate in the state and you
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: know you're going to eat tacos off of each other.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm very comfortable with myself and I
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  Speaker 1: feel good about my body. I have nothing to hide.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, she didn't care at all. Kenny, were
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  Speaker 1: you wearing one of those magic mic sock things the
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  Speaker 1: first day? So? Um? The first day was speedo, very
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  Speaker 1: very slim, uh, low profile speedo and uh. But the
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  Speaker 1: date with Tia I was I was completely naked, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: That's just that's so free. I feel like that's just
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  Speaker 1: very like I think a lot of us secretly would
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  Speaker 1: just prefer that clothes never existed in this world. No,
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  Speaker 1: I I think. I mean, I have my my, my buddies,
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  Speaker 1: Like kids grow up, Like there's a point in time
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  Speaker 1: where kids all of a sudden are told you need
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  Speaker 1: to put on clothes right like and that that's that's
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  Speaker 1: a demand on them. They don't want to like, that's
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  Speaker 1: not we just want to be free. And I think
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  Speaker 1: the two of you represented that. Like, I'm glad to
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  Speaker 1: hear you had to speed on because I was not
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  Speaker 1: concerned about you being naked. I was more concerned about
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  Speaker 1: the reaction from everybody on the beach, not being super
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  Speaker 1: weirded out by like they're hugging you and stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, if he wants to be naked, naked,
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  Speaker 1: but like I ain't given you a hug, buddy, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's not something I'm wrapping you up in. Um. Well,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of relationship questions that we have for you.
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  Speaker 1: What's been uh the you know, every relationship is different,
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  Speaker 1: but what's been the hardest thing? Um, Just like the
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  Speaker 1: most difficult thing that you've had to get used to
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  Speaker 1: now that you are engaged and spending a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time together, the most shocking thing now that you've ld
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  Speaker 1: the left the beach. Yeah, we actually haven't had any
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  Speaker 1: real obstacles or challenges or like, we haven't had any bites,
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  Speaker 1: no disagreements, nothing since leaving Paradise, which is great. I
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  Speaker 1: think the most difficult thing for us is just the
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  Speaker 1: distance because we have to figure out, you know, okay,
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  Speaker 1: what dates work for you, When can I come see you?
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  Speaker 1: When can you come see me? What do you have
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  Speaker 1: going on with work? So just figuring out that logistical
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  Speaker 1: stuff right now has been the only real challenge that
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  Speaker 1: we've had. I've read that you guys, um but your
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  Speaker 1: fifteen year age difference. That the only thing where it
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  Speaker 1: really feels prevalent is when you talk about music and
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  Speaker 1: movies and stuff like that. While as a boy band
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: manager and somebody like you know who, probably a lot
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: of his work is based in the late nineties early
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  Speaker 1: two thousand's Mari you were like three when No Strings
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Attached came out. Well, I actually know like a good
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: bit of stuff just because my parents grew up or
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  Speaker 1: I grew up listening to them listen to that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm familiar with a good bit of it. There's
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: some stuff where I'm like, no, I haven't seen that.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: He's like, are you kidding me? But for the most part,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: you know, I know my way around. You're gonna say
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: your parents parents listened to I was like, okay, let's
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: let's secret than I am. How old are your parents
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: forty six and forty seven? Oh they were young when
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: they had you though they were Yeah, they were like twenty.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: And I think that's maybe one of the most beautiful
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: scenes all season. Um. You know, age isn't something that really, um,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: it plays a factor in most people's lives these days.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: You know, you're you're after you're out of college and
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: kind of on your own life feels very similar. But
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: when you two sat down and Kenny you admitted that,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: you know, relationships, this was very serious to you, that
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: you weren't used to feeling this type of way, um,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: that this was something special to you, and Mary you
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: look back at him and said, uh, you know, I'm
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: ready for this. It was a moment where it kind
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: of gave peace to YouTube and and a lot of
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the viewers. Can you walk us through kind of that
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: moment um and how that defined your relationship? Yeah, I mean,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: and it's funny because we still get a lot of
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: questions about it today, like, oh, what's your age gap
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: look like in your relationship? How does it affect you guys?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: And it really doesn't, I mean. And that's kind of
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: what I was trying to get across when we had
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: that conversation, is that although, yeah, numerically chronologically I'm young
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: years old, I feel like just the way that I
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: go about my life and how I've had to kind
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: of grow up and take care of myself from a
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: really young age has put me on a different level
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: than most people who are years old. And so because
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: of that, I felt like it would be easy for
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: us to kind of connect um and do life together. Kenny,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: you said I love you for the first time to
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: someone right there in Paradise to Mari. Mari, how big
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: of a deal is it that? For you? It's huge?
