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S5 E8 Hopping on the Boy Bandwagon · 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. I mean, we just keep coming back.
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Speaker 1: We're definitely leaving. This is season five, episode seven, Bin
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Speaker 1: and actually I Almost Famous Podcast. I think it's been
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Speaker 1: a full year. I think it's been a full year
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Speaker 1: as of this week. That's insane. Actually, it's been a
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Speaker 1: great year with you. Um, you just keep getting better.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, stop, thank you. Uh, actually we missed
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Speaker 1: you last week. I missed Lost Angeles to see you,
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Speaker 1: and uh, you disappeared onto the East coast. How was
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Speaker 1: your trip? It was really good. Um, I just I
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Speaker 1: went all over the place, but it was basically New
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Speaker 1: York and Virginia. Um. I went to a bon Jovi
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Speaker 1: concert with one of our favorite producers, Pete Scalatar. He
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Speaker 1: used to work on the show. That was cool. I
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Speaker 1: saw two Broadway shows, Kinky Boots, which was out standing
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Speaker 1: and Mean Girls, which I wasn't as much of a fan.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes don't mess with the original. And then I went
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Speaker 1: home to Virginia to see my mom on Mother's Day.
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Speaker 1: That's amazing. Well, welcome back to Los Angeles. Hey, everybody,
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, if you for some reason
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Speaker 1: falling uh, into the podcasting world, and you came across
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Speaker 1: to almost in this podcast, and you're asking yourself right now,
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Speaker 1: what is this? And I don't want to listen to
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Speaker 1: these two people any longer. I'm telling you hold up
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Speaker 1: for one second, because here, within the next five minutes,
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Speaker 1: we are about to make podcasting history. We're going to
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Speaker 1: have a surprise guest on this podcast that I believe
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Speaker 1: might make Astley I Cannet East faint. I'm not, I'm not.
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Speaker 1: You know the podcast, you know, the podcast Super Guests,
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Speaker 1: Surprise Guests. Actually, just pause for a second here because
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Speaker 1: we gotta get into Bachelor news before we bring on
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Speaker 1: our surprise guests. Bachelor news. Actually, we've came across the
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Speaker 1: little article this week from an interview between Andy Cohen
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Speaker 1: and Charlie Barron, which is wild to me that she
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Speaker 1: is even comedy on The Bachelor, but she blacked task
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Speaker 1: the Bachelor Ari Lion Dyke, but really promote and supports
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Speaker 1: Becca's uh next run as a bachelorette. Isn't it crazy
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Speaker 1: to think that you know a list actresses or actors
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Speaker 1: or celebrities just so involved in the show. Well, she
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Speaker 1: got Sean Penn into the show back when they were dating,
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Speaker 1: and I remember Caitlin watching I think he was on
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel when it was my season and he was
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Speaker 1: talking about how much he loved Caitlin and hope that
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Speaker 1: she was the next bachelorette, and it was just like
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Speaker 1: Caitlin was just astonished and yeah again, I mean Charlie
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Speaker 1: Starret it's it's that's no bless celebrity that is straight
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Speaker 1: a list. It's pretty cool. It is really cool. Uh
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Speaker 1: not a fan of Arica. I mean we said it
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Speaker 1: last week on the pcast. I don't know if you're
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Speaker 1: able to hear it not. Actually, Becca will be walking
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Speaker 1: into becoming the bactor has probably the most supported and
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Speaker 1: loved the Bachelor ever. I don't know, come on, Jojo.
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Speaker 1: Everybody was obsessed with Jojo. I get it, No, Joe.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we've had amazing guy threat Like, we could
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Speaker 1: go through the list and compare. But I'm telling you,
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Speaker 1: Ari might have done Becca uh the most uh supportive
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Speaker 1: thing ever by breaking up with her on national TV
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Speaker 1: because now everybody loved her. I mean he he. It
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Speaker 1: was sad and it was tough at the time, but
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Speaker 1: now nobody wants to see beca kill. Everybody wants to
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Speaker 1: see her succeed. She's walking to this season, I think loved,
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Speaker 1: completely loved. Is it weird that I don't even really
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Speaker 1: feel bad for her anymore because because he's because like
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Speaker 1: he sucks so bad pertaining to like her storyline that
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Speaker 1: I'm like, just I'm so happy for her to have
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Speaker 1: gotten away from that. I okay, yeah, yeah, I wanted
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Speaker 1: to say it myself, and I'm glad you did because
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Speaker 1: it's true, Like I don't feel bad for it all anymore. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was terrible. It was that, but she's doing just fine.
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Speaker 1: Was doing just fine. We got a glimpse of her
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Speaker 1: guys this week. Uh, there was a little commercially came out.
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Speaker 1: What about this chicken guy? I mean, every year there's
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Speaker 1: something weird going on, But what makes this guy think
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna trying to find my wife and so on
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Speaker 1: that first impression, I'm gonna dress up in a chicken? Sup?
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Speaker 1: Would you be into that? Why is there so many
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Speaker 1: chicken themes in the Batchel I remember a couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago we had Chicken Girl. That was my season.
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Speaker 1: Oh that was How do you respond to that? I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just kind of weird to have a chicken like
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Speaker 1: on a first date sitting next to you, Like, it
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Speaker 1: just doesn't It's not exactly the most attractive thing when
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Speaker 1: there's literally somebody like behind camera cleaning up chicken poop
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Speaker 1: with a towel during your day. Did she bring her
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Speaker 1: chicken pet to the house. Yeah, I'm sure she did.
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Speaker 1: The weird I still will never get over how that
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Speaker 1: girl had a pet chicken and she also ate chicken.
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Speaker 1: I remember she was in Paradise for like twelve hours
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Speaker 1: and she was like, chickens just so healthy for you, Like,
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Speaker 1: I can't not eat it because of the health benefits.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, bitch, come on, now, you can eat a
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Speaker 1: lot of things in her placement of of chicken. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but actually, I gotta be honest. I lived in Peru,
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Speaker 1: uh for a while, and I guinea pig, and I
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Speaker 1: used to have pet guinea pigs. You ate guinea pig
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Speaker 1: and you had to get a pet guinea pig. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's the thing in Peru. You eat guinea pig. And
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Speaker 1: at one point in my life I had pet guinea pigs.
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Speaker 1: And I still probably get it pet today if I could.
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Speaker 1: I don't get it. You don't get it. It's the
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Speaker 1: same thing. I mean, I don't get how you can
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Speaker 1: do that. Oh, it's a little different, Like how do
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Speaker 1: you separate that that's like me eating a dog. You well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I guess in the sense it is. Well, you just
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Speaker 1: understand that fluff. He doesn't taste as bad as he
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Speaker 1: thought he did. Oh my gosh. This goes back to
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Speaker 1: all the things that you were brainwashed when you've lived
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Speaker 1: in the mid you know, growing up to the Midwest,
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Speaker 1: your grandpa used to know whatever. I was never brainwashed.
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Speaker 1: We just like our animals, like we we support we
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Speaker 1: support the eating of animals. Um, I also support the
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Speaker 1: nannyat of animals, so I support us. I don't know
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Speaker 1: how to throw the PC line in there. You know,
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Speaker 1: I had a stuffed animal, a stuffed animal Lamb Lammy,
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Speaker 1: who I still sleep with when I'm at home in Virginia,
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Speaker 1: and I don't eat Lamb to this day because I
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Speaker 1: have my favorite stuffed Lamb. So you can just imagine
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Speaker 1: how I feel about this chicken. This just points back,
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Speaker 1: actually to what I say over and over again. You
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Speaker 1: have the most loving and um intentional and deep heart
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Speaker 1: of any person who ever met, and so you would
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Speaker 1: have a stuffed animal you fell in love with, and
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Speaker 1: as a result, you can't even eat lamb today. Anyways,
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Speaker 1: I wonder this season coming up, Rebecca, We've we've met
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Speaker 1: our guys. Some of them are really great. I uh.
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Speaker 1: I think we kind of go back to that very
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Speaker 1: first interaction that she had after the Bachelor's season on
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Speaker 1: after the Final Roads. So those guys were really loved,
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Speaker 1: and I remember watching the TV and seeing the reaction
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Speaker 1: from some of the crowd. I think, Becca, I think
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Speaker 1: the season, Rebecca, We're in for a good one. I
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Speaker 1: think we're in for love, for catchphrases, let's do this
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Speaker 1: damn thing, and Joe. Joe's advice Rebecca was stay in
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Speaker 1: the moment um. I'm sorry, Ben, I need to interrupt
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Speaker 1: because the surprise guest is on the line and I
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Speaker 1: don't want to keep them waiting. Okay wait Erica is
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Speaker 1: in the room taping my reaction, so now I'm freaking out.
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Speaker 1: It's gotta be lands back. I have an idea. Should
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Speaker 1: we play a game? Yeah? I have We could have
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Speaker 1: the guests disguise their voice. Disguise their voice. We could
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Speaker 1: do that. I actually could ask you yes or no
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Speaker 1: questions trying to figure it out. Okay, yeah, all right,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'll explain that to the guests. Stand by,
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Speaker 1: Mr we guest, do not say anything, please, if you can,
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Speaker 1: disguise your voice, because actually was going to ask you
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Speaker 1: yes or no questions. Try to guess who you are,
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Speaker 1: so maybe use a falsetto or something. But when you
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Speaker 1: when you say yes or no, try to disguise your
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Speaker 1: voice as much as possible. Do you understand? Surprise guest? Perfect?
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Speaker 1: You guys? Can I just say that I My heart
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Speaker 1: is beating right now. I'm so nervous. Amy's in here now,
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Speaker 1: Ay just walked in and I'm so nervous. I'm so
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Speaker 1: sorry to like the audience squeal. Yeah. Actually focus, Okay,
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Speaker 1: ask your question. Okay, were you in a boy band?
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Speaker 1: Quite possibly? Yes? Are you about thirty eight or thirty nine?
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Speaker 1: Actually I'm away bit older than that seth um. Are
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Speaker 1: you in a boy band in the early nineties or
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Speaker 1: the late nineties? I would say both both early nineties.
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Speaker 1: Are you're not a new kid on the block, dick on, no,
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Speaker 1: whoever you are, you do a great job disguise in
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Speaker 1: your voice. Well, you know, I I spent years doing
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Speaker 1: musical theater, all kinds of film and TV things when
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Speaker 1: I was a kid, so I've kind of developed a
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Speaker 1: way to mask my voice if I have to. Have
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Speaker 1: you been in any movies. I've only really been in
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Speaker 1: one about two years ago that was really more so
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Speaker 1: straight to TV, but it was a lot of It
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Speaker 1: was so much fun, actually filming in Pute, Montana actually
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Speaker 1: one of the most random places I've ever been in
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Speaker 1: my life. You were in one other sorry, you were
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Speaker 1: in one other movie that is slipping your mind, but
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Speaker 1: you were. You had a very popular cameo in a movie.
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Speaker 1: Are you Joey for tone? Am I on the right track? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: You're getting closer, You're you're getting close up but still
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Speaker 1: a weep it all. Are you a j McClain. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's amazing. Yeah, Jay, How are you darling? Oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: I'm so good. How are you? I am doing blended
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Speaker 1: driving in traffic right now? Did you know that I'm
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Speaker 1: going to see you on Wednesday? I have heard rumbling, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? But I have heard rumbling. Well, I
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Speaker 1: know what what's going on, but I can't reveal that
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Speaker 1: either because it's going to be a surprise to the
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Speaker 1: audience that you're surprising than J. That accident was phenomenal. Literally,
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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you very much. Why are you here?
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Speaker 1: Why are you talking to us? Well, you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: talking to you because we have a brand new single,
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Speaker 1: our first single in five years, uh, coming out on
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Speaker 1: the seventeenth of this month, which is literally in three days,
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Speaker 1: and also the same day a video too coincide with
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Speaker 1: the new single, which is the song was sold Don't
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Speaker 1: go breaking my Heart and uh, you guys are not ready.
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Speaker 1: You're not ready for the single, you're not ready for
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Speaker 1: the video. Um. This is a game changer, absolute game changer.