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I mean for me, you know. Okay, So honestly, at first,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, he's never like that. I love
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: that not necessarily a red flag, but it did make
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: me wonder, like, Okay, well, so how does he know?
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: You know? Um? But then looking back on it, you know,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: it's it's in the way that we have our conversations
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: and in the way that he's always reassuring me. That's
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: how I knew that he knew. And Um. In terms
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: of that, for me, it's it's a big deal because
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: for him to not be used to be kind of
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: things that we are now like doing all the time,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: like just little things like I love you or kissing
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: me goodbye or holding my hand. I know he's not
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: used to that kind of stuff. So for him to
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: like do all those things with me it makes me good.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: And Kenny, why do you think you've never gotten to
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: that point yet? Um? It's really it's really just the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: typical walls up kind of stuff. You know, I always
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: blame it on um, you know, being obviously just in
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the music scene, in the music venue. You've seen all
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: this stuff, and it's just like I've been doing that
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: for literally the last twenty years, and you know, I
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: just I just never allowed it to happen. I just
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I was I was cool being alone. I was I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: was very good being wrapped up in my like schedule
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: and not having any interference like that. You know, I'm
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: very uh, schedule oriented for the most part, and I've
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: never really just had any thing come across that, you know,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I would allow to disrupt that. I guess, um it
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: was like you needed paradise, That's what I said. I
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I literally, I told Bradford producer, I'm like, you know,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: literally for me, it would it did take going on
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Paradise on national television actually get to this point, honestly,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: cause I'm not sure that it would ever have happened
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: to be honest. Yeah, it's it's great for you know,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: people like you because it slows life down, like it
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: takes away a lot of the distraction of everything. This
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: might be a tough question to answer, but what would
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: do you remember a moment, Kenny, where your walls fell
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: down and you looked at her and said, I not
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: only love you, but I would like to marry you
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and spend my life with you. Like to go from
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: having your walls up but not allowing that to ever
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: enter in your mind, to then being in this position
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: you are now like there had to be a process
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: or something that went through your mind. Well, so, I
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: mean the like going into Paradise, I was already sort
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: of mentally prepared to at least allow something to happen,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: you know, just at least welcome the opportunity. Um, you know.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And and I went into bachelorte the same way, but
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: this one felt different, just because you know, I was
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: hoping to meet someone specifically Mari. Um, you know. So
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I I don't know, I came in open, way, more
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: open than I am in regular real life. So um,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I was into her obviously a lot right off the bat. Um.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: But I have some people have have asked this question,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: and I've been sort of pinpointing to like, there was
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: a point when I got back from the tea a
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: date and Mari had pulled me aside and sort of
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: like told me how she really felt and having someone
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: reciprocate back to me. Um, the feelings that I had
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: was sort of what kind of pushed me to the
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: next level, I think as far as being being ready
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: to go all the way with it. I got a
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: question from a fan on Twitter asking if you guys
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: have children one day, Mari, what traits of Kenny's do
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: you want the child to have? And then Kenny what
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: trade of Marie's. That's a great question. I actually haven't
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: gotten that. I'm surprised because that's probably like the number
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: one question. I guess it's like, can's do you guys
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: having kids? Tell me do you want? What are you
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: gonna name them? Um? But anyway, you know, I think
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: that I would like him to have just like, um,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: what's the word for this? Just how structured he is? Um,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: discipline maybe is the word. Um. You know, he likes
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: in a certain way, he does things a certain way.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: He's very neat and I really appreciate that about him.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I also like his sense of humor and UM, I
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: don't know, he's just very sweet to me. His jeans too.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, if if kids, I think so For like
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: with Mari, it's UM, she's very obviously she's She's one
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: of the nicest, sweetest people I've ever met. And I
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: really like she's very cool headed. And I'm because I'll
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: pop off like on if stuff gets heated. I'm you know,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: f this is saying. And she's always so calm like that,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: And which is we we haven't gotten into a fight yet.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: And and that's why because she doesn't provoke me, even
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: if I'm like, you know, being a dick or whatever.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: It's just I've never been with somebody that it's like,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: it's the opposite of me. But if we had kids,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I would love to see that in in our kids.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: You know, I was gonna I was gonna ask the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: two of you, what's your favorite things about each other?
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: But I think you just answered it. Yeah, And I
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: get that you could you would added that to the
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: question that wasn't about kids. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Can
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: we can we take a second here before we say
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: uh goodbye to you both, um to ask you a
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: question because you're a first couple from Paradise that we've
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: had on and uh there is We're gonna ask you
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: to be our insiders for just a second here. Um.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: In the previews, actually, and I seem to be okay.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: We might be the only two people that got fired
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: up about this, like physically emotional about this, and and
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: nothing ever happened. There's a preview team of Marissa kissing
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Damar on the beach. It happened on Bachelor in Paradise.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: There's a preview that gets shown where they're kissing, and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: we were like, there's no way this could have been happening,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and then it never was shown. There was never a
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: break in Riley Morrissa's relationship. They end up engaged. They're
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: super happy, and we're super happy for them. But there's
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: a preview. Did you ever see this happen? Did it exist?
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Do you not know about it? Either? No, no idea?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Are you sure it's tomorrow that I don't know what preview.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: We've asked the listeners and they've sent us the video.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: It's there. It's it's happening. And unless we're confused, unless
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: like there's some weird editing going on or what, but
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: like it's very obvious that it's happening. We were we
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: were distraught. Hold on, it was like that, like did
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: they play like a Spielberg like at it? Is it
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: this like a trick with the camera, there's no this
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: has to be some like Mandela effects time, like across something.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know. The only time it could have happened
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: is basically when DeMar showed up. I guess that's what
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: it kind of looked like Marissa to talk. But we're not,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you know, we can't we're not close enough to see
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: what was going on over there. But I didn't even
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't hear about it. I think I would have
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: heard about it, but I mean, yeah, I mean, if
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: there's if there's if there's footage, if you've got the receipts,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: it's there. We we that the investigation continues on this.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: But you you got to go back, and even for
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the listeners, you gotta go back to the episode where
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: they announced that edin tomorrow coming. It's like the episode
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: before they actually show up, and it's a preview for
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the next episode. Is when this happens. And then that's
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: that week, and we've ever since then, we've been just
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: absolutely fired up about it because we love Riley Morris
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: as well. Um, yeah, so go check it out. I
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: don't know, Hey, you guys are beautiful and we're very
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: excited for the two of you. This is something special,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and I'm excited that you're you know, that you've worked
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: through all the paradise drama and that you sit where
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: you're out today. Thank you for coming on this podcast.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: It's greatly appreciated. Yeah, for some of course, for some couples,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: once you get over the hurdle of paradise, everything is
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: easy and then sometimes it's the opposite. Sometimes it's easier
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: there than the real life. But I think for the guys,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: you know, you went through that and it should be smooth.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Alan sounds awesome than all right, Thank you guys. Bye. Hi,
• 28:17
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• 28:45
  Speaker 1: We're going to do our first impressions of Michelle Young's
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Season eighteen of The Bachelorette. These are the men, and uh,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: you know, this is the time that we were able
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to judge people solely based on appearance, and we are
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: vane or we are super official and whatnot. But you
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: can't you can't hate us because we know you're at
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: home clicking through these guys doing the exact same thing.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: We just do it with him, do it with us.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Here we go. We got a lot of guys to
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: go through. Let's get started. This is the speed round.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Follow along as you can. We're gonna start with Alec.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: He's twenty nineties, an engineer from North Charleston, South Carolina.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Alec goes home Night one. Ohoy, frat boy Home Night one.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Brandon J. He is twenty six years old. He's a
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: traveling nurse recruiter from Portland, Oregon. He is a great listener. Um,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: he is maybe over eager, over eager. We're gonna go
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: down to Brandon K. He's twenty nine. He's a brand