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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to hear Ben. Do you care the
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Speaker 1: AJ on the phone right now? I I definitely care. Hey,
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Speaker 1: I would love to be able to react the same way.
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Speaker 1: Actually did uh? Huge? Thanks for coming on the podcast.
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Speaker 1: You know, I gotta give you a second here. So
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Speaker 1: you've got new music coming out this Thursday. But you
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Speaker 1: are still you still have a residency in Vegas? Correct?
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Speaker 1: Yes we do? Yes? Um. You know it's funny. Initially
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Speaker 1: when we first put tickets on sale for for the
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Speaker 1: Vegas show, it was only supposed to be nine dates.
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Speaker 1: Then we added nine more, Then we added nine more,
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Speaker 1: then we added nine more, and then after that we
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Speaker 1: added fifty two more. So we are heading back to
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Speaker 1: Vegas the end of July through August twelve, and then
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Speaker 1: we go back again October November, and then we finish
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Speaker 1: up in February of next year. Um, and then we
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Speaker 1: will be going on a world tour to commemorate anniversary
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Speaker 1: this year to support the brand new album Whoa. I'm
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Speaker 1: so excited. Um. We're hoping for the album potentially all
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Speaker 1: of this year. That's kind of what we're shooting for.
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Speaker 1: We'll see, Um, you know, there's so much going on
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Speaker 1: right now, but we're definitely trying to just kind of
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Speaker 1: locked everything down. But we've pretty much cut i'd say
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Speaker 1: a good chunk of the album thus far. Um, you know,
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Speaker 1: just kind of basically just just kind of honing in songs,
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Speaker 1: picking out a track listing. We're still actually in the
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Speaker 1: studio currently recording as well. You know, we're not a
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Speaker 1: percent done, but we're also going to see how the
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Speaker 1: single does and just keep pressing forward. I mean, we're
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Speaker 1: super stoked about everything right now. I mean things have
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Speaker 1: just been kind of really falling into place. We're getting
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Speaker 1: so much love, um, from both radio press media, and
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Speaker 1: you know, we just got off of our six BSP
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Speaker 1: cruise which went splendidly. Um, we're gonna tease the single,
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Speaker 1: but then we didn't, and fans are just chomping at
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Speaker 1: the bit, which is awesome. You dressed up a scary
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Speaker 1: Spice on the cruise, Yes, I did. Which did you
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Speaker 1: each dress up as a different Spice girl? Yes? We
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Speaker 1: each did. Um. You know It's it's funny because at
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Speaker 1: first our stylist was basically trying to make me ginger
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Speaker 1: and make how we scary. I'm like, there's away that
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Speaker 1: makes absolutely no sense. Definitely scary. Spice Kevin was posh,
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Speaker 1: Nick obviously baby, and then how he was perfect. I
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Speaker 1: think that's a perfect alignment. Absolu and we were the
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Speaker 1: Spice Boys. Hey, I gotta tell you a story. I
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Speaker 1: I we've actually been about ten fee from each other
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Speaker 1: here recently. Uh, and I'm just remembering this story now
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Speaker 1: as we're talking. I was in Las Vegas, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I can't even say it last year at some point,
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Speaker 1: and I had a crowd of people around taking pictures
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Speaker 1: with me, and it was getting a little bit overwhelming,
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Speaker 1: just because those streets you know, get so busy, and
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Speaker 1: once one person gets a picture, the whole kind of
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Speaker 1: crowd turns and starts winning pictures as well. And I'm
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Speaker 1: totally having a little bit of a moment because I
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Speaker 1: start freaking out and then all of a sudden, out
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Speaker 1: of nowhere, everybody's faces just turned and run away from me.
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Speaker 1: That the reason is because the Backstreet Boys. We're getting
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Speaker 1: out of there, out of your van or limo at
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Speaker 1: the hotel, walking up the stairs, and so thank you
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Speaker 1: for saving me. But also I gotta I got a
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Speaker 1: quick glimpse of your life, and that's what leaves me
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Speaker 1: this question. Looking at life right now, I gotta ask this,
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Speaker 1: is this still surreal to you? I mean, people are
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Speaker 1: massive fans. I've seen Ashley said tears over the Backstreet Boys.
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Speaker 1: Did you ever you know? I mean, look, we we
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Speaker 1: always hoped and we always dreamed, you know, that this
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Speaker 1: would you know, stand the test of time and that
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Speaker 1: this would actually have legs and continue for years to come.
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Speaker 1: But you know, back in the nineties, things where thanks
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Speaker 1: for different and we just didn't know. And obviously, fortunately
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Speaker 1: enough we're we we've been so beyond blessed and beyond
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Speaker 1: grateful that we've been able to stand the test of
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Speaker 1: time for twenty five freaking years years, thank you. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just it's it's a shocked you know that twenty
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Speaker 1: five years for for anyone that's in our kind of
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Speaker 1: line of work, as far as the boy band genre,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't really happen, you know. And the fact that
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Speaker 1: we've been been able to stand the test of time
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Speaker 1: to continue to put out great music, to continue to
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Speaker 1: have the most amazingly loyal fans follow us too highs
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Speaker 1: and lows and stay by our side, to still be
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Speaker 1: able to sell out chores. Now have a you know,
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas residency, and here we are about to release
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Speaker 1: our brand new single and our tent studio album. It's
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Speaker 1: it's mind boggling, it really is. But it's a true
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Speaker 1: testament to our fans, and it's a true testament to
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Speaker 1: the music itself. Hey a J, let's talk about super fans, Like,
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Speaker 1: are they creepy? Like you love them? Like you don't
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Speaker 1: get tired of seeing my face? Right? It's not creepy, never, never, No.
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Speaker 1: I mean, look, it's funny because there's been so many
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Speaker 1: fans that have been with us literally since day one,
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Speaker 1: and we've watched them grow up and start families, just
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Speaker 1: like they've watched us grow up, get married and you know,
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Speaker 1: also have families. And to see all these you know,
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Speaker 1: faces that we've seen since the beginning, they become kind
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Speaker 1: of family almost, you know, like they literally know anything
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Speaker 1: and everything about us and the same with us with them,
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Speaker 1: like we can, you know, point them out of a crowd.
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Speaker 1: We know them by name. We asked, Hey, how's your
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Speaker 1: husband or you know, how's your partner, how are your kids?
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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's a it's a it's a very
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Speaker 1: unique vaunt that we have with our fans that I think,
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Speaker 1: really truly, like I said, is a testament to why
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Speaker 1: we're still here. You know, we always try to go
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Speaker 1: the extra mile with our fans. That's why we do
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Speaker 1: our PSP crews. It's a very intimate experience. You know,
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Speaker 1: we do our meet and great still. You know, we
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Speaker 1: always try to go in the crowd for every show
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Speaker 1: and you know, give the fans that that little extra
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Speaker 1: something special. You know, you guys are so good to
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Speaker 1: your fans. You really are so warm and welcoming and
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Speaker 1: you say hi to everybody you possibly can. I was
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Speaker 1: just thinking about like I saw you at that Lance
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Speaker 1: party in March. I'm gonna see you on Wednesday. Then
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Speaker 1: I'm going to see you at Wango Tango Kiss FMS
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Speaker 1: Wingo Tango by A T and T on June seconds,
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Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna see you again at the Residency
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Speaker 1: in July. And I'm like, wow, he probably thinks I'm crazy. No, No,
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Speaker 1: I love it. Just keep on showing up, you know what.
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Speaker 1: We only have to worry when nobody chose up that
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Speaker 1: when we're like, um, guys, I don't know if this
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Speaker 1: is gonna work anymore. Fun, people keep showing up. People literally,
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Speaker 1: the the love that we get from our fans and
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Speaker 1: from media, press, radio, TV, everyone is just it's so
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Speaker 1: heartwarming because we really do love what we do. And
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Speaker 1: I do have to say, if it wasn't enjoyable still,
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Speaker 1: we probably wouldn't be doing this. I mean, we truly
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Speaker 1: are doing this because it is that much fun. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I have to ask you, I have to pause here,
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Speaker 1: and just that's why are you such a big fan
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Speaker 1: of the Back to Boys your stuff? I mean, you
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Speaker 1: really are, and you really love them. You always tell
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Speaker 1: me how kind and night go of the fan Outside
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Speaker 1: of any of that like what brought you to become
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Speaker 1: a fan of the back too? Truly? Their their music
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Speaker 1: is timeless. Um, I just read a little factoid that
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Speaker 1: they still play I Want It that Way at proms now,
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Speaker 1: which is almost it's it's over twenty years about twenty
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Speaker 1: years now right a years today, millennium easily like it is.
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Speaker 1: Their music is timeless and they're the They're the boy
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Speaker 1: band that I have to say that our kids are
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Speaker 1: going to listen to like they're gonna be on the
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Speaker 1: oldiest station. Our kids are gonna be downloading them or whatever.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be like that button in their brain that perfect.
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Speaker 1: A perfect example is my oldest Eva is my number
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Speaker 1: one fan. She literally walked around the house with her
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Speaker 1: iPad playing our chapter one Greatest Kids word for it. Now.
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Speaker 1: Recently Daddy got trumped by The Greatest Showman, which is
19:57
Speaker 1: has fantastic taste. Oh my god. Okay, look, I was
20:02
Speaker 1: sleeping on the movie because I've been traveling and I've
20:04
Speaker 1: been going NonStop for the past probably three months between
20:07
Speaker 1: Backstreet and Solo stuff, that I just haven't had time
20:10
Speaker 1: to watch it. And I'd watched the movie for the
20:12
Speaker 1: first time two nights to go ball the Baby. I've
20:15
Speaker 1: been living with the soundtrack every day because my daughter
20:18
Speaker 1: knows every word. What an unbelievable soundtrack, like you could
20:23
Speaker 1: listen to some of those songs on Top twenty radio
20:25
Speaker 1: right now, and but you're but you're absolutely right, like
20:29
Speaker 1: you know, Eva, she's five, and he knows all the
20:32
Speaker 1: Backstreet Boys songs. Her favorite, which I'm a little bit
20:36
Speaker 1: leary of, is the Call and I'm seen well because
20:40
Speaker 1: you know, it's basically talking about being a cheater. So
20:43
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, when you're when you're older, Daddy
20:48
Speaker 1: will explain to you why that song is kind of
20:50
Speaker 1: catch twenty two babe. But because she is recently becoming
20:54
Speaker 1: boy crazy, which is giving me gray hairs, well, don't worrying.
20:58
Speaker 1: It happens at like five, six and seven, and you
21:00
Speaker 1: think they're yucky for a while until you're like ten
21:02
Speaker 1: or eleven. Well hopefully she thinks you're yucky till she's
21:05
Speaker 1: eighteen and she moved out, and then I don't have
21:09
Speaker 1: so I really I really don't. I really don't want
21:10
Speaker 1: to have to think about it. You know, Oh my gosh,
21:12
Speaker 1: we could be on the phone with d forever. We
21:14
Speaker 1: did an entire segment on The Greatest Showman and how
21:17
Speaker 1: just I've I haven't felt passion like that for a
21:20
Speaker 1: work of art in the longest time. It was like
21:23
Speaker 1: for for me. And this is no disrespect too, because
21:27
Speaker 1: I think Bass Lahmann is one of the most genius
21:29
Speaker 1: directors in the world. My wife's all time favorite movie
21:32
Speaker 1: used to be used to be what still is up?