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: manager from Austin, Texas. Uh. He is the Texas guy
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: that just hides back in the scenes, ends up going
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: home like week two. Uh never really here a lot
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: from him and we kind of forget about him. Um,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say most likely to bring out a guitar.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I love it. Brian he's thirty one. He's an NFL
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: player from Chicago, Illinois. Um, he is every dude's best
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: friend in the house because they just like to talk football. Yeah,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I see him not having I was gonna say no
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: connection with miche no connection. We got Casey. He's thirty six.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: He's an advertising creative director from Miami Beach, Florida. This
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: guy unbuttoned his shirt, won too many buttons. This guy
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: is the Aaron of this season. I feel like he
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: wants to start something with everyone always angry. Chris Gee.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: He's twenty eight years old. He's a motivational speaker from Halifax,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Nova Scotia, Canada. Uh. He is an a motivational speaker either,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: just like who was the guy from the last season
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: said he was like exactly that was car up. This
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: guy is going to be the yapper that we all
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: can't stand if he is a motivational speaker. Chris s.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: He's twenty eight. He's a commodities broker from West Hollywood, California.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Chris s good looking guy. Uh, kind of the guy
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: that stands out. I could see him getting the first
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: impression Rose and then causing trouble a few weeks in.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: He's going to be an automatic here for the wrong reasons.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Guy because he's from West Hollywood. We got a guy
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: named Clayton. He's twenty eight. He's a medical sales rep
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: from Columbia. This guy looks like the next Bachelor. I'm
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: just gonna put it out there, Okay, yeah, most likely
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: to be the meaning he's not with Michelle. Uh Um.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: We got Daniel. He's twenty six years old. He's a
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: firefighter from Austin, Texas. This dude is there for the
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: long haul. Uh He's just he's confident, he's easy, easy going,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: he's even keeled. I think this guy is top three
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: in my book. Really. I think he's friendly, very nice,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: great on paper friend zone. We've got Edward, which is
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: my middle name. He's twenty seven years old. He's a
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: wellness coach from Los Angeles, California. Uh I, I don't
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: know what to say about Edward other than he's giving
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: me um spooky vibes. Spooky. I think that he is
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: like very slick, like he tries to be um what's
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: inten things he hates he hate about you. He's Um
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Andrew whatever his name is. Character. Does that make sense?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: By spooky, what I meant was Edwards the type of
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: guy who's like good looking. He's the good looking villain
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: in every movie. You know what I'm saying, Like like
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: not spooky, isn't like this guy looks creepy, like he's good,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: looks like he's the guy be castic to be Um
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the the good looking villain. Anyways, we got Garrett. He's
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: thirty three. He's a tech ceo from Salt Lake City, Utah. Um,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Garrett is is just way too smart to be here.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Um can't can't function in public settings. Um to posish. Okay,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be positive about these next guys because I've
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: just been making fun of themselves. I think it's a
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: point of this one. We have no clue about anybody
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: here we have. We've never met him, we don't know
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: anything about him. We're looking at their pictures that we
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: know aren't good, you know, criticism kind of the way.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: We'll go in then later on the season like hey
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: we like this guy. Um, no, none of this is right. Anyways,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: we got Jack He's a former army officer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Um.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Jack is warm and cozy. He wears a lot of sweaters,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: just a lot of sweaters because he just he just
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: wants to hang. Jack's my favorite so far. He reminds
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: me of like a Jack from This Is Us. There
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: is something warm and about him and a former army
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: officer like I'm feeling officer and a gentleman vibes. Let's
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: do it. We've got Jamie. He's thirty two. He's a
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: biotech CEO from San Diego, California. Jamie is joyful. I mean,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I guess we are being nice to these guys now
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: it's not meaning to, but like this guy just brings
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: joy to the house and laughter. He's he is just
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: a light in in a really hard place. Okay, I'm
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: gonna agree with you on this. I think he reminds
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: me of Trey from last season. Yeah, like that guy,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: like the guy that stands out because he's just joyful.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: We got Joe. He's twenty eight years old. He's a