21:34
Speaker 1: There was is uh Lulan Rouge And she said after
21:39
Speaker 1: seeing this, like this is her new obsession because what
21:42
Speaker 1: she brought up, which is a really good point, is
21:44
Speaker 1: to kind of have this period piece was basically modern
21:48
Speaker 1: pop music thrown into it, like and and from what
21:52
Speaker 1: I read, the guys that wrote this soundtrack like this
21:55
Speaker 1: is their first ever like jobs, like oh my god,
22:00
Speaker 1: Like what an amazing start to a career, you know,
22:04
Speaker 1: writing these songs that are massive. And everybody killed it
22:08
Speaker 1: in the movie. I mean everybody, I mean Q Jack
22:10
Speaker 1: mean there's nothing that that that man can do, literally
22:13
Speaker 1: cannot do. Oh it was so good and I love
22:16
Speaker 1: the way that you feel the exact way I feel
22:19
Speaker 1: about it. It needs to go on Broadway and I
22:20
Speaker 1: would love to have Hugh Jackman play the role for
22:23
Speaker 1: just three months you know, give us three months. I'll
22:25
Speaker 1: pay a thousand dollars to see I mean, honestly, yes,
22:28
Speaker 1: I think it should go on Broadway. But I think
22:31
Speaker 1: I should be Phineas T. Barnum on broad Oh my god,
22:35
Speaker 1: A j don't put that in my head. And now
22:36
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to like make this happen. It has
22:40
Speaker 1: been a dream of mine to do Broadway since I
22:42
Speaker 1: was a baby, Like I did theater growing up, and
22:44
Speaker 1: I've never had a chance to do Broadway. But if
22:47
Speaker 1: it ever does go to probably, which I think it
22:49
Speaker 1: would be stupid not to, I do have to have
22:53
Speaker 1: to be up for the possibility of being P. T.
22:56
Speaker 1: Barnum die, you'd be so fanta hasta. I have to
23:01
Speaker 1: give a little shout out to Mulan Rouge since we're
23:03
Speaker 1: on the topic um. This week, a preview of Mulan
23:06
Speaker 1: Rouge on Broadway came out. The new musical. It starts
23:09
Speaker 1: in Boston, but it's gonna move over to Broadway later
23:12
Speaker 1: in the year. It starts Aaron to Vate, my absolute
23:16
Speaker 1: favorite Broadway actor, and it's directed by my favorite Broadway director,
23:19
Speaker 1: Alex Timber Timbers, and I could not be more excited.
23:22
Speaker 1: It's absolutely gonna be fantastic. It's gonna be greatest showman level. Okay,
23:27
Speaker 1: but moving on, UM, last question before we let you go,
23:31
Speaker 1: A J. Jen, your manager, your longtime manager, huge Bachelor fan.
23:37
Speaker 1: Have you gotten into the show through her? I know
23:40
Speaker 1: that you were on Nick's season. Yes, And I and
23:44
Speaker 1: I did just see Nick at at Atlanta's assistant Lisa's
23:48
Speaker 1: birthday party and we were catching up, you know, and
23:52
Speaker 1: I and I. It's funny. I actually drilled him. I said, Okay,
23:56
Speaker 1: do you have any recollection of any of the choreography
23:59
Speaker 1: that we taught you? And he actually remembered a little
24:01
Speaker 1: bit about the back. But then he was like, yeah,
24:03
Speaker 1: that's all I got. But um, you know what's funny,
24:07
Speaker 1: My my wife watches the show. Um, Jen did get
24:11
Speaker 1: me into it a little bit. Um, but what show?
24:14
Speaker 1: Jen really got me like over the top about to
24:16
Speaker 1: the point where like I've become friends with like the
24:18
Speaker 1: cast is big is Big is Big Brother? Like I
24:23
Speaker 1: I thought that that was like, in my opinion, like
24:25
Speaker 1: really watching a bunch of people in a house for
24:27
Speaker 1: like twenty four hours a day, Like how can that
24:29
Speaker 1: be enjoyable? Oh dear god, I'm up Big Brothers, Have
24:34
Speaker 1: you a comeback? Everybody's wanting to watch Celebrity Big brother
24:38
Speaker 1: because that was amazing, you know what, that was the
24:41
Speaker 1: only one I didn't watch. And I also didn't watch
24:43
Speaker 1: season nine Team, which was strictly online, like I didn't
24:46
Speaker 1: really like, I don't know, but I was gonna watch Celebrity.
24:49
Speaker 1: They actually asked me if I wanted to do Celebrity.
24:52
Speaker 1: Pardon me, but but we were actually back in Vegas
24:55
Speaker 1: during that February run. But one of my new now
24:58
Speaker 1: closest friends is actually Paul Abraham from season sixteen. All
25:02
Speaker 1: and I have become friends now for the last couple
25:04
Speaker 1: of years and one of the nicest guys in the world.
25:07
Speaker 1: He got shafted twice. He should have won at least
25:10
Speaker 1: one of those times. But um, but no, I mean,
25:13
Speaker 1: it's such a it's such a great show, Like I
25:14
Speaker 1: can't wait for the summer for the next season. Like
25:17
Speaker 1: I'm I'm like chomping at the bit right now. So
25:19
Speaker 1: would you do the show if you had some time off?
25:22
Speaker 1: You know, I think I think I would. If it
25:25
Speaker 1: was this celebrity one where the money you win goes
25:28
Speaker 1: to charity necessarily in your pocket, then I would do
25:31
Speaker 1: it because that's what it's I think it's only like
25:33
Speaker 1: a two or three week run. It's not like the
25:35
Speaker 1: full ninety days. You know. I can't be away from
25:40
Speaker 1: my kids for that long. There's just no way. All right,
25:42
Speaker 1: Well we can go on and on, but just thank
25:45
Speaker 1: you so much for coming on. This has been a
25:48
Speaker 1: dream come true, my pleasure, darling, and I was forward
25:51
Speaker 1: to seeing you very soon. Before you go, I just
25:53
Speaker 1: want to let everybody out there know once again, on
25:56
Speaker 1: June second to Backstor Boys, you will be at Wango Tango.
26:00
Speaker 1: Actually you're gonna be there in the pit. So if
26:02
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26:05
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26:08
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26:11
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26:14
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26:18
Speaker 1: out the back to Boys there perfect. Yes it's your
26:21
Speaker 1: second straight year at Windo Tango. Yes it is, and
26:25
Speaker 1: brand new single this Thursday, brand new video, and thank
26:29
Speaker 1: you for all your love and support. Thank you guys
26:31
Speaker 1: so much, and I can't wait to see you. What
26:33
Speaker 1: you think you guys are ever grands. Yes, I can't
26:35
Speaker 1: wait to hear the single and see you on one day.
26:38
Speaker 1: Good bye guys. Ye, how sweet was he? He literally
26:46
Speaker 1: could talk to us forever. He's just just so die.
26:49
Speaker 1: Are you surprised? I was very surprised when the camera
26:52
Speaker 1: came in here. I was like, Oh, it's a boy beender.
26:54
Speaker 1: It's definitely a boy bender. They know there's no one
26:56
Speaker 1: else who can get me as excited. I'm at the
26:59
Speaker 1: age where I've gotten to, like, I've reverted to only
27:04
Speaker 1: getting excited over who I've loved since childhood, like everybody else,
27:09
Speaker 1: like all these you know, real big celebrities. I'm like,
27:11
Speaker 1: oh whatever, hey, hey, but if I've loved you since childhood,
27:15
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27:20
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27:23
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27:26
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27:29
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27:32
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27:34
Speaker 1: know how long you just straight talked that guy. You
27:36
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27:40
Speaker 1: weird for you? It's it is the most surreal thing.
27:44
Speaker 1: It's really one of the few things that gets me
27:46
Speaker 1: so giddy, Like my my pitch goes up a couple
27:49
Speaker 1: of octaves. It's so weird. But when I found out
27:53
Speaker 1: that I was interviewing the Battery Boys on Wednesday, and
27:56
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27:58
Speaker 1: Walk of Fame a couple weeks ago, there's nothing better.
28:02
Speaker 1: I can't believe this is happening to me. I am
28:04
Speaker 1: a professional fan girl, and I love it. I could
28:07
Speaker 1: not ask for a better profession. You literally are a
28:12
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28:15
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28:17
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30:26
Speaker 1: You know, it's so funny. When we start this show,
30:27
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30:29
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30:31
Speaker 1: then I'm like, we're reading through all this stuff, and
30:32
Speaker 1: then I'm like, wait a second, I have talked at this,
30:34
Speaker 1: and I have talked about that. I have to talk
30:36
Speaker 1: about how you just said like, how surreal it is
30:38
Speaker 1: that I get to talk to you boy banders on
30:40
Speaker 1: the rag And I have to say that they make
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30:47
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30:51
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30:53
Speaker 1: them a little shout out for that. But that's great, Ashley.
30:55
Speaker 1: But let's also give a little credit to people individually.
30:58
Speaker 1: I'm sure not every boy bander or every you know,
31:02
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31:04
Speaker 1: J was incredible there. He made me feel comfortable and
31:08
Speaker 1: I'm nervous all the time. I guess I have to
31:12
Speaker 1: also like, I think it's particularly because of a J
31:16
Speaker 1: who has made me feel so nice in the past.
31:18
Speaker 1: I remember this one time we were at an iHeart
31:20
Speaker 1: event last year and he came up to me. He
31:23
Speaker 1: was like, I've been following you on Snapchat and you're
31:25
Speaker 1: so funny. I'm like, what is happening? He follows me
31:28
Speaker 1: on Snapchat and now Lance Bass follows me on Instagram,
31:31
Speaker 1: which I mean a pinnacle of my life. Um. He
31:34
Speaker 1: commented under my instnct picture the other day and he
31:36
Speaker 1: was like, it was so nice. Seeing you, even though
31:38
Speaker 1: it was only for ten seconds. Like when I was
31:40
Speaker 1: at the Hollywood Walk of Fame they weren't doing interviews,
31:43
Speaker 1: but Lance came up to me and he was like,
31:45
Speaker 1: it's so good to see you. I'm so glad you
31:46
Speaker 1: came and blah blah. I'm like, oh my god, this
31:48
Speaker 1: is so insane. My life is crazy. Um, actually, I
31:52
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta ask you a couple of questions here. Um, okay,
31:57
Speaker 1: So I'm a little confused. Are and thinking back to boys,
32:01
Speaker 1: like do they see themselves as competitors? Like do they
32:03
Speaker 1: dislike each other? Was there a rivalry that relationship play well?
32:08
Speaker 1: As we were just talking about, I last saw a
32:10
Speaker 1: J in March at Lance Basses Assistance party, And how
32:15
Speaker 1: was that Lance Basses Assistance fortieth birthday party? Because my
32:19
Speaker 1: sister's boyfriend was DJing it. I didn't get invited. I
32:22
Speaker 1: don't want people to think I got invited. So they
32:26
Speaker 1: are friends, like a J was invited to a Lance party.
32:29
Speaker 1: They're all really, they're all pretty close now. But yeah,
32:32
Speaker 1: back in the day, of course, there were times back
32:34
Speaker 1: in the day where I was like, oh, I can't
32:36
Speaker 1: I can't go to this concert or that concert, because
32:38
Speaker 1: that would be you know, traitor like. But that's not
32:41
Speaker 1: how it is. We're all allowed to love everyone. That's
32:43
Speaker 1: the thing. But that's the thing. Well yeah, but that
32:45
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Actually back in the day in the
32:47
Speaker 1: boy band here, I forget this and I honestly I
32:49
Speaker 1: didn't enter into the boy bands derees guy. But being all,
32:55
Speaker 1: there was a rivalry, there was that unique is that
32:58
Speaker 1: kind of like Edgy? It's definitely the like they never
33:05
Speaker 1: I Loven didit risk to my My dad always said,
33:08
Speaker 1: find a man like Nicola, say, a man who will
33:11
Speaker 1: go to home depot and do the things around his
33:14
Speaker 1: house himself, even though he can afford to pay somebody
33:17
Speaker 1: to do it. Act, You're gonna be at Lingo Tango
33:20
Speaker 1: to make sure everybody goes, uh check it out. Because
33:23
Speaker 1: all of this being said, I know I wanted to
33:25
Speaker 1: get my boy band knowledge in and but I have
33:28
Speaker 1: to say my heart is helping put on Lingo Tango.
33:31
Speaker 1: It is a huge deal. It is gonna be amazing.