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: real estate developer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Uh, you know what Joe,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Joe just is I'm gonna see him being a fire
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: starter actually like, I'm gonna see him being the guy
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: that disrupts the house because he is the here for
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: the right reasons. Dude? Mm hmm. Why do I keep
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: having to agree with you? He is the right reasons, Polace,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: right reasons. Please. We've got Jamari. He's twenty six, personal
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: trainer from Fresno, California. Uh, Jamari is the dude that
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: stands out. I forget the guy's hunter from last season
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: because he's so competitive. He is a guy that sees
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: this as a competition and he's here to win Michelle's heart. Um,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: so he goes far, but not all the way. Yeah,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: he's a top twelver. There we go. Leroy, he's twenty seven.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: He's a biomedical uh PhD student. How why are they
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: all these guys so smart this year? Okay? I like that.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah yeah, Husband. Material is what I'm
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: gonna say here is that you look at you look
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: at this guy and you see his biomedical PhD student
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and you're like, I want to marry him. I want
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: to marry him. That goes really well with a teacher,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, And and they'll be very cute couple
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and they'll have great smiles together. Got l T. He's
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: thirty eight years old. He's a yoga guru from Bellevue, UH, Washington.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: LT is uh. LT just doesn't fit in. I'm not
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: gonna say he's yeah, he's just he's very spiritual and
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: he's very like everything can be good. He goes to
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: burning Man and he has a lot of one liners
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: for how life can be better. Use just don't work. Okay,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: moving down here, we got Martin. He's nine years old.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: He's a personal trainer from Miami, Florida. Um. Martin is
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: the guy that surprises you. Uh. He's the guy that
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: kind of shines at the midway through the season. He
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: has a story to tell. I'll see. I feel like
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: he might be a little angry too. I feel like
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: he kind of wants to get up in people's faces.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: One wearing a cross necklace, No way, that's the case
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: when you were across necklace all the time. That's just
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: that's just a given. Um. Got Malik Uh he's third.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: He's six. He's an app academic administrator from San Diego, California.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say, similar to some of the guys above,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: he's he's there for a long time, and he's consistent.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I think he shines in Paradise. But he's consistent on
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: this season, and we like him a lot. Then, the
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: way that you're able to make up these stories is
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: really impressive. I think every year. I'm impressed by your creativity.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I have no further comment. But then we have Nate.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Nate has spells his name. I was gonna say I
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: was having a hard time knowing how to say that.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: But he's twenty seven. He's a sales executive from Austin, Texas.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: And Nate is is a wealth manager. I mean, in
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: my opinion, like he's a sales executive now. But I'm
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: gonna ask that dude for financial advice. Okay. I think
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: he's there to have a good time. I think he'll
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: he'll be um, very jovial. We got all of might.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: He's twenty seven years old. He's an I T analyst
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: from New Work, New Jersey. Uh, we don't hear a
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: lot from him. He's a quiet guy. He cares deeply,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: a big old heart on the guy, but he just
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: he doesn't know how to step up within this kind
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: of environment and as a result, we just don't ever
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: find out a lot about him. Um, let's see we're
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: on the same page. I was gonna say he's a
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Night one elimination. Here's another guy that's just impressively smart.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: And I don't understand how they got so many guys
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: to step away from their jobs with these kinde of titles.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: But anyways, we got Part Deep. He's thirty. He's a
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: neuroscientist from Brooklyn, New York. Um. Part Deep has the
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: right answers for everything, you know, like when you're struggling
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Michelle's crying because some guy you know did it wrong.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: He's the guy that comes up, that sits there and
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: just seems to say the right thing uh in those moments,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: which gets him a long ways. I think he's She's
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: going to really appreciate how good of a conversationalist he is.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: There you go, kind of same thing. Peter's twenty six.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: He's a pizza prenewer from Port St. Joe, Florida. He's