33:33
Speaker 1: Go check it out by ticket. You don't want to
33:35
Speaker 1: miss that. It's the biggest, one of the biggest defensive
33:37
Speaker 1: the year, right Amy, Yes, No, it's our biggest concert
33:40
Speaker 1: of the year. I remember when I was younger and
33:43
Speaker 1: I didn't live out in l A and I before
33:46
Speaker 1: I was on The Bachelor, I would see pictures at
33:48
Speaker 1: Wango Tango and I'd be like, I just want to
33:50
Speaker 1: go to l A and go to Wingo Tango. Now
33:53
Speaker 1: everyone can watch it on TV. Yeah, So, speaking of TV,
33:56
Speaker 1: remember Josh Murray. Of course we do. So he's on
34:00
Speaker 1: the line, and okay here, I'm just gonna throw this
34:05
Speaker 1: out there. I like Josh Murray a lot. Yeah, but
34:09
Speaker 1: he is a polarizing Bachelor cast member. So before we
34:14
Speaker 1: talk to him, I want to see what you guys think,
34:16
Speaker 1: because it's like I like him, I want to like him.
34:20
Speaker 1: Did he get a bad rap? Does he get thrown
34:22
Speaker 1: under the bus after? Like what happens? Mm hmmm. Actually yeah,
34:31
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, oh wow, silent on the podcast.
34:35
Speaker 1: It's the best podcast, ones that you know, nobody talked on.
34:43
Speaker 1: Sometimes silence can say so much. I don't know. I
34:47
Speaker 1: don't know, I really and I mean it. I don't
34:50
Speaker 1: know Josh well, but I don't think any of us
34:52
Speaker 1: can sit here and say that. Maybe we let's you know,
34:55
Speaker 1: what we've got in trouble for this. Before let's bring
34:57
Speaker 1: him on, let's ask him himself. Let's do you know
34:59
Speaker 1: what he has to about his own character on the show.
35:03
Speaker 1: I think, well, before we talk about that, I need
35:07
Speaker 1: to give him my own little two cents, just because
35:09
Speaker 1: I have had a season with Josh. I had such
35:12
Speaker 1: a huge crush on Josh during Andy season he was
35:16
Speaker 1: I was like, please, let that be my Bachelor, and
35:18
Speaker 1: then I found out he won, and I was like,
35:20
Speaker 1: darn it. But you know, just so charming and so
35:25
Speaker 1: insanely good looking. He's like a Gaston like walking around Paradise,
35:30
Speaker 1: like just like good morning Ashley as he does pull
35:33
Speaker 1: ups on the doorway. He's such a character, and he
35:36
Speaker 1: was always nothing but so nice to me and so
35:39
Speaker 1: smiley and honestly very easy to talk to. Everything that
35:44
Speaker 1: I've heard that is poor about him is not something
35:47
Speaker 1: that I witnessed firsthand necessarily, but others. Okay, so yeah,
35:52
Speaker 1: you should tell himuse I think it'll make him more comfortable. Okay, hello,
35:57
Speaker 1: Josh fame this podcast. Uh, actually, I think we're just
36:03
Speaker 1: gonna start with it. Josh. We were just uh talking
36:05
Speaker 1: a little bit about your story and your character through
36:08
Speaker 1: the shows and before we get kind of the amazing
36:11
Speaker 1: cool stuff that you're doing today, Astley kind of has
36:13
Speaker 1: her thoughts on you personally, and I want to hear
36:16
Speaker 1: it myself. Hey, let's not hide it. We've heard a
36:20
Speaker 1: lot about Jock Bury over the years. Actually, what are
36:22
Speaker 1: you okay? So, Josh, I was just talking about how
36:26
Speaker 1: you are such a yeah, polarism character. And while we've
36:31
Speaker 1: all heard things that are not so pleasant, I do
36:36
Speaker 1: have to say that I've never I've never encountered that
36:40
Speaker 1: with you. Like I was on a season with you,
36:42
Speaker 1: and you're nothing but super friendly and smiley. And I
36:45
Speaker 1: even thought that on that season there was a lot
36:49
Speaker 1: of drama with Nick Um and I was I thought
36:52
Speaker 1: that that was overblown. I really tried to stay out
36:54
Speaker 1: of that drama triangle for on that season because I
36:58
Speaker 1: always thought you were so nice to me and I
37:01
Speaker 1: never really saw anything um But Yeah, But then I
37:06
Speaker 1: guess I do have to talk about all the other
37:10
Speaker 1: I haven't experienced all the other like negative things that
37:13
Speaker 1: have been said about you, because I guess I've never
37:15
Speaker 1: had like a really deep personal relationship with you. But
37:19
Speaker 1: how do you how do you respond to all that?
37:21
Speaker 1: You even have a book written well before hold Up,
37:24
Speaker 1: before we get this going, actually called the Gun of
37:27
Speaker 1: the Bachelor World. He says, you would do pull up
37:29
Speaker 1: in the moment morning and say hello through with a
37:31
Speaker 1: big smile on your face and you're super good looking,
37:34
Speaker 1: like yeah, it's all in that context. Yeah, comment, Okay,
37:40
Speaker 1: now go ahead, Josh, talk about yourself. No, it's it's
37:43
Speaker 1: very tough for me talking about myself. So that's that's
37:45
Speaker 1: stuff I go about. Thank you, and it's, um, yeah,
37:49
Speaker 1: it's been air for a while because there's so much discrimation.
37:52
Speaker 1: Of course, I I kind of explayed the way from
37:54
Speaker 1: the back the world for quite a while, you know.
37:55
Speaker 1: I mean, I have very genuine, um, interesting finance to
37:58
Speaker 1: be on the show, so I kind of just focus
38:01
Speaker 1: all my prints and on that. And obviously it worked
38:03
Speaker 1: out twice and then it didn't work out twice. And
38:05
Speaker 1: you know, the person that that I've talked to you
38:07
Speaker 1: and that's that's who I am. That's what who I've
38:10
Speaker 1: always done. That's who I am when I'm not on
38:11
Speaker 1: TAMA and um, there is a lot of a lot
38:14
Speaker 1: of drama that goes on in the shows, and I
38:15
Speaker 1: try my best to stay away from everything as much
38:17
Speaker 1: as possible. But you know, in sports on the shows,
38:20
Speaker 1: I was with two girls who were highly sought after
38:22
Speaker 1: by other individuals, And um, as much as I'll try
38:25
Speaker 1: to stay away from drama, as we know, television creates
38:28
Speaker 1: a lot of drama. Um, there's a lot of things
38:29
Speaker 1: that happened. You know, it was very tough to be
38:32
Speaker 1: involved in that stuff. All I wanted to do was
38:34
Speaker 1: try to try to be friendly with everybody. To be
38:36
Speaker 1: honest with you, I've always been time to you ask
38:38
Speaker 1: seeing everybody else that I've met. But um, there are
38:40
Speaker 1: other people in this in the franchise obviously, who makes
38:43
Speaker 1: friends with a lot more people than I have because I,
38:45
Speaker 1: you know, was engaged a couple of times. I live
38:47
Speaker 1: on the South East coast, so it's tough for me
38:50
Speaker 1: to to talk to everybody, and um, you know, but
38:52
Speaker 1: I just I just tried to focus on a positive
38:54
Speaker 1: I tried to focus on the people in life, and
38:56
Speaker 1: I tried to just move on and do good and
38:58
Speaker 1: not really worried about that stuff anymore. So, you know,
39:00
Speaker 1: people who meet me, you know, I hope they get
39:02
Speaker 1: a better understanding that's who I am and not just
39:04
Speaker 1: the edited character on television. I know all of us
39:07
Speaker 1: have been a part of UM certain times of editing
39:09
Speaker 1: on TV that we don't like, but you know, what
39:11
Speaker 1: it is, what it is. There's two words that I
39:14
Speaker 1: would definitely be you, I would use to describe you,
39:16
Speaker 1: and that would be passionate and competitive. I would say
39:21
Speaker 1: there are the two those good adjectives to describe me
39:23
Speaker 1: as well. I've got a little bit less competitive as
39:26
Speaker 1: I get older. UM, I kind of give in a
39:28
Speaker 1: little bit certain things, but I'm definitely very passionate and UM.
39:31
Speaker 1: I guess one of the things that these years has
39:33
Speaker 1: been a struggle for me, since being on the show
39:35
Speaker 1: and obviously having a book UM written, is that there's
39:38
Speaker 1: a lot of misinformation and there's a lot of lies
39:40
Speaker 1: out there, and UM, I'm someone who is I try
39:43
Speaker 1: to be as honest as possible, and it's tough trying
39:45
Speaker 1: to um, stay above the fray and to try to
39:48
Speaker 1: be good and not say bad things to hurt other people,
39:50
Speaker 1: even though they've hurt you in many different ways. And
39:52
Speaker 1: that's been a struggle of mind because half, you know,
39:54
Speaker 1: there's part of me that wants to stay everything and
39:56
Speaker 1: tell the truth, and part of me is like just
39:58
Speaker 1: move on. Who cares, you know, it doesn't matter. Um,
40:00
Speaker 1: So it's that's That's definitely been a struggle over the years.
40:02
Speaker 1: But I've had so much support and so many people
40:05
Speaker 1: who know who I am that that's helps, that's help
40:07
Speaker 1: along the way. I mean, Josh, what I'm listening to
40:10
Speaker 1: here is you've obviously feel like that the character has
40:13
Speaker 1: been portrayed and things are in about you are incorrect.
40:15
Speaker 1: How have you handled that personally? And do you feel
40:18
Speaker 1: like you've done a good job representing yourself? Uh, and
40:22
Speaker 1: who you are in the public and in the relationships
40:25
Speaker 1: that you've been a part of. You know, I tried
40:28
Speaker 1: to keep my even though obviously then when we're on
40:30
Speaker 1: television there's not a private relationship as public. But once
40:33
Speaker 1: I and then my relationship outside of television, I really
40:36
Speaker 1: started to focus on keeping it private and doing the thing,
40:39
Speaker 1: um possible to keep that relationship going. It's really just
40:42
Speaker 1: to know that person after TV. You know, when we
40:43
Speaker 1: get engaged on television, it's a very short amount of
40:46
Speaker 1: time and we really get to need to get to
40:47
Speaker 1: know these people outside of television as well. And um,
40:50
Speaker 1: as in any relationship, there they're ups and downs, but
40:53
Speaker 1: it was it definitely wasn't easy for a while in
40:57
Speaker 1: these relationships in the public eye, and everybody needs to
40:59
Speaker 1: be seen, I mean every bit and piece of your relationship.
41:02
Speaker 1: And while I tried to stay off for social media
41:04
Speaker 1: and what people said about me, um, others kind of
41:07
Speaker 1: kind of got stuck into that. And it's in it
41:09
Speaker 1: really affective relationships, and UM, you know, I just tried
41:12
Speaker 1: to say that just be me, you know I am.
41:15
Speaker 1: I don't want to be known as Josh Murray on
41:16
Speaker 1: The Battler. Um, I'd rather be known as Josh Murray
41:19
Speaker 1: on an MTV show, Chances for Stars. That's going out
41:22
Speaker 1: there and fighting and working hard for charity. Um, that's
41:24
Speaker 1: what I really really like and that's what I'm about,
41:26
Speaker 1: is trying to get back and just to love and
41:28
Speaker 1: to be kind of people. Um. So you know, we
41:30
Speaker 1: all get a certain kind of edit on television no
41:32
Speaker 1: matter what. You know, if you don't if you don't
41:34
Speaker 1: listen to what certain kind individual safe producer wise, and
41:38
Speaker 1: sometimes they don't look bad. But um, there's no excuse
41:41
Speaker 1: for anything, and you live and learn and you move on.
41:43
Speaker 1: You've been on three reality shows now Champs Fur Stars,
41:46
Speaker 1: The Bats are franchise and then also a single famously
41:51
Speaker 1: single I Have Yeah. Which was the best experience and
41:54
Speaker 1: which one do you think represented you the best? Oh,
41:57
Speaker 1: without a doubt. The last show I was on was
42:00
Speaker 1: asolutely incredible, the MTV Chance for Our Starts, um, and
42:03
Speaker 1: I wasn't going to do it, but then when I
42:04
Speaker 1: was told that there was a hundred fifty dollars going
42:06
Speaker 1: to charity of your choice, UM, I definitely considered it
42:09
Speaker 1: and I jumped in. And you know, I do a
42:11
Speaker 1: lot of stuff with a charity called SPX to Special People,
42:14
Speaker 1: and um, I was on there and made the finals
42:16
Speaker 1: and almost one. But when I go back and look
42:18
Speaker 1: at the show and look how they showed everything, it
42:20
Speaker 1: was it was pretty on point. There wasn't need to
42:22
Speaker 1: be a lot of editing involved, and I really really
42:25
Speaker 1: appreciated the honesty of the producers in that show. So
42:28
Speaker 1: I definitely had been the most fun that I've had
42:29
Speaker 1: on on a television show. And it was competitive in
42:32
Speaker 1: the sense, you know, not competitive trying to find love,
42:35
Speaker 1: but competitive as sports style. You know, I think in
42:39
Speaker 1: relationships in general, and you might have experienced this, there's
42:45
Speaker 1: two sides, his hers and then what actually is the truth?
42:49
Speaker 1: And I think that's hard for people to realize when
42:51
Speaker 1: they're watching TV that it's like you have a version
42:54
Speaker 1: of your reality. The girl has hers, but the truth
42:59
Speaker 1: is somewhere in the mid and you know, I think
43:01
Speaker 1: that that becomes something we realize much much later, sure,
43:05
Speaker 1: especially when you watched it and you know I was.
43:07
Speaker 1: I was told by the producer that said everything up
43:09
Speaker 1: that I was kind of I was an easy target
43:11
Speaker 1: because I was coming off of, you know, a book
43:14
Speaker 1: that was written about me that was extremely false, and
43:16
Speaker 1: then there was an easy target to kind of get
43:17
Speaker 1: me going on when all I was talking, I was
43:20
Speaker 1: trying to be kind and then trying to see if
43:21
Speaker 1: this final a local on the show. So there's a
43:23
Speaker 1: lot of different motives that we don't realize. So we
43:25
Speaker 1: looked after the fact. But there's a lot of things
43:27
Speaker 1: that you know, I've learned from that I've made mistake
43:29
Speaker 1: to as well. So you know, this is what it is.
43:32
Speaker 1: I I totally agree. Man, I'm listening to you, and
43:35
Speaker 1: what is I think everybody out there listening? We often,
43:37
Speaker 1: um we were on this podcast. We try to be
43:40
Speaker 1: as vulnerable and and authentic as possible so that we
43:43
Speaker 1: can relate with the listener. Um, you have been engaged
43:47
Speaker 1: twice and on The Bachelor and Bathroom Paradise. You honestly
43:50
Speaker 1: and I think we've all made you've had two of
43:51
Speaker 1: the messiest breakups and Bachelor history or one too the
43:53
Speaker 1: most recognizable. What is something that you've learned about yourself,
43:57
Speaker 1: a mistake or a weakness, um, that has kind of
44:01
Speaker 1: been formed and transformed by being in the public eye
44:04
Speaker 1: and seeing, uh, some of this stuff to play out
44:06
Speaker 1: on TV. Yeah, it's really tough because you start to
44:10
Speaker 1: examine yourself after two failed relationships on television, and you
44:13
Speaker 1: don't want to put blame on the other person because
44:15
Speaker 1: obviously in any relationship, as we can all relate, it's
44:18
Speaker 1: a little bit of both. But I kind of take
44:20
Speaker 1: a look at myself and kind of how I handle
44:22
Speaker 1: relationships or how I handle things, um when stuff is done.
44:25
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't want to seat myself up
44:27
Speaker 1: too much. You know, it is television and people really
44:29
Speaker 1: get into it quite a bit. But um, the reality
44:32
Speaker 1: is when you're there for two months on the first
44:34
Speaker 1: back trend mased on a second, you know, you try
44:36
Speaker 1: to fall in look for me, I tried. I tried
44:38
Speaker 1: to make it work a little bit too quickly. The
44:41
Speaker 1: one thing I've I've always been missing in life and
44:42
Speaker 1: I feel very fulfilled with everything, is they're finding a
44:45
Speaker 1: white and having children. I loved to death, and UM,
44:48
Speaker 1: my mistake was pushing those relationships too much even in
44:51
Speaker 1: the middle. Um, both times I do that there was
44:54
Speaker 1: things that should have happened, and I should have walked
44:55
Speaker 1: away certain circumstances that I just didn't feel we're and
45:01
Speaker 1: I kind of stayed. And I've learned that, Listen, I
45:03
Speaker 1: need to expudent all forces with somebody before I get engaged,
45:07
Speaker 1: before I make that huge commitment. I can't do pressures
45:10
Speaker 1: from the outside world and given to those kind of pressures,
45:12
Speaker 1: and um, I can't live for everybody else. I need
45:15
Speaker 1: to do what I really feel is right and not
45:17
Speaker 1: rushing the relationships even though you know you want to
45:20
Speaker 1: please everybody. So I've kind of learned not to be
45:22
Speaker 1: as much of a people pleased anymore. I've got to
45:24
Speaker 1: do me because when I tried to please everybody else
45:27
Speaker 1: by making relationships work that I haven't necessarily totally wanted
45:30
Speaker 1: to be in, it has just hurt both people in
45:33
Speaker 1: the long run. And unfortunately, you know, I think I've
45:35
Speaker 1: been the only one to get engaged twice on the shows. UM,
45:39
Speaker 1: it's not a very high success rate of people staying together,
45:41
Speaker 1: and it's amazing the people that do. UM. But yeah,
45:45
Speaker 1: you know I have to UM. I just have to
45:46
Speaker 1: live and learn from all my experiences and hopefully I've
45:49
Speaker 1: become a better person because of it. Are you doating
45:51
Speaker 1: anyone now? I'm not. I'm not dating anybody right now. No.
45:54
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, I get I get everything a thing.
45:57
Speaker 1: I I mean, I'm I'm happy. Uh that you are
46:00
Speaker 1: hushing pushing on these shows for love. I think that's
46:02
Speaker 1: one thing actually, I always talked about it. It's awesome
46:05
Speaker 1: when you see people go on to this show looking
46:07
Speaker 1: for a real love story to play out. I I
46:09
Speaker 1: know for me personally, these shows have been a a
46:12
Speaker 1: self checker many times. I have realized that my reactions
46:15
Speaker 1: and the things are is absolutely awful. That I'm way
46:18
Speaker 1: over sensitive UM and often push my relationships outdoor because
46:22
Speaker 1: of it. UH. And that's one of the beauties of
46:23
Speaker 1: the backtor to me. We talked about it last week,
46:25
Speaker 1: is these shows are therapeutic session to really get a
46:28
Speaker 1: wake up call to who we are as people. Um,
46:30
Speaker 1: and so I guess from this podcast we hope you
46:32
Speaker 1: find love and and actually I don't know. Would we
46:35
Speaker 1: like to be on Bachelor in Paradise for Josh's sake,
46:38
Speaker 1: because I know that he doesn't want to do Bachelor
46:40
Speaker 1: in Paradise or spin off show again, I'm gonna say no.
46:45
Speaker 1: I'd like to find someone in real life, you know,
46:46
Speaker 1: I really you know, we talked about some of the
46:48
Speaker 1: mostives that happens because of the shows, and there were
46:50
Speaker 1: a lot of things that were very hurtful for me
46:52
Speaker 1: and the way things were portrayed. But at the same time,
46:55
Speaker 1: there were so many positives to take away from the shows.
46:57
Speaker 1: And like you said, then, you know, learning about yourself
46:59
Speaker 1: and which you need to improve upon. I've learned a
47:01
Speaker 1: part about that. It's given me a platform to do
47:04
Speaker 1: even bigger things with the charities I've been involved with
47:06
Speaker 1: in the really spread awareness. But there's a lot of
47:08
Speaker 1: positive that comes with that. But as far as relationships,
47:11
Speaker 1: I really like to to find someone in the real
47:13
Speaker 1: world so I can get to know them off camera,
47:15
Speaker 1: to make sure that they're not just putting on an act,
47:17
Speaker 1: so people can like them. You know, It's a very
47:18
Speaker 1: different thing well, speaking of charity, you recently took a
47:22
Speaker 1: fan to her prom. Can you tell us about this story?
47:27
Speaker 1: It was It was honestly one of the best days
47:30
Speaker 1: of my life. But no joke. There was my brother
47:32
Speaker 1: and I have help help post an event for usp
47:35
Speaker 1: of for Special people and Athens, and it was a
47:37
Speaker 1: pageant where all the kids and the young people who
47:39
Speaker 1: have disabilities such as like to ruble, all the autism
47:43
Speaker 1: bound syndrome, they perform a talent in front of thousands
47:46
Speaker 1: of people. And this girl, Mary Catherine, who was a beauty,
47:49
Speaker 1: she went on stage and instead of performing a talent,
47:51
Speaker 1: she called me to the middle of the stage and
47:54
Speaker 1: she asked me to go to calm with her. And
47:56
Speaker 1: I was speechless. I honestly I started to tear up.
47:58
Speaker 1: Of course, I said, they ask and um, you know
48:01
Speaker 1: months later, we had a problem um a couple of
48:03
Speaker 1: weekends ago and it was absolutely phenomenal. It was actually
48:06
Speaker 1: my first comb I've ever been to as well, and
48:08
Speaker 1: it was a senior problem so he just looks gorgeous.
48:12
Speaker 1: We had a great time and those are the kind
48:13
Speaker 1: of things that I really really enjoy doing. And um,
48:17
Speaker 1: I was thankful that you asked me to it. So
48:18
Speaker 1: it was a blast. Did you did? You just said
48:21
Speaker 1: that you was your It was your first problem, my
48:23
Speaker 1: first problem. You know. Back in high school, I tended
48:25
Speaker 1: to focus more on sports to my academics and really
48:28
Speaker 1: kind of took all the dances off. But this was
48:30
Speaker 1: the first time that I went to problem and I
48:32
Speaker 1: really enjoyed it. So it was black as the hot
48:34
Speaker 1: Jockey didn't go to prom to hit it. I didn't.
48:37
Speaker 1: I honestly, I was so focused on what I needed
48:39
Speaker 1: to do to get to the next level, um just
48:41
Speaker 1: and kind of rehab and stuff from my surgeries and
48:43
Speaker 1: everything like that, that I really didn't try to go
48:46
Speaker 1: to the dances and problems. I was just kind of
48:47
Speaker 1: promel vision focus crazy. And you're doing another thing for charity.
48:51
Speaker 1: It's a live Bachelor auction. It's benefiting the season G
48:55
Speaker 1: Coleman Foundation in l A. On June seven. It's called
48:59
Speaker 1: bay Abes for Boobs. What is that all about? That?
49:06
Speaker 1: Um there for Susan Vacoman is tafter in l A
49:08
Speaker 1: and I was participated in last year. Is going to
49:11
Speaker 1: be incredible this year. What I'm gonna be doing is
49:13
Speaker 1: me and Chase how to be introducing a group of
49:16
Speaker 1: eligible bachelors and we're optioning them off for dinner dates.
49:19
Speaker 1: So all the protests are going directly to the Susan
49:22
Speaker 1: dacom in l A chapter. Um, who's obviously that they're
49:25
Speaker 1: promises to save lives and end breast cancer forever. So
49:28
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a blast. You know, the bachelors haven't
49:30
Speaker 1: have an incredible time up there, something even stripped down
49:33
Speaker 1: a little bit for the fans and everything like that.
49:35
Speaker 1: I'm higher fits, so it'll be fun. Girls in the
49:38
Speaker 1: l A area, think about it. You can go get
49:42
Speaker 1: mega successful as it says, mega successful man for a
49:46
Speaker 1: dinner date, woo him, and then get a get a
49:50
Speaker 1: very successful boyfriend, and benefit the Susan G. Coleman Foundation.