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: like a Brendan uh from from this last season. You know,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: we never know why he's around. He's like in the background.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I think his his career has probably gotten pretty far
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: in this competition, because who doesn't want to marry a
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: pizza prenewer, but we just don't know why he's there. See.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: I think he might be more like Kenny, you know,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: like that we had a boy band manager. Now we
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: have a pizza preneur. We once had a pentrepreneur. And
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: I just feel like this guy is gonna go this.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be really popular in Paradise because he's gonna
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: have a real quirky personality. I find him to be.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be like a stereotypical Italian. All these guys
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: look like they're just jacked still. By the way, I'm
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: waiting for them to like not have dudes that just
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: have like thirty packs. Anyways, Um p J. He's thirty.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: He's a firefighter from Houston, Texas. Uh. PJ sees this
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: as a vacation and it works for him because he
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: takes a seat back. He's the guy that seems to
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: always be on the couch watching the drama go down,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: but he never seems to enter into it. Yeah, he's
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: a great commentator. P J looks like a nineties throwback,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: and I think he really leans into that character. I
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: think in this picture he's wearing dinhim so that would
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: make sense. Um Rick. He in a chain. I mean,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: come on, that's that's pretty smooth. Rick. He's thirty two.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: He's a medical sales drip from Los Angeles, California. Yeah,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Rick's a knight wonner. Rick came, he saw, he went.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: He did not conquer. Oh, I think he conquers. I
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: think he's top four. We should place a bet on
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: this now I don't see it. Um Rodney, he's twenty nine.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: He's a sales rep from Rancho Cucamonga. That's how you
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: say that, right? I always get that wrong, California. Um
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Rodney is the second favorite dude in the house with
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: all the guys. Rodney is the guy you go to
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: at night when the cameras go down and you're laying
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: your bunks and you're like, Rodney, speak to me, share
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: with me, I need you, And the guys cry when
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: he goes home. He's the Goldberg from the Mighty Ducks
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: of this crew that everybody just goes Goldberg. Yeah, they
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: love him Rodney. We got Romeo thirty two. He's a mathematician.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Come on, throw that in with a neuroscientist and um
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: um PhD student and we got a mathematician here as well.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: I mean top four. Yeah, he's thirty two. He's from
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: New York, New York. Uh. Top four. He's just like
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: he's husband. He's put together, like he knows what he wants.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: He's here to get it. Um. His life has moved
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: fast for him and he needed a step away to
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: date and find love and he's ready for it. Top four. Yep,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: confident smile, you know, like he presented himself to the
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: camera confidently. You're looking fellow. Anyways, I got Ryan. He's thirty.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: He's an environmental consultant from San Jose, California. Um. Ryan
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: during this season, Uh, I believe has a falling out.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: He's like one of our favorites when we don't know
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: a lot about him, and then all of a sudden,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: like he's the type of guy that comes here with
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: a girl exactly. Ryan is the kind of guy that
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: shows up with the perfect hairline to me, and like
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: you think that he's going to be a prominent character,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: but he's like the hot guy that just really sits
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: in the background and doesn't become much of a character.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: That's mine. Yeah, yeah, I'm with you here again. I
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: know nothing about him, but that's what I get from
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: his gray T shirt. I was saying. He also looks
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: like George Michael. Yeah, he's a good looking dude too.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: All these guys are pretty dreamy. Anyways, we've got Spencer.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: He's twenty five. He's a financial crimes analyst in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Spencer is the fan of the show. You could tell
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: that because he's wearing a turtleneck and his picture, which
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: means he's watched the fashion trends in the last few years.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: He comes on with all the knowledge. Then you're killing
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: you're killing me here, Um, just yes, I'm just Next.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Next and last is Will, and he's wearing for different reasons.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: He's never watched this show before. He's twenty eight. He's
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: an academic interventionist. I don't even just I don't know
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: what that means. He intervenes in academics. I think that's