49:55
Speaker 1: Like that's a that's a great night. You should definitely
49:59
Speaker 1: go curse your black I think got on somebody. It's
50:04
Speaker 1: for a good car and that needs to be one
50:06
Speaker 1: of the fact first. I mean, come on, thank you man,
50:08
Speaker 1: everybody was can sit on you all right? Sounds like
50:12
Speaker 1: a great event. Yeah, I mean, I'm all for getting
50:14
Speaker 1: bit on and I'm all for uh trying to help
50:17
Speaker 1: you out this. You know, Josh, you're obviously saying very
50:20
Speaker 1: busy with all these events and uh, and I guess
50:24
Speaker 1: from everybody out there. Uh, thanks for raising some awareness
50:28
Speaker 1: and and money for charity. Also, thanks for doing this
50:30
Speaker 1: in the name of the Bachelor. Um, you know, the
50:33
Speaker 1: Bachelor gets a bad rap sometimes and we all know
50:36
Speaker 1: that this show isn't as bad is sometimes, Uh, the
50:40
Speaker 1: rapid gets So Hey, Josh Man, thanks to come on
50:43
Speaker 1: the podcast. Anything else you want to talk about before
50:45
Speaker 1: you go? No, not at all. Thank you guys for
50:47
Speaker 1: having me. I appreciate it. I'm glad we're really awareness
50:51
Speaker 1: the stuff. And congratulations to you guys. There's successful podcast
50:54
Speaker 1: and hopefully guess and have me on again. So I
50:56
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Well, thanks for being here, Josh. Maybe maybe
50:59
Speaker 1: I'll see you on months. I have business out there,
51:05
Speaker 1: so I'll run into all right, I'll see you then. Okay,
51:09
Speaker 1: here's what I'm gonna say. He is polarizing, So I
51:13
Speaker 1: would like to know what the fans think of that interview.
51:16
Speaker 1: That's great. Why don't they email us and tell us
51:18
Speaker 1: what they think? Yes? Please do you guys. It's Ben
51:22
Speaker 1: and Ashley at I heart media dot com. We want
51:26
Speaker 1: to know all your thoughts on Josh Murray and that
51:28
Speaker 1: specific interview. I don't know if there's been anybody ever
51:34
Speaker 1: be as polarizing in Bachelor Nation. Maybe Nick File. I mean,
51:38
Speaker 1: I don't know. Nick isn't as polarizings. He used to
51:40
Speaker 1: be nothing now negative towards him. Once he did The Bachelor,
51:43
Speaker 1: people pretty much love him and like him once they
51:45
Speaker 1: did Bachelor in Paradise. Yeah, Josh Murray stands the test
51:51
Speaker 1: at the time. Yeah, I don't know. I just I
51:56
Speaker 1: just want to hear your thoughts. That's what we're gonna
51:58
Speaker 1: do here. Um. I also want to hear everybody on
52:00
Speaker 1: Blue Apron. Blue Apron is the leading your kid delivery
52:03
Speaker 1: service in the u AT and well, many people know
52:06
Speaker 1: what Blue Apron does, many don't know about the types
52:08
Speaker 1: of meals you can eat Blue Apron. I wonder if
52:12
Speaker 1: they have pizza for him. I was going to ask
52:18
Speaker 1: him about them, because like, obviously they dubbed it over.
52:23
Speaker 1: They used the same um over every pizza scene and
52:26
Speaker 1: over every makeout scene. But it's still funny, and I
52:29
Speaker 1: hope he has a sense of humor about it, because
52:31
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought it was TV gold it was amazing.
52:34
Speaker 1: Now a lot of that was, um, there's just a
52:36
Speaker 1: lot going on right now. In my mind, you're not
52:37
Speaker 1: just having burgers for dinner. You're making short ripped burgers
52:40
Speaker 1: with a hot eat cheddar sauce on a presto bun
52:43
Speaker 1: or speared take with thime pan sauce and mashed potatoes,
52:45
Speaker 1: green bean crispy shallas, all under forty five minutes without
52:49
Speaker 1: a trip to grocery store at So you like Blue Apron?
52:52
Speaker 1: Do I do? It's really really delicious. I love that
52:56
Speaker 1: it has all these fresh ingredients and the recipes they
52:59
Speaker 1: vary all the time. It's Blue Apron's mission to make
53:02
Speaker 1: incredible home cooking accessible to everyone, even those people who
53:07
Speaker 1: don't necessarily know how to cook, like me, but they
53:10
Speaker 1: make it so easy. Did you hear what Blue Aprons
53:13
Speaker 1: doing with Christie Teagan? Yes, that's what it's kind of
53:15
Speaker 1: rat Yeah, no, I wanted I want to do the
53:17
Speaker 1: Chrissy Teagan thing. So Christie Teagan, you know, she's really
53:20
Speaker 1: known for her home cooking. She just makes She makes
53:24
Speaker 1: meals that you think that a model can't eat, but
53:27
Speaker 1: she eats them and I love that. So they're using
53:29
Speaker 1: some of her recipes six recipes, six of her recipes
53:33
Speaker 1: in the Blue Apron boxes. I really want to get hers.
53:36
Speaker 1: That's just like, it's such a it's such a great gimmick.
53:40
Speaker 1: I am going to buy into une. I think that
53:43
Speaker 1: that's kind of rat It's really cool. But this this
53:47
Speaker 1: month in May, you can get pork creso tacos with
53:50
Speaker 1: radishes and roasted potatoes. Sounds really that this is the
53:54
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54:55
Speaker 1: I have some guts, so I'm gonna say, Okay, you
54:57
Speaker 1: can say things I'm gonna say. Not because I like him.
55:01
Speaker 1: I have hung out with him. I went to Disneyland
55:03
Speaker 1: with him a few years ago with Amanda, and I
55:05
Speaker 1: had a really good time with him in an interesting
55:08
Speaker 1: conversations and all that I think. Here's what I'm gonna
55:12
Speaker 1: say is that he does not hold himself accountable for
55:17
Speaker 1: his mistakes. That was my interpretation of the interview, that
55:21
Speaker 1: it becomes someone else's fault. Maybe did you guys get
55:26
Speaker 1: that that it's like a producer or her or the
55:30
Speaker 1: book or this where we all need to sometimes go.
55:34
Speaker 1: You know what, I got engaged too soon, I messed
55:38
Speaker 1: up whatever. You know. Sometimes maybe that's this because I
55:41
Speaker 1: like him. Well, I think I think it's okay in life.
55:44
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I did fitches uh podcast a
55:49
Speaker 1: segment a few weeks ago, you know, one of my
55:51
Speaker 1: biggest stepiece. And I think this is why, Like I'm
55:54
Speaker 1: sitting here, my, my, my, I can't even fwallow is. Um,
55:59
Speaker 1: you know you can't swall to be wrong. Well, like
56:01
Speaker 1: he's just at my pight and I'm like, I'm just
56:03
Speaker 1: a little bit like that interview rubbed me a little
56:05
Speaker 1: because it's okay to be wrong. And I think he
56:07
Speaker 1: is like any you told me amazing things I've never
56:10
Speaker 1: met John. Yeah, I think this sho, No, I haven't. Um,
56:16
Speaker 1: It's it's totally okay to be wrong, and it's totally
56:19
Speaker 1: okay to own up the mistakes. And I think this
56:22
Speaker 1: is a good lesson for life for all of us.
56:24
Speaker 1: It is, um, you know, sometimes grace and except this
56:29
Speaker 1: is needed even in the midst of difficulties and uh
56:34
Speaker 1: mistake and so yeah, I just I want people to free,
56:39
Speaker 1: you know, to take a deeper breath and relax and
56:41
Speaker 1: know that, hey, you don't have to be perfect. None
56:43
Speaker 1: of us are. Um, you know that's that's kind of it.
56:47
Speaker 1: It's just do you think you make he might put
56:51
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on himself to be Yeah, perfect.
56:55
Speaker 1: And my thing is, I'm sure Andy's version of events
56:58
Speaker 1: or Amanda's version of events are not accurate either. That's
57:04
Speaker 1: why I kind of said, like, it's somewhere in the middle.
57:09
Speaker 1: But I don't know that everyone's willing to admit their
57:12
Speaker 1: part in the mistakes made. Yeah, here's the thing I
57:19
Speaker 1: did it. Uh, we we all drive at you know,
57:22
Speaker 1: a lot of us have fears of failure. A lot
57:24
Speaker 1: of us have to fears of messing up. Um and
57:28
Speaker 1: And I don't know, you know where the intentions lie.
57:30
Speaker 1: But as long is we're able to admit it when
57:33
Speaker 1: we mess up, there's a ton of opportunities for growth.
57:36
Speaker 1: And I think that's the awesome thing about the show
57:39
Speaker 1: about life in general, is that all of us know
57:43
Speaker 1: that that none of us are perfect. And it's kind
57:45
Speaker 1: of this thing. And I'm wondering, not you oft want
57:47
Speaker 1: a tangent. It's kind of this thing in this new
57:48
Speaker 1: social media world where everybody looks perfect all the time,
57:51
Speaker 1: everybody looks like they're always doing so great things. I mean,
57:53
Speaker 1: a last time somebody posted picture them making a mistake
57:56
Speaker 1: that just doesn't happen. Um. And so we live in
57:58
Speaker 1: this world with the only thing we see it's perfection,
58:01
Speaker 1: that's true, and it's very bad. I mean, it's really
58:03
Speaker 1: scary because you know, Instagram makes us feel really bad
58:06
Speaker 1: about everything. I try sometimes to just really take a
58:08
Speaker 1: break from it all. Ben, do you ever do that
58:10
Speaker 1: where you just don't look at social media because it
58:13
Speaker 1: can feel like your life isn't as good as everybody
58:16
Speaker 1: else is, oh all the time? I mean I am.
58:20
Speaker 1: I have a huge thing where I especially recently the
58:23
Speaker 1: last few months, just you know, I'm working for Generous
58:27
Speaker 1: and and Generous is an amazing company that's going quickly,
58:29
Speaker 1: but I'm not getting paid through Generous, Like this is
58:32
Speaker 1: a job that I work, you know, ten hours a
58:35
Speaker 1: day on that I don't get paid through. And so
58:37
Speaker 1: what happens is there's moments in my life where as
58:39
Speaker 1: I mentioned a few weeks ago, I've had to start
58:41
Speaker 1: budgeting for the first time in a long time, and
58:43
Speaker 1: I've really had to start, you know, take being conscious
58:46
Speaker 1: of my decisions in my car. Right now, I don't
58:49
Speaker 1: have any I like breaks, and the computer system it
58:51
Speaker 1: is blown, and I'm not buying a new car because
58:53
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's fitting into my budget. Um,
58:55
Speaker 1: And so I started to look around me and go,
58:58
Speaker 1: what's wrong in I? Am I falling behind? Is? You know?
59:01
Speaker 1: Am I not doing as well as the people in
59:04
Speaker 1: that exist in this world as well? And I realized
59:06
Speaker 1: that I'm very happy. And that's when I The only
59:09
Speaker 1: times I get super down on myself is when I'm
59:11
Speaker 1: looking around me at everybody else's life, and I'm looking
59:14
Speaker 1: on social media. Who's traveling to what location, and who's
59:16
Speaker 1: going to what festival, and who's going to WI concert?
59:19
Speaker 1: And who's posting about this and that? Um so amy,
59:21
Speaker 1: yeah I do. I really had to start doing that
59:24
Speaker 1: because I just realized I was sitting in a pretty
59:26
Speaker 1: dark place if I didn't. You know, when I really
59:28
Speaker 1: don't look at social media and this is like I'm
59:31
Speaker 1: really showing you guys my insides here on every single holiday.
59:36
Speaker 1: I hate looking at social media on holidays. Really. I
59:39
Speaker 1: just feel like people feel pressure to post things and
59:41
Speaker 1: be like, look at my perfect family and I have
59:44
Speaker 1: perfect Christmas, look at my amazing New Year's look at
59:46
Speaker 1: how great my Valentine's Day was? And I was like,
59:49
Speaker 1: can I please stick my head in an oven? I
59:51
Speaker 1: hate the peer pressure to have to take a picture
59:54
Speaker 1: to prove that you have a wonderful family, like even
59:57
Speaker 1: on Mother's Day, which yeah, I'm obvious. I'm obsessed with
1:00:00
Speaker 1: my mom. My mom is the greatest in the entire world.
1:00:03
Speaker 1: I'm the most blessed. And but she doesn't have an Instagram.
1:00:08
Speaker 1: You know, I posted with her, honestly because of the
1:00:11
Speaker 1: peer pressure of it, because I know that she's not
1:00:13
Speaker 1: going to see it, and it's just like, oh, I
1:00:15
Speaker 1: just want to prove to you guys, I don't forget.
1:00:17
Speaker 1: I don't don't worry. I didn't forget my mom today.
1:00:19
Speaker 1: Here she is for all of you to see, not her.
1:00:23
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I honestly don't get it. We
1:00:27
Speaker 1: don't need to post anything. I don't know. I don't know.
1:00:29
Speaker 1: There's a lot of peer pressure when it comes to
1:00:31
Speaker 1: holidays and showing off what you're doing, and it's not
1:00:34
Speaker 1: what's important being the moment that's right. And and speaking
1:00:39
Speaker 1: of holidays, I called my mom yesterday. I think I
1:00:41
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw us on Twitter. I called her.
1:00:43
Speaker 1: I still, you know, I still pumped, uh there to
1:00:45
Speaker 1: do a little trip right now, And I said, Mom,
1:00:47
Speaker 1: happy Mother's Day, goes ah the fruit of my loo.
1:00:50
Speaker 1: I know I saw your tweet that's not the weirdest,
1:00:56
Speaker 1: the most disgusting image and thought and spement I've ever
1:01:01
Speaker 1: looked for. When I saw you taught that, I was like, Wow.
1:01:06
Speaker 1: When I really take apart the words in that phrase,
1:01:09
Speaker 1: it's pretty gross. The fruit of my lines anyway, the
1:01:14
Speaker 1: truth is that, uh, well none of us are perfect.
1:01:17
Speaker 1: We don't have to be perfect. Uh, we're all trying
1:01:19
Speaker 1: to trying the best the game. Um So, anybody out
1:01:22
Speaker 1: there listening to take a deep breath, realize we're all
1:01:25
Speaker 1: this together. We all hate holidays. I don't hate holidays.
1:01:30
Speaker 1: I hate the fact that during holidays you're so focused
1:01:33
Speaker 1: on getting the perfect picture and not being with your
1:01:35
Speaker 1: family because you need the perfect picture to pose on
1:01:39
Speaker 1: Instagram so that other people who don't really know you
1:01:42
Speaker 1: think that you're having a great time. Here's what I'm
1:01:44
Speaker 1: happy about. We made it through all my least favorite holidays.
1:01:47
Speaker 1: Now we are into my three favorites, Memorial Day, four
1:01:52
Speaker 1: of July and Labor Day. Those are my three favorites.
1:01:55
Speaker 1: They're really nice because it's like you can do nothing. Yeah,
1:01:59
Speaker 1: there's a days that you appreciate mores to get older.
1:02:03
Speaker 1: Pressure on those days. You know what's stupid that I've
1:02:06
Speaker 1: come across lately. It's good. It's in line with people
1:02:11
Speaker 1: taking pictures and posting them and proving that they're having
1:02:14
Speaker 1: a good time. Why do you tape an entire concert
1:02:17
Speaker 1: on your phone? Why can't you just enjoy the concert
1:02:21
Speaker 1: and being the moment, because you're taking video of it
1:02:25
Speaker 1: to prove to people. I think, to post so you
1:02:27
Speaker 1: could prove to people that you were there. But then
1:02:31
Speaker 1: when you're not in the moment and to you're never
1:02:33
Speaker 1: going to watch that video back. Have you ever been
1:02:35
Speaker 1: lying in your bed at night and you're like going
1:02:37
Speaker 1: through old pictures, which I like to do sometimes I'll
1:02:39
Speaker 1: be like, I'll look at my pictures all the time,
1:02:42
Speaker 1: but I'll never click on a video from a concert
1:02:44
Speaker 1: and be like, I want to watch this. You'll never
1:02:46
Speaker 1: see me with my camera out at a concert. I
1:02:49
Speaker 1: only do it for fifteen seconds. I'll do it for
1:02:51
Speaker 1: the Instagram start and that's it. Pure from a thousand
1:02:53
Speaker 1: million miles away. There's that too. Don't even matter if
1:02:56
Speaker 1: you're in the third row, it still looks like you're
1:02:59
Speaker 1: super far. So when I was younger and I was
1:03:02
Speaker 1: at boyband concerts, I would take my camera and I
1:03:06
Speaker 1: would take pictures the entire time because I'd want a
1:03:10
Speaker 1: picture to blow up, and that's what I did. I
1:03:12
Speaker 1: would like blow up poster sized things for my wall.
1:03:16
Speaker 1: But now I don't understand it. I don't understand being
1:03:19
Speaker 1: an adult and taking videos at a concert. Then I've
1:03:23
Speaker 1: I don't go to many concerts that I've never been
1:03:25
Speaker 1: to a boyband concert, so I, yeah, just watch the concert.
1:03:30
Speaker 1: Maybe I didn't know this was a thing, So I'm
1:03:32
Speaker 1: learning as we go. I do see a lot of
1:03:34
Speaker 1: the stories being pult on Instagram. Uh at concerts. Actually,
1:03:39
Speaker 1: uh hey, we gotta transition really quickly, um into our
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1:06:31
Speaker 1: the first. You got a good one for us. This
1:06:34
Speaker 1: is from Susie, and I would really like to get
1:06:36
Speaker 1: Susie on the phone. We're able to. She is in
1:06:39
Speaker 1: my I don't get a podcast group. She's a great fan,
1:06:43
Speaker 1: and this is what she wrote to us. I'm writing
1:06:46
Speaker 1: you to ask you, guys, if you would like to
1:06:48
Speaker 1: create a Facebook group for the podcast. I'm an active
1:06:50
Speaker 1: member of the Amazing I Don't Get a group, and
1:06:52
Speaker 1: I think it helps to engage new people and also,
1:06:55
Speaker 1: just my own little side note helps us figure out
1:06:58
Speaker 1: what to talk about on the podcast. That's what people
1:07:00
Speaker 1: really love and what people don't really care about. Now,
1:07:03
Speaker 1: going back to Susie, we comment about the podcast and
1:07:06
Speaker 1: others get curious and listen to know what we're talking about.
1:07:10
Speaker 1: Um and said, And then she continues to say, I've
1:07:12
Speaker 1: created the group and she's ready for it to be
1:07:15
Speaker 1: open if we allow it. And I believe Susie's on
1:07:18
Speaker 1: the podcast and I am just so excited that Susie's
1:07:21
Speaker 1: here and getting to talk to Ben, her ultimate celebrity
1:07:24
Speaker 1: crush dying obviously, Hi, Hello, how are you? We're so good?
1:07:37
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm freaking out, but I'm trying. Someone
1:07:40
Speaker 1: saying I come forward to her. So, by the way,
1:07:42
Speaker 1: I'm sorry of my talk, but I sees so with me.
1:07:48
Speaker 1: Your accent is beautiful. Oh thank you? So how will
1:07:52
Speaker 1: this work? The Facebook group? Well, um, I didn't know.
1:07:56
Speaker 1: There's a great community on Facebook that we've created. Will
1:07:59
Speaker 1: be out of the get it right right? Right? Um?
1:08:02
Speaker 1: They almost they almost. Pay must podcast also has a
1:08:06
Speaker 1: great community and support on Facebook. So we've been thinking
1:08:10
Speaker 1: about doing one to support the podcast too, because there's
1:08:14
Speaker 1: there are like different topics, right, and we also want
1:08:18
Speaker 1: to cuss determination and then the two is our favorite.
1:08:23
Speaker 1: So we want to beach about so many things on
1:08:25
Speaker 1: the Facebook group, and we thought that we would we
1:08:29
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1:08:33
Speaker 1: teach about every single one. We want to know who
1:08:37
Speaker 1: the heck are some people that we have no idea about.
1:08:42
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I reached out and you guys were
1:08:46
Speaker 1: kind enough to told me if to go ahead, I
1:08:49
Speaker 1: have to say, it has been so helpful for the
1:08:51
Speaker 1: I Don't Get a podcast. It's given us so many
1:08:53
Speaker 1: topics to discuss that we wouldn't have thought of ourselves.
1:08:57
Speaker 1: And yeah, you're right, we would love some bend bitch
1:09:00
Speaker 1: as topics. And we would love to know who you
1:09:04
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1:09:06
Speaker 1: heck are you? And of course if we talk about
1:09:09
Speaker 1: something too much and we talked about something too little,
1:09:11
Speaker 1: you guys can let us know and then you're right.
1:09:14
Speaker 1: It creates this great friend group. Really, it also helps
1:09:18
Speaker 1: with the audience because like for the id get so
1:09:22
Speaker 1: many times, Um, they started discussing the podcast right, so
1:09:26
Speaker 1: many of it. Those who haven't heard that is so
1:09:30
Speaker 1: good they will have to find the episode listen to
1:09:33
Speaker 1: this right now so they can't coming in the conversation. Susie,
1:09:37
Speaker 1: I am still pumped that you're doing this team. Uh,
1:09:40
Speaker 1: You're gonna help us out so much. This is a
1:09:41
Speaker 1: great way to connect. Um. I thank you for listening
1:09:45
Speaker 1: to podcast. I know actually really appreciate your your work
1:09:48
Speaker 1: with I Don't Get a Podcast, and the future is
1:09:51
Speaker 1: very bright for your involvement with the almost Shameman. Wow,
1:09:55
Speaker 1: I've been then that's amazing. I started using Facebook again
1:10:04
Speaker 1: because of the I don't get a group because it's
1:10:07
Speaker 1: so entertaining and it's so much fun to chat and
1:10:10
Speaker 1: look at all the topics on. So I'm excited to
1:10:13
Speaker 1: have another reason to go on Facebook now with the
1:10:15
Speaker 1: almost Famous Podcast group. And what do people do in
1:10:19
Speaker 1: order to find it? They just type in almost famous
1:10:22
Speaker 1: podcasts in the search bar on Facebook. Yes, exactly a
1:10:25
Speaker 1: Facebook som that's book that's almost plain lest podcast and
1:10:29
Speaker 1: they will find it perfect. All right, Well, I'm so
1:10:32
Speaker 1: excited to see people join this week. Is it open
1:10:35
Speaker 1: to all members or do people need to get approved? Um,
1:10:39
Speaker 1: we've said, but are really helpful for you guys if
1:10:43
Speaker 1: you want to get them. Um. We asked about what
1:10:46
Speaker 1: do they want to hear? A bit about what was
1:10:50
Speaker 1: their favorite episode so that we can call its better.
1:10:53
Speaker 1: But everyone, I think that you guys vet for the
1:10:58
Speaker 1: I don't get it, and you also that for by
1:11:00
Speaker 1: suck at dating, So let's go ahead and vet ours too.
1:11:03
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm glad to um go on in here
1:11:06
Speaker 1: and say please then join the group. Please guys, join
1:11:10
Speaker 1: guys stuck on dating boo, because everyone wants to tell
1:11:14
Speaker 1: you I would love to talk from the group and Facebook.
1:11:17
Speaker 1: I'm not a facebooker. You will be now love to
1:11:19
Speaker 1: be part of this. I will be now, Susie. Thank
1:11:22
Speaker 1: you so much for organizing the podcast group for us.
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Speaker 1: guys see that a bachelor got married. Oh yeah, so
1:13:33
Speaker 1: apparently Jerry O'Connell got married over the weekend to a
1:13:36
Speaker 1: playboy bunny. Not Jerry O'Connell. He's married to Rebecca. Um,
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Speaker 1: what was his name, Charlie? Ben? Did you ever watch
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Speaker 1: that season with Charlie O'Connell. No, I mean, honestly, when
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Speaker 1: we when I got the news of this today, I
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Speaker 1: had no clue to this guy was there had to
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Speaker 1: be a long time ago, I don't. I mean, so
1:13:55
Speaker 1: if you saw him or heard his name, would it
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Speaker 1: ring a bell that he was one of your fellow bachelor? Um? Yeah,
1:14:02
Speaker 1: I mean I knew that the O'Connell name was on there.