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: a good thing. Um, I don't really know. But anyways,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: he's from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Will is just happy to
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: be here. Like Will has no expectations. He's never watched
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: this show. Um, and he's just he's just a smiley
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: dude who shows up who's like really kind and nice,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: and and that ends up biting him because he's overly
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: kind of nice and we don't ever know anything about
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the guy. See, I feel like he's getting inspiration from Brendan.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: But before Brendan was the bad guy between the the
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: curls and like a little bit of a beard and
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: then the turtleneck with the jail. Well, a lot of
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: these guys never saw Paradise, right. Jokes on them for
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: wearing turtlenecks. Uh, well, that's the men from Michelle's season.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: We hope that you walk through those with us, Ashley
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: as every year, you're gonna give me your top three guesses,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: um for who ends up with Michelle. We're you go
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: ahead and start. Let's do it in order, starting with
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: the third, second and then first place person third, second
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: and first. Okay, so I'm gonna say that bachelor Clayton
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: is third and then second. M feel like I'm gonna
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: go with Romeo. Okay, No, I switched that. I'm gonna
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: go with Rick for a second, and then Romeo first.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I like your guesses, okay, Uh third place? Oh crap,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: I forgot about Jack. I love yeah, Lee Roy's third,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Jack second, and then Nate surprises us all at the end.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: With the win. Uh, Nate shines bright during this whole thing.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: He's a consistent guy. Now, Ashley, to close up this segment,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: who gets first impression? Rose, Um Clayton, I'm gonna go
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: with the Bachelor. I'm gonna go with Brian. I think
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: that's where Ryan's story begins and kind of where you know,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: the targets on his back. Ryan gets first impression Rose
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: because Ryan's the environmental consultant, Brian Ryan, I think said Ryan,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Ryan's another smart guy from San jose A, California. Well, anyways, uh,
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: really excited for the season. Uh. We don't know a
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: lot about Michelle yet because of her late entry onto
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: her season of The Bachelor, but people are behind the
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: scenes are talking very highly of this season, very highly
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: of Michelle. In fact, do you listen a few weeks ago,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: we had Tasha on saying that like Michelle was just consistent,
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: like she didn't need Tasian Caitlin as much. Uh. And
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I think that is a sign that Michelle holds her own.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: She puts these dudes in their place, and I think
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: that makes for a great season. I agree. All right, Well,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: after this we're going to go into Bachelor headliness. Bachelor
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: headlines for this week. It's a big weekend Bachelor world,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: starting with that sn L skit Kim Kardashian West headlines
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: the Bachelor Atte spoof, joined by Chris Rock, John Cena,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Amy Schumer, and more, including our very own from the
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Bachelor franchise, Tyler Cameron. I mean, this was a big
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: deal for Tyler Cameron. If you guys haven't watched it, it
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: it is very funny. SNL loves doing the Bachelor's skits.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: Now there's a Bachelor's kit every few months, and it
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: was an honor and a pleasure to have Kim Kardashian
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: stand in as a bachelorette. Okay, it's pretty cool. She's
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: like basically acknowledging our show and I love it. But
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: freaking Tyler was up there as a you know, mock
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Bachelor contestant with as as Benja said, like John Cena,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Chase Crawford, Jesse Williams, Blake Griffin, Amy Schumer, and like
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Kim calls Tyler up and she like holds his hand
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: and like gives him a token, and this is who
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: is Tyler Cameron's publicist. Okay, this was a huge move
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: and I'm just going to move into the next headline
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: because Bachelor Nation had a lot of reactions to this.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: All Caitlin Bristow wrote was what and then and then
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Jay's in said, um, Jason said, you're single handedly or
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: increasing the stock of Bachelor Nation by the minute. And
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: then Mike Johnson said, we love to see it. It's
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: just like, wow, Yeah, I was watching SNL and all
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: of a sudden this happens, and I didn't even notice
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Tyler was there until his name got called, Like I
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: was just kind of like watching it, and then all
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, I'm like, what, how in the world,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Like who is his publicist? Like, how in the world
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: does this happen? Uh, explain to me the pit thing though?