1:14:05
Speaker 1: I mean, he's forty three years old. Um, so I
1:14:07
Speaker 1: bet he was a bachelor. What I mean we got
1:14:09
Speaker 1: to think fifteen years ago? Yeah, he was the best
1:14:12
Speaker 1: A long time ago. How many years ago to ben'sday?
1:14:16
Speaker 1: I think it was. Yeah. Mark's looking it up right now.
1:14:24
Speaker 1: The girl he married looks exactly like the girl he
1:14:28
Speaker 1: picked on the show. Really, you guys have to tell
1:14:31
Speaker 1: me that I'm not wrong. That's really funny. There's somebody
1:14:34
Speaker 1: else in the bachelor community who has a whole bunch
1:14:36
Speaker 1: of exes that look the same, is it you, Ben? Wait?
1:14:42
Speaker 1: I know, I don't know what did your girl don't
1:14:48
Speaker 1: look like your girlfriend before? Lauren? Yeah she was. No,
1:14:54
Speaker 1: she's a brunette, really beautiful, tall brunami. Both very pretty,
1:14:58
Speaker 1: but definitely don't look alive, not at all. Okay. Charlie
1:15:02
Speaker 1: O'Connor was the bachelor in a spring of two thousand five,
1:15:05
Speaker 1: so thirteen years. Yeah, see, very close. I mocked Ben.
1:15:11
Speaker 1: So there was not it was there? Okay? So Jerry O'Connell.
1:15:15
Speaker 1: There wasn't a Baldwin, was there. No. For some reason,
1:15:18
Speaker 1: I feel like there was a Baldwin bachelor as well.
1:15:21
Speaker 1: There was a Baldwin, Andy Baldwin, but he wasn't a
1:15:24
Speaker 1: Baldwin like related to Alec. Oh, he wasn't related. No. Oh,
1:15:27
Speaker 1: I always thought he was related. No, you thought they
1:15:30
Speaker 1: had a fifth brother. There's so many Baldwin brothers. Of
1:15:33
Speaker 1: course I thought there was another. In two thousand seven,
1:15:36
Speaker 1: Andy Baldwin was the bachelor, but he's not related to Alec, Daniel,
1:15:40
Speaker 1: Stephen or Billy. Okay, but absolutely if a Baldwin was
1:15:45
Speaker 1: a bachelor, that would be one of the best things
1:15:48
Speaker 1: I've ever witnessed. I think no Baldwin's are single, or
1:15:53
Speaker 1: I would kind of be into that. You chip it.
1:15:58
Speaker 1: That's something I've learned, something I learned on this podcast.
1:16:02
Speaker 1: Is you ship it? Okay? Ben? What are you getting
1:16:06
Speaker 1: a bit about? Uh? Is it time? Is it time?
1:16:12
Speaker 1: Do you feel ready? It came up today. I've had
1:16:17
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1:16:20
Speaker 1: Last week, UM, I passed it off to the to
1:16:25
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1:16:29
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1:16:35
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1:17:03
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1:17:07
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1:17:21
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1:17:25
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1:17:54
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1:22:02
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1:22:06
Speaker 1: Are you excited about this? I'm so excited. I'm glad
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1:22:15
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Speaker 1: of Me. She's a Minnesota girl from Prior Lake and
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Speaker 1: currently lives in Minneapolis. H do you think she's going
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Speaker 1: to go after that? Like, what kind of guy do
1:22:29
Speaker 1: you see beca going after? I think she's going to
1:22:33
Speaker 1: go after like a Midwest sweetheart, just like a really
1:22:36
Speaker 1: down to earth guy. I actually don't think she's going
1:22:39
Speaker 1: to be the kind of bachelorette who gets caught up
1:22:41
Speaker 1: in the appearances. Like if there's like a super hot guy,
1:22:44
Speaker 1: I don't think she's going to be completely drawn to
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Speaker 1: him just for looks. I think that she's gonna be
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Speaker 1: into guys that for their personality. Genuinely. I think so too.
1:22:55
Speaker 1: I feel like Becca just kind of represent everything that
1:23:00
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1:23:03
Speaker 1: but you know, she's been broken hearted on National TV, UM,
1:23:08
Speaker 1: she has a great job, She's a Midwestern girl. I
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Speaker 1: think Becca represents a lot of this stuff that we're
1:23:15
Speaker 1: going to root for and cheer for as a bachelor.
1:23:17
Speaker 1: I'm personally really exciting to know her better. I've never
1:23:20
Speaker 1: had a conversation with their have you, Yes, I have.
1:23:22
Speaker 1: I did an interview with her for Cosmo UM on
1:23:25
Speaker 1: one of her her first one on one dates, and
1:23:28
Speaker 1: she really liked that guy. And I'm excited to see
1:23:31
Speaker 1: how far this guy goes. I think I think you
1:23:34
Speaker 1: could get up there. So for all the listeners out
1:23:38
Speaker 1: there they're currently listening to podcast, we are going to
1:23:40
Speaker 1: have Beca on again on the twenty second of this month.
1:23:43
Speaker 1: That will be two podcasts away from now. Um, please
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Speaker 1: Shouldn't it's your question? Uh, any thoughts on beca anything
1:23:52
Speaker 1: you're excited about, and we'll try to wrap through. I mean,
1:23:55
Speaker 1: I think we can do a whole segment with Decca
1:23:57
Speaker 1: on firing some questions from our listening. Also, you guys
1:24:00
Speaker 1: don't even have to use the email if you join
1:24:03
Speaker 1: the Facebook group, the almost famous Facebook group. And one
1:24:06
Speaker 1: of my first questions I want answered on the Facebook
1:24:09
Speaker 1: group is spoilers. Do you guys like it if we
1:24:11
Speaker 1: tease spoilers that we get a hold of or should
1:24:14
Speaker 1: we just not talk about them at all? That's a
1:24:16
Speaker 1: great question. Ben, what are your thoughts on that too?
1:24:18
Speaker 1: Because there was an article on TMZ this weekend that
1:24:22
Speaker 1: revealed one of Becca's hometown date guys, and I wanted
1:24:26
Speaker 1: to get your take and Ashley's take on it, and
1:24:29
Speaker 1: then everyone listening should we talk about those stories or not?
1:24:33
Speaker 1: You know, the thought is to me, I don't know
1:24:36
Speaker 1: if those small spoilers are a problem because from what
1:24:39
Speaker 1: might I understand? And I know that to be true
1:24:41
Speaker 1: in Denver when there was a hometown date, it was
1:24:45
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1:24:47
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1:24:49
Speaker 1: backtor is obviously not trying to hide that their hometown
1:24:52
Speaker 1: dates existing and who's on them because they're inviting the
1:24:54
Speaker 1: public in and as long as we don't ruin the
1:24:57
Speaker 1: major aspect of the show, we should talk about it,
1:25:00
Speaker 1: right what do you think? Actually? I kind of agree
1:25:03
Speaker 1: with you on that, Like, if they're not doing anything
1:25:05
Speaker 1: to stop spoilers and they're inviting the public, how can
1:25:08
Speaker 1: we not talk about it. But at the same time,
1:25:11
Speaker 1: when I saw the sheet of paper in front of
1:25:12
Speaker 1: me with spoiler alert on it and a guy's name,
1:25:16
Speaker 1: I am kind of disappointed because I don't want the
1:25:19
Speaker 1: show spoiled for me. So I guess if we do talk,
1:25:22
Speaker 1: I mean whatever, it's going to be spoiled for me.
1:25:24
Speaker 1: It's just how it goes. But if the fans don't
1:25:27
Speaker 1: want it spoiled, then what we're gonna have to do
1:25:29
Speaker 1: is literally be like spoiler spoiler alert and give them
1:25:31
Speaker 1: the direct time is when they can start to listen again.
1:25:34
Speaker 1: We can make all our spoilers like one minute in length,
1:25:36
Speaker 1: so they well time it. Let's not get to spoiler though.
1:25:41
Speaker 1: I don't want to become that. I don't want to
1:25:43
Speaker 1: become those spoiler su podcasts where you know, we're we're
1:25:47
Speaker 1: dropping these bombs on people to ruin the season. I
1:25:50
Speaker 1: let's just always stay in the line of hinting or
1:25:52
Speaker 1: like kind of uh, you know, kipping off a little
1:25:56
Speaker 1: piece of the franchise that we think will make it
1:25:58
Speaker 1: more interesting, you know, the men make it a little
1:26:00
Speaker 1: more engaging for the audience. Okay, Like you know, the
1:26:03
Speaker 1: Ari spoiler last season I think was great. Yeah, just
1:26:06
Speaker 1: the one. People were not happy when we revealed that.
1:26:08
Speaker 1: So we have to trust Ben. We'll just trust that.
1:26:11
Speaker 1: Oyeah in Ben, we trust that is true. All right. Well,
1:26:16
Speaker 1: I want to say a huge thank you to Ajian
1:26:18
Speaker 1: McClain for dedicating so much time to be here today.
1:26:22
Speaker 1: What a sweetheart. And then Josh Murray, thanks for coming on,
1:26:25
Speaker 1: especially when you know a lot of people are going
1:26:28
Speaker 1: to talk about this interview and you know, pick it apart.
1:26:31
Speaker 1: I'm sure they, yes, and I think they will, and
1:26:34
Speaker 1: and yes, seriously, Jocks, I know you're risking a lot
1:26:36
Speaker 1: by coming on the podcast and really speaking about this
1:26:38
Speaker 1: stuff in general. So thanks for coming on the podcast today.
1:26:40
Speaker 1: Please write us in about your thoughts on that interview.
1:26:44
Speaker 1: Uh and kind of you know, all the strutiny that
1:26:45
Speaker 1: he's faced over the years. Also, thank you to Susie
1:26:48
Speaker 1: for creating our Facebook group. That is a huge deal. Um,
1:26:52
Speaker 1: she should be celebrated. And he has joined our team.
1:26:55
Speaker 1: And I think, I mean, I think everybody here from
1:26:57
Speaker 1: my heart to ask and I we're excited to kind
1:27:01
Speaker 1: of enhance our presence in the social sphere, and I
1:27:04
Speaker 1: think this Facebook group is a great way to do it.
1:27:06
Speaker 1: So Susie, thank you for listening, and thank you for
1:27:09
Speaker 1: taking the next step and getting involved more. Athlete the
1:27:12
Speaker 1: great co host, have an amazing week. I will see
1:27:15
Speaker 1: you in Las Vegas Live podcast from Las Vegas. Uh
1:27:20
Speaker 1: that will air Amy, When will that air that day?
1:27:23
Speaker 1: So we're going to do it live from Vegas on
1:27:25
Speaker 1: Thursday this Thursday. So we the last week we teased
1:27:29
Speaker 1: a very special thing that's going to happen this week.
1:27:32
Speaker 1: What is that special? Feel it? Then? Do you want
1:27:35
Speaker 1: to reveal since it has to do with you? I
1:27:39
Speaker 1: would love to. This is such a big deal for
1:27:41
Speaker 1: me and one that I just still can't really understand.
1:27:44
Speaker 1: And you know, quite honestly, it's kind of funny. I
1:27:47
Speaker 1: now get to pay money to play myself. And what
1:27:49
Speaker 1: I mean by that is I have a along with
1:27:53
Speaker 1: a couple of backs or guys. We have a um
1:27:56
Speaker 1: slot machine going into the MGM Cino in Las Vegas
1:28:02
Speaker 1: and it's being revealed this week. So I have to
1:28:05
Speaker 1: pay money to play myself. To play me, go out
1:28:09
Speaker 1: to Vegas, go to the md M Grand play the
1:28:13
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1:28:16
Speaker 1: You know. I do think this week is going to
1:28:19
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1:28:21
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1:28:27
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1:28:32
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1:28:34
Speaker 1: on what time we're going to be there on Thursday? Okay,
1:28:37
Speaker 1: so you guys want to come see the reveal of
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