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Is that a play on squid game? Like I didn't
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: understand that part well at the end when they got
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: when when the guy got eliminated, he kind of walked
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: into a room of fire. What does that mean? Oh,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: maybe that is a squid thing. I don't know, probably is,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: because I haven't watched it, and my friends just said
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: that like every somebody like there's a lot of people
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: that die throughout the problem. It's I just finished. It's
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: a very intense show anyways. Oh yeah, um well, moving
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: on here. Bachelor in Paradise is Noah and Abigail spend
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: time in Oklahoma. The quote is I found my person now. Actually,
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: before you start here, I want to comment. You know,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: it was rumored that Kenny and Marie had broken up,
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: the no and Abigail weren't together like a week left
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: in Paradise. People in the public, we're kind of making
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: these rumors. It doesn't feel like that's a case for anybody. No,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: And it's really amazing that the caption of this says
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: I found my person, because if you remember, he kept
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: saying at the end of that episode where he breaks
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: up with Abigail is you're just not my person. You're
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: just not my person. And then in front of a
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: ferris wheel at the Tulsa State Fair, he says, to
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: be fair, you know, playing a little pun on where
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: they were at, I found my person beautiful. So, like,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: what change? How do you go from thinking somebody's not
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: your person to someone we will We'll find out, we
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: must we will. Uh Well. Kinda Long is embracing the
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: villain label after Bachelor in Paradise drama. Yeah, she says
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: on social media, sure, I'll be your villain. It kind
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: of has a nice ring to it, and she has
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: a picture of herself reading a ring pop. I don't.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: I would have never thought of Kendall as a villain,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: but I'm sure there are people out there who are
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: writing to her on social media saying that she was
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: a villain because of her little appearance at the engagement.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: And yeah, it was it the best move? No? Probably not,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: but like did it make her villainous? Never? She didn't
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: come there to break it up. She came there with
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: good intentions. It just didn't like land, you know, it
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: just didn't It didn't sit well. Uh. Marissa Gunn is
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: in tears of happiness after Riley Christian engagement. The quote
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: is I couldn't be happier. Well, if you guys saw
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: what they post said a lot of on Sunday on Instagram,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: they like had maroon five Sunday Morning. They also had
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: another and old, another oldie about Sunday mornings playing in
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: the background of them making French toast um them kissing,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: you know, by the stove, and the caption also reads,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: I can't believe this is how I get to spend
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: every Sunday morning for the rest of my life at
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Riley Christian, you have changed my world completely and I
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: couldn't be happy. We're happy for him. That's absolutely well.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Peter Webber spoke this week. He had a big reveal.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: He reveals he almost went on Bachelor in Paradise. Really wow.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: He says, I was gonna go. I don't know for
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: sure if I was. I don't know for sure if
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: I was going, but I was definitely considering it. Luckily
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: I got my class date for you Nighted Airlines, so
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: it made the decision for me, and I was starting
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: right as Paradise filming was going to start. That would
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: have been a little weird for me. I don't know.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: It would have been crazy wild. Yeah, how crazy? It
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: two leads to pass leads on one season, which would
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: have made sense. It had actually been nice to see
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: a pass Batchelor lead along with Becca Uh. He also says,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: I think the only reason I would have considered it
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: was just because it was the one avenue through that
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: kind of world that I hadn't tried yet, and you
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: see a lot of success stories from it, So I
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: think that's what was in my mind, perking my interests
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: or whatnot. Maybe it could work go this avenue. I
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: also think that maybe, just maybe, and maybe I'm a
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: drama starter, but like he would have liked Kelly to
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: see him on their dating of the people he could have.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: And also I just feel like Paradise was kind of
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: more Peter's fit, right, Like he's known to have a
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: good time, he's out there in the world. Um, you know,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: if it's fast paced, I think could just fit him.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Um well, maybe even better than The Bachelor fit him.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: I think Paradise was a good fit for Peter, but
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: he didn't do it. Maybe next year, who knows. Hopefully
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: he's with somebody and and the world needs more pilots,
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: so I'm glad he didn't take time off because right
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: now we have a pilot shortage or at least Yeah. Anyways, Hey,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: that's all the headlines. We have. What an incredible episode.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Um We'll be back next week with another episode of
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: the Almost Famous podcast. But until then, I've been been,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: I've been Ashley. See you guys. Follow the Benn and
• 53:30
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